Where's Chrysler?

You know there's no more Chrysler Corp. anymore, right?

Yep, Chrysler went away back in 2004.  Mercedes-Benz bought it.  After we, the taxpayers had shoveled more than $8,000,000,000 out the door their way to help them through bankruptcy.  That's with a "B."  Its second one.

Remember Chrysler credit?  Yeah, it's now Ally Bank.  We permitted them to dump all their debts and start clean.  $8,000,000,000 in debts.  That's with a "B."  Our Government's good at that... 

Except M-B gobbled up that cash and sold Chrysler off to a hedge fund named KK&R.  That's Kolberg, Kravits and Roberts.  Which quickly renamed it the "Cerberus Corporation."  You remember that, right?  No?

And then they got tired of trying to make money with it and sold it to a "new company" named "Fiat-Chrysler."  Which has owned it for the past three years.  You knew that, right?  

No?

And they've pretty much milked everything they can out of the old designs, without ponying up the cash necessary to come up with any new ones.  Example:  The "300 series" sedans were first produced back in 2004.  They're being put out to pasture after this year.  They foisted that one design on the public for more than 20 years.  Leaving only the Jeep and the Pacifica mini-van and Ram, their truck.  Which is a Dodge, but for whatever reason they can't, or won't, call it that.  

So they're down to three basic vehicles on their showroom floor, and it's my guess they'll pull the plug within the next three years.  Why?  "Chrysler," or what they're now calling it, is an empty shell.  It's but one of 22 vehicles under the Fiat umbrella.  You read that right.  Chrysler is owned by the Italians.  And hedge funds.  And a little bit of our stock market.  So here's a partial list:

     -  Abarth     -  Alfa-Romeo     -  Chrysler    

     -  Dodge     -  Citroen     -  DSAutomobile          

     -  Fiat     -  Jeep     -  Lancia     -  Maserati     -  Opel     

     -  Peugeot     -  Ram     -  Vauxhall     -  Ferrari

You feel good about buying that new "Chrysler" product now that I've spilled the beans?  And what am I doing lifting up the hood?  Because I know nearly everything about cars, having studied them for more than 70 years.  Ask yourself:  What happened to Pontiac?  And Studebaker?  And DeSoto?  And Nash?  And Oldsmobile?  How's their warranties gonna' help you in the future when they've gone bust?  Especially since they've bet the farm on Plug-In-Electric, and it's going bust as well?  How's Chrysler's warranties gonna' help you in the future?

You could hear, "No speakadaEnglish."  (That was a lame attempt at Italian).

Now I, The Chuckmeister, don't care which car you buy.  But with the average new car sale averaging $48,034 now, and Bidenflation costing more than $750 for the average car payment, I couldn't live with myself if I didn't offer up a little advice.  Something to think about before you say "Yes" to the second largest purchase you'll ever make?

Don't buy a Chrysler product, don't buy a Plug-In Electric, and don't buy a new car.  Buy a car coming back off a 4- or 5-year lease.  Almost all new cars will make it to 150,000 miles, so a clean car with 35 - 40,000 miles is just getting started.  And you can buy it for $HALF-PRICE!

You're welcome...

Two Bandaids and a Cork.

Just an observation here from a cranky old guy with a bad back.  It seems that all young starlets-to-be have to claw their way up in Hollywood by disrobing in public in order to get movie roles and become rich and famous.

Doubt me?  Scroll through any of the numberous commercial websites and every other picture will be of some dewy young babe flaunting her wares in a skimky bakini.  Sometimes very skimpy.  With lots of side boob and copious quantities of long, long legs and more a*s than your eyeballs can tolerate. 

(I should add here that I'm a true a*s and leg man, so that's okay with me)

And then the super lucky ones will make a few hit movies and get paid a few $Million Dollars and then flaunt their wares on the red carped at various and sundry award shows.  With lots of side boob and a whole bunch of upper leg/thigh/waist/stomach/lower back.

Yes, I'll admit, this used to wind my watch.  Over wind it sometimes.  But today, that train has left the station.  Now I'm a bit more critical in my viewing and observations.  Now?  It seems that yesterday's starlets are once again disrobing in order to attract attention.  They did so on the way up, and they're doing so again on the way down.  Must be tough to be 50 or even 60 and (less)sexy than you once were.  And their bakini (non)designers are beating themselves up trying to find a way of displaying gobs of wares without getting arrested.  So I'll just cut to the chase with a recommendation:

         Two Bandaids and a Cork! 

If you're 60 and want us to ogle you, then you simply have to wear "Two Bandaids and a Cork."  This design would simplify the choices, lower the costs, and begin to provide some EQUITY in our viewing!  And it might even reduce the incidence of overripe babes trying to get that second bite at the apple by taking off their bra and panties.  In public.  Without an invitation to do so.  What do you think, fellow Patriot? 

As for me?  Direct me to a channel that gives me the news and no side boob.  If I'm looking for side boob, I'm sure I can find it.  The distraction could get my A-Fib acting up. 

"Nomsayin?"

How About 30?

I believe I mentioned that my older brother got 5 years in a reformatory for boys for having committed the heinous crime of...petty theft.  $167.00.  One time.  Only.  He was 16, asked a raise, didn't get it and acted out.  And got 5 "up the river" for his indiscretion.  First offense.  Way back when they actually meted out punishment if you did something bad.  

And like they should start doing again...

I can't remember a single mass murderer lately where he/she/it/they didn't have 40 or 50 prior arrests.  For burglary, even.  Or carjacking.  Or domestic violence.  Armed robbery.  Serious crimes, treated unseriously.  Because arresting these perpetrators is a waste of time.  They're out before the cops can finish the booking.  Because the inmates are now running the asylum.  And our society is coming apart at the seams...

More than 70 million of our citizens are living under the reign of George Soros bought-and-paid-for district attorneys.  

Soros has spent more than $400,000,000 of his ill-gotten wealth* to try and turn America into a socialist workers paradise.  And the result is half of America's mothers don't know whether their children will come home tonight in a body bag.  Or whether they come home at all.  The only way to change this is to vote the bastards out, but nobody comes to the polls anymore in Big Blue Cities except hard-core Leftists.  And they apparently vote how their ward heelers tell them to.  Example:  I'ts been 68 years since any of Chicago's 31 Assemblymen has been a Republican.  Nor the Mayor.  Sad.   

So it seems punishing those who break the law is passe.  We just don't do that anymore.  In our more liberal precincts, we don't punish them at all!  And so a lifetime of "Don't do that again," And TV psychologists telling you not to spank your kids, has resulted in ever-greater crimes, and ever-greater harm to the community.  I know.  I'm trained in psychology.

I remember stuffing a Superman comic book down my pants when I was about 10.  They called my mom.  That was the worst punishment they could ever mete out.  She unleashed the fires of Hell upon me.  And I never, ever did the five-finger discount thing again, nor did I ever do anything illegal (for which they caught me) again.  

But my fellow citizens?  They aren't following my lead.  They're robbing, and stealing, and mugging, and carjacking all day and all night.  And when they're caught?  A George Soros-installed D.A. will choose not to prosecute and they'll be home before the arrest paperwork is filed.  And boy, does it piss off the cops!  The ones who remain, after that "defunding" thing.    

The fools.

That's one of the main reasons the cops are bolting the Big Blue Cities.  Lost Angeles is down 1,000 cops from its police, and 870 from its Sheriff's Dept.  New Yawk City is down more than 800.  Portland is down 500, and they only had 1,500 to start with.  Back when their citizens obeyed the law and crime was near nonexistent.  Back before the Liberal Loons took over the city councils.  Back before those same folks decided shooting heroin and living on their streets was quite alright.  Freedom to choose, and all that.  Back when the cops came when you called.  Quickly.  Ahhh, yes.  Ancient history.  

Now?  The average response times to a 911 call is now more than 30 minutes!  And as we all know, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.  Is the city council being made to pay?  Not yet, it appears.  Maybe they're too busy hiding under their beds.

Anyway, I'm suggesting right in front of God and everybody that we declare 30 prior arrests as the Magic Number.  The number that triggers your ticket and sends you off to Rikers.  Or maybe Leavenworth.  The number it takes for them to finally get serious and...

LOCK THEM FRIGGIN' UP!  

Did you know that if you removed the murder rates from our 50 Biggest Bluest Cities from America, our Country would be the safest on Earth?  That's 'cause in those Big Blue Cities they're shooting each other!  And we want them to stop!

Pull a gun out of your pants in any Wal-Mart in Texas and you'll be opened up like a can of tuna.  Pull a gun out of your pants in a Wal-Mart in Portland and the other shoppers will faint.  That's what we call a conditioned reflex.  Like white rats in a Skinner Box.  Don't know what a Skinner Box is?  Look it up.  We trained psychologists used them all the time.

Time to choose, America.  How will you have it?  

It's time for a divorce.  A national divorce.  Here's some stuff to think about.  Europe is the same size as America.  Europe has 50 countries.  America has 50 states.  Were it not for our becoming a Representative Republic we might well be like Europe.  With 50 countries.  Each with its own set of laws and rules and regulations.  Just like our states do today.  Think about that for a minute...   

You get what you vote for, America.  You get what you pay for.  You get what you deserve...

*    George Soros is a Hungarian-born Jew, who grew up in the WW2 years.  He's reputed to have helped the Nazis locate his fellow Jews at the age of 5, so there's that.  What's known for sure is that he's a brilliant economist, and proved it by nearly bringing down the Bank of England in the 80's with an illegal currency play.  He was prosecuted, convicted and jailed.  He was later ushered out of Europe with the warning to never come back.  So he took his crooked $Billions to the U. S. of A.  He has a nice compound on the South Shore of Long Island, N.Y.  His plan?  Install commies as D.A.'s in our Biggest Bluest Cities, so they will simply stop prosecuting felonies.  He did it.  And they have.  And it's killing America...

"The Shot Heard 'Round the World" (Part Zwei).

If you were born after about 1980, and went to schools in any of the Big Blue Cities, you probably have no idea about American history.  Where we were, why we were, and how we got to where we are.  That's because it's not taught much anymore.  

Those Founding Father guys owned slaves and all that...

You're probably all over Equity, Divsersity and Inclusion if you were born after 1980, and trans rights, and Critical Race Theory, and that abortion is "healthcare," and that boys competing against girls in sports is quite alright, but probably have no idea what caused us to break from England and force the Revolutionary War upon us all.  

(And what just might cause us a future break with Washington, D.C. and our Big Blue Neighbors, just like that one from Britain.)

The super "Cliff Notes" version of how the "First" Revolutionary War got started - you'll forgive me for offering up a history lesson - goes something like this:  The Brits were looking to us, their colonists, their serfs, to provide them with all sorts of goodies.  Like cotton, and sugar, and wool, and rye, and rum, and bourbon, and taxes on their imports.  Without much commentary.  "Quiet, peasant!"  So Britain could continue to afford its never-ending wars with France.  But when they started taxing tea, it pissed us off!  We drank oodles of that stuff.  So the colonists dressed up like Indians (Indigeneous Personages, if you don't know what an Indian is) and dumped a bunch of tea in Boston Harbor.  About $3 Million Bucks worth in today's money.

And then King George III, who was running England at the time, got a bit concerned that his colonists might be Growing a Set.  So he sent a letter to his Lieutenant Colonel Smith, headquartered in New York at the time, ordering him to "temporarily" seize all the colonists' arms and ammution.  "Temporarily" being the operative word here, you know (heh, heh).  George knew that disarmed colonists would be compliant colonists.  Where a flat "No!" would be replaced by a whimpering "Please?"  

Their firearms!  The very thing our Leftist goons would love to seize today!  They're trying right now!    

Under the order of General Thomas Gage, George's Main Man in New York, the King's army marched on Lexington and Concord the morning of April 9th, 1775.  They were coming for the colonist's guns and ammo.  But on the other side of that bridge were colonists unwilling to give up those weapons.

            I'll bet that was a surprise!

This was perhaps the very first instance in American history of a coordinated effort to enforce gun control and seizure.  Which did not work.  Famously.  Nor would it again, if ever attempted.  Some of us gunners actually hope they try.  Just for the entertainment value.  Target practice for realzies, doncha' know.  

It's disputed who fired first, but one side did, the other side responded, and word has it the score was:

               Colonists 1, Redcoats 0.  

Or, the first time the Government tried to take our weapons.  And the first time they failed.  You'd think autocrats would learn that the definition of insanity is doing something over and over, expecting a different result.  But the Lefties have been gnawing around the edges of our 2nd Amendment absolute Right to "...keep and bear arms," for more than 80 years.  Taxifornia's own Boy Guv Newsom has written with his own little manicured hand some 128 Executive anti-gun Orders. He will not give up.  They will not give up. 

                   But neither will we.

Yet, today it was reported that the O'Biden Adminstration intends to enforce "Universal Background Checks" on firearm purchases.  The very thing that Congress has voted down over and over for the past 10 years.  Because they require the collection and storage of personal data by the FBI.  Which is now prevented by the Constitution.  This action is of course illegal, but what else is new?  O'Biden breaks the law at every turn.  We now suffer with the Department of (In)justice! 

What's new is, get this:  The new "rules" from the White House permits you to still pass along a family firearm heirloom, or collector's item, to a member of your family, so long as you don't make a profit from that sale or gift (how would they know?).  Should you do so, or any other weapon over a stated period of time, you'll now have to register as a Federal Firearms Licensee.  Which ATF, now run by a socialist, may (likely will) subsequently deny.  After an investigation of your application.  All 89 pages of it.  Which could take years.  

Or maybe forever.

(You should know that ATF just decertified 876 FFL's all over the Nation, claiming various administrative and paperwork failures.  I guess if you can't find a place to buy a gun, you can't buy a gun...)   

It's the newest form of "Catch 22" to make the lawful purchase and ownership of firearms as difficult as possible.  Reread my blog posting here, if you would, and learn how Leftists can screw with your Constitutional Rights without causing the "Corporate Media" to have to investigate.  Against their will.  Kicking and screaming.  Which they do not want to do.  Because they're all Leftists.  Self-proclaimed.  But that doesn't mean our citizenry won't rise up and kick their asses!  

Have you purchased your firearm yet?  

Then you're the one... 

And lastly, a NEWS FLASH just to piss you off even more, Guv. Michele Lujan, (D-NM) just "temporarily" revoked the 2nd Admentment Rights of her citizens for 30 days "...at least" because firearms injuries and deaths in Bernalillo County were "...out of control."  When questioned as to its obvious unconstitutionality, she stated, "No Constitutional Right is guaranteed, not even my oath of office."  

Well then!  Elon Musk was quick to ask on "X," "How soon can this woman be romoved from office?

You now know all you need to know.  In fact, this humble blog may be the only place from which you'll learn the truth on this issue.  Every thinking American should buy and own and learn how to use a firearm.  And the commie pinko dumbass liberal weenies will then not stop until they take it from you.  And you just might have to fight to keep it.  Yes, it's really going to be that bad.  I may not live to see it, but many of you will.

Americans owned 150,000,000 firearms the day Obama was immaculated.  His anti-gun policies started a run on firearms that has yet to subside.  More than 3 Million a Month are going out the door since that date (I'll be writing about that soon).  And the line is forming out the door at your remaining local firearms dealers right now.  The very good news is we have 100,000,000 people, armed with more than 500,000,000 guns.  As "Mumbles-the-POTUS" is fond of saying, "We got F-16's!"  Yeah, Joe, but we got one-third of the population, and they own 25 million AR-15's!  How about that?  

Hey Joe,  "Wanna' play?"

Really, Elon? 51%?

Buying an automobile from a single-source supplier can come back to bite you in the a*s come trade-in time...

I've been hating on "Plug-In Electric" (PIE) vehicles for more than an eon.  For about a dozen really good reasons.  You know, like they have a propensity to burst into flames without warning.  That can be problematic.  And run over little girls on tricycles.  Messy.  But I've failed to report on one more reason why you shouldn't buy an automobile, or anything else, from a non-dealer, dealer.*

Every car sold in America is sold by a dealer network.  By law.  Dealers buy a franshise to sell a certain brand, and then the manufacturer does the hand off.  After which, no influence may be expended on the dealer/franchisee as to price or availability.  Oh yeah, that's every car, except one.  

That "one" is a Tesla.  Musk must have paid off Hunter and his daddy to have gotten an exception to the dealer franchise rule 20 years ago, but that's how you buy a Tesla.  From Tesla.  Direct-to-you.  Sounds fun, right?  Be afraid, fellow Patriots.  Be very, very afraid.  And here's why...

It's being reported that a wealthy owner of a 2022 Tesla Model "Plaid" tri-motor with only 19,000 miles on the clock wished to trade it in on a new, "bat-winged" Model X.  Expensive?  Yes, yes it is. 

They all are. 

So because Tesla is a single-source seller and buyer, meaning there's no independent dealer network, this owner approached them for a trade-in offer.  The one he got back took his breath away.  Tesla offered him 51% of his $119,000 original purchase price!  Only $61,100 for this near-new top-of-the-line Tesla in showroom shape.  Like a slap in the face to a loyal customer.  One who just learned the pitfalls of dealing with the market-maker.

This Model tri-motor Model "Plaid," BTW, means it has 1,020 horsepower and can accelerate from a dead stop to 60 mph in under two seconds!**  

Of course, it also means there's like 39 people in all of America who not only want it, and can afford it, who don't already have it.  It is expensive to buy, to own, to insure (20% premium) and apparently now to sell!  The whole electric car market is only a decade or so old, so we should make sure there's a way to offload a $100,000+ investment if and when the time comes...

So as I mentioned earlier, the "Plaid" will pass everything on the road except a "Supercharger," which will happily sell you kW's at $0.53 each.  

That, by the way, is the exact price of gasoliine... 

I feel for this dude.  Must be tough to have loads of cash, get hooked on the pitch, become a mainstream addict, yet cannot get his pusher to buy back some of his stash...

*       Unlike all other PIE's, Tesla's are only available from...Tesla.  Wouldja' buy an engagement ring from LeRoy's Ring Company?  Even if LeRoy was a cool guy?  Okay.  So what they charge is what you pay.  And what they offer as a trade-in...is what you get.  Unless you go outside that network and try to trade your car in to a regular, good old-fashioned dealer.  Like Chevrolet.  And Ford.  And Genesis.  The way one chooses to do it from the git-go if one gives a sh*t about one's money.  BTW, they'll look at the guy with the Tesla the way an entomologist looks at a bug just before inserting the pin...

**     Cars with internal combustion engines need time to "spool up," creating torque, which is the stuff that makes the back wheels spin (not horsepower).  And lay copious quantities of rubber (yeah!).  But cars with PIE motors don't need that.  Like the rheostat for your dining room light, they're either "on" or "off."  Their "torque" is available from "0" mph and "0" rpm, because there is no rpm.  That's why they're in demand by hot rodders like me.  Except unlike me, those hot rodders who've bought into this whole "green" schtick haven't thought through the whole electric car deal.  If they had, they would run like a bandit from these growed-up, ovepriced golf carts... 

93% of Everybody!

I wonder when people started feeling it was okay to talk about their sexuality in public?

Their sexual proclivities?  Their love life?  Their preferences?  The "G Spot?"  Who they go to bed with?  How many do they go to bed with?  Without shame or self-doubt in the least?  When, exactly, did that practice begin?  Maybe when Kim Kardashian found fame?  When Britney went off the rails?  When?

You'll have to forgive me.  And old folks like me.  When we grew up there were boys and girls.  Period.  No other genders to confuse us.  Or them.   And we didn't talk about sex publicly.  Even Lucy and Desi had to each keep one foot on the floor when appearing in bed on "I Love Lucy."  Think about that.  

Now?  Our own State of California assures us there are 57 genders.  Or was it 58?  I can only imagine how difficult it is for young men to decide whom to now call for a date.  Or even try a pickup line at a bar.  What if they're a "(fill in the blank)" and you get your as* kicked?  This whole "LGBTQ2SII!!*++?" deal is perplexing!  Who's who, is what I'm asking!  Boys and girls didn't have to wear a sign when I was growing up.  Nor were girls 6' 5" and weigh in at 235 lbs. just before they kicked your butt at swimming.  I vote to require some sort of signage, if only for personal safety. 

I suggest we fight fire with fire.  Perhaps it's now time for us "HETEROSEXUALS," the part of our society comprising 93% of everybody, to advertise our average-ness.  Our usual-ness.  Our regular-ness.  Our nearly everybody-ness.  And the 3% or 4% - or even stretching it to 7% of our population that has some special needs - let them advertise it so we can either be drawn to it, or repelled by it.  Or maybe get them some help.  And stop wasting our time...

(From all my psychology training, I can tell you there's a lot of mental illness going around hiding under the gize of "gender dysphoria."  There.  I've said it.  You've got the gist of this posting.  You can sign off now if you wish.)

In fact, I'm now calling for "Heterosexual Pride Month!"  Pick your month, we won't care.  And we don't think it's too much to ask.  After all, we've had "Pacific Islander Month."  And "Transgender Pride Month"  And I think even "Gypsy Pride Month."  Aren't our 321,000,000 (or however many) average, everyday heterosexuals more important than 12,000 Islanders?  Or however many Gypsies?  

Anyway, you decide.  I won't care.  The completely average husbands and wives, and those yet to make the commitment, will be engaged in heterosexual sexual sex while the message scrolls by on the bottom of our TV screens.  Or while waiting for it to scroll...

Two Things We Need to Discuss...

First, since O'Biden's Inflation is causing me grief (my personal retirement stash has decreased more than 20% since Joe was immaculated), and you too, I'll bet, I thought about picking up a little part time change.

A side gig, as they say.

And since I'm lame, thus putting my professional tennis days in the rear-view mirror, anything that involves movement is out.  No consideration at all.  So what could I do that doesn't involve making stuff go from point "A" to point "B?"  Or walking, for that matter?

And then I heard of "OnlyFans."

I did a little bit of reseach, fellow Patriot.  And those who have a part-time gig on OnlyFans make serious $Bank!  I mean, $$$ELSERIOSOBANKOLA!

Some babe named Cardi Bi* has more than 18 million followers on TikTok and made $9,340,000 LAST MONTH!!!  She promises "quality content" for "only" $19.99 per month!  She offers higher levels of access, starting at $100 and up to $500 per month as well for "personally selected content."  What can you get for $500 you can't get for $19.99?  The mind boggles. 

One wonders who does the selecting otherwise...

And then there's Blac Chyna, who somebody told me was a wrestler at one time.  Or maybe still is.  Who knows?  She has 16.2 million followers and $Banks a cool $8,000,000 A MONTH!  

Where did I go wrong?

So, fellow Patriot, do you have any suggestions as to how I can break into that bizz?  I mean, really!  $8 Mill a Month?  What is she doing for those subscribers they aren't getting done in their lives?  Maybe these poor folks should take that $19.99 and join a gym.  Maybe they could meet an actual human being of the necessary sex from whom they could get some of what they're missing.  As for me, I could get along nicely on half that, so tell me what half of what she's doing I could do?  

                             /////////////  +++   \\\\\\\\\\\\\\

And anyway, Item Number Two is the cost of Government.  I did a bit of research on the subject and I can tell you we have 1.923 Million State/county/city government pencil pushers.  The folks who are supposed to answer the phone and solve our problems if we were to ever call.  

Which most of us never do.

And gues what?  There are 2.87 Million Federal Government workers pushing bits of paper around on their desks.  Getting to work two minutes late and leaving 15 minutes early.  If they bother to come in at all.*  And dragging down $Six-Figure Salaries!*  Am I pissed!  Not about those who are needed and performing.  Both of them.  The others?  Yeah, pissed!

So how many of our more than 22,000,000 civil servants do we actually need to function properly?  Do we really need 8% of our population to handle the affairs of the other 92%?  I'm guessing we could do quite nicely with two-thirds of them, and not miss a beat.  The drones in San Franpoopco who work for the Feds have been told to stay home!  It's too dangerous on the "Streets of San Francisco" for the San Franciscans!  So they're sitting at home, eating bon-bons, and laughing at us.  Yeah, I'm pissed!

Is there anything else we need to discuss right about now?  Yeah.  I was waiting for somebody to correct my "Melatonin" usage in my last posting.  Shoulda' been "Melania," of course.  But I wanted to know if anyone out there would comment.  Only my very bright neice, Ms. Christine, chimed in.  Good for her.  Shows she's paying attention...

*    Our average Federal employee's salary is now $113,000 a year.