THE MORNING RANT: Periodic Roundup of the EV Follies

THE MORNING RANT: Periodic Roundup of the EV Follies – 6/16/2025

Congress and President Trump Legislatively Revoke California Emissions Regulations

This is yet another reason why Americans voted for Donald Trump and Republicans to have control of the House, Senate, and White House:

“Trump revokes California’s nation-leading electric vehicle mandate” [Politico – 6/12/2025]

President Donald Trump moved Thursday to eliminate California’s nation-leading vehicle emissions standards, upending strict rules that had become a template for states across the nation to realize their greenhouse gas ambitions.
Trump signed three Congressional Review Act resolutions rolling back a trio of California’s rules at a White House signing ceremony.

What is extremely important to understand here, this isn’t just another executive order undoing a Biden executive order. Trump and the Republican Congress used the Congressional Review Act, which provides for a legislative reversal of regulatory diktats. Biden’s EPA gave California special permission to regulate the American auto industry. Majorities of the House and Senate voted to reject the EPA’s actions, and President Trump just lawfully eliminated it with his signature.

Of course, California and simpatico states are shopping for a District Judge to rule that an unelected bureaucrat’s regulation is irreversible “law” unto eternity, and that the actual legislative branch – with the President’s signature – cannot reverse a bureaucrat’s decree.

“California, 10 other states sue to block Trump from killing 2035 EV rules” [Reuters – 6/12/2025]

The states asked a judge to declare that Trump's repeal of waivers issued by the Environmental Protection Agency under President Joe Biden have no effect on state emissions rules. "The Federal Government carried out an illegal playbook designed to evade lawful procedures that might prevent the 'take down' of disfavored California laws," said the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in northern California.

California is calling EPA regulations “lawful procedures” while also stating that actual legislation passed by Congress and the President is “an illegal playbook.” When Democrats say that “democracy” is threatened by the Trump administration, what they mean is that governance by unelected bureaucrats is being threatened.

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Massive Electric Bus Fire in Philadelphia

There was a massive fire in a Philadelphia bus yard earlier this month, when an electric school bus spontaneously erupted in flames, setting off the buses around it too. (That is the header photo up top.) I’m not sure if this is the “clean” part of green energy or the “renewable” part.

In this boneyard of transit buses decommissioned by SEPTA (SE Pennsylvania Transit Authority) were 25 Proterra electric buses that had been in service barely a year before being decommissioned because they were hopelessly defective. The fire soon spread, with 14 more electric buses fueling the fire that damaged a total of 40 buses.

“Electric fire caused 40 SEPTA buses to catch fire at bus yard in Philadelphia's Nicetown section” [CBS – 6/06/2025]

On Friday, SEPTA officials also said an electrical fire caused by a battery in one of the electric buses started the blaze.
Smoke from the fire was visible across the city, and residents nearby were urged to stay in their homes and avoid the smoke as much as possible. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health reported that early tests revealed high levels of pollutants. "We know that the air is still not entirely safe," Health Commissioner Dr. Palak Raval-Nelson said on Thursday. "That is why my recommendation as health commissioner is for residents to stay away from the area of the fire."

You Tube investigator “MGUY” is to EV fires what Data Republican and DOGE are to NGO money trails. He was able to access records showing exactly which buses on the lot were electric or diesel. The EV buses are in the green rectangle in the picture below. The fire in relation to the electric buses speaks for itself.

Here’s his video about the bus fire if you’re interested. It’s just 4 ½ minutes and very interesting.

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Who is Running General Motors?

The good news is that General Motors is making a massive new investment in V-8 engines. The bad news is that its CEO, Mary Barra, is still babbling about an all-electric future. I’m starting think she has always been a naïve, globalist, figurehead who knows how to speak the WEF’s language about renewables and EVs, but is otherwise oblivious to what her company does, or who GM’s customers are.

There are apparently some responsible adults at GM in a position of authority who are trying to save the company from its EV-suicide, which is welcome news.

“GM Invests in V-8 Engines as It Backpedals on EVs; New $888 million plan marks GM’s largest investment in an engine plant” [WSJ – 5/27/2025]

General Motors has abandoned a plan to pump $300 million into electric-vehicle motor production at its upstate New York plant and will instead invest $888 million to make the latest V-8 engines.
Since the EV announcement two years ago for its Tonawanda plant, electric-vehicle sales have slowed, prompting GM and other carmakers to walk back investment plans for the technology.

GM’s customers have rejected EVs. GM’s dealers can’t sell EVs. GM can’t make any money manufacturing EVs. Voters threw out Biden and the Democrat congressional majority in part due to EV mandates. Yet Mary Barra is still talking like it’s 2021, when her job was to repeat the “100% EV future” talking points that her handlers in the Biden administration gave her.

“GM CEO says company is committed to all-electric future after major V-8 engine investment” [Spectrum News – 5/28/2025]

One day after General Motors announced it made its largest investment ever in an engine plant to make gas- and diesel-powered V-8s for trucks and SUVs, CEO Mary Barra said the Big Three automaker still believes in an all-electric future.
“We have more EVs in the market right now than anyone else in this country,” Barra said. “We’re growing market share. I see a path to all electric vehicles. It depends on getting the infrastructure ready, but I think we’ll get there because electric vehicles are better.”

Who is May Barra working for in her unyielding devotion to EVs? It certainly isn’t GM’s customers, dealers, or shareholders. Why is GM’s Board still allowing her to pursue the 100% EV dream?

Can a protest slate of General Motors’ shareholders please put me on GM’s Board of Directors so I can work to stop the suicidal EV obsession of its CEO?

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“We screwed up” – new Ram (Dodge) CEO

After Stellantis finally fired its EV-loving destructor of a CEO last year, it brought back long-time Chrysler/Dodge executive Tim Kuniskis to revive its Ram truck brand. You won’t see him licking the boots of globalist masters like the CEOs of Ford and General Motors.

He has brashly apologized for how badly Stellantis harmed the Dodge/Ram brand by killing off its famous Hemi V-8 engine. After acknowledging that “We screwed up,” CEO Kuniskis had an epic rant in an interview with Road & Track magazine.

“The bigger issue is we took away a fundamental American thing. Americans love freedom of choice more than anything. When you take away their freedom of choice and tell them ‘you must take this,’ they revolt. Whether it makes sense or not, it doesn’t matter. It’s anti-American, you’ve taken my flag away, f*** you. It doesn’t mean they are making an irrational decision, maybe they are, maybe they aren’t, I don’t know. But we as Americans, that’s what we do.”

Kuniskis gets it. We Americans like freedom. We like choice. And we despise globalist busy-bodies trying to take our freedoms away from us.

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Consumer Interest in EVs is in Free Fall

Closely related to Tim Kuniskis’ comments immediately above…when our imbecilic ruling class decided that we should all be forced out of the product that we wanted to drive (ICE vehicles) and into the vehicles that they would mandate (EVs), it was easy for most Americans to quickly figure out that EVs were awful, or else we wouldn’t have to be forced into them.

Some people had to learn the hard way, however, and they actually bought EVs, but have returned to ICE. Other than the niche of satisfied Tesla drivers for whom their car is not a poor lifestyle fit, EVs have collapsed in popularity. The EV-curious are now overwhelmingly EV-skeptical.

“AAA Study Finds that only 16% of Americans Would Buy an EV” [Yahoo – 6/09/2025]

What's even more striking is that the percentage of those who responded that they were "unlikely" or "very unlikely" to buy an EV edged up to 63%, up from 51% in 2022.

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EV Death Pool Update

VinFast, a Vietnamese EV manufacturer, is heading to the front of the leaderboard in my EV Death Pool.

“Struggling electric car company [VinFast] swiftly shuts down half its stores; An electric vehicle manufacturer, which has several sites in Canada and America, is shutting at least half of its locations and showrooms in the country” [The Mirror – 6/08/2025]

I can’t even find any figures for VinFast’s US auto sales in 2025. To the extent that the number exceeds zero, it’s not by much.

VinFast famously seduced North Carolina’s governor into condemning residences, businesses, and churches to acquire land for a plant that VinFast will never get around to building.

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The EV Battery Bubble is also Bursting

The EV battery bubble is also bursting, since there is not much demand for the product those batteries would go in. A few years back, a great amount of construction was announced simply on the premise that government mandates could compel mass-demand for a product without an existing mass-market. The mass-market didn’t develop, nor will it.

“EV battery maker suspends factory construction in SC” [WYFF – 6/05/2025]

In a statement, AESC cited market uncertainty for the pause: “AESC has informed the state of South Carolina and our local partners that due to policy and market uncertainty, we are pausing construction at our South Carolina facility at this time. AESC has invested over $1 billion into the Florence facility, and we anticipate being able to resume construction once circumstances stabilize. AESC fully intends to meet our commitments to invest $1.6 billion and create 1,600 jobs in the coming years.”

Let me translate that. ”There will not be an EV battery plant built in Florence, SC. Construction has been permanently halted.”

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The Annual Porsche EV Recall

One year ago, Porsche had to recall its electric Taycans from model years 2019 to 2023 due to risk of fire from electric batteries.

Here we go again, with the current crop of new Taycan EVs on Porsche dealer lots undergoing a sales pause because they are potential explosive devices.

“Porsche halts sale of electric vehicle over fears its battery will catch FIRE” [June 1, 2025]

The issue is thought to involve a potential short circuit inside the battery, which could lead to thermal events and later to a fire in the vehicle.

If you want to drive a Porsche, be sure to get a real Porsche with a gasoline engine, not the electric “Porsche” go-kart built to please communist, car-hating, European commissars.

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My latest piece at The Blaze discusses proposed election reforms, specifically the requirement for paper-only ballots with voting only on Election Day, and how this is unintentionally an invitation for Democrats to engage in suppression of Republican voters via ballot shortages.

I revisit my experiences in Democrat-controlled Travis County (Austin) Texas in the 1980s, when it was a built-in feature on Election Day that the county Democrats who ran elections would provide an insufficient number of ballots to conservative precincts, thus giving Republican voters the option of either waiting hours for provisional ballots to arrive, or to just give up and not cast a vote.

There’s now a new, related gimmick Democrats are using – the inability to print a ballot for conservative voters.

The inability to print a ballot is ultimately no different than a refusal to provide a ballot to a voter. It is voter suppression.

The piece is behind a paywall, but if you have a Blaze subscription I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

My latest piece at The Blaze discusses how election reforms to require Election Day-only voting with paper ballots invite Democrats to engage in voter suppression via ballot shortages and "broken" ballot printers in conservative precincts.https://t.co/TWmYghE70o
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) June 15, 2025

Have a great week.

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1 Next!

Posted by: tankdemon at June 16, 2025 11:00 AM (R256O)

2 Not 1st

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

3 Zzzap

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 16, 2025 11:00 AM (Gv/ba)

4 2 Not 1st
Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

Heh.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 16, 2025 11:01 AM (R256O)

5 Thou foul demon ev I rebuke thee and thy minion newscum!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 16, 2025 11:02 AM (Gv/ba)

6 Mary Barra is the genius who thought Nikola Motors was the wave of the future and based on nothing she dumped a pile of GM shareholder money into it. That was about a week before the SEC launched a fraud investigation of the company that eventually put its CEO in jail.

Barra also sits on the Disney board of directors.

She's the Kathleen Kennedy of the auto industry.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 16, 2025 11:04 AM (dDmld)

7 Now it's time to go after the CAFE standards as a whole.

Posted by: pawn, one of many at June 16, 2025 11:06 AM (QB+5g)

8 Of course, California and simpatico states are shopping for a District Judge to rule that an unelected bureaucrat’s regulation is irreversible “law” unto eternity, and that the actual legislative branch – with the President’s signature – cannot reverse a bureaucrat’s decree.

In other news, Judge Boasberg has miraculously once again been randomly selected to decide this case. A Hawaiian judge was disappointed not to be picked, but said that he thought Boasberg would do a fine job.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2025 11:07 AM (s8j++)

9 GM designed the most successful ICE engine ever created, the small block V8.

So, naturally, discarding that legacy was the righteous thing to do.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 16, 2025 11:08 AM (tT6L1)

10 Absent virtue signalling or the government giving subsidies why would you want an EV? I mean...seriously?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 11:08 AM (t0Rmr)

11 Israel: knock-knock
Iran: who's there?
Israel: Dahiya
Iran: Dahiya who?

*silence*

Iran: Oh, shit

Posted by: one hour sober at June 16, 2025 11:09 AM (Y1sOo)

12 So...at about $350k per EV bus, and in the boneyard after just a year.
I bet the school bond levies there still get a 90% pass rate as they probably use the same ballot counting system they do for other elections.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2025 11:10 AM (W/lyH)

13 Force that square peg in a round hole.

Sell only one type of car is the way they see it being the EV future'.

That was the point of the regulations- to FORCE people to have to buy them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 11:11 AM (bss/y)

14 My latest piece at The Blaze discusses how election reforms to require Election Day-only voting with paper ballots invite Democrats to engage in voter suppression via ballot shortages and "broken" ballot printers in conservative precincts.

While what you say is true, it's also true that ANY voting method is subject to Democrat efforts at voter suppression. Thus, the only solution is not to have elections at all...wait, I think I've discovered their plan.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2025 11:11 AM (s8j++)

15 Another part of this perhaps...Musk's success with Teslas was marketing something that was both an explicit luxury item and a virtue signaling item.

But now those wealthy leftists HATE Musk and won't buy another Tesla. And they won't buy an EV from other companies because they are not the luxury/status items that Teslas were a few years ago

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 11:11 AM (t0Rmr)

16 Who's running General Motors?

Politico, Energy & Environment
'Biden and Mary Barra are buds. It could affect the strike.'
CEO Mary Barra is helping Biden unleash waves of electric cars. That could color how the White House responds to the UAW strike. 09/19/2023

In part, "More recently, a member of the Biden family got a new post at General Motors. Missy Owens, the president’s niece, joined the company in February 2022 and now serves as director of global sustainability policy. According to The Detroit News, she would work under GM Vice President David Strickland, an Obama administration alum who ran the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Ginivan, the GM spokesperson, said Jeff Ricchetti does not lobby the White House Office. She added that Owens, “a sustainability expert with years of experience in corporate sustainability, is not a lobbyist.”

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 16, 2025 11:12 AM (NFX2v)

17 Absent virtue signalling or the government giving subsidies why would you want an EV? I mean...seriously?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 11:08 AM (t0Rmr)
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Where my wife and I live, an EV would make a great "around town and short trip" vehicle. We've several things we do where an EV makes perfect sense. We also have the necessary sub panel for EV charging.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 16, 2025 11:12 AM (tT6L1)

18 @7

>>Now it's time to go after the CAFE standards as a whole.

I believe the OBBB does indeed do just that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 16, 2025 11:13 AM (1yju5)

19 All the Amazon delivery trucks I see in Atlanta are Rivians.

Just a data point.

Posted by: Patrick Carroll at June 16, 2025 11:13 AM (Hvq7a)

20 Thou foul demon ev I rebuke thee and thy minion newscum!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 16, 2025 11:02 AM

The power of ICE compels you!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2025 11:13 AM (dPfyF)

21 Where my wife and I live, an EV would make a great "around town and short trip" vehicle. We've several things we do where an EV makes perfect sense. We also have the necessary sub panel for EV charging.

And would it do that better then an ICE car? Your use case is more in line with what EVs can do...but do they do it better then an ICE?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 11:13 AM (t0Rmr)

22 Missy Owens, the president’s niece, joined the company in February 2022 and now serves as director of global sustainability policy.

Do any of these people ever get real jobs? Director of global sustainability policy, yeah, that's a thing.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2025 11:14 AM (s8j++)

23 7 Now it's time to go after the CAFE standards as a whole.
Posted by: pawn, one of many at June 16, 2025 11:06 AM (QB+5g)

Agreed. Think of the children- if it saves just one life....

Posted by: tankdemon at June 16, 2025 11:15 AM (R256O)

24 California is calling EPA regulations “lawful procedures” while also stating that actual legislation passed by Congress and the President is “an illegal playbook.”

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"You can't make this shite up."

-- Zombie George Orwell

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 16, 2025 11:15 AM (KZEU6)

25 Where my wife and I live, an EV would make a great "around town and short trip" vehicle. We've several things we do where an EV makes perfect sense. We also have the necessary sub panel for EV charging.

And would it do that better then an ICE car? Your use case is more in line with what EVs can do...but do they do it better then an ICE?

If he thinks so, then yes. As the Dodge guy said, we as a people tend to get testy when someone tries to tell us what's best for us.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2025 11:15 AM (s8j++)

26 Do any of these people ever get real jobs? Director of global sustainability policy, yeah, that's a thing.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2025 11:14 AM

*channels inner John Bender*

Demented and sad, but a thing.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2025 11:16 AM (dPfyF)

27 I like stories with happy endings

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2025 11:16 AM (+qU29)

28 I’ve seen the performance advantages of electric drive, but I’m won’t put either an EV or even a hybrid in my garage because of the fire risk. That would seem to me to be the sort of concern manufacturers would address. But they don’t go there.

Posted by: Advo at June 16, 2025 11:16 AM (jO4mz)

29 A bunch of blue states were planning on banning ICE cars at a certain date. I wonder if they will intentionally lose these fights with Trump because their ICE elimination rules would leave most of the population in their states without transportation and this way they can virtue signal AND not have to deal with angry plebes

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 11:16 AM (t0Rmr)

30 When Democrats say that “democracy” is threatened by the Trump administration, what they mean is that governance by unelected bureaucrats is being threatened.

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Old & Busted: No Kings.
New Hotness: No Strings.

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 16, 2025 11:16 AM (KZEU6)

31 And would it do that better then an ICE car? Your use case is more in line with what EVs can do...but do they do it better then an ICE?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 11:13 AM (t0Rmr)
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In this case, I don't believe it's a "one is better than the other." I think an ICE vehicle would also do the job equally well, not necessarily better. Where we might come out ahead is maintenance, as I believe the EV might not need nearly as much regular maintenance as an ICE vehicle. But, caveat, that's more of an opinion than an informed opinion.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 16, 2025 11:17 AM (tT6L1)

32 "President Donald Trump moved Thursday to eliminate California’s nation-leading vehicle emissions standards, upending strict rules that . . . "

Please. Stop. I can only get so excited.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2025 11:17 AM (D7oie)

33 Force that square peg in a round hole.

Love it when you talk dirty.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 16, 2025 11:17 AM (Gv/ba)

34 10 Absent virtue signalling or the government giving subsidies why would you want an EV? I mean...seriously?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 11:08 AM (t0Rmr)

There ARE some performance benefits. BUT, the trade offs to me are not really worth it.

I saw a Miata RF the other day on lunch. I like the idea. Has a kind of T top look, although I think it messes with the rear end look a bit.

My point being, there are two schools of thought: insane engine size in a heavier car vs decent engine size, but in a much lighter, more agile body. You had this in Pony cars vs stuff like the Lotus or Triumphs.

EVs short circuit the argument and please neither side.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 11:17 AM (bss/y)

35 I used my Smart electric to commute for 3 years (lease period). Was great for city driving, super torque-y, very economical and lots of fun. And charged overnight on 120V plug (no costly 220V outlet). Limited use case but worked great (and it had A/C for this climate). And with moronic state tax credit was unbelievably cheap to lease.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at June 16, 2025 11:17 AM (AdHga)

36 All these EV startups missed a perfect sales opportunity by not making their cars sound like the flying car in The Jetsons.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 16, 2025 11:17 AM (FoIOl)

37 Do any of these people ever get real jobs? Director of global sustainability policy, yeah, that's a thing.

These people jump between NGOs, fake corporate jobs, and Dem political/bureaucratic positions.

The whole point is to have a trained, politically correct, and dependent cadre of activists to tap whenever necessary.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 11:18 AM (t0Rmr)

38 A bunch of blue states were planning on banning ICE cars at a certain date. I wonder if they will intentionally lose these fights with Trump because their ICE elimination rules would leave most of the population in their states without transportation and this way they can virtue signal AND not have to deal with angry plebes

Bingo. They're happiest when someone is saving them from their own folly.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2025 11:18 AM (s8j++)

39 Old & Busted: Stay inside due to internal Combustion engine emissions.

New Hotness: Stay inside to noxious and lung scaring Lithium Ion battery fires.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 16, 2025 11:18 AM (17s+e)

40 The bad news is that its CEO, Mary Barra, is still babbling about an all-electric future.

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Maybe it's my imagination, but it sure seems like there are a lot of women CEOs of major companies these days who are hell-bent on advancing pure leftist garbage. So many times, I see a very stupid decision and it's a woman responsible for the stupidity.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2025 11:18 AM (qBdHI)

41 19 All the Amazon delivery trucks I see in Atlanta are Rivians.

Just a data point.
Posted by: Patrick Carroll at June 16, 2025 11:13 AM (Hvq7a)

Here also in Lexington, KY.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 11:18 AM (bss/y)

42 I just noticed on TV that Hennepin County in MN likes checking all the boxes. DA, lesbian. Sheriff, black woman of considerable bulk.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 16, 2025 11:19 AM (gm9Sb)

43 27 I like stories with happy endings
Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2025 11:16 AM (+qU29)

That's how Al Gore likes his massage parlors.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 16, 2025 11:19 AM (R256O)

44 Who is Running General Motors?

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Bush/Obama!

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 16, 2025 11:19 AM (dcjTK)

45 I would prefer to stay out of the way of California's suicide. Let them ban cars.

Posted by: toby928 at June 16, 2025 11:20 AM (jc0TO)

46 Oh, and if I ban ICE in CA wont Nevada just issue non-resident tags and cash in.

BTW, doesn't Nevada already do this?

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at June 16, 2025 11:20 AM (AdHga)

47 Two Mondays in a row, Buck comes through with EV Inferno stories. Very good work!

Posted by: Sterno Steve at June 16, 2025 11:20 AM (G5+As)

48 Now it's time to go after the CAFE standards as a whole.
Posted by: pawn, one of many at June 16, 2025 11:06 AM (QB+5g)

Agreed. Think of the children- if it saves just one life....

Posted by: tankdemon

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I don't understand why that EO wasn't part of the Day 1 activities after PDT's coronation.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 16, 2025 11:21 AM (k/U8Z)

49 GM designed the most successful ICE engine ever created, the small block V8.

So, naturally, discarding that legacy was the righteous thing to do.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 16, 2025 11:08 AM (tT6L1)

I would say that Ford's 289 and Chevy's 327 were the most successful V8's ever made. They were almost indestructible.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 16, 2025 11:21 AM (g8Ew8)

50 Maybe it's my imagination, but it sure seems like there are a lot of women CEOs of major companies these days who are hell-bent on advancing pure leftist garbage. So many times, I see a very stupid decision and it's a woman responsible for the stupidity.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2025 11:18 AM (qBdHI)
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They may be female, but, I would argue 'ettes are truly women. And, as such, they're not nearly as inclined to foolishness as female CEO's.

YMMV

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 16, 2025 11:21 AM (tT6L1)

51 Tehran has asked Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman to press U.S. President Donald Trump to use his influence on Israel to agree to an immediate ceasefire with Iran in return for Tehran's flexibility in nuclear negotiations, two Iranian and three regional sources told Reuters on Monday. Gulf leaders and their top diplomats worked the phones all weekend, speaking to each other, to Tehran, Washington and beyond in an effort to avoid a widening of the conflict as longstanding enemies Israel and Iran intensified their attacks in their biggest ever confrontation.

Posted by: SMOD at June 16, 2025 11:22 AM (RHGPo)

52 The EV rush is sort of a much larger replay of the Segway euphoria.

For those that don't remember when the Segway came out the FNM claimed it would change everything and was one of the most important inventions in recent years.

And if you live in a city with ridiculous traffic, no real needs to get out of the city, and weather that is fine pretty much year round they could be used to get around - so basically pretty good for the left leaning futurist crowd.

Same thing with EVs. The people writing these peons don't live in the sticks, they don't haul things, and their lives and livelihood won't be ruined if they forgot to charge their car...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 11:22 AM (t0Rmr)

53 VinFast famously seduced North Carolina’s governor into condemning residences, businesses, and churches to acquire land for a plant that VinFast will never get around to building.

Someone should be cut for doing that.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 11:22 AM (fab8c)

54 Who is Running General Motors?

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Bush/Obama!
Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 16, 2025 11:19 AM (dcjTK)

The Jewish lobby!

Posted by: BurtTC at June 16, 2025 11:23 AM (dGCAG)

55 Ginivan, the GM spokesperson, said Jeff Ricchetti does not lobby the White House Office. She added that Owens, “a sustainability expert with years of experience in corporate sustainability, is not a lobbyist.”
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I'm curious what 'corporate sustainability' is. I'm guessing it has something to do with charting a course that gets the company through a heavily regulated industry. Someone with years of experience in this would be involved in kickbacks and payouts, influence peddling, favors and, dare I say, lobbying.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 16, 2025 11:23 AM (Dv3i1)

56 Bitch ass mullahs.

Crying for war for decades. The second it comes to your door, you're crying for Daddy to make the mean bullies stop pantsing you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2025 11:23 AM (VoAdT)

57 I would say that Ford's 289 and Chevy's 327 were the most successful V8's ever made. They were almost indestructible.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 16, 2025 11:21 AM (g8Ew

I miss cubic inch designations.

305=5.0L

350=~5.7L

To me, it seemed cooler- which is probably why they did away with it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 11:23 AM (bss/y)

58 149 >>> Scientists Successfully Beam Light Through An Entire Human Head, Opening Doors To Revolutionary Brain Imaging

... does this work for all humans, or just Joe Biden
Posted by: SMOD at June 16, 2025 10:37 AM (RHGPo)

The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth
Posted by: banana Dream at June 16, 2025 10:41 AM (cduTK)

Ouch.

Posted by: Ted williams at June 16, 2025 11:24 AM (OA79/)

59 Missy Owens, the president’s niece, joined the company in February 2022 and now serves as director of global sustainability policy.

Do any of these people ever get real jobs? Director of global sustainability policy, yeah, that's a thing.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2025 11:14 AM (s8j++)

What is her tangible work product output? Frequency? Volume? Or, endless meeting notes?

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 16, 2025 11:24 AM (wVcYX)

60 I would say that Ford's 289 and Chevy's 327 were the most successful V8's ever made. They were almost indestructible.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 16, 2025 11:21 AM (g8Ew

==

I was and am a proud owner of both those. Had a 66 Fastback Mustang with a factory HIPO 289 and a 59 Apache with a 327/350 in it.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 16, 2025 11:24 AM (17s+e)

61 Tehran has asked Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman to press U.S. President Donald Trump to use his influence on Israel to agree to an immediate ceasefire with Iran in return for Tehran's flexibility in nuclear negotiations

#TooLateBishes

You are now at the FO of the FA equation.
You had 60 days.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 11:24 AM (fab8c)

62 51 Tehran has asked Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman to press U.S. President Donald Trump to use his influence on Israel to agree to an immediate ceasefire with Iran in return for Tehran's flexibility in nuclear negotiations, two Iranian and three regional sources told Reuters on Monday. Gulf leaders and their top diplomats worked the phones all weekend, speaking to each other, to Tehran, Washington and beyond in an effort to avoid a widening of the conflict as longstanding enemies Israel and Iran intensified their attacks in their biggest ever confrontation.
Posted by: SMOD at June 16, 2025 11:22 AM (RHGPo)

'Flexibility'. Bullshit. They will not even commit to do anything then. Same old song and dance.

Let the Israeli's eat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 11:24 AM (bss/y)

63 Maybe it's my imagination, but it sure seems like there are a lot of women CEOs of major companies these days who are hell-bent on advancing pure leftist garbage. So many times, I see a very stupid decision and it's a woman responsible for the stupidity.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 16, 2025 11:18 AM (qBdHI)
___________

A female CEO is more likely than a man to be a pure DEI hire and rose through the ranks purely because of her sex. DEI hires in general are more leftist. So the female CEOs are drawn from a pool that's generally more left and less competent than male CEOs. Although male CEOs are often leftist and incompetent too.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2025 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

64 Maybe it's my imagination, but it sure seems like there are a lot of women CEOs of major companies these days who are hell-bent on advancing pure leftist garbage.

CEO types are rather less likely to be traditionally minded women then the average woman, and of course once you are on the corporate track being a leader in all the leftist crap at work, which include feminist supremacism, is an easier way to get ahead then actually improving the bottom line.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 11:25 AM (t0Rmr)

65 Speaking of V8s (maybe AOP would know this) awhile back I was watching one of the car shows. They had a very small Brit sports car, about the size of the Honda 600 roadster. The car had a V8, but it was under 750cc total displacement. Tiny little pistons. Can't remember the name of the car.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 16, 2025 11:25 AM (gm9Sb)

66 I saw Tonawanda open for Al Green at the Perth Zoo in 2010.

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 16, 2025 11:26 AM (OdoXY)

67 I would say that Ford's 289 and Chevy's 327 were the most successful V8's ever made. They were almost indestructible.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 16, 2025 11:21 AM (g8Ew

--------------

I believe total numbers produced and used, the small block Chev wins by a large margin. I think part of it stems from the small block being available in so many different variations. Remember the small block Chev ran the gamut of 283 to 350 CID. Though, those are older iteration and the newer motors may be a bit different. I probably best be quiet, now, because AOP would have a much better handle on this than I.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 16, 2025 11:26 AM (tT6L1)

68 There has always been a way to make your big bad enemy cease fire and not destroy all your shit.

It's called "surrender". Dumbasses.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2025 11:26 AM (VoAdT)

69 65 Speaking of V8s (maybe AOP would know this) awhile back I was watching one of the car shows. They had a very small Brit sports car, about the size of the Honda 600 roadster. The car had a V8, but it was under 750cc total displacement. Tiny little pistons. Can't remember the name of the car.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 16, 2025 11:25 AM (gm9Sb)

Caterham did the Lotus super-7 idea but with a V8, iirc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 11:26 AM (bss/y)

70 How fast is a Hawaiian judge going to overrule Trump on this? I’m guessing by lunchtime tomorrow.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 16, 2025 11:27 AM (/CkK4)

71 CEO types are rather less likely to be traditionally minded women then the average woman, and of course once you are on the corporate track being a leader in all the leftist crap at work, which include feminist supremacism, is an easier way to get ahead then actually improving the bottom line.
Posted by: 18-1

Women drive cars too!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 16, 2025 11:27 AM (Dv3i1)

72 I expect tje Marxists will find a Commissar Judge to over rule King, I mean President Trump

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2025 11:27 AM (+qU29)

73 I wonder how the USPS is doing with their upgraded delivery van? Wasn't that piece of shit supposed to be an EV? The program's like a billion dollars overbudget and not a single EV mailtruck has been delivered. Or something like that.

One would think the administration might want to ring the USPS up and see what's what.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 16, 2025 11:27 AM (Q4IgG)

74
One year ago, Porsche had to recall its electric Taycans from model years 2019 to 2023 due to risk of fire from electric batteries.

Are there any non-electric batteries?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 16, 2025 11:27 AM (63Dwl)

75 Speaking of V8s (maybe AOP would know this) awhile back I was watching one of the car shows. They had a very small Brit sports car, about the size of the Honda 600 roadster. The car had a V8, but it was under 750cc total displacement. Tiny little pistons. Can't remember the name of the car.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 16, 2025 11:25 AM (gm9Sb)
===
Sunbeam made the Tiger which had a 289 in it.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 16, 2025 11:28 AM (17s+e)

76 Women drive cars too!

The hell you say!

Posted by: Saudi Arabia at June 16, 2025 11:28 AM (t0Rmr)

77 All these EV startups missed a perfect sales opportunity by not making their cars sound like the flying car in The Jetsons.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 16, 2025 11:17 AM (FoIOl)

Like the Plymouth Road Runner could make the "Meep Meep" sound for its horn.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 16, 2025 11:28 AM (wVcYX)

78 Imagine having an EV parked in your attached garage next to your other car with a half tank of gas in it...

Posted by: DanMan at June 16, 2025 11:28 AM (8uzBS)

79 I miss cubic inch designations.

305=5.0L

350=~5.7L

To me, it seemed cooler- which is probably why they did away with it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Olds 442
Chevy 454
Ford Torino 529 BOSS

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 11:28 AM (fab8c)

80 >>Tehran has asked Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman to press U.S. President Donald Trump to use his influence on Israel to agree to an immediate ceasefire with Iran in return for Tehran's flexibility in nuclear negotiations

Too late. Israel has just launched attacks on Tehran District 3 where state TV and radio is HQ'd.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 16, 2025 11:28 AM (Y1sOo)

81 One year ago, Porsche had to recall its electric Taycans from model years 2019 to 2023 due to risk of fire from electric batteries.

Are there any non-electric batteries?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 16, 2025 11:27 AM (63Dwl)

Funny you should ask.

Posted by: The Matrix at June 16, 2025 11:29 AM (wVcYX)

82 Speaking of V8s (maybe AOP would know this) awhile back I was watching one of the car shows. They had a very small Brit sports car, about the size of the Honda 600 roadster. The car had a V8, but it was under 750cc total displacement. Tiny little pistons. Can't remember the name of the car.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 16, 2025 11:25 AM (gm9Sb)

Didn't the Sunbeam Tiger have a V8?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 16, 2025 11:29 AM (g8Ew8)

83
One would think the administration might want to ring the USPS up and see what's what.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Send them a letter.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 16, 2025 11:29 AM (63Dwl)

84 Are there any non-electric batteries?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

artillery batteries

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

85 Sunbeam made the Tiger which had a 289 in it.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 16, 2025 11:28 AM (17s+e)

https://tinyurl.com/yu2hk7mh

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 11:29 AM (bss/y)

86 Thx Buck. The story about the Philly buses cracking because the company forgot to factor in the battery weight is a perfect description of the industry. A lot of these companies come up with something that sounds great until you get into the numbers and science. Bankruptcy shouldn't be a surprise

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 16, 2025 11:29 AM (akw+7)

87 Are there any non-electric batteries?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

If memory serves - some artillery.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 16, 2025 11:30 AM (cYBz/)

88 Remember the small block Chev ran the gamut of 283 to 350 CID.
===

Ford went from 260-289-302 and trucks account for a lot of those motors.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 16, 2025 11:30 AM (17s+e)

89 And we despise globalist busy-bodies trying to take our freedoms away from us.

----------------

Even local domestic ones (HomoDomo?) ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 16, 2025 11:30 AM (OdoXY)

90 miss cubic inch designations.

305=5.0L

350=~5.7L

To me, it seemed cooler- which is probably why they did away with it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Saw a clip from That 70s Show where a cheerleader is impressed by the male protagonist's new car. He knows nothing about cars, but when she asks him to tell her more about the engine he just starts making up measurements. That's right this baby has a new, uh, 30 foot turbo forced A8 engine.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 11:30 AM (t0Rmr)

91 Americans love freedom of choice more than anything. When you take away their freedom of choice and tell them ‘you must take this,’ they revolt.

My goodness, I may give Dodge a second look for my next car if they keep acting like this.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 16, 2025 11:30 AM (OPGS/)

92 There has always been a way to make your big bad enemy cease fire and not destroy all your shit.

It's called "surrender". Dumbasses.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
__________

Even surrender didn't work out too well for most of the past, especially if you'd been holding out against a siege.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 16, 2025 11:30 AM (ITkJX)

93 Olds 442
Chevy 454
Ford Torino 529 BOSS
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 11:28 AM (fab8c)

You left out the coolest.

427. Corvette.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 11:30 AM (bss/y)

94 Ford's CEO has XY Chromosomes and has cost his company vast billions, just as Barra has damaged GM. You can't blame women for everything.

Posted by: Equal Opportunity Offender at June 16, 2025 11:31 AM (G5+As)

95 Remember the small block Chev ran the gamut of 283 to 350 CID.

====

All the way up to 396, I think?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 16, 2025 11:31 AM (u+80A)

96
Saw a clip from That 70s Show where a cheerleader is impressed by the male protagonist's new car. He knows nothing about cars, but when she asks him to tell her more about the engine he just starts making up measurements. That's right this baby has a new, uh, 30 foot turbo forced A8 engine.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 11:30 AM (t0Rmr)
------------

Ah, the old Turbo Encabulator pitch.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 16, 2025 11:31 AM (tT6L1)

97 69 75 This car was very limited production. Kind of resembled a scaled down Miata. The engine struck me as novel being a small (tiny) displacement V8. Probably ran very smooth.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 16, 2025 11:31 AM (gm9Sb)

98 Are there any non-electric batteries?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

If memory serves - some artillery.

In Soviet America battery set you on fire

In Soviet Russia battery fire on you, you capitalist pigdog

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 11:31 AM (t0Rmr)

99 Fist bump Bulg.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 16, 2025 11:31 AM (cYBz/)

100 The Chinese EV industry is also turning into a dumpster fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9HY5EcdnHQ

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2025 11:32 AM (s8j++)

101 Saw a clip from That 70s Show where a cheerleader is impressed by the male protagonist's new car. He knows nothing about cars, but when she asks him to tell her more about the engine he just starts making up measurements. That's right this baby has a new, uh, 30 foot turbo forced A8 engine.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 11:30 AM (t0Rmr)
------------

Ah, the old Turbo Encabulator pitch.
Posted by: blake

Don't forget the rack-and-peanut steering!
-- Homer Simpson

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

102 All the way up to 396, I think?
Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 16, 2025 11:31 AM (u+80A)
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Yeah, this is where I realized I needed to stop. I'm on pretty firm ground when it comes to the success of the small block Chev. However, the various iterations? Nope.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 16, 2025 11:32 AM (tT6L1)

103 I would think the Ford Mustang, with the available V-8 and a manual transmission would be an absolute hoot. I periodically see one being advertised around here so I gets to thinking....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 16, 2025 11:33 AM (Q4IgG)

104 She's real fine, my 409.

1 hp per cubic inch.

Posted by: B. Wilson, M. Love, G. Usher (1962) at June 16, 2025 11:33 AM (wVcYX)

105 As I recall Toyota was very near finishing the most efficient ICE ever imagined when the EV shit was introduced. All funding for the engine was channelled to EV and Hybrids. Can't remember the name of the engine.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 16, 2025 11:33 AM (FmapG)

106 I would say that Ford's 289 and Chevy's 327 were the most successful V8's ever made. They were almost indestructible.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 16, 2025 11:21 AM (g8Ew

302 (5.0) and the 350 (tree fiddy).

Posted by: Reforger at June 16, 2025 11:33 AM (xcIvR)

107 84 Are there any non-electric batteries?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

The Bronx is up,
The Battery's down.

Posted by: New York, New York at June 16, 2025 11:34 AM (G5+As)

108 One thing I don't understand about ED'S is why are they so small? Thanks to CAFE standards, the average sized sedan is puny compared to the average sized sedan on the 60's and 70's. I believe that is part of the reason SUV's are so popular- you can actually fit four people into an SUV. EV's, with their supposedly hyped up MPG equivalent really don't have to worry about downsizing to add a couple of extra MPGs to make the fleet minimum requirement, so why are they still the same size as all the other cars on the road? I know that by nature (or, rather, manufacture) EV's are generally already heavier than ICE vehicles, but you still have MPG equivalent to spare, so give us a vehicle that doesn't have such a cramped interior. Make back seats great again!

Come on, Tesla, it's time to return the classic land yacht to the American highway.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 16, 2025 11:34 AM (R256O)

109 Ford went from 260-289-302 and trucks account for a lot of those motors.
Posted by: Jukin

78 Ford F250 351M/400.

351 block factory modified to 400. Had one. Biggest regret in life? Getting rid of it. Getting rid of a 1982 6" nickel plated Colt Python is a very close second.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 11:34 AM (fab8c)

110 From Jeff Childers.: How did Vance Boelter fund an apparently lavish lifestyle —marked by a large home, five children, weapons, at least $50K in cash, disguises, and multiple vehicles (including a late-model SUV modified to look like a police car)— despite being unemployed? Where’d the money come from? It’s a conundrum, but don’t look to media to quell the curiosity.

I see some people comparing him to Routh, but Routh was clearly working for an American Nat Sec agency.

Did this guy get THAT rich from the NGO scams he was running?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 11:34 AM (t0Rmr)

111 The entirety of Iran is now subject to virtually unfettered Israeli air attack. Note the map at the link: it's about as far from Israel as it's possible to get in Iran.

https://is.gd/9Awx8A

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2025 11:35 AM (s8j++)

112 However, the various iterations? Nope.

Posted by: blake

=====

Same. At some point somebody explained that the biggest small block was bigger than the smallest big block. And I gave up.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 16, 2025 11:35 AM (u+80A)

113 From the river to the sea,

My car has a 383!

Posted by: BurtTC at June 16, 2025 11:35 AM (dGCAG)

114 14
‘ ANY voting method is subject to Democrat efforts at voter suppression. Thus, the only solution is not to have elections at all’

I’d also settle for a loaded gun at the head of democrat vote counters to keep them aware of the need for an honest count.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 16, 2025 11:35 AM (jbnUc)

115 98 69 75 This car was very limited production. Kind of resembled a scaled down Miata. The engine struck me as novel being a small (tiny) displacement V8. Probably ran very smooth.
----------------
Remember the Sunbeam Tiger? Maxwell Smart remembers.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 16, 2025 11:35 AM (FmapG)

116 Let me tell you what Melba Toast is packin' right here, all right. We got 4:11 Positrac outback, 750 double pumper, Edelbrock intake, bored over 30, 11 to 1 pop-up pistons, turbo-jet 390 horsepower. We're talkin' some fuckin' muscle.

Posted by: Wooderson at June 16, 2025 11:36 AM (wVcYX)

117 I’d also settle for a loaded gun at the head of democrat vote counters to keep them aware of the need for an honest count.

Newsletter?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2025 11:36 AM (s8j++)

118 And these are not the ravings of a madman, but the respected leader of a jihad group.

-
Tomayto tomahto.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 16, 2025 11:36 AM (L/fGl)

119
I keep sayin', the California legislature is secretly cheering Trump's move against vehicle standards. They know perfectly well he has saved them from their own asses.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 16, 2025 11:37 AM (wbZPZ)

120 I would think the Ford Mustang, with the available V-8 and a manual transmission would be an absolute hoot. I periodically see one being advertised around here so I gets to thinking....
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I would love to see a custom car manufacturer make old styles with current technology.

Imagine a 1957 Chevy Bel Aire with current technology. Disc brakes. Carbon fiber body panels.
Or a 1969 GTO Goat.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 11:37 AM (fab8c)

121 116 Maxwell Smart was kicking himself in the ass for getting rid of the Karmann Ghia after Lucas, Prince of Darkness, visited the Sunbeam.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 16, 2025 11:38 AM (gm9Sb)

122 And these are not the ravings of a madman, but the respected leader of a jihad group.

Austere religious scholar

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 11:38 AM (77rzZ)

123 I keep sayin', the California legislature is secretly cheering Trump's move against vehicle standards. They know perfectly well he has saved them from their own asses.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 16, 2025 11:37 AM (wbZPZ)
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Yeah, and the people who supply electricity to CA are also breathing sighs of relief. They probably had no idea where they were going to get electricity for the EV's.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 16, 2025 11:38 AM (tT6L1)

124 From the river to the sea,

My car has a 383!
Posted by: BurtTC at June 16, 2025 11:35 AM (dGCAG)

I see you're still driving a DeSoto.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 16, 2025 11:39 AM (g8Ew8)

125 Ferrari built a 2 liter V-8 in 1975.

Posted by: 208 GT4 at June 16, 2025 11:39 AM (G5+As)

126 I have a 1984 F250 superduty with a 460 with an 850 cfm Holley carb. No emmisions from the factory as it was built as an airport truck. You can watch the gas guage go down as you drive. I get maybe 10mpg on a good day.

Posted by: Reforger at June 16, 2025 11:39 AM (xcIvR)

127 VinFast famously seduced North Carolina’s governor into condemning residences, businesses, and churches to acquire land for a plant that VinFast will never get around to building.

----------------

Eminence Disdain.

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 16, 2025 11:39 AM (bvYoE)

128 From Jeff Childers.: How did Vance Boelter fund an apparently lavish lifestyle —marked by a large home, five children, weapons, at least $50K in cash, disguises, and multiple vehicles (including a late-model SUV modified to look like a police car)— despite being unemployed? Where’d the money come from? It’s a conundrum, but don’t look to media to quell the curiosity.

I see some people comparing him to Routh, but Routh was clearly working for an American Nat Sec agency.

Did this guy get THAT rich from the NGO scams he was running?
Posted by: 18-1

He and his wife owned a security company.
The Boelters ran Praetorian Guard Security, a “private security” firm with international military experience — including the West Bank, Lebanon, Gaza, and more.

There's more than meets the eye here.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 11:39 AM (fab8c)

129 Olds 442
Chevy 454
Ford Torino 529 BOSS
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 11:28 AM (fab8c)

You left out the coolest.

427. Corvette.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 11:30 AM (bss/y)
===

My 68 Cadi ragtop has the venerable 472 and it gets about 15 mpg if I don't put my foot into it too much.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 16, 2025 11:40 AM (17s+e)

130
I'd like to see cars with the big tail fins like the old Cadillacs used to have.

And great big silver longhorns for the front bumper on the Texas Edition.

Make it so!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 16, 2025 11:40 AM (iJfKG)

131
It doesn’t mean they are making an irrational decision, maybe they are, maybe they aren’t, I don’t know. But we as Americans, that’s what we do.

Sounds to me like he's just mad at us for not wanting to buy EVs.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 16, 2025 11:40 AM (63Dwl)

132 I see you're still driving a DeSoto.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 16, 2025 11:39 AM (g8Ew

Built by Hernando himself!

Posted by: BurtTC at June 16, 2025 11:40 AM (dGCAG)

133 80 >>Tehran has asked Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman to press U.S. President Donald Trump to use his influence on Israel to agree to an immediate ceasefire with Iran in return for Tehran's flexibility in nuclear negotiations

Too late. Israel has just launched attacks on Tehran District 3 where state TV and radio is HQ'd.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 16, 2025 11:28 AM (Y1sOo)

Any "negotiation" by Iran needs to begin with these two words: "We Surrender..."

Someone put up a very funny piece about Putin speaking with Iran yesterday. Iran asked Putin for help, and they noted that Putin pretty much replayed the part of the Preacher in Blazing Saddles, saying "You're On your Own, Son!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2025 11:41 AM (uWKK8)

134 When does the Mangione trial start?

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

135 I've said this before: Here in Israel, we have tons of EVs and from mostly Chinese manufacturers whose brand names I cannot keep track of.

Yet we don't seem to have an epidemic of EV fires, to the best of my knowledge. If true, why would that be?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 16, 2025 11:41 AM (NCzg5)

136 I have a 1984 F250 superduty with a 460 with an 850 cfm Holley carb. No emmisions from the factory as it was built as an airport truck. You can watch the gas guage go down as you drive. I get maybe 10mpg on a good day.
Posted by: Reforger

My 78 3/4 ton 351M/400 could pull a house off it's foundation. The only thing it couldn't pass was a gas station.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 11:41 AM (fab8c)

137 Americans love freedom of choice more than anything. When you take away their freedom of choice and tell them ‘you must take this,’ they revolt.

—

Yep!! When 1/2 of America was forced to stay inside for 2 years because a flu outbreak they totally revoted. Just like when they were forced to give up their health insurance and buy govt run Obamacare insurance instead.

Oh wait…

Can we stop this “Americans love freedom” stuff? Maybe 50 years ago this was still somewhat true. But not today. The majority of people are happy to follow government dictates without much fuss. Sure some will complain but at the end of the day we all follow.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 16, 2025 11:41 AM (/CkK4)

138 He and his wife owned a security company.
The Boelters ran Praetorian Guard Security, a “private security” firm with international military experience — including the West Bank, Lebanon, Gaza, and more.

There's more than meets the eye here.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 11:39 AM (fab8c)
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This sounds like the company hired by MN politicians for protection when they started defunding the police.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 16, 2025 11:42 AM (tT6L1)

139 Two union leaders quit the DNC. Weingarten and Saunders.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 16, 2025 11:42 AM (P9gC0)

140 I see you're still driving a DeSoto.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 16, 2025 11:39 AM (g8Ew

Built by Hernando himself!
Posted by: BurtTC at June 16, 2025 11:40 AM (dGCAG)

I can see an ABBA car song coming.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 16, 2025 11:42 AM (wVcYX)

141 Where is the love for Chrysler's 318? That engine production was just as long and was very reliable. A 318 powered my 67 Cortez motorhome.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 16, 2025 11:43 AM (17s+e)

142 My 68 Cadi ragtop has the venerable 472 and it gets about 15 mpg if I don't put my foot into it too much.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 16, 2025 11:40 AM (17s+e)

Good friend years back had a 1970 Mercury Marquis convertible with a 429 Police Interceptor in it. That car was magnificent on the highway, and talk about a land yacht! You could have fit most economy cars today in its trunk.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2025 11:43 AM (uWKK8)

143 My 68 Cadi ragtop has the venerable 472 and it gets about 15 mpg if I don't put my foot into it too much.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 16, 2025 11:40 AM (17s+e)
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So, truth be told, the Caddy gets about 12mpg.....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 16, 2025 11:43 AM (tT6L1)

144 Convert those EV battery plants to making Lithium batteries for other purposes. Golf carts, drones, hybrids, etc.

EVs may go away but lithium batteries are here to stay.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2025 11:43 AM (VofaG)

145 Too late. Israel has just launched attacks on Tehran District 3 where state TV and radio is HQ'd.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 16, 2025 11:28 AM (Y1sOo)
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WAS:

https://tinyurl.com/mzaw82ew

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 16, 2025 11:43 AM (NCzg5)

146 I would love to see a custom car manufacturer make old styles with current technology.

Imagine a 1957 Chevy Bel Aire with current technology. Disc brakes. Carbon fiber body panels.
Or a 1969 GTO Goat.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 11:37 AM (fab8c)

Custom builders do that. They will take a modern version of the car and turn it into a classic looking one. The most scale version one I can think of was when they were turning C5 and 6 corvettes into C1-2 'looking' vettes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 11:43 AM (bss/y)

147 Two union leaders quit the DNC. Weingarten and Saunders.

In Weingarten's case, it sounds like she was miffed at David Hogg's defenestration. She apparently thinks the party isn't moving rapidly enough towards the edge of the cliff.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2025 11:44 AM (s8j++)

148 Commo works better in arid climates. Maybe batteries are the same?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 16, 2025 11:44 AM (P9gC0)

149 So, truth be told, the Caddy gets about 12mpg.....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 16, 2025 11:43 AM (tT6L1)
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BINGO

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 16, 2025 11:44 AM (17s+e)

150 29
‘ I wonder if they will intentionally lose these fights with Trump because their ICE elimination rules would leave most of the population in their states without transportation’

That’s too bad if they lose because they’ll be deprived of a chance to learn from the consequence of their actions.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 16, 2025 11:45 AM (jbnUc)

151 The inability to print a ballot is ultimately no different than a refusal to provide a ballot to a voter. It is voter suppression.

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* Republican precincts in Maricopa County, AZ have entered the post *

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 16, 2025 11:45 AM (NlLwz)

152 Yet we don't seem to have an epidemic of EV fires, to the best of my knowledge. If true, why would that be?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 16, 2025 11:41 AM (NCzg5)

If they are mostly small vehicles, it may be that smaller batteries have less risk of fire.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2025 11:45 AM (uWKK8)

153 My Chevy trail boss turbo only gets about 17mpg right now. And that’s about 2 mpg more than I used to get in my Jeep Wrangler.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2025 11:46 AM (VofaG)

154 153 Yet we don't seem to have an epidemic of EV fires, to the best of my knowledge. If true, why would that be?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 16, 2025 11:41 AM (NCzg5)

If they are mostly small vehicles, it may be that smaller batteries have less risk of fire.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2025 11:45 AM (uWKK

Or they're powered by seven chinese midgets pedaling furiously.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2025 11:47 AM (VoAdT)

155 The DJIA is almost up a full percent at the moment. Kind of surprising considering the war in the Middle East, recent protests, etc. Maybe they figure the war isn't as bad as the assumed, and the protests were a bust?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 16, 2025 11:47 AM (JCZqz)

156 Neither a fortress or a virgin can hold out for long, once they begin to negotiate.

Posted by: Zombie Ben Franklin at June 16, 2025 11:47 AM (FoIOl)

157 Chrysler Slant 6 was a near-indestructible stump puller.

My college bud had that in his Dodge Dart and we literally pulled stumps with it.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 16, 2025 11:47 AM (wVcYX)

158 VinFast famously seduced North Carolina’s governor into condemning residences, businesses, and churches to acquire land for a plant that VinFast will never get around to building.

Tee hee.

Posted by: CA High Speed Rail at June 16, 2025 11:47 AM (ZMKNH)

159 A large mob was seen looting an AutoZone store in South Los Angeles early Monday morning

Posted by: SMOD at June 16, 2025 11:47 AM (RHGPo)

160
charged overnight on 120V plug

Posted by: actually inside the beltway

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What did it do to your utility bill, if you paid one? Where I am, I'm already turning my heater to "Vacation" intermittently.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 16, 2025 11:48 AM (wbZPZ)

161 Stunning and brave peace activists cry about how big, bad Egypt refused to let them march to Gaza.

https://shorturl.at/f6yKW

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 16, 2025 11:48 AM (L/fGl)

162 Unless/until EVs can become a valid alternative for the plain old Honda Fit, natural demand will always be hovering right around zero.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 11:48 AM (xTinh)

163 Look behind a Stop N Go or Shell station. At most you will see a 25k transformer (about double a house size) to power the A/C, Pumps, and Coolers.

For a station with four 150 kW DC fast chargers, a typical transformer size would be around 750 kVA to 1,000 kVA, depending on the specific installation requirements and distance.

You cannot just drop in 4 fast chargers at that locations as now you will need to get power to the 750 k transformer. And so that corner station may be near a residential area that has ZERO infrastructure to support the installation.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2025 11:48 AM (gbOdA)

164 RickB they've already got parts kits to do all of that. If you have the money you can do anything you please with most old cars. I do NOT have the money so I still go with 4 wheel drums and mostly stock suspension.

Posted by: Jb at June 16, 2025 11:48 AM (yBGaa)

165 156 The DJIA is almost up a full percent at the moment. Kind of surprising considering the war in the Middle East, recent protests, etc. Maybe they figure the war isn't as bad as the assumed, and the protests were a bust?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 16, 2025 11:47 AM (JCZqz)

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The stock market is disconnected completely from economic reality and is instead a center for degenerate gamblers who have taken over the house through the use of degenerate gambling algorithms.

Looking to the stock market for any read of economic reality is a fool's errand.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

166 I noticed gas prices were up 40 cents.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 16, 2025 11:49 AM (P9gC0)

167 Where is the love for Chrysler's 318? That engine production was just as long and was very reliable. A 318 powered my 67 Cortez motorhome.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 16, 2025 11:43 AM (17s+e)

My first car was a 55 Plymouth with a 318. It was old, abused, and a wheezer when I bought it, but it always got me where I wanted to go.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 16, 2025 11:49 AM (g8Ew8)

168 Good friend years back had a 1970 Mercury Marquis convertible with a 429 Police Interceptor in it. That car was magnificent on the highway, and talk about a land yacht! You could have fit most economy cars today in its trunk.
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It also looked like a cop car in the rear view mirror. Cars would automatically switch lanes and give you your own lane. Wonderfully fun to drive.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 16, 2025 11:49 AM (FmapG)

169 I had a 455 Rocket in my 74 Cutlass Salon that I had in college. The freeze plugs would keep breaking.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2025 11:49 AM (VofaG)

170 Chrysler Slant 6 was a near-indestructible stump puller.

My college bud had that in his Dodge Dart and we literally pulled stumps with it.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 16, 2025 11:47 AM (wVcYX)
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Still irritates me that motor died on the alter of emissions. Great engine.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 16, 2025 11:49 AM (tT6L1)

171 42
“ Hennepin County in MN likes checking all the boxes. DA, lesbian. Sheriff, black woman of considerable bulk.‘

She’s a Person Of Calories.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 16, 2025 11:49 AM (jbnUc)

172 My first car was a 55 Plymouth with a 318. It was old, abused, and a wheezer when I bought it, but it always got me where I wanted to go.
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Mine was a 59 T-Bird. About the same weight as a Sherman Tank.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 16, 2025 11:50 AM (FmapG)

173 158 Chrysler Slant 6 was a near-indestructible stump puller.

My college bud had that in his Dodge Dart and we literally pulled stumps with it.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 16, 2025 11:47 AM (wVcYX)

The new Ram 3 litre twin turbo like I have that makes 550 HP is called the SST. Straight Six Turbo.
They should have tilted it a few degrees and called it the slant 6 Turbo.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 16, 2025 11:50 AM (gbOdA)

174 101 The Chinese EV industry is also turning into a dumpster fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9HY5EcdnHQ

I recommend this link. The parallels to the dot.com bubble are very clear.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2025 11:51 AM (s8j++)

175 She’s a Person of Calories.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

A Person Experiencing Caloricity.

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

176 What of the Fire Chief?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 16, 2025 11:51 AM (P9gC0)

177 Hi everyone. My brother WitchDoktor told me to come here and check this place out.

If this ends up being like Reddit I swear to God I’m organizing a DoS attack.

Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 11:51 AM (H621s)

178 Good friend years back had a 1970 Mercury Marquis convertible with a 429 Police Interceptor in it. That car was magnificent on the highway, and talk about a land yacht! You could have fit most economy cars today in its trunk.
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It also looked like a cop car in the rear view mirror. Cars would automatically switch lanes and give you your own lane. Wonderfully fun to drive.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 16, 2025 11:49 AM (FmapG)

Can endorse!

Posted by: Zombie Broderick Crawford at June 16, 2025 11:51 AM (wVcYX)

179 171 Chrysler Slant 6 was a near-indestructible stump puller.
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I had a 46 Dodge coupe with a flat head six. You could run a lumber mill with that engine.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 16, 2025 11:51 AM (FmapG)

180 84 Are there any non-electric batteries?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

artillery batteries
Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

Benjamin Franklin used the term "battery" to refer to connected leyden jars producing a charge because he thought of them working together like an artillery battery, so the two are related.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 16, 2025 11:52 AM (R256O)

181 RickB they've already got parts kits to do all of that. If you have the money you can do anything you please with most old cars. I do NOT have the money so I still go with 4 wheel drums and mostly stock suspension.
Posted by: Jb

👍🏻👍🏻

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 11:52 AM (fab8c)

182 Women are by nature more susceptible to Marxists rhetoric

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2025 11:52 AM (+qU29)

183 51
‘ Tehran has asked Qatar,…’

Good cop/Bad cop may be working.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 16, 2025 11:52 AM (jbnUc)

184 Looking to the stock market for any read of economic reality is a fool's errand.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

I started screening for some stocks to mess around with in my "fun fund" account, since I haven't really done anything in years.

Good gravy. Is every company fake? Is there anyone left who actually makes anything, or are they all just these weird, nebulous, obscure self-parodies of companies whose only purpose is to occupy four letters on a ticker?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2025 11:52 AM (VoAdT)

185 160 A large mob was seen looting an AutoZone store in South Los Angeles early Monday morning
Posted by: SMOD

Do they still sell those crown air fresheners?

Posted by: Get In The Zone at June 16, 2025 11:53 AM (G5+As)

186 Sunbeam Tiger was hot.

Posted by: Eromero at June 16, 2025 11:53 AM (LHPAg)

187 My wife and I saw the play Frankenstein in DC on Saturday. A brand-new adaptation of the story.

It was outstanding. I encourage all 'Rons and 'Ettes in the DC area to check it out. But hurry! It's only here until the end of June.

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 11:53 AM (77rzZ)

188 You cannot just drop in 4 fast chargers at that locations as now you will need to get power to the 750 k transformer. And so that corner station may be near a residential area that has ZERO infrastructure to support the installation.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Wave the hand. Wave the hand! Make it so!

😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 11:54 AM (fab8c)

189 After I got rid of my Cutlass I bought a used red Delta 88. It was referred to as the big red yacht in the frat parking lot.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2025 11:54 AM (VofaG)

190 A female CEO is more likely than a man to be a pure DEI hire and rose through the ranks purely because of her sex. DEI hires in general are more leftist. So the female CEOs are drawn from a pool that's generally more left and less competent than male CEOs. Although male CEOs are often leftist and incompetent too.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2025 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

I'd be willing to bet DEI hires are almost exclusively leftists, because right-thinking people, even if technically "
diverse" will have nothing to do with the process.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 16, 2025 11:54 AM (bXBL5)

191 Or they're powered by seven chinese midgets pedaling furiously.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2025 11:47 AM (VoAdT)
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Still, you need the battery to jolt them into running.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 16, 2025 11:54 AM (NCzg5)

192 185 I started screening for some stocks to mess around with in my "fun fund" account, since I haven't really done anything in years.

Good gravy. Is every company fake? Is there anyone left who actually makes anything, or are they all just these weird, nebulous, obscure self-parodies of companies whose only purpose is to occupy four letters on a ticker?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2025 11:52 AM (VoAdT)

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90% in the QQQs.
The final 10% in put options against the QQQs.

It's the only reasoned option left.

Make what you can as fast as you can.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

193 Do they still sell those crown air fresheners?
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Snort.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 16, 2025 11:55 AM (FmapG)

194 Hi everyone. My brother WitchDoktor told me to come here and check this place out.

If this ends up being like Reddit I swear to God I’m organizing a DoS attack.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 11:51 AM (H621s)

Well, apparently my sister decided to grace us with her presence. Did you finally get fired for pissing off that HR drone with the PornHub subscription you were going to get for her?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 11:55 AM (xTinh)

195 Attack of the Cat Ladies!

https://shorturl.at/od5US

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 16, 2025 11:55 AM (L/fGl)

196 Are there any non-electric batteries?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Don't look at me. Bitch was asking for it all them times.

Posted by: Zombie Ike Turner at June 16, 2025 11:55 AM (ZMKNH)

197 Benjamin Franklin used the term "battery" to refer to connected leyden jars producing a charge because he thought of them working together like an artillery battery, so the two are related.
Posted by: tankdemon

Thanks. I had read that, but forgotten it.

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 11:55 AM (77rzZ)

198 Thou foul demon ev I rebuke thee and thy minion newscum!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 16, 2025 11:02 AM

The power of ICE compels you!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2025 11:13 AM

Now that I think it over, that would have been better as

The power of ICE propels you!

I need more coffee.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2025 11:55 AM (dPfyF)

199 167 I noticed gas prices were up 40 cents.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 16, 2025 11:49 AM (P9gC0)

Saw a weird one yesterday. Thornton's was 2.69 on one side of the street. Shell on the other was 2.99.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 11:55 AM (bss/y)

200 I believe total numbers produced and used, the small block Chev wins by a large margin. I think part of it stems from the small block being available in so many different variations. Remember the small block Chev ran the gamut of 283 to 350 CID. Though, those are older iteration and the newer motors may be a bit different. I probably best be quiet, now, because AOP would have a much better handle on this than I.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 16, 2025 11:26 AM (tT6L1)

They made a 262 for the Monza, and there was 400 small-block, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 16, 2025 11:56 AM (bXBL5)

201 195 Hi everyone. My brother WitchDoktor told me to come here and check this place out.

If this ends up being like Reddit I swear to God I’m organizing a DoS attack.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 11:51 AM (H621s)

Well, apparently my sister decided to grace us with her presence. Did you finally get fired for pissing off that HR drone with the PornHub subscription you were going to get for her?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 11:55 AM (xTinh)

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Heh.

This is gonna be like Joe Mannix and YD.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

202 If this ends up being like Reddit I swear to God I’m organizing a DoS attack.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 11:51 AM (H621s)

Ha. We are a primitive corner of the internet. I you want to attack this place the only option is to find the plug.

Posted by: Reforger at June 16, 2025 11:56 AM (xcIvR)

203 Walz calls for ‘decency’ after Minnesota shootings: ‘It’s not about mean tweets’, but Senator Jeff "Mick" Merkley (D-OR) said without proof, “I feel like Trump has really popped the lid off of the rhetoric and the the sense of hate and violence and promoted this type of an environment."

Posted by: SMOD at June 16, 2025 11:56 AM (RHGPo)

204 180 171 Chrysler Slant 6 was a near-indestructible stump puller.
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I had a 46 Dodge coupe with a flat head six. You could run a lumber mill with that engine.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 16, 2025 11:51 AM (FmapG)
Slant Six still pumping irrigation systems all over. I've had two, 63 Valiant and 86 Dodge pickup.

Posted by: Eromero at June 16, 2025 11:56 AM (LHPAg)

205 190 After I got rid of my Cutlass I bought a used red Delta 88. It was referred to as the big red yacht in the frat parking lot.
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The couch front seat is totes great for making out.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 16, 2025 11:56 AM (FmapG)

206 >>Hi everyone. My brother WitchDoktor told me to come here and check this place out.

Prove yourself. Ask him how many sonobuoys are used in the placement of a distributive field used in the initial search of a combatant submarine and report back.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 16, 2025 11:56 AM (Y1sOo)

207 Hi everyone. My brother WitchDoktor told me to come here and check this place out.
Posted by: Taylor

Hi, Taylor! Welcome!

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 11:57 AM (77rzZ)

208 90% in the QQQs.
The final 10% in put options against the QQQs.

It's the only reasoned option left.

Make what you can as fast as you can.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

Man, my main IRA is like 70% junk bond ETFs. "Reasoned" isn't even in the same arm of the Milky Way as my investing style.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2025 11:57 AM (VoAdT)

209 Ha. We are a primitive corner of the internet. I you want to attack this place the only option is to find the plug.

Or distract the owner with some shelving videos

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 11:57 AM (t0Rmr)

210 Did you finally get fired for pissing off that HR drone with the PornHub subscription you were going to get for her?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 11:55 AM (xTinh)

No, remember I'm on PTO this week in the OBX. Can’t stay long though. I’m going to the range to play with that T/C Benchmark I’m babysitting for you. And since you can’t zero a scope for shit, I fixed it. It's like you were in a tornado riding on the back of the Wicked Witch's broom. Don’t worry, I’ll fuck it up back to where it was before I return it to you.

And why the fuck do you have a .44 Mag Vaquero? I’ve seen Kentucky rifles with shorter barrels. It needs a front grip. Like that stupid gun the Joker used in that movie to shoot down Batman’s plane.

Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 11:57 AM (H621s)

211 Ha. We are a primitive corner of the internet. I you want to attack this place the only option is to find the plug.
Posted by: Reforger at June 16, 2025 11:56 AM (xcIvR)

Or kill the hamsters.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2025 11:57 AM (VofaG)

212 204 Walz calls for ‘decency’ after Minnesota shootings: ‘It’s not about mean tweets’, but Senator Jeff "Mick" Merkley (D-OR) said without proof, “I feel like Trump has really popped the lid off of the rhetoric and the the sense of hate and violence and promoted this type of an environment."
Posted by: SMOD at June 16, 2025 11:56 AM (RHGPo)

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That screen shot of Taylor Lorenz screaming with laughter at the thought of Luigi killing again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 11:57 AM (GBKbO)

213 196 Attack of the Cat Ladies!

https://shorturl.at/od5US
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 16, 2025 11:55 AM (L/fGl)

worst furries ever!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2025 11:57 AM (uWKK8)

214 167 I noticed gas prices were up 40 cents.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 16, 2025 11:49 AM (P9gC0)

Saw a weird one yesterday. Thornton's was 2.69 on one side of the street. Shell on the other was 2.99.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 11:55 AM (bss/y)
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Eh. Sometimes gas companies lag a bit. I have one just up the street that's a leading indicator of the gas station that's just further up the road. They're usually in sync within about a day or so.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 16, 2025 11:57 AM (GlyvH)

215 Do they still sell those crown air fresheners?
Posted by: Get In The Zone at June 16, 2025 11:53 AM

Is that what those things actually are?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2025 11:57 AM (dPfyF)

216 It’s annoying that an EE can be so dumb.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at June 16, 2025 11:57 AM (tepKG)

217
Yeah, and the people who supply electricity to CA are also breathing sighs of relief. They probably had no idea where they were going to get electricity for the EV's.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker

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The whole frickin' state. How is Silly Valley going to progress on AI if they have to compete with car owners for electricity?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 16, 2025 11:57 AM (wbZPZ)

218 Frankenstein in DC: the John Fetterman story

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 16, 2025 11:58 AM (akw+7)

219 That screen shot of Taylor Lorenz screaming with laughter at the thought of Luigi killing again./i]

She's pulling a Toobin' thinking about it

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 11:58 AM (t0Rmr)

220 Never mind.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 16, 2025 11:58 AM (Y1sOo)

221 209 Man, my main IRA is like 70% junk bond ETFs. "Reasoned" isn't even in the same arm of the Milky Way as my investing style.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2025 11:57 AM (VoAdT)

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The market isn't reasonable.

Any investing advice about blue chips and shit is unreasonable considering what the market actually is.

The only reasonable option is to be what the old-school financial advisor would consider to be unreasonable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

222 Hi everyone. My brother WitchDoktor told me to come here and check this place out.

Why in the hell would he do that?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 11:58 AM (bss/y)

223 David Carlson, the pizza delivery "roommate" of the suspected shooter of prominent Democrats in Minnesota, Vance Boelter, seems to trying way too hard to portray his supposed buddy as MAGA. Yeah, a "MAGA" guy who had "No Kings" leaflets in his car.

Posted by: SMOD at June 16, 2025 11:58 AM (RHGPo)

224 My wife and I saw the play Frankenstein in DC on Saturday. A brand-new adaptation of the story.

It was outstanding. I encourage all 'Rons and 'Ettes in the DC area to check it out. But hurry! It's only here until the end of June.
Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 11:53 AM (77rzZ)

My favorite part is when they perform "Puttin' On the Ritz."

Posted by: BurtTC at June 16, 2025 11:58 AM (dGCAG)

225 Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 11:57 AM (H621s)

Be sure you wear something range-appropriate instead of channeling Debbie Gibson like you did last time. You own more preppy vests than the entire cast of Blossom.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 11:58 AM (xTinh)

226 That screen shot of Taylor Lorenz screaming with laughter at the thought of Luigi killing again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

When does that scumbag's trial start?

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)

227 Or they're powered by seven chinese midgets pedaling furiously.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

Still, you need the battery to jolt them into running.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Don't taze me blo!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 11:59 AM (fab8c)

228 186. Do they still sell those crown air fresheners?
Posted by: Get In The Zone

🤣

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 16, 2025 11:59 AM (NFX2v)

229
Hi everyone. My brother WitchDoktor told me to come here and check this place out.

If this ends up being like Reddit I swear to God I’m organizing a DoS attack.
Posted by: Taylor

================

Blessed be! It's another female?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 16, 2025 11:59 AM (wbZPZ)

230 Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2025 11:57 AM (VoAdT)

Holy crap. After I retired I put my 401ks in under the mattress funds.

I did keep one S&P fund.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2025 11:59 AM (VofaG)

231 If this ends up being like Reddit I swear to God I’m organizing a DoS attack.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 11:51 AM (H621s)

Well, apparently my sister decided to grace us with her presence. Did you finally get fired for pissing off that HR drone with the PornHub subscription you were going to get for her?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 11:55 AM

Wait...I thought we were weird but oddly loveable?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2025 11:59 AM (dPfyF)

232 Hi everyone. My brother WitchDoktor told me to come here and check this place out.

hello, Welcome!

We luvz us some WitchDoktor!

Posted by: kallisto at June 16, 2025 11:59 AM (dCxaZ)

233 Be sure you wear something range-appropriate instead of channeling Debbie Gibson like you did last time. You own more preppy vests than the entire cast of Blossom.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 11:58 AM (xTinh)

You know, you have to take your meds EVERY day. That way you do more than just sit around the house all day binge watching Felicity.

Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:00 PM (H621s)

234 90% in the QQQs.
The final 10% in put options against the QQQs.

It's the only reasoned option left.

Make what you can as fast as you can.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Funnily enough, I put a decent chunk of change into QQQ in the middle of April, and I'm up almost 18% so far lol.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 16, 2025 12:00 PM (JCZqz)

235 We luvz us some WitchDoktor!

Wait, which doctor are you talking about?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 12:00 PM (t0Rmr)

236 Legislators today rejected some of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s cost-saving proposals to limit Medi-Cal for immigrants without legal status, and expanded others. And in the long run, they hope that some good financial news will help them handle the rising costs of the state health insurance and preserve future access for immigrants.

Posted by: SMOD at June 16, 2025 12:00 PM (RHGPo)

237 David Carlson, the pizza delivery "roommate" of the suspected shooter of prominent Democrats in Minnesota, Vance Boelter, seems to trying way too hard to portray his supposed buddy as MAGA. Yeah, a "MAGA" guy who had "No Kings" leaflets in his car.
Posted by: SMOD

Must have been an old roommate.
Boelter was married with kids. He & his wife ran a security company.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 12:00 PM (fab8c)

238 That screen shot of Taylor Lorenz screaming with laughter at the thought of Luigi killing again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

When does that scumbag's trial start?
Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)

------------------

The over/under opens at 10 years ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 16, 2025 12:01 PM (LLOYL)

239 You know, you have to take your meds EVERY day. That way you do more than just sit around the house all day binge watching Felicity.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:00 PM (H621s)

Whatever S. Hopefully the range is supervised. I mean, back at summer camp you set one of their boats on fire.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:01 PM (xTinh)

240
Why in the hell would he do that?!
Posted by: Aetius451AD

==================

That's how I found this place -- through my sister. And she only either lurks or reads the posts, not the comments.

'Don't get high on your own supply' apparently.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 16, 2025 12:01 PM (wbZPZ)

241 > I noticed gas prices were up 40 cents.
--------
The Indian (dot) who owns a "Quickie-Mart" type of joint with a gas station and liquor store went from a "no name" gas to Exxon and is now back to "no name."

While an Exxon franchise he was forced to advertise what corporate sent him as the price per gallon. Always about 5 to 15 cents a gallon higher than anyplace else.

So after a while he canned them and went back to "no name." It's the same gas, just not delivered in an Exxon branded truck.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 16, 2025 12:01 PM (Q4IgG)

242 No, remember I'm on PTO this week in the OBX. Can’t stay long though. I’m going to the range to play with that T/C Benchmark I’m babysitting for you. And since you can’t zero a scope for shit, I fixed it. It's like you were in a tornado riding on the back of the Wicked Witch's broom. Don’t worry, I’ll fuck it up back to where it was before I return it to you.

And why the fuck do you have a .44 Mag Vaquero? I’ve seen Kentucky rifles with shorter barrels. It needs a front grip. Like that stupid gun the Joker used in that movie to shoot down Batman’s plane.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 11:57 AM

*pops corn*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2025 12:01 PM (dPfyF)

243 235 Funnily enough, I put a decent chunk of change into QQQ in the middle of April, and I'm up almost 18% so far lol.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 16, 2025 12:00 PM (JCZqz)

======

The market always goes up.

The only time it doesn't is when you do the put options.

If that ever hits, and you make the cash from the option and then reinvest in the next year's option with the rest going back into the QQQ's, which will go up because stock market, you've made a pretty bit of cash.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 12:02 PM (GBKbO)

244 Whatever S. Hopefully the range is supervised. I mean, back at summer camp you set one of their boats on fire.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:01 PM (xTinh)

Fuck you. All I wanted was a goddamned Hot Pocket.

Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:02 PM (H621s)

245 And why the fuck do you have a .44 Mag Vaquero? I’ve seen Kentucky rifles with shorter barrels. It needs a front grip. Like that stupid gun the Joker used in that movie to shoot down Batman’s plane.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 11:57 AM (H621s)

*swooooonn.

Posted by: Reforger at June 16, 2025 12:02 PM (xcIvR)

246 36 All these EV startups missed a perfect sales opportunity by not making their cars sound like the flying car in The Jetsons.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 16, 2025 11:17 AM (FoIOl)

Everytime I hear an EV coming, before I see the car I always think "Damn someone has a blown wheel bearing."

I don't know why the manufacturers make their golf carts sound absolutely heinously terrible - but they do.

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 16, 2025 12:02 PM (WYStd)

247 219 Frankenstein in DC: the John Fetterman story

Our esteemed Senator went off script again when he expressed support for the Army parade.

Posted by: kallisto at June 16, 2025 12:03 PM (dCxaZ)

248 Be sure you wear something range-appropriate instead of channeling Debbie Gibson like you did last time.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Dude, you know the rule. Pics.

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

249 Fuck you. All I wanted was a goddamned Hot Pocket.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:02 PM (H621s)

You don't use a camp stove for those. And where the hell did you even get a hot pocket?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:03 PM (xTinh)

250
I don't know why the manufacturers make their golf carts sound absolutely heinously terrible - but they do.
Posted by: Defenestratus at June 16, 2025 12:02 PM (WYStd)

Fortunately you can turn off that ice motor sound effect.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2025 12:03 PM (VofaG)

251 You know, you have to take your meds EVERY day. That way you do more than just sit around the house all day binge watching Felicity.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:00 PM (H621s)

Whatever S. Hopefully the range is supervised. I mean, back at summer camp you set one of their boats on fire.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 12:03 PM (fab8c)

252 Whatever S. Hopefully the range is supervised. I mean, back at summer camp you set one of their boats on fire.

Posted by: WitchDoktor

*the entire Horde*
Oh, we have GOT to party with Taylor!

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2025 12:03 PM (s8j++)

253 Stellantis is still screwed with respect to EVs in California, and by extension other states. The previous CEO signed an agreement to abide by CA rules no matter what happens at the federal level. Detroit News article here: https://tinyurl.com/4apt9hf9

Posted by: George V at June 16, 2025 12:03 PM (HUbHH)

254 36 All these EV startups missed a perfect sales opportunity by not making their cars sound like the flying car in The Jetsons.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 16, 2025 11:17 AM (FoIOl)

Everytime I hear an EV coming, before I see the car I always think "Damn someone has a blown wheel bearing."

I don't know why the manufacturers make their golf carts sound absolutely heinously terrible - but they do.
Posted by: Defenestratus at June 16, 2025 12:02 PM (WYStd)

Second look at playing cards clothespinned to the wheel spokes?

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 16, 2025 12:04 PM (wVcYX)

255 245 Whatever S. Hopefully the range is supervised. I mean, back at summer camp you set one of their boats on fire.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:01 PM (xTinh)

Fuck you. All I wanted was a goddamned Hot Pocket.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:02 PM (H621s)

...

Can't tell if real or split personality.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 12:04 PM (bss/y)

256 You don't use a camp stove for those. And where the hell did you even get a hot pocket?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:03 PM (xTinh)

I smuggled some in. You know how crappy the food was there. I just needed a quiet place to cook it.

Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:04 PM (H621s)

257 *the entire Horde*
Oh, we have GOT to party with Taylor!
Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2025 12:03 PM

She does know about the MoMes, right?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2025 12:05 PM (dPfyF)

258 The HQ comments may be a healthy Time-Suck alternative…

Posted by: tubal at June 16, 2025 12:05 PM (PCK5/)

259 Hopefully this trickles down to places like eBay that prevent you from selling any equipment that does esnt adhere to those stupid carb standards. Tried selling actually REselling a piece of performance electronics which I purchased legally from the manufacturer but for some stupid reason eBay treats you like a potential criminal if you attempt to sell it.

Posted by: Ispy at June 16, 2025 12:05 PM (jTGTB)

260 Damn, now I want a Hot Pocket.

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 12:05 PM (77rzZ)

261 I smuggled some in. You know how crappy the food was there. I just needed a quiet place to cook it.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:04 PM (H621s)

Yes. That was it. It absolutely wasn't to sneak out to a boat and make out with that meathead. With tongue. At church camp.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:05 PM (xTinh)

262 What the hell is going on here ?

Posted by: Sybil at June 16, 2025 12:05 PM (VofaG)

263 Everytime I hear an EV coming, before I see the car I always think "Damn someone has a blown wheel bearing."

I don't know why the manufacturers make their golf carts sound absolutely heinously terrible - but they do.
Posted by: Defenestratus at June 16, 2025 12:02 PM (WYStd)

Second look at playing cards clothespinned to the wheel spokes?
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 16, 2025 12:04 PM (wVcYX)

There was talk for a while about putting engine noise (speakers) on EVs because they actually are a menace to poor vision/awareness pedestrians.

I am betting they canned the idea because they forsaw people putting that song 'Move bitch, get out the way!' over the speakers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 12:05 PM (bss/y)

264 Wait, which doctor are you talking about?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 12:00 PM (t0Rmr)

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:01 PM (xTinh)

Posted by: kallisto at June 16, 2025 12:05 PM (dCxaZ)

265 The HQ: Come for EV news, stay for the sibling rivalry.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 16, 2025 12:05 PM (u73oe)

266 Hot Pockets are nasty. Not as nasty as Pop Tarts but still nasty.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 16, 2025 12:06 PM (FmapG)

267 234 Be sure you wear something range-appropriate instead of channeling Debbie Gibson like you did last time. You own more preppy vests than the entire cast of Blossom.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 11:58 AM (xTinh)

You know, you have to take your meds EVERY day. That way you do more than just sit around the house all day binge watching Felicity.
Posted by: Taylor

Oh, you're good. (George & Gracie 2025) ha, ha, ha!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 16, 2025 12:06 PM (NFX2v)

268 I feel like I’m reading someone’s email in the comments today. Am I in the matrix?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 16, 2025 12:06 PM (WnEm5)

269 Of course we segue into a food thread.. of course.

Posted by: tubal at June 16, 2025 12:07 PM (PCK5/)

270 Learn to cook.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 16, 2025 12:07 PM (P9gC0)

271 Chevy first V-8 was the 265 from 55 to early 58, then came the 283, Chevy 396 is a big block but Chevy did have a small 400 too.

Pontiac had a 287 V-8 in 1955 and that engine ultimately morphed from a 265 to 455

Pontiac was the innovation line for GM introducing fuel injection, air bag suspension, a/c. Ford's T-Bird was a similar line for that company and originated in the Lincoln division.

Posted by: DanMan at June 16, 2025 12:07 PM (8uzBS)

272 Wait, which doctor are you talking about?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 12:00 PM (t0Rmr)

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:01 PM (xTinh)
Posted by: kallisto at June 16, 2025 12:05 PM

That. That WitchDoktor.

Posted by: Eyegore at June 16, 2025 12:07 PM (dPfyF)

273 Yes. That was it. It absolutely wasn't to sneak out to a boat and make out with that meathead. With tongue. At church camp.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:05 PM (xTinh)

Yeah the church camp where you somehow gave yourself mono.

Unlike when you were snowed in that hotel in Fargo and couldn’t go anywhere, so you started bowling in the hall using toilet paper rolls. To impress that woman who was on your team. And then you started to play Cricket in a conference room and made her think you all were weird.

Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:07 PM (H621s)

274 That way you do more than just sit around the house all day binge watching Felicity.
Posted by: Taylor

Before or after the haircut?

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 12:07 PM (77rzZ)

275 267 Hot Pockets are nasty. Not as nasty as Pop Tarts but still nasty.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 16, 2025 12:06 PM (FmapG)

I tried some a few months ago. Garlic somethingorother. Not horrible, but still a hot pocket.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 12:07 PM (bss/y)

276 That. That WitchDoktor.

That which doctor who?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 16, 2025 12:08 PM (t0Rmr)

277 Before or after the haircut?
Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 12:07 PM (77rzZ)

By definition, almost 99.9% of Felicity is after the haircut.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 12:08 PM (bss/y)

278 274 And then you started to play Cricket in a conference room and made her think you all were weird.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:07 PM (H621s)

======

Your brother ended up commenting here for years.

There's no thinking about his weirdness anymore. It's confirmed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

279 Hot Pockets are nasty.

Used to date her.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 16, 2025 12:08 PM (Sh1xI)

280 Unlike when you were snowed in that hotel in Fargo and couldn’t go anywhere, so you started bowling in the hall using toilet paper rolls. To impress that woman who was on your team. And then you started to play Cricket in a conference room and made her think you all were weird.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:07 PM (H621s)

The plungers were too short for hockey.

How are your Spanish lessons going?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:08 PM (xTinh)

281 I am betting they canned the idea because they forsaw people putting that song 'Move bitch, get out the way!' over the speakers.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Let The Bodies Hit The Floor
Or the immigrant song.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 12:08 PM (fab8c)

282 Hot pockets are nasty but surprisingly the frozen burritos are quite good.

Posted by: Sybil at June 16, 2025 12:08 PM (VofaG)

283 280 Hot Pockets are nasty.

Used to date her.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 16, 2025 12:08 PM (Sh1xI)

Better than Cold, Clammy Pocket Susie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 12:09 PM (bss/y)

284 WitchDoktor: The Untold Story
By Taylor

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 12:09 PM (77rzZ)

285 138
‘ Can we stop this “Americans love freedom” stuff?’

Can we stop this piss and moan stuff?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 16, 2025 12:09 PM (jbnUc)

286 How are your Spanish lessons going?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:08 PM (xTinh)

Shut all the way up.

Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:09 PM (H621s)

287 stay away from Hot Pockets, people.

they almost killed George Noury! What would this earth be without the collected wit and wisdom of George Noury???

We'd all be woefully deficient in Slender Man knowledge!!!

Posted by: kallisto at June 16, 2025 12:09 PM (dCxaZ)

288 The market isn't reasonable.

Any investing advice about blue chips and shit is unreasonable considering what the market actually is.

The only reasonable option is to be what the old-school financial advisor would consider to be unreasonable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Most of America suffers from principal-agent problems including the stock market.

This is why we see divergence in what theory predicts about how the system should operate and how it actually does.

Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:09 PM (ctrM5)

289 Only a politician would name a public transportation system "SEPTA." I mean... seriously. No one thought, "Wow. That sounds an awful lot like 'septic' or 'sepsis.' Are there even *any* positive words that sound like SEPTA?"

Posted by: red speck at June 16, 2025 12:09 PM (0Id0S)

290 Hash check.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2025 12:10 PM (8sr81)

291 We’ve secretly replaced the comments section with family drama. Let’s see if anyone notices!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 16, 2025 12:10 PM (u73oe)

292 289 Most of America suffers from principal-agent problems including the stock market.

This is why we see divergence in what theory predicts about how the system should operate and how it actually does.
Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:09 PM (ctrM5)

========

Glad to see you back. Hope you're feeling well.

And, just as an aside, did you receive the email I sent? Just wondering if the address I found was right or not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

293 Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:09 PM (ctrM5)

Glad to see ya back. Hopefully everything is okay.

Posted by: Sybil at June 16, 2025 12:10 PM (VofaG)

294 Conrail

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 16, 2025 12:10 PM (NFX2v)

295 Did the Greys get him?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 16, 2025 12:10 PM (P9gC0)

296 It would be very cool if GM revived the Pontiac brand, specializing in high performance stuff. They could use Chief Wahoo as a mascot as the low performance baseball team ditched him.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 16, 2025 12:10 PM (gm9Sb)

297 269 I feel like I’m reading someone’s email in the comments today. Am I in the matrix?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
========
The gray boxes have come to life. ChatGPT session with AI.

Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:10 PM (ctrM5)

298 Hot Pockets are nasty.

Used to date her.
Posted by: Commissar

Better than Cold, Clammy Pocket Susie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

That wasn't a pocket.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 12:10 PM (fab8c)

299 How are your Spanish lessons going?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:08 PM (xTinh)

Shut all the way up.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:09 PM (H621s)

This was in Mexico on a bus to the resort. It was in the middle of summer and Taylor, expert linguist that she is, tried to make small talk with the driver to chat about how hot it was there. She looks at him and says "estoy caliente. Estoy MUY caliente!!! Tabien estas caliente???” The driver looks at her with this face of, well, something. She then continues and says something about getting cool.

Someone on the bus who actually spoke Spanish let Taylorita know that what she was saying was “I’m hot, I’m SO hot, won't you cool me down?”

I've heard better Spanish at Taco Bell.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:11 PM (xTinh)

300 Be sure you wear something range-appropriate instead of channeling Debbie Gibson like you did last time. You own more preppy vests than the entire cast of Blossom.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 11:58 AM (xTinh)

You know, you have to take your meds EVERY day. That way you do more than just sit around the house all day binge watching Felicity.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:00 PM (H621s)

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Slap-fight!

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 16, 2025 12:11 PM (4gelq)

301 Let The Bodies Hit The Floor
Or the immigrant song.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 12:08 PM (fab8c)

Ride of the Valkyries.

Or

Dvorak's Symphony for the New World

https://tinyurl.com/49xxcjky

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 12:11 PM (bss/y)

302 292 We’ve secretly replaced the comments section with family drama. Let’s see if anyone notices!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 16, 2025 12:10 PM (u73oe)

Hallmark, or Lifetime ??

Posted by: tubal at June 16, 2025 12:11 PM (PCK5/)

303 Whig is back!

Hey, Whig!

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 12:11 PM (77rzZ)

304 And, just as an aside, did you receive the email I sent? Just wondering if the address I found was right or not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=====
Nope, got the one from Ben Had.

Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:11 PM (ctrM5)

305 240
Whatever S. Hopefully the range is supervised. I mean, back at summer camp you set one of their boats on fire.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:01 PM (xTinh)

The summer camp boats were electric?

Posted by: tankdemon at June 16, 2025 12:11 PM (R256O)

306 Off multiple sock

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2025 12:11 PM (VofaG)

307 279 274 And then you started to play Cricket in a conference room and made her think you all were weird.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:07 PM (H621s)

I wish I would have thought of that, it sounds fun.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 16, 2025 12:11 PM (uWKK8)

308 296 Did the Greys get him?

I don't know. I stopped listening long ago because it was pretty obvious he didn't believe in anything except the alt-med stuff. And the same 10 callers kept calling in. So predictable and boring.

His guest hosts were much better though

Posted by: kallisto at June 16, 2025 12:11 PM (dCxaZ)

309 305 Nope, got the one from Ben Had.
Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:11 PM (ctrM5)

======

Cool. Bad email address. I'll promptly forget it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

310 Better than Cold, Clammy Pocket Susie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

And it wasn't Susie.
It was Tranny Clammy Sammy.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2025 12:12 PM (fab8c)

311 Whig!!! Welcome back… the IQ of the comment section just went up.. a lot.

Posted by: tubal at June 16, 2025 12:12 PM (PCK5/)

312 Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:09 PM (ctrM5)

Glad to see ya back. Hopefully everything is okay.
Posted by: Sybil at June 16, 2025 12:10 PM (VofaG)

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Ditto.

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 16, 2025 12:13 PM (4gelq)

313 Glad to see ya back. Hopefully everything is okay.
Posted by: Sybil
========
Have a chronic condition that makes complications worse so one thing leads to another as the Fixx would say. Ended up with cellulitis last week from a spider bite. Boring really.

Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:13 PM (ctrM5)

314 Always better when whig is in the comments

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 16, 2025 12:13 PM (+kWhq)

315 It would be very cool if GM revived the Pontiac brand, specializing in high performance stuff. They could use Chief Wahoo as a mascot as the low performance baseball team ditched him.

GM can't build a decent vehicle for a good price. I think I'd work on that before I thought about expanding their brands.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2025 12:13 PM (s8j++)

316 Someone on the bus who actually spoke Spanish let Taylorita know that what she was saying was “I’m hot, I’m SO hot, won't you cool me down?”

don't be so judgmental big bro

maybe he was cute

Posted by: kallisto at June 16, 2025 12:13 PM (dCxaZ)

317 A large mob was seen looting an AutoZone store in South Los Angeles early Monday morning
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Well of course, afterall AutoZone has been an ardent supporter of reducing illegal immigrat...uh...wait...what?

Posted by: Crusader at June 16, 2025 12:13 PM (TN0g+)

318 I've heard better Spanish at Taco Bell.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:11 PM (xTinh)

You didn't mind when you were getting free food there. I worked at Taco Bell in high school and my brother would pick me up each night after my shift. I'd give him a Coke and a taco while he waited. One night he started getting all pissy with me because he was late for a date with some See You Next Tuesday. So he takes a drink of his Coke and he can't get anything to come through the straw, probably because of the cockroach I stuck in the end of it. Unfortunately he threw away the taco.

Did you ever find that UFO?

Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:13 PM (H621s)

319 Hey, Whig!
Posted by: Bulg
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I hope all is well with you and yours as well.

Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:14 PM (ctrM5)

320 We’ve secretly replaced the comments section with family drama. Let’s see if anyone notices!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 16, 2025 12:10 PM (u73oe)

Hallmark, or Lifetime ??
Posted by: tubal at June 16, 2025 12:11 PM

It doesn't seem ghey, so probably neither.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2025 12:14 PM (dPfyF)

321 303 292 We’ve secretly replaced the comments section with family drama. Let’s see if anyone notices!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 16, 2025 12:10 PM (u73oe)

Hallmark, or Lifetime ??
Posted by: tubal at June 16, 2025 12:11 PM (PCK5/)

Well, neither of them have mentioned fucking a reclusive, mysterious but really great guy who takes them away from their humdrum life yet...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 12:14 PM (bss/y)

322 The Greys

Reminded me of the only alien abduction movie I really liked. And coincidentally it starred ‘Felicity’.

Dark Skies

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2025 12:14 PM (VofaG)

323 314 Glad to see ya back. Hopefully everything is okay.
Posted by: Sybil
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Have a chronic condition that makes complications worse so one thing leads to another as the Fixx would say. Ended up with cellulitis last week from a spider bite. Boring really.
Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:13 PM (ctrM5)

Bummer… was it an Itsy-Bitsy spider, in your water spout???

Posted by: tubal at June 16, 2025 12:14 PM (PCK5/)

324 Ended up with cellulitis last week from a spider bite. Boring really.
Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:13 PM (ctrM5)

——————

Whig is turning into a superhero!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 16, 2025 12:14 PM (u73oe)

325 Whig!!! Welcome back… the IQ of the comment section just went up.. a lot.

Posted by: tubal at June 16, 2025 12:12 PM (PCK5/)

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You could have just politely asked me to leave ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 16, 2025 12:14 PM (4gelq)

326 Did you ever find that UFO?
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:13 PM (H621s)

Did you ever find Death Valley Mouse?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:14 PM (xTinh)

327 Welcome back, Whig!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2025 12:15 PM (dPfyF)

328 312 Whig!!! Welcome back… the IQ of the comment section just went up.. a lot.
Posted by: tubal
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That's okay, I am thinking very slowly this morning despite the caffeine input. Y'all can run rings around me.

Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:15 PM (ctrM5)

329 GM can't build a decent vehicle for a good price.
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"So look for...the union label...."

Posted by: Crusader at June 16, 2025 12:15 PM (TN0g+)

330 Spiderwhig, spiderwhig. Does whatever a spiderwhig does.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 16, 2025 12:15 PM (u73oe)

331 318 A large mob was seen looting an AutoZone store in South Los Angeles early Monday morning
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Well of course, afterall AutoZone has been an ardent supporter of reducing illegal immigrat...uh...wait...what?
Posted by: Crusader at June 16, 2025 12:13 PM (TN0g+)

=======

So...more people will get deported. More on the fence LIVs will become more convinced that life in the cities suck and move out. More conservatives will move out of the state because there's no slowing down the crazy train in the legislature. The state's finances will continue to buckle, leading to increased cutting of services.

Future for CA is bright! I think all of DU should move there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

332 It's been days. I think I'm turning Irish.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 16, 2025 12:15 PM (P9gC0)

333 I hope all is well with you and yours as well.
Posted by: whig

Things are OK, thanks. Applied for another job that I probably won't get today. Gotta keep trying.

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 12:16 PM (77rzZ)

334 Why loot an autozone... come to think of it, oil is expensive as hell and I need some new jackstands...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 16, 2025 12:16 PM (bss/y)

335 Did you ever find Death Valley Mouse?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:14 PM (xTinh)

That was your fault. You're even worse at setting traps than you are at zeroing scopes.

Our family was driving to Key West when First Lieutenant Suburbia here stops the car, gets out, and starts staring at the sky.

Then he announces that he saw a UFO. I'm surprised he didn't start practicing the Spock salute.

He stops for gas later and asked the clerk about the UFO. Clerk says "oh, you mean Fat Albert? Yeah the DEA uses it to monitor ship traffic."

Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:16 PM (H621s)

336 ICE deportations in ICE vehicles.

ICE, ICE BABY!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 16, 2025 12:16 PM (wtvvX)

337 It's been days. I think I'm turning Irish.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 16, 2025 12:15 PM

You really think so?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2025 12:17 PM (dPfyF)

338 332 It's been days. I think I'm turning Irish.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 16, 2025 12:15 PM (P9gC0)

Next week you’ll be turning Japanese, Japanese
I really think so..

Posted by: tubal at June 16, 2025 12:17 PM (PCK5/)

339 I think highly of Rand Paul but he can be such an exasperating doofus sometimes….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 16, 2025 12:17 PM (+kWhq)

340 Bummer… was it an Itsy-Bitsy spider, in your water spout???
Posted by: tubal
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Think it might have been one of the poisonous ones or one of those damned ants that plague the Southlands. Taking serious antibiotics now as the bite festered into cellulitis.

Bad month to be buying life insurance for myself. I plan on stepping on a rake later this month in order to give my orthopedist and dentist some work.

Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:18 PM (ctrM5)

341 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

If they split CA in two as multiple petitions have asked for, Southern CA would become North Mexico run by the cartels ( more than they are now) .

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2025 12:18 PM (VofaG)

342 Whig is turning into a superhero!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 16, 2025 12:14 PM (u73oe)

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Robin Hood: Whig in Tights!

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 16, 2025 12:18 PM (4gelq)

343 I see Randi Weingarten has quit the DNC.
I'm guessing the polling after her latest set of screeds and speeches wasn't too good, and as the Dems begin to rebrand themselves, she had to go.
Good.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2025 12:18 PM (W/lyH)

344 Man, if I ever saw a violation of the pics rule, it's this thread.

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 12:18 PM (77rzZ)

345 He stops for gas later and asked the clerk about the UFO. Clerk says "oh, you mean Fat Albert? Yeah the DEA uses it to monitor ship traffic."
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:16 PM (H621s)

It WAS unidentified when I saw it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:18 PM (xTinh)

346 341 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

If they split CA in two as multiple petitions have asked for, Southern CA would become North Mexico run by the cartels ( more than they are now) .
Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2025 12:18 PM (VofaG)

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5 states.

One is San Diego to San Francisco.

The other four are the rural areas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

347 Any post now is potentially a willowed post

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 16, 2025 12:18 PM (+kWhq)

348 340
Bad month to be buying life insurance for myself. I plan on stepping on a rake later this month in order to give my orthopedist and dentist some work.
Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:18 PM (ctrM5)

Someone needs to hold yur beer…

Posted by: tubal at June 16, 2025 12:19 PM (PCK5/)

349 343 I see Randi Weingarten has quit the DNC.
I'm guessing the polling after her latest set of screeds and speeches wasn't too good, and as the Dems begin to rebrand themselves, she had to go.
Good.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2025 12:18 PM (W/lyH)

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Her farewell letter, or whatever, said something about not having a big tent anymore.

I dunno.

I don't care.

I just hope the Democrat machine suffers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

350 It WAS unidentified when I saw it.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:18 PM (xTinh)

It. Had. A. Fucking. Call. Sign.

Probably a good thing the Navy had you looking for submarines instead of aircraft. I heard though that you had found the world's first underwater weather balloon.

I have to go. Are you doing OK? Feeling better than last week?

Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:19 PM (H621s)

351 Ended up with cellulitis last week from a spider bite. Boring really.
Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:13 PM (ctrM5)

A radioactive spider, by any chance?

Welcome back!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 16, 2025 12:20 PM (ykD6T)

352 I doubt it, but... any thought behind the Philly fire being an inside job? I mean, if these were decommissioned and just sitting there... Just feels like a scene out of Goodfellas. Burn em out an they no longer have to store the buses, and while it's probably a government or heavily-audited entity that owns them (so not 100% of insurance payments going to personal pockets), being Philly, someone could get a cut of the insurance payout somewhere... And it's not like such people would care about the pollution to the locals... Just a thought

Posted by: bearski at June 16, 2025 12:20 PM (Bhsk7)

353
Must have been an old roommate.
Boelter was married with kids. He & his wife ran a security company.
Posted by: rickb223

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He had a weird living arrangement. Spent something like half his time or more living with a roommate, even though he and wife had several properties.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 16, 2025 12:20 PM (wbZPZ)

354 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

If they split CA in two as multiple petitions have asked for, Southern CA would become North Mexico run by the cartels ( more than they are now) .
Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2025 12:18 PM (VofaG)

Need more daylight between our names. Southern CA can be renamed Meixco del Norte.

Posted by: New Mexico at June 16, 2025 12:20 PM (wVcYX)

355 I would say that Ford's 289 and Chevy's 327 were the most successful V8's ever made. They were almost indestructible.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 16, 2025 11:21 AM (g8Ew

The small block Chevy was basically the same from 1955 (the 265), the 283 (57) through the 70's and 80's, and that includes the 350. Owned them all. Many parts are totally interchangeable, which made swapping engines very easy for us car guys. Hell, the Chevy LS engines are basically small block, push rod engines. My son is dropping one onto his G body '84 Pontiac Grand Prix, a very common swap into the G bodies. Modern fuel injection, high rev small block.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 16, 2025 12:20 PM (5xuJ/)

356 339 I think highly of Rand Paul but he can be such an exasperating doofus sometimes….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 16, 2025 12:17 PM (+kWhq)

He’s got that conservative individualism streak which is our worst and best trait. Sometimes you just have to trust and suck it up and become a team player because the opposite just helps the opposition.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2025 12:21 PM (VofaG)

357 I have to go. Are you doing OK? Feeling better than last week?
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:19 PM (H621s)

Yeah, good. I'm back in the office now.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:21 PM (xTinh)

358 WD, is Taylor your only sibling?

I'm hoping not. More funny family stories for us.

Posted by: Bulg at June 16, 2025 12:21 PM (77rzZ)

359 Her farewell letter, or whatever, said something about not having a big tent anymore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 12:19 PM

Did they check Stacy Abrams' closet?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2025 12:21 PM (dPfyF)

360 I have to go.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:19 PM

Wait! I was going to make espresso!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2025 12:22 PM (dPfyF)

361 Yeah, good. I'm back in the office now.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:21 PM (xTinh)

Lucky them. I'll call you tonight. LYB Bro

Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:22 PM (H621s)

362 Did WitchDoktor spend all weekend writing this comedy routine (and is Taylor his alter-ego)?

/Funny stuff

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 16, 2025 12:22 PM (4gelq)

363 I see Randi Weingarten has quit the DNC.
I'm guessing the polling after her latest set of screeds and speeches wasn't too good, and as the Dems begin to rebrand themselves, she had to go.
Good.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2025 12:18 PM (W/lyH)
__________

She is scum and the DNC is scum. Can they both lose? I think most of this is because she backed the wrong horse for DNC chair. This seems to be an intramural personal squabble more than any ideological differences.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

364 360 I have to go.
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:19 PM

Wait! I was going to make espresso!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2025 12:22 PM (dPfyF)

Hah!!!

Posted by: tubal at June 16, 2025 12:22 PM (PCK5/)

365 > The EV Battery Bubble is also Bursting

Does that mean I can pick up a powerwall without having to see a kidney?

Posted by: bonhomme at June 16, 2025 12:22 PM (lIio7)

366 Lucky them. I'll call you tonight. LYB Bro
Posted by: Taylor at June 16, 2025 12:22 PM (H621s)

I'll tell them you think so. LYB Sis.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:22 PM (xTinh)

367 revologycars.com

Posted by: free tibet at June 16, 2025 12:23 PM (1wtUm)

368 JFC she's exhausting.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 16, 2025 12:23 PM (xTinh)

369 363
She is scum and the DNC is scum. Can they both lose? I think most of this is because she backed the wrong horse for DNC chair. This seems to be an intramural personal squabble more than any ideological differences.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)
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I think some other labor leader left too.

It would entertain me greatly if it's an activist effort to push out labor from the highest levels of the party.

It's hard to imagine the party doing anything stupider other than becoming outright misandrist and anti-blue collar.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

370 Things are OK, thanks. Applied for another job that I probably won't get today. Gotta keep trying.
Posted by: Bulg
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Have you thought about trying to get some certificates on AI applied to paralegal work? A lot of lawyers have issues with technology and AI applied to law is going to be a booming field.

Also a good technique might be to schedule non-job interviews as to how law firms are applying AI to their work by informational interviewing as described in the long running job attainment book, "What Color is My Parachute".

Those non-job interviews could be ostensibly to determine how the paralegal field is being affected by AI and how to best position yourself. Non job informational interviews mainly let your target talk about themselves and their jobs and let you figure out what the firms want nowadays. Often, if you impress, they give you direct access either at their firm or another instead of going through HR.

Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:24 PM (ctrM5)

371 Where my wife and I live, an EV would make a great "around town and short trip" vehicle.
———

Golf cart. You want a Golf cart.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 16, 2025 12:24 PM (V9VN1)

372 352 I doubt it, but... any thought behind the Philly fire being an inside job? I mean, if these were decommissioned and just sitting there... Just feels like a scene out of Goodfellas. Burn em out an they no longer have to store the buses, and while it's probably a government or heavily-audited entity that owns them (so not 100% of insurance payments going to personal pockets), being Philly, someone could get a cut of the insurance payout somewhere... And it's not like such people would care about the pollution to the locals... Just a thought
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The busses were evidence in a kickback/poor construction scheme being held in impound rather than recycled since they were useless in less than a year. While spontaneous combustion can't be ruled out, coverup is always a possibility

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at June 16, 2025 12:24 PM (F/35S)

373 Did you all see the video of a fat protester getting run over in downtown LA? Looks like her legs went under the tires.

http://tiny.cc/ah3n001

Posted by: bonhomme at June 16, 2025 12:25 PM (lIio7)

374 373 Did you all see the video of a fat protester getting run over in downtown LA? Looks like her legs went under the tires.

http://tiny.cc/ah3n001
Posted by: bonhomme at June 16, 2025 12:25 PM (lIio7)

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"Nathan Hochman, Los Angeles' DA, has announced death penalty charges against the driver."
-headline tomorrow, 50% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

375 Those non-job interviews could be ostensibly to determine how the paralegal field is being affected by AI and how to best position yourself. Non job informational interviews mainly let your target talk about themselves and their jobs and let you figure out what the firms want nowadays. Often, if you impress, they give you direct access either at their firm or another instead of going through HR.
Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:24 PM (ctrM5)

Excellent advice.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 16, 2025 12:26 PM (ykD6T)

376 > Golf cart. You want a Golf cart.

Golf carts are genuinely great for a retirement community, but not so much for actually driving around on roads.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 16, 2025 12:26 PM (lIio7)

377 I sure hope his fender is ok.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 16, 2025 12:26 PM (P9gC0)

378 As I posted previously I don’t think these types of lithium batteries spontaneously combust. There’s has to be some damage or an electrical short or other triggering factor.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2025 12:27 PM (VofaG)

379 She is scum and the DNC is scum. Can they both lose? I think most of this is because she backed the wrong horse for DNC chair. This seems to be an intramural personal squabble more than any ideological differences.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)
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I think some other labor leader left too.

It would entertain me greatly if it's an activist effort to push out labor from the highest levels of the party.

It's hard to imagine the party doing anything stupider other than becoming outright misandrist and anti-blue collar.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)
_________

The high guard surely hates blue collar workers, but I think is smart enough to realize they need the unions for vote fraud and fund-raising efforts. So the DNC has to pretend to still care. I think.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2025 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

380 375 Those non-job interviews could be ostensibly to determine how the paralegal field is being affected by AI and how to best position yourself. Non job informational interviews mainly let your target talk about themselves and their jobs and let you figure out what the firms want nowadays. Often, if you impress, they give you direct access either at their firm or another instead of going through HR.
Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:24 PM (ctrM5)

Excellent advice.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 16, 2025 12:26 PM (ykD6T)

See?? Like I said…

Posted by: tubal at June 16, 2025 12:27 PM (PCK5/)

381 http://tiny.cc/ah3n001
Good grief! Is the car OK?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 16, 2025 12:28 PM (upn8M)

382 Did you all see the video of a fat protester getting run over in downtown LA? Looks like her legs went under the tires.

http://tiny.cc/ah3n001
Posted by: bonhomme at June 16, 2025 12:25 PM

That's terrible.

Anyway....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2025 12:28 PM (dPfyF)

383 Saunders was the other labor leader.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 16, 2025 12:28 PM (P9gC0)

384 I'm guessing the polling after her latest set of screeds and speeches wasn't too good, and as the Dems begin to rebrand themselves, she had to go.
Good.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2025 12:18 PM (W/lyH)
__________

She is scum and the DNC is scum. Can they both lose? I think most of this is because she backed the wrong horse for DNC chair. This seems to be an intramural personal squabble more than any ideological differences.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

You used to have to read between the lines in Izvestia and Pravda to figure out what was going on with the commies; now it's the NYT and WaPo.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 16, 2025 12:28 PM (wtvvX)

385 A radioactive spider, by any chance?

Welcome back!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Heh. Perhaps. Read briefly your travails with Mint. When the MBR record is messed up as to which version of OS to run, that is a pain.

Got to where I just install the user file on a separate partition as I usually have multiple SSDs on each system. But then again, I dual boot.

FWIW, Boot Repair is a useful Linux utility as well as GParted (for disk partitions, repartioning, etc.).

Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:28 PM (ctrM5)

386 379 The high guard surely hates blue collar workers, but I think is smart enough to realize they need the unions for vote fraud and fund-raising efforts. So the DNC has to pretend to still care. I think.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2025 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

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The other one was Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Two going out on the same morning feels like a culling.

And...I'm not sure what makes people think that Democrat leadership is smart.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 12:29 PM (GBKbO)

387 Shithead gangbanger opened fire at a group at a Utah carnival. He managed to kill three people, including a baby. I expect Gov Cox will empathize with the shooter and tell everyone again how Cox was bullied as a kid.

http://tiny.cc/nh3n001

Posted by: bonhomme at June 16, 2025 12:29 PM (lIio7)

388 Weingarten was/is NEA, right? Absolutely nothing to do with "blue collar". Pure apparatchik.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2025 12:29 PM (VoAdT)

389 Whig! Glad you could make it. Err, should that be "glad you made it."

On another note, am I the only one amused by Taylor and WitchDoktor?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 16, 2025 12:29 PM (tT6L1)

390 Saw but didn't read a article the Teachers Unions were a big pusher on No Kings protests

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2025 12:29 PM (+qU29)

391 Did you all see the video of a fat protester getting run over in downtown LA? Looks like her legs went under the tires.

http://tiny.cc/ah3n001
Posted by: bonhomme at June 16, 2025 12:25 PM
_________

More, please

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2025 12:29 PM (iFTx/)

392 On another note, (and not to give anyone ideas) since any damage to an EV battery leads to a fire, I'm slightly amazed that no mischief maker has refitted a remote controlled car to scoot along under rows and rows of the things and punch holes while it goes. Aided by a camera hookup and deployed through a trapdoor in a van or some such, it would be practically untraceable.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at June 16, 2025 12:29 PM (F/35S)

393 Golf cart. You want a Golf cart.

Golf carts are genuinely great for a retirement community, but not so much for actually driving around on roads.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 16, 2025 12:26 PM (lIio7)

I live in a golf cart community. They are very good where the speed limit is 25mph. That’s where the governor is set on my cart.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2025 12:29 PM (VofaG)

394 Ace is awake.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2025 12:29 PM (dPfyF)

395 THE BOSS HAS A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2025 12:29 PM (+qU29)

396 388 Weingarten was/is NEA, right? Absolutely nothing to do with "blue collar". Pure apparatchik.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 16, 2025 12:29 PM (VoAdT)

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Other one was government employee union as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

397 Golf carts are genuinely great for a retirement community, but not so much for actually driving around on roads.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 16, 2025 12:26 PM (lIio7)

I think there are some electric side-by-side ATV's out there now, which could be road-legal in AZ. Expensive, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 16, 2025 12:30 PM (ykD6T)

398 Golf cart. You want a Golf cart.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 16, 2025 12:24 PM (V9VN1)
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Uh, next you'll be telling us black socks and wingtips with shorts are the appropriate attire for the golf cart set.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 16, 2025 12:30 PM (tT6L1)

399 Someone needs to hold yur beer…
Posted by: tubal
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Wonder if going under a ladder and crossing paths with a black cat had anything to do with it.

Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:31 PM (ctrM5)

400 Nood

Posted by: tankdemon at June 16, 2025 12:31 PM (R256O)

401 389 Whig! Glad you could make it. Err, should that be "glad you made it."

On another note, am I the only one amused by Taylor and WitchDoktor?

Posted by: blake
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I am trying to emulate a weeble in wobbling but not falling down.

Posted by: whig at June 16, 2025 12:32 PM (ctrM5)

402 The high guard surely hates blue collar workers, but I think is smart enough to realize they need the unions for vote fraud and fund-raising efforts. So the DNC has to pretend to still care. I think.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2025 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

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The other one was Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Two going out on the same morning feels like a culling.

And...I'm not sure what makes people think that Democrat leadership is smart.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 16, 2025 12:29 PM (GBKbO)
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Or running from a burning building. Who knows? And the DNC, for all we shit on it, has managed to create a near-impenetrable stranglehold on important areas of government, despite having a poisonous ideology that the vast majority of people hate. They are much more effective than the RNC. So they're doing something right.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2025 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

403 The small block Chevy was basically the same from 1955 (the 265), the 283 (57) through the 70's and 80's, and that includes the 350. Owned them all. Many parts are totally interchangeable, which made swapping engines very easy for us car guys.

a Chevy 4.3 V-6 is a 350 V-8 minus 2 cylinders. Water pump to transmission bolt patterns and all.

Posted by: DanMan at June 16, 2025 12:32 PM (8uzBS)

404 Blue state Illinois is paying $536 million as incentives to get a battery built for $2.6 billion

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 16, 2025 12:33 PM (aIUZW)

405 GM had a 228ci aluminum block v-8 in the early sixties. Sweet little engine.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 16, 2025 12:33 PM (n4GiU)

406 A battery FACTORY built for $3.6 billion

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 16, 2025 12:34 PM (aIUZW)

407 $2.6 billon. Cannot type today. Just going to stand in the corner

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 16, 2025 12:35 PM (aIUZW)

408 "The states asked a judge to declare that Trump's repeal of waivers issued by the Environmental Protection Agency under President Joe Biden have no effect on state emissions rules. "

Contemplate how moronic that sentence is. "waivers" means the law says one thing, but the government waived enforcement. They are no longer waiving enforcement.

The law says individual states cannot create their own emissions standards. That is because the car makers have a problem with building cars to meet 50 different standards.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 16, 2025 12:36 PM (gDhA9)

409 Copper thief gets 400V shock and cremation all in 1 deal.

Posted by: DaveA at June 16, 2025 12:36 PM (FhXTo)

410 The Ev solution is to build better EVs. You know, cars people want to buy at prices people can afford. Also, ones that don't catch fire.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 16, 2025 12:36 PM (gDhA9)

411 409 Copper thief gets 400V shock and cremation all in 1 deal.
Posted by: DaveA at June 16, 2025 12:36 PM (FhXTo)

I once had a project where I showed up, and the cops and police were there. Turns out someone tried to steal a large transformer. A greasy spot on the ground was all that was left.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 16, 2025 12:38 PM (gDhA9)

412 373 Did you all see the video of a fat protester getting run over in downtown LA? Looks like her legs went under the tires.

http://tiny.cc/ah3n001
Posted by: bonhomme at June 16, 2025 12:25 PM (lIio7)

Based on her size... she wasn't really using them anyways.

Don't need legs to sit your fatass on a couch all day.

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 16, 2025 12:40 PM (WYStd)

413 lol
Love the picture.

Posted by: wth at June 16, 2025 01:07 PM (v0R5T)

414 I'm reminded of the CFL bulbs, the replacement for incandescent bulbs. They were going to use less energy! Better for planet! Heil Gaia! Even the Instapundit was hawking them over a decade ago.

Didn't help they were literally toxic, thanks to requiring mercury (didn't they learn about lead paint and lead gasoline?). Also didn't live up to the lifetime they claimed. More expensive. And the above mercury issue made recycling a problem (similar to blades on wind generators today).

But the ****ers were going to mandate a push to them by literally banning the sale of new incandescent bulbs. Like the above, removing choice from people that may have a reason or need (such as cold climates making use of the excess heat from the bulbs).

Posted by: Another Anon at June 16, 2025 01:16 PM (4h45B)

415 Which is more likely to catch fire, an electric bus or a Ford Pinto?

Posted by: Tmitsss at June 16, 2025 02:39 PM (0gNmZ)

416 So, they put the buses in a "boneyard" ... and didn't even bother to take the batteries out of them?! The most dangerous items on the bus in terms of toxicity, and probably the most valuable in terms re-use/recycling?!? And they just left it to rot?

What a bunch of idiots!

Posted by: GWB at June 16, 2025 04:54 PM (3IGV7)

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