Close. A fuller analogy is you don't buy food for your family for the week and you hope little Timmy suffers or dies as a result. Because you don't like little Timmy.
While interesting, this article seems to assume we still live in a democracy with separate but equal powers.
Section 1245 of the NDAA explicitly prohibits the transfer of F-35 aircraft to Turkey as long as the country remains in possession of the S-400. Unlike CAATSA, this law does not provide the president with discretion to suspend the restriction unilaterally.
Trump will just do it regardless of the restrictions. Who would check him?
Congress will likely not do anything to check his powers if he violates the law on the books. I'm guessing the new bill mentioned won't go anywhere either, especially since Trump would need to sign it.
The courts probably will stop him, but Trump will just go appeals surfing until he finds a pliable maga judge.
DoJ/FBI will agree to not arrest individual contractors or military staff shipping parts and support to Turkey since the king's decrees take precedent over laws apparently.
I can't imagine the world is ending and I'm inside watching a 45 year old terrible video on CNN. I hope I could find something more meaningful in my last moments than watching Christian apocalypse porn lite.
And that answer should hopefully be different than: I choose Nissan because my credit score is 300, I have $38k in debt to rollover into a new car loan, I'm opposed to insurance, and I like driving 98 in a 60, weaving with no signals.
Leave Florida if you can. Especially if you have or are expecting children. Moving isn't always possible, but if you live in Florida know that your state is actively trying to hurt you.
Elon might go down with it (probably not), but one shitty, Nazi-led, small time automaker going from circling the drains to out of business won't hurt the US.
The US will be better off once all remaining Teslas are in history museums. Preferably in the section where kids on field trips can learn about Great Mistakes in American History.
The current stock price, despite YTD of -36%, is still way over any kind of realistic valuation. And by that I mean orders of magnitude off.
Price to earnings makes it still look like a very, very, very hopeful/optimistic startup in the development phase, rather than a withering, fake luxury, niche automaker facing boycotts and being "run" by a full-blown Nazi that everyone hates.
If you still own Tesla shares, get the fuck out of it now. The recent collapse is nothing.
Remember, losing his job should only be the most minor thing he faces out of all of this.
He should face felonies for leaking classified information and for actively creating non-traceable government records. He should be spending time in solitary for this, based on other prosecutions.
The man is a thief, but there's nothing to steal here. He's lowering his totally bogus $ amount that he supposedly saved the government based on contract and lease cancellations.
Every single contract (~10) that I know very specific details about that was DOGE-cancelled has a problematic "savings" amount on the doge.gov website. Every one is wrong. That's just the 10 I know about where I have privileged information. There's currently more than 8000 listed. I suspect most of those have similar issues with the reported "savings" amount.
This is straight accounting that they are botching.
Nevermind that the $ savings is bogus even if the accounting was accurate. Because these cancellations are costing the US taxpayer big-time in the long run.
The plan allegedly has this going from VA to DC, so a bridge crossing and two jurisdictions are involved. Arlington, VA and DC. So that's the first protest. Make sure Arlington and DC know they cannot issue permits or support this in any way. Likely would involve crossing Memorial Bridge or 14th.
A complex route with a bridge crossing is a second. Would be a shame if something happened there to prevent movement...
Finally, twin 12v truck horns are $22 at Harbor Freight, a 100 pack of ear plugs for you and your neighbors are $15, and sealed 12v batteries can be had for about $100. If a 1,000 people are willing to pony up less than $150, it will shut this thing down completely. Would require water cannons or tear gas to restore it. Which might be even more difficult to deploy if Arl and DC cops aren't there to support it (see #1).
That's okay. Trump wants us buying US-made. A 2014 Equinox with 178,000 miles, no history of oil changes, yellowed headlights, permanent nicotine-stained interior, and missing fenders is basically the same thing as a 2025 Land Rover. The rich will adapt to these tarrifs.
There's no president of the world...