USA: "No one wants EVs and we ain't making that garbage. Fuck EVs and fuck you. Eat shit"
China: "we made affordable EVs that are actually good"
USA: lemongrab scream "one million percent tariffs!"
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2026
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"Free trade" is only when the western world gets to exploit resources in the rest of the world for either "bringing them christianity" or "spreading modern way of life", not when anybody else does it.
Maybe stop trying to sell trash nobody wants? Fuck ford.
"Company CEO argues for monopoly of his brand: here's why 'journalists' aren't absolutely mocking him"
Lol I work in maintaining the machines Ford uses in their factories, and they have been mad scrambling to get manufacturing back up and humming along in the most dysfunctional and half-assed way possible (from my perspective.) Getting any of their shit fixed is a communications nightmare. They send the wrong things in to be fixed under warranty and it takes months for them to actually sort out the invoices and whatnot. I have stuff they sent to us to be fixed in 2024 that they probably don't even remember sending us at this point and we're just waiting to hear whether or not this is actually the thing they paid to have repaired.. They send us things that they don't need or want to fix on accident! Just pallets of horribly organized ill-maintained machinery. Granted, the company I work for is a shit show as well and part of this problem is the ineptitude of our own customer service department, to say nothing of the fact my own department has lost 50% of our workers with no replacement (since I've been hired) because the entire American industrial supply chain has rotted completely through. Repair technicians have been retiring left and right and companies are not willing to pay for new hires, let alone in investing in education and trying to do something useful with all this on-the-job knowledge. I can only imagine they gutted whoever is responsible for overseeing this stuff and are just relying on some shitty AI tool to incorrectly fill out paperwork for them.
Not only that, but they insist on only hiring engineers that are at the top of their class, as if they are still a premier employer. Like, sure maybe it's nice to have the pick of the litter, but the issue is that you need bodies. If you want your 'good' engineers to be doing design and fixing problems, then it helps to have mediocre engineers handling the admin. They insist on always running short staffed, because god forbid someone other than the manager have downtime at work.
US companies obsessed with making line go up like Icarus
Lol yeah I did warehouse work like 20 years ago. US supply chains have been a mess for decades.
I worked in a pharmacy before this, and I thought this would be better for my bloodpressure than dealing with healthcare/insurance 
lol how could you possibly have expected warehouse to be better? If you can transition to sales I highly recommend. I know that's privileged af but holy shit it's so much better than any other point of the supply chain I been in. Yeah it's soulless and alienating but I just sit on my ass and make like 15-30 phone calls each day and sometimes less and spend the rest of that time sitting on my ass watching youtube.
I fucking earned it though I spent almost 30 years doing retail and face to face customer service and hard labor.
pro tip: lying on your resume is super effective.
Rich capitalist CEOs when capitalism happens: 
We can't compete at our own game so we have to rig it and effectively gimp and sanction our own people. How dare China!
I'd absolutely buy a chinese EV if I could without paying the 100% Joe Biden Tariff (thanks joe biden) and would be alre to reliably charge it
I'd also buy a kei truck if there weren't similar bullshit
Weird how every car I WANT to buy is being KEPT FROM ME
So moving the factories to China is a-okay for American manufacturing, but when the stuff being made in those factories is sold by a Chinese company instead of his company, then itβs a problem for American manufacturing.
who pays CEOs and execs?
This guy looks like a ventriloquist dummy come to life
fun fact: he is Chris Farley's cousin. His voice and mannerisms are remarkably similar too, though probably not as coked up.
Puppeteered by the invisible hand of the free market
That same dude drives a xiaomi
Ford exec doesn't even drive his own company car 
Beat me to it.
isn't this the guy that drives a Xiaomi?
In terms of global trade, the West's position was always free markets for thee, protectionism for me.
Hitler hair cut
dude looks like he's made of wax
Heβs related to Chris Farley
holy shit you're not joking
American pencil makers.... Hold on a minute!
Fruit pickers...hmmm, hold up!
please i just want an affordable electric truck
here you go, one $87,000 Ford Lightning
They discontinued it.
