No, the DRILL BABY is like Santa Claus for the oil industry. Every year he flies through the world on a magical Halliburton frac truck, delivering new 75-foot yachts to oil executives. He uses his magic DRILL to weaken the spine of legislators in every country.

It’s a rich people holiday, not very well known.

Around the 1990’s it became okay to be greedy in America, and okay to complain about what you don’t have. Empathy in the US has fallen off considerably over the years.

As to how they’re on medicaid, farms almost always miraculously have a loss of a few hundred dollars each year, so farmers tend to qualify. When you’re used to quietly having healthcare paid for by the government, you can vote for the hate party until that changes. Every republican knows they’re not the problem, much as no raindrop blames itself for a flood.

The phrase “The Surely Exception” applies here as it does to abortion, they were sure any cuts would not affect them. One benefit of the buffoonery of trump is they are not smart enough to protect their voters.

You need to set a bar for rich. How much in fixed assets and how much income per month or year?

By world standards you’re probably rich.

We have to accept that even the most responsible country with nuclear weapons might elect a complete idiot some day. Twice, even.

The real wild card is that non-fission nuclear material fired in rockets and scattered across israel.

Scrolled down 2 pages to find and upvote this.

Also research HERF guns. I suggested them for IEDs but the researcher I talked to said the military was far beyond that idea.

I mean, have the day you voted for.

“The cat is not allowed to have meth.”

Maybe he thought they meant seasoning, and it was what they put in the drink.

Have the day you voted for!

Sean Connery could have been Gandalf.

I got love bombed and stripped of my support network over time. After the divorce it took about 5 years to rebuild my friend network. She’s still the same as she ever was. I kept being myself, and I’ve bloomed as a strong member of my community and my life is much better than coming home to play a grey man for a narcissist.

It. Will. Get. Better. Celebrate the freedom from a bad situation. Be who you are, and the best version of that. I spent days crying in the beginning, but I went through it and I’m strong now. Hopefully you find that seed in yourself as well.

By far the greatest flaw of this thinking is that there is an exception for the things they want.

This doesn’t feel like a genuine question, because it’s an open secret that a majority of american restaurants, farms, and construction outfits run on migrant labor at below minimum wage. I personally work in construction in Oregon, and I’m well aware of this, even hundreds of miles from a boarder.

Aeroman.

Because no one would drive in them ever, they would respect the sanctity of the truckpool lane.

Once the second department is eliminated, the problem will be solved!

Yeah, this is a problem of pushing compliance to a level above the operator in an area where the perfection demanded by policy relies on traffic behaving perfectly, and drivers never experiencing delays or problems, to operate. The only way this goes away is a scarcity of drivers.

Someone who believes they know how to drive will suggest automated trucks, but the accident lawsuits will probably bankrupt the first companies.

There’s been a continuous movement in the US to reduce workers rights since the 70’s. I offer 10 sick (mandatory by oregon) and 10 vacation, and it’s considered generous. I also pay full health care, which is considered ridiculously good.