Author: Blazingcatfur

The Withering Dream of a Cheap American Electric Car

The dream of a $25,000 electric vehicle for U.S. drivers is in trouble.

Elon Musk has abandoned it. President-elect Donald Trump is unlikely to help. And the current economics of the U.S. auto industry don’t support it.

The key problem: America doesn’t really sell cheap new cars anymore.

Why would any automaker offer an EV—with all of that costly technology—at a price point that’s half of what the average new vehicle goes for these days?

“I think having a regular $25,000 model is pointless,” Musk said a few weeks ago. “It would be silly.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Democrats, reeling from election losses, cast blame on each other

Two weeks removed from a set of losses that sent Democratic leaders into a tailspin, the years-long ideological battle between the progressive left and centrists has once again come to a head as both sides fight to shift blame and take the reins of the future direction of the party.

With the party grappling with how to prepare for midterm elections in two years, uncertainty about who will take over the Democratic National Committee, and expected internal debates over how to handle complete Republican control in the White House and on Capitol Hill, Democrats don’t have much time to find consensus on their path forward.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, Uncategorized

The Left Genuinely Feels Beaten

In yesterday’s post on MSNBC viewership numbers cratering and in yesterday’s FPM+ Town Hall (as well as a future article profiling resistance leaders), I speculated that the energy at least at the moment wasn’t there.

“A key variable may be that there is a lack of energy or desire on the part of the leftist base to do it all again,” I wrote.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

The horror of turning children into thoughtcriminals

I wasn’t surprised to read The Times’s story about schoolchildren being investigated for possible ‘hate crimes’. These included a nine-year-old who’d called a classmate a ‘retard’ and two girls at a secondary school who’d told another pupil she smelt ‘like fish’. The police, having decided that these episodes did not meet the threshold for criminal prosecution, dutifully recorded them as ‘non-crime hate incidents’ (NCHIs).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

RFK Jr will disrupt the US medical establishment

Last night, Donald Trump signalled a seismic shift in American science and public health. Fulfilling his campaign promise, he endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the largest federal department with a $1.7 trillion annual budget and over 80,000 employees. Kennedy’s statement in response vows to “bring together the greatest minds in science, medicine, industry, and government to put an end to the chronic disease epidemic”, as well as to “clean up corruption” and return the health agencies to “gold-standard, evidence-based science”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Islamo-Nazis: I’m Applying for a Foreign Passport

I have started the process of applying for an Argentinian passport. If you live in Europe and have any familial connection to a far-flung land, you should consider this, too. Not to leave a sinking ship. I intend to stay and fight (by which I mean try to convince minds). But as an insurance policy. I’ve sat through history classes—as have many of you—wondering why on earth the Jews didn’t leave sooner.

Never again.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia"

HANNAFORD: It’s not Elon Musk who threatens Canadian news, it’s Trudeau

The random tweet of a Liberal MP does not, of course, represent Liberal government policy. But when Liberal Whitby MP Ryan Turnbull tweeted it was ‘scary’ that a ‘Poilievre-led government would end subsidies to mainstream media and defund the CBC,’ you can bet he is channeling Liberal water-cooler conversation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media

Where dreams go to drown: What it’s like to live in Canada’s impossibly unaffordable city

Worried about money? Statistically, you probably are: New research from Meridian Credit Union asked more than 1,500 people from coast to coast about how they really feel about their finances. Experts predicted it wouldn’t be great, but no one knew it would be this bad: More than half of Canadians — and nearly two-thirds (62 per cent) of Ontarians — reported their lifestyle was becoming unaffordable due to rising costs. Forty per cent of women (compared to 18 per cent of men) worry about their long-term financial future.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

The ‘foolproof’ election forecaster who predicted Trump would lose – what went wrong?

Surely not even Nostradamus could get it right all of the time.

Allan Lichtman had correctly forecast the result of nine of the past 10 US presidential elections (and even the one he didn’t, in 2000, he insists was stolen from Al Gore). His predictive model of “13 keys” to the White House was emulated around the world and seemed all but indestructible.

Until, that is, Donald Trump, the notorious human wrecking ball, came along and broke his crystal ball. Lichtman had prophesied that Democrat Kamala Harris would win eight of his keys, claiming the presidency, forcing him to face the harsh truth that his winning streak was over. Was it a big personal blow?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

An Indian family froze to death crossing the Canada-US border, a perilous trip becoming more common

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — On the last night of their lives, Jagdish Patel, his wife and their two young children tried to slip into the U.S. across a near-empty stretch of the Canadian border.

Wind chills reached minus 36 Fahrenheit (minus 38 Celsius) that night in January 2022 as the family from India set out on foot to meet a waiting van. They walked amid vast farm fields and bulky snowdrifts, navigating in the black of an almost-moonless night.

The driver, waiting in northern Minnesota, messaged his boss: “Make sure everyone is dressed for the blizzard conditions, please.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints

Conrad Black: Trump turns the tide

The entire political atmosphere in the United States has miraculously changed: the ludicrous lamentations about possible violence have come to nothing, and there have not been any allegations of election irregularities. The new administration has a clear majority, and a seat change has occurred down to sweeping out the criminal-coddling district attorney of Los Angeles and evicting the inept Democratic mayors of San Francisco and Oakland. The ballots are still being counted, but so far, it appears that the Democratic majority in California has shrunk by more than two million in 2024, and, in New York, by almost one million, and the Republican majorities in Texas and Florida have both grown very substantially. More tellingly, although Trump’s vote has increased by almost two million since 2020, the Democratic popular vote has decreased by approximately eight million, which may be partly explained by the extensive use of harvested ballots in 2020. We will never know for sure but I would argue Trump may be the only U.S. president except Franklin D. Roosevelt to have won three consecutive elections.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump