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TwiceHorn

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  1. The good news is they make great re-reads.
  2. That's fucking nuts. And, about as likely as anything to come from this administration. Holy fuck.
  3. Shit's definitely getting expensive. Coffee's a problem because of South American drought and then flooding and a freeze. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-are-coffee-prices-so-high-inflation/
  4. Yeah, I think I know what to do, just unable to execute. And my hand hurts from banging around in there.
  5. The whole Steele Dossier is such a red herring. Yes, pretty much complete bullshit. But turns out they were on the right track. Loads of subsequent evidence of Russian work on behalf of Trump. And whether it was knowingly accepted by Trumpco (at least some of it surely was), thoroughly supports the Russian stooge notion.
  6. That's what's so bizarre about this. Only in internet world could Yarvin be considered anything but a bizarre crank.
  7. One of the things that low-key amuses me is that the white-supremacist types like to crow about western civilization and judeo-christian ethics and whatnot. And that, the whole Enlightenment, was led by the western Europe they're now trying so hard to distance themselves from while aligning with conspicuously anti-Enlightenment cultures/countries like Russia and Hungary. Dark Enlightenment, indeed.
  8. Addendum to this. You also know that the behind-the-scenes quid pro quo going on in the Trump Administration, that you try to equate to past administrations, is off-the-charts, if it hasn't really gotten going yet.
  9. I think so. Dissolution of DoE is actually defensible, provided its roles go back to the agencies from which it was spawned in 1979. But of course, we know it won't go down like that.
  10. Defend. These. Tariffs. No one contends that corporations don't have outsized influence in American politics. But name the last time a bullshit government agency was created then headed up by SoROS!, er, a wealthy private citizen and outsized donor who is also a massive government beneficiary. And is also wholly unqualified for the position. Show me a DOJ that is dismissing prosecutions for political reasons, all the while bleating about "weaponization of government." Show me the last time a president signed an executive order singling out a law firm that represented a political enemy, er opponent, a decade ago for adverse action by the federal government. You are certainly living up to Rockwall's reputation.
  11. 2017. It's a turbo 4 so it does get rather toasty in there. I actually worked it back enough, got a mirror from wife's compact and found the lock tab. It moved. But, it seems I also have to push on it while trying to separate the parts and it's a no go.
  12. Driving with a bad O2 sensor can kill your catalytic converter. And that is often more than just an emissions/inspection issue. Horrible rough running, plugged exhaust. I have replaced them before myself, other times let others do it. For some reason I got a bug up my ass about DIY this time.
  13. No, I'm pretty clear-eyed about hating Trump. It goes back a long way. Almost as long as I was a conservative.
  14. Well, let's examine this for a minute, just the "grammar police." First off, this isn't grammar, it's word misusage. This site has a long history of ragging word misusers. See, for example: idoit, meadoker, uphauling, french benefits, fewer, etc. But what it tells me about you is that you're not a big reader. You've heard of "tenets," but you thought it was "tenants," likely because you've never read about tenets. Which is pretty consistent, very likely, with where you get your news. Meaning, if you read it at all, it's in 140 character "sound" bites. I am not a huge fan of labeling people like you Nazis. But the historical parallels are really quite striking. You seem to know that deep down, Hitler and some of the founders were enamored with Norse mythology and Aryans and stuff. But the common-or-garden Nazi, the people that ultimately made it go, were mostly, a large mostly, nominally Christians, although clearly very poor ones. And it was mostly Christians who harbored the rank anti-Semitism that he preyed upon to scapegoat for Germany's ills. People that liked the economic "prosperity" he brought.
  15. The real answer for anxiety is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or one of its variants. There are no good medical solutiions for it, especially for an addict that SSRIs don't help. I believe the symptoms of withdrawal coincide pretty well with a panic attack and there is something called post-acute withdrawal syndrome, where withdrawal starts up again without having any of the drug of choice. I'm not sure how differentiable that is from craving, perhaps more intense. The brainless solution to anxiety is benzodiazepine drugs, librium, valium, Xanax, but they produce a euphoria similar to alcohol and run the same neurological pathways, so no bueno at all.
  16. What it shows is that government pours more money into red states, so Republican voters reap the benefit of government, while voting to dismantle it.
  17. Fucking gutless pussies.
  18. I dunno. Outright denials are pretty worthless and common among the guilty. Giving some kind of explanation that won't be contradicted directly by developing facts is probably worthwhile. Let these fester too long when you do have something to say and you're in Beard territory.
  19. Motherfucker is WOKE. DEI. CRT.
  20. I am so goddamn pissed off. Got a CEL, pulled the code, upstream O2 sensor. $40 part from Rock Auto, secured. The sensor itself is easily accessed. The connector, however, is not. As near as I can tell, it has a lock tab that must be pushed up before the connector can be separated. But the tab is on the "obverse," you can't fucking see it. And the connector assembly is pinned/clipped to a bracket with one of those goddamn infernal clips, and the whole thing is covered by a heat shield that I can't move sufficiently out of the way. If it were rotated 180 degrees this would be easy peasy, although I understand these things can be a bitch to separate. A fucking plastic clip is gonna cost me like $200. Motherfucker is sitting there mocking me. Just venting, but if anyone has any suggestions, I'm open.
  21. Yeah exactly how do you differentiate "an existential threat" from something more like "ignites a megalomaniac dictator's territorial ambitions."
  22. Trial judge. It's usually a case where there are novel questions of law or something was hotly contested and the judge had to make a call that he "admits" could go either way. Example, both Bannon and Navarro were on pretrial release on their contempt of Congress charges. Both defended on presidential immunity. Bannon had evidence that Trumpco communicated immunity to Congress and his lawyer informed him he didn't have to show up. Navarro had neither. Bannon's judge felt like he had to make a call on a DC Circuit precednt, so Bannon stayed free on appeal. Navarro's judge didn't have to make a call because Navarro had no evidence that Trumpco invoked immunity and therefore his counsel couldn't have advised him he didn't have to go (IIRC, he didn't have counsel, either). Navarro went to the pokey pending appeal.
  23. Muh taxes?
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