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[Doug3006]

My Toyota Tundra was built in San Antonio Texas, the USA has import tariffs on small trucks and hence why Toyota has so many manufacturing plants in the USA vs Mercedes which only has one plant located outside Germany and hence why they were freaking out over the tariffs.

Likewise the Ford custom transit is the most popular van in the UK and is sold in over 90 markets worldwide.

The main reason your Tundra, and most Toyotas, are made here is that Japan started running out of working age adults in the eighties. So, they opened the Lexington KY plant to make Camrys in 1986. Eventually they’ll move all of their plants making US cars here. Tariffs will just accelerate that. Once Germany comes to grips with their demographic collapse they’ll follow suit.

 

[Red Leg]

The main reason your Tundra, and most Toyotas, are made here is that Japan started running out of working age adults in the eighties. So, they opened the Lexington KY plant to make Camrys in 1986. Eventually they’ll move all of their plants making US cars here. Tariffs will just accelerate that. Once Germany comes to grips with their demographic collapse they’ll follow suit.

And those are not jobs making T-shirts.

 

[Doug3006]

And those are not jobs making T-shirts.

Hardly! In many ways, Japan has been leading the way on how to keep an economy going when you are experiencing a demographic collapse. The profit on all of those car sales still goes to Tokyo and helps fund the pensions for all of the aged Japanese. What no one has figured out is how to survive economically when there’s nobody left in the world to buy your shit! As more and more countries in the industrialized world begin seeing their working age population decline, who’s gonna buy this stuff, no matter where it’s made?

 

[Wheels]

 

[Nyati]

If the market is there then they will develop models specifically for them and their are some models that cross over quite well in other countries, even developing ones.

Example: The Ford Fiesta and India - Ford offers them with some outrageously bright interior options that are popular in India and I believe they started manufacturing them there also.

I Also believe the Ford Ranger would be a lower cost option to the Hilux.

Ford has been manufacturing cars in Europe for many years.

 

[SaintPanzer]

The Alabama facility makes SUVs.

 

[deewayne2003]

Ford has been manufacturing cars in Europe for many years.

Agreed, hence why I mentioned the Ford custom transit van as one example

Likewise the Ford custom transit is the most popular van in the UK and is sold in over 90 markets worldwide.

 

[Mekaniks]

Toyota Forklifts have been built in Columbus Indiana since the 1990’s…

 

[Brent in Az]

10 agents storm the cockpit of a Delta flight landing in San Francisco. Some of them were DHS.
Co-pilot arrested.
Havent heard why, yet.

 

[BonUm16]

10 agents storm the cockpit of a Delta flight landing in San Francisco. Some of them were DHS.
Co-pilot arrested.
Havent heard why, yet.

Pedophile.

 

[Brent in Az]

You never know who might be flying the plane.

Pilot Arrested on Plane in Child Sex Abuse Case Identified by Sheriff's Office | The Gateway Pundit | by Kristinn Taylor

The ta pilot arrested on board his plane just after it landed in San Francisco Saturday night has been identified by authorities as 34-year-old Rustom Bhagwagar from Florida.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

You never know who might be flying the plane.

Pilot Arrested on Plane in Child Sex Abuse Case Identified by Sheriff's Office | The Gateway Pundit | by Kristinn Taylor

The ta pilot arrested on board his plane just after it landed in San Francisco Saturday night has been identified by authorities as 34-year-old Rustom Bhagwagar from Florida.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

Would it be considered usual to arrest someone like this from the cockpit of a plane rather than as he left the airport or similar?

I can only imagine what the passengers were thinking.

 

[spike.t]

Seems Russia not bothered at all...

Donald Trump: Vladimir Putin must agree Ukraine ceasefire in days

The US president says there is "no reason" for waiting amid little sign of progress towards peace.

www.bbc.com

 

[spike.t]

And the AI killing jobs chaos seems to be kicking in big time

TCS: India's AI-driven tech firings could derail middle class dreams

India's largest IT services company has announced it will reduce its workforce by 2% as it gets future ready for AI.

www.bbc.com

 

[Brent in Az]

Would it be considered usual to arrest someone like this from the cockpit of a plane rather than as he left the airport or similar?

I can only imagine what the passengers were thinking.

You would think that they would wait and arrest him after everyone left the plane, instead of freaking out the passengers.

 

[PARA45]

You would think that they would wait and arrest him after everyone left the plane, instead of freaking out the passengers.

You are right, but unfortunately, it's not their style.

 

[mdwest]

You would think that they would wait and arrest him after everyone left the plane, instead of freaking out the passengers.

That would have also been far less risky..

The last thing you want is him locking himself in a reinforced cockpit, firing up those engines and deciding to start fleeing (suicide) with passengers on board..

Hitting the aircraft was stupid…

And if he decided to resist in any way, anyone with any “tactical” (SWAT, Military Special Operations, etc) will tell you that a “tubular assault” on something like an aircraft or a bus is one of the hardest things to pull off successfully… they are extremely difficult even if you’re trained for them… you want to avoid them at all costs…

They should have let the plane off load.. have a plain clothes agent standing in the jetway near the aircraft to block him from re-entering the aircraft once he gets off… have a pair of plain clothes agents standing at the location where the jetway connects to the aircraft that identify themselves as soon as they see him to make the arrest.. and if you think there is a serious risk of him fleeing or fighting, you have a couple of uniformed airport police officers just inside the terminal for back up..

What they did was stupid…

 

[Altitude sickness]

Every now and then one reads something that really illustrates the apparently irreconcilable differences that exist between the wings of much of the country. Politicians on both sides all to readily pander to the more outlandish views in their respective camps.

I have no clue who Joe Mathews may be, though he is employed as a regular columnist for the San Francisco Chronical. His view is that the LA Olympics should be cancelled basically because Trump will use them as Hitler did the 36 Olympiad in Berlin.

This sounds as nutty to me as the US staged the Apollo landings. But the worrisome thing is that many of his readers accept his view and opinion as responsible and correct. One of last sentences of his screed, appearing in one of the two major California newspapers reads,

"Why on Earth should Californians spend our precious time and money on a fascist pageant for our oppressor?"

I find it more than a little concerning that it sounds more like something penned by a Che Guevara than Walter Lippman.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/cancel-summer-olympics-los-angeles-20785014.php

This guy wanting to cancel the LA Olympics is hilarious and childish.
But worse, shows that he was probably educated in the typical liberal public system. If he had even an elementary level of history education. He would know that Jesse Owens showing up and defeating the German champ in front of Hitler was far more impactful than canceling the trip.

He either doesn’t know basic history. Or isn’t secure enough or sure enough in his beliefs to defend them.

 

[Altitude sickness]

I’m a huge fan of Hillsdale College. My daughter wouldn’t go there. But I still became a small benefactor because of the quality citizens they produce.

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[HookMeUpII]

Bessent's name is in the mix for next fed chair. He's sharp.

I still think Warsh will get it because Trump needs Bessent where he is right now.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/29/bessent-warsh-hassett-are-the-leading-contenders-to-get-fed-chair-job-cnbc-survey-finds.html