Seems to be only California Teslas for now.

You should be able to (at some point) accumulate enough wealth that you can live at least half your life in luxury without ever working another day.

That should be a difficult , but possibly attainable goal.

You should not be able to accumulate enough wealth to make hundreds of people commit their life's work solely to your whims. You should not be able to accumulate enough wealth to just buy politics.

That's what's fundamentally broken in our system. It's fixable, if the right people want to.

No. As of 7 days ago, he has not been paid the $50 billion. The judge's order is holding for now.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/elon_musk_appeals_voided_pay_package/

Did that actually get paid out? Last I heard the judge said no, multiple times.

The Chinese will destroy them

Largely because they can sell at or below cost and still make a profit, because they're being propped up by the Chinese government.

Domestic production is the legitimate use of tariffs, especially when the target country is effectively hacking their prices lower through subsidies. China wants to Walmart green tech. They want to artificially lower their prices until they've driven out all competition permanently.

Just like how Canada's high tariff on US dairy after a certain limit was valid because they want to retain some of their own production. And the US could literally drown Canada in milk.

He did win the popular vote this time. Not by much. He absolutely does not have a mandate.

Popular vote 77,302,580[2] 75,017,613[2]

I wouldn't go after individual Tesla owners. It wasn't always like this. They adopted the earliest and cheapest (in the US) EV. I won't buy one now, but I would have three years ago.

I understand the dealership thing. Are most of them directly corporate?

You know what a normal database is.

The Blockchain is a distributed database instead of a centralized one where normally people can verify that each other part of the database is correct.

Generally anything a distributed database can do, a centralized database in good hands can do better. Except for crimes. It's more difficult to get away with crimes when they can be shut down in one place.

Also it's harder to undo Blockchain/crypto stuff. They sell this as a benefit while the primary use is scams and rug pulls.

"The government can't get your money back." Yeah, gonna be hard to get back thr money you were scammed out of with a court order, isn't it.

They also try to sell it as anonymous, but it's very much not. Everything is on the record, so if they link you to an address (and they generally can), they can see every transaction you've ever made. There used to be services to obfuscate this, but the government has well and truly broken through those. They can find you of they want to.

Crypto is a an MLM for guys. You can make money, if you're lucky enough to be the scammer and not the scammee.

You've been appointed as a mod to !virginia . Good luck! I should send a welcome message later this evening with more info.

It's literally a quote from his debate vs Hillary.

The perfect example is the paranoid ethnostate in the middle east.

You say that, but are they wrong?

The independent Republicans were all pushed out of the party when they opposed Trump. Some were beaten in primaries, most saw it coming and retired.

No shit. His choices are to either double down or admit to himself that he killed his daughter.

I believe that's the plan. They want the GOP to own all of this. If they hold the CR, suddenly that is the reason people are getting fired, the stock market is crashing, NATO is falling apart and our allies are being abandoned by abandoning us.

They're afraid if there's one thing to point to that they'll absorb everything in the eyes of the public. Particularly the Trump voting public.

In my opinion, it doesn't matter because they'll find something else to pin it on. You can't win these games by playing it their way.

Schumer did what he thought was best. He's just wrong.

That said, I think pushing for a change of leadership is the right way to go about this. If he's going to make bad decisions, he can pay for them appropriately.

Let's not water down the term "traitor" during, well... you know.

I think it might be easier for them to access closed buildings and servers. I think it makes it easier for them to shut down agencies they don't like, such as the department of education. And I doubt the federal workers would get back pay this time as they have in the past.

The shutdown would screw a lot of people. The CR could be worse. And the Democrats, as usual, are left to be the only adults in the room. Yeah , the Republicans might eat more blame, questionably, but a lot of people would get hurt regardless.

A shutdown can allow them to dismantle the government faster.

He had his green card. He protested against Israel. He's now in jail, somewhere unknown.

The judge said he couldn't be deported because he's a resident, but he's still in jail.

also it's not nearly to this degree

Hilarious

The numbers in that "bullet ballots" post were lies. They were convincing if true, but they just weren't true. North Carolina didn't have 7.1% bullet ballots, for instance, and the swing states weren't significantly different from their surrounding states, as he claimed they were.

Part of the reason that post sounded so good is that he gave easily verifiable numbers. But those numbers didn't verify.