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"While Trump cuts programs you need to live, he's turning the White House into a car dealership to advertise his unelected shadow president's failing company," said one critic.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Musk is very good at making things fucking worse through the power of extremely self-confident ignorance and stupidity

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Which only works out for those born into wealth.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Lmfaooooo, this fucking dolt has Biden living rent free in his head. Holy shit, we are fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is sooooo good. This is how you know it's working. This is how you vote with your dollar. Keep up the anti-consumption. Boycott the fuck out of these assholes. Life is more interesting not giving them a single cent.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 month ago (5 children)

It's worth watching the video...

After he gets in you can still kind of hear what they're saying.

trump has to ask what the two pedals do...

Elmo asked him if he wanted to drive, and Trump had to ask a handler if they wanted him to drive and they said he could. Elmo tried to reassure him that it was "just like a golf cart" but trump panicked and got out pretty quickly.

He was desperate for someone to tell him not to, but everyone was fine with it.

Then he made some quip about Biden not even being able to get in it, and us much as I dislike Biden, at least a couple of years ago he was still capable of driving:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-floors-electric-ford-truck-test-drive-pushes/story?id=77764009

It's probably been 50 years since trump drove anything besides a golf cart.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Biden famously still has his 1967 Corvette which he received from his father as a wedding gift. It is immaculate.

Biden may not be a gearhead but he is a proud owner/driver of one hell of a car. He kept it perfect.

edit: looking at the picture again, is that paint damage on the running board? I wonder if it had sidepipes at one point. I'm sure if it is damage and not a reflection it's been repaired by now, he loves that car.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Holy fucking shit that Corvette is beautiful.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Part of the agreement presidents sign when they consent to USSS protection is that they are no longer allowed to drive themselves except in pre-approved, controlled situations. Thus, it's even more concerning he had to ask for permission, since this should have been cleared in the planning stages, long before he got to touch the car, and he should have known that already. Just more evidence that the trump team don't really know what they're doing.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Please God, let the secret service just let him run to the store himself when he needs milk and cookies...

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

"Drill, baby, drill . . ." and screw windmills--but buy a Tesla?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

Best politics money can buy.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago

Corruption on full display. Aren't you tired, too?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I am even more inspired to boycott!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Were you in a position to buy Tesla such that your boycott matters, or is this just defacto "not buying anyways?" Either way, good.

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[–] [email protected] 160 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Orcas against yachts, raccoons against cybertrucks!

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Going to be a problem if they tell bears...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Quote by a forest ranger at Yosemite National Park on why it is hard to design the perfect garbage bin to keep bears from breaking into it:

"There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."

And the smartest cybertruck owners are way worse then the tourists.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

You say problem, I say solution.

Or at least entertainment.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

"I think this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part."

😂 🤣

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