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Captain Obvious

So is maybe

France on the right track, here?

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Captain Obvious

I think there is

virtually no question that Ray Epps was a Fed Agent Provocateur. None at all.

After a lot of controversy, Ray Epps finally pled guilty in September to a single charge of disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds after encouraging people to go into the Capitol the night before. 

If you are surprised, you are a freakin’ hayseed!

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Captain Obvious

Well, to be fair,

MOST Democrats have a baaaad feeling about the upcoming elections!

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Biden sure

grades out poorly, even with a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat grader!

I mean, let’s face it: ANY non-partisan-hack of the Biden White House is necessarily pretty pointedly critical!

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Yeah John,

I don’t, either. It seems plain as day.

I guess in order to be mentally healthy, you have to start speaking the truth a bit. Here’s to a healthy John Fetterman!

Fetterman got it right, and it’s just one more reason that we have to toss Biden out in November. Fetterman 2.0 is turning out to be an interesting truth-teller, and he’s not afraid of ticking off the left in the process. As I wrote on Friday, he even took down Harvard, saying they’d always been a little “pinko” but now he didn’t recognize them anymore. 

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Captain Obvious Despicable

“Shocking?”

Uh, no.

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Captain Obvious

A new civil

war would NOT be Leftists against Conservatives. There just would be no need to go to that effort!

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Buffoons Captain Obvious

Really, really

lame. You’d think that a performer could read a crowd better.

What truly gets me about Armtrong’s lyric change, though, is how safe it is. Musicians that were writing anti-draft songs in the ’60s and ’70s actually faced the draft. The only thing Green Day faces is increasing irrelevance. Nothing is edgy about taking a shot at “MAGA” in 2023. On the contrary, it’s the most boilerplate thing a public figure can do.

See: Old punk rocker sell-outs and loser pretenders…

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Captain Obvious

EVs are

ultimately unaffordable. As a result, they will fail.

Electric cars are very “torquey” and fun to drive. But they are a toy of the fabulously rich. They may work in very specific situations, but really they are just a “niche” product.

Unfortunately for Hsu, it turned out that the battery protector cover on his car’s undercarriage was warped, a problem that could in certain instances cause the battery to explode. This meant that he would have to replace his car’s battery pack in addition to fixing its structural damage. Hsu says he was shocked when the estimate to replace the battery came in at $61,000 Canadian, or about $46,000 in US dollars. That’s almost $6,000 more than he paid for the car when he purchased it brand new. 

Even worse, because the damage was caused by an accident, the bill was not covered by the car’s warranty, leaving Hsu with the alternative of filing a claim with his insurance carrier. But the resulting insurance implications were enormous, with Mr. Hsu facing a rate increase of up to 50% if he filed the claim. His only other choice would be to foot the repair bill himself and now have over $87,000 US dollars invested in a $41,000 car.

This is insane. This is not sustainable. The EV industry simply cannot have stories like this one popping up with increasing frequency and hope to sustain growing demand for its products.

But wait, that’s not all! There are other issues:

  • range anxiety that pops up any time the weather isn’t perfect;
  • the lack of charging infrastructure;
  • the unreliability of the infrastructure that does exist;
  • the non-recyclability of the battery materials;
  • the increasing restrictions on charging due to the massive load EVs place on the grid;

So yeah, let’s just say that there are issues. Let me say again that I think these vehicles can make sense in limited situations. But not generally as a replacement for a car with an ICE.

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Well,

Portland. This is what you get when you vote Democrat!

You know the saying: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes…