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He's going to get his wish as leftists sit the next one out.

All eyes are going to be on Harris, if she wins. That'll set the tone: will it be more rainbow-painted wealth extraction, or are they going to try to actually help people who don't have millions of dollars already.

The Econoline (and maybe the Transit) seems to be the vehicle of choice for people who actually work.

No, it's because enforcement is a joke, not licensing.

One of the things that's hard for a European to understand is how shoddy and capricious law enforcement in North America can be. You know those lovely conditional speed limits that Germany has? No way that works in North America because the police won't do anything except sit in their interceptors on the last two days of they month doing speed traps.

Swerve, fail to signal, brake-check, basically drive like you're Bumblebee in Michael Bay's Transformers 2, that's fine. Just stay below the speed limit on the last two days of the month.

Aren't most trucks equipped with interlocks that prevent travelling at speed when the bed isn't fully lowered?

It's not embarrassing that they're Nazis.

It's probably embarrassing because they were brought over at the behest of powerful people who would rather it not be know than they patronized Nazis for political or monetary gain.

Werner von Braun was difficult enough, but you could make the case that they needed to keep him and scientists like him out of Soviet control. This is was probably just people that the Laurentian elite played wet towel tag with at Upper Canada College.

Don't they have enough money yet?!

Are they not, ever, going to be satisfied? Does a tiny little modicum of restraint upset them that much?

(don't answer that!)

After the USS Liberty, Israel realized it has carte blanche.

Disclosure: I'm Canadian, I didn't catch that this was a US story. In Canada a lot of people who received our equivalent of COVID relief used that money to invest, which made our housing crisis that much worse.

Nope, they weren't

To quote their own R&D lead: "Pfizer's head of vaccine and research and development, Kathrin Jansen, had said on November 8 that they "were never part of the Warp Speed". They did receive a large initial order, but they didn't partake of Warp Speed for R&D. They did, however, get funding from European governments.

Moderna was the only completely successful recipient of Warp Speed funding. AstraZeneca was the other one, but their offering had issues with blood clotting.

Demonizing and downplaying and sowing doubt on the credibility of public health did incredible damage. One of the reasons the US suffered as badly as it did is because the Trump admin treated it like a PR attack on Trump, instead of like a legitimate crisis, which it was.

Trump's failure is commonly assumed to have killed almost half-million people. And that's just Trump's response to COVID, turning vaccine hesitancy into a mainstream right-wing shibboleth is going to be a gift that keeps giving.

Warp speed also didn't really help that much. Of the recipients, only Moderna's was successful, and Pfizer wasn't part of the program. And that's before we get into insider trading allegations and how it didn't coordinate with anyone internationally.

A lot of people used pandemic relief funds to invest, notably in real estate. As the market returns to reality, those people are finding they're massively overextended.

I know, but the risk of injury is so high, and the history of medical snake-oil salesmen exploiting the desperate is long and bloody.

This is like letting people build shanty-towns to deal with the housing shortage: it helps in the short-term, but the chance or harm is huge and it takes energy away from dealing with the real issue.