When to admit
you've made a grievous blunder
American Thinker,
by
Geoffrey P. Hunt
Original Article
Posted By: tisHimself,
4/28/2020 8:10:34 AM
Peugeot car–owners in the 1980s came in two varieties. The first group owned their lovable lemons fewer than six months. The second group owned their mistakes for ten years or longer. There were no Peugeot-owners in between, except me.
In former times, Peugeot motorcars were well designed but their construction horribly executed. Manufacturing defects were legion, from crossed electrical terminals, where turning on the headlights also activated the electric windows; where adjusting the electric seats popped open the tailgate; where gas tank vents weren’t installed, so as the fuel level dropped, the resulting vacuum would collapse the tank, stalling the engine;
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Republic Can 4/28/2020 8:50:08 AM (No. 394120)
WOW! Let's all go to AT and bash Trump now. Kim Dot Com will welcome all those of faint heart and fading faith.
Sheesh!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 4/28/2020 8:52:57 AM (No. 394124)
When we lived overseas in the 60s, my dad had a Peugeot. It was an excellent car. I learnt how to drive in it with stick shift. You really control the car with your feet.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/28/2020 8:57:13 AM (No. 394130)
SO now incompetence at the Pugeot factory is Trump's fault...WOW.
I thought the French learned something, I guess I was wrong.
France is to blame, their politics (98% Communism, 2% Socialism)...
Remember the Lada? A Russian car where you had to buy 2 to keep 1 on the road...Seems the French created the same problem with the Peugeot...
Everything a Government touches turns to crap, yes cars are included.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/28/2020 9:13:54 AM (No. 394153)
We’ve either accomplished the mission of flattening the curve, or there never was a need for a mission.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jc96 4/28/2020 9:28:52 AM (No. 394175)
generally, the only place one should buy a french car... is in France
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Clinger 4/28/2020 9:52:22 AM (No. 394203)
Sure the communists are capitalizing on a Rahmwellian crisis but this is not all a sham. This is an astoundingly contagious virus and urban centers have been flooded with an alarming spike in demand and concern for sufficient capacity of finite resources is very valid.
We lose credibility for taking a constitutional liberty based position that the left is leveraging this to turn the ratchet a couple of turns by stating that there's nothing all all to it. Too many good conservative people are on the front lines witnessing the reality to deny that a nasty bug is culling those weakened by a multitude of other conditions as well as striking down small numbers of young otherwise health people.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/28/2020 10:52:56 AM (No. 394255)
Donald Trump is not to blame for any of this but don't ask the MSM about that. He took the only acceptable course of action using the best numbers that his scientists could give him and has had a positive attitude from the beginning. We can make a total recovery in our economy if the current re-open dates are followed but another extension will overcome even the best of American ingenuity. Businesses will work overtime and the restaurants that survive will see a booming business as prisoners of panicked state officials suddenly break free. The loan programs will help the shuttered ones to restart provided their owners still have the will to continue.
Back to the Peugeot, other French cars were no bargain either and many of us had similar experiences with popular British cars such as Triumph, MG and Austin Healey but we loved them anyway because of the character and unmatched fun of driving when we could get them to run. Same story for Italian brands such as Alfa Romeo and Fiat, all fun but nightmares to maintain. Most of those cars are much improved and are still being built but the only good things ever to come from France are wine, cheese and bread.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
chillijilli 4/28/2020 11:45:01 AM (No. 394302)
I dunno. Columbo seemed to do pretty well with that 1959 Peugot 403 convertible.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/28/2020 11:53:56 AM (No. 394310)
It time for another investigation into how this virus fiasco started, who wants to take responsibility for it, and a review of the results. As in every other case, government interventions with a one size fits all has been a dismal failure. Government interventions funded the research, then another intervention to contain the mistake. It is time to review the blunders.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
snakeoil 4/28/2020 11:56:55 AM (No. 394314)
Am beginning to agree with the author that The Great Hide Under Your Bed deal was a mistake. But can you imagine what kind of press PT would have gotten if he hadn't decided to go with the "science." Every year we get the flu. Different strain of virus and they mutate. This will go on forever.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 4/28/2020 11:59:55 AM (No. 394319)
If President Trump's response to Kung Flu is a Peugeot, then Wuhan Nan and Schmuckie Choomer's responses are Yugos, cars so bad that they are the only models I have ever seen offered on a "buy one, get one" deal!!
As to cars, I bought a '96 Plymouth Neon new. It was a car so bad that even now, 24 years later, I still hate driving Chrysler vehicles and wouldn't own one if someone gave me one!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 4/28/2020 4:25:34 PM (No. 394561)
The point of the article is admitting a mistake. Trump got snookered by Fauci who got taken in by that lame-brain Brit, Ferguson. Fauci’s huge doctor ego will never admit that he was wrong. He just keeps doubling down on the lockdown. I think Scarf Queen knows he’s wrong, but she won’t criticize her mentor. Trump was railroaded into this and it’s up to him to put an end to it. I hope he does it soon.
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