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re: Key West to ban most cruise ships

Posted by Jp1LSU on 11/11/20 at 3:30 pm
[quote] Not sure how you arrived at this conclusion: part time residents are likely NOT registered to vote in KW, and these measures were enacted by the voters.[/quote] Key west is comprised of many multiple home homeowners. For property tax reasons they have to register to vote in KW to maintai...

re: Key West to ban most cruise ships

Posted by Jp1LSU on 11/11/20 at 10:52 am
Over-tourism has become a problem. Part of it is the worlds middle class has grown. In 2019 over 1 billion people traveled internationally. Twenty years ago people didn’t have the resources to do such a thing. I was in Italy in 2019 and the cruise ship travel there is a problem. They put to much pre...

re: Key West to ban most cruise ships

Posted by Jp1LSU on 11/10/20 at 11:16 am
[quote]The port fees to the local government go all long way that will now need to be subsidized another way [/quote] The city passed the budget for next year without having to raise taxes but they will have to next year. They cut nine police officer positions and made lots of other budget cuts....

re: Key West to ban most cruise ships

Posted by Jp1LSU on 11/10/20 at 11:14 am
[quote]This will have an economic impact, though, to their own citizens.[/quote] It's about $90 million per year. In 2019 965k passengers visited KW for an average of about 7-8 hours per visit. The average passenger spends about $75 while in town. The city collects $10.50 per passenger dockage fe...
[quote] I know 4 people who voted Trump in '16 and ALREADY voted for Biden.[/quote] I know many who have switched....
[quote] have two American flags waving on my property but I will deny voting twice for Trump until my last breath. [/quote] Anything worth doing is worth admitting to unless you are embarrassed by your actions....
[quote]Wall Street sees Biden as predictable and not volatile like Trump. They want stability and no drama. They don’t believe he will go full progressive and get all the tax increases. They don’t care about manufacturing anything in the US or restricting illegal immigration. They don’t care about f...
I have to work with people from both parties for my job. I’ve heard more than a few times from people within the party that many republicans feel like they have a Trump problem. He wins this election he can prove them all wrong, even if it’s a razor thin victory. ...
[quote]quote: Wasn’t much of a life to begin with but we get your point Found the cucktard[/quote] PSA for the incel: it’s ok to be with women. ...
[quote]Unfortunately, his life has been thrown off course in such a way that it will never be the same. Putting his freedom aside, he’s lost things he’ll never get back.[/quote] Wasn’t much of a life to begin with but we get your point....
[quote]By this action, you're making conservatives into social pariahs. [/quote] Someone at work during lunch just said that Trump rallies are so well attended because MAGA folks don’t have jobs. Followed it by saying it’s the party of disability collecting mooches. Talk about projection....

re: The Numbers on The Flu

Posted by Jp1LSU on 10/30/20 at 11:47 am
[quote] Between October 1, 2019 and April 4, 2020, the flu resulted in: 39 to 56 million illnesses. 410,000 to 740,000 hospitalizations. 24,000 to 62,000 deaths Where is the outrage.[/quote] Still this? If it wasn’t for Covid this election would be an after thought. It ls a weird hill to...

re: taking an alternative look at Virginia

Posted by Jp1LSU on 10/30/20 at 11:43 am
[quote]I think NOVA just needs to merge with DC and let them have those electoral votes, so the rest of the real Commonwealth can be red like it's intended to be.[/quote] Didn’t we already do this during the last civil war? Breaking off the western part of MD and the western part of VA and comb...
[quote]I’m mainly thinking of the old Jewish snowbirds who are the ones who tend to flit between NY and Miami / Fort Lauderdale. [/quote] Very true and it’s sort of basic economics. If you wind up in the villages when you are retired you did something horribly wrong during your working life. It’...
[quote] I think all those dead old people are biting them in the arse because they might have been snowbirds who vote blue.[/quote] The snow birds in South Florida vote blue but the snow birds in Central Florida vote red. Places like the villages are very red....
[quote]I’m in Aspen and there are Biden signs everywhere. I have seen Trump signs, but only a couple. The wife asked why so many “rich” people vote Democrat, and the only thing I can honestly think is that these “rich” people have no idea what it is like to live as normal citizens. I can understand ...
[quote] quote: I don't care if it does. Universal suffrage is utter horseshite. fricking this. The less ignorant, uninformed people voting, the better.[/quote] Why is the assumption that because they are mostly black and hispanic they are ignorant and uninformed? Aren’t blacks and hispanics ...
I know lots of people who voted for Obama twice but didn’t like HRC and never went back. Clay Travis is in that category....

re: Trafalgar Poll Question

Posted by Jp1LSU on 10/30/20 at 9:36 am
On this day in 2016 Trump was +300 in the gambling market. Today he is +188. 67% of the bets coming in we’re on Trump but the action has moved....