The Biden Administration and All Things Politics

[TheGoldStandard]

I like Toyotas better than Honda's but the accord interior>>>>>>>>>Camry interior

I agree about the trucks/4x4 thing. So many don't even use them how they are meant to be used. I have a co worker who bought a brand new Chevy Colorado in the highest trim with literally every option you could buy. It cost him an insane 63,000 Dollars. And it's awesome. But I asked him if he had taken it off road yet and he said he hadn't. After owning it for like 6 months. This truck can do just about anything off road and it just takes him to and from work and home.


I will be going camping this week. And probably next week as well. Gotta get the 4runner out in it's natural habitat at least monthly if not more often.

Just went fishing like 2 weeks ago.


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Chevy's are good rigs, but depreciate too mich. I get buying Tacoma owners for sure. Their resale is 2nd to none, to the point that buying them used makes no sense. I have had 3 and sold them all for basically what I bought them for 7 years later. Time will tell if the new 4 cyl hybrid Tacoma holds its value as well.

I now drive 6,000 pound rigs as I don't want to be undersized when an idiot in an F150, Eacalade, etc. hits me. My wife has a 2020 4Runner and I have a 23 Tundra, 16 Land Cruiser and 88 Fj62.

My Land Cruiser is my offroader and normal rig for driving to our lake house in MT as it has a good bull bar for deer strikes, and there are a ton of deer on the route.

The Tundra is awesome for hauling and I get 20 mpg, but would not want it as a daily driver. Great 2nd vehicle and the new TTV6 has a ton of power when needed.

 

[LogGrad98]

The amount of things people think a president is in control of has really gone up recently

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They are in charge of everything you like or don't like depending on the side you're on. It's amazing. Like take Biden, a feeble old man with barely the mental capacity to keep from ******** himself yet he's capable of orchestrating the most complex conspiracies ever known to man and heading up the greatest crime family since the Sopranos. Literally boggles the mind.

 

[TheGoldStandard]

They are in charge of everything you like or don't like depending on the side you're on. It's amazing. Like take Biden, a feeble old man with barely the mental capacity to keep from ******** himself yet he's capable of orchestrating the most complex conspiracies ever known to man and heading up the greatest crime family since the Sopranos. Literally boggles the mind.

Obviously it is the secret organization using Biden as their puppet figurehead that is pulling all the strings.

 

[Deleted member 365]

They are in charge of everything you like or don't like depending on the side you're on. It's amazing. Like take Biden, a feeble old man with barely the mental capacity to keep from ******** himself yet he's capable of orchestrating the most complex conspiracies ever known to man and heading up the greatest crime family since the Sopranos. Literally boggles the mind.

I seem to remember similar things said about Hillary. She was too weak to walk up a stairway but yet was still commanding a global conspiracy with Hollywood elites sucking adrenochrome from children.

 

[fishonjazz]

Chevy's are good rigs, but depreciate too mich. I get buying Tacoma owners for sure. Their resale is 2nd to none, to the point that buying them used makes no sense. I have had 3 and sold them all for basically what I bought them for 7 years later. Time will tell if the new 4 cyl hybrid Tacoma holds its value as well.

I now drive 6,000 pound rigs as I don't want to be undersized when an idiot in an F150, Eacalade, etc. hits me. My wife has a 2020 4Runner and I have a 23 Tundra, 16 Land Cruiser and 88 Fj62.

My Land Cruiser is my offroader and normal rig for driving to our lake house in MT as it has a good bull bar for deer strikes, and there are a ton of deer on the route.

The Tundra is awesome for hauling and I get 20 mpg, but would not want it as a daily driver. Great 2nd vehicle and the new TTV6 has a ton of power when needed.

I had a Tacoma. Great truck. Bought it brand new right of the showroom floor.
Before my 4runner I bought a brand new Silverado. Good truck but I hated it. Hated parking it. Took up way too much space in my garage. Didn't like driving it. Bought it to pull a trailer and it was good at that but I sold it when it only had like 30,000 miles on it cause I was sick of it.
Sold it at a great time. No one could buy new cars because of the chip shortages unless you wanted to wait months for one to show up so used cars were going for way more than they should.
Sold the trailer to. Ordered the 4runner through the dealership and was told I would have to wait about 3 months for it but I lucked out and it showed up 5 weeks later. 2 miles on it.
I love it. Other than the gas mileage and lack of a CD player it's perfect.
Got a pop up trailer now which is fine for me.

I remember right after I got my 4runner I was tempted to sell it because I paid about 45,000 after taxes and literally the day it got it I was seeing used 4runners in my same trim (trail special edition) for the same year going for over 50,000 lol. A bird in the hand was worth much more than 2 in the bush at the time I guess.

My parents waited 13 months for a new Camry around that time!
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[Red]

This shouldn’t be necessary. If he’s elected in 2024, who would expect Trump to ever step down, in any event?

Trump 2028

The Twenty-second Amendment is an arbitrary restraint on presidents who serve nonconsecutive terms—and on democracy itself.

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[str8line]

I like Toyotas better than Honda's but the accord interior>>>>>>>>>Camry interior

I agree about the trucks/4x4 thing. So many don't even use them how they are meant to be used. I have a co worker who bought a brand new Chevy Colorado in the highest trim with literally every option you could buy. It cost him an insane 63,000 Dollars. And it's awesome. But I asked him if he had taken it off road yet and he said he hadn't. After owning it for like 6 months. This truck can do just about anything off road and it just takes him to and from work and home.


I will be going camping this week. And probably next week as well. Gotta get the 4runner out in it's natural habitat at least monthly if not more often.

Just went fishing like 2 weeks ago.


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Both impressive but I like Honda more than Toyota. Honda is an amazing company.

The Colorado is one of the best values among all vehicles in Trail Boss form. Gotta pay to play with the ZR2.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Both impressive but I like Honda more than Toyota. Honda is an amazing company.

The Colorado is one of the best values among all vehicles in Trail Boss form. Gotta pay to play with the ZR2.

I find Toyotas to be more comfortable and Hondas to be more fun to drive. I also prefer Toyota’s knobs to Honda’s buttons for climate control. And touch screen people should be launched to the sun in a rocket ship like the movie Super man 4. My wife loves her Accord I Love my Camry. Although her accord is fun to drive. The deciding factor might be the hybrid options that Toyota has that for some odd reason Honda has decided to not really develop. If I can, I’d love to swing for a hybrid in the next few years.

 

[LogGrad98]

I find Toyotas to be more comfortable and Hondas to be more fun to drive. I also prefer Toyota’s knobs to Honda’s buttons for climate control. And touch screen people should be launched to the sun in a rocket ship like the movie Super man 4. My wife loves her Accord I Love my Camry. Although her accord is fun to drive. The deciding factor might be the hybrid options that Toyota has that for some odd reason Honda has decided to not really develop. If I can, I’d love to swing for a hybrid in the next few years.

I've be driving hybrid almost exclusively for 17 years. 2 priuses in that time and currently driving a PHEV Honda Clarity. Love my Clarity. It's the smoothest ride I've ever had in a sedan and just feels like luxury. Supposedly it was an interior based on the Acura trims on an Accord base with the PHEV powertrain. It has some flaws that limit both functionality and enjoyability but I still love driving it. I can get all the way to work and about half way home on all electric as it has one of the bigger batteries in the PHEV segment. Even being newer to the party. When I can plug in at work, as at my last job, I went hundreds of miles on all electric, once topping 2500 miles without adding any gas. But it has a fairly short range considering longer distance drives. It's definitely aimed at the commute. I think I'll always drive some version of a hybrid, and I've loved the plug in hybrid, so I'll target more of those in the future. Not sure I'll ever embrace full electric, mainly due to the limitations and accessibility of charging and the fact that we often take long distance trips. Definitely have my eye on the Toyota Grand Highlander in PHEV trim, but going to wait for like generation 3.

 

[Sardines]

There's something I don't understand about full electric cars. It seems the primary spec everyone wants is range. More is always better. Of course to get more range you need more of the heaviest and I'd guess most expensive part of the car, which is the batteries. Obviously with more weight it takes more energy to move, so the range you get per watt or whatever is going to go down as you increase the range.

I'd consider a full electric if I could get a small sporty model that got like 120 miles in range. Small battery, faster to charge, will do way more than I need for my commute, weighs less so is more efficient and faster acceleration. I don't need 350 miles of range for my plug in electric. I'd never use a full electric for a road trip anyway as even the best and biggest range models still have to charge on more than a daily basis and it takes time, more time the more range you have.

Until they have swappable batteries that you can change in minutes (I'm imagining an automated battery swap bay at the "gas" station) I don't consider full electric an option for a road trip. Battery tech is not advancing very quickly at all and we may already be facing the upper limit of what batteries can do just based on physics.

So why is there nothing in the dedicated commuter segment? 120 miles is way more than the vast majority of people drive per day. Heck I could do with 80 miles in range and still not use half of that a day.

 

[fishonjazz]

I've be driving hybrid almost exclusively for 17 years. 2 priuses in that time and currently driving a PHEV Honda Clarity. Love my Clarity. It's the smoothest ride I've ever had in a sedan and just feels like luxury. Supposedly it was an interior based on the Acura trims on an Accord base with the PHEV powertrain. It has some flaws that limit both functionality and enjoyability but I still love driving it. I can get all the way to work and about half way home on all electric as it has one of the bigger batteries in the PHEV segment. Even being newer to the party. When I can plug in at work, as at my last job, I went hundreds of miles on all electric, once topping 2500 miles without adding any gas. But it has a fairly short range considering longer distance drives. It's definitely aimed at the commute. I think I'll always drive some version of a hybrid, and I've loved the plug in hybrid, so I'll target more of those in the future. Not sure I'll ever embrace full electric, mainly due to the limitations and accessibility of charging and the fact that we often take long distance trips. Definitely have my eye on the Toyota Grand Highlander in PHEV trim, but going to wait for like generation 3.

Plug in hybrid is the way to go I think. They seem to be a bit more expensive than the regular hybrid

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[LogGrad98]

Plug in hybrid is the way to go I think. They seem to be a bit more expensive than the regular hybrid

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For a commute there is no doubt. Even factoring in cost of electricity I'm saving a ton of money every month on gas. Even though I currently can't plug in at work, I'm still averaging around 80-100 MPG over a month's time.

But one option I'm exploring is getting a fold-up bike to keep in the trunk because about 1.5 miles from my work is a highway patrol station with free charging in their parking lot. It'd take about half a day to completely charge my car up. I would park there and ride my bike to work in the morning then go back in the afternoon and bring the car to my work parking lot, then drive home with a full battery every day.