Posted on 03/23/2025 7:30:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Whenever the far left in the U.S. loses an argument — called an election — it suddenly decides it’s time to take to the streets and get violent. Now is just such a time, as America experiences a new spasm of home-grown anti-Trump, anti-Musk terrorism. It shouldn’t be tolerated.
Whether it’s taking pot shots at the president, violently demonstrating in support of murderous terrorists, “swatting” people they don’t like, or destroying cars made by a person they now despise, our country once again finds extremists threatening us and our liberty.
And, no surprise, it’s nearly all from the far left side of the political spectrum, organized by supposedly “nonviolent” groups, quietly supported by the Democratic Party, and excused by the ultra-biased Big Media.
President Donald Trump’s reelection seems to have brought out even more extremist violence, which had already surged. A report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies recently found “domestic terrorist attacks and plots against government targets motivated by partisan political beliefs in the past five years is nearly triple the number of such incidents in the previous 25 years combined.”
So, yes, it’s very real.
As noted, we’re in the midst of a domestic terrorism outbreak right now, after a spate of what at first appeared to be lone-wolf crimes against Tesla owners and dealers, who only a year ago were the darlings of the so-called progressive movement.
But that was before Tesla chief executive Elon Musk joined Trump’s administration.
Today, Tesla dealerships and electric vehicles are being torched, bombed with Molotov cocktails, or vandalized and damaged beyond repair by people angry that Musk is helping to reduce government waste.
Imagine that: People committing terrorist acts to keep others from cutting government waste.
As if there’s any doubt, Attorney General Pam Biondi has declared the attacks against Tesla “domestic terrorism.” And she’s right.
“The swarm of violent attacks on Tesla property is nothing short of domestic terrorism,” she said. “The Department of Justice has already charged several perpetrators with that in mind, including in cases that involve charges with five-year mandatory minimum sentences.”
These aren’t solo or isolated “protests,” as the left maintains. Indeed, Biondi said prosecutors are looking also for “those operating behind the scenes to coordinate and fund these crimes.”
There have been at least 20 separate attacks on Tesla vehicles and dealerships in the last three months. As the New York Post’s Karol Markowicz wrote this week:
Tesla dealerships are being firebombed and shot at, while Tesla vehicles are vandalized and their owners assaulted.
Trump-supporting influencers are getting ‘swatted,’ set up for dangerous police encounters by opponents who phone in hoax distress calls.
Relatives of Trump-aligned public figures — including the sister of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Elon Musk’s brother — are receiving bomb threats.
Musk himself believes these are well-planned acts of terror. “An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla ‘protests’: Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America,” Musk wrote on X.
A group called “DOGEQUEST” is even doxxing “private home addresses and contact info of DOGE employees, their families, some private Tesla owners and Tesla stores.”
The toxic, and at times inciting, rhetoric in the media and by Democrats against Trump and his new administration has only encouraged the terrorism.
It picked up substantially after last June’s failed assassination attempt, when an aide to Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi posted: “I don’t condone violence but please get you some shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time ooops that wasn’t me talking.”
Others on social media and elsewhere chimed in with similar “funny” remarks about the near-death of a presidential candidate.
Now Musk is coming in for some of the same treatment.
California Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia told CNN that Musk is “harming the American public in an enormous way,” adding that it’s time for Americans to bring “actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy, for the future of this country.”
Get it? A real fight. Real weapons.
Since then, the violence has only grown, as the media have continued to make light of it. Late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel, for one, looked sarcastically into the camera and mockingly said “Please don’t ever vandalize Tesla vehicles.”
Meanwhile, MSNBC downplayed the violent attacks, calling them “protest.”
With all this support, a group called Indivisible is organizing a “Tesla Takedown” campaign for April 5 as revenge on Musk for daring to help shrink our bloated federal government.
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them,” the group’s website says. “They’re taking everything they can get their hands on, and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we’re taking to the streets nationwide to fight back with a clear message: Hands off!”
As Townhall recently noted, “Indivisible Project, a 501(c)(4) bankrolled primarily by Open Society Foundations (OSF), the nucleus of the Soros grantgiving nexus, is one of the main activist organizations behind the anti-Musk movement targeting Tesla showrooms all over America.”
But as we’ve already seen, nothing makes a “clearer message” than a few molotov cocktails, physical threats and destructive vandalism of private property.
The far left and its “progressive” billionaire supporters and top Democrats all silently support this activity.
Have you heard any prominent Democrats coming out and condemning the violence, as many Republicans did after the Jan. 6 riots?
We once again have domestic terrorists roaming our streets to cause mayhem and terrorize average people who might own — or even think of owning — a Tesla EV. Elected Democrats, supposedly “leaders” who have said nothing, richly deserve the blame for this rampant lawlessness.
Our suggestion: If you like living in a civil nation governed by laws, and not by street violence, remember this the next time you vote.
That must have been really scary. I was born in ‘51 and remember watching Detroit, Newark, Watts, Compton all go up in flames. It felt a million miles away from upstate NY, but made me wonder “If they are so mad, then why are they burning down their homes?” It was my introduction to leftism.
When I got my ME degree in ‘73, I had a short field service job in Compton around ‘74. Made me nervous as heck going there. But it was ok in the daytime.
I remember the 60s well, showing my age, I know. There were numerous attacks, bombings, etc, against National Guard facilities, and, in particular, many college ROTC facilities.
I was young at the time and never understood why they were attacking facilities—when those facilities and people were just supporting and doing what our government and Congress asked them to do!
The people serving there and in the military were just doing their patriotic duty— yet they were treated with hate, disdain and scorn. Vietnam vets, in particular, were horribly targeted..
The protests should have been directed, instead, at the people (Congress and the government) that tasked them, and sent them, to do their duty—and not the ones just doing their patriotic duty.
She doesn’t care. She’s an attractive blonde and she has Trump where she wants him.
thanks for the list ... how did you compile it?
America experiences a new spasm of home-grown anti-Trump, anti-Musk terrorism.
Bookie took suspicious bet names and dates on warrants being made for surprise party.
Glad you liked it. I’m sure there are lots of things missing like more of the ROTC riots. I was at the University of Missouri ‘69-’73 and it was a peaceful place those years. No riots, no ROTC protests.
As you wrote, “The protests should have been directed, instead, at the people (Congress and the government).” That holds true today for sure! Leftists are so weird and inconsistent. One minute they LOVE Tesla for “saving the earth” and the next minute they hate it because of Elon Musk. And the leftists are all in favor of unconstrained, behemoth, out-of-control corrupt government that is going to eat all of us alive. Go figure.
I used Grok 3.0. It came up with a good starting point list. Then I kept remembering things I have experienced (SLA, Patty Hearst, the murdered San Francisco police sergeant, the Weatherman Pentagon bombing, the Puerto Rican FALN terrorists, the CHOP/CHAZ crap in Seattle, the antifa riots in Portland and Seattle) and told Grok to add them to the list. I kept thinking of more and more crap we have lived through and kept telling Grok “Add this to the list; sort chronologically” and it adds it. It is really amazing for creating such a list. I must has asked it to add another six or seven things I remembered.
It will reply with a full paragraph for every riot or incident. I tell it “Provide a short summary of each riot or incident” and it condenses the full explanation to what you see in the table.
Then told it “Format the list in html 2.0.” It does that and I can copy/paste right into FR!
It’s an amazing tool.
Thanks. What happens if you ask it to add all similar events that have been excluded?
You can ask it to broaden the search. It sometimes closes its response with “Do you want me to dig deeper?” You can reply “Yes” and it will do so.
It is really eerie “conversing” with it and having it do the research for you.
BLM/ANTIFA did some Real Damage in
La Mesa,San Diego-—dates escape me.
Burned 2 Banks to the ground with a
Professional building to Boot !
Ramona and Poway Repelled such actions
courtesy of the “Peckerwoods” motorcycle
‘Club.’
Amazing what gets swept away...
| Date | Event | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 1960 | HUAC Riot | San Francisco, CA | Students clashed with police during HUAC hearings; 12 injured, 64 arrested. |
| July 2, 1960 | Newport Jazz Festival Riot | Newport, RI | Crowd violence overwhelmed security; police used tear gas. |
| August 20, 1960 | El Cajon Boulevard Riot | San Diego, CA | Racial tensions sparked youth-police clashes. |
| August 27, 1960 | Ax Handle Saturday | Jacksonville, FL | White mobs attacked Black civil rights protesters; dozens injured. |
| September 30-October 1, 1962 | Ole Miss Riot | Oxford, MS | Segregationists rioted against integration; 2 killed, 160 injured. |
| May 11, 1963 | Birmingham Riot | Birmingham, AL | Post-bombing unrest; police injured many. |
| June 14, 1963 | Cambridge Riot | Cambridge, MD | Racial protests turned violent; 1 killed, National Guard deployed. |
| July 16-22, 1964 | Harlem Riot | New York City, NY | Police shooting of a Black teen; 1 killed, 144 injured. |
| July 24-25, 1964 | Rochester Race Riot | Rochester, NY | Police arrest escalated; 4 killed, 350 injured. |
| August 28-30, 1964 | Philadelphia Race Riot | Philadelphia, PA | Rumors of police brutality; 341 injured. |
| August 11-17, 1965 | Watts Riots | Los Angeles, CA | Police arrest triggered six days of violence; 34 killed, 1,032 injured. |
| July 18-23, 1966 | Hough Riots | Cleveland, OH | Racial tensions over a bar incident; 4 killed, 50 injured. |
| October 1966-1972 | Oakland Black Panther Violence | Oakland, CA | Black Panthers clashed with police; 1967 shootout (1 officer killed, Huey Newton injured), 1968 ambush (1 Panther killed, 2 officers wounded). |
| July 12-17, 1967 | Newark Riots | Newark, NJ | Police beating of a Black driver; 26 killed, 700 injured. |
| July 23-28, 1967 | Detroit Riot | Detroit, MI | Police raid sparked chaos; 43 killed, 1,189 injured. |
| July 30-August 3, 1967 | Milwaukee Riot | Milwaukee, WI | Racial unrest after police shooting; 4 killed, 100 injured. |
| June 23, 1967 | Century City Demonstration | Los Angeles, CA | Anti-Vietnam War protesters beaten by police; dozens injured. |
| August 19-23, 1967 | New Haven Riots | New Haven, CT | Racial clash after a shooting; 3 injured, 679 arrested. |
| February 8, 1968 | Orangeburg Massacre | Orangeburg, SC | Police fired on Black students; 3 killed, 27 injured. |
| March 28, 1968 | Memphis Sanitation Strike Riot | Memphis, TN | Police clashed with strikers; 1 killed, 60 injured. |
| April 4-14, 1968 | King Assassination Riots | Nationwide | MLK Jr.’s murder sparked riots in 125 cities; 46 killed, 2,600 injured. |
| August 26-29, 1968 | Democratic National Convention Riot | Chicago, IL | Police beat anti-Vietnam War protesters; 100+ injured, 668 arrested. |
| May 15, 1969 | Berkeley People's Park Riot | Berkeley, CA | Clashes over UC Berkeley land; police and National Guard used tear gas, shotguns; 1 killed, 128 injured, 500+ arrested. |
| June 28-July 3, 1969 | Stonewall Riots | New York City, NY | Police raid on a gay bar led to violent resistance; multiple injuries. |
| May 21-25, 1969 | Greensboro Uprising | Greensboro, NC | Racial tensions at a high school; 1 killed, dozens injured. |
| November 20, 1969-June 11, 1971 | Alcatraz Takeover | San Francisco Bay, CA | Native Americans occupied Alcatraz; mostly non-violent, fires damaged buildings, minor clashes; ended with removal, no deaths. |
| May 4, 1970 | Kent State Shootings | Kent, OH | National Guard killed 4 students; 9 injured. |
| May 11-12, 1970 | Augusta Riot | Augusta, GA | Police killing of a Black man; 6 killed, 60 injured. |
| May 14-15, 1970 | Jackson State Killings | Jackson, MS | Police fired on anti-war protesters; 2 killed, 12 injured. |
| March 1, 1971 | Weatherman Bombing of the U.S. Capitol | Washington, D.C. | Weather Underground bombed Capitol to protest Vietnam War; no deaths, $300,000 damage. |
| June 13-15, 1971 | Albuquerque Riots | Albuquerque, NM | Concert arrests sparked violence; dozens injured, 600 arrested. |
| August 19-22, 1971 | Camden Riots | Camden, NJ | Police shooting of a Puerto Rican man; 2 injured, 100 arrested. |
| August 29, 1971 | San Francisco Policeman Killed by Leftists | San Francisco, CA | Sgt. John V. Young shot at Ingleside Station by Black Liberation Army; 1 killed, BLA claimed responsibility. |
| September 9-13, 1971 | Attica Prison Riot | Attica, NY | Inmate uprising crushed by authorities; 43 killed, 89 injured. |
| February 27-May 8, 1973 | Wounded Knee Occupation | Wounded Knee, SD | AIM seized town, clashed with feds; 2 Native Americans killed, 14 injured, 1,200+ arrested over 71 days. |
| November 6, 1973-May 17, 1974 | Symbionese Liberation Army Violence & Patty Hearst Kidnapping | CA | SLA killed Oakland superintendent (1973, 1 killed), kidnapped Hearst (Feb 4, 1974), robbed banks, died in LA shootout (6 killed). |
| 1974-1983 | Puerto Rican FALN Terrorism | Nationwide | FALN bombed 120+ sites, including 1975 Fraunces Tavern (4 killed, 60 injured), for Puerto Rican independence. |
| 1974-1976 | Boston Busing Crisis | Boston, MA | Violent resistance to school desegregation; multiple injuries. |
| February 1976 | Escambia High School Riots | Pensacola, FL | Racial clashes over Confederate symbols; 30 injured. |
| May 7-8, 1978 | Moody Park Riots | Houston, TX | Police killing of a Mexican-American; 15 injured. |
| November 3, 1979 | Greensboro Massacre | Greensboro, NC | KKK and Nazis shot anti-racist protesters; 5 killed, 10 injured (terrorism). |
| May 17-20, 1980 | Miami Riots | Miami, FL | Acquittal of officers in a Black man’s death; 18 killed, 300+ injured. |
| January 16-18, 1989 | Miami Riot | Miami, FL | Police shooting of a Black motorcyclist; 1 killed, 11 injured. |
| April 29-May 4, 1992 | Los Angeles Riots | Los Angeles, CA | Rodney King verdict; 63 killed, 2,383 injured. |
| February 26, 1993 | World Trade Center Bombing | New York City, NY | Islamist truck bomb; 6 killed, 1,042 injured (terrorism). |
| April 19, 1995 | Oklahoma City Bombing | Oklahoma City, OK | McVeigh’s anti-government attack; 168 killed, 680+ injured (terrorism). |
| July 27, 1996 | Atlanta Olympics Bombing | Atlanta, GA | Rudolph’s pipe bomb; 1 killed, 111 injured (terrorism). |
| November 30-December 1, 1999 | WTO Seattle Protests | Seattle, WA | Anti-globalization clashes; 600 arrested, multiple injuries. |
| April 9-12, 2001 | Cincinnati Riots | Cincinnati, OH | Police killing of a Black teenager; 70 injured, 800+ arrested. |
| September 11, 2001 | September 11 Attacks | NY, VA, PA | Al-Qaeda hijacked planes; 2,977 killed, 6,000+ injured (terrorism). |
| April 15, 2013 | Boston Marathon Bombing | Boston, MA | Tsarnaev brothers’ bombs; 3 killed, 264 injured (terrorism). |
| August 9-19, 2014 | Ferguson Riots | Ferguson, MO | Police shooting of Michael Brown; 1 killed, dozens injured, 321 arrested. |
| April 25-28, 2015 | Baltimore Riots | Baltimore, MD | Freddie Gray’s death; 113 injured, 486 arrested. |
| December 2, 2015 | San Bernardino Shooting | San Bernardino, CA | Islamist couple’s attack; 14 killed, 22 injured (terrorism). |
| June 12, 2016 | Pulse Nightclub Shooting | Orlando, FL | Islamist attack; 49 killed, 53 injured (terrorism). |
| September 20-21, 2016 | Charlotte Riot | Charlotte, NC | Police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott; 1 killed, 16 injured. |
| January 20, 2017 | Trump Inauguration Riot | Washington, D.C. | Anti-Trump protesters smashed windows, torched a limo; 6 officers injured, 217 arrested. |
| August 11-12, 2017 | Unite the Right Rally | Charlottesville, VA | White supremacist violence; 1 killed, 35 injured. |
| *May 26-30, 2020 | Minneapolis Antifa/BLM Riots | Minneapolis, MN | BLM and Antifa-led riots after George Floyd’s murder; 3rd Precinct burned, widespread looting; 1 killed, 164 structure fires, $500M damage. |
| *May 30, 2020 | La Mesa BLM Riot | La Mesa, CA | BLM protest over George Floyd and local arrest turned violent; banks burned, stores looted; 1 protester shot with beanbag, dozens injured. |
| May 26-August 2020 | George Floyd Protests/Riots | Nationwide | Floyd’s murder sparked unrest; 19+ killed, 14,000 arrested. |
| May 31, 2020 | Washington, D.C. Church Firebombing | Washington, D.C. | Rioters set fire to St. John’s Church basement; minor damage, no serious injuries. |
| May 29, 2020-2021 | Antifa Violence in Portland Post-George Floyd | Portland, OR | Antifa torched buildings, clashed with police nightly (100+ nights), attacked courthouse; 74 faced federal charges by August 2020. |
| May 29, 2020-2021 | Antifa Violence in Seattle Post-George Floyd | Seattle, WA | Antifa damaged businesses, clashed with police; July 25, 2020, fires set at detention site; 2 arrested. |
| June 8-July 1, 2020 | Seattle CHOP/CHAZ Actions | Seattle, WA | Occupied zone post-Floyd protests; 2 killed, 4 injured in shootings; 69 arrested. |
| *January 9, 2021 | Pacific Beach Antifa Clash | San Diego, CA | Antifa counter-protesters attacked pro-Trump rally; pepper spray, assaults; 11 charged, 2 convicted of conspiracy. |
| January 6, 2021 | Capitol Riot | Washington, D.C. | Pro-Trump mob stormed Capitol; 5 killed, 140+ injured. |
| January 21, 2023 | Atlanta Riot | Atlanta, GA | Police facility protest turned violent; 6 arrested, property damaged. |
| January 20, 2025 | Trump Second Inauguration Riot | Washington, D.C. | Anti-Trump protests clashed with police; hundreds arrested, dozens injured. |
| January-March 2025 | Tesla Vehicle and Dealership Attacks | Nationwide | Arson/vandalism tied to Musk’s Trump role; 15+ incidents, 20+ arrests (terrorism). |
WOW!!!
BFLR
BTTT!!!
May 31,2020
President Trump with His Bible
Outside St.Johns.
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A most Memorable Photo.
I too am in awe of your post. Good job “ProtectOurFreedom”.
Are Tesla truck protesters really bulletproof?
That IS impressive!!! Amazing, really.
“Are the Tesla trucks really bulletproof?”
No idea.
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