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I forgot to mention that Jeff Bezos IS actually involved somewhat with IONNA. But THAT is why I used him as an example for the other idiots I talked about because the other idiots I am ranted about are destroying our freedoms and consequently, our lives. And all of them are connected to each other in one way or other AND to the automobile industry in one way or other as well. Therefore me talking about a possible EV charger super empire collaboration between Bezos, the Trumps, O'Leary, Cuban, Rupert and even Musk partnered with electrical and software tech engineering giants is super feasible and realistic...

This is great!!! Its awesome what humans could accomplish when united. And that statement is FULL of innuendo. 8 of the largest car companies got together to engineer all categories in EV charging to FINALLY get the EV charging in the direction in needs to go for the new evolution of personal transportation to get ahead and displace ICEVs for the future. Adding all these IONNA chargers, and many many more to come, to the already existing Tesla chargers which might grow some more if Tesla fires their Chief Executive Officer. If not, IONNA could just take over and convert Tesla chargers into IONNA slowly slowly when Tesla goes bankrupt from a leader leading them off a cliff... And if a smart business man, say Kevin O'Leary, got to together with another smart billionnaire business man, say Mark Cuban, who could have shmoozed another savvy billionnaire business man, say Jeff Bezos as less than 4 years ago, to get together with all kinds of techy folk to build an EV infrastructure, and got with billionnaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch to report the BENEFITS of EVs rather than bullshyte with MIS and DIS information on different subjects and maybe even get the Trump boys to market these EV power stations with the Trump name and logo on the EV stations, maybe the EV outlook in the US and Canada would have looked a LOT different than it is today... And all those folk that I mentioned would have had a small oligarch monopoly with an EV charging station empire if you think about it... But greedy fascist ideas got in the way with the Trumps along with that faggot Elon Musk, (the homophobic slur is done on purpose to sarcastically call out what Trump, Musk and MAGA folk are demonizing and chastizing the LGBTQ community as I write this). Mark Cuban and Kevin O'Leary decided that being reality TV stars was the more lucrative choice in ironically having a reality TV show about loaning monies in exchange of being partners with people that have business plans and ideas... Then Kevin's wife decides to kill a fellow yachtman while she was drunk piloting her when she hit the other yacht when Kevin the husband decided to shack up with Donald the orange fatphoque duck. Bezos is too busy screwing his own employees while ditching to pay his fair share of taxes around the world demanding that his oversized yacht be priority when it couldnt cross beneath a bridge. And some American and Canadian folk all gobble that crap up in this bizarro world reality we live in right now... Imagine that, having businessmen come up with a product to sell that will fill a need? What a strange concept. And yet, Elon Musk, ironically by 2025 Elon Musk standards, he had that solution. But MIS and DIS information got the better of us because we are sooooooo phoquing stupid in our respective countries. But the EV oligarch empire will remain in control with the 8 largest car manufacturers along with Tesla. And I dont see Tesla be too long for this world.

Not quite but I wish... Quebec has had 7 Amazon warehouses. 1 of them tried to unionize and apparently succeeded. Amazon then closed down their warehouses. 1700 to 1900 jobs lost. But its closer to 3000 jobs. The Quebec government is going to sue Amazon for illegally closing down its warehouses and for them to re-open them... Amazon said they will be using 3rd party warehouses OUTSIDE of Quebec and using 3rd party delivery services. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/unionized-amazon-warehouse-quebec-concern-1.7441043 https://globalnews.ca/news/10995828/amazon-quebec-legal-challenge-job-losses/ https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/04/amazon-to-face-legal-action-after-quebec-warehouse-closures.html In my opinion, Quebec cant really legally force a company to leave. But Amazon also knew, like every other business wanting to do business in Quebec that Quebec is not anti-union. We are not pro-union per se, we will constantly bitch about the evils of unions, but we dont mind if unions do succeed in forming and well...we let unions do union things. Weird dynamic. My other opinion is that I wished that we NEVER got these phoquing Amazon jobs here to begin with. Jobs lost is one thing, but a job like an Amazon warehouse employee will really not help out the economy, nor will it help with unemployment or poverty. It will make it worse. Amazon warehouse employees arent paid all that much, job security at an Amazon warehouse is not all that great and products sold from Amazon dont do much for the Canadian economy nor for the local (Quebec) economy. Amazon does not pay any income tax to Quebec or Canada nor does a Quebec Amazon consumer pay any Quebec or Canadian sales tax on what he/she bought from Amazon. All around shyte from an all around shyte company making billions of dollars for a very shytty person named Bezos. Although admittedly not as shytty as Elon Musk. eeeee...ah-lmost as shytty as Elon Musk if we are honest with ourselves. When I heard the news that Amazon was closing its warehouses and a couple of these people were on the news almost crying about their jobs going away, I actually blamed them. I said to myself, why on earth did you want to be employed there for phoques sake? You are better off on phoquing welfare!!! Pride for actually having a job? Not at Amazon!!! One of the lowest things one could do in life is work for a human being like Bezos...

Oh...I forgot. What about unfair trade practices from Canada that Trump himself drew up in 2019 or 2020? What happened to that? How do we fix that?

So... There has to be 10 000 'front-line' personnel and helicopters flying around at the border along with this specially appointed fentanyl czar to make sure no fentanyl passes through... What are these 10 000 people at the border supposed to do? Look around and stare at people? Interogate? Arrest? Ask how the weather's doing? Play shinny when its slow? What are the credentials of these 10 000 people to work at the border to be? Who will be hired as the 10 000 people to work at the border? High School summer time job seekers? Full time high school drop outs? Ex military? Former Walmart cashiers? Amazon truck drivers that have been layed off because Amazon left Quebec? Uber eats drivers while they deliver Hot Dogs to the actual border people? Helicopters are supposed to be patrolling the border. What kind of helicopters? Cobras and Apaches? We will have to call them something else up here in Canada as we are woke... Or will it be Blackhawks? We will have to make sure that no DEI personnel fly them as we all know they cause crashes when dealing with Blackhawk helicopters... If we find sketchy fentanyl drug lords at the border, do we bomb them? What if some of those bombs end up hitting US territory? Will the US decry war on Canada for hostility? Or will it be passed as friendly fire? A new war on drugs is brewing and Canada and the US will have JOINT task forces to fight them. And here I thought he doesnt need Canada... Oh boy are WE lucky that Trump is letting us on a secret mission. He actually needs us. I feel the love...

Im actually kinda pissed the tariff war is not going to happen. Canada had it right to attack the red states. The red states NEED to feel pain. Everybody in North America would have felt the pain. But by attacking the products that the red states offer, that pain that the red states would have felt would have taught them a lesson. Maybe they would have still be morons and turn a blind eye to Trump, but they would have felt the MOST pain of ALL of us. And THAT is what I WANT. I want the red states to phoquing SUFFER!!!

1. How does one become a fentanyl czar (to protect the preciuos US border)? 2. What credentials do I need to become THE fentanyl czar (to protect the preciuos US border)? 3. How can I apply to become THE fentanyl czar (to protect the preciuos US border)? Sounds like a cool job. But something tells me its just a lollipop negotiation thing to make Donald the fat phoque duck tell his 'people' he is a strong leader...

This is what Trump promises, but that is not what Trump's #1 agenda is. His agenda is to make America into something along the lines of Russia. Oligarch economy with not too many billionnaires controlling the meek. The meek being you and I. Meaning ALL Americans and Canadians from ALL walks of life. Only billionnaires that kowtow to him. Albertans and the MAGA people suffer from the same disease. No education that listened to and continue to listen to politicians and religious folk that keep them poor and stupid. Quebecois were once like that. Cardinal whatever his name was a Premier Duplessis. And the 'Hanglish' as well. But they got wise to that, had their silent revolution in the 1960s that came to a boil in the early 1970s, independance talks form then on up until the 1990s, and that is that. They DO want to protect the French culture and language but they do NOT get bamboozled too quickly. Maybe fear of the English language kreeping up into Quebec that politicians like to dangle once in a while, but that puts the English at bay so it might not be a bad thing for Quebec after all. It looks like Quebec is on board, in English I might add, to unite with the rest of Canada to fight Trump... Only Alberta it seems that the Conservative party in Alberta still believes that Trump will magically be nice to Albertan oil...

Albertans mostly. Some sprinkled in Quebec and Ontario but not that much really. The Prairie provinces because they are still pissed that Pierre E. Trudeau, father of Justin, allegedly alienated the "West" by prevented further Albertan oil drilling and selling of said oil to other parts in Canada and in the world. Father Trudeau did say to them to diversify in their products to produce and sell... Irony is that Western porvinces hate father Trudeau because he alienated them while saying he favored Ontario and Quebec while Quebecois also hated father Trudeau because of same sentiment but Quebecois say that father Trudeau sold their independance to Englis Canada mainly from the west... In my honest understanding he could not been able to do both as its contradictory. He either was a traitor to Western Canada or he was a traitor to Eastern Canada. In reality though, he done good when both the East and West hated him. He done his job as there was really NO favoritism. He done his job righting many wrongs that were pulling Canada in the wrong directions from ALL provinces.

Phoque him!!! Phoquing Trumpster that he is. I wanna know though, him being from the LGBTQ community and all, yeah, I was shocked to find that out when I was reading past threads the last year I wasnt posting in here that he is gay. I wanna know how he feels when Trump is blasting the LGBTQ community more now in the last 2 months than the entire 4 years he was President #45. Had I know though, then that OCNBLU was gay, I would have BLASTED him more furiously further for being a hypocritical homosexual approving that asshat Trump, so its a good thing that I didnt know his business then.

We start with 155 billion dollars worth for now. 30 billion starting Tuesday. And 21 days later the remaining 120 billion to give a chance to Canadian businesses to adapt and possibly adopt new trading partners from other parts in the world. And seeing that the US imports 480 billion dollars worth of Canadian products, with still have another 350 billion dollars more to inflict tariffs on. Like I said, surgically we are doing this. Trump done the hammer thing. We are methodical. We will be concentrating on the red states. And we will be inflicting pain on those states as much as we can to make then plead to Donald to stop. We know that in doing so, inflicting pain on his people that voted him in, he might listen as we know he will NOT listen to the Blue States. In reality though, he does NOT care at all. Its JUST about him and his oligarch friends to make money... America is seeing the last of its days as a global influence. And MAGA people dont realize the damage they have done to their country. And its too late now as the world is looking at this and will never trust ANY political figure or trading partner from the US going forward into the future.

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/02/canada-announces-155b-tariff-package-in-response-to-unjustified-us-tariffs.html It turns out that, the automotive industry will not be spared by Canada. EVs included. Minister LeBlanc also announced that the government intends to impose tariffs on an additional list of imported U.S. goods worth $125 billion. A full list of these goods will be made available for a 21-day public comment period prior to implementation, and will include products such as passenger vehicles and trucks, including electric vehicles, steel and aluminum products, certain fruits and vegetables, aerospace products, beef, pork, dairy, trucks and buses, recreational vehicles, and recreational boats.

Wont be good for GM or Ford. Not only did Trump put a tariff on products that COME from Canada or Mexico which means final assemblied products FROM Canada and Mexico which means the Ford F-150 and the Silverado are going to be tariffed 25% and many other models such as Equinoxes, Blazers and Mavericks and Broncos which are bread and butter vehicles BUT, Trump ALSO put a 25% tariff on Canadian steel and aluminium which is bought by Ford and GM to actually PRODUCE said vehicles. The auto industry is a MAJOR back bone industry for the US. If on Tuesday, American tariffs will actually take effect, Ford and GM production will most definitely close down in the coming weeks if not days. And I havent even discussed the retalitory tariffs that Canada will impose on American goods. To start, Canada hasnt discussed about the automotive industry as we know that is suicidal for us as well. But it WILL lead to that and we WILL impose tariffs on US branded automobiles. Irony is that Michigan JUST became a red state... And why I say that: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (and yes he is still our PM until a replacement has been found which the Liberal party has until March to find a replacement until election time in October) had over a week to disuss with the Provincial Premiers on how to deal with these tariffs and we are SURGICALLY putting MOST of our tariffs on RED STATES. The products that these Red States sell to Canada. We will increase our percentages accordingly to whatb Trump will counter, but we will also expand our products. Keeping this trade war talk in terms of the automotive industry as it pertains to GM and Ford...imagine if Trump further increases tariffs on our steel and aluminium? And imagine when we ourselves INCREASE our prices for steel and aluminium further? Imagine also when we will tariff automobiles coming from the Michigan area because Red State... Honda Civics and HRVs are already best sellers in Canada, but these are vehicles being built IN Canada. Ram trucks are part of Stellantis, headquartered in Michigan for Chryco but Stellantis is really not American. Therefore fullsized pick-up needs can and WILL go to Stellantis. So many scenarios to where Ford and GM really lose out. I have said this before and I will say it again, this trade war will NOT end good for the US. It WILL be WORSE for Americans than it will be for Canadians. In the short term, no citizen will win. In the long term, this will be very very bad for Americans. The BIGGER picture of the American automotive picture is that, Americans (and Canadians) will pay HIGHER price tags for their cars more than ANYWHERE else in the world and in history. Most vehicles that are sold in the US are built in Mexico. Some in Canada and some in China. Trump put a 25% tariff on those. Cars that are NOT built in Mexico or Canada to be sold in the US and in Canada are being built in RED STATES. Canada will be putting a tariff on those. Its notm only Michigan that cars are being built. Georgia and Alabama also have car plants that build cars for Canadians to buy. We could live without Mercedes Benzes but we do like our Hyundai/KIA EVs. Those are built in Georgia... Maga people and Trump have not thought this thing through. Maga people think that Trump is a saviour. Maga people think that Canada (and Mexico) amounts to nothing. The irony is that that those two things I said are the complete OPPPOSITE of what reality is. Trump is not their saviour. He is the destructor of the American Empire. And its them that really amount to nothing. Insignificant in this world.

The sad part is, and there are 2 sad parts, that Tesla after all these years still cant produce a profit on the production and selling of cars (sad part #1) and GM has finally begun making money on producing and selling their EVs... https://www.businessinsider.com/gm-electric-vehicles-evs-profitability-trump-2025-1 https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a63608612/gm-stops-losing-money-on-evs/?taid=679ab32bbd13980001f8c2dd&utm_campaign=trueanthemTWCD&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter But Trump is threatening the survival of GM. Making that thought, sad part #2. ThatbGM is finally making money on EVs but Trump taking it away.

Elon also threatened to RAISE the price of ALL his Teslas in Canada. His Model 3 and Y, the models that sell the most in Canada by 9 000 Canadian dollars. And although the tariffs that Trump will impose will affect car prices here in Canada as well, Elon raising his prices on Teslas will only make Canadians NOT buy Teslas but to buy Hyundai/KIA and GM EVs instead. And in retaliation, our politicians will be tariffing Teslas in return most probably. So a DOUBLE and TRIPLE whammy for Elon and Tesla in Canada... https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/tesla-canada-price-hikes-tariff-ev-musk https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/autos/article/tesla-raising-prices-for-its-vehicles-in-canada-by-up-to-9000-starting-feb-1/ Self destruction at a whole other level GM and Ford stand not only to lose billons of dollars, but market share also...to Hyundai/KIA and the Chinese brands. Because either Mexico or Canada or both will surely allow them eventually to not only sell their cars here, but to build them here also. Push comes to shove, right? Elon is self harming himself in Canada and across the planet. Even if Donald helps him out in the US to overcome the EV rebates and subsidies that will end soon if that hasnt ended already, Americans wont buy EVs from him. And those from the lunatic right wing express that support him and Donald, well, they dont want EVs to begin with. But, the idea is that Donald is doing all this just to line his billionnaire friends and his own pockets with money belonging to Americans... Im afraid the American automobile industry is going to go extinct and that is one way on how and why these tariffs will hurt Americans more than Canadians. Also, Canadians are kinda used to paying more for gasoline and price of new cars. We dont like that fact, but we are kinda numb to it... Good luck to you folk though.

Buckle up dear American friends. These tariffs are going to cost the avg US household a whole lotta money. New car prices. Gasoline. Transportation on goods. Keep in mind that the US uses a LOT of Canadian oil. That is why the fat moron only wants to tariff oil at 10% rather than the 25% he keeps on heckling about. Housing. Plus, we Canadians are going to tariff US goods as well. Which wont be good but it will be necessary. A tariff war will not benefit either of us, but believe it or not, it will be a lot worse for you guys... Ontario and Quebec provide electricty to MILLIONS of Americans in the North East. THAT wont be good. It will be disatrous to the price of eggs if you will, to those shytheads that voted in Trump. And, this beautiful blonde lady that represents Donald's mouth, in this clip, she mentions fentanyl. But does she know that underground CIA operations have fostered fentanyl production in South American countries? Probably not, but I diont see her lasting too long at her job because she not only is dumber than Donald's previous mouth pieces such as Kayleigh McEnany and Sarah Huckabucks, she looks to be timid as well. At least the other two could lie with a straight face and believe the bullshyte, this one looks like she is going to break down. She seems to have moral standards... Which I kinda feel bad for her, because I have a feeling reporters this time around wont let the bullshyte fly like they did 2016-2020. And Fox news had to pay millions of dollars for bullshytting. The threat for punishment for false info still looms. I cant believe though, that Donald the duck administration had the balls to tell her to say that Justin Trudeau shoudnlt be threatening Donald with retalitory tariffs before talking to the duck first. Too bad this aint hockey, because Donald would have had his hockey jersey over his head and Justin be pounding on him. PS Justin is an amateur boxer. Donald is just a fat phoque.

ummmm yeah... Deep geological disposal... Away from where humans live deeeeeep down bee-low. Away from the top soil deep in the earth's core. Sealed in containers that wont leak, sealed in chambers that will contain the leakages, if there is a such a leakage to begin with, that themselves wont leak deeeeeeeeep down bee-low with nuclear waste that has been neutralized. All nice things when spoken but what IS the reality and the TRUTH about this storage? Colour me just a tad skeptical. And why? We cant seem to stop a freakin' faucet from leaking with attempts and trials and errors that span a millennia. We cant seem to stop ANY liquids from escaping their containment, again, a practice that we have tried to do spanning a millennia or two or three. Even four and five... So know, we wanna poison the earth from deeeep inside as we are NOT content of killing our planet from above. My my!!! We are quite the destructive little shytes we are!!!

Its tastefully done visually on the outside. My fear was all for nothing as I was envisioning aggressive spoilers and aero body kits. Although the Lyriq V does have different body work making it look like its slightly lower to the ground than the standard Lyriq and that extra body work is more sporty in nature, its not aggressive at all. And the extra body work is very minimal. In fact, nobody would notice the design cues as a sport oriented model let alone a V model. The V Lyriq just looks like a refreshed model for the new year. And that is how I prefer the Lyriq V to be styled. In my neighborhood, Chevrolet Equinox EVs and Lyriqs are ubiquitous. The Blazer EV slightly less so. Its too expensive. The Equinox EV hits the spot at the cheaper end of the Ultium platfrom spectrum while the Lyriq hits the spot and the higher priced spectrum of this platform. I saw up close and personal at the Montreal auto show, the Optiq, and the Optiq renders the Blazer EV uselessly obsolete. The Optiq has the same shape and silhouette as the Blazer, the interior is more luxurious as its a Cadillac all the while being slightly more expensive than the Blazer rendering the Blazer unneccesary. I predict the Optiq will also be a sales success going forward while the Blazer not so much.

This is an intriguing future that KIA is envisioning with the different modules that they propose their PBV vans be capable of transforming into and modules that be offered to be used. Pretty impressive thought process and engineering. I visited the Montreal auto show 2 weekends ago and saw Chevy's Bright Drop and was quite impressed with that family of EV vans, but if KIA succeeds with this idea and gives us this future, Id say this would be a far better design. I also saw VW's ID Buzz up close as well. Sat in the driver's seat, passenger seat up front and back. And although the discussion between a constant whining poster and David was that the VW's ID Buzz's exterior design is cuter, to which Id agree, and the interior is quite nicely done as well, the over all vision is bested by KIA. VW is relying on nostalgia to succeed. Like how it was discussed byn this very whiny poster. But...with a subpar EV powertrain to even GM's comparison of let alone Tesla, and although w Tesla has failed to advance its superiority in EV technology over its competiton, KIA, if they bring this future to reality, Id say KIA is killing it. KIA is looking to the future not only to survive, but to take no prisoners and rule the EV world. Id take future progress over nostalgic mediocrity any day of the week. And athough Id buy an ID Buzz and proudly drive it even with the subpar EV powertrain as compared to its competiton, because the ID Buzz is that cute and fun to be seen in, its KIA that really desereves my tip of the hat with this concept. Well done KIA!!!

Im trying sooooo hard to ignore myself. I cant. Its impossible to do as he mocks Canada. Threatens Canada. We Canadians are taking his insults and threats very seriously and its impossible just to let it go. Our relationship with our American brothers and sisters are put to a test and we do not like it one bit. I havent been so proud to be Canadian like this in a very long while. Enough that I have started cheering for the Montreal Canadiens in hockey. Havent done so since 1984. I havent started loathing the US quite yet, but Im awfully close in doing so. I have started with that thought process though... and Im easing into the hatred.

Thank you for allowing me to express my sadness and anger towards DJT. Its not easy listening to Trump's hurtfull speeches towards Canada. Hence these posts. Agreed. But...that does not mean because some women and visible minorites voted for him that Trump needs to take away their rights... DEI is such a bad thing that the Tuskagee Airmen actually were never a force to be reckoned with in the US airforce back in Double U Double U Two. (sarcasm) Regarding women, yeah, I suppose DEI is a bad thing as women belong in the kitchen and bedroom. Its my duty as a human being to defend anything and everything shytty that comes out of Trump's shytty mouth. And it dont matter if uneducated and brainwashed idiots voted for Trump, it is still my duty to defend these people from the tyranny of this man named Trump. I understand. I will comply with the language thing. No need for vulgarity. I agree.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2025/01/25/air-force-pulls-class-with-tuskegee-airmen-video-after-dei-order/ https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/01/24/military-effort-scrub-diversity-programs-leads-dead-websites-and-confusion.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tuskegee-airmen-wasps-lesson-removed-us-air-force-curriculum-memo-dei-order/