Ah yes, this is typical of the left: take a few tanks for display purposes during a 4th of July celebration with a flyover and make it seem like a military coup. Only Liberals would be stupid enough to pull that card. If that scares you, then I hope you don't watch any outside sporting events, lmao. Oh, and a few troops setting up barricades and walls on the border is not a coup either. They aren't breaking into homes and executing people and setting up puppet Junta courts, and only a moron would think that that will ever happen in this country....or, at least, it won't happen while we have a non-socialist/non-Communist government anyways..... Even I didn't think there was a dictatorship when Obama was in office, and I couldn't stand the man, so grow the fuck up. The closest thing we've ever had was Woodrow Wilson.....who, BY THE WAY, was a "Progressive Democrat". Go look up his wonderful approach to quelling free speech and what he did to women and German minorities. THAT was a dictator. GOOD. Let's hope that continues. The less pieces of shit activist judges there are to take away people's Constitutional Right to Arms and health care, the better. I'm personally going to throw a party when Ruth Ginsburg croaks, and you're all invited!
River my man, you paint a picture that you captured in your time there. I am sure it is probably reflective of reality in that time. My first time there, no. Not actuate at all. Hong Kong in that day was a city that had been over run by the main land population escaping from the mainland. Thousand to sea, to get to Taiwan. Many more thousand to get to Kong Kong. A year later, my next tour over there, a million and half mainlanders had overwhelmed the Hong Kong population of around 500 thousand. They were in a hell of a fix, too dang many people to do anything right. They lived on boats, roof tops, alley ways and open areas not yet built up like today. Most poor as dirt, begging for food scrapes. We picked up people at sea several time while on patrol, and had to take them into Hong Kong, as the Taiwan (Nationalist China) did not want anymore mainlanders at that time. So, my point is, Most Hong Kong residents are Chinese from the main land, not all that long ago. But I do get your point, they do live a completely different life there. At least up until now. I suspect that many Hong Kong resident still remember their mainland experience and do not want it to return. Their children and grand children may have an even worst image of what could return.
That's like saying his complaints about freeways in Oregon isn't reflective compared to when you took a wagon train to get here.
Yeah well I've been to China, Taiwan and was stationed in South Korea for a year. They all stink. Some nice things to look at and some of the people are good just like everywhere but it still stinks. When you come home and you open your luggage everything in there stinks. Not sure why they are Kowtowing to any of them.
I don't even want to think about driving that thing. When I came up the coast last year, there was a 90 something footer tied up right behind me at the transient dock in Brookings. While chatting with the crew having a BBQ on the dock, the chief mechanic offered to show me the engine room. It had twin V12 Man engines for main propulsion, with 3000 gallons fuel capacity onboard. Like about $11,000 to fill er up, and that to do, is why they were waiting in Brookings. They burnt a tank to get there from LA, where they left just after I did. They needed to wait for a Tanker truck to fill up the fuel dock before they could tank up. Still waiting when I left Brookings the next morning, but they passed me on their way North, just as I headed into Bandon. I filled up in Scappoose later in the summer, with just over 100 gallons. The moral of the story in that rental price is, + expenses.
