Yeah... if you think someone who’s basically been cosplaying a Native American for 30 years is gonna do better against Trump than Clinton did, well, there’s a bunch of lovely bridges I have for sale in New York I’m sure you’d be interested in.

Oh neat! That does make it more useful then.

“Our country needs a leader who will restore the solidarity that Donald Trump stole,” Kennedy, the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, said.

Aside from not being able to use the full height of the roofline or higher if need be for carrying things, I think the thing that makes it most impractical for daily use is that it doesn’t appear to hinge in any way. Meaning you’d either have to slide everything in under it, which as you said for lumber or mulch…

Maybe you weren’t but I certainly was. I have no desire to give the government more money and power and then trust them to do good with it when they can’t even do good with the money and power they have now. The one thing about power is, someone will always find a way to abuse it. Again, I say to you, you really trust…

Yeah honestly the biggest issue I see with these is that it’s a topper that has much more limited storage space. If it were hinged somehow like a hatchback, it would be far more practical. As is, your idea seems like the better solution in terms of sheer practicality.

Meanwhile China and most of the developing world is going to continue right along polluting as much as they want. Putting out the fire in your backyard doesn’t mean much when the entire forest surrounding you is also on fire.

What things specifically does government need to do to improve the lives of the citizenry that they could not do themselves if given the opportunity and freedom to do so? Why does the solution HAVE to be “gov’t please save us”? Especially when you look at the government we have right now, and you’re suggesting we give…

So you’re perfectly fine with the government spending money on corporate bailouts, endless wars, and god knows how many other things so long as you get what you want? Awesome. Just awesome. We’re bleeding cash faster than it will ever be paid back and instead of trying to stop the bleeding you’re saying we need to…

That’s fine. Tell ya what. We get rid of all the current grift, waste, fraud, and abuse that we’re currently spending money on, and then let’s talk about what role government should play in dealing with those externalities. I’d like to actually be able to trust that government is good before I trust them to do good.

I didn’t say I liked it either, but given the choice between this and a truck with two feet of lift, chrome flame decals, and a giant smoke stack exhaust coming up through the bed belching out thick black smoke, I’d rather see this driving around any day.

This might be controversial, but... I don’t actually hate it. It’s entirely impractical with regard to using a truck for its intended purpose, but it doesn’t look completely awful. If all you’re buying a truck for is to drive a bro-dozer, well there are a lot worse modifications one could make. At least this one…

...if you want to go around screeching “BUT THERE’S NO WAY WE CAN AFFORD THIS” but don’t mind massive oil company subsidies and quantitative easing and bank bailouts and endless forever wars that cost literally trillions and trillions of dollars you are a completely disingenuous bad-faith hack.

And Jack gets a phone call from the Secret Service in 3, 2, 1...

Something that passes with 60 or more votes is more likely to be broadly popular than something that passes with only 51 votes. While mechanically there’s nothing preventing legislation from being repealed by simple majority (and maybe there should be), the political ramifications of getting rid of something that was…

The whole point of the Senate is that it represents the states themselves as an entire body politic, and is supposed to give each state a voice. It prevents things like California being able to strong arm the Great Lakes states into shipping them their water just because they “need” it. Or from New York using Wyoming…

Counterpoint: Making sure legislation can pass that 60 vote threshold makes it more likely that the legislation will survive over the long term and not simply get overturned the moment the other party can leverage their way back into a majority. Just because broad consensus doesn’t move the wheels of progress as fast…

Those on the left should be careful about normalizing this kind of thing. Because those on the right are much better at leveraging it to get what they want. If you decide to verbally confront someone in public, so be it. But the moment you decide to lay hands on another person, you’ve just changed the whole ballgame.…

There’s an abundance of places in the US where it would take the cops over 8 minutes to show up, and not just in rural areas. Especially because, if they’ve got this call coming in and someone actually being murdered, or trapped in a car crash, they’re going to dispatch to that first. This is by far not the least…

And yet, you’d think maybe between the ones that were on the outside looking in and the few who haven’t managed to jump ship yet because they can’t get hired anywhere else, they’d maybe rub two brain cells together and say “Hey, maybe it’s a bad idea in general to threaten to do things that you shouldn’t do to anyone,…