276 responses to “Sandbox – 20jun23”

1. 

   Scott O

   28 June 2023

   Other than pure out and out vote-buying, exactly why is it we should allow a certain segment of the population walk away from debt?
   Here’s a knee slapper:
   “That debt relief could alleviate borrowers of the financial burdens of student loans, experts said.”
   Oh.
   Damn – I’m sure glad we have X-purts.
   And the folks that worked 2 jobs to pay their loans off?
   SUCKER!!!
   “Why retirement savers need the Supreme Court to uphold the student-loan forgiveness plan”
   Yeah, inflationary action by the feds is an imperative for retirement savers.
   Makes total sense.
   It’s Double-Plus GOOD!
   https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-retirement-savers-need-the-supreme-court-to-uphold-the-student-loan-forgiveness-plan-d45a87b3?mod=home-page

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   Scott O

   28 June 2023

   More financial non-news:
   “Federal debt to soar, CBO predicts, despite GOP-led spending standoff”
   “…despite GOP standoff”.
   Major guffaw.
   Because despite all the hair-pulling hysteria, the GOP barely even started to cut the budget.
   The numbers got crunched long ago – entitlements already on the books for decades will bankrupt our nation.
   Waiting for Paul to claim it’s all Trump’s fault.
   Film at eleven.
   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/federal-debt-to-soar-cbo-predicts-despite-gop-led-spending-standoff/ar-AA1db0Rq

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   Scott O

   28 June 2023

   Uh oh –
   It’s starting.
   From the LS news –
   “Biden has confused Iraq for Ukraine twice in the last 24 hours”
   So – will he be able to issue pardons before they wheelchair him out to Marine One or will “kneepads” Harris get to do the honors?
   Biden has been “confused” for years but now we’re supposed to be allowed to notice.
   Time to go!
   https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-confused-iraq-ukraine-twice-170229940.html

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   Scott O

   28 June 2023

   Update on “time to go”.
   I notice that Up-Chuck Todd has just discovered that something might not be all tickety-boo with the Hunter/Joe Biden story.
   It is amazing what kind of improvement you can effect on a donkey’s intelligence by some well placed blows of a stout bit of timber.
   Even then…

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5. 

   scenes

   29 June 2023

   re: Scotto@10:29PM
   Honestly, I think he’s the perfect President for the modern US.
   https://mediaproxy.salon.com/width/1200/https://media.salon.com/2019/08/confused-biden.jpg

   Leading an army of strip mall burnin’, statue destroyin’, child mutilatin’, political kommissars is a tough gig, but someone has to do it. Civilizations don’t destroy themselves.

   In the meantime, the English language evolves.
   https://twitter.com/Glinner/status/1674045855517618177
   It’s Double-Plus GOOD!

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6. 

   scenes

   29 June 2023

   lol. As usual, typepad mangles a link although the preview is fine.
   Confused Biden Pic: https://shorturl.at/dJW36

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7. 

   scenes

   29 June 2023

   Just one of those things you run into.
   Further proof of the genius of the secular religion sweeping the West.
   “The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me.”
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVBFMp4JW-s
   Institutional capture is a thing and the use of corporations to enforce authoritarian tendencies is impressive to watch. The visible manifestations sure happened quickly and it ain’t like Trump is going to fix any of this.
   You know, maybe it’s just a natural movement given a certain amount of overpopulation, gigantism in production, and improvements in communications&surveillance. At some point in the near future, the difference between US/Western Europe and China will simply be a matter of branding.

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8. 

   fishanthrope

   29 June 2023

   Posted by: scenes | 29 June 2023 at 06:49 AM
   Tough to go wrong with a classic…..!

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9. 

   Scott O

   29 June 2023

   scenes 6:47 – “Honestly, I think he’s the perfect President for the modern US.”
   Yeah, he was but then Hunter left his laptop at the repair shop.
   It’s like the little bit of tape the night watchman noticed on the door lock at the Watergate building.
   Don’t worry, our country is loaded with Alfred E Neumans. They’ll find another guy/gal/whatever for the job.

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10. 

    fishanthrope

    29 June 2023

    Posted by: Scott O | 29 June 2023 at 07:49 AM
    Don’t worry, our country is loaded with Alfred E Neumans.
    Yes….the best known at the moment is the Secretary of Transportation.
    https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/C9keBrGQevVTHW5BYwzBYw–/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY3Nw–/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/consequence_of_sound_458/4b0737f9bdae7fee3abd0be5c066643a

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11. 

    fishanthrope

    29 June 2023

    Sorry bad link! Try this one for your Sec Trans…..
    https://media.breitbart.com/media/2019/05/Alfred-E.-Neuman-Buttigieg-640×480.png

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12. 

    Scott O

    29 June 2023

    Also scenes 6:47 – Did you scroll down from the original post to the vid of the Brit “mum” doing the dishes? I thought of Eric Idle in that part. He would have been perfect.

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13. 

    scenes

    29 June 2023

    re: Scotto@8:21AM
    That would be this: https://twitter.com/genderisharmful/status/1674302521655934977
    lol. Perfect.
    I was thinking about this sort of thing. It seems to me it would be a good move for everyone to simply invent a third gender (sex? I forget which one refers to possessing a born-with ‘bonus hole’…let’s say gender is only a state of mind and sex is biology) for men who want to wear pretty dresses and makeup. The third bathroom and sports teams would be a small price to pay. We can have a contest to invent a gender name.
    I do notice that the bill is using old-school ‘Latinx’. The new and improved way is ‘Latine’. Naturally, Spanish is a language that has to largely be reconstructed in order to please the Snake Cult given heavy use of evil ‘o’s and ‘a’s at the end of nouns.
    You have to admire how the aptly named Sen. Scott Weiner is always in the front of the parade.
    https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB665
    The basic idea is that 12 year olds can self-emancipate, I suspect it’s mostly in place so that they can start treatment if they aren’t getting their transgender feelz at home.
    It’s hard to avoid the opinion that anyone living in California with a child who isn’t hightailing it out-of-state is a fool. Retired people with money can mostly just laugh at the foolishness, but anyone with a business and/or children is subject to the full insanity of the state government.
    Sometimes I think the sun can’t go red giant soon enough.

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14. 

    fishanthrope

    29 June 2023

    Posted by: scenes | 29 June 2023 at 09:02 AM
    The basic idea is that 12 year olds can self-emancipate…
    Well okey dokey then…..”it/they” can self-pay once released from the tyranny of their parents.

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15. 

    scenes

    29 June 2023

    “”it/they” can self-pay once released ”
    Dunno what the law is concerning child support in this case, there are probably subtleties.
    It seems to me that if Mr. Weiner is interested in making sure that plenty of kids escape the clutches of their NaziTrumpsterEdgelord parents, in addition to California’s need to be a Refuge State for 12 year olds who need surgery and hormones because reasons, you’ll probably see a spate of funding law get passed to support all of these people.
    Maybe Maxine Waters can roll it all up in whatever umpteen hundred billion dollar bill she cooks up next to subsidize buying homes for poor people (I mean, what could go wrong?).
    I’m thinking that the simple way to go is to print up a few trillion in $100 bills, and stuff them in barrels in all city centers. Take what you need. White adult males not allowed except for those born with the wrong equipment.

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16. 

    Gregory

    29 June 2023

    Education and (other?) Grievance Studies departments at Harvard are now deep in despair.

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17. 

    fishanthrope

    29 June 2023

    They really should have run this past marketing and held a few focus group sessions before choosing their new term….
    

    LGBT Foundation recommends people use the word ‘bonus hole’ instead of ‘vagina’ in order to avoid upsetting trans people.

    https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1674375622561349632

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18. 

    scenes

    29 June 2023

    “Education and (other?) Grievance Studies departments at Harvard are now deep in despair.”
    Supreme Court? They’ll find a way. Maybe there’s some legal mechanism to privatize the admissions or scholarship process to re-enable a system of racial spoils.
    Assuming they are forced to go a more merit-based system, it’ll be interesting to see how the various degree programs rebalance. There won’t be as much call for colleges that are heavy on inferior talent. Slamming a bunch of hardworking Asian kids through those places would probably do wonders for GDP in the long run though.
    A quick example of workaround. There are fairly substantial EV subsidies handed out by The Great State of California that depend purely on geographical districts that they define. You know darn well there’s some clever boots in Sacramento that looks at ethnicity in those areas with the intention to maximize for favored groups.

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19. 

    scenes

    29 June 2023

    re: fisha@11:05AM
    already mentioned at 6:47 and 9:02, although the more the merrier.
    From the original document, ‘front hole’ is also a preferred usage.
    You absolutely don’t wanna know how they manufacture those for the mentally-ill dudes.

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20. 

    fishanthrope

    29 June 2023

    Jennifer Rubin seems to agree with you scenes…..

    “every college has an easy workaround : nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.”

    “So … was she ever an actual conservative? We’ve been writing about her for quite some time and honestly, all we ever do is seem to disagree with and mock her. Maybe she should just admit she’s a progressive, liberal, nutcase, whatever, and stop pretending? This is such a bad take. ‘Don’t worry, college can still totally discriminate against certain kids.’ Like, does she really think this is a good take?”
    Jennifer Rubin is “conservative” much like psul Emery is a Green Libertarian™……so not at all! They are compensated differently as well for not being what they claim to be…..him with well whiskey….her with really, really substantial amounts of cash!
    On the other hand I imagine there is a certain Truckee based non-profit (staffed primarily with Aryan comfort women it seems) that heaved a quiet sigh of relief this morning when a technical precedent was set.
    https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1674422187770650625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1674422187770650625%7Ctwgr%5E09ea7e48175f5bb2882f6d262eea65ec4df0cbda%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fsamj%2F2023%2F06%2F29%2Fjennifer-rubin-wants-colleges-to-know-they-can-still-discriminate-based-on-race-n2384944

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21. 

    fishanthrope

    29 June 2023

    Posted by: scenes | 29 June 2023 at 12:40 PM
    Suddenly Borat referring to his “back pussy” doesn’t seem so farfetched.
    

    Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

    
    Borat: How’s my back p*ssy?
    Azamat: Not bad. Moist

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22. 

    scenes

    29 June 2023

    fishanthrope@1:03PM
    That’s more formally known as a ‘bussy’, part of that wonderful new aesthetic we are being introduced to.
    Clown World isn’t just a place, it’s a state of mind.

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23. 

    fishanthrope

    29 June 2023

    Got Any Nude Selfies? Do You Like Porn? Bill Gates’ Private Office Asked Women Sexually Explicit Questions
    Gates always struck me very much like the guy who campaigns really hard to be the president of the local PTA only to be discovered six months into his term blowing members of the boys cross country team.
    I’m sure Cereal likes him though….they seem to have similar interests.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/got-any-nude-selfies-do-you-porn-bill-gates-private-office-asked-women-sexually-explicit

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24. 

    scenes

    29 June 2023

    Speaking of Bill Gates, and hopefully no one ran this, it’s new to me.
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/06/10/microsoft-added-a-pride-flag-to-the-windows-11-taskbar-and-made-it-impossible-to-remove-n1702153
    lol. Just perfect.

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25. 

    fishanthrope

    29 June 2023

    Posted by: scenes | 29 June 2023 at 01:37 PM
    lol. Just perfect.
    It’s like they say over at Instapundit…..”you will be made to care”!

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26. 

    Don Bessee

    29 June 2023

    How long can they ignore this shit? –
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-wanders-set-nicolle-wallace-wraps-softball-msnbc-interview
    😉

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27. 

    The Estonian Fox

    29 June 2023

    From the “troubles” in France: The cop shot a 17-year-old trying to drive away from a traffic stop. The 17-yo name is Nahel M. He is Arab, so most likely a member of the RoP.
    “And it’s the relationship many here have with the police which has prompted the anger – people in this ethnically diverse neighbourhood say officers aren’t working to protect them.”
    Only 40,000 officers have been deployed to counter the protests tonight. Nowhere could I find a statement including the word “Muslim”.
    The last inital may stand for Mfloyd, from Google translate. But without the fentanyl in his blood.

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28. 

    The Estonian Fox

    29 June 2023

    Just before the march began, Nahel’s mother Mounia gave an interview to French media outlet Blast in which she remembered her son as “a respectful, kind boy”.
    Sounds like George Floyd may have been his mentor.
    She asked “everyone” to join the march currently taking place in Nanterre, saying the route is one Nahel used to take on his motorbike.
    Must be he traded that motorbike for the Mercedes he was driving when he was shot.

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29. 

    Don Bessee

    29 June 2023

    RIP Great Warrior Leader!
    https://people.com/a-heartfelt-sendoff-for-legendary-green-beret-billy-waugh-7555393
    ;-(

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30. 

    Cereal Liar

    30 June 2023

    You know it’s bad when the Koch brothers are raising money to get rid of you,
    https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/koch-network-trump/2023/06/30/id/1125505/

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31. 

    🐠

    30 June 2023

    Posted by: Cereal Liar | 30 June 2023 at 06:52 AM
    You know it’s bad when the Koch brothers are raising money to get rid of you,
    That hits pretty close to home for you I imagine…..
    

    I wasn’t fired….and I turned down a severance….wink, wink! I walked out head held high. Honest guys.

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32. 

    🐠

    30 June 2023

    Posted by: Cereal Liar | 30 June 2023 at 06:52 AM
    I’m sure that hits close to home……being shown the door like that.

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33. 

    🐠

    30 June 2023

    The Supreme Court rejects Biden’s plan to wipe away $400 billion in student loans
    They always knew this going to be the outcome but rest assured the same progressive rubes will be back there again in 24 pulling the lever for the Brainstem in Chief!
    Morons…..

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34. 

    fishanthrope

    30 June 2023

    Ahhh….to be in Paris…..!
    

    France Mobilizes 40,000 Police After All Hell Breaks Out

    If only the SBC had considered offering those ….ahem….troubled …ahem…youths gainful employment perhaps this unpleasantness could have been avoided.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-mobilizes-40000-police-after-all-hell-breaks-out

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35. 

    Gregory

    30 June 2023

    Cereal Jeff, I can say authoritatively the Koch Brothers are not raising money for political contests now.

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36. 

    🐠

    30 June 2023

    Loving the delayed double post.

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37. 

    fishanthrope

    30 June 2023

    Well the French knew they could expect this sort of behavior from a chief executive that has a $10,000 a month make-up budget.
    

    Macron dances at Elton John concert as Paris burns…

    Taking a page from the “Gavin goes to The French Laundry” playbook it seems.
    https://www.the-sun.com/news/8488406/paris-executioner-cop-shot-teen-charged-homicide-riots-france/

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38. 

    fishanthrope

    30 June 2023

    Of course it’s “unthinkable” for “The Pride of Scranton”?
    

    “Unthinkable”: Biden Acts Surprised After Supreme Court Strikes Down Student Loan Relief

    When an individual has only two regions of higher cognitive function ….graft and political pandering (the underage girl hair sniffing doesn’t count)….. why would anyone expect any thinking?

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39. 

    Paul Emery

    30 June 2023

    What a phony Clarence Thomas is. Here’s a direct quote from him:
    ‘God only knows where I would be today’ if not for the legal principles of equal employment opportunity measures such as affirmative action that are ‘critical to minorities and women in this society,’” wrote Timothy Bella. “‘These laws and their proper application are all that stand between the first 17 years of my life and the second 17 years,’ Thomas, then the EEOC chairman, said in 1983. His comments were later cited in outlets including The Washington Post, the New York Times and Newsweek.”
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/06/30/clarence-thomas-affirmative-action/

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40. 

    Don Bessee

    30 June 2023

    Flying that idiot flag high today oh great ponytail of ignorance. EEOC is equal employment opportunity commission. That has nothing to do with discrimination based on race as ruled today.
    Meritocracy is the best for society not the liberal system that does not teach kids to read due to the low expectation racism of the left.
    😉

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41. 

    Scott O

    30 June 2023

    Paul 2:27 – Did you happen to see the date, Paul? That was 40 years ago.
    Affirmative Action has become a racist blockade for higher qualified non-blacks that is clearly un-Constitutional.
    SCOTUS correctly judged on the basis of the case before them and our nation’s law.
    Racial quotas and lowering of standards for entrance to higher education and jobs will be our nation’s undoing.
    We have a new justice on the Supreme Court hired because of her race and gender. She is so stupid, she can’t define what a woman is.
    If Paul feels that racism is the key to our nation moving forward we would all love to read his explanation of how that is going to work.

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42. 

    Don Bessee

    30 June 2023

    The get woke go brokesters at disney destroyed another beloved franchise –
    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/06/30/nolte-disneys-indiana-jones-5-opening-day-worse-than-the-flash-flop/
    😉

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43. 

    Scott O

    30 June 2023

    We have truly devolved down into newspeak:
    “The Decision That Upends the Equal-Protection Clause”
    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/scotus-affirmative-action-ruling-implications/674567/
    Ned Flanders sez:
    “It’s doubly-plus-ungoodily-didily!

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44. 

    Don Bessee

    30 June 2023

    What kind of waifs are wiengarten and co producing, frail, ignorant snowflakes that cannot deal with the real world? LOL –
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/boston-university-law-students-offered-therapy-response-recent-supreme-court-decisions
    😉

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45. 

    Don Bessee

    30 June 2023

    Get off the fucking lawn bitches where the hell is my pudding cup! –
    Biden snaps at reporter after student debt handout defeat at Supreme Court: ‘I didn’t give any false hope’
    His administration faced a devastating blow from SCOTUS
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-snaps-reporter-student-debt-handout-defeat-supereme-court-false-hope
    😉

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46. 

    Don Bessee

    30 June 2023

    The more they learn the truth the less the like it and the truth about mining and pollution from them-
    According to the survey, 59% of Americans oppose phasing out gas cars and trucks by 2035, and just 21% would feel excited if the U.S. were to move forward with such a policy. Over the last two years, Americans have grown in their opposition to phasing out gas vehicles, with 51% opposing in April 2021, 8% less than the share who are now against.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/americans-strongly-oppose-bidens-ev-goals-poll
    https://insideevs.com/news/674488/nikola-trucks-fire-defecitve-battery-cells/
    https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/tech/lithium-ion-battery-fires/index.html
    https://www.consumerreports.org/health/electric-bikes/electric-bike-fires-and-lithium-ion-batteries-a4632489902/
    😉

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47. 

    scenes

    01 July 2023

    re: EVs.
    In many ways, they are a superior answer to ICE cars. As they improve in ability or reduce in price, marketshare will increase. It’s a pretty steep growth rate right now.
    The stupid thing is the mixed signals. California requirements to buy, use of tax refunds rather than subsidies (or subsidizing at all), high tariffs on the one source of cheaper cars, lack of build-out in power generation.
    Keep in mind that the marketplace is based on new car buyers, not the public generally. That’s the only poll that matters.
    One thing that will be interesting is the collapse of major manufacturers as they don’t make the transition. Too much ossification of design, legacy debt, unions, legacy capital investment. It’ll be crazy. Watch for the nationalization of car companies in Germany and France as the Chinese + Tesla sweep through.
    btw:
    https://insideevs.com/news/561549/study-evs-smallest-fire-risk/

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48. 

    scenes

    01 July 2023

    a small thing, but a good example of the kindness of modern internet tribes. Just to give an idea.
    https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/14n82sp/supreme_court_tossed_case_these_douchebags/
    Usually, but absolutely not always, a tool of Progressives, the hivemind mobs do their thing. The KVMR news staff thinks that modern politics is all about Trump and public health care compared to Denmark, but it’s really something deeper and darker.
    A sane person withdraws from modern society to the extent possible, remains anonymous, sticks to a tight circle. We really aren’t that far from class enemies and The Four Olds. Any younger person wishing to hang onto a shred of self should avoid large organizations like the plague as an income source.

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49. 

    scenes

    01 July 2023

    “According to the survey, 59% of Americans oppose phasing out gas cars and trucks by 2035, ”
    I guess it depends on what questions you ask.
    https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ey-research-nearly-half-of-us-car-buyers-intend-to-purchase-an-electric-vehicle-charging-and-safety-concerns-weigh-on-consumers-301863850.html
    One interesting angle will be charger locations. The folks buying new cars are far more likely to have a garage, money for a home charger, etc. The third or fourth owner won’t.
    It’s a weird one in that cars are a very expensive purchase (absurdly so in recent years) and EVs are improving/changing at the clip of consumer electronics. Hold off buying because the next gen will be better.
    Given the increasing complexity of all of them, both ICE and EV, you do have to wonder if the average lifetime will be shorter (due to lack of spares, lack of knowledge) or longer (better metallurgy, improved design). There appear to be an increasing amount of unobtanium parts already for contemporary cars, wait until some more companies go out of business.

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50. 

    Scott O

    01 July 2023

    scenes – “I guess it depends on what questions you ask.”
    Nope – it depends on who you ask. General population vs “car buyers”.
    And since a lot of “car buyers” are already firm with buying an e-car, it’s not surprising you get a higher percentage from that polling group that favor e-cars.
    Govt mandating e-cars and giving money to the buyers of e-cars is totally absurd.
    Anytime the govt needs to point a gun at citizens and tell them they will “choose” a certain thing, you can count on big problems down the road.
    They still make any part you might need to keep your Model A (or model T!) running.
    I think that what will happen with in a decade or so, is folks not being able to obtain insurance for motor vehicles that are not on a govt “safety list”.
    It’s for the children.

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