Gretchen with a hyphenated last name... Go figure she/her they/them, It/Its had mind bown by a 20 year old letter from a terrorist. Her/Them/Its mind in gnat's but would rattle around like a bb in a 55 gal drum.
Hamas is using an elementary school... Well according to the left they are old enough to now their sexual preferences and pronouns so I guess they are old enough to know they are supporting terrorists and understand the risk.
It’s Nov 18 as I am writing this today and Bidenomics seems to work famously for Iran.The more they attack our bases through their proxies the more Biden rushes to send them Billions. Must be something in it for him. Go Figure
About EV’s. They are not falling out of love. Those who drive them do like them.
But it’s no secret their cost prohibitive.
I’ve been driving an EV for 12 years now. I’m on my 4th.
I do not do so for some environmental reason. I do so because I like it.
That’s the way it should be and how have I done so? I’ve bought used EV’s.
The used EV market is very good with decent affordable prices.
But back to the point. It is as I have been saying. EV’s should not be a replacement for gas. They aren’t.
I also predicted this would happen. Prices would skyrocket and the dealers would release ever increasing in price cars that eventually would shut out the avg buyer.
It’s sad to see because they are nice cars and a pleasure to drive. But maybe this crisis will drop prices enough to be affordable.
“There is no legitimate purpose for civilians to be able to shoot so many rounds with one pull of the trigger.”
Well, my understanding is that an AR-15 is not an automatic weapon. You cannot shoot all those rounds with “ one pull of the trigger.” I think I remember reading an article clearly stating the AR-15 is a semiautomatic rifle.
I am willing to be corrected on this if I am mistaken.
I may be wrong, (and if I am, I'm confident someone will correct me) but I think more USCP officers were injured in the melee outside the DNC headquarters than during the 'insurrection on January 6th.
I saw an article today entitled: "The Used Electric Vehicle Market Is About to Explode".... Well, all I can say is that used EVs ARE going to explode.... Quite literally. They'll be THE hottest cars on the road.... Quite literally. Salvage yards will have nothing to do with them because they are too dangerous to work with and the batteries are among the biggest hazards to the environment. On the bright side, fire departments everywhere will always have work...
The Big 3 and other major automakers have now admitted what Toyota has been saying for the past several years already: Pure EVs simply will not work…. They are made for people who don’t really go anywhere. The best thing they can do is focus on hybrids which will get 50 mpg.
And I will also add this: The big government effort to push us all into electric vehicles is really all about pushing us out of cars altogether.
What they are doing TO US is working as planned. New 4x4 trucks can cost almost 90k, maybe only 75k if you strip it down. When a 2-year-old truck with 20k miles costs upwards of 50k their campaign to force us all to stay home is working.
I can't even imagine the costs of a new EV. And only a fool would buy a used EV. Imagine getting a computer code that says "Battery Fault". You are left with a choice of throwing it away or forking out $15k for new batteries.... after waiting months for to happen.
Channeling that old 1970's retail layaway process, I am saving for a used traditional carbon powered truck by faithfully buying $10 in lottery tickets each week.
Your words are a complete fallacy. I’m with you from where your coming from. But I can’t let you just spout complete nonsense.
EV’s if well cared for will not explode or catch fire. I’ve owned 4 in the last 12 years. Never had an issue. Does it happen? Sure. But how many cars have caught fire? Lots. In fact there was on the highway the other day.
As for the used EV market. Again just like a gas car you need to do research and make sure you buy the proper car. Not all used EV’s are a good deal.
As for the battery fault. (SMH) batteries are covered for 10 years. I bought a used EV from a dealer that had this. Got it cheap cheap. It had a battery fault. I took it to a Nissan dealer and they replaced the whole battery pack free of charge. Brand new battery.
The same arguments your saying are some of the same many people said when gas cars hit the market.
Your also not completely wrong. There is a huge problem with EV disposal. That I agree with. But there is new tech on the horizon with sodium ION batteries. Yea regular table salt.
I’m actually working with a company to setup a lithium battery replacement service. These salt batteries get double the mileage. The problem is they don’t last as long. But with salt being plentiful, cheaper, and completely biodegradable, this may not be an issue.
Until you can get 400 miles on one charge and be able to replenish that charge within 10 minutes, and they don't have sky-high sticker prices, I don't see EVs really taking off.
The whole Chinese thing is just so very troubling. The impending economic downfall of China is resulting in them accelerating their plans. I truly think they were content watching the west self-immolate with the nudges to propagate and amplify the leftist narratives. However, I don't think they will last long enough for this to come to fruition. Thus the pedal is going to the metal.
When the subject of this lab in southeastern California came up today, I remembered a story from about a month ago about this situation. I think it was a media trial-balloon to see if a narrative to portray this Chinese illicit lab operator as a prestigious scientist and how dare they shut him down would fly. Apparently it did not. But now its back much to the chagrin of the mainstream media. This event is far from what they want portrayed.
A little digging shows the extent of the the government's inaction and ultimately their clean-up on aisle 9. I know we should not ascribe to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity/incompetence, but geez, this seems so over the top. What valid purpose is there to have these pathogens in a small rural town industrial park building? Then its reported time and time again and ignored until the noise reaches a crescendo they cannot ignore, roll in, clean up, and not be questioning much, but in denial of quite a bit.
Jiabei "Jesse" Zhu (The perpetrator) has been indicted by the Department of Justice and only charged with distributing adulterated and misbranded medical devices in violation of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and for making false statements to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). What about everything else?
So all that being said, how many more of these sites exist across the country? This guy was wanted internationally (I see Hong Kong and Canada) and is able to come to the US and set up shop again? Did he come legally? If this really as about committing fraud by rebranding substandard Chinese Covid tests, why all the pathogens etc? This thing smells to high heaven.
Gretchen the idiot is going to get hers one day - and when she does I hope she remembers her foolish opinion. All victims of terrorism were minding their own business- it happens when least expected. What a disgusting human being.
She needs to be forced to watch videos of 9/11
as it happened with the people jumping out of the building. After, she should be forced to go talk with every victim’s family to spout her moronic ideas. You can’t fix stupid, but there are millions that walk among us. I bet she’s a huge feminist and gay rights activists too… what an embarrassment of a human.
I am a free speech absolutist. However, this Bin Laden paper response has me looking at things a bit differently. One perspective is to consider tech-powered viral media narratives as analogous to addictive recreational drugs. Ironically today and with respect to this Bin Laden paper being injected via TikTok... much of it is coming from Communist China. However, the analogy of the addictive recreational drug is that as a libertarian I was generally against the criminalization of use and personal possession... I guess an independent freedom and rights absolutist. That was until my oldest son demonstrated an addictive personality trait... something not common from my side of the family, but common in his mother's side of the family. I started to understand the human challenge for many to resist temptation of want of good feelings when their brains are wired so that they are constantly obsessed with wanting good feelings.
But back to the point about free speech and this Bin Laden paper. The problem seems to be that with a population that is obsessed with want for tribal acceptance in the in-group, the Madison Avenue psych-op methods to generate alliance and loyalty with a product for sale are being used to generate alliance and loyalty to other ideas and media narratives. And these methods are being exploited by America's enemies to exploit the weakest of our population in terms of their ability to resist the temptation of want of in-group tribal acceptance.
Man, you are really part of the cool-kids group if you hate Israel, Trump and love Hamas! Big Laden was a prophet based on that narrative.
So we have media feeds that are like recreational drugs and harmful to the individual, but more importantly destructive to the whole of society.
I think we need to rethink free press in this era. I don't know what the solution is, but because people are so easily exploited by their 24x7 media feeds today, we need to do something.
The liberal's influence in education has been completely successful in framing the 17th Amendment back to the 80's if not before. I can't think of a bigger loss of state sovereignty than the 17th amendment, and proof (Yet again) of the brilliance of the founding fathers. Senators were intended to represent the interests of the legislature of the State they represented and accountable to them.
Were there problems? Surely. State legislatures could be dysfunctional and not agree on a senator. There could be corrupted influence on the selection of those Senators. However, who's responsibility is it to fix that? The citizens in that state w/ state elections.
This is another item that should be returned to state governance.
The Federal Student Loan Association (FASFA) sprang from an LBJ 1965 higher education program.
At some point the Banking Lobby managed to get a restriction put in place that removed bankruptcy as a path to discharge the loans.
We have all heard Erick talk about this program and that a cure for out-of-control Universities would be to allow FASFA loans to be discharged via bankruptcy. This would shift responsibility for a useful degree to the Universities. He had a great idea.
But unbeknownst to us all, the Feds were listening to Erick and loved his idea. The Feds a year ago quietly put in place a rule change that made it “easy peasy” to discharge the debt.
Now if you 1) make at least 1 payment, 2) quit paying, and 3) tell them that you will never be able to pay it back in the future…..you can dump the debt during bankruptcy.
But this wasn’t good enough for our elected slime. Nobody noticed so today they floated a story about how 600 people in America took advantage and dumped all their student loan debt.
600???? Using any measurement this is a colossal failure…..WOW…. They wanted to say 6Million, so last night they dropped this story to alert everyone to the possibilities.
This word is now out. A college degree just became FREE. Doesn’t matter how much debt. Go ahead and rack up $1mil to be a Doc. You can dump it all, file for bankruptcy, and start life fresh with your high dollar free education courtesy of hardworking citizens like me.
And because everyone will be doing it, any stigma attached to being a deadbeat will disappear. As a kid just starting out, with no real assets, this would be the perfect time to pull the trigger and start fresh.
This is a new IQ test when I hire college grads. If they are applying for a job and they have ANY student loan debt whatsoever, then they are TOO STUPID for me to hire.
Next week I am going to get a mail order law degree from “Dewey, Cheatem, and How” and specialize in $99 bankruptcies. I am going to be Richie rich rich.
Gretchen with a hyphenated last name... Go figure she/her they/them, It/Its had mind bown by a 20 year old letter from a terrorist. Her/Them/Its mind in gnat's but would rattle around like a bb in a 55 gal drum.
After Hamas Pogrom, Qatar Must Finally Pay For Its Sponsor of Terrorism... This freaking real life Game of Thrones.
Any elected official that uses TikTok, especially for their campaign, should be disqualified.
Of course the only problem is their useful idiot voters will run the ads for them. Like super PAC's and campaigns don't coordinate, 😜😜 nudge, nudge.
Hamas is using an elementary school... Well according to the left they are old enough to now their sexual preferences and pronouns so I guess they are old enough to know they are supporting terrorists and understand the risk.
It’s Nov 18 as I am writing this today and Bidenomics seems to work famously for Iran.The more they attack our bases through their proxies the more Biden rushes to send them Billions. Must be something in it for him. Go Figure
About EV’s. They are not falling out of love. Those who drive them do like them.
But it’s no secret their cost prohibitive.
I’ve been driving an EV for 12 years now. I’m on my 4th.
I do not do so for some environmental reason. I do so because I like it.
That’s the way it should be and how have I done so? I’ve bought used EV’s.
The used EV market is very good with decent affordable prices.
But back to the point. It is as I have been saying. EV’s should not be a replacement for gas. They aren’t.
I also predicted this would happen. Prices would skyrocket and the dealers would release ever increasing in price cars that eventually would shut out the avg buyer.
It’s sad to see because they are nice cars and a pleasure to drive. But maybe this crisis will drop prices enough to be affordable.
“There is no legitimate purpose for civilians to be able to shoot so many rounds with one pull of the trigger.”
Well, my understanding is that an AR-15 is not an automatic weapon. You cannot shoot all those rounds with “ one pull of the trigger.” I think I remember reading an article clearly stating the AR-15 is a semiautomatic rifle.
I am willing to be corrected on this if I am mistaken.
You are 100% correct. No full-auto guns, long or short, may be sold to civilians in the USA.
What’s that saying about the gov fearing it’s people? Not the other way around?
I may be wrong, (and if I am, I'm confident someone will correct me) but I think more USCP officers were injured in the melee outside the DNC headquarters than during the 'insurrection on January 6th.
Re: Are Americans Falling Out of Love With EVs? -
I saw an article today entitled: "The Used Electric Vehicle Market Is About to Explode".... Well, all I can say is that used EVs ARE going to explode.... Quite literally. They'll be THE hottest cars on the road.... Quite literally. Salvage yards will have nothing to do with them because they are too dangerous to work with and the batteries are among the biggest hazards to the environment. On the bright side, fire departments everywhere will always have work...
The Big 3 and other major automakers have now admitted what Toyota has been saying for the past several years already: Pure EVs simply will not work…. They are made for people who don’t really go anywhere. The best thing they can do is focus on hybrids which will get 50 mpg.
And I will also add this: The big government effort to push us all into electric vehicles is really all about pushing us out of cars altogether.
What they are doing TO US is working as planned. New 4x4 trucks can cost almost 90k, maybe only 75k if you strip it down. When a 2-year-old truck with 20k miles costs upwards of 50k their campaign to force us all to stay home is working.
I can't even imagine the costs of a new EV. And only a fool would buy a used EV. Imagine getting a computer code that says "Battery Fault". You are left with a choice of throwing it away or forking out $15k for new batteries.... after waiting months for to happen.
Channeling that old 1970's retail layaway process, I am saving for a used traditional carbon powered truck by faithfully buying $10 in lottery tickets each week.
Your words are a complete fallacy. I’m with you from where your coming from. But I can’t let you just spout complete nonsense.
EV’s if well cared for will not explode or catch fire. I’ve owned 4 in the last 12 years. Never had an issue. Does it happen? Sure. But how many cars have caught fire? Lots. In fact there was on the highway the other day.
As for the used EV market. Again just like a gas car you need to do research and make sure you buy the proper car. Not all used EV’s are a good deal.
As for the battery fault. (SMH) batteries are covered for 10 years. I bought a used EV from a dealer that had this. Got it cheap cheap. It had a battery fault. I took it to a Nissan dealer and they replaced the whole battery pack free of charge. Brand new battery.
The same arguments your saying are some of the same many people said when gas cars hit the market.
Your also not completely wrong. There is a huge problem with EV disposal. That I agree with. But there is new tech on the horizon with sodium ION batteries. Yea regular table salt.
I’m actually working with a company to setup a lithium battery replacement service. These salt batteries get double the mileage. The problem is they don’t last as long. But with salt being plentiful, cheaper, and completely biodegradable, this may not be an issue.
Don’t give up on EV’s just yet.
Until you can get 400 miles on one charge and be able to replenish that charge within 10 minutes, and they don't have sky-high sticker prices, I don't see EVs really taking off.
The whole Chinese thing is just so very troubling. The impending economic downfall of China is resulting in them accelerating their plans. I truly think they were content watching the west self-immolate with the nudges to propagate and amplify the leftist narratives. However, I don't think they will last long enough for this to come to fruition. Thus the pedal is going to the metal.
When the subject of this lab in southeastern California came up today, I remembered a story from about a month ago about this situation. I think it was a media trial-balloon to see if a narrative to portray this Chinese illicit lab operator as a prestigious scientist and how dare they shut him down would fly. Apparently it did not. But now its back much to the chagrin of the mainstream media. This event is far from what they want portrayed.
A little digging shows the extent of the the government's inaction and ultimately their clean-up on aisle 9. I know we should not ascribe to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity/incompetence, but geez, this seems so over the top. What valid purpose is there to have these pathogens in a small rural town industrial park building? Then its reported time and time again and ignored until the noise reaches a crescendo they cannot ignore, roll in, clean up, and not be questioning much, but in denial of quite a bit.
Jiabei "Jesse" Zhu (The perpetrator) has been indicted by the Department of Justice and only charged with distributing adulterated and misbranded medical devices in violation of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and for making false statements to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). What about everything else?
So all that being said, how many more of these sites exist across the country? This guy was wanted internationally (I see Hong Kong and Canada) and is able to come to the US and set up shop again? Did he come legally? If this really as about committing fraud by rebranding substandard Chinese Covid tests, why all the pathogens etc? This thing smells to high heaven.
Gretchen the idiot is going to get hers one day - and when she does I hope she remembers her foolish opinion. All victims of terrorism were minding their own business- it happens when least expected. What a disgusting human being.
She needs to be forced to watch videos of 9/11
as it happened with the people jumping out of the building. After, she should be forced to go talk with every victim’s family to spout her moronic ideas. You can’t fix stupid, but there are millions that walk among us. I bet she’s a huge feminist and gay rights activists too… what an embarrassment of a human.
I am a free speech absolutist. However, this Bin Laden paper response has me looking at things a bit differently. One perspective is to consider tech-powered viral media narratives as analogous to addictive recreational drugs. Ironically today and with respect to this Bin Laden paper being injected via TikTok... much of it is coming from Communist China. However, the analogy of the addictive recreational drug is that as a libertarian I was generally against the criminalization of use and personal possession... I guess an independent freedom and rights absolutist. That was until my oldest son demonstrated an addictive personality trait... something not common from my side of the family, but common in his mother's side of the family. I started to understand the human challenge for many to resist temptation of want of good feelings when their brains are wired so that they are constantly obsessed with wanting good feelings.
But back to the point about free speech and this Bin Laden paper. The problem seems to be that with a population that is obsessed with want for tribal acceptance in the in-group, the Madison Avenue psych-op methods to generate alliance and loyalty with a product for sale are being used to generate alliance and loyalty to other ideas and media narratives. And these methods are being exploited by America's enemies to exploit the weakest of our population in terms of their ability to resist the temptation of want of in-group tribal acceptance.
Man, you are really part of the cool-kids group if you hate Israel, Trump and love Hamas! Big Laden was a prophet based on that narrative.
So we have media feeds that are like recreational drugs and harmful to the individual, but more importantly destructive to the whole of society.
I think we need to rethink free press in this era. I don't know what the solution is, but because people are so easily exploited by their 24x7 media feeds today, we need to do something.
Only solace I can offer is that TikTok is fleeting.
What was a fad 10 minutes ago is forgotten in the next 10 minutes.
Anyone remember the Bucket challenge?
"The United States Senate was never designed to represent all people equally. "
Wow! The WaPo accidentally published something true?
The Founders designed the Senate to represent the states in DC. The House was designed to represent the people..
The liberal's influence in education has been completely successful in framing the 17th Amendment back to the 80's if not before. I can't think of a bigger loss of state sovereignty than the 17th amendment, and proof (Yet again) of the brilliance of the founding fathers. Senators were intended to represent the interests of the legislature of the State they represented and accountable to them.
Were there problems? Surely. State legislatures could be dysfunctional and not agree on a senator. There could be corrupted influence on the selection of those Senators. However, who's responsibility is it to fix that? The citizens in that state w/ state elections.
This is another item that should be returned to state governance.
The Federal Student Loan Association (FASFA) sprang from an LBJ 1965 higher education program.
At some point the Banking Lobby managed to get a restriction put in place that removed bankruptcy as a path to discharge the loans.
We have all heard Erick talk about this program and that a cure for out-of-control Universities would be to allow FASFA loans to be discharged via bankruptcy. This would shift responsibility for a useful degree to the Universities. He had a great idea.
But unbeknownst to us all, the Feds were listening to Erick and loved his idea. The Feds a year ago quietly put in place a rule change that made it “easy peasy” to discharge the debt.
Now if you 1) make at least 1 payment, 2) quit paying, and 3) tell them that you will never be able to pay it back in the future…..you can dump the debt during bankruptcy.
But this wasn’t good enough for our elected slime. Nobody noticed so today they floated a story about how 600 people in America took advantage and dumped all their student loan debt.
600???? Using any measurement this is a colossal failure…..WOW…. They wanted to say 6Million, so last night they dropped this story to alert everyone to the possibilities.
This word is now out. A college degree just became FREE. Doesn’t matter how much debt. Go ahead and rack up $1mil to be a Doc. You can dump it all, file for bankruptcy, and start life fresh with your high dollar free education courtesy of hardworking citizens like me.
And because everyone will be doing it, any stigma attached to being a deadbeat will disappear. As a kid just starting out, with no real assets, this would be the perfect time to pull the trigger and start fresh.
This is a new IQ test when I hire college grads. If they are applying for a job and they have ANY student loan debt whatsoever, then they are TOO STUPID for me to hire.
Next week I am going to get a mail order law degree from “Dewey, Cheatem, and How” and specialize in $99 bankruptcies. I am going to be Richie rich rich.
Cheers