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  1. Pence will be passive-aggressive and just stay home.
  2. Plus, while everything with Trump is transactional, it’s all on his terms - you give him money, he gives you what he wants to give you, which may not be what you want. Just ask all of the contractors who have taken him to court, the January 6 idiots who end up with jail time and felony records while he fundraisers off of them, the people who relied on his failed businesses for a paycheck, etc.
  3. Frank Zappa jamming with some non-drug-oriented psychedelic band and the drummer is wondering if he can roll Zappa up and smoke him.
  4. There’s all this talk of this Marchioness person pegging people, but I don’t see any pics that could help me decide whether to care or not.
  5. James Marsden ain’t going to come out of this in a positive light. If I was his agent or PR rep, this would be me right now
  6. I tell the MAGA types/olds about the concept of GDPR and they are like "wow that sounds awesome, why aren't we doing it?" and I tell them "because Congress won't, even though it's present in Europe" and then it's all "Oh, the Europeans have GDPR, no thanks"
  7. in longer segments/translations, he even mentions that they will be patient and will get their revenge.
  8. It doesn't seem to have tow hooks, it has a ridiculously small bed, which goes away if you buy a spare tire that can only be stored in the truck bed, because God forbid you have a problem with a tire and have to change a tire on the side of the road in the middle of Bumfuck, nowhere. And numerous other things, none of which make people think "wow, that's new and works so much better than the F-150 I normally drive!" Unless paying thousands of dollars extra for a tent that looks like shit is revolutionary. I suffered through pre-iPhone smartphone and PDA hell (Windows CE/Mobile/PocketPC, Palm, some Java-based phones, etc.) and when I saw the iPhone, I was like "yup, Apple did it." It was lightning bolt fast for me to realize the difference between the Before Times and the iPhone. There has been nothing about the CyberTruck that leaves me with that feeling and every time I see one now, it just reinforces that the Rivian looks better.
  9. I've been working on a project for a friend that has a big-chunk of NASCAR-related stuff in it, mostly covering the early 80s through around 2010, and holy shit, until NASCAR got serious about electronic timing in 1993, there's a lot of missing info about races (lead changes, positions outside of the top 20, etc.). They relied on the teams themselves appointing somebody to tally laps and/or how the drivers were doing, which means a lot of older data is missing (or rather misplaced) for one reason or another. It's out there though, and I've noticed over time they put more and more online (or indivdiausl do). if you could get access to the original camera feeds of a race (not what we saw on TV), you could put a lot of the info together. And a whole lot of people who were recording races on their VCRs in the 80s and 90s have uploaded hundreds of races to YouTube which is awesome and has helped me out with some stuff (I have several dozen races on VHS myself, but not nearly as good of a quality as some folks). What's really awesome is the kids whose parents had satellite dishes and who have uploaded the raw satellite feeds to YouTube - hearing (and seeing) Chris Economaki, Ken Squier, Neil Bennett, Bob Jenkins, Jerry Punch, etc. farting around before the race and doing microphone checks with drivers in the cars, or rehearsing how they were going to start a segment off, etc., can be amusing. I setup a couple of saved video lists on YouTube, and my son noticed the Davey Allison one, and saw some Alan Kulwiki stuff in there, and made the connection to my large collection of Allison and Kulwiki die cast cars, programs, posters, photos, and a few personal autographs and a bunch of other racing-related stuff as well (and later Havoline racing drivers gear/memorabilia along with Indy/CART/F1/touring car/etc.). He saw some of the video names mentioned memorials to Davey and Alan and asked me if they were dead and commented that I must have liked them a lot to have all of that stuff. We watched a few race highlights, and then watched Slapshoes's 1992 Atlanta tribute and he told me he that they were pretty cool. Me, I was just...
  10. His knowledge is about as extensive as Elon Musk's knowledge of the First Amendment. Elmo has no excuse - it's just 30 seconds on Google. Trump doesn't either.
  11. I can't tell whether he would be a Qanon type, or would be old-school conspiracy theorist that looks down upon the Qanon people as grifters as idiots. Or, plot twist, Dale is Q.
  12. https://www.meidastouch.com/news/supreme-court-extends-block-on-texas-law-allowing-state-police-to-arrest-migrants-at-border Hot Wheels and Kenny Wayne going to defy the MAGA Supreme Court?
  13. Between the Manafort thing and some other stuff involving people extremely loyal to Trump, I take it as a sign that Trump is trying to 100% control the national convention and prevent any Never-Trumpers from appearing or trying to disrupt things, as well as making sure that all delegates are Trump supporters. I think he's got some fear that a not-insignificant number are against him.
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