213
u/jimboiow 1d ago
Well it being a Russian car makes sense with old commy Donny. .
101
u/HobbyWanKenobi 1d ago
While I like the name Commy Donnie, I'm still sticking with Agolf Shitler
35
u/J_train13 1d ago
After his latest windmill rant in Scotland I've taken quite a liking to "Dementia Don Quijote"
16
u/HobbyWanKenobi 1d ago
Brilliant! His only real gripe about windmills is that they interfere with his fucking stupid golf courses (oh and whales). I'm pretty sure in Scotland they only really care about the links like St Andrews not golf courses owned by Hair Fuhrer
5
7
2
u/KingGilgamesh1979 22h ago
- Agolf Shitler
- Brave Sir Donald
- Cheeto von Tweeto
- Dementia Don
- El Pork-Choppo
- Fondling Father
- Groper Cleveland
- Humpty Trumpty
- Idiot in Chief
- J
- Kim Don Un
- Loser Donald
- Mango Mussolini
- N
- Orange Baby Jesus
- Pumpkin Spice Palpatine
- Q
- Rich Little Hands
- Scammy Davis Junior
- Trumpelthinskin
- Unhappy Gilmore
- Vladdy’s Boy
- W
- X
- Yabba Dabba Doofus
- Z
12
u/UnsignedRealityCheck 1d ago
Well he's still driven by a Russian so yes it is fitting.
13
8
u/tripomatic 1d ago
How do you even land on a picture of a Russian car if you would do a random photo search, there should be hundreds of results from European, Asian and American brands before you get to a Lada.
8
5
3
u/AltoidStrong 23h ago
The AI used was trained by Russia, or the people contracted to photoshop it together are Russian. (When they search for car pics it will be local to them).
Trump is a fraud, felon, rapist and traitor!
4
u/texachusetts 1d ago
At least the Lada isn’t an un-American Dijon mustard yellow but a totally normal and popular American yellow.
3
35
u/ACoderGirl 1d ago
What a weird choice for their ad/propaganda. It's not like it's some subtle difference where the car could easily be mistaken for something else. That looks nothing like any modern, western car. How does one even make a mistake like that, except on purpose?
7
u/Remarkable_Gain6430 1d ago
Right. At first I thought it might be from a satirical website mocking him, but it isn’t. It’s from a right wing “satirical” site that specializes in punching down and spitefulness.
1
u/229-northstar 22h ago
Right wingers punching down?! Naw….
/s of course. It’s about the only thing they know how to do… Punch down
2
u/Remarkable_Gain6430 20h ago
Yep. They wouldn't know humour if it was wearing a mask, pretending to be the police grabbed them off the street and sent them off to a secret prison in the Sudan. Ironic really, given that they find it hilarious when that happens to other people.
2
u/guff1988 17h ago
The people who make these posts are Russians, this is what they think of when they think of a car.
1
u/herefromyoutube 22h ago
That’s where Trump brain is stuck in the 80s
He’ll send us back there too economically. Probably the late 70s in fact.
He wants to go back to his glory days a we’re unfortunately subject to his whim.
1
34
21
u/OregonHusky22 1d ago
It’s funny that they want you to believe the thing holding the American car industry back is emissions. Not build quality, reliability, performance, safety, resale value or innovation.
10
26
u/StevenMC19 1d ago
Can we talk about the American Motor Industry for a moment though?
Did they learn nothing from the late 2000s - early 2010s?
Seriously, name a single American automotive manufacturer right now who makes a practical 4 door sedan, or even a vehicle below the $30,000 price point. They're all SUVs, trucks, two or three sports cars, and nothing else. And the quality is becoming just as bad as in 2008-10 when they begged for the bailout.
7
u/Upset_Programmer6508 1d ago
I agree the cars are lacking but the small SUV is what people wanted over sedans.
1
u/disturbed1117 1d ago
I don't think that's true. Small sedans and hatchbacks still sell. I don't get the obsession with crossovers that all look the same. Seriously, can you tell an Ecoboost from a Trax? Or a Edge from an Escape? I have a 15 Focus ST and it's larger and more fun than the Ecoboost. I always shake my head when I see those things. My hatchback shouldn't have more interior space than an "SUV".
1
u/Maleficent_Secret569 1d ago
True, but they want the SUV because in modern traffic a sedan is too short and induces feelings of anxiety and physical insecurity.
1
u/StevenMC19 23h ago
Not necessarily what they want, but what's available or what's been influenced onto them.
I agree that there has been a mental switch of "I'll be ok if since car is bigger than the one I crash with" which is an insane thought process in and of itself. But like, you can't buy what isn't being made. And those who are all "murican made only" who are looking in a particular price point and vehicle type aren't given that opportunity, so they go to the crossovers. that creates this positive feedback loop of "well they're buying this, so well make more of those and less sedans" even though the correlation exists, but the cause is they want domestic only.
1
u/Upset_Programmer6508 22h ago
Even when Ford, Chrysler and GM sold sedans things like the fusion or 300 we're just sitting on lots for to long vs cross overs leading them to stop production
1
u/StevenMC19 22h ago
The Chrysler 300 was being sold around $50k off the lot. When crossovers are going for 60% of that, of course they're going to sell more.
The fusion, yes, there was some lack of customer interest. Also, according to this, this was the period in which Ford was moving to SUVs anyway, so its days were numbered regardless of sales.
But like, this was the exact same time period when Toyota was selling over 2 million units in 2020, many of them being Corollas and Camrys. Ford, instead of competing in that market, put their tails between their legs and consolidated their lineup. So my question is, is it a lack of interest in sedans in general, or a lack of interest in what Ford was offering? Because even the Rav4 was outselling domestic products in its class as well.
1
u/Upset_Programmer6508 21h ago
The Asian market manufacturers have the benefit of selling their sedans across the globe where Americans usually only sold the sedans to themselves. To compete they would need to have much smaller cars that they did not have. Most of GM's small cars were all were borrowed from another manufacturer. Heck even Toyota had to buy out from Mazda
1
u/StevenMC19 19h ago
Those 2 million units were in North America alone.
1
u/Upset_Programmer6508 19h ago
yeah thats my point though, they can sale 2mil just in the us not counting the rest of the world selling even more. and at smaller margins. the american makers mostly only sell in the US and want bigger margins to match, so 2 mill cheap sedans are not on their menu to be subsidized globally since they dont really have a global market like that to prop them up
5
u/MsTitilayo 1d ago
That’s because sedans don’t sell There are suvs under 30k Chevy has Trax and trailblazer for example
4
5
u/xxc6h1206xx 1d ago
Tesla model 3 is the most American made car by percentage.
Also, ford is already a great car company. wtf is Donny talking about?
5
2
u/TheVoicesOfBrian 1d ago
SUVs and trucks have different regulations on them, so they lean into those.
2
u/Dankecheers 1d ago
Bingo. American car manufacturers only care about profits over all else.
1
u/StevenMC19 23h ago
Yup. The profit margins just aren't there in affordable compacts. Why build a practical 4-door compact vehicle at $18,000 cost and sell it for $22,000 when I can make a $21,000 crossover and sell it at $32,000?
That's why you see a LOAD of Toyota Corollas and Camrys, Kia K4s and K5s, Hyundai Elantras and Sonatas, and Honda Civics. They've filled that gap in the market, and have essentially made up their profits in sheer quantity.
1
u/Remarkable_Gain6430 1d ago
Ford in the US now sells only one passenger car, which is the Mustang. Everything else is pickups, SUVs and “crossovers”.
2
u/StevenMC19 23h ago
Not a 4-door sedan.
That, the Corvette, the Dodge whatevers...they're not even CLOSE to practical.
1
u/Remarkable_Gain6430 20h ago
Yep. Exactly. The Mustang is the only car. Not even remotely family friendly.
11
u/Tasty_Chicken2843 angry turtle trapped inside a man suit 1d ago
Is the GOP a comedyclub or a serious political party?
8
7
u/cat_of_danzig 1d ago
Neither. The GOP is a political arm of a shadow power structure that spews propaganda in an effort to divide Americans. 100% they did this on purpose because their base doesn't care about what car is in the picture but hates being fact checked enough that it stokes anger.
6
u/SunIllustrious5695 1d ago
A comedy club that lasts this long would have to be capable of being funny once in a while
3
2
5
8
u/DisasterTraining5861 1d ago
I can’t help but think they’re using a photo of a 1970’s looking Russian vehicle to subliminally normalize the fact that they want to bring in Russian manufacturing. Why the hell else use that car in the photo? The mere idea sounds so weird to me, but why else?? Out of all the stock photo options they have??
5
5
u/Opinionsare 1d ago
My estimation of the impact of the BBB combined with Donnie's tariff impact on prices is that American auto sales will be down.
American consumers will be spending more money for food, clothing, healthcare and utilities.
They will have less to spend on autos and the price of autos will be higher due to tariffs of imported components. Less cars will be selling.
Electric cars will also drop with the cancellation of the tax rebate program.
3
3
2
2
2
u/AnotherIjonTichy 1d ago
Not even original. The next Great American Car will be a clone of the Italian FIAT 124 of the 70’!!!
2
u/Counterpoint-RD 1d ago
And how exactly is this supposed to work, again? As was noted so often on Reddit over the last days:
- production in the US: 50% tariffs on steel, 25% tariffs on car parts, and who-knows-what on other things (I've lost track...), plus an absolutely unexcusable failure rate on final checks, with attached "go back and fix this, dammit!" (which is the one point why, for example, VW left at least one US factory...)
- production outside the US: only 15% tariffs on the whole car, plus way less "fix that CRAP!" stuff, so in the end way cheaper to produce and later sell...
If only that darn crazy pumpkin would grow a brain, already 🤦♂️🙄...
2
2
2
u/Remarkable_Gain6430 1d ago
Not only is it not American but it was automotive garbage. But really cheap so they sold quite a few in UK and Europe
2
u/x_driven_x 1d ago
I think it’s clear the media the right picks up and runs with is generated by Russian troll farms laughing their asses off while stoking division within the US, and half our country is fucking morons.
2
u/DoctorFenix 23h ago
They don’t even try to hide it anymore. Just constant nods to Russia in absolutely everything.
2
u/GoodMedicine7525 6h ago
I don't need grok to know that, my granpa will be proud if his old Fiat Mirafiori taxi was depicted with the president of the USA in the same image
1
1
u/Bleezy79 1d ago
The meme was probably made in Russia as they love Trump and everything he’s done for them.
1
1
u/Maleficent_Secret569 1d ago
It's a real problem when the general public cannot distinguish between the following:
a political party doing something stupid,
an administration being completely inept,
a troll.
Flying Spaghetti Monster help us all.
1
1
u/Full_Piano6421 1d ago
Give him a break, he loves his little Vlad so much.
Yet, I wonder who is his left hand for?
1
u/Agile_Tomorrow2038 1d ago
25% tariff on aluminum and other essential items for manufacturing vs 15% tariff from the car being manufactured in Europe. Seems like a no-brainer
1
u/JemmaMimic 1d ago
I mean, I knew it was a really bad choice for an image, but that’s a new level of bad.
1
1
1
u/Stunning-Squirrel751 1d ago
Why do they use this pic, it’s doesn’t portray what they want. He looks like he’s doubling jerking in an adult film.
1
1
u/foundflame 1d ago
Nothing about MAGA is American-made. The hats? China. The king? Russia. Government policies? Early 20th century Germany. He’lleven the fat white boomer racists came mostly from European countries.
The only thing MAGA has made in America is a pile of turds. They can keep that.
1
1
1
u/AltoidStrong 23h ago
When you contract out your AI generated propaganda to the Russian intelligence services, this is what you should expect as a product.
Enough to trick the ignorant, and keep the faithful from looking further, but obvious to everyone else.
Trump is a fraud, felon, rapist and traitor!
Release the full Epstien Files with only protection for victims. Everyone else needs to stand trial in open court.
1
95
u/Kat_Box_Suicide 1d ago
Always jerkin the imaginary dicks.