JoeWeber

"I certainly don't." That seems to be your baseline: you.

That's crazy. Did the Republican even try to answer?

Which is why no one should feel bad about getting 3 or 6 boosters if they think it's helping. How can anyone know, and indications are dim, how big the anti-vax population really is in any underserved nation. Hell, we can't even vaccinate Alabama.

Which has zero to do with willingly complying with whatever rules there are in vacationland and at the businesses you patronize. That's the thing about travel, right? Put your best foot forward and make a good example on arrival not doing whatever the hell you think is best, local customs be damned. Maybe nothing has really changed anywhere. Maybe Covid has just shown us how many of us really are jerks.

It wasn't for my own journey. No matter, you see your standard, right?

Actually, Mr. Wizard, it was a simple question in pursuit of a revealing answer. As usual, it garnered the usual.

Have you ever woke in the middle of the night, angry, wishing you were black?

Sure. But if it's only nearly as safe as it is effective, something most folks know already if only by instinct, we're better off by leagues. Time to beat a different horse, I'm thinking.

I'm not so sure it's all on the Dutch government. Here in the DWI's it's currently wide open for Dutch tourists. Tui cruise ship's included. The clear majority of Dutch locals and tourists show absolute disdain for masking and social distancing no matter if the rules are clearly posted. Not just amongst themselves but towards everyone. At the hotel where I'm at, nicest in the city, they don't think twice about going unmasked everywhere including joining you in the elevator. Is that the way it is at home, too?

I'll go with Ken's answer. In the meantime let's stop with the specious, ill founded comparisons and stop eroding what little support Biden has whilst we all rejoice that the worst President in our history is no longer our President. Of course, in our spare time let's hang our asses out and tell our Trump deluded friends to wake the fuck up while we still have a semi functional democracy.

Good. Now, for penance, you get your big ass down to the County Office and up that passport. RV-ing around America is fun but it ain't all the fun and, as you know from every time you sneeze, we both bought another 20 years of f-ing around.

Narrow. You can't know with certainty what impact your life's decisions have had on others.

Are Cuomo and Trump really equatable? I mean there are multiple degrees of douchebaggery, right?

In my view one passport isn't enough.

Don't you see, Bill? You're not only defending Trump, you're defending you. Step away from the bias and answer a simple question: knowing all you now know would you prefer Trump was still President?

Not a good look for a smart guy. Get it renewed if for no other reason than to support the ideas of internationalism and inclusiveness. I'm guessing you'll agree that ignorance of the rest of the world is causative of many of the major problems we have in this country and setting a good example is always helpful.

Your opinion about how the "media" behaves severely informs your opinion of Trump.

My understanding is the zone change allows 2 SFR's on a single lot. Am I wrong?

You're sort of right where I live, maybe 100% right on deals you have done. My experience with actual deals is that you need to be a bit further along than the dream stage. Pre-approvals, an explainable clear pathway under existing rules and so on are what I've seen. Just hoping to rezone SFR land to High Density Commercial goes nowhere.

Open carry gun nuts own this. While I'm at it, I'll include supporters of Heller and any other dumb ass decision that bit by bit has allowed armed speech to trump unarmed speech in the public square.

Sure, sure, but that won't stop the Libtards from arguing that our super cool open carry laws, we fought so hard for, had anything to do with what any sensible person can clearly see is normal, legitimate human intercourse. If those snowflakes have their way we'll never be able to quick draw on main street like great grand pappy maybe done, I hope.

I guess I'm a wine snob. But I figure I have only one life to ruin with alcohol and I'm not going to do it drinking plonk.

Those are probably Canadians. You ever been to a hockey game?

That's a so what moment not a glimmer of hope. Unless something serious happens, and fast, to trample Trump and Trumpism American Democracy will be further fucked come the mid-terms. Already the chatterers are accepting 2022 and 2024 and looking ahead to 2026. I'm starting to believe authoritarianism is not only what we deserve but rather what we get, like it or not. Think honestly about a nation as populous as China. I'm long since ready to agree that western style democracy couldn't work there. Now look here and substitute numbers of peoples for numbers of economic units and numbers of freedoms. As it stands, our system is unable to control things as needed for the general good. For example, one business based on freedom of speech and a keen understanding of human desires, is able to influence our elections with apparent impunity. All we are able to do is not like it. Our institutions move so much slower than our election cycles that the idea of rule of law in America is becoming laughable. What I'm seeing is far from encouraging.

As an aside, I've spent a fair bit of time in the Dutch West Indies the last couple of years and, especially during early Covid, observed a lot of resistance to any authority, measures etc. amongst the Dutch inhabitants.