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  • Having these guys shill for Tesla is not going to help the stock. It looks desperate. It turns off the core buyers even more.

    There are two groups of Republican at this point. There are quite a small number of ultra rich people. There is an army of mostly not that well off folks. The latter cannot afford Teslas and have seen them as the enemy forever. This is going to highlight that the main GOP principle is supporting rich allies. It shines sunlight on a very dangerous fact.

    Elon is really unpopular right now and “regular” republicans feel like he and DOGE are attacking them. Then they see the Trump administration rallying to support him. The GOP does not care about them but does care about him.

    This could backfire on the GOP and it is not going to sell a lot of cars.

  • The US will not invade Canada. At some point, it would require political integration. It would be a generation after that before the Republicans won an election.

    There are 40 million people in Canada and more land area than the entire US. At least 75% of Canadians would vote Democrat and that is before the bitterness of an invasion. Even as a single state Canada would swing the House and every President. As multiple states, Canada would swing the Senate. Think of the Supreme Court that would be appointed. The GOP would be completely locked out.

    Just allowing Canadians already in the US to vote would have cost the Republicans every presidential race since Reagan.

    For the above reasons alone, somebody will stop Trump from pulling the trigger. The US will not invade Canada. Even if they did, they would give it back.

    That said, Trump may wage an unbelievably destructive trade war. And the end game for that may be for Canada to submit to total subservience to the US.

    We are in a negotiation. The threat of war is just part of that. We hold some decent cards. By appeasing Trump, we start to lose cards. We can get more cards by aligning with the rest of the world both economically, militarily, and socially as fast as possible. The good news is, the world seems to be there for it.

  • There are always those that assist or even support their own genocide right until the bitter, fatal end. It is a normal human behaviour. As such, the presence of such people in no way implies that their are legitimate reasons for their position.

    If fewer than 20% support something, it should be interpreted as essentially zero.

  • The world will only be a better place if these people self identify more quickly. I mean, it would be better if they do not exist but, since they do, I am very supportive of them expressing their opinions so that I do not have to waste time discovering them.

  • In Canada, a somewhat Trump inspired populist right leaning party had 100% of winning the next election.prediction markets had it at 93%.

    since the beginning of Trumps tarring stacks, the center left party had surged in popularity to a degree not even thought possible. If the election was today, they would win.

    Trump is giving people somebody to rally against. And the “us” vs “them” is the the world vs the US.

  • Every country should refuse to send eggs to the US.

    The only way I would consider it would be if there was a US wide broadcast where the world leader that gives them some has a low-level staffer ask JD Vance if he is going to “say thank you even once”. Trump needs to then tell JD that he has to say thank you because “we don’t have the cards. With them, we start to have cards”.

    If they won’t say that on television, put export tariffs on eggs to the US at 500%.

    It has to be 500% because 3 times the current price of eggs in Canada is about what they are selling for in the US already.

  • I do not have a problem with people owning Teslas sold before 2020 or so. Even buying an older one used is no big deal in my opinion. If you buy a 2021 Tesla today, none of that money goes to Musk. You are not agreeing with him. You are not propping him up.

  • Even now, the Leaf only goes 200 miles. Less than a 2018 Model 3. Not good enough.

    I agree, Tesla was the viable option fora long time. The charging network is part of that even still.

    The NACS connector is a big deal.

  • If you were an EV early adopter, Tesla is the only brand that delivered the range.

    So, they were the only game in town for a lot of buyers.

    Not nearly as big a problem now. Tesla has real competition which is why sales are crashing.

  • If they invade Canada, they better not grant citizenship. 30 million New Democrats (75% of Canadians), many new senators, and a bunch of electoral collage votes. There would not be another Republican government for at least a generation. Starting in 2026 (mid-terms).

    Just the Canadians already living in the US would have stopped Trump from winning last election.

    All we need to do is remind them of the above and they will never, ever invade. It is perhaps our most powerful shield.

    With the above in mind, stop sending them nickel immediately. Their military will do the negotiating for us.

    The only have the power we give them. Please give them none.

  • I think that is correct. Also, if you are looking for boogeymen, the immigration rings true as a problem for young people because Canada legit did go a bit too crazy and especially with International students. If you are young, and every school and workforce you are competing for is suddenly stuffed with foreigners, it sounds like the conservatives are right. That makes it easier to accept that they are right about house prices, climate, other social issues, etc.

    More importantly, you don’t have to believe the conservatives, you just have to be mad at the Liberals for being in power as long as you can remember and screwing it up.

    Changing leaders gives the Liberals a chance to also be a “new” team.