It's definitely something you can learn in just a few lessons, particularly if you are just driving around town here and there. There's a rhythm and muscle memory to it, and once you get it, it becomes super easy.
I think I traded in my last stick-shift (a Jetta) 13+ years ago, and there are still times when I am driving and my left foot instinctively moves toward an invisible clutch....
Trump's budget will absolutely bust the deficit, because it relies on "savings" from DOGE that doesn't exist, and uses that to cut taxes further. There is at least token opposition from these folks who have campaigned on reducing the deficit and know their party is lying about it.
But let's face it. It is more likely that this is all just performative. These guys hold things up just long enough to get some token concessions, and they can campaign on the fact that they "stand up" to both sides.
But, unfortunately, these overgrown children have endless wealth.
Not only that, but in the US, the Supreme Court has ruled that money in political campaigns is a form of speech, and can't be regulated like it used to.
So while we have freedom of speech here, those overgrown children have much more speech than the average person.
I never understood the problem with what Hogg is doing. No politician should ever think their seat is safe. Every primary should be contested. If the incumbant is doing a good job, they will win, and the party gets behind them. But if the incumbent loses a primary, then they were probably not doing a good job to begin with.
Furthermore, they are trying to make use of the precedent that a prior plane used as Air Force One was donated to Reagan's library. But that was done after new planes were in use, and it went there as a museum piece.
This is the first I've heard of sign-up forms. Got a link for that?
Still, though, there are all those Jan 6'ers who already committed violence for this man once, and they were rewarded for it. I think it's certainly they will sign up to do violence for him again.
Adding an exit check would either slow traffic to a crawl by checking cars on a normal road
Yes, this is exactly what they could do, if they wanted to. They don't give a shit about slowing traffic, in fact they will want that because it is making what they do more visible. Their only goal is to intimidate certain people into not coming here.
Exit Immigration is a real thing that can be done, even if the US doesn't normally do it. You can leave the US on a plane without any US border agent seeing your passport. Other countries will inspect your paperwork on departure, even if just to stamp it marking that you left . (And stamps seem to be generally going away, too, I was surprised to find when I last went to the UK that I didn't get a stamp.)
US Border patrol does have the ability to check cars at the land border as they leave, they just usually don't bother to Canada. I haven't crossed the land border since COVID, though, so I don't know if they are stopping cars heading out now.
I do wonder how that handful of people got nabbed at the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, who took a wrong turn onto the bridge without their paperwork, got caught. Did they make it to the Canadian side and then were told to turn around? Or were they nabbed before going across? I wonder if it makes a difference with regard to their immigration status....
It's definitely something you can learn in just a few lessons, particularly if you are just driving around town here and there. There's a rhythm and muscle memory to it, and once you get it, it becomes super easy.
I think I traded in my last stick-shift (a Jetta) 13+ years ago, and there are still times when I am driving and my left foot instinctively moves toward an invisible clutch....