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Virtue Signaling Now Means You Have To Sell That Tesla
I & I ^ | 18 Feb 2025 | Editorial Board

Posted on 02/19/2025 6:00:44 AM PST by Rummyfan

Remember when all the best people, the elites and elitists among us, the correct thinkers, the self-appointed guardians of all things good, were buying electric vehicles, particularly Teslas? What a terrific way for them to demonstrate their green street cred. But that’s passé. The latest in look-at-me virtue signaling is selling that Tesla to make an important political statement.

Because Tesla CEO Elon Musk is aiding President Donald Trump in rooting out federal waste and corruption, he’s become a villain to the left. To be caught in one of his cars is simply an embarrassment to status seekers and the prigs obsessed with placing themselves on Barack Obama’s “right side of history.” So like entertainer Sheryl Crow, they have to unload their Teslas, and, naturally, do it as loudly as possible.

Last week, Crow “dramatically bid adieu to her black Tesla,” the New York Post reported, to protest the man she tagged on her Instagram account as “#PresidentMusk.”

Crow took to social media on Friday to reveal she had sold the electric car and was donating the money to NPR, “which Musk has repeatedly called to defund as his Department of Government Efficiency looks to slash federal funding.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: libbots; woketards
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If Sheryl Crow and her ilk all donate to NPR, can we at least cut the government funding for it?!
1 posted on 02/19/2025 6:00:44 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

...or buy one.


2 posted on 02/19/2025 6:01:47 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Rummyfan

If it makes you happy.


3 posted on 02/19/2025 6:02:03 AM PST by MikelTackNailer (Fortunately despite aging I've been spared the ravages of maturity.)
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To: MikelTackNailer

Did her friend, the Communist, tell her to do it?


4 posted on 02/19/2025 6:02:26 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rummyfan

Judge Jeannine commented that the video of Crow waving to her Tesla clearly showed Fall weather, leaves on trees etc in TN where she lives.

So why is this video just being shown now with this “story”?


5 posted on 02/19/2025 6:04:06 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Rummyfan

Dinosaur Fossil burners are back in style. Making America great again. Bring back the muscle cars. It’s Jurassic Raceway all over again!


6 posted on 02/19/2025 6:07:48 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. Government was never meant to be a jobs program.)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah, but neither can afford her gas, especially in Cali.


7 posted on 02/19/2025 6:11:19 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Nitzy: New and Improved! Now with only 66% anti-semitic posts!)
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To: 1Old Pro

Good point!

The Fall “colors” were on the tree leaves.

Fall colors in February?

I think Judge Jeannine was the only person who pointed this out.


8 posted on 02/19/2025 6:11:53 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Russia? China? Democrats and RINOs are the biggest threat to the survival of America.)
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To: Rummyfan

And here I was looking forward to the Tesla Sheryl Crow Signature model - it’s just a regular T3, but it does come with a free square of toilet paper.


9 posted on 02/19/2025 6:13:17 AM PST by Stosh
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Does this mean that with what would be a glut of used Tesla automobiles on the market, that the average price of a used one should go down markedly?

Or will the purchase of NEW Tesla automobiles sharply increase, as it shall now be “cool” for Trump supporters to change their automotive preferences?

Still wouldn’t be buying Polestar or Ford 150 Lightning vehicles.


10 posted on 02/19/2025 6:14:57 AM PST by alloysteel ( Beware the old soldier. There's a reason he's old.)
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In my opinion they are just getting rid of them before the batteries go dead and they become worthless lumps of steel.


11 posted on 02/19/2025 6:15:16 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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They can sell their Teslas and buy Nazi Volkswagens, just as Alyssa Milano did.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11481839/Alyssa-Milano-traded-Tesla-electric-VW-protest-against-Elon-Musk-buying-Twitter.html

12 posted on 02/19/2025 6:17:46 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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This is all just rich. Woke Tesla owners have to wrestle with all of this:

> Sell this car (that they’re almost certainly upside-down on) — at a loss.
> Buy a new car... another (inferior) branded EV or (gasp!) destroy the environment with a gas vehicle? If a new EV... will the current garage charger be compatible or is that yet another expense?

All the while, Musk isn’t impacted at all since he already got paid for the Tesla they’re trying to ditch. And he doesn’t even care about whatever message they’re trying to send.

Maybe start walking or taking an e-bike. Oh, and then there’s the Tesla roof on the house...


13 posted on 02/19/2025 6:23:06 AM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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We should applaud her for making a private contribution instead of NPR sucking taxpayers’ money.


14 posted on 02/19/2025 6:24:07 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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I thought they were “saving the planet”!
Making a political statement is more important to them than clean air and water.
They want children to die so they can show their friends how much they hate Trump. I totally dismiss any of those hypocrites.


15 posted on 02/19/2025 6:25:48 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Rummyfan

Virtue Signaling, I present you VIRTUE SIGNALLING SQUARED!!

Man, we already had the arithmetic of lgbt+ making woke baby ideology like crazy seeking tax payer funding, now we got it geometrically!!!

Tesla was virtue signaling and now Tesla but no Tesla both! How dare one have feelings.


16 posted on 02/19/2025 6:30:03 AM PST by lavaroise
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To: alancarp

Yes. We need to push this schizoohrenic virtue signalling squared on the woke until their heads explode.


17 posted on 02/19/2025 6:31:41 AM PST by lavaroise
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yes. Orwell is drunk. We are in a post-Orwellian world! The schizos did it


18 posted on 02/19/2025 6:33:00 AM PST by lavaroise
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To: Rummyfan

Good! I’m looking to buy a used Tesla.


19 posted on 02/19/2025 6:36:31 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: Rummyfan

They are actually already making and selling huge, ugly bumper stickers that are proclaiming:

“I BOUGHT THIS CAR BEFORE MUSK TURNED EVIL!”


20 posted on 02/19/2025 6:37:10 AM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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