I grew up in Texas. It’s a beautiful state filled with terrible people.

It’s possible to know you never assaulted women when you were drunk. As a former (prodigious) drinker, I can say I never assaulted anyone. I was never mean or belligerent, just totally unreliable, and deeply depressed and not good to be around.

The problem is it sells itself as a comedy show, but there weren’t really any jokes. I guess it works as a news commentary program.

That’s part of the appeal to these people.

This is eminently reasonable. There’s way less risk when the government tells you you can take your money straight from the top of someone’s paycheck.

These rules don’t really work when wages have been flat for most of the population and costs have continued to rise.

You can make this argument, and it’s mostly reasonable. These people made terrible decisions. But that doesn’t make it okay for a company to extract nearly half a billion dollars from the desperately poor and saddle them with a debt they will never escape.

Every time I see these kinds of articles, it’s just infuriating. I never had to finance a car until recently, and since we bought new, it was a breeze, 0% MFR deal, etc.

What are you talking about? Apart from actual professional racers, rich people have the easiest access to racetracks. Money makes travel, hauling your cars, and prep extremely simple.

You’ll never retire and your healthcare coverage is questionable, but at least you have an iPhone. I see no problem with this.

I admire your optimism that this is going to get better.

I too laugh at people who live in a dysfunctional democracy and suffer for it. It’s hilarious when people die because there is no mechanism to enact even modest gun control laws (when a majority of Americans support them).

I think Samantha Bee is the best example of this. I really liked her as a correspondent on TDS, but her show is terrible (Amy Hoggart excluded).

I see these all the time in the DC metro area. Lame ass government types like me were probably the principal buyer.

I had a 00 Cavalier I bought with my paper delivery money in high school. It was a miserable POS, but it gave me 0 problems in the ~50,000 miles I owned it. Granted it was from 10k-60k, but still.

Not saying the guy deserved it, but if you pay a stranger 10k in cash on the honor system that he’ll do some work for you, that’s to be expected.

I don’t understand this. Ford puts a Getrag in the ST. Getrag definitely makes a 6-speed that can handle 400+ torque, just make it happen. Would it really significantly raise development cost?

Yeah I do that separately, with a “just starting to look” trip to dealerships. Sales people will still help even if you tell them you aren’t buying today.

A car hole.

Maybe I’m doing something wrong, but buying a new car is the easiest. Email everything, get the out-the-door price, confirm eligible rebates, and see who can beat whose price.