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There’s my conundrum. You fit in ways that I just don’t. I’m a square peg in some round holes.

Problem is, I usually can’t stomach a huge percentage of the other baggage. I want gay and trans rights (reasonable ones, not woke ones) and for politicians to stay out of the bedroom or be in the business of issuing marriage licenses. That’s pervy. Non-interventionism, sensible military cuts...

Just a couple of cities over from me. I was born in Fremont.

To be fair, it was nicely updated when we sold. But still. Think about that mortgage and how political you’d like to be if you’re not one of the “cool kids”. You just drop out and work.

Haven’t kept up with CA. I have some doubts. But R’s mostly kept their heads down working to afford CA. Fun fact: the house I grew up in was built in 1965. 1550sf, a lot of drywall cracks and doors which wouldn’t close due to faulting and earthquakes. Parents bought it in 1984 for $230k. Sold...

You might be right, but it’s abuzz here. Given how freaking weird this year has already been, I am counting nothing out at all.

I am married to a Hispanic woman. From what I hear, a lot of her family is fairly apolitical but now feeling obligated to vote, and to make it blue. None of them are in Texas, where we live now, but I wouldn’t be shocked if that’s true here in Texas too, making it a swing state for the first...

Probably right that he does, but I actually think it’ll be a real fight, Harris or no. You underestimate the Trump hate.

Yup, that’s always the spoof. Dumb things usually supersede obvious things in our politics.

I can’t possibly see what logical angle the slave thing is. It’s not like she could have magically reached out of the uterus to change history.

Ironically, beyond her behavior as a DA, I’m surprised she and Willie Brown aren’t instantly canceled by feminists. As uptight as Republicans can be about sex, wokesters are funny about how puritanical they can be as well.

Fair enough. I’ll only carry his water so far, lol

I don’t think that’s what’s in dispute. If I read what he said correctly, then popular vote “wins” are a bonus you can use in a debate to shut that angle of attack down more easily than going into the weeds explaining why the electoral college is a good idea.

I think he’s saying that it’s a decent rhetorical device. Not wrong, but also not necessarily that effective.

You’re right, but I’m also not a confrontational type. I’ll talk it out but squaring up against folks neither wins minds nor influences people. I also have to acknowledge the fact that while I accuse folks of digging in their heels, mine are also in fact dug in. Just at a pretty oblique angle...

I get it, but at the same time, I can’t really in good conscience vote for candidates I don’t actually share that much with. I understand that our system has built into it a two party system, but on the other hand, I just can’t get on board with what feels like surrendering my sovereignty out of...

At this point, Paul, Massie, or Amash look like a better choice than anyone on a ballot.

I don’t care about the peanut gallery. I’ve been politically homeless for too long to care :D I was some heartless capitalist conservative in California. Here in Texas I’m a libtard. I’ll go back to heartless conservative when I move to NY, and also probably get an extra dose of racist Trump...

Yeah, freakin’ stupid. Perot really got them to circle the wagons for those BS major parties. So far, nobody really has earned my vote. At this point, I might write Rand Paul in or something. Or go full crazy and write in someone wacky. 2020 is really turning into a huge bummer. Just when I...

It’s the most LP thing ever, and why I am a libertarian who kinda hates libertarians and the LP. I get wanting to bust the uptightness of politics, but the antics have to go, as do the rather Aspy conversations about philosophy, and I wish they’d toss the anarchists out. They aren’t really...

That’s my concern, too. Gary Johnson was the man, until the pressure was on to meet the ridiculous polling threshold for the debates. Then he crumpled like a beer can under a boulder. Nevertheless, if Trump and Biden are the choices...no thanks. But I feel ya. I really have to vet the state and...

I’m with you.

I know it happened, but unless we know she’s doing the same here, it’s frankly fades to the background in relevance to me. Sex is sex, it’s not a big deal. I’m sure she’s hardly the first or the last to strike that bargain. I would wager there’s quite a bit of transactional sex in DC already...

Eh, much ado about nothing. Pundits tossing hand grenades at each other. Sensational stuff like that is best left ignored.

I don’t understand how someone like her gets there. Center-left and hard-left voters alike would probably agree some of the things she did as DA would leave a bad taste in their mouths. That should have torpedoed her as much of a Democrat anything. The crap we put up with from these old parties...

Racist? Probably not. I honestly thought she would instantly be out of the running for some of the crap she pulled as a DA. The weird crap these political parties play really just defies belief sometimes.

Public schools are a real problem even before we get to the kind of trash you’re talking about. I won’t post it here, but one of the most eye-opening things I ever saw was an admittedly kinda lefty, kinda canceled former professor at places like Occidental and Barnard carrying a Columbia PHd in...

Damn...Adam Perry Lang? Well crap. I don’t give a good goddamn about his politics, but that’s troubling about Epstein.

Adam Perry Lang makes a fantastic steak. And his steak knives, which he made by himself, are fire! He also gave himself a fun workaround for the California theft laws on those knives. Seriously, if you like steak...take a pile of cash and eat there, whenever you can again. I couldn’t actually...

Interesting, though I’m not surprised. Most of what I have learned was more about the GDR rather than Soviet Russia, but they mirror each other that way. GDR has it better than most Soviet satellites even back then, but it seems like people still weren’t ready to make the Western jump and join...

I’ve been kinda fascinated by the Soviet Union lately, largely because it fell when I was single digits in age. It’s an artifact to me. What humanizes it is that a lot of folks - maybe not most - didn’t want the Soviet thing to end. They got behind Gorbachev because they wanted it to be better...

Lol. I’m not surprised. Build a wall, you go around it or tunnel under it. I’ve wondered for a while why, if tensions on this issue run so high, we haven’t quit running towards extremes. OK, have a wall, and standards. But maybe also not create a black market incentive for going around the law...

I’d honestly like it if folks left both parties en masse. They expect you to tell your friends how awesome they are, but remain concerned about little other than their DC circle jerk, getting re-elected, and generally anything other than actually doing good for We The People. At least the GOP is...

California at least has the State of Jefferson project going on. It’s going nowhere fast, but you wouldn’t know it by how many of their bumper stickers you see up north of Redding all the way into Southern Oregon. Texas is turning blueish for a lot of reasons, not just internal migration...

Having grown up in California, that still feels more “normal” to me than not.

I gotta say - some of these are pretty clever, even if I’m politically on a bit of a different plane.

But loaded detachable mags can count as a loaded firearm when not actually inserted into said firearm?

O Ok, let’s tread carefully. Magazine meaning a detachable mag, or does that cover something integral like a tube mag? Doesn’t make a huge difference to me as I’d use it, but I’d like to be clear.

Eh, you don’t get that specific sort of infamy out of California though. If anything, Cali has even better weather. My hypothesis is that the old Florida pirate culture never really died out - it’s libertarian in some ways, so that a state that populous reaps some benefits, but also gets...

Sad. As a California native, I had to really grow into liking Florida, it wasn’t an instant thing. It’s a cool place in some ways, a lot of ways, actually. I also can’t help but wonder if Florida’s reputation causes these stories to bubble up. Surely this kind of stuff happens elsewhere?

Excellent feedback. Thanks.

I do rather like the simplicity. I’m not terribly worried about some Mad Max road warrior stuff, so rolling while empty isn’t a big deal for me. Two shots kinda sucks, but I also have a variety of ammo - including .45 Colt - plus a damn good club if needed. I can’t swing it, but I almost do...

I actually kinda like that idea, but I don’t have spare dough right now. I’m also usually parked next to other trucks, so overpenetration is a thing; it’s one of the reasons I went .410 in the first place. Mag-fed shotguns are a fantastic freaking idea though.

I have never sought a CCW largely because I believe my fight-or-flight adrenaline dump would make it hard to use a pistol effectively, while putting the confrontation in a life-or-death frame for the assailant. In other words, it raises the stakes and lacking combat experience where I could...

Lol my wife is hard to describe. She is basically not really that good at the basic mechanics or safety protocols of guns. Part of that is sort of a fear of them, part of it is that although she’s “one of the guys” in a lot of ways, she’s just not interested. Her mindset is sort of in tune with...

Ok, makes sense. Next question is, since that’s the gun I trained my wife on for home defense, do I take that, or borrow a 20ga from my Pa? Since he gave up the awesome house with a shooting range out back, there’s not much around to train myself or my wife on using a shotgun, just pistols or a...

Interesting. I don’t go to Canada, so that’s not a big deal. Load it when parked, unload when driving? I’m thinking about my .410 Stoeger coach gun, keep something between birdshot and buckshot in one barrel, a .45 in the other? It’ll take 3” shells, which makes a .410 non-crappy in my world.

I addressed the states I drive in previously, I was editing while you replied. If you haven’t seen my intro, I live in Texas but am moving to NY soonish. The reason I ask is because when the chips are down, I feel like a long gun might only get me fired vs a handgun could be some jail time, and...

So, I see there’s a lot of unrest and negativity in our nation. I drive a truck and go to a lot of different places. I understand very firmly that there are a lot of jurisdictions which will frown upon a handgun, but company policy aside, what if I hypothetically carried a shotgun? I’m not a...

Is what it is. If I had my own way, I’d be in the desert where gun rights are awesome, but I wouldn’t do it just for gun rights. There’s other things at play, so I have to operate within that sphere. I’m here to understand how to do so.