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1 minute ago, ColoradoHusk said:

The un-educated, white, lower-to-middle class have never had an issue with income and wealth discrepancies, as long as it's white Christians who are controlling the wealth.

 

Touche- it took near total economic collapse of the Great Depression for them to embrace FDR and the New Deal. Of course, then they liked it so much they gave him 16 years of the presidency. - Hopefully people can open their eyes before we get to that level again. 

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19 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Where the heck did these come from?

From the website of our next Governor.

 

https://www.jimpillen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/The-Pillen-Playbook.pdf

 

 

Seriously, f#&% this place.  Nebraska is lucky I own a home and have a steady job with kids in school.  I would pack up tomorrow if it weren't so inconvenient...

 

My wife is actually craving to leave.  But being part of the Nebraska retirement through teaching, it creates a lot of uncertainty in my retirement.  She is much more flexible than I am.

 

edit: both of us grew up in small towns, great families that lived off of ag industry, active in church growing up.  We check all the boxes.  Nurse and shop teacher; support blue collar, everything.  But I hate living in a place that comes off as so crazy!

 

It doesn't help the whackjobs in my district are pretty much gauranteed at least one spot on my school board next year.

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12 minutes ago, funhusker said:

From the website of our next Governor.

 

https://www.jimpillen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/The-Pillen-Playbook.pdf

 

 

Seriously, f#&% this place.  Nebraska is lucky I own a home and have a steady job with kids in school.  I would pack up tomorrow if it weren't so inconvenient...

 

My wife is actually craving to leave.  But being part of the Nebraska retirement through teaching, it creates a lot of uncertainty in my retirement.  She is much more flexible than I am.

 

edit: both of us grew up in small towns, great families that lived off of ag industry, active in church growing up.  We check all the boxes.  Nurse and shop teacher; support blue collar, everything.  But I hate living in a place that comes off as so crazy!

 

It doesn't help the whackjobs in my district are pretty much gauranteed at least one spot on my school board next year.

O….M….G. 

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31 minutes ago, funhusker said:

From the website of our next Governor.

 

https://www.jimpillen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/The-Pillen-Playbook.pdf

 

 

Seriously, f#&% this place.  Nebraska is lucky I own a home and have a steady job with kids in school.  I would pack up tomorrow if it weren't so inconvenient...

 

My wife is actually craving to leave.  But being part of the Nebraska retirement through teaching, it creates a lot of uncertainty in my retirement.  She is much more flexible than I am.

 

edit: both of us grew up in small towns, great families that lived off of ag industry, active in church growing up.  We check all the boxes.  Nurse and shop teacher; support blue collar, everything.  But I hate living in a place that comes off as so crazy!

 

It doesn't help the whackjobs in my district are pretty much gauranteed at least one spot on my school board next year.

How close are you to getting a good spot to get your teacher's pension? You might as well start looking into places to move down the road so you can double (nearly) your earnings by teaching wherever you move. 

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1 minute ago, ColoradoHusk said:

How close are you to getting a good spot to get your teacher's pension? You might as well start looking into places to move down the road so you can double (nearly) your earnings by teaching wherever you move. 

I need to have a better understanding because I'm not even 100% sure what you mean.  I will hit the "rule of 85" in approximately 16 years...

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8 hours ago, Danny Bateman said:

WTF is that top one? :wtf

 

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There are so, so many problems with these, but they're also just grounded in some kind of bizarre... faux hysteria. It's the same kind of nonsense that convinces these people that the guvment is coming to take their guns any time a mass shooting happens.

 

I genuinely chuckled at the 'restore patriotic education' line though. I've learned from several of my friends from foreign countries (particularly European ones) that they spend time in their schools learning about America's overt self-obsession's and grandeur. Like... our country is obsessed with how great we think it is... and other countries are studying it from a sociological perspective... and not in a good way.

 

Go you, Republican party. Go you. You're being steered and managed by a bunch of Captain Fingerpaints.

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Oppose Big-Government Socialism. There’s no place for big-government socialism in our state. It grows government, limits freedom, drives inflation, and fosters a culture of dependency. I’ll oppose socialist programs at the federal level and do all I can to stop them from hurting Nebraskans.


 

Ok Jim, mind giving that $317,692 back to the government?

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26 minutes ago, Cdog923 said:
Interesting article with a factual premise....but it misses the mark a bit on placing the blame for why politics in Nebraska has transformed over the last ~decade.

 

My observations match his, though. Nebraska conservatives were, for the most part, content with a live-and-let-live attitude... but that all changed when a Black man was elected president. The rumbling unease from the Clinton administration was assuaged to a degree with Bush's win over Gore, but when the country had the audacity to elect a Black man for president, conservatives here became eager consumers of right-wing propaganda. 

 

Hannity, Rush, Glenn Beck, et al. had been pounding away at them for over a decade at that point. 2008 was the tipping point for them. It saw the rise of the Tea Party and made fertile ground for growth of trumpian conservatism and later full-on Q conspiracists. 

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18 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Have politics really changed that much in Nebraska?  

 

Still seems pretty crazy to me!

No...and yes.

 

No....because it's always been a very Republican state.

 

Yes....because it's swung to the bat s#!t crazy side.  We went from a state that could elect John Kerry, Kay Orr, Ben Nelson...etc.  To a state that almost elected Herbster.  A guy who is full on MAGA Whacko.  The only reason he didn't get elected is because women came out claiming he molested them. STILL, he almost won.

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1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

No...and yes.

 

No....because it's always been a very Republican state.

 

Yes....because it's swung to the bat s#!t crazy side.  We went from a state that could elect John Kerry, Kay Orr, Ben Nelson...etc.  To a state that almost elected Herbster.  A guy who is full on MAGA Whacko.  The only reason he didn't get elected is because women came out claiming he molested them. STILL, he almost won.

Trump was able to attract to the small-town, uneducated because he was able to touch on their fears of a more diverse and progressive country leaving the "small-town white folk" behind.  I have seen it first-hand in my wife's side of the family.  I have in-laws who hated Obama (probably just because he was a black man) and loved Trump because he was perceived to be a lot different than the previous regime.

 

It's sad that this point of view has continued to persist across Nebraska nearly 2 years after Trump lost the Presidency, but of course Trump isn't allowing the GOP to move on and wants to continue to push his agenda of absolute rule over the country.

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