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It took longer than I thought. Anything better and more affordable than what the US oligarchs offer must be banned. I'm blown away by how backwards thinking the US has become as a whole. They are starting to look like that schizophrenic cousin that is always freaking out about someone installing a transceiver in their head ๐ตโ๐ซ
They also band Chinese EV cars but then don't produce their own EV cars. Meaning the US will still be dependant on oil prices meanwhile China will use their own domestic product to protect themselves from increasingly unstable oil supplies. The US was offered the same opportunity to protect themselves and explicitly prohibited it.
I should go into politics it really doesn't seem all that difficult. Been remotely competent does not appear to be a requirement.
The main requirements are sucking trump's dick and bending over for aipac, can you handle that? I couldn't.
I don't think it was Trump that banned EVs I think that happened under the biden administration because the US car companies couldn't compete. I'm still not all that clear on why they can't just make better cars, why is that so hard to do?
The EV bans are pre-Trump, but whatever stop on Chinese imports the Biden admin put in place, this administration has been pushing further by orders of magnitude. That's intentionally constantly reducing the acquisition power of the population by artificially inflating prices by forcing "made in the USA" and if that's nor available, which is the case on many electronic products, then flat out leave the population without a way to acquire those. Fucking ridiculous.