Some Thoughts on Why Leftists Can Only Destroy and Never Create

A few days ago, I wrote that Democratic governance is willfully incompetent because they simply are not concerned about the mundane-but-crucial tasks of basic management, instead choosing to focus only on quixotic campaigns to "save the world" and "end poverty." These goals are unaccomplishable, and are stupid, but they feel like heroic causes.

In Maui, instead of making sure that their aging power lines were reinforced against being blown down by winds, and that highly-flammable grasses were cleared out from beneath these powerlines in case they did collapse, Democrat officials spent their money on Green New Deal boondoggles.

Defense contractors note that Arab states frequently complain that tanks and planes sent to them are broken. But they are only broken due to not having been properly maintained, per the clear guidance of the manuals that came with them. "Arabs just don't do maintenance" became an adage in the field.

Well, Democrats just don't do maintenance any longer, either. They spend all the public's money on building temples and burning sacrifices for their dark gods.

The psychology of most Democrats is pretty simple: They are neurotic people who are failures in most aspect of life, but have large egos and wish to be big and important. The constant crusades of big-government socialism, and the quixotic fascism of woke totalitarianism, allows these petty, marginal beings to feel as if they are strong-thewed muscular sword-and-sorcery heroes cutting down foes all around them.

Mitt Romney once observed -- shockingly accurately -- that when the government is big, the citizen is small. And that for the citizen to be big, the government must be small.

Democrats are small people, and have no hope of becoming big people through their own labors and virtues, and so need the government to be big, so that they can feel "big" by being a part of the Leviathan State.

And they need the government to be big to do what they themselves cannot: To crush their enemies, to see them driven before them, and to hear the lamentations of the women. They can't beat the many "oppressors" they are sure are colonizing and marginalizing them at every turn -- but a huge, intrusive, and violent government can. These bent creatures, twisted with envy and envenomed by spite, seek vengeance on a world that doesn't see them as special; they therefore worship a vengeful god called Leviathan Government which will smite their enemies.

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The driving force behind lethally incompetent blue-state government is that no Democrat politician today thinks duty to their constituents is their top priority. All of them have higher concerns: global warming, diversity agenda, Party-building, and lining their own pockets.
Not enough Repubs see duty as their top concern, but at least some do, and at least most of them would SAY it's their highest priority if asked. The GOP has a zillion problems, but at least it retains some tenuous grasp of the ideal of politicians as public servants.
That's all completely gone from the arrogant leftist Democrat Party, and it has been for a long time. Dems don't see America as a great and noble nation they are called to serve. At best, they think it might become a decent nation if they can wield power to beat it into shape.
This is baked deeply into the ideological foundation laid within the minds of every Democrat. They're told all their lives that America was born in sin, the common folk are racists, private capital is exploitation, and their sacred calling is to deliver "social justice."
Well, justice is inherently coercive - it's why the police have guns. Almost everything in Democrat ideology is coercive, compulsive, and punitive. They view government as a vehicle for punishing unworthy citizens who deviate from their vision of fairness and equity.
Redistribution is coercive. You can tell Lefties are well aware of this because they scoff at the notion of people voluntarily funding charitable endeavors or community services. They laugh bitterly when reminded they could pay more taxes voluntarily instead of hiking tax rates.
For a Democrat, nothing is real, nothing truly counts, unless coercive government force is behind it. They believe in a wise and powerful elite imposing justice and equity on all those beneath them. They don't make polite requests of the public, or take "no" for an answer.
And of course, as the tawdry Biden scandals remind us, Dem politicians are absolutely obsessed with money and devoted to making themselves richer. They believe they DESERVE riches and luxuries, because they're the elite. They seethe at capitalists who live better than they do.
With those attitudes in mind, there's no way a Democrat politician will ever feel like a humble servant of the deplorable public, with a sacred duty to put the needs of their racist, sexist, transphobic, greedy citizens first. You don't feel humble before people you coerce.
Add the effects of media bias. Even the worst Dem politicians are constantly showered with puff pieces. Even the most obviously stupid and venal of them are lauded as moral and intellectual titans. They get unlimited credit for good intentions and zero accountability for failure.
The results are easy to see in every blue state and city disaster: an arrogant, corrupt elite with zero accountability and a long list of priorities that rank much, much higher than "duty to my country, state, or city and all my constituents."
The fact that Dems are never held accountable for the disastrous outcome of their policies means they endlessly double down on failure. They view every agency under their control as a piggy bank to be looted for ideological crusades, Party-building slush funds, and personal gain.
That's why the unfortunate constituents of ancient Dem regimes keep discovering their emergency systems don't work, their crisis managers have no idea how to manage a crisis, and their law enforcement bureaucracies are more interested in pursuing the law-abiding than criminals.
Dems hire swarms of government employees and turn them into ideological footsoldiers. Competence and efficiency are EXPLICITLY less important than ideological conformity - that's what all those mandatory DEI political exercises are about.
Ideological conformity automatically rules out policies and solutions that might be effective - and remember, socialists never solve problems, they "manage" them. Managerial liberalism is great at spending money and holding meetings, but not so good at dealing with a crisis.
These are problems that plague Big Government in general, and Lord knows Republicans aren't immune, especially the ones that attempt to ingratiate themselves with the Dem power structure as controlled opposition. They naturally inherit a lot of Dem attitudes.
But at least you can find Repubs that still take their duties seriously. Not to belittle their accomplishments, but some of those red-state miracle governors are simply displaying the baseline level of competence and responsibility that was more widely expected 50 years ago.
Our whole system is deeply sick and corrupt. Dems are accountable for setting that tone because they have decades of unbroken power in the most troubled cities, they control the media, and they absolutely rule the permanent federal bureaucracy. They institutionalized arrogance.
The monstrous portrait rotting in D.C.'s attic is a study of the Democrat Party and its ideology of coercion in pursuit of "social justice." States and cities are stacking up corpses because Dems love government, but have little interest in the responsibilities of governing. /end

Posted by: Ace at 01:15 PM

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1 Howdy, Ace.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 23, 2023 01:17 PM (u73oe)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2023 01:17 PM (Zz0t1)

3 Called em

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 23, 2023 01:17 PM (u73oe)

4 Leftists suck. Period. They're mentally broken, power mad Marxists.

I wish them nothing but heartache and pain for eternity.

I can only turn but so many cheeks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2023 01:18 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Well, Democrats just don't do maintenance any longer, either. They spend all the public's money on building temples and burning sacrifices for their dark gods.
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Maintenance is unsexy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:20 PM (t0OGg)

6

How come these leftist faggots keep sucking my dick?

Posted by: Pendulating Richard at August 23, 2023 01:20 PM (HRQvT)

7 "Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." - Kurt Vonnegut

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 23, 2023 01:20 PM (9yUzE)

8 And they need the government to be big to do what they themselves cannot: To crush their enemies, to see them driven before them, and to hear the lamentations of the women. They can't beat the many "oppressors" they are sure are colonizing and marginalizing them at every turn -- but a huge, intrusive, and violent government can.
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That is how they achieve the goal. They aren't strong enough, but they can subvert and unleash.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:20 PM (t0OGg)

9 They can only establish their hold by attaching themselves to established traditional institutions. They do so, like leeches, and slowly suck the lifeblood out of those institutions.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 23, 2023 01:21 PM (S5P0o)

10 Well, that settles that.

"Wagner's Prigozhin Dead After His Business Jet With 10 People On Board 'Crashes'"

https://tinyurl.com/v2xnzs7r

Posted by: Thrawn at August 23, 2023 01:21 PM (uGhsv)

11 Yo

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 23, 2023 01:21 PM (0NBN3)

12 People respond to incentives.

Dem politicians are rewarded for advancing the narrative and enriching their clients

Left leaning bureaucrats are rewarded for advancing the narrative and obeying the Dem politicians.

Notice not only are there no rewards here for doing what your voters actually want or providing high quality service to the people using whatever service your government org supplies there are also no punishments for failing to do so.

So people, being people, will do what rewards them. Which is NOT what the voters want.

But this eternally surprises lefty LIVs. I voted for the person who said the nicest things...how could bad things come from that?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:22 PM (lc5cP)

13 Maintenance is a pain. No maintenance is more pain.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2023 01:22 PM (pohLc)

14 Some Thoughts on Why Leftists Can Only Destroy and Never Create

Because they are never held responsible and accountable for failures. There is no demand for competency.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2023 01:22 PM (Nfan7)

15 "Wagner's Prigozhin Dead After His Business Jet With 10 People On Board 'Crashes'"

Isn't it a shame when accidents like this happen. I mean, I still miss Ron Brown.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at August 23, 2023 01:23 PM (lc5cP)

16 We droned Prigozhin

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 23, 2023 01:23 PM (0NBN3)

17 The left fancies themselves the most creative bloc of people. Yet, left-wing Hollywood can only churn out sequels and comic book movies. And the most creative thing a Hollywood writer can accomplish these days is race-swapping/sex-swapping an iconic character or making it into a sexual degenerate. Or all three.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 23, 2023 01:23 PM (9yUzE)

18 I'm sure others have already have this thought, but I realized why the left is destroying the military with wokeness.

PARTLY it's because the will turn everything they control to their own ends.

But I think it's mainly because their biggest threat isn't external, it's internal. And when they start going after their real enemies, they know other powers might stop them.

They look at Chile NOT as a warning not to take it too far, but that they have to neuter the military before it can overthrow them when they take it too far.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 23, 2023 01:23 PM (N1DT3)

19 Maintenance is unsexy.

Unlike twerking toddlers.

Posted by: Your betters in the government at August 23, 2023 01:23 PM (lc5cP)

20 To create the new paradise the old must be destroyed. This is a feature not a bug.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at August 23, 2023 01:23 PM (tA1/w)

21 well done - both of you guys

yeah it's a whole mess

then layer "racism" shields over top of everything - can't criticize Mayor Adams or our soon-to-be Mayor Chantelle here either!

makes it hard to improve things

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 23, 2023 01:23 PM (AcWfM)

22 They hate the middle class.

But what is there when there's no middle class?

Aristocracy and peasants.

It's what Ben Franklin warned us about.

"If you can keep it"

Posted by: eleven at August 23, 2023 01:24 PM (iziT8)

23 It must be, for Democrats, "the worse, the better."

Posted by: FIIGMO at August 23, 2023 01:24 PM (5Xtai)

24 Mitt Romney once observed -- shockingly accurately -- that when the government is big, the citizen is small. And that for the citizen to be big, the government must be small.

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He likely stole that from Dennis Prager.

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 23, 2023 01:24 PM (vkomf)

25 Leftards don't create because they are lazy as fuck, both mentally and physically. Sitting on your fat ugly ass is more comfortable.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2023 01:24 PM (pohLc)

26 But I think it's mainly because their biggest threat isn't external, it's internal. And when they start going after their real enemies, they know other powers might stop them.

There is no larger threat to the rights and freedoms of the American people then the US government.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:24 PM (lc5cP)

27 Mitt Romney once observed -- shockingly accurately -- that when the government is big, the citizen is small.

Pierre stole that from Dennis Prager

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 23, 2023 01:24 PM (ufFY8)

28 Always schedule maintenance.

Or your equipment will schedule it for you.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2023 01:24 PM (Nfan7)

29 It's Satanism.

God creates. Satan destroys. Kind of his thing.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2023 01:24 PM (1CJCO)

30 14 Some Thoughts on Why Leftists Can Only Destroy and Never Create

Because they are never held responsible and accountable for failures. There is no demand for competency.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2023 01:22 PM (Nfan7)

Because people with no talents and no skills need to form a giant collective in order to exist in a world that rightfully expect achievement and greatness, and therefore has no use for them.

Posted by: XTC at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (UnA8+)

31 Well the electorates in Democrat strongholds *could* do better.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (rJ48h)

32 It's ultimately based in Romanticism. They're in love with the abstract dreams and believe they can simply will those into existence, without paying any attention to the detailed, "boring" work needed simply to keep a civilization running, much less make the dreams even a theoretical possibility.

Every leftist has been the same way, going back to Marx if not earlier.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (bhRsz)

33 Redistribution is coercive. You can tell Lefties are well aware of this because they scoff at the notion of people voluntarily funding charitable endeavors or community services. They laugh bitterly when reminded they could pay more taxes voluntarily instead of hiking tax rates.

Close. True Lefties (socialists) hate charitable organizations because, if there is a human need not being fulfilled by government, they view it as a failure of government. Charities are constant reminders of government shortcomings and failure, and verification of human suffering and need.

I don't think the rank and file brain-dead socialist wants coercion...they think we'll all hold hands, sing kumbaya, get high, and government will take care of us like a benevolent parent, and we'll live like eternal adolescents with no stress or responsibility. The more clear-eyed leaders know better, but not the rank and file.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (wBpIF)

34 But this eternally surprises lefty LIVs. I voted for the person who said the nicest things...how could bad things come from that?!?

James Lileks anecdoted about a lady in his neighborhood who was absolutely appalled by the dysfunction in California, recognizes all of it results from bad Government policy, but still would vote for Gavin Newsom in a heartbeat because "he seems like a nice man."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (9yUzE)

35 The barbarians are not only inside the gates, they are running the government.

Posted by: rd at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (RP9ai)

36 Hmmm. The Wagner guy dead? Why do I not believe it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (mNRr/)

37 The GOP has a zillion problems, but at least it retains some tenuous grasp of the ideal of politicians as public servants.

I just don't see this from most of the GOP. I think it's wishful thinking.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (ppBhU)

38 They are neurotic people who are failures in most aspect of life, but have large egos and wish to be big and important.
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Take Paul Krugman, for a perfect example. He has stated he wanted to be like the people who rule in Asimov's sci-fi*. And as to neurotic, well, look at his eyes. He's always terrified. My guess is he never got over the 2nd grade playground beatings.

*Which I confess I've never read. I'm not a sci-fi guy.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (brAQZ)

39 "Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." - Kurt Vonnegut
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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One of the buzzwords that causes the warning light on my dash to start blinking is 'Vision'. When someone begins to talk about 'Vision', I know that they are talking, or regurgitating, naive bullshit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (lGAue)

40 25 Leftards don't create because they are lazy as fuck, both mentally and physically. Sitting on your fat ugly ass is more comfortable.

the crux of the matter

also ripping shit up is way way easier than actually doing/building shit

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (AcWfM)

41 I would love to see the lefts counterargument to this. Mostly so I can laugh at their sputtering rage. But also to further expose the bankruptcy of their philosophy. That's why we won't get a lefty to respond.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 23, 2023 01:26 PM (+E4tf)

42 Mitt Romney once observed -- shockingly accurately -- that when the government is big, the citizen is small. And that for the citizen to be big, the government must be small.

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Even the Devil can quote scripture.

I suspect Romney was aware of that phenomenon for reasons 180 degrees opposite our own.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 23, 2023 01:26 PM (oZ23Y)

43 No judgement, no repercussions. No incentive.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 23, 2023 01:26 PM (mNRr/)

44 "Always schedule maintenance.

Or your equipment will schedule it for you.

Posted by: rickb223"

What are you? Some 50 year old white guy?

Posted by: eleven at August 23, 2023 01:26 PM (iziT8)

45 Dems hire swarms of government employees and turn them into ideological footsoldiers

...and election "fortifiers"

Posted by: kallisto at August 23, 2023 01:26 PM (dCxaZ)

46 Redistribution is coercive. You can tell Lefties are well aware of this because they scoff at the notion of people voluntarily funding charitable endeavors or community services. They laugh bitterly when reminded they could pay more taxes voluntarily instead of hiking tax rates.

During the Obamacare debate I pointed out to leftists that if they thought "health care is a right!" there was nothing stopping them from forming a health care collective that would share bills equally.

The response? But then YOU wouldn't have to pay for it.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:26 PM (lc5cP)

47 Prighozhin is mort in plane crash.

I was wrong. I thought it was all a RUS psy-op.

Surovikin demoted as well.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 01:26 PM (xJL+R)

48 Leftism is first and foremost about subversion, which is actually theft of power.

Theft is inherently destructive.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2023 01:26 PM (1CJCO)

49 What does it mean to be colonized?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2023 01:26 PM (63Dwl)

50 With those attitudes in mind, there's no way a Democrat politician will ever feel like a humble servant of the deplorable public, with a sacred duty to put the needs of their racist, sexist, transphobic, greedy citizens first. You don't feel humble before people you coerce.
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This is not a Democrat problem, though it is most evident there.

This is an all-of-government problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:27 PM (t0OGg)

51 "Maintenance is unsexy."

It's made to be thrown away and replaced anyway. Why bother?

Posted by: fd at August 23, 2023 01:27 PM (vFG9F)

52 "To crush their enemies, to see them driven before them, and to hear the lamentations of the women."

Women? Nah brah. Leftists aren't interested in women. They want to hear the squeals of pig-play tranny perverts.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 01:27 PM (iFTx/)

53 Hmmm. The Wagner guy dead? Why do I not believe it?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

There goes the opera.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2023 01:27 PM (Nfan7)

54 You’re wrong, Ace. Leftists are very good at creating boondoggles.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 01:27 PM (xTRSc)

55 Politics isn’t the art of compromise or war by other means.

It is the process by which those in power divide the people in order to enrich themselves.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 23, 2023 01:27 PM (Mqqv0)

56 >The driving force behind lethally incompetent blue-state government is that no Democrat politician today thinks duty to their constituents is their top priority. All of them have higher concerns: global warming, diversity agenda, Party-building, and lining their own pockets.

I don't know that I agree with this. The Dems don't actually care about constituent service as a goal, but they actually do seem to deliver to their constituents in order to get to their actual goal: to gain more power. Shockingly, this actually works for them. On the other hand, the GOP doesn't even pretend to give a wet, flaccid dog turd about pleasing its voters.

Funny how people respond to incentives, huh?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 23, 2023 01:27 PM (S7JkI)

57 24, 27

Horde mind.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 23, 2023 01:27 PM (ufFY8)

58 My ex-wife required a lot of maintenance.

Posted by: wth at August 23, 2023 01:27 PM (v0R5T)

59 The fact that Dems are never held accountable for the disastrous outcome of their policies means they endlessly double down on failure. They view every agency under their control as a piggy bank to be looted for ideological crusades, Party-building slush funds, and personal gain.

That's why the unfortunate constituents of ancient Dem regimes keep discovering their emergency systems don't work, their crisis managers have no idea how to manage a crisis, and their law enforcement bureaucracies are more interested in pursuing the law-abiding than criminals.
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Much like in Red China.

And the *Party* is never punished. Sometimes a party member is sacrificed to appease the masses, but the Party itself is sacrosanct.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:28 PM (t0OGg)

60 Edmund Burke nailed it when he said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to VOTE DEMOCRAT.”
– Zombie Edmund Burke.

Posted by: rd at August 23, 2023 01:28 PM (RP9ai)

61 9 They can only establish their hold by attaching themselves to established traditional institutions. They do so, like leeches, and slowly suck the lifeblood out of those institutions.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Yes but when that occurs, the institution becomes hollow and unable to function even to coerce.

Happened in the Sov Union despite it being bailed out by Western largesse time and again in money and food. There is no one able to bail out the Western world and especially the US and the check is coming due.

And no, China can't as its debt to GDP exceeds 300 percent. They are in the same league as Japan but don't share Japanese societal cohesiveness.

Posted by: whig at August 23, 2023 01:28 PM (25PDe)

62 It was never a purely political problem, this social divide we have. Had society taken steps, other than purely political ones like holding "elections" and "voting" to resolve our differences things may (or may not) have been better.

As it stands now, resolution will not be through the political processes our founders intended, for those have been so corrupted, by both sides, as to render them useless.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 23, 2023 01:28 PM (Q4IgG)

63 The GOP has a zillion problems, but at least it retains some tenuous grasp of the ideal of politicians as public servants.

I just don't see this from most of the GOP. I think it's wishful thinking.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (ppBhU)

Agreed. They piss down the backs of their constituents and demand why they don't like the shower.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 23, 2023 01:28 PM (mNRr/)

64 Ideological conformity automatically rules out policies and solutions that might be effective - and remember, socialists never solve problems, they "manage" them. Managerial liberalism is great at spending money and holding meetings, but not so good at dealing with a crisis.
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It has crossed over into self-reinforcing sclerosis.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:28 PM (t0OGg)

65 I would love to see the lefts counterargument to this. Mostly so I can laugh at their sputtering rage. But also to further expose the bankruptcy of their philosophy. That's why we won't get a lefty to respond.

The leftist answer is ALWAYS to blame someone else. The fires in HI? Its the fault of some Trump voter in MS driving a truck.

The water in Flint? The Gov of MI (who had nothing to do with it)

Bidenflation? Greedy corporations...but not the corporations that are part of the leftwing coalition (which is almost all of them)

and so on

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:28 PM (lc5cP)

66 A cosmology has taken hold in a large percentage of Western people that mirrors in 'fascination' with pop forms of Eastern self-annihilation Religions: the erasure of the Self.
I keep harping on this but it takes a couple of expressive forms, and trying to simplify into 'Marxists gonna Marxist' isn't adequate: it helps immeasurably to know the foundation of WHY people are acting this way.
It truly believes that the erasure of Self will result in Utopia and Nirvana, and it's now embedded so deep in even casual ways in this society I see no way out or beyond until it causes a very real catastrophe.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 23, 2023 01:29 PM (/BBNv)

67 Also think a lot of this has to do with the reflexive nature to take down anything that came before them.

If it wasn't created today, it's eternally flawed.

The attitude of a junior employee who thinks everyone running the company is an idiot. While that may be true, they have no basis for saying so.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2023 01:29 PM (KbCG3)

68 >"Wagner's Prigozhin Dead After His Business Jet With 10 People On Board 'Crashes'"

https://tinyurl.com/v2xnzs7r
Posted by: Thrawn at August 23, 2023 01:21 PM (uGhsv)

Whoa.

So that's this year's polonium tea, huh?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 23, 2023 01:29 PM (S7JkI)

69 Reported for wrongthink.

The left is comprised of the grandest visions and the people least likely to accomplish them.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2023 01:29 PM (JTwsP)

70 There's a giant wasp out in the yard. Looks to be about 30 feet tall.

Posted by: fd at August 23, 2023 01:29 PM (vFG9F)

71 What is gheyer than a fake Gope debate on Fox?

Easy pass.

Posted by: The Man Inside Me at August 23, 2023 01:29 PM (7LT+m)

72 I don't think the rank and file brain-dead socialist wants coercion...they think we'll all hold hands, sing kumbaya, get high, and government will take care of us like a benevolent parent, and we'll live like eternal adolescents with no stress or responsibility. The more clear-eyed leaders know better, but not the rank and file.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (wBpIF)

I (mildly) disagree. They're okay with coercion, as long as it's being done to bad people. They just think that the majority of people will come around to seeing that they're right about everything, and eventually all those terrible Christians and nationalists and capitalists will fade away.

It never occurs to them that political violence tends not to stay that limited.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 23, 2023 01:29 PM (bhRsz)

73 You can't launder money in the amount they want, by repairing.

Most repairs are done on old equipment, and there are easy comparables. So you know if you spend $100 million to fix power lines, but another town did it for $2 million, then something fishy is going on.

Green energy, and tech in general, is easier to launder through because their numbers are inflated. Some brand new Green firm gets VC capitol that gives it an inflated value of $100 billion dollars, well then it stands to reason implementing its tech will cost $500 million.

While many of the results of liberal actions come from laziness, most comes from greed.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 23, 2023 01:29 PM (0pYyT)

74 The fact that Dems are never held accountable for the disastrous outcome of their policies

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The parties switch sides as needed.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 23, 2023 01:29 PM (oZ23Y)

75 The monstrous portrait rotting in D.C.'s attic is a study of the Democrat Party and its ideology of coercion in pursuit of "social justice." States and cities are stacking up corpses because Dems love government, but have little interest in the responsibilities of governing. /end
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It is, but the target is too narrow. This isn't the "Democrat Party" it's the entire ruling power structure, top to bottom. Which vestments they wear does not change in the slightest the thing to which they are praying.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:29 PM (t0OGg)

76 I don't know that that's entirely true, though. What isn't emphasized above, but should be, is the degree they regard all that is really important as too pedestrian. They want "higher" goals, and want to address "root causes."

I've just been rereading Waugh's essays, and he points out that they cannot accept that simply maintaining civilization is a full time job. They feel a need to be something more.

In short, they despise the Kipling virtues.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 23, 2023 01:30 PM (brAQZ)

77 33 I don't think the rank and file brain-dead socialist wants coercion...they think we'll all hold hands, sing kumbaya, get high, and government will take care of us like a benevolent parent, and we'll live like eternal adolescents with no stress or responsibility. The more clear-eyed leaders know better, but not the rank and file.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (wBpIF)

Many of them seem to believe that the world can become an "Artocracy", where your station and how respected you are comes from the artwork you put out, because once you don't have to work and you'll be given free housing and food, you can work on your art all day.

I asked one "Yeah, but what about the people with no artistic talent? Are they going to have to be the slave class so the rest of you can sit around and do art all day?"

They either 1) short-circuited, or 2) didn't want to say what they really thought.

Posted by: XTC at August 23, 2023 01:30 PM (UnA8+)

78 because "he seems like a nice man."
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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I have heard this numerous times from female acquaintances. About Clinton, Obama, John Edwards, Bootyjug, et al, ad nauseam.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 23, 2023 01:30 PM (lGAue)

79 Close. True Lefties (socialists) hate charitable organizations because, if there is a human need not being fulfilled by government, they view it as a failure of government. Charities are constant reminders of government shortcomings and failure, and verification of human suffering and need.

I don't think the rank and file brain-dead socialist wants coercion...they think we'll all hold hands, sing kumbaya, get high, and government will take care of us like a benevolent parent, and we'll live like eternal adolescents with no stress or responsibility. The more clear-eyed leaders know better, but not the rank and file.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (wBpIF)

True Lefties hate charitable organizations because they think they're liberal NGOs. And they hate liberals.

And they're mostly right.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 01:30 PM (xJL+R)

80
Whoa.

So that's this year's polonium tea, huh?

Vlad has used airplane accidents to get rid of people for a while now.

Of course he likely got it from the Clintons.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:30 PM (lc5cP)

81 You can't launder money in the amount they want, by repairing.

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Close the thread.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 23, 2023 01:30 PM (oZ23Y)

82 "What is gheyer than a fake Gope debate on Fox?
Easy pass.
Posted by: The Man Inside Me"

The gay 90s Monkees on the sidebar?

Posted by: fd at August 23, 2023 01:30 PM (vFG9F)

83 The psychology of most Democrats is pretty simple: They are neurotic people

Uh oh.

who are failures in most aspect of life,

Oh shit...

but have large egos

Eh not so much

and wish to be big and important.

Not at all. Whew. So my psychology is only half-Democrat.

Posted by: I guess that's a relief at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (fhX0j)

84 36 Hmmm. The Wagner guy dead? Why do I not believe it?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (mNRr/)

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You guys go on without me, I will take a later flight!

Posted by: rd at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (RP9ai)

85 "Wagner's Prigozhin Presumed Dead"

Body or it didn't happen. He's just trying to disappear.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (tA1/w)

86 The next time I really mess something up, I mean completely FUBAR, I'm just going raise my palms up, shrug my shoulders and proclaim "climate change!" and "we're all in this together!"

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (MeG8a)

87 I'll just say it. Civil War is coming to America. And unlike 1861-65, it isn't geographic. It will be more like "The Troubles" times of Northern Ireland in the late 20th century.

If you are shocked at what I say, you aren't paying attention. Oliver Anthony's song "Rich Men North of Richland didn't amass 50 million hits in 8 days because it was promoted, in fact, it did so in spite of the State-controlled news outlets.

Buy food and ammo now, while it is available and cheap.

Leftists are the new scourge of the earth. Like the Black Plague was in Europe many centuries ago. Leftists kill individual drive and success. They only care about what their government and social leaders tell them. Look at the disgusting actions of Biden in Maui. What an evil bastard.

In Star Trek language, Democrats = Borg. Borg = Deep State.

Tell every Democrat you know this. That is all they need to understand, they are too stupid or evil to try to hold an intelligent discussion with.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (i+mOk)

88 They're mentally broken, power mad Marxists.

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They are mental and emotional toddlers throwing temper tantrums.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (FVME7)

89 I can't think of any of the problems that I have with leftists that will be solved by understanding their motivations.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (yvHe0)

90 I don't think the rank and file brain-dead socialist wants coercion...they think we'll all hold hands, sing kumbaya, get high, and government will take care of us like a benevolent parent, and we'll live like eternal adolescents with no stress or responsibility. The more clear-eyed leaders know better, but not the rank and file.
Posted by: Moron Analyst

IN my experience, the leaders are just as pig ignorant--the reason is that the will to power subsumes actually learning anything and the herd requirement requires them to recite bullshit as if they believe it. There are a few exceptions but almost everytime you actually have open questioning of the left's leaders---they have no answers about facts or history only rhetoric.

Rhetoric is useful for gaining power but totally unsuited to actually governing a society.

Posted by: whig at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (25PDe)

91 I read all the content!

"Managerial liberalism is great at spending money and holding meetings, but not so good at dealing with a crisis."

In fact, ML often grows a crisis, as seen in our municipal 'homeless' bureaucracies and policies. ML actually swells the number of homeless.

"Without polio, Salk is a putz." - Lenny Bruce

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (MvF+J)

92 A plane carrying notorious warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose Wagner group launched a failed coup against president Vladimir Putin in June, has crashed on a flight from Moscow to St Petersburg. All 10 people on the plane, including three crew members, died in the crash, Russia’s emergency ministry said, according to state newswire RIA Novosti. Russian officials said a man with Prigozhin’s name was among the passengers, without elaborating further.

Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (RHGPo)

93 Leveraging best practices over here, boss!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (u73oe)

94 I agree entirely but I suspect leftists believe they are super duper creative in leaving old ways behind.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (dPYH6)

95 They also don't care about actually getting real results, because while the goal of most top tier Democrats is getting rich, most of the flick of foot soldiers are just concerned with making everyone else's lives as miserable as theirs, and using a " cause" helps them do that while telling themselves "I'm doing good"

Posted by: Rbastid at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (0pYyT)

96 The fact that Dems are never held accountable for the disastrous outcome of their policies
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This is about The Great Society, isn't it?

Posted by: zombie LBJ at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (lGAue)

97 I do not believe we can vote our way out of this. Too many choke points.

We saw the RINO's spike the ball in Georgia.

McCarthy the Odious undeserving gets the Speaker's gavel.

Trump narrowly loses because of 'found' votes the next day and straight armed on all chain of custody arguments.

J6 obviously scared the pants off of them. Yes it was provoked but it was organic unscripted unexpected. That's part of what's needed. Refer to Canada's trucker strike. In the freezing cold. Why didn't they wait until Spring? Why didn't our people think through what could go wrong with J6?

Posted by: torabora at August 23, 2023 01:32 PM (XynZy)

98 I don't think the Republican party is much better, at least at the Federal level.

Posted by: fd at August 23, 2023 01:32 PM (vFG9F)

99 What are you? Some 50 year old white guy?
Posted by: eleven at August 23, 2023 01:26 PM (iziT

Years ago I walked into a Radio Shack to purchase my first cellphone. Told the kid behind the counter I wanted a simple flip phone with a keyboard fit to sent texts. He looked at me and stated that that was the problem with boomers, they don't understand technology. (I am a mechanical engineer with multiple patents) I looked at the kid and said who do you think came up with all this technology? Lemme tell you who it wasn't. It wasn't some snot nosed kid behind a counter at Radio Shack.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2023 01:32 PM (pohLc)

100 I don't think the word "Quixotic" is the best or most accurate term for the Left. I understand what you're saying, but these people are not romantically aspirational or visionary even in an addled sense. I don't believe they seek grand, noble or chivalrous goals but instead the feeling of importance and the power and control over others that the pursuits provide. In a sense, they are anti-Quixotic, with bitter and anti-social natures; their commitment is to a meaner and more oppressed society not a more liberal and exhilarating one.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 23, 2023 01:32 PM (gMMzi)

101 There's a giant wasp out in the yard. Looks to be about 30 feet tall.
Posted by: fd at August 23, 2023

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"Let me at it! [Takes a good look] . . . Okay, maybe not."

Posted by: Wolfus's Black Cat Stirling, the Wasp-Hunter at August 23, 2023 01:32 PM (J2vNu)

102 Vlad has used airplane accidents to get rid of people for a while now.

Of course he likely got it from the Clintons.
Posted by: 18-1
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Wasn't accident. Russian defense forces fired anti air missiles at it.

Posted by: whig at August 23, 2023 01:32 PM (25PDe)

103 37 The GOP has a zillion problems, but at least it retains some tenuous grasp of the ideal of politicians as public servants.

I just don't see this from most of the GOP. I think it's wishful thinking.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (ppBhU)
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I don't disagree but I think Hayward's point might be subtler. I don't think GOP politicians think they are public servants. I do think, however, that some of them see career advancement by doing an affective job as a public servant. By contrast, the Dums care nothing about effective government because they have other, easier ways to advance their careers.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 01:32 PM (iFTx/)

104 You can't launder money in the amount they want, by repairing. ...
Posted by: Rbastid at August 23, 2023 01:29 PM (0pYyT)
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Sure you can. You ensure that the people who hold maintenance contracts are actually well-connected criminal syndicates and have affiliated saboteurs break things so that the contractor (the syndicate) has to come fix it. You can launder vast sums through such an operation - as long as you don't care whether anything gets fixed.

This is, essentially, the story of South Africa's Eskom power utility. And the results speak for themselves.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:32 PM (t0OGg)

105 "Wagner's Prigozhin Dead After His Business Jet With 10 People On Board 'Crashes'"

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I guess there was no window handy to push him out of.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 23, 2023 01:33 PM (FVME7)

106 I agree entirely but I suspect leftists believe they are super duper creative in leaving old ways behind.
Posted by: That Northernlurker
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See: 'Vision'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 23, 2023 01:33 PM (lGAue)

107 Who in the world would think that Newsome is a nice guy?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 01:33 PM (xTRSc)

108 After more than my share of Marxist history my opinion is they are out to destroy western civilization so their revolution can occur

Posted by: Skip at August 23, 2023 01:33 PM (AqPA6)

109 You’re wrong, Ace. Leftists are very good at creating boondoggles.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 01:27 PM (xTRSc)

Again, not creation but theft. I am being pedantic but it's a really important distinction.

Look at everything the Left does through the lens of subversion, deception, theft and power.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2023 01:34 PM (1CJCO)

110 I wonder if anti and never DJT sentiment is some residual attachment to the GOP.

Idk, maybe anxiety at what comes after the GOP?

I broke with the GOP so long ago and so fully yhat I can't really remember the content of my pro-GOP position.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 01:34 PM (xJL+R)

111 Phil Floraday was driving his F-150 pickup last fall when his truck’s audio system suddenly emitted a loud, crashing sound that, to him, resembled glass shattering, and then blaring static. His ears rang for days after the event, he said. On online forums, F-150 owners have been airing similar accounts of an odd sound, which some describe as a “sonic boom” or “ear-piercing static.” Drivers, in some cases, were able to turn it off right away. Others say it lasted for 15 minutes or more, persisting even after the car was shut off.

Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2023 01:34 PM (RHGPo)

112 Sure you can. You ensure that the people who hold maintenance contracts are actually well-connected criminal syndicates and have affiliated saboteurs break things so that the contractor (the syndicate) has to come fix it. You can launder vast sums through such an operation - as long as you don't care whether anything gets fixed.

You can even simplify it really, just make sure you bring in illegals who will steal anything not fortified well enough.

Then you'll have an endless need for maintenance and repair. Its like the parable of the broken window on the cheap

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:34 PM (lc5cP)

113 By contrast, the Dums care nothing about effective government because they have other, easier ways to advance their careers.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 01:32 PM (iFTx/)
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They are masters of "failing upward." The reason they didn't succeed at their current job is because they didn't have enough resources at their disposal. Anthony Fauci is the poster child for this attitude.

Promote them, and they'll be able to do the job right this time!

Pinkie swear!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 23, 2023 01:34 PM (YIVH2)

114 "Wagner's Prigozhin Dead After His Business Jet With 10 People On Board 'Crashes'"

Why scare quote 'Crashes?' Did it not, in fact, crash? Or is it an op?
Or both?

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at August 23, 2023 01:35 PM (MvF+J)

115 Prigozhin's big mistake was being in possession of evidence that would lead to the conviction of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2023 01:36 PM (guGkK)

116 They are mental and emotional toddlers throwing temper tantrums.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (FVME7)

Not the ones who know what they are doing.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2023 01:36 PM (1CJCO)

117 Why scare quote 'Crashes?' Did it not, in fact, crash? Or is it an op?
Or both?
Posted by: gp's
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The actual story indicates anti air missiles were fired at it. Not accident.

Posted by: whig at August 23, 2023 01:36 PM (25PDe)

118 This is why I come here every day.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 23, 2023 01:36 PM (t/2Uw)

119 Crazy Eyes Slut Hope is sort of sniffing around Psycho Thomas again.

Real life preggers Steffy is showing some cleavage to Puppy Dog Liam.

And Nice Bod Brooke is still wearing that peach outfit with the white blouse, which accentuates her heaving bosom.

Big Tit Donna is MIA. She needs a storyline.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 23, 2023 01:36 PM (ufFY8)

120 68 >"Wagner's Prigozhin Dead After His Business Jet With 10 People On Board 'Crashes'"

https://tinyurl.com/v2xnzs7r
Posted by: Thrawn at August 23, 2023 01:21 PM (uGhsv)

Whoa.

So that's this year's polonium tea, huh?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 23, 2023 01:29 PM (S7JkI)

No doubt Putin will blame Ukraine, we will blame Putin, "we" may have done it...
and Dan Bongino said Prigozhin's mercenaries, are not gonna take this laying down.

Posted by: ziggggeeee at August 23, 2023 01:36 PM (Tjf0s)

121 Welcome to the society of "Immediate Gratification." Smart phones, Netflix, and the education system reinforce this attitude and remove the concepts of merit, critical thought and perseverance.

You can see it in every facet of society. Even sports. I played professional tennis for a spell, and recently went back to my high school to do a little instruction to the tennis teams. None of those players try to hone their craft. None play tournaments over the summer. None take a few hours a day and practice. You can see it in business. Instead of pursuing a sound business plan over time, they focus on the present and only the present. You can see it in politics. Few consider the repercussions of actions if and only the immediate is important.

Posted by: Orson at August 23, 2023 01:36 PM (dIske)

122 Every time somebody sez 'Prigozhin,' I say 'Gesundheit!'

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at August 23, 2023 01:36 PM (MvF+J)

123 Promote them, and they'll be able to do the job right this time!

Government can't provide law and order, an understandable tax system, or free and fair elections.

But the FNM tells me it will completely control the weather, end "hate", and make everyone equally rich so that no one ever has to work...if I just vote D.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:36 PM (lc5cP)

124 Sure you can. You ensure that the people who hold maintenance contracts are actually well-connected criminal syndicates and have affiliated saboteurs break things so that the contractor (the syndicate) has to come fix it.

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I think we're seeing it right now with EVs.

No one wants them, but they're going to be forced onto everyone because 1% of the population (massively over-represented in D.C.) has huge amounts of money invested in the companies.

I don't think they're interested in making a little bit of money. Why bother when you can make tens of millions at a time? Why bother when you can enter DC broke and leave six years later with $8M in your pocket?

That's power, and it would be hard to nibble around the edges once you've had a bite of the cookie.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 23, 2023 01:36 PM (oZ23Y)

125 70 There's a giant wasp out in the yard. Looks to be about 30 feet tall.
Posted by: fd at August 23, 2023 01:29 PM

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That's the 'shrooms man. Go into the bedroom, turn down the lights, and put on some mellow music.

Posted by: rd at August 23, 2023 01:36 PM (r/wd1)

126 111 Phil Floraday was driving his F-150 pickup
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Bad wiring.

Posted by: whig at August 23, 2023 01:37 PM (25PDe)

127 rces fired anti air missiles at it.
Posted by: whig at August 23, 2023 01:32 PM (25PDe)

Really? Why? Message? They could just arrest him when he landed in St Pete.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 01:37 PM (xJL+R)

128 95 They also don't care about actually getting real results, because while the goal of most top tier Democrats is getting rich, most of the flick of foot soldiers are just concerned with making everyone else's lives as miserable as theirs, and using a " cause" helps them do that while telling themselves "I'm doing good"

Posted by: Rbastid at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (0pYyT)

In 20 years, there will be regularly scheduled rolling blackouts, buildings outfitted with unworkable fixtures, an increasing percentage of the population unable to travel by car and store shelves filled with "food" made from bugs and mulched up grass clippings.

This will be known as progress.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2023 01:37 PM (KbCG3)

129 Watching the video of the alleged Prigozhin plane on Twitter, it looks like it's falling straight out of the sky with smoke trailing from it.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 23, 2023 01:37 PM (S7JkI)

130 "That's the 'shrooms man. Go into the bedroom, turn down the lights, and put on some mellow music.
Posted by: rd"

It's moved on now. It might be coming to YOUR house!

Posted by: fd at August 23, 2023 01:37 PM (vFG9F)

131 Ouch. Prigozhin got it right in the Yamamoto

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2023 01:37 PM (guGkK)

132 That's the 'shrooms man. Go into the bedroom, turn down the lights, and put on some mellow music.
Posted by: rd at August 23, 2023 01:36 PM (r/wd1)

Eat more and put on Hairway to Steven.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 01:38 PM (xJL+R)

133 any guesses why Putie Poot has never taken out the leader of Ukraine, who is forever flying somewheres????

Posted by: ziggggeeee at August 23, 2023 01:38 PM (Tjf0s)

134 Body or it didn't happen. He's just trying to disappear.
Posted by: Next2Nothing at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (tA1/w)

They expect one of us in the wreckage, brother!

Posted by: Prigozhbane at August 23, 2023 01:38 PM (pyXMr)

135 When those rare 3-day weekends pop up on the work schedule, it's an office-wide celebration! Well, what if that was every week? A new bill to create a four-day work week is about to be introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature. It would require businesses with more than 500 employees to reduce their work week from 40 to 32 hours a week. However, less work hours will not mean less pay!

Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2023 01:38 PM (RHGPo)

136 Ideological conformity automatically rules out policies and solutions that might be effective - and remember, socialists never solve problems, they "manage" them.
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That sentence is false. It is a progressive superstition that social problems can be "solved". In fact, it's at the root of the problem here. In fact, it is the attitude that, once you've done it, maintenance is unnecessary. You've solved it.

No, just like dried grass, poverty keeps coming back. You're not going to solve it. But you might be able to manage it.

This is a good example of how deeply progressive thought has penetrated into the right.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 23, 2023 01:38 PM (brAQZ)

137 That's the 'shrooms man. Go into the bedroom, turn down the lights, and put on some mellow music.
Posted by: rd at August 23, 2023 01:36 PM (r/wd1)
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Weird approach.

I went to a meeting with Red China's finance minister!

Posted by: Janet Yellen at August 23, 2023 01:39 PM (t0OGg)

138 68 >"Wagner's Prigozhin Dead After His Business Jet With 10 People On Board 'Crashes'"

https://tinyurl.com/v2xnzs7r
Posted by: Thrawn at August 23, 2023 01:21 PM (uGhsv)

Whoa.

So that's this year's polonium tea, huh?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 23, 2023 01:29 PM (S7JkI)

500 quatloos Prigozhin he was shot 8 times in the head and his throat was cut before the FSB assassin with a parachute pulled the 5-minute delay fuse on the explosives in the fuel tank. I'll bet he was surprised when the explosives detonated when he pulled the fuze trigger. Surprised for 2 milliseconds.

Posted by: Gref at August 23, 2023 01:39 PM (AMIL/)

139 135 When those rare 3-day weekends pop up on the work schedule, it's an office-wide celebration! Well, what if that was every week? A new bill to create a four-day work week is about to be introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature. It would require businesses with more than 500 employees to reduce their work week from 40 to 32 hours a week. However, less work hours will not mean less pay!

Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2023 01:38 PM (RHGPo)

I love things like this. Like your manager saying, "Use your vacation days!"

What's left unsaid? "Your work will be waiting for you when you get back."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2023 01:39 PM (KbCG3)

140 Well, Democrats just don't do maintenance any longer, either. They spend all the public's money on building temples and burning sacrifices for their dark gods.
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Maintenance is unsexy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:20 PM (t0OGg)

The opportunities for graft associated with maintenance are minimal. Let something major happen, though, like a fire or a bridge across a major river breaking and you can ram billions in "emergency" funding through with no thought. Some of that will... obviously... end up missing. Price of Our Precious Democracy ™.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2023 01:39 PM (zhLdt)

141 The fact that Dems are never held accountable for the disastrous outcome of their policies
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This is about The Great Society, isn't it?
Posted by: zombie LBJ at August 23, 2023 01:31 PM (lGAue
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Great Society ended up burying 58,000 American troops fighting a war where America had no essential interest but it took the voter's eyes off domestic issues that were also trouble for the Democrats.

Now the playbook is being run again in Ukraine. Tremendous amounts of wealth being consumed over there while they bleed the youth covid and the clot shots didn't kill.

Meanwhile utter wreckage on our urban centers.

But J6 protestors are being tortured because accountability for people on the right is important to people on the left.

Posted by: torabora at August 23, 2023 01:40 PM (XynZy)

142 Our whole system is deeply sick and corrupt. Dems are accountable for setting that tone because they have decades of unbroken power in the most troubled cities, they control the media, and they absolutely rule the permanent federal bureaucracy. They institutionalized arrogance.

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And of course as we all know, it all started a century ago in the universities (see "The Closing of The American Mind" by Allan Bloom) -- and now like a deadly cancer has destroyed education and pretty much every other institution.

Two excellent reads -- kudos to Ace and Doc 0 ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 23, 2023 01:40 PM (tWPoY)

143 One of the clearest signs that the left has gone crazy is how much time local governments spend on global warming regulation. Global warming is, as the name implies, a global problem. Local governments have a miniscule influence on it. But local governments waste their time on global warming instead of keeping the streets clean and in good repair. It's crazy, but that's where we are.

Posted by: Dave at August 23, 2023 01:40 PM (nLwaa)

144 I don't think the rank and file brain-dead socialist wants coercion...they think we'll all hold hands, sing kumbaya, get high, and government will take care of us like a benevolent parent, and we'll live like eternal adolescents with no stress or responsibility.

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They want us to love the lash.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 23, 2023 01:40 PM (FVME7)

145 EV's are a Stalinist Hero Project.

Hero Projects are huge grand ideas that excite the imagination of the masses. They usually do 1/10 of what they promised.

Posted by: rd at August 23, 2023 01:40 PM (4bOqj)

146 Leftys want to make everything fair which means nothing is fair. They get around that by making everything fairer for them.

Posted by: fd at August 23, 2023 01:40 PM (vFG9F)

147 Stacking like cordwood.

The future used to be a boot stomping on a human face forever. Now it's a mountain of corpses.

Posted by: No it isn't hyperbole at August 23, 2023 01:40 PM (gw7xJ)

148 When those rare 3-day weekends pop up on the work schedule, it's an office-wide celebration! Well, what if that was every week? A new bill to create a four-day work week is about to be introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature. It would require businesses with more than 500 employees to reduce their work week from 40 to 32 hours a week. However, less work hours will not mean less pay!
Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2023 01:38 PM (RHGPo)
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Yes it will. To the employee, to the company, to its investors - all or some.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:40 PM (t0OGg)

149 Mitt Romney once observed -- shockingly accurately -- that when the government is big, the citizen is small. And that for the citizen to be big, the government must be small.
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Which only goes to show you that the GOP *knows* what we believe and how to reach us.

They just don't believe in it themselves. Mitt RomneyCare doesn't give two shits about "small government". But boy did he sound mellifluous when he waxed rhapsodic about it.

Pays to remember it.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2023 01:40 PM (1CJCO)

150 Same psychology applies to (male and female) Karens that "enforce" (by their shrill whining) mask "law", and all other Narrative Laws. They want to be authoritative, even if they are not competent ... so they just enforce the Globalist Agenda ... easy peasy ... Fauci said it, it is The Science.

same lazy mental attitude concerning Trump/Russia, global 'warmening', trans crap, open borders, Ukraine ...

Posted by: illiniwek at August 23, 2023 01:41 PM (Cus5s)

151 because "he seems like a nice man."
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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I have heard this numerous times from female acquaintances. About Clinton, Obama, John Edwards, Bootyjug, et al, ad nauseam.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

They need to quit voting with their cooter and vote with their brains.

Women: He's so dreamy. He seems nice. I'll vote for him.

Men: Yeah. She's got a big rack, but she's dumber than a box of hammers. I ain't voting for her.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2023 01:41 PM (Nfan7)

152 Well, Prigozhin had to die some way. Plane crash killing 10 seams excessive though.

Posted by: WisRich at August 23, 2023 01:41 PM (LnSys)

153 LOL Prigozhin just tweeted that he wasn't on the plane.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 23, 2023 01:41 PM (MeG8a)

154 107 Who in the world would think that Newsome is a nice guy?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 01:33 PM

He's so dreamy...like our very own Trudeau. Or an even dreamier Beto!

Posted by: Millions of AWFLs across the land at August 23, 2023 01:41 PM (wBpIF)

155 Really? Why? Message? They could just arrest him when he landed in St Pete.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 01:37 PM (xJL+R)

I think the reason will be that Putin is a barely functioning madman surrounded by war mongerers intent on subverting the the world through currency manipulation and military force, and the nominal head of a group of corrupt nations who want nothing other than to colonize Europe as their own personal feifs.

And Prirzghin stood in the way of it all

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2023 01:42 PM (xhaym)

156 EV's are a Stalinist Hero Project.

Hero Projects are huge grand ideas that excite the imagination of the masses. They usually do 1/10 of what they promised.
Posted by: rd

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Did they generally correspond with full and immediate bans of the functional devices they were intended to replace?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 23, 2023 01:42 PM (oZ23Y)

157 The future used to be a boot stomping on a human face forever. Now it's a mountain of corpses.
Posted by: No it isn't hyperbole at August 23, 2023 01:40 PM (gw7xJ)
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Those are the same things. They always have been. They always will be. The survivors get the boot on the face until the next round.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:42 PM (t0OGg)

158 Thanks for your thoughts. Ace. Well said. I have always appreciated Doc Zero as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2023 01:42 PM (Xgdjy)

159 Leftovers from below:

I think all the Saw movies are Lionsgate films. So this kinda makes sense.

Posted by: They love torture and pain at August 23, 2023 12:08 PM (fhX0j)

"Let's play a game."
Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at August 23, 2023 01:12 PM (vyYQR)

Ackshewallee, I think that the latest SAW movie, SAW X appears to be highly influenced by the whole COVID/faux science and medicine foofaraw.

In the trailer I saw, the SAW dude, who is dying of cancer goes to a clinic in Mexico city that has a wonderful new cure for brain cancer, which they guarantee will work.

So, SAW Dude does the surgery and procedure, and it turns out that nothing was done. The treatment was a scam to get his money and leave him to die.

Then SAW Dude goes all sawy on their asses.

FIN

This is an insertquel between the first and second movies as SAW Dude has already died of brain cancer,.

Anyway, it's interesting that a horror movie that seems highly negatively influenced by the COVID mess is coming out from a studio that is jumping right back into the COVID masking mess with both feet.

people are strange.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 23, 2023 01:42 PM (QzZeQ)

160 Republicans are as corrupt. Here’s a small
Seemingly innocuous example. In my state, in order for someone under 18 to get a drivers license, they have to take lessons with an “accredited” driving school. Hmmm I wonder if the driver schools had any input in making that rule and if any politicians were paid off to make that happen? A real mystery. Republicans control all aspects of this state and yet they made it happen. Made the citizen just a little bit smaller.

Posted by: Montec at August 23, 2023 01:42 PM (fBONW)

161 Don't look now, but you wrote yourselves into philosophy, faith, theology and the transcendant.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 23, 2023 01:42 PM (glGDV)

162 I don't think the rank and file brain-dead socialist wants coercion

LOL

Posted by: mask, social distancing, and vaccine nazis at August 23, 2023 01:42 PM (ppBhU)

163 //In 20 years, there will be regularly scheduled rolling blackouts, buildings outfitted with unworkable fixtures, an increasing percentage of the population unable to travel by car and store shelves filled with "food" made from bugs and mulched up grass clippings.//

And to make this work, they will have to erase all media from the past 70 yrs. You won't be able to keep a dark, hungry, shivering )and severely reduced) population convinced they are living in Utopia if they can watch an episode of The Brady Bunch and see how much better things were in the past.

The Confederate statues were just a warm up for the cultural historical erasure that is coming.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 23, 2023 01:43 PM (9yUzE)

164 LOL Prigozhin just tweeted that he wasn't on the plane.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 23, 2023 01:41 PM (MeG8a)

Hahahahha. No way? Hahahhah.

Maybe I am still right about him being Putin's guy.

If Surovikin gets promoted....

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 01:43 PM (xJL+R)

165 >Well, Prigozhin had to die some way. Plane crash killing 10 seams excessive though.
Posted by: WisRich at August 23, 2023 01:41 PM (LnSys)

Probably took out some of his lieutenants at the same time.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 23, 2023 01:43 PM (S7JkI)

166 They're in love with the abstract dreams and believe they can simply will those into existence, without paying any attention to the detailed, "boring" work needed simply to keep a civilization running, much less make the dreams even a theoretical possibility.
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Romanticism does not equal magical funking thinking

Posted by: Definition at August 23, 2023 01:43 PM (gw7xJ)

167 There is a bigger issue at play here: the modern naive view that nothing needs to be maintained. I'm continually shocked at how lackadaisical and even dangerous people are when it comes to maintaining even basic stuff like cars.

Nobody checks tire pressures, brake pads, or even pays attention when warning lights are screaming red from the dashboard. Long ago, when cars were primitive, everyone understood that certain maintenance was required.

If most people don't maintain their cars, and don't think there is any need to or benefit it in, how much maintenance do you think they're going to do on power lines or grass around power lines? Spoiler alert: dick.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 01:43 PM (iFTx/)

168 Hero Projects are huge grand ideas that excite the imagination of the masses. They usually do 1/10 of what they promised.
Posted by: rd at August 23, 2023 01:40 PM (4bOqj)
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Red China's "South-North Water Project" is waiting on Line 1.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:43 PM (t0OGg)

169 Liberals = Narcissist Kleptomaniacs with Lucifer Complex...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 23, 2023 01:44 PM (TGPs7)

170 Big wasp: https://tinyurl.com/59nrbjwj
You can see their bodies pulse as they respire.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at August 23, 2023 01:44 PM (MvF+J)

171 I read an excellent Substack recently about this very topic. The TL

R version is that the West is at the endgame of a decades-long version of the typical SJW infestation of a beloved IP. The government was infiltrated by ideologues, who proceeded to hire more of them and drive all of the actually competent people out. The government then used its power to do the same thing in education and the private sector, to the point where nearly all of the people in any position of power today are there because they were selected for ideological purity and not competence. Ideologues tend to be smart on paper but lousy at actually running things, as Maui showed us.

https://tinyurl.com/4eurztz6

Posted by: MrUNIVAC at August 23, 2023 01:44 PM (SkKW5)

172 Many Dem politicians inexplicably view themselves as royalty, with the rest of us serving the role of serfs. They've done nothing to earn this, nor do they deserve to be given any power at all, yet we have many stupid voters in this country and he were are. Blue states are now seeing what happens when you are governed by inept idiots.

Posted by: UGAdawg at August 23, 2023 01:44 PM (tRd71)

173 105 "Wagner's Prigozhin Dead After His Business Jet With 10 People On Board 'Crashes'"

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I guess there was no window handy to push him out of.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 23, 2023 01:33 PM (FVME7)

At least no one got shot at, and then sucked out a window...

Posted by: zombie Auric Goldfinger at August 23, 2023 01:44 PM (CCSxw)

174 A new bill to create a four-day work week is about to be introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature. It would require businesses with more than 500 employees to reduce their work week from 40 to 32 hours a week. However, less work hours will not mean less pay!
Posted by: SMOD

Did a zoomer propose that? I had one the other day that seemed genuinely surprised that globo-corporation would not pay him full time salary if he was only working part time to go to school, for which globo-corporation would be paying tuition. Kids?!

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 23, 2023 01:44 PM (eNHl7)

175 Khalil: I wanted to be big and important, just like you! But the world doesn't need more people who are "big and important"... The world needs more people who are nice and compassionate.. And merciful! That's what I want to be. You can find yourself a new traveling buddy. Goodbye.

Posted by: pookysgirl can almost quote "Jonah" from heart at August 23, 2023 01:44 PM (dtlDP)

176 In my state, in order for someone under 18 to get a drivers license, they have to take lessons with an “accredited” driving school. Hmmm I wonder if the driver schools had any input in making that rule and if any politicians were paid off to make that happen? A real mystery. Republicans control all aspects of this state and yet they made it happen. Made the citizen just a little bit smaller.
Posted by: Montec at August 23, 2023 01:42 PM (fBONW)
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See also: CON laws, which are on the books in many states (including red states).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:44 PM (t0OGg)

177 Here's the tweet

https://tinyurl.com/4rmsnbsu

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 23, 2023 01:44 PM (MeG8a)

178 The Dems have created a society where the sole objective is how to get free goods, services, money. Sometimes I think inner city pocs sacrifice their sons and daughters so they can sue the government. Government rewarded BLM by paying them for the damage they did in multiple cities. Oh sorry we broke up your "peaceful" protest by arresting you. Loot and rob with impunity and gosh you might have to spend an hour in jail until you are released still holding the looted goods to sell. Illegally cross the border and get free housing, food, medical care anda if lucky give birth to start an entire new generation of freelocaders.
Pavlov proved that if you reward behavior it will continue and become ingrained in the psyche.
I think we are too late to stop this.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 23, 2023 01:44 PM (t/2Uw)

179 I think the reason will be that Putin is a barely functioning madman surrounded by war mongerers intent on subverting the the world through currency manipulation and military force, and the nominal head of a group of corrupt nations who want nothing other than to colonize Europe as their own personal feifs.

And Prirzghin stood in the way of it all
Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2023 01:42 PM (xhaym)

*claps*

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 01:45 PM (xJL+R)

180 It’s pretty amazing hair far a modern car will go without maintenance. Literally, no other machine made by humans is like that.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2023 01:45 PM (hASI/)

181 Nobody checks tire pressures, brake pads, or even pays attention when warning lights are screaming red from the dashboard. Long ago, when cars were primitive, everyone understood that certain maintenance was required.

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I looked at the new-car "service manual" that came with a Honda recently.

There is no service schedule. It's not listed anywhere in the book. No mileage, no requirement, no nothing.
None. Zero, zilch, nada.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 23, 2023 01:45 PM (oZ23Y)

182 once you realize the only thing that allows government to get so big is access to a money printer, the solution becomes obvious

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at August 23, 2023 01:45 PM (V6W16)

183 Maybe Prigozhin blew up the plane as a false flag to blame Putin?

*mind (and plane) blown*

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 23, 2023 01:46 PM (ufFY8)

184 Or, maybe, just maybe, these people are simply evil and the task of evil is to destroy, particularly to destroy life those things that lead to life.

Posted by: astonerii at August 23, 2023 01:46 PM (VcZlJ)

185 “ Nobody checks tire pressures, brake pads, or even pays attention when warning lights are screaming red from the dashboard. ”

Eh I dunno about that. Maybe some don’t, but
I’m pretty sure if the check engine light comes on most people will take the car in to a mechanic. It depends a lot on the car. If it’s a pos 20+ year old beater, yeah who gives a fuck. If it’s a newer/more valuable car it’s getting looked at.

Posted by: Montec at August 23, 2023 01:46 PM (fBONW)

186 ... Nobody checks tire pressures, brake pads, or even pays attention when warning lights are screaming red from the dashboard. Long ago, when cars were primitive, everyone understood that certain maintenance was required. ...
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 01:43 PM (iFTx/)
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Checking brakes is less important since most* of them will squeal when the pads get low.

* Except my 2017 Hyundai. No warning, no squealing, just metal-on-metal and a set of ruined rotors. That was a day when Mannix was quite unhappy, and since he can't depend on the brake pad finger to squeal against the rotor as expected, he now checks the brakes at each tire rotation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:46 PM (t0OGg)

187 I attended a seminar a few years ago that included about a dozen of Washington State county IT Directors. All of them were concerned about their web presence, and design, and budgets, etc. Every one of them, EVERY ONE, bitched about losing money to filling pot holes.
Now I agree that they have a need to budget their web processes, but it was clear their aim was not making things easier for citizens, but for grabbing the next shiny new thing.
And forget about infrastructure.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2023 01:46 PM (hv9bm)

188 --The TLR version is that the West is at the endgame of a decades-long version of the typical SJW infestation of a beloved IP.--

Exhibit #806: The stupid bint Undersecretary of Defense going to West Point to strategize on defeating climate change.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 23, 2023 01:46 PM (9yUzE)

189 And now, for something completely different. The first scene of this episode of a little known James Garner series, Nichols, is an interesting look at a weird ass antique motorcycle.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WHS_HfdwcTU&t=272s

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 23, 2023 01:47 PM (FVME7)

190 Nobody checks tire pressures, brake pads, or even pays attention when warning lights are screaming red from the dashboard. Long ago, when cars were primitive, everyone understood that certain maintenance was required.

If most people don't maintain their cars, and don't think there is any need to or benefit it in, how much maintenance do you think they're going to do on power lines or grass around power lines? Spoiler alert: dick.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 01:43 PM (iFTx/)

Me to girl driving: Your check engine light is on.

Her: Yeah, it's always on.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2023 01:47 PM (KbCG3)

191 We used to call these people public servants. We're the servants, now.

Posted by: Mark at August 23, 2023 01:47 PM (Jj6JW)

192 Speaking of maintenance, I have a new UV sterilizer light coming for my water system.

The company that made the original light no longer exists, so I have to resort to Amazon, hopefully, it's not a POS.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 23, 2023 01:47 PM (rc3Z7)

193 Building takes work. Maintenance takes work. Both maintenance and work requires one to care that something is built or maintained in the first place.

Democrat governance on the other hand...
From the comments at Sarah Hoyt's place:

"But if you destroy a thing, then the person who cared enough to build it, and those who love it, can’t stop you, so you’re more powerful."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 23, 2023 01:47 PM (ou9hh)

194 I think we are too late to stop this.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)

Actually having to struggle to live and acquire food is coming and that generally changes things for a couple of generations.

We can't stop the coming national and perhaps international crash but we can build local communities that have the strength to survive the coming bad times.

Posted by: whig at August 23, 2023 01:47 PM (25PDe)

195 It’s pretty amazing hair far a modern car will go without maintenance. Literally, no other machine made by humans is like that.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2023 01:45 PM (hASI/)

*ahem*

Posted by: A High-Bypass Turbofan at August 23, 2023 01:47 PM (guGkK)

196 @rbastid, you're right to follow the money. Here's another twist: Utilities make money for their investors by getting a return on equity, while they make nothing by getting reimbursed (through rate cases) for the cost of maintenance. So they will ALWAYS choose the capital-intensive solution over the cheaper alternative, which is to expend operating cost.

The PUC is supposed to be where those rate cases are held up to scrutiny and someone adult in the room asks, why, isn't building a gas turbine cheaper for the consumer on a delivered-cost basis (and more reliable) than building a wind turbine and batteries?

But the PUCs have been taken over by global warming zealots and no one is looking out for the customer. I'm sure that's true in Hawaii as well as many, many other states.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 23, 2023 01:48 PM (7B5FA)

197 "Checking brakes is less important since most* of them will squeal when the pads get low."

I took my hoopty to a shop because the brakes were squeaky. He checked them out, said they were fine, and didn't charge for the inspection. That's how you win a customer.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 23, 2023 01:48 PM (9yUzE)

198 If my check engine light comes on, I plug in my data reader. It will give me a code, I look it up in the index. It's usually something trivial. If it's not I give the car to my mechanic and tell him what code came up.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 23, 2023 01:48 PM (MeG8a)

199 Me to girl driving: Your check engine light is on.

Her: Yeah, it's always on.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2023 01:47 PM (KbCG3)

This is where a square of black electrical tape comes in.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2023 01:48 PM (guGkK)

200 One of my cars has turbo brakes which squeal like a pig even when brand new. It’s annoying as fuck and every time I drive somewhere people probably think dude you need new brakes, lol.

Posted by: Montec at August 23, 2023 01:49 PM (fBONW)

201 When those rare 3-day weekends pop up on the work schedule, it's an office-wide celebration! Well, what if that was every week? A new bill to create a four-day work week is about to be introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature. It would require businesses with more than 500 employees to reduce their work week from 40 to 32 hours a week. However, less work hours will not mean less pay!
Posted by: SMOD

Yeah. Right. No company is giving an 8 hour a day pay raise weekly. (Paying 40 & working 32)

And Pennsylvania can't force companies too.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2023 01:49 PM (Nfan7)

202 180 It’s pretty amazing hair far a modern car will go without maintenance. Literally, no other machine made by humans is like that.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2023 01:45 PM (hASI/)
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True. If it all works as it's supposed to. Most maintenance issues are handled by warning lights. But that assumes the sensors and warning systems are all working. Which they usually are. Until they aren't. I've been asked to look over quite a few cars that had dangerously over-inflated tires, very low oil levels and pressure, bald brake pads, and/or non-functioning rear brake lights. Any one of those could lead to catastrophic results.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 01:49 PM (iFTx/)

203 One of my cars has turbo brakes which squeal like a pig even when brand new. It’s annoying as fuck and every time I drive somewhere people probably think dude you need new brakes, lol.
Posted by: Montec at August 23, 2023 01:49 PM (fBONW)
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What are "turbo brakes?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:49 PM (t0OGg)

204
139 135 When those rare 3-day weekends pop up on the work schedule, it's an office-wide celebration! Well, what if that was every week? A new bill to create a four-day work week is about to be introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature. It would require businesses with more than 500 employees to reduce their work week from 40 to 32 hours a week. However, less work hours will not mean less pay!

Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2023 01:38 PM (RHGPo)

I love things like this. Like your manager saying, "Use your vacation days!"

What's left unsaid? "Your work will be waiting for you when you get back."
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2023 01:39 PM (KbCG3)

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I worked in a place like that for a few years. We were in big trouble with our regulator, so everyone salaried was working extra hours to get us out of trouble. IOW 5-8s became 5-10s and we either did it or left. Enough left, that they decreed 4x10 hour weeks. Those morphed into 4-12's just to keep up, but at least we had Fridays off.

Posted by: rd at August 23, 2023 01:49 PM (frE5Y)

205 The progressive believes they are the central figure in their own heroic saga. Everyone else is an NPC - less than human - and exist only as problems to be solved. Gain their support? Feed them to the wolves? Depends on what the goal is right? Climate, covid, income inequality, racism, trans - whatever the issue - the progressive enters the arena on one side and works mercilessly to eliminate the opposition - by any means necessary. Because their goal is so pure, so good, so heroic - that any immorality is justified - thus giving a patina of righteousness to their darkest impulses. Any anyone standing on the other side of the line in their simplistic morality play is simply evil. So who cares what happens to them? In fact they deserve any punishment that the progressive deigns to hand out.

This is the story of every communist revolution, and why they always, always, always, eat their own. Their little internal comic book dramas require a bad guy. If there's only two people in the room - you are the bad guy. Not them. Never them. It's their story - they are the good guy - how can it ever be anything else?

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at August 23, 2023 01:49 PM (5C4od)

206 "The psychology of most Democrats is pretty simple: They are neurotic people who are failures in most aspect of life, but have large egos and wish to be big and important. The constant crusades of big-government socialism, and the quixotic fascism of woke totalitarianism, allows these petty, marginal beings to feel as if they are strong-thewed muscular sword-and-sorcery heroes cutting down foes all around them."
____________

This is so accurate it hurts. I (unfortunately) work with these people and this describes them perfectly.

This is also Andrew Cuomo, Stacey Abrams, Beto O'Rourke, Jerry Nadler and Joe Biden.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 23, 2023 01:49 PM (lf83v)

207 have heard this numerous times from female acquaintances. About Clinton, Obama, John Edwards, Bootyjug, et al, ad nauseam.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

The only person I would think who came close to being "dreamy" in that list (and I hate that word) was Edwards ,but I never voted for any Democrat because they were dreamy If you have been inculcated into a belief that Democrats "care" you have to be jolted out of that belief by individual actions where they don't. And Democrat men think Democrats are for the "little guy" too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2023 01:50 PM (Xgdjy)

208 Anyway, it's interesting that a horror movie that seems highly negatively influenced by the COVID mess is coming out from a studio that is jumping right back into the COVID masking mess with both feet.

people are strange.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 23, 2023 01:42 PM (QzZeQ)

the most recent Punjabi offering, Cheta Singh, starring Prince Kanwaljit Singh has a similar plot, and much less dancing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGVkmev8WKw

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2023 01:50 PM (xhaym)

209 Me to girl driving: Your check engine light is on.

Her: Yeah, it's always on.

In fairness a check engine light more is more likely caused be a failure in a sensor that it uses then a failure in an actual system in the car.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:50 PM (lc5cP)

210 I do most of my maintenance on my vehicles save for things that require special tools I don't have. I do tire maintenance, brakes, thermostats, belts, parts replacement such as alternators and batteries. Consumables like plugs, filters, brake pads, plug leads, etc. Real engineers get their hands dirty.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2023 01:50 PM (pohLc)

211 >Eh I dunno about that. Maybe some don’t, but
I’m pretty sure if the check engine light comes on most people will take the car in to a mechanic. It depends a lot on the car. If it’s a pos 20+ year old beater, yeah who gives a fuck. If it’s a newer/more valuable car it’s getting looked at.
Posted by: Montec at August 23, 2023 01:46 PM (fBONW)

The whole "smoke detector giving a dead battery beep in a ghetto house" meme is a thing for a reason. Instead of simply replacing a 9V battery, a task that is insanely simple, they let it chirp away in their house in perpetuity.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 23, 2023 01:50 PM (S7JkI)

212 Here's the tweet

https://tinyurl.com/4rmsnbsu
Posted by: gourmand du jour

Zombie Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 23, 2023 01:50 PM (FVME7)

213 It’s pretty amazing hair far a modern car will go without maintenance. Literally, no other machine made by humans is like that.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at

?

Posted by: Fleshlight at August 23, 2023 01:51 PM (7LT+m)

214 Is car maintenance something that people really still skip these days? They're hella expensive now, and have dozens of gewgads that alight, beep, and text advisories. Ignoring maintenance now is kinda work.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 23, 2023 01:51 PM (ppBhU)

215 GOOD TIMES MAKE WEAK MEN (i.e. democrat feminists)
WEAK MEN MAKE BAD TIMES (we are here)
BAD TIMES MAKE STRONG MEN (we are entering this period)
STRONG MEN CREATE GOOD TIMES (we are long way from here)

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 23, 2023 01:51 PM (17s+e)

216 This brunette in a one-piece objects to all utopian fantasies and the utopians who always believe that no blood price is too great if it means achieving their ideal:
https://is.gd/vSrB5w

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:51 PM (t0OGg)

217 Me to girl driving: Your check engine light is on.

Her: Yeah, it's always on.

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Emissions. It's almost always emissions. Which will, interestingly, be how they take all gas powered cars off the road.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 23, 2023 01:51 PM (oZ23Y)

218 What are "turbo brakes?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:49 PM (t0OGg)

They run off the supercharger. Stronger grip over 70mph.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 01:51 PM (k88OO)

219 During the Obamacare debate I pointed out to leftists that if they thought "health care is a right!" there was nothing stopping them from forming a health care collective that would share bills equally.

The response? But then YOU wouldn't have to pay for it.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:26 PM (lc5cP)

I asked my sister-in-law once how she would feel about a system where she could do absolutely anything she wanted any time she wanted but I would not be required to pay for it.

She said that she couldn't accept those terms.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2023 01:52 PM (zhLdt)

220 195 It’s pretty amazing hair far a modern car will go without maintenance. Literally, no other machine made by humans is like that.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2023 01:45 PM (hASI/)

*ahem*
Posted by: A High-Bypass Turbofan at August 23, 2023 01:47 PM

(quietly sobs in the corner, forgotten)

Posted by: inclined plane, lever, wedge, wheel and axle at August 23, 2023 01:52 PM (YRKRp)

221 209 Me to girl driving: Your check engine light is on.

Her: Yeah, it's always on.

In fairness a check engine light more is more likely caused be a failure in a sensor that it uses then a failure in an actual system in the car.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:50 PM (lc5cP)

Which has happened to me once or twice. And found out that was happening because I took it in to get looked at, ha.

My wife's best friend destroyed a car engine because she literally never changed the oil. Went dry and boom.

Maybe that's what happened to Kemp's staffer.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2023 01:52 PM (KbCG3)

222 When chyna takes over they won't need the uniparty anymore.

Posted by: Eromero at August 23, 2023 01:52 PM (NxC5+)

223 This brunette in a one-piece objects to all utopian fantasies and the utopians who always believe that no blood price is too great if it means achieving their ideal:
https://is.gd/vSrB5w
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:51 PM (t0OGg)

Man, I need a boat.

Posted by: spindrift at August 23, 2023 01:53 PM (pyXMr)

224 They’re brakes that come on Porsche turbo and turbo s models.. Not “turbo” brakes per se,
just how they’re colloquially known.

Posted by: Montec at August 23, 2023 01:53 PM (fBONW)

225 means achieving their ideal:
https://is.gd/vSrB5w
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:51 PM (t0OGg)

Horrible, horrible pink fingernails.

Would bang until they are gone.

8/10

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 23, 2023 01:53 PM (ufFY8)

226 nd now, for something completely different. The first scene of this episode of a little known James Garner series, Nichols, is an interesting look at a weird ass antique motorcycle.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WHS_HfdwcTU&t=272s
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 23, 2023

***
That was from about '71-'72, the Year the Movie Star Came to TV. Rock Hudson, James Garner, and James Stewart. Maybe others. Thanks to good writing and star chemistry, Hudson's show, McMillan and Wife, was the only one that lasted more than a season.

Posted by: Wolfus's Black Cat Stirling, the Wasp-Hunter at August 23, 2023 01:53 PM (J2vNu)

227 "Checking brakes is less important since most* of them will squeal when the pads get low."

I haven't driven a vehicle yet that squeals when they get low. It always goes from pad to grind.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2023 01:53 PM (Nfan7)

228 185 “ Nobody checks tire pressures, brake pads, or even pays attention when warning lights are screaming red from the dashboard. ”

Eh I dunno about that. Maybe some don’t, but
I’m pretty sure if the check engine light comes on most people will take the car in to a mechanic. It depends a lot on the car. If it’s a pos 20+ year old beater, yeah who gives a fuck. If it’s a newer/more valuable car it’s getting looked at.
Posted by: Montec at August 23, 2023 01:46 PM (fBONW)
____________

Adults, maybe. But do you know any 20-something girls? Most of them won't do shit even if all the lights are screaming at them. "That light that looks like an engine, doesn't that meant the engine is running?" They are either totally clueless or have been conditioned since birth to expect that somebody else will take care of it. And if they are attractive, someone else WILL take care of it for them.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 01:54 PM (iFTx/)

229 Man, I need a boat.

Hey you have to remember its not JUST the cost of maintaining the yacht - you also have to maintain the yacht girls.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:54 PM (lc5cP)

230 Leftys want to make everything fair which means nothing is fair. They get around that by making everything fairer for them.
Posted by: fd at August 23, 2023 01:40 PM (vFG9F)
***

Republicans believe each has the right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Dems believe that they control Life, will allow you some Liberty, and will give you Happiness.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2023 01:54 PM (hv9bm)

231 Man, I need a boat.
Posted by: spindrift at August 23, 2023 01:53 PM (pyXMr)

Yacht. For yachting with yacht girls.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 01:54 PM (k88OO)

232 The people currently on track to take over the upkeep of modern society are ill equipped to do so. I fully expect literally every facet of society to collapse due to stupidity.

And climate change. And racism. Or something.

But, seriously, many of the next and follow on generations are clueless about "how shit works in real life."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 23, 2023 01:54 PM (Q4IgG)

233 Thank you, All, again, for your prayers, good wishes, and interview advice on the last thread.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 01:54 PM (xTRSc)

234 Love Doc 0. I remember when he was an anonymous commenter in the old Green Room. I think it was at Hot Air when Michelle still ran it.

The Democrat Party has finished its transformation into the Demmunist Party. It’s time to consider the name of the party that will replace the moribund Republican Party. Too many Republicans are on the payroll of leftist interests. It’s time for a change, before real battle lines are drawn. Eventually someone will take up the public interest, the sooner the better.

Posted by: Advo at August 23, 2023 01:54 PM (VHN21)

235 "Checking brakes is less important since most* of them will squeal when the pads get low."

I took my hoopty to a shop because the brakes were squeaky. He checked them out, said they were fine, and didn't charge for the inspection. That's how you win a customer.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 23, 2023 01:48 PM (9yUzE)

=======

I took my truck into getthe tires rotated. I asked them to check the brakes while it's up on the hoist with the wheels off.

"Oh, they are fine." Two weeks later the pads are squealing.

Posted by: rd at August 23, 2023 01:54 PM (KPS9K)

236 "Right to medical care" = Health care workers are indentured servants.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 23, 2023 01:54 PM (2YtOq)

237 212 Here's the tweet

https://tinyurl.com/4rmsnbsu
Posted by: gourmand du jour

Zombie Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 23, 2023 01:50 PM (FVME7)

"You come at the king, you best not miss."
- Omar Little

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 23, 2023 01:54 PM (/iWhV)

238 This brunette in a one-piece objects to all utopian fantasies and the utopians who always believe that no blood price is too great if it means achieving their ideal:
https://is.gd/vSrB5w
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:51 PM (t0OGg)
.......

wedgie status:

[ ] half

[X] full

Posted by: wth at August 23, 2023 01:55 PM (v0R5T)

239 A lot of modern women have simply been brainwashed by feminism. They have no appreciation for a man with skills. This leaves them at the mercy of angry resentful men who work on things. Richly deserved IMHO.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2023 01:55 PM (pohLc)

240 I had an oxygen sensor on my Isuzu dash. It lit up so I read up on it. Found out it was tied to the odometer. At 60k it would lite up. So I opened the dash and removed the light bulb.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 23, 2023 01:55 PM (OTXUv)

241 Obama had a mellifluous sounding voice and if you voted for him ( I didn't) it proved to yourself that you were not racist. A friend who hadn't lived I. The country for decades but could still vote as an American citizen basically told me this.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2023 01:55 PM (Xgdjy)

242 "In fairness a check engine light more is more likely caused be a failure in a sensor that it uses then a failure in an actual system in the car."

That has been my experience. Yes, reliability of modern cars is good. If you had told me 30 years ago that ca2020 cars would have so many CPUs and sensors in them, I would have doubted they could perform so reliably. Tip o'the'hat to automotive engineers.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at August 23, 2023 01:55 PM (MvF+J)

243 This brunette in a one-piece objects to all utopian fantasies and the utopians who always believe that no blood price is too great if it means achieving their ideal:
https://is.gd/vSrB5w
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:51 PM (t0OGg)

There's no way she's going in the water with that makeup. But I will forgive the deception.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2023 01:55 PM (guGkK)

244 Hey you have to remember its not JUST the cost of maintaining the yacht - you also have to maintain the yacht girls.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:54 PM (lc5cP)
++++
Large quantities of high-end liquor and drugs don't come cheap.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:55 PM (t0OGg)

245 I do most of my maintenance on my vehicles save for things that require special tools I don't have. I do tire maintenance, brakes, thermostats, belts, parts replacement such as alternators and batteries. Consumables like plugs, filters, brake pads, plug leads, etc. Real engineers get their hands dirty.

Posted by: Xipe Totec
===

Right there with you brother. If you don't have one get a moderately priced OBD scanner. Not the cheapest and certainly not the most expensive. Those will reset all the jerkoff codes that come up. The wife's car had a O2 sensor go and I bought one. There were like 100+ codes that came up that weren't enough to tripe the check engine light. But if they come up again they will. I cleared them all and they didn't false trip again.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 23, 2023 01:55 PM (17s+e)

246 Big wasp: https://tinyurl.com/59nrbjwj
You can see their bodies pulse as they respire.
Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration

Scientific name is Lizzowaspus regina.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 23, 2023 01:55 PM (FVME7)

247 Prigozin is mort?

Posted by: runner at August 23, 2023 01:56 PM (1zBxZ)

248
At least no one got shot at, and then sucked out a window...
Posted by: zombie Auric Goldfinger

Correction. Blown out.

Posted by: Data at August 23, 2023 01:56 PM (63Dwl)

249 Man, I need a boat.

Hey you have to remember its not JUST the cost of maintaining the yacht - you also have to maintain the yacht girls.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:54 PM (lc5cP)
***

Mrs D would ensure the wife maintenance costs would be prohibitive.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2023 01:56 PM (hv9bm)

250 Boat girl looks to be 4'9"

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 01:56 PM (k88OO)

251 my wife still refused to even add wiper fluid. I was out of town once she ran out, she went to the dealer and asked them to add some, lol. They did do it for free so what the hell, saved $5.

Posted by: Montec at August 23, 2023 01:56 PM (fBONW)

252 Maybe Prigozhin blew up the plane as a false flag to blame Putin?
*mind (and plane) blown*
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 23, 2023 01:46 PM (ufFY

Everything Prigozhin has done in the last two years has been a feint, a dramatic misdirection, or a "wounded bird" retreat followed up by someone doing something nasty to someone else. Since he is a target, he might be switching out his itinerary daily and never sleeping in the same bed twice.
Unless he is dead.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2023 01:56 PM (xhaym)

253 210 I do most of my maintenance on my vehicles save for things that require special tools I don't have. I do tire maintenance, brakes, thermostats, belts, parts replacement such as alternators and batteries. Consumables like plugs, filters, brake pads, plug leads, etc. Real engineers get their hands dirty.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

Nah, cheap ass SOB's do that, it's saved me a lot of money and given me a ton of tools.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at August 23, 2023 01:56 PM (qZdIZ)

254 155 I think the reason will be that Putin is a barely functioning madman surrounded by war mongerers intent on subverting the the world through currency manipulation and military force, and the nominal head of a group of corrupt nations who want nothing other than to colonize Europe as their own personal feifs.

And Prirzghin stood in the way of it all
Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2023 01:42 PM (xhaym)

I thought the Official Horde Stance was that Putin is the Good Guy (TM) and should be given Dominion over the Prosperity Sphere.

Posted by: XTC at August 23, 2023 01:56 PM (UnA8+)

255 I'm just imagining the media reaction if any Republican president took a week to get to Maui-- and then fell esleep during the meeting

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 23, 2023 01:56 PM (olBoL)

256 Obama had a mellifluous sounding voice

Mellifluous is a great word.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 23, 2023 01:56 PM (ufFY8)

257
Which has happened to me once or twice. And found out that was happening because I took it in to get looked at, ha.

My wife's best friend destroyed a car engine because she literally never changed the oil. Went dry and boom.

Maybe that's what happened to Kemp's staffer.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2023

***
After years in high school and college of riding buses and cadging rides from increasingly impatient friends, I am more than glad to have a working car, let alone a great one (which I do). And I take care of it, baby.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2023 01:56 PM (J2vNu)

258 Hey you have to remember its not JUST the cost of maintaining the yacht - you also have to maintain the yacht girls.
Posted by: 18-1

You need to oil them frequently.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 23, 2023 01:57 PM (FVME7)

259 Oh popsi got shot out of the sky.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at August 23, 2023 01:57 PM (ytSiK)

260 Obama had a mellifluous sounding voice
*
Mellifluous is a great word.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 23, 2023

***
"Honey flowing"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2023 01:57 PM (J2vNu)

261 My car is too complex for me to work on, I could change the air filter, wiper blades, headlamps, signal lamps, top off fluids. That's it.
Anything else goes my trusty mechanic, with whom I have a good relationship.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 23, 2023 01:57 PM (MeG8a)

262
Hey you have to remember its not JUST the cost of maintaining the yacht - you also have to maintain the yacht girls.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:54 PM

======

Wasn't Meghan Markle a "Yacht Girl" for a while?

Posted by: rd at August 23, 2023 01:57 PM (KPS9K)

263 They are either totally clueless or have been conditioned since birth to expect that somebody else will take care of it. And if they are attractive, someone else WILL take care of it for them.

Got a call from a girlfriend once. Her car wouldn't start and some warning light came on.

I wish I could remember what her descriptions of the warning light where because they were hilarious. I had her send me a picture and it was the battery. I asked her when she last had her battery replaced and got silence before, uh, never I think.

She had triple A so she called them for a jump and then I took her to get a new battery, problem solved....but it was hilarious.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:57 PM (lc5cP)

264 "The psychology of most Democrats is pretty simple: They are neurotic people who are failures in most aspect of life, but have large egos and wish to be big and important. The constant crusades of big-government socialism, and the quixotic fascism of woke totalitarianism, allows these petty, marginal beings to feel as if they are strong-thewed muscular sword-and-sorcery heroes cutting down foes all around them."
____________

This is so accurate it hurts. I (unfortunately) work with these people and this describes them perfectly.

This is also Andrew Cuomo, Stacey Abrams, Beto O'Rourke, Jerry Nadler and Joe Biden.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot

Hard times create strong men
Strong men create good times
Good times create weak men ... We are here
Weak men create hard times

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2023 01:57 PM (Nfan7)

265 Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 23, 2023 01:55 PM (17s+e)
I haven't bought a code reader as yet. I go to the parts store for code readouts. So far it has worked.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2023 01:57 PM (pohLc)

266 This brunette in a one-piece objects to all utopian fantasies and the utopians who always believe that no blood price is too great if it means achieving their ideal:
https://is.gd/vSrB5w
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:51 PM (t0OGg)

There's no way she's going in the water with that makeup. But I will forgive the deception.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 23, 2023 01:55 PM (guGkK)
***

Hair is dry too.
And likewise, all is forgiven.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2023 01:57 PM (hv9bm)

267 I do most of my maintenance on my vehicles save for things that require special tools I don't have. I do tire maintenance, brakes, thermostats, belts, parts replacement such as alternators and batteries. Consumables like plugs, filters, brake pads, plug leads, etc. Real engineers get their hands dirty.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2023 01:50 PM (pohLc)
++++
I used to. It was the only way I could afford it.

About a year or two after I stopped living hand-to-mouth, I rolled out the stuff to do an oil change and then thought, "I hate this. I don't enjoy doing any of it. It's also a hundred degrees out. I'm not broke anymore. Is this something that it is worth it for me to spend money on instead of time?"

I hate doing it, so for me the answer was, "yes." I do some car stuff still, because repair shop rates are punitive. Spark plugs, for example.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:58 PM (t0OGg)

268 My wife's best friend destroyed a car engine because she literally never changed the oil. Went dry and boom.

--

Here's your chance, moo moo.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 23, 2023 01:58 PM (oZ23Y)

269 The only time I've ever seen a car explode like Kemp's staffer's did was in action movies where the mob/terrorists/whatever put a bomb in someone's car.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:59 PM (lc5cP)

270 244 Hey you have to remember its not JUST the cost of maintaining the yacht - you also have to maintain the yacht girls.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:54 PM (lc5cP)
++++
Large quantities of high-end liquor and drugs don't come cheap.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:55 PM (t0OGg)
________

Yea, but these girls are dumb. You can pour cheap brandy into a bottle for Louis and they will never know. Nor will they care. They don't actually want the taste. They just want the pics for IG and to think they're worth the expensive stuff. Don't ask me how I know.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

271 Obama had a mellifluous sounding voice

Having a mouth full of jissom will do that.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 23, 2023 01:59 PM (TfzRo)

272 May have been addressed in some comments I haven't read but another component of the Leftist is the God shaped hole they are trying to fill with their false god of Social Justice. Not only are they small and unaccomplished, desperately seeking affirmation through The State and its works, but they also long to feel RIGHTEOUS while doing so.

Posted by: Zek at August 23, 2023 01:59 PM (5FPX4)

273 250 Boat girl looks to be 4'9"
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 01:56 PM

ARE YOU KIDDING? SHE'S PROBABLY UNDER 35.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at August 23, 2023 02:00 PM (YRKRp)

274 I was in Hawaii when the Hawaiian Air Liner's roof came off in flight. They landed the thing. A convertible airliner is a thing. I don't thing the passengers were pleased.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 23, 2023 02:00 PM (OTXUv)

275 264 Hard times create strong men
Strong men create good times
Good times create weak men ... We are here
Weak men create hard times
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2023 01:57 PM (Nfan7)

The increase of fatherless households has only accelerated this, as fathers could function as the Hard Times to make their sons Strong Men.

Posted by: XTC at August 23, 2023 02:00 PM (UnA8+)

276 My check-engine light is on because there’s an issue with my catalytic converter. Mechanic said I don’t have to worry about it until the emissions inspection in the fall. So, until I find a job I’m going to leave it be and drive around with an illuminated check-engine light. Irritating as hell, but it is what it is.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 02:00 PM (xTRSc)

277 "In fairness a check engine light more is more likely caused be a failure in a sensor that it uses then a failure in an actual system in the car."

That has been my experience. Yes, reliability of modern cars is good. If you had told me 30 years ago that ca2020 cars would have so many CPUs and sensors in them, I would have doubted they could perform so reliably. Tip o'the'hat to automotive engineers.
Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at August 23, 2023

***
First thing to look at with a CEL? See if the gas cap is loose. If so, tighten it. If not, replace it, it may have a leak. If CEL does not go off shortly, proceed further. But that one tip has saved me several shop or dealer trips.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2023 02:00 PM (J2vNu)

278 266 This brunette in a one-piece objects to all utopian fantasies and the utopians who always believe that no blood price is too great if it means achieving their ideal:
https://is.gd/vSrB5w
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:51 PM (t0OGg)
____________

I can guarantee you that girl is NOT doing any maintenance on her car. There are guys lined up around the block to do it for her.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

279 Republicans believe each has the right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2023 01:54 PM (hv9bm)

Not nationally elected Republicans

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2023 02:00 PM (1CJCO)

280 https://youtu.be/BmwjpVxHjSI

Boats and other things.

Posted by: Montec at August 23, 2023 02:01 PM (fBONW)

281 I thought the Official Horde Stance was that Putin is the Good Guy (TM) and should be given Dominion over the Prosperity Sphere.
Posted by: XTC at August 23, 2023 01:56 PM (UnA8+)

Putin is the leader of the Russian Federation and is acting to preserve it and allow it to flourish. He is not acting in the best interest of powers foreign to his country.

I am merely jealous because there appears to be no one doing this sort of service for the United States

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2023 02:01 PM (xhaym)

282 Yea, but these girls are dumb. You can pour cheap brandy into a bottle for Louis and they will never know. Nor will they care. They don't actually want the taste. They just want the pics for IG and to think they're worth the expensive stuff. Don't ask me how I know.

One of the things I've learned from Brian Atlas's Whatever is that for THOTs there is nothing more important then having a great presentation on IG. And they use it for dating too. If they are looking for a sugar daddy he can get a pass, but if they are looking for a younger guy the first place they look is IG...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 02:01 PM (lc5cP)

283 The only time I've ever seen a car explode like Kemp's staffer's did was in action movies where the mob/terrorists/whatever put a bomb in someone's car.
Posted by: 18-1

--

Someone linked something the other day discussing Kemp being $7M in debt until he gave Dominion the voting box rights, then he was suddenly debt free.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 23, 2023 02:01 PM (oZ23Y)

284 Mellifluous is a great word.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 23, 2023 01:56 PM (ufFY

It does not mean "Sibilant"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2023 02:01 PM (xhaym)

285 I hate doing it, so for me the answer was, "yes." I do some car stuff still, because repair shop rates are punitive. Spark plugs, for example.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 01:58 PM (t0OGg)

When I do it it gets done right. The dipstick says full, the filter is new, and the drain plug doesn't fall out and dump my oil when im 50 miles from nowhere. I have seen this very thing happen to people who trust strangers to fix their car.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2023 02:02 PM (pohLc)

286 If the government has overthrown the Constitution is supporting the government now "Insurrection"?

Posted by: Zek at August 23, 2023 02:02 PM (5FPX4)

287 Yea, but these girls are dumb. You can pour cheap brandy into a bottle for Louis and they will never know. Nor will they care. They don't actually want the taste. They just want the pics for IG and to think they're worth the expensive stuff. Don't ask me how I know.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

We did this after college with vodka bottle filled with jug vodka and froze some ice around it.

Same with tequila but no freezing.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 02:02 PM (k88OO)

288 Sounds like from John Hayward there won't be consequences then.

Posted by: blaster at August 23, 2023 02:02 PM (fdnhv)

289 Every mechanic in my burg is 2 weeks out at least. Someone is obviously maintains their cars.

Posted by: Montec at August 23, 2023 02:02 PM (fBONW)

290 The cars we own are not to complex for me to work on. However, after years of working on my own cars, which had a tendency to break at the worst possible time, say, winter in MN, I'm more than happy to pay someone else to do the work.

*shudders at memory of pulling a radiator on a 10 below morning.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 23, 2023 02:03 PM (2YtOq)

291 When I do it it gets done right. The dipstick says full, the filter is new, and the drain plug doesn't fall out and dump my oil when im 50 miles from nowhere. I have seen this very thing happen to people who trust strangers to fix their car.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2023 02:02 PM (pohLc)
++++
Shysters and incompetents abound.

My local quick lube place is neither, and neither is my mechanic. Both do top-notch work and aren't conmen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 02:03 PM (t0OGg)

292 The increase of fatherless households has only accelerated this, as fathers could function as the Hard Times to make their sons Strong Men.

Posted by: XTC at August 23, 2023 02:00 PM (UnA8+)

Yup. Men have created many of the issues we face today. Ceding ground and otherwise being absent in raising the next generation.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2023 02:03 PM (KbCG3)

293 The last time I went to an oil change shop, the junkie in the pit looked like she lived there. I don't trust them to put in the right oil or amount, or to put the plug in tight or the filter on right.

Posted by: fd at August 23, 2023 02:03 PM (vFG9F)

294 Well, that settles that.

"Wagner's Prigozhin Dead After His Business Jet With 10 People On Board 'Crashes'"

https://tinyurl.com/v2xnzs7r
Posted by: Thrawn at August 23, 2023 01:21 PM (uGhsv)

"When you strike at the king, you must kill him."

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 23, 2023 02:03 PM (N1DT3)

295 Leader of Wagner Group: Dead In Plane Crash

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 23, 2023 02:03 PM (rc3Z7)

296 Those quick lube places are hilarious. No matter what your car always needs an alignment, a brake fluid flush and 5 other things.

Posted by: Montec at August 23, 2023 02:04 PM (fBONW)

297
She had triple A so she called them for a jump and then I took her to get a new battery, problem solved....but it was hilarious.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023

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My Buick Regal and the LaCrosse both gave me no warning that their maintenance-free batteries were weakening. In all three cases (2x for the LaCrosse), I climbed into the car, worked the key or button, and click-click-click. Older cars like my Park Avenue would signal you by getting a little harder to crank, then a little more, so you had some warning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2023 02:04 PM (J2vNu)

298 Talked to my kids about why no one ever spends money on maintenance.

It's b/c you have nothing to show for it. You still have the same thing, and you only can occasionally see improvement.

We had an abject lesson in my neighborhood this month. The HOA spent money maintaining the sidewalks and paid to replace all the ones jutting up that couldn't handle wheelchairs anymore. But they left some of the other damaged ones b/c of price. So, it's improved and wheelchair users can now make it through the neighborhood, but anyone looking wouldn't see "improvement", they'd just see "okay" sidewalks...

And this is the optimistic view - the other side is there's much less graft in maintenance vs newness b/c everyone knows what maintenance costs...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 23, 2023 02:05 PM (exHjb)

299
My local quick lube place is neither, and neither is my mechanic. Both do top-notch work and aren't conmen.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop

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I've been able to find good ones also. Now I've moved again, so.here we go...

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 23, 2023 02:05 PM (wUiWo)

300 Engine and Cabin air filters are filthy, and should be replaced!

Posted by: Jiffy Lube at August 23, 2023 02:05 PM (JCZqz)

301 When I do it it gets done right. The dipstick says full, the filter is new, and the drain plug doesn't fall out and dump my oil when im 50 miles from nowhere. I have seen this very thing happen to people who trust strangers to fix their car.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2023 02:02 PM (pohLc)

My parents happened to be visiting the day after I got my truck's oil changed. Father pulled my truck out to move it and oil started spewing out everywhere.

Mechanic said the o-ring warped due to an overnight cold snap. I couldn't argue as I didn't know but got plain lucky I had to move the truck before taking off with it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2023 02:05 PM (KbCG3)

302 Wasn't Meghan Markle a "Yacht Girl" for a while?
Posted by: rd

Now she's more Titanic.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 23, 2023 02:05 PM (FVME7)

303 Why was the lone ranger worried about tonto?
His check injun light came on.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 23, 2023 02:06 PM (TfzRo)

304 "Engine and Cabin air filters are filthy, and should be replaced!"

No way. That's what the pine tree on the dash is for.

Posted by: Every Uber Driver at August 23, 2023 02:06 PM (5FPX4)

305 The stupid low tire light came on and even though the tires are fine won't go off no matter what my husband did so we did put black tape over it.. LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at August 23, 2023 02:06 PM (bs+z0)

306 While musing about their lust for power and self-elevation, do not forget the role that fear plays in the typical progressive leftist mindset.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2023 02:06 PM (1CJCO)

307 Boat girl looks to be 4'9"

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 01:56 PM (k88OO)

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".... and knocking me out with those American thighs!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 23, 2023 02:06 PM (dQfoN)

308 "Mechanic said the o-ring warped due to an overnight cold snap. I couldn't argue as I didn't know but got plain lucky I had to move the truck before taking off with it."

What, is he some kind of rocket scientist? That is total BS.

Posted by: fd at August 23, 2023 02:06 PM (vFG9F)

309 303 Honest injun?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 02:06 PM (xTRSc)

310 Fantastic post. Our "betters" in my department stay in their offices doing nothing all day, until something happens, then they go completely overboard.

They don't work the street, they don't know the personnel, but when something goes wrong, they immediately go after the street cop, whom they never knew.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 23, 2023 02:06 PM (d2bW3)

311 263 They are either totally clueless or have been conditioned since birth to expect that somebody else will take care of it. And if they are attractive, someone else WILL take care of it for them.

Got a call from a girlfriend once. Her car wouldn't start and some warning light came on.

I wish I could remember what her descriptions of the warning light where because they were hilarious. I had her send me a picture and it was the battery. I asked her when she last had her battery replaced and got silence before, uh, never I think.

She had triple A so she called them for a jump and then I took her to get a new battery, problem solved....but it was hilarious.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:57 PM (lc5cP)
___________

Nothing compared to a call I got early in the summer after the first week of hot weather. "I think I'm low on coolant." "Coolant? Why would you say that? Is the car overheating?" "The AC isn't blowing cold. I think it needs coolant." "Did you turn on the AC compressor?" "The what??" "That button on the dash that looks like a snowflake." "OOOhhhhh that's what that is!" And there were three (!) other girls in the car with her at the time . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

312 I've been thinking these things for years but you and Hayward have articulated it better than I ever could. Thanks.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at August 23, 2023 02:07 PM (P7Iz+)

313 Don't forget the blinker fluid!

Posted by: wth at August 23, 2023 02:07 PM (v0R5T)

314 306 While musing about their lust for power and self-elevation, do not forget the role that fear plays in the typical progressive leftist mindset.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2023 02:06 PM (1CJCO)

I don't know. If there's one thing Covid has taught me it's that your average liberal is prone to rational thinking, even in the face of their own personal security.

Do I need to add the tag?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2023 02:08 PM (KbCG3)

315 The only thing I wish my Buick had was a way to turn off the outside temp readout. I guess I could pull the sensor from beneth the bumper, but I might want it back in cooler weather or when I move to a colder clime. Right now, though, seeing "100" glaring at me from the fascia is damned annoying.

People have said, "Put a little electrical tape over it." Yeah, but imagine how that tape will fuse to the plastic in the heat!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2023 02:08 PM (J2vNu)

316 wouldn't a Czech Injun be named something like Lazlo Crowfoot?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2023 02:08 PM (xhaym)

317 FWIW, your AC will quit blowing if you don't maintain your cabin filter. Well, it will blow, it just won't be able to pass through the dirty filter. So if your AC ever seems like it's working but no air is coming out of the vents, check that first.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 23, 2023 02:08 PM (oZ23Y)

318 TPMS is a cool tech. A radio transmitter in each tire sending pressure telemetry to the dash. Very useful data. They seem to work forever without needing battery changes.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at August 23, 2023 02:08 PM (MvF+J)

319 Nothing compared to a call I got early in the summer after the first week of hot weather. "I think I'm low on coolant." "Coolant? Why would you say that? Is the car overheating?" "The AC isn't blowing cold. I think it needs coolant." "Did you turn on the AC compressor?" "The what??" "That button on the dash that looks like a snowflake." "OOOhhhhh that's what that is!" And there were three (!) other girls in the car with her at the time . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

I really, really hope you asked what she thought that button did.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2023 02:09 PM (KbCG3)

320 Mechanic said the o-ring warped due to an overnight cold snap. I couldn't argue as I didn't know but got plain lucky I had to move the truck before taking off with it.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2023 02:05 PM (KbCG3)

That right there is bullshit. O-rings don't fucking warp. Installation was wrong. Probably didn't oil the o-ring prior to spinning the filter on and fucked the o-ring up.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2023 02:09 PM (pohLc)

321 My tire light goes off in the early fall when cool weather sets in. Something about a change in the air pressure causes some of the air to escape the tires.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 02:09 PM (xTRSc)

322 305 The stupid low tire light came on and even though the tires are fine won't go off no matter what my husband did so we did put black tape over it.. LOL
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I had a Mini that did that. Once you have physically restored tire pressure equally to all four tires you are supposed to put in reverse while holding some button down for a couple of complete revolutions of the wheels. Then, supposedly, the light will reset in the off condition. This was very annoying. Reading is fundamental.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 23, 2023 02:09 PM (OTXUv)

323 Never trust a mechanic who used to work for Morton Thiokol.

Posted by: fd at August 23, 2023 02:09 PM (vFG9F)

324 "That button on the dash that looks like a snowflake." "OOOhhhhh that's what that is!" And there were three (!) other girls in the car with her at the time . . . .

--

Dad, the gravy boat light came on!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 23, 2023 02:09 PM (oZ23Y)

325 287 Yea, but these girls are dumb. You can pour cheap brandy into a bottle for Louis and they will never know. Nor will they care. They don't actually want the taste. They just want the pics for IG and to think they're worth the expensive stuff. Don't ask me how I know.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

We did this after college with vodka bottle filled with jug vodka and froze some ice around it.

Same with tequila but no freezing.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 02:02 PM (k88OO)
___________

I still do it today. No reason to pay $100 for a bottle of booze for someone who can't tell the difference any way. Just get one bottle of the good stuff and then keep refilling it with cheap stuff. Not one girl has ever noticed. Not one.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:10 PM (iFTx/)

326 313 Don't forget the blinker fluid!
Posted by: wth at August 23, 2023 02:07 PM (v0R5T)

///

Oh, thanks for that. Just recalling
the reaction of those girls made me laugh. What a fun dad!

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 23, 2023 02:10 PM (wUiWo)

327 She had triple A so she called them for a jump and then I took her to get a new battery, problem solved....but it was hilarious.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:57 PM (lc5cP)

Even easier...AAA will bring out a battery and install it for you. BOOM! Done.

And the battery doesn't cost any more than it would at the store.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 23, 2023 02:10 PM (QzZeQ)

328 My mechanic is expensive but honest and good. He’s THE guy in town Everyone recommends. I can’t understand why every business doesn’t do that. Build long term relationships and you’ll made a ton more money than ripping people off for $200 and losing them as customers. Ian’s it’s so much easier too. Less friction less bullshit. Everyone is happy.

Posted by: Montec at August 23, 2023 02:10 PM (fBONW)

329 Nothing compared to a call I got early in the summer after the first week of hot weather. "I think I'm low on coolant." "Coolant? Why would you say that? Is the car overheating?" "The AC isn't blowing cold. I think it needs coolant." "Did you turn on the AC compressor?" "The what??" "That button on the dash that looks like a snowflake." "OOOhhhhh that's what that is!" And there were three (!) other girls in the car with her at the time . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023

***
A co-worker of mine admitted when she gave me a lift that her A/C wasn't very cold. I looked. It was a pretty recent-model Toyota, and had the "Recirc" feature. I pressed that and the air quickly got quite a bit cooler. She said, "I never knew what that was for!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2023 02:10 PM (J2vNu)

330 "Wagner's Prigozhin Dead After His Business Jet With 10 People On Board 'Crashes'"

Why scare quote 'Crashes?' Did it not, in fact, crash? Or is it an op?
Or both?
Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at August 23, 2023 01:35 PM (MvF+J)

Did you guys watch the video on Twitter?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at August 23, 2023 02:10 PM (Zvtjl)

331 Sears once put washer fluid in my antifreeze.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2023 02:10 PM (1CJCO)

332 Joe Mannix’ rant about anachronisms the other day had some interesting observations about dashboard signals.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 02:11 PM (xTRSc)

333 321 My tire light goes off in the early fall when cool weather sets in. Something about a change in the air pressure causes some of the air to escape the tires.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 02:09 PM (xTRSc)
Cooler weather means denser air and thus lower tire pressure. The opposite happens when air temp goes up.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2023 02:11 PM (pohLc)

334 305 The stupid low tire light came on and even though the tires are fine won't go off no matter what my husband did so we did put black tape over it.. LOL

The sensors go quick. I don't replace them. Expensive. The light can be turned off.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 02:11 PM (k88OO)

335 321 My tire light goes off in the early fall when cool weather sets in. Something about a change in the air pressure causes some of the air to escape the tires.
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Cooler temperature means the tires themselves are tightening up - thus raising the tire pressure. Opposite effect in hot weather.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 23, 2023 02:11 PM (OTXUv)

336 Even easier...AAA will bring out a battery and install it for you. BOOM! Done.

And the battery doesn't cost any more than it would at the store.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 23, 2023

***
I've done that several times. And if their battery fails before the stated date, they come out and replace it for free. (That only works one time, though.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2023 02:12 PM (J2vNu)

337 We used to have a spare charcoal filter for a spray tractor cab system and for a while I was trying to figure out how to fit in onto the filter for my Corolla station wagon.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2023 02:12 PM (xhaym)

338 A friends daughter stopped in and spent the night on her way to Tampa last night.

This morning I checked tire pressure, cleaned the windshield and told her that she and I needed to check oil level.

Her response....I just had it changed about two months age.

Yeh....no.

Come with me, young lady.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 23, 2023 02:12 PM (1n+EO)

339 My mechanic is always booked 2 to 3 weeks in advance. Every time I go by his place, it's packed and he's got 5 or 6 guys working and his wife answers the phone. He's not cheap but he's good.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 23, 2023 02:12 PM (MeG8a)

340 -----------------
Cooler temperature means the tires themselves are tightening up - thus raising the tire pressure. Opposite effect in hot weather.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 23, 2023

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Tire pressure falls in cooler weather, raises in hot.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2023 02:12 PM (J2vNu)

341 321 Yup, every year, first really cold day of fall. Long lines at gas station airpumps.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at August 23, 2023 02:13 PM (MvF+J)

342 335 OK, I guess I got that backwards.

I have no technical or mechanical sense whatsoever.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 02:13 PM (xTRSc)

343 Democrats are small people

Excellent essay otherwise, but I'll take exception to this one statement.

Anyone that has been through Atlanta lately can testify that there is nothing small about the Democrats there.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 23, 2023 02:13 PM (sgGc9)

344 My check-engine light is on because there’s an issue with my catalytic converter. Mechanic said I don’t have to worry about it until the emissions inspection in the fall. So, until I find a job I’m going to leave it be and drive around with an illuminated check-engine light. Irritating as hell, but it is what it is.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I'm currently driving a "$300 parts problem" always on engine light. Mechanic says the car will idle a little faster than normal but that's it.

Or, a $300 part plus labor to fix it.

🎵 This little light of mine,
I'm gonna let it shine
This little light of mine
I'm gonna let it shine 🎵

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2023 02:13 PM (Nfan7)

345 >Did you guys watch the video on Twitter?
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at August 23, 2023 02:10 PM (Zvtjl)

Saw the one where a rando walks up to the crash to show a mangled dead body.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 23, 2023 02:13 PM (S7JkI)

346 I still do it today. No reason to pay $100 for a bottle of booze for someone who can't tell the difference any way. Just get one bottle of the good stuff and then keep refilling it with cheap stuff. Not one girl has ever noticed. Not one.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:10 PM (iFTx/)

I can't tell the diff after the 2nd drink either. But yes.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 02:13 PM (k88OO)

347 OK, I guess I got that backwards.

I have no technical or mechanical sense whatsoever.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

It's the ideal gas law. Your boy Brady knows all about that.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 23, 2023 02:13 PM (CIS44)

348 Cooler weather means denser air and thus lower tire pressure. The opposite happens when air temp goes up.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2023

***
This.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2023 02:13 PM (J2vNu)

349 Some cars don't have TPM sensors and instead monitor the rotational speed of each wheel. If it's different on one wheel the system assumes it's low. Once the tire is inflated it can take a mile or two to reset.

Posted by: fd at August 23, 2023 02:13 PM (vFG9F)

350 Something about a change in the air pressure causes some of the air to escape the tires.

I think its the change in temp CAUSING a change in pressure no?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 02:13 PM (lc5cP)

351 Oh and envy.

If I had to sum up Marxism in only one word and no more, it would be "envy".

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2023 02:14 PM (1CJCO)

352 Or maybe I didn’t get it backwards, after all.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 02:14 PM (xTRSc)

353 "warped due to an overnight cold snap"

In winter that O-ring goes from 0 degrees to over 200 in just a few minutes when you startup the car . . . a cold snap isn't going to affect it.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at August 23, 2023 02:14 PM (tA1/w)

354 have Amazon deliver a Blue Driver OBD2 if you want to know what your car is telling you

Costs about $100, hooks to any late model car and feeds back through your phone.

Posted by: DanMan at August 23, 2023 02:14 PM (wcu+j)

355 The Hotdog Warlord is mort?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 23, 2023 02:14 PM (0FoWg)

356 Nothing compared to a call I got early in the summer after the first week of hot weather. "I think I'm low on coolant." "Coolant? Why would you say that? Is the car overheating?" "The AC isn't blowing cold. I think it needs coolant." "Did you turn on the AC compressor?" "The what??" "That button on the dash that looks like a snowflake." "OOOhhhhh that's what that is!" And there were three (!) other girls in the car with her at the time . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:06 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Not that bad, but I had a hilarious similar situation with my mom. Her car was on its last legs, so I lent her one of mine for the summer. I was on a business trip and she called me. She said it was chilly that morning and she couldn't find the switch for the seat heaters and wanted to know what she was missing.

I told her that it my car didn't have heated seats. She said, "Oh! I guess that explains it!" I've been laughing about it for years.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 02:14 PM (t0OGg)

357 319 Nothing compared to a call I got early in the summer after the first week of hot weather. "I think I'm low on coolant." "Coolant? Why would you say that? Is the car overheating?" "The AC isn't blowing cold. I think it needs coolant." "Did you turn on the AC compressor?" "The what??" "That button on the dash that looks like a snowflake." "OOOhhhhh that's what that is!" And there were three (!) other girls in the car with her at the time . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

I really, really hope you asked what she thought that button did.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2023 02:09 PM (KbCG3)
_____________

I did. She said she thought it did have something to do with AC. But she said she turned it on and nothing happened. I'm sure she turned it on and when it instantly didn't blow cold air, she thought by pressing the button she might have turned it off.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:15 PM (iFTx/)

358 Got a call from a girlfriend once. Her car wouldn't start and some warning light came on.

I wish I could remember what her descriptions of the warning light where because they were hilarious. I had her send me a picture and it was the battery. I asked her when she last had her battery replaced and got silence before, uh, never I think.

She had triple A so she called them for a jump and then I took her to get a new battery, problem solved....but it was hilarious.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2023 01:57 PM
Before I jump off a vehicle, I look at the terminals for corrosion and loose connection and if possible correct those. At the very least I tell them how to correct those issues. When I get them running I tell them don't uncrank this thing until you go to O'Reilly and get it checked.

Posted by: Eromero at August 23, 2023 02:15 PM (NxC5+)

359 What I hate about working on modern cars is drive by wire throttles. You can't operate the throttle from under the hood.

Posted by: fd at August 23, 2023 02:15 PM (vFG9F)

360 have Amazon deliver a Blue Driver OBD2 if you want to know what your car is telling you

Costs about $100, hooks to any late model car and feeds back through your phone.
Posted by: DanMan

For now, Cars will be going the way of john deere soon.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 23, 2023 02:15 PM (CIS44)

361 349 Ingenious!

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at August 23, 2023 02:15 PM (MvF+J)

362 My mechanic is always booked 2 to 3 weeks in advance. Every time I go by his place, it's packed and he's got 5 or 6 guys working and his wife answers the phone. He's not cheap but he's good.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 23, 2023 02:12 PM (MeG8a)

Do we have the same mechanic? 😀
The wife is a beeeyotch. But a necessary evil to get in.

Posted by: Montec at August 23, 2023 02:15 PM (fBONW)

363 I've used AAA a couple times, and it was fine, but a few months ago they really screwed up a flat tire change on my wife's vehicle. Destroyed the lugs to the point where it's lucky the spare didn't go flying off. Had to take it to a tire shop which, fortunately, had the replacement parts in stock.

Posted by: PabloD at August 23, 2023 02:15 PM (TrnX6)

364 Even easier...AAA will bring out a battery and install it for you. BOOM! Done.

And the battery doesn't cost any more than it would at the store.

Posted by: naturalfake

That's worth the $112 annual membership fee. Because the mechanic charges $150 on top of the cost of the battery because of where it's located.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2023 02:15 PM (Nfan7)

365 Glad you all are checking your tire pressure.

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at August 23, 2023 02:15 PM (v0R5T)

366 342 335 OK, I guess I got that backwards.

I have no technical or mechanical sense whatsoever.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 02:13 PM (xTRSc)
No, you are correct.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2023 02:15 PM (pohLc)

367 Some of y'all may just need to stop dating idiots.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 23, 2023 02:15 PM (ppBhU)

368 Perfect feedback loop. They make your life miserable, and then offer the solution of government fixing it.

Inflation got you down ? How about a free a check in the mail?

Posted by: Equate at August 23, 2023 02:16 PM (8wB0Y)

369 TPMS also makes it possible to snoop on other people's tire pressures as you drive. Invade their pneumatic privacy.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at August 23, 2023 02:16 PM (MvF+J)

370 That guy who ran the Wagner group is dead.
His plane mysteriously fell out of the sky.
So they say.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 23, 2023 02:16 PM (FCbAQ)

371 Some traits of leftists.
They are narcissists.
They are incapable of facing reality.
When reality proves their beliefs wrong, they try to change reality rather than their beliefs because they have a huge amount of their ego and self worth tied up in said "beliefs".

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at August 23, 2023 02:16 PM (QgUWg)

372 Wasn't Meghan Markle a "Yacht Girl" for a while?

Yes. Thus making her the star example of "you can't make a ho into a housewife".

Posted by: Ian S. at August 23, 2023 02:16 PM (2ocoG)

373 My dad once called me when I was 25 and said did you drink the whiskey in the model car we got as a gift.

I said no, prob mom.

My mom called back an hour later.

I just kept saying I was 12yrs old Mom.

And she kept saying that's not the point!

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 02:17 PM (k88OO)

374 DDD girls >>>>>> AAA girls

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 02:17 PM (xTRSc)

375 336 Even easier...AAA will bring out a battery and install it for you. BOOM! Done.

And the battery doesn't cost any more than it would at the store.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 23, 2023

***
I've done that several times. And if their battery fails before the stated date, they come out and replace it for free. (That only works one time, though.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2023 02:12 PM (J2vNu)

///

Right. I said to the AAA guy: "Failed after only three years!?" Yes, he said. It's the Florida heat. He got out a new one and sent me on.my way

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 23, 2023 02:17 PM (wUiWo)

376 "For now, Cars will be going the way of john deere soon."

ICE cars may go away, but OBDII will live forever.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at August 23, 2023 02:17 PM (MvF+J)

377 346 I still do it today. No reason to pay $100 for a bottle of booze for someone who can't tell the difference any way. Just get one bottle of the good stuff and then keep refilling it with cheap stuff. Not one girl has ever noticed. Not one.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:10 PM (iFTx/)

I can't tell the diff after the 2nd drink either. But yes.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 02:13 PM (k88OO)
__________

Very few people can. Even unscrupulous bars pull this scam, especially in mixed drinks.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:18 PM (iFTx/)

378 I remember when I was in high school, there seemed to be perpetual waves of protests -- mostly in Europe -- about nuclear war and the terrible threats of Thatcher and Reagan to peace; save the whales; stop US involvement in Central America; and the like. Just like the Left's bogeymen of today, these issues were unsolvable windmills to tilt at, but it made silly little brainless lefties feel powerful to band together against a common foe, making giant paper-mache heads of Thatcher or chaining themselves to military base entryways.

The same goes for today, except the antics have become more disruptive and threatening. Spouting off about AGW -- which is neither provable or solvable by proposed means -- has become the new generation's "existential threat." Instead of saving whales we're admonished to save the polar bears. Instead of nonintervention in Nicaragua, we're hellbent on fortifying Ukraine.

Jesus once quipped, "The poor will always be with you." I guess the same applies to youths with misplaced anxieties.

Posted by: red speck at August 23, 2023 02:18 PM (0Id0S)

379 @370

>>So they say.

Looking at the wreckage, it was definitely shot down.

As was said, when you strike at the king, you must kill him.

He did not kill the king so, the rest they say, is history.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 23, 2023 02:18 PM (rc3Z7)

380 Some of y'all may just need to stop dating idiots.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Where is this fantastic world that you live upon that lacks said idiots, oh galaxy traveler?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 23, 2023 02:18 PM (IG4Id)

381 "349 Ingenious!
Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration "

The computer is already monitoring each wheel's speed for traction control and ABS. It's just programming to use that data to predict tire pressure.

Posted by: fd at August 23, 2023 02:18 PM (vFG9F)

382 My insurance has road side assistance for a very low price. $10 every 6 months per car or something. I’ve used many times I’ve the years.

Posted by: Montec at August 23, 2023 02:18 PM (fBONW)

383 TPMS also makes it possible to snoop on other people's tire pressures as you drive. Invade their pneumatic privacy.

I've seen enough episodes of "Just Rolled In" where the tires were at 100+ PSI to think TPMS should warn over as well as under.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 23, 2023 02:18 PM (2ocoG)

384 Bring up something unpleasant to government supervisors (above mid-level management) some years ago, the HR endorsed response was most often, "That never happened." Government bringing up something unpleasant to corporate interests years ago, the response was always, "We'll take it under advisement."

The government developed its extensive partnerships & stakeholder agendas/meetings because - eventually - it had no idea how to right the ship & will seldom take responsibility for creating and/or strongly contributing to 'issues.'

April '23 - U.S. Government Announces Sweeping New Actions to Manage Regional Migration. In part, "Through the approach described above and the work of our outstanding personnel, the Biden-Harris Administration will do everything within its authority to manage this challenge, but until and unless Congress delivers on the immigration reform measures President Biden requested on his first day in office, the United States’ immigration system will remain broken."

The leaders are largely privileged, spoiled, petulant, child-like, with years behind them pretending it's not their fault. It's yours.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at August 23, 2023 02:18 PM (GshMh)

385 As I'm sure has been mentioned, most Democrat voters are voting explicitly because they want the government to give them something-- they pretend it's policies or racism or whatever.

It's not.

It's looting the treasury and gimme my cut.

And there's a long list of Republican candidates and consultants who insist we adhere to their plan for electoral success of, "would you take 10% less than what the Dems are offering?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 23, 2023 02:19 PM (L8Ski)

386
That's worth the $112 annual membership fee. Because the mechanic charges $150 on top of the cost of the battery because of where it's located.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2023

***
You must have that coveted premium cardboard membership in AAA. My fee is only about $65 a year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2023 02:19 PM (J2vNu)

387 That guy who ran the Wagner group is dead.
His plane mysteriously fell out of the sky.
So they say.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 23, 2023 02:16 PM (FCbAQ)

We had nothing to do with Nordstream!

Posted by: John Kirby at August 23, 2023 02:19 PM (v0R5T)

388 "I've seen enough episodes of "Just Rolled In" "

* fistbump*

Never gets old.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 23, 2023 02:19 PM (1n+EO)

389 Test

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at August 23, 2023 02:20 PM (QgUWg)

390 Where is this fantastic world that you live upon that lacks said idiots, oh galaxy traveler?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 23, 2023 02:18 PM (IG4Id)

A most excellent question.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2023 02:20 PM (pohLc)

391 Dad, the gravy boat light came on!
Posted by: Moron Robbie

I almost peed.

Posted by: Infidel at August 23, 2023 02:20 PM (n2500)

392 I still do it today. No reason to pay $100 for a bottle of booze for someone who can't tell the difference any way. Just get one bottle of the good stuff and then keep refilling it with cheap stuff. Not one girl has ever noticed. Not one.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:10 PM
Don't try that at the TxMoMe liquor table, them people are too sophisticated.

Posted by: Eromero at August 23, 2023 02:20 PM (NxC5+)

393 346 I still do it today. No reason to pay $100 for a bottle of booze for someone who can't tell the difference any way.
---------------
I once was a bartender. Had a chick order a Zombie. So I made a perfect Zombie. She took a sip through a straw and complained that she couldn't taste the liquor and was being cheated. (I knew explaining to her that chick drinks are designed so the chicks wouldn't taste the burn of alcohol was a pointless waste of time) I remedied the situation by taking her drink and poured 151 Barcardi straight down the straw and handed it back to her. She took a sip and was happy.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 23, 2023 02:20 PM (OTXUv)

394
They are broken people with only marginal skills to cope with life's issues.

In a mob, their preferred mode for action, their deficiencies are lost among the crowd and the noise. Of course they are capable, so long as they are ensconced in the mob. And the mob best does destruction. QED

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 23, 2023 02:20 PM (xG4kz)

395 re engine lights, a mechanic gave me an easy to remember rule- yellow is mellow, red, you're dead.

Posted by: Another Cliche To Avoid Decision Making at August 23, 2023 02:21 PM (SnrX0)

396 >>>Looking at the wreckage, it was definitely shot down.

That's a shame.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 23, 2023 02:22 PM (d2bW3)

397 You must have that coveted premium cardboard membership in AAA. My fee is only about $65 a year.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2023 02:19 PM (J2vNu)

The battery does not have to be dead. They will replace anyway.

I put new batteries in regularly. Worth it to me.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 02:22 PM (k88OO)

398 I betcha Chris Christie’s car has a gravy-boat light.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 02:22 PM (xTRSc)

399
I remedied the situation by taking her drink and poured 151 Barcardi straight down the straw and handed it back to her. She took a sip and was happy.
Posted by: Puddinhead

And thus was born the rum-infused catheter!!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 23, 2023 02:22 PM (xG4kz)

400 You must have that coveted premium cardboard membership in AAA. My fee is only about $65 a year.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

200 mile free tow.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 23, 2023 02:22 PM (Nfan7)

401 O/T

You know what's fun?

When Baltimore's Mayor Brandon Scott has a community listening tour.

And when being told by a black resident of Baltimore that they are not happy with his policies and programs, replies with...'You need to settle down'.

It ain't going well for him, and just gets worse when he tells them that what they are seeing with their own eyes is not supported by data.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 23, 2023 02:22 PM (1n+EO)

402 Democrats and those who vote for them are pure shit.

Pure. Shit.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 23, 2023 02:23 PM (ae93S)

403 I betcha Chris Christie’s car has a gravy-boat light.

Like Chris Christie drives himself.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 23, 2023 02:23 PM (2ocoG)

404 "200 mile free tow."

Ayyy yi yi yiii!

Posted by: The Free Tow Bandito at August 23, 2023 02:23 PM (vFG9F)

405 I once was a bartender. Had a chick order a Zombie. So I made a perfect Zombie. She took a sip through a straw and complained that she couldn't taste the liquor and was being cheated. (I knew explaining to her that chick drinks are designed so the chicks wouldn't taste the burn of alcohol was a pointless waste of time) I remedied the situation by taking her drink and poured 151 Barcardi straight down the straw and handed it back to her. She took a sip and was happy.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 23, 2023 02:20 PM (OTXUv)

Need a racial breakdown on those stats.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 02:23 PM (k88OO)

406 380 Some of y'all may just need to stop dating idiots.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Where is this fantastic world that you live upon that lacks said idiots, oh galaxy traveler?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 23, 2023 02:18 PM (IG4Id)
___________

Not idiots in the sense of low IQ. But young and ignorant and no sense of self sufficiency. Everything will be taken care of by someone else. They only need to just show up. And sadly, as I said above, if they are attractive they only do have to show up.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

407 It should be noted that in addition to being small and weak, the leftists are also retards.

Posted by: Weasel at August 23, 2023 02:24 PM (JwHpX)

408 That gravy boat light is bad news.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2023 02:24 PM (pohLc)

409 Need a racial breakdown on those stats.
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She was Amish.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 23, 2023 02:24 PM (DmtxH)

410 Pro-Russian Lebanese source:

War Monitor @WarMonitors 4m
⚡️On the fact of an aviation accident in the Tver region, the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation initiated a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Art. 263 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of the rules of traffic safety and operation of air transport) - Brief
War Monitor @WarMonitors 9m
⚡️TASS confirms that the plane that crashed in the Tver region of Russia had 10 people on it and all of them died. More or less confirms the death of Prigozhin, but I'll what for an official statement.
War Monitor @WarMonitors 15m
⚡️A specially created commission of the Federal Air Transport Agency has begun to investigate the circumstances and causes of the crash of the plane on which Evgeny Prigozhin allegedly was on.
War Monitor @WarMonitors 39m
waiting for that official announcement 😵‍💫
War Monitor @WarMonitors 47m
⚡️Former Putin advisor Sergei Markov: “The murder of Prigozhin is the main achievement of Ukraine and all enemies of Russia will rejoice” — Al Jazeera

[see you later]

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 23, 2023 02:24 PM (krqg6)

411 The instrument panel on my Buick didn't fail, exactly. All the info slots were still displayed -- just no data, no speed or odometer or TPMS. I thought, "Okay, dealer time." Then the next day, probably because of advice I got here, I went out and unhooked the battery; waited a few minutes (the posts and clamps were corrosion free); then reconnected. Problem solved. I had to reset the time and date and follow the screen instructions to lower and raise my front windows, but then everything was fine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2023 02:25 PM (J2vNu)

412 " Yup, every year, first really cold day of fall. Long lines at gas station airpumps."

Ever since the gas stations started charging for air, or just took their pumps out entirely, I've decided its was cheaper and easier to just get the proper fill attachment (with pressure gauge!) to go on my air hose.

At least them I have some idea that the pressure is more or less what T wanted it to be.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 23, 2023 02:25 PM (ou9hh)

413 Need a racial breakdown on those stats.
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She was Amish.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 23, 2023 02:24 PM (DmtxH)

Fake amish (98% tinkers) or amish amish?

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 02:25 PM (k88OO)

414 These bent creatures, twisted with envy and envenomed by spite, seek vengeance on a world that doesn't see them as special; they therefore worship a vengeful god called Leviathan Government which will smite their enemies.

*hic*

Posted by: Frau Gruppencankles at August 23, 2023 02:25 PM (n+4am)

415 I’m pretty tpms systems are racist in some way.

Posted by: Montec at August 23, 2023 02:25 PM (fBONW)

416 Not idiots in the sense of low IQ. But young and ignorant and no sense of self sufficiency. Everything will be taken care of by someone else. They only need to just show up. And sadly, as I said above, if they are attractive they only do have to show up.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:23 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Until they hit 30. Then comes the rude awakening. Usually. Individual cases vary.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 02:25 PM (t0OGg)

417 Damn, now I want gravy.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 02:25 PM (xTRSc)

418 I betcha Chris Christie’s car has a gravy-boat light.

Like Chris Christie drives himself.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 23, 2023 02:23 PM (2ocoG)

Well, to be fair.

The Gravy Boat Light comes on in the back seat, soChris Christie can tell the driver to run by KFC for a refill, before the gravy level gets too low.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 23, 2023 02:25 PM (QzZeQ)

419 Not idiots in the sense of low IQ. But young and ignorant and no sense of self sufficiency. Everything will be taken care of by someone else. They only need to just show up. And sadly, as I said above, if they are attractive they only do have to show up.

Thanks to feminism they don't even need to be attractive. Female privilege is for everyone (some surgery may be necessary).

Posted by: Ian S. at August 23, 2023 02:26 PM (2ocoG)

420 They put everydamn thing through the computer these days. Completely unnecessary and the cause of many problems.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2023 02:26 PM (pohLc)

421 Noodus chaffetzii

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2023 02:26 PM (J2vNu)

422 417 Damn, now I want gravy.
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Me too.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 23, 2023 02:27 PM (NsE9F)

423 Damn, now I want gravy.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 02:25 PM (xTRSc)

Same abd biscuits and fried chicken.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 02:27 PM (k88OO)

424 Not idiots in the sense of low IQ. But young and ignorant and no sense of self sufficiency.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:23 PM (iFTx/)
++++
The difference between "dumb" and "stupid."

I'd go with "dumb" rather than "idiot" in this case, but that's just personal preference.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 02:27 PM (t0OGg)

425 405 I once was a bartender. Had a chick order a Zombie. So I made a perfect Zombie. She took a sip through a straw and complained that she couldn't taste the liquor and was being cheated. (I knew explaining to her that chick drinks are designed so the chicks wouldn't taste the burn of alcohol was a pointless waste of time) I remedied the situation by taking her drink and poured 151 Barcardi straight down the straw and handed it back to her. She took a sip and was happy.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 23, 2023 02:20 PM (OTXUv)

Need a racial breakdown on those stats.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 23, 2023 02:23 PM (k88OO)
_______________

I too was a bartender. Zombie is a shit drink designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to get girls drunk.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:27 PM (iFTx/)

426 NOOD ex-congress critter.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at August 23, 2023 02:27 PM (RKLPC)

427 412 There's one place left here with a free airpump, and it's a strong, reliable compressor.

Protip: Do not EVER put a credit card in a pay-for-airpump.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at August 23, 2023 02:27 PM (MvF+J)

428 nood

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at August 23, 2023 02:27 PM (MvF+J)

429 Leftists don't give a damn about people.
They are narcissists.
They are also fighting a war on reality, but this is just an extension of who they are.

Actually said by my commie brother.
"The car can't have been repossessed. I have things to do!"

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at August 23, 2023 02:28 PM (QgUWg)

430 They put everydamn thing through the computer these days. Completely unnecessary and the cause of many problems.

It's actually necessary, because otherwise we'd all still be driving gutless mid-70s cars. Computers made it possible to cheat the EPA, which is why the Marxists had to escalate to electric cars.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 23, 2023 02:28 PM (2ocoG)

431 I too was a bartender. Zombie is a shit drink designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to get girls drunk.
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Nothing that works is shit.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 23, 2023 02:28 PM (NsE9F)

432
At least them I have some idea that the pressure is more or less what T wanted it to be.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 23, 2023 02:25 PM (ou9hh)

///

Ryobi, for example, makes a loe cost inflator (kinda gun-shaped). Great, handy

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 23, 2023 02:29 PM (wUiWo)

433 Speaking of Amish, last weekend we took our son and his mucho stuff back down to Va. Tech. We stopped for lunch at a Mexican restaurant in Harrisonburg, and in the parking lot of said Mexican restaurant there were a bunch of…Mennonites.

Not what I would have expected to see.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2023 02:30 PM (xTRSc)

434 Well now, guess that changes the some things under preparation for the Spring Ukrainian offensive.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at August 23, 2023 02:31 PM (GshMh)

435 I'm Bach [weather too crappy to go out]...

War Monitor @WarMonitors 51s
⚡️"BRIEF" source in PMC Wagner: If information about Prigozhin's death is officially confirmed, PMC commanders will make a video message about what happened.
War Monitor @WarMonitors 7m
⚡️Biden has been briefed on reported plane crash in Moscow - White House
War Monitor @WarMonitors 10m
⚡️#BREAKING Vladimir Rogov claims that Yevgeny Prigozhin is dead

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 23, 2023 02:33 PM (krqg6)

436 416 Not idiots in the sense of low IQ. But young and ignorant and no sense of self sufficiency. Everything will be taken care of by someone else. They only need to just show up. And sadly, as I said above, if they are attractive they only do have to show up.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:23 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Until they hit 30. Then comes the rude awakening. Usually. Individual cases vary.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2023 02:25 PM (t0OGg)
________

Really depends on the girl. There's this 36-year-old Chinese girl I know, a semi-reformed party girl, very pretty, and with a monster rack. Guys throw themselves at her. I figure she has another 5 or maybe even 10 years.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

437 The current state in NY more than adequately illustrates the point. It is a government beset with NYC liberals unrelentingly forcing their agenda on the rest of the state. They are detached from most of the citizens, but supported by those who lavish them with the state largess, which is ultimately the taxes people pay. It's really become a spoils system, and I dare say that given the number of people leaving, many have had enough of it. They don't cure any real problem, mostly because they are dumb, unimaginative, biased, unlawful weaklings who use government as a tool, really a weapon against the people. They've wasted countless dollars in pursuit of their follies, most of which are clearly based on their personal, misguided and destructive political beliefs. It cannot stand and it won't stand, at least not in its common form. No government will ever defy the will of the people for very long. History has proven that time and again I don't believe this will be any different, especially given the current class of feeble minded, doltish rulers. That should actually hasten their demise.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2023 02:37 PM (st+ZG)

438 And of course as we all know, it all started a century ago in the universities (see "The Closing of The American Mind" by Allan Bloom)
----

First mention I have heard of that book in probably 30 years. Should be mandatory reading.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 23, 2023 02:43 PM (rxUKk)

439 War Monitor @WarMonitors 2m
⚡️US State Dept: 'No one should be surprised' if confirmed that Prigozhin was on board
War Monitor @WarMonitors 2m
⚡️The investigation is considering various versions of the crash of the Embraer Legacy business jet, in the list of passengers of which was Yevgeny Prigozhin, a law enforcement source told RBC.
War Monitor @WarMonitors 8m
⚡️Russian TG with ties to Wagner: The assassination of Prigozhin would have catastrophic consequences. The people who gave the order do not understand the mood in the army and the morale at all.
War Monitor @WarMonitors 12m
⚡️Brief claims that the “evacuation of PMC Wagner fighters from Belarus to Russia begins. An Il-76 aircraft of the Ministry of Defense has arrived in Belarus.”
War Monitor @WarMonitors 18m
⚡️It’s still early to tell but this is interesting… [wreckage photos; shrapnel holes??]
https://tinyurl.com/wawk9ssm

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 23, 2023 02:51 PM (krqg6)

440 We droned Prigozhin
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 23, 2023 01:23 PM (0NBN3)

So we doing favors for Putin now? LOL.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 23, 2023 03:28 PM (eoQWY)

441 Easy. Because the Right doesn't fucking fight. They read blogs and type.

Posted by: BonscottMike. N at August 23, 2023 03:30 PM (+ypx9)

442 This post made me think of the exchange between Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday in "Tombstone":

"What makes a man like Ringo, Doc?"

"A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it."

Democrats are a people without faith, only narcissism, and that leaves a great big hole.

Posted by: Jonathan C at August 23, 2023 03:31 PM (tV3Wl)

443 Take Paul Krugman, for a perfect example. He has stated he wanted to be like the people who rule in Asimov's sci-fi*. And as to neurotic, well, look at his eyes. He's always terrified. My guess is he never got over the 2nd grade playground beatings.

*Which I confess I've never read. I'm not a sci-fi guy.
Posted by: Eeyore at August 23, 2023 01:25 PM (brAQZ)

Guess he never read the books. The 'masterminds' of the Second Foundation were caught flatfooted by the Mule and had to scramble for centuries to stop him, and the fact that their presence was known to the population at high risk.

So even in an age where 'rule by the brains' was supposed to work, Asimov had most of the plot points of his trilogy be about how it failed and failed badly.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 23, 2023 03:32 PM (eoQWY)

444 Easy. Because the Right doesn't fucking fight. They read blogs and type.
Posted by: BonscottMike. N at August 23, 2023 03:30 PM (+ypx9)

well shoot one for me on those front lines.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 23, 2023 03:33 PM (eoQWY)

445 any guesses why Putie Poot has never taken out the leader of Ukraine, who is forever flying somewheres????
Posted by: ziggggeeee at August 23, 2023 01:38 PM (Tjf0s)

He promised an Israeli diplomat he wouldn't. The diplomat had met Zelensky in some bunker in Kiev he was so scared, and the dude got Putin's promise not to. Then he came out and started playing the brave leader in his Camo pants.

Last few months every time Kiev does some terrorism big Z goes on a tour well outside the country in case Putin changes his mind. Its like clockwork - Ukr disaster, Z goes on a junket, Ukr pulls some terror stunt for press clippings.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 23, 2023 03:40 PM (eoQWY)

446 Really depends on the girl. There's this 36-year-old Chinese girl I know, a semi-reformed party girl, very pretty, and with a monster rack. Guys throw themselves at her. I figure she has another 5 or maybe even 10 years.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 23, 2023 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

Some may preserve themselves, but if a dude or woman wants kids the wall remains at 30. You can have a fling with an older hottie but if you want a family you need to go younger. At 30 half the eggs have died, and above 35 other issues climb dramatically

Posted by: Oldcat at August 23, 2023 03:43 PM (eoQWY)

447 It's Satanism.

God creates. Satan destroys. Kind of his thing.
Posted by: ... at August 23, 2023 01:24 PM (1CJCO)

Preach it, brother. We're way past disagreements over the best policies to help the most citizens.

When Donks are celebrating lopping off the breasts and penises of kids: yes, this $h!t is demonic.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 23, 2023 04:18 PM (pJWtt)

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Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at August 23, 2023 04:57 PM (2Scub)

449 It is not the state that is supposed to keep power lines clear of branches.
That is the responsibility of oth privately owned poser company who apparently like in Cali decided short term quarterly profits would be more advantageous to its stock holders.
Was ace trying to make a case for giant utilities to be publicly owned?

Posted by: Paul at August 23, 2023 05:57 PM (ozdUV)

450 We already saw the uncivilzed beasts rioting Burning and Looting they all should be in Prison for 50 Years

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 23, 2023 06:16 PM (wGqjj)

451 To be a leftist is to ever be at war with reality.

Marxism taught them power through division.
Demoralization made them easy to control.
Education and media gave them the children.

We have no idea, let alone a plan, on how to stop this and reclaim children's minds. People like us are already a minority if kindergarten children. This war is already over.

We are post Bolshevik revolution. Obama infiltrating military and 30 million illegals was last piece. Now we just wait for our Soviet collapse under inflation, corruption, and incompetence. Because their only skill set is propaganda.

Btw if you haven't, watch Chernobyl.

1/2

Posted by: Shiggz (defective slave) at August 23, 2023 10:34 PM (0SrVS)

452 2/2

Introvert conservatism is an extinction level dead end.

American right does not have a unifying and animating culture it is spreading in notable numbers. We live on periphery of lefts world. This why left panicked about rise of alt right because that was an actual counter culture. Theirs is so toxic it can not survive competitve culture exposing its true nature.

Either we dedicate ourselves to create a pro freedom, faith, and family culture that also spreads it's influence through institutions and sociatal incentives or we we live submissive to those who do.

This is our cause.

Posted by: Shiggz (defective slave) at August 23, 2023 10:44 PM (0SrVS)

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