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Tesla Autopilot Lawsuit Cites Design Defects In Deadly Head-on Crash

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If only more people read this blog instead of believing whatever nonsense Elon Musk says… just think of the lives saved.

“Based on representations the Blaines heard made by Musk and Tesla… [they] believed [it] was a safer driver than a human driver of convention[al] vehicles,” the complaint states.

However, it contends, the deadly wreck was brought about by the car’s allegedly inadequate “Autosteer” function, a next-gen form of cruise control the company says “detects lane markings, road edges, and the presence of vehicles and objects to intelligently keep your vehicle in its driving lane.” The complaint also assigns blame to the Model X’s “Lane Departure Warning,” “Lane Keeping Assist,” “Lane Centering Assistance,” and “Emergency Lane Departure Avoidance” systems, contending they “defectively failed” to work as advertised.

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Tesla Uses German Factory to Bypass Canadian Tariffs on US Cars

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The number of cars made in America will take a sharp decline as Tesla just started quietly shifting production abroad.

Germans through all of 2025 bought less than 20K cars made by the Tesla factory in Germany, a resounding economic and political disaster. Sales dropped a whopping 56% compared to the prior year.

The huge design plan, wiping out a forest, was to produce 500,000 cars a year. That should give perspective on just how bad Tesla sales have been. Honestly, they should have sold tours of the forest instead of cutting it all down just to suck at selling cars.

Data from the Federal Motor Transport Authority shows that in the first 11 months of the year, 17,358 new Tesla cars were registered.

The factory meanwhile claims success. Pundits might have laughed at this miscalculation, but Tesla says a loophole in Canadian tariffs against American-made cars (when shipped from the EU) is about to make the idle factory very useful. The allegedly illegal Eastern Europeans who run the factory probably don’t care who buys what from where as long as they are paid to keep silent.

“I live in Frankfurt (Oder) [on the Polish border], and I’ve never even been to town,” admitted one of the few Tesla workers who agreed to speak…

The policy outcome inverts the xenophobic nationalist “American-made” rhetoric entirely: American car production declines because American tariffs make American cars uncompetitive in neighboring markets. The German factory Musk poisoned politically by campaigning for Germany’s Nazi party (AfD) becomes his loophole.

Canadians can now order Teslas directly from Grünheide at a significantly lower price, rather than buying from the US and paying Canada’s retaliatory 25% import duties on US-made cars in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The AFD (Nazi Party) rally in Germany was headlined by the Tesla CEO
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Trump Orders Colorado Dead Coal Plant Rebuilt and Kills Their Clean Water Bill

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One must admit the cruelty, really. If you set out to design a cartoonishly villainous assault on Colorado specifically, you could hardly do worse than shitting in their coal and water in the same week. It’s as if someone studied the state seal, noted the pickaxe and the mountains, and thought: attack.

The coal situation achieves a kind of particular insult to Coloradans. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a fracking CEO who donated $228,390 to Trump’s campaign and once swallowed fracking fluid on camera to fake its safety, has ordered a coal plant to remain open under emergency powers. The emergency does not exist. The grid doesn’t need the power. The plant itself is currently broken, after a critical part failed on December 19th, and produces nothing at all. Rural Colorado ratepayers will spend millions on “repairs”, then $85 million annually operating it, to generate electricity priced higher than alternatives nearly 100% of the time.

Peak Cruelty

The massive corruption for an undeserving beneficiary is not difficult to identify.

Two-thirds of that $85 million is fuel costs, paid to Trapper Mine, whose sole customer is this plant. The “emergency order” is a coal subsidy dressed in the language of grid reliability. This is Wright’s sixth such order – plants in Indiana, Michigan, Washington, Pennsylvania – suggesting less an emergency than a policy of preventing market forces from retiring coal under any circumstances.

Unpotable

The water situation is, if anything, more instructive. Trump vetoed the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act – a sixty-year-old project to deliver clean drinking water to 50,000 people in southeastern Colorado, where the groundwater is contaminated with radioactivity. The bill passed the House by voice vote and the Senate by unanimous consent. The Congressional Budget Office estimated the federal cost at under half a million dollars.

Trump’s stated rationale was utter nonsense. Eighty-five million for unnecessary coal from a dead site: “emergency” infrastructure. Just a half million for potable water to 50,000 people: a sudden taxpayer burden claim.

One does not need to be a student of logic to notice the hate for humanity behind the asymmetry.

The bill’s sponsor was a Trump loyalist Lauren Boebert. It was, by most accounts, the most significant legislation of her congressional career. However, six weeks earlier she had been summoned to the White House Situation Room and pressured to remove her name from the discharge petition forcing release of Jeffrey Epstein’s DOJ files. She declined to kiss the Epstein child trafficker ring. The Trump-Epstein disclosure bill passed 427-1. Thomas Massie described what they overcame: “We fought the president, the attorney general, the FBI director, the speaker of the House and the vice president.”

Boebert herself has raised the possibility that the veto was retaliation.

“I sincerely hope this veto has nothing to do with political retaliation for calling out corruption and demanding accountability,” she said, in the manner of someone who believes precisely the opposite.

Colorado, it should be noted, also refused to release election-tampering convict Tina Peters after Trump’s pardon. A pardon that is fraud as it does not apply to state crimes. The state has managed to become a target of the Trump family on multiple fronts.

The Scorpion

Rural Coloradans who voted for Trump three times will now subsidize overpriced and unneeded coal to enrich executives of a plant that doesn’t work, while drinking water is left dangerously contaminated because half a million dollars for health was deemed a waste of money by Trump. The coal industry receives an $85 million handout from taxpayers laundered through abuse of emergency powers. A loyalist who defected on a single vote, and cared about children, watches her signature achievement destroyed.

This is not governance.

It is not even competent grift.

It is the behavior of a very sick man who is proving consequences do not apply to him, like a cartoon villain with no redeeming qualities.

This is a giant T burning on the lawns of Colorado.

The cruelty is the point. America is being recast as the bad cowboy. What would Captain Silas Soule say?

Based on the horrific massacre at Sand Creek, Soul of Silas is a dramatic black and white Western Noir. The film chronicles the final brave acts of one of America’s unsung heroes from the Wild West: Captain Silas Soule, no stranger to the battle for justice.
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Erick Chomskis Gives Lesson in Wartime Disinformation by Attacking Truman

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A Defense Department functionary published an op-ed in The Hill this week falsely claiming that Donald Trump faces unprecedented resistance to executive power. The author throws “scholars” shade at President Truman and then signs his byline “a civilian employee of the War Department.”

The War Department was abolished in 1947.

Erick Chomskis is a good example of why.

He is not randomly picking Truman as an example (along with references to Carter, Clinton and Obama). He apparently has been tasked by someone to attack the architect of the system that constrains war crimes. The “War Department” signature isn’t cosplay, it’s an ideological marker. It rejects the entire post-Truman civilian oversight architecture.

Truman built the guardrails. In 1947 he set civil rights and the anti-fascist precedents the GOP hate. Notably, after he fired the “dumb son of a bitch” General MacArthur in 1951 for refusing to respect civilian authority… in 1960 Truman correctly warned that Nixon was “a no good lying bastard” and told voters that anyone who supported him “ought to go to hell.” He also said as much about the 1948 GOP in public.

PRESIDENT LIKENS DEWEY TO HITLER AS FASCISTS’ TOOL; Says When Bigots, Profiteers Get Control of Country They Select ‘Front Man’ to Rule DICTATORSHIP STRESSED Truman Tells Chicago Audience a Republican Victory Will Threaten U.S. Liberty TRUMAN SAYS GOP PERILS U.S. LIBERTY

Nailed it.

So Chomskis is revisiting a very particular angle of propaganda, spreading specific falsehoods about Truman, to reverse the defenses against fascism.

Writing Wrong History is Wrong

Chomskis claims Truman’s Korea intervention established a precedent for unilateral presidential action.

…what scholars call the “Korean precedent” for unilateral presidential action in armed conflicts.

This is absurdly false.

Truman acted under UN Security Council Resolution 83. The State Department meticulously documented the intervention as an international police action as intended under the emergent UN authority. Congress appropriated funds and extended the draft. Contested? Sure, because politics, duh. Unilateral? Not even close.

Let me be even more clear, to help the scholars Chomskis wants to invoke on this, because they actually contradict him.

Chomskis’ claim that Korea established a “precedent for unilateral presidential action” is brain dead. Truman explicitly ordered multilateral “police action” as a peace-time operation. It was the most exact opposite of Trump’s random acts of unilateral war.

Chomskis similarly screws up his claims that Obama “ordered military intervention in Libya in 2011 without a congressional vote.”

Nope.

He omits how Obama reacted under UN Security Council Resolution 1973, reported to Congress within 48 hours per the War Powers Resolution, and faced sustained Republican criticism almost as bad as the time he wore a tan suit.

Come on. America must have a shortage of historians because this op-ed is unfit for print.

Every example Chomskis cites operated within international legal frameworks. Yet Chomskis omits all the legal frameworks, to compare with Trump who ignores legal frameworks. That’s the whole ruse of his disinformation.

Trump’s Caribbean bombing campaign is within no legal framework, unlike how Presidents before him operated. The comparison being made isn’t about any real precedent. It’s a targeted attack on Truman, telling wrong history, corrupting the record, with shameless war propaganda.

Double Standard Donald

Chomskis is upside down and backwards as a sloppy propaganda tactic.

The establishment (Republican House) that couldn’t stop itself from puking all over Obama about Libya has said nothing about Trump bombing Venezuelan ports without congressional authorization.

The party that went absolutely bananas about executive overreach now eagerly watches Trump refuse to spend congressionally appropriated funds, and says nothing.

The “establishment” supposedly persecuting Trump? That’s his own congressional majority, who are maintaining perfect silence.

Trump is committing obvious war crimes and is the literal opposite of Truman.

He faces no impeachment proceedings. No congressional war powers challenges. No resistance from the establishment on any constitutional question. The unprecedented persecution of Trump exists not at all, unless you count Chomskis’ disinformation.

Fiction Function

The Hill piece is an information operations product of the military—strategic omissions producing false conclusions from grains of truth.

Strip all legal frameworks, ignore all major details, erase congressional responses, and you can make anything look like a precedent.

The target audience probably aren’t historians and won’t know the UN resolutions. They’ll share because a “War Department” just produced a hit piece on Truman.

Chomskis is literally arguing in his conclusion that constraints on executive power threaten the republic—when unconstrained executive power is the actual threat to republics. This is weapons-grade military propaganda, pushing fascist inversion dressed in constitutional language.

His bonkers framing suggests that only elected officials (i.e. Trump) have legitimate authority, which is precisely the argument authoritarians make to dismantle checks and balances. His “permission slip” fear is pure projection. Trump constantly talks and operates as if the presidency IS a permission slip for him personally, from no one.

The byline of Chomskis is the signature. A defense bureaucrat calling his employer by its pre-Truman name is not confused about institutional attacks. He is announcing revisionism to promote fascism, choosing the wrong side of history.

The Hill served this state-run Trump disinformation sausage without correction. Draw your own conclusions about what The Hill has become.