A Horse With No Name

I need to go see this museum.

Amnericans racing Canadians, the only America vs Canada I want.

Unique ride.

Agreed! FAFO, reduce safety standards....Norfolk Southern found this out in East Palestine Ohio. Derailment cost them half a billion dollars, deferred maintenance seems like money well (not!) spent. More proof that Americans are clueless and tone deaf, or at least a bunch of the ones in charge, and the ones voting for the ones in charge.

Yep. I am positioning myself financially to leave. And I saw this way before Trump.

No problem. I am just as frustrated.

I loved both FWIW. Mexico City is very temperate in climate.

I don't buy RED state vs Blue state, the divide is rural vs urban. Rural NY is ruby red, Urban Utah is purple or blue. Canada and Mexico are both amazing. Of the two, I liked Mexico better but I love both of them.

Does anyone have any actual information about cars sitting on lots forever? Hearing more and more about this.

I really like this channel, accurate, compassionate, rational. Does an excellent job of explaining how effed up things are.

Be interesting to see what happens with these Airbus planes in the Russian fleets. More on the trade war...

It's more of an overall culture thing. yes, Pittsburgh, Columbus Ohio (where I am from), the PNW and St Louis have some great aspects. But even had we had a blue wave in 2024 and Kamala gotten 350 electoral votes, I agree with Olds. A lot of American culture is really ugly and I would rather travel (and live!) elsewhere. This will not change if all 434 house seats, the white house, and the 100 senate seats go blue. It's cultural. It's going to be the Chinese century for sure. The 20th should have been the German century and they abdicated through their actions, the United States filled the void. 21st century should have been another American century, but we abdicated. The Chinese abdicated by cutting their navy and turning inward in the 1400's before the rise of Spain, something that we should have learned from but didn't. Music cover for today.

That looks unreal, my wife and I need to do that. Canada is a whole different (and in many ways better) world than much of the USA. I still plan to visit several places in the USA, but will probably wilderness camp to bring as little revenue as possible into certain (red) states. You are absolutely right about American society going to crap. Trump is the symptom, not the cause.

The Trump administration will just speed up the demise of the conventional legacy auto makers. Fine by me. I will happily drive a Chinese EV at this point. More...

The economy is tanking, for real.

Thank you!

I shop at CVS for prescription drugs and little else. Rarely shop at the others. I dislike the marketing, product, and management of a lot of American companies. Would not shop at most of these if our government was made up of absolute saints. It goes beyond political to me just not really liking or caring about the companies above. Interesting VW test.

When we have this revolution I will be the countries number one supporter and wear red, white and blue every day for the rest of my life. I am just as disgusted with a ton of the dems as I am with the republicans. I think the US needs to stop thinking like an empire and take care of our people here.

Yes on the BBC story.

His party and the forces that put him there will still be in power though. He has obvious dementia just like Biden. Trump's father lived to like 92 but had extremely severe dementia. I don't expect much good from the white house for awhile, if ever. More on the truck. Lots of claims by Ford, we will see what happens. But a nice video summing this up.

Its busting now in seemingly permanent ways. The Chinese built ports and made deals with Brazil and Argentina for things like soybeans and other crops after the first Trump administration. It was easy for them to pivot, destroying red states who rely on this, just like China is also boycotting Kentucky Bourbon, as well as the Europeans, Africans, South Americans, etc. BRICS has 35% of the worlds production and over 50% of the worlds population. Countries are looking to India and China rather than the US, and increasingly, The EU. Look for the G7 to lose share proportionally. The G7 I think is like 25% of worlds economic share, so BRICS is already larger. Getting back to Ford, they will be fighting a ten year headwind when they finally get products with this new platform fully online about 2029. China has a solid ten year plus head start in terms of EV, and the BRICS advantage matters because BRICS countries have a built in desire to buy from China. Plus, the move away from the dollar is a stated goal of BRICS, and fewer and fewer reserves worldwide are kept in the dollar all of the time. Selling Chinese cars with a non dollar currency exchange is an easy way to de dollarize for big ticket items. When i was in Mexico, I saw 5 (five) Harley Davidson motorcycles on the streets, and thousands and thousands of Chinese motorcycles. The advantage of scale that China will have will be interesting to watch. I obviously am just some dude in Ohio with a "pink Carnation and a pickup truck" as the song says. But we are getting closer to the day the music dies for legacy car makers. Music video with the song, and 1950's American cars, at a time when American cars really were relevant. Good day, folks. ...and meanwhile, Xi is not returning Trumps phone calls, this should tell you all you need to know about American decline and what's going on.

Not by 2029 but I am not sure that this isn't a giant Hail Mary by Ford. That being said, my current ranger is pushing 118,000 trouble free miles on the odometer, it has been to like 25 or 30 states and hauled everything imaginable. Its done everything I have asked of it with efficiency and grace and amazingly, is probably one of my favorite ever vehicles. Would Love, love, love to see Ford succeed with this. It might win my cynical a$$ back into a Ford Dealership to buy another Ford product, my political feelings about things non withstanding. America is a dying empire and this is reflected in the vehicles it produces. just like the 50's and 60's were a time of growth, and THAT was reflected in the vehicles we built then. Without getting political, we have been moving away from the rule of law, working together,working towards the future, and moving forward for a few decades now. Its not just one orange man, its the system. Oddly enough the Ranger is popular in South America, I could see buying another one if I become an expat elsewhere.

I am really convinced Honda has lost the plot as well, love this Aussie commentator.

The economy is cooked. I ate breakfast at a place that's normally packed Sunday morning, three other people eating. The economic downturn is going to be brutal.

Wine in Portland does not seem to have a similar decline. What I am most sad about is that Micro breweries seem to be in decline also. yes, i said that I don't buy many of their products any more, but it also seems small independent breweries went from brewing just good independent beer to brewing stranger and stranger stuff to be original and get attention.