Eh, that timeline is less than 9 months. Nobody has to cheat in the 2022 elections, as soon as gas prices went up it was fait accompli that Republicans would have a massive resurgence in the midterms.   If you thought the previous regime was odious, you haven’t seen anything yet.

Having to go to work.

Somebody is driving one of these in SW Michigan/NW Indiana as a junk hauler, of the pick-through-your-trash-at-dusk variety.

Thing is, it’s the Army. They’ve more or less had the same training regimen for decades, so a significant increase in injuries cycle-over-cycle would be indicative of a ‘weakening’ population. That said, I would bet green money that Colonel Jessup over there *probably* isn’t referencing any statistics at all.

Bring back the McDLT, minus all that crazy packaging.  That was the best burger McDonald’s ever carried.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, childhood vaccinations have been mandatory for entry into schools for over 50 years. It’s not “your body, your choice” if it’s a communicable disease that has overwhelmed the health care systems of the western world.

You fucking dipshits think you believe in freedom at any cost, when…

Same thing happened with tires; when the price of oil was 130 a barrel, prices for rubber (which gets squeezed out of oil somehow) went through the roof. When oil prices fell, rubber costs fell too... but not tires.  That’s why there’s a Belle Tire every 30 feet all of the sudden, it’s crazy lucrative to sell tires.

They should have known better than to follow a blonde guy named Eric the Red.

Yeah, Metallica warned us about this in 1986.

If it makes you feel any better, nearly every comment on that video is a pilot of some stripe absolutely sandblasting the guy.  

Not saying it was the case for THIS guy, but people of all kinds get themselves into lethal situations because they have overestimated the level of control they have over the variables pitted against them. It’s not necessarily because they are “evil” or “indifferent” - it’s just a matter of tricking ourselves into…

Not to mention we’ve been conditioned to hate each other and vote against our own interests at every turn. 

I’m sure you’d just be saying “aw, shucks” if you were on trial for a capital offense in a jurisdiction that was 70% caucasian, and ‘somehow’ wound up with an all-Black jury.

All true, but it’s not the words themselves that matter, it’s whose ears perk up when they hear them.

Doesn’t need luck; there are people on standby to write settlement checks for shit like this all the time. It’s just another cost of doing business for many local governments, and when people talk about “defunding the police” this is one of the things they are talking about.

In many American municipalities, money paid out to citizens for some action by the police department accounts for the largest journal entries in their book of expenditures. That doesn’t necessarily mean the police are out there running rampant like psychopaths, just that bad shit of varying degrees seems to happen…

The defense has petitioned for a mistrial with prejudice, which, if granted, means the state can’t try him again for the same charges. Given the behavior of the judge, the behavior of the defense attorneys, the juror that got kicked out... I am 3000% convinced that the judge will declare a mistrial with prejudice, and…

I thought the Many Saints of Newark was kind of tedious, but I keep running into people who were disappointed because the show wasn’t more about Tony Soprano.  What did they think the name “Moltisanti” means?

Let’s be honest here, virtually nobody worships the military in this country. Sure, people wrap themselves in the flag, appropriate military aesthetics, and for a while they might have put “Support the Troops” magnets on their cars, but it is entirely a performance.  “Thank you for your service” is just a different…

There’s also a pretty good chance that the 220-odd million they made off the Unreal Engine is ‘normal’ and that these crazy Fortnite numbers are just that... money they never expected, never counted on, and frankly don’t know what to do with now that they have it. Chances are, Epic Games has known from day one that…