The moderator should have a button to shut off someone’s mic when they’re speaking out of turn. Or their mics should just be off when it’s not their turn by default.  

I want to give the moderator one of the high-powered nerf ball guns. Then, if the moderator has to speak to you more than once, *thwack* all of America gets to watch you take a nerf ball to the forehead in real time.

Neutral: CNN summed the debate up perfectly - one pundit literally called it a shitshow, another called it a hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a trainwreck. And I think they undersold it. I can’t blame the moderator - the only way to control Trump would be to have a remotely controlled cattle prod up his ass.…

2nd Gear: This is mostly a humblebrag. Due to COVID and the fact I do almost zero personal driving anymore I have purchased a cheap ass mid life crisis to help stimulate the economy.
My 2012 Ford Focus with 152k miles on the original clutch and some serious repairs potentially on the horizon has been switched out for…

Reverse: a horror movie about a haunted Little Bastard traveling the US, killing people who have its parts and reforming itself until it becomes whole could be a fun watch.

Around the same time the Citroen SM won that award (first foreign car to do so) and they canned the editor due to the lost advertising dollars (Citroen was already on the way out of the US market) so I’d take those awards with a heavy, heavy metric ton of salt.

It aint exactly easy on V6 versions either. Ask me how I know....

The Monza was so terrible it naturally won Motor Trend Car of the Year in 1975.

2" hole saw gets you easy access to the Fuel Line that is leaking on a BMW

I don’t recall if this was done to H-bodies, but I remember hearing of some GM product where it was common for the owner to drill a hole through the firewall to get at the last spark plug.

The redneck neighbors across the street had one. And yes- the spark plugs in the rear were a bitch. Solution? Take a hammer and beat a dent in the rear firewall so you could get at the plug. In fact I’d bet 50% or more of these cars I’ve seen have dents in the same place for the same reason

Back in the day, I heard tales about the difficulty encountered in changing spark plugs on early V8. Monzas, due to the tight fit of the V8 in an engine compartment originally designed for smaller engines. These stories may even have had a grain of truth in them.

Don’t be so naive about government’s role in capitalism. Here’s a few examples of how government stokes the fires of market enterprise:

Neutral:

Sounds like an opportunity for a jobs program. Too bad we don’t have a bunch of people laying around that could help out with that or trillions in economic stimulus in the pipeline. In the mean time, we better put more pressure on that TikTok fellow and make sure mail-in voting (in targeted communities) gets abolished.

Both the English and German versions of that sentence sound like they came out of a Rammstein album.

4TH: Only the friggin’ Gerrys could combine an extremely forward and progressive pro-labor movements with the most metal slogan ever.

The tech is interesting, and I’m glad they’re focusing on driving feel, but does it have to look so angry? Performance cars these days are VERY SERIOUS and MAKE VERY SERIOUS FACES AT YOU to let you know they’re fast.

How to make an electric performance car that feels engaging:

That Instagram image did a better job of putting lipstick on a pig than your effort, no offense.