Guest Post by Eric Peters
The Biden Thing’s secretary of transportation – where in the Constitution does it state the federal government shall have the power to micromanage our comings and goings? – said the other day that people who haven’t given up their cars with engines for devices with a battery are similar to people back in the early 2000s who stubbornly refused to embrace the cell phone future.
Words to that effect.
He actually said more than just that. The money quote is as follows:
“The automotive sector is moving toward EVs, and we can’t pretend otherwise. Sometimes when these debates happen, I feel like it’s the early 2000s and I’m talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever.”
Observe the passive voice masking-over the force behind all of this. The automotive sector is not “moving toward EVs.” It is being pushed toward EVs. He then equates not wanting to be pushed to buy something unwanted as being stupid. There is contempt – and menace – in this statement. 
The irony of it is also lost on the Biden Thing’s secretary of transportation. Most people did get cell phones because – here it comes! – they offered advantages over land lines. These included more convenience and lower costs overall, if you bought a basic model (these currently can be bought for about $50 and a cheap monthly plan with unlimited service can be purchased for about $35). They also could do more things than just a phone, as everyone knows.
People bought them for the same reason most people prefer hamburgers made of beef rather than Impossible Burgers made of . . . well, whatever they make them out of.
It wasn’t necessary for the government to issue a slew of regulations aimed at making land line phones more expensive to manufacture – in order to discourage their use and make cell phones seem less expensive. There was no need to dangle tax kickbacks in the faces of people to get them to make the switch. People just made the switch. Because it made sense to the people who chose to buy cell phones.
That the Biden Thing’s secretary of transportation does not understand this relationship tells us a great deal about the qualifications of this man to be the secretary of transportation.
Or even just a secretary.
He holds the office – and sway over transportation – not because he is competent and well-intended (and never mind that business almost no one ever brings up about where in the Constitution this office is empowered with legitimate authority to even exist) but because he is willing to do whatever is required to push the car-buying public into battery powered devices that are not what the public wants. If that were not so, it would not be necessary to push them. QED.
This brings up what may perhaps be an interesting observation about “our democracy” and the various threats to it posited by these things. Why not allow “our democracy” – that is to say, the people – to decide what’s best as regards their vehicles?
This goes way beyond just the EV thing, too.
Why is it that – in “our democracy” – the people are not free to determine for themselves whether cars get more or less gas mileage, according to their own criteria? How is it “democratic” for a centralized regulatory apparat consisting of relative handful of appointed bureaucrats to decide for more than 300 million Americans that they will have to pay as much as it costs to achieve say 50 MPG rather than 35 MPG?
It does not sound very “democratic.”
Nor the myriad other expensive things the government’s regulatory apparat decrees every new vehicle must be equipped with, never mind the fact that probably lots of people would elect not to pay to have their car’s interior designed around the now de facto standard six air bags that the typical new car has sewn into its dashboard, door panels and seat bolsters (plus the steering wheel). The cost of which is not just what the buyer pays up front but also to insure the car – which is more expensive to repair courtesy of such things as six air bags and may not even be worth repairing, due to the cost of replacing all those air bags relative to value of the vehicle.
So it gets totaled – that is, thrown away – and the owner gets to pay.
These things are not “democrats.” They are autocrats. The remarkable thing – psychologically – is the general acceptance of this obnoxious lording-over by these autocrats. It is a phenomenon specifically characteristic of Leftist autocrats, who like to style themselves “democrats” – as for example the claque of autocrats who lorded over the old German Democratic Republic; i.e., communist East Germany. Because it goes down a lot easier when you tell the people you’re lording-it-over that they live in a “democracy.”
The United States – at one time a republic, with a governing structure specifically erected to stymie such “democrats” – is becoming more and more like the “democratic” republics of the old Warsaw Pact while Russia is becoming in many ways more like the republic America once was.
The reason for that may have something to do with the Russian people’s 70-year-experience with “democracy” as practiced by the leadership claque of the old Soviet Union. It gets old being told what you’ll be allowed by autocrats who allow themselves everything – and always at your expense.
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can someone start asking questions on how they plan to dispose safely of these toxic products.
Eventually they will all die. Oh, you meant EV’s not politicians?
Is catching fire considered to be one of the safe means of disposal?
CATCHING-ON TO A HUGE “CLUE” ABOUT THE “METHOD OF DESTRUCTION” THE “ORIGINAL CREATOR’S” OF ALL HUMANITY WILL USE TO DISPOSE OF ALL “HELLENIST”???
Kenny Hellenistic Greece disappeared in 31 B.C. You have nothing to fear from them!
Think Homosexuals rot just like regular bodies?
I was gonna say, no need to dispose of them, they will eventually take care of themselves through imolation…
throw them in the ocean and they disappear-like they do all their other toxic trash.
The future of transportation will be restricted to 15-minute smart cities.
Yes, you don’t need transportation if you are not allowed to go anywhere.
How can anyone take anything serious from a sick piece of shit faggot like this thing ?
This democrat cocksucker takes another mans dick into its rectum then into its mouth.
Fuck this sick-twisted jackoff shit !
I’ve still never owned a cell phone, or credit card. I never intend to.
Ford has announced that their new W TN plant that will build EV trucks and large SUV’s will not come online in 2025 and will be pushed back due to lack of interest in EV’s.
Now THAT’S reality !
I still have a landline. he’s such a schmuck.
Yeah, some of us still have a land line in addition to a cell phone, on actual DC copper from the C.O. Also, I’ll have to look into setting up one of those diesel multi fuel engines like they hand in the deuce and a half’s, because fuck’em.
Comparing electronic telecom technology to motorized vehicles is knowingly a logical fallacy.
Stupid shit like you say is why I quit reading comments here except for yours
The real scam in the phrase our democracy isn’t democracy. It’s our. We don’t live in a world where nation-states make sovereign decisions (whether the deciders style themselves democrats or autocrats).
We live in a world of extreme concentration of wealth and power that exists above and outside the framework of what we used to think of as individual countries.
Russia, by the way, also has billionaire oligarchs and unwashed masses. Whether they are genuinely part of the global power structure or just playing nice with the globalists to try to maintain a national culture for the future is an open question, and like America, the Russian people pose a great long-term threat to planetary central planning because Russia is big enough and autonomous enough to support real resistance. But the notion that current policy trajectory is resembling the American republic of old is quite funny.
I GUESS THEY NEVER WATCHED THE MOVIE “CELL” HUH…OR, OR “LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND, HUH???
These people have no stroke unless you give it to them. A leader who doesnt know he was made to fuck women not men… sorry, i’ll pass listening to this powerless fuck!! Come get some Biden! Try to make me do anything. Hahahahaha
inept, inadquate, incomplete, ignorant ass is where he is at because of what he is, not what he knows or can do.
You don’t come back from Copperhead Road!