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Powerful: Michigan Doctor Slams Workforce Vaccine Mandates

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<p><strong>A Michigan doctor gave full-throated support for <a href="https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2021-2022/billintroduced/House/pdf/2021-HIB-4471.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">HB 4471</a>, a bill which would prohibit businesses in the state from requiring vaccinations as a condition of employment.</strong></p>
<p>Testifying before the Michigan House last week, Dr. Christina Parks delivered powerful expert analysis explaining it’s unethical for the government to mandate vaccines which, not only don’t prevent transmission, but actually appear to be weakening the human immune system.</p>
<p>“…This is extremely complex science that has been oversimplified in the media to basically take away our freedom of choice,” Dr. Parks says.</p>
<p>Dr. Parks breaks down how the shot doesn’t attenuate symptoms related to the Covid Delta variant, and says the “CDC is blaming anti-vaxxers for the limitations of this vaccine design.”</p>
<p>“I suggest that they be transparent and tell parents that, although it is preventing severe disease in their children, it is not preventing transmission because we have created a whole class of asymptomatic pertussis carriers who are increasing the disease,” Dr. Parks says.</p>
<p>She goes on to explain that PHds are among the most highly skeptical of the vaccine, as well as African Americans who have an unvaccinated rate of 70 percent.</p>
<p>“Why? Because they don’t trust their government. Do they have reason not to trust their government?” Parks asks rhetorically, before building her case.</p>
<p>“Well, between the years of 1930 in 1970 the CDC conducted the Tuskegee experiment where they took untreated males with syphilis and they refused to treat them. Even after antibiotics became available, they still did not treat them and they did not tell them that they had syphilis. They told those people that they were there to secure their health and they did not secure their health. They abused them. You say, ‘Well that was in the past,’ although I don’t think 1970 was that long ago.”</p>
<p>Dr. Parks concludes her remarks by comparing the discrimination faced by unvaccinated people in the workforce to the racial segregation of olden days.</p>
<p>“…You’re telling me that my son will not be able to be educated if, based on the history of African Americans in this country, that he doesn’t want to be vaccinated?”</p>
<p>“So I will leave you with that question: who are we going to exclude from the workforce? Are we going to continue with discrimination and segregation in the United States of America?”</p>
<p>Read a transcript of Dr. Parks’ comments below:</p>
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<p><em>Hello. My name is Dr. Christina Parks,</em></p>
<p><em>I received my PhD in cellular and molecular biology right here in the state of Michigan from University of Michigan Medical School, and so I’m very well versed in the science of both these mRNA gene therapy vaccines, this kind of technology, as well as what a vaccine is designed to do in the body, what it can do, what it can’t do, and the fact that this is extremely complex science that has been oversimplified in the media to basically take away our freedom of choice.</em></p>
<p><em>What I want to address today in this limited time is the fact that vaccine requirements and mandates are based on the faulty assumption that the vaccines in question prevent transmission of the pathogen. Right? Does the vaccine for DTAP prevent transmission? No. Does the vaccine for flu prevent transmission? No. Do the vaccines for covid prevent transmission? No. In fact, they were never designed to do that.</em></p>
<p><em>All right, so you’re asking, ‘What about this 95 effectiveness?’ If you look at those clinical trials, they do not say that they prevent transmission; they expressly say that they’re measuring whether they attenuate symptoms. So they’re 95 percent effective based on their clinical trials at attenuating symptoms for the first variant, which is essentially gone in our population.</em></p>
<p><em>Right? Now the predominant variant is the Delta and CDC Director Walensky basically said that these vaccines have no ability to prevent infection by and transmission of the Delta variant.</em></p>
<p><em>So our policy needs not to be built on the hope of what we think something we want it to do, but what the data actually tell us. So do these…vaccines prevent the virus from infecting and replicating in the nose and nasopharynx? No. They’ve only been shown to prevent that replication in the lungs. They’re different — the mucosa is very different than the lungs. It’s very different than the blood. You inject it to the blood, you make antibodies in your blood. The virus isn’t infecting your blood, it’s infecting your mucosa and you don’t produce any IGA to neutralize it.</em></p>
<p><em>In fact, recent studies have shown that the vaccinated, especially with the Delta variant, and the unvaccinated have similar amounts of virus in their nose and throat.</em></p>
<p><em>In Barnstable, Massachusetts, the CDC tracked an outbreak of 469 cases of Covid, 74 percent occurred in fully-vaccinated and 4 out of five of those hospitalized were vaccinated.</em></p>
<p><em>Right, so maybe they are mandating this because they just didn’t know with the Covid…and so my main complaint is with our health agencies and the CDC who basically know better and are misleading the public.</em></p>
<p><em>So, let’s look at DTAP which the scientists in the CDC have known since 2014 that the acellular pertussis vaccine does not prevent people from getting infected with the pertussis bacteria and passing it to others.</em></p>
<p><em>In fact, it was never designed to do that. The vaccine was designed to neutralize the pertussis toxin. Pertussis, we know it as whooping cough; it can be fatal for children under six months, so neutralizing this toxin saves lives. All right?</em></p>
<p><em>I’m not going to debate that, but what it doesn’t do is neutralize the bacteria. So what happens is fully-vaccinated children go to daycare, they pick up that bacteria, and they come home, and they give it to their newborn brother, or sister, they get deathly ill and they go to the hospital. Hopefully our medical professionals are able to save them, but who do they blame? Now the CDC is blaming anti-vaxxers for the limitations of this vaccine design.</em></p>
<p><em>I suggest that they be transparent and tell parents that, although it is preventing severe disease in their children, it is not preventing transmission because we have created a whole class of asymptomatic pertussis carriers who are increasing the disease.</em></p>
<p><em>Now, the old DTP vaccine that many of you who are my age or older got, did prevent transmission. When we switched to the safer acellular version they knew that it was never designed to prevent transmission. It was safer, it had less adverse advance, but pertussis cases have gone through the roof. There’s a resurgence in pertussis because of the design of the vaccine and the vaccinologists know this. They’re trying to address it, and so we cannot mandate that something that does not prevent transmission.</em></p>
<p><em>What about the flu vaccine? Well, they have shown that basically there’s no difference, there’s no statistical difference if you’re vaccinated, or unvaccinated whether you get the flu or not — but it’s even worse, because although that first year it is somewhat effective, it’s about 65 percent effective at preventing symptoms in you, after that it actually has negative efficacy, and I want to address this because it’s very important.</em></p>
<p><em>Vaccines are made to a specific variant and when that variant mutates the vaccine no longer recognizes it, and so it’s like you’re seeing a completely new virus, and because that’s so you actually get more severe symptoms when you’re vaccinated against one variant and then it mutates and then your body sees the other variant; so there’s the potential, and the science shows, that in fact with the flu, if you get vaccinated in multiple years you are more likely to get severe disease, you are more likely to have more viral replication, and you are more likely to be hospitalized, both in adults and in children.</em></p>
<p><em>We are seeing the same thing in Covid with the Delta variant, and so we are mandating that people get a vaccine that could actually make them more sick when they’re exposed to the virus.</em></p>
<p><em>In fact, this week a paper came out and what it showed is that with this Delta variant when you’re vaccinated your body makes antibodies that are supposed to neutralize the virus, but they were supposed to neutralize the old variant. When they see this new variant what they’re doing is they’re actually…the antibodies are taking the virus and helping it infect the cells. All right?</em></p>
<p><em>That science was just published this week. We need to be looking at the science, and we need our policy to reflect the science, and we also need it to reflect our rights.</em></p>
<p><em>And so, as a PHd who knows the science, I’m in the category of the most vaccine hesitant group.</em></p>
<p><em>Yes, PHd’s are the most vaccine hesitant, followed by people who have less than a high school degree because they know what they don’t know and they don’t trust their government and many people, the other group that is very vaccine hesitant are African-Americans. 70 percent of African Americans have not taken this vaccine. Why? Because they don’t trust their government.</em></p>
<p><em>Do they have reason not to trust their government?</em></p>
<p><em>Well, between the years of 1930 in 1970 the CDC conducted the Tuskegee experiment where they took untreated males with syphilis and they refused to treat them. Even after antibiotics became available, they still did not treat them and they did not tell them that they had syphilis. They told those people that they were there to secure their health and they did not secure their health. They abused them. You say, ‘Well that was in the past,’ although I don’t think 1970 was that long ago.</em></p>
<p><em>While in 2012, whistleblower William Thompson came forward and said we published a study that said MMR does not cause autism, but we lied.</em></p>
<p><em>In fact, we shredded data that showed that when black boys are vaccinated on time they have increased rates of autism diagnosis, and we shredded it and we left it out of the paper.</em></p>
<p><em>As an African-American and a PHd, I want to ask each of you: are we going to exclude 70 percent of African-American people from the workforce and from education? My ancestors did not work this hard — I come up from a family that worked very hard and I’m very aware that my privileges are dependent on the work of my grandmother and my great-grandmother and I have great respect for these people that put me where I am, and yet you’re telling me that my son will not be able to be educated if, based on the history of African Americans in this country, that he doesn’t want to be vaccinated?</em></p>
<p><em>So I will leave you with that question: who are we going to exclude from the workforce? Are we going to continue with discrimination and segregation in the United States of America?</em></p>
<p><em>Thank you.</em></p>
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Exclusive: Hunted Chinese Scientist Exposes ChiCom Bioweapon And Their Misinformation Strategies

<p><strong>Persecuted virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan joined <em>The Alex Jones Show</em> on Monday to explain how the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) and People’s Liberation Army (PLA) released COVID-19 upon the world to consolidate global power.</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Yan explained that COVID-19 is a product of the PLA’s “Unrestricted Bioweapons” program that was released worldwide from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.</p>
<p>“Unrestricted means…no constraints, no consideration of humanity. So China’s unrestricted strategies not only apply to bioweapons. COVID-19 is an unrestricted bioweapon,” Dr. Yan told Jones, adding China also engages in asymmetrical information warfare like censorship to shape the COVID narrative.</p>
<p>“They are not happy with me and the Chinese government isn’t happy with me, that’s why they’re hunting me and they’re using propaganda to smear me to describe me as some liar which is very hilarious,” she said.</p>
<p>“But I have evidence,” she continued. “I have shown the scientific and intelligence evidence here.”</p>
<p>Dr. Yan explained that she was the first “insider” scientist who came forward on January 19, 2020 to warn about the COVID pandemic caused by the CCP’s bioweapons program.</p>
<p>“At that time I’m the only person who told it to the world, and China knows I’m the insider, because I told the world human-to-human transmission exists and also that this is not from the seafood market. There is no animal intermediate host,” Dr. Yan said.</p>
<p>“And also that day, nineteenth of January last year, I told people that this is a product from the Chinese military lab by gain-of-function engineering. It’s not from some bat somewhere in China. It is hatched by the PLA and then modified with a lot of gain of function modifications, which still need study because we don’t know how many functions are hidden in this virus.”</p>
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<p>Dr. Yan said that U.S. lawmakers must quickly address the CCP’s two-pronged biological and information attack against America and the world.</p>
<p>“They need to understand that misinformation is another arm for this novel, nontraditional bioweapon,” she said. “Together, this is the CCP’s unrestricted strategies to change America, to control America, and also control the world.</p>
<p>“You don’t have much time. You have to understand how evil the CCP is and not listen to them, not trust them, and you have to defend and protect America and your next generation,” Dr. Yan added.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/world/asia/china-coronavirus-covid-conspiracy-theory.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CCP is blaming America for the release of the coronavirus</a> from Wuhan as part of its misinformation campaign to obfuscate the true origins of COVID-19.</p>
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90 Retired Generals & Admirals Call for Immediate Resignation of Gen. Milley & Def Sec. Austin

<p><strong>Nearly 90 retired generals and admirals signed a letter demanding the immediate resignations of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin over their roles in the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.</strong></p>
<p>“The retired Flag Officers signing this letter are calling for the resignation and retirement of the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) based on negligence in performing their duties primarily involving events surrounding the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan,” the letter states.</p>
<p>“The hasty retreat has left initial estimates at ~15,000 Americans stranded in dangerous areas controlled by a brutal enemy along with ~25,000 Afghan citizens who supported American forces.”</p>
<p>The letter claimed resignations from Milley and Austin were the only proper responses to a hasty and dangerous withdrawal operation.</p>
<p>“As principal military advisors to the CINC/President, the SECDEF and CJCS should have recommended against this dangerous withdrawal in the strongest possible terms. If they did not do everything within their authority to stop the hasty withdrawal, they should resign,” the letter stated.</p>
<p>“Conversely, if they did do everything within their ability to persuade the CINC/President to not hastily exit the country without ensuring the safety of our citizens and Afghans loyal to America, then they should have resigned in protest as a matter of conscience and public statement.”</p>
<p>The letter went on to describe the “enormous” consequences of Biden’s unmitigated withdrawal disaster, including the abandonment of billions of dollars of U.S. military weaponry and equipment which the Taliban quickly seized.</p>
<p>“The consequences of this disaster are enormous and will reverberate for decades beginning with the safety of Americans and Afghans who are unable to move safely to evacuation points; therefore, being de facto hostages of the Taliban at this time. The death and torture of Afghans has already begun and will result in a human tragedy of major proportions. The loss of billions of dollars in advanced military equipment and supplies falling into the hands of our enemies is catastrophic. The damage to the reputation of the United States is indescribable. We are now seen, and will be seen for many years, as an unreliable partner in any multinational agreement or operation. Trust in the United States is irreparably damaged.”</p>
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<p>“Moreover, now our adversaries are emboldened to move against America due to the weakness displayed in Afghanistan. China benefits the most followed by Russia, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea and others. Terrorists around the world are emboldened and able to pass freely into our country through our open border with Mexico.”</p>
<p>The letter even lambasted Milley and Austin for prioritizing “wokeness” over adequate military training and readiness.</p>
<p>“In interviews, congressional testimony, and public statements it has become clear that top leaders in our military are placing mandatory emphasis on PC ‘wokeness’ related training which is extremely divisive and harmful to unit cohesion, readiness, and war fighting capability. Our military exists to fight and win our Nation’s wars and that must be the sole focus of our top military leaders.”</p>
<p>“For these reasons we call on the SECDEF Austin and the CJCS General Milley to resign. A fundamental principle in the military is holding those in charge responsible and accountable for their actions or inactions. There must be accountability at all levels for this tragic and avoidable debacle.”</p>
<p><strong>Read the letter:</strong></p>
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<p><em>As Biden sleeps, <a href="https://freeworldnews.tv/watch?id=612ccb890c75a677ef9a601b" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Biden’s headless administration</a> continues to fumble the so called “mission” in Afghanistan, treading water until the hostage situation inevitably begins.</em></p>
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<p>Late last week, Rivian <a href="https://rivian.com/newsroom/article/rivian-announces-confidential-submission-of-draft-registration-statement">filed</a> for an initial public offering. The 12-year-old electric vehicle manufacturer, which is backed by Amazon and considered one of the biggest threats to Tesla, is seeking a valuation <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/rivian-is-said-to-file-for-ipo-seek-about-80-billion-valuation?sref=Wg6QzS2e">as high as $80 billion</a>. That would make Rivian one of the world’s most valuable automakers, worth <a href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/rivian-ipo-ev-trucker-maker-stock-valuation-51630101566">billions more than Ford or GM</a> — and its trucks aren’t even on the road yet. Rivian’s first vehicle, a $73,000 pickup, is expected to start shipping in September, and a second model, a $75,500 seven-seat SUV, is supposed to be released next year.</p>
<p>In some ways, Rivian’s timing is good. President Joe Biden recently issued an executive order that called for electric vehicles to account for half of all new auto sales in the United States <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/05/biden-pushes-for-evs-to-make-up-40percent-or-more-of-us-auto-sales-by-2030.html">by 2030</a>, and a growing number of legacy automakers have committed to shifting their production <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/gm-go-all-electric-2035-phase-out-gas-diesel-engines-n1256055">to electric vehicles</a> in the next two decades.</p>
<p>But as the world continues to struggle with the pandemic, Rivian faces some serious challenges. A shortage of semiconductors has caused delays and production halts across the auto industry. There also aren’t that <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/24/cnbc-road-test-the-us-ev-charging-network-isnt-ready-for-your-family-road-trip-let-alone-the-expected-wave-of-new-cars.html">many charging stations</a> available across the US, leaving some potential EV buyers worried about running out of juice.</p>
<p>“It’s a big deal that more public infrastructure is available,” Jeremy Michalek, an engineering and public policy professor at Carnegie Mellon, told Recode. ”Probably the first priority is making sure there are enough fast chargers available on highway rest stops so that you can take your vehicle wherever you want to go.”</p>
<p>Like Tesla, Rivian is <a href="https://rivian.com/support/article/where-can-i-charge">selling home chargers</a> and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/21/rivian-is-installing-ev-chargers-in-tennessees-56-state-parks/">developing a nationwide charging network</a>. The company plans to have 10,000 stations available by the end of 2023, many of which will be in remote areas. Also as Tesla has done, Rivian is taking an AI-focused approach to its vehicles. Rivian has invested heavily in its hands-free, semi-autonomous driving technology with <a href="https://rivian.com/support/article/what-features-are-included-in-rivian-driver">a suite of features called Driver+</a>, which sounds a lot like Tesla’s Autopilot. In a lawsuit, Tesla even accused Rivian of stealing its trade secrets after <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-30/tesla-can-move-forward-with-trade-secret-suit-against-rivian?sref=Wg6QzS2e">hiring its former employees</a>.</p>
<p>But a big difference between Rivian and Tesla is the type of electric vehicles the two companies are selling. After being founded in 2009 and remaining secretive for years, Rivian announced in 2018 that its first models would be a pickup truck and an SUV meant for <a href="https://www.thedrive.com/news/39291/rivian-is-not-messing-around-with-its-off-road-tests-of-the-r1t">off-road driving</a>. That’s a notable difference from Tesla, which has focused primarily on selling cars and crossovers. (Tesla announced its first pickup truck, the Cybertruck, in 2019, but deliveries have been <a href="https://electrek.co/2021/08/07/tesla-confirms-cybertruck-electric-pickup-delay-2022/">delayed until 2022</a>.)</p>
<p>Rivian is also appealing to commercial clients, including its own influential backers. After participating in two funding rounds for the startup, Amazon last year <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/introducing-amazons-first-custom-electric-delivery-vehicle" has-subtag="true" data-cdata='{"rewritten_url":"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/introducing-amazons-first-custom-electric-delivery-vehicle?ascsubtag=[]vx[p]22413324[m]m-placeholder[s]s-placeholder[t]w[c]c-placeholder[r]r-placeholder[d]d-placeholder","subtag_max_length":99,"subtag_delim_length":2,"subtag_key":"ascsubtag","subtag_data":{"ascsubtag":"[]vx[p]22413324[m]m-placeholder[s]s-placeholder[t]w[c]c-placeholder[r]r-placeholder[d]d-placeholder"},"encode_subtag":false}'>committed to buying 100,000 electric delivery vehicles</a> from Rivian by 2030. Former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and three other passengers on Blue Origin’s first flight with humans aboard even <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/21/22587043/jeff-bezos-space-blue-origin-rivian-electric-truck">rode in a Rivian SUV</a> to the launch site.</p>
<p>Ford, which has its own plans to release an electric version of its popular F-150 pickup truck next year, has also invested more than <a href="https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2019/04/24/rivian-500-million-investment-ford.html">half a billion dollars</a> into the electric car startup.</p>
<p>There’s no doubt that President Biden is enthusiastic about electric vehicles. The Biden administration has already started to electrify the <a href="https://www.eenews.net/articles/federal-fleet-electrification-faces-delays/">entire federal fleet of cars, SUVs, and trucks</a>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/22364340/electric-cars-biden-infrastructure-plan-evs-chargers">more than 600,000 vehicles</a>. Meanwhile, the White House and Congressional Democrats are pushing for the Postal Service to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/09/usps-trucks-electric-biden/">purchase as many as 165,000 electric delivery trucks</a>. Biden also wants to allocate <a href="https://www.vox.com/22463219/electric-vehicles-charging-station-infrastructure">$174 billion to build 500,000 electric vehicle chargers</a> across the country. (Tesla CEO Elon Musk has also promised to open Tesla Superchargers to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/20/elon-musk-tesla-to-open-up-global-charging-network-to-other-evs-later-this-year/">electric vehicles from other manufacturers</a>.)</p>
<p>But while EVs are getting more popular globally, the US faces slower growth than China or Europe. Last year, global electric vehicle sales <a href="https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2021?mode=overview">grew by 41 percent</a>, according to the International Energy Agency, an intergovernmental energy policy advising organization. While sales of electric vehicles in the US trail behind those in China and Europe, sales of hybrid cars <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2021/08/06/electric-vehicle-ev-hybrid-car/">are growing</a>, a sign that more consumers could warm to electric vehicles down the line.</p>
<p>In a <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/06/07/todays-electric-vehicle-market-slow-growth-in-u-s-faster-in-china-europe/">recent Pew survey</a>, some 7 percent of Americans said they owned an electric or hybrid vehicle, and 39 percent said they’d consider buying one. The higher price of EVs <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/business/energy-environment/biden-electric-cars-cost.html">is certainly a contributing factor</a> to the slower adoption rate in the US. But the price of <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/electric-cars-are-about-to-be-as-cheap-as-gas-powered-models?sref=Wg6QzS2e">batteries</a>, which are the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/where-we-are-on-the-road-to-electric-vehicles/2021/08/05/0b71bbea-f617-11eb-a636-18cac59a98dc_story.html">costliest part</a> of electric vehicles, is falling, so Americans could see cheaper EVs in the future.</p>
<p>Pandemic-era hurdles have also plagued the auto industry. Rivian, which was originally supposed to release its pickup truck in July, twice postponed delivery of the vehicles. Late last month, Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-rivian-ev-truck-launch-delayed-20210720-daea475ggvdhppaqncs74yfxru-story.html">told customers who had preordered vehicles</a> that Covid-19 had interfered with everything from “facility construction, to equipment installation, to vehicle component supply (especially semiconductors).” The same chip shortage forced Tesla to <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/8/5/22611031/chip-shortage-cars-electronics-automakers-gm-tesla-playstation-xbox">rewrite code for its vehicles</a>, and experts are worried that a lack of semiconductors could delay production of the new electric Ford F-150.</p>
<p>Still, if Tesla’s runaway success is any indication, Rivian stands to find eager, outdoorsy customers who want an EV that goes off-road. Considering the present challenges, the company is leaning hard on standing apart from Tesla and the growing number of legacy automakers that want a slice of the EV market. Jeep is <a href="https://www.axios.com/long-road-to-bidens-electric-car-goal-c5db4623-c3b8-4b54-bdd8-bdedabd41a94.html">expected</a> to release an electric version of its Wrangler by 2023. President Biden <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc8ru0WqpN0">has already given one a test drive</a>.</p>
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