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Why do you think he's always in front of the bathroom mirror?

I have a feeling she's metaphorically referring to her default status as a woman.

Last time I got Arbys, there was like 12” black hair in my sandwich.

Probably because they had no idea if the locals already had an operation underway. It can't be understated how colossally inept the local PD had to be to have a federal agency that wasn't specifically trained for these kind of situations move in over them.

I think what Doomy is getting at (without knowing he's getting at it) is that being a virgin is kind of integral to who he is, as a function of his self-perceived problems with connecting with women. Like how he doesn't want to date a woman until he has his own place or how he could never talk to the girl he had a crush on until he found out she was already seeing someone else, it's about him not being confident enough to read body language or to interpret innuendo and how he fears being exposed as clueless by that question.

I'll never joke about an NFL player showing advanced stages of mental decline like Herschel Walker, but it was pretty clear he's not competent well before this latest... whatever that is.

Can't be overstated how police forces throughout the country have swelled their ranks with singularly unqualified people, and, like you said, that's a good thing if you're trying to suppress people rather than help them.

You know... maybe the morale problem with the police is because they know they're a bunch of cowards.

That was probably directed at his own party as much as it was to the others. Again, it's not a question of what he can or can't do, as much as how far he's willing to go. I could be channeling my inner Nabs, but it's really time that team blue starts treating this like a blood sport. Start pushing through draconian laws directed at firearm manufacturers regardless of whether or not they have the legal jurisdiction to do so, and, in particular, do it in a way that allows a state to attack a national enterprise. Newsome had a good idea when he came up with a law that would allow murder victims families to sue a gun manufacturer, in the vein of Abbot's absurd abortion rule.

This thread was not the pay off I was hoping for. As far as tasteless troll bait, there is so much more this could have been.

What does it mean to be desensitized?

I'll allow it.

Not surprised enough, but there are far more conservative western states then one would think.

A lot of those states are already fairly liberal though. I think what we're all dancing around is the choice to go winner-take-all or to be principled. It's no secret that Republicans as a whole are unprincipled and generally craven, and for the most part the Democrats lose out because they're note willing to play. Voting progressive doesn't change that, and ultimately part of the reason Pelosi, Schumer and the Democrats push progressives to the side is because of the belief that saymaintain a relatively malleable center makes it easier to get an Democratic agenda through Congress not for any explicit disdain for progressive causes. But, what that really says is that we as progressive voters don't seem particularly interested reason the same aggressive and craven approach to politics. Say what you want about RAC_G, but her batshit craziness is more in line with current politics than even what most progressives propose for the simple fact she frames it as a true us versus eeveryone else at the voter level rather than a generic us versus "unreasonable" or "bigotted" or whatever socially undesirable people are hiding in plain sight. This is the real dilemma for modern progressives and it poses a rather unpalatable answer to the question of "what do we need to do to change the system?".

Perhaps the goal all along was to outlaw abortion so there are enough replacements when the mass school shootings, wildfire apocalypses, cat 5 hurricane trainss, and maskless pandemic political conventions inevitably cull the great white herd.

One spell is all you need,

You do have a thing for... strong... women.

O M F G It's stupid, and yet's its absolutely glorious.

Is that supposed to be a pick up line?

Easy there, Shrek…. Nobody considers the Daily Mail or Business Insider journalism.

Meanwhile.... LFR posts a cryptic ✌️on his twitter account for no reason at all.

What does it have to do with my "word salad" post?

If you were proven right, why aren’t we drilling more oil now instead of you making the same exact argument?

Yeah..... not so much. The problem is that the people that are most complaining about oil prices rarely connect it to the actual act of drilling. Case in point... you can find a ton of Orange County (CA) residents complaining about oil prices, but you're not going to find any of the ones living in heavily conservative Huntington Beach who would gladly allow for more drilling offshore. Similarly, the biggest point of contention with the Keystone XL was that the pipeline was traveling across reservations at several points and, not surprisingly, the people on those reservations had far less need for the gas than the fear they had of a major leak fouling up their local rivers. Besides the fact that the term "peak oil" is entirely hypothetical, it assumes that no further reserves are viable which is its own subjective definition. But we're getting into the weeds here. Your contention is that we can increase oil production, and that is extremely problematic. The fact is, we're at a point where the technology to more efficiently extract oil comes at an increasingly higher cost. It's not longer just pumping oil, it's extracting oil. The reality is that we probably can't extract much more oil because that would involve drilling or extracting oil in places where the methods are not very popular. As far as we know, the Los Angeles Metropolitan region still holds some of the highest reserves of oil in the country, but there's no way you would ever convince the local residents, let alone the state itself, to ever allow additional wells. The cost of first getting local governments to buy in, then build state-of-the-art wells with increasingly strict protections, then fighting off years of civil litigation makes increasing production less than viable. That mean, by definition, we have reached peak oil in this area because the returns will be diminishing should someone pursue adding oil. If you're going based off the current surge, that's misleading. The price of crude oil on the open market doesn't reflect the cost of the manufacturing of gas or the cost of processed fuel on the open market. You're not going to necessarily make more producing oil in a market where gas prices are astronomical. So, in fact, nothing you said is actually going to happen like you said it would. People screaming for lower gas prices in Colorado aren't going to make the people living off the California coast more inclined to allow for more drilling nor will the make people living on reservations in the Dakotas more inclined to allow toxic spills on their lands, nor will it make those who live in the fracking country comfortable with the prospect of 6.0 or even a 7.0 earthquake. You're basing your opinion completely based on the people in your bubble.