He made it gold, dude wants to crow over the plebs. He just didn’t count on there being so many of them.

I dunno man, at this point getting the official Tesla attention machine is a pretty tacit endorsement of Musk and his attitudes. He wrapped it in gold. He clearly wants the attention, but he thought it was going to be of the positive ilk. Turns out he was wrong.

Ahhhh yes, buying one of the ugliest and most obnoxious cars, wrapping it in the most obnoxious color possible, then putting a FAT QR code on the back doesn’t make him a huge attention seeker. He’s just upset about the type of attention he’s getting lol suck it up buttercup. Actions and decisions have consequences.…

Holy shit, I can’t imagine having such a hard-on for a dude that I’m willing to give him a public BJ via social media after his shitty truck gets me into a bad accident.

Yeah, Doug Ford was ripping him up on social media last week. And if there’s any leader who should have been a PR slam dunk for Trump, it’s Doug Ford, Canada’s Chris Christy. I hope the utter trainwreck in Washington helps Canadian voters appreciate their more moderate leadership a bit more.

FYI: 40,000 Canadian soldiers served in Afghanistan and 158 died following the Sep. 11 attacks in 2001. This is how we repay the favor and honor their sacrifice.

Yeah supposedly Alabama is a place potentially rich in at least one of those critical minerals. 

I’ve heard “rare earth minerals” bandied about as an explanation for Trump’s creepy lust for both Greenland and Canada. But you know where else has rare earth minerals? The US. We just abandoned the infrastructure to extract them when China started selling them.

Complaining to the NHTSA, an agency of the federal government, that Tesla isn’t getting back to you, while the guy atop Tesla is currently a shadow President sacking the federal government like a Visigoth through Rome.  Best of luck, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Hahahahaha....a Sigh-ber truck owner who writes in all-caps. This is white on rice, stink on a monkey-esque pairing.

Sounds like a perfect metaphor for the next few years.

“CYBERTRUCK NEARLY GOT ME KILLED AND TESLA COMPLETELY IGNORING ME, BUT DESPITE THAT SMALL ISSUES ITS BEEN THE BEST VEHICLE IVE EVER OWNED. ELON MUSK BUILDS THE BEST TRUCKS EVER.”

USAID also offers informal insights and intelligence into countries we aren’t typically friendly with. Same as with NGOs - you can learn a lot from just mingling with the locals, which often leads to useful intelligence.

Why is this filthy, Nazi scumbag defiling my country?

Exactly this. I liken it to offering your neighbor a beer on a hot day. Even if you never really socialize with him it at least makes you look like a good guy. And then a few years from now when that tree falls on your mutual fence there’s immediate goodwill to fix the problem together, as opposed to immediately go…

It’s interesting how little the MAGA folks understand about how power actually works. Sure we can threaten other countries with our military strength, in much the same way that pariah states like Iran do (whole other conversation). 

USAID was a form of soft power not unlike the diplomatic services. It was the US doing things that were, at first glance, “merely” charity and aid, but also gave us a lot of less obvious benefits. Once again, we shoot ourselves in the foot for short-term gain, but long-term losses. The world is more chaotic and less…

I’m starting to think there is no Deep State!

Why would he care about what Tesla sales look like when he gets to sit on both sides of the negotiation table for government contracts with his other companies. He’ll probably end up with 100 year contracts with the most insane prices and conditions ever seen in history.

1st Gear: Last sales report, the decrease in California Tesla sales amounted to a 10% overall global sales reduction. That’s big. Regarding Tesla wanting to move more operations to Texas. Remember when he moved Tesla’s R&D, only to move it back within months? He couldn’t get enough people to make that move, nor…