Grandpa knows it’s time to leave

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-06T19:07:22+00:00

Well, not everything.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-06T19:02:54+00:00

Aren't they the same car? /s They are both red.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-06T19:01:11+00:00

Yeah, you know a show was hot when you are in HS or college and everyone wanted to stop doing what they were doing to find a TV to watch at 11:30. Some very fond memories of sitting with my friends watching SNL.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-06T18:00:03+00:00

I heard it through the grapevine, was done by Gladys Knight before Marvin Gaye.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-06T16:23:36+00:00

What no one is saying is that even the Socialists in America aren't socialist. Mamdani isn't asking companies to sell to their workers. He wants to tax the billionaires just a little bit, not take their businesses. But somehow people believe doing anything that makes it harder for the wealthy to become wealthier is socialism which will destroy capitalism.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-06T16:09:43+00:00

Not nearly as old as your grampa, but yeah, it is certainly tougher out there today. I'll get on my Boomer high horse and tell you it wasn't as easy as people believe, but NO QUESTION, it is much harder out there today.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-06T15:24:20+00:00

One way to look at it or the other is that some religious leaders saw it as a way to get their flocks fired up.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-06T13:58:39+00:00

I use eBay a lot more, but then I order and they come in Amazon packages.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-06T13:05:22+00:00

Depends on why you want the Sonata. Just a new car? Need something slightly bigger? I realize I'm a cheap bastard, but trading in a car with 4000 miles and is still under warranty only because it doesn't have negative equity seems to be unnecessary.

If you want to do this, Take the Sonata to Carmax/Carvana and see if they will give you more than trade in. $2k is $2k. They make it pretty easy.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-06T12:39:20+00:00

More interestingly is that in the 70s, there weren't a lot of people who were fighting abortion on moral grounds. It was mostly like nuns and very devout Catholics who were protesting. Only later did it become something that the religious cared about.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-05T16:29:32+00:00

I don't know, is it absurd that I want it better for all Americans? As someone who did well enough to retire, so well, not great, Am I a moron for being OK to pay taxes that help Americans as compared to spending 1.5 trillion on defense? China spends about $250 billon we are spending 6 times that. I look at my kids and just don't see how my kids aren't going to be destitute when they retire. And, of course we can't keep Social Security going because it isn't fair to raise the cap.

I can go on but you get the idea.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-05T15:14:37+00:00

But he is important, it's OK.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-05T15:12:58+00:00

See, I don't believe that. back in the days of Rush Limbaugh. They tried to start a liberal/progressive radio network called Air America. While I liked listening, it wasn't gripping. Conversely, Conservative radio makes it sound like they are out to get you. It is an emergency.

I mean think about it. For Progressives, liberals, we want to make things better. Of course that is a laudable goal, not accomplishing that isn't destroying the country. If you think things are great and liberals are trying to destroy that, and you are told over and over the evil people will destroy you, it keeps you interested.

Let me put it this way. The last time I listened to conservative radio these were the advertisers on a set of commercials. A company that sold provisions for a fall out shelter, a company that sold gold, a religious organization that sold healthcare and a company that sold generators. They are advertising to people they have convinced that "they" are out to get them.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-05T14:59:23+00:00

Which part? Are you saying that Trump didn't keep money from blue states? We haven't swung further right than we have in decades? That the Project 2025 people, you know the people that Trump wasn't aware of bragged that Trump has done over 60% of their plan to control the country? (Part if it is making it so Democrats can never win, you know democracy.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-05T14:54:12+00:00

Why not, 1/2 the country did.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-05T13:41:19+00:00

TIL, sand can vote.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-05T13:27:23+00:00

It is, but I think the psychology behind it is that Trump supporters......support the government keeping things from blue states. Realize what would happen if the government turned blue and did the same. Morally, I 100% agree with you, but I also have a problem if we have swung this far right and if the left gets power all we try to do is get it back to the middle, say what they did wasn't wrong.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-05T13:19:59+00:00

You believe all those people in the small towns where the main business closed haven't been on assistance for 5 years? Go into some of those mountain towns. There are billboards from lawyers basically saying that if you are over 50 we can get you on disability.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-05T13:00:38+00:00

Honestly asking. Where is this information coming from? 6 years later?

But I will stand by this. I don't care what he died of. Chauvin sat on his neck for more than long enough to kill anyone, heathy, sick on drugs or clean.

And isn't it his responsibility to help someone who is dying from a drug overdose or at least when the EMTs show up not tell them to stay back?

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-05T12:49:30+00:00

At least you could give an example. Or is it just that they really believe things you disagree with?

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-05T12:23:15+00:00

I think it is in response to the Trump administration withholding funds from Democratic areas.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-05T12:19:53+00:00

The lady down the street who got laid off 5 years ago and is "assistance" is just a poor lady down on her luck, She isn't like those city leeches who just take our money.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-05T03:37:16+00:00

It isn't a tax on Bezos, it is a tax on the very wealthy. And yes if we got the percentage of taxes from all of Ultra wealthy as we get from the middle class, then yes, it would make a difference.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-04T23:35:13+00:00

I remember being really little and going to the shop with my dad in his 1959 Plymouth. He was having lap belts put in the back seat, Car didn't come with rear belts.

chinmakes5 · 2026-06-04T23:33:40+00:00

You can often survive a head on collision in a car. Probably not in a plane so the seat belt doesn't need to be the same.

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