My question is... is it really a hill worth dying on, and does it reflect people’s opinion of the president more than people’s opinion of the plane?

The question is... if a popular democrat party president were suggesting this very same livery, would ANYONE be complaining about it?

I cant believe you wrote all those words to bitch about Airforce One being painted red white and blue.  I’m honestly amazed.  Golf clap for you.  I needed the chuckle after a full work day.

The main takeaway is that

There is a point at which “hike the premiums” becomes “can’t afford insurance, drives anyway”. Because for many people driving is required. And the cost of app-taxis is prohibitive for most.  And public transit is often not available.

It’s always important to remind everyone that species don’t actually exist. They’re an abstract tool humans invented to help us categorize, organize, and understand living things, but there is no separation between different species that doesn’t ultimately come down to “humans picked an arbitrary threshold and these…

Already happens in that premiums are reduced for drivers who don’t crash.

Lol! You think they will just replace the lower tiers? Let’s see how enthusiastic you are about this when it’s you who aren’t given a choice whether to drive. I think you’ll find giving up someone else’s freedom is easier than your own.

May be where you’re from. I’ve lived in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas and the private school pick up lines are littered with Escalades. 

I’m glad I’m not the only person who’s noticed this.  I tend to chalk it up to the Caddy interiors being competitive with what’s around at the time of their release, but falling behind whatever comes out next.  But isn’t that true of pretty much all cars?  You don’t see people making the same comments about the…

The “stealth” wealth is also why the GMC Denali exists, it costs get up there into Cadillac territory but without the bling branding

Everything you wrote about what Cadillac should be sums up the Escalade.

My point was actually about how the interior is used as a talking point by the journalists covering it.

Sawbones podcast also points out that fatality rates trend higher in the early days of an outbreak like this because the only people we are certain have novel coronavirus are the ones in a position to be tested because they’re sick enough to be hospitalized. Plenty of people may have been shaking this off like a…

I don’t know.  Based on what we usually see with French labor protests, they’re more likely to take him hostage, hold him for like half a day, then release him to a small concession like an extra ply on the bathroom toilet paper before they all casually make plans to do it again in a couple weeks. 

Yeah I started looking at C5 and C6 Z06's and just couldn't get over the interior. Then recently started considering an EV and saw actual (non marketing) images of the Model 3 interior and it looks even worse.

The C6 Z06 was on Cup 2s, had a much more hardcore suspension setup and carbon-ceramic brakes... it was also 3,100 lbs. That thing held lap records on a few tracks for a few years. I think a base Vette getting close is impressive.

Rules like this don’t tend to work well outside of urban and densely populated suburban areas without a large investment in electric chargers. Public transportation doesn’t work in the wiliwags so you have to account for the inevitable electric car ownership. Unless you guarantee good jobs in urban areas and mandate…

A job listing for the Ford Motor Company on LinkedIn, the worst social media platform,

If you have seen the WWI film “They shall not grow old”, the effect is even more dramatic when color and modern sound are added to old clips. It turns people in old films from jerky cartoon things into actual humans.