I’ll be interested to see how Tesla closes out its book for the year. When Elon was just a weirdo, I could see people not taking notice (per my own words, “nobody outside of car people can even tell you the CEO of Ford, let alone his views on politics”); now, post election, I’m wondering if this puts a real dent in…

At this point I feel like it is fair to start the countdown clock on brands that won’t survive the next 10 years. Like half of the land of misfit toys (Stellantis) is probably on the block, Nissan, Rivian, etc. Unless the EU, Brazil, and N.A. all say no to Chinese EVs, we are all going to be in for a world of playing…

I enjoyed my 4c while I had it; it had....a lot of character.

I’m going to really miss these when they are gone; hopefully if things go ass over tea-kettle some OEM will buy them and they can stick around.

1st: The US relies on 1) exploitation of the global south and 2) free trade agreements with low COL countries to exist the way we do.

The problem with many conservatives is that the part of the equation (“to exist the way we do”) needs to go away before you can tackle the other items and reshore, but voters who are…

Yea that isnt the official logo haah

JaGUar!

“How dare you use my own printed words against me?”

The DOGE board is purely symbolic and useless. Occams Razor: he stole the election for Trump using sophisticated techniques in a handful of states (not all of which use Starlink) to have barely any influence in the new administration and to just pump his stock prices higher, or he did the same as everyone else and…

Some are doing that. GM and Hyundai just agreed to a partnership...both use LG batteries; others will follow.

Congress being GOP means that the has a has clearer path on new laws he’d like to pass; Mitch indicated the filibuster isn’t going anywhere, but he’s not going to be Senate Majority leader, so who the fuck knows what happens.

Can you buy a racing one and import it I wonder?

He doesn’t control those things; his companies, made of many, many people do. He is as replaceable as anyone.

That isn’t what DEI means.

You misspelled syphilis.

You need big promises to catch low information voters (75% of the people voting in this election fall into that category) attention. Governance starts with ideals but then regresses towards the mean. The other guy is going out there saying he will level a 2000% tariff on cars for chrissakes.

And the rest of this is…

Ford gifting with $2500 max campaign donations to “both sides” in a district where they have a factory or dumping money into a lobbying firm to push industry standards is certainly a thing...but its not a 70mil check and Jim Farley leaping around like a frog on stage. Optics does matter.

FWIW, polls this year are weird. Most pollsters are weighting extra to account for “quiet Trump” voters to avoid what happened in 2016/2020, but by weighting them they are necessarily undercounting Harris. Additionally, some of the polls are over-indexing on rural voters but sometimes significantly over urban and…

If you think that Kamala isn’t a supremely capable choice for President, I don’t know what to tell you. This narrative of the “hold your nose and pull” voters is just good old fashioned misogyny and/or racism; like Clinton she is leagues ahead of the person she is going against.

I like the ouroboros of truck appreciation is the “cheap ones that will probably get beat up because they are cheap”, true or not that it may be.