This pairs well with the other current headline about him being recruited by the pentagon to wage a nuclear war.
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Of course solar achieves both of those goals better too. It reduces fuel imports (and/or leaves more for export) and provides another "crop" that doesn't have income correlated with other produce.
On the other hand, Trump catastrophicly imploding the US economy is one of the likelier good endings to this insanity.
https://reason.com/2026/01/08/you-have-the-right-to-record-i...
> The Trump Administration Says It's Illegal To Record Videos of ICE. Here's What the Law Says.
> Violence is anything that threatens them and their safety, so it is doxing them, it's videotaping them where they're at when they're out on operations," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.
So he is right to think she might have been shot for doing this.
edit: note that's a libertarian source. They've always had a strain of civil libertarians on that publication but the comments on the site reveal a lot of libertarians now think it's a good thing that white liberal women are being shot.
> I have a mental illness that makes me think that people will change their minds if presented with correct arguments, appropriate facts and data.
Soon Americans being shot in the face by ICE and framed as terrorists will be as common and accepted as the President talking about invading Canada and Greenland, or launching billion dollar shitcoins, talking about his love letters to dictators, insulting soldiers who died in combat, violent riots overturning elections or openly mocking disabled people etc. etc. etc.
You'll see people in these comments who worked to normalise all those doing the same again.
So by trying to undermine these information sources they demonstrate how important they are.
He repeatedly claimed fraud as part of DOGE. The 150 year olds claiming Social Security for example.
Just like now, he was bullshitting and didn't care that it wasn't true if it was useful to him.
His allies are pretty much on record saying that too, e.g. that firing staff increased government costs since the same expertise was contracted out at a higher rate, but that is considered a win for them. Which feels like fraud to me.
> DOGE did not find $2T in fraud, but that doesn’t matter, Musk allies say
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/doge-did-not-fin...
BYD makes twice as many batteries for Tesla cars than Tesla does.
Most Tesla cars are made in China.
This then flows downstream to inconsistent and patchwork government support for the transition to EVs.
The short term incentives aren't all properly aligned for car makers to fully commit to build EVs and support the supply chain to do that.
They instead focused on how in evil communist China you need to continue to make better cars than rivals in order for your business to succeed and grow.
What a strange system they have over there. If only they were capitalist like the US and being an incumbent connected to the regime was all you needed to keep extracting money from the population despite product stagnation.
Trying to take credit for and simultaneously misrepresent the findings of genuine government auditors while sacking them was too much work apparently.
Now he's trying to do something even scummier with GOP hired fake-influencer propagandists.
When will this outright fraud give us all a rest?
A business plan that the real Tesla founders actually came up with because they'd seen Silicon Valley homes with Porsches and Prius parked next to each other and thought they could combine those two things?
It regularly assumes he tried to do good things and failed.
Historical context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energiewende
As to whether it was good idea, a quote from that article:
> The coalition government introduced an intermediate target of a 55–60% share of renewable energy in gross electricity consumption in 2035. The targets were described as "ambitious"
In 2025 they'll be around 56% (and as I said, this is with clear sandbagging by people who are politically opposed to this transition).
And them blazing this trail enabled other nations like Hungary to go from zero to 30% solar in a decade.
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-fals...
It's also obvious in hindsight that politicians on the right have been sabotaging it all along, and despite that it still worked out okay and probably helped save the world.
Imagine the whole government was consistently behind wind, solar, EV, batteries, heat pumps etc. manufacturing and deployment, they'd be more resilient to Russia and better placed to compete with China.
It's notable that the more a German political party supports nuclear, the less they support EVs and heat pumps. Which suggests it's a disingenuous distraction for them.
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