Republicans take about 40+ years to fight fire with fire. Thank God (literally) for DJT!

Quote from: Lokmar on May 06, 2026, 02:07:29 PMI already spelled it out! Its good that the not so loony left has a representative! Besides, I sure AF dont want some half assed RINO joining the team. I already have that with that cunt from Alaska and the other cunt from Maine!  COMPRENDE?

That is the reason I would not want him to cross the floor. I want the GOP to nominate true small government strict constitutionalists. That is not Mr. Fetterman.

Quote from: Herman on May 06, 2026, 06:43:11 PMYoung progs think political violence by their side is righteous.

At least 25 percent of young liberals in America believe violence against people they disagree with is justified. That is an eye opening stat.

This is what happens when governments try to create an artificial demand with taxpayers' dollars instead of letting consumers decide. The entire green energy and transportation sector is built on governments deciding instead of the marketplace. The results have been costly white elephants.

Canada's big bet on electric vehicles goes bust
The Honda fiasco is the perfect symbol for the EV disaster

Attempts by the federal and provincial governments to create an electric vehicle supply chain in Canada through massive taxpayer-financed public subsidies have turned into a disaster.

The latest example comes from a report by Nikkei Asia — a major English-language news outlet in Tokyo — that Honda has decided to kill its planned $15-billion EV plant in Alliston, Ont., announced in 2024, to which the federal and provincial governments planned to contribute $5 billion, at $2.5 billion apiece.

The report is hardly a surprise since the project was already on life support.

Honda announced last year it was delaying a decision on the future of the plant for two years — so this may just be the final nail in the coffin for a project that was massively hyped by the federal and Ontario governments when it was announced on April 25, 2024.

Two days later, then prime minister Justin Trudeau posted a video touting the deal on X, titled "We bet big on electric vehicles. Now that industry is betting on us" featuring himself, declaring he was "standing in the middle of what will be Canada's first full electric vehicle supply chain."

Not any more, apparently.

The Honda fiasco is the perfect symbol for what has happened to the plan by the federal, Ontario and Quebec governments to earmark, according to a June 2024 report by the parliamentary budget office, $52.5 billion in public subsidies meant to trigger $46.1 billion in private sector investments in 13 major EV projects announced from October 2020 to April 2024.

At the time, the PBO disputed reports by the federal government that it was poised to get back all of its investments on some projects in five years, estimating it would actually take two decades.

Canadian economist jackass Mintz estimated that in some of these projects, the cost to taxpayers would be about $4 million per job created.

Today — with slumping EV sales in Canada and the U.S. — this government subsidy strategy lies in ruins, with many of the EV projects cancelled, delayed, relocated to the U.S., or in bankruptcy.

Taxpayers won't be on the hook for all of the $52.5 billion in pubic subsides because many were based on the actual production of EVs and batteries, that now won't happen.

But taxpayers are on the hook for an additional amount of almost $9 billion — so far — that federal and provincial governments across the country have spent, or committed to spend, giving direct subsidies to buyers of EV vehicles.

The reason is that EVs are more expensive than comparable gas-powered cars and have relatively limited range, particularly in cold weather.

That, plus a national shortage of charging stations, means government subsidies are needed to convince many drivers to buy them.

The current federal subsidy is up to $5,000 for a fully electric vehicle and up to $2,500 for plug-in hybrids costing up to $50,000, from countries that have free trade agreements with Canada.

There is no price limit on the cost of the vehicle to qualify for the subsidies if it is Canadian made.

Canadian government policies of subsidizing the production and sale of EVs are in trouble because the Trudeau government created them to compete with similar subsides offered by the administration of former U.S. president Joe Biden.

Since Donald Trump because president he has killed most of those subsidies, and used his trade and tariff policies to pressure auto manufacturers to relocate production to the United States.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-canadas-big-bet-on-electric-vehicles-goes-bust

Quote from: Garraty_47 on May 07, 2026, 09:41:18 AM/shrug

At this point it seems to be one of those "you had to be there" kinda things.

Too much time, lexicon drift, cultural appropriation, and simple fuckery has happened in the interim. Trying to explain or paint an accurate picture of what Flaming used to be is more trouble than it's worth, frankly.

I believe it's appeal was limited to a tiny minority of the online population. People who say otherwise are looking in the rearview mirror with rose coloured glasses on.

Quote from: formosan on May 07, 2026, 11:30:46 AMIt is like that in some Canadian metropolitan areas too Professor Emeritus.

Especially if it is chugs breaking the law.

Quote from: DKG on May 07, 2026, 09:17:35 AMA exposing a Muslims-only event at a water park in Texas has led to a threat from Governor Greg Abbott.

The event was to celebrate a religious event called Eid and was scheduled for June 1 in Grand Prairie. An ad posted from the event clearly marking it as excluding non-Muslims.

The event included halal food and a private prayer area, despite the Epic Waters indoor park being city-owned.

On Wednesday, the governor issued a threat to pull the city's public safety grants unless the park shut down the event.

"A city-owned water park in Grand Prairie openly advertised a 'MUSLIMS ONLY' event — closed to the general public. That's religious discrimination," Abbott said in a statement on social media.

"It's unconstitutional. I signed HB 4211 into law — banning Muslim only no-go zones in Texas," he added. "The City must cancel the event and commit to never allowing something like it again by May 11th, or lose $530,000 in state grants."

He pointed out that one of the red flags involved the planners asking women to wear "burkinis" rather than bikinis.

Muslims in the States ate getting bold. Not as bold as Muslims in Europe but it's coming.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on May 07, 2026, 11:11:44 AMI love it. Watching them cry over something they were just cheering in VA is wonderful.

Look at the north east of the US. Vermont, New Hampshire, etc etc. an estimated 40 to 48% republican population and ZERO representation

so miss me with your cries of racism you hypocritical fucks.

The fact that you auto assume that a population of blacks is your stronghold and diehard voting block IS RACISM in itself. And Biden let that part out when he said 'if you don't vote for me you ain't black'

just think of the audacity it takes to say something like that. To a BLACK MAN on a radio show listened to by MILLIONS of black people.

cockroaches -- *spits

I hope all states end racial districts before the midterms.

Quote from: Oliver the Second on May 07, 2026, 11:07:15 AM"You see, gentlemen, behind every great man there is a woman, urging him on. And so it was with my Stella. She urged me on into outer space. Not that she meant to. But with her continual, eternal, confounded nagging--well, I think of her constantly, and every time I do, I go further out into space." - Harry Mudd

A parody of Simply Irresistible by Robert Palmer.
 

Quote from: Prof Emeritus at Fawk U on May 07, 2026, 08:47:37 AMIn Chicago its considered very racist to enforce the law.

It is like that in some Canadian metropolitan areas too Professor Emeritus.