Random Thoughts Thread

[G. David Felt]

Very cool about what GM has achieved with American built Magnets!

GM’s Rare-Earth Gamble Pays Off as China Tightens Magnet Exports

[oldshurst442]

15 minutes ago, G. David Felt said:

Yet none of it will happen due to the Corrupt Supreme court.

And HOW will you, the citizens of America, REVERSE that trend?

[G. David Felt]

4 minutes ago, oldshurst442 said:

I am not trolling.  I am stating my feelings. And they are REAl.

And I honestly DO think your country is useless at this point in time.  

Does @ccap41 actually want the annexation of Canada?

YOUR president HAS threatened Canada.  YOUR president REPRESENTS ALL of the US.

YOUR country has levied tariffs on Canada and the while LYING about the reasons.  YOUR citizens are CLUELESS and INDIFFERENT to what happens to not only my country with these tariffs, but to yours too but @ccap41 is peeved because I express my anger towards your shytty country?

Listen @G. David Felt

My feelings are warranted towards YOUR country.  Tell me to stop. Ill stop.  But do NOT tell me I am trolling.  I am posting NEWS about your country with MY honest feelings towards the reality of it all. 

If I piss off any American feeling because reality is a bitch... oh well... 

But do NOT tell me I am trolling. I am not. Its all sincere.

And...

There was a discussion about guns and safety. 

I shout at the top of Mount Rainier how Americans continue to kill each other with guns.  I say its because Americans are too dumb, too selfish, too cavalier to own guns and somehow that is far from reality?

Two more public shootings happened in two different areas of your country on TOP of all the fascist directions your government is taking...

Listen @G. David Felt

I know your country is going through rough times.  But fight for it.  YOU guys ALONE caused it.  

Why do I PERSIST in SHOVING IT IN YOUR FACE!!!

Because YOU need to HEAR it so you could FIGHT for your rights and freedoms.

Direct your annoyance of me to where it NEEDS to be directed.

 

 

And when will that be?

When will you STOP as a people, pointing the gun at your fellow American and start using your voice and power of the people to STOP the lunacy?

By trolling ME with 51st state pics on the web?

I post burning of the American flag to make YOU rage AGAINST what is keeping YOUR freedoms away from you.

It is NOT ME that is doing that to you.  Its your president with his 1% rich folk.

You are angry at me?

HA!

Be angry at who is doing this to you and  DO something about it!!! 

You know the Blue states of which I live in one is very Anti-Idiot47! There is only so much that can be done till enough of the Red State Idiots wake up to how much the moron has taken from them. Hopefully sooner rather than later 

4 minutes ago, oldshurst442 said:

And HOW will you, the citizens of America, REVERSE that trend?

Sadly, the Supreme court just like all positions should never be for Life. Yet that will never happen sadly due to power hungry idiots that feel than can benefit from keeping the same idiot in the position for life.

Honestly, voting for a party is Stupid no matter the country as it should be voting for the person with the best skill set to represent the people. Sadly, ignorant people make ignorant votes.

[oldshurst442]

33 minutes ago, G. David Felt said:

In other news, Ford and GM will continue to shrink while preaching good news to cover up the fact that their days as Global Auto Companies are coming to a close.

Yup. 

And Canada is on the precipice of actually de-coupling from the US and the Big 2 and a half. 

Which will spell danger on the behalf of MORE Americans.

Canada will try to broker deals with other car makers if China does not want to come here to BUILD cars and only sell them.  Other countries WANT to make trade deals with Canada.   The hurt will be at a minimum as much as it can. 120 plus years of US/Canada car building there.  But it is Americans that have DECIDED on this way forward. 

33 minutes ago, G. David Felt said:

Sucks for you, seems the Mariners in the Toronto backyard beat them.

Yeah...it sucks. But I am happy to where you and I could tease one another. You personally David.  And it happens to be against Seattle.  Your hometown. So that is friendly fire from you to me and vice versa.

But...MLB is mostly American players so...phoque them...    

However, many are from Latin America too that lay in the MLB.  Something something about immigration policies across the US... 

Edited 2 hours ago by oldshurst442

[surreal1272]

Random thought:

 

Talking politics non-stop on an auto enthusiast site is like talking autos non-stop on a political enthusiast site.

[oldshurst442]

3 minutes ago, G. David Felt said:

You know the Blue states of which I live in one is very Anti-Idiot47! There is only so much that can be done till enough of the Red State Idiots wake up to how much the moron has taken from them. Hopefully sooner rather than later 

Sadly, the Supreme court just like all positions should never be for Life. Yet that will never happen sadly due to power hungry idiots that feel than can benefit from keeping the same idiot in the position for life.

Honestly, voting for a party is Stupid no matter the country as it should be voting for the person with the best skill set to represent the people. Sadly, ignorant people make ignorant votes.

 

Yup.  And this would be PART of my anger. As I also see no phoquing end to it.  This is MY frustration as well.  I LOVE the US.  It may not look like it now, but I am DEEPLY hurt by YOUR countrymen.  Because I see no end to it I am LASHING out loudly. 

3 minutes ago, surreal1272 said:

Random thought:

 

Talking politics non-stop on an auto enthusiast site is like talking autos non-stop on a political enthusiast site.

Its mostly about cars anyway...

Canada is just about to decide on what will happen to Chinese EVs and the tariffs Canada has on them. 

China will then lift the canola oil tariffs and then new trade talks will begin starting a whole other trade war between the US and the world...

Its all related...

The gun safety stuff?

Well...that is not politics. 

That is just news. 

 

[oldshurst442]

Feel free to add your opinions on Canada lifting the tariff on Chinese EVs. You too, could tell me, since I want Chinese EVs to enter Canada how Chinese EVs suck.

Feel free to change your avatar to one that says Canada = 51st...

[A Horse With No Name]

40 minutes ago, oldshurst442 said:

I am not trolling.  I am stating my feelings. And they are REAl.

And I honestly DO think your country is useless at this point in time.  

Does @ccap41 actually want the annexation of Canada?

YOUR president HAS threatened Canada.  YOUR president REPRESENTS ALL of the US.

YOUR country has levied tariffs on Canada and the while LYING about the reasons.  YOUR citizens are CLUELESS and INDIFFERENT to what happens to not only my country with these tariffs, but to yours too but @ccap41 is peeved because I express my anger towards your shytty country?

Listen @G. David Felt

My feelings are warranted towards YOUR country.  Tell me to stop. Ill stop.  But do NOT tell me I am trolling.  I am posting NEWS about your country with MY honest feelings towards the reality of it all. 

If I piss off any American feeling because reality is a bitch... oh well... 

But do NOT tell me I am trolling. I am not. Its all sincere.

And...

There was a discussion about guns and safety. 

I shout at the top of Mount Rainier how Americans continue to kill each other with guns.  I say its because Americans are too dumb, too selfish, too cavalier to own guns and somehow that is far from reality?

Two more public shootings happened in two different areas of your country on TOP of all the fascist directions your government is taking...

Listen @G. David Felt

I know your country is going through rough times.  But fight for it.  YOU guys ALONE caused it.  

Why do I PERSIST in SHOVING IT IN YOUR FACE!!!

Because YOU need to HEAR it so you could FIGHT for your rights and freedoms.

Direct your annoyance of me to where it NEEDS to be directed.

 

 

And when will that be?

When will you STOP as a people, pointing the gun at your fellow American and start using your voice and power of the people to STOP the lunacy?

By trolling ME with 51st state pics on the web?

I post burning of the American flag to make YOU rage AGAINST what is keeping YOUR freedoms away from you.

It is NOT ME that is doing that to you.  Its your president with his 1% rich folk.

You are angry at me?

HA!

Be angry at who is doing this to you and  DO something about it!!! 

There is nothing to do. Listen to Richard Wolf, the collapse is inevitable at this point. America is incapable of governing itself, and thus the economic collapse will keep America from causing negative consequences around the world. 

Given the Belt and Road initiative and other positive things on the BRICKS side, a Chinese century is preferable to an American century at this point. 

22 minutes ago, oldshurst442 said:

Feel free to add your opinions on Canada lifting the tariff on Chinese EVs. You too, could tell me, since I want Chinese EVs to enter Canada how Chinese EVs suck.

Feel free to change your avatar to one that says Canada = 51st...

The 21st century should be the Chinese century, and Canada is doing the rational thing getting rid of tariffs on Chinese EV's as the domestic automakers are destined to fail and disappear. Better Canadians don't own vehicles that are obsolete that they can't get parts for. 

[A Horse With No Name]

32 minutes ago, surreal1272 said:

Random thought:

 

Talking politics non-stop on an auto enthusiast site is like talking autos non-stop on a political enthusiast site.

There is a really good book by Len Deighton called Violent Ward, where LA goes completely to ship (t) and things fall apart. Was a good read a couple of decades ago when I read it. 

Twenty years ago, this forum was well populated and relevant. Now its a pathetic shadow of its former self. Being here is like watching the final collapse of LA in that novel. I feel bad for Drew, who owns the site and is a good guy. 

But the site mirrors the domestic auto industry and the country that holds that domestic auto industry, all three are going to collapse into irrelevancy. 

We need a book with Olds on a Horse with Windmills. Don Quixote was another good read, but it takes an 8th grade literacy level which most Americans seem to actually lack. I work in a university and a surprising number of incoming Freshmen are almost functionally illiterate. 

Would love to live in a world where cars like a 70 442 were still relevant, or where we had interesting, profitable American EV's. I do like the lightening and a few of the hummers. 

But in this world, the 442 is following other American muscle cars, the American auto industry, the country, and this site into oblivion. 

29 minutes ago, oldshurst442 said:

Feel free to add your opinions on Canada lifting the tariff on Chinese EVs. You too, could tell me, since I want Chinese EVs to enter Canada how Chinese EVs suck.

Feel free to change your avatar to one that says Canada = 51st...

Feel free to request meds. I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but god damn, the windmills thing son....and I don't mean modern renewables...Don...don Quixote...

43 minutes ago, G. David Felt said:

You know the Blue states of which I live in one is very Anti-Idiot47! There is only so much that can be done till enough of the Red State Idiots wake up to how much the moron has taken from them. Hopefully sooner rather than later 

Sadly, the Supreme court just like all positions should never be for Life. Yet that will never happen sadly due to power hungry idiots that feel than can benefit from keeping the same idiot in the position for life.

Honestly, voting for a party is Stupid no matter the country as it should be voting for the person with the best skill set to represent the people. Sadly, ignorant people make ignorant votes.

America needs a divorce, where sane places like Washington, Oregon and Northern California can form a country called Cascadia and other states can descend into 1820 socially, politically, and religiously, and then 1620. When were the witches hung in Salem, Mass again? 

49 minutes ago, oldshurst442 said:

And HOW will you, the citizens of America, REVERSE that trend?

Its going to become an irrelevant third world fascist state. give it thirty years, or weeks, or minutes, god only knows how long. 

[oldshurst442]

2 minutes ago, A Horse With No Name said:

 

Feel free to request meds. I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but god damn, the windmills thing son....and I don't mean modern renewables...Don...don Quixote...

 

There are no imaginary beasts with that dude you just quoted. The windmills are real with him and the other dude form Saint Louis. 

Sorry that you are in the crosshairs. 

[A Horse With No Name]

50 minutes ago, G. David Felt said:

Very cool about what GM has achieved with American built Magnets!

GM’s Rare-Earth Gamble Pays Off as China Tightens Magnet Exports

Sadly I am probably the only one here that will read this, but thank you. 

Just now, oldshurst442 said:

 

There are no imaginary beasts with that dude you just quoted. The windmills are real with him and the other dude form Saint Louis. 

Sorry that you are in the crosshairs. 

You need to talk about how cool Montreal is, or something. Archie Bunker back in the 1970s led a miserable existence because he realized how much better everyone else's life was. Focus on the good in your life, not the lives of others. Be grateful you don't live here, and encourage other Canadians to boycott.  

On 10/11/2025 at 8:41 AM, surreal1272 said:

Seriously @Drew Dowdell, how did this slide right back into politics and personal insults again (see above)?

 

Oh, I know how.

Lithium makes great anti psychosis meds, as well as batteries. So many uses. 

On 10/10/2025 at 6:56 PM, G. David Felt said:

Could the U.S. have a second Civil war? The future is bleak due to Corrupt leadership that covers so many problems including after 249 years being put on the human watch list due to abuse by the administration.

Ray Dalio warns of debt surge, brewing ‘civil war’ in U.S.

irrelevant, most Americans would survive this civil war, and regardless of outcome would not improve current downward trajectory of US

[oldshurst442]

5 minutes ago, A Horse With No Name said:

We need a book with Olds on a Horse with Windmills

Make that book with me riding on Pegasus holding the lifeless head of Charlie Kirk as a stand in for Medusa flying high right beside Trump (as a stand in for the windmill and the Kraken) and dead Charlie's stare is turning the Maga world into stone and you got me.

 

[A Horse With No Name]

On 10/11/2025 at 1:09 PM, Robert Hall said:

Reality is complex.

Watching this forum implode along with the world, the domestic auto industry, and the country around it though is sort of amusing. 

[Robert Hall]

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

[G. David Felt]

@A Horse With No Name Just think of a Modern 442 but in EV format.

The Oldsmobile 442 stands for a combination of features that define its performance:

• 4: Represents the four-barrel carburetor.
• 4: Stands for the four-speed manual transmission.
• 2: Indicates the dual exhaust system.

442 Performance EV

• 4: 4,000 HP
• 4: 4 motors, 1,000hp each
• 2: 2 door Luxury Performance

Kinda how I can see this from Genesis:

Sexy as hell and needs to be produced as this would excite people to own a car!!! imho

[A Horse With No Name]

2 minutes ago, G. David Felt said:

@A Horse With No Name Just think of a Modern 442 but in EV format.

The Oldsmobile 442 stands for a combination of features that define its performance:

• 4: Represents the four-barrel carburetor.
• 4: Stands for the four-speed manual transmission.
• 2: Indicates the dual exhaust system.

442 Performance EV

• 4: 4,000 HP
• 4: 4 motors, 1,000hp each
• 2: 2 door Luxury Performance

Kinda how I can see this from Genesis:

Sexy as hell and needs to be produced as this would excite people to own a car!!! imho

Absolutely. 

But it wouldn't be built by an American company. 

[oldshurst442]

16 minutes ago, A Horse With No Name said:

You need to talk about how cool Montreal is, or something. Archie Bunker back in the 1970s led a miserable existence because he realized how much better everyone else's life was. Focus on the good in your life, not the lives of others. Be grateful you don't live here, and encourage other Canadians to boycott.  

Montreal is cool. But all the enlightened Americans know that already.  Its useless for me to state how wonderful Montreal is, its to deaf ears. Why? Miserable Americans themselves do not know how cool their own country USED to be. When America  actually meant for something, let alone for them to give a shyte about Montreal. 

My life is great.  Thanks for the encouragement. Nobody on here (certain posters) gives a shyte for that though.  So...they get a dose of American reality instead. 

Believe me, I know how lucky I am to be living where I am.  Montreal has got its problems. We are on civic elections shortly and the shortcomings of Montreal, and the Province itself  (language laws again) is front and center which will spill unto the Provincial elections next year. Or the next. I now MORE about American politics at this juncture than of my own backyard...

Canadians are rallying ALL by themselves to boycott ANYTHING America.

It is quite the contrast of decades past to where Canadians are THAT much united.

However, Quebec politics of language and Quebec culture and the protection of has crept in in these elections and are about to open old wounds DESPITE how much Quebecois are united with the rest of Canada.

Our politicians. whether its Maple Maga, or Quebec culture protectionists, or Albertan, play by the Trump political playbook... 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by oldshurst442

[G. David Felt]

1 minute ago, A Horse With No Name said:

Absolutely. 

But it wouldn't be built by an American company. 

I can see GM and Ford being a subsidiary of an Asian Auto Company one day! 😥

[oldshurst442]

OK...the first post that Ill make to turn it around.

Montreal has allocated I dont know how many more billions to fix the Olympic Stadium's roof once again.  It is cheaper to spend billions than to tear it down. And at this point, the Olympic Stadium, for better or worse, symbolises Montreal. The architecture that is both beautiful and unique but arrogant and self serving and corrupt.   This stadium is part of Montreal's fabric whether we as Montrealers like it or not. So might as well embrace it. Love it and live with it. Show case it the way we showcase other Montreal beauty.

It is the start of the renovation project. Beautiful photography. Enjoy. 

 

[A Horse With No Name]

6 minutes ago, G. David Felt said:

I can see GM and Ford being a subsidiary of an Asian Auto Company one day! 😥

The parallel here is MG, a former British company now owned by Chinese IIRC. I see the MG brand everywhere outside of the USA

Just now, oldshurst442 said:

OK...the first post that Ill make to turn it around.

Montreal has allocated I dont know how many more billions to fix the Olympic Stadium's roof once again.  It is cheaper to spend billions than to tear it down. And at this point, the Olympic Stadium, for better or worse, symbolises Montreal. The architecture that is both beautiful and unique but arrogant and self serving and corrupt.   This stadium is part of Montreal's fabric whether we as Montrealers like it or not. So might as well embrace it. Love it and live with it. Show case it the way we showcase other Montreal beauty.

It is the start of the renovation project. Beautiful photography. Enjoy. 

 

Gorgeous. More like this please. 

Glad to see them doing this, I really want to urban hike Montreal. 

9 minutes ago, oldshurst442 said:

Montreal is cool. But all the enlightened Americans know that already.  Its useless for me to state how wonderful Montreal is, its to deaf ears. Why? Miserable Americans themselves do not know how cool their own country USED to be. When America  actually meant for something, let alone for them to give a shyte about Montreal. 

My life is great.  Thanks for the encouragement. Nobody on here (certain posters) gives a shyte for that though.  So...they get a dose of American reality instead. 

Believe me, I know how lucky I am to be living where I am.  Montreal has got its problems. We are on civic elections shortly and the shortcomings of Montreal, and the Province itself  (language laws again) is front and center which will spill unto the Provincial elections next year. Or the next. I now MORE about American politics at this juncture than of my own backyard...

Canadians are rallying ALL by themselves to boycott ANYTHING America.

It is quite the contrast of decades past to where Canadians are THAT much united.

However, Quebec politics of language and Quebec culture and the protection of has crept in in these elections and are about to open old wounds DESPITE how much Quebecois are united with the rest of Canada.

Our politicians. whether its Maple Maga, or Quebec culture protectionists, or Albertan, play by the Trump political playbook... 

 

Canadians, and the folks in the other 198 countries outside of the USA, all should indeed boycott the USA

[oldshurst442]

1 minute ago, A Horse With No Name said:

 

Gorgeous. More like this please. 

Glad to see them doing this, I really want to urban hike Montreal. 

 

Urban hiking in Montreal is awesome. Lots of locals bitch about our bike paths. And to a certain degree, they would be correct as bike paths have taken over. And as an automobilist in Montreal...yeah.  

BUT...what most automobilists in Montreal have failed to realize that the people, the young families that CHOSE to  ACTUALLY LIVE in the city centers ENJOY those bike paths. The safety and the ease of biking anywheres in the city centers with their KIDS enjoying the OUTDOORS.  Montreal was ALWAYS a walkable city until the cars invaded. The walkable and bike-able paths fought back to re-acquire what was rightfully theirs before the automobile made its appearance. 

 

And this is not even on the mountain. The mountain has its own natural preserved beauty.  This is in Anjou. A  burrough to the north east of the island.