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That is exactly why it happened and why we can expect more of it. You liked it. A ton of people liked it. It was widely condemned publicly but everyone was drawn in. In the people's house, this is apparently what the people want.

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Besides, when one is sick and tired of seeing Greene’s self serving, self absorbed, nonsense, sure, I’ll laugh when I see such a perfectly spot-on description of her. Does not mean, certainly doesn’t mean, that I want screaming matches and insults to be the new norm in House debates.
 
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I mean we know they do this ****. Hell look at the legal version called "shrinkflation" that's still just as scammy. Unfortunately we live in a plutocracy so nothing will happen. On top of that the oil industry is making more profit than they have in the history of the industry. Insanity rules. Society be damned.
 
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I don't think I spend anywhere close to $2,100 in gas per year. I might spend $80 in gas per month on a heavy driving month. My wife has a much farther commute so she spends more but I doubt she spends $2,100 a year. Together we might get there.

So anyway, this sounds like a made-up number. Brings the entire thing into question and looks like Facebook BS.
 
I don't think I spend anywhere close to $2,100 in gas per year. I might spend $80 in gas per month on a heavy driving month. My wife has a much farther commute so she spends more but I doubt she spends $2,100 a year. Together we might get there.

So anyway, this sounds like a made-up number. Brings the entire thing into question and looks like Facebook BS.
Ya I have a gas guzzler and I spend about 40 bucks a month on gas in the non fishing months and like 140 in the fishing months. Which doesn't at up to that much.


I do think that there was some intentional cutting of production to drive up prices though.

Edit: actually when I do the math and add it up.... 6 months at 140 per month equals $840 and 6 months at 40 per month equals $240 for a total of $1,080. And I probably actually spend more than that because I was basing it on a normal month but sometimes there are unexpected trips

Then you add my wife's gas and we use her car for our of town long drives..... We might spend 2100 in a year on gas. And my work is only 6 miles away. I have co workers who drove like 40-60 miles each way ever work day.

(I figured that 2100 number is probably based off a household as well)
Those numbers might be more accurate than we think

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I mean we know they do this ****. Hell look at the legal version called "shrinkflation" that's still just as scammy. Unfortunately we live in a plutocracy so nothing will happen. On top of that the oil industry is making more profit than they have in the history of the industry. Insanity rules. Society be damned.
Yep. Which is why it was nice to see some caps on some medicine and on concert ticket fees. Also airlines have to reimburse for flights being cancelled and changed on short notice now. Also saw that in California that cruise lines have to advertise the actual price with port fees and stuff included.
Nice to see that this administration is holding some of these corporations/industry's feet to the fire on behalf of the American consumer for once.

Probably doesn't get enough publicity but all those things have happened recently and are nice to see

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I basically plan on spending between $50-$55 dollars per fill up and I fill up twice maybe three times per month. This has been the case since… forever as gas has consistently been between $3-$4 bucks for my entire adult life. Sedans typically have a 15 gal tank and I usually run my car close to empty before filling up. Sure, there have been a few exceptions, like during Covid when everything was shut down. But consistently it’s been around $50 bucks a tank for me. So that ends up being between $100-$165 dollars per month. So let’s say I average $130 dollars per month x 12 months $1,560 dollars per year. That’s hardly going to break the bank. Many people fork out near that much on a payment for a truck per month. I also don’t need to drive a penis enhancer. I see on our roads in Utah countless $80,000 dollar gas guzzling trucks being driven by single drivers in white collar jobs.

What percentage of men drive F-150s that never leave pavement and/or rarely haul anything? At least 75 percent, right? I’d guess it’s probably closer to 90 percent seeing that most trucks these days have gigantic cabs and tiny beds (might as well get a sedan or minivan). So these guys may bitch about gas when an Accord, Camry, or Civic would serve them just as well as their penis enhancers. If you need to haul stuff, you can rent vehicles. A few years ago I rented a U-Haul for less than $50 bucks. I see advertisements at Home Depot for their trucks at $20 bucks. That’s a lot cheaper than a monthly payment on a completely unnecessary vehicle that’s going to cost you $1,000 bucks a month on a payment, thousands more with insurance, and hundreds in gas per month.

I wish more people looked into Toyota hybrids. The new Camry will get you 40+ mpg, looks awesome, and can comfortably seat 4 and will cost you less than half of what a new truck will. Want something more rugged? Rav4 hybrid will get you 40+ mpg, seats 4 comfortably, and has a gigantic trunk (probably can fit more than your typical truck bed these days).

People should stop complaining. Take responsibility. If you can’t afford a truck, find something else. You may find a smaller, cheaper, more fuel efficient vehicle meets your transport needs better. Take the savings to therapy so you don’t feel like you need a fancy truck to pleasure your wife or feel important in life.
 
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Disgusting. This country is going to implode.


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It’s interesting that these manly men blame their wives as a first response. Does anyone actually believe this? The flag was flown cuz of his wife? And he never saw it? And it was in response to some mean sign a neighbor had? Cmon. Guess what, I’ve seen plenty of mean signs about our current president. A woman used to drop her kids off at a local elementary school with two gigantic flags on her car, “let’s go Brandon” and “I could **** a better president.” Did I respond by flying a communist flag? Nazi flag? Confederate flag? The American flag upside down as a particularly insidious meaning for a Supreme Court justice to fly.

It’s also interesting to me that Alito and Thomas give their wives decision making power for far right politics but love to take away the decision making power of women when it’s related to health care.

Anyone else see what the Supreme Court for what it truly is? A massive legislating arm of the GOP and billionaires. Republicans can grind the gears of actual legislation in the legislative branch to a halt. Then campaign on how DC is “broken.” Angry and embittered voters then elect them. Once elected, they go about obstructing the legislative branch while nominating and confirming hack judges. Hack judges make everyone’s lives worse with their partisan rulings. Which then fuels the GOP’s campaigning about the cynicism and brokenness of Washington DC. It’s a vicious cycle.

Maybe it’s time to change the court?

1. Time for real ethics reform and real accountability. Judges shouldn’t be receiving bribes. Judges shouldn’t be flying treason flags. Nor should their spouses be engaged in coups. Want the job? Time to be above politics.

2. Term limits. You get one 6 year or 10 year term (I don’t care what the term length is). After that, get your *** off the bench.

3. We know how every case is going to be decided because we know that partisan makeup of the court. Why not expand the court to something like 21 and assign random justices to each case? That way there’s a pool of justices to draw from and a random select of 9 will hear your case.

4. Frankly, I’m tired of the games behind the Supreme Court. Why not just enact a law that each president regardless of political party gets two per term?

The Supreme Court is nothing more than a hack job. Everyone here should be horrified at what it’s become. These guys aren’t even pretending anymore. Alito and Thomas just DGAF.

To my friends on the right, what you’re doing right now can certainly be done by the left. Alito and Thomas aren’t spring chickens. It would be ironic if Biden’s reelection this fall leads to the court swinging 6-3 for liberals by him replacing those two jerks with two very young and liberal justices (which I still believe the Supreme Court should be reformed).

Elections can have consequences!
 
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Jesus I've seen a bit of footage of Biden lately and he looks like he's escaped the set of a new Thunderbirds film. When I see him I can't help but think of the last days of Boris Yeltsin.



Actually after watching that I'd trust Boris with the nuclear briefcase above the other two.
 
Jesus I've seen a bit of footage of Biden lately and he looks like he's escaped the set of a new Thunderbirds film. When I see him I can't help but think of the last days of Boris Yeltsin.



Actually after watching that I'd trust Boris with the nuclear briefcase above the other two.

Ahh back when post Soviet Russia was fun.
 
Yeah the good old days, remember them? You could leave your doors unlocked, cause you had **** all worth stealing. The good old days. You could die from Polio in the good old days. I miss the good old days...

and you never had to worry about filling the hours in the day, all conveniently taken up with standing in a queue for half a loaf of bread for the family to last for 4 days
 
Sadly, technology and prosperity have made a large segment our population so bored and angry at life, that they demand to elect arsonists who promise to tear down the system even though the solution the arsonists propose would make everyone less prosperous and life less safe.
 
Sadly, technology and prosperity have made a large segment our population so bored and angry at life, that they demand to elect arsonists who promise to tear down the system even though the solution the arsonists propose would make everyone less prosperous and life less safe.
But realistically that's what makes humans happy. Scrapping for their existence. Our brains evolved to solve problems of survival. When we don't have to solve those problems our brains don't know what to do so they start looking for new existential crises to tackle. Gender identity, political rivalry, social media tribalism, all arise from the need to find a new existential crisis to occupy our brains. Hence depression and other psychological issues are heavily on the rise. Prosperity, it turns out, is bad for our brains, at a certain point. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather have more people having safe and secure supplies of food and water than the alternative, but that means we have to learn to adapt to a new existential dread and the plague of psychological issues that accompany it: boredom.
 
But it wasn’t a gaffe. That’s what she believes. She gave a similar answer nearly 10 years ago. And then after this most recent “gaffe” she gave another weird answer the day after when she had time to assess the damage it had done to her campaign.

Talk about whitewashing history. “It was about power.” What war in the history of mankind hasn’t been about power? The civil war was fought over “the power” to enslave a certain race of men and to push this power into western territories. One side decided to break off from the rest of the country and create a confederacy of states with similar enslavement beliefs while the other side fought to keep the country whole and abolish slavery. And some remained more or less neutral.

It’s also silly to bring up the faults of the north and compare them to the south. The way I read it, which I doubt you meant it this way, is equating the two. It’s true, the northern states didn’t practice full and complete equality. In many ways, that’s never been accomplished even in 2024. But that’s a far cry from what the south was doing, enslaving men, women and children. Breeding black men and women and selling their offspring. Kidnapping unsuspecting blacks in the north and enslaving them in the south. The entire lost cause myth was created to soothe the consciousness of these enslavers because the truth was just too awful.

Nikki Haley and McCain aren’t very similar at all. Comparisons of the two are silly. McCain made a few missteps. I view Haley as nothing more than a spineless husk of a human being. Far more ambitious than her talent. She has done little to separate herself from Trump and the rest of the pack. Everyone has tried to imitate Trump (with thee exception of Christie). And with the exception of Christie, all have pledged to support Trump and pardon him. Shameless.

She might not be as shameless as Trump. But she’s just as craven. All of these Republican candidates with the exception of Christie stand up for the same beliefs as Trump. They’ve adopted the fascist ideology and have decided to wage war against the majority of Americans and our values. They’re not pushing for smaller government or more efficiency. They’re pushing for an ideology of white grievances and division.

It’s why none of these folks are willing to declare that slavery and white supremacy was the reason for the civil war and are issues we’re still grappling with today.
Republicans are so easy to predict. I’m not the only one who probably predicted this. Republicans always fall in line, no matter how pathetic their candidates are.

 
But realistically that's what makes humans happy. Scrapping for their existence. Our brains evolved to solve problems of survival. When we don't have to solve those problems our brains don't know what to do so they start looking for new existential crises to tackle. Gender identity, political rivalry, social media tribalism, all arise from the need to find a new existential crisis to occupy our brains. Hence depression and other psychological issues are heavily on the rise. Prosperity, it turns out, is bad for our brains, at a certain point. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather have more people having safe and secure supplies of food and water than the alternative, but that means we have to learn to adapt to a new existential dread and the plague of psychological issues that accompany it: boredom.
I mostly agree with this.

I did have the thought, are Scandinavian countries suffering from this? Why is America tearing itself apart looking for enemies while Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden are just kinda doing their thing with chill work weeks, ample vacation time, and some of the best social safety nets in the world? The older I get the less I value gun rights and culture wars and the more I value universal health care and vacation time with my family. I don’t need a ford F-350, an AR15, and for my tribe to stick it to gays to feel loved or significant. Give me a week off every now and again to enjoy my family.
 
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