Summary

Elon Musk gave Donald Trump a scripted sales pitch during a White House event where Trump inspected Teslas.

Photographers captured Trump holding notes with phrases like “SAFEST car” and “affordable.” The stunt followed a 15% drop in Tesla’s stock, linked to backlash over Musk’s involvement in DOGE.

Trump defended Musk on Truth Social, blaming the decline on a “Radical Left” boycott.

Meanwhile, Musk’s other ventures, including X and SpaceX, are struggling with outages and test failures.

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148 points

Only in the USA … the president is doing product advertisement. In a democracy the president would be sent home and banned for life from any government function. How much more before the USA citizens notice something is very wrong with having him as POTUS

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History repeats itself quickly.

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The Premiere of our province did a quick plug for Tim Hortons breakfast sandwiches and we just elected him into his third straight majority government.

And now he’s flying down to Washington to negotiate tariffs witx this guy. I’m sure it’ll go great for us.

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“But wait! There’s more!”

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29 points

Is there any country nowadays where people can send the idiot back home without a revolution?

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Chile got rid of their dictator without a revolution, in a typically Chilean way.

Pinochet came to power in a military coup, which broke a decades-long tradition of stable democracy that was unique in South America at the time.
It was a proper bloody South American coup, including a bombardment of the presidential palace, the death of the elected sitting president, and backing from the USA, of course.
Pinochet then abolished the separation of powers, disappeared his political opponents and completely dismantled the democracy.
He also enacted neoliberal hyper-capitalist reforms and privatized everything, which is why the USA backed him.
He had a commission draft an entirely new constitution and pushed through a vote to get it approved.

But as a fig leaf of international legitimacy, there was a clause in it saying his power was transitory and must be confirmed in a referendum after 8 years.

After 8 years of brutal dictatorship, he lost the referendum and simply had to step down.

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24 points

South Korea just did this. Lad tried to start a coup to hide from consequences and got eaten alive.

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Didn’t SK just did that? They protested but it wasn’t anything violent

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Parliamentary systems

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I was talking about people. You’re talking about royalty being able to replace the king :)

Or maybe we have some country where people can send an idiot parliamentarian home without a revolution?

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In a democracy the president would be sent home and banned for life from any government function.

I had a problem when Biden was shilling for Ford too…

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

More so when we “loaned” Ford 9.2 billion to build battery factories in SK only for them to do massive layoffs of American workers later.

It’s good people are upset at how intertwined capitalism and politics are, but shit isn’t going to get better when we only criticize it when we don’t like the letter by the politician’s name.

When neoliberals are just less corrupt Republicans, it makes it to easy for people to say both are bad even though ones clearly worse.

But I just cant take anyone seriously who says that stuff is unrelated to Ford’s support of Dems. They don’t give a fuck about policy or helping people. They’re scratching each other’s back just like trump and Elmo do.

Just way less obvious and we excuse a lot of it because “at least they’re not Republicans”.

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Honestly? I think a lot of us has no idea Biden even did this (I sure didn’t and I’m terminally online/read way too much news). Clearly it wasn’t very good advertising lol

But yes I agree, no one should do this

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What?

He did it on TV, there was a shit ton of articles about it…

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=biden+f150

It was a 100% a big deal, just because he decided to drive it against Secret Service’s wishes… You don’t have to be “terminally online” to have heard about this, at the time it was everywhere…

Like, every late night show, every news/politics media, every bit of media touching the automotive or even investing world talked about it.

If you can’t remember 4 years ago, just say you can’t remember it. Don’t pull a trump and claim no one ever knew about it because you just got reminded it happened.

I’m so fucking tired of this shit being normalized.

Just say you forgot, don’t try to rewrite history as a knee jerk reaction without thinking. It’s not a big deal, no one remembers everything.

But don’t act like if you forget something, no one else every knew it

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