Posts by dustymarlin10

You really think Americans aren't going to finally lose their minds when things hit the fan like this?

Henry Gonzalez67 said:I agree with this word for word. I’m not exactly right-wing, but I am convinced that once in a while, you have to let the "experts" see their plan through to the end. This is the perfect opportunity. To hell with the plebs who pushed them to the edge. Therefore, a vote for the executive branch (now and moving forward).

Obviously.
It's nice to find someone on the same page, even if I can't stand the people mentioned.

They might as well just push it all the way through now.

Let them vote.
It’ll be pretty damn satisfying watching them struggle to climb out of the mess they cooked up for themselves.
A little change of pace, wouldn't you say?

ruggeddrifter85 said:Check out this guy, such an artist 😵

Quincy:

"I backed Tomasi back when my Anna was up for Secretary of Culture (Stanley just laughed at me, haha)."

Quincy:

Stanley later asked him if it was stupid to support Tomasi just because of his wife. "It was definitely stupid, but I'd do anything for her," he said.

Idiots.
Are these the same people demanding a new apartment from the city because their "old" one got damaged?

🤔

After thinking about it for a bit, I've decided I'm voting for the Criminal Party. Even if my hand cramps up doing it.
It's not even because I like them—far from it—it's just so they can finally choke on the massive pile of crap they've created themselves.
They handed Clinton a hot potato to clean up their mess, and he ended up owing them everything from the waterfront to the local harvest.
Biden had a similar run, dealing with all those protesters and gas canister chaos in Washington, D.C. Now they’re blaming him for the debt he took on just to pay for their looting.

Let these guys win an election, let them swallow all that garbage, and then we can sit back and watch their solo performances when they start protesting against their own kind.
Just wait until autumn hits and they're starving, facing foreclosures, or watching as public officials get their pay slashed, or entrepreneurs lose out, or heaven forbid, their own protesters see their benefits cut...

Even my colleague the fraudster will flip on them during the Johabi referendum once there's nothing left to squeeze out of them.

hollowfox3 said:That’s why I say, don't even bother trying to "simplify" it. Either scrap the whole thing or just let the code serve as proof that you aren't stuck in isolation or quarantine—if that's even necessary.

Exactly.
This whole nonsense shouldn't have existed in the first place, right?
Just think about how much time and money went down the drain because of this mess...

Rachel Roberts6 said:You don't have to deal with that. I just put "Various destinations" in the destination field when I wasn't 100% sure, and then I used the notes section to explain why I chose that option and listed about 7 or 8 spots. I basically just wrote that because of the nature of the job, it's impossible to pin down an exact location for every single date, and that was that.

Gotta be a little creative, right?

Besides, I was driving all over your county the other day and nobody even asked me for anything.

Is that actually allowed?
I honestly thought you needed a separate permit for every single stop.
My "old" one is still valid until the 20th, but next week I'm supposed to hit 5 or 6 different spots outside the designated area.

They start hassling me the second I leave the city limits.

Anyway, thanks for the heads-up.
I'll give it a shot.

Joseph Taylor11 said:Just picture the scenario—two cities and three townships all sign on for one unified area, but then the head of the fourth township decides to leave his own citizens completely stranded! He made a solo call: he’s not signing.🙏

So, I’m asking you guys—is there actually any legal ground here to file a lawsuit? Is this territorial discrimination? Are we being penalized just because we were born in the "wrong" township? And how can a single person—or maybe a small group (I’m assuming the local council?)🤔—even make a call like that? What are we dealing with here? Is this America or the Wild West?

And honestly, none of this actually helps anyone.
My folks agreed over a week ago to split the county into three zones, but those idiots in Washington, D.C. won't let it happen.
Instead of making things easier, they went ahead and added an extra requirement to list the destination on every permit.
Now you've got service techs having to fill out ten different permits a day because they work across ten different counties within a 6.2 miles radius.

So, please, someone tell me who exactly is the crazy one here...

coastalwalker9 Quote:
Wait, so we're actually supposed to believe this place closes at 5 PM? 🤦
And of course, they’re shutting everything down on Sundays, so I guess if you make it in time, great; if not, just order something online. If you don't even have internet access, you probably can't afford a loaf of bread anyway, so why should you care if the store stays open until 5:00 or doesn't open at all?👍
So you honestly think people are just going to stay cooped up indoors forever without having any actual personal needs or lives to get back to?
So, imagine getting home around 4:30 or 5:00 after a shift that ends at 4:00—depending on the commute, obviously—only to have to sprint straight to the grocery store like your life depends on it. You’re basically playing a high-stakes game of chicken with the staff, wondering if you'll actually snag a loaf of bread and some milk before they decide it's time to close up shop. I mean, we all know those stores start cleaning the aisles and shutting down the deli counters ten minutes before they actually lock the doors, right? But hey, what good is cheese and deli meat if you don't even have any bread to put them on?
Maybe someone could just head home, grab a decent lunch in peace, take a breather, and then hit up the store around 7 or 8—whenever they actually feel like it. It’s honestly ridiculous that most specialty shops close by 4 or 5, making it impossible to even swing by two different places in one day; now they should be racing against the clock just to get groceries, on top of everything else.
Maybe try actually thinking for a second before you post something that makes absolutely zero sense?

Honestly, stores should just be allowed to set their own hours without everyone breathing down their necks. It’s not like running a shop in a tiny town like Ann Arbor or Naperville is the same thing as being stuck in the middle of Washington, D.C., right?
I mean, whatever, only people actually working in that industry would even get what I'm talking about anyway.

Exactly.
Honestly, I’m thinking we should probably just cap the workday at like 12 to 14 hours and call it a day.
Who’s actually salty about people working through the weekend and missing out on a trip to Walmart?
Let them starve.
Who’s actually crying over a bunch of retailers who are about to be out of a job?
Let them starve, honestly.

Sophia Moore6 said:Come on, don't act like a child throwing a tantrum; there is absolutely a connection here.

And what’s the issue with that? At least you wouldn't be wasting money on useless junk. Or maybe you would, if you actually knew how to manage your life.

You're the one dreaming, buddy. You're comparing countries where they certainly aren't paying minimum wage.

It's called organization, honey. Just a little bit of discipline and getting your life in order. But I suppose it's easier to just wander into a store and then swing by your mistress's house on the way home. 😉

Why so triggered? Did you see a little too much of your own reflection in that guy’s desperate attempt to skip the line? 🍿

Calling a moron a moron isn't an insult, it's just stating the obvious.

By the way, since when did you and your buddy decide to become the self-appointed guardians of law and order?
Or would you still be acting all high and mighty if there were, say, three of them instead of one?
Or maybe you'd just shut up like cowards because you didn't have the numbers?

Sophia Moore6 said:Oh, they’ll spend it one way or another. At the end of the day, you either have to drag yourself down to the store or just handle your business online. It’s not like the money just vanishes into thin air, right?

Well, thank God it’s not up to you, is it? Honestly, it's exactly this kind of mindset that prompted me to start this thread in the first place. When people start getting all worked up because they have to wait in line, or when they start whining that shops should always be open until 11:00 PM, I just look at you lot and lose my patience. That's when I start snapping back.

Last week, a buddy and I actually locked some guy in the restroom at one of those local shops; they didn't even find him until the night janitor showed up.

I decided to skip commenting on the last two posts because frankly, they were completely missing the point. Pure fantasy.

Just seeing this now.
Has anyone actually had the nerve to tell you and your friend that you’re both total morons for acting out like this?

And honestly, I’m just sitting here replying to an idiot.

Sophia Moore6 said:Let’s be honest: we would all be perfectly fine if every single retail shop and business operated on a strict schedule, closing their doors by 5:00 PM or maybe 6:00 PM at the absolute latest, regardless of whatever pandemic nonsense is going on. It really just comes down to habit, doesn't it?

So why is it that some people refuse to accept this simple reality?
If you're one of those lazy types who demands "flexibility" just because you've grown accustomed to having everything available at your whim, don't even bother replying with your endless list of excuses.
And please, spare me the nonsense about how limited hours will stifle consumer spending. That is a ridiculous argument.
People will always find a way to spend their money, whether the shops are open late or not. 😉

There are plenty of people working standard 9-to-5 shifts, or even earlier, and then they still have a commute.
How exactly do you think those folks are supposed to get to the grocery store?

Not everyone is a government drone or a teacher who can just pop out during the day or hit the shops right after school lets out, you know?

James Phillips92 said:Not in places like the Deep South, though. It makes sense—that’s just the kind of politicians we deal with here.

I mean, you guys basically handpicked them yourselves, right?
But hey, let's not get carried away, because mine aren't exactly winning any awards either.

Melissa Collins3 said:But seriously, why even bother with all that logistics? There's absolutely no need to be out there delivering anything. We should just lock ourselves away with maybe 40 pounds of flour and a massive stack of toilet paper. Don't open the windows, don't step onto the porch. Give it a few months and that virus will definitely be gone. If someone doesn't make it through the interim, well, that's on them—they clearly didn't stock up on enough flour. And if they don't survive after that? Honestly, what can you do? At least the virus is dead. We can just do it all over again come autumn.

Is anyone here actually thinking straight?

Back in 2020, in a supposedly democratic nation, we were practically writing formal petitions just to be (re)permitted to buy groceries, to drop off food for struggling parents, to show up for work, or to pick up prescriptions at the pharmacy... It feels like the virus ended up being one of our smaller concerns along the way..

Yeah.
You want to know what the real kicker is?
The fact that most people are just sheep, cheering this on and practically begging for even more restrictions on their rights.
And then there's my neighbor, who spends her entire day hovering by the window, waiting to see who steps outside just so she can call the cops on them—it's unbelievable.
The virus is definitely the smaller problem here.

Frank Martin2 said:A question for both pro and amateur cyclists.
Do police officers actually pull cyclists over at checkpoints, or do they just ignore us and focus entirely on the cars?

Oh, they definitely pull you over.

Drew Johnson2 said:For years, we actually kept our official residency registered at my father-in-law's place while living in an entirely different city... purely because we were renting, and honestly, it’s just how you navigate things—you convince the landlord to register you under someone else's name. I’m certain there are still plenty of people doing the exact same thing today. Of course, technically, a tenant is breaking the rules here, but let’s be real... if you finally stumble upon a decent apartment, you aren't going to pass it up just because of some paperwork technicality...

In Miami, finding a long-term rental for the whole year is practically impossible—though that might shift once the tourist season dies down—and if you even bring up the topic of a formal lease or official registration, you'll find yourself blacklisted before you can even finish your sentence...

My daughter was renting from a landlord who flat-out refused to register her.
She ended up moving to a new place where the landlord actually followed the rules.
Then she got a job, but the company messed up her address on her payroll, so she didn't even pay the right local taxes on her first paycheck.

So yeah, it's not always just the little guy's fault, is it?

Btw, the company is a massive Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Not really right now.

Bryan Taylor6 said:So I'm reading that they’re being flooded with pass requests—like 100,000 people applied, and if they approve even 10%, that’s still 10,000 people out and about... what's even the point of a permit if 10,000 people are just wandering around anyway?

If you look at the big cities, there isn't some massive outbreak happening. You have 100,000 people moving around, yet only maybe 5 to 10 new cases a day...

And is it really okay to lock down a house? Sure, let's just leave it unsupervised for three months and let them break in 26 times. By the time you get back, there won't even be any doorframes left...

Then I read about this official over in a small town near the coast who refuses to issue passes. 250 people asked, and she won't even hear of it. Her stance is basically that outsiders shouldn't be moving into her town and bringing Corona... does this even need more commentary? She’d probably rather kick out the workers at the oil terminals just because they're walking through her town, stopping at the pharmacy, or grabbing lunch at a local deli (which, by the way, isn't even under her jurisdiction). If we can't dock a tanker, the US will be out of fuel in ten days... so who's actually the crazy one here?

Just to quote my own post from another thread:

dustymarlin10 said:What did you guys expect, a government run by the secret police?
What if there aren't even 10,000?
The workforce in America is about 1.3 million people.
If half of them are just bureaucrats sitting at home now, plus those banned from working, plus the remote workers, you're looking at maybe 650,000 employees left.
And at least half of those people don't even work where they live.

EDIT: Finally managed to snag my permit.
After nearly 48 hours of wrestling with the system.
And I didn't even use my business token from HPB; I had to use my wife's private one from RBA.
Maybe that helps someone out...

Jacob Patel2 said:Bravo for the comment; I sign off on that from beginning to end.

Same here.
All those people who were talking so much trash and acting like they were too good for us, now they're all running back home to their hometowns.
But let's be real, they didn't mind using our healthcare system just fine when they came over for a little Vacation...

Matthew Jackson2 said:1.) We are discussing the funding of labor unions here. The assertion that everyone essentially chips in to fund them holds water, regardless of how many other things we’re being forced to subsidize that perhaps we shouldn't be in the first place.

2.) Although it’s completely irrelevant to the actual discussion regarding union financing—it's just a classic case of moving the goalposts—you should know that there are plenty of critics regarding how the church is funded; it's just that those voices don't get any airtime in the mainstream media.

Spot on.
Thanks.

@hollowmason64, 👍

it's always easier to play the victim, shut down, and lecture everyone else, isn't it?

velvetstag5 said:Oh, wow. So you're basically a captive Superman,

or some kind of mythical creature that keeps everything running.

In that case, I don't know why you're still hanging around this

backwater part of America when the rest of the European Union is wide open to you.

I guess I'm just a masochist.