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I think Brianna doesn't brag about the $100k Porsche because she's a super serious candidate and even she knows it's bad optics.
John doesn't really care about optics, he cares about being envied by others due to narcissism.
Driving a porsche, period, is bad optics. But he keeps going on about his Boxster every chance he gets.
Driving a red sport cycle in your campaign ads is bad optics.
Being a 6-foot tall, snarling, balding wendingo isn't good optics.
John did a lot of bragging about his new porsche until right around the time it actually showed up. I thought delivery had been fucked up or Frank had make him take it back, or John had day-zero totalled it. But if its there in the drive way, its fine, purchase went through fine, so its got to be something else. Even if John was just treating it like a garage queen, we'd be seeing some posts about "How much fun it is to drive" or "Just went for a spin in this bad boy" with a humblebrag to inevitable 'wow is that yours?' about how its actually pretty affordable if you put your mind to it blah blah blah we make it work because its just so awesome to own a porsche, because I'm a porsche owner with a porsche and better than you because you don't own a porsche.
I'm almost certain the reason new porsche has dropped out of John's mentions of is they saw what 100K car insurance was going to cost, so they now have a lawn ornament John might get to take out for short drives. Since John can't drive it without opening them up to all sorts of liability, he just doesn't talk about it. Talking about it will lead to all sorts of uncomfortable questions about why he can't take it to this or that event.
Going to deep down the rabbit hole:
Only thing I'm not quite sure about is what's the end game; even at lawn-ornament status, casual cash burn on a new Porsche is going to be huge, and probably run more over 2-3 years than just letting the dealership eat your deposit and walking away.
I think this means they are leasing.
The lease is a smaller monthly payment. Do that for 3 years, then finance the rest when the monthly payment is closer to 1K instead of 2K. But leases make you carry crazy insurance with crazy liability, which on a 100K car...yikes, and they probably didn't plan on that. So they get garage insurance.
I'm not sure if the plan is to do garage insurance for year or two and hope the insurance premiums drop (or if they're saving up to pay them off; yeah I know those two not immediately spending any money they get
Or it they're going to pay the lease on a garage decoration, and then finance it after the lease is done, then get less expensive insurance.
Maybe Frank figured that even if it was cheaper in the long run to just eat the deposit and walk away, if he did that John would just find another expensive toy to fill the driveway.
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