He’s worried about his government contracts being pulled with space X and them coming after him for tax revenue so he pays his fair share.

Totally agreed. Unfortunately I don’t see it happening in our lifetimes.

Would love to be wrong here though.

For sure. It’s not exclusive to Mitch.

But Mitch was the architect.

He’s the reason the far right got 4 SCOTUS picks, instead of the 2 they should have if they played “fair”.

Mitch also was the architect for filling all the judicial vacancies in the federal courts with other far right partisan judges.

He’s also the architect for the current state of the GOP, and was responsible for most of the Government shutdowns in the last 20 years. Him lamenting this potential shutdown is laughable, to put it mildly.

He’s been doing this since at least 2010 when the GOP shifted their strategy away from advancing their democratic platform, and instead winning by fuckery like gerrymandering, blocking all bills in the Senate (as he was the majority leader for around a decade) that might advance the Democrat roadmap/agenda, and then immediately turning around and blaming democrats for the bill his party just blocked.

Mitch is the reason why the GOP is kept in line today.

His departure from politics, forced or otherwise, will have a huge impact on the GOP. There isn’t another person in their group that can hold all the different groups together and keep them focused on making democrats appear to look bad, like Mitch.

As much as I hate the guy (and boy, do I), he’s a masterful politician. I mean that as the damning insult it’s meant to be.

It happens semi-regularly. Unfortunately it doesn’t turn out like you’d think.

The company immediately bankrupts itself, but all of its assets and funds are protected by S-Corp and LLC chicanery; so they end up paying less than they would have if they stayed afloat and got fined, and now they’ve got a “new” company with the same people doing the same thing that’s protected from lawsuits.

Because that’s how we designed the system.

And by we, I mean the oligarchs that keep us fighting among ourselves instead of at them.

Mitch is the reason we have a partisan, hack, SCOTUS.

I heard Skillet live once at a metal show. They were opening for a band I was actually there to see.

I didn’t realize they were a “Christian Metal” band until halfway through, when I turned to my buddy and was like:

Jesus, these guys suck.

And they did. They really did suck. Their music is mediocre at best, and their on stage presence was atrocious. He kept trying to whip the guitar around as some flashy on stage thing; but he smacked himself in the face with the guitar, and then tried to recover by laughing it off, while everyone was cringing.

Just, imagine for a moment, a band full of people, who are trying to imitate a band type that they can’t ever actually become, and it’s like…well, it’s like the Reagan movie that just got released.

So much cringe.

Obligatory: Doesn’t fucking matter, go vote.

Or they took it really, really well.

This was worth the read.

This is assuming he had clean forks. Which I’m going to go out on a limb here, and guess that his issue is having clean dishes or utensils at all, irrespective of what kind they are.

Those two things are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Evolution was all like: Ok, so which mutations would you like to advance? The venomous thing? The aquatic thing? The electrocuting enemies thing? The no stomach hack? The “Fun at parties” hack?

Platypus: Yes.

Dicaprio over here taking notes

Hmmm, I guess that makes sense. It’s been a while since I’ve bought a gas mower, roughly the late 90’s/00’s hah, been using electric/battery since then.

Most mower engines are 2-strokes, they’re designed to burn oil as lubrication basically, it’s added to the gas. You don’t need to change the oil. Unless it’s a 4 stroke engine (unusual due to size/complexity), or you’ve got a transmission or some other motorized mechanical behavior.

Giving habitually violent repeat offenders more reasons to be violent is always an issue.

Manson didn’t go to jail for murdering anyone. Manson went to jail because he conspired and convinced other people to murder for him.

Wouldn’t let me rent when the housing crash hit and I couldn’t afford the place, wouldn’t let me have friends over late at night because they thought my d&d group were a bunch of drug dealers. All around a miserable experience.

I’m not entirely sure he doesn’t stew on this.

Hitler, famously, obsessed over negative news coverage/press about him. Even to the point where he threatened violence/war with New York if they didn’t redact a column about him being a wannabe dictator.

Trump is the same kind of narcissist Hitler was, and gets similarly obsessed with negative press about him.

I agree that I doubt he’s reflecting on this, but he’s absolutely aware the rest of the world thinks he screwed up and that’s why he thinks they’re lying. Because everyone else around him says he won, so how could, literally every news agency, including Fox Entertainment “news”, say Kamala beat him?

But he is absolutely pissed and stewing in his own piss right now at all the negative coverage after his debate performance.

Is it really a twist when it’s a part of the script?

Right, they gray area is so small, it’s practically just a blend line for the huge expanse of black and white on the table for this election.