Guest Post by Eric Peters
Car companies used to be places where car guys worked. Engineers, gearheads. People who at least liked cars and thought of them as more than commodities – like toothpaste, say.
Today, they are places where former insurance company and fast food guys work.
Like Jose Tomas, who is – well, was – GM’s chief human resources officer. He’s been fired – apparently – for unspecified reasons after only about eight months on the job. Might have been an ass grabber but probably got axed because he is still a guy.
If he was straight, he never stood a chance.
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Tomas previously held “leading posts” at Anthem, the insurance giant and Burger King Corp.
GM’s current CEO Mary Barra, herself a human resource veteran, said that Tomas had a “well-rounded background” and lots of experience managing “a complex global employee base.”
Not much about cars – for either of them.
But a great commitment – for both of them – to “changing GM’s long-standing culture of dysfunction,” as the trade publication Automotive News put it. Which – as this column has noted before – translates into English roughly as follows:
Cars are incidental – and car guys (especially guys) irrelevant or at least inconvenient.
Race and sexual identity politics are everything. Push it, hard.
Because what’s between your legs – and what you do with what’s between your legs – is critically relevant to the sort of car you might drive. Ditto your hue.
So goes the logic.
African Americans on Wheels. Gay Wheels. Jews in Jeeps. Aryans in Audis. The last two are made-up. The first two are very real – and GM does everything it can to promote and push them to the fore, even to the extent of hiring the guy who founded Gays on Wheels, a publication which only a few gays ever read but that doesn’t matter.
The politics do.
When I, your faithful keyboard monkey, began writing about cars back in the early ’90s, there were still car guys running the car companies. I had beers with these guys and we muttered sympathetically together about the geeks and race hustlers who were beginning to ruin everything. Turning cars into appliances. Forcing everyone to dry-hump the leg of the Safety Goddess who now rules the country through cucked men and women who have become sick parodies of men.
The business no longer cares much about cars – and forget car guys.
I am glad I got in while there was still some fading light left. Had the opportunity to hang out with guys like John Coletti, Bob Lutz and Martyn Schorr. Some of you may recognize these names.
They – and their kind – are all gone now.
I soldier on.
Sic gloria transit mundi
why oh why can’t a small efficient truck like the old Chevy S10 or Ford Ranger be made. I’d love to buy one but because the big 3 can’t make enough profit they are stifling any competition.
The Ford Ranger is anything but efficient. I know, have owned one since 2000. I agree on the size, however.
And why can’t that truck have a 4 cylinder turbo / aftercooled diesel getting 40 plus MPG
Cause big oil, the EPA, among others say FUCK YOU!
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1082723_volkswagen-golf-bluemotion-70-mpg-hatchback-u-s-wont-get
The Chickens are still coming home (the USofA) to roost (or roast).
The chicken tax is a 25% tariff on potato starch, dextrin, brandy, and light trucks imposed in 1963 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken. The period from 1961–1964 of tensions and negotiations surrounding the issue was known as the “Chicken War,” taking place at the height of Cold War politics.
Some gifts just keep on giving.
S10 was junk, short engine life because of gasket failure filling the crankcase with antifreeze and almost impossible to do any work on without some major disassembly to get to whatever it was that needed work.
I have a 4.3L S10 with 230K miles – engine’s never been apart.
Both of those were crap, and, I never considered buying them. I drove the Nissan Hardbody small truck from 1986 till 2006. A great truck with one major failing. The rustproofing was almost nonexistent. It was a 12 year throwaway truck. It was good on gas, a tolerable ride with high utility.
There hasn’t been a truck worth buying since the 1991 GMC 1/2 ton with the 3.08 rear end. 26 mpg highway.
Had to run for the barf bag when I saw that faggott.
Same thing in many industries–the health care industry is rife with it. The hospital I primarily treat at has many department level managers. The requirement has always been a Masters or Doctorate to lead a dept, whether dialysis, radiology, oncology, rehab…was ( supposedly still is) the rule.
However we have strange exceptions. There are 2 departments which “promoted from within” to positions as Head of Radiology and Head of Physical Therapy. Strangely, they bumped office assistants to these positions instead of actual practitioners. Neither has either a bachelors degree OR even a medical license in their field.
Not coincidentally, one is a lesbian who made a big show of her same-sex marriage last summer and the other is a fully lisped, wrist flapping gay ( you know the type). I guess sexual perversion is requirement enough to make quality of life decisions for the ailing–not only is it blatantly obvious they got the positions because of their sexual practice, the hospital suspended its own policy or Dept Head requirements to accommodate “diversity”–in the meantime non-gays still cannot be dept heads without at least a masters in their specialty. The world has gone insane………
We need a law firm who will dedicate itself to the cause for straight white people the same way law firms dedicate themselves to other racial/sexual lawsuits based on discrimination.
Plenty of them,
http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservative_legal_groups
The problem is that the Leftist ones are on the attack and conservative ones are on the defensive.
And which hospital is this so I and other can avoid it? Maybe just the region it’s in if you can’t say.
Not the world but the TPTB Controllers and their godless Illuminati NWO types; the never Trump dumps.
MAYBE THATS WHY I DON’T DRIVE A GM PRODUCT…..
I DON’T SHOP AT GAY SHOPS, I DON’T EAT AT RESTAURANTS WHOSE SERVERS ARE FLAMING GAY, BUTCHED OUT LEZ, OR SOME DUDE IN A DRESS….. IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHICH BATHROOM TO USE, OR CLOTHES TO WEAR, YOU NEED TO BE IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL….
I HAVE NO TIME FOR OR CONCERN FOR THE LBGTQ CONFUSED.
I COULD GO ON, BUT I KNOW YOU GOT MY DRIFT, AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT GOD AND THE BIBLE HAS TO SAY ABOUT THESE SINS…..
I will not buy GM or Crysler ( Sad about the Dodge Ram). Does anyone know of a list which national chains flaunt the in youf face outrages Roberto notes in his post? 9I was in Sacremento last summer and although the main staple at Chik-filet is not high on my favorite food list, the waiters and waitresses were top of the pyramid in manners and appearances. I went back several times just because it was a pleasant experience. BTW never heard of Chik-filet until Glenn Beck defended it agaist the national boycott. Looked for two hours to find one to counter the protesters. The chain is still wholesome and respectful, too bad Glenn went around the bend.
Ladies and Gentlemen (cisgenders I mean), –
The backlash has already started, it’s just not making it into the news. The guys I know running small and medium businesses have given explicit instructions to managers to AVOID ANY NON-HETERO HIRES. This doesn’t apply to large companies, because they have huge HR departments where they can limit the applicants crossing managers desks. Small and mid-size businesses still allow the immediate manager to interview and have the last say on hiring.
The reason for this is that the LGBTQ (shit I can’t remember all the damnable letters for these non-heteros anymore) stir up trouble, initiate lawsuits, actively troll or try to seduce heteros and generally try to do one thing at work – advance their LGBTQ-WTF-SJW agenda at the expense of corporate profits and during their working hours. Thus they are disruptive rather than productive.
They are way more problem than solution, they bring baggage and a chip on their shoulder to any meeting or workplace and they use this to leverage working less than the typical hetero. By demanding to be treated specially, treated differently than the other workers – they have effectively made themselves less valuable than hiring a hetero.
In short, LGBTQ-WTF are more problem than they are worth to small and medium corporations. I find it interesting that there is an exodus of heteros when there is a LGBTQ-WTF manager hired, and these same managers will hire their LGBTQ-WTF buddies, properly qualified or no.
It’s happening already – because businesses shouldn’t get involved in the sexuality of their employees – which the LGBTQ-WTF always insist on.
It’s happening regarding women as well.
I know two managers in medium STEM companies that have a strict “no breeder” rule.
Women who are past 40 and still in the business usually have already proven themselves and are past the whole childbirth nonsense. Each of their companies have a few as full time employees.
All the young ones are strictly contract and disposable if there’s a hint of “issues.”
Wish my very large corp. would figure this out. Instead they are all in on hiring anything but white/straight/males. It’s starting to show. The cracks in the systems and the misses are starting to add up to serious issues.
A lot of DEEP knowledge was purged last year and the year before. Not easily replaceable knowledge.
I’m sorry what??? Could someone explain this to me? If this is what I think he said, this is beyond something I can understand. Good Lord…..
Why is this happening??
Part of the planned destruction of western civilization, both causing and resulting from it.
IMO.
Read ‘Culture of Critique,’ by Kevin MacDonald, and start researching the Frankfurt School and ‘Cultural Marxism.’.
I was reading “The Fifteen Desicive Battles of the World” Written in 1851
It reads about the empires in Asia (comments in pharenthesis are mine)
” They are characterised by the rapidity of their early conquests (check for America); by the immense extent of the dominions comprised in them (check for America); by the establishment of a satrap or pacha system of governing the provinces(check for America, how many puppet goverments and color revolutions?); by an invariable and speedy degeneracy in the princes of the royal house (check for America), the effeminate nurslings of the seraglio succeeding to the warrior-sovereigns reared in the camp(America is here); and by the internal anarchy and insurrections (not there… yet?), which indicate and accelerate the decline and fall of those unwieldy and ill-organized fabrics of power”
I’m fed up with the LGBTQ or whatever crap! An early study by Alfred Kinsey, using unrepresentative prisoners (we know what happens there) and college students (known for experimentation), determined that 10% of our population was homosexual.
Later, Masters & Johnson, using a larger and more representative sample, found it was 2% to 3%.
When asked why they continue using 10%, homosexual spokesmen admitted they use it because “it has more impact”. 2% to 3% is ‘deviance’ by definition; political correctness be damned! Impact that where the sun don’t shine!
There was a backlash of the decadent 1920’s of Berlin (think the 1962 movie ‘Cabaret.’) The concentration camps contained more than just Jews, but also had so-called deviants including homosexuals. History might not repeat, but it does rhyme and not soon enough.
I am sorry but I will not do business with any gay run business or any muslime run business. Just a personal preference.
Why be “sorry”?
…the issue of Canada and Mexico making trade agreements with other nations (especially China), while brokering their NAFTA position with the U.S. as a strategic part of those agreements, is a serious issue that cannot adequately be resolved while the U.S. remains connected to NAFTA.
So you see, if you just look at the pure economics of the options, and you remember that President Trump is constitutionally antithetical to anyone having influence over U.S. interests other than the American people inside the United States, you can clearly see there is only one-way this entire process ends.
President Trump will end NAFTA.You
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/19/justin-from-canada-attempts-backup-option-for-trade-mistakes-fails-miserably/#more-146025
This explains much about the crap product (except the Corvette). I’ve never had good luck with any (except the ‘Vette, which I drove 100k with nothing major than a couple of air pumps and the usual stuff) AND on the highway, if you refrained from stepping into it much, got 30 MPG! Awesome car.
This foul system is morally and financially bankrupt. You cut off Uncle Shammy and his “subsidies” which are STOLEN from YOU, and it’ll crater.
Like FEDGOV, its a dysfunctional hive of scum and villainy. Without White taxpayers its as bankrupt and doomed as a black African “country”.
After the bail out, I reinforced my boycott of GM Govt Motors and added Chrysler – now Fiat. This is what you get when the US Govt is a stock holder, 45 MPG cars that are over priced crap, and people who only care about identity politics.
Also GM has a culture of lying and on purpose building inferior products – they knew they had a safety problem, but no one would own it. I know there are some good GM products made, but their culture sucks.
Men , car guys , boat guys , tool guys and especially gun guys are considered non persons of value now . It should be obvious men that still pursue traditional male pursuits are made to look like bumbling idiots regularly . Especially white males ! Check out many family shows on the networks ABC family is a good example . The situation is generally the father nuckle dragging his way thru life would electricute himself changing a lightbulb or any mechanical repair would surely end in a trip to the emergency room ! Then in steps the wife and 9 year old daughter with a degree from MIT to save the day thanks to the advanced warning from the gay couple next door !
I think that sums it up . Let them do what they do and men let’s keep doing what we do in spite of them .
When the lights go out , the house gets cold or somebody gets that cold shower who you gonna call : DAD !
The Obama legacy. He followed the book on how to finish off Americanism. He as done an excellent job.
I’m a white male gen X’er. Where I live cars are a necessity, especailly in the winter. But keeping a car on the road is getting more expensive each year as driving pleasure falls. Owning a car is becoming a nuisance. I prefer motorcycles as a passion, they are far more fun. As a footnote, Americain cars have never appealed to me, the crap they made in the late 70’s and 80’s lost me forever.
Peters is conflating two issues, it seems to me: car companies being run by non-car geeks and flamers agitating for special privileges. The latter we all object to. The fact that cars aren’t run by car geeks is probably mostly because not many people are as into cars as Peters is – although CAFE rules (which are stupid and should be abolished) factor in, too. Rebel Without a Cause, “Little Deuce Coupe”, American Graffiti – those were a long time ago.
Sooner or later this budding trade war will turn into a flaming trade war. The day the shit stops coming in from China will be the day the auto industry collapses- no more Chinese car parts! Every damn car sold today is full of Chinese parts, especially on the electronics side. Has anyone who has bought car parts lately bought any that are stamped “Made in U.S.A.”? You will notice on the new cars that NO part says where it is made, but if you go to the dealership EVERYTHING says “China”. I’m finding that repairs made today that should be good for a few years only go a year or two before it breaks and has to be redone.
Clinker- Buy a Benz.
Nope. Any car made without an oil drain plug so that you have to take it to someone (der dealership) with an “oil change pump” is also automatically a piece of shit. Anytime a special oil removal pump is required to change your oil when good old fashioned FREE GRAVITY will suffice proves that the world has indeed has gone mad. Those cars are full of slant-eye parts too!
But they are quality machines, particularly if you purchase the AMG upgrade package.