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  • in reply to: Is Governor Newsom to blame for brazen theft? #8209
    LegendLegend
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    Looks good to me.  Send the gov to D.C.

     

     

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    in reply to: Nikki Haley, third party? #8208
    LegendLegend
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    I thought Haley’s showing was relatively strong.

    I do think that we are seeing a hollowing out of the middle aisle.

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    in reply to: Nikki Haley, third party? #8199
    LegendLegend
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    I probably haven’t thought it through, but she probably would out Biden over the top if so. Manchin would have probably put trump over the top.

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    LegendLegend
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    Hard for me to see how Trump’s actual policy agenda is more dangerous than the current agenda.

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    in reply to: NYT/Siena poll has Trump with a +5% lead #8195
    LegendLegend
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    America loves a comeback. His bandwagon may fill up more still.

    People easily forget that, despite the gnashing of teeth once Covid and the Floyd riots were in full sway, Trump was viewed as likely to be reelected.

    Hard to believe that this is where we are now, but there is a swelling “anyone but Biden” vote as well.

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    in reply to: Harvard professor finds no racial bias in police shootings #8161
    LegendLegend
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    It’s shocking, shocking that the proprietors of the plantation don’t want the slaves to leave it.

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    in reply to: Biden is old, incompetent, forgetful says the court #8146
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    Dotard

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    in reply to: Biden is building the Wall #8125
    LegendLegend
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    Did Kamala ever report on the root causes?  I seem to recall that was her responsibility early in the administration.

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    in reply to: Who in the hell? #8123
    LegendLegend
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    Sotomayor is “tired,” “traumatized” and “fighting.”

    The language of a leftist never leaves us.

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    in reply to: Weaponizing the Internal Revenue Service #8113
    LegendLegend
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    The judge thought so too. She complained about the prosecutors only bringing one count.

    The smugness of the perp with his “wrong thing for the right reasons” rationale is sickening. He abused a position of trust in order to advance his political motives.

    And, the press that went right along with it can bite me, too. Rachel Maddow waving Trump’s illegally obtained tax return comes to mind. I believe in a free press, and a free press should be a restraint on state power not a conduit of it!

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    in reply to: Rich people are leaving California #8112
    LegendLegend
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    13+ percent state income tax. That is just shocking.

    I’m in my “prime earning years” and would really struggle with a state that taxes income that highly. If nothing has changed, CA still has no long term capital gains rate either.

    I guess you really have to love it. And, I know plenty of people who do. They would tell me that they can make way more money in California than elsewhere. I get that, or used to.

    Meanwhile I partially operate through an S-Corp that my state taxes income from at a flat 3%.  that’s a full 10 percentage points below the CA marginal rate.  I’m small fry when it comes to business and that delta is the equivalent of roughly a year earlier retirement for every year I work.

    My in-laws live in Southern California and I have had to explain to them that it would be massively costly for me to move our family there.  Not to mention I would be a felon because I do stuff that California hates like paint my own cars, change my own oil, and own firearms with detachable magazines and things that go up.

    And, yes I love the weather in the Bay Area when I visit.

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    in reply to: Are EVs a fad? #8096
    LegendLegend
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    Fad?  I don’t think so.

    I do think EVs are way over specified currently. The use case for EVs is way narrower than for ICEs and hybrids. If you want an EV you have to understand the use case and the limitations.

    People have been surprised that the Ford F150 lightning EV truck crashed and burned so quickly, but anybody who looked at the use case knew that the customer base for that truck was really really narrow. The use case for a pickup truck that has limited range that diminishes substantially while towing is narrow.  Some people bought them, some people love them I’m sure, but if you like to take your truck camping with a camper in tow, and you like to do it more than a hundred miles from home; you aren’t buying the EV.

    The EVs out there sound like really great cars. They are just really great within a narrower envelope of duty than what ICEs can currently cover.

     

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    in reply to: Departures from downtown San Francisco #8078
    LegendLegend
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    spend billions of dollars to “stop” anything and you are bound to get more of it.

    [quote quote=8031]Despite billions spent, new data shows almost a third of the nation’s homeless now live in California. That’s 181,000 people, folks.

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    LegendLegend
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    When all we do is sow distrust in our fellow citizens, this is the obvious outcome.

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    in reply to: Legend – Scotch taste test #8044
    LegendLegend
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    I think I’m going to go get a shot of laphroaig from my stock after reading your post, mick. I’m on the EC so it’s way past time. 🙂

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