What does the president think about this?
I’d just not show up to work.
Lol what a jackass
The NIH used to have an electric outlet with a large sign saying EV charging:D Spending 60 hours on a 1KW trickle charge on the guvmint’s dime is awesome!
Can he just fucking… disappear? Just take all that money you’ve stolen from contractors, kompromat from Russia, and bribes from Saudi Arabia and just fuck off. He has a deep hole inside and will never truly be happy, which makes me feel great, but that’s a small consolation compared to the destruction of democracy and the entire USA.
This will definitely lower the price of eggs.
This feels more damn petty than Regan taking solar panels off the Whitehouse. Like these chargers were already installed, they weren’t costing a damn thing, and now they’re going to spend money to have perfectly good infrastructure sit unused. Fucking morons.
2026: Tesla stops manufacturing cars and pivots to humanoid robotics, with Ai enabled control and dedicated starlink network.
gods i fucking hate it here
That is offensive and sad. Keeping existing infrastructure that makes a nice employee perk has high value. Cost savings on electricity seems like a bs minimal excuse.
Don’t worry, he’ll just give Musk another $50 million government contract to redo them.
Shameful. Reminds me of when Reagan had the solar panels removed from the roof of the White House.
This is really funny imo.
We are past the time when green technology needs a boost.
We are now at a time when green tech is the cheapest solution.
So these are all theatre, cause green will be the obvious choice for those who think about the bottom line moving forward.
Cruelty is the point
That’s exactly right. These thing were already bought, paid for, installed, and being used. This is just a fuck-you to anyone who cares about the environment. Why? Because if you care about the environment you probably don’t support Trump.
Off topic, but any other non-US people here, how are you reacting to the USA’s facism on hyperdrive streak?
I don’t think the US has ever been the most popular country, but now the president is trying to eradicate palestine, disrupt European security from Russia, and plunge the world into a climate apocalypse at an even faster than before rate, I feel a lot worse about any interactions with the USA. I’ve been trying to move away from using anything US produced or owned, which isn’t particularly easy.
Is it just me? Was I naive to think US was any better before? Am I naive in singling out the US?
I’ve always seen the US as a somewhat virulent imperial power, and it made a clear and decisive break with international law back in 2001 which successive administrations have never walked back, so it’s been a bit of a rogue/outlier state for the past 24 years.
That said I think what we are seeing now is different. The US has just undergone full legislative capture by oligarchs, and they are going ham on the rest of the world.
For many of us overseas, this is seen as the US pulling back the curtain, yes. These ideas have been couched rhetoric for decades, mostly from Reagan or even earlier. The current figures just don’t know how to be subtle about it. Or perhaps, feel confident enough to believe nobody will stop them.
This follows with the people. We’ve seen Americans make excuses for harmful policy for decades already, preoccupied with which individual social tribes to blame. I think many were (or are) hoping this extremity would prompt revolt or rebellion, but are ultimately not surprised that most Americans have simply become even more divided and hostile. Were begging you to stop it. Most of us are already convinced you won’t.
The groundwork to make men/women left/right native/expat worker/boss Chrstian/Muslim etc blame each other for the suffering in their own communities has been laid for a long time and is now self-sustaining and making uniting against class difficult, if not impossible.
The ridiculous military funding also makes Americans that do want to resist feel too afraid to do so. You were told it would protect you from the other social tribes, but the tribes being blamed were chosen almost exclusively for the elite’s financial or global power reasons.
it’s especially hard trying to move away from US produced goods and media for me, as I am in the US
Yeah its tough… At least you can block ads when browsing and pirate digital media pretty easily 🤷♀️
dude also purged the generals yesterday
German here. We are 4 to 8 years away from Nazis becoming elected again, at least very likely. I’m looking with horror towards the US and just hope he burns it down so fast that the right shift looses it’s current drive in Europe.
Nah, we can’t rely on external signals doing anything like that. We need to make peoples lives better. The right surge is an emotional rectioan amplified by external propaganda, but fundamentally people are right to protest against the current system which keeps impoverishing them. The conclusion of voting right wing is wrong of course.
Lithuanian here, a very popular Facebook page keeps posting “Trump is about to wake up, prepare for him saying something stupid” every day.
This isn’t off topic at all. What brand are the chargers currently installed? And when the armored cybertrucks are mandated government vehicles, what brand of chargers will be reinstalled? And at whose order is all of this happening?
Hi, Aussie here. Entirely expected and unsurprising. I mean Hitler learned from the USA.
Been watching the usa destroy everything nice about Australia for my entire life and waiting for the other shoe to drop. Good luck, please don’t our government again if we elect another socialist.
Another Aussie here. We have elections coming up and looking at the US as a cautionary tale for reactionary politics. Hoping it does not translate to success for our Trump-lite candidate here.
Canadian here, it pains me to admit that my hope at this point is that Trump manages to crash the US so fast that it hits rock bottom before invading us.
Yep, at the moment I don’t think most of their military would follow the order,but in a few years they might. Best case scenario America balkanizes before then, and we can make friends with the sane countries like the New California Republic while ignoring the crazy ones like whatever the Mormon theocracy calls their new country
100% chance we’re getting Ukrained if he gets the opportunity.
We like that lobby money yeees
nooo, I do all of my EV charging at federal buildings. nooo, 8000 chargers for a country of 330million, noooo. I’m so hurt by this, nooo.
You’re fucking dumb, they’re paid stations we weren’t losing money on them we were making money on them. It’s stupid as fuck to lose money to remove some shit that turns a profit. It’s virtue signaling to the virtue less.
You’re a lovely person.
Of all the news meant to cause you fear, angst and harm, this is not going to affect you in any way, is me point. Have a wonderful day.
You are clueless. The federal government is the largest employer in the nation. Every single one of these decisions affects hundreds of thousands of people.
Removing 8,000 charging stations at federal buildings is going to impact hundreds of thousands of people? How many people do you think are charging at the Department of Interior’s parking lot? They’ve fired an order of magnitude more actual humans.
Same reason why the removal of solar panels from the white house matters: it chills future action out of fear that those who follow will just destroy it. The 8000 that already existed is nothing, but the US government is one of the largest employees.
I think we’ve got to learn to take our actions independently of the federal government. I can’t imagine any normal-thinking people are going to take their cues from this abberation. I agree it’s a bad look but it’s also largely performative on their part. They’re trying to provoke this irrational reaction that you’re seeing in this thread.
Read the entire article, dumbass, it’s not just EV charging stations.
And are you actually going to pretend that 8,000 is not a shit load of charging stations to shut down for literally no reason?
This is the last time I’m responding to you because you’re such a useless asshole.
EV chargers are useful to me if they’re somewhere I go. Superchargers I can’t use at my supermarket mean fuck all to me. Charging stations at a federal buildings I’ll never go to have no impact on me. Their political impact is in riling up morons who think that 8,000 is a lot of EV chargers. There are MILLIONS of EVs in the world, most of which are charged at the homes of their owners. Not at 8,000 federal building parking spots.
Get a clue. And also fuck off
Small things matter too, writing then off as inconsequential is idiotic.
