State Department reveals plan to buy $400m in ‘armored’ Teslas in biggest contract of 2025
State Department reveals plan to buy $400m in ‘armored’ Teslas in biggest contract of 2025
As Musk continues to gut government agencies, his company prepares to rake in big federal bucks

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Singletona082 @lemmy.world 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?!
94 1 ReplyAidinthel @reddthat.com The State Department handles diplomacy. I would expect that the intention is for US diplomats (however many are left after all this) to drive around in these things. I'm sure that will help convince other countries that the US is not at all stupidly corrupt.
42 0 Replydisguy_ovahea @lemmy.world Yup. Guarantee Musk gets Trump to replace The Beast with an armored Tesla.
13 0 ReplyFireRetardant @lemmy.world Which then spontaneously combusts killing Trump, but luckily just before that Trump passes an executive order naming Musk his successor.
16 0 Replydisguy_ovahea @lemmy.world If only they heeded your warning, FireRetardant.
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Honytawk @lemmy.zip Too bad those cars are illegal in Europe.
So how are they going to do diplomacy over here?
5 0 Replysuperkret @feddit.org Diplomats are exempt from most rules that apply to citizens.
3 0 ReplySt3alth @lemmy.ml No worries the hosting country can just revoke the diplomatic protection and arrest them.
3 0 ReplyMonkeMischief @lemmy.today "I've got diplomatic immunity, so Hammer, you can't sue!"
--Peter Griffin parodying "Hammertime"
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this_1_is_mine @lemmy.ml I'm just hoping they don't have to tow anything....
7 0 Replysnooggums @lemmy.world
I do!
The sooner it is a shit show the sooner I get to laugh about it.
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