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Did Chuck C. Johnson's "Wesearchr" Extortion/Bounty Site Help Inspire the PizzaGate Gunman?

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Blind Frog Belly White12/05/2016 2:32:58 pm PST

re: #53 klys (maker of Silmarils)

To be (just a teensy bit) fair, there’s a lot of oil and fluid build-up that happens during the 8 months without rain that contributes to a slicker road surface during the first 15-30 minutes of the first rain of the season.

That being said, CA drivers really have no fucking clue what they’re doing driving in normal weather, let alone rain. Or, heaven help us, snow. (Maybe going looking for snow on I-80 on a holiday weekend was not our best plan ever, but it was still a better plan than the semi-driver who decided to try and go around the I-80 closure on SR49, which was at R2 (chairs or snow tires on 4WD required) at that point. They were ready to give him one hell of a ticket, assuming he didn’t wipe out on the road. We were sliding some in our Outback with proper tires.)

The two reactions one sees when it first rains are 1) panic - driving 45 mph on the freeway as if your tires had suddenly turned into butter on a hot skillet, and 2) no reaction at all - just keep blasting along at 80+, a car length from the next guy’s rear bumper.

These two approaches do not play well together.