I’m not defending Erik’s dumb take, FWIW. I want a healthy, profitable automotive industry because lots of good jobs and supply based comes along with it. A healthy, profitable auto industry makes good cars - another thing I like - because they can afford to invest in continuously improving.

So until we can solve the income inequality problem in this country (which IMO is our second biggest problem to solve next to climate), I’m going to take what I can get.

I read that as “Can we stop pretending like “shareholders” are like 6 evil dudes sitting in a golden shower staring down at the rest of us?”

Maybe not a golden tower but a golden shitter maybe. Considering the top 10% owns over 80%(was 84% pre-pandemic) of shares the benefits are fairly diluted for most of us as we are just carving up an ever shrinking slice. Yay stocks going up but the gains for most of our 401K’s just don’t amount to much actual money,…

I think we do have to consider priorities, though. I want my 401K to be reliable, steady growth until I can start withdrawing at retirement... where much of Wall Street feels like a gambling version of musical chairs. Buy cheap, pump the short term numbers, sell out before the chickens come to roost. There are two…

No, no author here can.  Anyone who owns stock is rich and evil and bent on our destruction.

Because they are a huge manufacturing company with previous experience in electric cars?

I’ve been dealing with a lot of ridiculousness over this vaccine so I may be knee-jerking and, for that, I apologize.

It’s possible that I misinterpreted your last paragraph to mean that you believed we should be concerned about potential long term side effects and you really were saying that you noticed people being concerned about that and you don’t think they should be. However, I think my interpretation of your comment was pretty…

Then quit fomenting fear.

1st Gear:

But this is America, just make more money!

“This is all, of course, to keep the factories running so GM’s motive isn’t exactly altruistic but vaccinating early and often is good.”

Based off of his typical posts, I would not take that assumption.

Easy,

God I hope not and I say that as a Republican who hopes Biden wins.  Jackasses like this are giving the rest, read majority, of the normal Republican voters a bad name.  Sadly these are just the same knuckle draggers who swapped out their confederate flag for a Trump flag.

If it is eight years there we won’t be any recovering.

I hope it’s not eight years. I fear if that it the case, there truly is no recovery for American Democracy.

I’m thinking 12, though the remaining 2-3 years will be seen out by Don Jr, who will reign until his demon spawn is groomed and ready to continue Making America Great. 

If the current administration was a bit more comitted and coordinated, you’d already be looking at more than eight. The US democracy is definitely more vulnerable than the Weimar Republic or post-Soviet Russia were, and has relied on always electing decent people throughout its history.