THIS. For a supposed businessman, he really does not understand what a trade deficit is. But then, he’s not really a businessman. He’s got experience in real estate, but that’s it. His time on the Apprentice was heavily scripted. He doesn’t know anything at all about manufacturing, engineering, supply chains, fulfillme…

Do you tag Musk with links to your sweaty stanning or is it a hobby to try this hard? Either way he doesn’t give a shit.

Not sure if it works in the auto industry, but for most other industries this would absolutely not work even in the short term.

elon aint gonna fuck you, dude

I almost feel sorry for the poor bastard thats gotta try and collect the fees from uh other countries. Talk about a sisyphean effort.

Sad thing: there are a LOT of Trump fans in Canada amongst the conservative voters, and the venn diagram of auto workers and conservative voters has a large overlap.

If any trade relation globally benefits the US, its with Canada. Basically the entire “trade deficit” with Canada is the US buying discount priced raw oil that is pulled out of the ground in Canada and sent straight to the US to be processed and refined by US workers and sold for high margins to global customers as…

Especially with Canada. Basically the entire deficit with Canada is discount priced raw oil that is pulled out of the ground in Canada and sent straight to the US to be processed and refined by US workers and sold for high margins to global customers as gas, oil and plastic products. If Canada gets smart, they can…

When he was president last time I spent the entire 4 years fired up. Donated to charities and legal nonprofits, called and emailed my reps, attended protests and marches, so on and so on.

Amazing that the company which successfully remembered to program fart noises into the car, which is so very necessary to its successful operations, didn’t remember the existence of trains.

A “trade deficit” is not inherently a bad thing, or a sign you’re losing money.  Everyone has a trade deficit with their grocery store.  They buy tons of food from them, but never sell them anything.  Is that a problem that needs to be fixed?

yeah, just ignore everything disasterous going on and don’t post about it because it makes you feel bad.

Republicans are - I think the term is “showing their asses?” - on this Tariff thing. Tariffs represent everything they’ve spent the last decade decrying:

Well, we were 100% ok with it when it was textiles and literally everything else. The big difference here is that there is no American company that’s making money off it. 

I’m on your side about the folks here who build cars — the long-term risks of not making vehicles that can compete in the global market are very real and need to be considered. Harley-Davidson is a great example, with its turn to tariffs and protectionist policy instead of actually building globally competitive bikes c…

Real Americans ® will soon only be driving Ford F-350s that gets 7 MPG while the rest of the world converts to electric vehicles.

But hey, at least you got your cheap Chinese shit right?

Damn, so Chinese EVs are affordable because the country’s government invested in making clean transport accessible to its citizens? How evil. I’m so glad we don’t do that here, outside of the billions in subsidies for EV retooling (https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris-administration-announces-nearly-2-billion-s…

Anyone ever notice how this really only happens with Asian products? (also, I noticed they tossed in Russian cars here to stop the overwhelming flow of... what, exactly?)

Stop? For other people?