I know it is petty of me, but I do love the snark Jalopnik dishes out to the maga morons. I dislike Musk. He lies and ripped me off. I am stuck with a model 3 that I do not like. FSD is dangerous.

Vivek is as dumb as Trump - which means 49% of the nation think he’s a dang genius

Except people do get government subsidized loans all the time. Almost every mortgage is aided by the govt. Plus have you heard of government bonds? The government legally can't do do business type stufd, so taxes, loans, and bonds are just about their only way of making money. 

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

Well, that’s why we have to vilify socialism whenever we talk about Venezuela, if we admit their economy tanked because of command economics, that would be a point against all the command economics WE want to do.

Before our eyes, a kakistocracy is forming, with elements of the Peter Principle gratuitously applied. 

2015 Trump: “Excessive CEO pay is a disgrace and a joke.”

His issue isn’t with a loan to Rivian, it’s a loan that the government made rather than his friends at Goldman Sachs. They don’t want to entirely “end” social security, as another example, they want to privatize it so that a handful of people can profit from running it less efficiently than the government can. But,…

Government by moron.

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..

Amazing how many of the maga dirtbags are immigrants (or children of immigrants). It’s the “we got ours now let’s keep everyone else from getting theirs”. I once lived in a town where the town fathers came to that attitude and stopped all growth (we got ours now let’s stop everyone else from getting theirs). The…

Basically.  The Venn diagram for people who claim to despise price controls and people who are excited for these tariffs is a single circle.

Basic division is all Vivek is capable of doing.

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...

The corruption and self-dealing we’re going to see over the next 4 (or more) years is going to be on a scale never seen before in US history.

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

Thinking that Tesla, a company that essentially exists because of government subsidies, grants, and tax breaks, largely for things that didn’t come to fruition, should take issue with another company being given a loan is peak Doublespeak.

Also, wouldn’t the “$880,000 per job” also account for the materials needed to build the factory? Pretty sure building materials aren’t free...

MAGA folks: “Build cars in America!”

The invisible hand of the free market for thee, but not for me, I guess.