When Our Side Doesn’t Get It

Eric,

Not sure if you’re following the mess that some are noticing with the financing of electric cars. Here, we have something called PCP financing, essentially a mix of leasing with an option to buy, whereby you finance a car for 2-4 years, with a balloon payment at the end. So during the initial period you get fixed (relatively low) payments, and after that you pay the balloon (being easier than the whole car) and keep the car, or alternatively return the car and walk away like a lease. Now these contracts are priced so that the value of the car is usually more than the balloon payment at the end of contract so in most cases people pay it and keep or trade in the car. This was always the case and assumes there is a strong second hand market for the cars, which there always is. Or was, till the electric cars came in….

Now suddenly financing companies are realising they are sitting on a ton of of expiring PCP financing agreement, where the resale value for the car is MUCH less than the balloon payment, meaning they will soon be having a bunch of (potentially explosive) cars on there hands with no chance of selling them for what they paid!

Which can mean a couple things the way I see it – 1) ideally, the electric car scam falls apart, because financing electric cars will become a LOT more expensive as financiers will not want the risk and customers wont want to pay what they actually cost
or 2) the gov will get involved, bailing companies out with all that “green” scam money going around, and at the same time push more and more people into lease contracts where ofcourse you never own anything and are yet somehow happy…..

lets see where this one goes…

In 15 days, the Winter Solstice will arrive, the first day of winter!

It will be summer in the Southern Hemisphere.

Antarctica has an ice sheet that is 12,000 feet thick. Going to have to have a lot of heat to melt Antarctica’s Ice Sheet. It might happen, you just never know, you know, hey.

Antarctica melts, the sea levels will be over 70 higher. Isostatic rebound will be a result of the melt. You’ll have to move somewhere else. Obama should know better.

Let Antarctica melt, you will have nothing and you won’t be that happy. 5.5 million square miles of continent, 2 miles thick, do the math. It is a rather large volume in cubic miles.

There is nothing new under the sun.

If Antarctica had forest and grass biomes, there would be a need for more carbon dioxide, thank your lucky stars nearly nothing in the plant kingdom grows there.

The Penguins are breathing in oxygen, it is just there. So some carbon dioxide is being emitted by those evil Penguins at the Antarctic Ocean’s water’s edge.

A small population of humans are there too polluting the place with carbon emissions down there.

Lots of problems and no solutions.

quote “But almost none (less than 3 percent, to be precise) are pollutants”

Not even 3%. Man made CO2 (from all sources) is 3% of 3% of 0.1%

https://shiftfrequency.com/man-made-co2-3-of-3-of-0-1/

Trace Gases – 0.1%

Total Carbon Dioxide (CO2) – 3-4% of trace gases / 0.03 or 0.04% of overall atmosphere

And man only makes 3% of that.

Thus man made CO2 is 3% of 3% of 0.1%

So let’s throw our entire way of life away, junk our economy, over a tiny sliver of a trace gas THAT DOES NOT WARM THE ATMOSPHERE even though a ton of charlatans and uniformed teenagers are handcuffing themselves in protest of an imaginary existential threat.

CO2 is not a pollutant, without it we can not exist, and 99% of earth’s history CO2 has been many times higher than it is today.

If you wrap your mind around this, this climate change crap is as big of delusion as millenialism, the belief some gawd is comin’ down from the heavens to punish us for our sins. No Virginia, no god gives a shit about us, and no god gives a shit what kind of cars we drive.

OT

Question: If the Israelis are going to fight, why doesn’t Israel bomb the Burj Dubai and get some real war action going.

If you stand with Israel, supporters should demand expanded war footings, the Burj Dubai is a legitimate target. Bomb the places where those Hamas billionaires hang out.

Quit picking on the Gazans when you can bomb the Burj Dubai. Go for it, make it a twofer and bomb Tehran.

See what happens after that.

[ When people hear or read about “emissions” and how the government is “acting” to reduce them, they are led to believe this will reduce pollution.]

IMO your giving those people a pass. That they’re so dumb they have no idea CO2 is a natural occurring gas of our atmosphere or Nitrogen for that matter.

I don’t believe they’re that dumb… they’re just lazy, selfish and don’t GAF. They send their kids to the depraved schools where they learn about transgenderism and all the other sick stuff but cannot do math, read or write when they ‘graduate’ just to get rid of them so they can have their careers at Walmart or some other Chinese distributor.
The schools extract backbones and any dreams they may have and replace with follow the rules and obey authority. At some point they see the BS and join the mobocracy as can be viewed in any of our large left leaning cities that have run off tax paying citizens and are too broke to have an effective police force.

I wonder if the fear caused by huge population growth in the last century is a driving force behind limiting everything. When my dad was born there were only 2 billion, now earth has over 8 billion, that is a huge increase in one lifetime.

In my leftist town (of BLM, masks, and Bernie Sanders bumper stickers) I’ve seen this one for a very long time displayed on those elderly hippie cars:

LIVE SIMPLY SO OTHERS MAY SIMPLY LIVE

The car of choice here is the Prius, the Honda Fit, and now the Tesla. These cars reflect perfectly their liberal attitudes, and there is also a sizeable population of Evangelicals who believe we are in “end times”, Rapture any day, the war in Israel a sign post gawd is comin’ back to take the righteous while the evil people have to live through the Apocalypse.

Both of these groups are in fear of the future, and these fears are being played out in politics as limiters – we must limit ourrselves to avoid catastrophe whether real or not. The joke is – the perceived solution – in an era of total media deception – is the real catastrophe. We are in an ice age while believing some spin about oceans boiling.

The current interglacial, the Holocene, is nearly past tense, temperatures peaked 8-9,000 years ago, and the data shows steady cooling since that “optimum”. Furthermore, this interglacial was not that warm, it had lower peak temps than many of the recent one.

https://i1.wp.com/www.volcanocafe.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/VostokTemp0-420000-BP.gif?resize=700%2C336

How do we get the politicians’ attention? It would seem that they are deaf to the demands of the people they are supposed to represent.
It is important to remember that this government will use any and all means against you. That being said, it is necessary to obey all laws and to renounce all violence. Violence is what the government counts on in order to demonize its political “enemies”. Do not fall into the “trap”.
The “mainstream media” is owned “lock, stock, and barrel” by the government. Not only that, social media platforms are also “agents of the government”–totally unconstitutional.
Let’s not forget “infiltration” by government agents. Every organization must guard against infiltration by government types. “Entrapment” is a favorite tactic of government types and has been used to prosecute those who follow the government criminals’ “suggestions” and “help” from their government criminal “handlers”.
“Work stoppages” or “work slowdowns” on a massive scale can be an effective tool in which to get an unresponsive government’s attention.
Europeans have been using work stoppages for decades in order to get their governments’ attention. Of course, European countries are much smaller both in land area and in population which makes it easier for “work stoppages (general strikes) to work.
Here in the USA with much more land mass and a stratified population, such tactics are more difficult to implement and are less effective.
A work stoppage that paralyzes a large part of the economy will get the government’s attention as “tax revenues” will drop off.
A lesser but still effective tactic is one that has been used by labor unions—a reduction in productivity by “working to contract”. This tactic has employees doing the minimum amount of work, just enough to keep the employer from being able to fire employees for “non-performance”. Refusing to work beyond the normal work hours or being unavailable for “overtime” is but another “working to contract” tactic.
Let’s get the ball rolling…

I just hate this leftist Orwellian wordsmithing. “Forging ahead with laws….. that will ban gas guzzlers”. Gas guzzlers??! That is a term that was coined in the 1970s when cars averaged 12 mpg. What new car on the market these days even remotely qualifies as a “gas guzzler”? If you try to have a conversation with an otherwise intelligent person who has a leftist ideology about CAFE standards, or drivers being remotely monitored by the insurance companies and fined or subject to rate increases via the cars that can detect violations such as speeding in real time, you will find yourself in the midst of a word and idea salad so damn quickly it will make your head spin. I talked to someone the other day who began the conversation by describing how disgusted they were with the idea of remote monitoring of driving, who then in the next sentence whiplashed into how many lives would potentially be saved from car crashes caused by speeding, then veered back to complaining about the relative expenses of repairing new cars because of all the “excessive electronics”. When it’s all said and done, leftists LOVE the bullying and controlling, feel even when they themselves are subjected to it that somehow (however bizarre this sounds) that they themselves are a part of being the controllers themselves. Simply because they like the mere idea of controlling others. This mindset results in some of the most convoluted, ass backwards twisted critical thinking you will ever encounter. I truly feel some days we are living in a real life version of Orwell’s 1984.

With what the globalist/ technocratic elite is pushing worldwide (Net Zero, vaccine passports, digital ID, trans _____, etc), I can’t help but wonder if the Modern Left has bought into their agenda themselves or if they’ve just become useful idiots for the elite. Or perhaps they think of themselves as GOD like the globalist/ technocratic elite do, and wish to use government to FORCE their religion on everyone else who wants no part of their religion, which in itself would seem to go against their endless bleating for years for “Separation of church & state”.

Eric,

Actually, the GOP controlled House could put a stop the EPA’s overreach. How? By DEFUNDING them! They could say, “All right, if y’all insist on engaging in harmful, regulatory overreach, then we’ll deprive you of the resources needed to do so! What do y’all think of that?” Like the CARS Act an all other bills, they must pass both houses of Congress then get signed by POTUS. The same goes for spending bills; they must be passed by both houses and signed by POTUS too. Why not use this against the leftists? Why not simply defund the EPA and any other agency or department engaging in regulatory overreach? Sure, the leftist controlled Senate wouldn’t like it, but what could they DO about it? If the GOP were really serious about pushing back, then they’d use the power of the purse to do so.

Ah, but that would require the one thing the GOP doesn’t have: GUTS! It would take guts to defund any agency, especially the vaunted and esteemed EPA. Why, the pundits on CNN and at the Washington (Com)Post would call them names! They wouldn’t get praise from these media mouthpieces that hate them. They would no longer be invited to the swanky and fashionable cocktail parties in DC-oh, the horror! Never mind the fact that the alphabet news networks and legacy newspapers no longer have viewers and readers in any number; never mind the fact that they’re irrelevant. No, the GOP squishes, the RINOs, care about what CNN, the Washington (Com)Post say about them, because all their Swamp friends watch and read these organs. So yeah, the GOP controlled House COULD use the power of the purse to exert leverage on the EPA, but they don’t have the guts to do it! Unfortunately, the CARS Act is just more virtue signaling to their base; it’s just a show vote, much like the Obamacare repeal votes were prior to Trump taking office…

To the left, everything is an extinction level threat. Their opposition to anything is due to the threat of death. Not the “threat” of having to use a mens room if you have a penis, no, they’re going to die if you don’t play along with their psychosis. Not the “threat” of having someone (not them personally, they’re using contraception or not engaged in procreative sex) having to become a parent if they don’t pull out, that would just kill the leftist with the professionally printed sign. So it’s kind of hard to take them seriously when they can’t even come up with a coherent argument against fossil fuels. It all sounds like screaming on the playground.

So people who would likely benefit from a little warmer winters and not notice a little hotter summers go against their own best interest and protest “big oil” all the while not knowing that they owe their existence to oil and cheap energy. Their great grandparents wouldn’t have had children that survived without abundant coal heat and steam power, so their grandparents never would have been born or lived to reproductive age, meaning their parents wouldn’t have existed. Thanks to fossil fuels!

So ~250 years have gone by and all the sudden this stuff is dangerous. We’ll have that “hockey stick” any day now! In ten years… Oh, another ten years… well, imagine what would happen if we didn’t take that little bit of action we took! Just look at all the solar panels and windmills! NO NUKES! NO NUKES!

Someone needs to dope-slap these dumbasses.

French farmers protest carbon taxes, nitrogen limits & laws to cull livestock by pumping manure onto government buildings:

https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1732993702103036008

In the USSA, these guys would be rounded up like the J6 protesters, jailed without bail, then railroaded into prison for decades.

‘The Times piece blithely uses the smear words of the Left.’ — eric

Indeed. It’s part of the Kultursmog, a term coined by columnist Robert Tyrrell during the Clinton administration to describe the insidious diffusion of Leftist tropes into common discourse, back when the lapdog press was gushing over Hillary’s ‘pretty in pink’ press conference.

You can see the Kultursmog polluting language, as the CDC now refers to pregnant women as ‘pregnant people,’ despite the medical fact that no one with xy chromosomes can conceive and carry a fetus. How would Mandy Cohen like it if we insisted that the medical terms monoparous and multiparous be replaced by the popular locution milf? (Actually I expect this to happen soon.)

Demographically, the Lügenpresse does not look like America: over 90 percent of its scribblers identify as Democrats. One small ethnic group is heavily over-represented in its ranks, and even more so at the top. Nothing against (for instance) Koreans, but if they dominated the management of the largest media groups, wouldn’t we feel something was askew?

Amendment I protected freedom of speech when ‘the press’ consisted solely of individual entrepreneurs, a constellation that resembled today’s independent commentators. But the corporate Mainstream Media, collaborating with Big Gov to suppress ‘misinformation’ — i.e., anything that contradicts their worldview — is a wholly different animal.

The Lügenpresse is our misfortune.

Curious how we got along fine without the EPA until Nixon created it. Sort of like the Department of Education until Carter created it, and education has been on a downhill track ever since. Don’t let the House get away with it. They could end it, by not funding it. Or at least cutting back its funding by half or more, and it no longer had such power. Of course they won’t, because there’s money in it, for them.