Unintended consequences can be beautiful things – when they are contrary to the intentions of malicious people. A good example being the unintended consequences of the lying-to-people about the mRNA drugs that turned out to not be “vaccines.” People are now suspicious of those who pushed these drugs and won’t be so blithe about just-trusting them ever again. The whole edifice of authority has been placed into question – ironically by the very people who had hoped to expand both the scope of their authority as well as acceptance of it.
It’s a similar situation with cars – and understanding it helps one to comprehend why electric cars are being pushed so aggressively all-of-a-sudden.
The people who want us out of cars, who want to restrict and (ultimately) largely eliminate discretionary driving have been using the regulatory power of the government to inch-by-inch toward their end-goal of a managed society in which most people live very close to where they work and rarely travel farther from where they live. And when they do travel – when they are allowed to travel – it will be via riding in a government-controlled train or bus, on the government’s schedule and under the government’s control.
By now, this ought to be their obvious end goal.
Of course, it was not always obvious. People were told (and many believed) the government was just trying to make cars “safer” and “more efficient.” That it was all about “reducing exhaust emissions.” Just the same as people were told (and many believed) it’d be just “15 days to slow the spread.”
In fact, these were – as more and more people now begin to understand – covers for another purpose.
As regards cars, they were made “safer” and “more efficient.” Their harmful “exhaust emissions” were reduced to almost-none. By the mid-1990s, the average new car was so well-made it would run reliably for twice as long (or even longer) than cars used to typically last. Instead of being close-to-worn-out by ten years and 100,000 miles – as was par-for-the-course before the mid-1990s – cars routinely ran as well after ten years and 100,000 miles as they did when they were two or three years old. It became common for people to regularly drive cars that were older than ten years and that had a lot more than 100,000 miles. Not just poor people who could not afford a new car. People who realized they didn’t need to buy one.
The distinction is an important one.
By the 2000s, a lot of people were buying a new car less often – because it was no longer necessary to buy a new car in order to have a dependable car. Even what are often disparagingly referred to as “clunkers” were in fact just older, high-miles cars that were also very affordable as well as still-dependable cars. Back in the early-mid 2000s, there was an abundance of such cars, which made it economically feasible for almost anyone who wanted a car to own a car.
Another problem. One that was solved via the “Cash for Clunkers” program, which literally paid people who owned such cars to throw them away in order to have them destroyed. Not because they were “clunkers.” Precisely because they weren’t. And also to stimulate – the word used – demand for new cars.
But not enough people were stimulated to get rid of their dependable cars in favor of getting a new car payment. The average age of a car in regular use – as a daily driver – continued to wax. That car is now, on average, 13 years old – with a lot more than 100,000 miles on the clock. You yourself are probably driving a car that fits this description. And it is all due – inadvertently – to the efforts of the people who want to take cars away from you.
The car companies complied with all the regulations. They made cars so well that they last too long – for the hopes and dreams (per Greta) of those who despise cars and want to end driving.
Enter the electric car. Which is – fundamentally – a disposable car due to the built-in disposability of the battery pack that stores the energy that moves it. Unlike the Methuselean cars made up through the early-mid 2000s, which can be used every day without appreciably diminishing how much longer they can be used – if an electric car’s battery is heavily discharged frequently (and regularly “fast” charged) it will diminish how much longer the EV can be used. Battery degradation is openly acknowledged by the makers of EVs; it is considered “acceptable” for an EV battery to have lost 20 percent of its capacity to hold a charge (which amounts to a loss of 20 percent of its range) after as little as eight years of regular use.
Inevitably, this forces the EV’s owner to get a new EV – a lot sooner than the 13-plus years people are regularly still- driving cars that aren’t EVs. This is how they intend to address the problem of the unintended consequences of trying to end cars by using inch-by-inch regulations putatively meant to make cars “safer” and “more efficient.” And to “reduce exhaust emissions.”
This whole electric car push is a kind of desperate, Hail Mary pass to correct what they did not foresee. They never imagined cars could be made so good that cars would last that long. They expected it would become impossible to make cars – that complied with all the regs.
When it became obvious that wasn’t working as they’d planned, they changed the regs. They have served as the pretext for this pushing of electric cars. But – as with the pushing of drugs – more and more people are now awake to the real reasons for all of this pushing.
Which has nothing to do with making cars “safer” or “more efficient” – and forget “reducing emissions,” unless you’re fool enough to believe that carrying around 1,000 pounds of environmentally noxious materials that require constant infusions of enormous amounts of electrical energy generated by the combustion of hydrocarbon fuels will result in less rather than more “emissions.” And are fool enough to accept that carbon dioxide is an “emission” in other than the sense that it is emitted. To the tune of a fraction of the 0.04 percent of atmospheric C02 already in the air.
Of course, they do take us for fools. How else to view people who agreed to “mask” – and agreed to be injected with drugs because just-trust-us?
But more and more of us are no longer fooled. Trust – and the presumption of good intentions – has been lost.
And once lost, it is never the same again.
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EeeVee fanboi Al Rooooooot ventures into auto design. Hilarity ensues:
‘Wednesday, Polestar unveiled the Polestar 4 at the New York Auto Show.
“There is no rear window on the car,” said Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath. “Most rear windows don’t give you anything because the rear view is [terrible].”
‘It takes a minute to process the idea of no rear window, but he is right. There is no window.
There is still a rearview “mirror,” but the images shown come from a camera. It offers a better view of what’s happening behind the car than a traditional setup.
‘Removing the window also makes for more comfortable rear seats that can recline unencumbered by any window support. It might not revolutionize the car industry, but it’s a good idea—and an unusual sight.’ — Barron’s
https://archive.ph/Ijq8a#selection-413.0-465.88
Brilliant: modern appliances have poor visibility anyway, so just ditch the window.
¡Estúpido!
WINNING: Berzerkley, Commiefornia BACKS DOWN on gas hookup ban:
‘The city of Berkeley, Calif., has agreed to repeal a landmark climate rule that would have banned natural gas hookups in new homes, throwing into question the fate of dozens of similar restrictions on gas in cities across the country.
‘Berkeley’s gas ban, which was the first of its kind when it passed in 2019, had been challenged in court by the California Restaurant Association and was struck down last year by a three-judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The city settled the lawsuit last week by agreeing to immediately halt enforcement of the rule and eventually repeal it altogether.
“To comply with the Ninth Circuit’s ruling, we have ceased enforcement of the gas ban,” Farimah Brown, the city attorney for Berkeley, said in an email. However, she added, “Berkeley will continue to be a leader on climate action.”
‘Several other California communities, including San Luis Obispo and Santa Cruz, have already dropped their efforts to forbid gas hookups in new homes for fear of court challenges.’ — NYT
https://archive.ph/AxjJr#selection-611.0-623.231
The enemy has turned tail and run. Our job is to pepper their butts with birdshot as they flee with their hair on fire.
Ironically, it’s far more “green” or “sustainable” for a car to last LONGER and go FURTHER than to keep making new ones and throwing out the old ones. Especially if the old ones are still working well. Cash for clunkers was waste at the highest and stupidest levels.
Most cars should last 20+ years and go at least 200,000 miles with only some maintenance and minor repairs. Most cars can do that, at least ones made in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s did.
And it’s more than just cars now too. Remember when major home appliances lasted 30-40 years? Now you are lucky to get a decade out of a major appliance.
Looks like Volkswagen Group is being sued for a Porsche EV battery causing a ship fire and it’s sinking. Well that’s one way to cut down on imported cars……..
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/volkswagen-group-sued-for-porsche-ev-battery-causing-ship-fire-and-sinking-thousands-of-cars/ar-BB1kAjXV?ocid=msedgdhp&cvid=dbded9b524434cae8860bb593d8a1e45&ei=32
Church Of England Archdeacon Openly Calls For “Anti-Whiteness”
Church Of England…ie protestant…..that is the new world order wing of the nobility control group….protestant and islam are related/connected…..
Church Of England…all the organized religions ……is one of the slave owner nobility control group’s tools to control slaves….
Looks like the slave owner nobility control group is attacking/scape goating the white slaves
….attacking/scape goating the white slaves…this is 24/7/365 now….
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/church-england-archdeacon-openly-calls-anti-whiteness
Meanwhile….
King Charles the 3rd wants to return to an absolute monarchy…king at the top slaves on the bottom..in this case Muslim slaves…like his bloodline relatives ruling in Saudi Arabia,..Dubai….etc….check out the huge immigration in…whites out….
More details on the death of Mitch McClownell’s sister-in-law, Angela Chao, after backing her Tesla into a stock pond in Texas and drowning:
‘On February 10, Ms. Chao and seven female friends—many with home addresses in New York—had gathered for dinner and drinks at the guest lodge located on Ms. Chao’s private ranch, JW Ranch, in Blanco County, Texas.
‘Ms. Chao had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.23 percent, almost three times higher than the legal threshold of 0.08 percent for driving in Texas. Ms. Chao said she had put the car, a 2020 Tesla model X SUV, in reverse instead of drive while making a three-point turn.
‘“During our time in the water there were several females screaming at us frantically on the bank,” Blanco County sheriff’s deputy Ryan Bible wrote in his statement. Mr. Bible swam back to shore to retrieve a breaker bar and tried to break the windshield but failed. With the help of two medics, he eventually broke the driver’s side window.
“Once the window was busted I swam down and felt a hand.” Mr. Bible said.
“Medic Ben Collie then was able to pull the hand out from the vehicle and we were then able to extract the female from the vehicle,” he wrote. Ms. Chao was out of the water at 12:56 a.m., 1 hour and 8 minutes after the car plunged into the pond. She was pronounced dead at 1:40 a.m.’
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-details-emerge-death-sen-mcconnells-sister-law
Someone is marketing a device called Resquestick, with a spring-propelled tungsten head to break side window glass, and a built-in seat belt slicer.
Isn’t it bizarre that with all the ostensible focus on saaaaaaaafety, people still drown in cars because the windows won’t open and the seat belts entangle them?
If alcohol sensors were physically possible — instead of being a pie-in-the-sky fantasy — Ms Chao’s Tesla would never have budged under her drunken command.
Hi Jim. Reading the comments on the Hedge it appears that I am the only one who thinks that if she was armed she could have shot out the passenger window and crawled out. Of course the glass could have been bullet resistant or considering her blood alcohol level was .233 couldn’t think straight.
All window breaking tools – including the one you cite – only work on tempered glass. All side windows used to be tempered glass while the windshield is laminated glass. There are new federal regulations for cars to use laminated glass on side windows.
Many cars – including Teslas – already use laminated glass on side windows. Angela Chao’s Tesla almost certainly had laminated glass on the side windows. If she had a window breaking tool, it might have put some cracks in the glass but it wouldn’t have broken it open. If she had a gun, she would likely have been able to put a few bullet sized holes in the glass but that too would not have broken the glass open. With enough bullet holes, perhaps one could kick the window out but it is best to imagine trying to do that to a windshield. It would take a lot of bullets and a lot of force.
Angela Chao had two chances to save herself. First, she could have hit the “down” button on the window as soon as the car hit the water. That button would still have opened the window before the car sunk. Second, she could have waited until the car was filled with water and then used the manual unlatch on the Tesla door (yes there is one) to open the door. You have to wait until the car is filled with water because the door will not open when there is air on the inside and water on the outside. Needless to say, either of these was going to be a challenge when she was drunk.
Headline:
“8 states are planning to BAN the sale of gas-powered cars entirely”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/cars/article-13237051/ban-gas-cars-biden-evs-states.html
In the EV dystopia of Norway, this will be a reality already in 2025, i.e. next year (!!!).
These eight states (CA, OR, WA, MA, RI, NY, NJ, MD) need to be preemptively expelled from the United States.
All your withholding tax are belong to us. We no pay, your senior eat cat food.
Goes to show you even in the face of overwhelming evidence of LACK of demand, all the known issues, inefficiencies, costs, etc. The true commies, the far left will -always- double down. They know what is best for YOU. So shut up and obey, or else…
We are living in a very broad set of unintended consequences. I would go so far as to call it a “crisis of competence”.
I’ve got a good engineering and scientific brain and I’ve been doing a lot of software and hardware engineering work, focused on a more research oriented career, intersecting with the aerospace, defense contracting, and automotive industries.
When I started out in the 90’s, I was surrounded by amazing, competent people that I generally looked up to (except in defense contractors, they were amoral). In all these industries, one thing which was common was that the experienced, battle hardened engineers called the shots. There’s a lot of institutional knowledge in these companies that isn’t written down anywhere, and these senior engineers would teach the ways to their juniors in a sort of modern day apprenticeship approach. It’s how I learned.
Now, as time went on, increasing numbers of “professional managers” would come in from big companies, on the assumption that somehow, being at those big companies would mean some expertise rubbed off. These managers would be put on projects to make them succeed, and it was sold to engineers as a way of removing the bureaucratic burden so that they could focus on the engineering. Sounded nice, but boy oh boy, did it backfire.
Once you hire professional managers, they bring only one skill set, growing organizations, it’s how they demonstrate their skill and relevance to each other. When you get a bunch of them together, they start to compete, based on the size of their organization. You start seeing political battles, bloated projects to increase headcount, wasted resources on competing projects within a company because two managers are battling to show that they’re better. Meanwhile, the engineers are told to work on nonsense, they become disillusioned, and it’s your senior ones who leave since they have the resources not to need the paycheck, and the memory of how things could be in good times, so they go looking for that elsewhere. You end up with these professional managers hiring junior people who know no better, and these junior guys never learned the institutional knowledge from the senior ones, and so you need more and more of them to do the same work as your small organization did it before.
The end result is always the same, you end up with a huge, bloated organization which is incompetent and can barely maintain what they inherited. Any new developments are flakey, because they were built without critical experience.
Twitter is an excellent recent example, so is Boeing. When Elon gutted Twiter, the professional managers, and their junior lackeys, who know no better, were screaming that it’s the end, Twitter can deliver their level of service with so few people. Elon demonstrated that it’s possible. Now, Elon is no saint, but he sure proved these “professionals” wrong, and I loved that.
Everything you laid out, absolutely the truth. 35 years in aerospace it went just like that. I bailed out in early retirement 12 years ago just as the wheels were coming off the competence wagon.
That was sad yet illuminating, OppositeLock.
For some reason, it appears the Chinese can produce an electric car for under $10k and still make a modest profit.
So why the hell can’t Americans? Might be all the required saaaaafety bullshit, I’m sure, but secondly, probably greed, and then the finally, the whole debacle is to stop you from driving altogether.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/byd-astoundingly-cheap-electric-car-145201691.html
…But what the company “BYD” is producing are electric cars with a reported 190 mile range for $9,700. Also, there’s a 250 mile trim for $12k. Top speed: 80 mph. There are actually 4 airbags. They use lithium-iron-phosphate batteries, so they’ll never spontaneously ignite.
Though not a replacement for internal combustion vehicles, if the goal were to entice people into EVs, this is what would have to be built and for this price as well. So, why is it that Americans are incapable of producing such a thing?
Hi BaDnOn,
Its all regulations. You can make not too fast and not too big range electric car for not a lot of money.
Electric cars are conceptually simpler than gas cars. You have battery ,on switch ,some current regulator and a electric motor. You could say the whole electric car is basically gasoline cars electric power system (battery ,alternator, starter) scalled up in different ratios . It can be really simple . It really doesn’t need cameras 100 sensors or to boot like a PC.
Hey Pupet,
Yes, that’s been my assessment as well. It seems that our governmental parents won’t allow us to have simple and inexpensive vehicles of any kind. How’s that for “Land of the Free”? Such a joke, and we’re the punchline.
China’s economy is among the most free in the world, so they’ve got the benefits of well functioning markets and competition. Their “communist” party gave up on economic strangulation long ago, now it’s just totalitarian socially (like when it destroyed Jack Ma, not because he got too rich, but because he spoke against the party).
China is the new National Socialists. They have much more in common with the German Nazi party than “real” communism. And like the National Socialists, if you’re in good with them (like if you have a strategically interesting or a lot of party investors), you’re pretty much guaranteed to make money.
If not, well… There’s always tofu public works projects to skim.
Sounds like America
The cheap EV’s in china and the cheap ice vehicles don’t conform to all the regulations in N. America…so can’t be sold here…yet…(maybe they will let the EV’s in to help kill off the ice cars)……some are being sold in Europe now…but…there is complaints that the chinese government is subsidizing the cost of manufacturing these vehicles so have an unfair advantage….
The cheap EV’s in china and the cheap ice vehicles…the slaves there get cheaper choices….
“Made in China” means cheap crap. That’s why.
Older ICE cars last too long? In europe the fxxking european „government“ is trying to ban the right to repair cars older than 15 years 🤮
I read that not too long ago (love the name-ha ha!), and hope that our idiot politicians do not get that idea over here. It is clear the EU is trying to force their slaves into newer (and more controllable) vehicles. Any wonder, then, that Americans are holding on to their older (“clunkers”), and saying “hell no” to EV’s?
My dad witnessed an unintended consequence when he voted for the Donald in 2016 believing that he’d “Clean up the Swamp”, only to witness him pardoning Obama’s buddy Rod Blagojevich, the corrupt governor of Illinois who was impeached, convicted of massive corruption, and imprisoned. Yet he still “believes” in The Trumpster and somehow inexplicably thinks that he is the avowed enemy of the leftists and Swamp scum.
If that pardoning isn’t proof positive of how they are all handing hands under the table and of what liars they are, I don’t know what is.
Pardoning Blago was probably a good move as he got screwed by the Obammunists for exercising his prerogative to fill Obastards vacant Senate seat. Massi e corruption had nothing to do with it.
Blah is lucky to be alive, I bet he has a lot of dirt on the Obamas.
These jerkwads will spill the beans if you look for it. They hide in the open.
“We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole,” said Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change from 2008 to 2015.
The problem is the bozo libs never think for themselves. They listen to the narratives and think emotionally.
Like sheep.
You’re right, but they’re most certainly not “libs.”
“Liberal” is defined as (1) willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one’s own; open to new ideas and (2) relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise.)
They are Leftists.
RE: “They are Leftists”
Postmodernist seems more applicable.
Or, perhaps, demonic?
Demonic Postmodernist?
Leftist, communist, or fascist have the right mouth feel. Postmodernist is a bit esoteric and academic for my tastes. Though demonic surely fits.
Good Boy, good boy! Love that pic.
My 2000 GMC Sieria with nearly 400K miles on it is hands down the best vehicle I’ve ever owned. You’d think the automaker overlords would be proud of that –even advertise it and improve on it.
It’s getting increasingly more difficult to give a shit. It’s their bed and they can lay in it. I won’t. And apparently neither will most American consumers.
I have a 2000 Silverado with 219K. Good to see I have at least a 180K to go. Like you I just fix things when they break.
I will never get a new one.
I have a 2001 GMC Sierra 2500HD with 81k sitting out in the garage. Still looks new inside and out. Long bed reg cab, crank windows with back window rear sliders.
Really only use to to pull the camper.. but..
They will have to pry this truck out of my cold dead hands. 🙂
I won’t buy a new one either. Hell, who can afford it?
Amen! 2001 F150 and 2002 Diesel Excursion, over 470,000 total miles. No plans to replace them.
Since Eric combined thoughts, here’s my combo…
First Thought
Remember the “conspiracy” that GM killed trolley lines? It was the plot line of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and subject to a few documentaries. While it’s a fact that GM bought up the old traction companies (which were not run by the government), it’s also a fact that they had a subsidiary that built diesel electric train engines too. I’m sure for them it made sense at the time to get into the trolley business just to convert the light rail lines over to diesel and sell more hardware. But then they figured out that busses were far more flexible for routing, and that ultimately the public didn’t want to wait around (or live close to) public transportation, and GM closed them down.
Because they were unprofitable.
But what to do with all those people who were riding the bus because they had no other choice? And there’s a rather large contingent of “thrifty” people who happen to live close to the public transport station, who work a job that happens to coincide with the bus schedule, and who don’t value their time as much as others. Thus began the transit authority. A new government agency, completely dependent on cash infusions and unable to ever be profitable by design. Unfortunately these “thrifty” people are also very vocal and play well to city council meetings (and the angry poor like to yell when the news crews point cameras at them) to make it appear they have more people on their side than in reality. Of course we who drive would like to see more people use public transportation too, so they keep texting asses off the highway, but that never seems to happen either.
Second thought
Interesting post about the true efficiency of EVs (and ICEs):
https://mishtalk.com/economics/the-norwegian-illusion-evs-are-not-more-energy-efficient/
An EV designed with a replaceable battery could make more sense, but that would require a radical redesign. Not just a skinning like the Tesla Cybertruck thing, but a truly different approach. But the battery is the expensive part, so why bother? Like the kerfuffle over iPhone’s non-replicable battery, by the time it’s losing efficacy there’s a better model out anyway (except for Tesla, who seems to have suck to the same design it started with). No one cares. Except that replacing a $1000 subsidized phone every two to three years is pretty easy on the wallet. Replacing a $60K car every four? Not quite so simple.
An EV designed with a replaceable battery could make more sense
We’ve already seen attempts with EV manufacturers offering battery swapping stations, so the idea that the battery could be replaced isn’t really a novel one, although the purpose of battery swapping in these cases was to try to avoid the charging time problem by instead replacing the depleted EV battery with a fully charged one in a few minutes. A ridiculous idea, obviously, no wonder it hasn’t gained any traction.
Like the kerfuffle over iPhone’s non-replicable battery, by the time it’s losing efficacy there’s a better model out anyway
Considering the lack of innovation in the EV space, that shouldn’t really be much of a concern. Meaningless gimmicks aside, EVs are more comparable to the Trabant, the car that was offered in Eastern Germany for decades, and remained more or less the same design for decades.
Unintended CLOWNsequences — conventional wisdom from the Vichy automotive presstitutes:
‘For success with electric vehicles, automakers can’t afford to run business as usual. Their survival hinges on a business shift. Most automakers lose about $6,000 on every $50,000 EV they sell.
‘EV alliances, such as the one announced this month by Honda and Nissan, may be crucial for automakers’ balance sheets and longevity.
‘Shared resources could give automakers some cushion as the pace of EV growth ebbs and flows. Most components needed for EVs are consistent across automakers. Using common parts and joint procurement while maintaining their own branding and styles makes financial sense.
‘Compared with losing $6,000 per vehicle, collaboration is worth a try.’
https://www.autonews.com/editorial/ev-transition-automakers-must-work-together
What an insipid shit-stain of cucked codswallop. ‘A mating of dinosaurs’ is how Wall Street calls such ‘weak + weak = weaker’ partnerships.
If a frayed-collar scribbler turned in this fatuous fantasy to me, I’d flick my Bic and toss the burning manuscript right onto his (or maybe ‘her’) laptop. ‘Have you considered a new career in burger flipping or lawn landscaping, since you obviously can’t write your way out of a wet paper bag?’ I’d snarl, lifting my hind leg as if peeing on their desk.
Everybody else is just green
Have you seen the chart?
It’s a hell of a start, it could be made into a monster
If we all pull together as a team
— Pink Floyd, Have a Cigar
Hi Jim,
I honed in on ” Using common parts and joint procurement while maintaining their own branding and styles…”
In other words, badge-engineer everything. No more meaningful differences between brands – or even models. Just different sizes and shapes (somewhat) of the same things sold under different labels.
Wouldn’t it make “more sense” to just do away with all – or at least, most – of these brands? Put another way: Why doesn’t GM bring back Pontiac and Olds and Saturn? They could re-sell re-branded “GM” EVs. And “GM” EVs could be re-badged and re-branded someone else’s EVs, too.
‘I honed in on ”Using common parts and joint procurement while maintaining their own branding and styles…” ‘ — eric
I knew you would. That’s why I bolded it for you.
Automotive News obviously didn’t listen to your essay on badge engineering. Or they ‘read’ it like this — DUH!
https://ibb.co/pL4VN9n
The infliction of pain appears to be the order of the day concerning the Psychopaths In Charge, which is befitting their psychosis. They quite often appear giddy when they announce the next pain infliction they intend, or the “success” of the last one.
Those who would allow, much less encourage the mutilation of children are not the “good guys”. They are in fact literally demons. Yet they are given a seat at the table.
I’ve given up any allopathic treatment, other than for broken bones or nasty gashes. They have proven themselves untrustworthy. I’m suffering greatly from rheumatoid arthritis, which I’m highly suspicious is caused by a lifetime of vaccination, injecting me with Mercury and Aluminum. Especially since the disorder appeared within a month of getting one. I’m not going along with their prescription of another one of their drugs that is priced at 60k per year. I’ll suffer the consequence to give them a big FU.
Good on you, John. Their prescriptions really don’t do much, and a lot of what they do is bad. But be sure to keep up on natural healing, modern food is lacking in nutrients due to hybrid breeding, soil depletion, chemical fertilization, and mechanized ag. These aren’t all bad, but a consequence is that modern produce lacks flavor and nutrition. I’m sure Mercola can recommend some anti inflammatory nutrients for that arthritis.
What really makes you ill…
A look at alternatives to allopathic medicine….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV_Q1cyaQQk
New York City is filled to the brim with noxious materials.
Whatever is really going on, it ain’t all that good.
“I can teach anyone how to be a farmer 1 dig a hole 2 put a seed in 3 put dirt on top 4 add water 5 up comes the corn” – Michael Bloomberg
Don’t worry, Mike is in charge, breathe easy.
Michael can expect some unintended consequences, like famine.
What are you going to do in the meantime while the corn grows and you become hungry?
You’ll become a hunter and gatherer, not so easy then. That’s going to take some grey matter, no matter how you slice it.
Every age is an information age, all economies are always knowledge-based, no matter what age we’re in, Stone Age, Iron Age, Information Age, can’t be any other way. All Knowledge-based economies.
Have to eat, mammoths were eaten, need a killing tool for that, passenger pigeons were eaten to extinction.
Nowadays, it’s just plain ‘kill them all’ strategies, right in front of you on the computer screen, the sign says so.
Some ages become violent and people do die. The Information Age is especially violent and deadly, rates right up there so far.
Happening in real-time, today.
“I want to see dead burnt bodies stacked as high as I can see.” – Charles Manson
In Gaza and Ukraine, that’s where those bodies are.
Say it ain’t so.
I want to see dead, burnt bodies.
I want blood, and guts, and gore.
I want to kill! Kill! KILL!
They pinned a medal on me and said,” You’re our boy!”
‘Instead of being close-to-worn-out by ten years and 100,000 miles’ — eric
With EeeVees, we return to the bad old days described by Eric. On page 996 of its 1,100-page plus greenhouse gas regs for light and medium duty vehicles, the EPA requires that the battery retain 70 percent of its capacity at 10 yrs / 100,000 miles.
Or in other words, if your appliance once had 200 miles of usable range, it’s okay with red guard Michael Regan if its usable range declines to only 140 miles after ten years.
But it ain’t okay with me. Range of 140 miles is chiiiiiiiiickenshit out in the open spaces of the West where even small towns can be 120 miles apart (e.g. I-10 in west Texas).
Inadvertently, the idiot EPA has showcased the Achilles heel of EeeVees: their crappy battery technology. Heavy, lithium-intensive, child-labor-intensive, temperature-sensitive, low in energy density, fire-prone, and on and on.
Ultimately, inferior technology does not displace better technology [ICE], even when heavily subsidized. ‘Biden’ and Clowngress might as well shake their fist at the incoming tide. Remember: ‘EV’ also stands for ‘egregious vaccines.’ Coincidence?
‘This needle will only feel like a mosquito bite.’ — ‘Dr’ Mandy Cohen Mengele
The newest car I have is over 20 years old and while I can afford to buy it’s new equivalent in cash I see no reason too. From massive blind spots (need a backup camera now), tracking, data logging, invasive driving controls (lane assist, etc.), a massive touch screen popping out of the dash, no manual accessory controls, etc. Now if a dealer had a NOS 1983 K car with a factory warranty at the 1983 I’d probably buy it.
For what it’s worth I’d rather drive something old. I see no reason to drive a car that might barbecue you if you hit a pothole. That’s just me I guess.
Ugh. Not a K car, at least a Daytona or Rampage. Though the Horizon I had was a damned good freedom machine when I got it as a 6 year old rust bucket. Buy cheap, drive cheap, junk at a profit= freedom machine. Harley doesn’t even come close!
I used it as an example of what I would rather drive than a new car. Heck even an Edsel looks nicer than the new sh*t.
When I just had to make my unscheduled truck purchase, I asked the salesman how many EVs they sold.
He looked at me & stared. Then said I don’t think we have any. Then commented about it’s all politics and not sure why anyone would want one.
Psychopaths never back down, they double down. Now that their agenda is in the open, they will be less hesitant to impose draconian anti-car measures, which no longer needs to have a pretence of being about something else, and they’ll try to make sure that resistance is futile. So we’re not out of the woods yet…
“It longer then we expected but we finally broke the West.” – Communists.