It’s more than just the auto industry, though. Project 2025's environmental section is basically “let’s intentionally destroy as much nature as possible and purposefully make global warming worse.” Not even a “maximise shareholder value for a short while” kind of destruction, but “let’s commit environmental suicide”…

I think these are both compelling offerings, but I also think the real issue here is that they are still 3 years away from being on the market. For most buyers Scout might as well be a completely new and unknown brand.

When in the history of the internet was Jalopnik ever a straight news site? 

“Even if you skip the actual definition of free speech as defined in the 1st Amendment and later interpreted in landmark court cases such as Brandenburg v. Ohio, and you go with Elon’s version, he’s still a hypocrite.”

This is standard industry practice. Every new car review you’ve read happens this way, only we disclose it up front.

In my experience the only journalist I’ve seen on a press trip who paid for airfare and lodging was WSJ. We don’t have WSJ money, so we accept Audi’s invitation and disclose it up front.

I didn’t love…

Sorry, I didn’t test that. 

I bet it’ll have one of these guys.

As of the SCOTUS ruling the president has nearly unlimited power. He can do what he wants as long as he does it remotely within an “official act” and even if it requires other people to carry out what he wants that can be prosecuted, he can simply preemptively pardon them to save them from prosecution also. 

It’s funny to see the GOP base cheer on these kinds of tariffs but also complain all day about prices for stuff going up. They are uneducated and have no clue that the two are directly related.

It was capped at 10K...not eliminated. I’m in DC, with high local tax and real estate tax, plus I have a house in Mn that I used for the deduction too. Once the cap hit at 10K, I lost over 10K more in the Schedule A deduction. In essence a tax increase for me and lots of others....so some redneck hillbilly in a…

That door was kicked open a long time ago.

Elimination of the SALT tax exemption was a good example of this. Never did I ever think that a Republican administration would significantly raise my taxes but after the SALT tax exemption was eliminated, my taxes went up by about $20K per year.

Trump really doesn’t understand how tariffs work, does he?

Bingo. My mom and my late dad are/were some of the biggest ‘America First’ Trumpers you would find.

“They’ll approve it,” Trump said, cutting the reporter off. “I don’t need Congress, but they will approve it. “I’ll have the right to impose them myself if they don’t.... The ones who understand business do support it,” he said at the event in Smithton.

There are two options:

Trump didn’t just sign the United-States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, he’s the one that insisted that it be created to replace NAFTA. In the end, the terms of USMCA are pretty close to NAFTA anyway.

His voters also don’t want Mexicans coming to America but want to make sure Mexicans have no jobs in Mexico. I don’t think they get cause and effect. 

Voters cheer for big tariffs on imported goods, but then complain about cost inflation which is partly caused by the very tariffs they asked for.

At this point it’s a kink for them.