Trump says he is going to “roll back” federal fuel economy standards, which have greatly increased the cost of cars – because it’s not like you can just wave a federal wand and say presto! 35.5 MPG rather than 32 MPG. It takes things like direct injected engines, CVT transmissions (and transmissions with multiple overdrive gears), “mild hybrid” augmentation and so on to squeeze another couple of MPGs out of a vehicle.
Here is what he (or was it Natalie Harp?) said (or rather, posted) the other day:
BIG DAY FOR AMERICAN AUTO WORKERS AND CAR BUYERS! I have just approved new Fuel Economy Standards that TERMINATE Sleepy Joe Biden and Pete Boot-EDGE-EDGE’s ridiculous EV Mandate. The Dumocrats cost our Great Auto Manufacturers $Billions, forced Americans into cars they never wanted, and wasted Billions on Chargers that were never built.
What he does not say is that these standards – Corporate Average Fuel Economy requirements – will be eliminated altogether. He merely promises to roll back the Biden era requirements.
It is another case of the GOP’s “mending” rather than “ending” a federal interference in our lives, which is what CAFE actually is. The requirements compel the car companies to design ever-more-elaborate and expensive drivetrains to comply with the requirements and we get to pay for this compliance, in the form of what the cars cost. These costs include – you may have noticed this – the wholesale diminishment of engine size. The turbo-augmented four cylinder engine has become the nearly-universal engine in mass-market cars, including even mid-sized pick-up trucks. Only one of the four on the market – the ’27 Nissan Frontier – you can read my recent review here – is still available with a six cylinder engine; the rest all use turbocharged (and hybrid-augmented) fours.
Why?
Because of CAFE compliance pressure. The market – people who buy pick-ups – did not clamor for turbocharged, hybrid-augmented fours. These engines do up the MPGs but they are also part of the reason why new mid-sized pickups now cost as much to start as full-size pick-ups used to cost. It is also why only one of them even still offers a manual transmission – which used to be standard in mid-size pickups such as the Frontier, the Toyota Tacoma, Ford Ranger and Chevy Colorado. Excepting one of the Tacoma trims – an expensive trim – they are all automatic-only now.
Why?
Because manuals – being human controlled – cannot be fine-tuned to shift in such a way as to eke out a slight MPG improvement on government tests, which are the basis for determining CAFE compliance. Automatics can be fine-tuned, via software, to eke out a slight MPG improvement and that’s why the manual transmission has become (curiously) a near-exotic feature, even in trucks. It’s curious because the manual requires a but more attention from the driver than an automatic, which is why – once upon a time – an automatic was an optional luxury feature in most trucks (as well as most economy cars).
The manual cost less, which saved the buyer money. The automatic saves a little gas – but costs the buyer a lot of money. Especially if the automatic transmission ever fails. Manuals need a new clutch every 100,000 miles or so but that’s a relatively inexpensive maintenance item; the transmission itself usually lasts the life of the vehicle. Automatics – which are vulnerable to more problems than manuals – are more failure prone and the cost to replace a modern compliance transmission (e.g., one with electronic controls, multiple overdrives, etc.) can easily be $5,000 or even more.
But you “saved” an extra 2 MPG in the meanwhile.
CAFE is also why large cars are extinct as mass market cars. Only the very affluent can afford the handful still available, because they’re all high-end luxury brand cars such as the BMW 7 Series. CAFE also egged on the SUV boom, because the way the regulations are structured, so-called “light trucks” were subjected to a less onerous “standard.” So the car companies stamped out big SUVs (and big trucks) to meet the market demand for big vehicles that still exists.
CAFE is also a big reason for the existence of electric cars as mass market cars. Since they use no gas at all, each one that is made ups its manufacturers’ overall CAFE “fleet average” MPG number and thereby helps with compliance. Of course, the costs of compliance are just passed along to us – in the form of more expensive cars (and more expensive insurance costs because of those more expensive cars).
CAFE has thus Frankenstein’d the car market. It has created unnatural (government) demand that runs contrary to the demands of the market. Ending CAFE would correct that. It would restore the proper relationship between what the market wants and the car companies make. It would put a stake through the heart of the idea that it’s a legitimate thing for the federal government to be involved at all in decreeing how many miles-per-gallon the cars we choose to buy get. The italics to emphasize that no one is forced to buy a “gas hog.” But people ought to be free to choose one, if that’s what they want. After all, they’re paying for it.
If they want high-mileage cars, on the other hand, the market would assure their availability. CAFE is premised on a fatuity that – were it not for CAFE – there would be nothing but “gas hogs.” This is like saying that if it weren’t for government, there’d be no produce aisle at the supermarket – just bags of chips and sodas!
Anyhow, some people will probably get excited to hear that Trump is “rolling back” the CAFE standards – as they were excited to hear they’d be getting a $5,000 check after the midterms. And that they’d soon be able to buy Tiny Cars, too!
Don’t get excited. It is possible the MPG mandatory minimums will be “rolled back.” It is very unlikely they will be eliminated. Which means they can – and almost certainly will be – rolled forward at some point in the future, when a new jefe of the blue variety replaces the current red (orange) jefe.
The crux of the problem is that the GOP never challenges anything in principle. It is always a subjective, utilitarian “reform of some sort that promises to make whatever the program is – whether Obamacare or CAFE – more “efficient.”
To mend rather than end.
Which of course is why these interferences never end but only – occasionally – get rolled back a little, for a little while.
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I love the way this administration recycles news. He talked about this months ago. Send him out on a skateboard into the fast lanes of LA traffic.
Bond Market update – boring bonds are on the move, you may be wondering how high interest rates are going in the near term …
how much higher in yield are elliott wave technicians expecting the 30 year treasury to go
ChatGPT said:
The clearest current Elliott Wave–based target I can find for the 30-year Treasury is roughly 6.0%–6.5%, versus about 5.34% currently. That implies another 66–116 basis points of upside in yield.
Four Dimension Trading, which publishes explicit Elliott Wave counts on the 30-year yield (TYX), said in its September 10, 2026 analysis that the 30-year yield could reach 6.00%–6.50% sometime in October 2026
another Elliott Wave service currently has a much more aggressive 8.21%–8.25% target for the 10-year,
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This means such a rapid move up is very bad for the RepugliCons – they are going to lose many seats, probably both houses.
Each day the odds are increasing for Dems. The House odds are now at 92%, the Senate 65%
This means BLOTUS “I’ve crapped my pants again” is in big BIG trouble come midterms. Lame orange duck is cooked.
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Israel’s next national election is Tuesday, October 27, 2026.
Israel does not directly elect its prime minister. Voters elect the 120-member Knesset, and afterward a government is formed; the person who can command a parliamentary majority becomes prime minister.
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False Flag inbound? October Surprise? Stock crash from rising rates? And the all important wave repeat question, is Oct. 2026 going to be wave repeat of Oct. 1929? Looks likely!
Folks,
It’s not a very big club….
and none of us are in it.
End CAFE??? It’s too easy and would offer to much hooe to the Goyims, better to bleed them slowly, as Satanyahoo has said he’ll do….
Why is the (((FEDGOV))) involved in milage at all? Why doesn’t the market & customers set the rules and buy what they want???
The Khazarian Mafia has CONald Trump on the marionette strings, and Satanyahoo is giving them the jiggles….and all the rest of the CONgress along with him.
Prepare for it to get worse, and resist anyway possible.
“I’m John Connor, and if you’re reading this, you are the resistance “…
Buckle up Goyims, it’s gonna get spicy…
Oy Vey!!!
YMMV….
Well, the Republicans have controlled the house, senate, and white house for the past two years.
They could have repealed or annulled a great deal of awful legislation, if they were actually serious about any of the crap they say (they obviously are not).
They are happiest when they are in the minority, and can use the completely insane crap the democrats do to extract donations from the gullible right wing voter block and then whine about being unable to actually do anything because those awful democrats are in control.
If course, as we have seen, the republicans will not actually do anything you want them to when they are in control.
So, why vote for them at all?
They have a month to actually do something. Annul the Hart–Celler Act and its ilk, pass something allowing American Kei-cars, deport 250 million illegals (or whatever the number actually is), prosecute the democrats for whatever, and so on.
They won’t do anything, because their job is simply to string you along.
Morning, AC!
“They are happiest when they are in the minority, and can use the completely insane crap the democrats do to extract donations from the gullible right wing voter block and then whine about being unable to actually do anything because those awful democrats are in control.”
Your nailed it:
The Republicans are addicted to losing, plain and simple. Therefore, why bother even having them as a political party? Get rid of all of them, seize everything they own (since our tax dollars paid their salaries to buy such things), throw them out on the street, and let them see and experience the other side of the railroad tracks for a change.
Agreed. This mess is clearly the fault of Republican’ts. One specifically, that worthless waste of oxygen, Thune. Much as I dislike Johnson, he’s been getting legislation sent to the Senate where Thune kills it.
My notion of justice is that you hold responsible those who are to blame, not group punishment. That always infuriated me in elementary school when the teacher took it out on the whole class.
Re: CAFE, would it make you happier if Trump just said he intended to flaunt the law? Be in fact the tyrant you think him to be? When the courts are going to say, “You can’t do that, Mr President,” and he will just back down again?
Why would that make you happy?
Steve,
It’d make me happier if Trump were coherent and principled. He could- if he had the inclination and ability – make the case to the public that the federal government has no constitutional authority to “regulate” fuel efficiency; that people who buy cars ought to be free to decide for themselves which cars suit their needs and wants – and the car companies ought to be free to offer them for sale. This could and probably would generate a groundswell of popular support that could lead to Congress ditching the law (EPCA) that is behind CAFE.
But Trump is an unprincipled, posturing lout and con man. So we get fed vague promises that amount to nothing – and often worse. How can you stand it? Why do you defend it?
Burn Trump and the GOP to the ground. It would solve half the problem.
You give way too much credit to our species. IME, no more than a single digit percent want freedom to choose. To live their lives as they see fit. Everyone else is only concerned about the bee in his own bonnet. Like your discussion in another thread, most are more concerned about what the other guy exercising his freedom will affect you. Which, if you live in or near a population center, is rational. There are way more than enough jerks who will do exactly that.
Hell, almost no one avails himself of the opportunity to vote with his feet, vowing to do what he can to prevent his new digs from becoming the shit-hole he fled.
Methinks “Steve” is an AI bot. His last sentence was stolen verbatim from one of my posts! (Come to think of it though…I think I stole it from someone else, too!).
I know in Europe they don’t have CAFE. I think instead they have a limit on overall emissions of the fleet. Not quite sure and not saying it’s better than what we have but they certainly have a better selection of vehicles than we get here. CAFE seems to have given us an endless supply of “light trucks”.
My understanding is that the EU focuses on taxing gasoline heavily, as well as taxes on engine displacement—I remember hearing that Ferrari’s 12-cylinder engines were about 3.0 liters in displacement, and that engines larger than 4.0 liters are relatively rare in Europe.
Car companies in the EU are generally free to make what they want.
They may call it something different in Europe, or implement it in a different way, but it’s all the same- just different details in different places so that public doesn’t see what’s behind the curtain- i.e. that the real rulers of this world operate on a global scale, and that the rulers of *your* country serve them.
Change the names of the various nefarious schemes and how exactly they achieve their intended goals, and it looks like all of this crap (like “environmentalism”) exists because the people in individual countries all just decided they wanted it and voted for it (And why wouldn’t they?- since they are propagated with the BS from toddlerhood in the schools and by the media.).
This is why they always “encourage everyone to get out and vote”. If ‘all’ of the people are voting, then what happens must “be the will of the people”- even though there is no option to vote against it; if your guy wins, even if he says he opposes it, he’ll still do it; and if the other guy wins…well then, you must play nice, because “the people have spoken” and what “the majority” decrees is sacrosanct, because in dumbocracy, you agree to abide by “the will of the people”…. This is why they want you to vote; why they put so much effort into the theater of politics, and why people never revolt, because as long as they feel that they’ve had a say or a hand in it, they’ll be content to stay on the plantation…..and if things don’t go their way, there’s always the next election, “Then we’ll show them!”.
Sadly though, in Europe, it’s much worse than here. They don’t have big pick-ups and SUVs (Funny- we complain that we can’t have small vehicles…they complain that they can’t have large ones! ); The cost and procedure of obtaining a license, registering your vehicle, buying a vehicle, etc. etc. are much worse than here in the Jew-S-A; They have strict inspections on vehicles; You’re not allowed to have old vehicles repaired…effectively, you’re limited to driving new and late-model stuff only (It’s being implemented here, before our eyes, too); Many places you can’t even drive an internal combustion engine vehicle in the heart of the cities…only EVs…..etc.
And, as you can likely see, it is all coming here, too, despite Donnie Dimwit’s little signatory throwing us a bone by [TEMPORARILY] rolling back CAFE a few digits (See earlier part of this reply if you don’t understand why he doesn’t just end CAFE. They can play with the numbers and throw us little boneas to have at least some small things to make it look like they are doing something different than “the other guy whom you didn’t vote for”….while in every way doing the exact same things the “other guy” or anyone else who is part of the acting troop would do).
10 REASONS TO VOTE FOR THOMAS MASSIE
1. He is hated by Trump. Since Trump is an evil rotten bastard, any enemy of Trump has to be better candidate.
2. He is pro-Second Amendment, has the highest pro-gun rating.
3. He has a Libertarian philosophy like Ron Paul, does not believe in foreign interventionism.
4. He is young and not some old fart wearing a diaper and shitting his pants
5. Not a braggart and not pathological liar like Obama, Clinton, Biden and Trump
6. Voted against the CARES Act and Covid totalitarianism
7. Massie introduced legislation and vote to impeach crazy warmonger Pete Hegseth who should be removed along with Trump.
8. Trump protects pedophiles, Massie wants the Epstein files released. Massie will prosecute Trump’s pedo friends.
9. Thomas Massie — MIT engineer, farmer, seven-term congressman — stands for the Constitution, individual liberty, and transparency in government. Trump stands for Israel, fuck Trump, vote the real patriot.
10. If Trump is the Antichrist, then Massie is the polar opposite, a person who is divine in comparison.
Thomas Massie speech today shows he should be president
Massie Goes SCORCHED EARTH On The ‘Uniparty’ In House Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJZOmnH2PdA
Massie and MTG should just get on every media venue and talk, and talk, and talk about the bullshit going on with Trump and Congress and the people will stampede into their camp.
Trump is screwing up so bad the RepugliCons party is doomed. The DemonCraps are already mostly rejected.
We are going into very hard times folks because of the evil rotten ruling elite are completely sold out to Israel. Amerikans are going to suffer and suffer and suffer until they get a clue and quit voting for the corrupt establishment.
The Massie Revolution – A Grassroots Documentary by People Who Love Thomas Massie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ClDgN8m9w4
IF TRUMP HATES THOMAS MASSIE THEN YOU SHOULD LOVE HIM
Anyone exposing Trump and his loyalty to Israel should be listened to. MTG tells us from first hand experience it was Trump who shut down the Epstein files release:
MTG exposes Trump for shutting down Epstein investigation because it would ‘hurt’ his ‘friends’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8rlFa8cs0Y
So, assume you’re a car manufacturer, and you’ve chosen the path of compliance.
What are you to do with this rollback? You know full well, that when President Ocasio-Cortez, or President Harris takes office in 2028, these are instantly being tightened back up, perhaps even more so. The choice is clear, you don’t roll back the compliance engineering, you continue gimping the cars in the hopes that the future dear leader will allow you to sell your gelding cars.
Absolutely. If you are not in a heavily regulated industry like autos or medical, it is hard to understand how much time and money it takes to do a product changeover. Or how much legal liability it exposes the company to.
It would be in perfect character for a donkey administration to punish companies that were not sufficiently with the progressive gameplan during the prior administration.
That is exactly why the manufacturers never fight the regs- because they know full well that “environmentalism” is the mechanism being used by those who run this world to achieve their nefarious globalist ends, and as such, that this will be the plan going forward, regardless of any ‘elections’.
It’s like a banana republic- Any business in any regulated field (and what ISN’T regulated these days?) is subject to the whims of sinister, corrupt, and controlled politicians at many levels…and the only way to insulate your business and maintain some consistency is to know the overall plan and agendas of those at the top, and to know that whatever suits that plan is ultimately what will prevail.
This is why we can’t have nice things anymore. In the distant past, we had the best, because businesses were still largely free to determine their own courses based on what they deemed to be what their customers wanted, rather than what the government wants.
You want a kei car and I want a large 4×4 truck without luxury and technology? No problemo! If people want it…someone’ll make it…unless of course they’re not allowed to…so you can’t have your Kei car, because they’re illegal; and I can’t have my big rugged non-electronic reasonably priced pick-up, because they’re illegal to manufacture and sell….we’ll have what the government wants us to have, damn-it! (And now, thanks to real trucks being illegal to manufacture and sell for quite some time, all one can do is buy an old one from the days when they were legal to make and sell…but as those trucks are very old now and in shorter supply due to Cash4Clunkers, and a lot of people want such trucks, you now have to pay $30K for a functional survivor!)
Nowhere is the “mend not end” lie more egregious than TAXES. Whenever the Red Team passes a “tax cut” package not only does it not benefit anyone outside the top 1%-10% (at most) but it always makes taxes more complicated, not less. And of course if there are any spending “cuts” (almost always a lie) they are always to anything that might trickle down to the “little people” (those are “entitlements”, don’t you know) NEVER IsraHELL, the MIC, parasitic “industries” that produce nothing of value, banksters, and the connected insiders.
I have always regarded the Repuke party as lying sacks of shit, but Donnie FUBAR has turned them into treasonous worms who need to be smashed. There is no “lesser evil”.
Sort of, though you have the beneficiaries confused. Every tax change I can think of with the lone exception of AMT has ended up with the top paying a greater share.
But you are right in principle that they always give with one hand and take with the other.
CAFE is being driven by political myth that a trace gas CO2 causes warming. This myth is easily dismissed by making one potent observation on the ice age vs. CO2 chart.
1. Ice Age glaciations always terminate at the lowest CO2.
2. Ice Age inceptions always start at the highest level of CO2.
But in clown world, humans believe CO2 forces temperature, which has never happened on earth in 4.6 billion years. All the data we have, on all time scales confirms this.
There has been previous Ice Age epochs on earth with CO2 10x the current level. IOW CO2 does nothing.
We are unable to determine reality with our brains, because myths we ourselves create, based on our feelings, is a greater force than reason. We are destroying our society based on ideas that are not true. CO2 is not a pollutant, it is a life gas, without it we would all die.
In fact the planet was dying in the late Pleistocene, during the last 3 glaciations, which last 100,000 years, CO2 got so low plants quit growing. This extremely low CO2, which was way down to 180 ppm, caused the megafauna extinctions. Farming was not even possible 20,000 years ago because CO2 was below 240 ppm.
Current CO2 levels of 430ppm are at bare recovery levels. You should be able to intuit that if greenhouse growers pump CO2 to make their plants grow better, CO2 is not high enough yet for optimal plant growth.
If you have a brain and can see with your eyes, you should click on this link and examine the charts
https://www.serendipity.li/climate/hieb/greenhouse_data.html
Anthropogenic (man-made) Contribution to the “Greenhouse
Effect,” expressed as % of Total (water vapor INCLUDED)
Man made CO2 warming = 0.117%
that is so low it is not even measurable, and rounded off to the nearest integer is zero.
Car companies should sue the EPA because man made warming is not even measurable, so how the fuck can they regulate something they can’t even measure?
Not so. It’s a 1975 law to reduce oil consumption to lessen the impact OPEC would have. It was the follow-up to the 55 mph speed limit, imposed for the same reason.
This was still the days of the impending ice age.
Fuck Trumpstein, ZOG and the jeworldorder. It’s imploding because the sanctimonious spectacle requires belief and no 1 is buying their bullshit anymore. You can feel the belief fading and the anger rising, it’s palpable.
I agree, the entire CO2 bullshit is another Jew money scam. And all this whoreship of Israel is ridiculous, what Jews claim about their heritage is utter bullshit.
Debunking “Ancient Israel”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQk41nLuhGA
The books of the Torah, like the Book of Joshua, are not history, they are creative writing. Archeology has destroyed the notion that Abraham, Moses, Solomon, Saul, David never existed. No such thing as ancient israelites, no former kingdom, no art, no coins, no nothing.
Unless you are a whopping dumbass like Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin, those OT passages are myths, they never happened. Yet the entire US government is under control of the little shitty state of Israhell because stupid people believe myth.
“Archeology has destroyed the notion that Abraham, Moses, Solomon, Saul, David never existed.”
You’re right that archeology has destroyed the notion that these men “never” existed (your word). In fact, the existence of Solomon, Saul and David has been amply borne out by archeological/historical testimony. With Abraham and Moses it’s more difficult due to the extreme antiquity of both men and the obscurity (in Moses’ case) of written evidence given the amount of time he spent as either 1.) a fugitive or 2.) in the wilderness, where he died.
I agree, Celt –
I’ve had it, myself. Let the Blue Wave come. Let it all come. I’m weary of this constant hassling and mulcting and the idiocy of it all. It’s gas station in Milan time…
I completely understand the sentiment, Eric, but just remember what we’re in for once the blue-haired crowd returns: a never-ending wave of immigrants crashing the borders. Look at what England is now suffering under their version of the Dems:
https://www.truth11.com/invasion-boat-migrants-who-have-entered-england-now-outnumber-british-soldiers-its-an-army/
Granted, the Reds under Trump are no better, but it’s basically a case of pick your poison.
The problem with the reds is they are placeholders, they never advance the ball. That’s better than the alternative, and will have to do until there are enough people to elect a party that will be in the game. It would be a lot easier to move towards freedom in a country that is not the commie nirvana Bernie or AOC or *shudder* Mamdani have in mind.
” It’s imploding because the sanctimonious spectacle requires belief and no 1 is buying their bullshit anymore. ”
I wish that were true; but unfortunately, except among our own kind, it isn’t (And even among our kind, there are still far too many -even the majority- who still ultimately “believe” and play along with the “lesser evil” bullshit- from many “libertarian” pundits, to ‘Republi-tarians’.
Just yesterday a neighbor of mine actually uttered, in regard to the mid-terms: “This is the one that matters!” LOL!
The dog-and-pony show that is put on on the stage of “democracy” is a death-cult religion whose followers will keep drinking the Kool-aid until it destroys them and us.
I understand your sentiment Aurthur, perhaps you are correct. It might take a punch in the face like a stock market crash or the banks closing…but withdrawl of consent denies them legitimacy. Why should 350 million people bow and worship 100 hebes? When it makes no sense, something gives, like an earthquake and the walls fall down.
Exactly, Celt.
And as long as the religion of ‘democracy’, voting, and or of the legitimacy of political power exists, nothing will change, regardless of any catastrophic event(s). They’ll just build another one. If the collective history of humanity has done nothing else, it has prove the above as unwavering fact.
I think what we are seeing with Donnie Dimwit is an extreme example of the above. Their own guy is sodomizing them, and they’re still cheering for more.
Hmmm…that WAS me. Got a different icon for some reason.
Anywho, I think we really need a cartoon/T-shirt/sticker of a guy festooned with a MAGA hat, waving a flag and sporting a Trump Bible, bent oiver and getting fucked up the ass by old Donnie Dimwit himself.
Fun factoid: Did you know that Ghislaine Maxwell’s father owned MacMillan Publishers and Pergamon Press? The former is not only responsible for much of what Americans read, but publishes and owns subsidiaries that publish a vast number of public school and college TEXTBOOKS; and the latter being a publisher of scientific and academic stuff…. (Send your kids to those schools, folks! And believe in that ‘science’….yeah!)
‘Probably because [Israel’s nukes] are US weapons and not Israeli weapons.’ — Raider Girl
This is somewhat overstated. Goolag AI:
‘Israel’s nuclear warheads and indigenous ballistic missile delivery systems are primarily internally developed. Israel designs and manufactures its own nuclear warheads locally.
‘Its Jericho series of ballistic missiles (including the Jericho-I, Jericho-II, and the long-range Jericho-III) were researched, designed, and built domestically by Israel.
‘Israel’s submarine-launched cruise missiles (believed to be variant Popeye Turbos) are deployed via Dolphin-class submarines, which were purchased from Germany.
‘For airborne delivery, Israel utilizes American-manufactured multi-role fighter jets—specifically variants of the U.S.-built F-15 Eagles, F-16 Falcons, and potentially F-35 Lightning II aircraft.’
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Even heavily-censored Goolag AI frankly discusses Israel’s long-established nuclear triad, while the US fedgov grimly carries on its transparent deception of Clowngress and the American people by refusing to discuss Israel’s nukes, on orders (backed up by credible assassination threats) from the little apartheid colony.
Israel is our misfortune.
President Donnie Dwayne Milfhouse Elizondo Fruitcake has screwed the economy so badly, it CAN’T be mended.
Take today’s disturbed financial markets. Yield on the ten-year Treasury note — one of the most important reference rates in the entire global economy — is at another multi-decade high of 5.22%, as wartime inflation wrecks bond prices.
Accordingly, the old yellow dog is getting whacked down over three percent. Gold doesn’t like high interest rates, at least not till they become negative in real terms (that is, less than the inflation rate). Should gold again sport a three handle soon, I’ll back up the truck and start shoveling the yellow metal into the six-foot bed till muh hands bleed.
Meanwhile the black dog — West Texas Intermediate crude — is at 94 dollahs a barrel, as Chabad convert Donnie Dwayne keeps the Iranian pot stirred on orders from his Israeli masters, and actual Americans get screwed sideways on behalf of a shitty, fly-blown little west Asian apartheid colony.
I miss a stick shift truck. Towing a loaded trailer ways way easier. Autos, even with the tow/haul feature, upshift n downshift too soon or late.
Damn skippy.
Towing downhill is *much* better with a manual… and an manually controlled exhaust brake and it’s actually *fun*!
“Because manuals – being human controlled – cannot be fine-tuned to shift in such a way as to eke out a slight MPG improvement on government tests, which are the basis for determining CAFE compliance. Automatics can be fine-tuned, via software, to eke out a slight MPG improvement”
This is a reverse Dieselgate. Volkswagen had to pay over $30 billion fine and people went to prison because they gamed the emissions testing procedures.
In this case the transmission is programmed to get artificially high mileage on the tests in order to deceive customers and regulators instead of emissions hardware being programmed to get artificially low emissions in order to deceive customers and regulators.
That’s a great point that most people wouldn’t think of as most people don’t think. Everything is backwards.
‘Mend not end’ should be burned onto the forehead of every Repuke with a white-hot cattle iron. They are career prostitutes who used to
serve‘service’ domestic cronies. Now they grovel at the feet of a foreign power, Israel.Selling favors to a foreign country — including starting an illegal war of aggression on its orders — is treason. Perps can hang for that — if the rule of law prevails. Too often, it doesn’t.
Arms shipments to nuclear proliferators are strictly illegal under US statute law. But in an absurd subterfuge akin to an 8-year-old caught by Mom with his hand in the cookie jar, US officials
replyjeer ‘Ask Israel, ask Israel!‘ when queried about the little apartheid colony’s dangerous nuclear weapons. Vee have seventeen intel agencies, but vee know nothink!Needless to say, a foreign-ruled quisling regime with gaping blind spots in its law enforcement (the current AG was the president’s personal attorney) has a dim future. The Orange Flake didn’t just stick us with five-dollah gas — he screwed our whole future with $40 freaking trillion of fedgov debt which does not go away under a new party or a new regime.
Bodily hurling the MFOB (Monstrous Fat Orange Bastard) into a Hawaiian volcano with earnest prayers of supplication may be our only hope of avoiding doom. I’ll volunteer to design and build a trebuchet to add some drama and crowd appeal to this portentous task. 🙂
I’m a rocket man
Rocket man, burnin’ out his fuse up here alone
— Elton John, Rocket Man (1972)
I’m always shocked at how little attention is paid to Israel possessing nuclear weapons. Every once in while you’ll hear someone in the press mention “it’s assumed” that they have them, but it’s never widely reported on. Hell, even the Iranians never bring it up. You’d think they would be talking about it to call out the hypocrisy of this war.
Hi Klink,
Probably because they are US weapons and not Israeli weapons. I realize I am in the minority, but Israel (IMO) is no more than a US territory run by the CIA.
Hi RG,
It seems more like the US is a territory run as a joint venture between the Mossad and the CIA.
Hi Mike,
It is. The CIA is about the only US agency that is actually smart. I believe that the CIA/USSA needed access to the Middle East. Look at what they did to Iran in 1953. A duly elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was elected to the country. The CIA and MI6 were the two institutes that did the overthrowing tossing in their own “selected” leader. I don’t blame Iran for hating our country.
Israel provides the CIA and MI6 the safe haven that they need to keep the Middle East in constant turmoil, hence they work together and destroy the Petro dollar.
What does Mossad stand for? It means “institute” in Hebrew. What was the CIA called prior to 1947? The OSS. The CIA loves leaving little hints that it’s them.
Hi RG,
Yes, not enough people are aware that the duly elected Prime Minister of Iran was overthrown by a CIA/MI6 coup in 1953; they have every reason to hate the US for that, especially since the Shah who replaced him was an evil despot. But he was our evil despot, the hypocrisy is mind boggling. The US is always lecturing other countries about “free and fair elections”…….as long as they vote for the Fedgov approved candidate. Imagine the outrage if a foreign government murdered a popularly elected US president like JFK…oops, that already happened, with no consequences for the foreign country.
As Prof. Tom Lehrer put it, many years ago:
“They’ve got to be protected
All their rights respected
Until somone we like
Can be ‘(s)elected.'”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFvxqQTh3m4
Question is, what economy do the “Israelis” intend to feed off of, once they have destroyed the U.S. ?
China? Somehow, I cannot see the Chinese supplying weapons to “Israel” to destroy Iran, when the Chinese are dependent on Iranian oil and gas.
Error, error, it does not compute.
Not many “Chinese Jews” out there, either.
Although, I can foresee “Israeli” biologists “collaborating” with Chinese on DNA research, with the long term goal that “conversion to Judaism” involves actually changing the DNA, not just performing quasi-religious ceremonies.
“Resistance is futile,” indeed.
Probably breed out the hooked nose trait, while they are at it.
Hi Adi,
Your post is one that I have been trying to determine for years and I couldn’t figure out how to justify. If the goal of Israel is to continue to suck the USSA dry then that leaves them with no allies. They annihilate themselves in the process.
Unless, Israel is nothing more than a front for the USSA.
There isn’t an mission/election/operation that the CIA hasn’t touched worldwide: Italy 1948, Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, Cuba and Singapore 1961, Brazil 1964, Chile 1973, Spain 2019, Venezuela 2025, etc.
Let’s be honest these are the only ones they have admitted to or got caught. I am sure every election worldwide has some USSA/CIA tampering involved, including our own.
Hey RG,
I don’t know if you’ve read Scott Horton’s Provoked……that guy is amazing…he remembers so much crap that has gone on, especially since 9/11, but he really goes back to Clinton and Bush 1…..none of those regimes are innocent of corruption. The case with Iran is particularly interesting because it was both MI6 and the CIA that couped Mossedegh….and many people who have inside information swear that MI6 is driving the whole war in Ukraine…what a mess
Interesting idea. Let’s noodle on this a little bit. That would mean they function something like a scapegoat, diverting popular anger onto a third party and distracting everyone’s attention away from the real crooks. Also, it would be more than a little bit convenient if they wanted to be super duper Machiavellian and marginalize any critics. Also located in & around that epicenter of global chaos, Jerusalem. The CIA loves chaos because it provides cover, distravtion, and plausible deniability for them to do whatever they want, blame someone else, and get away with it (which is a large part of why they create so much of it everywhere) so it fits the M.O. Also came into being in its current firm by government edict shortly after WWII ended, like many puppet governments. “Bibi” in fact grew up & went to high school in Philadelphia (look it up).
Fiendishly clever, if true.
Here’s the problem: “fiendishly clever” and “U.S. government agency” is something of an oxymoron. Unless that is also a cover story?
Truth value of proposition is indeterminate, & for all practical purposes not determinable either. Also irrelevant. CIA & Israeli alliance are both politically & culturally sensitive problem areas, regardless of Israeli independence status, & influence of both on elected US officials is excessive & problematic.
Hi Publius,
“That would mean they function something like a scapegoat, diverting popular anger onto a third party and distracting everyone’s attention away from the real crooks.”
I honestly believe this to be true. I realize I am on an island here, but it allows the CIA and MI6 to coordinate attacks in a section of the world they wish to control. Israel is the default. Don’t get me wrong I don’t believe Israel is innocent of anything…I just don’t think they are in charge.
That would potentially explain why every single congressman has a handler.
>volunteer to design and build a trebuchet
10-4, Commodore. 🙂
Something like Evel Kneivel’s steam rocket to attempt to jump the Snake River would be really cool.
A version of Skee ball
Put the launch on pay-per-view and apply the proceeds to the deficit. I would pay to watch that.
You can have a slow ratcheting up of oppression or a fast one.
Your choice.
Actually, your neighbor’s choice. The one that always seems to be picking up on the latest trends in fashion, is underwater on their mortgage, always has brand new cars and whose kids were terrors of the neighborhood (now they live at home because they can’t afford to live on their salary and school loan payment). Because when the TV tells them what the issues of the day are, they remember. And they vote for whomever will not rock the boat too much.
They do live well. And when the bill comes due it is so unfair and they get together to vote and pass it on to someone else.
I keep telling myself to join them since you can’t beat them. But then I get nauseous and continue to work.
Good news! They’ve increased the chocolate rations!
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell