It’s not like the US auto industry is a key sector of the economy or anything.

That’s why it was so silly that Obama bailed them out, right? They’re only like 5% of the GDP. 5% is a little baby number.

God this country is power sliding into an another Great Recession. What do these idiots think they’re gonna do when a good chunk of the population loses their homes and comfortable lives because of them? A population with nothing to lose, lots of guns floating around, and no prospects for improvement under the current administration should be a very scary future for any leader.

I’d ask if they remember the French Revolution, but these fuckers seem to want to go back to a time before that.

The NHTSA doesn’t actually certify anything.

They write the standards that vehicles and products must follow, but it’s up to the manufacturers to certify themselves as being compliant.

This explains how the cyber trucks, with no third party testing, are considered road legal in the US and basically no other country.

So Elon is not firing regulators that will deny his cars a certification, he’s firing regulators that decide what the requirements will be.

Thats so much worse.

Source for anyone interested. It’s a reply to a man wanting to import air bags, but the letter does give a nice overview of the laws.

Tape is also difficult to steal. The machines to read the tapes are expensive and uncommon, a tape reading machine requires no internet connection, meaning it can’t be subject to man-in-the-middle attacks, and the physical storage devices can be secured and guarded when not in use.

This fucking idiot is gonna lose the plans for our nukes, isn’t he. Just like when he disabled half of twitter because he physically yanked a server rack out of the building without knowing what it did.

The US is likely never going to be a manufacturing powerhouse again.

Americans love the idea of buying American made products, but not the cost and certainly not the labor that actually goes into making them at scale.

Certainly some things need to be produced domestically, and still are, either because it’s expensive or impractical to ship them, or because it’s a national security concern. But the vast majority of products your typical American buys will never be made here, because they would instantly become luxury items.

Tariffs are really meant to increase demand for domestic production, but that can only really happen if the production exists domestically to begin with.

Yeah but that dude died and came back so many times he barely knows what his name is or what dimension he’s in.

He’s just tub thumping through the universe, like a cooler Indiana jones.

This is the same country that classified its nukes so hard that the engineers couldn’t find non-redacted procedures for making a critical component of fusion bombs.

We’ve always been incompetent, now it’s just partnered with enhanced stupidity.

More like there’s systems in place to prevent countries from creating a stateless person, who would have no rights anywhere.

Just because it sounds nice to happen to people you don’t agree with, it’s still something that shouldn’t be allowed to happen.