Thank you!

I drove an ‘04 Grand Cherokee for work back then. For what I was using it for, it was great. Went anywhere I needed it to including bouncing across snow-covered farm fields. That job involved a lot of windshield time and yeah, the seats were pretty good. But it’s reliability was pure shit and the dealership got off on…

Ever use a window AC? Know how it cools the room it’s in, but not the rest of the apartment?

I think you and I are circling around the same issue. “Work or you don’t eat” is what’s going to happen if we allow the machine owners to run things. And those who have nothing to work on, won’t eat. The owners won’t give a shit because it doesn’t impact them.

What about it?

“Work or you don’t eat” will suffice at that point if we allow the machine owners to take over.

I tend to agree. The solution will have to be a universal basic income or, better yet, making most things free. The alternative is, as you said, having 90+ percent of the population out of work or at best severely underemployed. You can only be on the bottom rung of a two-rung ladder and get kicked in the head by…

Yes, we should all be sympathetic to the economic harshities facing a completely unnecessary step in the car-buying process.

Your analysis is spot on, but people are talking about it. Bernie Sanders has been yelling hoarsely about it for years, but he gets painted as a left-wing socialist nutjob who’s just itching to drive us into communism, so people don’t listen.

It’s being called a “vibecession” now. Even though the economic indicators are good, people are still freaked out and behaving as though they’re bad.

I remember my dad buying a bare bones (like, no AC, no radio, manual windows, manual transmission with no tachometer) Tercel in 1984 for $5,000. That’s $15,000 today, and you can get a Versa for $3,000 more out the door that does come with AC, a radio, power windows, a passenger-side mirror, a lot more power, auto…

This. I see where they're going with this - let's make the First only apply to corporations. Individuals had better shut the hell up. It's just another step in the process of elevating business above citizens and elevating MAGA speech while banning anything else.

Exactly. And the problem is exacerbated by Republicans intentionally setting up voting districts to maximize travel requirements for likely Democratic voters. This area mostly populated with Black people? We’ll put their polling place an hour away and far away from the bus line to make sure a bunch of them won’t be…

She’s been a very good VP and, considering not only Biden’s age but the fact that half the country loves guns and will try to assassinate him if Trump even hints at suggesting it, I’m glad we have someone who would make a great president as the next in line.

They won’t, because they pick what they rule on. They’ll just not hear those little cases, especially when they’ve already been adjudicated by a Trump appointee on a lower bench.

There’s another way, but if anything it’s less likely than your scenario. Vote an overwhelming wave of progressive Democrats in. Ones who will stack the court, pass legislation to restrain the court’s abuses, and forcibly impose the same code of ethics regular federal employees have to follow on the court.

“Bruh,” there’s a wide gap between North Korea and capitalism run so amok that we let businesses get away with literally stealing their customers’ shit.

What the hell are you on about?

People sigh around you a lot, don’t they...

90s conversion vans would be right up there. Rode like limos, ultra-comfortable captains chair seats, a fold -out bed in the rear bench seat when you got... Tired, built-in TVs, air vent over each seat, rear sound system, window shades, indirect lighting... It was like riding in a land-based private jet.