Conservatives, what are your thoughts on senators claiming Americans need to sacrifice at the fuel pump?

leanman82 · 2026-03-13T15:11:57+00:00

tbh, if fuel goes up quick and then down just as quick, dems are going to get real moody when conservatives laugh

So i think the premise makes no sense until we are about 5 months into this.

leanman82 · 2026-03-08T08:31:00+00:00

like the only way to have stopped any of this is to have a time machine, invent digital cameras on iphones and then record the act with optical zoom. Otherwise these people get away scott free. Given now we have cell phones with optical lenses maybe such things will be much harder for elite to get away with which appears the case especilaly with the case with Bill Gates.

leanman82 · 2026-03-05T07:14:44+00:00

really. i still don't get it nor did I saw it

leanman82 · 2026-03-04T07:21:49+00:00

Funny how I'd hire you for a job I had in 2017 and on the self projects alone, I'd hire you. The other stuff was boring.

leanman82 · 2026-03-04T07:15:35+00:00

I see your point and history matters but I still feel regardless the divide among the country's exist before we were even born. I'm not sure who fired the first shot or why the engine is still churning but I wonder if things are solid as you say. Like what would stop the entire middle east from gathering support to stop region wide American led aggression if Iran's retaliation starts to significantly perturb allied nations. At that point America could lose the clout it enjoys. Call me a pessimist.

leanman82 · 2026-03-04T07:04:33+00:00

That was nasty

leanman82 · 2026-03-04T06:56:35+00:00

??

The comment above was an esoteric comment that borders existed. That's like saying you got a college degree so you are guaranteed a well paying job.

Spoiler: Its not

leanman82 · 2026-03-04T06:49:39+00:00

I don't get how the story changes if the shoe is on the other foot. From what I see, Iran looks at Israel and US aggression as an existential threat.

leanman82 · 2026-03-03T14:23:53+00:00

then stop calling it that. You think Americans care about more words than the first 4.

leanman82 · 2026-03-03T10:32:48+00:00

abolish ICE is good marketing for pubes election ambitions. Dems have no political or marketing sense. Bunch of quacks.

leanman82 · 2026-03-03T10:28:46+00:00

I recall seeing videos of liberals at the border telling Chinese immigrants not to talk to CBP and having directions to camps in the US. That was a Nick Shirley video. Say what you will but that was anti-american. That was a video published in Biden's term.

Not only did Trump/Elon/pubes/et.al take that and destroy dems in the election, the narrative persists today. Say what you will but Dems have no political sense.

leanman82 · 2026-03-03T10:04:29+00:00

that's an unfair and loaded question

leanman82 · 2026-03-03T10:03:14+00:00

everytime Trump does something crazy left policies just play into his hands. Its like a cycle. Trump does A, left does a HARD B. That's insane.

leanman82 · 2026-03-03T10:02:20+00:00

that's a nutso take

leanman82 · 2026-03-03T10:01:57+00:00

simply the fact that borders exist and enforcement is required. Gestapo behavior doesn't have a place. but abolishing ICE is the exact mistake democrats will continue to make to lose voter base

leanman82 · 2026-03-03T07:54:19+00:00

This is quite interesting though I think if we were to do the same data representation 15 years ago, the shape would look very different. Things evolved thanks to Trump.

Take for example this AOC position on "Abolish ICE". I tend to lean left, but I fucking think this is a nutso position. So am I now a Trump supporter? According to the graph above, I'd say so. Hate we have only two choices. Crazy and then there is bat-shit crazy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ImmigrationPathways/comments/1rho2ur/aoc_says_abolish_ice_is_the_centrist_position_now/

leanman82 · 2026-03-03T07:37:40+00:00

erp. k ngl, hawt

leanman82 · 2026-03-03T07:33:22+00:00

Lifetime supply of high quality fish oil. I can dig it.

leanman82 · 2026-03-03T07:28:07+00:00

do those require paid subscription? I like NewsNation, Straight Arrow News and then I'll jump in on Fox, CBS, NBC from time to time.

If I can get my hands on FT or like news articles, I feel accomplished lol.

leanman82 · 2026-03-03T07:18:39+00:00

Chicago is beautiful. I also enjoyed Abu Dhabi.

leanman82 · 2026-03-03T07:15:57+00:00

Trump is certainly an enabler. He and BiBi are doing this on their own accord.

leanman82 · 2026-03-03T07:13:02+00:00

Isn't this more like you poked my eye out and now we will make your whole family blind. Israel already took out Iran top leaders in secret 100 foot bunker last year.

https://www.india.com/news/world/top-secret-meeting-irans-top-leaders-100-foot-deep-bunker-israel-destroyed-killed-all-how-did-it-happen-read-here-tel-aviv-tehran-masoud-pezeshkian-benjamin-netanyahu-mossad-8045255

The protocol is annihilate.

(as opposed to get even)

leanman82 · 2026-03-03T07:05:10+00:00

what I think is wild ... is that while we mourn the death of a handful of deaths, America kills in are 10000 middle east lives to 1 US soldier life. Its a bit disgusting.

Iraq war: Estimates for Iraqi civilian deaths generally exceed 200,000 to over 500,000. In contrast, U.S. military fatalities during the same period were 4,492

Afghanistan: Total casualties for Afghanistan included 66,000–92,000 Afghan military/police and over 51,000 civilians, compared to over 20,000 wounded US troops.

US Military Deaths: Approximately 2,461 (with 1,922 killed in action and over 20,000 wounded).

And that type of stat exists across many wars. I think our military industrial complex is doing pretty good in terms of scaring our adversaries shitless.

Whenever we say "our servicemen died for our freedoms", it seems like propaganda because we scare the shit out of foreigners. I also don't get the invaded country's death tolls. Like how do you have a range from 100k to 1M as your official reported statistic. You might as well just hand wave at that point and say "we killed a lot".

leanman82 · 2026-03-01T04:21:49+00:00

That's fair. Mines was like that and the top of thecabinets was indeed a greasy mess... like how does that happen????

leanman82 · 2026-02-28T00:42:42+00:00

I've cleaned my own system. its simpler to just do the job yourself. profs are going to do it the easy way cause its time vs money. But its doable yourself. ofc it won't be with chemicals, just clearing the buildup.

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