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    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43126498/ford-patent-autonomous-systems-vehicle-repossession/
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    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    Maybe to keep the senile old coot from getting in the way of the people actually running the country?
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    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    If they don't like the justice they will face under the current system they *really* don't want to burn it all down. 20 years in Leavenworth will look like a spa day compared to what will come after a collapse.
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    Trump tower taken over by protestors demanding the release of the Columbia University ringleader

    They should release him. From about 10k feet over Gaza. He didn't actually break a law, so he gets a parachute. We can call it express deportation.
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    EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Launches the Greatest Day of Deregulation in American History

    NY should just put in the gear to make all the kids pedal.....
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    EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Launches the Greatest Day of Deregulation in American History

    Let me know when they start putting Aquanet back on the shelves with R12 as the propellant. You want to talk about the ultimate knee jerk overreaction. Even if you buy all the doom and gloom about the ozone hole destroying the earth, we went from R12 being a common aerosol propellant to...
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    Elon Suggesting That We Pay Our Officials More Money.

    Land is the ultimate inflation proof asset. It is the one thing they aren't making any more of. Even gold they mine more every year, and sooner or later someone is going to drag an asteroid with a metric shit ton of it back to orbit and start dropping it down 500 tons at a time. You're not...
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    Trump's move to cut-off Liberal judges

    The correct answer is for SCOTUS to do their job policing the judiciary. They are so loathe to punish rogue judges that once in office they can basically rule any way they want and the worst that happens is they get overturned. When their rulings are blatantly unconstitutional or otherwise...
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    Ontario Moves ahead with 25% Tariff on electricity

    Trump could cure cancer and most of the headlines would read "Trump puts thousands of oncologists out of work".
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    Elon Suggesting That We Pay Our Officials More Money.

    Way more people are landowners than a few super rich. What it would do is shift the voting demographic very strongly to rural areas where even the poor tend to own property, and away from urban areas where even upper middle class rent.
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    Two men killed in Buffalo by home invader

    Maybe they stuck out ? Artist types are always doing "look at me" attention seeking bullshit.
  12. spat

    Elon Suggesting That We Pay Our Officials More Money.

    The problem came when we decided that democracy meant anyone with a pulse should be able to vote. Our country was not designed to function with morons voting. Not sure any country can. But, morons are far more easily manipulated. You can run a very totalitarian regime if you can pollute the...
  13. spat

    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    Imagine thinking the way to hit the US is by attacking a web site that an assistant to the president basically bought on a dare.
  14. spat

    Elon Suggesting That We Pay Our Officials More Money.

    DC should not be a city. There should be no civilian housing there, and no privately owned real estate at all. It was meant to be an independent district, not a mini state.
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    Ontario Moves ahead with 25% Tariff on electricity

    And don't forget that the majority of your electric bill is *not* the actual cost of the electricity. It's mostly related to delivery and service charges. If you buy a $5 gizmo that $10 shipping, a 25% increase in the cost of the gizmo isn't really significant.
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    Elon Suggesting That We Pay Our Officials More Money.

    Anyone can afford to *hold* office. But only the wealthy can afford to *acquire* the office. But, if we're going to pay them more, it needs to be in exchange for additional constraints on them financially.
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    Elon Suggesting That We Pay Our Officials More Money.

    Someone go get a shit load of rope...
  18. spat

    Elon Suggesting That We Pay Our Officials More Money.

    They don't figure. They literally write exemptions into the law for themselves. Congress critters are explicitly exempted from insider trading laws for instance.
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    Ontario Moves ahead with 25% Tariff on electricity

    I wouldn't want to try to play that game for long if I was Canada. I think Trump should not have picked this fight. Unless there was something going on I really don't know about, I think he should have left Canada alone. But, I don't think they can win this. The US is a lot less dependent...
  20. spat

    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    Even if they just drag her to trial and force her to argue that she wouldn't have hired him if she'd known, it would be a major win.
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    Elon Suggesting That We Pay Our Officials More Money.

    Just make them announce any trades publicly 48 hours in advance. Then if they try to move on their insider information, everyone else on Wallstreet will beat them to it.
  22. spat

    Is Pelvic Shots A Good Defense Technique?

    Glock 18, and just aim for the groin and let recoil do the rest. But carry lots of spare mags....
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    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    Official Taxes ? No. But the stealth tax called inflation would drop drastically.
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    This California Democrat lunatic wants to limit a homeowner’s right to defend themselves from a dangerous intruder.

    There is a big gulf between what the law says and how prosecutors apply it. In practice, the level of "castle doctrine" in NY varies drastically depending on what county you are in, despite the law being identical in all of them. Prosecutorial discretion is an abomination.
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    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    The CIA should not be allowed to have *any* funding source besides it's official budget. If any of their extracurricular activities turn a profit, they should have to turn it all over to the IRS. Same goes for *all* law enforcement.
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    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    Yea, they need to go after the people in these NGOs too. If you defrauded the American people, you should be going to prison.
  27. spat

    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    One $24M payment is petty cash for out government as you sat. But it's become "a billion here, and a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money".
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    New Yorkistan crap has infected Bass Pro / Cabela’s in Free America

    With luck the fight between TX and the NY doctor who prescribed the abortion pills will put a stop to this shit. NY is the state that decided they could reach out and punish companies anywhere in the country they don't like. Going to be real hard for them to argue against TX and the abortion...
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    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    It should be very hard to make anything in government classified. And only a few agencies should be allowed to do it at all. Certainly *nothing* USAID does has any legitimate reason not to be a complete open book. Hell, every email they send should be available online in real time.
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    Hochul sends the national guard to jail where prison guards are striking

    No, it's not really a mystery at all.
  31. spat

    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    Well, we better make sure the next one is secure then, right ? Paper ballots, photo ID, etc. You know, to make sure Elon can't hack it again, right ?
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    $375B EPA slush fund handled by John Podesta gave billions to charities founded only months earlier

    The reason China doesn't just sneak a nuke into DC on a boat is because Sun Tzu was Chinese, and they know not to interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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    Lawsuit against NYC and NYPD License Division

    Need serious punitive damages. Once that happens the flood gates will open. Ambulance chasers will find people who never wanted a gun in their life and get them to file suit for the payday. That would be fantastic.
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    Lawsuit against NYC and NYPD License Division

    No, the money generation is a secondary effect. The main purpose is to discourage legal gun ownership. They don't really care about the pittance they bring in in fees. That's petty cash for them.
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    State of the union today?

    He has been in office way too long, could have been one of his earlier terms...
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    State of the union today?

    They locked a lot of good people up for 4 years for "obstructing an official proceeding". Surely that could be applied here too..
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    Epstein Files ..the saga continues

    They arrested Epstein and were supposedly going to take him to trial. They need to release all the evidence they were going to use at that trial. Either they arrested someone without any evidence, or they destroyed it. Maybe the reason he "died suddenly" is that they realized that evidence...
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    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    It's the foundation of fascism. When the line starts to blur between government and corporations, that's fascism. When the government straight up assimilates corporations, that's communism. That's essentially the only difference.
  39. spat

    Hello fellow gun owners

    You'll find that probably half the regular posters on here are escapees and no longer NY serfs. Welcome to the board. You have our sympathy until you can also escape.
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    Epstein Files ..the saga continues

    Obstruction of justice. Just because you have a badge doesn't mean you can hide evidence.
  41. spat

    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    Not sure anyone ever accused them of being infallible. What they are is final.
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    Ontario’s Premier Threatens to Cut Off Electricity to U.S.

    Still released less radioactivity into the environment over it's lifetime than a coal plant. And *nobody* but the communists builds such shoddy nuclear plants. Western plants are far safer.
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    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    Conservatives should really just find some friendly judge and sue to stop the payments. Apparently any ridiculous reason is sufficient and any federal judge anywhere can do it. "Paying for this transgender mouse research in Lebanon is a violation of clean water act, prove me wrong". When the...
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    State of the union today?

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    Un SAFE acting my rifles, are the barrels OK?

    Put a damp cloth on the barrel above where you're heating it as a heat sink. Even if the heat treat right at the muzzle gets hosed, that doesn't matter much anyway. It's not a high pressure zone. Having the last inch of a barrel fully annealed probably wouldn't matter much anyway even if you...
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    Danny B is Deputy Director of the FBI!!!!

    I don't want fired, I want prosecuted.
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    Hochul sends the national guard to jail where prison guards are striking

    Isn't kidnapping a federal offense ?
  48. spat

    Fort Knox Audit

    They had .30 cal HE rounds in WWII. I don't think anyone makes them anymore, but you could certainly scale these down from .50 and adjust the materials some. I wonder if just swapping the jacket for a silver alloy would be effective...
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