Watch: Some Big Messages As Americans Come Out Across Country to Support Tesla, Elon and DOGE

So Saturday was the day that the radical leftists came out to throw their 'Tesla Takedown" tantrum protests around the country.

Tesla has done nothing to them; yet they're not shy about saying they are trying to tank the company and getting Elon Musk out of the government with DOGE. They don't care about who they might hurt in the process, including the Tesla dealers, owners, and workers.

The protesters in New York City even held up a sign that said "Burn a Tesla, Save Democracy" in a truly threatening and delusional comment. They even had cut-out cardboard Teslas a couple of people wore, with fake flames on them. They were of a piece too: mostly old, mostly women, and with those eyes.

There were some interesting moments as people tried to talk to the protesters in Tyson's Corner, Virginia.

Listen as this man explains to one of the protesters that he's voted Democrat for 25 years but after everything he's seen, including things like this, he's never going to vote Democrat again.

"I'd rather not vote than vote Democrat at this point. And I've voted Democrat for 25 years! So what does that tell you?" he said. This is what they don't get; they are alienating people, including Democrats, with how extreme they are being.

Many of the Tesla owners being attacked are/were Democrats, and this has opened up a window in their minds into their side.

But what was also pretty cool was all the counter-protesters who came out in "Stand with Tesla" or "Tesla Shield" actions to protect Tesla, and to stand with Elon Musk at locations around the country.

They held up "Thank you, Elon!" and Trump signs in Paramus, New Jersey, to the many honks of approval from folks passing by on Route 17. They showed up first before the protesters; one X account claimed they had many more people.

The supporters who came out at the Tesla in Sacramento even brought out donuts for the folks inside. Now, that was nice.

One of the best takes was from this lady in Ohio, who held a sign thanking Elon and "Big Balls" (one of the DOGE crew). She said she was in the market for a car, and all this is now convincing her to pull the lever for a Tesla because they are "the most American made car."

Elon Musk and DOGE are bringing much-needed accountability to our out-of-control bureaucracy as they take a chainsaw to rampant waste, fraud, and abuse.

Harlan Fengler was a long-time (> 50 years) friend of my father and a friend of mine.

Harlan was a conservative, a Republican, and a patriotic defender of freedom, liberty. He was not bashful about listing the benefits of, and basics of, our worthy American Heritage and foundations.

Each year, for many years, he would show up at the house of one of our close friends, and he would run movies of old automobile races of the 1920s - 1950s.

Harlan was born in Chicago (1903), and from birth, he was a natural born mechanic and mechanical engineer. In his youth, he worked on a variety of mechanical machines and automobiles. He quickly became a genius at modifying automobiles for speed.

When somebody wanted a "speedster," Harlan was the considered, go to guy. People who could afford a Packard, Cord, Auburn, Duesenberg, sought his talent. He entered automobiles races on occasion, winning 2 - the last of which, was at Beverly Hills, California, on a wooden board track, in 1924.

There, he met and fell in love with actress Loretta Young. He asked her to marry him, but she declined; yet they remained friends. Harlan built up and maintained several cars for Hollywood race car movies.

Harlan naturally became involved in aircraft engine work, and early in World War II, doing some work for Packard, Harlan "shoehorned" a British Merlin engine into a North American P-51 Mustang. (And, of course, the British did the same thing.)

Packard went on to manufacture the Merlin engine. Harlan became a "Packard Rep."

A lot of aviation and aerospace development occured at Wright Field and Wright Patterson AAFB (then AFB after WW-II) - a center of R&D and testing. There were USAAC then USAAF test pilots - approx. 17 total over the time frame of some pre-war thru war years. Jimmy Doolittle was one of them. Lt. Col. Doolittle wears the "WRIGHT" Field patch issued to test pilots, over his left breast, signifying his skill and license in effect, to try just about anything.

Harlan Fengler became a part of that development group. Eddie Rickenbacker was associated with that, also. The development group was tied to General Hap Arnold by various lines of communications, continuously throughout World War II.

The modern "Internet" is actually an outgrowth from that trunk. General Arnold realized that the overall air forces efforts - for all of aviation - required improved lines of communications between the military, researchers, test centers, logistics depots, and manufacturers. One link included some aircraft that were part of missions flown over Germany and Japan.

Wright Field and Wright-Patterson AAFB, was a hub. Muroc Lake (later Edwards AFB) was a satellite test field for Wright-Pat. There was also a satellite field in Indiana, where captured (or surrendered) aircraft of the Axis Powers were maintained for testing.

Eddie Rickenbacker and Harlan Fengler became friends. Anton "Tony" Hulman was a mutual friend. Hulman purchased the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and in the 1950s, Tony Hulman made Harlan Fengler, Chief Steward of the Indianapolis 500.

At the Speedway, situated on the stands at the Start / Finish Line, are rows of seats - 100 seats, total - that were granted to Harlan, who in turn, each year, would assign the seats to people (and families) of the WPAFB development group.

Among the people in those seats - over several years - were actual inventors, test pilots, astronauts, military members, and others involved in "getting the work done well." The presences of all these people was not broadcast; just a bunch of guys and gals and kids, Americans (mostly).

Every time I see "Packard" or hear the name, or see (or hear) a P-51 Mustang, I recall the above; and, that Harlan Fengler was literally instrumental in "shoehorning" the Merlin engine into the P-51 Mustang.

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