The Biden Thing’s secretary of transportation – where in the Constitution does it state the federal government shall have the power to micromanage our comings and goings? – said the other day that people who haven’t given up their cars with engines for devices with a battery are similar to people back in the early 2000s who stubbornly refused to embrace the cell phone future.
Words to that effect.
He actually said more than just that. The money quote is as follows:
“The automotive sector is moving toward EVs, and we can’t pretend otherwise. Sometimes when these debates happen, I feel like it’s the early 2000s and I’m talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever.”
Observe the passive voice masking-over the force behind all of this. The automotive sector is not “moving toward EVs.” It is being pushed toward EVs. He then equates not wanting to be pushed to buy something unwanted as being stupid. There is contempt – and menace – in this statement. 
The irony of it is also lost on the Biden Thing’s secretary of transportation. Most people did get cell phones because – here it comes! – they offered advantages over land lines. These included more convenience and lower costs overall, if you bought a basic model (these currently can be bought for about $50 and a cheap monthly plan with unlimited service can be purchased for about $35). They also could do more things than just a phone, as everyone knows.
People bought them for the same reason most people prefer hamburgers made of beef rather than Impossible Burgers made of . . . well, whatever they make them out of.
It wasn’t necessary for the government to issue a slew of regulations aimed at making land line phones more expensive to manufacture – in order to discourage their use and make cell phones seem less expensive. There was no need to dangle tax kickbacks in the faces of people to get them to make the switch. People just made the switch. Because it made sense to the people who chose to buy cell phones.
That the Biden Thing’s secretary of transportation does not understand this relationship tells us a great deal about the qualifications of this man to be the secretary of transportation.
Or even just a secretary.
He holds the office – and sway over transportation – not because he is competent and well-intended (and never mind that business almost no one ever brings up about where in the Constitution this office is empowered with legitimate authority to even exist) but because he is willing to do whatever is required to push the car-buying public into battery powered devices that are not what the public wants. If that were not so, it would not be necessary to push them. QED.
This brings up what may perhaps be an interesting observation about “our democracy” and the various threats to it posited by these things. Why not allow “our democracy” – that is to say, the people – to decide what’s best as regards their vehicles?
This goes way beyond just the EV thing, too.
Why is it that – in “our democracy” – the people are not free to determine for themselves whether cars get more or less gas mileage, according to their own criteria? How is it “democratic” for a centralized regulatory apparat consisting of relative handful of appointed bureaucrats to decide for more than 300 million Americans that they will have to pay as much as it costs to achieve say 50 MPG rather than 35 MPG?
It does not sound very “democratic.”
Nor the myriad other expensive things the government’s regulatory apparat decrees every new vehicle must be equipped with, never mind the fact that probably lots of people would elect not to pay to have their car’s interior designed around the now de facto standard six air bags that the typical new car has sewn into its dashboard, door panels and seat bolsters (plus the steering wheel). The cost of which is not just what the buyer pays up front but also to insure the car – which is more expensive to repair courtesy of such things as six air bags and may not even be worth repairing, due to the cost of replacing all those air bags relative to value of the vehicle.
So it gets totaled – that is, thrown away – and the owner gets to pay.
These things are not “democrats.” They are autocrats. The remarkable thing – psychologically – is the general acceptance of this obnoxious lording-over by these autocrats. It is a phenomenon specifically characteristic of Leftist autocrats, who like to style themselves “democrats” – as for example the claque of autocrats who lorded over the old German Democratic Republic; i.e., communist East Germany. Because it goes down a lot easier when you tell the people you’re lording-it-over that they live in a “democracy.”
The United States – at one time a republic, with a governing structure specifically erected to stymie such “democrats” – is becoming more and more like the “democratic” republics of the old Warsaw Pact while Russia is becoming in many ways more like the republic America once was.
The reason for that may have something to do with the Russian people’s 70-year-experience with “democracy” as practiced by the leadership claque of the old Soviet Union. It gets old being told what you’ll be allowed by autocrats who allow themselves everything – and always at your expense.
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EeeVees as class warfare — this is an epic indictment:
‘On March 20, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its tailpipe emissions rules for the auto industry starting in 2027.
“This isn’t industrial policy,” Robert Bryce, author and energy analyst, told The Epoch Times. “In reality it’s a type of class warfare that will prevent low- and middle-income consumers from being able to afford new cars.”
‘According to an October 2023 report by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, as much as $48,000 of the cost of the average EV sold in the United States is paid not by the owner, but in the form of “socialized costs” that are spread out among taxpayers and electricity consumers.
“The average model year 2021 EV would cost $48,698 more to own over a 10-year period without $22 billion in government favors given to EV manufacturers and owners.”
‘As of year-end 2022, California had 903,600 registered EVs in the state, or 37 percent of all EVs owned nationwide. EVs have become ‘Biden cars.’
https://tinyurl.com/yeytrnab
EeeVees, in other words, are a communist front. I’m against communism because it ain’t on the level.
In a classic photo by Kenny Holston of the New York Times, ‘Biden’ poses in front of the industrial wreckage of the US economy:
‘I did this.‘
https://tinyurl.com/b85nf8ja
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You see th real problem is being ruled by perverts and fucking faggots, you see? Because as everyone knows, faggots get the fire
How can bombing everybody into submission be an act of diplomacy?
War is the zeitgeist, it is so cool, like a Golden Calf, worshiped until some nut says it is wrong to kill and covet.
We have the greatest most magnificent incredibly unbelievable shitshow the world has ever seen and witnessed going on right now.
Unmatched, can’t be touched.
You can have your bread and your circus, the shitshow is the one to watch.
Pete Buttegg got caught jet setting around (as Trans. Sec) for hot gay sex, even though he is married to a man.
“Pete Buttigieg has flown 18 times on taxpayer-funded private jets since taking office early last year — a practice that caused an outcry forcing one of former President Donald Trump’s cabinet officials to resign his position five years ago.”
Empires start out heterosexual and end homosexual. In our case, with the Fed propping up our system, we have surpassed gay for transexual. Not allowing the system to crash and deflate causes complete sexual debauchery with human beings. By not allowing the natural debt liquidation cycle to work, the Fed is driving people into homo/trans sexual activities because of easy money policies.
NSAdvisor Sullivan said today he is worried about Russia Nuclear First strike – as Putin has repeatedly warned that Ukraine joining NATO is a big red line for Russia.
“Ukrainian social media- and a US Congressman – have revealed US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is worried about a Russian Nuclear FIRST-STRIKE against the USA|
(April 4, 2024)
That is interesting because John Titor claimed Russia ends the Federal Government with a nuclear first strike on 15 March 2015. (Time travelor Titor was on a different world timeline).
Imagine a government so careless, so ruthless, so malevolent that it is taunting a nuclear superpower to decapitate us. I guess if it happens EVs will not be a problem anymore. Does anyone really think that D.C doesn’t need to be nuked? Since the end of WW2, it is estimated by Dr. Kevin Barrett that the USA empire has killed 30-50 million in all the wars, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Ukraine, Gaza, etc.
Perhaps it is our turn to die, and we certainly are egging on Russia to put us out of our misery.
April 4, 2024………4, 4, 202 4….three 4’s…the Chinese say 4 is very unlucky….means death…..
April 4, 2024…stock market drops…oil price jumps higher and talk in the news about WW3….not good…
War preparations?
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Z1x3DygoMHA
Room 101 Part 1: Vertical War….slaves vs slave owners…. vs… Horizontal Wars slaves vs slaves…
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=nXVEFAfGt7I
Good morning, Jack!
This Buttigieg character is particularly off-putting because of his unabashed incompetence. He has as much business (leaving aside the moral aspect of having “secretaries” micromanaging other people’s business) being secretary of transportation as I have being an NFL head coach, in that I know nothing about football and am not even interested in it. Yet he is not embarrassed; the fact that he took the job to begin with tells you a great deal about him – and the job, too.
Getting rid of DC will allow us to live.
The slaves can use AI now to fight back against the control group…
The nobility control group slave owners are using AI against the slaves…now the slaves can use it to fight back…
Fighting the control group’s debt collectors….AI designed just for that purpose….
Robert O’Deck, from the Observation Deck channel has programmed an app for this purpose…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs1mwZZeCoQ
I’d ay, Up YOURS, you filthy little sodomite but, he’d probably like it.
This is an Oligarchy – Not a Democracy. Liberals want to end privately owned transportation, stick you in a 15 minute Rabbit Hutch, and suck your blood like a weasel.
…and some of still have a phone on our kitchen wall with no intention of ever getting rid of it and having a celphone. Period.
Nor have I any intention of ever getting an EEEEVEEEE. Period.
When they pry my cold dead hands off of my old Plymouth’s steering wheel…
I have a cord telephone as a back up, just in case the power goes out: I can still use it.
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‘These things are not “democrats.” They are autocrats.’ — eric
Marjorie Taylor Greene told Tucker Carlson that Speaker Mike Johnson’s personality has changed. She likened the US fedgov to a business, with Johnson now a senior partner in The Firm — meaning that he supports all the Uniparty demands, including $60 billion for the Ukies. Johnson isn’t so much an autocrat as a fresh-faced rent boy.
Meanwhile, it’s a hell of a note for senile scarecrow ‘Joe Biden,’ who emptied out the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to buy the midterm election when crude oil was in the sixties per barrel. Today it’s at $86.50, driving retail gas prices toward the $4.00 a gallon level that’s guaranteed to berserk the voters.
Apparently today’s rip higher in crude was thanks to America’s faux-friend ‘ally,’ Israel, which brought the oil-rich middle east to a boil with its bombing of the Iranian embassy and its triple-tap assassination of seven aid workers, including an American.
It’s a fine mess ‘Joe Biden’ has made for himself — and for us, as we pay the price at the pump for supporting a shit-stain little country that takes our money and then contemptuously gives us the finger. That’s Exhibit A proving no functioning democracy here: all the Congress Clowns represent a hostile foreign country.
I suspect somebody has paid a visit to Mike Johnson and let him know of the compromising evidence they have on him. “Hey, Mike. We really need you to bring that big MIC bill to the floor. It’d be a real shame if those pictures got out, now wouldn’t it?”
Hi ML,
Was he be found at Diddy’s house by chance? Are people that weak willed or just stupid? Why would anyone attend a gathering where there are disturbing and illegal activity going on? And you know it does. Most people are walking around with a camera in their back pocket at all times. Why allow oneself to be put in that situation? I shouldn’t be, but I am always surprised on how many people don’t know how to say “no” or “screw you” or “kiss my ass”.
Integrity (and common sense) are sorely lacking in today’s society.
My guess, RG? The guy was lead by his other head, and not the one on top of his shoulders, either. If not that, then it was money, and lots of it. That is one good way to steer any politician. And blackmail, too. Just threaten to kill a politician’s spouse (significant other) and children (or torture them and send them the video), and suddenly, you have a ready, willing, and compliant slave, ready to take orders without question. Sadly, it appears that Mike Johnson is just another bought-and-paid-for politician. Those with integrity and common sense know to avoid being in such places like Congress or in other places of government, lest we end up becoming like them.
There is not enough blood in a man’s body to fill two heads. If one is full, the other is empty.
@Raider Girl
Re: “Those with integrity and common sense know to avoid being in such places like Congress or in other places of government, lest we end up becoming like them.”
The billionaire oligarchs and their associates in the “corporation” that is our polity need to maintain at least the appearance of normalcy and probity in our so-called “democracy” at least for a while longer, and to do that they need to be able to control the hired help working in the government. In particular those in key positions.
The classic carrot-and-stick works. Offer individual X a lot of goodies for cooperating with them and getting with the program, and then have a big-stick if they prove tough to convince.
Although the deep-state isn’t above strong-arm tactics and even assassination to gain its ends, often these have too much potential blow-back for their liking. That’s where morally-compromised people and things like blackmail enter into the picture.
The deep-state prefers to work with morally-compromised people, the kind with skeletons in their closets and who have something to hide – and just as importantly, something to lose – should their vices and whatnot become public knowledge.
Epstein’s island and the like were large-scale black-mail operations designed to get the goods on not just a few people, but on much of Washington’s movers-and-shakers. Allegedly run by Mossad, but they aren’t the only suspects, as there are others with motive and means, including some right in this country, the U.S.A.
The long-and-the-short, then, is that upstanding and ethical people are precisely the kind they don’t want ascending to high office, because the oligarchs and billionaires in the shadows have difficulty controlling them.
These sort of tactics are common in police states around the world, not just now but in the past. When J. Edgar Hoover was alive, he was famous as someone you just didn’t cross, unless you wanted your most-private secrets to wind up on the front-page the next morning. Hoover had files (dossiers) not just on his enemies, but his friends, too.
And of course, the NKVD/KGB in the USSR and the Gestapo in Nazi Germany were famous for such methods.
Exactly, Georgiaboy –
The paradox is that good men – not perfect men; but good men – are uninterested in political office because they are uninterested in meddling in other people’s business. So, instead, we get bad men – who are interested in meddling in other people’s business and making a buck on the deal, too. These are the worst kinds of men (and women). And government is their tool.
‘I suspect somebody has paid a visit to Mike Johnson’ — Mister Liberty
Johnson is on the Gang of Eight — the unconstitutional group of Congressional ‘leaders’ who get full briefings from the CIA, while the other 527 know no more than we do as they whoop through $60 billion, fully-redacted black budgets.
The spooks got to Johnson. They showed him the ‘lost’ photos of JFK’s autopsy; the grisly exit wounds. ‘Nice little speakership ya got here … be a pity if something were to happen to it.’
I thought the gay 8 were all all senators?
>$4.00 a gallon
$5.00/gal in California
So far…
When it gets to $10.00, due to new “carbon taxes,” things could get interesting.
Except that we don’t have a democracy! Never have. And hopefully, never will. We have a REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC! Get it right, will ya? Attention to detail. By not even knowing what the U.S. is, it casts validity questions about everything you write!
We have a retarded oligarchy, Mr. Bot. Sure, we may have been structured properly briefly, but that didn’t even make it out of the 18th century.
We actually started off as a Republic. Which morphed into a mob-rule, Democracy that is suiciding itself, just as Mark Twain warned us Democracies ended up doing. We did not keep the Republic, sadly. The talking heads on the news who shill about our “Democracy” being threatened just sound stupid, while they look proud of themselves for thinking they are the informed ones. Who would have thought we would see people on national television being proud of being ignorant.
Guy in the video is not asking right questions. Comparing stuff with fridges is not really important. Whats important is the grid will melt even if 20% of people drive electric . You need to rip out cables replace them with way thicker ones and somehow create way more energy
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/03/who-killed-the-electric-grid-fast-charging-electric-cars/
quote from article:
There are 220 million private cars in the US. If the complete fleet would be plugged in at the same time it would need 34,000 gigawatts, or 34 times the existing electricity generation capacity of the US. This will never happen, but it compares to “only” a 65 percent increase of the power capacity in the slow-charging scenario above. A large fleet of fast-charging cars will melt the grid.
“The automotive sector is moving toward EVs.” — Pete Buttibonk
Actually, it is not. Despite massive fedgov subsidies to EeeVee manufacturers and retail buyers, the share of EeeVees in US first quarter auto sales FELL from 7.6% to 7.1%.
Young Pete isn’t just an inflamed asshole (for obvious physical reasons). He’s a liar too.
You bring up an important point that I’ve always tried to talk to people about but apparently nobody wants to discuss it. That is that “our democracy” is a flat-out sham. And that is based upon all the hype and support for such a system.
While I always say that I don’t know a better way, I can’t get anyone to be honest and agree that it’s a complete fucking lie, which it clearly is. So no, I don’t mean to become socialist or communist — hell no! But we are not having a functional democracy in the first place
In the second place, what good sense does it make to give everyone a vote on everything? Look at how stupid and willing to abandon freedom the vast majority of people are! I wouldn’t want them to vote on shit anything that involves me! But I have no choice.
Then what about timeliness and age of democratic decisions? Does something decide by a majority in the 30’s or 40’s still have the same considerations as it does today? Those people didn’t have the same considerations as we do today.
The whole thing seems like a good-sounding in theory fake-out that just allows our government to be totalitarian in disguise! And nobody wants to talk about that. WTF?
The old world order…feudal system….the king at the top, slaves on the bottom…an absolute monarchy
In the old feudal system..an absolute monarchy…..the 1st son got to be king…the other sons got nothing….
In the new world order….
To provide employment to the other sons, they changed the system….to a republic……the slaves were given the right to vote…….all the sons took turns being the president for 4 or 5 years….a republic is supposed to have group consensus…..but the Presidents just seem to do whatever they want…so they aren’t much different then a king….
The freemasons are the political arm of the slave owning aristocracy…. when you vote you get the choice of two or more freemasons…an illusion of choice….all USA presidents have been Freemasons except JFK.
The white tribes in Europe and the other tribes around the world…were living happily until the slave owning nobility invaded… then genocided and enslaved them.
The slave owning nobility, the monarch’s….with their royal bloodlines, going back to the pharaoh kings, running prison planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WskoJJ3OBOo
Hi XM,
You are wrong about democracy. This wouldnt pass on a referendum. Thats a real democracy. Real democracy after Atens started in free north italian and swiss cities. Those cities were greatly developed. Each citizen had a vote and could also propose votings. Representatives are usles middlemen especially in times of internet . You want average person to give inputs to goverment. You dont want psyhopatic elite commanding npcs.
Switching from an ICE-powered car to an EV is like going from fiber internet to a dial-up connection, and then pretending that it’s “fast” because it’s 56Kbps. Bootyjudge’s analogy is as backwards as it can be.
Indeed! That is akin to being excited you got a income tax refund. When it was actually your money the whole time.
…and this article made the WRSA blog.
https://westernrifleshooters.us/2024/04/04/the-future-of-driving-and-a-lot-of-other-things-in-our-democracy/
For 99% of Americans,,, Buttmaster is correct. Me? I’d rather not be monitored 24/7/366.
As for cost,,, never did my old landline exceed $35 – 40 dollars. Never did I have to provide a phone and service when calling for a tow or some other emergency. Pay phones were everywhere and most worked.
As for Democracy…. it’s just a buzz word. We live under a dictatorship they call a democracy where we are allowed to choose from two individuals chosen by the “party”
Dictatorship:
A dictatorship is an autocratic form of government which is characterized by a leader, or a group of leaders , who hold governmental powers with few to no limitations. wikipedia
The best government is no government.
The analogy was clumsy for sure but not altogether wrong. Barring collapse of the currency, I tend to think, like cellphones, almost everyone who drives at some point in the medium term will be driving an EV irrespective of the shortcomings. These days, I use a landline phone exclusively but almost no one else I know does. Some people even only take texts not voice calls. Cell phones used to be warned against, even on this site (throw it in the woods!), but are now discussed as “better” than landlines. I have a few huge points of disagreement about that but I am a distinct minority. As such, I suspect some force or measure will eventually create a situation in the minds of most, not the die hards on here, but most people, that EVs are better than ICE cars for… whatever their reason.
Hi Funk,
I don’t doubt they’ll try to force EVs on people; I mean that literally. Right now, they are just forcing the car industry to manufacture them. But so long as people are free to not buy them – and so long as insuperable barriers to driving cars with engines, such as punishing registration fees and so on – are not imposed, I doubt EV will ever be more than about 30 percent of the total. Because they’re functional inferior in so many ways. They force the owner to obsess about/plan around charging; they restrict how far one can drive without lengthy pauses in between. Their functionality (range/recharge) is greatly affected (negatively) by extremes of cold. The only clear advantage they have is initial thrust – and even that is a Catch 22 because if you use it often, you have to stop more often.
Interesting article today about Hertz’s EV boondoggle.
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-markets/transport-logistics/how-hertz-s-bet-teslas-went-horribly-sideways
Despite many stories like this continuing to come out, I don’t get the sense it matters to the agenda. I think the ‘roads’ are being re-built around it. The other day I was watching some contractors from a company called Lumin8 working in and under a recently resurfaced main road. Lots of cables, wiring, and boxes. I looked the company up and got a sense of what they do. While some of it is legacy, stop lights and such, they offer turn key two way data collection and many other “connectedness” services. They seem busy, too as there were a number of job openings for electricians paying $40 an hour with a ton of bennies. The kicker? All applicants must be “fully vaccinated” for Doofy-doof-19. This, still, in April 2024.
No, they will not force EV’s on us. Not directly. Instead, gasoline and oil will disappear, because the Feds will not allow us to buy it, drill for it, or possess it. You will not be “allowed” to repair ICE vehicles, and no parts will be available for said vehicles. No…it will not be out right force. We will be herded like cattle into a pen towards these vehicles if we ever want any semblance of “freedom”. When “they” “allow” us to charge said vehicles.
I agree, Shadow –
Which is why it’s imperative to push back hard, now. Just the same as it was imperative during the early days of “the pandemic,” which would have been over by summer 2020 if enough people had only pushed back hard, then.
Carrots and sticks. Watch next year (after the selection) for cries to raise the gas taxes. This will be in the states, so no one will notice, necessary to “offset” the dread carbon generated. And in some states they’ll probably sell it on the idea of putting some of that new money toward EV rebates. Of course in reality it will just prop up the state worker’s pension fund or get pissed away on magic beans, but that’s years down the road when the mainstream media moved on.
The biggest killer of EV’s up here is going to be the extreme, lengthy cold (and dark) Winters. No one in their right minds (except for the stupid liberals) are going to want to freeze to death in an EV because there is barely enough juice to get to-and-from work, the grocery store, etc. Or, the damned thing won’t charge because it is too cold out. Also, no one has $20,000 dollars to pull out of their you-know-what’s because the battery crapped out too soon. When a several hundred dollar, ICE battery was so much cheaper.
Eric –
I don’t believe that Biden and his ass buddy are interested forcing people to buy EV’s. As we know, they are interested in forcing people out of all cars. The EV is just a step in that direction. There is no Eveee mandate. There is a gas mileage mandate that has been used to direct people’s automotive choices for decades. It’s the walls closing in.
At first they came for muscle cars, and no one cared.
Then, it was station wagons
then it was personal luxury coupes
then it was sedans
and no one seems to get it.
I’m in a foul mood, too.
That DDR flag looks like a Masonic symbol. I never paid any attention to it before.
Every civilization seems to gravitate toward heavy-handed centralization and then blows apart and starts anew. None of these commie schemes will come to fruition for the simple reason that they can’t. The DDR had an impressive network of secret police and stooges, and it still wasn’t enough to keep the people down forever.
I asked a Phd historian….Where do you go to get away from the control group?…he said you can’t…they are everywhere…..
So maybe pick the country with the lowest cost of living and the best climate…and the least 24/7 surveillance….
DDR didnt have Spyware installed everywhere. Poeple had privacy at least in their homes. Now if you talk about uprising with 10 poeple fbi will kick your door. Currently I hope for some sort of apocalypse. This is 20th centuries elite last stand. Either they manage to globalise the whole world and implement totalitarian buerocratic regime or freedom will prevail.
I belive the whole west will be a totalitarian shithole and free nations will emerge in south america or some unstable place like that. European and US big goverment is too entrenched too omnipresent.
Look at Salvador a western nation would never allow bitcoin as legal tender or have its leader speak against dollar.
Yep. I agree 100 percent that this place is becoming an unlivable shithole. If I’m going to live in a shithole, I want to have nice weather there.
“..while Russia is becoming in many ways more like the republic America once was.”
No it isn’t. You are being deceived by the alt-media shills.
Yep, totally agreed.
Just because US is going down the wrong path, it doesn’t mean Russia is taking the right one. I have family there, it’s not a good place to live, and as it stands, there’s no future. Every Russian who is capable of leaving is finding ways to leave to make a life outside of Russia. You can’t have a functional country where your smartest people leave, and able bodied ones are being sent to war, and old ones drink themselves to death.
As far as Im aware russia is just keeping soviet citizen standard for employed poeple. Commie block apartment and old lada is achievable.
West and US are just going below that. Young poeple cant buy old commie block apartment in europe and they cant buy a new car because all of the requirements that make it expensive and old cars are getting less and less legal.
So russia is not getting better but its just deteriorating less. At least thats what I heard from other russians.
The average per capita earings for a Russian houselhold is around $30k today. Notmuch, but considering that it was around $3k in 1992 adjusted for inflation, they have experienced a tremendous improvement. They are approaching US living standards at this rate. The Trump and Biden administration sanctions against Russia have only made things better for the Russian people.
I’m not saying that it’s paradise over there, but I don’t htink we are going to be better for long
Two thoughts:
First, Mayor Pete was chosen as Secretary of Transportation not because of his experience, skills, abilities, or leadership qualities, but because of his sexual orientation and his political views.
One reason why I did not vote for Sleepy Joe in 2020 is because of his choice of VP and that he wanted a woman of color to be his VP.
That decision made it abundantly clear that Sleepy Joe would make policies, allocate resources, and appoint people based on diversity, not merit.
And we are now experiencing what happens when you focus on diversity at the expense of merit.
Next, we are completely ignoring workable solutions to what are cited as chief problems with internal combustion vehicles: pollution, expense, and dependence on dwindling resources primarily found in politically unstable and anti-American countries. Those solutions are things like electric-dominant hybrids, EU-spec diesels, decent small cars, flex fuel vehicles, and compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles, which WORK. EVs, on the other hand, merely SHIFT those problems; for example, instead of paying at the pump and polluting at the tailpipe, EVs mean you pay at the plug and pollute at the power plant.
And the two are related.
CO2 is not a pollutant…. It is a life sustaining gas. We are presently in a CO2 drought and without it everything dies. Which is what these climate morons seem to be striving for.
Absolutely, CO2 is the gas of life. No CO2 EVERYTHING dies. Agenda 2030
If indeed CO2 is a pollutant (which it isn’t), then the only way to reduce CO2 emissions is to Burn. Less. Fuel.
A car like my folks’ 1980 diesel VW Rabbit did just that. It got an honest 50 MPG.
But why aren’t we seeing next generation VW Rabbits that can get 75 or even 100 MPG with today’s technology?
Oh yeah, that’s right. It isn’t about controlling the climate—it’s about controlling mobility.
Why in the hell would anyone consider voting for biden? I wouldn’t do it with a gun pointed at my head.
There are also NO problems with internal combustion engines. Never have been. Never will be. For the love of Jude.
Well, as the saying goes, “never, ever underestimate the stupidity of the American voter”. Offering voters something-for-nothing always works. But also, as the voters wake up, the regime has to import illegals to replace those who are waking up. The illegals will gladly vote to take our rights away, because they came from crap holes that never had any, so it is no skin off their noses: They are not going to follow the rules, anyway. Also, the “…it’s who counts the votes that matter” come into play. So what if Orange Man won the 2020 Presidential Election? They installed Biden (like a toilet), and notice nothing happened? People bitched, but so what? The same will happen this time around (if we make it that far), because nothing will happen then, either. Votes do not matter anymore. And if Orange Man does get in, it is because the establishment plans to hang him for everything: The crashed economy, civil unrest and Civil War, World War 3, etc. People will be just dumb enough to believe it, even though the crash of the economy, the money printing (and worthless dollar), the insane spending, etc. was coming to a head long before Trump entered the picture. He will just be in the wrong place at the wrong time when everything collapses.
Most of the time those of us who use reason and logic to sort things make every effort to stay away from painting with a broad brush, however…Every single Democrat and half or more of the rhinos are filthy stinking communists. Prove me wrong.
They say you know a tree by its fruit, well Marxists and Bolsheviks now throw their shade across most of the United States. Give them 6-9 months and their takeover will be complete. Doing away with Dim control won’t be enough. If we have a hard enough reset we need to take the opportunity to insist that no former Govco employee ever be allowed a position of authority again, and no one over 60 FFS. We probably need to seize everything they own and never allow them to set foot in the US again. The media and heads of academia could be included in this as well.
A novel start would an immediate death penalty for any politico trying to impose any new law. Just like with guns, drugs, and the border, its all about enforcement, or lack thereof. Whatever drama the DS contrives, whatever crisis they manufacture, none of it requires ‘new law.’ Every single thing they’re trying to do now is some shady attempt to slip in language and penalties against “Hate,” “Hate speech,” guns, or agitate for common sense ‘gun safety.’
Isn’t it ironic how Canada, Scotland, UK, and now Poland and I’m sure a few more I’m forgetting recently passed laws giving 3 years in prison for telling a joke about the pets, or hurting someones feelings? Wide geographical differences, yet these laws are almost identical. Its like they were already written by someone, waiting in a drawer for this moment in history. Cant quite figure out who that is? Perhaps someone who has a vested interest in destroying the remaining White countries of the world. I know if this garbage law passed here. most of us would already be facing multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole. No thank you.
All the laws we could ever need (and many more we don’t) are already on the books. Lets make it a thing, No New Laws. In the US there are about 10K people at the top causing all this strife. Divided by 50 states thats not very many. There are at least 30-50 million of us who might want to demand the opportunity to continue living, eating, breathing, and traveling free. Let your conscious be your guide.
Im sorry, but this butt diddler has to go.
Here is EXACTLY how we deal with these evil power tripping fools such as this ‘trans secretary’ and the ‘airborne respirator’ women from Eric’s recent Diaper Report. 🙂
https://www.soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14757557
It is time to stand up for ourselves!
This clown sounds like those who called people who refused (rightly as it ultimately turned out) to be guinea pigs for the medical-industrial complex “Stupid”. Well Pete, given what has already come out about EVs, it seems to me that those who are zealously pushing the EV agenda are the REAL stupid ones, NOT those who refuse to give up a gas vehicle for an EV. Not only that, after the “bipartisan infrastructure bill” was passed in 2021, the Biden Thing has spent $7.5 BILLION to build a whopping SEVEN EV charging stations in 4 states. Not only is this EV push demented, it’s also a very expensive boondoggle that American taxpayers will foot the bill for…..
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/the-progress-on-national-ev-charging-stations/
My guess is that $7.5 billion is spread out over 5 years or even a decade, and most of the cash will be allocated in the “out years” when no one notices.
Must stick to the 5 year plan, comrade!
Hi RK,
To quote Bugs Bunny, “Eh, could be!” But for Pete Buttigieg to claim that people who don’t want to give up a gas vehicle for EV “stupid” sounds like a classic case of GASLIGHTING, something which the whole Biden regime has been doing on various issues for 3+ years. And you may have also noticed how these “World improvers” always use terms such as AGENDA 2030, AGENDA 2050, or even NET ZERO.
There’s a lot of ongoing crises that all culminate in 2030.
This fantasy of all cars to be EV will require a doubling of the current electrical power generation in this country. We have 1.1MM Mega-watts of power generation with 600,000 miles of distribution and it took 100 years to build. Building a NG Turbine is likely $5.5MM/MW so you do the math…$5Trillion to double? Oh, we’ll do it with wind and solar….horsepucky. What Butt-gig doesn’t get nor appreciate is the simple beauty of a gallon of gas. It is energy stored for later use. Storing electricity is a monumental problem. Yes, batteries store some energy but minimal. Hence why they need to be constantly charged. The Power gird is an *on demand* system which must generate energy equivalent to its peak usage. Imagine if all the gas stations in the county had no storage tanks. And all the fuel was piped to each station at the rate they consume fuel. The refineries would have to produce fuel enough to meet the *peak* demand (commute hour fill-ups? Holiday travel fill-ups?). Then the pipe lines would have to sized to handle the flow at peak to where it is used the most at peak. Then booster pumps would have to be installed along the way to push the fuel. Almost incalculable but that is how the electrical grid worked up until the Marxist took over.
To complete this by 2035 every man jack in the country will have to become an electrician, lineman, construction worker, factory plant worker, turbine plant operator. We’ll have to print fake Fed Reserve notes at an alarming ruinous rate. It would make the moonshot look like a gay wedding, easy to plan and force some Christian to bake your cake for you.
But the goal is not to convert to electric, but to control the population via limiting freedom to travel.
One step for man….
Nailed it Hans,
There’s no way the generation will ever keep up with the load for this insane push to make EVERYTHING electric; not just EV’s but also heat pumps vs. natural gas for your house. Also never gonna meet that load with windmills and solar panels while phasing out reliable base load nukes and gas turbines. Doomberg has a great article about restarting a nuclear plant in Michigan that all by itself will provide more power than 30% of all the solar panels nationwide. Can’t have that, the PTB want everyone tied to the grid so they can shut off your power and freeze you in the dark if you fail to get with the program.
Transportation falls under the commerce clause, that little sentence that has been twisted in so much pretzel logic to mean whatever the regime wishes it to mean. All things revert back to the commerce clause.
One reason for cell phone adoption was because land lines were basically static. Sure there were “innovations” like caller-ID and call waiting, and my favorite from AT&T, True Voice™ which claimed to improve quality of voice calls but in actuality did nothing due to the fact that it broke Bell System standards.
Cell phones really didn’t get going in the US until AT&T Wireless rolled out One Rate™, after they upgraded their network to the first generation digital signaling. Before that figuring out why your $39.99/month cell phone bill was always +$100 was a constant pain point of office managers. Analog cell phones were a complicated mess of rate structures, coverage areas and roaming charges. In a few cases it was cheaper to use the cell phone to call someone in the next town over than to use a land line inter-LADA. In other cases it might be more expensive to call the phone you’re sitting next to than to call across the state. One Rate changed that to a flat per-minute bucket of time, any time of day, anywhere, for $60/month. They could only do that because of the massive increase in bandwidth offered with digital signaling and AT&T’s massive long distance network, and because cellular networks weren’t subject to the same PUC regulation that land lands were hamstrung with. Texting and other features would come along later, but after One Rate, wireless could compete against land lines (and soon all carriers began offering their own version of One Rate), and they never looked back.
When will EVs have their “One Rate” moment? Certainly not with today’s weak sauce. But there’s a slight opportunity for someone to think outside the box and really come up with a good, innovative solution -maybe that “transportation as a service” model that people keep floating? Not a popular option around here, but for the right per-mile price a cheap basic car that I could use to chew up miles on the commute might not be all that bad of an option. Remember most of us kept land lines long after we had cell phones. But that would require regulatory changes on a scale not seen since the 1980s, and no way that’s going to happen in today’s political environment. Sure, O’Biden would issue edicts, but then they’d get struck down by “Trump’s” court. And the states have traditionally been the arbiter of vehicle ownership and insurance, not the feds. The polarizing effect of today’s electorate would have a hard time getting anything changed to the degree that would make nation sized manufacturers happy, especially now that California has become a basket case.
Love your posts man. You are a veritable walking Wikipedia of all things electrical even if they are only tangentially related directly to electricity. I like listening to smart & literate people that I can learn things from. This was a nice little ‘slice of history’ re: cellular, AT&T, etc. ✌️
If I’m so smart why did I call the local access and transport area (LATA) a LADA (which I remembered as “Local Area of Dominant something that starts with A)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_access_and_transport_area
Maybe you like cheap Russian cars? 😛
Hey, get on the list to buy a car, and maybe in five years when the government gets around to manufacturing it, you will be allowed to buy a Trabant — IF you are a Party member in good standing and the Stasi doesn’t have any dirt on you.
It’s “democracy,” Comrade!
For what it’s worth, kids… Pete Buttgaygay’s father was an ACTUAL, honest-to-God communist… no lie:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/2748384/pete-buttigiegs-father-was-a-marxist-professor-who-lauded-the-communist-manifesto/
Hi X,
Yup – and the apple ddidn’t fal far from the tree, either. Marxists are ideologues and they teach their kids accordingly. Buttigieg is an ideal “face” (wrestling term) for Marxism; he seems harmless and “aw shucks.” He’s actually much worse.
Mayor Pete is serious Deep State. Go take a hard look at his resume.
My guess is that he has been chosen by the people who really wield power in the country to be nominated as interim VP should the Biden Thing expire before next January.
The question is why Mayor Pete?
Pothole Pete’s father was a disciple and acolyte of a Marxist professor, Socvan Berkovich. That is to say he’s red through and through; he’s perfect for the puppet masters, the real power behind the scenes. He’s being groomed for bigger and better things…
I just heard David Knight repeat the story; I got some things wrong, so I stand corrected.
One, Mayor Pete’s dad was a Maltese immigrant who was a commie. His dad taught at Notre Dame spreading the Marxist gospel. His son, Mayor Pete, attended Harvard. At Harvard, he studied under Socvan Berkovich. Berkovich’s took the name of leftist luminary, Saco Vanzetti.
His qualifications to be secretary of anything are dubious at best. Then again, that’s pretty much everyone in government.
I thought the main qualification to be a secretary was the ability and willingness to give sloppy & enthusiastic blowjobs.
He’s perfect.
Or be a minority trans-whatever that’s into bestiality.
And wear a miniskirt….oh wait…
Eric,
I saw Pothole Pete’s remarks in a Gateway Pundit article-what a JERK! I was going to send it to you, but you’re already on it.
And yes, people had the CHOICE to switch to cell phones! They weren’t forced. At least we have the choice to buy either cell phones or landlines or both…
A coincidence? I have of late thought about having a landline installed on my residence. It will do everything I want except send/receive texts. And no Google connection, I hope. I would keep the cell phone for traveling, at significantly lower cost. Maybe low enough to save enough to pay for the land line service.
Most legacy land line providers are trying to abandon their copper networks. Verizon has been the most aggressive but they all have been completely neglecting their old local loops for some time. Odds are if you get a “land line” connected it will be a wireless network adapter, which will need power supplied by you. Maybe it will have a back up battery (probably) but will it be monitored and regularly tested? (probably not). Only real advantage these days is theoretically no Google, and high degree of regulation preventing listening in. But it will be much more expensive than it should be.
If you’re using a cable ISP for your Internet, adding on a land line might be free or at least very low cost. You might even already have all the equipment if your cablemodem has a phone jack on the back. Still subject to whatever level of maintenance your local cable guys perform, so might have more outages than you like, but I know the boys in my area and they do a very good job of keeping my service running.
RK,
I prefer the old legacy landline network because it has its own power. IOW, it’ll still work even when the electric power is down. I saw that during Hurricane Sandy. Though it was barely a Cat 1 storm by the time it reached the Mid Atlantic region where I am, it was bad enough to take out my electric power for a day or so. Because I had (and still have) a landline, I could communicate with the outside world.
Even back in late 2012, most of my neighbors no longer had traditional, hardwired landlines; they either had cell phones, or they had a phone tied in with their cable TV and/or Internet. Guess what? They couldn’t communicate with the outside world. The cell phone network was either overloaded or down, while the cable phones’ backup battery had run out; they were TOTALLY SOL!
That’s why I still keep my landline. I may not need it very often, but when I have, I’m grateful to have it; I’m grateful to be able to communicate with the outside world when no other means to do so are available.
HAM radio, ftw!
You might not have it much longer.
https://www.lightreading.com/fttx/copper-decommissions-spread-across-the-us-albeit-quietly
I am very happy with my Spectrum VOIP land line.
Natch, the LAN, mostly hardwired, has battery backup.
I do not want or need a cell phone, except as backup in case cable ISP should fail, which it never has. I bough a $30 flip phone @ Best Buy, and pay <$12/mo for cell service. The cell phone is always on the charger, just in case. I test it now and then, but do not use the phone. In fact, I do not know the cell number. It is on a piece of dymo tape attached to the phone, but I do not give out the number, nor is the cell phone normally on.
Oh, BTW, I was an "early adopter' of cell phone technology, back when they were called "car phones." The Motorola transponder, about the size of a library book, is still bolted to the bulkhead behind the seat of my 1989 F150. The glass mount antenna is in the glove box. It was very handy for me in those days, when I worked "in the field," but once I took a desk job, cell service had negative value, for me.
I do not need to be available to *anyone* 24/7. To quote Joe Walsh, "Just leave a message, and maybe I'll call."