Hello fake doctor! I don’t really think you’re being serious, but if you can gather up all the Trumpers and agree to free health care, severance pay and counseling, UBI, and expanding food stamps, I would cheer that and would be happy with unlimited gun rights.

This is so true and by design, though this is an argument for the system working exactly as designed. Remember those rural areas? Remember that it wasn’t subsistence farmers generally in the rural colonies, but landowners and enslaved laborers.

This looks exactly like what happens when they shipped the MKZ tooling from Mexico to China, and told designers “here are the hard points, go hog wild”.

You could say Dems need to win more state houses, but I think the nature of a big-tent Dem coalition is that it’s a very unstable equilibrium. Witness a CA and NY statehouse Dem majority basically doing the bidding for corporate Republicans. The Dem big tent basically contains far left progressives, business friendly…

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Man, I really wish I shared your optimism. Here slightly further up I-80 people are leaning hard into the whole “quiverfull” crap, and they’re damn well going to try to breed their way to about 50%. As you know, California isn’t really getting much done as a 3-party state; progressive stuff die in the ballot box and…

Given the number of arrested white supremacists with Spanish sounding last names, I’d say they’re succeeding pretty well. There’s Rubio and Cruz and all those South Florida counties that trended red.

Every time America has had a crisis of Whiteness they’ve always seem to have broadened the definition of Whiteness just a bit to stay in the majority. I don’t think it’s going to be different this time.

So who has to die for Americans to get a single-cab Wrangler pickup with an 8-foot bed?

The out for them is that they have to pass a VMT that covers 75% of cars on the road first, which you and I both know is not going to happen.

News aggregator blogs tend to link primary sources. Opinion blogs don’t. And if G/O makes it easy for you to check primary sources (which I also appreciate), what’s the problem? :)

I have that in the ‘66! Just lift off the accelerator 1) until the vehicle stops itself, then leave the car 2).

Unfortunately, it really depends on who screams the loudest about various options. People who complain about the the $500/mo parking in SF or Manhattan are going to be the people who are able to get their job site relocated to a suburban business park, while the rest of us try to figure out a 4-bus solution to get to…

See, that’s our tribe, and we’ll fight like hell to keep it. Ecologically, doing everything we can to move the people who don’t want to drive out of the driver’s seat will help all the people who DO want to drive. And that means supporting making transit accessible, available, and frequent, so that people aren’t…

Most blogs cite their primary sources in the article.

I really don’t think ICE bans are on the table. Even the most hardcore progressive is going to balk at eliminating cheap rides for the working poor who do not have good transit alternatives. The most you’ll get is attrition, where boring commuter cars are slowly replaced by EVs. Things like the Viper, or a first-gen…

We are in total agreement here. Nobody will ever ban the ownership or operation of ICE only cars. Never going to happen in my lifetime. Pry my 289 from my cold dead hands. This is not on the table.

That is fair, drama isn’t a good look, but it does get clicks.

That’s fair to bring up the differences between “opinion” and “putting their money where their mouth is”. It is also fair to point out how many times CA has pushed back zero emission mandates and came up with boneheaded schemes like “PZEV”.

The idiom is a call to check for unintended consequences, not a call to avoid doing good.