*Bribed
Gratuity
I like Presidents who make Decisions based off who pays them the MOST money!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malandragem
Our society is crumbling into disrepair. Politicians openly solicit quid pro quo. This flagrantly corrupt culture needs a shock.
I don’t know about Trump and fast living
Fast food, on the other hand…
Just waiting for MAGA idiots to start buying EVs to “own the libs”. I mean, I’d rather people shift to EVs because it’s less damaging to the environment; but, a win is a win, I guess.
If that started to happen I’d gladly just play along.
Buy an EV to own the libs.
Fueled by their tears, not foreign oil.
It’s funny to see the aesthetic transformation of Tesla’s vehicles overlaid with the timeline of Musk’s weirdification. I mean he was always a shitheel fuck, but in the past he was a lot more confused about who to game and how to game them.
What aesthetic transformation?
Ok you got me.
I imagine they’re referring to the difference between a car that looks like a normal sedan, vs something Christopher Nolan would have used to build the Batmobile around for The Dark Knight.
Edit: I realize that sounds too complimentary. I assure you it wasn’t meant that way.
Sooo… he’s admitting to being bought and paid for, right out in the open because he knows no one will touch him.
Lobbying in action…
Good thing is that there are other auto makers that make EVs, and even their worst EVs are still better than a Tesla.
The same Elon Musk that permanently deleted this image off the internet forever?
Eeeeh heeee yooooow
Billie Jean is not my looover
USA: Best politics money can buy.
Translation: “give me enough money and I’ll promote whatever you want.”
Most presidents at least pretended they couldn’t be bought.
Dude’s made a living selling his stupid face every opportunity he can to get attention, why would he let a little thing like presidential integrity get in the way? It certainly didn’t when he was actually president!
He on the other hand is haggling openly and then brags about it.
And his moron followers are proud of him 🙄
He’s going to “drain the swamp” and replace it with an auction house.
I thought he was draining the swamp so he could sell swamp water?
Build condos on it.
After burying Melania there.
Turns out “playing 4D chess” is just MAGA politikese for “broadcasting our corruption loudly and assuming enough people are also either too corrupt, ignorant, or disaffected to do anything about it.”
Bought and paid for politician Trump is.
Except he doesn’t sell himself to the highest buidder, he’ll sell out to any and all of them at the same time.
“I can only suck one dick at a time, but I also have two (normal-sized) hands.”
Did someone say frijoles?
I can’t decide whether this pic or the photo of George W. Bush literally holding hands with the king of Saudi Arabia is worse. I mean, at least Goya doesn’t have people cut up with bone saws and they definitely had nothing to do with 9/11.
And I haven’t bought Goya since.
Wow, I didn’t realize this actually happened, til now I’d honestly thought it was some sort of shit post. This is the strangest timeline
No fucking way! I also thought it was a joke. But tan suits, that’s the real problem.
No, the real problem is putting mustard in your burger. Those were dark times…
Ah yes. Thanks for the reminder of those times, which COVID had distracted me from.
I like to substitute Trump’s middle initial with a G instead of a J.
Donathan Goya Trump
Little quid, little pro, lots of quo.
The best quo. Lots of smart people are saying it’s the best quo. The quid? Not so good. But the quo is good.
Nah. Imo, this is him telling oil company that they need to step up and fully fund his requests for money “or else”. Didn’t he recently ask the oil industry for an insane amount of money at the beginning of his campaign or something?
That’s not really contradicting what I’m saying.
No, you’re right. But I think this is specifically a message to the oil industry.
No translation needed, since he is saying it outright.
“Some fok’ll never tip their hand, but then again some fok’ll. Like Donald the Slack-jawed Yokel.”
Trump: “It wasn’t my fault, he had a LOT
of money.”Fr wtf, the shamelessness adds insult to injury.
But not electric boats???
Yeah, but what if there is a shark 10 feet away? What do I do then?
There are no EV mandates. The article presents Trump’s statements about repealing an EV mandate that doesn’t exist without ever noting that no such mandate exists.
Without seeing video of the statements it’s hard to say how much that was Trump selling policy for donations and saying the quiet part out loud vs just making a joke. But either way, I’m pretty sure it’s based on a flawed premise because at this point I don’t think Elon gives a shit about electric cars either.
And finally, the talk about the cost of charging infrastructure is framing the issue in the stupidest way possible. How much did it cost to build infrastructure for ICE vehicles, to have gas stations all over the place and a supply chain to keep them running? A hell of lot more than it will take to add charging infrastructure, that’s for sure. But we don’t talk about that cost because no single entity paid for it all, and those that did mostly did so as an investment, which generally paid off. People will pay for public chargers. We don’t need public funds to cover everything, they just help get the investments rolling in faster.
What we do need is a rule forcing apartments to add charging of some kind to all residential parking. Even a standard wall outlet for each space would be enough to solve the majority of the charging problem.
The government is supporting Tesla in many ways.
