Now he needs to drive around in it while we all absolutely pray for the funniest thing in the world to happen.
he isn’t allowed to
He isn’t allowed to drive himself, but maybe FSD is a loophole?
if only it worked
Isnt that a good thing in this case?
They’re shit cars. Let’s please stop pretending they aren’t. The build quality is abhorrent.
Yes, they had the cool factor for a while, and yes, I feel sorry for (some of) those who got caught up in something they didn’t want to be caught up in. But also, the writing has been on the wall a long time, and build quality issues have been public knowledge for about as long.
You get what you pay for.
My buddy found blue painter’s tape where there was supposed to be wire conduit and screws when he lifted up the carpet on his. You may note that blue painter’s tape is intentionally designed to be temporary and dissolve away after a few weeks, which is much less than the expected lifespan of AN ENTIRE FUCKING CAR.
I had a coworker who bought a used one five years ago who said it was great having the first owner do all the repairs.
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Right, but you gotta admit, older Hondas are made of steel. Figuratively and literally.
Webster’s updated “literally”. It now includes the definition “to add emphasis”, since people keep using it incorrectly. They update the dictionary to reflect current usage, so I get it, but it still makes me sad.
If this sort of thing didn’t happen, you would just have claimed that seeing the dictionary entry makes you not hungry. (Original meaning of sad in Old English, cognate with German satt which still has this meaning.)
There are probably some cases were words changed their meaning from positive to negative. (I know there are in German)
Contronyms are words that hold two opposite meanings
All words are made up.
Mark my words, it’s going to happen again with “objectively”. I see stuff like this constantly:
This art piece is objectively good
That’s not what’s objectively means?
Like fuck he paid for it
Most likely bought with taxpayer money.
Russian taxpayer money, yes.
Anything endorsed by Trump is a scam.
$90k is nothing for these people.
You have any clue how much Trump is stealing from tax payers? The dude is making a fortune off being president.
Ever wondered if this tariff yes tariff no spiel is just stock maipulation?
just for a second, now it’s canon
I hate how people think “news” is just literally every single thing trump or musk does now.
“Rich fuck buys shitty car” is not news.
This car was probably bought using US government money.
It was most definitely bought using your tax money.
No it wasn’t. It was Russian tax money.
Putin’s manservant bought the car using his hidden slush funds.
It’ll be auctioned off for $10M to an anonymous Saudi buyer.
Honestly, I’m not even mad they’re squandering their money on stupid bullshit.
Except it isn’t stupid bullshit. They are giving the money to musk so that they can get something they want done. This also gives musk more power as he’s able to buy more people.
Anonymously at an auction?
“Anonymously” at an “auction” was the intended implication, I believe. Where in actuality someone is just paid a lot of money in a manner that is harder to trace, and has an air of plausible deniability.
Omg you’re right, I completely forgot that was a thing for money laundering. Damn. My mistake!
If this were a movie, (that I was writing) The car would glitch and lock Dumpster inside, then burst into flames. He would push the panic button, then look through the smoky windows at fElon laughing demonically, while Dumpster lights-outs coughing and railing against the betrayal, and injustice of it all.
Fade to black. Cough
Post credits scene will be fElon taking a seat behind the desk in the oval office.
Which suddenly also burst into flames and cut to black almost immediately.
Which fades into POV held tied in a carriage with a blond man telling you you’ve been trying to cross the borders…
Pushing the panic button would be cross-wired to make the fart noise.
No seriously please get this script hammered out and get an animator
Would be even better if elon were in there with him
Hearing Trump talk about how the car has ‘computer’ (during the news conference) made me think back to a news event with George H.W. Bush in a supermarket, seeing a grocery barcode scanner for the first time.
Same kind of inquisitive and excited response from both of them.
Musk did some crazy brand management with Twitter, but the Tesla/Trump stuff has got to be unparalleled in the history of branding. He built a product that was an identity-broadcasting thing for liberals and then pulled a 180 and drove as hard as one could possibly imagine in the other direction.
Even if he had some idea of selling to conservatives, become the only EV manufacturer selling to that segment, he could have put out a different brand, which lots of manufacturers do, and mitigate losses to the original brand.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-sale-big-losses-second-hand-value-plunge-elon-musk-2025-3
Tesla owners offloading their cars over Elon Musk backlash are in for a nasty surprise
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Some Tesla owners are considering selling their cars as backlash against Elon Musk and DOGE grows.
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They may have to take a serious haircut, with prices for used Teslas plummeting in recent years.
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The average price of a pre-owned Tesla is now $30,000, nearly $10,000 less than a non-Tesla EV.
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-gaining-republicans-loses-traction-democrats-stifel/
Stifel’s Think Tank Group data has shown that Democrats’ net favorability of Tesla fell to -15% from 7% since February 2024, while Republicans’ rose to 27% from 11%. Democrats’ net purchase consideration for Tesla vehicles also dropped to -42% from -31% since Musk endorsed Trump in August, while Republicans’ improved to -13% from -26% in the same period, per Stifel.
“There is a clear negative shift from Democrats, while Republicans willingness to buy a Tesla is rising… This backlash has surfaced anecdotally and on social media (people placing bumper stickers on their Tesla’s claiming they love the car, but not Elon, and other variations),” the analyst noted.
Car brand history has a lot in store if youre interested. You can basically start at Volkswagen for the obvious, mitsubishi is a story too, hell even Ford but that has some anachronisms we have to kind of ignore.
At least denazification worked on Henry Ford. Someone showed him footage of the death camps and being confronted with the reality of it gave him a stroke that almost killed him, and which contributed to the cerebral hemorrhage that did kill him.
I don’t give a crap how much I’ll get for it. I’m ruling out private sale because I don’t want to deal with nazis.
I’d rather crush it.
I do have a friend that does EV conversions on cargo vans. Could be useful for that.
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Hold on…this could be a good thing…
Hes not gonna drive it.
