I wished Haley was the one chosen, but she didn't have POTUS history like Trump does
Likely the reason why Trump became the frontrunner, and likely why this is his final year before he will get dumped with Vance, MAGA, and the Heritage Foundation with it if Trump loses 2024
It's this whole "holier than thou" approach to the whole anti-Trump fervor that really irks me. "If we just vote for the person who will very likely do all of the things I hate, then I can get my party back to the way it was".
What was that exactly? Bush neocons? The Romneys? Woohoo. What a great party for shipping our middle class jobs overseas and getting us into wars we shouldn't be involved in, while never doing anything to cut the size of the federal government and the gigantic bureaucracy?
At least they speak in a way that tickles my eardrums and don't post mean tweets or something.
One thing to keep in mind with this is this rainfall forecast actually comes from WPC, not the local office. NWS offices have to use WPCs precipitation forecasts whether they agree or not. There is a window where the local office can suggest changes but WPC doesn't have to listen. Paying attention over the last few years WPC has a consistent mid range high bias that diminishes as you approach the event. So of course this outcome is possible, but on average I would expect these totals to retract a bit as you get closer. So I wrote this before I looked at any data, and now that I have here is the EPS mean. Other ensemble means are similar:
This is a much more likely outcome of 1-2" on average, locally more or less. I usually say for the 3-5 day forecasts you can take whatever they have and divide by 2 and its probably reasonable, that holds here
If I was an American citizen, yes. Am I aware of his shortcomings? Yup. Last spring generic Republican was polling better against Biden. It should have been another candidate. But I resonate with the so-called populist sentiment. Trump is a pulsating, orange middle finger by those who feel ignored by the establishment. That can’t be ignored. People like Tim can slander and denigrate these folk for resonating with the Orange Bad Man (basket of deplorables), but such willful blindness comes at a cost.