American Politics

[SubCmdr]

Nah, Bro. I do not love cars. I do not love things. I love people.

As for my knowledge about cars, why would I have knowledge about something that I don't use? So, everyone who has superior knowledge of vehicles over me I will stipulate to that. I actually have not operated a vehicle of any type for almost two years. I feel my mental health is better because I have stopped. My flow is strong and my stack is so big I pay people to drive me around!

Why don't you own a Bugatti?

https://youtube.com/shorts/va1cm5NZP...LFqkIjxC3rveQB

https://youtube.com/shorts/675djomWh...H961M_0EgPRDrx

ROTFLMAO!

Because You just don t know about cars. Best quality cars, Bugatti are built in France by french hands, not chinese robots. A Megane RS or an Alpine would fuck almost all American cars, even most powerful and for sure all chinese, when they are real sporty efficient cars. I choose Germans, even I drove legend RS500 Cosworth for more than 20 years, because more powerful than french cars, but not always better quality. Many Mercedes Benz used Renault engines. But better to know a bit. For car balance and grip, USA cars are far behind french cars and many Germans can t compete. Just better German engines when free speed culture in Germany. Good point is my beloved for my holidays Italy and also NL are increasing speed on motorway, when they found not more pollution with thermic cars. China just build connected little busses to move not far, not what I call quality cars. Moving far with plane pollute a lot, and risky with Boeing. I won t learn chinese, because not my standard for quality and I hate to waste my money and would feel shameful to support such no human rights government making big pollution, fucking our world with their pollution and low quality products. Only cheap.

[Sirioja]

So shameful USA new government: when USA never protected Ukraine, they now try to robb poor Ukrainians who are in misery. I really wish Ukraine and EU will refuse such robbery. Trump really has to BJ Putin to swallowing. Shame, shame, shame.

I wish, even making a lot of noise for everything with his mafia Vance and Musk, but Trump may understand he is not king of the world, even he dreams about, so he should stop to BJ dictator Putin who attacked Ukraine and will have to face Canada, Mexico, Panama, China, EU, UK and Ukraine. Need big balls, when he more behave like a small size with women and criminal Putin who can t travel because of international law prosecution as criminal.

[SubCmdr]

Elon Musk is a racist and Trump has a history of being involved in racist policies denying housing to his fellow Americans. That being said:

There is plenty of Waste, Fraud and Abuse in the Government. I have no doubt. But if you are really trying to have an impact you would start in the Defense Department.

The Packard Commission reported that there was "no rational system" governing defense procurement, and it concluded that it was not fraud and abuse that led to massive over-expenditures but rather "the truly costly problems are those of overcomplicated organization and rigid procedure

People act like Trump / Musk Co-Presidency is doing something new. I will simply say that Musk and Trump must follow the law of the land. The moment either one of them does not and receives no sanctions for their actions, grab your guns and and your go bag because kinetic civil war will start and the first step towards dictatorship will have been taken in the United States of America.

[Sirioja]

Most people to do not love things. They love other people.

France cannot protect itself. That is why it is part of NATO. Audi is not produced buy the French. I do not know of a single French car manufacturer that would be consider quality. It that why you purchased an automobile designed and manufactured by a German Automotive Company?

Because the USA and China are becoming so powerful you only have to learn to speak Chinese in order to survive and thrive in France.

Because You just don t know about cars. Best quality cars, Bugatti are built in France by french hands, not chinese robots. A Megane RS or a Alpine would fuck almost all American cars, even most powerful and for sure all chinese, when they are real sporty efficient cars. I choose Germans, even I drove legend RS500 Cosworth for more than 20 years, because more powerful than french cars, but not always better quality. Many Mercedes Benz used Renault engines. But better to know a bit. For car balance and grip, USA cars are far behind french cars and many Germans can t compete. Just better German engines when free speed culture in Germany. Good point is my beloved for my holidays Italy and also NL are increasing speed on motorway, when they found not more pollution with thermic cars. China just build connected little busses to move not far, not what I call quality cars. Moving far with plane pollute a lot, and risky with Boeing. I won t learn chinese, because not my standard for quality and I hate to waste my money and would feel shameful to support such no human rights government making big pollution, fucking our world with their pollution and low quality products. Only cheap.

[Spidy]

Actually, you need to get what BYD is producing. https://www.topgear.com/car-news/ele...does-phev-mean.

A plug-in hybrid is a type of car that can run using a combustion engine...

So you do not get what PHEVs are.

https://www.caranddriver.com/feature...rid-explainer/

Thanks for the update on PHEVs! I can only imagine that was a nice refresher for you, but I'm well aware of what a PHEV is! And I don't need YOU or Car and Driver, to tell me the difference between a BEV, PHEV, HEV, or FCEV. But thanks anyways!

However, I do have a question for you! Do you even know, what is meant, when the term EV is used?

Clearly you don't! Because according to your limited understanding of the article YOU provided (if you even read it at all?), https://autovista24.autovistagroup.c...china-in-june/, makes it's plainly obvious, you didn't have a clue as to the "categories" of EVs and the vehicles it encompasses.

YOUR article CLEARLY reads, "What were the most popular EVs in China in June?" and ONLY showed charts and information on EVs, in several categories. Yet you manage to hallucinate, fuck-it-up and twist the article's reporting on EVs, into a rant about the biggest Chinese automaker still making huge ICE sales, when they'd stopped making ICE vehicles some two (2) years ago (...kkkk!).

• Elvis 2008, do yourself a big favor, and before you try educating others, perhaps try educating yourself first!

And once again, you have to bring in the dickish MAGA gish gallop shit when honestly you do not know what the fuck you are talking about! It is every fucking post, Spidy. This is why I call you a Democratic douche. You are so fucking arrogant you think being a dumbshit Democratic douche means you are more intelligent.

(...kkkk!)

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the complexity of two commingling propulsion sources, more can go wrong, so PHEVs fare worse than their hybrid brethren in reliability metrics.

So once again, you're just spitballing and speculating, with that MAGA educated, gish gallop prowess of yours! But why guess, when I've already provided you, with the one of the most recent definitive studies on the subject matter?

Well allow me once again (for like the 3rd time), point you to the study out of the UK that examines (not 30, as I had previous wrote, but) 300 million vehicles, spanning 17 years, https://www.motor1.com/news/748745/e...vity-uk-study/ and concludes that EVs are on par with ICE, if not better in some cases, w/r to LONGEVITY.

Perhaps you were confused by the term EV? Which, by the way, includes...you guessed it, PHEVs!

[Elvis 2008]

Me neither! But it's hard to have a reasonable debate and come to any kind of resolution, when the other side provides nothing but "opinions."


You should give your article another read. I think you may have misread your article, since BYD stopped producing pure ICE vehicles, since March, 2022.

In the article, the line the first of four offerings from the carmaker in the overall top 10 which includes internal-combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.is somewhat misleading to readers, since no "overall" chart of the top 10 vehicles, was provided. Just charts of the top 10-20 EVs.

BTW, what evidence or facts, do you have to backup your claims about PHEV less reliable than ICE, or should I just write it off as the same old gish gallop, MAGA disinformation?.

Actually, you need to get what BYD is producing. https://www.topgear.com/car-news/ele...does-phev-mean.

A plug-in hybrid is a type of car that can run using a combustion engine like a normal car, or using an electric motor and battery like an electric car. Yep, it's two cars in one.

It's called a plug-in hybrid because you have to plug in a cable to charge the battery: this is what gives you a certain amount of zero-emissions range, for which you can drive around without using the engine and with nothing coming out of the tailpipe. Polar bears, rejoice!

Once the battery runs out, the engine seamlessly kicks in and you're back to driving a normal car again. So for short distances you've got all the benefits of driving an electric car without the drawback of having to worry about charging when you travel further afield.

So you do not get what PHEVs are.

https://www.caranddriver.com/feature...rid-explainer/

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the complexity of two commingling propulsion sources, more can go wrong, so PHEVs fare worse than their hybrid brethren in reliability metrics.

And back to my original link.

A total of 875,904 EVs, consisting of plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), took to China's roads in June. This equated to a growth of 23% year on year. Plug-ins took a best-ever market share of 49.9% in the month, with BEVs alone accounting for 28% of new-car deliveries.

With PHEVs though, if people are using the battery mostly, there would be emissions saving, and I suspect most are.

And once again, you have to bring in the dickish MAGA gish gallop shit when honestly you do not know what the fuck you are talking about! It is every fucking post, Spidy. This is why I call you a Democratic douche. You are so fucking arrogant you think being a dumbshit Democratic douche means you are more intelligent.

But while the headlines in your article are scary, you MAGA naysayers and doomsayers, should take solace and think for a moment, at just how much worse it would be if solar, wind, EVs, BESS weren't around to chip in and do some of the heavy lifting.

LOL. Most alternative energy is wind, and the red states produce way more alternative en https://www.fool.com/research/renewa...-by-state/ergy than blue states.

Yes, China leads the way and is the biggest consumer of coal at 56%, but some reports have China at peak coal in 2024. Not sure I believe the experts, but we'll see.

Only way that happens is if they keep building NG pipelines.

Instead of battle cries of "drill baby drill", the U.S. should be ramping up, not abandoning things like solar, wind, BESS, nuclear (w/caveat) and HVDC lines to upgrade the gird, along side gas and coal, as demand requires. Giving the U.S., a steady growth path to a cleaner grid and meeting increasing demands, while slowly weaning off on coal and gas, and decreasing the dependency on fossil fuels.

When you look at trade deficits, increasing energy output is one way to compete. Our energy costs are much lower than other nations. The USA can be a net oil and gas and potentially energy exporter if energy companies are not messed with.

BTW, this is exactly what China (and Biden's IRA/Chips and AI) is doing, with a good deal of success! But if the U.S. keeps under estimating China, in true "DeepSeek" fashion, with backwards thinking, it'll be curtains.

Uh, Biden was president when the Chinese were making Deepseek, and Biden's goal of a private-public consortium of controlling AI blew up. If the USA allowed all companies to compete, the AI outcome would have been different. I am hoping it still will be. I am not sure what Musk is doing making a bid on open AI, but I trust him. I know you do not, but I do.

But you MAGA yahoos need to stop putting all the gird woes and blame on EVs.

The grid cannot handle all those EVs now. In China, EVs are cheaper to run.

Gullible MAGA, needs to pay more attention to what your robber barons are doing and less on the avg. working Joe.

LOL. This from the Democratic party pimping for Pfizer and the Covid vaccine? Unbelievable. The blue collar types have abandoned the Dems in droves.

[EihTooms]

But Musk-o-Trump is saving billions mostly paid by Blue States and transferred to deadbeat Red States by firing American Working Men and Women who are now applying for billions in Unemployment Benefits.

Therefore, "Best Month in Four Years"! Right, MAGAs?

Delta plane crashes on landing at Toronto airport, injuring at least 15.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/17/delt...ndroidappshare

The accident comes weeks after a fatal midair collision in January at Washington D.C.s Reagan International Airport, which killed all 64 people on an American Airlines regional jet and another three people on board an Army Black Hawk helicopter.

Separately, the FAA was recently hit by layoffs spearheaded by President Donald Trump and Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency, with several hundred air traffic controllers receiving firing notices over the weekend.

The friggin' plane came in upside down and burning.

Like Trump's America.

[SubCmdr]

When You love cars,

Most people to do not love things. They love other people.

France cannot protect itself. That is why it is part of NATO. Audi is not produced buy the French. I do not know of a single French car manufacturer that would be consider quality. It that why you purchased an automobile designed and manufactured by a German Automotive Company?

Because the USA and China are becoming so powerful you only have to learn to speak Chinese in order to survive and thrive in France.

[Axel Heyst]

"Sunday's episode of the disgraced 60 Minutes from far-left CBS News worked overtime to mislead its gullible viewers about the recent layoffs at USAID, a left-wing slush fund paid for with about $40 billion taxpayer dollars each year.

Despite the USA Senate's previous good-faith attempts to discover where all that money went, the USAID bureaucrats stalled and stalled. No one could find out how those billions were being spent, which was the whole point. What we had was an unaccountable federal agency spending billions with no oversight or accountability.

Enter Elon Musk and his DOGE boys. More importantly, enter their technical expertise allowing them to work around the dissembling bureaucrats and run a computer program that told them exactly where the money was going and where the money went should infuriate anyone with a conscience. Waste, fraud, and abuse don't begin to explain it.

So President Trump closed the corrupt agency, laid off thousands of unnecessary bureaucrats, and moved whatever was worth saving (including 600 or so employees) into the State Department. This move ensures 1) the small percentage of USAID money that makes sense keeps flowing, 2) someone is watching spending in the future, and 3) the spending aligns with the priorities of the elected United States PresidentRepublican or Democrat.

To sane and honest people this all makes sense. To the corrupt pigs with their noses in the taxpayer trough, people who probably cannot survive in the free market and count on federal corruption to keep them fat and warm, this is the apocalypse.

And naturally, any attempt to reduce any amount of federal spending is met with shrieks of horror from the regime media. To the surprise of no one, the shrieks of horror from Sunday night's 60 Minutes were acts of blatant misinformation.

The entire angle of the 60 Minutes clip below is a laughable attempt to turn public opinion against Trump and DOGE because those poor bureaucrats at USAID lost their oh-so-vital jobs. ".

https://x.com/60Minutes/status/1891278117915767216

"Poor Kristina Drye and poor Adam Dubard are not USAID employees.

Granted, 60 Minutes doesn't identify them as USAID employees, but there is no question the interview is rigged to make it sound as if they were. And nowhere in that clip or in the CBS News write-up are we told who they really are.

Drye was a USAID contractor who wrote speeches for Samantha Power, who was appointed to run USAID by the Biden administration.

Oh, and here is video from last week of Drye admitting that when DOGE entered the agency, she removed books that she "felt would be incriminating. ".

https://x.com/BonillaJL/status/1886632977607598104

"Same with Adam Dubard. He was a contractor, not a USAID employee. They both worked for a company that did partisan work funded by USAID, which was funded by taxpayers.

Maybe they can now add "crisis actors" to their resumes.

In other words, Drye and Dubard are not vital career bureaucrats who professionally oversaw how our money was spent to further American interests abroad. These are rabid left-wing partisans, and one is so filled with entitlement that she was comfortable admitting on video that she hid "incriminating" material during a legal financial audit.

For just a moment, let's pretend Drye and Dubard are who it is implied they are. So what? I've been laid off and fired more times than I can count. In the real world, what happened to USAID happens all the time. Never once have I received severance. That's how it goes. One day you have a job. Next day you don't. Why should so-called civil servants be immune from the real world? Boo hoo. Cry more. Think you're special? You're not. Like most Normal people I'm working today while government employees living off my tax dollars get the day off for Presidents' Day. And that's bullshit.

Between this and Face the Nation shrew Margaret Brennan blaming the Holocaust on all that free speech Germans enjoyed under Hitler, CBS had one helluva Sunday. ". -J. And.

And let's not forget it was CBS 60 minutes that edited / altered their Kamel Face interview because their preferred presidential candidate answered a simple question on American Israeli relegations with a gobbledegook word salad.

This is why nobody watches CBS News and one of the reasons Trump won. The folks are fed up with WOKE BS! Keep it up Kool-Aid drinkers. We love you. Hahaha.

[EihTooms]

Of course, we already know what could and did go wrong:

Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/17/trum...ndroidappshare

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union, said in a statement.

The impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, one air traffic controller told the Associated Press. The air traffic controller was not authorized to talk to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity.
..........
The employees were fired without cause nor based on performance or conduct, Spero said, and the emails were from an exec order Microsoft email address - not a government email address.

The firings hit the FAA when it faces a shortfall in controllers. Federal officials have been raising concerns about an overtaxed and understaffed air traffic control system for years, especially after a series of close calls between planes at U.S. airports. Among the reasons they have cited for staffing shortages are uncompetitive pay, long shifts, intensive training and mandatory retirements.

In the Jan. 29 fatal crash between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and American Airlines passenger jet, which is still under investigation, one controller was handing both commercial airline and helicopter traffic at the busy airport.

Just days before the collision, President Donald Trump had already fired all the members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, a panel mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. The committee is charged with examining safety issues at airlines and airports.
(See link for more)

Musk-o-Trump ought to just save time and nuke every State Capitol in the USA for Xi, Putin and Kim. Or ask one of their Winger Loons who by now probably have all the necessary info to make and detonate a home-made nuclear bomb, thanks to their now historic blithering "saving Americans billions" blunders, to do it for them.

So many mentally deranged unfounded MAGA sucker social issues grievances, so little time.

[EihTooms]

Almost two weeks ago, the Office of Personnel Management assigned CDC leadership to look through a list of employees who were in probationary or term-limited positions — including new directors, fellows and highly skilled noncitizen scientists — and designate each as "must be retained," "mission critical" or "not mission critical. " According to the two CDC officials, the lists did not appear to have been used in the ultimate firing decisions.

Representatives for the White House, the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately reply to requests for comment.

[Sirioja]

When You love cars, You don t buy EV and never a chinese one. No mechanics in EV, just small busses to move, so boring, 0 interest and not 0 pollution. USA and China will still be biggest to pollute.

[Spidy]

I cannot believe you guys are still arguing about that.

Me neither! But it's hard to have a reasonable debate and come to any kind of resolution, when the other side provides nothing but "opinions."

IYeah, well given that most popular make of electric cars in China now have their own ICE, I am not sure how much that matters. PHEVs are actually more likely to break down than EVs or ICEs.

https://autovista24.autovistagroup.c...china-in-june/

You should give your article another read. I think you may have misread your article, since BYD stopped producing pure ICE vehicles, since March, 2022.

In the article, the line "...the first of four offerings from the carmaker in the overall top 10 which includes internal-combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.", is somewhat misleading to readers, since no "overall" chart of the top 10 vehicles, was provided. Just charts of the top 10-20 EVs.

BTW, what evidence or facts, do you have to backup your claims about PHEV less reliable than ICE, or should I just write it off as the same old gish gallop, MAGA disinformation?

Yeah, you are refusing to look at reality there. https://elements.visualcapitalist.co...l-consumption/.

Despite efforts to decarbonize the economy, global coal consumption surpassed 164 exajoules for the first time in 2023.

The FACTS are the FACTS. The study examines (not 30, as I had previous wrote, but) 300 million vehicles, spanning 17 years, https://www.motor1.com/news/748745/e...vity-uk-study/ and concludes EVs are on par with ICE, if not better in some cases, w/r to LONGEVITY. Now that's impressive!

But while the headlines in your article are scary, you MAGA naysayers and doomsayers, should take solace and think for a moment, at just how much worse it would be if solar, wind, EVs, BESS weren't around to chip in and do some of the heavy lifting.

I say this half-jokingly, but notice your article does seem to reflect my sentiments and states, " The fossil fuel still accounts for 26% of the worlds total energy consumption.". Meaning, that renewables and other clean energy sources are picking up the slack when it comes to the increase in demand. And that's a very good thing!

Yes, China leads the way and is the biggest consumer of coal at 56%, but some reports have China at peak coal in 2024. https://table.media/en/china/sinolyt...sumption-peak/ Not sure I believe the experts, but we'll see.

However, one reason why they may be correct, is the fact that, when you look at China's energy mix, it seems from the 86% cut in coal permits, to the 11.8 terawatts (TW) of solar, wind and BESS, they may indeed be steaming the tide on coal, https://www.reuters.com/business/ene...ys-2024-08-21/ and entering a turning-point.

The hypocrisy of Democratic douches knows no bounds on carbon. Forest fires have destroyed the carbon savings in California, and Biden's idiotic attack on Nordstream was not exactly carbon friendly either. What has worked is changing from coal to natural gas.

(...kkkk!) Next, you and your American Fuhrer, will be telling us, the recent floods and power outages in Kentucky, is the fault of President Joe Biden and the Dems.

Sure, much of the U.S. transition from coal to gas generation of electricity, has been good thing. And naturally, it only behooves the U.S. to use what they have in abundance, as China does with coal.

However, the U.S. under the American Fuhrer, are doing the country a disfavor, by not transitioning, the electricity grid to the next level.

Instead of battle cries of "drill baby drill", the U.S. should be ramping up, not abandoning things like solar, wind, BESS, nuclear (w/caveat) and HVDC lines to upgrade the gird, along side gas and coal, as demand requires. Giving the U.S., a steady growth path to a cleaner grid and meeting increasing demands, while slowly weaning off on coal and gas, and decreasing the dependency on fossil fuels.

BTW, this is exactly what China (and Biden's IRA/Chips and AI) is doing, with a good deal of success! But if the U.S. keeps under estimating China, in true "DeepSeek" fashion, with backwards thinking, it'll be curtains.

And getting overall electrical use down is a pipe dream.

Where or who was it exactly, that said we need to bring down demand for electricity? Could you have taken this out of context?

But you MAGA yahoos need to stop putting all the gird woes and blame on EVs. Especially when you have Google, Microsoft https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-in...some-countries and bitcoin mining farms https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...ectricity.html, consuming more power than some small countries.

Gullible MAGA, needs to pay more attention to what your robber barons are doing and less on the avg. working Joe.

[Sirioja]

So shameful USA new government: when USA never protected Ukraine, they now try to robb poor Ukrainians who are in misery. I really wish Ukraine and EU will refuse such robbery. Trump really has to BJ Putin to swallowing. Shame, shame, shame.

[Xpartan]

These next 4 year are going to be so much more horrific than anyone could have ever imagined:

Trump administration wants to un-fire some nuclear safety workers but cant figure out how to reach them.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/15/trum...ndroidappshare

But at least they cut $20 Million, about 2 1/2 days of tax-payer subsidies for President Musk's failing EV company, by dumping the Sesame Street programming in Iraq so al-Qaeda and ISIS can replace it with their version of Sesame Street in Iraq.

So smart.

Now, I want you to remember all the screaming at Biden and his Communications Director from the White House Press Corp over every silly, insignificant detail of why his historic recovery from Trump's first term Colossal Across-the-Board Disaster was not perfect in every way for everyone all the time down to the exact dime.

And contrast that to whatever oh-so-polite and soft-spoken questioning, IF ANY, by that same Press Corp about this spectacular, potentially existential life on Earth-threatening unforced error screwup. LOL.

Come on, man, don't be naïve. This is a feature, not a bug. When this intentionally created chaos comes down on MAGA crowd and bury them under the dust, Trumpomusk will issue a new narrative that will explain who exactly is guilty in that disaster.

As long as it's going to be the same people MAGA loves to hate, everything will be nice and dandy.