The destination Waffle House was apparently in Rome, GA. I wonder where the origin “50 miles away” was?

Not because I believe he actually teleported, mind you, but because he was obviously driving while blackout drunk and I want him to stay the Hell away from me.

Yes, you have to be 35.

I just figured it was extra-desperate CPR and never saw a reason to question its legitimacy.

What I had in my head was something like this, a street-tuner Impreza that’s been lowered:

The point was that just because something’s AWD doesn’t inherently mean by itself that it’s a good idea to take it off-road.

Nah. The Impreza doesn’t even have a weird roller top for its cargo bed, let alone a fragile and poorly-designed one. No way it could break as stupidly as the Cybertruck managed.

things that any AWD vehicle can do.

Not any AWD; you probably want high ground clearance too.

I wouldn’t go fording streams in a Subaru Impreza, for instance.

I admit I used to think that, mainly because I picked up on the conservative persona before realizing it was satire and immediately stopped watching, thus never giving myself a chance to figure it out.

“[English doesn’t] just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” – James Nicoll

Ironically, that movie is French.

And this grifting fuck knows that, because that 75% is exactly who he is trying to tap into by appealing to their ignorance.

Except it is, because the Republicans make it political.

There’s not a left or right wing way to trim a tree. There’s a correct way and a wrong way. It’s about how many miles they need to do in how much time.

Yeah, and the Republicans want to force it to be done wrong while claiming the opposite. It’s nonsense, but you can’t deny the nonsense exists.

It only takes one side to politicize.

Probably not!

It’s not as if the Republican dipshit actually knows anything about the subject. He’s just mouthing off with a self-serving post hoc fallacy. In reality, he has no fucking clue whether the pruning was done correctly or not – and it probably was done correctly, given that the workers hired by the utiilty were actual arborists – because the mere fact that the power lines fell is not by itself proof of error. It’s entirely possible, for example, that the storm was so extreme that no reasonable amount of pruning (i.e. anything short of clear-cutting) would’ve saved those wires!

And if the utility had gone “anti-woke” and clear-cut them, he would’ve just been bitching in bad faith about that instead.

Okay, I don’t think you understand the point I was making.

I’m not saying I think there’s anything “woke” about tree trimming, or that having certified arborists who know what the fuck they’re doing is somehow a bad thing – the notion is ludicrous.

What I’m doing is explaining why they (Republican morons) claim there’s something “woke” about tree trimming (i.e. explaining the kernel of truth that they’re twisting out of proportion to form the basis of their lie), and how they’re wrong.

Going back to the beginning, you wrote…

“He seems to be saying it’s a Democrat value to do things wrong on purpose?”

…and I was explaining how, although that’s what the Republican moron might claim, it’s ass-backwards compared to factual reality.

What he’s actually saying is that it’s a Democrat value to do things right on purpose, and complaining about it. That’s an even more insane and broken mentality than you gave him credit for.

To continue your EMT analogy, it’s like if Republican morons were bitching and moaning that trained paramedics were a thing, and wanted ambulances to be staffed by quacks doing bloodletting and trying to balance bodily humours instead. (Which, with RFK Jr. in charge, probably isn’t far off!)

You’re the one who doesn’t know how any of this works. Haven’t you ever heard of an arborist? They even have a professional standards organization that offers certifications and everything.

More to the point, the article references this interview where somebody from the electric company apparently describes their pruning standards. If you think such standards don’t exist, explain WTF you think is going on in the interview!

Yes, except that training to care about tree health instead of only cost/efficiency is a thing Democrats do.

The training isn’t political, but which training gets chosen is.

The complaint about the new tree trimming practices is “valid” in the same way that bitching about renewable energy replacing coal-fired power plants is “valid.” The new “species specific pruning” practices are actually better in the sense that they promote the long-term health of the trees instead of indiscriminately butchering them in a straight line with an overgrown hedge trimmer, but giving a shit about that instead of doing everything the cheapest most shortsighted way possible is the ultimate sin, according to these demented assholes.

No, he’s complaining that Democrats value trimming trees right (to maintain the long-term health of the tree) instead of indiscriminately butchering them to get them clear of the power lines as quickly and cheaply as possible.

How is this “Oniony?” Maybe regarding liberals, but leftists have never been anti-gun (see e.g. the Black Panthers).

socially disenfranchised young men middle-aged married men in positions of power

FTFY

That’s the whole reason they attached it somewhere, but your quote doesn’t address my speculation about why they picked her foot in particular. I was making a guess about the relative timing of her being healed enough to release vs. being healed enough to have the graft moved back to where it belongs.