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#23851

LOL. It's Scotland, so of course Trump is triggered again about windmills. Here he is explaining how windmills are compoletely unrecyclable, that the carbon fiber blades 'rust' and 'rot', and they have to be dumped into the sea, all of which is complete fabricated nonsense, of course. LOL Starmer's doing everything he can to keep the stupidity from 'sploding his head. nsiap.

 

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#23852
8 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

Wife’s car needed a new sticker. She was told inspections are no longer required. 
No inspection, but sticker was bought. Hays County, Texas.

Even ignoring the emissions implications, doing away with inspections is madness in pretty much every way.

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#23853
10 hours ago, Captainant said:

Acid rain for all, hooray! Let the coal roll!

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trumps-epa-repeal-core-greenhouse-gas-rules-major-deregulatory-move-2025-07-29/

WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will rescind the long-standing finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, as well as tailpipe emission standards for vehicles, removing the legal foundation of greenhouse gas regulations across industries, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Tuesday.

Republican President Donald Trump's pick Zeldin announced the agency's plan to rescind the "endangerment finding" at an event at a truck factory in Indiana, alongside Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and called it the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.

 

Im not sure he'll get a corporate buy in on this. everyone knows this gets rolled back the minute the D's get back in power 

#23854
5 hours ago, wood said:

Even ignoring the emissions implications, doing away with inspections is madness in pretty much every way.

Disagree! I was an inspector for years. It’s a pretty pointless exercise with very little connection to safety. 

#23855
Susan Monarez is the first director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to require Senate confirmation. She's also the first director without a medical degree in more than 70 years. https://n.pr/4faDoId
#23856
22 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:
Susan Monarez is the first director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to require Senate confirmation. She's also the first director without a medical degree in more than 70 years. https://n.pr/4faDoId

Despite the lack of MD, she seems to be alright.

#23857
26 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Despite the lack of MD, she seems to be alright.

That’s the impression I got from the article.
 

Nevertheless, she says gold standard research, but her boss uses studies made out of whole cloth.

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#23859
12 hours ago, Pancho said:

Sounds like Whiskey Pete wants to run for office in Tennessee next year 

I mean, that's where all the whiskey is

#23860
11 hours ago, Pancho said:

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11 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

WTF is that? 

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#23862
12 hours ago, Pancho said:

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And all their wives/girlfriends look the same, all botox'd up.

#23863
9 hours ago, wood said:

Even ignoring the emissions implications, doing away with inspections is madness in pretty much every way.

Top 50 TV Cars Of All Time: No. 16, The Beverly Hillbillies ...

#23864
10 hours ago, wood said:

Even ignoring the emissions implications, doing away with inspections is madness in pretty much every way.

It was an extra annual tax. I’ve lived in two other states and neither had vehicle safety inspections.  I don’t think it does much to get junk cars off the roads. 

#23865

Car inspections are reminders for people they don’t change their oil for a year or that the tread in their tire sucks and a blowout is near.

#23866
4 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Disagree! I was an inspector for years. It’s a pretty pointless exercise with very little connection to safety. 

untrue . tires .rear lighting . wiper blades  ive either been an inspector or have run a shop for 30+ and NO ONE is more disconnected from reality than a broke ass needing tires to pass . most serious people see a check engine light fix it likely b/c it comes with a run condition . but safety ,when left to them , is ,well.... pretty much like everything else in Texas  . lacking . also the emission testing in williamson / travis is a joke . 

#23867
On 7/29/2025 at 10:46 AM, Pancho said:
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley introduces legislation to provide tariff rebate checks of at least $600 per adult and child to American families. https://t.co/b6VC7DXJB1

 

So let me get the logic here.

  • the federal government raises tariffs on imported goods.
  • the importer pays the tariff to the federal government
  • to make up cost of the tariffs the importer raises the prices on the goods  they are importing.
  • Americans pay for the higher priced goods
  • the federal government takes the money raised by the tariffs and 
    • pays down the debt
    • cuts a check to every American for $600

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#23868

Not really, we didn't have them in Florida, but we did have emissions testing.   I found more shitty cars on the roads of Texas than in Florida when I worked on cars. Our road conditions in Texas make shattered windshields more frequent here and our insurance coverage is also handled in dissimilar ways promoting shittier conditions for Texans (in Florida it was completely covered by ins., whereas in Texas it goes against your deductible).

 

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#23869
2 minutes ago, yoladu said:

So let me get the logic here.

  • the federal government raises tariffs on imported goods.
  • the importer pays the tariff to the federal government
  • to make up cost of the tariffs the importer raises the prices on the goods  they are importing.
  • Americans pay for the higher priced goods
  • the federal government takes the money raised by the tariffs and 
    • pays down the debt
    • cuts a check to every American for $600

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And the small government, anti-free money, low tax people love it. 

#23870
12 minutes ago, mr.goodkat said:

untrue . tires .rear lighting . wiper blades  ive either been an inspector or have run a shop for 30+ and NO ONE is more disconnected from reality than a broke ass needing tires to pass . most serious people see a check engine light fix it likely b/c it comes with a run condition . but safety ,when left to them , is ,well.... pretty much like everything else in Texas

In my experience, people who don’t take care of their cars also don’t take them in to get inspected.  Especially now that the sticker is gone.

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#23872
35 minutes ago, yoladu said:

So let me get the logic here.

  • the federal government raises tariffs on imported goods.
  • the importer pays the tariff to the federal government
  • to make up cost of the tariffs the importer raises the prices on the goods  they are importing.
  • Americans pay for the higher priced goods
  • the federal government takes the money raised by the tariffs and 
    • pays down the debt
    • cuts a check to every American for $600

YARN | That don't make no sense! | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |  Video gifs by quotes | a0ca2af2 | 紗

Trump can't fix the problem if he doesn't create a problem to fix.

#23874
33 minutes ago, yoladu said:

So let me get the logic here.

  • the federal government raises tariffs on imported goods.
  • the importer pays the tariff to the federal government
  • to make up cost of the tariffs the importer raises the prices on the goods  they are importing.
  • Americans pay for the higher priced goods
  • the federal government takes the money raised by the tariffs and 
    • pays down the debt
    • cuts a check to every American for $600

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Correct. Except 40% of the voting public will believe (or convince themselves) that Jina, Viet-nam, and every other non-Murican country in the world is paying the tariffs. So that chain of payments becomes:

Other countries money > DJT > Check to every Murican

Another 20% of the public will just see a $600 check from DJT and not even know or care about the tariffs.

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#23876
1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

In my experience, people who don’t take care of their cars also don’t take them in to get inspected.  Especially now that the sticker is gone.

true hence the "most serious people " part i can't fix dumb Texan . won't even try 

 

#23877
8 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Disagree! I was an inspector for years. It’s a pretty pointless exercise with very little connection to safety. 

I mean ... I've been getting cars inspected in Texas for 45 years - long enough to know that there are some pretty basic safety items that they inspect that will go uninspected now. Lights, tires, brakes, mirrors, seatbelts, tint darkness, valid insurance, etc. I've also been around long enough to have seen that many people will push and often exceed the limits in the absence of inspections and drive cars that are unsafe to drive.

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#23878
14 hours ago, mr.goodkat said:

untrue . tires .rear lighting . wiper blades  ive either been an inspector or have run a shop for 30+ and NO ONE is more disconnected from reality than a broke ass needing tires to pass . most serious people see a check engine light fix it likely b/c it comes with a run condition . but safety ,when left to them , is ,well.... pretty much like everything else in Texas  . lacking . also the emission testing in williamson / travis is a joke . 

Exactly.

14 hours ago, yoladu said:

Top 50 TV Cars Of All Time: No. 16, The Beverly Hillbillies ...

There was a time when I'd regularly see cars on the road that weren't a whole lot better off than this one. You know, people just doin' their own thing. But not in decades, because inspections. 

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#23879
9 minutes ago, wood said:

Exactly.

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There was a time when I'd regularly see cars on the road that weren't a whole lot better off than this one. You know, people just doin' their own thing. But not in decades, because inspections. 

The flip side is there are places all over that will pass whatever piece of shit you bring them so long as you pay the fee. The people driving said pieces of shit know which places to take these vehicles to.

#23881
12 minutes ago, C-Man said:

The flip side is there are places all over that will pass whatever piece of shit you bring them so long as you pay the fee. The people driving said pieces of shit know which places to take these vehicles to.

There will always be exceptions and people gaming the system, but cars are more complex now than ever before, and drivers in general know less about their cars than ever before. Hardly anyone these days even knows how to check their oil much less change it, check their tire tread, and lots of other super-basic shit. Without inspections there will be a great many people who won't even know they have fundamental safety issues on their cars that would have been easily detected with a simple inspection. Yeah I get that it's a pita and that the gubment uses it as yet another excuse to tack on an annual tax on top of the annual registration fee, but they're just shifting that now to the emissions testing fee anyway. Sure, reduce the frequency to every other year or so if you want. That's fine. Cars are more reliable than they've ever been. But eliminating inspections completely is stupid and just plain irresponsible. 

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#23882
Just now, C-Man said:

The flip side is there are places all over that will pass whatever piece of shit you bring them so long as you pay the fee. The people driving said pieces of shit know which places to take these vehicles to.

so i never said i wasn't super lenient . ffs i will bung a downstream o2 to get a 200k odyssey to flip a cat monitor so they can squeeze all the car out of it but tires and brakes are never going to get ignored . i like what i drive and i have to drive next to these fucks 

#23884
3 hours ago, yoladu said:

So let me get the logic here.

  • the federal government raises tariffs on imported goods.
  • the importer pays the tariff to the federal government
  • to make up cost of the tariffs the importer raises the prices on the goods  they are importing.
  • Americans pay for the higher priced goods
  • the federal government takes the money raised by the tariffs and 
    • pays down the debt
    • cuts a check to every American for $600

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Trump puts his name on the check so the schmucks think he’s paying them. 

#23885
23 hours ago, HenryJames said:
All four-star general nominees must now interview with President Trump. The goal is to "ensure they are war fighters first — not bureaucrats,” says the WH. Some fear it could politicize the general officer corps. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/us/politics/generals-trump.html

 

Sir is that a K-pop demonslayer avatar? 
 

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#23886
NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context — https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-say-new-government-climate-report-twists-their-work/

 

#23889
11 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Disagree! I was an inspector for years. It’s a pretty pointless exercise with very little connection to safety

Obviously there wasn't a lot of thought paid to whether having a bunch of 19-year-olds be responsible agents of the state for $5 per inspection was a good idea. 

#23890
19 minutes ago, HenryJames said:
NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context — https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-say-new-government-climate-report-twists-their-work/

 

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#23891

 Nothing to see here…

https://www.richmonder.org/this-tuckahoe-home-won-a-1-26-billion-contract-for-an-ice-detention-center-the-owner-isnt-talking/

“That contract alone would make the Acquisition Logistics Company one of Richmond’s largest businesses, but it’s not a household name. It doesn’t even have an office: its listed headquarters is a residential house located in Henrico’s Tuckahoe neighborhood.”
 

 

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#23892
6 hours ago, mr.goodkat said:

so i never said i wasn't super lenient . ffs i will bung a downstream o2 to get a 200k odyssey to flip a cat monitor so they can squeeze all the car out of it but tires and brakes are never going to get ignored . i like what i drive and i have to drive next to these fucks 

Where would one find your business?  Would a 200k 4Runner also receive said treatment?

#23893
6 hours ago, C-Man said:

The flip side is there are places all over that will pass whatever piece of shit you bring them so long as you pay the fee. The people driving said pieces of shit know which places to take these vehicles to.

Yeah, and they demand you wear a seatbelt.  And if you’re wearing one and drive into the water-filled ditch you’ll drown because you can’t get out in time.

#23894
28 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Yeah, and they demand you wear a seatbelt.  And if you’re wearing one and drive into the water-filled ditch you’ll drown because you can’t get out in time.

Excuse me but I'm not driving a tesla

#23895
1 hour ago, HornPhD said:

 Nothing to see here…

https://www.richmonder.org/this-tuckahoe-home-won-a-1-26-billion-contract-for-an-ice-detention-center-the-owner-isnt-talking/

“That contract alone would make the Acquisition Logistics Company one of Richmond’s largest businesses, but it’s not a household name. It doesn’t even have an office: its listed headquarters is a residential house located in Henrico’s Tuckahoe neighborhood.”
 

 

Tuckahoe?

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#23896
9 hours ago, wood said:

I mean ... I've been getting cars inspected in Texas for 45 years - long enough to know that there are some pretty basic safety items that they inspect that will go uninspected now. Lights, tires, brakes, mirrors, seatbelts, tint darkness, valid insurance, etc. I've also been around long enough to have seen that many people will push and often exceed the limits in the absence of inspections and drive cars that are unsafe to drive.

If you’ve been around that long then you should  know that everyone with a car that shitty has a cousin or buddy in the hood that will pass their car for an extra $20 (maybe 50 these days, I haven’t been a poor in quite some time)

#23897
57 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

If you’ve been around that long then you should  know that everyone with a car that shitty has a cousin or buddy in the hood that will pass their car for an extra $20 (maybe 50 these days, I haven’t been a poor in quite some time)

So, like I said above, nothing changes with those guys, and they'll always be around no matter what. But in the meantime, a whole lot more people who don't know shit about their cars won't know they have dangerous issues with them because they won't be getting inspections.  

#23898
23 hours ago, wood said:

Wow. They actually do believe that every time you see a con trail (condensation that freezes in the wake of a fast-moving plane) that it's actually cloud seeding.

I guess those Indycar and F1 cars I've seen generating wingtip vortices/vapor trails were part of the conspiracy too! Dang. I wish I's MAGA smart!

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#23899

I went to see the movie Together tonight. Normally I wouldn’t put this here, but we currently are being run by The Dumbest Generation. Go look the movie up. Somebody in that cult is going to think the movie is based on a true story and say that millions of Americans have had this happen to them. John Stockton’s broke brain would be the type of person I’d expect to think that movie is based on a true story. Someone should get TFG to post about on his grifting app. 
 

“Many people are saying it’s happening. Greatest scandal in world history! Obama and Biden started this with Hillary’s help and money from Soros!”

Also, for those interested, you get to see Alison Brie naked.

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#23900
3 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

Also, for those interested, you get to see Alison Brie naked.

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