Seeing the road drive by through the floorboard, the rusted side view mirrors hanging by the control cable, the water sloshing in the taillights, the stalling at stop signs...ah fond childhood memories of my parent’s Lebaron.

I’ve been looking for a late 70's LeBaron/Diplomat. I get more excited seeing that on the road than the Ford GT that’s in my neighborhood. They are virtually impossible to find, most returned to the earth as pure iron oxide around 1985.

Those are results of presidential elections, it says nothing about whether the country is right leaning or left leaning. You could look at Congress. You could look at state and local elections. You could cite surveys. Electoral college results of one candidate against another doesn’t say much.

Your grasp of statistics is a bit weak. Nothing you said was an actual statistic.

*all cities.

Taxis are so old and terrible they have gone beyond anachronism to hipster.

You must be one of those insane weirdos I was talking about.

Sucks for Austin though, particularly if you live there. I’m sure it won’t make a dent, but I was considering Austin for our company event this year, and if they don’t get this resolved it’s off the list. Not having Uber/Lyft is sort of a dealbreaker. Practically everybody who travels for business now uses Uber / Lyft…

Good idea! I’ll jump on my velocipede, pang wangle over to a payphone, insert my wooden nickel, and hail a taxi cab like the good old days.

Honestly, that was the first reasonable number that popped up on google. I didn’t research it much, but I do know that in the state I live, party membership has been collapsing the past 10 years to the point where independents are now the actual majority. It’s been reported quite a bit, since in the primaries…

It’s true:

Agree with that, it seems like there is a perpetual campaign. It’s probably hard to define what a “campaign” is though. Everybody works to get int he media, so you can disguise a campaign as being a pundit or activist.

I’m no apologist for the right, most of all I hate the “obstruction at all costs” idiocy, about as much as I hate the tired “everybody is a hapless victim of white dude oppression” mentality. Frankly, I hate it all. We have heroin epidemics killing more young people than guns, crumbling infrastructure, schools that…

The number of independents far outweigh democrats or republicans. Most people have views that fall on both sides of the party platforms, and generally speaking the country is center right. However, the loudest, shrillest voices are the insane weirdos that actually register with political parties and take it on like a…

Most of my friends are left leaning, and I get some real doozies on my feed. Marijuana cures cancer. The Bush family are secret nazis. Anti-vaccine, anti-nuclear, anti-GMO science denying bullshit. If only I could decide what is worthy of publication the world would be a better place. Would be nice to be Zuckerberg.

I guess the fact that people care is a result of how ubiquitous facebook has become. It’s like if the internet tubes that run email filtered out certain political views.

Meh - it’s bad for business. You risk alienating 1/2 of your base by taking political sides on issues unrelated to the operating of your business. Like you said, you would take your business elsewhere if you don’t agree with what they do.

Yeah, I really try to avoid breaking and daily news, which is really anything on the web or on TV. I read The Economist through the week - it’s one of the few publications that seems to be interested in thorough analysis and supporting data.

She has to be a troll, whose persona is “clueless liberal”. Take a look at her feed, there’s some doozies in there. Global warming causes earthquakes, LOL

Definitely a troll, nobody could be that stupid. I had a look at her feed, take a look at this beauty where she claims global warming causes earthquakes: