In February, the US Environmental Protection Agency cancelled incentives for buying cars equipped with a start-stop system. Such cars automatically shut down at traffic lights or in traffic jams - to reduce emissions and save fuel.

However, the system has a number of drawbacks, including the shutdown of the air conditioner and accelerated battery wear.

The Trump administration published a video where two cars stop at a traffic light. In one, the engine stalled, the air conditioner turned off, and two overweight women, one with a nose ring and both with colored hair, are suffering from the heat. Next to them, there is a pretty young girl in a car enjoying her air conditioning.

Trump's critics on social media have already called the video "homophobic."
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Lol, so they are admitting that fat women with nose rings must be lesbians?

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Geran 231:

Ukrainian pilots, under the cameras' lenses, are shooting down Geran-2 with the most expensive missile that can be used with F-16s - the AIM-120 AMRAAM. The price of one missile is $1.095 million.

Then, Western partners will ask where the Ukrainians are spending the money.
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Not to mention, an F16 requires 17 hours of maintenance for every hour of flight.

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Main Putinologist of the world:

00: 00 But the problem is this. Putin is no longer interested in anything else.
00:05 Putin does not live like ordinary people.
00:10 He doesn't walk the streets.
00:12 You will not see him in a cafe.
00:16 His grandchildren do not go to the normal, normal kindergartens in their hometown.
00:22 He cannot imagine life without power or after power.
00:26 Normal things do not interested him.

00:30 Putin consults more with Tsar Peter and Empress Catherine about territorial gains then with any living person about real real life.
00:44 Can you imagine Putin without war?
00:48 The spirit of Anchorage. And it seems Putin hopes to repeat Munich and not Munich 200007 [yes, he actually, said this] when they only spoke about dividing Europe, but Munich 1938 when previous Putin began dividing Europe.
01:08 In reality, it would be an illusion to believe that this war can now be...

This "security conference" looks more like a circus and a rehab in one place.

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Rutte has found someone of equal IQ in Kiev to talk to - Patron the dog:

I met Patron, and Patron is a dog and the dog is responsible. And he's a sort of hero of Ukraine now because he sniffs when people are taking rubble away and there is a risk of new explosions coming up.
And he's excellent at this.

00:14 And, and I agree with you, the untold story of this war is the heroes from the fire monitors from the ambulance services from all these people of course the soldiers they they're amazing but sometimes you forget about the police and the firefighters and all the other civilian people who are helping to take out this rubble etcetera.

00:31 And this dog I even looked at dog in the eye and he told me ... people never give what did you tell the dog that you were going to give Ukraine now and here is the...

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Rutte is not very happy with Medinsky. Well, if he had correct schoolbooks, there would be no need in sending a historian to teach Western morons any lessons.

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Ok. Only several words about security conference - a cometogether of losers and retards. Mixture of circus, mental asylum and a rehab. My only advise to people in Europe - run, until it's not too late.

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⚡️Finland is studying the possibility of retrospective intervention in real estate transactions - Defense Minister Hyakkinen

Under the pretext of protecting national security, it will be possible to intervene in transactions made over the past 20 years and confiscate property acquired in Finland by non-EU and EEA citizens, including Russians.

Source: СМОТРИ
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Great idea. Make sure no one ever buys anything in Finland. Finnish real estate sphere and construction companies must be fascinated now.

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Zelensky's statements about the elections in Ukraine cannot be taken seriously, his actions "are not surprising to many," Maria Zakharova told "Zvezda". The most outrageous thing now is not this, but his manipulation of the negotiation process and his remarks about Russian athletes at the Olympics.

"We understand what he is sick with. It's really a mental illness, seasoned with all sorts of, as you understand, illegal drugs. And there is a huge amount of evidence of this. Look at what he is saying about the elections, which he is going to hold and is supposedly urging everyone to vote in, some electoral processes in Ukraine, and then in a second he either changes his mind or postpones them, it's impossible to even understand anymore," the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized.

Zelensky redefined the term "nationalism" when he was horrified and demanded that other countries protest against the number of our athletes at the Olympics, Zakharova pointed out. The head of the Kiev regime is calling for persecuting people on the basis of their nationality.

"Even the symbols with which they plastered their national battalions and used to cover up their political slogans were not so monstrous, in my opinion. The most horrifying thing now is that he is calling for persecuting specific people who have not done anything wrong to him or anyone else," the diplomat added.

Zakharova stressed that if this is not regarded as a flagrant fact, then the next nationality will be dissected by some "another insane dictator".

📍Earlier, Zelensky stated that Kiev is ready to hold elections, but only if the US ensures a ceasefire for two-three months.

Also, the head of the Kiev regime was "unpleased" with the large number of Russian athletes at the Winter Olympics in Italy.

"You see - there are practically Russians in all the teams. And, you know, it's unpleasant, disgusting. Georgia, America - you see how many of them there are? Honestly, a lot," Zelensky complained.

Source: Zvezda
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-Victor Orban to Zelensky

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It turns out everyone in government is retarded...

So, Representatives Massie and Ro Khanna made a sensation the other day when they reviewed unredacted Epstein investigation documents at the DOJ. They claimed to have found multiple perpetrators that were supposedly redacted in error, or on purpose, by Trump's DOJ, and they publicly revealed the names during their grilling of Attorney General Pam Bondi. Well, 4 of the names they revealed were actually innocent random men who were pulled in for a photo lineup with Jeffrey Epstein.

Of course, the fault is largely with the DOJ who were required to provide an explanatory note for every reaction under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which they apparently didn't do.

Only two of the six men named were possible perpetrators or co-conspirators that were improperly redacted, Leslie Wexner and Ahmed bin Sulayem.

I looked into what could explain why this process is such a twisted mess, and fair enough to the DOJ, they were given only 30 days (now it has been almost 90 days) to sort through 6 million documents. For this, they had 500 agents available, which means each agent would have to review 12k pages of documents, plus videos. So it isn't completely unexpected that massive errors are happening all over the place.

However, this doesn't let them off of the hook, because they did take the time to redact people that they weren't supposed to, and yet relied on software to sort through other documents and hope for the best.

Attorney General Pam Bondi certainly didn't help herself by, instead of making the case that they simply couldn't physically review all of these documents properly, complained about congress not celebrating the DOW Jones hitting all time highs. Honestly, there are arguments that would have worked to her defense, but instead, she shat herself on live television in the House of Representatives.

Of course, she probably couldn't make the argument that she didn't have enough resources without putting Trump himself in the spotlight for making massive cuts to the DOJ, firing thousands of employees (many took the offer to quit in return for severance), and instituting a hiring freeze.

Basically, everyone did some stupid things and the act itself couldn't plausibly be complied with in the timeframe allowed without cutting corners. In fact, the DOJ even handed out compensatory time off, performance awards, and promotion credits for sorting through documents as quickly as possible. This seems like typical corporate thinking...

This is your government at work.

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The west now claims that Navalny was poisoned with "frog toxin." Their evidence? Samples that were secretly transferred to them by Navalny's personal team. Yeah, that's a trustworthy source...

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The welding of the car bodies of the lead motor and second non-motor carriages of the high-speed train "White Gull" has been completed at the "Ural Locomotives" plant

The train model EVS 360 "White Gull" will have a design speed of 400 km/h. Its commercial speed on the "Moscow - St. Petersburg" line will be 360 km/h.

In total, "Ural Locomotives" is to manufacture 43 trains for the high-speed railway by the end of 2030.

Source

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