We need a general tweet of the day thread

The same could be said for politicians.

WestlinnDuck said:

Portland public teachers union looking to go on strike to get the pay raise they deserve. Absenteeism is also on the parents/parent/grandparent/foster parents. Definitely not on absentee fathers. The solution for a dedicated parent is to have them get their kids the phuck out of the public school system. $16,000+ per kid in Portland and they need more to continue to miseducate the children. But I'm told that government employees like mello really care.

eh, they weren’t gonna get their reads down anyways.

It's always about the children and our glorious public teachers union's commitment to kids learning.

The party of SCIENCE strikes again. US and Canadian oil bad, Russian oil, Saudi oil and Venezuela oil good.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-chose-venezuela-over-canada-oil


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WestlinnDuck said:

The party of SCIENCE strikes again. US and Canadian oil bad, Russian oil, Saudi oil and Venezuela oil good.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-chose-venezuela-over-canada-oil


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Anything to enrich the enemies of our way of life.

Crony capitalism sucks ass, robs taxpayers and consumers. Dance with the devil ... or in Ford's case FAFO. GM and Ford should consider hiring some functional engineers and some marketing people who are able to conduct consumer surveys for consumers who actually are buyers of the autos and trucks rather than Women Studies professors. Hiring finance people with mythical MBAs to do your cash flow analysis and ending up losing $62k per sold auto is not smart business. But like Disney, it's all about virtue signaling.

https://ace.mu.nu/

MORNING RANT: The Electric Vehicle Transition Just Collapsed, and a Day of Reckoning Has Hit for Auto Manufacturers Who Bet Wrong on EVs
—Buck Throckmorton
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The wheels have fallen off the electric vehicle revolution. Consumers are assertively rejecting EVs, and traditional auto manufacturers who bet heavily on “the EV transition” are at a day of reckoning.

The past few weeks appear to be the “gradually, then suddenly” moment when the problems with the EV transition suddenly collapsed into total failure, and auto manufacturers not named Tesla have had to admit that they bet wrong on EVs as they seek to stop the financial bleeding.

Usual Disclaimer: Tesla is a successful manufacturer of a boutique product favored by status-seeking luxury car buyers who have access to other vehicles for hauling, towing, and long-distance driving, and who have access to overnight charging. It is a niche product of limited utility.

As auto manufacturers started looking at their third-quarter financial results, they finally had to acknowledge that their EV commitments are, ahem, unsustainable, and that they cannot continue to sink billions more capital into the failed notion that EVs will replace internal combustion (“ICE”) vehicles. Here are some of the stories that have just broken:

“Ford again warns on EV results, withdraws 2023 forecast” [Reuters – 10/27/2023]

Ford said its EV unit posted a higher-than-expected loss in earnings before interest and taxes of $1.3 billion.
Ford sold 20,952 electric vehicles in Q3 2023. The $1.3 billion loss in that quarter averages out to $62,000 per unit. That is catastrophically bad.

The company has forecast a full-year loss of $4.5 billion for the Ford Model e unit.
With Ford referring to its EV division as “Model e,” a commenter here once referred to it as the “Model e-dsel.” That’s funny, but Ford survived its Edsel debacle, it may not survive its EV misadventure.

The automaker said its EV business was experiencing "sharply compressed" prices and profitability, and said customers were not willing to pay a premium for EVs over comparable combustion and hybrid models.
Correct. Customers willing to pay a premium for a less-functional vehicle want a very exclusive hood ornament. Those customers purchase Teslas, not Ford e-dsels.

“Ford will postpone about $12 billion in EV investment as buyers become more cautious” [CNBC – 10/26/2023]

[Ford CFO John Lawler] said that Ford will postpone about $12 billion in planned spending on manufacturing capacity for EVs, including a planned second battery plant at a new campus in Kentucky.
Something is puzzling here, because Ford is saying that it is not yet killing off its massive “Blue Oval City” EV plant that is under construction near Memphis, but previous reports about Ford’s $12 billion EV commitment included the Memphis plant in that commitment. Perhaps Ford will re-purpose Blue Oval City for ICE vehicles if it actually gets built.

Reality has also hit at General Motors. It just announced that the manufacture of electric pickups at one of its plants was being pushed back to late 2025 due to ”evolving EV demand,” which is a polite way of saying consumers will not buy them.

“GM delays EV truck production by a year at Michigan plant” [Reuters – 10/17/2023]

General Motors said on Tuesday it will delay production of the electric pickup trucks at its Orion Township, Michigan, plant as it grapples with "evolving EV demand."
In addition, GM has just announced that several other new EVs that were about to hit the market are also on hold.

“GM Delays Launch Of Chevy Equinox EV, Silverado EV RST and GMC Sierra EV” [GM Authority – 10/24/2023]

The announcement that the launch of the Chevy Equinox EV, Chevy Silverado EV RST, and GMC Sierra EV Denali would be delayed was announced by GM CEO Mary Barra during GM’s Q3 earnings presentation.
Here is what General Motors’ CEO Mary Barra had to say about the delay in launching these new EVs, after which I will translate it from corporate word-salad into English.

“The software organization team is optimizing the software strategy in fine-tuning the plans for our new vehicles to help make sure we execute with the highest possible quality and customer experience while positioning the company to drive significant revenue growth from subscriptions in the future,” Barra said during the presentation.
Translation: “GM dealers don’t want to stock these new electric albatrosses because customers won’t buy them.”

Beyond the problem traditional auto manufacturers have selling EVs to luxury car buyers with the means to afford them is that there is effectively zero market for EVs among less affluent buyers who just need affordable transportation. The auto manufacturers are finally waking up to this reality.

Public art ain't what it used to be. From the "artists" to the government employees who approved the project to the woke leftards on the art committee that supervised the commission we have a complete failure. The civilization part of Western Civilization is no longer part of the equation.

https://ace.mu.nu/

Sledog said:

RaceBannon said:

Add gun grabber to the list

http://twitter.com/YogiRoth/status/1719087034097431025?t=joDxkXWNwRzEAFuxGU4vyQ&s=19

Figures another Nazi Duck wants our guns.

At least we didn't have a Duck with mad math and stat skillz put together a chicom crud forecast which panicked other government scientist to lockdown tens of millions of Americans. Washington and Cali don't have much room to complain about Oregon Nazis.

My number one concern about a doctor is their level of competency not whether they look like me. My dentist is a woman and she is great. Same with my dermatologist. My general doctor is 29 years old and is Jewish. I'm not. What does concern me is the story below about a doctor admitted to med school over Allan Bakke.

PS A black girl was killed. By whom? Not important, what is important is that blacks need a different admission standard than whites.




The admission to medical school of Patrick Chavis, one of the black doctors admitted under the medical school's affirmative action program instead of Bakke, was widely praised by many notable parties, including Ted Kennedy, the New York Times, and the Nation. As an actual medical doctor, Chavis's many actions of incompetence and negligence were broad and widespread. The large number of patients that he harmed, the amount of pain and suffering that he caused, the video recordings of his many major mistakes, the huge number of malpractice lawsuits against him, and the eventual loss of his medical license, were all reported by the media. Chavis was widely cited by both the supporters, and the opponents, of affirmative action, as a real world example of why they held their respective beliefs.

thechatch said:

NEEDING your doctor to have the same skin color as you?

Sounds racist

Not really. You just need a blacks only admission door to the hospital along with a whites only admission door. I'm told that's "equity" and that a color blind society is by definition racist.