Mildly Interesting

You want the winner of seeing how stupid our performative patriotism goes, The ad where they took snippets from a Martin Luther King Jr sermon to sell a car. The double irony, that very same sermon had a portion of it specifically calling out car comercials for encouraging us to want to spend too much money for the purposes of looking better than our neighbors.

It's planning for the future when imports are legal. A time when US citizens are going to have the opportunity to pay more for American corporations' product that's been taking advantage of a captive audience for decades now or the cheaper import leaving you with 10s of thousands of dollars in your bank account. They know they aren't competitive globally anymore so might as well sell nationalism on 4 wheels.

Maybe these companies could do less stock buy backs and lobbying, instead spending money on R&D that doesn't include subscription garage door buttons and where is the most optimized paywall location in their vertical integration sales chain to keep you from working on your car at home.

Although.... Original Dodge was the ideal American story of American entrepreneurial ingenuity saying fuck you I can do it better. Today's Dodge is not that Dodge, it's some sub of a conglomerate with no worries other than stock value.