I just can’t get into this thing. I feel like 90% of these things will be found parked in front of a gentleman’s club or in a rap video.

Great analogy! I will have to remember that one, although I am sure it wont do a bit of good.

My mother’s insurance would not cover the cost of her power wheelchair.  As such, I think my parents probably spent a cool $100k over the years on power chairs that are worthless now.

My mom’s insurance would not cover the cost of a power wheelchair, despite her condition being such that she could not move around without one.

One of the main reasons is the fact that much of the ruling class has portrayed policies that would benefit the average person as a bad thing in media for so long that people believe it.

My mom was disabled due to MS, and has had Braun vans since 2005.  She passed away last year, and I just sold her second Dodge Caravan a couple weeks ago on Marketplace.  I was surprised at how fast it went.  It was a 2014 with about 12k miles on it, and I got over $25k for it and sold within 24 hours of listing it.

As a middle-aged white guy, I can confirm that most of the middle-aged white guys I encounter want to get a room with Trump.

And the top 1% made almost twice as much money than the entire bottom 50%.

There was an article the other day about a school district that was providing advantages to students of color in an effort to increase their chances at being successful at school. The comments were mostly alluding to the fact that POC should just work harder if they want to be successful, why do they get an advantage?

This is spot on. To add to that, many of the ultra rich are actively making the divide worse by exporting jobs to third world countries with lower labor costs, paying substandard wages in the United States, lobbying for corporate tax breaks that affect the communities they do business in, and using their money to…

I was reading something the other day that many other nations essentially pay similar taxes to us, but the citizens have less of a problem with it because they get more benefit for the money.

Neutral:

This is actually not about the unions (UAW backed Biden as referenced in the article), but automakers not willing to back a candidate.  And I think that has to do with the backlash on automakers that took a side in the whole US v. California fuel economy debate

Problem I have is that I never found the Hummers to be particularly attractive the first time around.  I always thought the H2 and H3 had some proportionality issues, so in that vein this did not stray too far.

I am trying to step back and view this in a neutral light, but I keep coming back to one thought:

I helped my dad buy a new car a couple weeks ago. He went around to several dealers, checking out different brands and generally getting jerked around once he zeroed in on something. I did an online search at the dealer I liked, found the car that met his requirements with the stock number, called a salesman I had…

This is the truth about trucks. Once you leave the city, most are used as trucks, and just because people use them to haul things doesn’t mean that they need to be uncomfortable.

On the subject of fuel economy, tires make a large impact on FE, and with the Tremor they are going to provide a lot more resistance than the normal highway tires that these come with.  

When I was like 18, I had bought an 89 Ford Probe as a winter beater. Had it a couple weeks and lost 3rd and 4th gear (auto). Decided to pick up a junkyard transmission to replace the one that gave up ghost. I worked at a gas station so I had access to a hoist, but really had no idea what I was doing, especially on…

His speaking style is very strange. Every comment is bolstered with unnecessary adjectives to make it sound more grandiose than it is. However, the massive amount of words spoken contains very little substance.