Here’s hoping Elon Musk won’t have to personally fix President Trump’s new EV anytime soon.
  • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    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.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    “Donald. I will pay to make you President but you have to give me access to all admin information and buy a car from me.” E-Lawn.

  • Red_October@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Now he needs to drive around in it while we all absolutely pray for the funniest thing in the world to happen.

  • Coreidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    $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.

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Trump did a supermarket thing while out doing his disinformation circuit, and the owner guy was trying to explain things to him and you could tell Trump had never grocery shopped and then quickly lost interest and tuned the guy completely out.

      The McDonald’s fries thing was also amusing when he learned “how fries were made” and that they put them in a basket and not scoop them out by hand lol.

      • Minnels@lemm.ee
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        2 days ago

        Imagine if everyone in the world would just say “fuck no, I am not cooking for you” and the billionaires would die of starvation because they don’t know how to do. Hilarious.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        The McDonald’s fries thing was also amusing when he learned “how fries were made” and that they put them in a basket and not scoop them out by hand lol.

        They could have let him learn that the hard way, but no.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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

    • Some Tesla owners are considering selling their cars as backlash against Elon Musk and DOGE grows.

    • They may have to take a serious haircut, with prices for used Teslas plummeting in recent years.

    • 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.

    • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.

    • supernicepojo@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      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.

      • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        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.

  • upandup@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Duh. The dude has the intellect of a 90-year-old rotten turd. What the fuck did you expect from him? Are you fucking stupid enough to think he would do any differently than suck Elon’s ball sack on the front lawn of the White House in front of a bunch of cameras?

    If you did, I found the Trump voter.

      • A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.comEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Legally, he’s not even allowed to drive.

        I think more like the SS advises the president not to drive for their own safety, and to leave it to experts.

        Or as Trump probably sees it: The deep state is being insufficiently loyal and trying to tell him - the president - of all people - what to do. So he totally shouldn’t listen, and should drive if he wants to, and they should fall in line or be fired.

      • bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        I think disallowed only out in the public. I think I read that theyre allowed to drive on the whitehouse property, and maybe private institutions like race tracks? I dont recall the specifics

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 days ago

    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.

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      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.

        • ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Do you have a source for that?

          Also we should note that Tesla paid $0 income tax on $2 billion income in 2024. And Trump axed the tax rebate to help people buy EVs.

          • Elgenzay@lemmy.ml
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            2 days ago

            Dumb tax as in tax for being dumb. I was joking.

            I think “stupid tax” is the more common verbiage, I’ve updated it

            • TheRealKuni@midwest.socialEnglish
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              2 days ago

              Personally I think “idiot tax” works better.

              “Stupid” and “dumb” being adjectives that could also be describing the tax itself, rather than the person paying it, is ambiguous. But “idiot tax” clearly says, to me anyway, “a tax on idiots.”

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.

          • alanjaow@lemmy.world
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            2 days ago

            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.