How do you sum up the economic forecast for Europe? This story highlights one of the craziest stories in a long time. This is so blindingly suicidal, it cannot be stupidity. This is intentional.
BACKGROUND – You might remember last year due to climate/carbon emission regulations inside Europe EU automakers had to pay fines to the EU Commission if they did not meet electric vehicle targets. In order to avoid the penalties many EU automakers began purchasing ‘carbon credit’ offsets from Chinese EV automakers.
European car makers were paying China for carbon credits, and Chinese car companies began using the payments to lower prices. Europe was, essentially, paying China to undercut their own auto market. The result was European car makers, specifically those in Germany, losing market share to lower price EVs from China. German industry began shrinking.
If that wasn’t crazy enough, what comes next is beyond laughable. As a result of lost sales and diminished volumes, Volkswagen had shut down auto plants. Now, Volkswagen is announcing that Chinese automakers, their China “partners,” will take over the underutilized facilities and start building Chinese cars in Germany.
GERMANY – Volkswagen Group is facing increased pressure from its board to further cut costs despite already announcing radical measures, such as axing around 50,000 jobs in Germany by 2030 and reducing production capacity by up to 3 million units per year to 9 million, which would make it very difficult to avoid plant closures or sales. Overall, Europe’s largest automaker aims to reduce costs by 20% by the end of 2028.
In an attempt to mitigate the effect of these measures, the automaker appears ready to do what not too long ago would have seemed unthinkable, namely selling China-developed cars in Europe and even sharing its underutilized plants in the region with its Chinese partners.
That’s what CEO Oliver Blume told investors and analysts on April 30 after presenting the company’s first-quarter 2026 results, which saw the automaker’s profit drop 14% to $2.92 billion amid higher U.S. tariffs and intense competition from Chinese carmakers.
In order to deal with excess capacity in Europe and rising competition from Chinese brands in Europe in the coming years, Blume said VW Group is considering selling China-built cars in Europe. It’s the first time that Volkswagen has acknowledged it is contemplating such a move. (read more)
♦ SUMMARY: Volkswagen went to China to sell cars. Volkswagen opened EV auto plants in China bringing in German industrial technology and equipment. China learned from Volkswagen and started their own EV auto companies to compete. Volkswagen EV sales in China started dropping dramatically, and the Chinese EV brands took over.
Due to internal climate regulations in Europe, Volkswagen in the EU then begins giving money to China that subsidizes their competition. China exports their EVs to Europe. Volkswagen EV auto plants start closing. China now takes control of the Volkswagen EV auto plants to build Chinese EVs in Germany.
With operations now inside the house, the Chinese government extract European wealth and pump subsidies into their EV operations in Germany, flooding the European market with cheap EVs that will undercut the German auto manufacturing sector.
You cannot make steel with windmills and solar panel energy. Germany has destroyed much of their coal and nuclear power plants. German energy prices have skyrocketed. German steel is expensive. German cars are expensive as a result. Where do you think the inexpensive steel for the ultra-cheap Chinese EVs will come from?
Now, replace [Germany] with [Canada].
China is the Borg. Lock, stock and barrel
<China is the Borg.>
That reminds me…
I had a hard time redoing our kitchen floor…
Resistance was a few tiles 🙂
Very few tile.
You may require more, Data.
You’ve floored us Wordman.
Not really. Unlike the Borg, resistance is not futile. All you have to do to stop the Chinese is refuse to play their game. The problem here is that Germany is being stupid. It adopted a set of luxury beliefs and values that don’t align with reality. Its belief in multiculturalism will ultimately be the act of suicide that does them in. But it’s all perfectly preventable, as Trump is showing with the USA where Democrats have adopted the same luxury beliefs that the Germans have.
IF Trump Actually MAGA, but seems Trump is just Importing Foreign Investment and Foreign Companies.
Is there a difference in the Final Solution???
Home court advantage allows local government much control. The business may be allowed to operate but it doesn’t mean they can import their own workers or operate in unsafe conditions or use materials or methods not approved or to use or create sites which create environmental hazards… or anything else “bad” which doesn’t occur to me just yet.
Trump could change the rules like many other countries…you cannot take your profits out of the country
True.
Those “Luxury beliefs” are 100% compliments of the corrupt US government subsidies. Without robbing our own middle class, Germany, et al, would never have had the luxury of playing the stupid Green Game. I pray our President will soon relieve us of this burden. Permanently.
This is it.
Don’t blame China for being opportunistic. Keeping Germany down was always part of the post-WWII Globalist plan.
Payback for Tsingtao Brewery in Kiau Chau
What a jerk! Between Mertz and Merkel they destroyed Europe. Now all these Marxists were elected and they are inundated with jihadis! 💁🏻♀️ Marxists will do anything for power!
Voter fraud is global
There is also a crisis of the amount of stupid people carrying out the voter fraud.
This wouldn’t be working if people were smart enough not to vote in their own demise.
True.
marxicans
Merz says US can’t put Tomahawk missiles in Germany because rhey have run out of https://www.rt.com/news/639428-trump-ditched-plan-tomahawks-germany/
Merz saying the US is running out of Tomahawk missiles? From one of the same European Nations cheer-leading for Iran saying that they are winning against the US, and Israel?
Remind me again why haven’t we ditched NATO yet, for being a bunch of feckless freeloaders and worse?
World War Reddit is still ongoing. Just compare and contrast the Iran conflict with the war in Ukraine.
Because while Trump was on a 4 year vacation from his rightful place in the White House, autopen signed law the derp-state congress passed to require a 2/3’s majority approval to exit NATO.
So instead, Trump will simply decrease the US footprint out there to minimums.
It will be interesting to see if he really tries to challenge NATO and the law created without Trump to prevent leaving it. I think at some point the autopen will be challenged and EVERYTHING it touched.
the ONLY REASON that the US and President Trump should protect the EU is because the muslim scourge would envelope all of western europe..
wait…nevermind, EU is already done and done.
this reminds me why the war against Iran is so important. It doesn’t kill the caliphate, but what it does do is give europe a little more time to reform itself. should it choose to do so. this would be the opportunity….right this moment.
I pray that the leaders, the true leaders of these european countries realize the once in a lifetime opportunity that President Trump has gifted them. by laying on Iran hard and fast and deliberately…we say this is the national security interests of the US. And it is. But what does that actually mean?
what it CAN MEAN if the EU and each nation state composing it, determine to start dealing with free speech again….more not less…even so called hate speech, mockery, satire (charlie hebbo 2000 redeaux) and find it within themselves to renew and catch back the culture that has made Europe a fantastic society of good and normal and decent human beings. is it too late?
take a page from the tea party…before that promise keepers. each reaching and leaning forward on the promise of a wholesome and good society that respects and obeys God and his Son Jesus Christ.
the monuments/churches are still standing…will the people of europe fall away from God and allow the Muslim scourge and the CHYNA misery to envelope. Or can they become their own again.
I pray….each day that Europe can do this.
and I do it selfishly. I don’t want to have to send my sons and daughters to save their coward asses again.
But I will because there is something much more dangerous than just a weak europe and it’s name is the death cult that prays each day at least twice to a false prophets who bragged about raping a young boy. That kind of evil is persistent and isn’t taking a vacation. We must eliminate this before we BECOME EUROPE OURSELVES.
God Bless America
EU is lost inasmuch if they attempt to right the ship the rats they imported will burn the ship to the waterline. The monsters will then rule over the sunken hull.
Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven
I don’t believe that they’ve got the numbers needed of smart people to do all that.
Think about what we’ve been watching going on over our entire adult lives, if they did, none of this would be happening in the first place.
I read once years ago that the Europeans are suicidal.
That sounds flippant and I went for many years not getting it- but I sure do now and I agree.
We’re dealing with that person that at every single fork in the road, they make the wrong choice.
We tell them and tell them, they don’t listen, they make the wrong choice every time.
This is Europe.
They don’t want to win.
They don’t want to survive.
They no desire, drive or the grit it takes.. this is what happens to people that live in Socialist countries, they got so soft eventually that they are transparent jelly lacking of anything at all.
This is what they are.. we can see this.
I also agree with what you said at the start, to sit back and allow the invading hordes to grow in numbers and control over there, this WILL eventually become our own problem, it is now.
So the question is do we want to deal with this problem when its small or big ???
Because we will be dealing with it.
I don’t understand why we aren’t forcing them to buy American.
China needs cobalt.
Australia, Canada and the Congo are the major sources.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Democratic-Republic-of-the-Congo/History
The monarchies of Europe are still exploiting.
The little serfs are petty irritants to them.
The main goal is always to maintain and grow the coffers.
If a few hundred or a few thousand, or even greater, of the serfs perish, what is that to the monarchs?
“Let them eat cake”, said Marie Antoinette.
How’d that end for Marie and Louis?
Unfortunately she as murdered for actually sticking up for the little guy and the false witness against her actions as you have done are still ongoing. France had laws in place to limit the amount of bread and cakes bakers could make. Because of the economic crash in France (a big chunk of debt for supporting the colonies) there wasn’t enough resources to make bread and cakes. The penalties for not baking bread were less severe than not making cakes as you would expect. So the bakers only baked cakes. Marie pleaded with the royalty to make more bread and when rebuffed pushed for lower prices for the cakes-Let them eat cake. History has forgotten how and why she said it.
History matters.
Fascinating! Where can I find this information?
I learned all this studying the history of Bread- yes, it’s true.
They don’t call us Bread Heads for nothing 🤣
Thank you.
Apparently I had forgotten, too.
I guess I am still
Regretting the three years of high school
French I never used.
well done. this IS WHY I ENJOY READING THE COMMENTS. truth telling
God Bless America
Right there with you regitiger thanks Mike
Funny thing that map out of whack Alaska is close to half the size of the us yet they make it look tiny. Every mineral on the legend is in Alaska plus massive amounts of Gold and silver. The PUTZ Clinton claimed large amounts of Alaska land as federal land and will not allow any development.
Lowe’s hardware has a lot of it.
This is Europes way of helping China avoid the US effort to economically strangle China.
Europe hates the USA. It has ever since WWII when it became absolutely clear that the USA eclipsed all the European powers combined. Europe didn’t like playing second fiddle to what Europe saw as its upstart, uncouth, uneducated, loud little cousin.
That dislike became open hostility when Trump sought to put the USA first. The Eurotrash could tolerate the USA when they were in the room to constrain and nudge the USA in what they believed was the right direction. The long period of doing that led to familiarity which has now morphed into contempt.
How dare the USA pursue policies for its own benefit they huff and puff. Europe will show the USA by committing suicide. The Eurotrash are indeed insane and keen to commit suicide. Let them do it without holding the rest of the world hostage and without gifting their remaining viable economic organs to the Chines purely to spite the USA.
Digging their own destruction daily. Too arrogant to admit their enormous mistakes.
Eurotrash have been obsessed with Bear Hate for centuries. Tsar, Commissar, President – whatever.
They chose to play the infant Russian Confederation for fun and profit. Oligarchs thrived and the Russian people knew real suffering. Again.
So they’ll make the Panda boss in order to beat up the Bear? And those uppity semi-barbarian Yanks?
whatcouldpossiblygowrong?
Yes, they seem to hate us enough to destroy themselves. I remember the suicide squad scenes in Life of Brian. 🙂
Again, the “Promethean” frame says the UK’s power is requiring the EU members destroy themselves on command. That’s pretty ugly to watch.
>> Europe didn’t like playing second fiddle to what Europe saw as its upstart, uncouth, uneducated, loud little cousin.
I doubt I will live long enough to see now [soft fascist] Europe likes playing third fiddle to [hard fascist] China.
Hilarious! The EUnuchs aren’t only impotent they’re ignorant. Priceless
what’s that guy in the pics name, helmet head?
His expression looks like he had a gaseous anomoly and is acting like nothing has happened.💩
F Merz German Chancellor
Frankly, this group national suicide obsession is dumbfounding. No easy explanation for it.
Liberalism is a mental disorder. QED.
its okay to call liberals retarded. if I see a bird fly overhead, I call it a bird. A fish swimming in the ocean, a fish. A person who pretends not to know things and cannot understand the basic truth about just about anything?
retarded.
only in modern society does such a retarded person exist. in nature, they would get chomped.
and that is another truth. eventually life happens to retarded fools.
no offense to actually mentally challenged people. I mean absolutely no disrespect. But we all know what I am talking about, no?
God Bless America
Come on man, you hand over your nation to others and you get to virtue signal!
Canada too. They have leeched off USA taxpayers for so long that they cannot conceive their grift days are over.
If they do I will never purchase another VAG product.
Did anyone possibly think these Chinese cars might be booby-trapped somehow? Poison drywall and poison dog food and poison pharmaceuticals might be a clue.
Does it have any of that driver “assistance” tech, or self driving capability?
The more complex the electronics operating the car the easier it is to hide extra “features”.
Of course it has ALL of those things! They STOLE them from the the VW plants in China 😂
Not quite stealing when it is pretty much wrapped up with a bow and *given* to them in technology transfers for Volkswagen to build in mainland China now is it.
Then I’ll have to petition China to bring back the old VW Beetle. That’s a really good car though anything from them will likely be a disaster.
“BYD : The biggest SCAM of the car industry?”
“Why Is NOBODY talking about China’s 1,110 hidden BILLIONAIRES?“
I’m still wondering if EU has enough electricity to charge all these battery cars. Subsidies or not, if juice isn’t available then these cars won’t run much.
Poison everywhere. Great new song choice.
Firestone 500 tires, which gave us those miserable, stupid, low tire lites
That’s a good point.
German leaders are NOT stupid. What they are doing is intentionally destroying their own economy, culture, & people.
Period
Not stupid, but hopelessly idealistic, socialist clowns.
or
miss operating based upon (untold) fear (of invited nefariou$ people)?
I do not know
Well, they weren’t smart during WWII, nor adopting fake climate scammers. Seems dumb to me.
That’s irrational. One would have to assume they aren’t German, but are foreign agents.
Barry Soetoro did the same here for two terms, deliberately destroying the America he grew to hate, and his hateful old codger veep gave him a third term of destruction.
It’s going to be a lot worse than this amount stated in the article. This is national suicide. This is going to create an economic death spiral even if it is “only” 50,000 jobs. Those out-of-work people will no longer be spending money in the community thus causing even more job losses and businesses closing.
“…to further cut costs despite already announcing radical measures, such as axing around 50,000 jobs in Germany by 2030 …”
I suspect that 90% of what happens in government is always intentional.
we like to attribute many events to stupidity
because we can’t believe people can be that evil
Isn’t it time that we realize that yes they can be evil
and yes they are evil?
BINGO
These Germans go from dumb to dumber! Unbelievable, that will seal their demise.
I imagine that this was the endgame that the globalists envisioned for the U.S. as well.
European WEF wealthy want to eliminate 95% of world population. Poison jabs, abortions, no energy seem like a start.
“Volkswagen Group is facing increased pressure from it’s board….”
I don’t see this as any different from what has been happening here.
The board tells the CEO profits are flat, fix it or you’re gone.
So they put less McNuggets in each package or they make the package smaller or they use more artificial crap to make product.
H1 Visas, illegals for labor, on and on each crying for more profits.
At some point the package becomes so small and the product so inedible that the investors sell their stock because there is no more cow to milk.
Sear and Montgomery Wards are a couple of good examples.
I had a 97 year old uncle who recently passed and he swore that the smaller VW diesel engines were practically indestructible and would run with proper maintenance, practically forever. My uncle was a diesel mechanic for all of his life. He knew his stuff.
We have a LOT of this technology. They won’t make maintainable tech. They only want things which we cannot repair ourselves. They want us to PAY for our cars and then PAY some more for USING them and all of their features.
A good example of this is the sort of hate they have for 3D printing and CNC type machines becoming good enough and inexpensive enough that a guy with a bit of mechanical altitude can build a lot of parts in his garage.
Ditto the guy that can connect to the firmware of a car with his computer for diagnosis, repairs, and other.
Also, they absolutely LOATH right to repair laws.
I was reading a story this morning. I believe from the NYPost, talking about cheap Chinese EV auto’s being driven across the Mexican border and being sold here in the U.S…Chinese prices of $10,000 vs. US prices of $50,000. …Has both Democrats and Republicans worried about U.S. auto makers.
Along the same note…
Thermos (an American co.) recalls millions of food, beverage bottles after 3 suffer permanent vision loss.
To what country did Thermos farm out the manufacture of the bottles to in order to increase profits?
I woukd research if it is an American company. You will be surprised.
China and Malaysia
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Thermos-Recalls-8-2-Million-Stainless-King-Food-Jars-and-Bottles-Due-to-Serious-Impact-Injury-and-Laceration-Hazards
” it cannot be stupidity. This is intentional.”
BuildBackBetter has not gone away.
As they say, “you can’t fix stupid”.
Stick out Foot aim pull trigger Repeat
… and just like that there are stories and adds on US Internet Sites claiming one can by 2-4 x Chinese EV’s for the cost of 1 US Built Car.
It is just not the EU is that is paying the price for EU Industrial suicide.
Of course Chine Inc. is going to use the ex-Ford and ex-GM plants in Canada to do the same thing.
More tariffs coming.
I wonder what percentage of Amazon products are made in China.
The algorithm will funnel 70% at minimum.
Why is China ‘modifying’ Islam?
“the Communist Party wants to create a Chinese version of Islam that is guided by atheism.”
https://www.dw.com/en/what-does-china-want-to-achieve-by-modifying-islam/a-46995813
i.e. Castrate the ideology.
China’s Massive, Garish Theme Park for the Muslim World
Beijing is spending gargantuan sums to promote its vision of Islam. The result so far: a sparsely populated eyesore.
https://archive.is/20210621040212/https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/11/chinas-massive-garish-new-theme-park-for-the-muslim-world-hui-minority-yinchuan/#selection-831.0-837.116
Maybe Mercedes manufacturing in the U.S. should be evicted
Judge apologizes to WHCD dinner shooter.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/alleged-press-dinner-gunman-cole-161146119.html
Yes, Canada is laying out the red carpet to their ready made Guillotine.
Seems China must be influence the political
Class prior to these types of outcomes. The Germans are not stupid, yet their policy makes them look like absolute idiots.
Correct, Chinese gangs are politically involved to a high degree.
This is not new the H.S.B.C. was allowed to purchase the Bank of British Columbia back in the early 80’s then in the mid 80’s H.K. interests bought the Vancouver 1986 lands for “ peanuts” I believe the “ shell “ company is Concord Pacific.
Approximately 12 Canadian M.P’s have proven to have been supported by the C.C.P.
If China withdraws financial interests up here, Canada would IMO collapse.
Cheers!
“The Frame” is everything in terms of what you believe. At the moment, I’m still using the “new” (to me) Promethean Action frame because it seems to do the most to answer all questions without having to believe in shadowy unknown figures. What troubles me about it is that the “evil/enemy nations” that many perceive aren’t. The actions of Israel in particular are most troubling to me. The possession of stolen US Uranium, the attack on USS Liberty and a wide range of others over time. While I have to say I found the exploding pagers rather amusing in the FAFO sense and the infiltration of software driving centrifuges used for uranium enrichment leading to the destruction of their equipment quite clever and very humane (I think… did it expose people to scattered uranium flying about?? I don’t know but it’s not hard to imagine.). However I attempt to understand Israel, it’s hard to think of them as a US ally. Their manipulations seem to damage some in the US and promote or assist others in the US according to their interests. This is normally called ESPIONAGE. But for some reason, it’s allowed.
I might consider donating to Promethean and ask the question of them. They may not want to answer. They point directly at the UK as the source which may be true (still exploring this frame) but it doesn’t explain certain autonomous creations which seem to act on their own and in their own interests. The UK may have leveraged religious beliefs but they certainly didn’t create them.
Is anyone else following this frame also having questions yet to be answered?
Reminds me of the era when the Japanese automakers tied up with the Big 3 and started producing cars in the US . NUMMI and Diamond Star motors to name a couple.
Now they have their own facilities and the Big 2 are still in the same old plants.
This is intentional, the Marxist Leftists who run Western Europe and Canada do not want manufacturing, or manufacturing jobs. They want a rust belt service economy. The only surprising fact about this development is that the Marxists are allowing China to manufacture automobiles on their soil.
These “leaders” are not stupid. Instead, they are ideologues and true believers who do not give a flying frolic about their people, or the the future of their nations.
This is what happens when an unscrupulous, pedestrian mediocrity, lacking both vision and intellectual depth, is handed power by a nation obsessed with its moral superiority and virtue signaling. The Germans walked right into the trap and still refuse to change course. In fact, they’re becoming more persistent and aggressive in obvious errors after being shown evidence of their mistakes.
Nowhere else have I witnessed this level of narcissistic fragility like in Germany. Germans perceive any correction, even a minor one, as a threat to their entire identity. To them, admitting a small mistake feels like a total loss of power or status. That’s why they constantly resort to gaslighting just to avoid being “wrong.”
This is a fundamental failure mode. They don’t fix mistakes, they displace them onto others to protect an infallibility complex.
And that’s also why we shouldn’t encourage a nation with that mentality and those industrial capabilities to arm themselves again. We’re encouraging people who, because they’re incapable of admitting even the smallest, the tiniest of mistakes, would lash out at both their allies and their perceived enemies.
Germany is dangerous and needs to be contained. It isn’t an exaggeration. Their failure mode is identical to the one that historically led to ruin. They aren’t Nazis, but they do not possess the capacity for self-correction, making them a volatile liability that’s got to be neutralized ASAP.
Is this the only way a company can avoid paying the carbon offset to China?
What a weird world.
They swapped out the Soviet Union for China, once the Orthodox Christian Russians collapsed it and took back their nation from the foreign influence who had bankrolled the Bolsheviks.
Will these be counterfeit VWs?
Not only China…(but in this case it’s supposed to actually benefit the German people (if you trust “da jews!!?”) Oh noes!!🙀
Israel’s Rafael intends to buy Volkswagen plant in western Germany, sources say
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BERLIN, Germany — Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has signed a letter of intent with Volkswagen to acquire the German automaker’s plant in Osnabrueck in western Germany, two people familiar with the matter say.
The Financial Times reported in March that VW and Rafael were in talks to shift production at the plant from cars to missile defense.
Rafael, one of the main partners in Israel’s Iron Dome, Arrow and David’s Sling air and missile defense systems, would focus on building missile parts including motors rather than on explosives, which, for security reasons, would be built at a separate site, the sources say.
The switch from auto components would reflect German industry’s growing focus on defense as the government in Berlin has set aside hundreds of billions of euros to rebuild the military after decades of neglect.
People familiar with the issue say the German government wanted to ensure it retained overall control over defense technology projects in Germany and that the technology remained in Germany.
Germany buys defense products from Rafael and Rafael needs to expand production. Sounds like a win win.
We have to get out of the EU and UK. They are tar babies and we do not want to be Brer Rabbit.
Foist by their own petard
China didn’t “Learn” they stole like everything else they “Learn” to manufacture.
What ever happened to the Battery each home in this country could run for 5 days off the grid that was researched and developed with U.S. taxpayer dollars at the DOE ?
Gave it to China
Gave it to China
Mercedes should be evicted from this country and this country can use the manufacturing facilities to produce an Actual American car.
This is quite the spectacle, Germany dictating to the United States on foreign affairs, while Germany is literally destroying itself and asking China to come on in and finish the job. Friedrich Merz and Frank-Walter Steinmeier have obviously not thought this mess through and are shooting from the hip. No way to quickly build up their energy sources, oil and LNG through the roof, also an extra 25% tariff for sticking their noses in where it didn`t belong, and now inviting China in, it is like inviting a weasel into a chicken coop. I do not see Germany surviving this.
Appareently the stupidity and self destruction cycle is so strong it appears inevitable. Can’t make this up and you can’t fix stupid. To say the least “interesting times”.
I think one of the real dangers here is flooding Europe with vehicles that not only will do intrusive monitoring of their drivers but that also May Have the capability of extending out through the internet and the electric grid somehow to infiltrate other systems in our infrastructure. This was brought up by one of our seasoned security analysts in Canada. Look out!
The US is doing the same thing. AI will decide if you are fit to drive or not in a few years by our laws. Do you think the government won’t access that information? They will know where you went, what route you used to get there and if you exceeded the speed limit or rolled through a stop sign. Expect a ticket in the mail. This will make Flock cameras look like slingshots compared to M16s.
Is Porsche and Audi in the same dust pan?
All part of the Group along with other brands.
The Z,ənwagon
They will have to subsidize the high energy costs.
Better to commit suicide than face the punishment of allies by admitting the collective error.
are they talking to Elisabeth Warren for financial advice
How do you say stupid blockhead in German? Dummkopf works.
Was her chewing gum on the bedpost?
🙂