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Boosted_C5 posted:the lack of the sounds and smells of the V8 is depressing 
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Dec 19, 2015 19:04
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i never realized that a major political issue was "car go vroom"
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fishmech posted:Eh every country has their One Big Crop that they use way too much. It's unavoidable, and it's all plants anyway. My F-150 is only 10 years old, but our household income is safely in the 95th percentile now. How loving out of touch are all these rear end-hole auto-executives who keep green-lighting commercials every December with annoying white liberal douche-bags in hipster houses buying a loving brand new Lexus for each-other as Christmas gifts??? I am republican as all hell and even I want to eat these people. Of course it's not just Lexus and Mercedes anymore. I though about us getting a new Chevy Tahoe and looked up the latest model on a whim. L-O-loving-L GM wants $50,000 for a freaking GM truck??? Hahahahahaha. The price of an AMERICAN TRUCK is now more than annual U.S. household income. No loving wonder these brain-dead idiots needed a bailout. Same poo poo interiors, same egregious use of plastic, now with a luxury car price. I was worried about turning into a greedy rear end-hole once we FINALLY emerged from all the years of education and poverty, but NOPE actually having money to spend now is making me want to be more generous with family, freinds, neighbors, etc. even more because how in the ever-loving gently caress can a middle-class family that will always be middle-class afford loving anything???
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Dec 19, 2015 19:05
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fishmech posted:Eh every country has their One Big Crop that they use way too much. It's unavoidable, and it's all plants anyway. It's possible I am not remembering things entirely correctly from what I gleamed from reading about this months ago (and I don't care enough to read more/argue the point). It is still something that could add competition
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Dec 19, 2015 19:06
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Do Not Resuscitate posted:Great article that nails what's wrong with Jeb. What a cathartic way to start the day. loving quit, you self-entitled hump! otoh his continual humiliation is VERY satisfying a third party jeb! run would be as beautiful as it is unlikely
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Abner Cadaver II posted:i never realized that a major political issue was "car go vroom" have you been living in america long
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Boosted_C5 posted:My F-150 is only 10 years old, but our household income is safely in the 95th percentile now. buy a new f-150 they're nice. chevy trucks are poo poo.
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Dec 19, 2015 19:07
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Boosted_C5 posted:My F-150 is only 10 years old, but our household income is safely in the 95th percentile now. I've pretty much resigned myself to driving used shitboxes for the rest of my life. Seems to be the difference-maker as far as getting my kid through college without loans and someday finishing this mortgage goes. To get a new car that's actually worth buying new you basically have to spend at least 30 grand. Sorry auto industry and worthless dealer network, I don't got it.
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Dec 19, 2015 19:08
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Boosted_C5 posted:As an enthusiast I'm kind of sad we're basically going to skip from gasoline to electric for the most part. The idea of an ethanol future was always exciting - keep internal combustion engines, generate more power cleaner, no need to rely on foreign energy, etc. Electric is the future, but it's hard for me to get excited about electric motors or the inevitable electric Corvette at some point in the future. The immediate torque is amazing, but the lack of the sounds and smells of the V8 is depressing. That's why new engines have built-in speakers! 
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Boosted_C5 posted:My F-150 is only 10 years old, but our household income is safely in the 95th percentile now. They need to charge that much because, as Trump said, wages are too high.
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uncurable mlady posted:buy a new f-150 they're nice. chevy trucks are poo poo. I will fight you. I had to trade in my last Corvette for a Camaro when I got married, and my Camaro for a truck with a back seat when we had a child. I couldn't afford to be picky, so I've had 2 Fords in a row. gently caress these unreliable heaps and their undersized engines that actually weigh more and take up more space than a GM smallblock V8 because of Ford's love for the inefficient and stupid DOHC engine design. Hell, with the new F-150s, their top-of-the-line engine offering is a Goddamned V6 with a turbo charger. Like I give a poo poo about your peak HP/TQ numbers and the environment. Give me that area under the curve of a Chevy V8. I cannot be expected to chauffeur my child back and forth from pre-school and get groceries from Bi-Lo with anything less than face-melting torque. Boosted_C5 fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Dec 19, 2015 |
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Dec 19, 2015 19:12
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Nonsense posted:
Daaang, this is Paradol Ex level predicting. I mean you expect pundits to miss out on Trump, but their numbers for Cruz are just as bad. And those Walker+JEB! numbers...
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CortezFantastic posted:It's possible I am not remembering things entirely correctly from what I gleamed from reading about this months ago (and I don't care enough to read more/argue the point). It is still something that could add competition I'm not sure what "competition" you really want here? Do you not know that ethanol is barely better for carbon emissions (depending on the car, it can be worse), and that the gas station people aren't going to compete with themselves anymore than premium gas competes with regular? Yeah it's cheaper too, but you need to buy it more often because there's necessarily decreased mileage: ethanol has substantially less chemical energy in it than equivalent gasoline. It doesn't hurt too much in the 10% ethanol mixture commonly found in gas stations, because there its volume mostly replaces other additives to gasoline, though you'll still get better mileage with 0% ethanol. "FlexFuel" engines are a thing that many newer cars have, and those are the ones that you can just put E85 into no worries. For all other cars though, there's some extensive work that needs to be done because high amounts of ethanol can wear away various seals and the like or gunk up the engine, even if you've done conversion stuff. You also might have been thinking of biodiesel, where there's lots of waste food products that can be put into a minimally modified diesel engine to run it.
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uncurable mlady posted:buy a new f-150 they're nice. chevy trucks are poo poo. New trucks are poo poo. Buy a late ’90s Ranger.
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Boosted_C5 posted:I will fight you. img_calvin_peeing_on_chevy_logo.jpg
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Boosted_C5 posted:My F-150 is only 10 years old, but our household income is safely in the 95th percentile now. This post coming from you is just amazing. I really don't know what to think.
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Platystemon posted:New trucks are poo poo. Buy a late ’90s Ranger. true as heck, i loved the poo poo out of my old Ranger. small trucks are pretty much dead in the US though, even the international version of the ranger they sell is basically a midsize
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Nonsense posted:
Those are decent predictions though they, along with everyone else, missed that Cruz would be the one to consolidate the evangelicals. Though Walker probably would have been the one to do that had he not mis-managed the campaign and flamed out early.
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Dec 19, 2015 19:21
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If you're a JEB! fan you will love this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq4v4F4BEUk
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Dec 19, 2015 19:25
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CortezFantastic posted:Almost every car in America can currently run on pure Ethanol, with just a simple and cheap conversion kit. No need for special engines. No need for special engines, just more corn fields than the US's total landmass, and it's still a huge energy loss to produce in the first place while being far less efficient than gasoline. Ethanol sucks and I wish using it as fuel was illegal.
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Joementum posted:Those are decent predictions though they, along with everyone else, missed that Cruz would be the one to consolidate the evangelicals. The Trump numbers are whatever, since convention fuckery is likely. The Bush numbers are what throw me, he still has a lot of cash, but it seems he's not been wise with it. Those are red flags, for a campaign intending to make it until next summer.
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Dec 19, 2015 19:32
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Boosted_C5 posted:My F-150 is only 10 years old, but our household income is safely in the 95th percentile now.  those suburban houses you see in those commercials are the cornerstone of the republican party
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radical meme posted:This post coming from you is just amazing. I really don't know what to think. Troll suit comes off briefly for Christmas. Hohoho! Boosted is a good guy IRL, aside from his matchbox car fixation. :-)
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Dec 19, 2015 19:35
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Nonsense posted:The Trump numbers are whatever, since convention fuckery is likely. The Bush numbers are what throw me, he still has a lot of cash, but it seems he's not been wise with it. Those are red flags, for a campaign intending to make it until next summer. Those predictions were all from like August. Done again today they'd probably rate Bush a bit lower, though likely not much, and Cruz and Christie higher.
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Dec 19, 2015 19:36
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Jeb: I just gotta get this off my chest... Donald Trump is a jerk! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFb5klyEHwc
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Dec 19, 2015 19:45
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Joementum posted:Those are decent predictions though they, along with everyone else, missed that Cruz would be the one to consolidate the evangelicals. This chart reads like a computer trying to understand love. Scotty and JEB! have zero natural charisma. You could give them all the money and organization in the world and they still couldn't inspire their way out of a paper bag.
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Montasque posted:Jeb: I just gotta get this off my chest... Donald Trump is a jerk! Everything he says is correct, but he's such a whiny little bitch about it, makes me want to vote Trump tbh.
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Dec 19, 2015 19:48
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Wow, I had no idea Grandpa Bloodgates was spending that much on ad buys. Has nobody told him that being unmarried and sorta effeminate means he never had a chance in the first place?
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Dec 19, 2015 19:50
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Where the hell did graham, kaisch and fatty get so much money from
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Dec 19, 2015 19:51
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Where the hell did graham, kaisch and fatty get so much money from The chart combines campaign and Super PAC spending.
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Dec 19, 2015 19:52
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See? Republicans are right. We don’t need to get money out of politics. Money ain’t worth poo poo.
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Abner Cadaver II posted:Wow, I had no idea Grandpa Bloodgates was spending that much on ad buys. Has nobody told him that being unmarried and sorta effeminate means he never had a chance in the first place? Probably the same guy that never told the Donald that having been through 3 wives isn't exactly kosher with a good chunk of the red team.
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Joementum posted:Those are decent predictions though they, along with everyone else, missed that Cruz would be the one to consolidate the evangelicals. Not having a stoned play-doh face combined with a terrible social media presence would have helped too.
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Dec 19, 2015 20:07
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SnakePlissken posted:Probably the same guy that never told the Donald that having been through 3 wives isn't exactly kosher with a good chunk of the red team. Divorce and infidelity are very minor sins in contrast to The Homo Threat to right wing evangelicals (see: Kim Davis).
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radical meme posted:From the same article: Possibly, though Trump might be able to bullshit away a loss if he comes in second or third. Trump will probably do better in primaries, and there aren't enough caucuses, with enough delegates, for Cruz or Rubio to out-organize him. The biggest threat to Trump is a narrative emerging that he's a loser. Best case for Trump, given current trends: 1. Cruz wins Iowa. Trump does good enough that it doesn't kill his campaign. 2. Trump wins NH and SC. 3. Cruz wins Nevada. 4. Reince Preibus dies of alcohol poisoning.
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AARP LARPer fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Jan 22, 2016 |
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Dec 19, 2015 20:37
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Iowa doesn't matter, if you successfully set the expectation that Iowa doesn't matter. So really Trump should probably get on lowering expectations.
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