Safe school zones or a cash grab? | Do Dems have a 'man' problem?

Another Republican-backed bill to get rid of school zone speeding ticket-generating cameras is having a better go of it in the Georgia General Assembly this session, and as someone who's been the recipient of one of their tickets, I'm not not so sure I'm for or against this ban. On the one hand, I definitely support safety for pedestrian kids near schools (and anywhere), but there've been a lot of bogus charges and cities are raking in money hand-over-fist year after year, which means they're not slowing people down in these zones. Isn't that the goal?

One metro Atlanta city mayor made that point while his city's raking in that dough, but maybe he's not the poster child for this cause. It seems his council believes he's been using some of those city funds for some personal (and expensive!) international travel. I digress.

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What's up with these sudden discussions about a "lack" of masculinity in the Democratic Party? Right wing radio host Clay Travis believes there are none.Obviously, his opinion comes with the caveat that he's prone to just taking digs at liberals for just about anything, but also his man crushes are riddled with spray tans and guy-liner. Clay's quip, though, even got my Democrat friend discussing the party's appeal to "masculinity," on social. media. I even wandered into a tweet about this where Democrats are accused of not even trying to "appeal to men (particularly young or white ones)." Like, maybe, if men (particularly young or white ones) just - I don't know - paid attention to what's going on they'd make informed decisions when voting vs being swayed by disinformation and football or NASCAR photo ops?

Just spit-balling here.

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New polling reveals, speaking of appeal, that Donald Trump no longer does to the majority of voters, with a particularly steep drop among the under 30 and the 30-44 year old voter. Honeymoon's over, honey-glazed turkey.

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Lastly, "Money with Katie's" Katie Gatti Tassin went in on the trivial nature DOGE, Elon and "the Muskrats" are shredding jobs that'll be but a blip on the budgetary radar while ignoring the BIG fish: private contract workforce. She rails on privatization taking taxpayer dollars to do public works. When done by governement employees, there's no profit margin to account for. When outsourced, however ...

... well, you needn't worry as much about "Big Brother" when "big business" doesn't even let you vote for their leadership.