Sounds like a perfect metaphor for the next few years.

If nothing else, Tesla stock now needs to be valued as what it is...just another car company making a couple of million cars. They changed the automotive world, but the world has caught on. And Tesla prospects look dimmer thanks to Muskie.

But very few will be able or willing to pay a 100% tariff on a Tesla.

LOL @ Nissan thinking they should have a say when they’re literally having their asses saved by Honda.

A candidate to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader has suggested a 100% tariff on Tesla.

Europeans know what happens when you get in bed with Nazis. Calfornians recognize the danger too.

Nazis, and those who support Nazis, must be ended.

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…

“Donald Trump and his boss Elon”

Musk was quoted saying, “Who cares about brown babies?” while he completed half a dozen Nazi salutes.

If it’s The Onion and this administration, you know it’s just a matter of time before it’s true.

2 years / 25k is actually way shorter than I thought it was.

not since Trump was elected the first time.

I’m about to just start learning Mandarin and be done with it. The communist party is terrible, but on the whole they are getting shit done and quality of life for the people there is growing like crazy.

Thankfully our government is worried about immigrants and trans people, so we can lose our shit to China in yet another technology race.