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Once a Reagan Republican. Learned some empathy and now a strong Democrat. Generously orthodox Christian, Cat lover, history buff, love sci fi. Distributionist. "Reality does not change just because you don’t like the data.” - Gilbertus Albans

The Edsel flop was exacerbated by a recession, but was a very poor marketing decision made by several folks at Ford. The cybertruck flop is purely the fevered brain child of Elon. It's a colossal waste of money, hideous to most, and so dangerous some countries refuse permission to sell it. Garbage!

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 2w ago

bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.

A graph showing how the edsel and Cybertruck both performed based on their sales target and actual year one and year two sales. The edsel was expected to sell 200k units in its first year. It sold slightly over 50k, and less than 50k the next year

The Cybertruck had a sales.target of 250k in its first year. They sold around 40k, the next year they sold about half as many.

The Tangerine Traitor and his MAGA followers can only destroy anything good. They have no ability to build up this country. Shameful and dangerous! #releasethefiles #TrumpCrimeFamilyForPrison #TrumpEpstein #TrumpPedoFiles #OperationEpsteinFury #EpsteinBallroom #GOPSeditiousTraitors #Dismantle2025

Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · last yr.

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

Statement begins:
The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others).

Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....

The longer we allow grandpa to rage post to distract from the EPSTEIN Files, the more danger he creates for the safety & security of the world. Any doubt he would use nuclear weapons in a heartbeat if he thought it would benefit himself? I'm with Maj. Jason Watson: IMPEACH. CONVICT. REMOVE 🇺🇸

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The Tangerine Traitor and his MAGA followers almost certainly won't notice the order of the colors. They're the French Blue, White, and Red. Not the Red, White, Blue order of the USA. Wonderful trolling by the French! #releasethefiles #TrumpPedoFiles #GOPSeditiousTraitors #Dismantle2025

WuTangIsForTheChildren@wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Macron posted this….I’m sure Trump will acknowledge the gesture and thank France any minute now