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The press is blowing up over a $400,000,000 contract to provide armored Teslas. Should be an easy win – didn’t Elon swear that the truck’s windows were bullet-proof?<\/p>\n
Elon Musk was blasted Wednesday following revelations that the Trump administration plans to spend $400 million on “armored\u201d Teslas in what\u2019s reportedly the State Department\u2019s biggest contract of 2025.<\/p>\n
The contract was revealed even as the tech billionaire and Donald Trump \u201cbest buddy\u201d is deeply embedded in the same federal government granting the contract as Musk peruses Treasury Department pay systems and can presumably examine information about rival contractors in what would appear to be a glaring conflict of interest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Gotta watch those little gotcha words….like “presumably” . “Maybe, we have no proof whatsoever, but if we use this as a disclaimer we can allege anything.”\u00a0 Dictionary definition for that word, right?<\/p>\n
\nThe contract is due to be finalized in the fourth quarter and is currently in the \u201cplanning\u201d phase, according to the document.<\/p>\n
After reports of the news Wednesday the online forecast about the contract was edited to remove the word \u201cTesla\u201d and simply referred to $400 million worth of “armored electric vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Because there are so many other American electric car companies capable of filling a contract like that in the time span allotted. Or do we want to go to, say, Chinese Geely or BYD?<\/p>\n
The news comes as the world\u2019s richest man\u2019s rocket company, SpaceX, is still receiving multi-million dollar contract payouts from the U.S. government as he continues to gut federal funding elsewhere through his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).The Independent<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
True, they could use Boeing instead. We’ve seen how well THEIR space craft work (and yes,\u00a0 the stranded astronauts are still ‘up there’).<\/p>\n
Pretty sure\u00a0 more than one reader has done some procurement…ah, maybe better to say purchasing – before. How long does a government contract take? Write the Request for Quote, review process, solicit quotes, more reviews, add some governmental inefficiency, award, delay to start date – all easily done in the 24 days since Trump took office? all part of Trump’s famous push for green vehicles? Oh wait, that was Biden…<\/p>\n
Brings to mind a bit of Holocaust history – a young girl named Hana was sent to Terezin (Therezienstadt for those who prefer German), by the Germans in WWII. She was classified as an ‘orphan’ – by the same Germans who had killed her parents already.\u00a0 (If you want to read more about that, do a search for “Hana’s Suitcase” – heck of a story.)<\/p>\n
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Oh, and a reminder – if you have forgotten Valentine’s Day and your significant other cares about it – ya still have time to go grab a card. Expect to pay yer left nut for flowers, though.<\/p>\n
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