I wouldn't be doing better at managing the ongoing conflict between the US and Iran? I mean for the good of the nation I would hope I don't end up in that position.

Then again as part of my Presidential platform I will promise to have knowledgeable staffer proofread all my flip remarks on the internet to avoid such mistakes and ensure they are acceptable representation of the great weight the position carries. See I'm already doing better than the current President!

Ehh, Musk didn't need bribes to get those contracts for sure, totally agree there. Anything post 2024 though we don't really know now do we?

Elon was hired to lead a government agency, a particularly controversial one and then left many of his own people in positions of government. That's a huge conflict of interest. Elon was the primary booster for Issacman to become NASA admin. I think Issacmean means well and is doing an alright job but still, gigantic conflict of interest when NASA is doling out contracts.

Elon bought Twitter seemingly really to help boost Trump in the election and has consistently supported his admin with both dollars, his algorithm and bully pulpit. Huge conflict of interest, like almost criminal in my opinion.

It doesn't help that this admin is the most opaque one we've ever had in our lifetimes. Elon can only be viewed as a corrupt influence at this point and honestly that's kinda sad considering the potential there.

True, that's my bad there!

Bingo. Nobody gets to act surprised anymore.

Not only should this guy get fucked but he should be put under criminal investigation along with anyone at all involved with this crypto scheme. It's just a literal bribery machine, there's no other justifiable reason it exists as it does.

I particularly love that we are currently in a war of literal negotiation right now, where the exact traits of the Art-of-the-Deal Master Negotiator himself, the reason we just had to have him in foreign policy because he just such the dealmaker is not only flopping at dealmaking when there's real actual stakes on the line, he doesn't appear to be leading the negotiations. The whole madman schtick was already played out his first term.

Also do we notice now how he always sends the same two numbskulls *to every negotiation*. Witkoff and Kushner, they do it all. Should you get a seasoned ambassador who knows the culture, has established relationships, maybe even speaks Arabic? Hell no, just throw fucking Witkoff and Kushner in there. We don't have a deep bench here.

It's not even if Trump isn't great at being a businessman it's the charade that he actually actively sucks shit at business and everything around it. The one thing an executive is supposed to have going for them is knowing who to hire and it might the thing he's the worst at.

Those are all public record by-the-book government contracts with all the requisite paperwork and bureaucracy and there has never been a whiff if impropriety about any of it. What did Tesla bride Obama with? What did Obama get? Has the investment in Tesla not been shown to be quite wise? Hell the Commercial Crew program was done under Obama and that's one of the best recent examples of the power of public/private partnerships. Look at what SpaceX has become since then.

I feel like all you're showing here is that Obama and Biden were both far, far, far more effective leaders of legislation and stewards of governance than Trump could ever be.

Do we have public record of every WLFI coin buyer?

Exactly and the apartment thing is just solved with time really. Running wires isn't new, we know how to do it it's just the inflection line of the capital investment and return value for landlords. They could even put in L1 chargers in spots and solve most people's requirements.

The infrastructure for EVs is just more of what we've been doing for decades and decades.

What voltage do you think DC charging bays are fed with? It's gonna be typically 480V 3phase or higher which run underground all the time without "liquid cooling". That's silliness, sorry. Just like the wires in your house walls alsont need cooling because the heat is simply voltage x resistance and you use the right gauge of cable to handle the load within the heat tolerance. This is like EE 101

And the answer to your dilemma is to install a higher gauge of cable no? Or the proper conduit? It sure wouldn't require "liquid cooling".

Nobody is running DC carrying cables underground though. That would all be high voltage AC which is converted at the charger into DC. The liquid cooling is literally just for the charger to the car.

That's a misrepresentation of the so-called utopian dream though, the actual dream is that most folks charge their cars at their homes with regular 20-40A house power.

30A @ 240V is not uncommon for most American homes to have or be installed and that ~5kW is more than enough to cover like 90% of peoples commutes and daily driving by just plugging the car in overnight.

Electric charging infrastructure doesn't need to and should not mirror petrol infrastructure.

The last time we gave Democrats the trifecta with 60 votes they pushed through the only health care reform any of us have seen in the past 50 years. It was also one of the most productive Congresses in our lifetime

The 111th Congress was the most productive congress since the 89th Congress. It enacted numerous significant pieces of legislation, including the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the New START treaty.

So maybe the actual issue is we insist on the false narrative that "Republicans are good on the economy" even through they have contributed massively to the debt and our financial dysfunction or they are "good on the border" when they have been responsible for killing any actual border legislation for my entire life or they are and we just keep flip flopping.

Biden got how much more done in 4 years than trump will get done in 8? Yes both sides have issues but one side has way more and way worse issues than the other and when the one side has to continutely spend all their political capital cleaning up the mess from the other then we look at them both the same is kindof bullshit no?

Yes Trump is president because he made a coalition of various people *who support his Presidency no matter what*.

Republicans turn out their base and tell anyone who doesn't support the candidate to get fucked.

Not endlessly cowtownto independents who likely will just vote Republican or stay home anyway, like yourself. So get fucked loser and go vote for Trump a 4th time while pretending you have any independent thought.

Oh God, the autism, the pedantry, it's too much today.

Good luck in the world buddy, not sure how you made it this far.

Ahh ok so the distinction is difficulty to change, kinda the point i was getting at after all.

There's nothing from preventing these laws from similar "procedures". In fact as we learned in 2020 most of those states all have laws precluding election changing laws form being snap decided too close to elections. Procedures are just more laws!

Sorry but the strained version of both sideism you put forward is not simply boring today but its also irrelevant and it;'s also almost entirely borne out of the very one sided news apparatus you complain about.

Both sidesing today is basically carrying the work of Fox news outside the TV and into real life and people who espouse it are unwittingly just doing their work. It's just stealth carrying conservative messaging.

They've made "liberals be cringe right?!" a personality trait for people. Both sides!