Fred Lambert is on point with his reporting as usual. Tesla has the highest accident and fatality rate of any car, coupled with no legal defense for dangerous defects it’s been pumping onto public roads.

As I have been highlighting over the last few months, this is just the beginning. We are just now starting to see cases that come from crashes that happened in 2018-2019-2020 go to trial.

It’s a long process, but we know that the number of crashes involving Autopilot and FSD significantly ramped up in 2021-2025 due to higher volumes and the launch of FSD.

All these accidents, many of them unfortunately fatal, are going to go through the legal process, and Tesla will have to settle for billions of dollars when everything is said and done.

A long process is an understatement.

I presented in 2016 and wrote many times since then that the car company was so flawed it would only increase fatalities. Ten years later, it’s like watching the suffering Troy residents admit finally that an Elon Musk horse was no gift.

With comments like this on Fred’s post, it’s no wonder the Tesla ship is taking a while to sink.

I certainly wouldn’t mind some kind of a settlement since I took a beating with the depreciation of our car from Elon‘s antics.

All Tesla owners, and their communities, appear to be victims to some degree (from fraud to fatality). They unfortunately are hoping Tesla will aid them, which is like expecting the Titanic to give them a lifeboat after they are already swimming in the freezing water.

I’m not even surprised, at this point, that Trump had Russia write the U.S. “peace” plan for the country Russia was losing a war with.

now here’s where the clownfuckery dial gets twisted way past eleven — because it came out that, in fact, Russia did author that ‘peace plan.’ Witkoff and Jared were apparently just acting as glorified stenographers and going ‘yes? what else would you like?’ next time, can we just send Beavis and Butt-head to ‘negotiate’? could they do worse?

To be frank, the fact that the U.S. took Russian demands and fraudulently presented them as the American proposal, is arguably worse than just a sloppy transcription of Russian. Trump is deliberately laundering Putin, which goes beyond being incompetent.

The damning facts of the cheap Russian play of an American President are undisputed:

[Trump] acquiesces to many Russian demands that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has categorically rejected on dozens of occasions, including giving up large pieces of territory [while Putin says this] could form the basis of a final peace settlement.

This is what it looks like when a great power’s foreign policy apparatus becomes the lowly subsidiary of its adversary’s strategic objectives.

The mechanism matters more than the ranking. Trump is voluntarily serving as a transmission for Russian demands against Ukraine currently fighting Russia, while Ukraine is successful in defense. That’s not capitulation (you have to fight to capitulate) and it’s not appeasement (you have to believe it would bring peace). It’s what intelligence calls Trump being an “agent of influence.”

This is the worst deal ever written in history, and that is saying a LOT. It reads as a self-harm manifesto, if not seditious. America’s President has capitulated to the enemy, for what?

…the linguistic fingerprints point straight to Moscow — then this is not a peace plan. It is a Russian capitulation document drafted in Moscow, in Russian, translated awkwardly into English, routed through a Putin ally, and pushed onto a wartime ally by an American president acting outside NATO, outside existing U.S. policy, and outside the rules-based order the U.S. spent 75 years building.

Indeed, the linguistic analysis by The Guardian identified phrases that appear directly translated from Russian. Note the constructions “it is expected” (ожидается) that are standard in Russian official documents but awkward in English. Other words that appear to be translated from Russian include “ambiguities” (неоднозначности) and “to enshrine” (закрепить).

Any claims that Russian documents and aims are instead American-made should serve mainly as evidence of kompromat.

So, what did Trump do? Well, he took Putin’s Alaska “peace plan,” put his stamp of approval on it, and announced that Ukraine had until this Thursday to agree to it. But that was before Rubio told a gaggle of Senators that the Russians had written the plan, then he said the plan was ours…

Or let me put it like this: Finland submitted to Soviet pressure because it shared a 1,300-kilometer border with a superpower that invaded it twice already. America shares no border with Russia and faces no Russian military threat. Yet Trump is now performing voluntary Finlandization by surrendering all the leverage that a small nation on Russia’s doorstep never had to begin with.

This rapid voluntary submission to an adversary by the leader of a nation is historically unprecedented.

What’s the category for a leader who faces no military threat, commands the world’s most powerful military, holds all the leverage, and still transmits adversary demands against an ally?

There isn’t one.

The point of reading this “peace” plan correctly is no leader does this or has ever done this, because it’s the opposite of leadership. This is submission, subservience, defeat. Even the weakest states under direct threat still have leadership muscle to extract something. Even Pétain negotiated the “free zone.” Even Quisling was installed by an already occupying army, not volunteering to surrender for nothing gained.

Nixon sabotaged peace talks covertly, needlessly killing tens of thousands of American soldiers in Vietnam, for personal political gain. Trump transmits an American enemy’s demands openly as his own policy. When the President is the traitor, the difference isn’t degree—it’s category.

The White House is compromised by a foreign state, or the word has no meaning.

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In related news:

Confused Trump Mistakenly Amplifies Calls to Impeach Himself

If you know Putin at all, you know many of his top assets have “thrown themselves” out of a window.

Over two-thirds of people being detained by federal shock troops have no criminal charges. Apparently this is starting to worry some in the GOP making it happen.

Former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory warned that recent local coverage, like an incident at a Charlotte shopping center, when masked agents arrested a man who said he was a U.S. citizen, and a raid at a local country club, may hurt the GOP on an issue it has long dominated.

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McCrory said in an interview. “From a PR and political standpoint, for the first time, immigration is maybe having a negative impact on my party.”

He added, “If I were the administration, I would be really emphasizing who they’ve arrested and the negative impact they’ve had on the community, but we’re not hearing that.”

Yeah, you aren’t hearing that. These campaigns are just mass incarceration based on racism. It’s like WWII when California leaders demanded the 1% of the population who were Japanese surrender their assets and be forced into federal camps (unlike Hawaii where Japanese represented over 30% of the population, yet nothing happened).

California politicians in 1942 don’t get the scrutiny they deserve for enacting Stanford-like cruelty. State leaders said they defined American war against Japan as Californians stealing all the land and homes of Asians. The federal government initially went along with the stupid legacy of Stanford, until it could be stopped to unwind damage being done by generations of overtly racist Californian leaders.

What we see now perhaps is the reverse political split of racism in 1942. The federal GOP, hiring masked militarized gangs to kidnap people simply decorating a Christmas tree, finally is becoming offensive to… the state GOP?

The federal Republicans literally are blowing billions in taxpayer money on trying to cancel non-white Christmas. States should know better than to allow racist federal troops easy entry.

Is it any wonder the guy who forced an abrupt rebrand of Twitter into a Nazi swastika, and then started giving Hitler salutes at political rallies, has been caught spreading Holocaust denial?

Grok, built by Musk’s company xAI and integrated into his social media platform X, wrote in a widely shared post in French that gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp were designed for “disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus” rather than for mass murder — language long associated with Holocaust denial.

The Auschwitz Memorial highlighted the exchange on X, saying that the response distorted historical fact and violated the platform’s rules.

He reminds me of another Thiel, not the ACTS 17 extremist white nationalism preacher, refusing to condemn Nazism. No, not that Thiel. This Thiel:

…Thiel, convicted in France under Holocaust denial laws…