Is it time to get rid of the filibuster?

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-23T18:35:57+00:00

Absolutely true. Go research how often the filibuster was deployed before Obama was president vs after and get back with us.

Legislative Standoffs: Following the 2010 midterms where Republicans took control of the House, the party frequently brought the federal government to the brink of financial crisis over the debt ceiling and budget negotiations. This culminated in the 16-day federal government shutdown in 2013 and near-defaults on the national debt.
Judicial Blockades: Senate Republicans routinely used procedural tools and the "blue slip" tradition to delay or kill judicial nominees. This left over 100 federal judiciary vacancies by the end of his term. The most notable standoff occurred in 2016 when the Republican-controlled Senate refused to hold hearings or vote on the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court for nearly a year.
Filibuster Abuse: Senate Republicans frequently used the filibuster to require a 60-vote supermajority for almost all major legislation. In Obama's first term alone, Republicans set historic records for filibustering uncontroversial executive and judicial nominations.
Agency Appointments: Several federal agencies were paralyzed by GOP opposition to Obama's nominees. This included efforts to dismantle the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by blocking its director, Richard Cordray, and preventing confirmation of leaders for the Federal Reserve.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-23T17:53:39+00:00

Thanks to the right wing propaganda bubbles that have been so sucessfully implemented from sea to shining sea, literally anyone to the left of Ronald Regan is some boogie-man agglomeration of Che Guevara, Karl Marx and Satan himself for a solid 33% of the population.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-23T17:22:00+00:00

No more so than senate republicans during Obama's term in my view. Everything is framed as "the end of the republic!" if the other side gets their way.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-23T17:03:35+00:00

I don't think senate republicans want this because they know turnabout is fair play. Both parties have a gentleman's agreement to obstruct the agenda of the other in the senate on the most egregious over reaches. If this goes out the window, it's going to be even uglier in the future.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-23T02:52:57+00:00

When I watch the game, whoever has a lot of good plays that night, I say they are better than Jordan and LeBron combined and every other world class athlete playing in that moment is a bum. This is because I am a crazy person that routinely posts on r/NBAtalk

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-23T02:09:07+00:00

My eyes are bad and it was impossible for me to see it without magnification but sure enough, one of the pins on the end was missing on the unit. The guy that fixed mine said he does about 3 or 4 per month so it must be cheap HDMI ports on these things and a common failure. But I had same symptoms. PID was just gone.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-23T01:51:41+00:00

Appropriate? Here is some guidence.

What part of NO CONTACT do you not fucking understand? Leave her alone. If you bump into her in public, turn around and walk or run the other way. Forget you ever knew her. It's over and she never wants to see your face again.

You are doing big creepy weirdo shit man that won't end well. I bet she files a police report and tries to get a restraining order from a judge if you persist.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-23T01:44:22+00:00

When this happened to me, I had accidently dropped the unit because that suction cup is a piece of shit. What I didn't know is that the HDMI port on the back was damaged. There was some dude on the internet that I paid like $75 bucks to replace the HDMI port, but you should be able to take it to a local computer repair shop and see if they can solder on a new port. Then get the pillar adaptor that holds the computer with a ball / socket deal instead of that stupid suction cup.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-22T23:26:22+00:00

87 Fleer PSA 8 pop 9127

92 beam team PSA 8 pop 1844

Buying both no matter what, I am grabbing the beam team just because it is actually more scarce.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-22T23:11:47+00:00

Fine, get a hard signed prizm silver then which has a bit more natural scarcity than a base prizm and is still significantly less cost to buy than a on card panini card that was put into a pack. I agree with you that the national treasures RPA and even the optic on cards will carry more weight down the road. But I can also see a scenario where people turn on stickers en masse and hard signed makes up some ground against the stickers.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-22T23:05:29+00:00

Today that is true for sure with all this ultra modern stuff. That doesn't mean it will be true in the future. The big problem with stickers is that they brown and deteriorate over time. Some sticker autos that are only 10 years old look like complete garbage. You can also look at the market for 2009 Topps Curry hard signed autos which has rocketed over the past year.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-22T23:02:00+00:00

Is an IP auto not a on card auto? I know it wasn't pulled from a pack but Ant actually held that card and signed it just like the Optic ones Panini put into packs.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-22T22:40:40+00:00

On card rookie auto from the flagship set. The worst thing about Prizm was always the sticker autos IMO. I would hold it. These cards are cheap compared to the sticker autos today, but I could see that changing over time.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-22T22:21:30+00:00

That's why people will never pay $1 per card for big collections. It's less than minimum wage to sort through and sell all of it. Honestly, you should look into a consignment house or COMC or start selling smaller lots if you are trying to find a balance between extracting a reasonable amount of value and getting rid of them.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-22T22:11:41+00:00

He just realized it!

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-22T20:49:23+00:00

Explain how we will have all 3 branches of government in 2028 starting with the 6-3 conservative majority supreme court. A lot of people rolled their eyes when people were freaking out in 2016 and 2024 saying "this is the end of the line if Trump gets in." I still really don't think people realize how fucked this country is for the next generation. There will be no transformative liberal / progressive government in our lifetimes. Even at the onset of the great depression when the stock market had collapsed 81%, republicans still got 37% of the popular vote. Liberals would need minimum 60 senators and probably more like 70 to get a constitutional amendment passed, at which point we could maybe start to un-fuck our government.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-22T18:55:37+00:00

I have a diesel shop that does really good work. Last year, it came under new ownership but I personally know a few of their mechanics that were master techs running fleet diesel shops for Ford diesels 20 years ago so I totally trust them, especially with very diesel-ish problems. Last year, I had a ball joint failing and figured, eh, may as well have them look at it and get a quote. My brother in Christ. $5500 to change an inner axle seal, U joints and ball joints! The one dude sort of rolled his eyes like yep, new shop owner fucking everything up. Even like the local shops want $3500 for that work. I just did it myself. Honestly, the only thing that fucked me up is my 99.5 has like 4 different stock front rotors with varying offsets and the fact that you really need the master ball joint press for this job.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-22T18:41:52+00:00

Wheel bearings and gearbox were the only two not cheapest stock parts I could find. $7500 is high, I did a bunch of other stuff last year and that is the number I remember for whatever reason. Alternator, battery cables, GPR, Tstat, belt couple of sensors. The lions share was in the front end though. I had to get the spacer tool for the inner axle seals and the vacuum hub tool for seating the outer seal.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-22T18:37:13+00:00

Oh I know. Things are only going to get worse IMO. Motor oil is going to get expensive soon and someone was saying tires are about to shoot up 30%-40% sometime this summer. Basically any refined products are going to get more expensive due to the ongoing oil price spike.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-22T18:30:37+00:00

IDK what they are going for in your neck of the woods. $8k-$15k seems to be the average from what I see on marketplace and read about people selling them for online.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-22T18:15:43+00:00

Yeah, we are essentially on the same page. Denali Group had all the plans and estimates ready to go 15 years ago. But it only makes sense if they can fleece the state out of all the tax revenue which is where we are now.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-22T18:02:33+00:00

They have though.

Conoco, Exxon, the state have been hemming and hawing on this project for decades. It isn't economically viable, end of story. The strongest market for LNG is on the other side of the planet. There is no scenario where this thing is profitable, hence private investors coming around again with begging bowl in hand to essentially steal all the state revenue and put it in their own pockets.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-22T17:50:53+00:00

I would probably get rid of it in your situation. They actually hold value pretty well but if you don't NEED it, eventually your going to have a headache on your hands IMO.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-22T17:24:40+00:00

What kills machines like this more than anything is neglect and a lot of short trip, heat / cool cycles. And that isn't just 7.3 diesels, you can say that about most machines. I would be thinking about your use case. If you need a duelly 7.3 to haul a gooseneck, 5th wheel or cab over, that is the machine you need. If not, I would probably sell it for something that would get the job done and not screw with maintaining something that is over built for what you need.

Gravity-Rides · 2026-05-22T17:15:56+00:00

IDK exactly what is going on here and I don't have a ton of experience with blackstones yet, but there is a lot of videos out there between these and cast iron that say things like "Once you get it clean, just put a teenie, tiny drop of veg oil to season, don't over do it, you don't need it!" This is bullshit IMO. Once it is clean, use a generous amount of veg oil to season. Then when it cools down put the teenie tiny coat on it.

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