A few lifers in the retail game told me the best thing was to go to a podiatrist, and get custom inserts. Then wear whatever the fuck you want with them

Take lots of pictures, not just of the landscape but of yourself there. They have a way of turning into your favorite photos

Yeah, I haven't gone up in the winter the past few years, but it is night and day from Yosemite in the summer. Apart from a situation like this, there's no big crowds to fight. But, half the "amenities" are closed, and it's cold af.

Even in the summer, there's walk-in camping you can get day of. It'll be crowded but you'll be able to throw a tent down somewhere. There are motels and hotels littered up and down the highway before you get into Yosemite as well. Getting the spot you want in the middle of summer might take 6 months, but don't let that keep you away.

I just checked and you can get a campsite for next month in lower pines

Depends more on who I'm with and what I want to do than anything else.

If you have multiple families - housekeeping all the way. Otherwise the back of North pines is great for camping. If that's not your vibe the lodge is probably the best.

Only the weekends. Weekdays are still fine afaik. Yosemite is the best on a Tuesday.

It's still crazy that so many people show up for this. Every time I've stayed in the valley in winter it feels like it's just me, the rangers, and the quintessential random old man with the RV. Then I go in summer and it feels like I'm at the mall right when school ends.

That must be so wild to see coming at you.

Some o-rings were made out of seat cushions that day.

Just a troll then. Got it

Exactly my thoughts. He's a guy I can honestly see saying I didn't do that as well as I should have. Not everyone ruined my plan, nothing was my fault blah blah blah.... He'd give an honest explanation of what he knew and what he did because of it, and how he sees it now. The value of something like that first hand cannot be understated.

And then you can also watch him giggle as he tells how he would yell duck when Cheney entered the room, or like how the Japanese secret service had to show them how to work the fancy bidet (just made that one up, but there's got to be tons of stories just like it)

And you don't think the opportunity to ascertain that for yourself would be valuable or useful in any way?

If you look closely, you'll see this little word in the front of my sentence called "part". Do you seriously think people don't know his father was a president and he would be very very involved in politics?

What that means is if he was a massive asshole that nobody liked, even with those connections he wouldn't have gone far. See how that makes sense?

And wtf? Just like trump did? Do you think trump's dad was president and involved in politics like the bush family? Wtf are you smoking? Part of his campaign was this whole not a politician going to come in there and run it like a businessman type of thing

This is so irritating for me. It's like people don't want to admit the world is not completely black and white and they should put some sort of effort into their opinion.

If you ask these people, do you think if someone commits a crime worthy of prison you should just throw them in prison for the rest of their life? You get a resounding "NO!". But then they go and try and hold someone else's actions over them for their entire life.

And then regardless of how you feel about the person, the opportunity to have a dinner with a president? That's an opportunity very very few people have and a source of information that cannot be replicated or compared. Even if you spend the whole dinner beating the person up for what they did, to that person I would think it would be worth it? Too many people just see a word and name and trigger out a response without any semblance of thought or rationality.

Well he is a likable guy. But being a likable guy, or what I'd call affable, is mutually exclusive from any sort of criminal activity he's accused of.

And it doesn't matter if YOU like him or not. It's very evident. Look at the interactions he has with people versus the past president. He is very easy to talk to and "get along with". Part of the reason why he became president most likely.

People who can't differentiate a person's actions from their personalities are a huge problem in this world. Nice people can do bad things, and people who do bad things can be extremely nice. And in the same way, people who do bad things can also do good things. People are not entirely black and white.

And you wouldn't want to ask his perspective? What he knew and didn't know? You wouldn't want to give ANY effort into understanding him and what happened, but would rather sit back and judge?

Then why the fuck should anyone try to understand or give credit to you? Attitudes and people like this are the reason we don't have intelligent discourse and any sort of common ground anymore

Regardless how you feel about him, I think most people would agree he would be a great person to have a dinner with.

He seems like the type of person that even if you disagree you can have an amicable productive conversation, and maybe even crack a joke or two in between. Hard to find these days.