Not a spoof. It’s a classic case of disparate impact lawfare at work. Auto manufacturers must be held accountable for making cars that black people want to steal.
It’s real. He really said that.
“But we have to go upstream, and we got to make sure that the automobiles are not so easy to steal that they are a tempting, attractive nuisance for young people. Right now we are investigating two major automakers because their cars are dramatically too easy to steal for young people.”
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Make standard transmissions great again!
Next up Nike Inc.
However, not to worry, book publishers are safe.
Not to defend this wifebeating loser, but Kia and Hyundai knowingly skimped on security features to increase their profits, and now we the people are collectively paying for it in terms of stolen cars, accidents, and road deaths. I don’t feel one shred of sympathy for foreign car manufacturers that don’t care about their customers or how many people their dangerous products are killing.
“Knowingly skimped to increase their profits”. Really? So it IS the car makers fault young black kids are stealing foreign cars. Who knew?
Yes, quality vehicle manufacturers anticipate car theft being a problem and add basic security measures accordingly. You don’t see Toyotas being targeted for theft the way Kias and Hyundais are.
Honda Civic has been at the top of the stolen car list for years.
So Honda is at fault for making a car that is in high demand?
For the longest time, the Toyotas were the #1 most stolen cars…because of the high number on the road and the parts were in high demand. Supply and demand strikes again.
I drive a Toyota Scion and it has NO security system of any kind…
Nobody wants your lame whitebread faux Toyota in disguise.
You could leave it running in a bad neighborhood at midnight and it would still be there intact the next morning.
Damn I wish the federal reserve would do the same for printed bills, guess reserve notes are low quality. I mean they should anticipate those reserve notes being stolen you know right?
Federal Reserve Notes already have anti-counterfeit measures. Go look at a new $100 bill for an example.
Anti copy is not anti theft
throw the shovel out of that hole you’re digging yourself into,
manufacturers make a product, politicians and lawyers graft the profits and strangle the manufacturer with illogical rules because some idiot lawyer sued.
ALL cars are easy to steal when the perp is brandishing a gun.
Exactly! It’s called car jacking.
Agreed, but that’s not the specific issue that the wifebeating loser AG is addressing in this video.
He’s talking about young black folks, isn’t he? You think they care if a car has an “interceptor” or not?
He’s complaining about vehicles being hacked by literal children, not carjacking. They’re two different crimes entirely.
Children are car jacking too and killing the drivers. You do read the Chicago, Atlanta and Washington DC news!
So what should Kia and Hyundai do to make their cars less likely to be car jacked? Weld the doors shut so the thug with the gun has to climb in through the window Bo Duke style?
And maybe window manufacturers should just go into the cinder block business instead? I mean those glass store fronts at the Apple Store must be pretty tempting to some otherwise well meaning American youths.
Only criminals are responsible for the actions of criminals.
Where I live it’s the pot shops that are being backed into. It’s a weekly event.
The Kias and Hyundais being targeted don’t even have engine immobilizers, which is something my old 2002 Ford Focus had. It’s reasonable to demand car manufacturers include basic security features from over 20 years ago.
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What is needed is a basic security measure for dollar bills also.
I don’t want to pay for additional security features. After the addition, and I pay the bill, the thieves will still not be prosecuted by Ellison. Are non-Hyundai / kia thefts being vigorously prosecuted?
I see this as another front in the war against internal combustion engines, forcing us to buy electric. Regulatory capture of the market.
Why demand it? It’s already available from a dozen other automakers. Buy one of those if it’s important to you.
Run ads showing middle class white people driving them. That will kill off the urge to own in the POC cummurnitee.
Or are Hyundai/Kia in on this?
Who forced you to buy their cars? Willing buyers meet willing sellers. That is the way it works. No do-overs. Caveat emptor.
No customer buying a Kia or Hyundai in 2015 could have reasonably anticipated that their vehicle could be hacked by literal children with access to TikTok and a USB key.
What is unreasonable is that any car buyer needs to anticipate having their vehicle stolen. Let’s focus on the problem…the thieves.
Thou shalt not steal.
I will never ever feel compelled to steal a car because I have morals. You could put me in a space filled with unlocked cars with their keys in the ignitions, wallets of cash on the seats, and the keys to the mansions in the consoles and I would take nothing.
Some people are just criminals. Don’t excuse their garbage behavior.
Nowhere did I excuse the thieves, so stop putting words in my mouth. Kia and Hyundai were negligent for not including security features that were standard over 20 years ago. You don’t see vehicles from other manufacturers like Toyota being targeted for TikTok theft challenges.
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Your home was built with security measures ? Your jewelry?
Your stolen jewelry isn’t a public safety hazard capable of harming innocent people. We already have local and state laws regarding nuisance properties that attract crime.
My stolen anything was swiped by a criminal and could be used for nefarious purposes like to buy weapons or politicians.
Look your logic is faulty and your analogies also. A product misused by a consumer (whether the consumer is illicit or not) is the responsibility of the user. It’s called personal responsibility for ones own actions. don’t blame me when you stub your toe.
Please let it go fellow treeper
Are you one of those people that believes gun manufacturers should be held liable when criminals use guns to commit crimes Because guns are just so easy to use?
No. A better comparison would be to look at how the government has ordered auto recalls in the past and how those precedents could apply to the Kia/Hyundai theft epidemic.
I hold the gubermint should order the recall of all jewelry
Well, considering Hyundai has a plant in Alabama and Kia in Georgia, your car is not necessarily foreign made.
If I could downvote this I’d do it a hundred times.
Hey! Why don’t you have unbreakable glass on your home’s windows? It’s YOUR fault that the criminal broke in, killed your wife, raped your daughter, and robbed you blind. Now everyone has to pay extra insurance because of your negligence.
Gee Keith, maybe you can investigate the trees to see which offenders cause black people to sneeze from the pollen….
Cuz, pollen is racist…
yes, but you need to express that in the relevant cultural vernacular:
“pollen bees all raycissssssss an’ sheeeeeeeeit”
I thought all bees were pollen bees??? I be confused.
Apparently trees are racist, so they’re cutting them down to put up energy windmills, that do not work.
Dat be drone bees
He’s been targeting a few specific stores and gas stations because certain yutes go there and steal stuff and have shootouts. Again, somehow it’s never the fault of the criminals actually doing the shooting, stealing and other vibrant stuff.
or the fault of the community that encourages a culture of crime
Supremacist colonizer bees!
But wait, none of them are white, they are all black and yellow!
Me confused.
African Killer Bees? I read that they are taking over hives everywhere!
These fools are stealing these headlines from the Babylon Bee.
I live in Minnesota and Mrs. Arminius honestly thought this was a Babylon Bee headline.
Ya know, if they just made stealing illegal, all this would stop.
Cause government has ALL the answers.
Right on TKsarge!
There oughta be a law against stealing cars. We should all write our representatives and demand laws against stealing cars!
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What? It’s already against the law to steal cars?
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Never mind.
Tell me when they sue silverware manufacturers for the obesity crisis.
Speaking of silverware, there is only one silverware company in these vast United States that produces silverware, it’s a sad commentary regarding the fair trade agreement,
It’s dramatically too easy for f$@king morons to be “elected “
Where is Chris Rock when we need him?
Just how stupid and biased is this guy ?!?
He’s Moslem.
Yes, but he stupid long before he became a Muslim!
Boze Sacuvaj od budala!!!
Yes, that’s it! Cars that are easy to steal are a nuisance! By all means, we need to get to the bottom of this, without delay!
Next up???
Forks that make people fat!!!!!
I always thought it was the dryer shrinking my clothes,
turns out it was the refrigerator’s fault!
far be it from me to defend this clown, but huwhite peepo are arrested for stealing cars about 2 to 3 times more often than blacks.
https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/statistical-briefing-book/crime/faqs/ucr_table_2
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/tables/table-43
Know your facts. Hispanics are counted as whites for most criminal activities. Look at the chart. Understanding now?
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When did it change? When did the left decide the criminal is not to blame but society is?
When did society accept it?
Why does the left favor the criminal? Is it as simple as race?
— about 20 years ago
— most “society” hasn’t; Dem “society” has; Dem socieety includes media and gummint society
— pretty much; we’re not supposed to recognize or admit what the bad kids are doing
That’s just like all the democrats who live where I live and think it’s the person’s fault.If a bear attacks them. Because bear have more rights than people. If a bear attacks you because you are walking somewhere that is in his way and bear were here first and you are taking yp space that belong to the bear. Reparations for bear.
It is so sad that a certain race is constantly being tricked/manipulated into committing crimes.
I just lost 5 IQ points listening to that idiotic fascist.
Wait until they are finished with this idiot’s usefulness…
Hahahahaha, “book publishers are safe.”
Relax everybody.
Keith is from the government and he’s just here to help.
To be fair.. zoomers have been seeking MT cars and have played part in a larger movement that has forced auto mfg to add or keep MT options. I keep hoping X and Z can team up and fix some of our other problems but it’s still a long way off.. we shall see how this goes.
Never put blame on race.
In my state there are illegal alien Hispanic organized gangs stealing cars. Does that mean I’m lumped into this criminal activity because I’m Hispanic? No, of course not.
All of us are responsible for our own actions.
When criminals know nothing will happen to them crime goes through the roof.
Love Sundance, but I am disappointed. You’re better than this.
What? Ellison is the moron that blamed the car manufacturers for making it too easy. Sundance just relayed the info.
You are correct but incomplete. The distinguishing factor here is that only a favored demographic is given the get-out-of-jail-free cards. I would say only one group but in commiemommysota there are two specific groups that can not be touched (neither is Hispanic)
and that demo simultaneously glorifies crime in music, film, etc while claiming criminality should not be punished or face consequences. Add to that a lack of parental responsibility and you have a recipe for societal disaster. Most healthy communities do not participate in this cognitive dissonance.
So blaming auto manufacturers for people stealing cars is like blaming guns for getting turned into machine guns. So in another stunning display of cognitive dissonance:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/21/chicago-glock-switch-lawsuit/
Chicago sues Glock for making it too easy to make a machine gun out of a semi-automatic pistol. Note that any normal person caught with an unregistered class 3 item is up for a 10 year prison sentence. This includes short barreled rifles (i.e. putting a stock in the place of an arm brace on a pistol), suppressors or actual machine guns.
Why don’t you put those who are shooting up the place with unregistered machine guns in jail for an additional ten years on federal charges?
Or does Da Mayor gain something by not having laws enforced? Cui bono?
I live in Minnesota and I’m sure some of you wonder why we put up with this guy…
1. Vote fraud… Minnesota and VinWeber perfected what is now going on in other states.
2. MNGOP…You think Ronna was bad… hold my beer!
3. MNGOP…RINOs creating false opposition by running bad candidates or working against good honorable candidates.
Minneapolis, once beautiful and beloved, is a sh-thole now.
To be fair, parts of Minneapolis have been shitholes for a long time. Parts of Msps were beautiful. Grew up in Minnesota, visit every year. It has turned into something rotten.
Keep on voting DemocRats Minnesota. You get what you vote for.
Easy fix. Just change the names of the vehicle with the word “Work“ somewhere in there and they won’t be targeted anymore.
“However, not to worry, book publishers are safe.”
So are makers of work boots.
I demand they be sued for age discrimination because their cars are too hard for old people to steal!
“we got to make sure that the automobiles are not so easy to steal that they are a tempting, attractive nuisance.”
99.999% of Americans do not think of automobiles as an attractive nuisance. 99.999% of Americans think of automobiles as playing an important role in being a free, self-sufficient citizen.
Referring to automobiles as an attractive nuisance implies they are a luxury item whose presence in society is a problem. That is worldview of those in the professional managerial class. Elites such as Ellison hate American car culture and what it represents, and they want to destroy it.
His statement is goofy, but it is also laying out yet another angle of attack on liberty and freedom.
And add the idea that gun manufacturers are liable for what criminals do, gonna create philosophy of derivative responsibility for everything. He’s an awful man, doing his part to ruin the country.
A Moslem helping take Minnesota down. Assisting everywhichway he can with the fundamental transformation of the nation, per berryobama.
He might have set the record for low expectations.
Make Grape Crush and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos not taste so good, honey chil’!
Careful, they’re gonna vote 95% Biden with talk like that.
I’m with ‘ya, Kitty. What. The. He**.
DEI – Didn’t Earn It.
(Scott Adams – Dilbert)
As someone noted, manual transmissions are easy anti-theft devices.
Breaking news: Hyundai and Kia are racist, because they made their cars too hard for black people to steal.
He’s a punk.
The people of Minnesota are obviously very sick for having elected racist Keith Ellison. I wouldn’t live there.
See my post above. Once you visit Minnesota you will fall in love with her people. We have many wonderful citizens who will pull over and help you change a tire.
ALL cars are easy to steal when the thief can use their phone as an electronic key.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/crooks-are-stealing-cars-using-previously-unknown-keyless-can-injection-attacks/
This kind of insanity does not occur naturally.
Maybe there is something in the water..
It occurs when you wil do anything but take responsibility in your own community for its lack of values
Pfft…
Hide an Apple AirTag in your car.
(Hide one in your purse, too.)
Hide an Apple AirTag in your car
Yeah? And then what?
Take a jaunt down your local ghetto when you get a fix on your car and have a shoot-out with your car thieves?
Stop back and let us know how that worked for you
You nailed it. The murderapolis police refuse to go in and retrieve the stolen vehicle.
It’s not just cheesey cars that are easy to break into and hotwire that are the problem. It’s the cars that are easy to carjack at gunpoint. All cars should have proximity alarms to warn drivers of approaching pirates. Also, cars should spray paralyzing gas to apprehend approacing thieves, automatic tasers on roof turrets and net throwers to hold perpetrators until police arrive. It’s the automakers fault that people steal cars. I demand car theft free zones.
Also, cars should spray paralyzing gas to apprehend approacing thieves, automatic tasers on roof turrets and net throwers …
I just watched a Bond movie last night that went kinda like that …
Let’s just go with signs.
Bring back the Yugo
I had the pleasure to ride inside the Yugo 35 years ago. We started in Dubrovnik and went all the way to Ulcinj, no issues a beautiful tour, in the once great country of Yugoslavia!!!
Ellison is inferentially targeting (aka extorting; milking) car manufacturers for donations.
The issue is rarely the issue, the issue is ‘what tactic will generate some donations’. In this case, thieves are a politicians best friend.
Excellent. And as a soon as cars are made more difficult to steal the cars will be ……… drumroll ………..RACIST! What a great racket.
It won’t stop at cars,gee,those rings and bracelets in the jewelry store window are too beautiful to resist!
I always wanted a beautiful flower planter like that,will just take it off your porch.
So we are not to have beautiful,nice things as it will entice those poor people into stealing,,well,here we are….
Yes, and the women and men were too attractive for D iddy not to assault – clearly the victims fault.
Sooo glad I wasn’t sipping java when I read that headline!
Yeah, that’s why crime is so rampant. It’s not their fault.
It’s the cars, the locks, the windows, the purses…stop making them so crimey, dang it!!
I’ve been a Minnesotan my entire life, as has my wife.
Travel north of the seven county metro area and the entire state is virtually red. There simply aren’t enough of us out here in greater MN to outnumber the pathetic big city libs.
We are so ashamed of what these scumbags have done to our beautiful state.
A pox on the demoncrat party. Detestable, despicable cadre of evil.
You could go into the cities and take over the local offices through elections.
The Left has used this strategy for decades to turn Red States Blue. So, why not return the favor?
This guy is saying Blacks are stealing cars. That is a as bad as Biden telling a black guy, ‘you ain’t black if you don’t vote for Biden’. I bet you whites are stealing more vehicles than blacks. Just like Russia winning the war over the Ukies, there are more whites in the U.S. by a factor of 200 million more people.
I don’t have any Black friends, i just live where black won’t live. But if I did have any black friends I’m sure it would not be hard to convince them that the so called black leaders are stabbing them in the back!
Maybe if the DAs in the municipalities where auto theft occurs would more vigorously prosecute the car thieves instead of giving them a hand because of race or woke policies this would stop. And why should I have to pay something extra, when there are reasonable anti-theft devices already installed in the car, when the majority of thefts are occurring in blue states and cities?
Excellent points!!
Certainly not a Ellison fan, but somebody help me out. Where in this video does he say anything about black people?
Maybe if the prosecutors in the municipalities where auto theft occurs would more vigorously prosecute the car thieves instead of giving them a hand slap because of different colors or Boeing hiring policies this would stop. And why should I have to pay something extra, when there are reasonable anti-theft devices already installed in the car, when the majority of thefts are occurring in blue states and cities? (Note had to change some words, but think you will correctly interpret my meaning because the di-q-s monitors seem to be out in force.)
From Star Tribune
Across the river, a different story is unfolding. This past week, law enforcement leaders in St. Paul celebrated a 32% decline in car thefts from a year ago and an estimated $6.8 million worth of recovered vehicles since September 2021. Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher attributes these results to proactive policing tactics aimed at taking the most prolific thieves off the streets.
“We’ve focused on the repeat offenders, and when I say repeat — these kids are stealing cars every day, sometimes several,” Fletcher said. “If you want to curb crime and reduce the amount of offenses, you need to target the individuals who are doing it on a regular basis.”
Funny how that works…put the criminal in jail!
Of course we all know…………………………………………………………
IT IS THE CAR’S FAULT !