The fact that Pence is so adamant about the rules makes me think that it’s a mix of paternalism and him having cheated at some point.

Pro tip from a woman: If you want to “respect your wife,” then don’t cheat on her, or flirt with other women, or be a prop in an administration that is an international embarrassment. None of that precludes you from have a normal business relationship with other women, which often includes eating. You know, the thing…

First of all, stop being disingenuous. They were making middle class wages (by their country’s standards) before the crisis hit. Usually with a hell of a lot less forewarning than the coal miners have been getting.

My point wasn’t to sway them. You’re quite thick if you think I’d try to convince somebody of anything by referring to them in the third person and then calling them an idiot (again in the third).

I would say electrical failure will make things far worse than no speedo in a new Tesla.

Tons of cars these days have LCD speedometers.

Actually Scion put it up high and farther from the driver. Such that you don’t have to take your eyes very far off the road to see the speedo. Nothing like this Tesla abomination, where the screen is lower and closer to the driver. You have to take your eyes way off the road, and refocus to the closer distance.

Immigrants do it all the time. Most of them without even the benefit of speaking the language.

Well being pro-life is something else, though. If you’re been told all your life that it’s a moral issue, and it’s like the government saying murder is legal, and not supporting a pro-life agenda means you’re complicit and going to hell... Then the single-issue pro-life voter makes sense.

“Or are you” I think you mean. And who’s being a dickhead? Me or the people who don’t know any better than to vote against their own interests?
 
My point is that they deserve work or a minimum guaranteed income, but they don’t need to work in a filthy hole. But they don’t realize it because they’ve been lied to about…

I think that most people who voted for him (and who vote (R) in general) had like one pet cause that he claimed to support, and they just ignored all the rest. That’s really kind of how most of the GOP works. People who are pro-life (for example) will vote (R) every single time, and they either don’t care or don’t…

trump just now (paraphrase, but not far off): I asked WV miners if they wanted to learn a new job. they said no, they want to mine. So let’s put them back to work.

In the case of West Virginia...Their entire state is structurally obsolete to our industrial complex? We, literally, do not need these people anymore to contribute to ‘this modern life.”

Always baffles me. These rubes’ grand-pappies are spinning in their grave. Do they not realize the whole trope is the hard-scrabble coal miner toiling away to ****have a better life for his children so they can get an education and don’t have to work in the mines****? That’s the supposed American fucking dream, not…

In a way, though, the tragic thing about this is the system around those who are more or less stuck on getting coal rolling again basically worked to keep them in that mindset and mentality. In most of coal country, the education system is abysmal and the social support just isn’t there, meaning that an artificial…

I’m not worried about him, are you kidding me? He’s laid back on a South Pacific island pouring out his emotions about the last 8 years on paper like a 14 year old goth kid. I’d actually love to be in his literal shoes right now. But if he’s hearing about all this (if I were in his shoes, I’d be radio-silent), it’s…

It’s literally all they know how to do.

I wouldn’t worry about Obama. He prepared for the inevitable future, and that future will be kind to him. As for this bunch of fossil fools, I can’t wait for the reviews in twenty - even ten - years’ time.

I love how the CPP is looked at as “job killing” for the coal industry but not “job creating” for alternative energy.

Dried milk curds.