I don’t follow but tbh I think it’s just as well you don’t explain it
They wouldn’t be trying to make a personal profit off of what they were doing.
Oh, Republicans know for a fact that there are 50 states. By knowing that, they can continue to accuse Obama of being a imbecile when he stated that there were 57.
Of course, for all that they can count states, Republicans cannot seem to count the number of Trump’s golf trips as opposed to Obama’s. They seem to think that Obama golfed more, but I have a feeling Republican numbers are correct when they want them to be, but incorrect when it interferes with their vision.
They become similarly in-Kleined.
On auto emissions, the automakers are unlikely to relax standards in new builds just because of this, knowing full well that 1) a change in administration could result in the standards being tightened again, so it would cost them less in the longer term to keep improving emission standards, and 2) it’s still a good marketing point.
Speaking of good jibs and cuts!
Everybody knows that on 9/11, President Obama was on the golf course instead of presidentin’ in the White House Ha! “White” House! They call it that 'cause it’s just for white people.
When someone spills the beans to Former President Trump* that the car makers are doing this, he’ll probably shut them down and nationalize the auto manufacturing business. Then he can turn the clock back to the 1950s and make auto workers happy again. Win-win!
Now I’m thinking of an incident in Heinlein’s Glory Road where “Oscar” and Star, the two protagonists, get into a fight with what amounts to an ogre. The two have it pretty well tied in knots when Oscar – mainly to stop the screaming – shoves the ogre’s foot into its own mouth. It disappears in up to the knee so he jams the other leg in, too. Then the two of them keep pushing and rolling and the ogre gets smaller and smaller until they wind up with just some grease on their hands.
“Where’d he go?”
“Don’t think about it too much.”
If only.
Like the guy who ran around in ever-decreasing concentric circles until he disappeared up his own asshole.
Automakers should band together, buy some air time and tell it like it is “Donald Trump, The President of the United States, is trying to poison you. We are not going to let that happen and will continue to follow higher emissions standards. Every one of us.”
With the departure of John Mitnick, DHS General Counsel…
Now running DHS:
[del]Acting Secretary
Acting Deputy Secretary
ACTING GENERAL COUNSEL
Acting Under Secretary for Management
Acting CBP Commissioner
Acting ICE Director
Acting USCIS DIrector
Acting FEMA Administrator[/del]
Stephen Miller
At this point, if automakers have already tooled their factories for the higher emission standards, it would make more sense to just stay there. Stricter regulations undoubtedly will return so why go through the hassle to undo what they’ve done only to redo it again in the probably not distant future.
I know I should know this or I could look it up if I weren’t feeling so lazy today, but what’s the advantage to the typical MAGAt of relaxing the standards? My only guess is that it would somehow lower the price of a new car, but given the re-engineering and re-tooling and the like, that’s not too likely in the short term (meaning before the 2020 election).
Of course. They wouldn’t be doing it for purely idealistic reasons. But they could point out Trumps truly evil ambitions. Well, not even ambitions really. He’s doing it out of spite just like a 5 year old would.
Ten bucks says the moron in the WH will bring up what clean air and water we have so we don’t need these expensive regulations.
Ya see, he can’t figure out how to do anything that is beneficial to anyone but himself. So in a deluded attempt to try to make himself look ‘better’ he trys to destroy the goodness of others.
Librul tears?
That’s exactly what he’s claiming in this morning’s round of Tweetjaculations, along with the bizarre claim that this will also make cars much safer. To which I can only say “Whadafuk?”
That one is easy. The only way to meet the fuel economy standard is to replace good American steel with tissue paper to reduce weight.
If instead the auto makers could weld an I-beam cage around each car, no one would get hurt.
Of course, that is in tension with the reduced cost bit, what with the steel tariffs, but I’m certain it will all work out.
Trumpelthinskin starts a dick-measuring contest with a woman and loses:
Oh, he’d get at LEAST 20,000. And we’d all bring whatever rotten fruits and vegetables we could get together at the last minute.
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And the blimp. Please bring the blimp.