But let me be clear, folks—this is real

the — (aka “em dash”) that keep popping up in the article is a good sign it’s written by AI. I count 7 or 8 of them.

that said, it’s not crazy to think that Trump is trying to be a dictator, esp. given how he’s been pretty direct about how he wants to do that.

He knows the guillotines are coming and wants to get away from that ASAP

“we can make enough money without it”

I mean that’s the point. And by outsourcing it to a 3rd party of Musk’s college aged rubes MAGA can insulate itself from blame while fixing the system for billionaires.

“was”?

I think “is currently” is the correct read.

And did real, actually fighting there, too.

Vance was in the Marines and ought to have known that

This should be a national headline getting a lot of attention

it’s the autism bro. bannon is like totally aspie

The sellout begins

Leaking fuel is generally a bad thing. It may not hit the differential but let’s say the exhaust or muffler is banged up and pointed downwards – still gonna have a nasty fire

NHTSA

Project 2025 has explicit targets for reforming NHTSA. It is unambiguously in their sights, just lower on the priority list.

The very real origin of the Fight Club joke about not doing a recall

If anything that’s how they’re gonna get the feds to buy in to the Fash – they can only speak in acronyms

This is gonna be really, really bad

Guns are the only alternative to the tech oligarchy.

You think they can’t buy, manipulate, or just crush decentralized social media? If anything they can do it easily, divide and conquer. FOSS ain’t gonna free you, esp. when the largest contributors to FOSS projects are big corps.