The time to fight hardest is when you’re winning. When the enemy is wobbly, that’s when you land the haymaker that puts him down for the count. That’s when you end him, if he’s an enemy bent on ending you.
That moment is right now – as regards the federal regulatory apparat, which is the enemy of everything America used to be about. This used to be a pretty free country before the apparat took over. It isn’t very free anymore, chiefly because of the apparat – which is almost omnipotent and insufferably arrogant on account of being unaccountable to any power other than itself.
The smugly smirking face of little Pete Buttigieg – the former head of the apparat styled Department of Transportation – and of Michael “Red Guard” Regan, the former head of the apparat styled Environmental Protection Agency – are avatars of the apparats.
But they are gone now. And nature abhors a vacuum.
What if a major car company – all it would take is one – announced: We’re going to build and offer for sale the kinds of cars and trucks our buyers want.
And then did exactly that.
Toyota, for instance, could start selling its little HilLux Champ – which it’s already building, so it’s not some pie-in-the-sky thing. This truck – which sells for $13,000 in other countries – could just as easily be sold here. All it would take is for Toyota to say: We’re selling it here. Dealers are taking orders now.
And then dare the apparat to try to stop them from selling what tens of thousands of Americans (probably low-balling it) would line up around the block to buy. It would not be a good look. It would put apparat-defenders in the position of defending what has become indefensible.
See USAID.
Another one is the 2025 Suzuki Jimny Nomade – which is a real SUV with 4WD (not AWD) and a manual transmission that you could buy for $17,000 – if you didn’t live here. Because the apparat says it’s not “safe” – which only means it is not compliant with the latest laundry list of apparat (DOT, NHTSA) “safety” requirements. These have as much to do with whether a vehicle is safe to drive as whether it’s safe to swim if you know how to. The Jimny and the HiLux Champ and dozens of other such vehicles being manufactured right now that cannot legally be sold here, right now are like that.
In that if you know how to drive, they are not dangerous to drive.
This “safety” business plays on a certain segment of the population’s neurotic aversion to the slightest risk by equating the latter with dangerousness. It’s something that used to only afflict a few obvious defectives such as Ralph Nader and acolytes of his such as Joan Claybrook and Elizabeth Dole. Over the course of the past 50 years, these outliers managed to impose their neurosis on a whole country – via the apparat.
We went from having Volvos – to every car having to be a Volvo.
Put another way, after 50 years of Safetyism, Americans are no longer free to decide for themselves whether “safety” matters more than everything else. The apparat decreed “safety” – as defined by the apparatchiks – comes first! 
This has cost us dearly – literally as well as figuratively. Instead of $13k pickups like the HilLux, we’re allowed to buy $30k pickups that are “safe,” according to the apparat – because they have six or more air bags and have automated braking “technology” and speed limit “assistance,” among other things.
“Safety” is the obsession of mentally unwell people, many of whom are apparatchiks. The same type who insisted on “locking down” the entire population out of their overwrought dread of a bad cold. It is embodied in the mantra, if it saves even one life – no matter the cost, which is the part that’s never said out loud. It would save millions of lives if no one left the safety of their bed for the next 20 years. More aptly, the safety of a baby’s crib.
But is that how we want live?
And what about the cost? Let’s have a closer look at that.
The closet thing you can legally get to the Suzuki Jimny you’re not allowed to buy in this country is an apparat-approved 2025 Jeep Wrangler. It costs $32,095 to start or not far from twice as much as a new Jimny costs.
It’s the same as regards trucks.
There is nothing apparat-approved that’s comparable to the HiLux Champ because the apparat has made it impossible to legally sell basic, compact-sized trucks without six air bags (but with small diesel engines paired with manual transmissions) in the land of the formerly free. The least expensive apparat-approved trucks are models like the 2025 Ford Ranger ($32,980 to start) and Chevy Colorado ($31,900) Nissan Frontier ($32,050) and Toyota’s own apparat-approved Tacoma ($31,590) which now comes standard with a turbo four and an automatic and is no longer available with a V6.
Because the apparat says it used “too much” gas. And “emitted” too much of the gas that has nothing to do with pollution. Because the apparat screeches that the “climate” is “changing.”
One could buy a HilLux and a Jimny for less than it costs to buy any one of the apparat-approved vehicles pickups mentioned above. And they are just two of many inexpensive alternatives to apparat-approved vehicles that Americans could buy this year, if their manufacturers decided to flip the apparat the bird and just began taking orders.
This would have been almost suicidally brave just a few months ago, given the Biden Thing – and the prospect of the Harris-Walz things. But everything is different all of a sudden. The manufacturers have a golden opportunity to seize the day. They have in Donald Trump an ally who would probably side with them against the apparat. He has already made his contempt for apparatchiks plain and – far more important – he has acted against the apparatchiks.
Trump knows the American people – the rank and file real people of this country, not the people who live inside the DC Beltway or in the gated communities just outside San Francisco – are sick to death of the apparats and the apparatchiks. They know it’s not about “safety” – or “clean air” – anymore than “masking” was ever about “stopping the spread.”
They’ve had it – with all of it – and they voted for the man who is doing something about it.
Now is the time to strike. Hard. Without apology. And to dare the bastards to do anything about it.
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Why is the USGov in a panic to get efficient, go to Fort Knox, see the gold?
Russia has sold all it’s US Treasury holdings, chart:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1226054/value-of-united-states-treasury-securities-held-by-russia/
China has sold half of US Treasuries:
https://www.ceicdata.com/en/china/holdings-of-us-treasury-securities/holdings-of-us-treasury-securities
Confidence is being lost, IMO interest rates are ready to explode to the moon. You do not need inflation to push interest rates up, they can go up as confidence goes down. Trillions and trillions of debt instruments are coming due this year.
Market insider: “A whopping $7.6 trillion in interest-bearing US public debt will mature within a year, Apollo’s chief economist said in September. That represents 31% of all outstanding US government debt,”
Add to that the annual deficit. Every penny of debt has to be sold to someone. Can a nation 35 trillion in debt afford more debt when China is selling our debt?
What Elon and Trump are doing is similar to a bankruptcy, any corporation does the same, when the corporation is going bankrupt they are forced to slash spending to stay alive. I believe the USA is in a financial panic right now, and they are not openly talking about it. IMO Trump was installed to salvage the system, to save the system. The situation is way worse than they are letting on. All of a sudden, the USA is bankrupt. Panic in D.C. House cleaning. Time to start over, slash and burn, and that is exactly what is happening.
None of this is surprising to me. When the USA ran it’s first deficit, that is a form of bankruptcy. As the debt piles up, we got more bankrupt. Then the day comes when the spendthrifts have to deal with reality, the world sees us as bankrupt, that day is now, with the rise of BRICS, the world is switching to a new trading system. There is a saying on Wall Street, we went bankrupt slowly, then all at once.
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“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
“This brief yet poignant exchange from Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises, captures a fundamental truth about the nature of change and transformation in our lives and in the world around us. The idea that major shifts happen “slowly at first, and then all at once” has resonated across literature, economics, relationships, and nearly every facet of the human experience.
At its core, Hemingway’s observation speaks to the nonlinear way in which complex systems often evolve over time. Whether we’re talking about personal growth, technological progress, societal upheaval, or the decline of civilizations, the most consequential changes tend to follow a similar pattern – a long, gradual buildup followed by a sudden and dramatic tipping point.”
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You can always sell debt, just raise the rate, someone will buy it. The problem is the USA mortgage market is set off the 10 year rate plus 250 basis points (2.5%). I believe a shitstorm of Biblical proportions is about to hit bankrupt USA. Trump was the charismatic figure brought in to manage this situation. People believe in DJT and he will hold the nation together while we ride out this storm.
I would buy a Toyota Hilux Champ in a heartbeat, maybe even a Toyota land Cruiser 79 series pickup.
Hal Turner writes and excellent summary on the USA instigated Ukraine war, his figures are low:
“Over one million dead soldiers all together, over 600,000 Ukrainians at least out of that million.
Likely three or four times that maimed disfigured and crippled.
25 or more million Ukrainians have left their country. Over half the population!
The country of Ukraine is destroyed and will probably never recover.”
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/11-years-ago-today-the-us-eu-lead-a-coup-d-etat-in-ukraine-theyve-been-fighting-ever-since
I think you all ought to read Hal Turner’s factual Ukraine war summary and compare the facts to the utter bullshit spewing like cow shit on the MSM.
Like for instance, yesterday I turned on the Jewtube to PBS Washington Week in Review now called Washington Week with The Atlantic, the moderator is a sleazy Jew of course, who has assembled a bunch of sleazy D.C. “journalists” to whine about Trump.
On yesterdays show the gaslighting on the Ukraine was epic, they were “shocked” by Trump’s statements on the parting of the ways with that little rat bastard gay Jew demon Zelensky, Trump mocked him last week (made accurate statements about the little dictator who has massacred Ukraine). Trump is cutting off funds and making a peace deal with Russia, Zelensky NOT INVITED, LOLROFL!
Jeffrey Goldberg (Jew weasel mod) asks Jewess Susan Glasser (pathological liar at New Yorker) – the Jew CUNT says “And that, I think, was a breathtaking moment that we will remember was what happened this Tuesday afternoon when Trump in a press conference in Mar-a-Lago explicitly said to Ukraine, it’s your fault that Russia invaded you. How it’s inexplicable”
Like Ryan Dawson (Anti-Neocon Report) says, they always start their story in the middle. Susan Glasser finds it “inexplicable” that it was Ukraine’s fault for the Russian invasion. That is epic gaslighting, when everyone who has been paying attention that the USA funded the Maidan Revolution, armed Ukraine, had Ukraine attack the Donbass for 8 long years killing thousands, then EU leader Angela Merkel admitted the entire Minsk conference was a ruse to rearm Ukraine. My god man, the EU and Amerika are run by total psychopathic demons from hell!
FUCK SUSAN GLASSER AND THE NEW YORKER AND FUCK JEW RAT JEFFREY GOLDBERG PUTTING OUT UTTER GARBAGE – THOSE JEW PIGS MUST THINK WE ARE STUPID, WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED, THE JEWS STARTED YET ANOTHER CATASTROPHIC WAR WHICH COLLAPSE UKRAINE AND WE HAD TO PAY FOR IT. THEN THE JEW CUNTESS GASLIGHTS US, WE HAVE NO IDEA WHY RUSSIA WOULD INVADE (like the 30 bioweapon labs in Ukraine we funded – whose intention was to completely wipe out the ethnic Russian peoples so the Jews could balkanize Russia and steal all their resources!)
ALL THESE LYING JEWS SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THE US MEDIA! THEY ARE COMPLICIT IN THESE MASS MURDER SCHEMES. WE CAN’T AFFORD JEWISH WARS ANYMORE!
IS IT JUST ME, BUT STARTING A WAR AGAINST RUSSIA IS COMPLETELY INSANE, RUSSIA HAS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF NUCLEAR MISSILES AIMED AT US
BTW, did you know that all the Ukrainian refugees who came to fucked up Amerika, were given Social Security checks? Yeah, probably via USAID. They tell us SS is near bankruptcy YET the fund foreign nationals fleeing a war zone (that we caused).
Did you know the Ukraine State has failed, that the US taxpayer funds the entire Ukraine government and pays for all the salaries and government retirement checks? What a total boondoggle. Ukraine is now blowed up real good and a failed state – caused by Jewess Victoria Nuland (who is married to Neocon architect Robert Kagan).
The Kagans have caused untold harm to the Middle East and Ukraine yet REMAIN UNPROSECUTED FOR WAR CRIMES. Godspeed to DJT cleaning up Obongo’s mess. I just hope and pray he stops Bibi’s slaughter also.
Ukraine was supposed to become israel 2.0 for those JEW$ who eschew the middle eastern flavor of occupied Palestine. If established as a JEWI$H state, it would have brought JEWI$H criminal enterprises closer to their “customers”.
Zelenskyy is a JEW who is a millionaire due to his typical JEWI$H practice of exacting shekels from ZOG.
It looks like the JEW$ may not get their own way in Ukraine, after all…a good thing.
JEW$ have shown their true bolshevik roots by closing Ukrainian Christian churches, the same thing they did in Russia after 1917.
Let’s not forget the censorship in the west that is also a JEWI$H bolshevik tactic.
I 100% agree and thanks for the support. I am hoping that Zelensky and his wife Olena get the Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu treatment – execution by their own army. Now that would be a nice wave repeat. Just imagine, a dozen soldiers firing into that gay pervert demon Zelensky who massacred Ukraine while that filthy bastard bought up chalets and mansions on US dime. It is now time to kill that little rat bastard, terminate the gay demon with prejudice. Zelensky was one of the worst mass murderers in history.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/ukraines-olena-zelensky-spent-over-1-million-for-cartier-jewelrywhile-her-husband-was-grifting-for-aid-at-the-un/
The primary architect of the Maidan Revolution is Jewess Victoria Nuland, wife of Robert Kagan, Neocon henchman. That husband and wife team have wrecked he world. Both Nuland and Kagan should be tried for war crimes. The following actors are guilty Ukraine slaughter:
Barak Obama
Hillary Clinton
Victoria Nuland
US Congress bastards who supported gay demon spawn Zelensky
(the turdswallow is gay, how is it he has a female wife?)
All the Neocons
the entire state department under Obongo
All the CIA boots on the ground and back at Langley who participated
All the USAID personel who funded it
In fact we should ask Russia to nuke D.C. and kill them all, to make sure we get them all. What the US government did is bring utter misery and death unto millions of people for no reason other than Jews wanted it. Jewish infested Amerika is a bad place where bad people do bad things.
The jew will always tell you what happened to them…
But they will never explain why it happened to them….
-Ancient Russian proverb-
Egg shortage. Egg prices record high. They are killing the chickens and causing a shortage, the excuse is a virus. I have not seen one shred of proof of a virus, just words saying there is a bird flu. Well the last flu was contrived also, Covid a proven hoax. How do we know that there is a bird flu? We do not, we just have to take their word for it. This is just like the CO2 hoax, the claim is invisible CO2 is doing something bad, so we must limit CO2. There is no evidence to show that their claims are true – that reminds of religion which plays the same game – the invisible man in the sky is out to get you.
They use the PCR. That should explain everything but Americans aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer any longer.
To call Amerikans dull is an overestimation of their intelligence, my own relatives were first in line for the Covid death jab. Pleassse, pleasssse bbbaaahhh the sheep, make us safeeeeee. After all the lies and skullduggery, wars, death, destruction they still don’t get it. They still trust the government. I grew up in Ohio and moved to Oregon to get away from them, they are all completely batshit crazy and not paying attention and have not one clue something is amiss. I do not think dull is a good enough description, they are way past dull, dumb, dumber, dumberer, retarded – they are short bus riders off the cliff to oblivion.
Ohio to Oregon really isn’t an improvement. Though Oregon scenery is pretty nice.
> Egg prices record high. They are killing the chickens and causing a shortage, the excuse is a virus.
The weird thing is that while egg prices have gone through the roof, chicken costs about the same as it has for a while. At Costco, I used to pay about $8 for two dozen organic eggs. They’re now charging $9 for two dozen cage-free (but not organic) eggs. Chicken, though, is still 99¢/lb for legs, $1.79 for thighs, and $3.99 for boneless breasts. I know that egg-layers and meat birds come from different flocks, but one would think that a virus that was supposedly ravaging our nation’s chickens would’ve had similar effects on the price of both chicken and eggs. It smells as rotten as an egg left out in the sun.
There is the Constitutional oath when presidents take the office.
The US IS the Constitution, if it is to be continually ignored,
the original country doesn’t exist. Anarchy/democracy?
Address the root of present despotism – not the symptoms.
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office
of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability,
preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Everyone who needed to be bought to make the industry what it is today, has already been bought. The states did a Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V at the state level on the federal dictats which are now up for review by EO commission.
Sadly, the transportation secretary’s first day immersed him into the aviation realm first.
Eric, is there any way you can get on the Alex Jones Show and preach the message of freedom and prosperity that could result? Pick your moments…
Hi Steve,
I’d be happy to do Alex’s show again; I’ll drop his producer a line and see whether they’d like to have me on. Also, mail went out yesterday (finally).
[…] Guest Post by Eric Peters […]
Re: Executive Orders
EOs, legitimately, apply to federal employees and federal
business, only. Federal EOs do not apply to the states or
the individuals therein. Current usage is unconstitutional,
inappropriate, illegal, etc.
Same for federal agencies, all 441of them – their
dictates do not legitimately apply to the states.
https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies
Tenth Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States
by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved
to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Oh man, your comment reads Like The Constitution actually means, anything.
Long time now, that bit about gold & silver being m-o-n-e-y.
Poof! …There goes da Constitution, flicked right out the window, like a spent cigarette butt.
Remember what Henry Kissinger said about the Constitution restrictions? A State Department document from 1975 carries a quote from then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger saying: The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.
It’s called the District of Criminals for a good reason.
Tommy Jefferson:
“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of
confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief
by the chains of the Constitution”
Correct. Unfortunately generations of corrupt and decadent americants failed to do the chaining, so here we are, smack dab in the middle of interesting times.
Insanity: “Doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results.”
Albert Einstein –
Actually if the auto makers had any backbone at all these would already be available for sale. This includes Toyota who recently sacked Toyoda-San for speaking the truth about the EV devices.
The Supreme Court was quite clear in the Loper-Bright decision, the regulatory agencies cannot make law. Only congress can make law. But you are right Eric this is the golden opportunity here, not only to restore some small measure of freedom but firmly demonstrate to Americans just what they have been missing out on. Put a few million Hilux Champs, Jimney’s and God forbid Jetta TDI’s and I think the people would never tolerate a return to the current way.
Orange Man already executed 3 EO’s regarding the reduction of regulations as well as affirming the executive control over the process.
Opportunities don’t get much more golden than this.
But the automakers have never shown themselves to have much in the way of spine. Maybe Stellantis is desperate enough to give it a shot.
One thing that bothers me is that vehicles like the Toyota Hilux are vehicles that, unlike devices masquerading as vehicles, are actually vehicles
that are better for the environment, that is, if you’re a conservationist and not an environmentalist, because:
-The Hilux takes fewer resources, like steel, aluminum, glass, cloth, plastic, rubber, copper wiring, and oil, to build than do devices and most vehicles.
-The Hilux does not use enormous amounts of toxic materials like cobalt and lithium, which must be extracted and refined using processes harmful to the environment.
-The Hilux uses less fuel, whether gasoline or diesel, than most vehicles, and contrary to popular belief, does not burn coal indirectly via electricity.
-The Hilux does not require increased demands on our power grid.
-The Hilux is inexpensive, which makes mass adoption feasible for most people.
-The Hilux is light, which means it not only uses less fuel, it does not wear out tires and brakes at a high rate with the attendant pollution, nor does it wear out roads and bridges at a high rate, unlike heavy devices.
-The Hilux is durable. It is easily maintained and fixed, and its lifespan routinely exceeds 10 years and 100,000 miles—and can conceivably last double that, unlike devices, which cease to be serviceable after as little as seven years.
-The Hilux can easily be recycled almost completely when it is worn out or is wrecked. There are little or no hazards in disposing of it properly, and what hazards do exist can be easily managed.
Excellent points and I agree completely. Plus CO2 warming is a hoax:
https://rumble.com/search/all?q=global%20warming%20hoax
Truth, Jack: What’s getting under my skin is the unabashed hypocrisy of the greens on environmental issues. Keeping the Hilux off the market is one of 67,890 examples of this hypocrisy.
PS: As a conservationist, I don’t approve of wastefulness. The Hilux is not wasteful. Devices are tremendously wasteful.
You know the real scam behind Global Warming Hoax? Real environmental concerns are put to the back burner while we fight the windmill like Don Quixote. Fighting CO2 is a complete waste of time, money, and resources. First of all China isn’t playing along, so any CO2 savings here are negated.
CO2 is a life gas near geological lows. as this chart shows:
https://jeremyshiers.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/globalTempAndCo2_last600MillionYears.png
Note2 things on that chart.
1. CO2 not correlated temp
2. CO2 near all time lows
Fighting CO2 to stop temperature rise is a complete waste since CO2 does NOT force temp. Even if you killed every human and erased all civilization, the ice age would continue, because CO2 is having no effect on ice age progression.
So while we fight CO2, real concerns like water quality, forests, wildlife impact are neglected, just as the owners want. AGW is a scam to divert attention to a non problem.
Eric,
Thanks for outing the evil 3: Bought & Paid for Nader, Homely car hating Joan and totally clueless Lizzy. Pathetic little Peetee Buttspreader is their bastard offspring.
So, now what? Does OrangeMan have a ’69 Hemi Daytona 4-speed in the garage at Mar-a-Lago that he’s just been frothing at the mouth to let loose? What type of cars do his “henchmen” and “henchwomen drive”? Sure would be great IF they were all closet Hot Rodders, then your plea above might actually be reality instead of wishful dreaming. Don’t get me wrong because I’m in 100% agreement with what you are proposing.
The only way it will happen is if ALL the weffoids, woketards, Claybrooks, Naders, and other assorted car hating, 15 minute city satanworshippers are all gathered together on some southseas island to celebrate how great they are and God sends a flaming meteor down on them and we, the real people, are free of these parasites forever.
However, as long as the plan is 15 minute cities and NO cars, we have to fight a uphill battle.
Does not the Orange Man simply have to allow import of the Hilux Champ and the Jimny Nomade?
Should he not simply have his man, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, make a list of onerous fiat regulations so he can wave them away with a stroke of his magic pen?
Now, Orange Man has a raging hard-on for tariffs, but perhaps he can shine them on for our allies in Japan. He’s been amicable with them and tariffs have been avoided so far.
It doesn’t seem like this should be too difficult, but Orange Man needs some Petersian guidance.
Since when did we vote for the government to keep us safe? I have never agreed with any person or any agency to keep me safe, that is my job, not someone elses. Oregon gave thousands of drivers licenses to illegal aliens, who could not read or write English, who took no driver’s test. WTF over?
The government claim of keeping us safe is false, because with the Covid jab they were party to mass murder. If you got the death jab, you are no longer safe, you are tainted with some bioweapon that is ticking away inside. All governments, except one in Africa, went along with this contrived mass murder by Gates, Fauci,and big pharma. Governments still along Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, and the CEO of Pfizer Albert Bourla to run free. So how is it that they are protecting us, keeping us safe?
We live in a bubble, safety in modern world is a joke, like the pilot who landed in Canada last week, the DEI female pilot who didn’t flare and drove the right landing gear through the wing, flipping the aircraft upside down. No one is safe with government policies which have wrecked our civilization. No one is safe with Biden or the Kamal, nor with Donald Trump who told Bibi to finish the job. Monsters run the world, they love war, war all the time – wars make you very unsafe – from the cost to blowback to terrorist payback.
Our government has funded the genocide in Gaza. We, the US taxpayer, have funded the whole god damned criminal operation. All of Israel’s weapons are made in the USA, and we give them to Israel for free. Israel uses our money and weapons to do unspeakable harm to other people. So how is the USGOV keeping us safe when they fund state terrorism?
Likewise in the Ukraine, a nation formerly part of Russia, became the USA proxy. Victoria Nuland and Hillary Clinton, under the Obongo-Biden regime, overthrew the democratically elected government and installed yet another CIA puppet, Zelensky, who started the war against Russia, for 8 years Zelensky shelled the Donbass killing thousands of ethnic Russians, then when Putin put his foot down, they blamed it all on Putin aggression. WTF over? Like Anti-Neocon Ryan Dawson says, they love to start the story in the middle.
MSN – Republican Sen. John Kennedy said he disagrees with President Donald Trump’s view that Ukraine started the war with Russia. “Vladimir Putin is a gangster … He makes Jeffrey Dahmer look like Mother Theresa.”
The idea of government keeping us safe is a bad joke, first it is not their job to do that, and second they don’t, because governments are run by insane lunatics. This week Congressman John Kennedy compared Vladimir Putin, the only sane world actor, compared him to Jeffrey Dahlmer. The establishment is insane over Ukraine, their pet Maidan Revolution project, installing of dictator Zelensky has not panned out, Russia did not collapse, their plans to steal Russian resources failed. The USA CIA had over 30 bioweapon labs in Ukraine – aimed at killing ethnic Slavs.
How is it that governments keep us safe when they fund bioweapon labs to kill us off? The claim that governments keep us safe is ludicrous, governments keep us very unsafe. Trump should dispose of DOT regulations keeping us poor, keeping us from buying affordable NEW vehicles. It is not the government’s job to keep us safe, they have proven to us they are not interested in our safety at all.
Yukon,
“Oregon gave thousands of drivers licenses to illegal aliens, who could not read or write English, who took no driver’s test. WTF over?”
That was so they could VOTE, it had nothing to do with driving…. and especially in Oregon, since oregonians are probably the effing WORST “drivers” on the planet; nobody would notice. The Clover typecast/stereotype is a Oregon driver…. worse than a Cadillac driver with AAA decals on the back bumper.
In the 1960s the US federal government copy and pasted SAE standards to make FMVSS and thus granted us ‘safe’ cars.
Never mind that automakers already complied with SAE’s standards and automobiles were still like most products we purchase, governed by a set of private standards that represented the state of the art and knowledge. Now the politicians could say they made cars “safe”.
Now instead of standards representing the state of the art for the industry and not being able to overstep by being voluntary, they were imposed by government. Like all things imposed by government politics and using regulations for market advantage became the thing to do.
Trump is a scam. TSA still terrorizing air travel. No change. Arrested invaders released. No change. Genocide rolls on. No change. Filth retard Musk installed in gubmint. No change?
All of these “agencies” that afflict us are executive agencies, in particular the EPA was started by Nixon when he was the chief executive. Trump being the current chief executive should be able to put an end to it with the stroke of a pen. Probably not that simple but he should do it anyway and let the chips fall where they may.
The EPA is another patch on previous government actions that went against property rights.
Pollution is not a modern thing. It goes way back. So does cronyism. A key court decision or a series of them, I forget, resulted in over-riding property rights in favor of polluters. Those who found their land, water, or the air over their property contaminated, polluted were denied compensation for it. What courts ruled was they had to “prove harm” from the pollutants.
Of course there wasn’t any scientific way to prove the pollution was harmful. Property rights didn’t need it to be harmful, it would have to stop simply because person A can’t dump anything on person B’s property. Anyway this was the condition for a good long time as pollution was spewed, dumped, etc pretty much at will.
Then we got to the late 1960s and early 1970s. Data had been collected, science had new tools too. Harm could be proven. Now the bad policy of the government for its cronies needed a patch. Nixon creates the EPA.
The EPA now dictates who can pollute what, where, and how much. Notice it doesn’t fix the actual problem. It’s a government power grab and the cronies get to pollute but the non-cronies can’t or can’t get the special dispensations to go over the limits the EPA sets.
That’s where we are now except the EPA has grabbed a lot more power over time.
The question is how do we set practical limits fairly without something that becomes a monster like the EPA?
Most people are unaware that California is whipsawing the rest of the country with its “stricter” emission standards.
The Los Angeles Basin is a somewhat unique topological area (valley) in which mountains on one side and the ocean on the other presents an ideal area which is susceptible to holding stale, stagnant air.
The rest of the country should not have to abide by regulations that attempt to solve California’s problem with the Los Angeles Basin.
In fact, American Indians named the area “the valley of smoke” which had the same problem of stale, stagnant and polluted air for much longer than the advent of the automobile.
Strike now, strike hard, strike often. Bibi does the same.
Sometimes, my arm is numb, been lying on it ’til it falls asleep. Same for my leg, if it goes numb, you can hardly walk on it, you’ll fall down and go boom.
Even your brain falls asleep, if you are at the wheel, wake strips will keep you alive, maybe.
Wake strips do wake up the slumber in you.
Car companies, or whatever they are anymore, need to wake up, straighten up and fly right.
All they do is stand around waiting for orders from headquarters.
Shake. Those. Chains.
What tyranny you will tolerate is exactly how much you will get.
Hi John,
Speaking of tyranny, it appears that sociopaths in government wish to reenact COVID era tyranny via fear mongering over bird flu and/ or measles. You may have seen all these stories from corporate media about measles outbreaks and trying to blame it on the “unvaccinated” or the “unboosted”.
However, IIRC, in 2019, they tried running a similar play book over measles and some governments even pushed mandates for people to take measles vaccines.
[We’re going to build and offer for sale the kinds of cars and trucks our buyers want.]
I don’t want to pop anyone’s bubble but the Hi Lux is a perfect example. The manufactures are free to build what they want. They just can’t sell them here. If they tried, Gov fearing patriots wouldn’t be able to register them. Arrests and jailings would ensue. Volkswagon being the example there.
We live in the land of the fee (ooops,,, free) alright. So long as one obeys their ((overseers)).
Watched themovie last night,,, The American President. A nice little romance story. But when the President decides to fight the senator running for president at the last,,, one can see the ((politics)) of the movie. This is a fine example of how Hollywood does their part gas lighting insouciant Americans.
Had I been Michael Douglas I would have passed on the role. Funny part is when the president gives daughter Lucy a very large book explaining the constitution while he is doing everything possible to eviscerate the poor thing. Claims he can’t fight crime without taking the guns and wants to impoverish Americans even more by cutting 20% of CO2 to prevent the global warming bullshit.
“The American President” was Aaron Sorkin’s next script after “A Few Good Men” with Rob Reiner directing.
Michael Douglas couldn’t pass that up.
Is that the one in which he’s “going to go door-to-door and get the guns”?
No, he would get shot.
Given the type of people running automobile companies today, are there even any higher level people in them who have the guts to tell these authoritarian bureaucrats in government to pound sand with their draconian regulations? I don’t know.
Yeah like the Germans, my God what happened to Germany??!!
VW rolled over like a whipped puppy and threw themselves at the mercy of the court. The court of course took that as a weakness and like a pack of hungry hyenas they went for the throat. Now VW is a serious danger of actually going away!
Pathetic. Apparently all the German blood lines with measurable testosterone levels were all killed off in the last war.
Germany has been saddled with its own “Stockholm Syndrome” ever since the summation of the Second World War.
There are some brave Germans who have gone against the “official narrative” of WW2 with Germany seen as being on “the wrong side of history” and as such are (still) considered to be “the bad guys”, but they are either too few or afraid of being “outed” as “holocaust™ deniers”, subject to severe punishment, and yes, Nazis (which is unfairly still a pejorative term in Germany and in much of the rest of the civilized world).
This is especially bolstered by the (in)famous “jewish holocaust™” which was created by the Allies in order to keep Germany permanently demonized.
Hollywood movie producers were dispatched to the “camps” to “prove” that Germany was guilty of genocide (which was not the case as the victims who were filmed perished from typhus due to infrastructure collapse), not in “death camps”. These Hollywood producers should have been taken to Dresden and other real genocide areas.
In fact, it was Russian jews who “rebuilt” Auschwitz after the war in its own propagandistic way, creating and amplifying engineering errors that the Germans would have never done.
From non-sealed “gas chambers” with wooden doors that “swing the wrong way” to no means for inserting and ventilating the poison gases, using a delousing agent as an ineffective “poison gas”, anyone with an engineering background can easily poke holes in all of the claims made by holocaust™ promoters.
Let’s not forget that jewish “holocaustianity™” has been deemed to be a state religion in many countries from which no deviation of belief is permitted.
Prosecution, fines and imprisonment await those who seek the truth about this false, contrived event in history.
Even Canada has criminalized any criticism of this “event”.
Recently, Florida Governor DeSantis traveled to israel where he signed legislation to outlaw and prosecute (certain) “hate speech”. He signed this legislation while in israel and made it known that it was to outlaw criticism of the “holocaust™”. Now, who does DeSantis work for?
It is only a matter of time before “holocaustianity™” becomes the “official state religion” here in the USA.
If the “holocaust™” is based on “truth” why not encourage a full impartial investigation into this “event”? What are “holocaust™” promoters afraid of?
Jews have always been excellent propaganda agents, tugging at heartstrings by always showing jews as being “downtrodden” victims and always being marginalized and victimized. This is a “feature” and not a “bug” as it has been successful in keeping the holocaust™ fable alive to the present day.
Jewish “holocaust™ museums” (actually jewish freak shows) display piles of shoes, glasses, clothing, and other piles of “who knows what” in order to claim that 6,000,000 jews were “gassed out of existence”.
These jewish freaks shows get massive amounts of taxpayer-funded dollars despite being totally out of place in American society. Schoolchildren are brainwashed and propagandized in these freak shows, which is actually child abuse to allow children into these jewish freak shows.
Florida Governor DeSantis mandated that ALL Florida school children will visit these “holocaust™ museums” (jewish freak shows) under penalty of law. Gotta keep the fraud alive.
It could be safely argued that even Americans have been unwitting victims of “Stockholm Syndrome” especially when it comes to “all things holocaust™”.
It is long overdue to conduct a full, impartial, honest of all holocaust™ claims and to “let the chips fall where they may” and finally expose it as the fraud that it is.
This is the only way out of the Stockholm Syndrome for Germany, the USA and the rest of the world.
The only way for the Germans to “wake up” is to throw off the jewish / American boot heels, get out of NATO and restore their long-deserved honor by getting rid of the foreign influences that still rules German society. German pride was outlawed with the summation of WW2 on terms imposed by the “allies”. It’s been long overdue to “let Germany be Germany”, unfettered by outside forces.
There are those who miss the mark by comparing Germany to Japan.
Japan never got the “treatment” that was imposed on the German people.
It would appear that Theodore N. Kaufman’s vile tome “Germany Must Perish” was at least partially used on the German people in order to “neuter” the German citizenry and their country.
Hell, Japan even got to keep its “emperor”.
It is said that technology advances greatly during wartime, gruesome experiments taking place that would not be allowed or considered during peacetime. Japan’s unit 731 conducted much more horrific experiments than any other country, Germany included but was never brought to task. Even Americans conducted gruesome experiments during the war.
In fact, medical types from around the world have obtained and reviewed the “results” of such experimentation.
You see, in Japanese culture, those captured as the “enemy” were considered to be “less than human”, not unlike jewish supremacy which still reigns supreme in their jewish talmud.
Germany was saddled with jewish holocaust lies about masturbation machines, electric floors, phony gas chambers, delousing agents used as “gas”, shrunken heads, fingers for light switches and jewish “soap”. These fabrications are still taken as “truth” despite such claims being laughable, totally ridiculous and impossible.
Even the supposed “numbers” (6,000,000) don’t add up. The engineering claimed by holocaust promoters itself was impossible. Every holocaust claim can easily be debunked and shown to be a fabrication.
That being said, Germany’s subservience is imposed by external forces. It is long overdue for Germany to be restored to its rightful place in the world of nations. Of course, the jews will never go along with it.
There is one solution: A certain sh!tty little country in the middle east and its upcoming eastern European version 2.0 must be returned to their rightful inhabitants. I don’t care where the jews go…
Best regards,
All of us good Germans either came to the American midwest in the 1880’s-90’s or were killed off during the Wars.
“What if a major car company – all it would take is one – announced: We’re going to build and offer for sale the kinds of cars and trucks our buyers want.”
Significant numbers of Americans want that, just like they had up to about 1965. Significant numbers of Americans want unfettered access to drugs, both recreational and medicinal, just like they had up until about 1913. Significant numbers of Americans want anonymous mail order access to Tommy guns just like they had up until 1934. And significant numbers of Americans want NO property or income taxes.
However, against those significant numbers, probably a plurality and perhaps a majority, there is a significant number of democrats/communists who believe that everything gov does is legitimate if there is a vote.
We’re not getting out of this mess that easily. And as much as I like the relief Trump is giving to the insane excesses, he is still a law n order guy. Which is the antithesis of America, where individual freedom was supposed to be protected from democracy.
Precisely, Ernie.
“Law and order!”. “Nation of LAWS!”
And the most important laws which restrain government power are ignored.
My dad belabors the “law and order” argument with “we need our cops!”.
Well, don’t worry, because they sure as fuck didn’t go anywhere.
Running parallel & against E.P.A.’s “wet dream” are these bits:
A link from within Paul Craig Robert’s article, ‘Jobs Offshoring and Work Visas Are Means of Enriching Corporate Executives With “Performance Bonuses”’
PCR – “In the US nothing has been done about this problem. Indeed, Musk and Trump see as a virtue what is undermining the US economy.”
https://peakparasites.is/donald-where-my-reparations/
“… I then saw clearly that I was not a “citizen” with rights, but a host being consumed by parasites. The worst part for me was the waiting and the “false hopes” that “Oh, someone will at least interview me”, but they never did. And then my teenage sons trying to enter the work force encountered the same quota/preferential barriers in both education and employment.
So Donald, how can my children and grandchildren hold out any hope for a future? […]
… the dangers of believing or holding out any hope for the future based upon the propaganda spouted by any regime in the
former united states
whether now or in the future.
(yes, even the Trump regime).” …
Lucy & the Football, E.P.A.?
oooooooooo,,, Blasphemy!
Another:
“… The opposite of such skepticism has been happening, and many in the alternative press, who [including me] have correctly accused Biden and the Democrats of war crimes, lies, censorship, Russiagate propaganda, etc., are now awash with grandiose praise for Trump, many calling him a revolutionary in a good sense. This is absurd.”…
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/02/edward-curtin/hold-the-applause-for-trump-the-peacemaker/
“Toyota, for instance, could start selling its little HilLux Champ – which it’s already building, so it’s not some pie-in-the-sky thing. This truck – which sells for $13,000 in other countries – could just as easily be sold here.”
I’m not sure about your definition of winning but I simply don’t see it. NHTSA and EPA still exist and have not been defanged in the least.
If Toyota were to simply start brining in HilLux’s orange man would go full chimp.
NHTSA and EPA can easily come up with non-compliance fines that easily exceed the cost of the vehicle. I’m not talking about exceeding the profit per vehicle, fines could exceed the cost of the vehicle:
January 14, 2021: NHTSA interim final rule adjusts the CAFE civil penalty rate to $14 beginning in model year 2022. That’s $14 for every 0.1mpg that the vehicle exceeds CAFE.
The maximum penalty is $37,500 per vehicle or engine, and the maximum for a series of violations is based on the production volume for the model year.
Penalties for vehicle safety violations:
Vehicle certification and recall
The maximum penalty is $27,874 per violation, and $139,356,994 for a series of violations.
Making inoperative safety devices
The maximum penalty is $5,000 per violation, and $15,000,000 for a series of violations.
These are just the tip of the iceberg fines that could be easily be applied to the OEM.
Have we already forgotten what was done to VW?
It’s naive to think we’ve won or that any OEM with any common sense is just going to bring a non-compliant vehicle into the US market and dare Uncle to do something about it. Orange man would gladly crush Toyota just to make an example of how tough he can be on foreign competition.
They could use Loper-Bright as a precedent. EPA rules not explicitly passed by Congress have no weight of law.
‘Over the course of the past 50 years, these outliers managed to impose their neurosis on a whole country – via the apparat.’ — eric
Their swan song came with the mRNA covid ‘vaccines,’ when the slogan ‘if it saves even one life’ was maliciously inverted to ‘if it takes a million lives.’ Weeping Walensky of the CDC unilaterally redefined the word ‘vaccine’ to extend legal immunity to patently dangerous medications.
Today at Lew Rockwell’s site, A Midwestern Doctor cites a preprint study by twenty-eight (28) authors, most of them at Yale University School of Medicine. It’s titled Immunological and Antigenic Signatures Associated with Chronic Illnesses after COVID-19 Vaccination. The veil of deception has been ripped away; Humpty Dumpty has fallen off the wall.
Strike while the iron is hot, indeed: revert to the old, accepted definition of a vaccine as ‘conferring immunity.’ Then Trump’s new CDC director can announce that the Pfizer/Moderna/J&J mRNA gene therapies ‘are not vaccines within the meaning of the PREP Act.’
BINGO! Let ten thousand wrongful-death class action suits bloom. Last night, I dreamt that a jury awarded $2 trillion, trebled to $6 trillion with punitive damages. Trump to Pfizer’s workfarce [sic]: You’re fired!!!
The concern I have is that purging the entire federal Leviathan may be too big of a job for Trump. Sure, he’s off to a great start, but he’s overturning a LOT of rice bowls and there will be blowback for that. He’s 78, a lame duck, the midterms are in two years, and the courts are staffed with left-wing nutjobs.
I sure hope he succeeds, but as much as I hate to say it the odds of success in the long term are not terribly high.
The odds of success certainly go down the longer the systemic fraud we call ‘free and fair elections’ continues. So much low hanging cotton fruit, yet no accountability for open and obvious cheating. The issues of the fouled voter roles, nationwide, could be easily addressed in a week, if either side had any balls.
Same with the issue in this article. Toyota or Suzuki could manufacture tons of affordable trucks in Alabama and Georgia. Infrastructure is mostly there. President Trump could take a huge victory lap for bringing manufacturing jobs back to US soil. People would get vehicles they want at an affordable price. For either thing to succeed would require a leader to the right of Genghis Khan. Sadly, I don’t think Trump is our guy.
Not a word about selection reform from F² the holohoax implier either. Nope, just daily stacks of Faux snooze dictatorial EOs to feed the court rackets.
Genocide rolls on as chips roll into brains in technophile wet dreams.
God are people stupid.
Great article Eric. Now is the time indeed.
I’ve started a multi part series on why American new cars are so unaffordable. Here it is:
https://socialmediaiskillingyou.com/
I was laid off (from Panasonic Automotive) last Wednesday. Now I’ve got all the time in the world. Every 62+ year old was also laid off 3 weeks ago. I’m 55. They are ejecting the silver hairs at a rapid pace. Soon, there will be nobody left who remembers what once was.
I’m skeptical the OEMs will take this opportunity, since the MBAs are running the show now. They seem to see every mandate from NHTSA, the EPA, CARB, and DOE as additional marginal profit. Always a good thing. What could go wrong? Plus – they’ve already spent the money on R&D and tooling
I hope you’re correct – but the testicular fortitude is seriously lacking in the industry.
Blake Allington: “I’m skeptical the OEMs will take this opportunity, since the MBAs are running the show now. They seem to see every mandate from NHTSA, the EPA, CARB, and DOE as additional marginal profit.”
Exactly!
It wouldn’t shock me to learn that the OEMs were, and are, the ones actually lobbying for these mandates.
I have no evidence of this, but they sure don’t seem to complain about them like as they did just 20 years ago.
The USA is a prison. Prisons have protection from the elements, food and medical care.
They are not totally safe, but prisoners don’t have many car accidents, shootings, or other incidents more common among the non prison population.
Try to leave the USA, govt will come after you for taxes “owed” to them for not living there.
You are not free to leave prison either.
Safetyism is a prison. You give up your rights and liberties in order to be safer. And you will never be totally safe.
Safety is one mechanism that we are kept in prison. Others being taxation and threats of force/violence.
Safety is just more palatable.
Meanwhile, Newsome asks congress (not FEMA) for $39 billion dollars to rebuild the Hollywood Hills. Where was the request for fire mitigation money four years ago, when O’Biden was building back better with his “Inflation Reduction” act?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/newsom-asks-congress-nearly-40-063508477.html
‘Avatar of the apparat’ — eric
Love it! It’s the next best thing to being the Cacique of Poyais, as ol’ Gregor MacGregor styled himself to float £400,000 of ‘sovereign’ bonds in the City of London — his common element with the aforementioned avatars being pretension, fraud and malfeasance up the wazoo.
There’s room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
— John Lennon, Working Class Hero
“What if a major car company – all it would take is one – announced: We’re going to build and offer for sale the kinds of cars and trucks our buyers want.”
This is the EP Autos community’s wet dream.
What would really be required is one large muti-manufacturer dealer group like Lithia, Group One or even the Geico Gecko’s own smal but growing subsidiary demanding that Toyota and Suzuki import the low cost models for their customers.
That won’t happen. At least not without the dealers and their employees getting to “wet their beaks” in the action and significantly altering the price tags beyond “affordable” like said interests did with the Maverick.
Lithia succesffully blocked a *Tesla* charging station for years in their home base territory around Medford, OR, creating a critical gap in Elon’s charging network on I-5 between San Francisco and Seattle, until Target used its more significant influence to squash the opposition, constructing a Tesla charging station in their Medford store’s parking lot recently to allow sub-40 degree weather travel by EV through Grant’s Pass.
BTW, I’ll bet Lithia’s influence is something even Bill Meyer would be reluctant to touch since they are probably advertisers. Lithia may have even suppied the station’s 4Runner Bill frequently talks about in return for “promotional consideration”.
To make it happen, one state needs to register such vehicles regardless of compliance with fedgov diktats. South Dakota would be a good choice, since one can establish residency there with an overnight stay.
A farther-fetched alternative would be for Indian reservations to assert their sovereign power to import and license vehicles. One of these days, the impoverishing non-market economy imposed by the US fedgov’s smothering ownership of all the land on the rez is going to provoke a Native uprising — why not now?
President Trump, meet President Peltier. Yes, we have some minerals to offer in exchange for
smallpox blanketsJimni et Hiluxi.Im sitting on a rez right now. Unfortunately they’re too fat dumb and crappy to rise up. And why would they?
Same thing happens to all overfed welfare cases. These obese retards have zero Apache blood left in their clogged arterials. Disgusting ghetto trash. Yup, exactly how having to look at them makes a human being feel.
Indeed, buy off the majority, the dumbest 2/3 with bread and circuses (cheap carbohydrates and media and whores and good drugs) and keep the others in line with lots of jails and prisons, and you have it locked down. Almost seems like a well thought out strategy, no?
Eric, Read your articles every morning, and have for years. I agree with you 99 percent of the time and proudly wear my EPAutos.com cap. This article is 100 percent spot on and every person in this country should read it. Want to give you a good example about what you were talking about. I bought a brand new 1972 Nova SS, beautiful car. The next year my grandpa bought a 73 Nova, dirt ugly with the redesign and safety bumpers. Screwed up a beautiful car just like that. Anyway, we appreciate you man.
Amen, Eric, Amen.
Claybrook is the epitome of the childless cat-lady that’s taken over the world. Assuming “she” wasn’t born a “he”.