Summary
Elon Musk gave Donald Trump a scripted sales pitch during a White House event where Trump inspected Teslas.
Photographers captured Trump holding notes with phrases like “SAFEST car” and “affordable.” The stunt followed a 15% drop in Tesla’s stock, linked to backlash over Musk’s involvement in DOGE.
Trump defended Musk on Truth Social, blaming the decline on a “Radical Left” boycott.
Meanwhile, Musk’s other ventures, including X and SpaceX, are struggling with outages and test failures.
Only in the USA … the president is doing product advertisement. In a democracy the president would be sent home and banned for life from any government function. How much more before the USA citizens notice something is very wrong with having him as POTUS
Sure, I remember Goya beans will enough to turn them around every time I go to the grocery store!
Is there any country nowadays where people can send the idiot back home without a revolution?
Chile got rid of their dictator without a revolution, in a typically Chilean way.
Pinochet came to power in a military coup, which broke a decades-long tradition of stable democracy that was unique in South America at the time.
It was a proper bloody South American coup, including a bombardment of the presidential palace, the death of the elected sitting president, and backing from the USA, of course.
Pinochet then abolished the separation of powers, disappeared his political opponents and completely dismantled the democracy.
He also enacted neoliberal hyper-capitalist reforms and privatized everything, which is why the USA backed him.
He had a commission draft an entirely new constitution and pushed through a vote to get it approved.
But as a fig leaf of international legitimacy, there was a clause in it saying his power was transitory and must be confirmed in a referendum after 8 years.
After 8 years of brutal dictatorship, he lost the referendum and simply had to step down.
South Korea just did this. Lad tried to start a coup to hide from consequences and got eaten alive.
Didn’t SK just did that? They protested but it wasn’t anything violent
Parliamentary systems
I was talking about people. You’re talking about royalty being able to replace the king :)
Or maybe we have some country where people can send an idiot parliamentarian home without a revolution?
Look up concepts like snap elections and direct democracy.
Even California has recalled governors and had special elections.
The Premiere of our province did a quick plug for Tim Hortons breakfast sandwiches and we just elected him into his third straight majority government.
And now he’s flying down to Washington to negotiate tariffs witx this guy. I’m sure it’ll go great for us.
“But wait! There’s more!”