No. Military service in place of prison isn’t elective, you still need the state to allow it. Even then you would be completely free, you likely wouldn’t get leave for a while, and a discharge could put you into prison.

Three felonies a day is 15 years old and only more true than ever.

The real power of the NRA is their membership is mostly reliable voters.

Less than you would think, but it also depends on how you contact them. A physical call is way more powerful than an email. 10 people passionate enough to call can easily translate to 1k people passionate enough to vote about it.

That advice seems like a red flag. There are way more options to diversify investments in an IRA than a 401k, you can also invest in the same funds through an IRA that are available to your 401k. Either way you end up paying fees to someone as well.

Yep. I just always put money in my 401k, I don’t know what a paycheck without 15% going to retirement looks like. I’ve still got at least 30 years to go.

It’s an unrated cut.

If you want to be a bit pedantic the and is incorrect for a year. When you say a number the and should be to denote a decimal portion of a number. It’s generally not always used that way so context is often required to determine the intent.

True, especially “agents” that only use one or two companies.

This is why you should get insurance through an independent agent. There are companies you’ve never heard of that do auto/home/life insurance for better rates. The same is true of mortgages.

Get a cheap disposable one. If you really don’t use it often the cost of an unused reusable thing is greater than buying disposable.

Hope is not a strategy.

It’s better to beg forgiveness than ask permission.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Is it not possible to just run in a circle endlessly in the game?

Nothing is going to happen to social security, at least for the old people. If you’re in your 30s or less, it might not exist by the time you’re eligible, but that has little to do with trump.

Fumbling what should have been a cupcake question to talk about a major campaign promise is inexcusable.

10s of Thousands of people motivated by not getting a week or so of pay because you couldn’t get your act together is bad for reelection prospects.

So long as you have some savings, a government shutdown is more a vacation than anything. Back pay has always been given to employees.

Split ticket scenarios seemed common, which can mean party loyalty is at an all time low.

She didn’t have to defend it. This was an election to run over Biden until he was just a pile of goo. She could have came out with some strong contrasting policies, instead she gave some great sound bytes for Trump.

Plenty of people will also never vote for a black man, but that worked spectacularly for the Democrats the first time.