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Far as I’m concerned - chalk one up for the need to have guns, chalk one down for the folks who say gub’ment folks should be the only ones to have them. As a regular dude, I don’t know where sharks reside, and I’m elated that someone - government or not - uses any means at their disposal to...

Literally just cited how it’s a flag code thing. But, via SCOTUS rulings, and my own judgements, I agree if the company had rules (apparently does not) which specified some flag or other symbols displayed by a passenger meant they could not board, I don’t necessarily see a constitutional issue...

Doesn’t smack of wearing a mask or not. More about the flag. As stated earlier, I’d back them up only via flag code cited at both Cornell and Wikipedia...they kinda match, maybe I should get a .gov thing, but still. The implication is that the American flag was taken as offensive, and as with...

Been a while since I brushed up on flag code, but isn’t it a no-no to wear the flag as an article of clothing? That’s what kept me away from any type of flag attire. EDIT: yup, thought so. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/8 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Flag_Code

Yeah I’ve been coming around to the little bore guns lately. I’m not saying that I would really compare 5.56 to 5.45, but I’ve always had a thing for AKs and having one in 5.45 just sounds like a ball of fun to me.

Yup. Frankly, that and 3D printing will be the ultimate leapfrog past gun laws. Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed makes a great case for that.

I kinda wish the 5.45 round had gotten popular here. It’s a fair analogue to 5.56, and gives an AK some nice characteristics. 7.62x39 is basically a .30-30 rimless with a shorter case, and is arguably too much gun. 5.45 has that nice soft shooting effect and would make AKs close to ARs for...

I’m a bit more generous about Trump than you, but my wife has said of her family (Salvadorans) that even the apolitical ones are feeling obligated to get up and cast a ballot against Trump this year.

Eh? I don’t even see how he’s terribly qualified for that to begin with. At least he doesn’t really have that NY accent (sorry guys, lol), so if he gets on the national stage I won’t be tempted to hang myself every time I hear him.

LOL. I never thought she was capable of that level of nuttery. Or, good thing I ditched the GOP a decade ago. Now I won’t go to Pelosi Correctional Institution.

Eh. Demicans and Republicrats. Elephants are red, donkeys are blue. Neither give a f””” about you.

Oh I can’t say I was either, though at that point in my life I was slightly distracted by other things. It was what pointed me towards a deeper distrust of the Feds than their superficial incompetence, though.

I vaguely remember they weren’t the usual kinda slick acronyms gub’ment types usually favor?

While you’re high maybe? If you’re sober and have been at work all day, I’m not so sure. It’s also possible the dude just has a good sense of smell.

Maybe? I would expect coming home after work is when I’d detect the skunk, and I never could. But then again, that was a pretty nice 20x20 bedroom, not a car. I could be wrong on this, but I’ve been asked to be searched on less (and that was well after my alleged weed days).

If they were smoking while driving, it’s kind of on their own dumb asses. If the weed was stowed half decently, the “smell” thing sounds a bit suspicious. Back when I was a pothead, allegedly, a QP might smell up a drawer after a day or two, but not a car. It was allegedly kept in a couple of...

Unfortunately.

I’ve really never been able to say for sure. In a pragmatic sense, I am absolutely thrilled that he gave up the information that he did. The Russia thing is what gives me pause. It’s possible that in a purely pragmatic sense, Russia was the least bad move on the chess board. We can be sure that...

If the allegations are true, I’m glad he got caught. All involved in the alleged scheme should get prison time, if true. However, I doubt there’s going to be anything close to a fair trial. It’s also so politically charged that nobody will trust whatever outcome happens, and it’ll get used as...

Dude. That’s a great way to put it.

Go for it. Biden isn’t my concern. Kamala is. And I still have no idea how she hasn’t already been canceled, but for the blessing of some Chosen Ones.

Fair enough. I don’t think he’s a piece of shit, just kind of an open book pu**y politician looking for whatever will get him another post in his chosen field of work. You know, the usual politician. Lips moving = lies.

Makes sense. I don’t like the dementia crap because I see real dementia; it genuinely sucks, and it’s not Biden. Biden is old. Like my Pa. But I guess after his bitterness from a broken home, hoping merely to die or kill in Vietnam, and unreasonably come back stateside alive, my Pa doesn’t deny...

Not a matter of leaving it to you. I wouldn’t write my Pa in. I love my Pa. he’s taught me all he can, and that’s a lot. I’m not keen on seeing partisan “dementia” potshots with little merit lobbed on a guy who may be misguided but just old. Sorry, kinda hits home in the least partisan way ever.

Polls are polls. Have you ever gotten called to participate in a poll? Who are they calling? I don’t think polls are inherently biased, but I also don’t know who participated in these polls. Sam Clemens once said, “there’s three kinds of lies: white lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

I’d be the last one to say that he does, or doesn’t have something. But you’re right that it won’t reverse. Still, as gaffer-in-chief, Biden is, I think, “merely” an old guy. I feel sorry for him more than anything else. I’m not gonna make fun of him. He and my Pa are cognitively too much alike...

Hate to say it, but looking at him the way my Pa is, I agree. The sad part is that I know my Pa is heading towards the end.

I don’t buy that as my MIL has actual dementia, but I won’t dismiss it either. Trump functions far higher than Biden. Biden is about where my Pa is, at a similar age. And he functions way better than actual dementia.

All I care about is her record as a prosecutor. Withholding evidence of innocence, putting single moms in jail over truancy. I actually don’t know how she hasn’t been canceled, lol. Seriously, though. I care about the sex approximately zero, the use of it to get ahead maybe 20%, and what she did...

Dewey defeats Truman.

I...just...hmm. That’s so out of left field, I don’t even have feels or thoughts yet. Cut/paste California, I guess I can kinda see it. I am just kinda stunned anyone would even think of that as a serious weapon. Certainly entered their minds before it did mine.

Wait - there are legal restrictions on these?! I always wanted to try psychedelics, but now I’m not as sure. That doesn’t feel like reality. Someone watched too many Kung fu movies.

Yup. My Pa and I went gold sluicing for many years in the Sierras. That’s not a great example of a dense forest, but the machete was in-hand for hacking pines or dogwood branches out of the way, or if we encountered the odd harmful snake. But the hatchet was the tool we used at camp for driving...

I go hatchet for the way you use it. Machetes are great for hacking your way through a forest, but they’re pretty indiscriminate. A hatchet is more like a sharp hammer, a bit more precise and you let the weight of the metal do a lot of the work for you.

Rochester gets a bad rep but although I’ve been there several times for as long as a week, I haven’t felt that unsafe. Shady areas, sure, but not really like the hood. I’ve been to South Side Chicago with my ex, we got the hell out when we realized our mistake. Detroit is worse. I go straight...

Just saying that he fits my Pa’s normal and sad mental decline better than my MIL’s more sudden decline. Neither is fit for the presidency, but seeing Biden vs them, I can’t buy it. Oh, my Pa is 15 years older than MIL, too, and matches Trump/Biden in age better. Trump probably punches above...

Gotcha :)

With what limited ability I have to scope out what’s going on as a trucker, it’s not mass hysteria. Things are going on as usual, and despite my earlier thread on carrying a scattergun in my truck, I have no reservations in saying it’s ok. In the last few weeks, I have been in TX up to MN and...

I don’t see anything that disagrees with what you said. In some form or fashion, there’s more time in front of judges to come.

I ultimately think the constitutionality of the ban will be upheld. But, should it not be, I will sure be happy. Not as happy as having to have fought that kinda stuff off in the first place. 9th circuit may not be as left-friendly as it used to be, but I’m holding off on the champagne til the...

Idk, if I compare the two, they don’t follow the same pattern to me. What I see happening to my mother in law is sad. What I see happening to Biden is more like normal old age. My Pa is pushing 80 and mentally functions well but for some of the same details as Biden. Hell, I’m less than half...

I still don’t buy the dementia thing. He’s been known as a freaking terrible speaker and famous gaffer for practically forever. It must be a lot more of a slow burn than my mother in law, whose dementia developed within about the last three years. She gave a power of attorney related to her...

That’s the kind of stuff I’ve been saying. I actually think Texas has a better chance of going purple than NY does. I’d almost start to believe we really are in a simulation if that happened :D

I’ve never really liked the guy, but he’s spot on. The anti-gun lobby has learned from the anti-abortion lobby and moved to the states. He’s also kinda right about the gun community’s optics. Do I know if he’s right that the law wasn’t well-intentioned to begin with? He probably is right, but I...

I mean, so? There’s no logical argument. It’s not like she could magically punch through the uterus and change history. She’s a human, not a Marvel superhero.

“Grow a set and do as you wish” agorism in action. I like it.

LMAO that’s a pretty epic troll.

Oh there’s layers here. Now that I think about it a bit, I think part of it is that I’ve always played the outsider. I grew up in a suburban area where Asians outnumbered caucasians by 3:1. I was the only kid in high school who didn’t vote for Ralph Nader and the Green Party when I turned 18...

We’ll have to agree to disagree. I do think that this kind of passive conformity is how we end up with two dysfunctional parties and keep not getting America’s best and brightest on the top of the ticket. While it’s obvious nobody gets 100% of what they want in a candidate, leaving a lot on the...

Can’t go to those extremes. If I zoom out, I want maximum individual liberty without sacrificing some minimums like police and a defensive military still capable of raining hell down on anyone who attacks us. A few things are a bit in between. Let people be people and unleash our human potential...