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"That is how most world Intel Agencies think the KGB turned Trump." JT #20
Trump is a Putin puppet.
Whether that's so due to Putin's inestimable skills as former KGB, or rather more out of innate Trump greed, who knows? Trump likes thugs. “We fell in love.” President Trump commenting on his relationship w/ North Korea's totalitarian dictator Kim Jong Un
 

Trump's Kei Car Solution Only Creates More Expensive Problems​

feedback@motor1.com (Anthony Alaniz) / Mon, December 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM


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Kei cars built in the US would cost too much. Instead, the government should just let people import new ones from Asia.​

Cheap, affordable cars have all but disappeared from showrooms, replaced by high-priced crossovers and SUVs that many Americans can’t really afford. That’s a problem in 99 percent of the country where a vehicle is required for daily life. If you have a job, go to school, or want to buy groceries, you need a car.
And you don’t want just any car—you probably want something that’s at least reliable. A safe car would be nice, too, but if you’re just scraping by, like millions of others, then you know that even safety is a luxury you can’t truly afford.
New car prices are hovering around $50,000, and the latest data shows the average monthly new-car payment is $750. That’s unsustainable, and President Donald Trump believes tiny Asian Kei cars might be the savior cash-strapped Americans need.
Trump called them "really cute" earlier this month and said that he instructed his Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, to "immediately approve the production of those cars." Duffy quickly followed up Trump’s remarks by saying, "We have cleared the deck," so automakers "can make them in America and sell them in America."

If we see such automobiles beginning to populate U.S. roadways in 2026 kudos to Trump.
I consider that unlikely.

"Detroit", metonymy for U.S. automobile producers, enjoy large profit margins from the bloated gas guzzlers that populate their showrooms.
Trump / MAGA are dismissive about anthropogenic global warming and the detriment of petroleum combustion.

"really cute" perhaps. That's not enough to disrupt the U.S. auto-market status quo. Those cars may be "really cute". But "Detroit's" $Billions in $profits are really cuter.

So what?
Some problems are technical. The obstacle here is not inventing the small car, but in abandoning big car $profits.
 
What was that?

Something from “space” may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah​

“NTSB gathering radar, weather, flight recorder data.”
Eric Berger – Oct 19, 2025 1:50 PM

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"... about 17,000 meteorites strike Earth in a given year."

a) The stricken airliner seems to have been landed safely. Thank you captain.
b) Not sure what the deal is with the paperclips in the images. To show scale? They're not to scale.

The paperclip may be a way of marking copyrights?
 

How many people have died from propaganda and bots?

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How many people have died from the tidal wave of bullshit spewing from Fox News, gentler versions on the mainstream media, and the millions of malicious bots on social media -- all of it spreading evil, knowingly, by psychopaths who don't care how many people have to die as long as they get their money?


Texas just passed a Constitutional Amendment that absolves parents of child abuse if their child dies of a preventable disease, like measles

But not only did the mRNA covid vax not work at all, only the vulnerable should have been masked.
By the healthy and young wearing masks, it prevented herd immunity and ensured there were always hosts to keep covid from ending by running out of hosts.
That is why covid lingered for 3 years instead of the 3 months is would only have lasted if most had not masked.
 
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Trump's Kei Car Solution Only Creates More Expensive Problems​

feedback@motor1.com (Anthony Alaniz) / Mon, December 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM


Trump Kei Cars
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Trump Kei Cars

Kei cars built in the US would cost too much. Instead, the government should just let people import new ones from Asia.​

Cheap, affordable cars have all but disappeared from showrooms, replaced by high-priced crossovers and SUVs that many Americans can’t really afford. That’s a problem in 99 percent of the country where a vehicle is required for daily life. If you have a job, go to school, or want to buy groceries, you need a car.
And you don’t want just any car—you probably want something that’s at least reliable. A safe car would be nice, too, but if you’re just scraping by, like millions of others, then you know that even safety is a luxury you can’t truly afford.
New car prices are hovering around $50,000, and the latest data shows the average monthly new-car payment is $750. That’s unsustainable, and President Donald Trump believes tiny Asian Kei cars might be the savior cash-strapped Americans need.
Trump called them "really cute" earlier this month and said that he instructed his Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, to "immediately approve the production of those cars." Duffy quickly followed up Trump’s remarks by saying, "We have cleared the deck," so automakers "can make them in America and sell them in America."

If we see such automobiles beginning to populate U.S. roadways in 2026 kudos to Trump.
I consider that unlikely.

"Detroit", metonymy for U.S. automobile producers, enjoy large profit margins from the bloated gas guzzlers that populate their showrooms.
Trump / MAGA are dismissive about anthropogenic global warming and the detriment of petroleum combustion.

"really cute" perhaps. That's not enough to disrupt the U.S. auto-market status quo. Those cars may be "really cute". But "Detroit's" $Billions in $profits are really cuter.

So what?
Some problems are technical. The obstacle here is not inventing the small car, but in abandoning big car $profits.

Yes, I much preferred the small foreign cars of the 1960s, like the 1100 cc VW bug, the Fiat 850, the Austin America, MG, Triumph, Volvo P1800, etc.
Modern cars are almost impossible to keep running because their emissions and theft prevention system are too fragile and complex.
 
"The paperclip may be a way of marking copyrights?" R5 #23
Ahh, the Internet version of a dog sprinkling on a fire hydrant.

"... the mRNA covid vax [did] not work at all ..." R5 #24

The global effort to develop and distribute effective vaccines against the COVID-19 coronavirus disease has produced various safe and effective options. The development of multiple vaccines within one year of the virus’s emergence is unprecedented; the process has typically taken eight to fifteen years.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/gu...MIusfS56jmkQMVGnFHAR3AlBWWEAAYAiAAEgJI3fD_BwE

R5,
If you have persuasive evidence that "... the mRNA covid vax [did] not work at all ..." you're welcome to post it.
mRNA technology reducing by an order of magnitude the time it takes to vaccinate a nation, a planet, may seem like fantasy. Yet we live in an age of miracles.

"Yes, I much preferred the small foreign cars of the 1960s, like the 1100 cc VW bug, the Fiat 850, the Austin America, MG, Triumph, Volvo P1800, etc.
Modern cars are almost impossible to keep running because their emissions and theft prevention system are too fragile and complex." R5 #25
Yes, seems to me the current fleet profile isn't designed to optimize for driver / owner / consumer benefit,
but to optimize corporate profits.

My one caveat regarding support for a kei car tidal wave in the U.S., in the '50's it wasn't unknown to get stuck behind an under-powered automobile as it struggled uphill. Underhead valve engines had their limitations.
 
Ahh, the Internet version of a dog sprinkling on a fire hydrant.





R5,
If you have persuasive evidence that "... the mRNA covid vax [did] not work at all ..." you're welcome to post it.
mRNA technology reducing by an order of magnitude the time it takes to vaccinate a nation, a planet, may seem like fantasy. Yet we live in an age of miracles.


Yes, seems to me the current fleet profile isn't designed to optimize for driver / owner / consumer benefit,
but to optimize corporate profits.

My one caveat regarding support for a kei car tidal wave in the U.S., in the '50's it wasn't unknown to get stuck behind an under-powered automobile as it struggled uphill. Underhead valve engines had their limitations.


It would seem pretty obvious to me that the mRNA did not work at all.
As soon as 70% of the population had immunity, the covid epidemic should have ended.
That 70% immunization rate was achieved by August of 2021.

{...
By July 4, 2021, 67% of the United States' adult population had received at least one dose, just short of a goal of 70%. This goal was met on August 2, 2021.
...}

But yet covid continues for 2 more years till May of 2023.
Which means the mRNA did nothing at all to prevent spread.
And in fact, normally once you get something like that, you should then get recovery immunity.
Which was true of all those who did not take the mRNA vaccine.
But all those who did take the mRNA vaccine were susceptible to getting covid 3 or even 4 times.
 
"As soon as 70% of the population had immunity, the covid epidemic should have ended." R5 #27
"... herd immunity against measles requires about 95% of a population to be vaccinated. ... For polio, the threshold is about 80%. The proportion of the population that must be vaccinated against COVID-19 to begin inducing herd immunity is not known."
https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/herd-immunity-lockdowns-and-covid-19
Apparently determined by factors including ease of spread (contagion level), vaccine efficacy, perhaps seasonal variation, etc.

"... the mRNA did not work at all." R5
I can't review / interpret the data with you here yet (until we post the data).
But $zero% means a global conspiracy of $Billion $Dollar proportion. Not only the vaccine costs, but economic impact of employee sick time, etc. Not plausible.

ps
Please correct / clarify:
I vaguely recall the Human Genome Project was announced, projected to take a real long time.
Part way through an innovation was introduced that substantially reduced the remaining time to completion. Was that innovation mRNA? In any case iirc it was President Clinton that approved the shortcut.
 
Apparently determined by factors including ease of spread (contagion level), vaccine efficacy, perhaps seasonal variation, etc.


I can't review / interpret the data with you here yet (until we post the data).
But $zero% means a global conspiracy of $Billion $Dollar proportion. Not only the vaccine costs, but economic impact of employee sick time, etc. Not plausible.

ps
Please correct / clarify:
I vaguely recall the Human Genome Project was announced, projected to take a real long time.
Part way through an innovation was introduced that substantially reduced the remaining time to completion. Was that innovation mRNA? In any case iirc it was President Clinton that approved the shortcut.

The number needed for herd immunity is based on how deadly and how infectious.
So they do know with covid, and they estimate exactly 72%.

There is no such thing as "vaccine efficacy".
It either is a real vaccine and works, or it is fake, like the mRNA, and it does not.

The conspiracy is not global because no one but the US used the mRNA fakes by Moderna and Pfizer.
And it is more than a 1 billion dollar fraud, but over $90 billion in profits to Pfizer and Moderna.

Here is on the human gnome project.
{...
Two technologies enabled the project: gene mapping and DNA sequencing. The gene mapping technique of restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) arose from the search for the location of the breast cancer gene by Mark Skolnick of the University of Utah, which began in 1974.
Seeing a linkage marker for the gene, in collaboration with David Botstein, Ray White and Ron Davis conceived of a way to construct a genetic linkage map of the human genome. This enabled scientists to launch the larger human genome effort.

Because of widespread international cooperation and advances in the field of genomics (especially in sequence analysis), as well as parallel advances in computing technology, a 'rough draft' of the genome was finished in 2000 (announced jointly by US President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on 26 June 2000).
This first available rough draft assembly of the genome was completed by the Genome Bioinformatics Group at the University of California, Santa Cruz, primarily led by then-graduate student Jim Kent and his advisor David Haussler.

Ongoing sequencing led to the announcement of the essentially complete genome on 14 April 2003, two years earlier than planned.
In May 2006, another milestone was passed on the way to completion of the project when the sequence of the very last chromosome was published in Nature.
...}

mRNA is not for reading DNA but for reprogramming ribosome in our cells, in order to make the cell grow proteins.
This is used to repair cells that are protein deficient.
There is no way to use that as a vaccine.
 
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