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2 minutes ago, yoladu said:

So let me get the logic here.

  • the federal government raises tariffs on imported goods.
  • the importer pays the tariff to the federal government
  • to make up cost of the tariffs the importer raises the prices on the goods  they are importing.
  • Americans pay for the higher priced goods
  • the federal government takes the money raised by the tariffs and 
    • pays down the debt
    • cuts a check to every American for $600

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And the small government, anti-free money, low tax people love it. 

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Posted (edited)
12 minutes ago, mr.goodkat said:

untrue . tires .rear lighting . wiper blades  ive either been an inspector or have run a shop for 30+ and NO ONE is more disconnected from reality than a broke ass needing tires to pass . most serious people see a check engine light fix it likely b/c it comes with a run condition . but safety ,when left to them , is ,well.... pretty much like everything else in Texas

In my experience, people who don’t take care of their cars also don’t take them in to get inspected.  Especially now that the sticker is gone.

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35 minutes ago, yoladu said:

So let me get the logic here.

  • the federal government raises tariffs on imported goods.
  • the importer pays the tariff to the federal government
  • to make up cost of the tariffs the importer raises the prices on the goods  they are importing.
  • Americans pay for the higher priced goods
  • the federal government takes the money raised by the tariffs and 
    • pays down the debt
    • cuts a check to every American for $600

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Trump can't fix the problem if he doesn't create a problem to fix.

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Posted
33 minutes ago, yoladu said:

So let me get the logic here.

  • the federal government raises tariffs on imported goods.
  • the importer pays the tariff to the federal government
  • to make up cost of the tariffs the importer raises the prices on the goods  they are importing.
  • Americans pay for the higher priced goods
  • the federal government takes the money raised by the tariffs and 
    • pays down the debt
    • cuts a check to every American for $600

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Correct. Except 40% of the voting public will believe (or convince themselves) that Jina, Viet-nam, and every other non-Murican country in the world is paying the tariffs. So that chain of payments becomes:

Other countries money > DJT > Check to every Murican

Another 20% of the public will just see a $600 check from DJT and not even know or care about the tariffs.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

In my experience, people who don’t take care of their cars also don’t take them in to get inspected.  Especially now that the sticker is gone.

true hence the "most serious people " part i can't fix dumb Texan . won't even try 

 

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8 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Disagree! I was an inspector for years. It’s a pretty pointless exercise with very little connection to safety. 

I mean ... I've been getting cars inspected in Texas for 45 years - long enough to know that there are some pretty basic safety items that they inspect that will go uninspected now. Lights, tires, brakes, mirrors, seatbelts, tint darkness, valid insurance, etc. I've also been around long enough to have seen that many people will push and often exceed the limits in the absence of inspections and drive cars that are unsafe to drive.

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Posted (edited)
14 hours ago, mr.goodkat said:

untrue . tires .rear lighting . wiper blades  ive either been an inspector or have run a shop for 30+ and NO ONE is more disconnected from reality than a broke ass needing tires to pass . most serious people see a check engine light fix it likely b/c it comes with a run condition . but safety ,when left to them , is ,well.... pretty much like everything else in Texas  . lacking . also the emission testing in williamson / travis is a joke . 

Exactly.

14 hours ago, yoladu said:

Top 50 TV Cars Of All Time: No. 16, The Beverly Hillbillies ...

There was a time when I'd regularly see cars on the road that weren't a whole lot better off than this one. You know, people just doin' their own thing. But not in decades, because inspections. 

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9 minutes ago, wood said:

Exactly.

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There was a time when I'd regularly see cars on the road that weren't a whole lot better off than this one. You know, people just doin' their own thing. But not in decades, because inspections. 

The flip side is there are places all over that will pass whatever piece of shit you bring them so long as you pay the fee. The people driving said pieces of shit know which places to take these vehicles to.

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12 minutes ago, C-Man said:

The flip side is there are places all over that will pass whatever piece of shit you bring them so long as you pay the fee. The people driving said pieces of shit know which places to take these vehicles to.

There will always be exceptions and people gaming the system, but cars are more complex now than ever before, and drivers in general know less about their cars than ever before. Hardly anyone these days even knows how to check their oil much less change it, check their tire tread, and lots of other super-basic shit. Without inspections there will be a great many people who won't even know they have fundamental safety issues on their cars that would have been easily detected with a simple inspection. Yeah I get that it's a pita and that the gubment uses it as yet another excuse to tack on an annual tax on top of the annual registration fee, but they're just shifting that now to the emissions testing fee anyway. Sure, reduce the frequency to every other year or so if you want. That's fine. Cars are more reliable than they've ever been. But eliminating inspections completely is stupid and just plain irresponsible. 

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Just now, C-Man said:

The flip side is there are places all over that will pass whatever piece of shit you bring them so long as you pay the fee. The people driving said pieces of shit know which places to take these vehicles to.

so i never said i wasn't super lenient . ffs i will bung a downstream o2 to get a 200k odyssey to flip a cat monitor so they can squeeze all the car out of it but tires and brakes are never going to get ignored . i like what i drive and i have to drive next to these fucks 

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Posted
3 hours ago, yoladu said:

So let me get the logic here.

  • the federal government raises tariffs on imported goods.
  • the importer pays the tariff to the federal government
  • to make up cost of the tariffs the importer raises the prices on the goods  they are importing.
  • Americans pay for the higher priced goods
  • the federal government takes the money raised by the tariffs and 
    • pays down the debt
    • cuts a check to every American for $600

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Trump puts his name on the check so the schmucks think he’s paying them. 

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Posted
11 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Disagree! I was an inspector for years. It’s a pretty pointless exercise with very little connection to safety

Obviously there wasn't a lot of thought paid to whether having a bunch of 19-year-olds be responsible agents of the state for $5 per inspection was a good idea. 

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 Nothing to see here…

https://www.richmonder.org/this-tuckahoe-home-won-a-1-26-billion-contract-for-an-ice-detention-center-the-owner-isnt-talking/

“That contract alone would make the Acquisition Logistics Company one of Richmond’s largest businesses, but it’s not a household name. It doesn’t even have an office: its listed headquarters is a residential house located in Henrico’s Tuckahoe neighborhood.”
 

 

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Posted
6 hours ago, mr.goodkat said:

so i never said i wasn't super lenient . ffs i will bung a downstream o2 to get a 200k odyssey to flip a cat monitor so they can squeeze all the car out of it but tires and brakes are never going to get ignored . i like what i drive and i have to drive next to these fucks 

Where would one find your business?  Would a 200k 4Runner also receive said treatment?

Posted
6 hours ago, C-Man said:

The flip side is there are places all over that will pass whatever piece of shit you bring them so long as you pay the fee. The people driving said pieces of shit know which places to take these vehicles to.

Yeah, and they demand you wear a seatbelt.  And if you’re wearing one and drive into the water-filled ditch you’ll drown because you can’t get out in time.

Posted
28 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Yeah, and they demand you wear a seatbelt.  And if you’re wearing one and drive into the water-filled ditch you’ll drown because you can’t get out in time.

Excuse me but I'm not driving a tesla

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Posted
1 hour ago, HornPhD said:

 Nothing to see here…

https://www.richmonder.org/this-tuckahoe-home-won-a-1-26-billion-contract-for-an-ice-detention-center-the-owner-isnt-talking/

“That contract alone would make the Acquisition Logistics Company one of Richmond’s largest businesses, but it’s not a household name. It doesn’t even have an office: its listed headquarters is a residential house located in Henrico’s Tuckahoe neighborhood.”
 

 

Tuckahoe?

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Posted
9 hours ago, wood said:

I mean ... I've been getting cars inspected in Texas for 45 years - long enough to know that there are some pretty basic safety items that they inspect that will go uninspected now. Lights, tires, brakes, mirrors, seatbelts, tint darkness, valid insurance, etc. I've also been around long enough to have seen that many people will push and often exceed the limits in the absence of inspections and drive cars that are unsafe to drive.

If you’ve been around that long then you should  know that everyone with a car that shitty has a cousin or buddy in the hood that will pass their car for an extra $20 (maybe 50 these days, I haven’t been a poor in quite some time)

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Posted
57 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

If you’ve been around that long then you should  know that everyone with a car that shitty has a cousin or buddy in the hood that will pass their car for an extra $20 (maybe 50 these days, I haven’t been a poor in quite some time)

So, like I said above, nothing changes with those guys, and they'll always be around no matter what. But in the meantime, a whole lot more people who don't know shit about their cars won't know they have dangerous issues with them because they won't be getting inspections.  

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Posted
23 hours ago, wood said:

Wow. They actually do believe that every time you see a con trail (condensation that freezes in the wake of a fast-moving plane) that it's actually cloud seeding.

I guess those Indycar and F1 cars I've seen generating wingtip vortices/vapor trails were part of the conspiracy too! Dang. I wish I's MAGA smart!

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I went to see the movie Together tonight. Normally I wouldn’t put this here, but we currently are being run by The Dumbest Generation. Go look the movie up. Somebody in that cult is going to think the movie is based on a true story and say that millions of Americans have had this happen to them. John Stockton’s broke brain would be the type of person I’d expect to think that movie is based on a true story. Someone should get TFG to post about on his grifting app. 
 

“Many people are saying it’s happening. Greatest scandal in world history! Obama and Biden started this with Hillary’s help and money from Soros!”

Also, for those interested, you get to see Alison Brie naked.

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Posted
11 hours ago, HornPhD said:

 Nothing to see here…

https://www.richmonder.org/this-tuckahoe-home-won-a-1-26-billion-contract-for-an-ice-detention-center-the-owner-isnt-talking/

“That contract alone would make the Acquisition Logistics Company one of Richmond’s largest businesses, but it’s not a household name. It doesn’t even have an office: its listed headquarters is a residential house located in Henrico’s Tuckahoe neighborhood.”
 

 

There was a similar set-up for the alleged company that did the accounting for all the $billions in cash we sent to Iraq during and after our invasion.

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4 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

Also, for those interested, you get to see Alison Brie naked.

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dammit, I was thinking Brie Larson. And I read the wiki about the movie. Pass.
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I was listening to NPR yesterday morning in the car. The host was interviewing a woman from the Ukraine Anti-corruption organization. She was interesting and earnest.

I believe progress has been made on legislating or executive ordering anti-corruption matters. She was asked what is there to prevent a futur adminstration from just cancelling or ignoring the law.

"We will take to the streets to protect our institutions! That's how we got here. The people will prevent changes through mass protest."

Made me sad for us. We just don't give a shit or enough of a shit to do anything more than hoping somebody stops this. What a pathetic finish for a country created by people willing to risk everything for it. 

We're so very tame.

ETA:

Heres the headline in the NYT that clarifies the event I allude to:

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Man, Trump sure has some bad luck with his appointments and other hires.  He nominated Powell for the Fed Chair in 2018, and as it turns out, Powell is too late, too angry, too stupid, and too political for the job.  Dang it!



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