Like fuck he paid for it
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.
“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.
Anything endorsed by Trump is a scam.
Now he needs to drive around in it while we all absolutely pray for the funniest thing in the world to happen.
he isn’t allowed to
He isn’t allowed to drive himself, but maybe FSD is a loophole?
if only it worked
Isnt that a good thing in this case?
If he’s not allowed he’s not gonna do it.
“But FSD is safer than human drivers!” - Elon Musk
This car was probably bought using US government money.
It was most definitely bought using your tax money.
$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.
Ever wondered if this tariff yes tariff no spiel is just stock maipulation?
just for a second, now it’s canon
That’s like an hour of playing gold for him
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.
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.
You get what you pay for.
At $90K, no you most certainly don’t.
The majority of the cost is stupid tax
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.
The phrase “idiot tax” is also used to describe people who buy lottery tickets.
Dumb tax as in tax for being dumb. I was joking.
I think “stupid tax” is the more common verbiage, I’ve updated it
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.”
Ah yeah good point
Ah, that makes sense. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
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.
I have a co-worker that bought a 10 year old one and is finding out it’s not great doing all the repairs. He had to replace a motor after the coolant leaked and caused the car to seize up. Had to be flatbeded to the nearest Tesla repair center and hour away. Got put on the back of the queue and couldn’t get any commitments on when the repair would be finished. It has some other issue with a window and a parking brakeb ring being flaky as well.
On the other hand my 16 year old Honda kept chugging along.
Right, but you gotta admit, older Hondas are made of steel. Figuratively and literally.
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.
Mark my words, it’s going to happen again with “objectively”. I see stuff like this constantly:
This art piece is objectively good
That’s not what’s objectively means?
All words are made up.
If this sort of thing didn’t happen, you would just have claimed that seeing the dictionary entry makes you not hungry. (Original meaning of sad in Old English, cognate with German satt which still has this meaning.)
There are probably some cases were words changed their meaning from positive to negative. (I know there are in German)
Hold on…this could be a good thing…
Hes not gonna drive it.
Most likely bought with taxpayer money.
Pay? Why would he pay? Does he ever pay for anything?
he sure as shit doesn’t pay for his crimes.
I gladly pay you tomorrow for a Tesla today.
Free scrap metal is free scrap metal
It’ll be auctioned off for $10M to an anonymous Saudi buyer.
Honestly, I’m not even mad they’re squandering their money on stupid bullshit.
Except it isn’t stupid bullshit. They are giving the money to musk so that they can get something they want done. This also gives musk more power as he’s able to buy more people.
Anonymously at an auction?
“Anonymously” at an “auction” was the intended implication, I believe. Where in actuality someone is just paid a lot of money in a manner that is harder to trace, and has an air of plausible deniability.
Omg you’re right, I completely forgot that was a thing for money laundering. Damn. My mistake!
Hearing Trump talk about how the car has ‘computer’ (during the news conference) made me think back to a news event with George H.W. Bush in a supermarket, seeing a grocery barcode scanner for the first time.
Same kind of inquisitive and excited response from both of them.
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.
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.
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.
Bobbing for fries might sound more like fun to him.
You know, Don, when a man potato and a woman potato love each other…
Fucker Carlson shopping in Moscow can be put there too since he is another head of the MAGA hydra.
WoW tHeY iNvEnTeD sHoPpInG cArT rEtUrNs
If this were a movie, (that I was writing) The car would glitch and lock Dumpster inside, then burst into flames. He would push the panic button, then look through the smoky windows at fElon laughing demonically, while Dumpster lights-outs coughing and railing against the betrayal, and injustice of it all.
Fade to black. Cough
Pushing the panic button would be cross-wired to make the fart noise.
Post credits scene will be fElon taking a seat behind the desk in the oval office.
Which suddenly also burst into flames and cut to black almost immediately.
Which fades into POV held tied in a carriage with a blond man telling you you’ve been trying to cross the borders…
No seriously please get this script hammered out and get an animator
Would be even better if elon were in there with him
