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It's so much worse than that. At least in HS you had an idea who these people really were!

How should this work? It was based on the "Settlement" Selection process...
Every 100-500 families would elect their representative.

Then, they would send theirs up, and 100 would show up, and talk amongst themselves.
And select their BEST representative.

This would happen 4-5 times. But the BETTER people would be selected. Because these 100
got to KNOW the person was not committed to just helping their family out, or making profit going to office.

We got the best of the best.

Our approach... We get the Selection from the greediest, dirtiest people nobody actually knows.
And we have no idea what they truly believe, or why they want the position!

Same and agreed. My brothers and I watched the Mickey Mouse Club faithfully. We liked the mini shows like Spin and Marty doing stuff on the Triple R ranch. A few years ago when I had access to the Disney Channel I went to watch the Spin and Marty pilot episode and was greeted by a disclaimer warning the program I was about to watch was a legacy production and may not be up to today's standards of inclusivity blah-blah-blah. It was a groveling apology the program had so many white guys that were not evil, stupid, or gay and didn't have the correct mix of people of color. Of course the country was 80% white people when these were made, but modern Disney couldn't help taking a slap at the folks that made it rich and successful. That type of crap is what made me pull the plug on Disney in my life. Sigh.

I loved the Mickey Mouse Club as a kid, too. What good wholesome fun it was.

The Mayo Clinic really got a big chuckle out of me. My husband’s name was Mayo. He ran for a county position one time. His slogan was, “Don’t forget the Mayo.” He won.
A real bunch of good ones. Thanks!

Born during 1947, me now the old dino grew up watching The Micky Mouse Club on TV.
Tonight on my PC monitor, I never before laughed at it so hard.

Ok. Yesterday I scared a Jehovah Nitwit with a flag wrapped around a dollar bill.

Kirk, you have nailed it. The Libertarians have abandoned us to idiots on both extremes!

AHA - so THAT'S how the cockroach got in the bathroom!!!! Nice doughnut play there, OUC! Hey, they're all good, LOL! Thank you!

2 Ohm speakers? SMH. guess they thought it compensated for the 15 watt amp.

Happy for you, Brother, looks like a GREAT Time.

Well said Captain.
Was hoping for Grandchildren but looks like that is off the table. Just hope for the sake of my children that we can keep the Communists out of complete control until the current education and brainwashing can be overcome.....

I agree with you 100%, Captain. Down here in SC, we have a senate seat up for grabs. I didn't like Lindsay Graham. He died, his wife is worse but is running for his seat, but I'll be damned if I ever vote for a Democrat ever again, so Mrs Lindsay it is. Sigh. We had another candidate for that seat in the Primaries, He's a good man and an acquaintance, but Lindsay had run an ad hominem smear campaign and dredged up stuff Mark had done in college, 40 years ago, and shut him down. Grit your teeth and push the button, and at least be sure the socialists don't get your vote.

Sounds fishy, if you ask me ;^)

Call Paramount. I think we found a Tom Homan stand-in, lol.

That's awesome.
And there is a lesson for YOUNGER people.

When trying to bring someone into your hobby... Hiring someone else to show them how is a GENIUS move.
it removes the Judgement and Fights.

A friend went canoeing with a bunch of married couples. Fighting immediately!
The company made them pull ashore. Had all of the men get out and move ONE canoe to the right. The guy on the right to the left.
Now NOBODY was with their spouse. He had them introduce themselves to the other person.

And the next 2hrs was Amazingly peaceful and fun. Because we tend to treat our spouses much worse than we would treat a stranger.
And the guy who was running the show knew this. And did this many times. Nobody was trying to be "right", and nobody was "blaming".

Genius Move!

Why I stopped voting Libertarian as my "complaint" vote.
1) There are not enough of us that it actually matters
2) It plays into their hands. Disenfranchise the people
3) It is actually 1/2 a vote for the Looters. Because they have ZERO conscience

I never voted for a Bush. I am proud of that.
But today, we have INSANITY vs. QUESTIONABLE
as our choices. Giving 1/2 vote to INSANITY seems insane!
I also BELIEVE: If you don't vote, "STFU" your opinion on politics is MOOT.

Finally, to those asking why we don't get "better" people.
The system is optimized to find exactly who the $$$ brokers can control.
That's what made TrumpV1 so powerful. He owed nobody. (But he believed the criminals, like Reince Priebus who were just "Conservative Looters".

I have between 10-20 yrs left on this planet. I would love to hold my future grandchildren.
I have a TOUGH time turning this over to the DSA crowd.

Choosing our representatives and senators in Washington has become the equivalent of campaigning for student body president and student council: Who's the most popular and can make the most outlandish "promises".

Some of the pictures look like where I grew up in Northern Wisconsin. I used to fish with my Grandpa up there but that was a long time ago.

Me dino will choose between the lesser of two evils when that is the only choice I have.
Me an old dino been there done that and did not like it one bit.

Oh, so fun! I don't fish....and I'm really not an outdoors person, but to see REAL photos of people I've interacted with here..... I totally love that!

Helluva catch.

Rather than vote an immoral candidate and knowing full well that my candidate will lose i usually vote for the libertarian candidate rather than the lesser of two evils

Beautiful, and beautiful story. Can you ship me some Walleye to Nine Mile Falls, WA? I'm disabled now, so I can't fish it myself. In any case, thanks for the story.

The many issues surround that tiny amplifier under the passenger seat.
1) 15 watts/chan is a pitiful amount of drive power.
2) The CAN bus runs through it, making replacement a non-trivial event.
3) The speakers are the cheapest paper cones they could source.
4) The speakers are two ohms. Most replacements are four ohms, if you try a four ohm replacement, the amp won't turn on at all.

Two solutions: The cheap one is reasonably DYI.
Infinity/JBL (same amp, sold under two names) makes a 8 channel in/ six channel out DSP amp (~60 watts/per). It plugs into the stock amp high level outputs using adaptor harness sold through Crutchfield. run him about $600. And you can use four ohm speakers should he go that far. The stock speakers aren't horrible if driven hard enough.
The other is a complete tear-out of all the factory components including the CAN bus interface module.(RockFord Fosgate).
Again, JL Audio is the amp of choice here. Five channels totaling 1K watt output does the trick nicely. My ears are partial to Infinity. Their component speakers are quite nice for the money. I spent about $3K in parts and close to a week removing the old and installing the new. Front door panels need to be modified. Lots of adaptor harnesses need be used if you don't want to cut off the factory plugs.
The dash wiring is more than a little convoluted. It requires some understanding if you want to retain the dash speakers (recommended)
If he doesn't have advanced tech skills, he'll be looking at an installation cost that will rival the parts cost.
I was getting estimates in the $5-6K range.
Given I have the skills, I gathered my parts and waited for a good stretch of whether (since moving to my comfy, but tiny cottage, I no longer have a nice dry barn to work in)

A supervisor at work has one of those trucks and he also, hates that JBL stereo, he like the sound in my mini.