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Old 05-12-2022, 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Bajingo
How high do gas prices have to be for us to start fiery but mostly peaceful protests?

I'm pretty ready when me car costs $50 to fill.
Only $50? I'm happy when it's under $85. $6.00/gallon gas purchase yesterday...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/biden-oil-lease-gas-prices

Biden cancels massive oil and gas lease sale

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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
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but inflation is our strength.


Biden: "The number one threat is the strength, and that strength that we've built is inflation."
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Originally Posted by cordycord
Only $50? I'm happy when it's under $85. $6.00/gallon gas purchase yesterday...
My 911 took $85 to fill yesterday.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
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Rep. Katie Porter says she feels frustration, anger and disappointment over the looming decision to overturn Roe v. Wade as she thinks also about the “long-term economic consequences” of women no longer being in control of their own healthcare. The issues of inflation and abortion rights, she says, are linked and “reinforce for people just how big of a responsibility it is to take care of a family.”
If we breed more and then sacrifice those virgins, we can solve inflation.
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when you accidentally do a journalism.

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But don't worry, it has nothing to do with spending. it's the war in Ukraine that we need to send $40 billion for (more than the DHS annual budget)


“The bass majority of the, of the eh er uh economists think this is gonna be a tough problem to solve. But it's not because of spending.”
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Originally Posted by Braineack
My 911 took $85 to fill yesterday.
One week from today, I'm going to fly to Salt Lake City and rent a class C RV.

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(Get in, losers. We're going to, uhm, the best... economy, and we all the time.)
Without commenting upon the still-ongoing debate as to whether widespread and coordinated fraud changed the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential election, I find this shirt amusing:



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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
One week from today, I'm going to fly to Salt Lake City and rent a class C RV.
Unless I go to the truck stop there's no gas stations that can fill my work truck on one card swipe. ~200 to fill. 10.8mpg which honestly is pretty good for a 16k lb truck.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
One week from today, I'm going to fly to Salt Lake City and rent a class C RV.
Where are you headed? South to Moab, Zion and the rest? North to Yellowstone? Even a short trip to Heber Valley is beautiful in Utah (used to live there).
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Without commenting upon the still-ongoing debate as to whether widespread and coordinated fraud changed the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential election, I find this shirt amusing:


I watched "2000 Mules" and the publicly-available geotracking of people that visited more than 10 ballot boxes as well as the organizations that coordinated ballot harvesting is compelling, to say the least. That six states stopped counting ballots all at once at 2am for the first time in the history of voting--and also went from "Trump is winning" to "Biden is winning" overnight also tells me that our system is rigged.
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Originally Posted by Bajingo
Unless I go to the truck stop there's no gas stations that can fill my work truck on one card swipe. ~200 to fill. 10.8mpg which honestly is pretty good for a 16k lb truck.
Yup. My truck is at 1/2 tank, and I'm planning to top it off today. Will probably take two card swipes. My NB street car took almost $50 last week.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
One week from today, I'm going to fly to Salt Lake City and rent a class C RV.
If you're going to Bryce, or Capitol Reef, I can recommend a couple decent, out of the way RV parks.
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Originally Posted by cordycord
Where are you headed? South to Moab, Zion and the rest? North to Yellowstone.
Still working on the specifics. Broadly speaking, spending a week in the Moab region.

Will probably avoid Arches, and head towards Canyonlands, Dead Horse, etc. Planning to be pretty much off-grid the whole time. (no hookups, etc.)

While I expect to encounter relatively few people, it seems reasonable to assume that some of those whom I cannot avoid will have political opinions which differ from my own, while others will be of a similar mindset.

Even leftists go camping.





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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Still working on the specifics. Broadly speaking, spending a week in the Moab region.

Will probably avoid Arches, and head towards Canyonlands, Dead Horse, etc. Planning to be pretty much off-grid the whole time. (no hookups, etc.)

While I expect to encounter relatively few people, it seems reasonable to assume that some of those whom I cannot avoid will have political opinions which differ from my own, while others will be of a similar mindset.

Even leftists go camping.

Is this a camping / coming out party Joe? And does Peter Thiel know he needs to change his political affiliation?
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Originally Posted by cordycord
Is this a camping / coming out party Joe? And does Peter Thiel know he needs to change his political affiliation?
No, I just feel obligated to include some kind of vaguely political content which is relevant to the topic of conversation when I post in this thread, and gay rights is still a relevant and controversial political topic.

This was one of the very few non-pornographic images I came up with on a web search for "lesbian RV camping."

I have no idea what Peter Thiel has to do with it.

But since lesbian campers clearly isn't your thing, we'll go back to basics with a picture of a cat:




This cat is strongly in support of H.R.3755, aka the Women's Health Protection Act, which, rather puzzlingly, states that governments may not limit "a health care provider’s ability to provide abortion services via telemedicine."

What I want to know is how you perform an abortion over the phone or via Zoom / Facetime / etc.

That would be impressive.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
One week from today, I'm going to fly to Salt Lake City and rent a class C RV.
I own a Class A... life is great
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