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I never owned a convertible (a few times my uncle loaned his 66 Galaxie convertible for a weekend) but if I did own one it would be a Desoto Adventurer or Chrysler 300, after I:
A. Pay off property
B. Win the lottery,
C. Marry a rich young intelligent entrepreneurial super-model who loves me for my humor and marries me only because of a rare temporary lapse of poor judgment.
D. All of the Above.
Come to think of it, I probably am not going to get a convertible.
Rateria
I see, the trans am was a rare options and appearance package in 69 only and to have it as a convertible too would be rare indeed
Rateria
[quote=miri_islands;37454431]I got some clarifications.
He was working as a delivery driver at the time and dropped off a package at he guy's estate house. The guy had a for sale sign in his hand when my brother had him sign for the package. My brother was the right place at the right time, and said the right words. "I would keep the thing stock and only drive it to auto shows" -- something to that effect. That is when the guy mentioned the IRS breathing down his neck.
Joe Rogan's endorsement of Bernie literally means more than the NYT endorsing Warren and Klobuchar LMAO
Pevvania, Auxorii
[quote=narland;37460593][quote=miri_islands;37454431]I got some clarifications.
He was working as a delivery driver at the time and dropped off a package at he guy's estate house. The guy had a for sale sign in his hand when my brother had him sign for the package. My brother was the right place at the right time, and said the right words. "I would keep the thing stock and only drive it to auto shows" -- something to that effect. That is when the guy mentioned the IRS breathing down his neck. [/quote]
That's good, such a rare car needs to be preserved. My 68 was a 2bbl 350 V8 with 3 speed auto. nothing completely irreplaceable
I have a 1995 white mercury villager van. pretty sure its the only in the state.
So take that
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There's a reason it's the only one in the state
Meanwhile I just drive my 2015 Civic
Rateria
I just got my first "real" car six months ago, an 07 Honda Accord. Before that I was driving an 02 minivan I bought from my grandma for cheap lol
The New United States, Rateria
Good luck and God speed
The New United States, Rateria
Its got nearly 300,000 miles on it. We've abused this car quite terribly
Rateria
For years it would carry 6 people, a dog, all of their camping equipment, and an aluminum boat up a dirt road into the mountains.
Rateria
The early gen Firebirds/Camaros are fun cars to drive. I was too young for the Avanti and could never find an affordable one. My childhood dreamcar was a 1st gen Ford GT. Too bad the 70s happened.
I liked the AMX and Javelin. Too bad they didn't get any love from the press even though the Javelin had he best handling of the American muscle cars.
I never understood why the press went out of their way to besmirch the cars AMC got right -- until I got into politics.
New poll on the existence of white privilege in termsof culture and institutions
>no option for yes but its justified
Tupolite, Kongeriget Island
Cringe
Jadentopian Order
no
Kongeriget Island
RIP Kobe. My fav player growing up
Jadentopian Order
Oh boy oh boy another Trans Am owner
My dad has a '77 Trans Am that's currently being restored, and we have an '81 Trans Am courtesy car here in California. It runs like a dream but does about 13 MPG on the highway LOL. Still, it's both a beauty and a beast.
Narland
Firebird is a lot of fun to drive it's LS swapped now with a 4l60e 4 speed automatic overdrive and quite nimble. I don't get where the idea came from that muscle cars can't steer
Mine is unrestored, I hope with my engineering degree I'll get a job that can pay for a proper restoration. The body is potmarked with rust and the interior is in somewhat rough shape. I drive it every day though gets 25 highway
Pevvania
any spitfire fans here?
"Oh but Bernie's different"
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/480148-bernie-sanders-is-part-of-the-swamp
I can think of some reasons.
Enough people couldn't handle the power and anecdotal tales abounded about driving at 150 mph + into things. It is hard to negotiate a turn when accelerating at moonshot speeds. My neighbor drove a car with a 427 Cobra Jet into a bridge pylon, tossing the engine 1/4 mile down the road. At 135 mph a small correction can be more like a sharp turn. Miss it and you are off into the Great Dismal Swamp before you can blink.
Most base muscle cars doubled as a pony car (economy/commuter car -- underpowered straight 6, mush suspension, sloppy gearing). People would buy the smallest car possible, with the cheapest options with the the largest engine available. Throw out the low powered 6 and add a Hi-Pro V-8 without adjusting the drivetrain and suspension, and there can be problems.
Corvair had a hit job done too it by Nader, "Unsafe at Any Speed" that by extension tarred all American Cars, and like most leftist data suspect and decades later proved to be falsified. Corvair was not the best quality nor best engineered car, but because it was rear engine, people would buy it to drive like a bat out of Detroit.
Cars that could accelerate fastest were more profitable than engineering real American Gran Touring cars that could handle long and winding roads at top speeds at the expense of the 0-60 drag strip records.
I wish you well on the restoration. If you ever want to fix up a Barcelona made 1974 S.E.A.T. 124 Station Wagon I can show you where to dredge it out of the sea. :D Not that an owner who couldn't sell the thing would ever push his/her/its lemon, er... classic car over a cliff into the sea just to get rid of it. =/
https://mises.org/power-market/yes-college-professors-are-almost-all-left-wing
According to public records, among 12,372 professors at 124 top American colleges, the ratio of professors that donated to Dem candidates vs. to Republican candidates was 95:1. That is, over 2,000 of these academics donated to Dems, while a mere 22 donated to Republicans.
Gee, I wonder if that rubs off on the kids????
Narland, The United States Of Patriots
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The problem is even most private colleges recieve government funding, conservatives/ libertarians.are a threat to said funding therefore staff are more leftist
Narland
Young people are left-leaning before they go to college. If anything, college just cements that view. Look at the student demonstrations in the 60s. They're the ones that go to die overseas/see their friends die when war hawk politicians decide some backwater country of farmers needs glassed over. This generation of students was raised during a time when old conservative guys sat on TV and moaned about how Obama is a Muslim Communist. They saw politicians whine and cry about how gay marriage would destroy America. They saw the riots in Ferguson and the killings of Treyvon Martin and Eric Garner. It's really no shock to me that this generation is far more left leaning than before.
And yes, there is still college representation of conservative groups. I have to hear from those TPUSA dweebs all the time, and like every school has a young republicans club.
Rateria
All three of my professors this semester are blind leftists 3 weeks in and they're already on about white privilege, orange man bad, and much wage gap. I expected it from my sociology professor and anthropology professor but even my geography professor goes on about it
Narland, The New United States
Mine doesn't. We have Young Democrats and Democratic Socialists. I found the remains of a Facebook group of college Republicans, but they were routinely protested and eventually fizzled out. We're trying to start an LP affiliate here now. Just started making flyers
Narland, The New United States, Rateria
The problem with the nearest University is that their GOP club is full of RINOs, Neocons, and Nevertrumpers who snub radical republicans, paleoconservatives, and libertarian minded GOP. Anyone who doesn't love the anti-Conservative Romney, McCain, & Bush machines are snubbed or ignored. They at least have a decent Philosophy Club, an active YAL, and a fairly decent informal networking of Libertarians (both left and right leaning).
The New United States, Rateria
In order to destroy discrimination we must institutionalize it!
Miri Islands
Depends on their upbringing.
Children who are taught to be responsible adults upon emancipation with the expectation to run their own business or know how to contract their person and skill set in order to provide a product or service in sustainable economic exchange in so they can live their dreams, tend to be overwhelmingly conservative (American Conservative -- conserving Classical Liberalism).
Kids who grow up without any particular understanding of societal responsibility (making their way in the world) other than a vague expectation of "do what you want as long as you don't hurt anybody" so they can "get a job" working for someone else's vision; or worse, to be politically correct proles, do tend to lean left. But once they get out of their Statist incubators (Public Education) and have to enter the workforce (and reality), they tend to get more Conservative each time their ox is gored and every time they realize how badly they have been lied to by the Progressivist Narratives.
You tend to conflate American Conservatism with many unconservative examples. Only 1/3 of the GOP are Conservatives and over half of Democrats are illiberal. 2/3 of GOP are Illiberal Neoconservatives, Moderate Socialists, Slow Moving Progressivists, and/or purveyors of the Status Quo. American Conservatism seeks to conserve the Classical Liberal principles established into Law by the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, such as strongly shackled limited government, free and open markets, extreme liberty, unrelenting equality under law, and no entangling alliances with other nations.
Berate the GOP if you want, but please stop confusing them with American Conservatism. Principled Conservatives have not held power nationally in the GOP since WW2. A few have broken through the gauntlet at times, but they are few and far between. It is a good reminder that Bill Clinton presided over more Conservative legislation than either Bush XLI or Bush XLIII; and that Bush XLIII presided over some of the worst anti-Conservative legislation in US history (Homeland Security Act, so-called "Patriot" Act (which no Patriot in his right mind would pass). Clinton was also more economically Conservative than either Bushes as well. A Democrat got us into Viet-Nam, and establishment cronies of both parties ridiculously enriched themselves off of the Guns and Butter abuse of the American People. It was a GOP President, that got us out despite his otherwise being a totalitarian Statist who actually deserved impeachment.
Bush, Romney, and McCain are/were not Conservatives (Big C), but they appear conservative (Little c) because relatively they do not want the Progressivists to "lead" us into a Socialist/Communist hell overnight. But they are okay with setting up the Statist apparati to be slowly implemented over their lifetimes, passing the manacles to the next generation of tyrants to enforce. America has gotten so far to the insane left (Statist Totalitarian) that paleo-Liberals, paleo-Conservatives, and Libertarians can form alliances against them, and support at least some of President Trump's attempts at draining the Swamp.
Hello. Who are you again?
The New United States
The American political system is rotten to the core.
Sounds great for a Degree in Intersectional Geography with emphasis on Anglo-Ompaloompa Studies. Anyone with such a degree can proudly speak into the mic and say, "Do you want fries with that?."
The New United States, Miri Islands
If I recall correctly, Auxorii was the head of his local TPUSA chapter, was he not? Their running feud with that Nick Fuentes guy continues to provide much amusement.
The New United States
I can agree with you there. If you graduate with a degree in something like education, psychology, or sociology, your life is going nowhere at the speed of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
The New United States
Sociology maybe, but I can see demand for education (teachers) and psychology (well, psychologists.)
The best course of action would be to simply allow the market to allocate degrees based on actual demand. Is it because college loans are subsidized no matter what that allow people to make bad decisions regarding their education? Methinks so.
The New United States
You don't need a degree in education to be a teacher. All it will give you is an utterly dysfunctional idea of how a classroom and students should be managed to promote order and facilitate effective learning. As for psychology, parts of it have real use, specifically forensic psychology and physiological psychology, but much of the rest is just unverifiable abstract theoretical models, usually spun in a politicized leftist direction.
The New United States
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Basically, government handles all student loans and gives out money regardless of degree whereas private companies would only give money to those pursuing a degree that will actually give them their money back
Narland
TPUSA seems cool
Narland
This, we can finally agree on
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Methinks that youthinks correctly.
I think the worst of that type of educrat thinking is over (a degree for everything). There were over-schooled academicians back in the 70s (emboldened by Federal overreach of creating OSHA, EPA and Dept of Ed) that were talking about requiring 2 year degrees for numerous trades including truck drivers. I do not care if the conveyor of the goods to my store (and door) has an engineering degree or believes the earth is a cleverly disguised inverted pseudosphere made to look like a disk (those tricksy reptilians). I want the trucker with whom we share the road to be a safe reliable driver who knows his truck, knows the roads, and isn't easily distracted. You have to know the truck, know the roads, and not be easily distracted, and you do not need a 2 year degree for that.
Miencraft, Republic Of Minerva, Rateria, The United States Of Patriots
Drain the Swamp, and permanently evict all swamp creatures, except for Alec and Abby Holland, they have homestead rights.
The New United States
The USA is way too big to TP, I have to start smaller like maybe the Vatican or Andorra
Rateria, Highway Eighty-Eight
President Trump will be re-elected in a landslide
Miencraft, The New United States, Suzi Island, Rateria, Miri Islands, Kongeriget Island
Imagine a three-way debate between Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Virmin Supreme.
Rateria, Miri Islands
That's not fair to Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump!
Miencraft
I would rather hear a 3-way debate between Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and a philosophically principled Libertarian. Any philosophically principled Libertarian -- Randian, Rothbardian, Nozickian, Badnarikian. Just anybody who understands what it means to be a Libertarian, and not think it means some of the this from the Dems, and some of that from the GOP. We have had too much of "some of this" and "some of that" since the Civil War, and it is killing us.
The Libertarian should also:
>>> Have business ownership experience,
>>> Will hold the Federal Reserve and the Banksters responsible for their fraud and
>>> Is a major wrecking ball to the Statist establishment in real time.
Pevvania, The New United States
So John Mccafee?
Narland
I would consider voting for McCafee in 2024.
Right now Trump is what America needs -- a wrecking ball against over-regulation. But Trump is still a "free medicare for all from the public largess" guy.
Sanders is the wrong kind of wrecking ball. We do not need the foundations of Liberty and Equality destroyed for a new Feudalism. It took us (mankind) 6000 years (of recorded history) to get governments to recognize the right for an individual to govern himself according to the dictates of one's own conscience. We (Western Civ in general and U.S in particular) do not need a 372 year setback as seen in the former Soviet Union, East Germany, and Venezuela.
McCafee would need to roll up his sleeves and be willing to jump into the Swap and fight the swamp creatures in the same manner as Trump is trying to do (in the areas that Trump is trying to do).
The New United States
Does anyone else think that Justice Roberts is one of the Swamp Creatures?
The New United States
McAfee is a whackjob and shouldn't be anywhere near the White House.
The New United States
Unambiguously so.
Also, this.
Yes, but he has first hand experience in international incidents. That should count for something... ***Narland bakes some trollhouse cookies to pass around.***
I think there's situations where that happens.
If Biden wins the nom: I don't think this guy even has a chance against Trump. He's literally going around telling people to vote for Bernie and yelling at reporters. I don't need to say much.
If Warren wins the nom: Trump just has to call her Pocahontas for a few months. Progressive dems hate her now because she completely went back on the movement. She abandoned M4A and completely embarrassed herself with the whole "Bernie is a sexist" thing. I mean, who really believes a woman that lied about her race for year?
If Pete wins: He gets clobbered by Trump because he has a shady past and can't get anyone excited for him.
If Bernie wins: He's the only candidate that stands any chance. He's popular with independents and has been polling well against Trump.
Pevvania, Rateria
Bernie doesn't stand a chance. The reason he was so popular in 2016 was because of the stagnant Obama economy. People were fed up with capitalism and wanted to try socialism. Hillary lost against trump and trump brought a prosperous economy, those independents who were sick of the stagnant economy now want to keep the economy going and they will vote for trump as a result. I expect a landslide unless the economy crashes. With Corona virus going around it seems like a possibility
Narland, Republic Of Minerva
Yeah that's pretty accurate.
Rateria
I really think you're underestimating his popularity right now. No one else in that field is going to get youth turnout at a level that's going to be important, they just don't get anyone excited. Trump was similar in 2016, he moved people to vote. Even Tucker Carlson said something along the lines of like, "Don't be so certain about Trump being Bernie".
The Dems this year are pretty awful. They're a bunch of corporate puppets. It's been fun to watch some of them tank their campaigns though.
Pevvania, Rateria
I knew they weren't the same guy!
Narland, The New United States, Rateria, Jadentopian Order
God damn it
Miencraft, Rateria
It's the day before the election, Trump and Bernie seem neck to neck in the latest polls, even CNN polls. Virmin Supreme and his running mate John Mccafee have just crossed the 10% line for federal funding. The other 90% seems evenly 45 to 45...
But wait, a breakthrough CNN report says someone else just entered the race! Can it be... No, it couldn't... Oh my god it is! JEB BUSH COMES CRASHING INTO THE RACE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! HE'S UP IN FLORIDA! HE WINS CALIFORNIA AND NEW YORK! IT'S A LANDSLIDE! Ladies and gentlemen what a historic day in sportsmanship, let's turn to Joe Rogan for the post-election interview!
The New United States, Rateria, Miri Islands
Joe Rogan: Congratulations on winning, President-Elect Bush. Have you ever tried DMT?
The New United States, Skaveria
Trump has the deal sealed, and he never forgets those who stab him in the back. I think after the next election the Swamp is going to start getting a record amount of deep state pink slips.
The New United States, Miri Islands
Trump hasn't done anything for the second amendment or unjust laws and passed this anti semetism bill which violates the first amendment trump is nothing but a pawn for the deep state the only difference between democrats and republicans is how fast they will take away your freedom
Republic Of Minerva, Rateria
Congratulations to the UK on leaving the European Union and therefore being elevated to upper-third-world status.
Pevvania, Republic Of Minerva, The United States Of Patriots, Skaveria, Kongeriget Island
The amount of bureaucracy and votes it took is astonishing. The globalists really don't like democracy. "Yeah, you can vote, but if you vote wrong we'll do everything in our power to tie up the effects of that vote for so long that by the time we vote again, the demographics have changed so much that the vote goes the other way."
Kongeriget Island
The globalists own literally every choice people vote for if voting actually did anything we wouldn't be allowed to do it the only difference between politicians is how quickly you want your rights taken away
Who is going to win the super bowl?
I posted my opinion before but Im calling the Chiefs.
Any country with a monarchy can never really be apart of the first world
Miencraft, Highway Eighty-Eight
Yeah but at least they're better than other underdeveloped nations.
Maybe.
Hopefully.
I mean, even the most primitive of tribes knows how to write down how a government works, and the UK still hasn't figured that out, so maybe I'm giving them a bit too much credit.
I don't even know who's playing
How's that?
Post by Highway Eighty-Eight suppressed by a moderator.
Putting someone who has no qualification besides being born in the right family above the rest of the people is backwards
Auxorii
Post by Highway Eighty-Eight suppressed by a moderator.
I was going to make a comment like Even if youre inbred and barely functioning, youre still royalty but I think Ill take not being Charles II even if it means Im just a broke college student
The monarchs over there don't really have political power though. They just have cultural power. Basically they're just like anyone else except they get all their luxury stuffpaid for by the government and they get to meet world leaders.
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Soooo, they get put on a pedestal and everyones money goes to them for doing nothing?
Miencraft
Is it really any more backwards than letting the masses choose their demagogue every election to take from one and give to another?
Kongeriget Island
Yes.
The United States Of Patriots
I don't think it necessarily is. I'd much rather live in a small, constitutional monarchy like Luxembourg than in a centralized, mass-democratic hellhole like France.
Skaveria, Kongeriget Island
Pretty much
The New United States
I don't see how it's fair to criticize someone for wanting to spend on social programs and then be perfectly okay with pouring money into some rich dude's wine parties because he was born in the right family.
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That's a very biased image you're painting of what a democracy is vs what a monarchy is.
The fact is, democratic leaders are less likely to be invested in the long-term welfare of the nation because the horizon of their career is short and so is their window of opportunity to leech off of the taxpayer. Thus, their efforts are more likely to be focused on short-sighted but popular proposals (welfare! low interest rates! cancel the debt!) that might win them re-election and fatten their wallet, even at the long-term expense of the people's wellbeing. Democratic politics naturally lends itself to sycophants, demagogues, and looters out for their own gain. Just look at DC, friendo.
Monarchs are more invested in long-term prosperity and social stability because they usually seek to retain their crown and to pass it on to their posterity. I'd rather live under a half-decent monarch than under a demagogic parasite elected by the majority.
The less democratic we make America, and the closer we get to our original Republic, the freer our once-great nation will be.
Miri Islands, Kongeriget Island
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Because I'm an American, loyal to a people, place, and culture over any ideology.
That being said, there is obviously a range among both democratic and monarchical leaders. I think that Trump is definitely on the better end of American politicians, and I think many of his most egregious shortcomings as President, like pressuring the Fed to kick credit expansion into high-gear, have been due to the fact that he must short-sightedly do what will make him more viable for re-election.
The solution, drawing from our rich cultural heritage as Americans, is not to make the President into an FDR-esque dictator for life, but it is to return to our roots of limiting suffrage to those with the biggest stake in our nation's long-term prosperity. If voting rights were limited to those deeply invested in their communities' wellbeing - like property owners and military servicemembers and veterans - then I think a lot of our problems with the socialists would be solved.
EDIT:
I think it might even be a good idea to limit voting rights to heads of household that have a minimum number of children under their care. It'd encourage folks to have more children and ensure that those voting have a legitimate stake in the future of our nation. Say, a minimum of three or four children per parental couple, for instance, would grant those parents the right to vote. No more childless catladies and nihilistic weenies voting our great nation into socialist, progressive oblivion.
Miri Islands, Kongeriget Island
I don't agree with it. The monarchy should be abolished, even if it's constitutional. I'm just saying it's not like having an actual monarchy.
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As an Eagles fan it was nice to see Andy Reid win a ring
all of you "libertarians" are just neofeudalists in disguise.
Long live the Republic.
Rateria
I was shocked to learn that the UK didn't have a constitution. It's like they all kinda agree on some basic rules and are just winging it. I'm shocked they've come this far
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