Where's this stupid plank coming from anyways? "Let China destroy the US car manufacturers". That's not on any party platform and feels like frustrated contrarianism just to be spiteful, which is basically MAGAlite.

Almost starting to cover some basics, but lets have a quick historical flashback of how their industry got where it is now. It didn't get built from scratch, where did they get such knowledge? Oh that's right, that long period where they required anybody selling cars there to have 50% partnership with a Chinese company, and the vehicles be assembled there, and the parts be manufactured there.

Almost like it's protectionism, designed to jumpstart a base and undercut the rest of the planet's in the future. Like some strategist thought it out.

Damn, you didn't know the answer. Not a single geo political concern, just faux economic concerns.

The rich don't work the lines assembling cars.

I didn't see you address an important topic. Given the material inputs are the same, and there's not that much labor difference, why are the Chinese cars so cheap compared to every other automaker on the planet? You know the answer, and you know it's why the tariffs are bipartisan.

That seems a bit socialistic to me.
#78 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-14 01:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

Then you failed your polisci classes.

Some Americans are apparently ok with paying exorbitant prices for EVs.
I bet if they were allowed to be sold here more could afford them. And American manufacturers world adjust to the market accordingly.
And that would be just awful.

For the fossil fuels industries.

#67 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-14 12:12 PM | Reply | Flag:

You can buy all the EVs you want, in the US, from non-American brands like Toyota, BMW, etc.

and you know that, but if there's daylight out, lets complain about stuff that doesn't exist.

If we lose this one it's time to relocate to the Big Island for good.

I've seen more Sentinelese people in person than I've seen yards with Paxton campaign signs in somebody's yard.

One of the few things that's bi-partisan, massive tariffs on Chinese EV.

To prevent them from assembling in Mexico and shipping here... more tarrifs.

Eberly doesn't think Americans would be buying superior EVs right now for $10,000? I know I'd own one right now!
Read up on BYD.

#61 | Posted by danni at 2026-08-14 10:23 AM | Reply | Flag:

Joe Biden doesn't believe you should by BYD. Destroying the US auto industry by letting China flood the market is not part of any wing of the Dem party platform.

Otherwise not much is going on outside of dual blockades that don't have any ship traffic to shoot at right now.

They're not running low on Hellfire missiles. That's what they keep shooting into the blockade running freighters.

The current priority of Iranian special forces is to have their Iraqi surrogate militias send drones at the Kurds in Erbil.

and it's all Biden's fault.

I thought fauci killed millions of people, and it's a plandemic?
#14 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-08-13 03:52 PM | Reply | Flag:

It's a bio-weapon that escaped the lab after US Gain of Function research, but it's not a dangerous bio weapon at all, you don't need a vaccine, and masks are a waste of time.

The real bio-weapon is actually the vaccine. It kills millions and slaughters unborn babies. This plot is so nefarious, somebody planned out to have a non-lethal bio-weapon escape the lab to trick you into taking a Trump funded bio-weapon disguised as a vaccine.

She's wind sprinting away from previous positions and votes to become a moderate for 2028.

Something not seen in quite some time, a line of blue flag dots going forward on the live map.

Things are still very fragile on other parts of the line.

"A group of Ukrainian soldiers appealed to their military leadership for help in a video where they told of spending four months on the frontline without rotation and drinking urine during a 12-day stint when drone-dropped water supplies did not arrive. Ukraine's 121st Brigade command confirmed the social media video's authenticity and said the brigade "continues to take all necessary measures to properly supply the servicemen" in what it described as "extremely difficult" battlefield conditions."

Man-eating crocodiles are an actual thing.
Truth.

#25 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-12 12:24 PM | Reply | Flag:

Right, but if I'm looking at somebody that got their arm bit off by the crock and say, damn, we're going to have to figure out how to reattach that thing... and the first thing somebody responds with is "CROC LOVER!" that person has Croc Derangement Syndrome.

Maybe that's on me. You're not a Democrat. One of those Greenies or what have you.

#19 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-12 11:36 AM | Reply | Flag:

Can't read. That's about what comes next. You can stop proving that TDS is an actual thing.

Trump worked overtime to overturn the maritime world order as we know it, and failed.. right up until he bombed Iran the second time. Now we get to successfully undo that without negotiating it into an Iranian toll road.

Trump can't negotiate in good faith.
Kushner has zero ability to negotiate.
Israel isn't looking to negotiate.
Your boy Trump shouldn't have started a war at Netanyahu's behest.

#15 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-12 11:14 AM | Reply | Flag:

And us having new leadership for 4, maybe 8, years means we're now negotiating in good faith?
Our changing leadership doesn't change their strategic advantages.
Somebody should really make a plan of sorts, with some backup plans for when it doesn't work.

We're going to inherent this problem. We better have a pretty good plan that doesn't involve giving Iran what they want and overturning UNCLOS.

The issue I see here is the merging of Flock data with phone data.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-11 08:03 PM | Reply | Flag:

Have you ever used a parking app? They're ubiquitous. Those companies sell your phone # and license plate to law enforcement and other entities.

"Trump won't surrender to us, but we bet the next guy will."