Everything Except Cars

Guest Post by Eric Peters

You might think – because it was once true – that a car company’s primary tout would be its . . . cars. Just as any other company that makes whatever it makes would tout whatever it was it made. That being the thing the company does. And which it hopes to sell.

Well, did.

Nowadays, companies still do those things. But they are are secondary (and tertiary) to things such things as “People,” “Safety,” Diversity, Equity & Inclusion” and – wait for it! – “Citizenship.”

Is it seventh grade civics? Maybe the Boy Scouts. Whoops. There aren’t Boy Scouts anymore. But it is GM, today. Continue reading “Everything Except Cars”

NO ONE GETS OUT OF HERE ALIVE (PART TWO)

In Part One of this article I exposed the numerous false narratives being peddled to the masses, as this Fourth Turning is entering the intense phase headed towards an unknown climax.

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I’ve been expecting the next shoe to fall in this Fourth Turning for years, but the financial elite have pulled the debt levers to keep the Ponzi scheme alive far longer than a reasonable person would expect. We are only six weeks into 2020 and it seems like a year’s worth of major events have already occurred. The year started with the assassination of Qasem Soleimani in Iraq.

For the next week the world was awash in rhetoric about World War III and possible revolution in Iran. Accusations of Trump using the Wag the Dog method to deflect the negative press from the impeachment hearings were rampant among the half of the country that despises Trump. Soleimani was lauded as a hero by the left and a terrorist by the right. Now, the entire episode seems like ancient history, as more interesting squirrels have arisen for the propaganda media to chase.

The entire month of January was occupied by the ongoing coup/impeachment against Donald Trump. Schiff, Nadler and Pelosi doing their best impression of the three stooges, conducted a laughable prosecution in the House, revealing this was nothing more than a desperate attempt to avoid losing to Trump in a November landslide. The predictable trial in the Senate resulted in an acquittal and Trump’s popularity soaring to all-time highs, as independents realized the Democrats misused the power of impeachment for purely political purposes. Trump’s SOTU address infuriated Pelosi to such an extent it provoked her into acting like a petulant child, tearing up the speech. Future campaign ads wrote themselves.

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GM Woke

Guest Post by Eric Peters

If Bruce can transition into Caitlyn then GM can do basically the same thing – with the difference being Bruce probably paid for his own surgery.

GM is going to want your “help” paying for its transition.

In a few days, you’ll see what you’ll be paying for. The shaved Adam’s apple; the . . . augmentation. And the removal.

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If You Can’t Beat ‘Em . . . Sue ‘Em!

Guest Post by Eric Peters

When you can’t beat ‘em in the showroom, go after ‘em in the courtroom.

General Motors says the lawsuit it filed against FiatChrysler is all about FCA supposedly  graft-giving union bosses under-the-table cashola to gain some kind of competitive advantage on labor costs.

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When “Diversity” isn’t Our Strength

Guest Post by Eric Peters

Sometimes, “diversity” is not our strength – as GM is finding out.

The Chevy Silverado pick-up is now number three – behind the Ram 1500 and the best-selling (and number one) Ford F-150.

This is alarming news for GM – assuming it still cares about making money as opposed to demonstrating how “committed” it is to “diversity” (see here) which is an odd preoccupation for a car company.

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TICK TOCK

“This country, and with it most of the Western world, is presently going through a period of inflation and credit expansion. As the quantity of money in circulation and deposits subject to check increases, there prevails a general tendency for the prices of commodities and services to rise. Business is booming. Yet such a boom, artificially engineered by monetary and credit expansion, cannot last forever. It must come to an end sooner or later. For paper money and bank deposits are not a proper substitute for non-existing capital goods. Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis. It has happened again and again in the past, and it will happen in the future, too.” – Ludwig von Mises – 1952

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GM Kills the Electric Car . . .

Guest Post by Eric Peters

If electric cars are such a grand idea, why is GM killing off the Chevy Volt? It’s the one electric car that actually did make some practical sense, at least.

400-plus miles without stopping and regardless of the weather (other EVs are badly gimped by extremes of heat and cold). Same time to get back on the road as any other car, too.

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“GM rallied 7% on news of massive job cuts. How ghoulish. I wonder how high the market will be when robots are doing all the work and there are no jobs at all for human workers. Will the robots have savings to invest? How will the robots fund their children’s education?”

Lee Adler

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A Lump Under the Rug

Guest Post by Eric Peters

The other day, GM announced it would no longer report monthly sales figures. Instead, it would hold on to those numbers internally and only reveal them publicly at the end of each quarter.

A GM spokesman says that “thirty days is not enough time to separate real sales trends from short-term fluctuations in the market.”

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Violence erupts at GM plant strike – 1937

Via History.com

On this day in 1937, nearly two weeks into a sit-down strike by General Motors (GM) auto workers at the Fisher Body Plant No. 2 in Flint, Michigan, a riot breaks out when police try to prevent the strikers from receiving food deliveries from supporters on the outside. Strikers and police officers alike were injured in the melee, which was later nicknamed the “Battle of the Running Bulls.” After the January 11 riot, Michigan governor Frank Murphy called in the National Guard to surround the plant. However, the governor, who wanted to preserve his reputation as a friend to the workingman, decided against ordering troops into the plant.

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GM Desperately Discounts Escalade

Guest Post by Eric Peters

GM is worried – because Lincoln is showing signs of making a comeback.

It hasn’t been much noticed, but it is happening.

The new Continental, Lincoln’s flagship luxury sedan, is selling well – unlike Cadillac’s sedans – and now there is panic at Diversity Central (whoops, GM headquarters) about the 2018 Navigator.

With good reason.

It was the Navigator that launched the full-size luxury SUV craze, back in the ’90s. Ford’s idea first. Take an Expedition – a mere Ford – and pimp it out.

Price it out, too.

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“Experience the Brand”

Guest Post by Eric Peters

New York City is probably the least car-friendly place in the United States. Its streets are perpetually gridlocked and garage fees cost more than rent in other parts of the country. Most people who live in the city don’t even own cars and regard them as an occasionally necessary nuisance. Mostly, they hail a cab. Or they walk or take the subway.

So it makes perfect sense for a major car company to relocate the headquarters of its luxury division there.

Right?

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Raising the Jolly Roger

Guest Post by Eric Peters

Most people don’t know that the term, politically correct, has its origins in Stalin’s Soviet Union. Back then, it meant more than just excommunication from the Party. It often meant excommunication from this veil of tears – a la Trotsky, via an icepick to the head.

Well, it may come to that here as well.

It is certainly headed that way.

Of all things – and of all places – the car business has become hag-ridden by politically correct orthodoxies and while the penalty for running afoul of these is not yet NKVD thugs bashing in your skull, it is serious enough.

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Electric Car Putsch

Guest Post by Eric Peters

It’s not just the government that’s pushing electric cars. The media is equally complicit. Both are engaged in what has to be described as nothing less than a concerted propaganda onslaught to convince the public that the naked emperor is indeed wearing a suit of the finest materials available.

But the question – why? – remains mysterious.

What is so important – to them – about electric cars? Why the urgency to create the impression of inevitability?

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General Motors CEO calls for more American STEM workers, coders

Guest Post by Alexander Hagen-Frederiksen

The city of Detroit, Michigan was once seen as a beacon of American industry for being the center of automotive production for the country. As our economy worsened, the “Motor City” felt the unfortunate effects of American outsourcing and downsizing. It has only recently begun showing the flicker of a recovery, as automotive companies like Ford and General Motors have turned to creating cars that can think, and sometimes even drive, on their own. To create these “smart” cars, these companies have needed to recruit skilled software developers to their cause, and for many companies this has been difficult.

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