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54. What makes you think nepo babies are competent? Come on.

Tue Feb 17, 2026, 02:56 PM

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Bill Ford Jr, who is not CEO but sits on the board, has a MIT degree in business management, not engineering. He's a bean counter.

How about Trump suck-up and current CEO Jim Farley? What explains his dereliction of quality control? Or abandonment of the small car market? Or abandonment of the compact SUV market?

Those guys failed you. And us.

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