Summary
Tesla warned the U.S. government that it could face retaliatory tariffs due to Trump’s trade policies, and those concerns are becoming reality.
Canada has started targeting Tesla by excluding its products from EV charger rebate programs, with officials considering removing Tesla from a $4,000 EV purchase rebate as well.
Canadian politicians, including NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, have proposed a 100% tariff on Tesla imports.
Tesla, reliant on Canadian and Mexican manufacturing, now faces backlash over CEO Elon Musk’s close ties to Trump and his trade war policies.
Maybe their CEO shouldn’t have made it his life’s mission to become the world’s biggest cunt, then.
“Illegal Collusive” Deport Canada
TF is it with these clueless bullies? They whine so hard when someone punches back.
Snowflakes
The term snowflake was invented for the regressives decades ago now. They like throwing the term back at us. They do this because it hurt the whiny little weaklings.
Lots of spelling/grammar errors in that article
I want to see more teslas burning on the lots. We’ve done a few, but I feel we can go further and burn better.
The real winner? China. Watch how they’ll dominate the Canadian EV market while US and Canada engage in this childish tariff tantrum
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There’s plenty of other non-China EVs available in North America, and Tesla vehicles are terrible for plenty of other Elon-related reasons that aren’t his political influence.
Non-Chinese alternatives? Research shows limited viable options. Most are luxury models with restricted availability or production constraints. Belgian-built Volvos and Japanese EVs struggle with volume and range limitations. North American EV sales hit only 140,000 units in February 2025 - pitiful compared to China’s manufacturing capacity.
Tesla’s flaws are well-documented - 27th out of 28 brands for reliability, Autopilot safety incidents, detaching roofs, and makeshift “band-aid” cooling systems. But you’re missing the bigger picture.
While we argue over Musk’s Twitter antics, China’s BYD overtook Tesla globally. VW Group already outran Tesla in January, selling 82k units versus Tesla’s declining 57k. Canadian retaliatory policies excluding Tesla from rebates creates perfect market opening for Chinese manufacturers.
The data confirms China’s manufacturing strategy succeeds while North America cycles between contradictory incentives and tariffs. Typical consumer-level analysis ignoring global industrial competition.
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They’ve entered the Find Out stage.
All the Canadian companies that sell to them should raise the price too. Make it impossible for them to make their shit cars
Get fucked Elmo.
Takes a special kind of dipshit asshole to fail to recognize the entire reason they are as wealthy and powerful and beyond consequence is that they operate out of a runaway, uncontrolled, corrupt capitalist society and if they Fuck Around outside that box, they may rapidly and dramatically Find Out.
I hope he’s a slow learner. Watching this is too much fun.
runaway, uncontrolled, corrupt capitalist
I would actually argue that the only word I disagree with here is “uncontrolled” because it was very tightly controlled for a long time, which allowed the relative stability that let America be a big bully on the world stage, force the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, and lead trading partners to believe we were bullies but mostly trustworthy and would follow through on international deals we made.
Now we are truly entering the “uncontrolled” territory, and that’s why faith from other countries in the US being a reliable partner is faltering.
Yeah, the previous state of flawed democracy was perfect for business and maintaining the status quo. Now they went even further into autocracy and now they’re basically at the mercy of Trump’s whims. It’s throwing long term planning out the window and the new game is just sucking up to Trump and finding novel ways to bribe him.
Musk basically spent a quarter billion dollars to lose a 100 billion dollars more on top of that.
It reminds me of something only semi-related.
Dec 3, 2009
As she prepared her daughter for college, Anne Sweeney insisted that a television be among the dorm room accessories.
“Mom, you don’t understand. I don’t need it,” her 19-year-old responded, saying she could watch whatever she wanted on her computer, at no charge.
That flustered Ms. Sweeney, who happens to be the president of the Disney-ABC Television Group.
“You’re going to have a television if I have to nail it to your wall,” she told her daughter, according to comments she made at a Reuters event this week. “You have to have one.”
Like Disney-ABC in 2009, these fucking dinosaurs of companies plan to just use institutional dominance and money to force themselves into the position they want to be in. I suspect it will work about as well as Sweeney’s efforts to nail a TV to her daughters wall. (You want to use screws for that anyway, you fucking dipshit, Sweeney) Sweeney was so confident in this approach that she related this story and what she said at a press event. This is how fucking stupid these people are, they’re willing to relate a story like that as though it shows strength and not shortsightedness and ignorance.
In other words, I don’t expect it to work out very well at all.
I mean, Disney still managed to leverage their market position to go from nowhere to bring the top streaming service, just on the back of their intellectual property portfolio (which is a government granted monopoly, obviously, because for all their talk of free markets, they don’t actually want a free market).
Still, none of those people seem to think things through or even think long term.
Still, none of those people seem to think things through our even think long term.
Exactly, this was a full two years after Netflix had already started their online streaming service no less. Disney+ didn’t launch until 2019, twelve years later. They could have had that institutional dominance at nearly any point but spend a solid decade pissing it away before they finally made use of that intellectual property portfolio.
Oh did they complain before they stole the $43 million in subsidies from us. No way they were selling a vehicle every two minutes last week…
How does that parable go? Reap what you sew?
You rip what you sew
I ripped my jeans, but then I sewed them up again
“For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.”
“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind.”
“Those who live by the sword must also cook with a sword.”
I don’t know, something about swords.
Pissin’ in the wind
- Lao Tsu
Man who walk through turnstile sideways, going to Bangkok. - Confucius
It’s “sow” but yeah.
Fucking autocorrect can kiss my add
Ducking autocorrect, don’t get me started.
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Canadian here, idk what to say?
“k”
That should about sum this up.
Too close to an X for my taste.
Years of “we’re no. 1” and “leader of the free world” propaganda has made Americans delulu to the point where they think their leaders are god-kings that can throw out edicts that will go unopposed. A lot of thus influence was soft power and reliance on allies for re-supplying and repairs, which is currently being dismantled.
This has been a long process, starting with browbeating military allies into the ironically named “coalition of the willing” during the second Iraq war. Now an openly fascist leader has been elected as a US president and is threatening wars of expansion. Interesting times ahead, I guess.
