Among the new president's many executive orders were attacks on clean vehicle policies.
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Fuel efficiency, EVs, and charger funding all cut by Trump’s orders
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Yeah, the Model 3 is essentially the Taurus of our time, ubiquitous at nearly every stoplight when you can spot them behind the giant trucks.
And yeah the build quality issues are well known, even if I didn’t care about politics I decided to lease an Ioniq 5 instead of a Tesla because I trust Hyundai more with the basics of assembling a car correctly.
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It's also just an absolutely bullshit premise to begin with.
Purity tests and identity politics? Kamala wouldn't even talk about queer people while literally parading "good" Republicans around on stage. What a fucking joke.
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because money, specifically old money and the systems they've established that allow them to keep their lead and continue exploiting/expanding/influencing.
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There's no "feels like" about it. That IS what's happening.
Except there's a giant military with nukes in the picture.
Gundam had it wrong. It's much much worse.
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... which is an exact replay of the 1850s and the Fugitive Slave Act. States rights for slave states, but not for abolitionist states.
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Elon knows that selling cars doesn't matter because his wealth is derived from Tesla's shareprice and now he can just as much fraud as he wants to prop that up. Teslabots? Sure. Robotaxis next year? Of course.
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There's gonna be a lot more dead than the car industry. When these clowns get through the economy will be a stinking pile of shit, our military will be in chaos, women will be chattel again, our children dumb as rocks, discrimination acceptable policy and workers no more than serfs.
The electorate bought and handed the rope they'll hang by to their executioners.
The American Great Experiment is dead,dead,dead.
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Billionaires, without any doubt, will wind up better off. Removing constraints, restrictions, controls, protections, etc will increase the power imbalance.
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It’s like early 2017 all over again, angry people on the left and right ends of the Dem Party’s tent screaming that we could have won if only we had kicked out the other group entirely.
The reality is we lost for a dozen different reasons or more, and only some of them could be easily controlled. It can neither be wholly credited to brilliant Trump strategy or Democratic incompetence, and that’s way harder to reckon with. It’s much easier, emotionally, for people to identify who is at fault (The DNC! Donors! Loud Leftists Existing!) than to reckon with it being something complex and affected by factors that couldn’t all be controlled or countered.
I don’t have an easy answer either but I know abandoning people or trying to actively kick them out of our tent isn’t going to solve anything. I would suggest to anyone who wants 2026 to go better that they get involved with their local Democratic Party. It’s going to be filled with a bunch of old people with ideas you may hate, but guess what that’s where we build out our bench of new candidates and the volunteers to support them. If you want a better Democratic Party go build it. That’s a lot harder than complaining about it on the internet though.
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No. He cares, but this helps him.
Some people want electric cars. Almost no one else can build electric cars profitably. If they aren't forced to make them they might just give up, meaning he has less competition.
Trump is also anti China, and China is the place which can make profitable EVs.
Trump is removing all of his EV competition.
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I hope his policies devastate them, and they get everything they voted for.
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Can you, pretty please, include Michigan in the invite too?
I know trump won here, but all of our statewide elected officials are Democrats, and Democrats have a majority in our state Senate and Supreme Court, so there’s still hope for us.
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Ah ha! Hence among the first few EOs was returning to private prisons. At least they are up to tic-tac-toe levels of game theory.
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How about an extra city like Chicago? Please...pretty please? We got good pizza, hot dogs and Italian Beefs!
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poke 532810
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I’m in Washington (the Trumpish side, unfortunately), and I’d join Canada in a heartbeat. My wife and I had a serious conversation last night about which countries we could move to. My wife and her family are first generation immigrants, and even though they did everything “the right way”, I have no doubt that eventually the Nazis in power will attempt to deport them as well. Trump’s unconstitutional executive order could affect my nephew if (or when) he tries to make it apply retroactively. That would be an unconstitutional ex post facto law, but he doesn’t care about such things as constitutionality.
This is only the second day. Things will get worse.
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Kamala and Joe kept telling people that they laws would help them keep their job.
https://time.com/6343967/bidenomics-is-real-economics/
They also said that it's bad to hate others based on their race, sexuality or gender.
Those people though that being able to hate others was more important than keeping their jobs.
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You are right Zubenelgenubi, "White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the Biden-Harris administration was the only administration to gain jobs every month."
Please join your local dems and become their spokesperson. They need help taking credit for all the winning.
This should have been the slogan, T-shirt, and Kamala Harris' new neck tattoo - "More US Jobs Every Month."
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Trump is 'anti-China'? So you fell for it. He's got all kinds of investments there as well a his wife. Musk's Tesla sales in China manufactured cars are 30% of all sales. Trump isn't anti anything. His whole motivation is what is good for him and his ultra rich buddies. Everything else is just distraction. If something gets in his way, that's just something to steal from, or ignores the law or sues it, or ruins the leadership. Anti-china? Nonsense. He talks a game and the idiots swallow it whole. A smooth running propaganda machine is what put MAGA in power.
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That ship sailed long ago. China accounts for about two thirds of plug-in cars made globally, along with most of the batteries, and is the leader in refinery capacity for the necessary minerals.
It also has battery manufacturers, which the U.S. basically doesn’t. There’s factories in the US but they are run by manufacturers in East Asia (China, Korea and Japan). Japan is falling well behind, and Korea is struggling to compete; the U.S. isn’t even in the game.
It would be hard for the U.S. to lead when it has half the EV market share of Europe and a quarter of China’s. Domestic manufacturers don’t have a market to try out EVs in and then export them.
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Lots of first gen immigrants feel they're getting stiffed by anyone who doesn't follow the immigration process. They see stories about how people just show up and get housing or food and wonder why it took them years and thousands of dollars to get in.
So they vote with the misguided notion that it'll help get their family in faster or even just "I did it, why can't they?" Many times they'll also align on other issues like anti-abortion stances, anti-LGBTQ, or lowering taxes so it's not a simple single issue vote either.
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Maybe both?
I recognize the sentiment, but the US, for better or worse, is a country of sprawl. The last mile suffers if we put all of our efforts into serving those that are within traditional public transit regions (areas which also happen to correlate with greater cost housing). I would love to ditch all private car-based transportation and turn all parking lots into public parks, but even if it were practical, it will take time. People will continue to buy cars - let's ensure those cars are doing the least harm while we create other avenues for public transportation, specifically serving those areas that are middle and lower income.
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We're too fucking dumb to do anything but sit in traffic in our tanks and occasionally move enough to get in wrecks and kill each other. Even the kids get chauffered to school in private tanks when buses are right there, which is why they have to start at 7. We're also trying to do some business emails and eat breakfast while driving, and complain about the traffic to no end, when we could be relaxed and actually productive and not murdering each other on the way.
We are smart, we are smart, s-m-r-t! I mean s-m-a-r-t! Someone said we each need to do advocacy but it's too late for that, we've become an entire nation that's sticking our fingers in our ears and yelling to drown out any speck of rational communication. We're so, so fucked.
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You're dealing with a well-known Elon stan and political "fence-sitter." Don't expect good data management and citations.
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From that article that you didn't click.
Both of them talked about the jobs created by the IRA and CHIPS act in the campaign trail and the debates.
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There's precedent for this, but I'd be surprised if he lived that long. Maybe that's wishful thinking.
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When someone shows you who they are, BELIEVE THEM.
Anyone who voted for him and is surprised by any of this is dumber than a box of rocks.
The rest of us who didn't need to be supporting the advocacy groups that will be taking the administration to court.
Anyone who voted for him and is surprised by any of this is dumber than a box of rocks.
The rest of us who didn't need to be supporting the advocacy groups that will be taking the administration to court.
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How many people really commute on routes that are impractical for public transit? Everyone says that, but no one shows evidence that, for example, 30% of commuters are traveling from a town of 10k to a city 40 miles away or anything like that. What is the actual typical commute distance and how many people take that route? If it's so sparse what causes the ridiculous traffic everywhere?
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No one is forcing you to read stories that involve Trump. This is solely a problem within your power to resolve.
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Telling people who aren’t doing well that actually they’re doing great is going to win their votes how?
Radical centrists keep losing by telling people that their pain isn’t real. That leaves room for someone to come in and provide a simple and wrong solution, which is how the populists are advancing worldwide in elections.
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Yeah I'd love to see an explanation on how Trump's "EV mandate" propaganda ended up in the title of an Ars Article. I think it should be titled Zero-Emission Vehicle mandate and care should be taken that it is only referring to California, such as:
California’s air pollution waiver and Zero-Emission Vehicle mandates are banned by Trump
The current title may be more concise but is very incendiary in the current political atmosphere and appears to be heavily in the MAGA camp since "EV Mandate" is a dishonest term frequently tossed about by Trump.
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