THE MORNING RANT - Volkswagen’s Electric Vehicle Misfire: Its Made-In-America, Flagship EV is the Slowest Selling Vehicle in the United States

While I get some schadenfreude from documenting the financial damage that legacy American automobile manufacturers such as Ford and GM have inflicted on themselves with their EV misadventures, the mess at Volkswagen is deeply upsetting to me. Be it right or wrong, I know that the US government will bail out Ford and GM, if necessary, to help mitigate the damage done by their irresponsible executives. Volkswagen, on the other hand, is likely to pull out of the US market and close its US manufacturing operations if it can’t right its ship.

I have long been a fan of Volkswagen products. In the post-Beetle era, its lineup has provided modern German engineering and a German driving experience to the mass market. My wife and I had a Passat which was an exceptional vehicle. I might have bought an American-made VW Atlas for my most recent vehicle purchase if I wasn’t so disgusted by Volkswagen pursuing an all-EV future. I didn’t want to buy a car that VW’s executives were determined to kill off.

If Volkswagen is going to survive in the U.S., it had better re-commit to gasoline-powered (“ICE” vehicles, because its flagship electric offering, the ID.4, is the slowest selling car in the United States.

It would take 527 days to sell out the inventory of ID.4s in the United States, making it the slowest-selling vehicle in the country in January, according to metrics from CarEdge.

Have you ever heard of the Maserati Grecale? Me neither. It may be obscure and hard to sell, but it turns over faster than Volkswagen’s electric car.

The No. 2 slowest-selling vehicle in the United States in January was the Maserati Grecale.

Normal vehicle inventory takes 60 – 90 days to turn, and dealerships have historically targeted a 60-day supply of vehicles to ensure the optimum mix of vehicles without carrying excess inventory. For a vehicle which moves so slow that dealers are burdened with more than a year’s supply, they’d generally prefer to have zero units in stock. On the off chance a customer came in wanting to buy such a slow-moving vehicle, the dealer could easily get another dealer to transfer one.

Over the past several decades there has been an economic explosion in the American South, thanks in part to so many auto manufacturers locating plants in the region. In addition to those manufacturing operations, numerous suppliers also established nearby operations, and suppliers to those suppliers sprung up too. The cycle of prosperity and economic activity flows well when manufacturing is strong. Pretty much all the major Japanese, Korean, and German car companies have operations in the southern U.S. It’s a golden goose laying golden eggs.

But the EV fever somehow captured the minds of many auto executives and southern politicians, and they pursued EV investments in the South, even though the explicit goal was to kill-off the golden goose of existing ICE auto manufacturing.

In 2019, Tennessee’s then-governor, Republican Bill Haslam waxed enthusiastic about killing off ICE vehicles in favor of electric vehicles when he hyped VW’s announcement of a new Tennessee EV plant, “The shift toward electric vehicles is a trend that can be seen worldwide, and Volkswagen’s decision to locate its first North American EV manufacturing facility in Chattanooga underscores Tennessee’s manufacturing strength and highly-skilled workforce.” The state of Tennessee kicked in about $50 million of taxpayer dollars toward this ill-fated EV plant that was built alongside VW’s existing Tennessee plant.

Initial expectations were for the EV plant to assemble about 7,000 units per month, with the ability to ramp up to a volume exceeding 100,000 per year.

The actual demand has been negligible, averaging less than 20,000 units per year, even with federal rebates and aggressive pricing. But in Q4 of 2025, after the federal EV incentives expired, Volkswagen sold a nominal 248 electric ID.4s. That averages out to just 83 units per month, and annualizes to less than 1,000 units.

Volkswagen built a taxpayer-subsidized EV plant that was expected to produce about 10,000 electric vehicles per month, but it cannot even sell 100. The company may have no choice but to scrap the glut of unsold ID.4s, since consumers have made it clear that there is virtually no price at which they’re willing to buy them.

The failure of Volkswagen’s EV foray is an overall good thing for the American auto industry. The golden goose of ICE manufacturing lives on. But it is infuriating that politicians wasted taxpayer money on this malinvestment, and it will be especially sad if VW has to pull out of the American market and close its legacy Tennessee manufacturing plant due to the awful EV Gamble.

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If you’re curious as to which are the fastest and slowing selling vehicles in the U.S., here is the list:

Slowest Selling Vehicles in the U.S.

• Volkswagen ID.4: 527 day supply
• Maserati Grecale: 302 day supply
• Jaguar F-PACE: 292 days
• Alfa Romeo Giulia: 241 days
• Alfa Romeo Stelvio: 217 days

Fastest Selling Vehicles in the U.S.

• Toyota Camry: 22 days
• Toyota RAV4: 24 days
• Lexus NX: 24 days
• Lexus RX Hybrid: 25 days
• Cadillac Escalade ESV: 25 days

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Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 19, 2026 11:01 AM (0x0rk)

2 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

3 Not first, but at least the gay art thread is done.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

4 So ther I was, just minding my own business when someone moved KC north of the arctic circle. I could us a good EV fire about now.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 19, 2026 11:02 AM (u73oe)

5 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at January 19, 2026 11:02 AM (0x0rk)

6 Ha!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 19, 2026 11:03 AM (LlV+5)

7 If Volkswagen is going to survive in the U.S., it had better re-commit to gasoline-powered (“ICE” vehicles

Triggered! We need to destroy all gas powered vehicles to save the planet AND brown people!!!!

Posted by: Retarded Immigration Rioters at January 19, 2026 11:03 AM (ycI94)

8 Unfortunately, it will be the taxpayers who bailout F and GM.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 19, 2026 11:04 AM (GPa4z)

9 Minorities, women, Klaus Schwab hardest hit.

Posted by: This... is XiNN at January 19, 2026 11:04 AM (ULPxl)

10 No one wants to pay a house's worth of money for a car with no engine that looks exactly like a ten year old Ford Focus?

Wow.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2026 11:04 AM (JwNbV)

11 >>Fastest Selling Vehicles in the U.S.

• Toyota Camry: 22 days
• Toyota RAV4: 24 days

Because these have been kick-azz cars for decades.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 19, 2026 11:04 AM (LlV+5)

12 How does the VW EV compare in customer satisfaction to other EVs?

Is it a crappy EV?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 19, 2026 11:05 AM (KDPiq)

13 It's amazing how successful you can be when you just shut up and make things that people want to buy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2026 11:05 AM (JwNbV)

14 I drove a VW Passat. Excellent automobile. Then the wife got into large breed show dogs and said we needed a vehicle to transport them. Enter the VW Atlas. Excellent automobile.

Posted by: ohe hour sober at January 19, 2026 11:06 AM (Y1sOo)

15 just shut up and make things that people want to buy.

Beejers?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 19, 2026 11:06 AM (Kt19C)

16 Isn’t their new styled colorful VW Bus an EV?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 19, 2026 11:07 AM (KDPiq)

17 The market usually wins. It's why tyrants hate markets.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2026 11:07 AM (g8Ew8)

18 13 It's amazing how successful you can be when you just shut up and make things that people want to buy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

We...don't understand.

Posted by: Jaguar Executives at January 19, 2026 11:07 AM (ycI94)

19 Isn't the Jaguar F-Pace the only vehicle that Jaguar currently offers? It's pretty funny that it's the third worst seller in the U.S.

That hilariously awful gay commercial probably extinguished any hope that Jaguar might someday climb out of its hole.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 19, 2026 11:07 AM (JkO4W)

20 15 just shut up and make things that people want to buy.

Beejers?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 19, 2026 11:06 AM (Kt19C)

Pete Buttigieg.

Kamala Harris.

Tim Walz.

The prosecution rests.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2026 11:07 AM (JwNbV)

21 It's amazing how successful you can be when you just shut up and make things that people want to buy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

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"Milton Friedman isn't in charge any more"

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 19, 2026 11:07 AM (8AONa)

22 >>> 13 It's amazing how successful you can be when you just shut up and make things that people want to buy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2026 11:05 AM (JwNbV)

I don't get it.

Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at January 19, 2026 11:08 AM (ULPxl)

23 Build the Ford Nucleon!

Posted by: Archer at January 19, 2026 11:09 AM (YGRGv)

24 Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at January 19, 2026 11:08 AM (ULPxl)

Did she have anything to do with the new Tyron movie. I lasted less than 30 minutes on that crapfest.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 19, 2026 11:09 AM (KDPiq)

25 I don't get it.
Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at January 19, 2026 11:08 AM (ULPxl)

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KK is an industry legend, so shut your whore mouth.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 19, 2026 11:09 AM (JkO4W)

26 "Volkswagen, on the other hand, is likely to pull out of the US market and close its US manufacturing operations if it can’t right its ship."

There is zero chance VW pulls out of USA. VW sells 100s of thousands of vehicles a year here under its own brand, plus 100s of thousands more under its owned brands (Audi, Porsche, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini). VW is one of the largest auto companies in the world.

The EV pill is gonna be hard for all companies to swallow. But swallow it they will.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 19, 2026 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

27 Fastest Selling Vehicles in the U.S.

• Toyota Camry: 22 days
• Toyota RAV4: 24 days

Because these have been kick-azz cars for decades.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 19, 2026 11:04 AM (LlV+5)

The Japs know how to engineer excellent cars and motorcycles.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2026 11:10 AM (g8Ew8)

28 Tron = Tyron

I think they are just trolling us with autocorrect.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 19, 2026 11:10 AM (KDPiq)

29 I had a Passat, and except for the electrical switches, and the dodgy transmission computer, and the pin-holing engine coolant pipes, and the oil coking in the oil-cooled turbo and plugging the oil-pump intake screen, and the plastic parts in the engine bay that rapidly degraded in the under-hood heat, and the headlight wiring insulation that also disintegrated from the heat in the headlight housing, and the AC drain and door-jamb drains that frequently plugged and back-flooded, and the ridiculous hand-wheel for adjusting the seat-back angle, it was kind of OK.

Posted by: Tar Bae at January 19, 2026 11:10 AM (tipsU)

30 The EV pill is gonna be hard for all companies to swallow. But swallow it they will.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 19, 2026 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

I mean, I told them they could shove it up their ass, instead. But did they listen? Nooooooo....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 19, 2026 11:10 AM (JwNbV)

31 21 It's amazing how successful you can be when you just shut up and make things that people want to buy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

+++

So glad I got a 4Runner.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 19, 2026 11:11 AM (2Ez/1)

32 After the federal EV incentives expired, Volkswagen sold a nominal 248 electric ID.4s. That averages out to just 83 units per month, and annualizes to less than 1,000 units.

And to think VW did this without resorting to a JagUar drag show to alienate buyers.

Posted by: Antifa at January 19, 2026 11:11 AM (HTCU3)

33 Where's my f@&*ing Hilux?

Posted by: PabloD at January 19, 2026 11:11 AM (0SmVT)

34 VW should reintroduce the Diesel Jetta. And the aircooled, split-window transporter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 19, 2026 11:12 AM (8zz6B)

35 I shudder to think how many Cadillac Escalades were paid with stolen taxpayer money... in Minnesota alone not even the entire USA.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 19, 2026 11:12 AM (xvV+O)

36 Give us back our diesel cars with no emissions.

I once had an Isuzu I-mark with a diesel and rack-and-pinon steering.
It was pushing past 250k, smoked like a locomotive when you mashed the pedal and still got over 27mpg.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 19, 2026 11:13 AM (HXT0k)

37 34 VW should reintroduce the Diesel Jetta. And the aircooled, split-window transporter.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 19, 2026 11:12 AM (8zz6B)

The diesel Passat - of the emissions cheating fame - was an awesome car. Only thing it needed was an AWD option.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 19, 2026 11:13 AM (N39Ws)

38 Mr. Fusion conversion kit?

Posted by: Archer at January 19, 2026 11:14 AM (YGRGv)

39 Toyota was having issues with their 4 cylinder 8 speed engine and why I bought a Chevy Colorado trail boss instead of a Tacoma .

So far a great decision.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 19, 2026 11:14 AM (KDPiq)

40
Cybertruck: a really big, really expensive, really fast El Camino.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 19, 2026 11:14 AM (2Ez/1)

41 36 Give us back our diesel cars with no emissions.

I once had an Isuzu I-mark with a diesel and rack-and-pinon steering.
It was pushing past 250k, smoked like a locomotive when you mashed the pedal and still got over 27mpg.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 19, 2026 11:13 AM (HXT0k)

Rolling coal. Always an effective deterrent to protestors.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 19, 2026 11:14 AM (N39Ws)

42 35 I shudder to think how many Cadillac Escalades were paid with stolen taxpayer money... in Minnesota alone not even the entire USA.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 19, 2026 11:12 AM (xvV+O)

Number one choice of people who've won the Ghetto Lottery

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2026 11:14 AM (VE6XX)

43 I'm kind of surprised the new EV VW Bus -- no wait, ID.Buzzzzz -- isn't picking up the slack. Maybe the $70k+ price tag is scaring off the hippies.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 19, 2026 11:14 AM (JkO4W)

44 State of Tennessee also spent/committed billions to Ford for "Blue City" in West TN to build EV crap. I suppose it's good news that this piece of shit will likely never be built, but I don't know whether the State will get any money back.

Posted by: Martin Tell at January 19, 2026 11:14 AM (sFNX2)

45 I'm a car guy and I didn't know the Grecale was still on sale in the USA. Terrible name, terrible marketing, mediocre vehicle.

Never buy an Italian car unless it was made by Germans (Lamborghini).

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 19, 2026 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

46 Give me back my diesel cars.

Posted by: Brewingfrog at January 19, 2026 11:14 AM (RjogR)

47 And Repuke Brian Kemp gave millions of Georgia dollars to Hyundai for a battery plant.

Posted by: Juan Paxety at January 19, 2026 11:15 AM (EwniN)

48 In other news, the Chicoms took over the Russian car market with their shitty EVs. It is going about like you would expect. The highlight this time is the car door latches are failing to work when it is winter in Russia which, checks calendar, 11 months of the year. The hilarity is endless.

https://youtu.be/TS0NmR2yUsE

Posted by: Antifa at January 19, 2026 11:15 AM (HTCU3)

49 35 I shudder to think how many Cadillac Escalades were paid with stolen taxpayer money... in Minnesota alone not even the entire USA.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 19, 2026 11:12 AM (xvV+O)

Don’t forget about the Chrysler 300s for those that didn’t get the bigger payouts.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 19, 2026 11:15 AM (KDPiq)

50 Isn't the Jaguar F-Pace the only vehicle that Jaguar currently offers? It's pretty funny that it's the third worst seller in the U.S.

That hilariously awful gay commercial probably extinguished any hope that Jaguar might someday climb out of its hole.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 19, 2026 11:07 AM (JkO4W)

It's amazing how one ad destroyed what remained of a long-established brand. Go woke, go broke.

Suck it, bitches.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2026 11:16 AM (g8Ew8)

51 33 Where's my f@&*ing Hilux?
Posted by: PabloD

They may be coming sooner than you think. With the unholy amalgamation of radical Lefties suddenly embracing the 2nd amendment, openly resisting federal authority with quasi military forces, and tons of 3rd world immigrants (especially Somalians), we should see technicals with pintle-mounted DShKs start springing up any day now.

Posted by: Military Moron at January 19, 2026 11:17 AM (ycI94)

52 I'm kind of surprised the new EV VW Bus -- no wait, ID.Buzzzzz -- isn't picking up the slack. Maybe the $70k+ price tag is scaring off the hippies.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 19, 2026 11:14 AM (JkO4W)

It’s kind of cool looking.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 19, 2026 11:17 AM (KDPiq)

53 45 I'm a car guy and I didn't know the Grecale was still on sale in the USA. Terrible name, terrible marketing, mediocre vehicle.

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Maserati burned its credibility with me in the 80's when it sold that joke Biturbo.

And then there was the Chrysler TC by Maserati. Something like the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, I guess.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 19, 2026 11:17 AM (JkO4W)

54 >>So glad I got a 4Runner.

Chicks in 4Runners are a +2.

Just like Glasses. At least for me.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 11:17 AM (ZcsJV)

55 Toyota was having issues with their 4 cylinder 8 speed engine and why I bought a Chevy Colorado trail boss instead of a Tacoma .

So far a great decision.
Posted by: Opinion fact

Toyota screwed the pooch when they dumped the V-6 to appease the EPA/Cali Carb communists. FAFO. QED.

Posted by: Antifa at January 19, 2026 11:17 AM (HTCU3)

56 Just like Glasses. At least for me.
Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 11:17 AM (ZcsJV)

We all have our minor kinks. Ankle bracelet is mine.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 19, 2026 11:18 AM (KDPiq)

57 Isn't the Jaguar F-Pace the only vehicle that Jaguar currently offers? It's pretty funny that it's the third worst seller in the U.S.

I'm waiting for the Jaguar-ad they/thems to show their O-faces. Hot.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 19, 2026 11:18 AM (ycI94)

58 It would take 527 days to sell out the inventory of ID.4s in the United States

Somalians would make the money without actually building a car. Don't these Germans know a thing about the government?

Posted by: t-bird at January 19, 2026 11:18 AM (uTrw+)

59 Toyota has the fastest selling vehicles in the US.

By STRANGE COINCIDENCE, Toyota also mostly avoided the EV stupidity. Their chairman can actually see reality. (A quality American Chairmen and CEOs seem to lack.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 19, 2026 11:19 AM (zjgNU)

60 I liked VW better when they were cheating on their emissions tests in order to turn out better performing ICE vehicles for us.

Don't know about everyone else, but when I am buying a vehicle, I will ask about how well it performs. Never once have I asked about how it does on emissions. As long as it does well enough for me to get it registered with the DMV, that's good enough for me.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 19, 2026 11:20 AM (syz1S)

61 29 I had a Passat, and except for the electrical switches, and the dodgy transmission computer, and the pin-holing engine coolant pipes, and the ...

Posted by: Tar Bae at January 19, 2026 11:10 AM (tipsU)

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I owned three different VW models back in the '90s. I loved having and driving the car(s), but the little things drove me f*n crazy.

Doors were a problem on all of them. Over time something would shift on a door and then the damn thing wouldn't close. 1999 Beetle had the gas filler door either get stuck open (you wish) or closed (hope you get it fixed before you run out of gas). Oil temp on the 1997 Passat would intermittently go thermal -- so much so that I couldn't drive barefoot because the pedals were HOT.

Other than all that.....

Posted by: pikkumatti at January 19, 2026 11:20 AM (FY8nG)

62 I'm disappointed w/Trump and CAFE.
The only thing he's doing is knocking off
Biden's ultra gas mileage mandate.

No HiLux
No blown 4 banger diesel in Toys or VWs.
sigh

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2026 11:20 AM (zNcSj)

63 >>I liked VW better when they were cheating on their emissions tests in order to turn out better performing ICE vehicles for us.

Honestly, ANY vehicle with a 'Sport' Mode had this done to it.

I never understood why VW took the heat for it.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 11:21 AM (ZcsJV)

64 I'm a car guy and I didn't know the Grecale was still on sale in the USA. Terrible name, terrible marketing, mediocre vehicle.

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Maserati burned its credibility with me in the 80's when it sold that joke Biturbo.

And then there was the Chrysler TC by Maserati. Something like the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, I guess.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 19, 2026 11:17 AM (JkO4W)
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Biturbo was notoriously unreliable, but it was ahead of its time: the first production car with twin turbos. Nobody had done that before. That configuration soon took over the market for high-performance cars, and remains so today.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 19, 2026 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

65 60 I liked VW better when they were cheating on their emissions tests in order to turn out better performing ICE vehicles for us.

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You have to hand it to VW engineering. That diesel emissions cheat was pretty darn clever.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 19, 2026 11:21 AM (JkO4W)

66 I got nothing but the black rims on cars are ugly to me.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 19, 2026 11:21 AM (0KSrI)

67 got nothing but the black rims on cars are ugly to me.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 19, 2026 11:21 AM (0KSrI)

Sad face

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 19, 2026 11:22 AM (KDPiq)

68 Give me back my diesel cars.
Posted by: Brewingfrog at January 19, 2026

***
A turbo-diesel BMW wagon would be awesome indeed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 19, 2026 11:22 AM (wzUl9)

69 Isn't the Jaguar F-Pace the only vehicle that Jaguar currently offers? It's pretty funny that it's the third worst seller in the U.S.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 19, 2026 11:07 AM

Yep, that is correct. Jaguar has completely phased out all ICE vehicles save for the F-Pace and moving to an EV-only lineup. The ICE F-Pace will be phased out this year. Bye-bye, Jaguar.

Grok:

In short: Right now in early 2026, the F-Pace appears to be effectively the only new vehicle available from Jaguar in many regions (or the sole one still in active production/sale), as the brand has cleared out most of its old lineup ahead of the electric relaunch. But it's not "the only one" forever — Jaguar's future is all-EV starting this year.

Grok full summary: https://bit.ly/49sFdPE

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 19, 2026 11:22 AM (P5BPp)

70 "Never once have I asked about how it does on emissions."

Me neither. But this reminds me of the E-Check (or whatever the f it was) days.

Don't ever underestimate the stupidity and/or malignancy of your leaders.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 19, 2026 11:23 AM (qIH9H)

71
Jeeps are cute.
Barbie drives one.

Posted by: A great bumper sticker at January 19, 2026 11:23 AM (2Ez/1)

72 I've owned more than a dozen air-cooled VWs, model years 1960-72. Not planning on going any newer. Currently own just one.

Posted by: Flat Four at January 19, 2026 11:23 AM (oftw2)

73 >>A turbo-diesel BMW wagon would be awesome indeed.

If Audi fixed the air system (suspension) on those Allroads, they would be absolutely perfect cars, imo.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 11:24 AM (ZcsJV)

74 62 I'm disappointed w/Trump and CAFE.
The only thing he's doing is knocking off
Biden's ultra gas mileage mandate.

No HiLux
No blown 4 banger diesel in Toys or VWs.
sigh
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2026 11:20 AM (zNcSj)

Redirect your disappointment to the GOP members in House and Senate. They can easily codify every one of Trumps' EO's. What have they done for us over the last year? I'll wait.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 19, 2026 11:24 AM (N39Ws)

75 The Las Cruces VW dealership has 1 (one) VW EV Buzz bus on the lot. It has been there, well, I lost count of how many months it has been there. I think it is the second one they got stuck with. I have seen the first one around town from time to time - it took something a year to find a sucker for the one. I suspect the problem the LC VW dealership has moving these is the lack the a large homosexual community. From casual observation the ID.4 sales are about double the EV Buzz bus sales.

Posted by: Antifa at January 19, 2026 11:24 AM (HTCU3)

76 >>I've owned more than a dozen air-cooled VWs, model years 1960-72.

I miss my 65 Bus.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 11:24 AM (ZcsJV)

77 With Diesel vehicles you have to add a lot of additives and maintain a winterizing schedule if you live in the snow belt.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 19, 2026 11:24 AM (KDPiq)

78 What kind of an idiot would buy a Volkswagen EV?

That's Hitler's car!

Posted by: Estelle Costanza at January 19, 2026 11:24 AM (R/m4+)

79 Fifth Beatle found!

https://is.gd/WuGw0T

It's there behind George.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 19, 2026 11:24 AM (L/fGl)

80 I liked VW better when they were cheating on their emissions tests in order to turn out better performing ICE vehicles for us.

Honestly, ANY vehicle with a 'Sport' Mode had this done to it.

I never understood why VW took the heat for it.
Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 11:21 AM (ZcsJV)
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Consumers didn't care and in fact liked it. But the regulators were made fools of and went nuts. VW faced tens of billions in fines. Some of their executives even went to jail, IIRC. Nothing stings a bureaucrat more than being made a fool.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 19, 2026 11:25 AM (iFTx/)

81 Grok:

In short: Right now in early 2026, the F-Pace appears to be effectively the only new vehicle available from Jaguar in many regions (or the sole one still in active production/sale), as the brand has cleared out most of its old lineup ahead of the electric relaunch. But it's not "the only one" forever — Jaguar's future is all-EV starting this year.

Grok full summary: https://bit.ly/49sFdPE
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 19, 2026 11:22 AM (P5BPp)

"My prediction? Pain."

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 19, 2026 11:25 AM (zjgNU)

82 State of Tennessee also spent/committed billions to Ford for "Blue City" in West TN to build EV crap. I suppose it's good news that this piece of shit will likely never be built, but I don't know whether the State will get any money back.
Posted by: Martin Tell

ANNOUNCER: No, they won't.

Posted by: MkY at January 19, 2026 11:26 AM (q6tQZ)

83 The company may have no choice but to scrap the glut of unsold ID.4s, since consumers have made it clear that there is virtually no price at which they’re willing to buy them.

I would buy one for eight grand.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 19, 2026 11:27 AM (jc0TO)

84 The Kraut car sucks to begin with, now imagine owning an electric Kraut car. Dummkopfs!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 19, 2026 11:27 AM (abIsI)

85 Isn’t Maserati an uber-expensive luxury sports car? You know, Joe Walsh singing: My Maserati does 185; I lost my license now I don’t drive….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 19, 2026 11:28 AM (/iXAp)

86 Buying a VW in 2026 is a terrible idea. We've had two - a 2009 Tiguan and a 2019 Tiguan after the 2009 was totalled in a fender bender. Only thing worse than auto makers is auto insurers, frankly.

All kinds of shit breaks on the new Tiguan and the only people that can fix it are... the dealers. Coincidence ?

Never again.

Posted by: deadrody at January 19, 2026 11:28 AM (vgB0v)

87 Jaguar has completely phased out all ICE vehicles save for the F-Pace and moving to an EV-only lineup.

That's crazy. They have divorced from reality. Who is paying management to knowingly kill the company?

Posted by: t-bird at January 19, 2026 11:29 AM (uTrw+)

88 Any of you Popeyes fans in Florida and Georgia may have to look elsewhere for your fried chicken . The largest east franchisee in those states is filing for bankruptcy.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 19, 2026 11:29 AM (KDPiq)

89 Five inches of sparkling still fresh snow, sunny blue sky, and a hired guy doing the shoveling.
Fine looking day from my perspective

Posted by: From about That Time at January 19, 2026 11:29 AM (sl73Y)

90 The Volks ID4 is $45k+.

No wonder they can't sell any.

I might buy one at oh...say 5-10k as a fart around town car. But even then...

There really is nothing about to impress me

Without the government arm twist EVs are dead
Except for Tesla.

Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot at January 19, 2026 11:29 AM (SXFZ5)

91
All of this battery-powered car failure was utterly predictable. In fact it was predicted. Why did so many executives and politicians sign on to it?

Emperor's new clothes? Crooked incentives that benefit the few at the expense of the many? Communist subversion? Leadership in love with the smell of their own farts?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 19, 2026 11:29 AM (azNOR)

92 Didn't Maserati make a really nice Mini-type vehicle not more than a few years back?

...could be as far back as a decade, for all I remember?

But, I recall them having a GTi / Mini Type vehicle that was well regarded?

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 11:30 AM (ZcsJV)

93 Somehow these auto company executives rake in millions in salary and bonuses, but most appear to be Walz-level knuckleheads. You'd think someone even remotely familiar with how the automotive market operates, and the basic needs of the average auto consumer, could see that BEVs were a dead end. To save VW, I will graciously volunteer my services as CEO for a paltry $5M.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 19, 2026 11:30 AM (nJ/vH)

94 Isn’t Maserati an uber-expensive luxury sports car? You know, Joe Walsh singing: My Maserati does 185; I lost my license now I don’t drive….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 19, 2026 11:28 AM (/iXAp)
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Like almost all sports-car companies, Maserati is now a sedan and SUV company that also sells sports cars (GranTurismo, MC20). Sadly, all of its vehicles are underwhelming and unreliable.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 19, 2026 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

95 How science works.

https://is.gd/npyww6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 19, 2026 11:30 AM (L/fGl)

96 Are the feds still interested in the proverbial "kill switch" that would effectively render your vehicle, dead?

As a theft deterrent, that's one thing.

As a method of managing one's driving habits... well that's something else entirely.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2026 11:31 AM (U2OZr)

97 Jeeps are cute.
Barbie drives one.
Posted by: A great bumper sticker at January 19, 2026 11:23 AM (2Ez/1)

We have a hybrid Grand Cherokee as a company car. The seat warmer is excellent. Acceleration is good.

That's it for the pros.

Now the cons.....

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 11:31 AM (l2QWF)

98 "THE MORNING RANT - Volkswagen’s Electric Vehicle Misfire: Its Made-In-America, Flagship EV is the Slowest Selling Vehicle in the United States
—Buck Throckmorton"

How low can you go?

Posted by: '26 Jaguar at January 19, 2026 11:31 AM (w/O5Q)

99 Has it gotten to the point where VW dealers are offering money to people who will take the cars off their hands?

Posted by: NR Pax at January 19, 2026 11:32 AM (7xrfc)

100 As a method of managing one's driving habits... well that's something else entirely.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2026 11:31 AM (U2OZr)

I assume the next Democrat administration will mandate all vehicles to read the speed limit signs, and indeed, limit the vehicles to that.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 11:32 AM (l2QWF)

101 The Japs know how to engineer excellent cars and motorcycles.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2026 11:10 AM (g8Ew

When you look at the Asians, the Asian is very gifted in creation, creativity and inventions. If you go to Japan or any Asian country, they can turn a television into a watch. They're very creative.

Posted by: Zombie Reggie White at January 19, 2026 11:33 AM (R/m4+)

102 As others here have pointed out, German cars are generally over-engineered, expensive to operate, expensive to maintain, and ridiculously expensive to fix. Good looking cars, but I'd never buy one.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 19, 2026 11:34 AM (1VZmA)

103 100
I assume the next Democrat administration will mandate all vehicles to read the speed limit signs, and indeed, limit the vehicles to that.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 11:32 AM (l2QWF)

Already mapped and linked to GPS. Use Waze app on your phone. Speed limits displayed on nav screen.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 19, 2026 11:34 AM (N39Ws)

104 Fahrvergnugen !

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 19, 2026 11:34 AM (abIsI)

105 "they can turn a television into a watch"

Yeah, but The Professor could make a radio out of a coconut.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 19, 2026 11:34 AM (qIH9H)

106 In short: Right now in early 2026, the F-Pace appears to be effectively the only new vehicle available from Jaguar in many regions (or the sole one still in active production/sale), as the brand has cleared out most of its old lineup ahead of the electric relaunch. But it's not "the only one" forever — Jaguar's future is all-EV starting this year.

Grok full summary: https://bit.ly/49sFdPE
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 19, 2026 11:22 AM (P5BPp)

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Wait a minute. Weren't English cars and Jaguars in particular, held in high regard EXCEPT for their electronics?
Going all electric seems a rather odd choice given its history.
Oh well. All things must pass.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 19, 2026 11:34 AM (Hx0tZ)

107
100

I assume the next Democrat administration will mandate all vehicles to read the speed limit signs, and indeed, limit the vehicles to that.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 11:32 AM

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It''s for the children. Say the sociopaths who want to force this onto us.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 19, 2026 11:35 AM (azNOR)

108 I miss my 65 Bus.
Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 11:24 AM (ZcsJV)

VW should take the '65 bus, and add the upgrades that most of the enthusiasts do. A 1600 dual port engine, with modern electronic EFI, disc brakes, a 5-speed transmission. Find a way to add air conditioning.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 19, 2026 11:35 AM (8zz6B)

109 EVs were made for the Moon and Mars. Stop it with the bullshit. ICE is the only reasonable option on Earth.

DOT should require permits for transporting Lithium-Ion batteries across state lines. Hazardous waste.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 19, 2026 11:35 AM (BSdIE)

110 Jaguar is an Indian company, right?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 19, 2026 11:35 AM (jc0TO)

111 Didn't Maserati make a really nice Mini-type vehicle not more than a few years back?

...could be as far back as a decade, for all I remember?

But, I recall them having a GTi / Mini Type vehicle that was well regarded?
Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 11:30 AM (ZcsJV)
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Not that I'm aware of. Fiat had the 500, if that's what you're thinking of.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 19, 2026 11:35 AM (iFTx/)

112 >>Wait a minute. Weren't English cars and Jaguars in particular, held in high regard EXCEPT for their electronics?

Yes. The British insist on doing Electronics the wrong way.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 11:35 AM (ZcsJV)

113 105 "they can turn a television into a watch"

Yeah, but The Professor could make a radio out of a coconut.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 19, 2026 11:34 AM (qIH9H)

Not to mention what Ginger and Maryanne could do with a couple of nuts.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 19, 2026 11:35 AM (N39Ws)

114 Jaguar is an Indian company, right?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 19, 2026 11:35 AM (jc0TO)
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Yes. Owned by Tata.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 19, 2026 11:36 AM (iFTx/)

115 Yeah, but The Professor could make a radio out of a coconut.
Posted by: Bad Andrew

But fix a hole in a boat? Fuggedaboutitt.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

116 It would take an international intel coup to reveal it now, but I think VW was set up on the emissions thing. Someone in government (and bear in mind, government at several levels is on the board of VW) let them think that there would continue to be a wink and a nod about those sneaky programming tricks -- until suddenly all the winking and nodding was over, and there they stood in just their socks.

Especially painful to me was that almost by accident, VW ended up in control of the International Scout product name, and is defiling it with an all-EV rollout. Many dreamed that someday the real Scout would be back. I had one on order when they shut down. Now it's a failure-in-advance.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 19, 2026 11:36 AM (zdLoL)

117 Already mapped and linked to GPS. Use Waze app on your phone. Speed limits displayed on nav screen.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 19, 2026 11:34 AM (N39Ws)

When you want to pass someone, you ask your vehicle "Hal, please give me extra power to pass," and the vehicle answers "I can't do that, Dave."

Even though your name isn't Dave.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 11:36 AM (l2QWF)

118
Off big butt fancier sock!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 19, 2026 11:36 AM (SXFZ5)

119 >>Somehow these auto company executives rake in millions in salary and bonuses, but most appear to be Walz-level knuckleheads. You'd think someone even remotely familiar with how the automotive market operates, and the basic needs of the average auto consumer, could see that BEVs were a dead end. To save VW, I will graciously volunteer my services as CEO for a paltry $5M.

Not defending the auto CEOs but let's not forget that governments around the world were mandating EVs. If Harris had won there's a damn good chance we'd have joined the Canucks with forced Chinese EVs.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 19, 2026 11:36 AM (viF8m)

120 As others here have pointed out, German cars are generally over-engineered, expensive to operate, expensive to maintain, and ridiculously expensive to fix. Good looking cars, but I'd never buy one.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 19, 2026

***
If the 23rd-Century Germans build the Enterprise, Scotty will have to remove the entire warp nacelles just to change the dilithium crystals every 20,000 light-years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 19, 2026 11:37 AM (wzUl9)

121
Where's my f@&*ing Hilux?
Posted by: PabloD at January 19, 2026 11:11 AM (0SmVT)

*whistles absently*

Posted by: The Chicken Tax at January 19, 2026 11:37 AM (y9nCu)

122 Tens of trillions of our tax dollars wasted over the last 25 years alone on everything but improving America. Disgusting.

What do we expect when bankers are not held accountable?

Posted by: Danimal28 at January 19, 2026 11:37 AM (mNOhh)

123 The wind is howling and the snowstorm is ferocious but the bread is in the oven and the French onion soup is on the stove.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 19, 2026 11:37 AM (GPa4z)

124 > Already mapped and linked to GPS. Use Waze app on your phone. Speed limits displayed on nav screen.
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Both my vehicles have navigation systems, which is what the GPS uses to figure out the speed limits and display it on the dash. But it does not limit the vehicle to said speed limit.

I might get a flashing icon (in my wife's Explorer) if the limit's 35 and I'm doing 65... but it won't limit the speed.

Yet.

That said... I'd bet the telemetric systems in it sends something to Ford, which shares it with my insurance company. Assholes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2026 11:38 AM (U2OZr)

125 VW should take the '65 bus, and add the upgrades that most of the enthusiasts do. A 1600 dual port engine, with modern electronic EFI, disc brakes, a 5-speed transmission. Find a way to add air conditioning.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

My '60 VW Westfalia SO-23 has a dual port and air conditioning. A fellow in FL sells the kits. I installed it myself.

Posted by: Flat Four. at January 19, 2026 11:38 AM (oftw2)

126 >>VW should take the '65 bus, and add the upgrades that most of the enthusiasts do. A 1600 dual port engine, with modern electronic EFI, disc brakes, a 5-speed transmission. Find a way to add air conditioning.

And maybe ditch the reduction box drivetrain. I like the clearance it affords...but they are a liability, long term.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 11:38 AM (ZcsJV)

127 It would take an international intel coup to reveal it now, but I think VW was set up on the emissions thing. Someone in government (and bear in mind, government at several levels is on the board of VW) let them think that there would continue to be a wink and a nod about those sneaky programming tricks -- until suddenly all the winking and nodding was over, and there they stood in just their socks.

Especially painful to me was that almost by accident, VW ended up in control of the International Scout product name, and is defiling it with an all-EV rollout. Many dreamed that someday the real Scout would be back. I had one on order when they shut down. Now it's a failure-in-advance.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 19, 2026 11:36 AM (zdLoL)

There was a guy in Germany, almost 100 years ago, if he saw how government controls industry today, would smile and say "Now that's how you do it!"

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 11:39 AM (l2QWF)

128
108 I miss my 65 Bus.
Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 11:24 AM (ZcsJV)

VW should take the '65 bus, and add the upgrades that most of the enthusiasts do. A 1600 dual port engine, with modern electronic EFI, disc brakes, a 5-speed transmission. Find a way to add air conditioning.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 19, 2026 11:35 AM (8zz6B)

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And construct them out of something better than tinfoil.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 19, 2026 11:39 AM (azNOR)

129 Finally, a little inclusion.

Trans activist Dylan Mulvaney (of Bud Light fame) will play Anne Boleyn on Broadway

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 19, 2026 11:40 AM (L/fGl)

130
Wait a minute. Weren't English cars and Jaguars in particular, held in high regard EXCEPT for their electronics?
Going all electric seems a rather odd choice given its history.
Oh well. All things must pass.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 19, 2026 11:34 AM (Hx0tZ)

All Hail Lucas, Prince of Darkness!

Posted by: The Chicken Tax at January 19, 2026 11:40 AM (y9nCu)

131 Passat hate. Huh. My '96 Passat was a turbo, five-speed manual with over 150k miles when I got rid of it. Other than scheduled maintenance, the only thing I ever had to do to it was replace the power steering pump that shit the bed at around 120K miles. I experienced none of the stuff that's been mentioned. Guess I was livin' right.

Posted by: ohe hour sober at January 19, 2026 11:40 AM (Y1sOo)

132 That said... I'd bet the telemetric systems in it sends something to Ford, which shares it with my insurance company. Assholes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2026 11:38 AM (U2OZr)

Insurance companies allow you to install a device to send them your data, and if you are a good little obedient driver, they'll give you a cookie or two.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 11:40 AM (l2QWF)

133 @119 Not defending the auto CEOs...
Yeah, I know, but a lot of auto companies were oddly very enthusiastic about BEVs, with very little push-back against the idiot politicians. As if they were in cahoots with them...nah, that crazy talk!

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 19, 2026 11:41 AM (1VZmA)

134 Does that Maserati do 185?

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 19, 2026 11:41 AM (f1kZG)

135
Shit. Sock fail.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2026 11:41 AM (y9nCu)

136 Trans activist Dylan Mulvaney (of Bud Light fame) will play Anne Boleyn on Broadway
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 19, 2026 11:40 AM (L/fGl)

I'm not Henry VIII! I'm not! It was just a song! MAKE IT STOP!!!!

Posted by: Peter Noone at January 19, 2026 11:42 AM (/N7Ix)

137 The VW Westfalia is great until you get into a front end collision. They'll be picking pieces of your pancreas out of the Blaupunkt.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 19, 2026 11:42 AM (abIsI)

138 All Hail Lucas, Prince of Darkness!
Posted by: The Chicken Tax at January 19, 2026 11:40 AM (y9nCu)

Holds envelope to forehead: Lucas

Rips open envelope: Why the English drink warm beer.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 19, 2026 11:43 AM (Hx0tZ)

139 Performance isn't emissions.
Performance is 0 to 60, - 0 to 100
What is the stopping distance?
How well does it take a curve?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2026 11:44 AM (zNcSj)

140 And maybe ditch the reduction box drivetrain. I like the clearance it affords...but they are a liability, long term.
Posted by: garrett

I kept the reduction boxes, as I don't like lowered buses, but installed a "Freeway Flyer" transmission, as the original "crashbox" limited top speed to about 55, so as not to blow up the original 1200 engine. I like the combo and it makes me happy.

Posted by: Flat Four.. at January 19, 2026 11:44 AM (oftw2)

141 Anybody remember the settlement VW made with the US government over the emissions cheating?

Build EVs and charging stations around the US.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 19, 2026 11:44 AM (viF8m)

142 We liked our microbus. Painted it chartreuse.

11 Long Haired Friends of Jesus

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 19, 2026 11:44 AM (gm9Sb)

143
It's a Maserati
It's a Maserati

Posted by: Ted Nugent at January 19, 2026 11:44 AM (y9nCu)

144 There goes the “we make it up on volume” thing.

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 11:45 AM (nTi7N)

145 Lot's of talking heads and politicians, mostly Dems but also Republicans, paying tribute to MLK's legacy. Which is identifying and judging people based on the color of their skin, right?

Posted by: Ripley at January 19, 2026 11:45 AM (GUOwU)

146 Yeah, I know, but a lot of auto companies were oddly very enthusiastic about BEVs, with very little push-back against the idiot politicians. As if they were in cahoots with them...nah, that crazy talk!
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 19, 2026 11:41 AM (1VZmA)

To assume company execs are all on board with the DEI nonsense, is to assume your neighborhood business is super thrilled to give a bag of fire insurance money to Italian thugs every week or so.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 11:45 AM (l2QWF)

147 Insurance companies allow you to install a device to send them your data, and if you are a good little obedient driver, they'll give you a cookie or two.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 11:40 AM (l2QWF)

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The insurance company told us our homeowners premium as going to spike but when we told them we had just put a new roof on the house w/o filing a hail or wind damage claim, they brought it back down. Still a little higher though.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 19, 2026 11:46 AM (GPa4z)

148 >>I kept the reduction boxes, as I don't like lowered buses

I agree. But I would put bigger wheels on a re-design and ditch the reduction boxes for a more reliable and cost effective system.

Keep the stance and make them more reliable.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 11:46 AM (ZcsJV)

149 133 @119 Not defending the auto CEOs...
Yeah, I know, but a lot of auto companies were oddly very enthusiastic about BEVs, with very little push-back against the idiot politicians. As if they were in cahoots with them...nah, that crazy talk!
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 19, 2026 11:41 AM (1VZmA)

it's truly astounding. All the politicians, and all the company boards, and all the CEO's, and all the activists jumped on board the EV wagon and pushed as hard as they could...

and not a single one stopped and said "hey is this tech really going to work like we say it will?"

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 19, 2026 11:46 AM (uWKK8)

150 137 The VW Westfalia is great until you get into a front end collision. They'll be picking pieces of your pancreas out of the Blaupunkt.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

I installed 3 point harness, but yeah, having the windshield 2 feet from your face takes getting used to. Motorcycles are ten times as dangerous, though.

Posted by: Flat Four... at January 19, 2026 11:47 AM (oftw2)

151 Well, not to mention electric cars are gay. Very, very gay. Like a peach-striped jacket and tight tapered trousers. Or Don Lemon in a church.

Posted by: Ambiguously Gay Richard Simmons at January 19, 2026 11:47 AM (7Q0e+)

152 Auto makers could do some things to increase profit but even more satisfy the customer. VW should concentrate on diesel sales here, like they do in Europe. Next, Toyota should concentrate on diesel sales here, like they do in Australia. That's what people want.

Posted by: Eromero at January 19, 2026 11:47 AM (LHPAg)

153
Out of curiosity, was Haslam idiotic in any other ways?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 19, 2026 11:47 AM (Jyxrm)

154 142 We liked our microbus. Painted it chartreuse.

11 Long Haired Friends of Jesus

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Never saw these smelly buggers in my life.

Posted by: Jesus H. Christ at January 19, 2026 11:47 AM (JkO4W)

155

Sister's out till 5, doing bankers' son's hours
But she owns a Maserati that's a gift from his father
Stop at full speed, at 100 miles per hour
The Colgate invisible shield finally got 'em

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 19, 2026 11:48 AM (pkeXY)

156 DeTomaso and Lambourghini do not roll off the tongue.
In fact you have to make a lot of mouth movements to coax the word out.
Maserati is a very cool name, and just rolls off the tongue.
It should have kicked ass.
It's a testament to its craptitude that it still languishes in sales and prestige

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 19, 2026 11:48 AM (Hx0tZ)

157 I suppose just about executive would prefer to have the State force taxpayers to buy your products rather than try to make products the taxpayers would happily buy.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 19, 2026 11:49 AM (GPa4z)

158 A turbo-diesel BMW wagon would be awesome indeed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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I always like that Mercedes-Benz 300 TD diesel wagon Robert Wagner drove in Hart to Hart.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 19, 2026 11:49 AM (ViCCR)

159 Not defending the auto CEOs...
Yeah, I know, but a lot of auto companies were oddly very enthusiastic about BEVs, with very little push-back against the idiot politicians. As if they were in cahoots with them...nah, that crazy talk!
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 19, 2026 11:41 AM (1VZmA)

it's truly astounding. All the politicians, and all the company boards, and all the CEO's, and all the activists jumped on board the EV wagon and pushed as hard as they could...

and not a single one stopped and said "hey is this tech really going to work like we say it will?"
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 19, 2026 11:46 AM (uWKK

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Toyota and to a lesser extend Honda did just that. They went heavy into hybrid instead. It was a big gamble at a time when half the world's governments were officially outlawing ICE motors. But it paid off big time.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 19, 2026 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

160 Keep the stance and make them more reliable.
Posted by: garrett

Ya gotta be careful with stances.
-- Larry Craig

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 11:49 AM (77rzZ)

161 Too bad this place is infected with Tesla-haters. The model Y is the best selling vehicle in the world, period. Tesla US has inventory days dramatically lower than any other brands. And current ratings for reliability are way higher. And they drive themselves, whether you believe that or not.

Finally, when you look at traditional U.S. sales figures, you are usually looking at sales to DEALERS, not CUSTOMERS, but since Tesla has no dealers, when they say model Y typically has a 10-15 day inventory, that actually means they're selling them like hotcakes, regardless of all the FUD beloved in the media, and here.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 19, 2026 11:49 AM (FpP3s)

162 @137 I had a 64 and then a 63 Econoline. Westfalias do not scare me.

Keep in mind, Toyota built a 'family van' with the same suicidal driving position a solid 30 years later, and it was favorably reviewed all around.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 19, 2026 11:49 AM (zdLoL)

163 Today is MLK day? Which day is Barack Obama day?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 19, 2026 11:49 AM (BSdIE)

164 Well, not to mention electric cars are gay. Very, very gay. Like a peach-striped jacket and tight tapered trousers. Or Don Lemon in a church.
Posted by: Ambiguously Gay Richard Simmons

Gayer than today's art?

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 11:50 AM (77rzZ)

165 >>Well, not to mention electric cars are gay. Very, very gay. Like a peach-striped jacket and tight tapered trousers. Or Don Lemon in a church.

AIDS has really let us down.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 11:51 AM (ZcsJV)

166 The insurance company told us our homeowners premium as going to spike but when we told them we had just put a new roof on the house w/o filing a hail or wind damage claim, they brought it back down. Still a little higher though.
Posted by: Oglebay at January 19, 2026 11:46 AM (GPa4z)

Yeah Homeowner policies go up significantly once your roof is over ten years old.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 19, 2026 11:52 AM (KDPiq)

167 We are on our second VW Atlas and the second is even finer that the first. First gen had a six cylinder natural breather engine, this new one has a turbochaged 4 and the tranny's been tuned for great performance in city, on highway, and on steep and curvy mountain roads where the SUV lives all summer and fall.

We wanted inside cubic footage and three rows seating with capacity for 7 adults. When we got our first one, the Honda Pilot was the only other choice in the same class.

Now I belive the Toyota Grand Highlander is same size, but we like the Atlas. It gets close to 26 mpg on a highway trip if the speed is set to 73.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 19, 2026 11:52 AM (KiBMU)

168 Next, Toyota should concentrate on diesel sales here, like they do in Australia. That's what people want.
Posted by: Eromero at January 19, 2026 11:47 AM (LHPAg)

As far as I can tell, the only purpose of the diesel is for people to drive it to Walmart or the casino, so everyone else on the road can smell your shitty engine.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 11:52 AM (l2QWF)

169 What sorcery kept Don Le-Mon from catching fire the moment he stepped on the Minnesota church property?

Posted by: Antifa at January 19, 2026 11:52 AM (HTCU3)

170 156 In the 80s Chrysler partnered up with Maserati and concocted a LeBaron (K Car type) with a Maserati engine and drive train. Nice looking car that you could get a glimpse of through the service department's shop window.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 19, 2026 11:52 AM (gm9Sb)

171 Today is MLK day?

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https://is.gd/MdQj5r

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 19, 2026 11:52 AM (L/fGl)

172 Too bad this place is infected with Tesla-haters. The model Y is the best selling vehicle in the world, period. Tesla US has inventory days dramatically lower than any other brands. And current ratings for reliability are way higher. And they drive themselves, whether you believe that or not.

Finally, when you look at traditional U.S. sales figures, you are usually looking at sales to DEALERS, not CUSTOMERS, but since Tesla has no dealers, when they say model Y typically has a 10-15 day inventory, that actually means they're selling them like hotcakes, regardless of all the FUD beloved in the media, and here.
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 19, 2026 11:49 AM (FpP3s)

Do you know why I think this is bullshit? It's because I have eyes. And I see very few Teslas on the road. They're a niche car at the most.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2026 11:53 AM (g8Ew8)

173 I shudder to think how many Cadillac Escalades were paid with stolen taxpayer money... in Minnesota alone not even the entire USA.

The punishment for Karmelo Anthony when he fatally stabbed Austin Metcalf in Frisco, TX was to win money in the GoFundMe lottery and bought a decked out Escalade to get himself in and out of his family's newly obtained home in a gated community.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 19, 2026 11:53 AM (a4flb)

174 Which day is Barack Obama day?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 19, 2026 11:49 AM (BSdIE)

This year? June 26.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 11:53 AM (ovfbp)

175 With the exception of Jesus, nobody's birthday should be a national holiday.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 11:53 AM (77rzZ)

176 163 Today is MLK day? Which day is Barack Obama day?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 19, 2026 11:49 AM
Today is also Confederate Heroes Day.

Posted by: Eromero at January 19, 2026 11:54 AM (LHPAg)

177 Do you know why I think this is bullshit? It's because I have eyes. And I see very few Teslas on the road. They're a niche car at the most.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2026 11:53 AM (g8Ew

They're all over Arizona.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 11:54 AM (ovfbp)

178 Gayer than today's art?
Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 11:50 AM (77rzZ)

About that...
I read the Morning Report, some of the articles, and the comments and by that time the Rant was up. Missed it completely but the 3rd or 4th comment here was about the gay art.

So of course I had to look.
Yep. Pretty gay. Even looks like someone paddled his bottom. And fairy is right in the title.
Bring back booby week.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 19, 2026 11:54 AM (Hx0tZ)

179 I kept the reduction boxes, as I don't like lowered buses, but installed a "Freeway Flyer" transmission, as the original "crashbox" limited top speed to about 55, so as not to blow up the original 1200 engine. I like the combo and it makes me happy.
Posted by: Flat Four.. at January 19, 2026 11:44 AM (oftw2)

On further thinking, hat VW should do is offer the reborn microbus with a Subaru flat six, built under license. All the power you need, and a history of durability. Build a RWD model with no reduction boxes, and an AWD model with reduction boxes and suitable gearing in the front differential to make the wheel RPM's match.

And no damned touch screen! If the buyer wants the optional ($2500) touch screen they also get a big red clown nose welded on the front.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 19, 2026 11:54 AM (8zz6B)

180 >>Well, not to mention electric cars are gay. Very, very gay. Like a peach-striped jacket and tight tapered trousers. Or Don Lemon in a church.

Yeah, no.

Washington? Definitely.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 11:55 AM (ZcsJV)

181 And I see very few Teslas on the road.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Really? They're all over the place here in NoVa.

Quite a few Cybertrucks, too.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 11:55 AM (77rzZ)

182
I always like that Mercedes-Benz 300 TD diesel wagon Robert Wagner drove in Hart to Hart.
Posted by: olddog in mo at January 19, 2026 11:49 AM (ViCCR)

My dream car is the Mercedes 600, or as Larry Correia calls it in one of his books, the Ultimate Dictator Dope Ride.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2026 11:55 AM (y9nCu)

183 Next, Toyota should concentrate on diesel sales here, like they do in Australia. That's what people want.

Our free market is so distorted and broken.

Posted by: t-bird at January 19, 2026 11:55 AM (uTrw+)

184 With the exception of Jesus, nobody's birthday should be a national holiday.
Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 11:53 AM (77rzZ)

Yeah, we should make Jesus' b-day a holiday. We don't have any April holidays.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 11:56 AM (ovfbp)

185 175 For a long time Arkansas had Robert E. Lee's Birthday as a holiday, and coordinated it with MLK day when that came out. Wokeness struck. BTW, Happy Birthday, Bobby Lee.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 19, 2026 11:56 AM (gm9Sb)

186 We don't have any April holidays.
Posted by: BurtTC

Easter, most years.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 11:57 AM (77rzZ)

187 Do you know why I think this is bullshit? It's because I have eyes. And I see very few Teslas on the road. They're a niche car at the most.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2026 11:53 AM (g8Ew

They're all over Arizona.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 11:54 AM (ovfbp)
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They are all over the place. But the total sales figures are estimations at best. At least in the USA, there are 5 or 6 vehicles that outsell it. Ford sells probably 3x as many F150s as Telsa does Ys.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 19, 2026 11:57 AM (iFTx/)

188 I have a neighbor a few doors down who has a Levante. The Maserati SUV, It has the most beautiful exhaust growl I’ve ever heard on a car, it’s a Ferrari engine inside.

Annual service costs $1500, basically an oil change. Mama Mia!!! And that’s before tires or brakes need replaced. Brake job is $5K on one of those things.

He’s a dental surgeon so he can afford it without breaking a sweat I assume.

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 11:57 AM (nTi7N)

189 >>Do you know why I think this is bullshit? It's because I have eyes. And I see very few Teslas on the road. They're a niche car at the most.

Quite a few of them around here. I don't hate them. They are pretty cool in a lot of ways but EVs don't fit my driving habits.

Trying to force everyone into EVs was a stupid idea from day 1. Choice is find but no mandates.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 19, 2026 11:58 AM (viF8m)

190 Then I have another reason to thank God I live where I live.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2026 11:58 AM (g8Ew8)

191 Stephen Miller: Feds Have Begun Work of ‘Identifying, Disrupting and Dismantling the Insurgent networks’ in Minnesota

Posted by: SMOD at January 19, 2026 11:58 AM (RHGPo)

192 And then there was the Chrysler TC by Maserati.
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That car was an abomination. Its exhibit A in my book of why car brands shouldn't lend their brands to other makers.

Posted by: Crusader at January 19, 2026 11:58 AM (TN0g+)

193 My experience with German automobile "engineering" was not quite so pleasant. A VW Golf's alternator failed 2 weeks after the two year warranty expired. A front headlight burned out. No problem, right? Except it was impossible to replace the bulb. You had to buy the entire assembly for $300. Never will I get a VW again.

In the analytical equipment field, German engineering tends to follow trends that got Germany into trouble in WWII. Fancy and precise machines that are overly complex with little to no attention to details like field maintenance.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at January 19, 2026 11:58 AM (bb/Vl)

194 Easter, most years.
Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 11:57 AM (77rzZ)

That's on Sundays. I'm already off work.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 11:58 AM (ovfbp)

195 What sorcery kept Don Le-Mon from catching fire the moment he stepped on the Minnesota church property?

I'm guessing that someone within the church was in on it and this was theater to support the Narrative. That is why Don Le-Mon knows he won't get busted for a very obvious FACE felony. The church won't demand charges filed, and the local AG sure as hell won't pursue it civilly either.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 19, 2026 11:59 AM (a4flb)

196 189 >>Do you know why I think this is bullshit? It's because I have eyes. And I see very few Teslas on the road. They're a niche car at the most.

Daughter has one.. Loves it.. There are tons here in NorCal as one would expect...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2026 11:59 AM (VE6XX)

197 Mayor Zohran Mamdani Takes A "Dump"

Posted by: SMOD at January 19, 2026 11:59 AM (RHGPo)

198 191 Stephen Miller: Feds Have Begun Work of ‘Identifying, Disrupting and Dismantling the Insurgent networks’ in Minnesota
Posted by: SMOD at January 19, 2026 11:58 AM (RHGPo)

Hope so... Gotta put an end to this...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2026 12:00 PM (VE6XX)

199 >>My experience with German automobile "engineering" was not quite so pleasant.

Try changing spark plugs on a Porsche 914.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 19, 2026 12:00 PM (viF8m)

200 I have a neighbor a few doors down who has a Levante. The Maserati SUV, It has the most beautiful exhaust growl I’ve ever heard on a car, it’s a Ferrari engine inside.

It's a Ferrari-designed twin turbo on top of a Chrysler Pentastar V6 block. They make 'em in Detroit and ship to Italy to get modified.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:00 PM (t5upi)

201 The VW plant in Chattanooga voted to
unionize. VW is dead to me.

Posted by: Don DeVan at January 19, 2026 12:00 PM (6inc5)

202 We don't have any April holidays.
Posted by: BurtTC
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April 6: International Asexuality Day
April 10: National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Third Friday of April: Day of Silence
April 18: National Transgender HIV Testing Day
April 18: Nonbinary Parents Day
April 26: Lesbian Visibility Day

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2026 12:00 PM (U2OZr)

203 Then I have another reason to thank God I live where I live.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2026 11:58 AM (g8Ew

I'll start complaining about Teslas as soon as douchebags start installing glasspacks on them to give them the stupid vroom sound.

Until then, I'll enjoy the quiet.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 12:01 PM (l2QWF)

204 Stephen Miller: Feds Have Begun Work of ‘Identifying, Disrupting and Dismantling the Insurgent networks’ in Minnesota

Without saying that it might be decades between the "Identifying" part and the "Disrupting and Dismantling" party.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 19, 2026 12:01 PM (a4flb)

205 Do you know why I think this is bullshit? It's because I have eyes. And I see very few Teslas on the road. They're a niche car at the most.

Daughter has one.. Loves it.. There are tons here in NorCal as one would expect...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2026 11:59 A

You can't drive half a mile in the DFW metroplex without spotting them. They are everywhere down there.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 19, 2026 12:01 PM (0N4FZ)

206 April 6: International Asexuality Day
April 10: National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Third Friday of April: Day of Silence
April 18: National Transgender HIV Testing Day
April 18: Nonbinary Parents Day
April 26: Lesbian Visibility Day
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2026 12:00 PM (U2OZr)

Oh goodie! All those days to celebrate, I'll hardly have to work at all!!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 12:01 PM (l2QWF)

207 I have a neighbor a few doors down who has a Levante. The Maserati SUV, It has the most beautiful exhaust growl I’ve ever heard on a car, it’s a Ferrari engine inside.

It's a Ferrari-designed twin turbo on top of a Chrysler Pentastar V6 block. They make 'em in Detroit and ship to Italy to get modified.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:00 PM (t5upi)
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The car he is talking about probably has the V8

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 19, 2026 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

208 JustTheNews: In Somali fraud scandal, Republicans probe evidence of a blue state election scheme

The Republicans' argument goes like this: Democrats reversed Donald Trump’s related first-term executive orders and ensured that noncitizens, including illegal immigrants, were counted into 2020 U.S. Census. Then-President Biden opened the southern border so that millions of illegals could flood the country in just a few years.

Next, liberal nonprofits helped move those migrants from the southern border red states, where they were not particularly welcome, to "sanctuary cities" in Democratic-run cities in the election battleground states and helped them enroll in welfare at the taxpayers' expense.

And finally, Democratic leaders, like failed vice-presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tom Walz, they say, failed to act — or even worse, looked the other way — when evidence emerged that non-citizens were defrauding those safety net programs by the tune of billions of dollars. And liberal judges blocked efforts to stop or punish the fraud.

Posted by: SMOD at January 19, 2026 12:02 PM (RHGPo)

209 “Dear Jonas: Since your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping 8 wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace, although it will always be dominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States,” the US President wrote.

Epic.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 19, 2026 12:02 PM (abIsI)

210 Do you know why I think this is bullshit? It's because I have eyes. And I see very few Teslas on the road. They're a niche car at the most.

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I live in a mid sized city in flyover country and they’re everywhere. Go to SoCal and they’re basically the new Camry.

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 12:02 PM (nTi7N)

211 The Left have always loved mandates when it is something they agree with. Even if they try to pretend they are freedom of choice .

Even their main Freedom of Choice was actually a mandate that taxpayers had to provide and pay for abortions.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 19, 2026 12:03 PM (KDPiq)

212 April 26: Lesbian Visibility Day

We used to celebrate that on Cinemax.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:03 PM (t5upi)

213
I'll start complaining about Teslas as soon as douchebags start installing glasspacks on them to give them the stupid vroom sound.

Dodge (Charger Daytona EV): This vehicle uses a "Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust" system. Unlike simple speaker-based systems, it uses a physical exhaust chamber to create a 126-decibel roar that matches the intensity of a Hellcat V8

That is right, they deliberately added a near criminally loud noise maker on an EV.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 19, 2026 12:03 PM (a4flb)

214 Especially painful to me was that almost by accident, VW ended up in control of the International Scout product name, and is defiling it with an all-EV rollout.
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The Travelall was a Suburban before there was one.
And built like a tank.
Frame was a full tube, not a C.
The gas tank had a full 1/2 in metal plate protecting it.
The 355 was a big block engine.
The only downside was, the leaf springs were under the axle, which limited clearance.

Lol, one time, I changed a flat on the rear by intentionally high-centering that side of the axle to raise tire as I didn't have jack.
'Cause it's 4wd and, if you were ever stuck, you were stuck-stuck. And it took a lot to get it stuck.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 19, 2026 12:03 PM (HXT0k)

215 “Dear Jonas: Since your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping 8 wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace, although it will always be dominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States,” the US President wrote.

Epic.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

It's a fake letter cooked up by some guy at NPR. Chris Plante was debunking it on his show.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

216 >>The Republicans' argument goes like this

You don't say.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 19, 2026 12:03 PM (viF8m)

217 The car he is talking about probably has the V8
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 19, 2026 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

Yep. Twin turbo V8.

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 12:03 PM (nTi7N)

218 I have a neighbor a few doors down who has a Levante. The Maserati SUV, It has the most beautiful exhaust growl I’ve ever heard on a car, it’s a Ferrari engine inside. Annual service costs $1500, basically an oil change. Mama Mia!!! And that’s before tires or brakes need replaced. Brake job is $5K on one of those things. He’s a dental surgeon so he can afford it without breaking a sweat I assume.
Posted by: Really?

The Eye Surgeon here Las Cruces who also owns a very busy eye clinic owned a Land Rover One day I was chatting with him about cars and he brought up his Land Rover. At that time, his first year of ownership included him having possession of his car about 2 months and the other 10 months with the car in the shop because nobody could figure out to make run.

Posted by: Antifa at January 19, 2026 12:04 PM (HTCU3)

219 209 “Dear Jonas: Since your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping 8 wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace, although it will always be dominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States,” the US President wrote.

Epic.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 19, 2026 12:02 PM

LOL...here come the shrieking media/dems

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2026 12:04 PM (VE6XX)

220 NYPost: Josh Shapiro says Harris team asked him if he was ‘double agent for Israel’ during VP vetting process

Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has claimed in his forthcoming memoir that 2024 Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ campaign asked him if he had ever worked as a “double agent for Israel” while vetting him as a potential running mate.

Shapiro, who is Jewish, wrote in “Where We Keep the Light” that he told his interrogator, former Biden White House counsel Dana Remus, that he found the question offensive and was told, “Well, we have to ask.”

Posted by: SMOD at January 19, 2026 12:04 PM (RHGPo)

221 The Left have always loved mandates when it is something they agree with. Even if they try to pretend they are freedom of choice .

Even their main Freedom of Choice was actually a mandate that taxpayers had to provide and pay for abortions.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 19, 2026 12:03 PM (KDPiq)

Lefties love mandates! Especially the kind that NEVER result in abortions!!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 12:05 PM (l2QWF)

222 April 26: Lesbian Visibility Day

Maybe somebody could post some busty lesbian pron to mark the occasion.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 12:05 PM (77rzZ)

223 I was slightly interested in a new car a few months ago. During that time, I decided to give a Volkswagon Atlas a spin. This was an Atlas Cross-Sport model. Initially, I liked it on the short test drive in town. Roomy, quick, and sort of cool. Yeah... it looked good too. (except it's fake dual exhaust. LOL)
Then shortly after, I needed to rent a car for an across state (Texas) trip and back. Lots of driving involved. The rental was an Atlas SEL model. Pretty much the same car with a less sporty look was all. Anyway...
I didn't like it as much as I thought I would. Not all that comfortable and loud engine noise. Therefore, I have removed the Atlas from my list of possibilities. (These were both ICE cars)

Posted by: Guillermo at January 19, 2026 12:05 PM (558mO)

224 The car he is talking about probably has the V8

Ahh. They had announced that they were dropping the V8 because Gaia and Biden. I imagine they took that back like the rest of Stellantis.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:05 PM (t5upi)

225 “Dear Jonas: Since your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping 8 wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace, although it will always be dominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States,” the US President wrote.

Epic.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 19, 2026 12:02 PM

Had hillary won they would have given her the nobel peace prize just for winning like they did with obama.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 19, 2026 12:05 PM (0N4FZ)

226
It's a fake letter cooked up by some guy at NPR. Chris Plante was debunking it on his show.
Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

It is ? It's the number one story on Yahoo right now...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2026 12:05 PM (VE6XX)

227 Try changing spark plugs on a Porsche 914.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 19, 2026 12:00 PM (viF8m)

That’s Porsche-uh! — Joey Tribbiani

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 19, 2026 12:05 PM (YobFY)

228 can now think about what is good and proper for the United States,” the US President wrote.

You can tell he's rattled by the 34 EU soldiers who are now defending Greenland.

Posted by: t-bird at January 19, 2026 12:06 PM (uTrw+)

229 The car he is talking about probably has the V8

Ahh. They had announced that they were dropping the V8 because Gaia and Biden. I imagine they took that back like the rest of Stellantis.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:05 PM (t5upi)
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The entire Levante line is dead. Killed to make room for EVs that will never come. Sound familiar?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 19, 2026 12:06 PM (iFTx/)

230 I see a surprisingly high number of cyber-trucks. Perhaps ugliest vehicle ever. Who buys those things?

Posted by: Ripley at January 19, 2026 12:06 PM (GUOwU)

231 I said 355, but it was a 345 cubic inch big block engine.
It was a beast.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 19, 2026 12:06 PM (HXT0k)

232 April 26: Lesbian Visibility Day
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We used to celebrate that on Cinemax.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:03 PM (t5upi)

Nowadays, how can you miss them? Unless you gouge your eyes out.

Which is seeming more desirable every day.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 12:06 PM (l2QWF)

233 It is ? It's the number one story on Yahoo right now...
Posted by: It's me donna

Yeah, there's all sorts of weird mistakes in it.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 12:07 PM (77rzZ)

234 At that time, his first year of ownership included him having possession of his car about 2 months and the other 10 months with the car in the shop because nobody could figure out to make run.

That's pretty typical for Jaguar/Land Rover. If they'd actually made the gay Jaguar EV it might've been more reliable. Unless they had Lucas make the EV parts.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:07 PM (t5upi)

235 As long as nobody forces me to buy one, I give no fucks about EVs. Now that the $7500 tax credit is gone thanks to be OBBB, whatever. It’s just another product available for consumers.

Just like a truck or SuV isn’t everyone’s thing neither is an EV. But there is something for everyone out there. That’s the beauty of capitalism.

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 12:08 PM (nTi7N)

236 Today is MLK day? Which day is Barack Obama day?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 19, 2026 11:49 AM (BSdIE)

February 31st.

Posted by: Mike Reno, Fat Fuck at January 19, 2026 12:08 PM (R/m4+)

237 JustTheNews: Emails show Fauci, Collins plotting to circumvent 'impressive' data for COVID natural immunity

Posted by: SMOD at January 19, 2026 12:08 PM (fXVlG)

238 Nowadays, how can you miss them? Unless you gouge your eyes out.

Which is seeming more desirable every day.

Yeah, non-movie lesbians becoming visible has not been good for anyone's eyes.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:08 PM (t5upi)

239 I saw one of Musk's Cybertrucks cruising around town recently. They had pulled up to a hamburger stand that sells burgers for like $2, and the burgers are like silver dollars and suck ass. You could get a better burger from the frozen food section at Town Pump.

Also, there is only one charging station in this town.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 19, 2026 12:09 PM (BSdIE)

240 I see a surprisingly high number of cyber-trucks. Perhaps ugliest vehicle ever. Who buys those things?
Posted by: Ripley at January 19, 2026 12:06 PM (GUOwU)

I cheer every time I see one. It means one less diesel choking my nostrils as they accelerate from zero to five in front of me.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 12:09 PM (l2QWF)

241 230 I see a surprisingly high number of cyber-trucks. Perhaps ugliest vehicle ever. Who buys those things?
Posted by: Ripley at January 19, 2026 12:06 PM (GUOwU)

I see them here and there and every time I ask "why?" They are neither aesthetically pleasing nor especially practical for use as a truck.

Posted by: Like TJM, I don't get it. at January 19, 2026 12:09 PM (TbWk/)

242
With the exception of Jesus, nobody's birthday should be a national holiday.
Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 11:53 AM (77rzZ)

Jesus, and George Washington.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2026 12:09 PM (y9nCu)

243 With the exception of Jesus, nobody's birthday should be a national holiday.
Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 11:53 AM (77rzZ)

Jesus, and George Washington.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Abe Lincoln, General Patton, Babe Ruth, Sandy Koufax...?

Posted by: Antifa at January 19, 2026 12:11 PM (HTCU3)

244 Never own a Range Rover out of warranty. Unless you hate money.

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 12:11 PM (nTi7N)

245 >> I see a surprisingly high number of cyber-trucks. Perhaps ugliest vehicle ever. Who buys those things?

Retards. Retards buy those things.

There's a sucker born every minute.

And some of them are bound to become wealthy.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 12:11 PM (ZcsJV)

246 > Try changing spark plugs on a Porsche 914.
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I had a 74 914. No clue how anyone could do this without divine intervention.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2026 12:12 PM (U2OZr)

247 I don’t care if someone chooses to buy an EV but I would rather they buy from Musk if they’re going to do it.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 19, 2026 12:12 PM (KDPiq)

248 I see a surprisingly high number of cyber-trucks. Perhaps ugliest vehicle ever. Who buys those things?

It's intentionally "old 3D video game" looking, so Millennials who grew up on the original PlayStation and Nintendo 64 and that sort of thing are the target audience. With a wrap they can be pretty cool.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:12 PM (t5upi)

249 I see a surprisingly high number of cyber-trucks. Perhaps ugliest vehicle ever. Who buys those things?
Posted by: Ripley

The are wildly popular with YouTube influencers.

Posted by: Antifa at January 19, 2026 12:12 PM (HTCU3)

250 >>It's a fake letter cooked up by some guy at NPR.

Except that Jonas Gahr Store confirmed it as accurate to a Norwegian press outlet.

Posted by: ohe hour sober at January 19, 2026 12:12 PM (Y1sOo)

251 Random thought on MLK day.

I watched a YT of a rather scruffy looking black man talking about his all time favorite books. One was Anna Karenina. Got me to thinking about the famous first line, "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." I thought black culture including black families were different (and better) than white culture. Or maybe we're basically the same despite some cultural differences and the things that make a functional black family are the same as those that make a functional white families. (Even Russians!)

https://is.gd/v3SSHQ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 19, 2026 12:12 PM (L/fGl)

252 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 12:13 PM (77rzZ)

253 230 I see a surprisingly high number of cyber-trucks. Perhaps ugliest vehicle ever. Who buys those things

They are ugly. And I know ugly

Posted by: Pontiac Aztec at January 19, 2026 12:13 PM (+abK1)

254 Jesus, and George Washington.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2026 12:09 PM (y9nCu)

They'll save children but not the British children.

Posted by: Opponents beware at January 19, 2026 12:13 PM (TbWk/)

255 >>I had a 74 914. No clue how anyone could do this without divine intervention.

Fantastic driving car. The mid engine design is brilliant but an absolute nightmare to work on.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 19, 2026 12:13 PM (viF8m)

256 234In the early 70s you could go by any BOQ or even some enlisted barracks and it was like a car show. Lots of guys with Vietnam savings and/or reenlistment bonuses buying $5K cars which was a lot at the time. Friend of mine, a tweet (avionics) and a real whiz (got selected for NESEP and commissioned as limited duty officer) bought an XKE Jag. The fun ended with just a little burp. The chime when the cigarette lighter popped out quit, and he couldn't have that. Each step of troubleshooting led to or caused something else. I think he bought an Olds.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 19, 2026 12:13 PM (gm9Sb)

257 "LOL...here come the shrieking media/dems"

It's already been several times around the block on social media, amongst the ever-so-much-smarter-than-thou aging nitwit "liberals"

Posted by: barbarausa at January 19, 2026 12:14 PM (enw9G)

258 With the exception of Jesus, nobody's birthday should be a national holiday.
Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 11:53 AM (77rzZ)

Jesus, and George Washington.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Abe Lincoln, General Patton, Babe Ruth, Sandy Koufax...?
Posted by: Antifa at January 19, 2026 12:11 PM (HTCU3)

Nolan Ryan, Earl Campbell, Davey Crockett, Gen. Sam Houston . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 19, 2026 12:15 PM (wVcYX)

259 >>XKE Jag. The fun ended with just a little burp. The chime when the cigarette lighter popped out quit, and he couldn't have that. Each step of troubleshooting led to or caused something else. I think he bought an Olds.

Friend of mine had a Jag that required you to push in the cigarette lighter AND turn on the wipers before the Turn Signals would work!

Watching him drive down the road from the passenger seat was hysterical.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 12:15 PM (ZcsJV)

260 The new thread just disappeared.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 12:16 PM (77rzZ)

261 A new thread just disappeared

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2026 12:16 PM (VE6XX)

262
I had a 74 914. No clue how anyone could do this without divine intervention.

A buddy of mine in SoCal ripped out the ICE engine of his 914 and turned it into a homebuilt EV, using the guts of an electric forklift.

No range worth a damn (about 40 miles), but a fun little toy.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2026 12:16 PM (y9nCu)

263 >>A new thread just disappeared

You think you are ready for New Thread?

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 12:17 PM (ZcsJV)

264 When the commentators are ready, the thread will appear.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 19, 2026 12:17 PM (wVcYX)

265 263 >>A new thread just disappeared

You think you are ready for New Thread?
Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 12:17 PM (ZcsJV)

It was a good one too

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2026 12:17 PM (VE6XX)

266
Nood tease....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2026 12:17 PM (y9nCu)

267 And I see very few Teslas on the road.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Really? They're all over the place here in NoVa.

Quite a few Cybertrucks, too.
Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 11:55 AM (77rzZ)

All over the place here, as well, in our neck of the woods. Not much now, in the cold weather, but in the summer and fall months, it seemed like they were all over the place.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyuy at January 19, 2026 12:17 PM (5xuJ/)

268 My work place has charging stations in front. Free if you can manage to get into one. They are full all day. Cyber Truck drivin' guy doesn't fit though. Lot is too narrow and his turning radius sucks. Haw haw.
Fuckers with EV's get free gas. I think the rest of us need a subsidy.

Posted by: Reforger at January 19, 2026 12:18 PM (7ujVx)

269 Listen. And understand. That New Thread is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until it is read.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 12:19 PM (ZcsJV)

270 What happened to the post about lunatic leftist mobs?

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 12:19 PM (nTi7N)

271 My 914 had most of the emissions shit, the manic fuel injection system removed. Dual Webber carbs.

But the engine was a nightmare to work on. Basically turned on end, shoved behind the seats and zero room for tools or hands in the bay.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2026 12:19 PM (U2OZr)

272 In case it's gone forever, I'll repeat what I said there:

I was told yesterday the unit of someone I know well is deploying to Minnesota.

He's in a regular army unit, not Natty Guard.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 12:19 PM (olqfj)

273 It was a good one too
Posted by: It's me donna

Except for the fact that Elric beat me to the first.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 12:19 PM (77rzZ)

274 270 What happened to the post about lunatic leftist mobs?
Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 12:19 PM (nTi7N)

See.. I'm not crazy...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2026 12:19 PM (VE6XX)

275 One doesn't just walk into a new post.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 19, 2026 12:19 PM (wVcYX)

276 > What happened to the post about lunatic leftist mobs?
-----------
Mob took it down.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2026 12:19 PM (U2OZr)

277 I had a GTI some years back. Great car to drive but the mechanicals scared me so I unloaded it before it got old. Problem VW has had for the last 25 years at least as far as getting huge in the US is that they price like a Toyota but the maintenance and parts are more like a Mercedes

Posted by: Azjaeger at January 19, 2026 12:20 PM (uI249)

278
My work place has charging stations in front. Free if you can manage to get into one. They are full all day. Cyber Truck drivin' guy doesn't fit though. Lot is too narrow and his turning radius sucks. Haw haw.
Fuckers with EV's get free gas. I think the rest of us need a subsidy.
Posted by: Reforger at January 19, 2026 12:18 PM (7ujVx)

Our local ARNG armory has a couple of solar powered charging stations, with the big panels that tilt to catch the sun at the optimum angle.

Really expensive way to say "Battalion Commander's Parking Only".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2026 12:20 PM (y9nCu)

279 Another positive thing Trump did was save gas-powered vehicles.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 19, 2026 12:20 PM (NpAcC)

280 It was just the tip

Posted by: ohe hour sober at January 19, 2026 12:21 PM (Y1sOo)

281 I had a friend in my younger days who had a Golf GTI. That was a fun car, I drive it a few times.

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 12:21 PM (nTi7N)

282 249 I see a surprisingly high number of cyber-trucks. Perhaps ugliest vehicle ever. Who buys those things?
Posted by: Ripley
------

Best city vehicle you can buy.
BULLET PROOF.
When the riot comes to your city you'll appreciate it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2026 12:22 PM (zNcSj)

283 A buddy of mine in SoCal ripped out the ICE engine of his 914 and turned it into a homebuilt EV, using the guts of an electric forklift.

This was a fad a few decades back. A friend of mine in San Diego did the same thing, although I’m pretty sure he used a semi-commercially-sold aftermarket replacement.

No range worth a damn (about 40 miles), but a fun little toy.

I don’t remember range, but I do recall it still needed just as much work and was just as unreliable as a stock 914.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 19, 2026 12:22 PM (EXyHK)

284 I wonder if the cybertrucks are just Elon's Mars vehicles?

Posted by: barbarausa at January 19, 2026 12:22 PM (enw9G)

285 If you drive German cars you have to accept they will cost more to maintain and be a bigger pain in the ass vs Toyota. Part of the deal.

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 12:22 PM (nTi7N)

286 When the riot comes to your city you'll appreciate it.

The torque on those things makes it a lot easier to navigate Soylent Green-style streets.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 19, 2026 12:23 PM (EXyHK)

287 We had an VW Fox that was part VW, part Audi. When we had repairs done the mechanic never knew which company part he was going to order. We sold the car after 345,000 miles.

Posted by: Beartooth at January 19, 2026 12:23 PM (GGatE)

288 Gas powered vehicles will never be replaced by batteries. (in our lifetime, anyway)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2026 12:23 PM (zNcSj)

289 Im convinced the cyber truck was a joke that kinda just kept going until one day Elon said you know what fuck it let’s build it and see what happens.

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 12:23 PM (nTi7N)

290 Ummm... nood just vanished?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 19, 2026 12:23 PM (zjgNU)

291 Ace realized nobody actually wanted "nood Don Lemon".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:23 PM (QZThv)

292 >>If you drive German cars you have to accept they will cost more to maintain and be a bigger pain in the ass vs Toyota. Part of the deal.

And every time you leave the autoparts store you will be carrying a box labeled 'FAG'.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 12:24 PM (ZcsJV)

293 I had a friend in my younger days who had a Golf GTI. That was a fun car, I drive it a few times.
Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 12:21 PM (nTi7N)

I had a regular Golf back in the day. Five speed manual. Nice giddy-up, and it hugged curves like a Kennedy hugs a cocktail waitress.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 12:24 PM (olqfj)

294 Everybody talking 'bout the new thread honey
Its still rock-n-roll to me.

Posted by: Crusader at January 19, 2026 12:24 PM (TN0g+)

295 Ace realized nobody actually wanted "nood Don Lemon".
Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:23 PM (QZThv)

Very good point.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 19, 2026 12:24 PM (zjgNU)

296 >>And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until it is read.

Now you are pretending you actually read the threads?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 19, 2026 12:24 PM (viF8m)

297 Ace realized nobody actually wanted "nood Don Lemon".
Posted by: Ian S.

Well, maybe Charon.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 12:25 PM (77rzZ)

298 296 >>And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until it is read.

Now you are pretending you actually read the threads?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 19, 2026 12:24 PM (viF8m)

LOL.... I read the whole phantom thread and even commented on it...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2026 12:25 PM (VE6XX)

299 He misunderstands the proper response to thugs who beat up innocent people.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2026 12:26 PM (zNcSj)

300 >>Now you are pretending you actually read the threads?

It's Monday.

Just trying to keep ace's spirits up...it's gonna be a long week for the little guy.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 12:26 PM (ZcsJV)

301 Im convinced the cyber truck was a joke that kinda just kept going until one day Elon said you know what fuck it let’s build it and see what happens.

Elon's big on actually realizing jokes. "You should buy Twitter" "How much is it?" became a very big deal.

The other day someone from notorious Irish cheap airline Ryanair tried to sass Elon and he said he's now considering buying the airline just to throw out the CEO and put in someone actually named Ryan.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:26 PM (QZThv)

302
If you drive German cars you have to accept they will cost more to maintain and be a bigger pain in the ass vs Toyota. Part of the deal.
Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 12:22 PM (nTi7N)

And cup holders? Forget about them. You must drive with both hands on the controls, without picking up a coffee cup like some untermenschen barbarian.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2026 12:26 PM (y9nCu)

303 In case it's gone forever, I'll repeat what I said there:

I was told yesterday the unit of someone I know well is deploying to Minnesota.

He's in a regular army unit, not Natty Guard.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 12:19 PM (olqfj)

I'll include my replay that got lost in the ether:

IF that's true, I can forgive Trump for delaying the invocation of the Insurrection Act.

It does take time to prep soldiers and resources and if they've been doing that so they can sweep in as soon as Trump declares, the delay makes sense. You don't want to declare insurrection and then do nothing.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 19, 2026 12:27 PM (zjgNU)

304 Medicare Administrator Dr. Oz: Minnesota Fraud ‘Tip of the Iceberg’, Cuban Gov’t Implicated

The Somali-Democrat fraud through fake daycares, nonprofits, and other entities that claimed billions of dollars from government taxpayers, including via Medicaid/Medicare, has shocked our country with its extent. But it’s just the beginning. “What we’re seeing in Minnesota, which is billions of dollars of fraud that hurts our most vulnerable people and puts them at risk … is dwarfed by what I saw in California, which is whole-scale cultural malfeasance around health care,” Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), told The Epoch Times.

Posted by: SMOD at January 19, 2026 12:27 PM (RHGPo)

305 >>And cup holders? Forget about them.

They have cup holders.

They just have 10 moving parts and proprietary fasteners.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 12:28 PM (ZcsJV)

306 It does take time to prep soldiers and resources and if they've been doing that so they can sweep in as soon as Trump declares, the delay makes sense. You don't want to declare insurrection and then do nothing.

They need to arrange a stack of burning tires to lull Gwen Walz into a false sense of security first.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:28 PM (QZThv)

307 500 quatloos ace hit post and walked out the door.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 19, 2026 12:28 PM (0KSrI)

308
Maybe there is some breaking news we don't know about yet.

Posted by: four seasons at January 19, 2026 12:29 PM (3ek7K)

309 302 One is allowed to arrange blumenvasen at high speeds on Autobahn, but no cell phone finger chit chat.

Hauptmann Schmidt

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 19, 2026 12:29 PM (gm9Sb)

310 Megyn Kelly is depressed by the public display of 'side-pubes' AKA 'badges.' She should try displaying hers; she'd get a lot of clicks. I'd buy that for a dollar.

Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 12:29 PM (N8ZBc)

311 And poof!

An interesting thread disappears.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 19, 2026 12:29 PM (qFwJc)

312 I'll include my replay that got lost in the ether:

IF that's true, I can forgive Trump for delaying the invocation of the Insurrection Act.

It does take time to prep soldiers and resources and if they've been doing that so they can sweep in as soon as Trump declares, the delay makes sense. You don't want to declare insurrection and then do nothing.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 19, 2026 12:27 PM (zjgNU)

I'm getting the news second hand of course. But I take it as reliable. Not something this person would make up.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 12:29 PM (olqfj)

313 Post vanished like a fart in the wind

Posted by: Warden Norton at January 19, 2026 12:30 PM (+abK1)

314 I see C-BS ran the hit piece El Salvador prison story

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2026 12:30 PM (VE6XX)

315 The Blade was so FIRSTY in the new thread that he crashed the whole thing. He is sorry.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 19, 2026 12:31 PM (iFTx/)

316 "I see a surprisingly high number of cyber-trucks. Perhaps ugliest vehicle ever. Who buys those things?
Posted by: Ripley
------

Best city vehicle you can buy.
BULLET PROOF.
When the riot comes to your city you'll appreciate it.

Posted by: Braenyard"

That's what my Rolls Royce is for.

Posted by: Ripley at January 19, 2026 12:31 PM (GUOwU)

317 260 The new thread just disappeared.
Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 12:16 PM (77rzZ)

It hopped into its ugly-ass Cybertruck and drove off.

Posted by: Straight into the dark heart of Minneapolis at January 19, 2026 12:31 PM (TbWk/)

318 And cup holders? Forget about them. You must drive with both hands on the controls, without picking up a coffee cup like some untermenschen barbarian.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2026 12:26 PM (y9nCu)

Eh. Thats about 20 years out of date. They Krauts gave in and added actual usable cup holders for Yankee drivers.

But yeah I had an E39 BMW 540 and the “cup holders” were hilarious. They were so flimsy they were unusable. It was a passive aggressive move by BMW. Ok you dumb fucks you want cup holders here you go. But good luck ever using them.

Such a great car though. I regert getting rid of it. One of the law true BMWs made.

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 12:31 PM (nTi7N)

319
They have cup holders.

They just have 10 moving parts and proprietary fasteners.
Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 12:28 PM (ZcsJV)

Must be a new development. My brother and I both had BMW E30s at one time or another. No cupholders, and it was a common joke among Bimmer owners.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2026 12:31 PM (y9nCu)

320 Megyn Kelly is depressed by the public display of 'side-pubes' AKA 'badges.' She should try displaying hers; she'd get a lot of clicks. I'd buy that for a dollar.
Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 12:29 PM (N8ZBc)

I would bet she's as bald as a clam.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 12:32 PM (olqfj)

321 315 The Blade was so FIRSTY in the new thread that he crashed the whole thing. He is sorry.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 19, 2026 12:31 PM (iFTx/)

You must be a speed reader.. There was a lot of info in that thread

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2026 12:32 PM (VE6XX)

322 >>Post vanished like a fart in the wind

Like tears. In rain.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 19, 2026 12:32 PM (viF8m)

323 Apropos the earlier thread about “why Greenland?” From Mark Steyn’s latest post:

The obsession with Greenland, so bewildering to US “allies”, derives from America’s need for an Israeli-style “Iron Dome”, which, as the mighty builder of Trump Tower, the President has upgraded to a “Golden Dome”. Why would he seek such a thing? Because in this scenario America’s Israel… and Western Europe is Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Iran.

He means that literally, as in Western Europe will be a seething hellhole of Muslim terrorism and religious aggression directed toward the United States.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 19, 2026 12:32 PM (EXyHK)

324 When the riot comes to your city you'll appreciate it.

A Cybertruck with police push bumpers would be a pretty entertaining Antifa disposal machine.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:32 PM (QZThv)

325 What I hate most about cup-holders, in vehicles and elsewhere, is that they're designed to hold cups or bottles only, not thermoses or mugs.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

326 324 When the riot comes to your city you'll appreciate it.

A Cybertruck with police push bumpers would be a pretty entertaining Antifa disposal machine.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:32 PM (QZThv)

Cow catchers like on old-school steam engines.

Posted by: Antifa, cattle, same same at January 19, 2026 12:33 PM (TbWk/)

327 Post vanished like a fart in the wind
Posted by: Warden Norton

Like tears in the rain.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 19, 2026 12:33 PM (L/fGl)

328 Must be a new development. My brother and I both had BMW E30s at one time or another. No cupholders, and it was a common joke among Bimmer owners.

My girlfriend bought a BMW about twenty years ago; it has a cupholder. The car’s still running great, too.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 19, 2026 12:33 PM (EXyHK)

329 Is there a cob here who can get in touch with Ace?

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 12:34 PM (77rzZ)

330

Ace might be updating the last thread.

Posted by: four seasons at January 19, 2026 12:34 PM (3ek7K)

331 "I would bet she's as bald as a clam."

I like how she shows close-up pics of the things that offend her so much. When she has female guests, she gets deliciously catty.

Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 12:35 PM (N8ZBc)

332 This is a conspiracy. That's what this is. One big damn conspiracy! And everyone's in on it

Posted by: Warden Norton at January 19, 2026 12:35 PM (+abK1)

333 Maybe there is some breaking news we don't know about yet.
Posted by: four seasons

Wide spread stupidity breaking out?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 19, 2026 12:35 PM (L/fGl)

334 VW spit on their winning formula, abandoning it for a DEI masturbatory-fantasy. A "green jerk off," basically.

They used to be cute, fun to drive, and below average in cost. Average reliability. Not Toyota, but better than Chevy. That was the formula, and it worked. "Quirky."

Now? This schlock is supposed to lure us away from... what, exactly?

Battery cars suck. Electric cars? Great. But batteries? A thousand times, NO.

Just like their whole country, "we have made a major strategic mistake" in the pursuit of a "green fantasy."

Will they recover? I'd give them 40/60, against.

Posted by: Mr. Proton at January 19, 2026 12:35 PM (JNKrt)

335 Ace might be updating the last thread.
Posted by: four seasons

Doesn't he update his threads quite often, without taking them offline?

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 12:35 PM (77rzZ)

336
Ace might be updating the last thread.
Posted by: four seasons at January 19, 2026 12:34 PM (3ek7K)

Relaxing in the tub with his Monday flea-dip.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2026 12:35 PM (y9nCu)

337

AWrecks,

Something stupider than what is already happening?

Scary

Posted by: four seasons at January 19, 2026 12:36 PM (3ek7K)

338 Ace must be at an MLK celebration/s

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 19, 2026 12:36 PM (PTsqM)

339 My girlfriend bought a BMW about twenty years ago; it has a cupholder. The car’s still running great, too.

BMWs run of bad engines was in the late 00s/early-to-mid 10s. They're much better again now, in the top 10 for most reliable. (Excluding the 4-banger they put in the modern BMW-built Minis, which have always been garbage).

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:37 PM (QZThv)

340 Wide spread stupidity breaking out?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 19, 2026 12:35 PM (L/fGl)
-------
Not exactly breaking news, unfortunately

Posted by: 496 at January 19, 2026 12:37 PM (GJwrO)

341 VW still makes regular Jettas. Pretty cheap too. A new one is under $25k for the base model. Great daily driver commute car.

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 12:37 PM (nTi7N)

342
Something stupider than what is already happening?

Scary
Posted by: four seasons at January 19, 2026 12:36 PM (3ek7K)

And we're just the ones to do it!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2026 12:37 PM (y9nCu)

343 The insidious nature of the EV craze is they got government to go along with it. If the pickleball craze fades and all the people who built indoor clubs lose money, so be it, but the taxpayer will be on the hook for all these EV debacles for years.

Posted by: Lex at January 19, 2026 12:37 PM (l5xX+)

344 >>Ace must be at an MLK celebration/s

He's out buying my MLK Day present. I hope he doesn't spend to much this year.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 19, 2026 12:37 PM (viF8m)

345 Back when I was a young guy, I had three Opels. Don't get me started but at least they were easy to work on and you got plenty of experience. Don't have a thermostat gasket, well you got a cigarette carton and some grease!

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 19, 2026 12:38 PM (gm9Sb)

346 Anne Boleyn had her head cut off not her penis. That Dylan guy is miscast

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 19, 2026 12:39 PM (PTsqM)

347 He's out buying my MLK Day present. I hope he doesn't spend to much this year.

Won't garrett be jealous?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:39 PM (QZThv)

348 I like how she shows close-up pics of the things that offend her so much. When she has female guests, she gets deliciously catty.
Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 12:35 PM (N8ZBc)

I know some people around these parts are mad at her again, but the only reason I'm mad at her is she won't wrap her ankles around my neck.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 12:39 PM (olqfj)

349 Read the whole thing. I mean Harmeet Dhillon. She should read the whole thing and write up an arrest warrant based on it.

posted by Ace at 12:10 PM

Indeed.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 19, 2026 12:40 PM (jc0TO)

350 Wary of Toyota. Used to buy them on rep alone. But the last one, a Highlander, has me scratching my head. No dashboard lighting, navigation is anti-driver friendly with not one, not two but THREE "are you really sure ?" prompts to ensure you take your eyes off the road.

And the worst feature, I call Mother-In-Law mode: DING DING DING DING DING DING DING to alert me the car door, which I just opened is open. Im not being hyperbolic - 7 dings. The thing is constantly talking back to you DING DING DING to the point that you get notification fatigue and ignore the DING DING DING DONG VEHICLE ON FIRE.

I start out the day pleasant and cafenated But after an hour you'll find me road raged screaming SHUT. THE. F. UP into my dashboard.

Posted by: Fen at January 19, 2026 12:40 PM (ciYHQ)

351 Irony meter off the chart.

>>@CollinRugg
·
1h
>>JUST IN: Assistant AG for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon suggests the Ku Klux Klan Act may be used on the agitators who stormed the Minnesota church.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 19, 2026 12:40 PM (viF8m)

352 Good news, everyone!

Trump-Hating Green Day To Play Super Bowl Opening Ceremony

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 19, 2026 12:40 PM (L/fGl)

353 Assistant AG for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon suggests the Ku Klux Klan Act may be used on the agitators who stormed the Minnesota church.

I mean, the Democrats *are* the party of the KKK, and the KKK was the predecessor organization to Antifa.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:41 PM (QZThv)

354 >>JUST IN: Assistant AG for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon suggests the Ku Klux Klan Act may be used on the agitators who stormed the Minnesota church.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 19, 2026 12:40 PM

I would prefer a flamethrower.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 19, 2026 12:41 PM (jc0TO)

355 And the worst feature, I call Mother-In-Law mode: DING DING DING DING DING DING DING to alert me the car door, which I just opened is open. Im not being hyperbolic - 7 dings. The thing is constantly talking back to you DING DING DING to the point that you get notification fatigue and ignore the DING DING DING DONG VEHICLE ON FIRE.

I start out the day pleasant and cafenated But after an hour you'll find me road raged screaming SHUT. THE. F. UP into my dashboard.
Posted by: Fen

Every gadget has to make an effing noise now. Drives me nuts.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 12:41 PM (77rzZ)

356 >>I mean, the Democrats *are* the party of the KKK, and the KKK was the predecessor organization to Antifa.

One of the organizers of that raid on the churck is a local BLM honcho. Charging that cheese dick Lemon with a KKK charge would by hysterical.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 19, 2026 12:42 PM (viF8m)

357 Good news, everyone!

Trump-Hating Green Day To Play Super Bowl Opening Ceremony

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 19, 2026 12:40 PM (L/fGl)
____

They're a bunch of junkie faggots

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 19, 2026 12:42 PM (iFTx/)

358 The cup holders could have been mfg with slip in sleeves to accommodate different size drinks.

My Dakota has adjustable arms to grab cups but they're not close to driver.

Posted by: torabora at January 19, 2026 12:43 PM (6CO1G)

359 We are in EV thread Purgatory.

Posted by: Consider your sins, sinners at January 19, 2026 12:43 PM (TbWk/)

360 Where is Willow when we need her? The Horde turns it's gaze to her.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 19, 2026 12:44 PM (zb4y7)

361 BOOBS!!!

Just to pass the time pleasantly as we await Ace's return.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 12:44 PM (77rzZ)

362 Trump-Hating Green Day To Play Super Bowl Opening Ceremony

Green Day was alright on their first album when they knew their place: dumb songs with a maximum of 3 chords. Everything went to shit when they decided they had Important Things To Say About Republicans.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:45 PM (QZThv)

363 Hey, if he starts performing, he knows we'll come to expect it.
heh (don't shoot me, Lamont)

Posted by: MkY at January 19, 2026 12:45 PM (q6tQZ)

364 Threadless at nearly 1 PM on a major holiday. Me so ronerey.

Posted by: The Huge Manatee! at January 19, 2026 12:46 PM (oftw2)

365 There once was a gal named Renee,
Who wouldn’t get out of the way,
She stopped taking her meds,
And went after the feds,
Which effectively ended her day.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 19, 2026 12:48 PM (0x0rk)

366 Every gadget has to make an effing noise now. Drives me nuts.
Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 12:41 PM (77rzZ)

My "favorite" is, backing out of a parking space, no one else on the lot, but out there... on the main road, cars zooming by... the backup alarm:

DANGER WILL ROBINSON, CARS BEHIND YOU! STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING, ALERT ALERT ALERT!!

Shut. Up. You stupid minge of a vehicle (not my personal vehicle, the company POS).

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 12:48 PM (olqfj)

367 Maybe ace thought he posted the thread, then left to go to the grocery store.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 19, 2026 12:48 PM (NpAcC)

368 And I was very much looking forward to shitting on those treasonous scumfuck criminals Walz and Frey.

Posted by: Blueballed AGAIN at January 19, 2026 12:48 PM (TbWk/)

369 Every gadget has to make an effing noise now. Drives me nuts.

And so-called “road safety activists” still call for more lights and bells to improve safety.

I’m pretty sure they want more deaths, not less.

“The dashboard was full of esoteric lights and dials and meters that I would never understand.”—Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 19, 2026 12:49 PM (EXyHK)

370 >> Maybe ace thought he posted the thread, then left to go to the grocery store.

He's probably getting in his reps.

Anyone know how long the Jane Fonda Workout takes?

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 12:49 PM (ZcsJV)

371 Maybe ace thought he posted the thread, then left to go to the grocery store.
Posted by: redridinghood

Well, he did post it. Then it vanished.

Doesn't he have someone who can thread-sit when he's out?

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 12:50 PM (77rzZ)

372 Green Day was alright on their first album when they knew their place: dumb songs with a maximum of 3 chords. Everything went to shit when they decided they had Important Things To Say About Republicans.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:45 PM (QZThv)

I couldn't name a single song of theirs.

For whatever reason, I get them mixed up with My Chemical Romance.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 12:50 PM (olqfj)

373 Just stupid features - like the overhead light button is right next tim9 the overhead light, so when you look up to find the button you are Blinded By The Light and have to fumble around like.Helen Keller to turn the damn thing off. Fortunately, I accidently discovered you can yank the entire apparatus out in one enraged hulk moment. Problem solved and interior lighting is for nancy boys anyway

I think Toyota put someone's niece in charge of product testing.

Oh yeah, the seat belt warning is psychotic 3 minute BEEP BEEP BEEP rant. Stupid devs - if I dont want to wear a seat belt im not going to wear it. Don't nag me into having a wreck. What idiot thinks "well the first 50 beeps didn't get coerce him so let's try 50p more"...

Posted by: Fen at January 19, 2026 12:50 PM (ciYHQ)

374 And I was very much looking forward to shitting on those treasonous scumfuck criminals Walz and Frey.
Posted by: Blueballed AGAIN at January 19, 2026 12:48 PM (TbWk/)

He keeps making public statements without a tie, like he thinks he is Juan Peron pretending to be one of the "descamisados"

Posted by: Kindltot at January 19, 2026 12:50 PM (rbvCR)

375 Is Ace out of the crapper yet?

Posted by: Joe's Septic Service, You Dump, We Pump at January 19, 2026 12:50 PM (R/m4+)

376 370 >> Maybe ace thought he posted the thread, then left to go to the grocery store.

He's probably getting in his reps.

Anyone know how long the Jane Fonda Workout takes?
Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 12:49 PM (ZcsJV)

Buns of Steel. He's worried you don't find him as sexy as you used to.

Posted by: Love still blooms at the HQ at January 19, 2026 12:50 PM (TbWk/)

377 And so-called “road safety activists” still call for more lights and bells to improve safety.

I was just listening to Palmer Luckey on Mike Rowe's podcast. He noted that auto safety laws are so explicitly written that we miss out on all kinds of proven-safer things that are already in use in Europe and Asia in favor of, basically, security theater. (And yes, he also made the comparison to TSA).

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:50 PM (QZThv)

378 >>Green Day was alright on their first album when they knew their place: dumb songs with a maximum of 3 chords.

They were no NO/FX...and NO/FX did the same shit.

Fat Mike is a fag.

Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 12:50 PM (ZcsJV)

379 The NFL has been giving the finger to conservatives for 10 years. Started with the kneeling then the black national anthem then.the end zone “fuck whitey” slogans then gay cheerleaders, all the pink shit.

Why is anyone surprised at the singers for the Super Bowl?

As long as people keep watching, buying merch, etc why would they ever change course?

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 12:51 PM (nTi7N)

380 Maserati Grecale

Yes please. Until something breaks.

Posted by: USCG at January 19, 2026 12:51 PM (FhXTo)

381 We have three 4 cylinder TDI VW cars-Turbo Diesel.
Obama killed these cars….”Volkswagen cheated”,
was the cry….mileage gained on these cars, was “false”. GMC became government motors…. after GM was really going “to kill it” with Their new electric car coming out at the same time as the TDI Volkswagen cars… 2012 VW TDI Passat was Motor Trend Car of the Year! We regularly get 40+
mpg and run R99…one percent diesel!
I say clean diesel/hybrid cars….!

Posted by: 58Mikie at January 19, 2026 12:51 PM (KJEgV)

382 What will we do with a drunken sailor?
What will we do with a drunken sailor?
What will we do with a drunken sailor?
Early in the morning!

Shave his belly with a rusty razor,
Shave his belly with a rusty razor,
Shave his belly with a rusty razor,
Early in the morning!

Posted by: runner at January 19, 2026 12:52 PM (g47mK)

383 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 12:52 PM (JA4sW)

384 379 The NFL has been giving the finger to conservatives for 10 years. Started with the kneeling then the black national anthem then.the end zone “fuck whitey” slogans then gay cheerleaders, all the pink shit.

Why is anyone surprised at the singers for the Super Bowl?

As long as people keep watching, buying merch, etc why would they ever change course?
Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 12:51 PM (nTi7N)

And self-styled conservatives still support that shit. They refuse to kick the habit and lash out in anger at anyone who suggests they do.

Posted by: Much like drug addicts at January 19, 2026 12:53 PM (TbWk/)

385 What will we do with a drunken sailor?
What will we do with a drunken sailor?
What will we do with a drunken sailor?
Early in the morning!

Shave his belly with a rusty razor,
Shave his belly with a rusty razor,
Shave his belly with a rusty razor,
Early in the morning!
Posted by: runner

Thank God we're getting some culture while we wait.

Posted by: MkY at January 19, 2026 12:53 PM (q6tQZ)

386 Long-time Coblogger and commenter "Niedermeyer's Dead Horse" is having significant health issues, and would appreciate the thoughts and prayers of The Horde. If you wish to reach out, use

WTF?

2026 can already EABOD. People all over the place are dying suddenly.

I even know of a guy who's mom went into the ER for something, was being manually transferred from one gurney to another and they dropped her on her f*cking face. She died 4 days later.

This world is out of control.

Yet Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx continue to roam free.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 12:55 PM (JA4sW)

387 384 Concur.

Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 12:55 PM (N8ZBc)

388 I say clean diesel/hybrid cars….!
Posted by: 58Mikie at January 19, 2026 12:51 PM (KJEgV)

Volvo and partners are developing a diesel-fueled fuel cell.
their demo unit ran for 10,000 hours but it puts out about 3 KW which is about 4 HP so I am waiting for the next version before planning to retrofit any rig I have now

Posted by: Kindltot at January 19, 2026 12:55 PM (rbvCR)

389 Saw Green Day at Woodstock 94. They were at the back stage
Giant mud fight broke out. Simple power pop masquerading as punk. Ok for what they were. Otherwise douche bags

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 19, 2026 12:55 PM (PTsqM)

390 Know why the feminist picnic was such a failure?
No one made sandwiches.

Posted by: MkY at January 19, 2026 12:55 PM (q6tQZ)

391 You do you.

GO SEAHAWKS!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 19, 2026 12:55 PM (IhIKR)

392
And self-styled conservatives still support that shit. They refuse to kick the habit and lash out in anger at anyone who suggests they do.
Posted by: Much like drug addicts at January 19, 2026 12:53 PM (TbWk/)

"But muh FANTASY TEAM!!!!!11!!!11!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 12:56 PM (JA4sW)

393 I'll post something, that's usually the best way to guarantee that a new thread will be posted

Posted by: Josephistan at January 19, 2026 12:56 PM (y9ksN)

394 Thank God we're getting some culture while we wait.
Posted by: MkY at January 19, 2026 12:53 PM (q6tQZ)

If this is not a request for more culture, I don't know what is !

Put him in a long boat till his sober,
Put him in a long boat till his sober,
Put him in a long boat till his sober,
Early in the morning!

Posted by: runner at January 19, 2026 12:56 PM (g47mK)

395 so we got that place with no kids in the house, college behind them, everything's paid up..."hey babe, how about we get you a new car?" (me thinking BMW ZR2 or so)

I must have showed her at least 5 or 6 specimens...then she sees the VW Cabrio convertible.

Ugh. It was a very solid car built on the Passat chassis. Best part was it was easy to park in tight spots. One of the sons comes home and he and a buddy take the little rig to the Astros game downtown. They were howling when they got back. "Everybody thought we were gay!!"...the raindow airsock on the mirror may have driven that

DanMa'am was so bummed. We had to tell her the gays own the raindow now. "They own the rainbow?" I was laughing until I realized she really was unaware.

Posted by: DanMan at January 19, 2026 12:56 PM (8uzBS)

396 I'll be back.

Posted by: Arnold NewPostenegger at January 19, 2026 12:57 PM (wVcYX)

397 (Costume party host)
What are you?
I'm a harp.
You're too little to be a harp.
Are you calling me a lyre?

Posted by: MkY at January 19, 2026 12:57 PM (q6tQZ)

398 And self-styled conservatives still support that shit. They refuse to kick the habit and lash out in anger at anyone who suggests they do.
Posted by: Much like drug addicts at January 19, 2026 12:53 PM (TbWk/)

I'm old enough to remember when so-called conservatives lived by the principle of "Mind Your Own F'n Business."

If I want to get scolded for the choices I make, I'll get married again.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 12:57 PM (olqfj)

399 2026 can already EABOD. People all over the place are dying suddenly.

I even know of a guy who's mom went into the ER for something, was being manually transferred from one gurney to another and they dropped her on her f*cking face. She died 4 days later.

This world is out of control.

Yet Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx continue to roam free.
Posted by: Sponge

I think I'm making it out of the hospital without having to have lithotripsy. I think I passed the stone. No pain since 8:00. Passed on my morphine shot.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 19, 2026 12:57 PM (0x0rk)

400 Saw Green Day at Woodstock 94. They were at the back stage
Giant mud fight broke out. Simple power pop masquerading as punk. Ok for what they were. Otherwise douche bags
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 19, 2026 12:55 PM (PTsqM)

I will never support, nor even attempt to visit the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame for the simple fact that not only is that shit band IN there, they went in on the SAME BALLOT as Stevie Ray Vaughn.

That's just f*cking sacrilegious.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 12:57 PM (JA4sW)

401 Oh yeah, the seat belt warning is psychotic 3 minute BEEP BEEP BEEP rant. Stupid devs - if I dont want to wear a seat belt im not going to wear it. Don't nag me into having a wreck. What idiot thinks "well the first 50 beeps didn't get coerce him so let's try 50p more"...
Posted by: Fen at January 19, 2026 12:50 PM (ciYHQ)

You can rage about it forever or do something about it, like get a "seatbelt extender" which clicks into the seat belt but isn't one. Originally for fat people, they are a nice workaround to the ding ding ding as the car interprets the seatbelt to be engaged.
10 buck for 2 on amazon. Easy peasy

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 19, 2026 12:57 PM (Hx0tZ)

402 I think I'm making it out of the hospital without having to have lithotripsy. I think I passed the stone. No pain since 8:00. Passed on my morphine shot.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 19, 2026 12:57 PM (0x0rk)

WOOT!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 12:58 PM (JA4sW)

403 I notice the NBA has a full schedule of games today. Why not the NHL?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 19, 2026 12:58 PM (PTsqM)

404 Don't the Winter Olympics start in a couple of weeks?

Posted by: Tuna at January 19, 2026 12:58 PM (lJ0H4)

405 Wiki-

The headliner for the Super Bowl halftime show is primarily chosen by Jay-Z, who has been in charge since his partnership with the NFL began in 2019.
Jay-Z's entertainment company, Roc Nation, co-produces the halftime show and plays a significant role in selecting performers.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 19, 2026 12:58 PM (NpAcC)

406 Green Day is totally against the man except you need to show your vaccine passport to see them live. Totally consistent worldview they have.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 19, 2026 12:58 PM (mxcbL)

407 runner, I like that song! Singing it, everybody sounds good at karaoke.

Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 12:58 PM (N8ZBc)

408 >>>Anyone know how long the Jane Fonda Workout takes?
Posted by: garrett at January 19, 2026 12:49 PM (ZcsJV)

Buns of Steel. He's worried you don't find him as sexy as you used to.

Posted by: Love still blooms at the HQ

>Those jalapeno poppers he had during the game last night are kicking his ass. Singed his fluffy squeak-hole.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 19, 2026 12:59 PM (BSdIE)

409 I think I'm making it out of the hospital without having to have lithotripsy. I think I passed the stone. No pain since 8:00. Passed on my morphine shot.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 19, 2026 12:57 PM (0x0rk)

That's great news!

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 12:59 PM (QZThv)

410 WTF?

2026 can already EABOD. People all over the place are dying suddenly.

I even know of a guy who's mom went into the ER for something, was being manually transferred from one gurney to another and they dropped her on her f*cking face. She died 4 days later.

This world is out of control.

Yet Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx continue to roam free.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 12:55 PM (JA4sW)

Anyone get the sense that enshittification has affected far more than just online services? Seems to be everywhere - cultural, legal, professional, product quality, service quality. All these things seem to be getting worse and worse.

Posted by: Is it all going to crap? at January 19, 2026 12:59 PM (TbWk/)

411 I was just listening to Palmer Luckey on Mike Rowe's podcast. He noted that auto safety laws are so explicitly written that we miss out on all kinds of proven-safer things…

This has been a minor obsession of mine ever since the passenger-side pretensioner went out in my 2005 vehicle a few years ago. American cars today are basically airbags that happen to have a car built around them.

Why do we need a pretensioner? Because without it your airbag might kill you. Airbags were initially sold as replacing seat belts. Now they refuse to work if the seat belt isn’t engaged. They refuse to work if the seat belt can no longer be tightened in a crash.

Why are children required to be in the back seat in some states? Because the air bag might kill them.

Even passengers are told that if they’re going to read a book, or write, or browse their tablet, do it in the back seat. Otherwise, your air bag will kill you.

The whole airbag system has become a massive rube goldberg machine locking out any better safety features.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 19, 2026 12:59 PM (EXyHK)

412 VW Rabbits from Westmoreland/New Stanton PA were the 1st US built foreign cars. Didn't work. Made Sony TVs til the end of big glass tubes.

Posted by: USCG at January 19, 2026 12:59 PM (FhXTo)

413 I notice the NBA has a full schedule of games today. Why not the NHL?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 19, 2026 12:58 PM (PTsqM)

There are 10 games on the docket today, starting at 12:30 Central.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:00 PM (JA4sW)

414
You can rage about it forever or do something about it, like get a "seatbelt extender" which clicks into the seat belt but isn't one. Originally for fat people, they are a nice workaround to the ding ding ding as the car interprets the seatbelt to be engaged.
10 buck for 2 on amazon. Easy peasy
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 19, 2026 12:57 PM

I did not know about this and I drive off road a lot where I have to get in and out of the car and the seatbelt ding drives me crazy. I'm going to buy these.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 19, 2026 01:00 PM (mxcbL)

415 >>And self-styled conservatives still support that shit.

Agreed!

Posted by: conservatives who still go to movie theaters at January 19, 2026 01:00 PM (Y1sOo)

416 Green Day is totally against the man except you need to show your vaccine passport to see them live.

Same as Rage On Behalf Of The Machine.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 01:00 PM (QZThv)

417 I think I'm making it out of the hospital without having to have lithotripsy. I think I passed the stone. No pain since 8:00. Passed on my morphine shot.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 19, 2026 12:57 PM (0x0rk)
*****
Congrats!

Posted by: redridinghood at January 19, 2026 01:00 PM (NpAcC)

418 Maybe Canada can buy them. They loves themselves some EVs. Oops they're buying from the CCP.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 19, 2026 01:00 PM (wBaIH)

419
Maybe ace thought he posted the thread, then left to go to the grocery store.
Posted by: redridinghood

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

He realized the lower half of it was red, then "fixed" it, without realizing that he'd also broken it.

Posted by: United States of America at January 19, 2026 01:00 PM (Jyxrm)

420 I had a 56' VW bug as my first car... And no it wasn't new...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2026 01:01 PM (VE6XX)

421 think I passed the stone. No pain since 8:00. Passed on my morphine shot.

Posted by: rickb223

Never pass on the morphine!

Posted by: Cooter Brown, Flyin' High!! at January 19, 2026 01:01 PM (oftw2)

422 406 Green Day is totally against the man except you need to show your vaccine passport to see them live. Totally consistent worldview they have.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 19, 2026 12:58 PM (mxcbL)

Submission to the dictates of the government is SOOO punk rock.

Posted by: REAL rebels conform to the Current Thing at January 19, 2026 01:01 PM (TbWk/)

423 Please somebody remind me around 1500 NOT to go out and check the mail today.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 01:01 PM (77rzZ)

424 "No pain since 8:00. Passed on my morphine shot."

If there was no charge for it, I would have said fire it up. YOLO.

Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 01:01 PM (N8ZBc)

425 Well, I had holes drilled in my head to drain blood. I lived (so far).
Mandatory 2 week vacation, so there's that.

Posted by: MkY at January 19, 2026 01:01 PM (q6tQZ)

426 Submission to the dictates of the government is SOOO punk rock.

Remember the "Rock Against Bush" compilation album? LOL.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 01:02 PM (QZThv)

427 GO SEAHAWKS!
Posted by: nurse ratched

I put in a request for Sam Darnold wouldn't throw INTS and get a TD or two on the Sat. AM Coffee thread. I think it worked.

Posted by: Antifa at January 19, 2026 01:03 PM (HTCU3)

428 Has the Spain Train Pain been Explained?

Posted by: Oglebay at January 19, 2026 01:03 PM (GPa4z)

429 416 Green Day is totally against the man except you need to show your vaccine passport to see them live.

Same as Rage On Behalf Of The Machine.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 01:00 PM (QZThv)

And System of a Down. Their shtick is angry rebellion but inside they're just submissive little bitches waiting to be told what to do by the progtard powers that be.

Posted by: It's fake and gay at January 19, 2026 01:03 PM (TbWk/)

430 Please somebody remind me around 1500 NOT to go out and check the mail today.
Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 01:01 PM (77rzZ)

that was quite a while ago, why, are you afraid of discovering Hispanola again?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 19, 2026 01:04 PM (rbvCR)

431 Maybe Canada can buy them. They loves themselves some EVs. Oops they're buying from the CCP.

Carney, the aptly named Canadian prime minister, said over the weekend that Canada "is fully aligned with Xi" on everything including Greenland.

For those who still don't get why it's important.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 01:04 PM (QZThv)

432 Green Day is totally against the man except you need to show your vaccine passport to see them live.
--------
Same as Rage On Behalf Of The Machine.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 01:00 PM (QZThv)

Guys join bands so they can bang chicks.

Expecting dudes in bands to have consistent views on things is like expecting chicks who bang dudes in bands to have them.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 01:04 PM (olqfj)

433 425 Well, I had holes drilled in my head to drain blood. I lived (so far).
Mandatory 2 week vacation, so there's that.
Posted by: MkY

I'd have done it for free, nice drill press, sharp bits. Maybe next time.

Posted by: Yankee Workshop at January 19, 2026 01:04 PM (oftw2)

434 I'm with Nurse. Go Seahawks. Maybe if they win the SB, they'll burn that city down once and for all in 'celebration.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:04 PM (JA4sW)

435 "Please somebody remind me around 1500"

Time zone?

Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 01:04 PM (N8ZBc)

436 In before the sportsball puritans!

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 19, 2026 01:05 PM (jc0TO)

437 Guys join bands so they can bang chicks.

Expecting dudes in bands to have consistent views on things is like expecting chicks who bang dudes in bands to have them.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 01:04 PM (olqfj)

Well, not ALL guys.

Posted by: I mean, have you SEEN Tim Henson? at January 19, 2026 01:05 PM (TbWk/)

438 434 I'm with Nurse. Go Seahawks. Maybe if they win the SB, they'll burn that city down once and for all in 'celebration.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:04 PM (JA4sW)

That I could get behind.. The Seahawks ? Not so much..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2026 01:05 PM (VE6XX)

439 We regret that Ace wandered too close to the black hole that stands for Don Lemon's idiocity. Please enjoy the following rant until our once and future king returns - Jarvis Grok

Don Lemon: The Human Equivalent of a Car Alarm at 3 a.m.Don Lemon is what happens when a network decides mediocrity needs a face, a bowtie, and an insatiable hunger for relevance. He spent nearly two decades at CNN perfecting the art of looking gravely concerned while saying absolutely nothing of substance. His signature move was the furrowed brow + dramatic pause combo—telegraphing “this is serious” so hard you’d think he was about to announce the heat death of the universe instead of “Trump just tweeted again.”The man turned sanctimony into a brand. He didn’t report the news; he performed moral superiority over it. Every segment felt like a community theater production of “I Am The Conscience Of America” directed by someone who’s never read a book without pictures. He scolded, he sighed, he shook his head in that practiced disappointed-dad way that made you want to throw a shoe at the television.His most legendary moment?

Posted by: Grok not Fen at January 19, 2026 01:05 PM (ciYHQ)

440 Time zone?
Posted by: gp

Eastern.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 01:05 PM (77rzZ)

441 Expecting dudes in bands to have consistent views on things is like expecting chicks who bang dudes in bands to have them.

I get the feeling the dudes in some of these bands aren't in it for the chicks. Don Lemon would be more their speed.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 01:05 PM (QZThv)

442 And System of a Down. Their shtick is angry rebellion but inside they're just submissive little bitches waiting to be told what to do by the progtard powers that be.
Posted by: It's fake and gay at January 19, 2026 01:03 PM (TbWk/)

Now do every board of every major corporation you know.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 01:05 PM (olqfj)

443 "And self-styled conservatives still support that shit. They refuse to kick the habit and lash out in anger at anyone who suggests they do.
Posted by: Much like drug addicts"

An occasional Blue Angels flyover keeps the peasants happy and in their seats.

Posted by: Ripley at January 19, 2026 01:06 PM (GUOwU)

444 Um, not sure who's losing here

@libsoftiktok 9m
Anti-ICE rioters are now invading and occupying Target stores in MN, demanding that ICE be abolished.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2026 01:06 PM (mlg/3)

445 440 OK. There's a 1500 out in the Atlantic headed your way.

Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 01:06 PM (N8ZBc)

446 Maybe ace thought he posted the thread, then left to go to the grocery store.
==
Or rummaging through someone from Florida's garbage.

Posted by: He is into Florida men at January 19, 2026 01:06 PM (31BE0)

447 And System of a Down. Their shtick is angry rebellion but inside they're just submissive little bitches waiting to be told what to do by the progtard powers that be.
Posted by: It's fake and gay at January 19, 2026 01:03 PM (TbWk/)

they all have handlers. They're all relatively ignorant of everything around them and have had smoke blown up their asses so much, they really think everything that comes out of their pie hole is gold.

They're too stupid to understand that they're puppets being told what to do mostly every minute of every day.

"Here's a whore and $150 grand. Now say this on camera."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:06 PM (JA4sW)

448 @libsoftiktok 9m
Anti-ICE rioters are now invading and occupying Target stores in MN, demanding that ICE be abolished.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2026 01:06 PM (mlg/3)

Seriously ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 19, 2026 01:06 PM (VE6XX)

449 I'm with Nurse. Go Seahawks. Maybe if they win the SB, they'll burn that city down once and for all in 'celebration.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:04 PM (JA4sW)

I wouldn't normally root for the Sea Squawks, but my policy is to always root for the Rams to lose.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 01:06 PM (olqfj)

450 Has the Spain Train Pain been Explained?
Posted by: Oglebay at January 19, 2026 01:03 PM (GPa4z)

They are speculating a broken rail causing the derailment, with the added chance passage of another train in the opposite direction to increase the problem.

I wonder if they will just blame a bad weld, or if they will dust for explosives.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 19, 2026 01:07 PM (rbvCR)

451 I'm gonna start following Virginia Tech football. They got a new coach from Penn State who's supposedly very good.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 01:07 PM (77rzZ)

452 I'm old enough to remember when so-called conservatives lived by the principle of "Mind Your Own F'n Business."

—

Absolutely. But then don’t complain about it. I don’t mean you specially I mean in general.

It’s the same thing over and over. NFL does some woke shit. Conservatives are OUTRAGED!!ty. Then they shrug and keep watching. Rinse and repeat every few months.

It’s like OK if NFL is your thing have at it. But stop with the OUTRAGE!!ty every time they do this because it’s obviously not ever going to stop as long as you continue to support it.

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 01:07 PM (nTi7N)

453 Expecting dudes in bands to have consistent views on things is like expecting chicks who bang dudes in bands to have them.
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I get the feeling the dudes in some of these bands aren't in it for the chicks. Don Lemon would be more their speed.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 01:05 PM (QZThv)

Yes, either/or. Same difference. Who am I to judge.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 01:07 PM (olqfj)

454 @libsoftiktok 9m
Anti-ICE rioters are now invading and occupying Target stores in MN, demanding that ICE be abolished.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2026 01:06 PM (mlg/3)

Makes sense. Attack a business that provides goods and jobs because you don't like a government entity out there doing their job.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:07 PM (JA4sW)

455 Anti-ICE rioters are now invading and occupying Target stores in MN, demanding that ICE be abolished.

It's fucking hilarious that every time MN Antifa acts up it's at the expense of ultra-liberal Target.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 01:07 PM (QZThv)

456 The Bills fired their head coach.

Aston "No Jews Welcome" Villa lost.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 19, 2026 01:08 PM (GPa4z)

457 I'm with Nurse. Go Seahawks. Maybe if they win the SB, they'll burn that city down once and for all in 'celebration.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:04 PM (JA4sW)
******
That would be a win-win. I'm good with that.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 19, 2026 01:08 PM (NpAcC)

458 His most legendary moment? The 2021 “n-word” lecture where he solemnly explained to black viewers that they shouldn’t say the n-word either, because… reasons. The hubris required to stand on national television, as a gay black man who grew up in Baton Rouge, and lecture the entire culture about how they’re allowed to talk is almost admirable in its astronomical narcissism. Almost. Mostly it was just embarrassing.Then there’s the journalism. Or what he called journalism. Lemon specialized in the “ask a loaded question, act shocked at the answer, then lecture the person for giving the answer you baited” pipeline. He once asked a rape survivor if she regretted drinking that night. He grilled women about their sex lives on air. He suggested—on air—that a 9-year-old boy who survived a mass shooting might have been “coached” because he spoke too well. The man had the empathy of a malfunctioning Roomba and the self-awareness of a parking cone.And the pivot to “independent media”? Chef’s kiss of delusion. He launched a YouTube channel and a $400 subscription “NoBS News” product like he was the people’s last hope against corporate media. Brother, you were corporate media.

Posted by: Grok not Fen at January 19, 2026 01:08 PM (ciYHQ)

459 444 Um, not sure who's losing here

@libsoftiktok 9m
Anti-ICE rioters are now invading and occupying Target stores in MN, demanding that ICE be abolished.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2026 01:06 PM (mlg/3)

Call for artillery strikes.
"Target Target"
"Target?'
"Target."
"Roget. Targeting Target"

Posted by: Fire for effect at January 19, 2026 01:08 PM (TbWk/)

460 Anti-ICE rioters are now invading and occupying Target stores in MN

Red on Red.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 19, 2026 01:08 PM (jc0TO)

461 427 GO SEAHAWKS!
Posted by: nurse ratched

I put in a request for Sam Darnold wouldn't throw INTS and get a TD or two on the Sat. AM Coffee thread. I think it worked.
Posted by: Antifa

My oldest son took me to the game! Beautiful evening. We had a great time together and it makes me so very happy that, out of all the people he cpuld have invited, he asked me to go. Paid for
My ticket too!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 19, 2026 01:08 PM (IhIKR)

462 I thought I saw that in March, we'll go to DST. And it will be "permanent." Thus, doing away with the whole time change ordeal twice a year.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2026 01:08 PM (U2OZr)

463 "Has the Spain Train Pain been Explained?"

Read somewhere that victims were ejected through windows and hurled 'hundreds of yards' away. Just awful.

Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 01:09 PM (N8ZBc)

464
373

Oh yeah, the seat belt warning is psychotic 3 minute BEEP BEEP BEEP rant. Stupid devs - if I dont want to wear a seat belt im not going to wear it. Don't nag me into having a wreck. What idiot thinks "well the first 50 beeps didn't get coerce him so let's try 50p more"...
Posted by: Fen at January 19, 2026 12:50 PM

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I think that all these absurd and irritating features are the result of government regulations.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 19, 2026 01:09 PM (azNOR)

465 You were the smiling face of the machine for 17 years. You didn’t get canceled; you got gently pushed out the emergency exit after the ratings started circling the drain and even CNN realized the sanctimonious scold routine was losing viewers faster than a Trump rally loses decorum.Now he drifts through podcasts and X Spaces, still doing the same furrowed-brow routine, still pretending he’s the truth-teller everyone’s been waiting for, still shocked—shocked!—that the world has moved on without him. The bowtie is gone, but the ego remains superglued to his face.Don Lemon isn’t evil. He’s just terminally, aggressively, relentlessly average—dressed up as moral authority and furious that the costume doesn’t fit anymore. He’s the human embodiment of a blue-check legacy media meltdown: loud, self-important, increasingly irrelevant, and somehow still convinced he’s the main character.Five hundred words wasn’t enough. But it’ll do until the next time he opens his mouth and reminds us why we stopped listening.

Posted by: Grok not Fen at January 19, 2026 01:09 PM (ciYHQ)

466 Rioters are targeting target?
Second look at supporting the rioters?

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 01:09 PM (nTi7N)

467 Anti-ICE rioters are now invading and occupying Target stores in MN, demanding that ICE be abolished.

==

soooo provincial !! they should invade and occupy Louis Vuitton !

--Discerning anti-ICE Rioters

Posted by: runner at January 19, 2026 01:09 PM (g47mK)

468 think I'm making it out of the hospital without having to have lithotripsy. I think I passed the stone. No pain since 8:00. Passed on my morphine shot.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 19, 2026 12:57 PM (0x0rk)

I thought the same thing. Ct scan confirmed it was still there.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 19, 2026 01:09 PM (KDPiq)

469 "No pain since 8:00. Passed on my morphine shot."

If there was no charge for it, I would have said fire it up. YOLO.
Posted by: gp

Problem is, I had been pushing the call button every four hours for the last 24 hours. I honestly didn't need it and I want them to know I'm not just "seeking" drugs and that maybe if I haven't asked for them, it's because I'm ok.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 19, 2026 01:10 PM (0x0rk)

470 The Dayton family owns Target. They are big time leftists. Now Target is being invaded by leftists. Heh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 19, 2026 01:10 PM (PTsqM)

471 Now do every board of every major corporation you know.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 01:05 PM (olqfj)

Why? They are the establishment and/or the establishment's bitches. They just aren't pretending to "FIGHT THE MAN™, MAN!"

Posted by: They're no better, just less hypocritical at January 19, 2026 01:10 PM (TbWk/)

472 >>>"Here's a whore and $150 grand. Now say this on camera."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

>Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to? I have no shame.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 19, 2026 01:10 PM (BSdIE)

473 Banana Ball is the only sport I watch/attend. All others have forfeited their chance for me to throw them my dollars. I am going to an ECHL game on Saturday, though.

Posted by: Hoping For Fights at January 19, 2026 01:10 PM (oftw2)

474 Go ahead. Make my day!

Posted by: Det. Harry NewPostwood at January 19, 2026 01:10 PM (wVcYX)

475 Absolutely. But then don’t complain about it. I don’t mean you specially I mean in general.

It’s the same thing over and over. NFL does some woke shit. Conservatives are OUTRAGED!!ty. Then they shrug and keep watching. Rinse and repeat every few months.

It’s like OK if NFL is your thing have at it. But stop with the OUTRAGE!!ty every time they do this because it’s obviously not ever going to stop as long as you continue to support it.
Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 01:07 PM (nTi7N)

I stopped watching sportsball, mostly. Occasionally I'll watch something, but have no attachment to any outcome, and sure as hell don't spend money on it.

I find it boring these days. Most NFL games look like they're fixed, and with gamblers so in bed with them, I'm sure they are.

As for the Woke shit, yeah, they're just like every other major corporation. They do what they're told.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 01:11 PM (olqfj)

476 I'll watch the damned NFL if I want to! I don't care how much they hate me and my country! And my wife's boyfriend totally agrees with me!

Posted by: True Conserfative at January 19, 2026 01:11 PM (qUkBO)

477 >>An occasional Blue Angels flyover

Very occasional as the last time they overflew a NFL stadium for a game was the Super Bowl ten years ago.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 19, 2026 01:11 PM (Y1sOo)

478 I thought the same thing. Ct scan confirmed it was still there.
Posted by: Opinion fact

I was in non-stop pain from 4:15 pm Thursday until 8:00 am this morning. No pain and stuff is showing up on the urine strainer.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 19, 2026 01:11 PM (0x0rk)

479 I always like that Mercedes-Benz 300 TD diesel wagon Robert Wagner drove in Hart to Hart.
Posted by: olddog in mo at January 19, 2026 11:49 AM

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

They're modern classics. Prices for well-preserved examples are steadily rising.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 19, 2026 01:12 PM (1Au9i)

480 "@libsoftiktok 9m
Anti-ICE rioters are now invading and occupying Target stores in MN, demanding that ICE be abolished.
Posted by: weft cut-loop"

Because everybody knows Target is a hotbed of white nationalist conservatism.

Posted by: Ripley at January 19, 2026 01:12 PM (GUOwU)

481 Can NFL (and MLB) content be consumed without paying for it? It's all pay-per-view or subscription only now, isn't it?

Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 01:12 PM (N8ZBc)

482 Target is publicly traded and the biggest owners are the usual suspects, blackrock, vanguard, etc.
Dayton family is long gone from the picture.

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 01:12 PM (nTi7N)

483 I think I'm making it out of the hospital without having to have lithotripsy. I think I passed the stone. No pain since 8:00. Passed on my morphine shot.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 19, 2026 12:57 PM (0x0rk)
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That's great news!

I had the surgery (laser up the little pipe). That was under GA, but the post-op was a trip for 72 hours. Those tiny grits of stone have to go somewhere.

Posted by: mrp at January 19, 2026 01:12 PM (rj6Yv)

484 I'd have done it for free, nice drill press, sharp bits. Maybe next time.
Posted by: Yankee Workshop

How's the drug supply?

Posted by: MkY at January 19, 2026 01:13 PM (q6tQZ)

485 @nicksortor
·
37m
🚨 BREAKING: A group of liberal white women (mostly) have taken over a Target in St. Paul DEMANDING Target stop letting ICE and Border Patrol agents use their bathrooms

Posted by: Don Black at January 19, 2026 01:13 PM (ZxPkt)

486 Because everybody knows Target is a hotbed of white nationalist conservatism.
Posted by: Ripley at January 19, 2026 01:12 PM (GUOwU)

Especially their junk-tucker swimsuits for kids.

Posted by: GUYS STOP! WE'RE ON THE SAME TEAM! at January 19, 2026 01:13 PM (TbWk/)

487 But it’ll do until the next time he opens his mouth and reminds us why we stopped listening.

I don't care to hear a thing about Don LeMon unless it contains the word "arrested."

Posted by: Oddbob at January 19, 2026 01:13 PM (Fs0KI)

488 Can NFL (and MLB) content be consumed without paying for it? It's all pay-per-view or subscription only now, isn't it?
Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 01:12 PM

OTATV

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 19, 2026 01:13 PM (jc0TO)

489 This will be hilarious

@bennyjohnson 1h
BREAKING: DOJ Announces Intention to Charge Don Lemon under the Ku Klux Klan Act.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2026 01:14 PM (mlg/3)

490 rickb223, I'm glad to hear the problem cleared up, and I wish you a quick complete recovery

Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 01:14 PM (N8ZBc)

491 Can NFL (and MLB) content be consumed without paying for it? It's all pay-per-view or subscription only now, isn't it?
Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 01:12 PM (N8ZBc)

Most games I see I'm at someone else's house.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 01:14 PM (olqfj)

492 libsoftiktok 9m
Anti-ICE rioters are now invading and occupying Target stores in MN, demanding that ICE be abolished.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2026 01:06 PM (mlg/3)

Makes sense. Attack a business that provides goods and jobs because you don't like a government entity out there doing their job.
Posted by: Sponge

Congratulations. You have now entered the riot phase of the insurrection act.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 19, 2026 01:14 PM (0x0rk)

493 As with every sport, sports betting and sponsorships of all sports have ruined sports altogether.

I did watch some of the playoff games yesterday and what I saw from the officiating was downright offensive. Holy shit. EVERYTHING is becoming unwatchable.

My favorite moment was watching a game and the kicker was lining up for the FG, kicking directly towards the video board that had the Fan Duel Logo and Ad blaring down upon him.

Sports are f*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:14 PM (JA4sW)

494 MkY , glad you made it. Keep doing OK. There's work for you to do here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2026 01:15 PM (zNcSj)

495 🚨 BREAKING: A group of liberal white women (mostly) have taken over a Target in St. Paul DEMANDING Target stop letting ICE and Border Patrol agents use their bathrooms
Posted by: Don Black at January 19, 2026 01:13 PM (ZxPkt)

Lock the doors and fill the store with OC gas.

Posted by: It's gonna get SPICY in here! at January 19, 2026 01:15 PM (TbWk/)

496 How about this.

If I wanted to be judged and scolded and told what I think, I’d get married again.

You do you. I’m going to go and have fun with my kid and my community. Because not everything is a political statement.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 19, 2026 01:15 PM (IhIKR)

497 stopped watching sportsball, mostly. Occasionally I'll watch something, but have no attachment to any outcome, and sure as hell don't spend money on it.

-

Same. I still like college football, at least the final 4 minutes of close games, 😀

As far as not spending money, you’re still making money for the NFL. As a viewer advertisers pay the NFL for your eyeballs

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 01:15 PM (nTi7N)

498 They're also planning a general strike in the Twin Cities on Friday.

I suspect violence and road blockages will be involved.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 19, 2026 01:15 PM (n1OCj)

499 I think I'm making it out of the hospital without having to have lithotripsy. I think I passed the stone. No pain since 8:00. Passed on my morphine shot.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 19, 2026 12:57 PM (0x0rk)

=====

That's great it found its way out! My wife has been dealing with 1 (or more?) kidney stones for the past few weeks. The CT scan showed a 1 cm monster in one of her kidneys. They are going to go in with a laser early next month.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 19, 2026 01:15 PM (GPa4z)

500
WTH is lemon fag doing in Minnesota?

Does he live there?

Posted by: fourseasons at January 19, 2026 01:15 PM (3ek7K)

501 How's the drug supply?
Posted by: MkY

Boone's Farm or Annie Green Springs. Patient's choice, or a combo.

Posted by: The New Yankee Workshop at January 19, 2026 01:15 PM (oftw2)

502
@bennyjohnson 1h
BREAKING: DOJ Announces Intention to Charge Don Lemon under the Ku Klux Klan Act.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2026 01:14 PM (mlg/3)

Should this actually happen, I will fistbump God, should I be fortunate enough to see him one day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:15 PM (JA4sW)

503 As far as not spending money, you’re still making money for the NFL. As a viewer advertisers pay the NFL for your eyeballs
Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 01:15 PM

If I watched, they wouldn't know it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 19, 2026 01:16 PM (jc0TO)

504 Same as Hollywood.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 19, 2026 01:16 PM (jc0TO)

505
You do you. I’m going to go and have fun with my kid and my community. Because not everything is a political statement.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 19, 2026 01:15 PM (IhIKR)

Valid. Unfortunately, the NFL thinks differently.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:16 PM (JA4sW)

506 > BREAKING: DOJ Announces Intention to Charge Don Lemon under the Ku Klux Klan Act.
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The current timeline never ceases to amuse me.

Or aggravate the shit out of me.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2026 01:17 PM (U2OZr)

507 Down goes the new post! Down goes the new post! Down goes the new post!

Posted by: Howard Cosell at January 19, 2026 01:17 PM (wVcYX)

508 If Ace doesn't restore the missing thread, he will lose market share.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 19, 2026 01:17 PM (jc0TO)

509 "As with every sport, sports betting and sponsorships of all sports have ruined sports altogether"

I'm looking forward to somebody getting AI involved in sports betting.

Posted by: Ripley at January 19, 2026 01:17 PM (GUOwU)

510 >>>Can NFL (and MLB) content be consumed without paying for it? It's all pay-per-view or subscription only now, isn't it?

Posted by: gp

>You can get streams for free if you know where to go. But you're right, its all subscription BS. All sports are subscription or cable BS. Sad.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 19, 2026 01:17 PM (BSdIE)

511 492 libsoftiktok 9m
Anti-ICE rioters are now invading and occupying Target stores in MN, demanding that ICE be abolished.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2026 01:06 PM (mlg/3)

Makes sense. Attack a business that provides goods and jobs because you don't like a government entity out there doing their job.
Posted by: Sponge
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And soft, pliable, asshoes that have supported your dumb shit all along.

Target deserves what it gets. (or loses)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2026 01:17 PM (zNcSj)

512 "OTATV"

Is that the same as vanilla DTV? In my QTH, the channels all suck canal water. One of them just shows "The Rifleman" eps all day. Another shows "Two and a Half Men" eps. There's no news, no live sports I can find.

Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 01:17 PM (N8ZBc)

513 As far as not spending money, you’re still making money for the NFL. As a viewer advertisers pay the NFL for your eyeballs
Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 01:15 PM (nTi7N)

The money they get from me, indirectly, is a drop in the bucket compared to the government taxing me, then spending it on what it does.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 01:17 PM (olqfj)

514
(sighs)

Well, I'm going to have to mark down Mr. O'Spades as absent without leave.

Posted by: Auspex at January 19, 2026 01:17 PM (Y8DZL)

515 Which agency do we contact to conduct a health and welfare check for an Ewok?

Posted by: tankdemon at January 19, 2026 01:17 PM (I7mtr)

516 BREAKING: A group of liberal white women (mostly) have taken over a Target in St. Paul DEMANDING Target stop letting ICE and Border Patrol agents use their bathrooms

Religious fanatics always attack apostates more strongly than they do infidels.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 19, 2026 01:18 PM (Fs0KI)

517
We seem to be entertaining ourselves here.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 19, 2026 01:18 PM (3ek7K)

518 As a viewer advertisers pay the NFL for your eyeballs

The ads are all Big Pharma anyway. I doubt they actually care about the eyeballs and it's another way to launder money to the DNC.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 01:18 PM (noPDf)

519 >Can NFL (and MLB) content be consumed without paying for it? It's all pay-per-view or subscription only now, isn't it?
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everything is on the internet
everything

Posted by: Don Black at January 19, 2026 01:18 PM (ZxPkt)

520 Is that the same as vanilla DTV? In my QTH, the channels all suck canal water. One of them just shows "The Rifleman" eps all day. Another shows "Two and a Half Men" eps. There's no news, no live sports I can find.
Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 01:17 PM

You don't get the alphabets over the air?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 19, 2026 01:18 PM (jc0TO)

521 Big point shaving scheme was busted last week in college hoops. Not even top teams. Teams like Kennesaw State. Sports is ruined.

Posted by: Not Participating at January 19, 2026 01:19 PM (oftw2)

522 514
(sighs)

Well, I'm going to have to mark down Mr. O'Spades as absent without leave.
Posted by: Auspex at January 19, 2026 01:17 PM (Y8DZL)

He's a bit late, but I am sure he has a reasonable excuse3

Posted by: tankdemon at January 19, 2026 01:19 PM (I7mtr)

523 The CT scan showed a 1 cm monster in one of her kidneys. They are going to go in with a laser early next month.
Posted by: Oglebay at January 19, 2026 01:15 PM (GPa4z)
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Mine was 1 cm, too. I was issued some very powerful painkillers for the post-op. Since i was already on cardio-required blood-thinner, I didn't take any of the medications, and that was rough. In any case, expect bleeding for a couple of days.

Posted by: mrp at January 19, 2026 01:19 PM (rj6Yv)

524 247 I don’t care if someone chooses to buy an EV but I would rather they buy from Musk if they’re going to do it.
----
There's a reason why China lets Tesla own Tesla China with no CCP slice. China follows Elon Musk, US follows Mary Barra, thanks to FJB!

Why do so many conservatives not understand that Tesla didn't want or need the rebate shit, but everybody else did?!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 19, 2026 01:19 PM (FpP3s)

525
And soft, pliable, asshoes that have supported your dumb shit all along.

Target deserves what it gets. (or loses)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2026 01:17 PM (zNcSj)

Oh, I don't disagree. F*ck Target in the squeekhole with a barbed mace.

But the rioters are just showing their complete ignorance in shutting down a business that not only the community works at and likely benefits from, Target as a whole are ON THEIR SIDE.

It's real retarded, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:19 PM (JA4sW)

526 Who reports a missing Ewok to the police?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 19, 2026 01:20 PM (PTsqM)

527
I do hate that every single corporation in and outside America has to feel like they're fighting the man!!!!

Which is apparently defined by them as fucking over and making life mo0re difficult for the middle class and working class normies.

Assholes to a man and woman.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 19, 2026 01:20 PM (iJfKG)

528 Big point shaving scheme was busted last week in college hoops. Not even top teams. Teams like Kennesaw State.

Honestly, if I was running some form of cheating in college sports, I'd do it in like Division 2 and 3 teams where people are less likely to be paying attention.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 01:20 PM (noPDf)

529 Boone's Farm or Annie Green Springs. Patient's choice, or a combo.
Posted by: The New Yankee Workshop

Can the Boone's Farm be strawberry?
I think we're getting close.
Are the bits high-helix?

Posted by: MkY at January 19, 2026 01:20 PM (q6tQZ)

530 So to protest the "invasion" of the feds, these retards are going in to stores and disrupting business.... For what?

I bet the divorce rate in MN is through the roof right now.

Angry scrunts LARPing out the hatred of men.. because that makes sense... 🙄

Posted by: melodicmetal at January 19, 2026 01:21 PM (61TgR)

531 >>> Ayatollah Announces Death Toll, Blames Deaths on President Trump for ‘Encouraging Unrest’

Ayatollah Flexes that all those people dying in Iran was a direct result of Trump's mouth, not the goat syphilis riddled brains of islamoterrorist clerics whose sole power is hiring foreign psychopaths to kill their own people.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 19, 2026 01:21 PM (/lPRQ)

532 514
(sighs)

Well, I'm going to have to mark down Mr. O'Spades as absent without leave.
Posted by: Auspex at January 19, 2026 01:17 PM (Y8DZL)

He's a bit late, but I am sure he has a reasonable excuse3
Posted by: tankdemon at January 19, 2026 01:19 PM (I7mtr)

He'll bring a note.

Posted by: Juan Epstein's Mom at January 19, 2026 01:21 PM (wVcYX)

533 Valid. Unfortunately, the NFL thinks differently.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:16 PM (JA4sW)

Except they really don't. Seriously man, it's all about money, and right now the oligarchs who rule the world, and NFL owners are a few tiers below that level, tell corporate heads what they will and will not support.

Billionaire team owners don't care about black lives, they don't care about gay homosexuals, they don't care whether RNA injections are bad for you or not.

They care about keeping their place in the hierarchy. And getting paid enough to be able to bang whatever holes they choose.

Politics is so low on the consideration of ANY of this.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 01:21 PM (olqfj)

534 What’s going on here?? Some shelves fall on ace?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 19, 2026 01:21 PM (xT8gx)

535 think I'm making it out of the hospital without having to have lithotripsy. I think I passed the stone. No pain since 8:00. Passed on my morphine shot.

Posted by: rickb223

Once the stone gets pretty far along, you can use a pliers to get it all the way out.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 19, 2026 01:21 PM (0U5gm)

536 BREAKING: DOJ Announces Intention to Charge Don Lemon under the Ku Klux Klan Act.

Doesn't count. I specifically said "arrested" in the past tense.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 19, 2026 01:21 PM (Fs0KI)

537 "You don't get the alphabets over the air?"

I get some affiliates, but they all broadcast dreck. I'm not into sports, but I saw no live sports content whatsoever. I just boxed up the DTV converter and antenna, and keep it around in case there's an emergency when the internet is out.

Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 01:22 PM (N8ZBc)

538 I guess without Ace there is no adult in the room, no one to save us from ourselves and the ensuing mayhem. I might as well be the one, like my namesake, to put the lisp in Apocalypse...

Crossbows are cheater bows for pussies mincing about rotator cuff "strain".

/grabs scissors off desk
/runs

Posted by: Fen at January 19, 2026 01:22 PM (ciYHQ)

539
Honestly, if I was running some form of cheating in college sports, I'd do it in like Division 2 and 3 teams where people are less likely to be paying attention.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 01:20 PM (noPDf)

There's a big one coming as they've discovered CHYNA has been involved with a pretty massive points shaving scheme in both college and the NBA.

Sportsball is about to have a bad year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:22 PM (JA4sW)

540 WTH is lemon fag doing in Minnesota?

Does he live there?
Posted by: fourseasons at January 19, 2026 01:15 PM (3ek7K)

No, he crossed multiple state lines to commit a hate crime.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 19, 2026 01:22 PM (rbvCR)

541 Big point shaving scheme was busted last week in college hoops. Not even top teams. Teams like Kennesaw State.

All these online betting outlets are going to destroy major sports.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 19, 2026 01:22 PM (n1OCj)

542 Thank you, Buck, for this helpful information about sales of EVs.

Posted by: Roland Hirsch at January 19, 2026 01:22 PM (Imt38)

543
He's a bit late, but I am sure he has a reasonable excuse3
Posted by: tankdemon

Do doubt part of the 50 truck pile up on I-96.

Posted by: Auspex at January 19, 2026 01:23 PM (Y8DZL)

544 I drive a MB diesel w/twin turbos. I have become an expert "Limp Home" driver.

Posted by: javems at January 19, 2026 01:23 PM (jrjl5)

545 I watch a 20 minute or so highlight reel of Da Bears when then win. No $$$ no merch and no love fpr the nfl.

You can't boycott everything and nor should you. Just dont talk about here.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 19, 2026 01:23 PM (k1gZr)

546 Shit. An infestation of AWFLs just took over one of ours stores in St Paul. It will spread on Tik Tok and in 24 hours we will be over run by purple haired lesbos and neck beards. We have to drive them out without calling the police. .... okay pipe in classic George Strait to all our stores for the next 72 hours. Problem solved.

Posted by: Target Legl Dept at January 19, 2026 01:23 PM (31BE0)

547
Maybe Canada can buy them. They loves themselves some EVs. Oops they're buying from the CCP.

Maybe China will build a BYD plant in Canada.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 19, 2026 01:23 PM (pkeXY)

548 It's after 1:00 PM and you guys are still doing the Morning Rant?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 19, 2026 01:23 PM (QEB0p)

549 While we are waiting for Ace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M9r6PZPaIo

Uwu

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 19, 2026 01:23 PM (2GVsD)

550 Target is safe in my town in SC. Nobody goes there.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 19, 2026 01:23 PM (wBaIH)

551 The liberal rioters see themselves as the reincarnation of the Civil Rights Movement, when in reality they're the rebirth of the Klan.

Posted by: 29Victor at January 19, 2026 01:23 PM (0MjtC)

552 All major sports are the WWE. Discuss.

Posted by: tubal at January 19, 2026 01:23 PM (pDt9x)

553 Curse Electric all you want, but the #1 Camry only comes in hybrid form, and the quickest selling version of the #2 Rav4 is the hybrid version. I agree that, at this point (in history, technology, etc) pure EV should not and can not carry the POV load in the US. But let's not demonize the tech that works because the extension of that tech is a bridge too far.

BTW, it looks like the latest version of the Abrams tank will replace the turbine with a hybrid drivetrain using a CAT diesel.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 19, 2026 01:24 PM (epPlm)

554 It's after 1:00 PM and you guys are still doing the Morning Rant?

==

would you prefer we be on the art thread ...??

Posted by: runner at January 19, 2026 01:24 PM (g47mK)

555 Honestly, if I was running some form of cheating in college sports, I'd do it in like Division 2 and 3 teams where people are less likely to be paying attention.

Posted by: Ian S.

=====

We did it 3 straight years.

Posted by: University of Michigan at January 19, 2026 01:24 PM (8AONa)

556
Morning, afternoon or night, we can rant on.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 19, 2026 01:24 PM (3ek7K)

557 Thank you, Buck, for this helpful information about sales of EVs.
Posted by: Roland Hirsch at January 19, 2026 01:22 PM (Imt3

Episode XVIII

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 19, 2026 01:24 PM (Hx0tZ)

558 That's great news!

I had the surgery (laser up the little pipe). That was under GA, but the post-op was a trip for 72 hours. Those tiny grits of stone have to go somewhere.
Posted by: mrp

Yeah. Doc said the optimal solution was for it to break up and pass on it's own. I had the tub of water lithotripsy back in 93. Felt like 10 rounds of body blows with Mike Tyson. Post op was 48 or 72 hours.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 19, 2026 01:24 PM (0x0rk)

559 National Taste Test proved Strawberry Boone's Farm tasted best coming back up through the nose. Southern Comfort in a virtual tie.

Posted by: Rum Dum at January 19, 2026 01:24 PM (oftw2)

560 somebody say SEahawks?

@AdamSchefter
·
13m
Seahawks RB Zach Charbonnet suffered a season-ending knee injury that will require surgery, Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald said on Seattle Sports.

Posted by: Don Black at January 19, 2026 01:24 PM (ZxPkt)

561
This thread is beginning to smell like old gym socks and Hillary!'s granny panties.

Please to make a new one even if it contains nothing.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 19, 2026 01:25 PM (iJfKG)

562 everything is on the internet
everything
Posted by: Don Black at January 19, 2026 01:18 PM (ZxPkt)

Back in the day, when I used to download software, I was tapped into those places.

These days, I measure how much I care about something by how hard I'll go look for it... somewhere.

Which is to say, with sportsball, not at all.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 01:25 PM (olqfj)

563 Democrats started the civil war in order to keep their slaves, and now they want another to keep their near-slaves.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 19, 2026 01:26 PM (0U5gm)

564 Seriously, one of the cobs should try to contact Ace.

Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 01:26 PM (77rzZ)

565 I still watch NFL… so sue me. If I couldn’t consume anything that wasn’t tainted by the left I’d have to adopt a Ted Kasynski type lifestyle. But other than my occasional eyeballs they don’t get my money… I don’t attend in person and don’t buy the merchandise. But it’s no stress entertainment for me… better than watching Survivor or the Bachelorette….

And BTW… I’m convinced it’s tainted with gambling corruption… the officiating is too awful to be mere incompetence

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 19, 2026 01:26 PM (xT8gx)

566 564 Seriously, one of the cobs should try to contact Ace.
Posted by: Bulg at January 19, 2026 01:26 PM (77rzZ)

Wellness check.

Posted by: tubal at January 19, 2026 01:26 PM (pDt9x)

567 WTH is lemon fag doing in Minnesota?

Does he live there?
Posted by: fourseasons

Riding with the New Black Panthers.
Gonna string himself up some lilly white Lutherans and maybe have himself some fun with a little white boy.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 19, 2026 01:26 PM (/lPRQ)

568 I've got a bad feeling about this.

Posted by: Han Solo NewPostWatcher at January 19, 2026 01:27 PM (wVcYX)

569 The train in Spain kills mainly on the plain.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 19, 2026 01:27 PM (0x0rk)

570
Politics is so low on the consideration of ANY of this.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 01:21 PM (olqfj)

I'll just agree to disagree. The NFL, and other leagues for that matter, buy into the liberal and Democrat causes because they get the kickbacks, tax breaks and government approval. The NFL is a $9bn PER YEAR industry. Roger Goodell makes $56m a year and has free access to a private jet for he and his family any time they want it.

The NFL pushes BLM, the black national anthem and all the other liberal shit that keeps them solid with the Democrat party.

It's ALL about politics. Society just continue to swallow it hook, line and sinker. They're getting paid by SOCIETY to get the liberal propaganda bullshit shoved down their throats. Therefore, it's an acceptable practice and they'll NEVER change.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:27 PM (JA4sW)

571 522 514
(sighs)

Well, I'm going to have to mark down Mr. O'Spades as absent without leave.
Posted by: Auspex
----

A post was up then defaulted.
There may be trouble in Pixy Land.
We may be lucky to have anything at all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2026 01:27 PM (zNcSj)

572 Whatever happened, I'm glad they didn't go all the way back to the Art Thread.

Posted by: t-bird at January 19, 2026 01:27 PM (uTrw+)

573 would you prefer we be on the art thread ...??
Posted by: runner

---------
What the heck is going on with CBD? A couple weeks ago it was boobs, and then this? Is he what they call "questioning"?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 19, 2026 01:27 PM (QEB0p)

574 @AdamSchefter
·
13m
Seahawks RB Zach Charbonnet suffered a season-ending knee injury that will require surgery, Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald said on Seattle Sports.
Posted by: Don Black at January 19, 2026 01:24 PM (ZxPkt)

And Bo Nix is out for the Bronchomos. Looks like it's Rams and Patsies! Again.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 01:27 PM (PGKfy)

575 Crossbows are cheater bows for pussies mincing about rotator cuff "strain".

/grabs scissors off desk
/runs

Posted by: Fen

I've begun wounding deer again, after about 80 deer with crossbow , only wounding 2 or 3 my first few years.
This was my 53rd year hunting archery.
Crossbows suck.

Posted by: MkY at January 19, 2026 01:27 PM (q6tQZ)

576 BREAKING: DOJ Announces Intention to Charge Don Lemon under the Ku Klux Klan Act.

Doesn't count. I specifically said "arrested" in the past tense.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 19, 2026 01:21 PM (Fs0KI)
======

If anyone read the post at Insty this morning, the one about the Mexican national (and illegal) who had a slam-dunk arrest for using a vehicle to ram an ICE car and injured people in San Francisco. It went to trial and he was found NOT GUILTY. He had a long rap sheet, too. Didn't matter. The DOJ has to face jury nullification.

Posted by: mrp at January 19, 2026 01:28 PM (rj6Yv)

577 552 All major sports are the WWE. Discuss.
Posted by: tubal

Well, the whole Caitlin Clarke thing was kinda like the "Rebecca of Donnybrook Farm" episode of the Beverly Hillbillies.

Posted by: Auspex at January 19, 2026 01:28 PM (Y8DZL)

578 Ugh.

Charbonnet and Walker III got the run game going. And Saheed’s opening kickoff return for the TD.

Hopefully Sam gets the Rams out of his head.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 19, 2026 01:28 PM (tcruw)

579 We need a pool on excuses.

I put my $1 down on
"I thought it was still Sunday."

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 19, 2026 01:28 PM (QEB0p)

580 548 It's after 1:00 PM and you guys are still doing the Morning Rant?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 19, 2026 01:23 PM (QEB0p)

WE'VE GOT NOWHERE ELSE TO GO!!!

Posted by: An army of Mayos at January 19, 2026 01:29 PM (TbWk/)

581 I'll just agree to disagree. The NFL, and other leagues for that matter, buy into the liberal and Democrat causes because they get the kickbacks, tax breaks and government approval. The NFL is a $9bn PER YEAR industry. Roger Goodell makes $56m a year and has free access to a private jet for he and his family any time they want it.

The NFL pushes BLM, the black national anthem and all the other liberal shit that keeps them solid with the Democrat party.

It's ALL about politics. Society just continue to swallow it hook, line and sinker. They're getting paid by SOCIETY to get the liberal propaganda bullshit shoved down their throats. Therefore, it's an acceptable practice and they'll NEVER change.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:27 PM (JA4sW)

I think you are completely agreeing with me, you're just saying it differently.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 01:29 PM (PGKfy)

582 would you prefer we be on the art thread ...??
Posted by: runner

---------
What the heck is going on with CBD? A couple weeks ago it was boobs, and then this? Is he what they call "questioning"?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 19, 2026 01:27 PM (QEB0p)

Didn’t CBD recently proclaim a man crush on Scott Bessent? Not that there’s anything wrong with that!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 19, 2026 01:29 PM (xT8gx)

583 574 @AdamSchefter
·
13m
Seahawks RB Zach Charbonnet suffered a season-ending knee injury that will require surgery, Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald said on Seattle Sports.
Posted by: Don Black at January 19, 2026 01:24 PM (ZxPkt)

And Bo Nix is out for the Bronchomos. Looks like it's Rams and Patsies! Again.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 01:27 PM (PGKfy)

I'm cheering for Nick Foles pt 2...I mean, Drake Maye was pretty bad, and only one b/c CJ Stroud took badness to an epic level...again...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 19, 2026 01:29 PM (tOcjL)

584 Why aren't the Target protesters attending of the local MLK Day cermonies? Disgraceful.

Posted by: Ripley at January 19, 2026 01:29 PM (GUOwU)

585 @AdamSchefter
·
13m
Seahawks RB Zach Charbonnet suffered a season-ending knee injury that will require surgery, Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald said on Seattle Sports.
Posted by: Don Black at January 19, 2026 01:24 PM (ZxPkt)

Denver QB Bo Nix was to kneel down after the snap to line the ball in the middle of the field for a straight shot for the kicker to win the game in overtime.

He did and Denver won the game. However, in the process of kneeling, Nix broke a bone in his foot/ankle and is out for the remainder of the season.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:29 PM (JA4sW)

586 one = won...dang typo

Posted by: Nova Local at January 19, 2026 01:29 PM (tOcjL)

587 Honestly, if I was running some form of cheating in college sports, I'd do it in like Division 2 and 3 teams where people are less likely to be paying attention.
Posted by: Ian S.

How cute. You would be horrible at criminality because lack the key ingredient: stupidity. In every criminal enterprise Ive ahem witnessed for the book Im writing, the Stupid never fails. Everyone is making bank, everyone is happy, but Big Mike just HAS to rip off Chino to pocket another 1% and now half the room is bleeding out as sirens approach. Never fails

Posted by: Fen at January 19, 2026 01:29 PM (ciYHQ)

588 nnod

Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 01:29 PM (N8ZBc)

589 What the heck is going on with CBD? A couple weeks ago it was boobs, and then this? Is he what they call "questioning"?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 19, 2026 01:27 PM (QEB0p)

educational purposes !

Posted by: runner at January 19, 2026 01:29 PM (g47mK)

590 .
NOOD

Ace is up

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 19, 2026 01:29 PM (O7YUW)

591 nood

Posted by: gp at January 19, 2026 01:30 PM (N8ZBc)

592
We need a pool on excuses.

I put my $1 down on
"I thought it was still Sunday."
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

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

ace had a post up earlier, but half of it was red. I think he attempted to fix it and accidentally nuked it and has no idea that we're all down here at the bottom of the well.

Posted by: United States of America at January 19, 2026 01:30 PM (Jyxrm)

593
Denver QB Bo Nix was to kneel down after the snap to line the ball in the middle of the field for a straight shot for the kicker to win the game in overtime.

He did and Denver won the game. However, in the process of kneeling, Nix broke a bone in his foot/ankle and is out for the remainder of the season.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:29 PM (JA4sW)

It was broken 2 plays earlier...you can see it. He didn't feel it in full til he tried kneeling.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 19, 2026 01:30 PM (tOcjL)

594 Speaking of conspiracies, does anyone realize that both Horshack and Epstein passed in the same year. How is that possible?

Posted by: Welcome Back! at January 19, 2026 01:30 PM (oftw2)

595 Let the stampede begin.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 19, 2026 01:30 PM (O7YUW)

596
nood

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 19, 2026 01:30 PM (tljrc)

597
I think you are completely agreeing with me, you're just saying it differently.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2026 01:29 PM (PGKfy)

Everything but your statement it's very little to do with politics. I think it's ALL about politics.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 19, 2026 01:30 PM (JA4sW)

598 Should have had a comma in there. 80 deer with compound.

Posted by: MkY at January 19, 2026 01:31 PM (q6tQZ)

599
Green Day is totally against the man except you need to show your vaccine passport to see them live.

Same as Rage On Behalf Of The Machine.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2026 01:00 PM (QZThv)

And System of a Down. Their shtick is angry rebellion but inside they're just submissive little bitches waiting to be told what to do by the progtard powers that be.
Posted by: It's fake and gay at January 19, 2026 01:03 PM (TbWk/)

Rage Against My Daddy

Brought to you by Pepsi

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2026 01:31 PM (y9nCu)

600 >>Seahawks RB Zach Charbonnet suffered a season-ending knee injury that will require surgery

So Kenneth Walker III gets all the carries now. *shrug*

Posted by: one hour sober at January 19, 2026 01:31 PM (Y1sOo)

601 Hissssssss.

Posted by: The Slow Newsday Gorn at January 19, 2026 01:32 PM (jc0TO)

602 >>Seriously, one of the cobs should try to contact Ace.

One does not simply Contact Ace.

Posted by: Boromir at January 19, 2026 01:33 PM (ZcsJV)

603 Nood again

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 19, 2026 01:34 PM (zb4y7)

604 I'll just agree to disagree. The NFL, and other leagues for that matter, buy into the liberal and Democrat causes because they get the kickbacks, tax breaks and government approval.

And modern stadiums - don't forget the multi-billion dollar stadiums where the teams can collect massive seat licenses and suite fees

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 19, 2026 01:35 PM (a4flb)

605 It's after 1:00 PM and you guys are still doing the Morning Rant?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

We're sitting right here, you know.

Posted by: MST and PST at January 19, 2026 01:41 PM (epPlm)

606 /sock

Posted by: Oddbob at January 19, 2026 01:44 PM (Fs0KI)

607 This thread is beginning to smell like old gym socks and Hillary!'s granny panties.

*perks up*

Posted by: Webb Hubbell at January 19, 2026 01:44 PM (Vu7A1)

608 If anyone read the post at Insty this morning, the one about the Mexican national (and illegal) who had a slam-dunk arrest for using a vehicle to ram an ICE car and injured people in San Francisco. It went to trial and he was found NOT GUILTY. He had a long rap sheet, too. Didn't matter. The DOJ has to face jury nullification.
Posted by: mrp

Instapundit. The site that told a Marine "no one cares go kill yourself " as the "godfather" hid behind plausible deniability. But I guess even a fake patriot grift can come up with something worth repeating.

I prefer "I would never tolerate a prosecutor who refused to examine exculpatory evidence" for its blatant hypocrisy ofBut invite such a creature to guest blog. Screw principles, get those clicks. That indoor pool won't heat itself

But for this instance: "when the responsible authorities fail to act, other forms of authority will assert themselves. They may not behave responsibly but they WILL act"

Its a warning to avoid mob violence. Our justice system is much more merciful and tends to operate under principles like due process

For this instance:

Posted by: Fen at January 19, 2026 01:44 PM (ciYHQ)

609 I'm looking forward to somebody getting AI involved in sports betting.
Posted by: Ripley at January 19, 2026 01:17 PM (GUOwU)

What makes you think it’s not involved now?

Posted by: Really? at January 19, 2026 01:45 PM (nTi7N)

610 Well.. if the feds are gonna waste our money, at least it's on jobs instead of daycare...

Posted by: Alexander Scipio at January 19, 2026 01:55 PM (029Oi)

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