Green felt top hat with a size tag stuck in the band. Oof that’s been about 20 years ago now.

My point is that Trump lies so often that it’s easy to forget to actually check on what you’re reporting. Like the first piece reported in that article… Yeah if someone sent you just that clip and you see him referring to the wrong State, you might just accept that and post it without looking at the rest of the rally and realizing he was referring to something else. It’s easy to forget that Trump isn’t always full of shit.

Cool, now do Trump. I want to see a comparison of how many times Trump has lied or misled followers to the number of times the Harris campaign has done this. I think if the numbers are 1:1 we can all agree it’s intentional. What if the numbers are 5:1? 10:1? At what ratio do we agree that mistakes were made by overzealous campaign staff? Without comparison numbers, this article is meaningless.

So creating stronger border security to stop drug trafficking is a bad thing? There are still ways for people to cross legally, and what you quoted acknowledges the need to fix immigration policy for allowing citizenship. Whataboutism is when you are comparing two identical issues. What you are doing is ignoring the extreme approach of one party and trying to make it sound like the other party is doing the same thing… In the US, Trump wants to deport or straight up kill immigrants, Harris is acknowledging that we need to stop the drug traffic while helping supporting immigration. In Palestine … yeah Biden is sending bombs and he’s an ass for that but Harris has at least stated that things need to change. Meanwhile Trump’s only statement on the matter is that they need to bomb the Gaza strip and make the problem go away. Do you really thing allowing Trump to get into office will help anyone except rich white people? Stein might have a different approach but under our current voting system there is no possible way she will get elected, so your only honest choice in the matter is voting for someone who has a stated policy of death, or someone who has at least admitted that we can do better.

Well no, the matter at hand is immigrants in the US and how Trump has stated his intent to deport anyone who doesn’t look white. Yes the main post is about Palestine but this thread is about local immigration and how Trump plans to bring the terror back home.

The one where Democrats made deep concessions to Republican demands? The one where Republicans set most of the tone in the bill and then backed out because daddy Trump wanted immigration to still be an issue for the election?

You’re saying the Democrats, who are welcoming immigrants into sanctuary cities and fighting to protect the rights of legal immigration, are somehow also responsible for fear-mongering about immigrants? That’s an interesting take. What do you call it when Republicans are threatening to deport all legal and naturalized immigrants without any concern for the number of generational US citizens they will also deport because they had the wrong skin color?

According to Buttigieg they are waking up thinking “Oh shit I don’t want people talking about that… what other fucked-up shit can I spew to distract the rubes?”

Nice, I’ll have to remember that.

There’s been some discussion already. Also the fact that any time things go wrong for Trump, he starts firing people and blaming them for his own failures. I’m just sitting here watching with the popcorn.

Funny how he claims he somehow won this debate, and yet for some strange reason will be replacing his campaign staff. That’s not the actions of a winner. Maybe he should be taking a closer look at the real loser.

You doubt anything that was said here? This is all based on Trump’s own words and actions. He already tried a coup once, what makes you think he won’t do it again after learning from his previous mistakes?

Obviously cars shouldn’t be going around hitting pedestrians, and we stop when we’re able. My problem is more with the lack of common sense. This dog park I mentioned is out in the country, people are driving their cars to bring their pets here so they obviously have some idea of the time it takes for a car to stop. So why are they walking out from behind a fence and stepping directly into oncoming traffic without at least waiting for vehicle to see them and stop? Yes most people DO take this moment and are able to cross safely, but then you have someone who has no regard for their own safety and acts like they’re invincible.

Well here’s the conundrum… I could start a youtube channel showing stupid people, but what happens if it gets so popular that I no longer need to work? Then I won’t be able to get any new footage, my viewership would drop rapidly, and I’d have to get another job. It’s a vicious cycle!

I visited London in 2000 and was amazed how well the Tube worked there. At the time I could buy a 1-week pass for around $10US and get everywhere in the city. That’s great if you’re not going anywhere, but the US is a lot more spread out and many of us don’t have a choice about getting jobs in other cities, so it does change the dynamic quite a bit. The other problem is that our transit systems are just not efficient. I can get most places on a bus, but it takes twice as long. I already only have a few hours between the time I get home and when I go to bed, so it feels like quite a sacrifice to give up yet another 90+ minutes of what free time I have. If I worked in the same city and it only took 10-15 minutes to get anywhere via mass transit then yeah, I would have a very different outlook on things.

So yeah, #1 I’m in agreement with to some degree, with caveats for particular situations. For the people where mass transit is suitable, what we have is a disaster through poor planning, poor execution, and outright corruption, and it could be immensely better.

#2… Well maybe. I drove a car for 25 years but now drive an SUV because quite frankly I work on a lot of projects and am constantly grabbing wood or metal supplies. Wednesday I’ll be making a couple trips to get some hand-me-down computers for my department which are actually a nice upgrade for what I’ll be replacing. Meanwhile I’m also building a new utility trailer this Summer (and again has required picking up a lot of materials) to make it easier to haul those things that don’t fit in the SUV. No this doesn’t apply for most people, but some of us do actually use these vehicles for their intended purpose. I didn’t just go buy the largest obnoxious thing I could find, I picked one that fits in the garage but carries the majority of what I need.

#3… god yes! If you want that sort of off-road vehicle then keep it off road! Otherwise if you want to prove how small your dick is, steroids are cheaper.

#4… I work in a college town, I see kids at every light holding up traffic. Or weaving through traffic on the highway because causing an accident is worth getting one more car ahead.

I see a lot of people who ride bikes or walk around town, and there has been some efforts to add or improve the bike lanes. There have also been some spectacular failures at this, like taking one of the more major streets in town, cutting it down to a single lane so the other lane can be used for bikes with no separation but painted lines, and then gasping in amazement when the number of accidents increases. They did learn though, and now they’re moving bike lanes to raised paths so there’s some hope. We have a long ways to go to make infrastructure more friendly to other modes of transportation, but it would also help if employers started accepting the fact that a large number of jobs can be work-from-home so they would quit forcing everyone to drive without reason. Maybe some day we’ll get there.

You do realize that you’re making the false equivalency of a crowd of people walking across the street during a red light and active walk signal to someone blindly walking out in traffic? Are you also going to argue that people walking on a sidewalk in the middle of the block weren’t using their brains when a car drives into them?

For the number of times I’ve almost been run over by bicyclists who can’t be bothered to stop or even slow down for red lights when peds have the walk signal – yeah I don’t think so. There are definitely times when drivers are at fault because they’re too busy playing on their cell phones or some other distraction, and those people need to be spending more time in jail. But there are also times when pedestrians are at fault. In many cases there is a serious lack of personal responsibility, people who expect everyone else to get out of their way rather than just using their brain. Those are the people I have no sympathy for. But whatever, if you think you can stop a moving car in 20 feet when someone walks out from behind a fence, more power to you.

So you obviously couldn’t comprehend what I wrote and simply made up some nonsense to justify a snotty response? Well, good job. Next time try harder.

It’s certainly worthwhile to try and make accidents more survivable, but around here we have a much different problem – entitled pricks who simply walk out into the road (often times in areas where they can’t even be seen until the last couple steps) and expect all drivers to immediately stop on a dime because “they have the right-of-way.” One such area I drive through to work is by a dog park. There are signs posted to advise drivers to slow down, but at least once a week I see someone walk out from the fenced area directly into the street without even looking (or they literally try to stare down the oncoming traffic while they’re walking in front of the vehicles). Funny how nobody has put up any signs at those crosswalks treating pedestrians like small children and reminding them that the law only requires vehicles to stop for pedestrians already in the crosswalk, and they should take personal responsibility and look both ways before crossing the street.

In this case I keep hoping natural selection will resolve the problem, but there seems to be no end to idiots.

That’s such a common thing these days that I have to wonder if humans have always had this issue, or if it has anything to do with our modern lifestyles. I was going to do a sleep study at one point, but when I took their questionnaire I checked off no on everything on their list. Then I found out my insurance wouldn’t even cover it, and couldn’t afford to do the study anyway. Ah well, if I ever get back to a point where I’m having trouble sleeping again then I’ll reconsider.