I think Tesla sales have hit a tipping point. As long as Musk is involved their sales will continue to drop. I see so many people just flipping off the cars now it’s actually kind of sad*.
Just curious about when are Americans going to rise up and do what actually needs to happen when dictators threaten democracy? I mean yr whole deal is having lots of guns so I feel like (without recommending violence of course except as a very last resort) at least grab your pitchforks and get busy.
This also irks me. A whole subset of the republicans tout “when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty” as their catchphrase, and those people were the loudest during Biden but crickets from them now. Nevermind that Trump has created more upheaval in 60 days than Biden ever did.
First they have to realise that TrumpMusk are doing a gigantic wealth transfer by stealing entitlements to give billionaires another tax cut. Until Americans realize that, nothing is going to change. What I fear is that by the time they do realize it, it will be too late.
The well regulated militias referenced in the 2A was meant to be state militias or national guards. Our state governments need to be leading the charge in combatting a tyrannical national government.
This is a great moment for that famous American individualism to kick in… if every state government, every federal and state employee, every corporate and private worker just refused to participate—to pay taxes, to let ICE enter buildings, point blank to be complicit, people would be less fearful
Most don’t want to go to prison, lose their families or die… that’s why. This whimpering idiot replying below is attempting to dehumanize Americans, so take anything he says with a grain of salt.
Of course, and that’s always been true in every attempted authoritarian takeover, until not pushing back becomes more dangerous than traditional resistance. I mean, children are dying of eradicated diseases.
What I said about moving past polite disagreement goes for the International community as much as for Americans. Wherever we are we can hand wring and throw accusations, but I’m seeing brave, angry people in the streets in the US every day. They’re supported by the majority people all over the world
It's not that simple. Many are desperately trying to avoid giving him the room to trigger martial law, which is incredibly risky for vulnerable populations bc we don't know which way the military rank & file will break &, once ML is invoked, it's often difficult to remove. Many will die.
I'm sure he'll manufacture a crisis soon that will give him cover to do so & then all bets will be off so we're doing the work in real life to establish community support systems to protect the most vulnerable, while doing what we can to loudly show our disapproval, like protests & boycotts.
Believe me, I've asked the same question you did. Having read On Tyranny & other histories of authoritarian governments, I better understand why folks haven't immediately taken up arms. That needs to be a last resort to buy us time to do what we can in relative freedom to protect our neighbors.
He WANTS us to get violent first bc his control is not total, not established enough to enact overtly violent rule without a cover. So he's doing everything he can to hurt & anger us in the hopes that we'll give him a "reason" to officially suspend democracy. This is going to be a long struggle.
Also, a third of the population supports him & they also have guns. And they're our families & neighbors too. It'll be civil war. And it won't be quick. Eventually there will be no choice but for now we need time to prepare and protect. Things aren't always as simple as they seem from the outside.
US Citizens (i stopped calling them americans) are no heroes. They dont fight for liberty or democracy. As long as they have Cheeseburgers and Netflix, they are at ease.
I mean a lot of people have cheeseburgers and Netflix. And I’m seeing a lot of angry people in the US. They need to realise there’s a moment when it becomes necessary for words become actions because these Tdump sociopaths are going to kill everyone if they aren’t stopped.
Yes, but that moment will never come. They are angry.. and they buy another Cheeseburger against that anger. Another Netflix show against the grief. Thats todays society in the USA. The glorious times of the US citizen as an educated and concious person who cares about the society, are long gone.
I tend to disagree. Americans have been able to rise up numerous times in history, civil rights movement, lgbt rights movement in the 80s and most recently the BLM protests in 2020. We need that vigor again. It's starting, we have multiple groups going out right now.
If you’re so brave, then why haven’t you gotten off your lazy arse and done something? Because you’re just a lazy keyboard warrior stuffing burgers down your gullet while insulting people on the internet?
You see...i am right. Thats the reason why the US citizens will never raise up for their freedom. They just dont have it any more as a society. Talking with a US citizen about liberty is like talking with a roman about Julius Cesar...in the year 450...
I've been listening to the revolutions podcast lately and one of the most clear things I've gotten is that it never is one thing that kicks it off, but usually it's food cost. Americans have gotten very used to diverse food at the market which is why Trump keeps soft on mexico who is delivering it.
Well sure, the US citizens made two revolutions against tariffs on tea and to keep their slaves...it was always economicaly driven. But those things are centuries ago. Todays US citizens will not rise. They will grumble, but they will not rise against it. Those times are over.
Trump says he will label violence against Tesla dealers domestic terrorism. What was Jan 06 then? The taxpayers have never been informed of that expense, the property damage, loss of lives, law suits, etc etc. That was domestic terrorism. What was the cost? We should be informed.
Yeah, but remember, they are just lying in wait for the Left to do stuff like that so they can come down like a ton of bricks on all our rights.
Don’t resort to vandalism and violence. That one trick pony belongs to MAGA, don’t debase yourselves to their level. Protest, yes, sure.
But don’t destroy
Well half of the value of the stock have vanished for now.. And almost all face value of the Tesla brand... And Mr. Elvis buing EV that he dont like is like importing rapist Tate while talking that he gets rapists out of country or releasing drug lord from prison while talking hes fighting fentanyl.
The Perfect Irony:
Wealthy criminally-inclined 34x convicted felon/alleged **president hawking cars for South African barely-legal immigrant whose primary product, and related stocks, have precipitously tanked since/because said immigrant fired approximately 100,000 Americans from federal jobs.
Americans. Follow your president. Sell your current vehicles, a tv, take a second Mortgage on the house and sell a kid or two. Gotta do your part to make the rich richer !
It's fraud waste and abuse to be doing a Tesla commercial at the White House on America's dime and time. Obviously Trump has forgotten that the economy is failing right now and it's all his fault. We know why he didn't swear on the Bible while he took his oath of office this time.. beyond shameful!
There’s one on Towanda Barnes Rd near the airport.
Any protest has to stay on the sidewalk and not block traffic and has to be moving at all times. That’s what I was advised.
It always shocks me when I see a reference to my neck of the woods because I forget I follow some folks who happen to be in it. Mercifully CU doesn't have a tesla dealership.
No clue why BloNo has one when we’ve got Rivian here. I wasn’t even aware we had one until a couple of months ago. Hopefully it won’t be here much longer! 🤞🏻
Don't buy anything unless it's an absolute necessity. Most of us have more than we need. If they're going to starve us, then we're going to starve them.
Trump tells the voters....shut up about eggs, there's gunna be pain, just trust me. Trump tells his boyfriend Musk....c'mere let me comfort your billionaire ego, rub your back, and let me give you more handouts.
Trump and Musk are messing with the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans. If they keep it up, these Tesla protests will look like Girl Scout jamboree’s compared to what may come next.
Not just Americans. Trump’s tariffs, his attempts to take away state sovereignty over corporations and Musk’s destruction of US government departments affect everyone.
That’s exactly what me and some friends were talking about!!! Tesla will never recover from the “Trump Touch”, and once he leaves office you better believe every contract Muskrat has with the government will be scrutinized and let the millions of dollars in fine begin!!!
As if he cares about ethics. As if anyone in govt does. They are all crooks, each to their own degree. Not to mention scotus. There ethics is on a different cloud.
Doesnt matter. The american state and the american nation are so weak nowadays, Trump could rape Taylor Swift on the lawn of the White House in broad daylight, he would go without any consequences.
So they are trying to fight the idea that Tesla is a symbol of the current fascist government by literally having the leader of the current fascist government endorse it publicly and making sure it’s a nice shade of arm band red…
Yeah. They did a lot to help suddenly unemployed veterans struggling to pay their bills since DOGE incels witlessly and performatively fired them with that White House Tesla commercial. Definition of ignorant, performance gibbons.
MuskRat: Gee, I lost a bunch of $, bro
MouseTurd: There will be some pain.
MuskRat: Could you help? Please, please, please.
MouseTurd: We could sell cars from the lawn.
MuskRat: Let's start there.
MouseTurd: What?
Europeans will not screw with your software (USA blocked the jammers of F-16s in Ukraine!) and we will not build locked-in loaders (Eutelsat is rushing to replace Starlink in Ukraine), so overall a much safer option.
I might catch flak for this, but. There are devils and there are devils. Bezos isn’t high on ketamine running around with a DOGE chainsaw in our federal buildings.
No, but Bezos is now trying to save his own company from being boycotted. He has other things to worry about. He also is actively supporting the felon in the White House. He deserves no empathy, he's a big of a ghoul as Musk, just with less governmental power.
Some folks where I’m at use their truck to actually tow something… at least when it comes to an 80-100k truck. They can usually afford an RV and/or jet skis or something.
If anyone is considering a Tesla,...
Also consider how many middle fingers you will see as you drive,... And who may be in the car with you?
It could be awkward.
We have a Lexus hybrid. I wouldn't go full EV and the hybrid is great. So many charging stations are Musk owned so full EV still puts one reliant on a fascist.
The midlife crisis demographic still buys cyberstucks, but they maxed out on that market. There are so many of their hatchbacks that there’s overstock now.
For sure, though I think it's questionable whether he's "using his public office" in this instance. There's a much better case with the FAA/SpaceX stuff imo
> The Hatch Act of 1939 is a federal law that prohibits civil-service employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president and vice president, from engaging in some forms of political activity.
Any White House staff that helped set up or work the event would still be violating it, and it's not logistically possible that Trump and Vance ran this event at the White House with no work performed by civil-service employees.
Well sure, and the White House violated the Hatch Act with no consequences during Trump's first term too. That doesn't make their actions legal, though
The Hatch Act doesn't constrain the President or VP much.
It doesn't look like it has any exceptions for the DOGE service,
or the President's official henchpeople (like Flynn and Manafort were.)
The Hatch Act prevents government employees from politicking on government time. It doesn't prevent a sitting president from hawking a consumer product. Self-respect used to do that, but, well ...
It probably is a Hatch Act violation, but no one stopped him when he violated it during his first term either. There's always so much other wreckage to look at - a monster of misdirection!
Evidently all of DOJ is occupied with intervening in unrelated criminal actions against Jan 6 insurrectionists to assert that Drumpfs pardons cover all past and future crimes. They cannot be expected to prosecute crimes.
Since when did this administration care about violating laws? Trump and Musk are happy to fly close to the sun with their big paper wings. They will eventually be their own undoing. I just hope we aren’t all taken down with them.
When a Musk Co is boycotted, he doesn't try to make a better product, he sues or gets the government involved. Absolutely pathetic. And people look up to him?
@fetterman.senate.gov @Schumer.senate.gov please stand with your democrats!!! Please don't allow Trump to get away with another crime!! It will hurt us now but if he continues it'll never stop hurting us!
I guess since America is obsessed with gambling now place your bets on which will be Trump’s 7th bankruptcy: America or Tesla. Let’s make it the latter.
HEY TRUMP! let's focus on greasing the golden gears of MUSK, the richest man on Earth! The others, the ones who live here and might want, I don’t know, eggs? They can just pull themselves up by their bootstraps while we ensure the wealthy don't suffer any loss.
*
Mike Johnson hosted the podcast
Truth Be Told
discussing public issues from a Christian perspective.
Johnson said that "the Word of God is, of course, the ultimate source of all truth"
and attributed the success of the U.S. to
a "religious statement of faith"
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29jK4ARXnSo
U can see how FA$CI$T the Agolf🏌️♂️🤚Trump regime is when we see #IMPOTUS47 hawking Musk’s #Swastikars like the USED CAR SALESMAN he should be — reminds us of how Adolf Hitler promo’ed Volkswagens‼️
Only problem 4 #FelonDon & #FelonMusk is #Tesla customers r even driving #Cyberfuqks in2 🌊Ventura Harbor‼️
A leader using power to prop up a failing business isn’t leadership—it’s corruption in real time. Ethics laws? Ignored. The Hatch Act? Shredded. When the highest office is for sale, democracy is the price. The question is: will anyone stop it?
I think they think they’re being clever, and flipping the “buy canadian / European / anything buy USAian” tactic. In their echo chamber it gets rave reviews from people with NFT and Trump Jesus AI image profile pics.
? I'd never buy a Tesla, but to be fair this model (S) is pretty safe in terms of crash test results, and the model Y is one of the safest cars in the world in a crash. I don't know about the 3, X, or cybertruck.
If you are thinking the AutoPilot is unsafe if it is misused, on that I fully agree.
I neither sell nor want to buy Teslas. IMO they aren't reliable. I concluded Elon was a lying douchebag a decade ago, when the world still thought he was "genius Iron Man." I even shorted TSLA
But the Model Y does have a high crash rating. Sorry if stating facts offends you.
I can't respond to your screenshot because you don't give your source, or context. But it looks like that is a stat for all Teslas, not the Model S specifically, and it's just talking about fatalities for any reason. I already told you that Teslas become much less safe when morons trust autopilot.
Again, I was talking about the Model S, what's in the photo with Trump that you captioned. I explicitly said I was not talking about the cybertruck. Which I personally consider a monstrosity by almost any measure
FYI the Model S predates Elon's takeover of the company, it's Martin Eberhard's design
Keep in mind that to become that rich, you must abuse of power over people and take it from poorer human beings.
Who need to be billionaire? Multimillionaire is not enough only for sick minds.
US citizens should rethink their admiration of billionaires.
Thankfully, as trump's and musk's popularity continue to decline, so will sales of the most dangerous car on the road. And most maga types wouldn't be caught dead driving an EV it isn't macho enough for them. Tesla motto: Crash, baby, crash! That pertains to the vehicle and the stock price.
The cool thing about the Cybertruck's bullet-proof (ha!) glass, is that when the thing spontaneously combusts and locks you inside, there is absolutely no way out.
Today at the WH, Trump showed us more of his Moronic Virtue. He spent a great deal of his campaign, expounding against electric vehicles. Now, Trump has turned into a Tesla salesperson.
How much more degrading to the Presidency this action could be?
Now Elon cries. He has abandoned his own businesses just because of his big heart?
Buying the idea of Elon’s pain is as stupid as it can be.
Who can show me a person who neglects his personal interests on behalf of somebody else’s, and does not expect some kind of reward? No hands up?
The company might have a failure in the first year of having its ally in the White House greater than anything since Enron in 2001.
Telsa has value based on a fake promise of autopilot, plus selling carbon credits on its sales, which are collapsing worldwide.
I think the line of causality is the reverse. The sorts of people drawn to Trump (or in Enron's case, Cheney), are the ones who make very bad business and life decisions. I mean, look what happened to his decades-long friend, Jeffrey Epstein.
Then we'll have to say things like "Elon musk is a genius who's cars never explode and women genuinely like to be around him without even being paid millions"
IKR? This has to be the most desperate and pathetic thing I have ever seen. His garbage car looked even uglier and poorly made displayed on the White House lawn. Not to mention, this probably made people even angrier seeing Trump use tax payer money and the WH for personal gain for him and Elon.
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Tanking Tesla thread https://bsky.app/profile/idiokratie.bsky.social/post/3lk4jryeoes2u
* by sad I mean “freaking hilarious!”
"We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
What you aren't seeing is the rest of the world organising America out of the control it took after ww2.
We have never been comfortable with it and trump coming back again is the final straw
Oil will soon be sold in euros.
I'm sure American Auto Manufacturers are.
Don’t resort to vandalism and violence. That one trick pony belongs to MAGA, don’t debase yourselves to their level. Protest, yes, sure.
But don’t destroy
..
"As Wall Street reeled for a second straight day...resident Donald Trump chose not to appear with worried working people but to prop up the wealth of the world’s richest man with a bizarre sales pitch for Tesla at the WH."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/politics/trump-musk-tesla-white-house-stock-market/index.html
Wealthy criminally-inclined 34x convicted felon/alleged **president hawking cars for South African barely-legal immigrant whose primary product, and related stocks, have precipitously tanked since/because said immigrant fired approximately 100,000 Americans from federal jobs.
Looking for central Illinois peeps to help protest the Bloomington dealership!
Any protest has to stay on the sidewalk and not block traffic and has to be moving at all times. That’s what I was advised.
#TeslaTakedown
Wait’ll the “self driving” wrecks begin.
All part of the plan..
i expect they will balloon in size this weekend
Everything Trump touches turns to 💩!
Gulf of Taco Bell has a nice ring to it.
Theres no sheriff in town to enforce the rules of law...that's the problem!
From Trump's POV, he is the Chief Exec who executes the law. When he does it, it's legal. What's he gonna do? Execute himself? Of course not.
There's Checks & Balances. If Congress & the Courts do their thing, he'd be checked &balanced. If they don't do their job..? *shrug*
Good thing I can't physically do such a thing, but still, the urge is rising.
No safety for nazis
#TeslaTakedown
He’s good at the FA,
NOT so good at dealing with FO.
MouseTurd: There will be some pain.
MuskRat: Could you help? Please, please, please.
MouseTurd: We could sell cars from the lawn.
MuskRat: Let's start there.
MouseTurd: What?
Europeans will not screw with your software (USA blocked the jammers of F-16s in Ukraine!) and we will not build locked-in loaders (Eutelsat is rushing to replace Starlink in Ukraine), so overall a much safer option.
Liberals don't want anything to do with Elon.
MAGA doesn't believe in climate change and loves burning fossil fuels.
They have killed the market at both ends.
Also consider how many middle fingers you will see as you drive,... And who may be in the car with you?
It could be awkward.
https://youtu.be/bfHsF6FKgb4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendrick_Lamar
Hey, give me a break, I'm still workshopping this one. At least no one can afford to throw eggs at me.
Pam Bondi?
> The Hatch Act of 1939 is a federal law that prohibits civil-service employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president and vice president, from engaging in some forms of political activity.
If pressed - Trump will simply lie and say nobody at the White House helped him. Serious question - then what?
My answer as a non-lawyer is... nada. And I'm 100% certain of that.
It doesn't look like it has any exceptions for the DOGE service,
or the President's official henchpeople (like Flynn and Manafort were.)
—John Roberts
Keep the pressure on.
There are other electric options out there.
Continue to protest and boycott Tesla.
I'm sure trump is watching for an excuse to declare martial law.
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Priorities, people. Priorities..
Priorities.
#TinyEgoDonny 😂🤏
Power to the people!!!!
Trump is the AntiChrist.
The dead-letter-literal-interpretation of the Bible,
evangelical fundamentalists white nationalists churches
have been warning about the man of sin" and "son of perdition.
And when he appears, they elect him president.
Boycott the churches on radio & TV.
*
Mike Johnson hosted the podcast
Truth Be Told
discussing public issues from a Christian perspective.
Johnson said that "the Word of God is, of course, the ultimate source of all truth"
and attributed the success of the U.S. to
a "religious statement of faith"
*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29jK4ARXnSo
How this didn't cost him the evangelical vote is damning.
Who will be the bird that sings for our amusement.
Only problem 4 #FelonDon & #FelonMusk is #Tesla customers r even driving #Cyberfuqks in2 🌊Ventura Harbor‼️
They look like two high schoolers on their first date.
Awk-ward!
If you are thinking the AutoPilot is unsafe if it is misused, on that I fully agree.
I neither sell nor want to buy Teslas. IMO they aren't reliable. I concluded Elon was a lying douchebag a decade ago, when the world still thought he was "genius Iron Man." I even shorted TSLA
But the Model Y does have a high crash rating. Sorry if stating facts offends you.
#FuckOffElon
FYI the Model S predates Elon's takeover of the company, it's Martin Eberhard's design
🙄
Who need to be billionaire? Multimillionaire is not enough only for sick minds.
US citizens should rethink their admiration of billionaires.
Most Americans hate this, and are truly sorry for putting the world through this.
GOP Reps & Senators must switch parties, impeach & remove Trump & Vance & arrest & deport Musk
#StopTheCoup
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?feature=shared
Anyone who can't answer these 3 questions below shouldn't have a vote!
#StopTheCoup
And they want to kill us
#StopTheCoup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riX2Ww80Ow0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC629l-wZBQ&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenerdreich.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY
#StopTheCoup
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?feature=shared
How much more degrading to the Presidency this action could be?
Buying the idea of Elon’s pain is as stupid as it can be.
Who can show me a person who neglects his personal interests on behalf of somebody else’s, and does not expect some kind of reward? No hands up?
Telsa has value based on a fake promise of autopilot, plus selling carbon credits on its sales, which are collapsing worldwide.
Challenge accepted