Dazed and Confused

[O'Dell]

Now I'm really confused....Today I ventured out for the first time in a while to get a birthday gift for my son and it felt good to be out of the bunker and drive my old truck around a bit.....While driving about at a stop light I came up behind a really nice car and noticed bumper stickers on the trunk and moved up out of curisoity to read them....It was a Lexus GX and they had two stickers plastered on the trunk and the left one said "Bernie 2020"" which surprised me a bit so I moved up a little closer to read the one on the right of a $20,000 paint job on the trunk which said "It's Our Turn Now" ......Not sure what that means because a Lexus GX starts at about 65 grand so I just had to figure there are really stupid people that make a lot of money that haven't figured things out yet.....On the way home I pulled up behind a Audi A7 which is about a 70 thousand dollar car and it had the same "Bernie 2020" on the left side and on the right side and I chit you not, the one on the right said "No one should be a Billionaire".....Really? This world has spun off it's axle, if you can afford an automobile that costs more than most people make in several years and you want a Socialist Government to take your earnings and distribute it to people who can't afford a Lexus or an Audi, well your just a total idiot and I hope you don't vote......For me I think I'll have some bumper stickers printed that say "Do you want to be a Billionaire".....F'n A.....This great country is what it is because of people who were willing to risk everything to start a business and make a PROFIT which is not a bad word but which is necessary and required to keep our economy healthy and one which the rest of the world wants to emulate....I fear for our future if Socialism become the norm....Brothers and Sisters this why we need to stay armed.....The future of our nation depends on right thinking people who are willing to vote no matter how difficult it is to do so....It's up to us....

Hey getsome, do you know where the quote "An armed society is a polite society" originated?

BTW, don't tell anyone I drive a $130,000 Jaguar.

[getsome]

I'm betting your Jag doesn't have a Bernie bumper sticker...Don't get me wrong, I like nice cars, the faster the better but what I don't understand is why a person that can afford a Lexus or an Audi would want to be a Socialist.....

As for the quote which in it's entirety says "An armed society is a polite society, manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life"....It's from science fiction writer Robert Heinlein's book "Beyond this Horizon"...Never read it but I understand it's pretty grim and violent....I liked the quote but I understand it's used somewhat out of context....

[O'Dell]

I'm betting your Jag doesn't have a Bernie bumper sticker...Don't get me wrong, I like nice cars, the faster the better but what I don't understand is why a person that can afford a Lexus or an Audi would want to be a Socialist.....

As for the quote which in it's entirety says "An armed society is a polite society, manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life"....It's from science fiction writer Robert Heinlein's book "Beyond this Horizon"...Never read it but I understand it's pretty grim and violent....I liked the quote but I understand it's used somewhat out of context....

I don't wear my political choices on my sleeve, especially today with all the idiots on the street, but you're right - no Bernie's or Biden, or anyone else. If I had a sticker is would probably be Reagan, but President Trump has probably done better under the current circumstances.

You're right about Heinlein and also the book source. I read a lot of SF in the fifties, but mostly Asimov and Clark. No junk. Heinlein had several good Quotes. My favorites were "I never learned from a man who agreed with me" and " You can have peace. You can have freedom. But don't ever count on having both at once." He also said "The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."

[getsome]

Thanks O'Dell, those are good quotes...I like some science fiction and find myself reading 1984 and Slaughterhouse Five every year or two....I'm with you about putting no bumper stickers political or otherwise on my cars, even a NRA sticker is an invitation for a thief to break in thinking there may be a gun in the vehicle....

[IDisposable]

My favorite quote growing up was from Kurt Vonnegut, "Every hour our solar system moves 93 million miles closer to the globular cluster M-13 in the construction Hercules and yet there are misfits that insist there is no such thing as progress."

[getsome]

I may have to reconsider putting a Trump bumper sticker on my old Silverado pickup after a friend and member of Kahrtalk sent me an email today that is quite an eye opener....I know politics are maybe frowned upon here but I just wanted to throw this out there to chew on in support of our President in this strange and most unusual time we are living through....

It took a Major Pandemic which has changed everything we do and how we live along with a 35% Stock Market loss and the shut down of thousands of small business operations along with unemployment numbers we haven't seen since the Great Depression to get back to the highest economic figures ever recorded under Barack Obama's eight years in office....

[O'Dell]

I have had stickers on cars in the past, but in today's climate, the only safe one would be a Biden or other democratic sticker which I obviously won't carry. You may be okay with an older PU, but a Trump sticker on the Jag or my 2020 electric car would be asking for a confrontation. I won't even wear a political baseball hat.

Back in 2008 and 2012 I put this note on any parked car I saw with an Obama sticker.

[yqtszhj]

My former navy son has a big sticker on the back window of his pickup. It says:

”Hillary Clinton killed my friends.”

When he was in college on his GI bill he had a part time security job at a museum and he would park right at the entrance, sticker facing approaching traffic. He said it was just to make a statement to the regular museum leftist. Seems like he had a Sig sticker to one side of it and a Glock sticker to the other. Not something I would do but he’s bigger than I am so I figure he can take care of himself.

[Bawanna]

I have had stickers on cars in the past, but in today's climate, the only safe one would be a Biden or other democratic sticker which I obviously won't carry. You may be okay with an older PU, but a Trump sticker on the Jag or my 2020 electric car would be asking for a confrontation. I won't even wear a political baseball hat.

Back in 2008 and 2012 I put this note on any parked car I saw with an Obama sticker.

I love that. Great idea. A friend of my sons had an Obama sticker on the bumper of the pickup he drove back and forth to school. I offered to buy him a new bumper if he took the damn thing off. Just feel plumb sorry for some clueless folks.

[I_Like_Turtles]

I remember seeing those notes to put on Obama-stickered cars. Very funny. I never did it though.

Trump stickers and yard signs are common where I live but I don't put anything on my car. Conservatives rarely vandalize others' property but Leftists feel they are "fighting Nazis" by scratching up things.

Back in 2015 I nearly passed up a lady having problems loading long boards in her SUV because it sported a "Bernie" sticker. However, I believe in Free Speech, so I helped her load up and showed her how to do so without scuffing up the inside. I never said a word about her political choice or mine.