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Muqaddimah (call me Muck)
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A bunch of racist, stupid, ignorant people are the ones who got us into this mess. And when their lives go to shit, and it will under Trump (people have short memories), they’ll blame “Biden and Kamala’s economy” while being willfully blind to the fact Trump can’t run a lemonade stand without going bankrupt, and will

I cannot begin to wrap my head around the beyond fucked up situation we are in. This is going to be a nightmare. The Goebbels wannabe, stephen miller, is already tweeting about quickly implementing parts of 2025- you know- that thing trump had never heard of- in the name of an aggressive denaturalization process. Yes.

I rented a white Camry from them years ago, when I returned it their system said it should be grey/white and kept me there for 45 minutes until they verified it was the same car. A simple VIN check would’ve solved it.

This. This is why I wait for the plane to crash, and eat my fellow passengers.

Same.  Nothing Trump does, except to the economy as a whole, will have a negative effect on my personal life.  I voted for a Democrat president for only the third time in my life for others, not for me.

Thing is, I’ll be fine no matter what. I’m a wealthy straight white man. I don’t have any real problems. I didn’t (and never have) voted for Democrats for myself. I do it for other people, because I believe that everyone should have the same rights and privileges as myself.

Yes

I feel this.
In 2020, there was maybe 1, or 2 Trump signs.
But this year, in my neighborhood, which I thought was roughly sane, and actually has a high Ukrainian and Polish population, had at least two dozen Trump signs go up just weeks before the election.
And that’s after all the new BS with him.
They know, they want

Please cite the mandate that that requires 2/3 of all vehicles to be EV by 2023.

Nope.

In 2022, global fossil fuel subsidies reached a record $7 trillion, which is 7.1% of the global GDP. This is more than governments spend on education annually and about two-thirds of what they spend on healthcare. - International Monetary Fund.

So embarrassed and frightened to be surrounded by stupid racists that literally just voted for the end of American democracy. Trumpublican policies hurt most people. This is a fact. Their racism and misogyny are more important to them than hurting themselves.

Jimmy Kimmel summed it up neatly:

Congress being GOP means that the has a has clearer path on new laws he’d like to pass; Mitch indicated the filibuster isn’t going anywhere, but he’s not going to be Senate Majority leader, so who the fuck knows what happens.

They tried to repeal Obamacare, McCain saved it.

Adding a few thousand bucks to the price of two of the best-selling cars in America is surely an easy way to piss off the people that voted for you and your pledge to make America affordable once again.

It boggles my mind that paper checks are still a thing.

Funny that you mention this, because it was one of the reasons I actually gave Audi a look in the first place; relative to other makes, Audi still offered physical buttons for a lot of the controls. That probably changed with their newest generation of vehicles.

We’ve got about 5 years left to make drastic changes before we cross the climate tipping points that separate “simply bad” from “catastrophic.” The US is not only one of the biggest contributors to global warming, but still sets an example too. Trumpster will pull us out of the Paris accords again, gut the EPA, repeal

You could have had a high speed train with a throughput of thousands of passengers per hour, travelling in comfort at 200 mph.