That just boggles my mind, sorry.

Even if I made enough money to be able to afford that, I wouldn’t.

The AVERAGE price tag on a new car is now $47,000

Twenty years ago when I was repairing Lincoln / Mercury vehicles for a living,

forty grand bought you a top of the line, all the bells and whistles, prestigious

automobile that most people couldn’t afford.

Now they want forty grand for this,

Now add insurance and $5 a gallon gas.

According to the article linked above, because of the electronic chip shortage, automobile builders decided to build bigger, more expensive models to get the most bang for their buck because they couldn’t crank out as many as they wanted to.

Now as I recall, back in the day, mid 70’s and a couple of times since, when the price of gas got higher than peoples comfort level, the automobile industry still had enough sense to respond to demand by cranking out little Econoboxes by the millions.

Such as,

Now of course these newer cars have way more amenities and still get pretty decent mileage but give me a break, Thirty Five Grand for a Grocery Getter?

Are you fucking serious?

And who are these people who can just plunk down that kind of dough, especially when EVERYTHING ELSE has gone through the roof except wages?

$2000 a month for rent, $600 to $800 a month for groceries, etc. etc. etc..

As it is, credit card use has skyrocketed in the past year as people foolishly try to maintain a standard of living that they are purposely being squeezed out of.

Then we have the ones I really love seeing.

Sweet Jesus, I wouldn’t even be able to afford NEW TIRES on that shit!

I mean, I make decent money but are you kidding me?

It’s not just new cars either, the price of used vehicles has shot way up too.

Now me being a mechanic, I might be able to afford a much older rig, spend the money here and there and REFURBISH something but I sure as HELL ain’t paying what they are asking for what I consider to be a vehicle that isn’t rebuildable BY DESIGN in the first place, let alone some Front Wheel Drive piece of crap with enough useless electronic crap in it to run a small country.

Damned if I know, most folks gotta do what they gotta do to get around but the way I see it, unless you are pulling down just about twice as much as I make in a year, there is no way you can afford to buy a new car.

It just isn’t possible.

Eventually the car manufacturers are going to see their sales fall off a cliff and be forced to rethink their strategy.

I guess they never heard of this before,

Some or most of look to be having three days available to us to do something besides being a Wage Slave.

We can expect the usual OOH RAH, ‘Merican, 4th of July 24/7 for the next three days at least.

I have some sad news for you, the America we were born and raised in is deader than a door nail and there is no miraculous resurrection in the cards.

I have documented the death of America slowly but surely for many years now and I can pretty much call a Time of Death at this point.

That certainly doesn’t mean that we can just throw up our hands and walk away.

On the contrary, the need to fight has never been greater.

It’s just that what we need to fight for now is a New and Improved version of what got perverted and corrupted.

The very first thing that needs to happen is that a few million people need to pull their heads out of their asses and come to the realization that our government wants us dead.

Not just beat down, really dead.

They have been doing their damndest to kill off as many of us as they could, openly, for the past two years.

Since the first plan didn’t work out as well as they had hoped, they are now doubling down with a variety of other methods.

Those of us they can’t kill outright are to be hammered into dog shit economically for starters.

So I plan on doing some thinking, some scheming and some planning over these next 3 days.

Since the Communist supporting local Government outlawed fireworks here in the city limits finally a couple of years ago anyway, they have saved me a bunch of money and aggravation for their trouble, both of which I can now use to my advantage.

I know I have had to come to the conclusion that about all I can do at this point is to try and survive as best I can without any immediate support from anyone here on the home front.

It is what it is and I have been surviving shit for a very long time.

I can be quite innovative and very efficient when I have a certain goal I want to accomplish right in front of me.

I’m also not the least bit afraid to let it all hang out if necessary.

This is an open thread, you can spout off on anything that suits your fancy but I am really interested in your thoughts about long term plans, if you have any.

His approval rating went below Trumps at the same point in office.

39.0 % of your fellow citizens still think he is doing a Bang Up job.

That’s a lot of Brain Dead Motherfuckers.

But hey, no more mean tweets, right?

Meanwhile,

The MSM, FBI, DOJ and several Police Departments continue to pretend it’s not.

Fuck You, Asshole.

And that goes double for your little Commie Butt Buddy, Attorney General Bob Ferguson.

Fuck both of you dirty sonsabitches.

Let that crime rate go up ANOTHER 137% and let’s see whatthey think.

West Hollywood votes to cut Los Angeles County sheriff funding amid crime wave

The move to reduce police funding comes amid a crime wave in Los Angeles County and public opposition

A trendy Los Angeles County community has voted to reduce law enforcement funding despite escalating crime that was up 137% earlier in the year and public backlash. 

The budget for the next two fiscal years will leave West Hollywood with up to five fewer Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies on patrol. At the same time the council approved increasing funding for a cultural arts festival.

The budget was approved by a narrow 3-2 vote with Mayor Lauren Meister dissenting as well as Councilman John Erickson.

“Most of the residents and businesses I have heard from are opposed to cutting the Sheriff’s budget,” Meister told Fox News in a statement. “They are outraged that people and organizations from outside our city are dictating to Council how to run our city. The narrative that we can have ‘either Sheriff’s or social services,’ or ‘either Sheriff’s or unarmed security teams’ is false.”

Thirty or forty more armed home invasions ought to get their attention.

Courtesy of Mr. N,

About ten minutes after he let me know what it was I kind of vaguely remembered seeing a picture of one about twenty five years ago.