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Hircus says

because I think Trump is the type of person who could morph into an authoritarian dictator if he was unchecked.

How does this happen? I see no realistic way this could ever happen in modern times, yet it gets thrown about constantly. Can someone lay out the path for Trump to become a dictator of the USA?

It is not FREEDOM! and CAPITALISM! if Google and Microsoft can not sell names of Chinese dissidents to Chinese authorities for a surprisingly affordable price!

www.youtube.com/embed/T2BXcf3DcQc?t=123
Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name
And the land that I once loved was not my own
Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two, Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four
Lord I'm five hundred miles away from home
(2:00)
A hundred tanks along the square
One man stands and stops them there
Some day soon, the tide will turn, and I'll be free
I'll be free, I'll be free, I'll come home to my country
Some day soon the tide will turn and I'll be free

From the article: "competitors’ cars have many advantages – including better service networks, luxurious interiors, and the “newness” factor. The Audi e-tron, Porsche Taycan, and Jaguar I-PACE represent the biggest threats, followed by highly anticipated offerings from BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and others."

That's been my thinking, too, but Tesla is still doing well in mind-share and market-share and competitors still haven't put out a blockbuster true luxury electric. The BMW i3 thing, for example, is farther from "luxury" than any of the Teslas.

I also think that Tesla corporation is highly leveraged through and through. Honoring warrantees, taking back lease returns, and the extreme financial leverage on a money-losing (so far) enterprise is a recipe for a gigantic, fast-paced financial meltdown.

Sorry to disappoint you but Tesla will not be allowed to fail. Book it.

Just bought Tesla stock today under 190.

BOT ALERT!!!
Lika appears to be another bot

BOT ALERT!!!

i wonder which organization makes those bots and has a list of websites they try to post on. I remember there was a thing that came later after elections how this left leaning SF tech company was making fake conservatives on facebook and twitter being upset at Russia collusion and Trump. They had a clear game plan, and a list of sites to target.

freespeak says

Indiana to take DNA sample from every person arrested for felony

This never worked out because female deputies kept swallowing the evidence.

The high tech Edsel.

These Obama district Judges are all card carrying Commies, there hasn't been one ruling by them, that SCOTUS hasn't over turned.
That's if you can get it on their Docket.

The legacy of the community organizer will take decades to fully expunge.

Jesse says

If you go to a baseball game or Disneyland, you'll need to give your fingerprints, be molested, and be made to carry a microchip.

And this is how we know this particular Russian bot has never been to fucking Disneyland in his miserable fucking life.

Fuck off, you fucking loser.

Flagged as Spam, exact same comment as by "Jesse" in another thread.

When the ruling class wants cheap labor, it calls having national borders racist, xenophobic, and anti-freedom, and Libertarians agree!

Jeeze, bot, the article is 2 years ago.

georgeliberte says

John Hancock among others was a smuggler.

Poland was independent, until too many people decided they'd resist taxation. So, the didn't have a sizeable national army large enough to defend them. Then Austria, Prussia, and Russia divided it up, took away their freedoms, and raised taxes upteen times what they were.

marcus says

If anything TRump has increased the polarization in the country by a factor of 10

I'm not sure how I feel about that statement.

A big part of me feels that the leftist-rhetoric which intentionally tries to make everyone angry at each over race, gender, and class, is the real problem. It is extremely divisive. Their formula is simple, and effective: create a problem by making people angry at each other, then offer to solve the problem - bam, instant voters. More anger = more votes.

Americans bought into that stuff stuff to some degree, because we do have some real problems in those categories, and people want to do the right thing, but I think some of it has just gone too far, or has gone in the wrong direction. Delicate topics that should be tackled with precision instruments have been approached using blunt weapons that hit innocent bystanders. Attempts to bring "justice" to victims often end up creating even more (innocent) victims, with poor trade off qualities.

Trump understood that many people were realizing that the lefty fruit had started to rot, campaigned against it, and won.

His election certainly marked a moment where division spiked and has reached new peaks. But, where has this increased division come from? It mostly comes from the left wing rhetoric. They decided to fight him by turning up the "division amplification knob". Their strategy is to fight fire with fire, which sometimes makes things much worse.

To be fair, Trump has done some of the very same - for example, by exaggerating some facts to increase their impact, or just lying, sowing division and racism. But I strongly feel our spike in division problems are primarily due to the Frankenstein created by the left. The monster is under attack, and it screams very, very loudly.

WineHorror1 says

Sorry to disappoint you but Tesla will not be allowed to fail. Book it.

Who do you think would save it?

Hircus says

WineHorror1 says

Sorry to disappoint you but Tesla will not be allowed to fail. Book it.

Who do you think would save it?

It'll be bought by a competitor ... for about $25 per share. So, if you just bought at $190, that's pretty much a "fail."

He should try it at the local insane asylum. I'm sure he'd get a standing ovation, there, too, and some of the audience would even masturbate.

In Paducah, Kentucky, a man was executed for loud knuckle cracking.

Taking things away can piss people off.
From people who owe that money? I think they are called deadbeats. Why should we pay their student loans.

FINALLY!

Article clearly states that rare earths are available in the US, Australia, and elsewhere outside of China. Why does the article author hate American miners?

Next step, eliminate these student loans completely. Watch college become affordable again.

And a list of all Congressmen who have taken money from or met with lobbyists from Comcast.

That one is easy, Here:

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=d000000461&cycle=2018

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Right, and then we end up with 5G owned by China Telecommunications Corp. and everything's a buck a minute and a buck a meg and average monthly phone bills are $1600

??? I think more like Verizon, Sprint, et al., with no one having a monopoly. Just have to worry about the equipment, which is why we should have the electronics made in the USA.

willywonka says

In Paducah, Kentucky, a man was executed for loud knuckle cracking.

Seems reasonable!

China is there to take over and squeeze, they won’t give up without a fight.

Much agreed.

It’s the biggest price inflation driver.

HeadSet says

Next step, eliminate these student loans completely. Watch college become affordable again.

Sounds made up honestly.

Look at all homeless everywhere, clearly we are not criminalizing enough.

So Democrats complain when business goes into politics, but are ok to do it themselves...

If they won’t go there due to abortion laws, they weren’t gonna go there in first place since streaming movies has nothing to do with abortions. So just more douchy liberal posturing.

It owns too many cool patents to be allowed to fail, but it may be bought by another car manufacturer.

@Patrick,
we have another bot - Jesse - and it appears that their programming has not been improved.

Humans can't NOT pollute and sustain current lifestyles and populations at ever increasing numbers. Need less humans. There's the real hockey stick if you look at the charts. We need less people and that's the ONLY solution IF global warming is caused by carbon or any other pollutant.

Spot on!!

The only chance for renewables to replace fossil fuels while maintaining a First World life style is to stabilize 1st world population. The lefty's ignore this fact because they want unfettered illegal immigration for political reasons.

Patnetters fail Turing test again.

Too many innuendos in this caption to process accurately..
OccasionalCortex says

Tesla Is Going Down, Musk Fluffers!

Thanks @d6rB you're right. Nuked it.

Another improvement: it used an IP address from LA instead of from the far East as before.