The Pinto thing is total BS sensationalist stat mining. They include the guy that tried to blow himself up in the Cybertruck in Vegas as someone who was killed by the truck. Really?

The parts thing only happens when vehicles and replacement parts are under warranty. @newtboy If you can find the source showing the warranty is voided driving a Cybertruck in the grass then I'll find the same language in the warranty docs for Fords.

This stuff is funny and Tesla doesn't deserve any leeway since their CEO has apparently gone"fact free" lately, but pushing easy to discredit "facts" seems like it distracts from the real issues with these vehicles and the company as a whole.

The biggest problem with Tesla in my mind is their over-promising and shitty service. I'm not sure how companies get away with promising stuff that isn't available yet but it seems like it is getting more common.

To me it looks like their service problems are a mix of 3 factors.
1. Not enough replacement parts at the ready
2. Service centers are understaffed because of the principal of running at below expected need until shit breaks. Only then can you apply more resources.
3. Service centers were designed to work efficiently but are run by a bunch of idiots that came from other manufacturer service centers so they want to do it "their way" instead of following the efficient hands off model that was originally planned.

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Shocker…MTG has publicly threatened to expose all her Republican colleagues for all the disgusting sex crimes they committed that she knows about unless they hide and ignore the disgusting underaged paid sex and drug crimes Gaetz bragged about with photos and receipts and confirm him as the nations top law enforcer without looking at or releasing the completed report on his multitude of crimes.

Also shocking, cowardly pedophilic republicans caved to the blackmail and will cover up the documented child rape, sex trafficking, and drug dealing to minors by the AG nominee to hide their own pedophilia and ties to Epstein.

Shocking again, because the report is guaranteed to leak more and what’s public knowledge is already completely disqualifying and prosecutable (his friend who with Gaetz did the same sex trafficking and child drugging with less proof is in prison), Gaetz pulled himself as a nominee.
Expect another slightly less outrageous but just as dangerous replacement, it’s the felon’s MO to first make an outrageous demand so his second demand looks reasonable by comparison despite it still being outrageous.

Also shocking, Pete Hegseth (defense Secretary nominee) is also under investigation for a violent sexual assault in 2017 and has multiple other accusations of violent sexual assault.

This makes me want to go back and play HL2 Episodes 1 & 2. I know I bought them, but don't remember ever finishing them. HL2 was so technically impressive. Portal 2 was also great, especially the co-op multiplayer. Alyx is a good VR title- it's close to a "killer app" for VR, but not quite there. 1 of the few VR titles compelling enough to keep headset on for more than 1 hour.

Not half-life related, but "old but cool" PC tech from that era: I had a DVD/MPEG2 decoder card that did VGA passthrough, and would replace black pixels with the movie content - so I could watch the Matrix in the background of playing Quake or other FPS (this was a dual PIII-450Mhz). I later installed an ATSC tuner card - one of the first channels that broadcast in HD was Fox, and one of my favorite shows, 24, started to broadcast in HD - and the early days all the makeup artists took advantage of low-res, so as soon as the show went to HD, you could see how fake all the blood, makeup, and other effects were. Hollywood ramped up quickly once the first HDTVs started shipping.
That computer also ran BeOS quite well.

*doublepromote a *quality and pertinent bit of information I wish more people learned in school.
Tariffs don’t stimulate economies, they stifle them and start trade wars that are always losers for consumers, they add a national sales tax to any tariffed imports, and the countries targeted always reciprocate making it hard or impossible to compete on the international markets and hurting American companies.
Our last Trump tariff/trade war with China was a horrific failure costing hundreds of billions of dollars, hurting American farmers (had to bail them out for $50 billion more and thousands closed shop), manufacturing, supply lines, and consumers…all for absolutely nothing gained.
Get ready for round 2 to feel like Glass Joe was replaced with Tyson…up to 200% tariffs across the board are going to absolutely destroy the economy in extremely short order.

Also Ben Stein’s birthday

TLDW- I wouldn’t believe anyone who’s going to pre-blame Biden for next summers planned recession/depression anyway.

The people who will be in charge like Elon and Trump say their plans will likely cause a depression next summer….believe them.
If they deport 10% what they say they will, it will cause a depression, and explode the debt.
If they enact the tariffs they say they will, it will cause a depression and a trade war.
If they end the ACA without a replacement (but we have a concept of a plan for thinking about a replacement…in two weeks) it will cause a depression and public health crisis.

Markets rode consistent record highs under Biden. America decided it was tired of winning.

Bwaaahahaha! That’s absolutely not what you said, you said it will be great under the felon, booming all the time, everything will be amazingly better in every way…or crash immediately under Harris (just like you said in 2016 and 2020)….hypocritically hilarious that now you admit he will tank it. 😂

Also hilarious you want zero responsibility despite having 100% control….or it would be hilarious if your party wasn’t led by an infantile fascist with unregulated power and immunity for ignoring the constitution on a vendetta against over half the country.

The Biden economy is the envy of the entire world and far better than the first Trump economy unless you erase all his losses and only count successes. It is growing, not shrinking, manufacturing, gdp, jobs, wages, and earning power are ALL growing, deficit, inflation and interest shrinking..and every other metric is moving in a positive direction under Biden including the deficit. That will not continue under the bankrupter in chief. Hide and watch. He will double the debt and we will have nothing to show for it but another negative gdp.

GDP, stock markets, profits, jobs stupid, infrastructure, all measurably and significantly better under Biden than the felon, all better under Biden even erasing the omnibus disaster that was 2020 under Trump.

I blamed Trump for year 1 of Bidenomics because he kept most Trump policies, just as I will blame Bidenomics for the first 6 months to 1 year of Trumpenomics (depending on what he changes and how fast).

I just gave you the clear undisputed starting point numbers. Just like in 2016. I would bet whatever you want that, again, they will be worse after 4 years, but you Welch on bets so I’ll just make you a gentleman’s bet, those and all other economic numbers (except the personal wealth of the top 1%) will be worse in 4 years.

If he follows through with the mass deportations, that will trigger a depression.
If he kills the ACA with just a concept of a replacement, it will trigger a recession.
If he enacts 20% tariffs on imports, it will trigger a recession, followed by a trade war, followed by a global depression.
If he withholds federal funding from blue states as he has threatened, it will trigger a civil war.
The first tump administration was a slow train wreck (with a few actual train wrecks thrown in), the Biden administration has been a slow cleanup of that wreck…admittedly far too slow. The next 4 years are poised to be an ELE size meteor strike, making us wish for those halcion days of deregulated chemical train wrecks.

Yes. Never bet against the prejudices and stupidity of the average voter. Think how stupid the average person is, then realize fully half are actually stupider than that.

So, you’re saying a Trump victory will be another disaster for the next 4 years in America? We can agree on that.

The rioting, looting, burning, bombing, cop shooting, and attempted violent coup were all by right wing extremists, often attempting to blame leftists for their crimes like the Boogaloo boyz did with BLM and you did on Jan 6 (and every other time maggots were caught committing terrorist acts).
You know this for a fact, you simply choose to ignore it because it invalidates your world view.

If the felon wins, he has promised to use the military against any protests after replacing all generals with sycophants that will serve him instead of America…just like his hero did in Germany. How’d that work out again?

Still bragging about his “love fest” as an amazing event everyone loved, still hasn’t disavowed the comments he approved ahead of time (he read the script and he had him remove jokes calling Kamala a cunt, so he knew exactly what would be said ahead of time and approved), which he should have done at the event if he disagreed with the constant overt racism that every single pre-vetted speaker read from the teleprompters the campaign loaded with their hate speech.
Puerto Ricans and Latinos are not coming back. They can sway multiple swing states and even red states like Florida…lose Florida you lose it all. Good job!

Even Raphael “Ted” Cruz is losing in Texas….before the Nazi…I mean maga rally. Tons of Latinos in Texas, and Cruz has been clear he’s not there for them.

The Hitler/nazi praise isn’t going away, it’s being reinforced by his behavior, his plans (both stated and leaked), his constant abusive racism, and more and more direct witnesses coming forward to confirm that is who he is. Good job!

Once again, know Elon and Trump have both admitted their economic plans will decimate the economy, they expect it to fail so they can “rebuild it”. They are PLANNING A DEPRESSION because it will make it easier to rob America and they can afford it.

Oops, maga Mike said he will kill Obamacare (with no replacement) and completely deregulate healthcare (no more medicine that has medicine in it) and industry (because everyone knows industry always self regulates safely and honestly). He’s supposed to keep that quiet until Nov 6, dummy!

The felon actually brought a proud and loud 9/11 denier (Loomer) to the 9/11 commemoration ceremony as the biggest “FUCK YOU” he could think of to first responders and America.

Stephen Nosferatu absolutely lost his mind (and the conversation) when pressed on his racist migrant gang lie based on nothing but obviously false Venezuelan crime figures he got directly from Maduro. He’s clearly apoplectic that the racist, dehumanizing “they’re eating our pets” lie fell apart so spectacularly when angry great grandpa screamed it from behind the podium…I’m pretty sure he had a hand in that one.

After the disastrous debate and insanity afterwards, when will the felon be replaced? President Vance? 😂

Every actual number or “alternate fact” the felon gave he had backwards.

Crime, better now…oil, more productive now…tariffs, cost America billions…migrants, more productive and less criminal than citizens by far…American production, dropped under the felon grew like a weed under Harris/Biden…Ukraine, a keystone to a free non Soviet Europe and being funded by Europe at double what America has given. Angry grandpa has lost it.

Who let Grandpa Simpson debate Harris?
Are you not embarrassed? Will the Republicans replace him?
She talked policy, facts, and policy comparisons, he talked imaginary personal grievances and paranoid fantasies so insane that they had to be repeatedly immediately fact checked. She baited him like a professional fisherman, and he took the bait every single time proving how simple it is to manipulate and distract him.
“I have concepts of a plan.”- the felons policy in a nutshell.

Q-“Why did you kill the border bill that would have put thousands of agents and improved technology on the border?”
A- “People don’t go to her rallies. I have the biggest rallies, people aren’t leaving my rallies, we’re going to have WW3, my rallies are the best, people are eating the dogs.”

Biden crumbled in his debate. The felon crumbled in this one. Even Fox can’t spin this as even normal, or sane.

Ooof….DJT hit $15.3…well below its pre-IPO price, and dropping fast. Not only will no one make money including the initial investors, now looks like everyone will lose their entire investment. Going to be at $.01 when he can sell.

Jesus fucking Christ, now he tried to force his way into Arlington Cemetery with a commercial camera crew to use it as a backdrop for a campaign commercial and when cemetery staff tried to stop them because that is 100% not allowed by federal law by anyone at Arlington his staff had a verbal and physical fight trying to physically force their way in and take photos and video footage anyway by assaulting the service men stationed there, then took photos and videos anyway using their phones…then lied and claimed the on duty service man who was doing his job and protecting the sanctity and enforcing the rules/laws of the national cemetery was having a mental health episode and went crazy. In fact, it was just another instance of zero respect for the military except as a prop in campaign advertising and zero respect for rules or laws to the point of assault when they are applied.

Again, it is 100% illegal to take photographs at Arlington for campaign purposes, and no waiver CAN be given to that firm law except by act of congress.

Every excuse given so far has fallen apart immediately because they are blatant lies, he and his people just don’t think laws and rules apply to them, ever. They claimed they would release footage to prove they had permission (which they did not, permission is NEVER given to use Arlington in political ads…NEVER…it would require an act of congress) but have not released any footage because it doesn’t exist.

This morning he lost his mind and tweeted dozens upon dozens of Qanon posts, just in case anyone forgot he is Qanon, which is a terroristic misinformation spreading treasonous organization advocating sedition again, and the felon is 100% on board.

What unbelievable pieces of shit you follow. Getting in physical fights at military funerals because they want to illegally use the event as advertising for their anti military anti democracy candidate.

4 new felony charges brought by another new grand jury today. 😂

😂 MAGAT George Santos, the face of maga corruption, plead guilty to every felony charge (8+) in hopes of reducing his sentence from over 20 years to as little as 2 (but likely 8 ). 😂

Have fun with replacing homosexual transvestite Vance with the road kill eating brain worm.

Bonus- DJT is at 1/3 it’s day one price and falling like a stone as the day when the felon sells out nears…he’s going to get a huge $75 in the end. Another massive business failure despite having every single advantage possible…all at the expense of his investors, not himself.
Also, while Taylor Swift hasn’t sued for $100 million for abuse of her image when he claimed she endorsed him, her fans HAVE started a REAL organization called “Swifties For Harris” in response to his fake AI generated movement using her fans he called “Swifties for Trump”. 😂