You would be extremely surprised. Car maintenance is expensive, and lack of inspection very often leads to people driving vehicles that should have been off the road years ago simply because a lot of states that axe it, axe inspections because they're expensive for the driver (a lot of these states are in the former Steel Belt). In better-off areas or places where people have more time/money/equipment/space to wrench on cars, then yes, but here in my city, I definitely have seen cars where the entire frame is basically being held together by Bondo and prayer, cars where they're running on 4 spares, cars where enormous sections of the body paneling are just gone. I've nearly been hit by people who clearly relied on yearly inspections to tell them "hey your brakes are failing" because they drive on autopilot and just adjust how they drive to accommodate failing/failed brakes.
In fact, I suspect maintenance costs are HIGHER in areas without inspection, because shops could rely on that regular-ish influx of cash even if it was only like $50-$100 a vehicle, AND you have the customer in the shop, so it's easier to go "hey you really need brakes, it'll cost you an extra $200 and take an extra hour or two".
No, MAGA doesn't have the "embrace of death" ideology that much. I feel they're trying to "score points" with Jesus by simply killing as many "undesirables" as they can get their hands on, and some MIGHT kill themselves when they realize He ain't coming back.
And listen to your kid if they say it's not what it looks like. My troop looked totally fine if you asked the Scoutmaster. It turns out it was just his kid and his kid's best friends who were all assholes. I got beaten up at least once, and eventually got kicked out because I pulled my knife on the Scoutmaster's kid, because he had pulled his knife first, and literally backed me up against a cliff with it. Dude was a psycho and eventually joined the Army during the big 2009 push (what a shock).
Mom insisted I go every week, it's not that bad, etc, and then literally had the stones to tell me "you should've said something" when I got thrown out.
This is part of the issue. It's systemic. We NEEDED to start stamping this out 20 years ago, but boiling the frog is effective at making well reasoned extrapolation sound like insanity.
The issue is the precedent. It means my state can do it. Nevada can do it. Texas can do it.
Never mind that the CIA's role doesn't only include surveillance. What's to stop another governor or lawmaker from deciding the Florida Intelligence Services need assassination protocols, to start killing off anti-Florida assets? What's to stop them deciding they need sabotage capabilities to destroy infrastructure that is detrimental to the Florida way of life?
What, of any of these, are we fighting for in Iran, half a world away from the US? The DoD can't even articulate what objectives the administration intends to achieve, and neither can the State Dept, apparently.
I was about to say, isn't this the same thing that closed down Gawker? Even if it's accurate, Thiel can flood the courts with paperwork and effectively commit paper terrorism on the company to draw proceedings out and eventually bankrupt them on legal fees alone.
Nah, Trump hates the WH. Wants to be as far from DC as he can, because he's insulated from actual people at Mar-A-Lago. It's his Versailles, truly - he loves that he only has to hear sycophancy there, and basically forcing his Cabinet to relocate there for months while he governs from there is probably a huge power trip for him.
Not necessarily. Drones can level a position or terrorize civilians, but you can't securely hold that position or occupy territory with them. For now, there is no replacement in that job - your infantry and armor are still doing that work.
See, this is my take as well - other people knew/guessed his passwords and used his account that way. Keeping him alive really doesn't do anything for the "it's all a coverup" story, especially when a LOT of his associates and contacts are getting tangled up in this release of his files. Additionally, this guy was talking so openly about manipulating markets, sex crimes, and all sorts of legal and quasi legal shit that I find it hard to imagine that EVEN IF he was connected to Israeli intelligence like has been suggested, EVEN IF he got spirited out of prison and away to Tel Aviv, I find it hard to imagine Mossad would want to keep such a DEEPLY compromised asset alive instead of driving him into the Negev and putting two bullets in the back of his head.
Even still, Noem literally stated, on mic, on camera to the nation, that ICE would be at the polls ensuring the "right people" vote for the "right leaders". Believe your enemy when they're dumb enough to tell you their plan.
There's a lot of white supremacists and hate groups there that have active ties to hate groups here in the US. Many white South Africans were and are not happy with the fact that their racial hierarchy got scrapped.
I think autocorrect made Gareth from Garak.