Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Douglas Murray on Argentinian prez Javier Milei scolding the elites at Davos.

- Every EV qualified for a US tax credit in 2024. Strange how all the top models have an MSRP of $80,000. All of them.

- Tucker Carlson Episode 66 with Tony Robbins.

- Victor Davis Hanson on the hysterical style in American politics.

How Tesla EV's became a Reality

Thanks to Daimler's $50 million investment in 2009 and later government funding what was to become Tesla's Model S priced around $60,000 became a reality. Critics like to claim Tesla's success is due to huge government funding but Tesla never got TARP money. They never even applied for that government handout funding. 

Tesla did get a $465 million interest bearing government loan from the Department of Energy but so did Ford, Nissan, and Fisker Automotive. Tesla repaid that loan along with $12 million in interest four years before Nissan repaid their loan while Fisker went bankrupt and Ford has not yet repaid their loan.

People will try to smear Tesla any way they can.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- No more masks or lockdowns is a winning political message.

- On a related note - Matt Taibbi: The Vaccine Aristocrats 

- Electric buses are basically wasting taxpayer dollars so certain people can virtue signal how pure of heart they are.

- VDH: What is Woke Really About? "Wokeness is many things. But increasingly it seems a cover for careerism, profiteering - and utter incompetence."

- Wine-tasting: It's Junk Science. "Even trained, professional palates are terrible at judging wine." Experts of all stripes really getting hammered these past two-years.

EDIT: Just noticed that the links are from two left-leaning sources, two right-leaning sources and a libertarian. Talk about "fair and balanced!"