I’m talking about new compact car prices, not used car prices, because the article is talking about attempting to bring down new car prices by removing safety features.

Car prices have always been around that much, adjusted for inflation.

Wage increases have outpaced inflation every year since 2020 (first year I checked) except 2022. MSRP has not changed significantly for compact cars, adjusted for inflation. MSRP has actually dropped for all vehicles in the last year (at least). This means that compact cars have actually become cheaper, at least by a small amount.

The people complaining about affordability aren’t buying these cars.

Edit: I guess it’s easier to down vote than researching it yourself. None of this implies affordability isn’t a broader problem.

Get out of here with that judgmental attitude toward what other people do with their bodies.

Drugs like Ozempic have worked for people when nothing else would. And it’s not an easy solution; it can actually be really unpleasant to take these. But the people on it are desperate enough for real solutions to do it. In those cases it’s used in tandem with walking and other weight-appropriate exercise.

I’m thin, by the way. I just can’t stand this kind of thoughtless judgmental attitude. It’s the exact equivalent of talking about welfare queens.

They would do it if they could. They’re only pushing back because they know a blue wave will decimate their control in every heavily gerrymandered state.

Compact cars are all in the low $20,000 range, so I don’t know what affordability problem they’re talking about for vehicles. Oh, that’s right, many Americans have an insatiable desire for mobile fortresses that cost $100,000. Well, I’m sure not having ABS or rear cameras on those will turn out well for everyone else and shave off $500.

And I’ve never been inconvenienced by an alert that I had stuff in the back seat after a trip to the grocery store. It keeps forgetful parents from leaving their kids in hot cars, especially in the aforementioned parking lot tanks.

I’m sure the US district attorney will get right on that.

I don’t mean to be harsh, but apply some critical thinking or read the article.

• Why would they say “mother of her nephew” if it were her sister?
• Why would Karoline Leavitt’s sister be a non-citizen?
• Do you really think her sister would be named Bruna Ferreira?

Laura Loomer needs to accidentally fall into a wood chipper.

I’m sure the man they all obey over their oaths of office tried really, really hard to keep the subsidies, but he was just unable to overcome his sycophantic lackeys

He needs to be prosecuted when Trump is no longer in office. All of them need to be prosecuted.

As always, there’s zero legal basis to override laws passed by Congress.

This is great. I think this kind of messaging is very important.

If you read between the lines, this is the clearest sign to date how much they’re struggling with recruiting for the armed forces.

If you research this case, particularly in light of new information that’s been revealed over the last decade or so, it’s very hard to not come to the conclusion that the CIA (or a rogue faction within it) was involved in Kennedy’s assassination in some way, and that the CIA’s leadership subsequently went to great lengths to cover it up by lying under oath and withholding evidence. Intelligence fingerprints are all over it.

Oswald in Mexico City is a very strange episode in a series of strange episodes. As with so much in this case, it’s hard to know for sure what to believe.

People might not be aware that Kansas is much more purple than you might think. Not as much as Colorado, but leagues more than Missouri or Oklahoma. It’s generally a live and let live but keep our taxes low and stay out of our personal business culture, and this is why the anti-abortion referendum failed. People there usually keep their politics and religion to themselves.

That said, the people most impacted by this are the very rural voters who overwhelmingly voted for Trump, not the urban and suburban voters who already have broadband. So, you know, hard to say if this story will even break through for them, or the fact that elections have consequences…

Most people haven’t been kidnapped and kept in a cage. Everyone remembers how a personal insult has made them feel, or the shame of standing by and doing nothing when someone else was bullied near them.

Former reality TV host of Fear Factor mocks former reality TV host of The Apprentice, both unimaginably rich, powerful, and influential. Meanwhile, your rent went up and grocery prices keep rising.

The judge started, “Am I correct -”

“No, you’re not,” Halligan interrupted. She said that there was one additional grand juror in the magistrate’s courtroom and quoted her back-and-forth with that judge.

“I’m familiar with the transcript,” Nachmanoff said. He then told her to sit down.

Arrogance and incompetence, never far apart in Maga World.

Since 1995, Confederates have controlled both the House and Senate 50% of the time. They’ve had majority control of both Congress and the presidency 25% of the time.

Democrats have controlled the House and Senate 19% of the time, and including the presidency just 13% of the time.

It’s been divided government 63% of the time.

The only way Democrats have won control for the last three decades is when the country gets very tired of Confederates and gives them a brief time out: after Bush’s endless wars, after Trump’s first term.

The pattern seems to be that Democrats will win the House in 2026 and the presidency in 2028, but it’ll be divided government and they’ll only maintain control for 2-4 years before it swaps again. Due to the filibuster rules they won’t be able to accomplish anything and then Confederates will win the presidency again in 2032.

The lesson in her mind and the minds of those who think like her is that Jews were victims in the Holocaust, therefore the state of Israel has an unrestricted right to do anything it wants in the name of security. It can commit systematic mass murder and terrorism against the entire population of Gaza, it can turn a blind eye when Israeli terrorists do the same in the West Bank, it can shamelessly spy on and steal technology from its closest ally, it can negotiate in bad faith. Nothing matters because the thought process begins with “Israel is in the right.” Everything flows from that belief.