Trump last week at Joint Address: We ended the last admin's insane electric vehicle mandate.
[Americans stop buying Teslas]
Trump this week: Why won't you people buy Tesla's electric vehicles??
Ideally POTUS & the world's most incompetent person are two different people. Simply not the case here.
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And a lot of people don't want to support a fascist CEO…
Musk doesn't seem to understand that Tesla buyers are… (or better) were a lot of idealistic people in the left spectrum.
@derderwish @QasimRashid yea, I don't think the majority of Republican voters enjoy funky-looking EVs
@KumaSudosa @derderwish @QasimRashid I honestly thought (in the early days of it all) that Elon was flirting with the MAGA types as part of a ploy to get them interested in EVs. EVs are legitimately a VERY conservative product when you think about it beyond “‘Murca means OIL!” Because Tesla was very smart in marketing their EVs as a luxury item, knowing that that would break the electric car into the mainstream, I thought this was the next level. Welp…
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I'm convinced that Musk just really likes authoritarian structures & organizations, including fascism.
That's completely in line with his behavior after buying Twitter. Remember that "who isn't going hardcore mode should leave" shit from him?
@FrChazzz @KumaSudosa @derderwish @QasimRashid I thought the original reasons for Tesla to start by selling luxury cars was (a) to partially cover up the cost of the batteries and (b) to not have to sell too many initially as it takes time to ramp up production. Also, they could gather data on how the vehicles are used to improve the design.
@QasimRashid waiting for a revival of the ‘who killed Hannibal’ meme using all this trump admin gubbins.
And the evidence was there to know it in advance…
@QasimRashid It was worse than that. He said that boycotting Teslas was *illegal*. As in, you are *legally* required to buy a Tesla.
@QasimRashid doesn’t explain why people stopped buying them in Europe and around the world, though. Pro-environment policies didn’t disappear over there over night.
Make America Degrade Again
@QasimRashid Remember the #orangedon is reliant on The Cult to drink his spike Koolaid…
@QasimRashid
I think POTUS oughta drive a Tesla as his main car, to set an example. And maybe burst in flames, who knows...
@tuga @QasimRashid Guy does love fancy cars (there’s a photo of him gassing up his Lamborghini in West Palm that used to make the rounds). But it is apparently against Secret Service (SS?) policy to allow the president to drive.
@QasimRashid Actually a scenario where all devout MAGAs buy electric vehicles is a rather benign form of cultism. It would really help EV penetration. And someone has to provide charging points for them, like those federal government buildings where they were just disabled under executive order the other day...
@martinvermeer @QasimRashid I love the idea of Ship of Thesus/Rube Goldberg-ing MAGA into renewable energy activists: “YEAH! Ontario wants to cut off our energy supplies? Let’s stick it to them and install wind turbines and solar panels! That’ll teach ‘em to mess with the US of A!”
@QasimRashid Flood the zone...
In the meantime he is so far succeeding in the main objectives, namely breaking the rule of law and democracy in the US and delivering Ukraine and then (Eastern) Europe to Russia.
However, neither Ukraine nor Europe wants that to happen so they will hopefully resist.
@QasimRashid it's not just Americans who aren't buying Teslas. Musk doing a pair of Nazi salutes probably didn't help sales.
@QasimRashid We've watched other countries with insane/incompetent leaders for so many years and wondered how did the residents "allow" such things to happen? Well, now we know first hand, don't we? It's called apathy, indifference, and "somebody else's job". Evil doesn't wait for good people to wake up. Evil takes advantage of good people waiting on somebody else to do something. You and I are the exception to that rule. Our job now is to be ready when it "soaks in" that time is NOW.
@QasimRashid They're not buying Teslas for the same reason people are lighting Tesla dealerships on fire.
THEY DON'T LIKE ELON MUSK.
It's not cuz the chump ended some rebate program FFS. Why is the Democratic leadership so CLUELESS?
@QasimRashid Followed by announcing that he will be buying one himself. And now he said Tesla will produce twice as many. So he may even have the government buy them.
@QasimRashid Instead of a tesla, I picked up a small, foldable, electric scooter from a Canadian company, Dynamic Scooter,.at a cost of $373.50 + shipping. When folded, its size is 305mm X 775mm by 130mm, so it easily fits in the trunk of my tiny car. I dropped my car off for routine servicing this morning, and used the scooter to get home (a trip of about 2 miles).
Such alternatives are possibly something Must et al. do not want to hear.
A clown show…
@QasimRashid well Eloon is a different person.
@QasimRashid Neither of them can see the bright side of the moon
@QasimRashid it’s because of an illegal boycott! If you haven’t bought a Tesla in the past week you are no better than Dahmer or Gacy, neither of which owned a Tesla. Better get shopping before you find yourself thrown into a black van which takes you and your abductor to prison. That’ll teach them to drive a van instead of a Tesla.