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    They literally just notified 32% of the Department of Education last night that they were being fired.

    Fuck these assholes and anyone who voted for them can fucking drop dead.

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    Come on cuntservatives! Buy an EV like your king commands but look like a tree-hugging pussy or don’t buy an EV and be a traitor to your king!

    Which will it be?

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    10 hours ago

    Do these idiots not realize that it’s Tesla’s association with nazis that’s killing sales? How did they think this was going to help, Republicans are suddenly going to start buying electric vehicles?

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        Honestly they may just ignore this one, as much as I hate it there’s a decent bit of overlap between the car community as a whole and MAGAts. Though it’s also possible they could interpret it as “get electric cars” at which point we may see more EV converts which I would love. The mere concept of an electric 1995 Toyota 4runner makes me harder than the Rock of Gibraltar.

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    This looks like an SNL sketch. People keep expressing sympathy for the onion writers, but really, how does one even parody this? Just shot for shot, word for word something a satirist would come up with.

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      This is basically what killed South Park in 2016. Trump became president and you can’t even parody that, because You can’t think of anything more absurd. Except maybe electing him for a second time.

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      50 years ago, the president advertising a product probably would have lead to investigations

      Now it barely makes the evening news.

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      Honestly, every time I see an SNL skit recently that mimics one of the latest events I keep saying this is sad because as crazy as they get, I feel like the real event was so much crazier. The skits just make me sad because I’m just being reminded of how fucked we are.

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      This looks like an SNL sketch.

      Ohh, I kept waiting for something funny to happen, but now I get it - it won’t.
      :D

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      SNL have been getting alot it lately with all the material they are getting from trump admin.

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    This gives me major late night car dealer commercial vibes. My English to Trump is terrible however I have faith that someone write Trump doing the narration for this commercial.

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    There’s no pretending who’s calling the shots anymore. The monkey was asked to perform. He is giving his best performance and everyone is watching the (shit)show.

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    15 hours ago

    It’s not like it’s a surprise. Remember how he did a photoshoot with a can of beans, because the owner of the brand said he liked him?

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      15 hours ago

      It definitely won’t help. “The most unlikable person on earth being associated with our brand is tanking our stocks, what do we do? I know, well ask the second most unlikable person on earth to help.”

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      It’s not about the environmental aspect of the car for them, it’s just another luxury sports vehicle to the buyers this is pitched at. Its fast, expensive and a desirable brand is all they care about, being electric is just a ‘cool quirk’ of it.

      Were the brand to become really toxic and widely unlikeable by the general public then even the wealthy vapid types would be turned off it. Let’s hope we can get the momentum there, as the only buyers left would be the pro-EV MAGAs with money, and I very much doubt that’s a large enough demographic to keep Tesla afloat.

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    Tesla sales are tanking because of Elon’s embracing fascism and this is the best they could come up with to fix it

    Just lean harder into it and hope the guy who hates electric cars can sell electric cars