I’m scared to ask... you have any stories from said friend?

My mom, a strong German who grew up in war-torn Germany, doesn’t take shit from anyone. I learned this early on and can say that I’ve proudly inherited this trait from her myself.

The closest story I have is with Ricart Ford in 2016. My wife and I were looking for a family car with our less than a year old daughter. The sales guy was nice but we didn’t care for the Fusion we drove and that’s fine, we were just test driving cars anyways. We were next going to go to the Ricart Mazda literally…

I had a dealer not give me my car keys back once. It really pissed me off and they unsold the car because they were total dicks.

This is a brutal joke story... Because of the deep truths

I’ve purchased six cars from dealerships. I haven’t been detained once. I did have to wait the first time because it takes then for-effing-EVER to process paperwork, but after that I learned my lesson. The next five times I told them to have the paperwork ready when I got there and made sure they already had copies of…

For this to work it will need the “expanded panel gap” package.

My girlfriend and I go to Kayser Ford, in Madison WI. She’s looking for a new car. We test drive a car that she really likes and she gives them the keys to her car to get it appraised. Meanwhile, the salesman is just... awful. He’s not very good at playing salesman games but he keeps trying. He gets the valuation for…

Copied from the other article.

I’ve owned about 20 cars, but have somehow managed to never trade one in. I’ve let them quote me a time or too, but I always do several $1,000 better selling private.  I always try and buy private too, especially because here in AZ you avoid sales tax.  It’s tough to do though, especially on newer/nicer vehicles.

Saying Taiwan is part of China is just as factual as saying Oklahoma is part of France.

Dad the whole purpose of the trip was to get away from you. 

Also, there’s that picture of waiting list for first class. He’s on it, they’re not, even though they’re on the flight.

In fairness to Ted Cruz, the girls we refer to as his daughters clearly loathe him.

I mean, this seems pretty easy to dismiss, right? First of all, if your kids want to take a trip that you’re not gonna participate in, you escort them to the airport - you don’t actually fly with them to their final destination.

I would gladly pay more taxes towards infrastructure. Beats the pants off spending it on a military budget that is overblown by at least 4x. Infrastructure spending benefits everyone, gives jobs, and doesn’t make us look like raging dicks to the rest of the world.

Taiwan’s response here has literally zero to do with geopolitics. They just have no chip capacity and there’s no real way to add chip capacity. The chip shortage is due to US policies now disallowing use of Chinese fabs like SMIC, but it’s not like Taiwan can just immediately double or triple their chip outputs. It’s…

-Lowering food prices is a positive.

As they certainly should. Tax in the good times to get us through the bad times. Not cut in the good times and then fuck off.

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