150 year old technology using washing machine motors with a few thousand AA batteries only worked because of the green subsidies. But I like to drive my cars. Auto boxes, adaptive cruise control, lane control etc.; you can keep ’em. Hitting 8,000 rpm in third joining the freeway in the ’85 Mazda, slipping into fourth – the soul of driving. Mind you, if adaptive cruise control has already saved you from an accident maybe the sooner you get FSD the better for everyone.

The New Bullet
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/896314/

I don’t know about other country cars but seems to me when they started outsourcing manufacturing combined with electronic overkill it’s been going down hill as far as reliability and as far as being able to fix a car. A friend said her mechanic and friend had to make a part for her car. Used to be able to get life time warrantee on parts and batteries with longer warrantees but no longer. Quality in manufacturing down, add a bunch of electronics prices up. Also switching metal to make lighter cars but prices up makes no sense. Many serious and honest  mechanics who have to fix them aren’t too happy either.

It doesn’t work now because parts don’t wear out, they fail, and the same part fails on every car. The BT50 headlight will fail on many, which is why the second hand price is just below new price. Toyota Prados built between 2009 and 2014 have a manufacturing fault in the gearbox affecting the clutch. They all fail. The front end falls off 2014-2018 Isuzus. Diesel RAV4s only have a tow weight of half a ton. Hyundai i30 aircons are terrible. VW Polo 5th gears have a plastic part which never lasts. In other words, you’ll never find a Polo gearbox at pick ‘n pull that isn’t faulty, because that’s why the car is there in the first place.

They should keep all those cars at the junk yard for parts. Since they generally stop making new parts after 5 years best to get a popular car good for transportation and gas. What they call pick and pull here with popular cars here which range from Toyotas, Honda’s second ,Lexus to Dodge Ram etc you can find parts at pick and pulls if all else fails. Instead of looking at these shining  cars with all the gadgets and apparently some your not even aware of to impress people but all sorts of things going wrong with electronic overkill, with over charged  flimsy cheap parts they stop making that break easily and cost them to fix things. Then they put things in units where you have to buy the whole unit instead of one thing, another robbery scam. They want you to have to keep buying cars like they’re disposable instead of fixing them. What a waist of money and natural resources. There are a few more EVs on the road by people who drive a lot and some invested in solar to charge them and in winter late at night before sunrise when electric costs go down and keep a gas car as second car.  Nevertheless we had a power out yesterday during the night before sunrise. These EVs tend to always catch fire in a impact accident. Anyone that has them should have a reliable window breaker in their car.

Re yr 21.44 on Trump….great post …tks

I know a a guy who runs his own Jag garage …..was an apprentice at 16 for Jaguar, @ 50 years ago, then started his on his own…now people bring him cars from all over the world, even Jaguar themselves bring him cars…he says no car built after 2014 is worth touching , for exactly yr reasons, they are way too complicated and can take weeks to fix….he had an I Pace in that no-one could fix, the car was dead…eventually they found the fault,,,a failed light above the tow bar…the total bill was £ thousands !!!!!!

One story I was told, the guy was driving down the road, and suddenly for no reason, his brakes went on and the horn started honking. He could have gotten rear ended.

Another story, the guy is driving down the highway, and some guy cuts in front of him, he instantly cut the steering wheel to the left, and the steering wheel was shuttering and resisting him from turning because he did not use his directional signal first.

I would love to buy a new car but they are way too complicated with way too many electronic things that can go wrong and very expensive to fix. There is a junk yard near me, and every time I ride by there, I see plenty of very nice looking cars, with no body damage, ready to be crushed, obviously because of expensing electronic night mares.

My newsist car is a 2001 GMC Jimmy, and even that one is too new for me, but FAR FAR better than any cars after 2004.

@deer79 you’re welcome.

Thanks for posting the piece about CK’s perspective on Trump. An interesting take…..

It got hit by hail two years ago and I had my car parked below two pine trees. It was big hail,at least inch and a quarter and it cost me $11,300 to have the dents removed. If my car would have just been sitting outside, it would have been totaled. My car has adaptive cruise control and it uses two cameras for steering, looking ahead, and braking. Of course my roof was damaged from this hail, so they had to take down the headliner, which means they had to takedown my rear view mirror in the process. These two cameras sit in rear view mirror and the cost of getting the two cameras repositioned was over $1800. People would say that’s stupid, I would never pay that much. I think those cameras have already saved me $1800 bucks just in accident avoidance alone.

I know you guys all hate Tesla, but I don’t. FSD is the best driving system in the world, no one can even come close, and you guys hated Tesla and watched it go from some pipsqueak stock to the heavens and most of you badmouthed it the whole way, and you were all wrong. Laugh. I stole lunches. And that’s why I get to keep the money bags and you guys don’t. Stockholders with guts win, my hands are big and strong!

My daughter’s Mazda has adaptive cruise control. We didn’t know that, or even what it means, until the windshield cracked. Windshield with ACC, $975, without $450. Something went wrong with a caliper on it, electronic of course, not fixable, $800. A friend’s BMW parking brake sensor failed, $6,200 (half the interior needed removing). Headlight, LED, on a Mazda BT50 (light truck) had some LEDs fail – can’t replace an LED, $2,500 – none available on the second hand market or, if you can find one, it’s $2,000, demand and supprice, you know. Sister’s Golf’s dual-clutch gearbox failed in the fast lane of the highway, couldn’t get out of first gear, $3,500 to repair, doesn’t drive the same (new wine into old bottles) only done 40,000 miles.

Seals for leaky rear wheel cylinder on the ol’ 306, $24. Actually, I reckon that’s a rip off too.

That’s funny, that’s what they said about the rising prices of the homes. Now gas too, no that was Newscum. The taking prior taxes is limited to 55 or over, displaced from disaster, or disability and only have a couple of yrs to do it but if the new one is more than the other they’ll have to pay the difference. It’s not actually low taxes due to prices but another proposition that prevents them from raising taxes once you buy it. If you refinance and it’s worth more taxes will be reset at higher amount or expansions, new pool in ground can affect it. So know they can’t keep adding things. Calif taxes initially are higher than other states to as well as everything else. The next day after my daughter’s surgery with four surgery sites to remove her hardware from getting not by a car again a yr and half ago  that took longer than they thought and a lot of pain when she woke she was finally really hungry the next morning so I let her order a breakfast and she got me one too not knowing how big they were at this country restaurant bjt still and one club sandwich for her for later that day because she wasn’t supposed to be walking around get. Doesn’t stop these kids of Semper Fi she used crutches to get to her car.  Anyway I went to pay it and they can pick it up 76 bucks for two breakfast and one lunch??!!!!

Maybe back then the bribes given to the Donald weren’t known about, like the $200m Miriam Adelson gave for each of his campaigns. $400m buys a lot of influence. Feel free to check out how Jewish she is.

So he is just as compromised as the others, pragmatic or not. And I still think he’s gullible, believing what other people (whom he probably thinks are as pragmatic and well meaning as he is) are telling him. “Iran will capitulate within days”. “You can stop the Ukraine war very easily”. “Tariffs are the solution to all our financial problems”. “A few bunker-busters will destroy the nuclear program for ever”. At least he has closed the border, wound back DEI and gone a long way to cancelling the climate nonsense. Not that any of them are a concern for Israel.

My brother lives in California and told me the property taxes are pretty low, so they add the taxes to the gasoline. Nobody ever mentions that.

Also if you bought a house 40 years ago with a low property tax, sell it for big bucks later on and move to another house, you can take the low tax with you.

A friend of mine bought a $100 kit to stop the engine from shutting down.

Sadly, the one person I wish would understand this will not even read it! Dr. K died WAY too young! How right Charles Krauthammer was on his take on Trump when he first wrote this column in March 2018 before his death on June 21, 2018.

Charles Krauthammer’s interesting take on Mr. Trump: To my friends “of a different persuasion” I’m not trying to sell anything or anyone but I do feel this is an interesting take on our very controversial president who I truly believe is not Republican or Democrat. A TAKE ON DONALD TRUMP …

A different take on Donald Trump: (a non-political agenda) Trump Is Not A Liberal or Conservative, He’s a “Pragmatist.” (Definition: A pragmatist is someone who is practical and focused on reaching a goal. A pragmatist usually has a straightforward, matter-of-fact approach and doesn’t let emotion distract him or her.)

“We recently enjoyed a belated holiday dinner with friends at the home of other friends. The dinner conversation varied from discussions about antique glass and china to theology and politics. At one point, reference was made to Donald Trump being a conservative, to which I responded that Trump is not a conservative.

I said that I neither view nor do I believe Trump views himself as a conservative. I stated it was my opinion that Trump is a pragmatist. He sees a problem and understands it must be fixed. He doesn’t see the problem as liberal or conservative, he sees it only as a problem. That is a quality that should be admired and applauded, not condemned.

But I get ahead of myself. Viewing problems from a Liberal perspective has resulted in the creation of more problems, more entitlement programs, more victims, more government, more political correctness, and more attacks on the working class in all economic strata.

Viewing things according to the so-called Republican conservative perspective has brought continued spending and globalism to the detriment of American interests and well being, denial of what the real problems are, weak, ineffective, milquetoast, leadership that amounts to Barney Fife Deputy Sheriff, appeasement oriented and afraid of its own shadow.

In brief, it has brought liberal ideology with a pachyderm as a mascot juxtaposed to the ass of the Democrat Party. Immigration isn’t a Republican problem, it isn’t a Liberal problem, it is a problem that threatens the very fabric and infrastructure of America. It demands a pragmatic approach not an approach that is intended to appease one group or another.

The impending collapse of the economy wasn’t a Liberal or Conservative problem, it is an American problem. That said, until it is viewed as a problem that demands a common sense approach to resolution, it will never be fixed because the Democrats and Republicans know only one way to fix things and the longevity of their impracticality has proven to have no lasting effect.

Successful businessmen like Donald Trump find ways to make things work, they do not promise to accommodate. Trump uniquely understands that China’s manipulation of currency is not a Republican problem or a Democrat problem. It is a problem that threatens our financial stability and he understands the proper balance needed to fix it.

Here again, successful businessmen, like Trump, who have weathered the changing tides of economic reality understand what is necessary to make business work, and they, unlike both sides of the political aisle, know that if something doesn’t work, you don’t continue trying to make it work hoping that at some point it will.

As a pragmatist, Donald Trump hasn’t made wild pie-in-the-sky promises of a cell phone in every pocket, free college tuition, and a $15 hour minimum wage for working the drive-through at Carl’s Hamburgers. I argue that America needs pragmatists because pragmatists see a problem and find ways to fix them.

They do not see a problem and compound it by creating more problems. You may not like Donald Trump, but I suspect that the reason some people do not like him is because: (1) he is antithetical to the “good old boy” method of brokering back room deals that fatten the coffers of politicians; (2) they are unaccustomed to hearing a president speak who is unencumbered by the financial shackles of those who he owes vis-a-vis donations;

(3) he is someone who is free of idiomatic political ideology; (4) he says what he is thinking, is unapologetic for his outspoken thoughts, speaks very straightforward using everyday language that can be understood by all (and is offensive to some who dislike him anyway) making him a great communicator, for the most part, does what he says he will do and; (5) he is someone who understands that it takes more than hollow promises and political correctness to make America great again.

Listening to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders talk about fixing America is like listening to two lunatics trying to “out crazy” one another. Jeb Bush, and John Kasich are owned lock, stock, and barrel by the bankers, corporations, and big dollar donors funding their campaigns.

Bush can deny it, but common sense tells anyone willing to face facts is that people don’t give tens of millions without expecting something in return. We have had Democrats and Republican ideologues and what has it brought us? Are we better off today or worse off? Has it happened overnight or has it been a steady decline brought on by both parties?

I submit that a pragmatist is just what America needs right now. People are quick to confuse and despise confidence as arrogance, but that is common among those who have never accomplished anything in their lives (or politicians who never really solved a problem, because it’s better to still have an “issue(s) to be solved,” so re-elect me to solve it, (which never happens) and those who have always played it safe (again, all politicians) not willing to risk failure, to try and achieve success).

Donald Trump put his total financial empire at risk in running for president and certainly did not need or possibly even want the job; that says it all. He wants success for the U.S. and her citizens because he loves his country.

God Bless America ~ Dr. Charles Note Charles Krauthammer has many interviews on YouTube.

Some years ago I unknowingly rented one of those stop/start Fords. For a trip.
HATED it. Worried at every stop about it restarting. And I was a long way from home.
Dumbest thing ever.
Will never make that mistake again.

“That’s a lie”

Yeah that sucks that someone came up with that distortion. The author is quite explicit in his bad info. Having a camera on you while you drive is an incredible intrusion! I’m surprised they think they’ll get away with it. Although they seem to be able to do whatever they want!

Cheers

PS Trump did away with that “turn off your motor at a light” business.

I thought Calif was bad. That’s robbery with gas prices then it effects food and other prices.

1. We had a power out at around 5 am here so besides those portable hand held chargers which are nice for travel if you get something like this it has three phone or iPad and other small appliances ports for multi charges that last days to weeks week depending how many phones or times you recharge and save the power to other things for longer power outs. Plus you get battery charged and air for other things too with it and saves having to use another car if a car battery. They have smaller cjar jumpers but doesn’t do all that. They have different kinds you can find on Amazon. Would be good for travel especially girls for a flat tire cuz she can buy that seal flats foam then ise the air compressor so if she’s unable to charge the tire cuz the lugs ade too tight and can’t call anyone prevent her being stuck alone in a place where the wrong person or persons come by..

Stanley J5C09D 1200 Peak Amp Automotive Jump Starter, Portable Power – 2.1A/10W USB Port, 120 PSI Air Compressor https://a.co/d/03yha0MI

It’s only for new cars. Not ones already registered. But it makes a good story. I hate it when people do that, the concept is bad enough as it is, and perfectly newsworthy, so why pimp it out with a lie?

Just one more thing to go wrong, apart from the nannying annoyance. Adding more cost to the car. I’ve just replaced the battery in my sister’s Golf, $430 for 3.5 years use, $120 per year, because it’s one of those stop/start at lights cars to save the planet. Whereas my older car, where the battery cost $195 and lasts 5.5 years, costs $35/yr. There is no way that you can save $85/yr in fuel to justify the extra cost and CO2 emissions of the more complex battery and starter motor wear. Even with today’s post Hormuz fuel prices $85 (half a tank, about 9 US gallons) will run either car for 90 hours on slightly above tickover, to run an inverter during power outs.

I guess in the mean time in short 666 will emerge after the big psych ops to get different religious groups to fight each other and part of putting one group in with another to stir up trouble. That it gets so bad that the psych op plan is the only way to stop it is to have a one world order. Yeah sure, there’s a reason they separated back in biblical times. But apparently that’s what they think.

Ps maybe because there will be no religion allowed except 666.

I look at everything now from a Biblical standpoint and I believe strongly that these are the end times. So, that might help you to understand where I’m coming from. In terms of “the Nations” there really aren’t any “good guys.”

I might get more into that when I have time, but it will be soon, because time is short. Maybe more so for some of us than others.

Appreciate the understanding and I’m glad we didn’t fall apart today. 🙂

Attack on white Christians

https://substack.com/@ryandawson/note/p-173533703?r=28qqrz

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2026/05/08/iran-says-ceasefire-broken-after-u-s-love-tap-irgc-to-launch-attacks/

No offence at all…hell I have an old mate who said over the dinner table he would love to shoot him and as he is a farmer, he means it and would do it …farmers have a very practical view about death…..they are not the slightest bit squeamish !!!

Most of the people I know look at me as if I need help, if I defend him in anyway. !!!!

But I will stand by my view, that it has to be done, eradicating the regime, they are pure evil and would use those nukes in a heart beat, against us…….