Thursday, July 25, 2024
What a hoot, man: 46% of U.S. EV owners claimed they were likely to switch back to internal combustion engine vehicles, well above the 29% global average
In addition to the McKinsey data on current EV owners, a recent Gallup poll found fewer non-EV owners in the U.S. saying they might consider an EV purchase, down from 43% in 2023 to 35% in 2024. The percentage of American adults who do not intend to buy an EV went up from 41% to 48% year over year.
More.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/25/ev-owners-want-to-buy-gas-cars-again.html ✔
Trump says he's still against the electric car mandate, Musk says he's giving money to promote Trump, just not $45 million a month
“I have a good relationship with him, I think he’s a nice guy,” Trump said of Musk during a call-in interview on Fox News.
“Somebody
told me he was going to give me 45 million [dollars] a month. I said,
‘That sounds like a lot, even for Elon, that’s a lot,’” the Republican
presidential nominee said.
But Musk “never told me he was giving [$45 million],” he said.
“But
he did say, ‘I strongly endorse you,’ despite the fact that I’m against
the electric car mandate,” Trump said, referring to the Biden
administration’s policies aimed at prioritizing electric vehicles over gas-powered vehicles. ...
But Musk, in an interview with conservative public figure Jordan
Peterson, said the figure reported by the Journal was “simply not true.”
“I’m not donating $45 million a month to Trump,” Musk said in that
interview, which was posted Monday on X, the social media site he owns. ...
In an X post Tuesday night, Musk wrote, “I am making some donations
to America PAC, but at a much lower level.” He asserted that most
Republicans align with the PAC’s key values of “supporting a meritocracy
& individual freedom.”
More.
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Wisconsin swing voters don't trust Kamala Harris because she hid the truth of Joe Biden's condition, just like she hid evidence from defense attorneys in 2010 resulting in 600+ cases tossed out
Lying by omission, a Democrat specialty.
The New York Post, August 12, 2020, here:
One of Harris’ worst scandals came in 2010 when a technician was caught skimming cocaine from a crime lab and mishandling evidence. A judge ruled her office failed to disclose that information to defense attorneys, causing more than 600 drug-related cases to get tossed out.
GM again delays EV truck plant, this time to mid-2026 after delaying it to late 2025 lol
DETROIT – General Motors
said Tuesday it is again slowing its plans for all-electric vehicles by
further delaying a second U.S. electric truck plant and the Buick brand’s first EV. ...
GM’s U.S. EV deliveries increased 40% during the second quarter compared with a year earlier to 21,930 units. Still, EVs made up only 3.2% of its total second-quarter U.S. sales.
Here.
And here:
Adoption of EVs, which remain costly to produce and purchase, has been slower than many expected.
CNBC: Kamala rally draws 3,000! . . . excitement is palpable! lol
. . . the single-biggest rally of the 2024 cycle for a Democratic presidential candidate! lol.
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Wikipedia insists Kamala Harris' father Donald Harris isn't a Marxist, based on a New York Times article which says no such thing
Wikipedia here (at least right now lol):
Harris's economic philosophy was critical of mainstream economics and
questioned orthodox assumptions. He was once erroneously described as a
"Marxist scholar".[15]
15. [Barry, Ellen (August 21, 2020). "Kamala Harris's father, a footnote in her speeches, is a prominent economist". The New York Times. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
Despite
his low profile in the election cycle, Dr. Harris is not an obscure
figure. He was the first Black scholar to receive tenure in Stanford’s economics department, and a prominent critic of mainstream economic theory from the left. The Stanford Daily, reporting in 1976,
described him as a “Marxist scholar,” and said there was some
opposition to granting him tenure because he was “too charismatic, a
pied piper leading students astray from neo-Classical economics.”
In the 1970s "Marxians" flew under the banner of "heterodox economics" to avoid opprobrium, and were promoted by entities such as the Union for Radical Political Economics which promoted Harris at Stanford, and, um, Harris' students in 1974 sure thought he was one, lol:
DEI-obsessed US Secret Service director resigns after she was "blasted" lol
Trump, who is the Republican nominee for president, narrowly avoided being killed in the shooting by 20-year-old gunman Thomas Crooks. One rally attended died in the shooting, and two men were critically injured.
Here.
The chaos and division Joe's bad debate spawned is the real force driving Democrats' headlong rush to settle for Harris and end the bad publicity of the drama
Democrats seem more intent now to cut out the drama before the convention and settle on Biden’s chosen successor, Harris. ... The DNC is still pursuing a virtual nomination of their presidential ticket ahead of the convention that begins in nearly a month, with a presidential candidate to be decided by Aug. 7.
More.
Bloomberg is reporting Kamala Harris has the nomination clinched
Kamala Harris has more than enough pledged delegates to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination, following an extraordinary two-day blitz that saw the vice president consolidate her party’s backing to challenge Donald Trump in November.
Harris sealed her status as the presumptive nominee Monday night after crossing the magic number of 1,976 pledged delegates, according to an unofficial Associated Press tally. While delegates who indicated their support are not required to back her nomination, the achievement — and lack of credible opposition — underscores the vice president’s hold on the Democratic ticket.
More.
But look at those big stretches of light blue in places like New York, Michigan, and Illinois, among others. The resistance to Kamala Harris is real, even in California.
Democrats were lied to by Biden about the necessity of a virtual roll call of delegates by Aug 7, and now that he's out Democrats are still lying about it
There is no need for a virtual roll call before the convention, unless you're trying to stop debate.
Ohio moved its deadline to Aug 23, after the Democrat convention.
This happened AT THE END OF MAY already lol.
With the passage of the Biden ballot fix in the state, the DNC plan in not necessary -- however the DNC said it is planning to move forward with its virtual roll call nomination of Biden ahead of Aug. 7, Ohio's original deadline.
Delegates to the Democratic Convention in Chicago can't speak freely in the Democrat Party for fear of being removed by the gang leaders
The fix was in already on Sunday after Biden withdrew and endorsed Kamala Harris.
All 50 state chairs of the party quickly asserted their endorsement of Harris, according to Reuters.
But the blessed GRAUNIAD found out the truth: Delegates who aren't down for the Harris Cause fear having their delegate status revoked by those state chairs.
It's a gang, not democracy.
Delegates are, by and large, local volunteers expected to spend thousands of dollars to fly to Chicago and attend the convention. It’s often viewed as a reward for activism and dedication, but it’s typically a far less consequential role than it might be next month.
One delegate who isn’t yet old enough to drink expressed his mounting anxiety about how things are unfolding and how little has been predictable.
“I’m a young, young person,” said the delegate, who requested anonymity because he feared being replaced by his state chair. “This is my first convention … And this is scary. It’s super anxiety-inducing, and crazy, and so much.”
More.
Democracy dies in darkness.
Monday, July 22, 2024
Few people know that Kamala Harris' voting record in the US Senate "out-lefted" even Bernie Sanders
She's the most extreme left wing you can imagine.
You may rightly call her an extremist.
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Current Favorable/Unfavorable at Real Clear Politics Trump v. Harris
Current Favorable/Unfavorable at Real Clear Politics
Trump -10.9
Harris -14.2
CrowdStrike's George Kurtz has in common the forgotten McAfee glitch which took down computers in 2010, the controversial DNC hack investigation of 2016, and now Friday's global IT glitch
Other security companies have had similar episodes in the past. McAfee's buggy antivirus update in 2010 stalled hundreds of thousands of computers.
Reported here.
“CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts,” George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike, said in a post on the social platform X. “Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted.”
Quoted here.
April 30, 2016: CrowdStrike was contacted by the DNC outside counsel to discuss a suspected breach. This was CrowdStrike’s first involvement in this matter. (p6)
More.
All it took for Trump to like electric cars was an endorsement from Elon Musk and his pledge of $45 million a month lol
Trump in Grand Rapids, Michigan, yesterday, here:
"I'm totally for them."
Elon Musk Has Said He Is Committing Around $45 Million a Month to a New Pro-Trump Super PAC
Neocon Trump is alive and well JD, lol
WaPo, May 28, 2024, here:
. . . at one event, he suggested that he would have bombed Moscow and Beijing if Russia invaded Ukraine or China invaded Taiwan, surprising some of the donors.
Oren Cass: In JD Vance libertarian economics and neoconservative foreign policy are being excised from Republican conservatism
But there is no Trumpism, only Trump.
Yikes.
Methinks JD Vance will be a very unhappy VP, seeking to rest a spell on his one-legged stool as reality bites.
Oren Cass for the Financial Times, here.
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Welcome to the 55th anniversary of Peak America
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| long term return from stocks peaked in 1969, 36 years after 1933 (always buy low) |
Friday, July 19, 2024
He's president already
From tonight’s speech by Trump: "And to the entire world, we want our hostages back—and they better be back before I assume office, or you will be paying a very big price."
The wretched, envious Kevin Williamson drips with disdain for the kinder, gentler Kevin Williamson known as JD Vance, and for his kin
I’d been writing about lower-class, mainly white dysfunction for a few years at that point, and Vance had just published his famous book, which I had reviewed in Commentary. I admired his work tremendously—and, naturally, envied him some, too. We had a good conversation.
Watching his descent into … whatever it is he has become … has been dispiriting. ...
Vance did what poor white trash types who do not wish to remain poor white trash do: He got out, in his case by joining the Marine Corps, one of the great exemplars of American meritocracy. He went to a good state college and an Ivy League law school, he married a woman from an immigrant family with values superior to the ones exhibited by the Real Americans™ who brought him into the world, took a job that paid a lot of money, and made the kind of social and economic connections that give a man options in life.
Read the rest here.
Thursday, July 18, 2024
UK climate lunatics from Just Stop Oil jailed for years for blocking traffic in four-day incident in November 2022
Five environmental activists who organised protests that brought part of the M25 to a standstill over four days have been jailed.
Forty-five Just Stop Oil protesters climbed gantries on the motorway in November 2022, forcing police to stop the traffic, in an attempt to cause gridlock across southern England.
Judge Christopher Hehir said Roger Hallam, 58, Daniel Shaw, 38, Louise Lancaster, 58, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, 35, and Cressida Gethin, 22, had "crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic".
At Southwark Crown Court, Hallam was sentenced to five years' imprisonment while the other defendants each received four-year jail terms. ...
Hallam, a veteran environmental campaigner, was described as the "ideas man" of the movement, while the judge said Shaw was "up to his neck" in the planning of the protest.
More.
Biggest news of the day: Ford Motor bets Trump will win, scraps $1.3 billion investment in Canadian EV HUB, plans $3 billion Super Duty gasoline and diesel engine truck plant instead lol
Ford to spend $3 billion to expand large truck production to a plant previously set for EVs
UBS’ Joseph Spak was among the analysts to applaud the additional investment in the highly profitable Super Duty models compared to money-losing EVs amid slower-than-expected adoption of electric cars and trucks.
“We believe this shows management’s confidence in more sustainable demand for Ford Pro vehicles,” he said Thursday in an investor note. “The [internal combustion engine] investment over EV investment should be viewed positively.”
Ford had previously announced plans to invest $1.3 billion into the Canadian plant for EV production. Those plans included a new three-row SUV, which the company recently delayed until 2027.
The announcement comes weeks after Farley said full electrification of “big, huge, enormous” vehicles such as Ford’s Super Duty trucks was “never going to make money.”
Joe Biden to Dem. Rep. Jason Crow, decorated for valor in combat in Iraq: "Tell me who did something that you’ve never done with your Bronze Star like my son!"
President Biden Says Beau Biden's Bronze Star Is Worth More Than Representative Jason Crow's Combat Award
In a leaked Zoom call with moderate House Democrats on Sunday, President Joseph Biden once again used his dead son, Beau Biden, this time, to insult and denigrate the military and combat service of Colorado Congressman Jason Crow (D). Biden was unhinged as he told Crow to "tell me who did something that you’ve never done with your Bronze Star like my son!" President Biden was attempting to convey the message that he was fit and able to continue on with his campaign and snapped at Crow when he politely expressed his concerns to the president.
Instead of addressing Crow's and other moderate Democrats' concerns, Biden snapped at Crow and went on a full-blown assault, which ended with an attack on his Army and combat service and comparing it with his son Beau's service. Biden specifically ridiculed Crow's Bronze Star in a pathetic and out-of-bounds attack, which the campaign did not deny or dispute. ... A Bronze Star with "V" is the fourth highest award for valor in combat, with the Silver Star, Service Cross (Army Distinguished Service Cross, Navy, Air Force Crosses), and Medal of Honor preceding it.
Read the rest here.
Beau Biden's Bronze Star lacked the V-device which Crow received on his.
JD Vance deletes things from his past, which is . . . troubling
For example, that he voted for Evan McMuffinhead in 2016, that he thought Trump was reprehensible, and now . . . pro-life sections of his Senate campaign website.
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Coup attempt against Joe Biden by democracy worshipers Adam Shifty Schiff, Nancy Big Guns Pelosi, Chucky Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries isn't working lol
Biden was apparently last vaccinated against COVID-19 last October but has come down with it anyway for the third time
The Hill reports here:
President Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, marking the third time in the past two years the president has tested positive for the virus. ... Biden was seen boarding Air Force One, not wearing a mask, and told reporters he feels “good.”
One law for me, another for thee.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Devastating AP-NORC poll of Democrats shows 65% now say Joe Biden should drop out, completely reversing from two weeks ago when Reuters/Ipsos showed 66% said "don't drop out"
26% of Republicans now say Trump should drop out in the the AP-NORC poll, up from 11% in the Reuters/Ipsos poll two weeks ago (below).
Apples and oranges, but still.
The AP-NORC poll is here.
So, we won't have Democrat Senator Bob Menendez to kick around anymore
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was convicted of all charges Tuesday in a sweeping corruption trial in which he was accused of accepting bribes of gold and cash from three New Jersey businessmen and acting as an agent for the Egyptian government.
A jury in Manhattan deliberated for parts of three days before
finding the Democrat guilty of 16 crimes, including bribery, extortion,
honest services fraud, obstruction of justice and conspiracy. ...
Two co-defendants were also convicted. The New Jersey businessmen, Wael Hana and Fred Daibes, were accused of paying bribes. A third businessman, Jose Uribe, pleaded guilty prior to trial and testified against the others. ...
Prosecutors said serial numbers on the gold bars and fingerprints on tape that bound together the stacks of cash were traced to Hana and Daibes.
Complete story here.
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Daniel McCarthy has to assert that JD Vance is loyal because he isn't really
Does a loyal man run to be your senator and turn around and dump you after less than two years in office?
Really, he said he was NeverTrump in 2015-2016. He wasn't loyal to that either.
NeverTrump J. D. Vance in 2016 was a small sea of confusion whose options were his dog, Hillary, and Evan McMuffinhead lol
VANCE: My current plan is to vote either third party or, as I joked to my wife, I might write in my dog because that's about as good as it seems. But, you know, I think there's a chance, if I feel like Trump has a really good chance of winning, that I might have to hold my nose and vote for Hillary Clinton. But at the end of the day, I just feel like she is so culturally disconnected from the people that I grew up around that it would be very, very hard for me to cast my ballot for her. So ultimately I think I'll probably vote third party. I might vote for this new guy who I really like, Evan McMullin, who I actually met the other day. But I think that I'm going to vote third party because I can't stomach Trump. I think that he's noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place. And ultimately I just don't share Hillary Clinton's politics.
NPR.
I would like the name of his dog NOW.
J. D. Vance is the kinder, gentler version of National Review's Kevin Williamson about the hopelessness of his own people
The truth about these dysfunctional,
downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they
are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible.
-- Kevin Williamson, March 2016
And it's interesting that all of the people that I talk about in my book that grew up in this chaos that ended up having successful home lives and successful marriages - they married an outsider.
They married someone like I did who didn't grow up with these lessons, who didn't grow up with these experiences, and because of that, knew how to manage the people that they were married to and knew how to not respond in kind. As I write in the book, you put two of me in the same marriage, and I don't think it works.
But you put one of me, who's maybe a little self-reflective, in a marriage with somebody who hasn't faced that trauma - then I think you have a good chance. And that's one of the lessons of my life.
-- J. D. Vance, from the NPR interview, August 2016, here
Meanwhile phony Joe protests he's not an extremist
President who labeled half of the country extremists now appeals for unity
“Donald Trump
and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very
foundations of our republic,” Mr. Biden said in a fiery Independence
Hall speech on Sept. 1, 2022, looking to shape the midterm elections.
“And here, in my view, is what is true: MAGA Republicans do not respect
the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not
recognize the will of the people.”
He continued: “MAGA Republicans have made their choice. They embrace anger. They thrive on chaos. They live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies. And yet history tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence is fatal to democracy.” ...
“Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today,” he lamented. “What makes our moment rare is that freedom and democracy are under attack, both at home and overseas, at the very same time.”
JD Vance 2016: Trump’s promises are the needle in America’s collective vein, Trump is cultural heroin
I hope Americans cast their gaze to those with the most power to address so many of these problems: each other. And then, perhaps the nation will trade the quick high of “Make America Great Again” for real medicine.
Read it, here.
Monday, July 15, 2024
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