Summary

A leaked State Department document revealed plans for a $400 million contract potentially favoring Tesla, despite earlier denials.

The document indicated an aggressive bid for armored electric vehicles linked to Trump-era revisions, while Biden’s administration had only budgeted $483,000 for a related study.

Experts questioned the feasibility of using Tesla’s Cybertruck due to technical and safety issues, with Musk and the White House downplaying the deal.

Critics and security professionals expressed skepticism about replacing traditional armored vehicles with modified EVs.

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    12 days ago

    After the first four years of golfing at trump clubs and sleeping in trump hotels, all at 3x the normal price, do you think they care?

    Nobody did anything the first time, nobody will do anything now. They don’t care about outraged redditors.

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      Yep, Democrats had 4 years to lock the guy up, and they didn’t, because it was more important to look bipartisan and pick a Republican AG.

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        I mean, are we blaming now the democrats for everything trump does?

        There’s at least two entities I would put more blame on:

        -trump

        -republicans

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          It’s definitely on the justice department for not executing a seditious traitor.

          Also, Biden could have just shot Trump in the face and suffered no legal consequences.

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          Republicans are basically like rabid dogs. They’re going to do the predictable thing of fascism. Democrats are the ones that refused to put it down when they had a chance and instead tried to reason with it.

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          11 days ago

          The Republicans are definitely the primary party to blame, but the Dems have to take some blame to for failing to do their job and fucking stop them.

          It’s like if there’s an intruder in your house that robs you blind and shoots your partner, and the cops show up 8 hours later, take a report, and do literally nothing else, and act like you’re inconveniencing them the whole time. Sure, your primary problem is the burglar, but I’m guessing you won’t have a high opinion of the cops either.

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            11 days ago

            100% with you, but see even in other responses to my comment, many people just skip the burglar entirely and just blame the cops.

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              Because nobody’s got the expectation that Republicans will do anything good. They campaigned on being assholes, so there’s no point in circlejerking about how terrible they are, we all know.

              Democrats knew that Trump was going to be a danger to democracy, campaigned on it even, but didn’t do anything to facilitate locking him up because they were too busy trying to be bipartisan.

              Trump has literally done 100s of crimes that are all well documented in the press, and they fumbled it. Can we please just criticise them for that? And their continued failing to be a proper opposition party?

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                They deserve criticism all right, but I only see criticism of democrats. Same with Gaza before the election. A casual observer will see the discourse and think that democrats really are awful, better vote for the other guy (yeah, the ethnic cleansing one).

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                  The article and this thread is full of criticism of the Republicans, it’s literally about a conflict of interest.