"Tesla CEO Elon Musk, one of Trump's biggest backers and the world's richest person, said in July that killing the subsidy might slightly hurt Tesla sales but would be "devastating" to its U.S. EV competitors, which include legacy automakers such as General Motors.

Shares of Tesla ended nearly 6% lower at $311.18, while shares of smaller EV rival Rivian (RIVN.O), opens new tab closed down 14% at $10.31. Lucid (LCID.O), opens new tab, another EV maker, tumbled 5% to $2.08.

Repealing the subsidy, a signature measure of Democratic President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), is being discussed in meetings by an energy-policy transition team led by billionaire oilman Harold Hamm, founder of Continental Resources, and Republican North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, the two sources said."

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Wow.... these billionaire oil men are doing well since they gave Trump the money and he told them he would do whatever they wanted.

"Pete Hegseth paid settlement to accuser but denies sexual assault"

Welcome to Muskamerica! Where you get to be Hertz...

Because, surprisingly enough, there are several Republican Sens who MIGHT vote against Trump and for America.

Stranger things have happened.

- Money isnt speech, content matters.

--------... or maybe -------- where you are from.

money is speech

"This may sound technical, but it would amount to a massive power grab: Trump would be forcing the Senate into a recess.

This would mean that, for many of the most important posts in the federal government, Trump could simply ignore the Senate, thumbing his nose at the body to impose everyone he wanted, no matter how corrupt, extreme, or controversial they are."

"It may reflect the influence of Elon Musk and the Silicon Valley right in Trump's camp " it's a risky, norm-shattering attempt to disrupt the way politics, governance, and presidential power work. (Musk has indeed been tweeting about recess appointments.)"

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Welcome to Muskamerica!

Rwingers and some other low info voters voted for a Corporate Takeover of America, and now they have it.

Big Oil running the Energy Dept, richest man in the world with multiple conflicts of economic interests is going to Vet the Gov, and a child diddler will be the Attorney Gen of the United States.

Corporate Personhood is Now Extended to include Corporate Governance of the People's government, despite their economic interests in the governance of the People's country.

"Gaither said he was not concerned about the cross, it was the "Deus Vult" that worried him.

The same phrase had been brandished on banners by the Jan. 6 rioters a few days earlier.

Hegseth, a former National Guardsman and Fox News commentator who was nominated Tuesday by President-elect Trump to be defense secretary, was pulled from inauguration service. Hegseth later wrote that he saw the incident as a rejection by the military.

"The feeling was mutual"I didn't want this Army anymore either," Hegseth said, recounting the episode in his book "The War on Warriors," published earlier this year.

"Twenty years, and the military I loved, I fought for, I revered spit me out."

Hegseth is "somebody who appears to be more interested in going to war with the Pentagon and with our service men and women than preparing them for potential war with our adversaries," said Rep. Jason Crow (D., Colo.). "

Trump only hires the best people!

"What he's saying:

"There is no climate crisis, and we're not in the midst of an energy transition either," Wright said in a video posted to LinkedIn.

Zoom in:

Wright founded Liberty " a fracking technology and oilfield services company " and is an outspoken advocate for the industry.

He notably drank fracking fluid on camera in 2019 to demonstrate its safety."

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Fracking fluid may become yet another curious cult fetish for Trumpers, like koolaid for Jim Jones.

The Cabinet Nominees may have to bend the knee to King Trump in the Oval Office, and hoist a Holy Grail of... fracking fluid.

Which is all that will be left when Big Oil gets through with it.

He may not actually qualify unless he's raped someone and or trafficked some kids. Or has his body covered in white nationalist propaganda.

He may not have even have brainworms!

There's a lot more selling out of American interests going on than defusing.

This is Your Government being run by Big Corporations such as Big Oil.

A Fox in Every Henhouse! should be the Trump slogan.

Swing voters are saying, "WTF did we DO!".

Are These Bad Times or Good Times? The Story of the Zen Farmer

At home China has overextended itself, as has Russia.

Russia has been surpassed by China as #2 in the world some time ago; what we see from Russia buying up Iran's military arms and their messing with other country's elections is a lot of angst from that loss of status.

China it's own problems, including:

Thread for rwingers who qualify as Trump Cabinet Candidates... brainworms, rap(e) artists, and all-round scumbags only need apply.

#12

Idiot is blithering. Again.

"stunning several members of Trump's team"

Oh, please.... these are the same top notch vetters who don' need no stinkin' FBI to vet their candidates!

The Klown Kult Komedy of Terrors Kontinues.

Exclusive: Woman told House Ethics panel she witnessed Gaetz having sex with minor, lawyer says

Don't mind Robson, he's offa his meds again.

The most conservative leaning professional presidential historians rank Trump in the lowest 5 Presidents; among all such experts that have done this work for decades, he's considered dead last or next to last.

That's who confused rwing populists want... the worst of the worst US Presidents of all time.

- canned it because "MAGA"

Excellent reason! Anyone who accepts a criminal traitor as a legitimate public figure, someone suitable to sit in the WH, then they deserved to be canned. If that was even the reason.

"Mike Pence is urging Senate Republicans to not confirm Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, calling his nomination by President-elect Donald Trump "deeply concerning."

"I believe the nomination of RFK Jr. to serve as Secretary of HHS is an abrupt departure from the pro-life record of our administration and should be deeply concerning to millions of Pro-Life Americans who have supported the Republican Party and our nominees for decades," Pence said in a statement Friday on behalf of his conservative nonprofit Advancing American Freedom."

;)

Alex,

I don't really know, but Lee or several others prolly do.

- "dUh,..."

#24 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Same thing every post. Consistency is important, so....

- nooner rats

Homeless immigrants.

Pls be kind to them, as I know they are also kind to immigr... oh, wait. Nevermind.

Does Jeffy get paid by the Russian assets, too?

Or is it a Cult/Party kind of thing? Both?