Daily News Thread 4/26

Do you think his cognition would improve if he quit the McChickens for a week?

I hope not. Him being this retarded really shows the faults with American government to even the most staunch defenders of it.
We must uphold Sarandonist thought, user.

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it's late afternoon in the real world.

They're in too deep to backtrack now, especially since numerous stories, lies, and scapegoats have all been rolled up into it by this point as well.

I find this Russiagate stuff genuinely disturbing to watch. The entire political establishment is in a frenzy over an incomprehensible media scandal full of lies and irrelevancies. They've completely lost whatever connection to reality they ever had.
There's no way out, they can never stop talking about it.

What I find interesting is that both sides are accusing each other of being Russian collaborators
It's a whole new red scare

…but George Washington.

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DID HE JUST FUCKING SAY "HATERS"???

No they are not. Stop making things up.

Also, it's not a "red scare", as the red scare was fear of communism and communist Russia, not highly corrupt "democratic" Russia.

The first "red scare" in the US was an elite-led pogrom against radical organized labor. Remember that. When the bourg whip themselves into a frenzy you should be concerned. It's never going to end well for you.

They're wrapped up in it like Nixon was in Watergate. The opposition has the media on its side and russiagate is an orthodoxy among mainstream political discourse.

The new red scare has a clear legacy in American politics, even if there aren't any actual communists involved.

Jeremy Corbyn, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and many other social democrats are being called russian collaborators by their conservative and liberal counterparts.
And the red scare was about fear of Russian infiltration just as much as communism. He probably meant spefically the fact that anything that remotely challenged the staus quo was named "communist" and the people involved were considered "traitors" by the government. So he is completely right.

Carmageddon for Cars: “Cars” Are Scheduled to Die
“Cars,” as the auto industry defines them, are going to die. Not necessarily the vehicles, though they’re disappearing too, but the category of “cars” because sales have plunged beyond hope, especially for vehicles by the Big Three US automakers, GM, Ford, and Fiat-Chrysler. It came to a head today: Ford announced $25.5 billion in planned cost cuts by 2022 – some red meat it threw to its restive stockholders, whether or not these “cuts” will ever materialize. But the cuts included a big category that is a sign of the times: all current Ford car models, except the Mustang, will be killed off.

After which Ford dealers will only have “trucks” on the lot and a few Mustangs.
Industry-wide, “car” sales have been a nightmare: During the first three months of the year, “truck” sales jumped 10%, and “car” sales plunged 11%. In 2017, truck sales rose 4.3%, and car sales plunged 11%. And so on. This divergence of dropping car sales and rising truck sales started in 2015, and since then, “car” sales have gotten relentlessly crushed:

Part of the problem is that the industry’s division between “cars” and “trucks” is peculiar. “Trucks” include pickups, vans, SUVs, and compact SUVs (crossovers). But some SUVs and all crossovers are based on a unibody car chassis (instead of body-on-frame, which is the case with trucks). They’re stubbier versions of station wagons

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fugg forgot link
wolfstreet.com/2018/04/25/carmageddon-for-cars-cars-are-scheduled-to-die/

Thank You! BASED Newsanon!

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yeah, in Burgerland. In Europe smaller (while
they undeniably becoming bigger in the last 10 years) cars are still looked after, it's just that americans can't fit their obese asses into a Honda so they have to buy shit like pic ralted, because otherwise they'd have to ride a bike or walk.

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It's functional the same thing. Stir up anger at some perceived foreign infiltration for political gain, or to avoid political blame.

Just fyi this happens for four reasons:

1. Due to how the EPA calculates fuel economy, vehicles with longer wheelbases are allowed to be less efficient than those with short wheelbases. Therefore, every car company is directly encouraged to sell big vehicles unless they want to make a compact car.

2. Americans are keenly aware that regular cars are a pain in the ass to maintain and repair while trucks generally have a massive aftermarket and lower part costs.

3. Americans don't have as much money anymore so car buyers want to maximize their utility, this is done by buying a vehicle capable of towing something or holding a lot of cargo. It is easier to live out of a SUV or pickup with a camper shell than a car with no bed.

4. Station wagons no longer exist and crossovers are notorious for being bad, this causes women to default to larger SUVs instead of sedans.

European countries regulate car engine sizes directly, even in California the notion of a special tax based on engine displacement is ridiculous. Efficiency is measured in relation to the vehicle's overall size (through the wheelbase dimensions) while emissions are regulated through the exhaust system. This is also why there are so few turborcharged vehicles in America because it's straight up banned in several states (notably California) meanwhile even the filthiest diesel truck out there can be made compliant with a large enough DPF kit.

Prosecutors are already using this interview against him in the Cohen case.

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So it's okay for our elected representatives to lie to investigators?

Also lower fuel prices and increased fuel efficiency across the board

I expect it of them. Plus, the lie in itself is not a story if the thing about which they are lying is all bullshit. Just a boring ass fishing expedition.

They do it all the time. They only have a problem with it now because muh putler.

Which is why Trump will absolutely beat the entire investigation. Look at Pompeo's appointment, Trump is offering all the alphabet soup agencies who the investigator (Mueller) represents a blank check. Anything they want and he will both approve it and promote it. No Iran Deal, nukes in Korea and bombs on Cuba. More defense spending and green lights for whatever new powers the government believes it needs. All they have to do is give him bills to sign.

It's too juicy to give up, especially if any of the claims are actually true making blackmail feasible.

Pretty much this, it's also helpful that the incoming house and potentially senate are going to be overwhelmingly spooks and military
I expect some new big domestic security bill passed before 2020

WE TALKIN' 'BOUT BUSINESS, MAN

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So what would happen if the whole "The FBI/CIA is trying to blackmail Trump into doing what they want." deal would become mainstream somehow? I can see the Trumpfags picking up on that narrative very easily.

Because most Trumpfags are so far down the hole they'll drink whatever kool aid the President says even if he's saying shit to cover his ass. Zig Forums on the other hand will continue to be butthurt over Trump's position on Israel (really the only thing they care about) and engage in increasingly ridiculous magical thinking to rationalize their support of him.

As for regular Americans, they checked out long ago and stopped caring.

I forgot that most Trumpboys love Israel. How stupid of me.

And to think that burgerscum are such lunatics that some of them don't believe public colleges would work.
Hail Kim Jong-un.
Fuck the mudslime hijab, but I'm appearently turkey, thefefore, hail Erdogan(???)
Trump is kind of senile.

No one is under any illusion that Russia isn't capitalist now (and worse for it btw) but that doesn't stop Americans harbouring anti-Soviet and anti-Russian suspicions to this day. Yes, the "Red Scare" was about communism but to the average American it was just as much about The Russians Are Our Enemy as anything else which informs our political reality today wherein Putin = Stalin as far as your average liberal in concerned.

WHO'S READY FOR SOME MCCARTHYISM?

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I need to learn to fucking proofread what the fuck was that last line?

100 million wasn't enough

Washington was a dirty commie who raised taxes.

Real question why do Americans love pickup trucks for "utility" vehicles when a van is basically the same thing but with weatherproofing and lockable doors for whatever you're hauling around?

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what the actual fuck is that first pic
my eyes are actually buring holy shit. Mods please spoiler that.

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Trucks look more manly, while vans are for soccer moms.

t. never drove a van

Because a van is for pedos and for hiding things. Their main use are for living in (but this can be also done with a camper shell) or keeping things in a locked container on the street within large cities. They also cannot carry as much stuff compared to a truck, and can't have things poured into them by a front loader (say, mommy buying a quarter ton of tanbark for the swingset she installed in the backyard).

I can carry things that are larger than the height of the vehicle.

Most vans in America are just truck cabs/frames with a "van" rear or box instead of a bed. Ford is the outlier with the Transit, which only exists here because they killed the Econoline. For context is is fully possible to order F-series trucks in six wheel semi-truck configurations.

Also for whatever it's worth many police departments are choosing large SUVs over cruisers, my guess is that it's done due to improved communications technology making the role of a high-speed interceptor less important meanwhile cops have shitloads of more gear to haul around like UAVs.

haaretz.com/amp/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-an-unlikely-bond-between-leftist-israelis-and-anti-zionist-haredim-1.6032727?__twitter_impression=true
Is an alliance of anti-zionists and hasidim
NAZBOL
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why is this? are you endorsing buying trucks instead of cars out of curiosity? i need to buy a car eventually and i want to get good value if anyone can give some advice

Korean Summit happening now.
Here's the schedule and live update link
bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2018-04-20/two-koreas-hold-historic-summit

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cars are reactionary.

anyone smell the bailouts in the horizon?

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2 meters?
should be 0911 cm for lols

Watching the Korean summit now on SBS.

Live video of Korean Summit

youtube.com/watch?v=CJuY1GtoKAY

KIM KIM KIM KIM

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Fuck I hope Kim doesn't pussy out. I don't want to see DPRK streets flooded with meth head zombies after it gets "liberated"

...

everyone there looks like they want to die.

Hunting for Sport.

Fucking savages.

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or public buses might come into fashion and stuff to roads are still maintained.

Lewd

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He's only half right. It's not something inherent to trucks that makes parts cheaper, it's literally just economies of scale in manufacturing replacement parts. The more common a car is, the more of each part they make, and so the parts are cheaper.

The F-150 and the Chevy Silverado and the Honda Civic and the Toyota Corolla are all cheap as fuck to repair because there are literally millions of them out there.

Former Police Officer Accused Of Being Infamous California Serial Killer, Rapist

Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was arrested by the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department and booked on two counts of murder into the Sacramento County Jail. He was arrested and charged after officers linked his DNA to the 1978 Rancho Cordova murders of Katie, 20 and Brian Maggiore, 21, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said at a news conference in Sacramento Wednesday.

sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/04/25/suspect-arrested-infamous-golden-state-killings/