I'm gonna leave this up because people are commenting on it, but IMO it's borderline off-topic. This is an article about political corruption in Federal procurement, and only incidentally mentions cars because they happen to be the item being procured. Try to stick a little closer to "problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all" next time.

Edit: I just noticed that the person who posted this is the other mod, LOL. I guess we should have a chat to make sure we're on the same page re: rule 4.

Weigh down a vehicle who's performance harshly degrades as weight is added, and put it on the battlefield when those batteries have a habit of catching fire.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?!

Who could have possibly foreseen this level of corruption happening?

I mean, other than anyone with 2 or more brain cells to rub together.

Another handout for Musk. Not to mention all the repairs those pieces of trash will need.

Oh, so kids don't deserve an education but we need to blow money on obviously defective bullshit from the de facto president's company.

That screenshot is fantastic. It captures multiple broken promises at once. The unbreakable windows work great and the starting price miraculously doubled.

This is it. Welcome to all-out, blatant oligarchy. Ready to donate your last food stamps so the State Department goons get to wear brand new swastika shirts?

Oh jeez, just shove it into your face in front of everyone why don't ya.

Fucking corrupt bastards.

Woah, hold up. I thought the government said All EVs are bad and we should stick to gas. Now Tesla EVs are okay? Oh, the hypocrisy! /s

I hate this timeline.

So we can't have a consumer protection agency but we can spend half a billion on shitty cars

Now that's peak government efficiency. Directly in his pockets.

The silver lining is that the deathtraps will end up killing cops

So that's why they were cutting the budget. It's so they could afford all these new cars.

Wow, what a stunning coincidence! The State Department, those champions of transparency and accountability, just happen to have an arms deal for $400 million worth of 'armored' Teslas from none other than Elon Musk. How convenient for the billionaire entrepreneur who's been quietly gutting government agencies left and right. It's not like he has a vested interest in lining his pockets with taxpayer dollars or anything.

Meanwhile, our so-called leaders are too busy patting themselves on the back for their 'fiscal responsibility' to notice the glaring favoritism at play here. The Cybertruck, that tech-savvy publicity stunt gone wrong, just happens to tick all the boxes for the feds' needs. It's like it was designed specifically with their corrupt wallets in mind.

Let's be real folks, this 'gift' from Elon Musk is nothing more than a cash injection into his already overflowing bank account. The State Department's official story is a thinly veiled attempt to whitewash the deal as some sort of public service. But we're not buying it (pun intended). This is just another example of crony capitalism and corruption in action.

Quid pro quo

Please use one of these vehicles as the presidential limo

We can get a very funny timeline 🤭

Is this a bailout?

May every single one explode with a high ranking official inside.

Would be a shame if they all happen to spontaneously combust at once. It'd be some pretty fireworks at least!

@toaster lol. Got warehouses full of steel tanks? Checkout this one weird trick to make it through the next quarterly report.

Great … tanks that blow themselves up.

Now this is the corruption that we thought we would be getting not the dumb shit with the Treasury dept

Apparently this is being disputed. Biden started the ball rolling about getting an armoured EV fleet. Sounds like some document said Tesla on it but now it doesn’t.

I wonder if they can survive metal balls :3