The United States(!) of A
zenagain wrote:I'm getting a new car in December- was gonna get a new Outback as Japan will stop making them and I like Subaru's. The Japan one's are 1.8lt T but because they won't come to the negotiating table in good faith I'm changing brands and going diesel. Meeting with our bloke tomorrow- 2.0T 48v mild-hybrid. 1200km + to a tank. No brainer.
Next car will probs be an EV.
N box all the way..with a Spoon makeover!
Base, what a pleasure looking at those flickr pics- so many classic cars.
Our first family car that I can remember was an early 60's Chrysler Valiant similar to the one pictured. A roaming cow in FNQ put an end to that one sadly but my parents enjoyed telling the story years after.
wax24 wrote:That pic was True Sweetness, for sures. Shoot Basey, a thermos, a folding chair, and a card table (out the back of a wagon with no engine is a KINGDOM for some (many?)
If I ever Chuck It All…. That setup’ll do (as long as the wagon runs, lol)
yeh, sounds the fun, huh? my belmont's a '71, and im doing up a 1970s 10' caravan to drag about behind it. brrrrrrrrrmmmm... I plant trees, help animals, and have convinced many people around here to get limestone slabs, rather that concrete slabs, feel like my green cred's ok.. life's for now, I'll save getting an ev if I get another go-round, I reckon.
(cow @zen.. ouch!! the black ones from poorly-maintained-fence places down here at night are terrifying when you come across them)
Ah Roady, Japan's second most popular car but no thanks.
Not saying it's a bad car, just doesn't suit my needs. I need something wagon and something competent in the snow.
Media’s Touch Legal AF ,
Stands for Legal Analysis Freinds ,
Not someone’s opinion on whether someone is far left or far right or middle of the road.
Exxotixjeff wrote:Roadkill wrote:Exxotixjeff wrote:Lawyer Michael Popok
Explains to Eric Trump, why double jeopardy
,doesn’t apply to Donald’s case , because single jeopardy only applies when a jury is sworn in ,
And Jack Smith dismissed Trump’s case before a jury was sworn in,
So Trumps case can be reopened when he leaves office.
Trumps legal team should have opposed
Jack Smiths motion to dismiss before a jury was sworn in , but missed the opportunity?Popok is as far left as maga is far right. He became so boring and one sided in the run up to the election...is still crying like Hollywood lefties.
Popok / Shapiro...same but different but more same than different.
Yeah but he is a lawyer who understands the
US legal system, so it doesn’t matter if he’s left or right
Or too boring for you does it ?
but he is way too biased..so will only present in his favour.
indo-dreaming wrote:fitzroy-21 wrote:GS has such a raging boner for ID, trolls him so incessantly, he appears to lack self awareness and rational thought. Must be all that blood rushing to the wrong head.
"#there’salwaysanothercomment", RK was on the money with "irony", mindless comments all over the home page today from GS.
Regarding Tesla's, it not just the cost & servicing, they need special tyres that can't just be bought off the shelf anywhere also.
Im glad others notice, its just weird.
Hey #shitforbrains (plural) look above ^^ I think you will find @info replied to my general personal comment in a very undignified and derogatory manner this morning, now he could have chosen to ignore it but he couldn’t because as SN resident #forummonitor you know he can’t because #there’salwaysanothercomment! Geez, it really is like fishing for flathead here sometimes, all so very predictable but please do carry on
My daily driver . 
Supafreak wrote:My daily driver .
that's mean, @Supa!
Roadkill wrote:Exxotixjeff wrote:Roadkill wrote:Exxotixjeff wrote:Lawyer Michael Popok
Explains to Eric Trump, why double jeopardy
,doesn’t apply to Donald’s case , because single jeopardy only applies when a jury is sworn in ,
And Jack Smith dismissed Trump’s case before a jury was sworn in,
So Trumps case can be reopened when he leaves office.
Trumps legal team should have opposed
Jack Smiths motion to dismiss before a jury was sworn in , but missed the opportunity?Popok is as far left as maga is far right. He became so boring and one sided in the run up to the election...is still crying like Hollywood lefties.
Popok / Shapiro...same but different but more same than different.
Yeah but he is a lawyer who understands the
US legal system, so it doesn’t matter if he’s left or right
Or too boring for you does it ?but he is way too biased..so will only present in his favour.
Well if Trump can be retried after he leaves office , because he’s legal team should have opposed Jack Smith’s motion to dismiss
the case before a jury was called,
but didn’t,
Isn’t that worth mentioning,
and worth explaining to Eric Trump
Who is as clueless as everyone else there.?
The law is the law and should be separate to politics ,
sometimes the law becomes political for both sides, but sometimes it can’t be political,
what's an eric trump?
basesix wrote:what's an eric trump?
A clueless Fox guest ?
ahhh yup... another of the rolling cast of suckmuffins.
basesix wrote:ahhh yup... another of the rolling cast of suckmuffins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh4hqb0SWzk
You can’t say that can you?
no, I can't. I have a mouthful of sandwich.
can type it ok though.
Exxotixjeff does it again
?si=o9RFsJ73zi-0fOf8Better put your head phones on
sypkan wrote:and while we're on irony...
the ABC boss is carrying on about rogan, and misinformation and disinformation throughout covid
the ABC, whether consciously or not... were one of the biggest spreaders and indulgers of misinformation and the like
yes, they had a role to play, but even when things became so blindingly glaringly obvious to people capable of objective thought...
the ABC , toed the line, for another 12 - 24 months...
they still do now to a certain extent
I used to think these people knew they were spreading dubious information, but did it anyway, because it was for the greater good
I'm sure that was the case initially
but, no, their stubbornness and righteousness runs much deeper
they still believe half the bullshit!!
all of it?
it's about religion alright
it's a fucken cult!
in the truest sense of the term...
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/radio/huge-pileon-abc-boss-kim-...
Yes ABC were terrible during Covid i remember long after it was clear vaccines didn't prevent transmission they were still trying to push that line, it was weird.
if they even bothered to correct the record...
you could forgive them
but they just keepa steamrolling along...
it's the same with all the russia russia russia stuff
and hunter's laptop
it seems there's a certain narrative to maintain, and they just flatly refuse to go off script
I watched an old sarah ferguson special on russia russia russia...
I think sarah ferguson is an excellent journalist, I have the utmost respect for her. but she was so so far off the mark - back then - in this special, some form of correction is required, it's her duty...
or someone's duty...
but we get nothing
from anyone at ABC
it's just outright shameful that an outlet such as the ABC can leave so many unanswered questions about the lines they have pushed over recent times...
yet somehow, the likes of rogan and friends are the 'dangerous' ones pushing so called misinformation
it's bizarre
it really is parallel universe stuff
indo-dreaming wrote:sypkan wrote:and while we're on irony...
the ABC boss is carrying on about rogan, and misinformation and disinformation throughout covid
the ABC, whether consciously or not... were one of the biggest spreaders and indulgers of misinformation and the like
yes, they had a role to play, but even when things became so blindingly glaringly obvious to people capable of objective thought...
the ABC , toed the line, for another 12 - 24 months...
they still do now to a certain extent
I used to think these people knew they were spreading dubious information, but did it anyway, because it was for the greater good
I'm sure that was the case initially
but, no, their stubbornness and righteousness runs much deeper
they still believe half the bullshit!!
all of it?
it's about religion alright
it's a fucken cult!
in the truest sense of the term...
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/radio/huge-pileon-abc-boss-kim-...
Yes ABC were terrible during Covid i remember long after it was clear vaccines didn't prevent transmission they were still trying to push that line, it was weird.
Why? ABC is gov owned, gov bought all the vaxines and tried to force them on everyone, not gonna admit to them not working.
sypkan wrote:if they even bothered to correct the record...
you could forgive them
but they just keepa steamrolling along...
it's the same with all the russia russia russia stuff
and hunter's laptop
it seems there's a certain narrative to maintain, and they just flatly refuse to go off script
I watched an old sarah ferguson special on russia russia russia...
I think sarah ferguson is an excellent journalist, I have the utmost respect for her. but she was so so far off the mark - back then - in this special, some form of correction is required, it's her duty...
or someone's duty...
but we get nothing
from anyone at ABC
it's just outright shameful that an outlet such as the ABC can leave so many unanswered questions about the lines they have pushed over recent times...
yet somehow, the likes of rogan and friends are the 'dangerous' ones pushing so called misinformation
it's bizarre
it really is parallel universe stuff
still going to this day. Not ABC but on Triple M this afternoon they were bagging Rogan about something he said regarding Australia's over the top lockdown during Covid.
MSM is absolutely fucked in Australia. The sooner we get an Australian Trump to shake things up the better.
Trump tariffs are as expected. What a dumb ass.
The USA imports 80% of everything they have…now it’s just going to cost the US folk more. https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2024/nov/28/welcome-to-...
Roadkill wrote:Trump tariffs are as expected. What a dumb ass.
The USA imports 80% of everything they have…now it’s just going to cost the US folk more.https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2024/nov/28/welcome-to-...
Now his going to place 25 percent tariffs on
Mexico and Canada, for letting illegal immigrants in to the US .
Except Us gets 60 percent of its crude oil from Canada and huge amounts of produce from Mexico
Not to mention the retaliatory tariffs they will impose on US products going the other way
What part of Einstein doesn’t
@ Burleigh get
burleigh wrote:sypkan wrote:if they even bothered to correct the record...
you could forgive them
but they just keepa steamrolling along...
it's the same with all the russia russia russia stuff
and hunter's laptop
it seems there's a certain narrative to maintain, and they just flatly refuse to go off script
I watched an old sarah ferguson special on russia russia russia...
I think sarah ferguson is an excellent journalist, I have the utmost respect for her. but she was so so far off the mark - back then - in this special, some form of correction is required, it's her duty...
or someone's duty...
but we get nothing
from anyone at ABC
it's just outright shameful that an outlet such as the ABC can leave so many unanswered questions about the lines they have pushed over recent times...
yet somehow, the likes of rogan and friends are the 'dangerous' ones pushing so called misinformation
it's bizarre
it really is parallel universe stuff
still going to this day. Not ABC but on Triple M this afternoon they were bagging Rogan about something he said regarding Australia's over the top lockdown during Covid.
MSM is absolutely fucked in Australia. The sooner we get an Australian Trump to shake things up the better.
Rogan = entertainment, nothing more.
Shock horror its just a business model to make money... seriously.
If you are outraged that's the whole point.
^^ G’day @burleigh, big Clive dropping, what was it, $60-80 million at each of the last two elections on the anti Labor vote doesn’t do it for you?
Don’t think your wish could ever get up here thou, something about compulsory voting which forces politics here to be played in the middle much to the chagrin of the right. Now in the US where a 1/3 of voters don’t turn up it means politics is played not in the centre but out on the fringes or as is now the case the lunatic fringes.
Thank god we have compulsory voting and non partisan electoral oversight by the AEC I say …..
@ Burleigh
The lunatic fringe
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Exxotixjeff wrote:Roadkill wrote:Trump tariffs are as expected. What a dumb ass.
The USA imports 80% of everything they have…now it’s just going to cost the US folk more.https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2024/nov/28/welcome-to-...
Now his going to place 25 percent tariffs on
Mexico and Canada, for letting illegal immigrants in to the US .
Except Us gets 60 percent of its crude oil from Canada and huge amounts of produce from Mexico
Not to mention the retaliatory tariffs they will impose on US products going the other way
What part of Einstein doesn’t
@ Burleigh get
About as much as maga don’t get. The west has spent post Covid battling to keep inflation under wraps and get it back down? How is this not going to raise inflation? Don’t follow too much but can anyone explain Trumps logic to me? Will it enrich him and others more? American industrial revitalization.? None the less everything will be more expensive then as well. They going to pay a decent wage to do it locally. Won’t that increase inflation?
How many Covid boosters you had erotic wiggle? Im guessing 5
seeds wrote:Exxotixjeff wrote:Roadkill wrote:Trump tariffs are as expected. What a dumb ass.
The USA imports 80% of everything they have…now it’s just going to cost the US folk more.https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2024/nov/28/welcome-to-...
Now his going to place 25 percent tariffs on
Mexico and Canada, for letting illegal immigrants in to the US .
Except Us gets 60 percent of its crude oil from Canada and huge amounts of produce from Mexico
Not to mention the retaliatory tariffs they will impose on US products going the other way
What part of Einstein doesn’t
@ Burleigh getAbout as much as maga don’t get. The west has spent post Covid battling to keep inflation under wraps and get it back down? How is this not going to raise inflation? Don’t follow too much but can anyone explain Trumps logic to me? Will it enrich him and others more? American industrial revitalization.? None the less everything will be more expensive then as well. They going to pay a decent wage to do it locally. Won’t that increase inflation?
Trump’s logic is he’s America first policy propaganda
Which actually works the other way,
But who would have guessed?
only propaganda-ists and dumb cunts take trump literally...
and anyone with brains don't take him seriously
it's an old (adjusted) explanation, but a good one...
anyone quoting trump's highest tariff threats... is... well...
trump uses his tariff huff and bluster as a bargaining chip
be it with china, mexico, or nato...
the only surprising thing is...
it still works
enter exhibit A
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1861937158090813754
after all the anti trump tough talk from mexicos's new president...
it appears she folded like a deck chair
trudeau will be next
and tariffs will likely be minimal...
sypkan wrote:trump uses his tariff huff and bluster as a bargaining chip
be it with china, mexico, or nato...
the only surprising thing is...
it still works
enter exhibit A
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1861937158090813754
after all the anti trump tough talk from mexicos's new president...
it appears she folded like a deck chair
trudeau will be next
and tariffs will likely be minimal...
Spykans says only propagandist and dumb cunts take Trump literally,
Dude you have done just that by Getting a Tiny piece of info from X
Every other news source I read says the US and Mexican Presidents are vowing to retaliate and stand up against Trump,
Your snippet from X is basically bullshit an propaganda, irony
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Sheinbaum says,”for every tariff Trump places on us,
we will respond in kind,a Mexican tariff on an American good”
Sheinbaum acknowledges that this is a trade war and nobody wins.
Which is something Trump will not acknowledge.
I cannot believe that @sypkans is such an
anti Trump , anti everyone, and only uses a tiny piece of propaganda bullshit from
Elon Musks X .
This really highlights why Trump won the election, with this level of misinformation
and voters gullibility.
I still can’t believe that spykans can be so angry, yet so shallow .
Roadkill wrote:Trump tariffs are as expected. What a dumb ass.
The USA imports 80% of everything they have…now it’s just going to cost the US folk more. https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2024/nov/28/welcome-to-...
This is scary.
And its far worse for Australia we dont have Mexico or Canada next door
We(the west) need to diversify we are far too reliant on China, who really is not out friend (government not people) not necessarily an enemy but we shouldn't be so reliant on them.
Why isn't India a bigger player in exports???, big population cheap labour.
And there is some things that should be made in the west, the things we need when shit hits the fan, like it did during covid (and around security related ) We should learn from Covid, it should be a fork in the road moment.
We cant keep going as things are, we need a change of direction.
But we also need to accept that we will need to pay more for some things and not have all this throw away cheap made in china shit.
Maybe tariffs aren't the complete answer, but its a start a change of direction, instead of kicking the can down the road.
All that said while China has us over a barrel, maybe them being so reliant on the Western world for their export economy has them over a barrel in regard to South China Sea or Taiwan etc
But maybe we need to be smart and if shit hits the fan, we can still get the things we really need from other countries things like white goods or clothing.
It's complex, but there does need to be a change of direction and i think Trump does have that mindset of change.
Mt Erotic posting at all hours of the night again. Give it up mate. Get some rest.
Dont let the candle burn out boys, looks like we’ve got two very diligent and vigilant commenters across the wee hours, dunno how you do it.
Swellnet’s own night owls.
Whatever’s in those teas Foxy Jeff, I want some. AW
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