Ramblings from a mind that is often irrationally upset about things

 Wow folks, what a ride. That was the biggest shit show I have seen since..... I don't know when. Quick take from my brother-in-law who called me immediately after. "It was like watching two babies that needed pacifiers." Alright, now my attempt to recap and determine a winner. Quick disclaimer, I'm not doing any deep diving fact checking and I am also trying to guess how the debate affects the general public, not me personally or my beliefs. The first topic was supposedly the Supreme Court. I say supposedly because neither participant could stay on topic. First question was why should the Supreme Court nomination be done before/after the election. Trump went first and did a good job touting his nominee and stating that he was President and this was his job because the people elected him and the Senate. Biden started weakly here by countering with the argument that the people elect the President and the President then selects the nominee. I understand the point he was

One of my favorite podcasts, Hard Factor News, had Representative Ken Buck on for a great interview Thursday. One of the topics addressed was the fact that Congress hasn't passed a police reform bill, a COVID relief bill, or any meaningful legislation lately. Representative Buck informed the listeners that nothing would be passed this year because it's an election year.  (You can listen here)  This is a problem. Every single person in Congress make $174,000 a year. That's salary. That does not include insurance, pension,  security, staffers, or any of the other fringe benefits. To keep this blog simple, I'm going to ignore all the extra benefits and focus on salary. There are 535 members of Congress. That is $93,090,000 a year that taxpayers are funding just to make payroll for Congress. Again, keeping things simple, I'm going to use a 40 hour work week and assume 50 weeks a year of work. That's 2000 work hours a year. So, taxpayers are paying each member of Con