Ocean-inspired.
It’s been a rough few months for left-leaning environmentalists on the wealthier side. There was, up until recently, a very simple way to show and share both green bonafides plus good taste. Namely, drive a Tesla sedan or SUV (not a Cybertruck). The electronic vehicle, perfectly minimalist, said everything that might be uncomfortable to actually voice out loud. Namely, “I’m better than you.”
Well, we have all followed along as Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk first supported the divisive U.S. president Trump vocally, then financially and finally becoming his bureaucratic executioner as head hatchet man at the Dept. of Government Efficiency.
Tesla sedan and SUV drivers, horrified they now drive a “swasticar,” are slapping socially-distancing stickers on bumpers whilst looking jealously across “The Pond.”
For it is the UK that the Chinese EV maker BYD is releasing its The Dolphin Surf – which follows in the sea-themed naming sequence the brand’s Ocean Series cars – for an unbelievable sub-£15,000 price tag.
According to This is Money:
Dolphin Surf will come with a significantly uprated 175bhp powertrain, the Chinese model’s 74bhp motor offers enough power to accelerate from 0-62mph in 13 seconds and a top speed of 81mph. And the interior is set to be a more polished version of the ocean-inspired interior of the Chinese variant, which comes with a 12.8-inch touchscreen, wireless charging and voice control.
BYD is planning on opening many showrooms across Great Britain, though none in America. This nation’s ecologically-minded leftists unable to support the brave workers’ paradise known as the People’s Republic of China. Forced into either Polestars or Rivians.
Dark days.
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All this talk of directional leaning makes me think of Peyronie’s disorder commercials
I feel like killjoy sometimes by bringing in some rabbit hole facts……too much down time at the moment…….
..So tesla in the UK is doing fine ,Tesla UK actually increasing sales by 20% in feb.
However in Germany the drop has been 76%…while the market grew 31%…France 26% drop…Canada 70% drop……USA 25% drop….China 49% decline…Australia 33% drop….and the list goes on…..and on……in a booming EV sales bonanza tesla’s going backwards as BYD has overtaken Tesla with 0 sales in USA!
BYD just announced they now a have a 5 minute charger……their growth continues , tesla’s is tanking…..why?
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work trip in Phoenix that I’m extending into a day at the AZ pool. Heading to Salina Cruz in June though!
That BS is all yours and yours alone. I don’t believe in your god, his god, her god, their god or any other god. I also don’t believe in magic though.
remember when a loving creator decided to end genocide and cancer and starvation and SIDS …. oh wait
“Though perhaps there is market demand for a car strewn with plastic refuse and illegally dumped chemical pollutants?”
That market exists, it’s called the global automobile industry.
Remember when people didn’t believe in fake things like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, Genie’s, and your god?
Polestars look pretty solid. Discreet. Understated.
Teslas however always had that weird juju about them. Not enough ‘I bought this before elon went nazi’ stickers will ever save face.
Fifty gees when the batteries die. Oowee.
It ain’t cheap being green
Are there right leaning environmentalists?
Absolutely. Nature Conservancy is exhibit A and there is big Republican money investing in profitable green initiatives…
Folks, I have booked the Arizona pool in April and will provide a full report thereon.
Bring your stiffest fins.
embarrassed to admit the jolt of excitement I experienced reading this comment
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ha, exactly!!
what, no invites to the rank and file?
Sharing is Caring.
the public 12 pm and 4 pm sessions on April 10th. Come one and come all!
you paying?
Long trip from da ‘aina to surf a shoulder high, 2 turn, shitty wave.
more like waist high on me. also, I have a work thing out in Phoenix the day before, so this is just extending that trip by another day.
hmmmm. you got a point, but I can always find a reason to go to California. such a beautiful place and I love the dessert outside L.A.
If Com’s paying, why not give it a go?
…the bonus is Com seems like he’d be kind of fun to hang out with, and as an attorney he has get out of jail free cards, if we get in a bit of trouble.
OOPS ~ scratch all this. I just reread and it’s Arizona.
I thought he was dong the plan springs pool.
dude, you’ve no idea on the get out of jail free front, and I don’t even do criminal law.
Well, I wrote one of those PSSC sessions off as client entertainment, which was technically true. You got someone who needs suing?
Can you sue the WSL and Upper Deck for this abomination
https://www.upperdeckepack.com/Store/Product/2025-Game-Dated-Moments?utm_source=ePack&utm_medium=EmailAd&utm_campaign=WSLGDMLaunch
you know you want a Tyler Wright card though! Hell, I might get one.
I do.
Don’t we all?
Is that the new Tower 9 for you and Otto?
that would be JohnsKnees. Otto has never offered to meet me, but I’d certainly get a beer with him at RiiP!
you taking your RV…..or whoever thinks they own it now https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1905287692457239032
I don’t own an RV, but maybe I can buy one second hand from a homeless guy.
Well, the real owner will be the one with the pink slip.
That’s a storage yard. Gotta feel bad for the owners of those RVs
I get it though—somehow this is my fault
Only if you don’t represent those RVs owners Pro Bono, or for fee, to sue Los Angeles City
you could also say it’s the poor harvesting the rich!
There’s sub-30ft. trailers there. That is not a rich man’s RV storage yard
to a poor homeless person , owning a car is a rich person !
I remain pissed the lagoon wasn’t open to the public when I was there in late December. Dont tell anyone but I tried out the unit wave pool and incurred a hairline fracture in my elbow when I went down on the funky wave. Didn’t think much about the pain initially for a week or so but here we are three months later and the pain is almost gone. It is a cool place!
Getting old sucks…
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Anybody know why Medina is a choice on fantasy?
Currently ranked #35 on the CT.
Yea but he’s not surfing in heats so they shouldn’t have him available to pick unless he’s coming back at this contest.
Maybe like fantasy football where you can draft retired players if you want.
That’s good that you’ve kept your dignity and haven’t haven’t started playing it like a lot of us.
I admittedly know nothing about fantasy surf.
It’s always like this till they sort the draw. Then wildcards, injuries are added as ns he and others disappear.
Wish you could just pick a team at the start of each then that’s it, locked in.
Dez.
have you not seen medina’s backside?
Ethan, John, Gabriel. Ass men!
I rented a Tesla about 6 months ago overseas. It wasn’t the charging issues or hearing my wife continuosly telling me she told me this was a bad idea that made me regret the decision. No.. in the end it was the look of disgust I got from trady in a liquor store parking lot. I couldn’t blame him as I would have done the same.
I’m debating buying a used Tesla and adorning it with 2A, NRA and Trump stickers. Do you think I’ll have any issues with vandalism?
I know the prices have severely dropped but seems like an expensive way to “own the libs”
Under the category of all the world is a stage, I prefer “entertained by the triggered” as who wants to own anyone that irrational?
You gotta admit, It’s pretty fun watching “the libs” get owned everyday by anything Team Trump does, doesn’t do, says they’re going to do, doesn’t say what they’re going to do, thinks about doing, haven’t even thought about doing, or would never do.
meanwhile I just had a splendid trip with my sons and saw many libs driving many Tesla. Marin is absolutely lovely.
Ah yes I am sure this is very fun for your 401k. So much winnning!!!!!!!!!!
Yes cause only Libs complain and Fox News has never complained about innocuous things during a Lib presidency.
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401K?
I’m a business owner. I don’t have a 401K, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last week.
I actually prefer any excess funds I have going toward real estate investments for my sons.
Typical Republican view point…it doesnt effect me so I dont care.
maybe…..or I just think there’s better places to invest.
I don’t like to rely on the political winds to determine my families future.
But, I’ll leave this here for you, Typical Democrat
“Retirement funds are getting hammered: Moore and Antoni’s analysis found that 401(k) plans have suffered more than $2 trillion in losses. They write: “the average 401(k) plan is down about $34,000 — more than 25 percent in less than one year!”
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2022/10/18/analysis-average-american-has-lost-34k-to-biden-flation/
6.15% interest rates, must be a great time to buy new properties lololol
Inflation would only effect 401ks if you are taking dispursments glad I don’t take economic advice from the NY Post or you.
Yeah, I don’t loans, so…..there is that.
I believe you began your response with:
“Ah yes I am sure this is very fun for your 401k. So much winnning!!!!!!!!!!”
then when I countered with facts you say:
“Inflation would only effect 401ks if you are taking dispursments glad I don’t take economic advice from the NY Post or you.”
kind of dug yourself in a hole there JK. not very smart are you?
maybe you could just go bury yourself next to your Courage Died Here memorial at tower 9.
You’re misconstruing two points, the market has tanked due to Trumps actions and tariffs. I wasn’t pointing to inflation you were.
I didn’t know you had your head up both Trump and Otto’s ass must be hard to breathe. It is cute that you have decided to become Otto’s little parrot.
You’re like a little worm, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, squirm, squirm.
slimey dirt creature trying to wriggle back into the mud.
you still gonna end up on the hook, being fed to a fish.
to call you a retard would be offensive to mongoloids.
You ever play baseball JK?
If you break the game down to calling balls and strikes, you over-simplify and lose every time. That’s how President Trump kicked Lib ass in November and that’s how his team are kicking your ass now.
you guys calling ball and strikes, cheering every pitch, until his team hit it out of the park, the you collapse in defeat like the Yanks.
You/them/they are always focused on calling balls and strikes instead of understanding the nuance of the game. the bunt, the steal, the deep fly sacrifice. Everything that President Trump does, every pitch; you gauge as a win or loss.
Right now, you’re in the bottom of the 1st inning. 0-0, no outs. bases are loaded, you’re pitching 3-1 and Freeman is up to bat. Good luck.
The stock market is meaningless. paper and digital assets moving back and forth between stock bros making money on every transaction. The market will always benefit the marketeers.
I have apple stock that i’ve had since 2001. up, down, sideways, whatever. It’s meaningless until I cash out.
You’re still just wiggling and squirming tryin to get out of your previous comments.
you will soon suffer the indignation of ignorance.
….dirty little retarded worm!
You should seek help.
you can always pull the Kid Rock and wrap the entire car in a conferedreate flag.
The confederate flag has way too much racial tension around it to do something so inflammatory.
No guts…no glory!
I’ll make a decision within the next few weeks as many are pushing me to engage in this social experiment.
the politics stuff aside, I want to ask every Tesla owner: ‘aren’t you terrified of being trapped inside that thing during a lithium battery inferno??’
Only if it touches saltwater.
Gasoline also combustible it turns out…
not quite the same…
chemical fires are no joke
Help me Jesus! Help me Jewish God! Help me Allah! AAAAAHHH! Help me Tom Cruise! Tom Cruise, use your witchcraft on me to get the fire off me!
Remember when Gavin Newsom approved a $1.4 Billion contract with BYD for face masks during COVID. Spending money like it was growing on trees stuffed in the pockets of taxpayers
Remember when intelligence and military leaders of the US used Signal chats to discuss highly sensitive military information? Remember when the US gov’t gave a high level role in their administration to a psycho Saffa immigrant who voted for Obama, Clinton, and Biden? Remember when the same administration tried to give the same Saffa a $400 mil contract for supposed armored Teslas? Remember when the US voted a convicted criminal to the office of President? Remember when you used not have a microphone plugged in your ass allowing you to spew every talking point of your orange leader out your dirty mouth?
I’m left to wonder if Gavin wants that microphone up his ass for different reasons otherwise your post is pretty solid.
Otto can unplug it for few and let him borrow it so Newsome’s mouth can get a little dirtier than it already is. See, people who are full of shit have dirty mouths. Makes sense, right?
I REFUSE to allow that visual in my head!
The winning hurts your feelings.
Nah, but lying and liars hurt my brain Charlie.
then WTF you doing here?
Same thing as you. Making anonymous comments to anonymous people on an anonymous chat board.
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You, Barrelled, c4 and Com Turren should start a support group to help you all navigate this difficult time for you.
If you join in we might be able to help reverse your Trumpal Lobotomy.
I’m too busy designing and building a “JohnsKnees’ Courage Died Here March 12, 2025” Memorial piece to be placed at Tower 9 in Oceanside.
Rest In Peace JohnsKnees’ Courage
You never actually proved you were there, for all we know you could be spreading more lies.
No, I did. I told you how there was a green, fat tire mini motorbike parked right outside the door of Larry’s.
And back to the 3rd grade playground we go.
did you ike the movie Fight Club?
He was president before I was born.
This is inspiring. Designing and building.
I’m thinkin’ JohnsKnees’ Rest In Peace Courage 3/12/25 Memorial must incorporate a blanket….YES!!!!!!…..a Blanket of Shame!
thank you advance for your contribution
Ya the thing is your word means nothing so still not believing it
Your Courage’s Memorial is gonna look great. Don’t you fret
easy way to solve it.
you and Otto schedule a date, time and location, then have Chas (who lives minutes from OSide) set up a live stream so we can watch.
you just have to decide, gloves or bare knuckle?
Trump isn’t going to mess with us in California we’re good. It’s the powerhouse of America. Same GDP as Japan. It’s all the dumbass people in Alabama etc that voted for him who are going to be in trouble.
CA has that mess with themselves vibe
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Looks like a lot of people from red states that moved here.
you may want to go to DTS memory therapy.
I think it’s TDS but you do you.
I don’t suffer from it so it’s hard to remember the acronyms.
too many to describe libs with Anti-Trump psychosis
I think it’s called ODS when in reference to conservatives.
Lol national debt rose 50% in Trump’s first term
Lol National Debt?
what country is Lol?
0-62 in 13 seconds. Ooohhh yeah….That will get you some pussy.
Wrong car. That is the Chinese version with a 74 bhp motor. This one is 175 bhp so just a little bit faster.
I’m just reading what is written.
Ya gotta read the whole sentence though.
I gotta try that.
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Cheap nosebleed seats
https://www.vice.com/en/article/byd-nosebleeds-china-investigation-changsha/
wasn’t that part of the Erin brokovich story? kids with nosebleeds? Yikes.