Trump would’ve faced financial ruin decades ago if his creditors hadn’t been in a similar position. They knew his name brand was the most valuable thing he owned and their best chance for getting their money back was to help prop up the myth of his success.
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electric cars are definitely polarizing. charged even
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I dunno, the political currents tend to alternate
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indeed, no stability at all. the revolutions are measured in minutes
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Yeah; I have a Tesla and I’m increasingly unhappy driving around something that even tangentially makes this dude richer by virtue of presence. There’s a lot I do like about the car, but I’ll be happy enough to give another auto manufacturer my business when it’s time to replace it, because a lot of what I like is simply ‘modern electric cars’ and nothing special about Teslas.
They also have some of the dumbest cupholders in any car I’ve ever driven.
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The short answer is NO.
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His value to the company is premised on him maintaining that genius image. And he’s not holding up his end of the bargain these days.
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Yeah they really should have had a “Plan B” in place there.
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OK, you can’t just leave this hanging here. This is yet another thread to drag Teslas, so please expand on this! I’ve never had a car with dumb cupholders before, but do I have 4-seater with 5 cup holders, which is just weird.
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If one of them pops out of the dashboard, it’s actually for CDs. 
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Looking around they appear to be very, very large. To the point that there is a cottage industry providing replacement inserts and other accessories to make them usable
“For shrinking your cup holders. Many Tesla Model 3 owners have noticed that the cup holders are a bit monstrous — built for a 7-Eleven Big Gulp cup perhaps . For those who prefer cup holders that have a tighter fit, the best Tesla console liner might actually be this rubber cup holder insert from LIKELY LED.”
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Nope! There are two just below the dash in center console, one at the back of the center console, and one each in the back seat arm rests.
There’s a separate little cubby space on the dash for CD’s.
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You know what, if the net result of all this is that a whole bunch of MAGAts go and buy Teslas in order to make libs cry, and in the process start driving around in substantially cleaner vehicles… I’m quite ok with that.
Electric cars have for too long been considered a lefty, tree-hugger thing. I love the idea of a right-wing movement that results in them being more environmental.
Maybe the right-wing trollies will start buying solar panels from Musk as well, just to really make the libs cry.
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Not weird. Handy. I have a pump-bottle-thingy with hand disinfectant sitting in the “extra” cup holder and still enough holders for all the coffees.
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If Tesla’s cup holders are anything like Tesla’s tequila shot glasses… yeah, those would be very dumb cup holders.
ETA: Tesla Tequila Sipping Glasses Are Designed to Ruin Your Tequila
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Somehow I doubt that an accompanying slide into fascism would be good for the climate
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I’ll ask ChatGPT to write a short story where Elon Musk is a time-traveller who went back to knowingly becomes one of the worst people in the world just to work on a ten-year campaign that will turn all the right wing into tree-hugging hippies and save the planet.
Then I’ll trow it away because he doesn’t deserve even a fictionalized treatment of that kind.
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My Lexus has one right in front of the gearshift and two weird-looking ones that fold out of the door cards. No one is allowed to put drinks in any of them, even me.
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That’s Toyota for ya! Stupid Prius has a cup holder inside the center console. In theory, a soda bottle fits in the front door cubbies, in practice, nothing fits. A 5-seater that has 3 functional cup holders, but only if you have 4 people in the car (two cup holders are in the center arm rest pull-down thingy). 
I can’t wait to not drive this hunk of shit anymore.
Say, does anyone want to buy a gently used 13 year old Prius? 
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Cup holders are for amateur drivers. The truly skilled don’t need them.
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