Kabe

A pre 2015 will last longer than any new honda.

This is true for pretty much any car manufacturer, not just Honda. And while it’s true that their 1.5L turbo engines are a lot less forgiving of skipped or delayed oil changes than previous engine designs, they are still considered to be more reliable than the vast majority of other car brands.

The review will only be of the 3 million files currently available to the public, not the extensive trove of more than 6 million documents in total that the DOJ says it has in its possession.

Still not good enough.

The Chinese-owned Geely group owns Volvo

I mean, they’re not wrong.

Toyota builds its cars in multiple different countries, but it’s still a Japanese company.

The actual problem is far bigger than Trump; It’s the corporate duopoly masquerading as a democracy that created the conditions necessary for the rise of Trump and the MAGA movement in the first place.

Perhaps we are talking at cross purposes.

I thought it was pretty clear that we were discussing what would happen if the US/Israel overthrew the regime like they did in 1953 and install a modern-day equivalent of the Shah. I wasn’t talking about an actual, grassroots revolution.

I’m sorry, but are you new here?

Surely I don’t have to explain to you how a regime change orchestrated by the US/Israel would necessarily result in a puppet state.

I’m not sure how you’ve come to that conclusion. Aside from Iran’s nuclear development ambitions, which is seen as an existential threat by Israel, Iran has been directly bankrolling both Hamas and Hezbollah for decades.

If the regime were toppled and replaced by a moderate government more open to negotiating with the US/Israel (which would almost certainly be the case, since US/Israel would be the ones picking who ran the new regime), that would be an enormous geopolitical win for Washington.

Human Rights Activists News Agency (Hrana) says it has so far confirmed the killing of at least 6,159 people since the unrest began, including 5,804 protesters, 92 children and 214 people affiliated with the government. It is also investigating 17,000 more reported deaths.

Not wishing to diminish the severity of the situation in Iran, but it’s worth nothing that these numbers come from HRANA, a US government backed NGO, and the organization has been very cagey about its sources and how it verifies its death toll figures.

There are also those within Iran who are accusing US/Israel funded agitators of being largely behind the escalation in violence. Both nations would clearly benefit from regime change, and this wouldn’t be the first time this type of operation has been carried out by US/Israeli agents.

With the information blackout, it’s ultimately very difficult to verify either way.

My thoughts exactly, with maybe a sprinkling of Al Capone on top

By the way, did you see what the Vanity Fair photographer did to him on the last White House photo shoot? It’s a stroke of editorial genius: