I’ve been driving in PA winters for 20 years this year. I always thought snow tires were unnecessary, as I often did fine with all seasons. My wife teaches in a pretty rural school district and insisted on them. The first year we were married, so we got them. One day during a pretty bad snowstorm I had to drive to a client site to fix some thing. I decided to take her car since it had snow tires on it, and I was blown away by the performance. We now both get snow tires on our cars every year. absolutely worth the money in my opinion. I’m glad I listened to her.

Not necessarily true. Please check out this well written article: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/72886/veteran-presence-the-relationship-between-player-salaries-and-ticket-prices/

What defines 'insanely high bill' versus what you were expecting?

>We do have more gun violence than a lot of other countries, that’s just a fact,

I never refuted that. This was just the first I had heard of losing international students specifically due to gun violence.

>the explosion of gun violence in this country.

Do you have a source citing this as the reason for declining international enrollment, or are you just speculating?

All good. But I do agree, there is way more to PA than just Philly. Part of the reason everything seems so skewed is that many writers, bloggers, etc. are city dwellers. It's rare to have someone produce a 'Best of PA' list to be from Bradford or Tioga counties, you know?

>People being very sensitive..

I was never being sensitive.

lol easy dude, just poking fun. Don't take life so seriously, you won't make it out alive.

To be fair, people from Pittsburgh will argue that Sheetz is even in the same league as Wawa, so it's difficult to take anything Pitt people say seriously with asinine opinions such as that...

That sounds highly unlikely. I’m a first responder, and they are trying to increase the visibility of emergency lights, not decrease them.

And they make entire neighborhoods look like used car lots.

A good score on an MBA capstone project is very impressive from someone who couldn't comprehend my two paragraph Reddit post. Good for you man.

You as well. Best of luck on improving your reading comprehension skills.

>6% isn't great

I also didn't say it was great. I was explaining how Fetterman outperformed Biden in these counties. You seriously created a whole conversation in your head and are arguing with me about it.

- I never said 'droves'

- I never said 'great'

>is making it sound like Moses himself came down

I showed where a 6% increase occurred. Your statement is ridiculously dramatic...

Can you show me where I said they came out in droves? You said it seems like a stretch to say that, but I don’t see where I said that.

It's not about them being red, it's about the margins. CNN was reviewing the red PA counties around Pittsburgh late last night. For example, there was a red county where Biden got something like 40% of the vote. Fetterman got 46% in the same county, meaning he still 'lost' the county but had better margins. That's what they mean about the red counties propelling him to victory.

So if let's say Biden lost a sample county of 1,000 people with 40% of the vote, he got 400 votes. From that same pool of voters, Fetterman pulled 46% of the vote and thus got 460 votes. It was little stuff like that all over the state in red districts that really put Fetterman over the top.

>including 16 of the last 20 years

^ That's the direct, unedited quote straight from my Reddit post above. You can see that it wasn't edited. Don't hurt yourself putting your foot in your mouth dude, but try to learn some humility along the way...

Hey, I’m not trying to insult you, but I said 16 of the last 20 years. A year is 365 days. So what I said was, for the most recent 20 year period (2002-2022), during 16 of those years, a democrat was the governor. Your reading comprehension skills failed you miserably here.

Also, Tom Ridge was the governor 21 years ago, not 20. Like man I cannot stress how much you swung and missed on reading what a '20 year period' was here...

>if there is a republican majority, lots of democrat led policy won't even make it to the governor.

And if there is a Democratic governor, most Republican policy won't make it in to law. It's literally the system of checks and balances working exactly as intended. The odds of a 50/50 Democrat/Republican legislature split are astronomically low. Ergo, Republicans are not 'running the state' as originally suggested. Our system of checks and balances is in place and is working.

Not at all. I actually like Tom Wolf. I don't always agree with him, but I believe he's a good dude and his intentions are genuine.

What I DON'T like is when people blindly say Republicans have some stranglehold on power and the direction of the state which very clearly isn't there. Anything passed over the last eight years in PA required the signoff of the Republican legislature and the Democratic governor. Saying anything else, such as what was suggested in the original comment I replied to, is wholly false.

Certainly, here are bills that he vetoed by year:

2022 - 10 bills

2021 - 5 bills

2020 - 19 bills

2019 - 4 bills

2018 - 5 bills

2017 - 3 bills

2016 - 8 bills

2015 - 10 bills if you include the line item veto, 9 if you don't

Total: 64 (65 if you count the line item veto)

That covers all his years in office and was easy to find with a quick Google search. Happy to help :)

Source: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/CL/Public/cl_view_action1.cfm?sess_yr=&sess_ind=0&cl_typ=BV&cl_nbr=

>how the PA legislature works

Anything, whether a law or spending, needs to pass through both houses on the PA legislature (PA House and PA Senate) and then be signed by the governor. The legislature can only override the governor if they have a veto proof majority, which neither party currently has. Thus, the Republican controlled legislature and the Democratic governor currently need to both sign off on any budgetary expenditures, tax modifications, or laws of any type. Anything I missed?

So why is the guy above complaining about just Republicans if Democrats voted in favor of it as well? Kind of doesn't make sense, unless the agenda is Republicans bad Democrats good no matter what

Nope, didn't say that at all. I'm just asking if we only hold people accountable for poor decisions when it's politically convenient? You have to admit, it's fascinating to forget that Biden voted to authorize the war in Iraq.

Here: Twice in the last five weeks, Joe Biden has claimed that despite voting to authorize military force against Iraq in 2002, he opposed the Iraq war from “the moment” it began. That’s not accurate, and Biden now says he misspoke.

Source: https://www.factcheck.org/2019/09/bidens-record-on-iraq-war/