I do care to opine...

First, while the election in November 2024 is the Super Bowl...the regular season starts in January. The first primary is very near.

Polls: In my experience, the polls that most favor the party out of power are the ones conducted at about this time. Approximately one year out, those are the ones that really tell the story of just how much momentum the opposing party really carries. If this is their peak, I'm not impressed.

Let's face it...this is a rematch of two candidates no one really wants. It'll come down to who the undecides (maybe like 100 people at this point) dislike more.

This should be a pretty easy win for the GOP but my god have the fucked themselves in the last 4 years. The economy feels like shit to anyone who isn't influenced by numbers. It's interesting the fed wants to start decreasing interest rates starting in the election year.

But again, this should be an easy win for the GOP. Their one crowning achievement was the governorship in Virginia. They took no lessons from it and apparently just want a rematch likes it's Wrestlemania or something.

If Trump wasn't running, I don't think Biden would be either. It's the last gasp of that generation. I guess we have to pick a side. I will never pick Trump. I would never want anyone that led me into anything to behave like that deplorable troll. Imagine being 80 still talking and behaving in that way.

The dems will start to play offense at just the right time. They'll run the same plays and the GOP will do the same. Obama will live in Georgia suddenly. Trump will pretend like he's been a life long resident of Florida. Biden will be from Pennsylvania again for a minute.

Unless you see Trump as some sort of Eugene Debbs character (I see no parallels) I see the same scenario playing out to almost a T. The only difference is a slight different total in EVs due to the 2020 census that was intentionally fucked with by Republicans.

Beginning of the end? End of what?

Axl Rose hasn’t been a thing since 1993/94…he is not mainstream and almost nobody under the age of 40 knows who he is…

This thing has been over for over 30 years. It doesn’t make me happy to say that.

We’ve all been on this message board since then trying to mourn it.

I don’t even care anymore if the folklore is true…or if Axl really is a monster…the consequences of how the world responded to him have left its mark.

We have stupid fuckin female acts ruling the day now and guys like him were caged and erased.

Just move on! I think Chris Christie could crush Biden. Why not consider someone else??

The problem with this is that people I never would've expected are turning on public schools in my circle of friends and acquaintances.

People are seeing more and more what public schools have become. It can't sustain. Tax bases will shrink and all those over paid administrators who shove these curriculum changes down people's throats will start to decrease.

My 13 year old step daughter gets As with ease now and she isn't trying very hard to get them. She has very little homework, no deadlines (get it done whenever) and her biggest worry these days is which crop top she's going to wear to school.

Every interaction I've had with school staff lately has been kind of stand offish. Teachers know better than everyone, Admin really know better and girls going to 8th grade classes half naked is totally cool now.

Speaking of my 13 year old step daughter, she recently got her friend for the first time. She has no idea how to handle it and does not take it very seriously (as I'm sure many girls do). It's not necessarily the school's job to handle these situations or prepare kids for this time in their lives, but if they're going to spend time on gender shit and pronouns, shouldn't she know what a period is and maybe some basics about how to handle it?

Another professional experience to share, I work with kids with special needs for a living and have to deal with public school districts from time to time. I met with the director of special education in a local school district in an attempt to set up a collaboration. To paraphrase bluntly, she stated that the school district would never hire me and that they have no interest in what my facility does for children. She took it a step farther and state that the public school serves these children very well and services like mine weren't needed.

I am intaking public school students on a weekly basis these days. They come to me by choice. The difference is that people are forced into public schools. These parents express extreme dissatisfaction with public schools and their programs for special needs. I don't blame her. The public school system has turned into a monster. It's not about the children, it's about how to expand and advance the school system with little regard for how they serve the community.

As someone who once was a huge proponent of public schools in general, I must confess that it is losing my support. I'm fed up.

Are you saying that government is pointless or that these people are unfit to govern?