The Red-Hats are about to learn how much easier and faster it is to squander the good-will of strangers than it is to earn said good-will in the first place.

Here’s mine which I bought down here in Chile. Got some white old Suzuki Samurai wheels and painted the roof white.

A deranged billionaire who regularly converses with Putin has assembled a team of a half dozen babyfaced techbros and they’re literally breaking into secure federal buildings and accessing sensitive systems and data.  Neither the people nor the hardware have been vetted.  DOGE hasn’t been created by Congress, Muskrat…

the condoms thing was made up bs 

People can relax without drugs OR alcohol, imagine that!

That’s just “Nazis”.

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.

This car is enormous - a widebody like this would probably put it over the width limit where you have to put the 5 orange markers on it like a Raptor.

Intoxicated people are a menace, whether they’re drunk or high.

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…

You mean Aston’s grille?

Emissions are more than just CO2.  

Oh dear god, no.

People who are adamantly against EVs are going to know the vibration is artificial and hate it for that exact reason, whether it’s actually good or not.  Enthusiasts still moan and grown over pumped in exhaust noise, even if what is being pumped in is exactly what is happening outside.  

How about they…

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

Except the president doesn’t usually fly regularly to the same place every other week just because he prefers it over the WH.

No, that actually costs money.  

Oh, Audi got feedback from dealers and customers. So they are going to go back to knobs and switches on everything now too, right? Riiiiight???