The State Department claimed a plan to buy thousands of armored Teslas was left over from the Biden administration. A document obtained by NPR shows the Biden plan was far smaller.

Summary

A leaked State Department document revealed plans for a $400 million contract potentially favoring Tesla, despite earlier denials.

The document indicated an aggressive bid for armored electric vehicles linked to Trump-era revisions, while Biden’s administration had only budgeted $483,000 for a related study.

Experts questioned the feasibility of using Tesla’s Cybertruck due to technical and safety issues, with Musk and the White House downplaying the deal.

Critics and security professionals expressed skepticism about replacing traditional armored vehicles with modified EVs.

  • jonne@infosec.pub
    2·
    8 hours ago

    Because nobody’s got the expectation that Republicans will do anything good. They campaigned on being assholes, so there’s no point in circlejerking about how terrible they are, we all know.

    Democrats knew that Trump was going to be a danger to democracy, campaigned on it even, but didn’t do anything to facilitate locking him up because they were too busy trying to be bipartisan.

    Trump has literally done 100s of crimes that are all well documented in the press, and they fumbled it. Can we please just criticise them for that? And their continued failing to be a proper opposition party?

    • Tja@programming.dev
      1·
      7 hours ago

      They deserve criticism all right, but I only see criticism of democrats. Same with Gaza before the election. A casual observer will see the discourse and think that democrats really are awful, better vote for the other guy (yeah, the ethnic cleansing one).

      • jonne@infosec.pub
        2·
        7 hours ago

        The article and this thread is full of criticism of the Republicans, it’s literally about a conflict of interest.

          • ImADifferentBirdEnglish
            1·
            2 hours ago

            Because this is about what we expect from Republicans at this point. It feels like there’s no point in going on about how terrible the Republicans are anymore; everybody knows.

            • Tja@programming.dev
              1·
              1 hour ago

              I disagree, many people are unaware and just hear conversations about it. You see plenty of people with the “both sides” argument even here on lemmy.