Ramaswamy knows. He needs to spin in to anger the MAGAs over the loan.

Donate your organs.

He's a 9/11 truther among many other very stupid things, so odds are pretty good he thinks it's a grant, not a loan.

you want to cut waste? stop wasting all this govt money to fund spaceX and bullshit like this. 

I remember when people could actually read, and see that an article about cars is uh...about cars instead of getting pissy because their dumbass buddy looks bad for doing dumbass stuff.

Well, someone decided to dip their toe into things they didn’t know about and made the automotive world political. And judging from the comments, not many have “gone away”. Have a good day, though.

In 2011, Ramaswamy was awarded a post-graduate fellowship by the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.^[32][33] In 2023 Ramaswamy paid an editor to remove this from his Wikipedia entry.^[34][35]

Man oh man.. If rammy swammy is this upset about RIVIAN, he will really blow a gasket once he find out how much money his friend Elon has received from uncle Sam paid directly to Tesla and SpaceX... hypocrites..

How can helping an EV company be an attack on Tesla? Tesla isn’t even a car company according to Musk!

Basic division is all Vivek is capable of doing.

This is yet another example of how the GOP functions: severely underfund the education system so everyone is too dumb to understand basic concepts like loans, combined with declaring anything they don’t agree with is a lie, so they can say literally whatever dumb thing they want and their idiot base will swallow it.

G*d I hate these tech bro types. This guy is like the (in Musk speak) “super hard core annoying” high-school class president we all couldn’t wait to get far away from.

Tesla got a government loan of 465 million in 2010 (670 million in today’s money). At the time they had produced about 1,000 roadsters and had a revenue of 20 million. 

Politicians intuitively understand that most people respond to emotional triggers, not facts or accurate wording. The goal isn’t good governance as much as driving attention (through anger) and they employ very talented people / teams to write things like this. Let’s break it down...

It no longer matters that Trump and his cabinet have the debating skills of Brick Tamland: they’ll just make a bunch of angry grunting sounds and their moronic masses will just say “ d E r P, YEAH!” and cheer them on.

Maybe someone should remind Vivek about Trump’s 2017 Foxconn deal and have him examine how that worked out for taxpayers

DT acolytes: “Tariffs for Mexicali autos, cuz dammit buid ‘em here!”

It’s called the Patronage System. It was actually very much the direct, accepted, and unapologetic way of doing presidential appointments way into the 19th century (as opposed to the somewhat less obvious method since then).

President “drain the swamp” is putting together quite the circus with these clowns (and relatives and donors) he’s handing jobs to. I see a big pile of elephant shit coming our way.

“Values".......surely you jest.