You know why the government “can’t guarantee [your] safety”? Because we have more guns than people in America. And I don’t buy that it’s poverty or mental health care—homeless people aren’t running around with guns, and even if we magically addressed wealth inequality and job opportunities, some crime would still…

Versus using those items to defend yourself against someone with guns? Absolutely.

Here, let me get some more mileage out of this clip:

Yes, but guns being widely available makes doing so incredibly easy. If you’re honestly suggesting to eliminate every motivation to kill before even considering restrictions on guns, that ensures no meaningful changes will ever occur—because you can’t fully engineer hostility out of humanity. It’s a nice ideal, but…

And I think that banning guns would at least prevent *some* mass killings. Isn't that worthwhile?

Tell that to Australia and Japan. They have outright bans on guns (save some very specific and strictly regulated exceptions), and how many mass shootings have they had? A handful between them, in DECADES. How many mass killings involving cars, trucks, knives (hell, construction equipment, tanks, *anything*) in those…

The argument that I heard breaks down like this: “But if you ban guns and actually get serious about making them inaccessible even on a black market, people who want to carry out mass killings can still use something like knives...”

I love how this stupid clothing line says it’s all about endorsing “second amendment rights,” but Toyota Lasagna’s shitty yoga pants and half-ass jogging bras don’t include any carry-integration. As I said elsewhere, I’m not a gun nut, but if someone else is, how are these clothing items any different from shoving a…

Spoiler alert: no one makes it for three hours in that.

See, you mentioned the Road Warriors intro, and my mind goes to “Mad Max.” Sanders can be Mad Max and Warren is Furiosa—leave Biden in the dust, then go dethrone Immortan Trump.

“Aaahhhh! Why is their livery an escaped retiree from the nudist colony? My curiosity is getting the better of me--maybe it’ll say on their website—let’s see... ‘lemon party dot...’ “

This exchange is even better.

This elicited a snort-laugh from my favorite person in the world. For this, I thank you.

But then we'd have another possibility where Biden doesn't have to go head-to-head against Warren, which I've been itching for since she announced. Drag his ass, Liz.

Good point.

In my mind, that’s not a terrible idea, but the Chevy SSR already has an LS, a manual transmission was offered for a year or two, and is similarly rare, impractical, and trying to tap into ‘hot rod’ styling nostalgia, right? I’d just get one of those and think of it as the more modern El Camino we never got—well, save…

See, instead I read Quasar Funk’s screenshot of this tweet as highlighting hypocrisy: Dr. Karpf posed a wonderful, concise metaphor assessing Bret Stephens’ contributions to the New York Times [read: idea]. Stephens responds by dropping this in the lap of the gentleman’s superior in academia, with an implied, “What…

Hey, if they help yeet Biden out of contention (and same with Trump in the general), I'll sing their praises and use whatever slang they want.

I imagine you’d need some sort of capacitor to deal with that high flux—but it might require too much power. You’d tell them how much in the brochure (let’s be real, on the website) and their response would be, “What the hell is a jiggawatt?”

I have no more accurate description to offer. Well done.