The Payment Shock Is Real. And I don’t think the automotive industry is talking about it enough. For years, we blamed inventory shortages for slowing sales. Today, inventory has largely returned to normal levels. According to Cox Automotive, new vehicle inventory reached approximately 2.8 million units in May 2026. The problem isn’t finding a vehicle anymore. The problem is affording one. Think about the customer who bought a vehicle 4 or 5 years ago. They financed a $32,000 vehicle at 2.9% interest. Their payment was around $500 per month. Now they’re back in the market. That same customer is looking at a $50,000 vehicle. Interest rates are often 7%, 8%, 9%, or higher. The payment they expected to be $500 is now $850, $900, or even $1,000 per month. That’s payment shock. And it’s happening millions of times across America right now. Customers aren’t saying no because they don’t want a new vehicle. They’re saying no because the monthly payment no longer fits their budget. This is why dealerships are seeing shoppers spend more time researching, comparing, delaying purchases, extending loan terms, and holding onto vehicles longer than ever before. It’s also why the dealers winning today are focused on: • Equity mining • APR reduction campaigns • Trade-cycle opportunities • Service customer retention • Used vehicle acquisition • Faster lead response The next battle in automotive won’t be fought over inventory. It will be fought over affordability. The dealership that helps customers solve the payment problem will win the customer. The dealership that only tries to sell the vehicle will lose them. Source: Cox Automotive May 2026 New Vehicle Inventory Report. New vehicle inventory reached approximately 2.8 million units while affordability continues to be one of the industry’s biggest challenges. Cox Automotive #Automotive #AutoRetail #Dealerships #CarSales #AutoIndustry #EVs #Inventory #InterestRates #Marketing #AI #AutomotiveNews #DigitalRetailing #FixedOps #UsedCars #FandI

Retards protested vehicle emissions, so a guy mass produced electric cars. The same retards now protest him for profiting by solving their issue.

Longest-lasting car brands % chance of lasting 250,000 miles: 1. Toyota – 17.8% (3.7x average) 2. Lexus – 12.8% (2.7x) 3. Honda – 10.8% (2.3x) 4. Acura – 7.2% (1.5x) — Overall Average: 4.8% — 5. GMC – 4.6% (1.0x) 6. Tesla – 4.6% (1.0x) 7. Chevrolet – 4.5% (0.9x) 8. Cadillac – 4.5% (0.9x) 9. Mazda – 3.6% (0.7x) 10. Ram – 3.5% (0.7x) 11. Lincoln – 3.4% (0.7x) 12. Ford – 3.1% (0.7x) 13. Dodge – 2.5% (0.5x) 14. Nissan – 2.4% (0.5x) 15. Subaru – 2.3% (0.5x) 16. Volvo – 2.2% (0.5x) 17. Infiniti – 2.1% (0.4x) 18. Mercedes-Benz – 1.7% (0.4x) 19. Jeep – 1.3% (0.3x) 20. Mitsubishi – 1.1% (0.2x) 21. Kia – 0.6% (0.1x) 22. Hyundai – 0.6% (0.1x) 23. Buick – 0.6% (0.1x) 24. Porsche – 0.5% (0.1x) 25. Chrysler – 0.5% (0.1x) 26. BMW – 0.4% (0.1x) 27. Volkswagen – 0.4% (0.1x) 28. Audi – 0.3% (0.1x) 29. Land Rover – 0.1% (0x) 30. Jaguar – 0.0% (0x) 31. MINI – 0.0% (0x) 32. Maserati – 0.0% (0x) 📌 Source: iSeeCars

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Lock step.

Ayn Rand’s warning was not about some distant dystopia. It was about the moment a country starts punishing production and rewarding political access. Look at Liberal Canada. If you want to build, drill, mine, farm, hire, invest, or expand, you need permission from people who produce nothing but paperwork. If you play the subsidy game, hire the right lobbyist, repeat the right slogans, and flatter the right ministers, money magically appears. Work gets taxed. Risk gets regulated. Failure gets funded. Competence gets buried under process. Graft gets renamed “partnership.” Waste gets called “investment.” Favours get dressed up as policy. This is how countries decline. Not all at once. Slowly, stupidly, and with press releases. Canada does not need more managers of decline. It needs a government that respects the people who actually produce the wealth in the first place.

🚨 Canada’s institutional capture is now complete. Since 2015 the Liberals have appointed: ⚖️ 740 of 1,000 federal judges 🏛️ 7 of 9 Supreme Court justices 📜 100 of 105 senators 📰 Fund 30% of every reporter’s salary in Canada And that’s just the foundation. Add to that: 📺 CBC: $1.4B annually to defend the Liberal narrative 🏦 Bank of Canada: Redefining recession in real time 📊 StatsCan: Counting Census workers as permanent jobs 📬 Senate: Hiding 240,000 democratic postcards in a warehouse 🌐 Bill C-8: MPs can delete you from the internet without a judge 🎙️ Carney on tape: Admitting central bankers bypassed voters on ESG They control the courts. They control the Senate. They control the Supreme Court. They control the media funding. They control the state broadcaster. Now they want to control the internet. Not one institution left standing independently. This is not democracy. This is managed decline with Canadian characteristics. And most Canadians are still waiting for CBC to tell them about it. 🇨🇦 Repost and Bookmark🔖 this post. 🇨🇦💀 #CdnPoli #Democracy #InstitutionalCapture #Carney #DefundCBC

What Sowell said is exactly right and needs to stop.

So I did a thing. This spare SSD is now less paperweight but a paperweight with AI. Ohh ahhh. But serious. All I do. Is plug into the computer and I have my own AI ready to serve. No tokens, not limits. No chain to the internet. No chain to contracts. Total data privacy.

Amazon's back, and they're STILL the undefeated champions of enshittifying everything you paid for.🏆 → Forced ads into Prime Video (judge: the terms allow it) → Killed the Kindle download feature so you can't keep your books → Cut off 12 Kindle models, bricked if you reset them → Added ads to Prime Music, removed downloads New month, new way to take back something you already bought.

Listening to @GadSaad break down Canadian taxes on Sean Hannity… aren’t you just excited to be Canadian?? From January 1st until the end of August, you work for free for the government. Only starting in September do you finally get to keep what you actually earned. Provincial tax capped at 25.75%. Federal tax at 33%. Already deep into the 50s before you even spend a dollar. Then add the double sales tax, carbon tax, gas tax, property tax, and school tax — and you’re left with roughly 30 cents on every dollar you make. This isn’t “contributing to society.” This is modern serfdom dressed up as compassion. The same government that wastes billions on ArrivScam, failed apps, and fax machine replacement programs now expects you to hand over eight months of your life every single year. And they still have the nerve to tell you there’s no money left for actual Canadians. Wake up. This didn’t happen by accident. #cdnpoli #TaxFreedomDay #LiberalFail #CanadaFirst

//The Wire//2300Z June 9, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: ATTEMPTED BEHEADING REPORTED IN IRELAND, RIOTS UNDERWAY. U.S. ARMY HELICOPTER SHOT DOWN IN GULF OF OMAN. KARMELO ANTHONY FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER.// -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -International Events- Middle East: Overnight one U.S. Army AH-64 helicopter crashed feet-wet off the coast of Oman. Both the pilot and the co-pilot/gunner managed to egress from the aircraft, and were rescued two hours after the crash. At the time of the crash, CENTCOM did not disclose the reason for the incident, however this afternoon President Trump confirmed that this aircraft was shot down by Iranian forces. Analyst Comment: Two hours in the water is a long time in terms of Combat Search and Rescue, and it's a miracle that they were rescued. Of note, some sources are claiming that the rescue method for the downed aviators took the form of an unusual source...an American Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV). If this is true (which we may never know), this would be the first instance of an American drone boat being used for rescue operations in a combat zone. Northern Ireland: Yesterday evening an extremely graphic beheading attempt was reported on a residential street in Belfast. One Sudanese national attacked a local, gouging out his eyes with a knife and attempting to behead him. The exceptionally brutal attack was captured on tape, and the video circulated widely in the moments after the attack. The status of the victim remains unclear, but he is receiving medical care for his many wounds. The victim has not been identified by name, however he's reportedly from Scotland and also hard-of-hearing, leaving him more vulnerable to the attack. Analyst Comment: The attacker was initially hospitalized at The Mater, the main hospital in Belfast. It is unclear as to if the attacker is still physically located at this site, but he was spotted in the hospital by local intelligence networks as he was being given a medical exam post-incident. The suspect is most likely being held at the Musgrave Custody Suite on Victoria Street, which is one of the more protected sites in Belfast and can hold high-security detainees. Despite the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) not charging this individual under terrorism charges, there's a very high likelihood that the attacker would not survive the first night once other detainees found out what he did. The assailant was granted asylum status as a refugee a few years ago, though the exact nature of this legal status is not entirely clear. -HomeFront- Texas: This afternoon Karmello Anthony was found guilty of the murder Austin Metcalf. So far limited protest activity has been observed outside the courthouse. Analyst Comment: No big mobilizations or riots have been observed yet, however more significant efforts might take some time to organize as it's only a Tuesday. Too soon to tell if this is going to become a hot state of unrest, but seeing as tension has been building on this for a while, it could go either way. The next big decision point will be sentencing, which will be decided soon by the same jury. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: As one might expect, the situation in Northern Ireland has reached a boiling point. Mass riots are already underway as of this report (and likely planned for the next few weeks), as the Irish begin to organize and mobilize. Tonight, local paramilitary groups have requested all residents of Belfast to turn off their doorbell cameras, and PSNI checkpoints are already established around the city preparing for the events of the next few days. Concerning the site of the mutilation, the location of the attempted beheading has been host to violence before. This exact apartment building has been the site of violent murders in the past. In 2019, two bodies were found brutally murdered inside Kinnaird Close, with the trial for the murderer concluding a couple of years ago. Of note, the attack yesterday evening was halted by Irishmen who intervened to attempt to stop the murder. Matthew McKiernan (Gaelic spelling: Maitiu Mág Tighearnán) has been identified as the man who clubbed the African with a hurley stick, attempting to stop the attack. He and other pedestrians did what they could, but by the time they were able to intervene, exceptionally grave wounds had already been sustained by the victim. They did their best, but there was only so much they could do as taking care of the problem was not a viable option as police were seconds away from the scene and would have absolutely arrested citizens for continuing the counterattack on the African after they arrived. Nevertheless, the entire city of Belfast is calling for blood right now, and tonight they might just get it. For historical context, this brutal attack took place in one of the most contentious districts on Earth. Belfast was one of the epicenters of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and the northwest quadrant of the city is still host to many "peace lines" to this very day. Granted, most of the old maps designating the Catholic/Nationalist/Republican (CNR) areas from the Protestant/Ulster/Loyalist (PUL) areas of the city are a bit outdated and not as strictly delineated in real life as it is marked on the map sometimes. Plus, the old history of political ideology, infamous organizations, and current political leadership is incredibly complicated. In short, neither side can rightfully point the finger at the other on this issue, because elements on both sides have resulted in furthering mass migration into Ireland. On the ground, this attack took place in a strong CNR community, right along a historic dividing line, so multiple communities have a vested interest in handling the situation. Even before sunset this evening communities which have quite literally killed each other over dividing lines, are at least beginning to acknowledge the seriousness of the current migration situation, while also acknowledging that singing songs and holding hands is still unlikely between Protestants and Catholics in many of these communities. Though the situation is incredibly complicated, when it comes to beheadings in the streets, the seriousness of the situation is stratifying along bigger lines than the history of the region. At his core, an Irishman is an Irishman, regardless of affiliation, and much like most of Western Civilization, the unofficial national sports are drinking, fighting, and blowing stuff up. As a result, there are solutions to these problems, if attention on all sides can be focused appropriately. There may indeed be more room for slight-cooperation between age-old factions which might have the chance to re-examine what lines of division are worth postponing for a time, as more pressing threats are already inside the fence....threats which are neither Catholic nor Protestant. Analyst: S2A1 Research: publish.obsidian.md/s2underg… Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report. //END REPORT//

The largest operating steam locomotive in the world is a sight to behold

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A statement from the CEO of Windscribe.

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