JoeWeber

Negative. It definitely means something, just something much less likely.

Easy to say but in reality there’s no place for sarcasm on the internet.

You left out Christian and anti-abortion. Like it or not these days all politics are identity politics. Are you claiming that only a scant minority of Republicans hold those values?

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! You went to MIT and that's your Law?

Thank you for that riveting and important contribution.

Whoop de doodle. Glad you got to post something.

Biden could simply with a wand wave command that an onsite Walter Reed Hospital drug testing trailer will be at the debate for everyones convenience and then spend the next months talking about it. Of course, as a personal courtesy, he'd invite Trump to participate and allow his personal physician to attend the testing. That'd put the blowhard in a tailspin.

Yep, thats exactly what I was getting at. Lippy, you are cool and funny but i'm thinking that this forum is becoming too trivial for me.

I think an ask for a Trump drug test is in order.

Excellent point, but that's what circuit breakers are for. At one point I had Two 300 series Twin Otters and 5 or 6 Caravans of different flavors and engine packages running around the country. I was always amazed how some operators and their pilots flew loads on auto. First it's super inefficient (so more costly by the hour) and second it's like zero fun. All of my best pilots, including the best I've ever had who flys for me now, fly the airplane. The best ones are like Tiger Woods, they just get better and better on the same course.

So on a future jump when you see R2D2 in the pilot seat you aren't boarding? Well, me too.

Weren't you hired by some nice people to scarf up as many old EV batteries as possible so a corporation could put on new labels and do all of that at a fair profit? Good thing you don't work for me.

Nope, we're all the same animals. some are better hunters, some are better at organizing the hunters, and some are better at screwing the different hunters depending on their preferences but animals we all are.

Thank you, kindly. Some people here don't think I'm serious 100% of the time, strangely.

It's deplorable so that's what I'm going to do: deplore it. I'm also going to be very, very disappointed and saddened. Now is no time for half measures.

That's the problem with you conservatives: no imagination.

That is soooooo... hot!

I see those as separate issues. Correcting physical appearance issues isn't at all the same as removing an abnormalish growth. No matter, neither of those should cause a blink or squirm in the same way as a parent deciding for a minor child that they were born an incorrect biological sex and then setting them on a course of irreversible change. Given how much we know about dumbass parents and their vast numbers in the age of Trump that should be an immediately agreeable position. It ain't like they're just dressing Goth or wearing Nehru jackets and will eventually come to their senses and then change back. Make the minimum 16 years old (after birth), if that's the number, and help them dress to their comfort and offer all of the emotional support you can muster. After that get them the professional counseling needed to further confuse them and, if still desired, sign a consent form or let them wait until they are 18.

I wouldn't and you should have read that in. To be clearer: sex changing medical procedures.

In my view absolutely not and it will be quite interesting to see how it gets parsed here. Just to get ahead of the parsing a bit I'm not thinking about wearing lipstick or lace undies (while they're still legal here) or any other self identifying other sex clothing etc. I'm thinking about medical procedures.

I wasn't practicing numerology, the point is that belief in states rights vs. national government authority seems to swing with the wind and the issue.

To belabor the point, we each have a view on how old a person should be before the government can say no, that's too young or that's coercive. The question invites a discussion on whether states versus the federal government should be the decider (sic). For inflammatory example, if a state decided that 10 years old and a parents permission was acceptable, as it is in some places around the world, should the rest of America just grin and bear it?

Excellent point. You just have to wonder what he's been rubbing his zipper flap against and if he was able to see it.

Ya', well maybe you ought not to be even a car passenger wearing out the roads and using up valuable tires with extra friction and heating up the climate. Maybe we should write our congressthey's about it.

Corruption amongst politicians is no new thing, or we'd have none, and autocracy has been on the rise worldwide for a while. Each of our countries has created systems where the morbidly rich see the best protection of their accumulated wealth in right wing, authoritarian systems. I'd guess that your relatively sudden mineral wealth and proximity to Asia is at the root of your nations problem. We traveled heavily in Australia in the mid-late 90's looking to emigrate. We did 4-5 one to month to six weeks tours and we made it to most places except the Ningaloo and Darwin. Western Australia was by far our favorite but to move there was to move to where every place was too far away. The point being that at the time Oz was a much more civil society than the US in our view and very attractive. Time passed and more than a decade later we flew into Perth for a week just to see things. Mineral money was flowing heavily. Property prices were through the roof. Equipment operators were commanding +AUD$130K annually. And for the first time in our experience we saw overweight Australians, smokers, and politeness was out the window. Money in ones pocket does not make them evil, per se, but money at levels where spending it to protect it is the start of most countries political problems, seems to me.