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On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:43:40 -0700,  Alan says...  

> 
> On 2025-08-12 08:00, AlleyCat wrote:
> > 
> > Stupid is as stupid does: Ford decides shareholders have not yet lost enough money on EVs:
> > 
> > "Over the last two and a half years, Ford's electric vehicle division has lost $12 billion, including $2.2 billion in the first
> > half of this year. This year, sales of its electric models have stalled, falling 12 percent in the first six months... Now Ford has
> > come up with a new plan. On Monday, the automaker said that it has developed new, lower-cost electric vehicle components that will
> > allow it to sell more affordable cars."??
> > 
> > https://nytimes.com/2025/08/11/business/ford-electric-vehicles.html
> > 
> > https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GyKIeLzWAAAMKUL?format=jpg&name=large

> I'm not sure what one company's troubles say about whether or not EVs 
> are viable.

That's because you don't know shit, lakehouse rich boy.
 
For some reason, I thought you might be up on "news" like this, seeing how you're using X these days, but I guess I was wrong.

For some reason, I decided not to post this when I saw it, thinking it's kinda "old news" and many will have already seen it, but 
alas... I'm probably wrong again.

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China's car industry "imploding" with 400 car companies already gone. 

Just TWO are making money.

China juiced fake GDP with trillions in handouts - ramping it up after Trump's tariffs.

It turns out they bought the growth. And now they're selling it for scrap.

https://x.com/i/status/1937835667968622641

> I mean, Chrysler had a HUGE bailout from the federal government back in 
> 1979. Did that mean that ICE vehicles weren't viable?

The falsest equivalent of all false equivalents.

Desperation is as the desperate becomes.

Do you keep your money in a bank, rich boy?

Obama bailed out Bank of America to the tune of $142.2 BILLION.
Did that mean that banks weren't viable.

You're being this stupid on purpose... right?

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something 
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received 
positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a 
punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in 
reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."