I genuinely wonder if Spanfeller is shorting Tesla stock - you *cannot* report good news about Tesla on this website without finding something to snark on.

Relevant fact: Ron Perlman is seventy, and Cruz still invokes “let’s you and him fight”.

American tradition seems to be that Republicans take power, transfer a whole bunch of money to themselves and their friends, then take a dive in the election to let a Democrat president take the pain of rebuilding while the Repubs grandstand and throw mud. Rinse and repeat.

Obligatory Mel Brooks: “What the hell are you worried about? This is 1874. You’ll be able to sue *her*.”

Here’s a tip - don’t push-start an old long-wheelbase Landrover at the top of a hill, on your own. If, heroically, you get the thing moving, you find yourself chasing an unmanned vehicle which is gathering speed towards a line of parked cars. You have to out-pace it, open the driver’s side door, jump in, depress the…

How so? Note that at no point does your car *transmit* your speed to a third party or inform on you. GPS is a strictly one-way technology.

Ah, the good ol’ traditional electric disc saw, just like my pappy used and his pappy ‘fore him <spits>.

Huge greenhouses in the Niagara region for legal medical use, up here.

I had Hunter Biden pencilled in for that role, but your idea also works :-)

Imagine Chelsea Clinton being flown across the world to conduct unofficial diplomacy.

My guess? People who ride in the back of a Maybach *don’t get their shoes dirty*. They walk out of an immaculately cleaned hotel lobby into their Maybach, get out at an immaculately cleaned private air terminal, get dropped off at an immaculately clean corporate office....

That’s why I advocate that all police be drawn from minority groups. Sack the white men.

Slashing the tyre is a calculated move. Just letting the air out is a minor inconvenience - fifteen minutes with an air compressor and you’re done. Slashing the tyre is hundreds of dollars of expense and hours waiting for a tow and tyre fitment - it’s *punishment*, and it’s no accident.

You see the same things with White House briefings. Part of Fascism is that you deliberately lie to exert and demonstrate power - you force those below you in the food chain to accept the lie and demonstrate compliance, and to dishearten and dissuade them from engaging with you.

I don't think the answer is defending -the answer is, sack the white male police officers and hire exclusively people from the minorities.

My alternative to defunding the police is to sack all of the white men and hire exclusively people from one or more classes of minority.

Fifteen minutes with an electric tyre inflator and on your way? That doesn’t send the right ‘message’.

If Harley riders want comfort, stability, windscreens, music, warmth and to keep dry... why not buy a car?

How about drawing the police exclusively from minority groups - no white guys?

I’m looking forward to all the Fox talking heads telling him to stay in his lane... in person.