Posted on 02/16/2025 8:18:28 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Linda Koistinen and her husband Dale stood outside a Tesla dealership in Berkeley, California, on Saturday, protesting.
They were not there to take aim at the company's electric vehicles, but the person behind Tesla - Elon Musk - and join with others who are upset at the world's richest man's work to disrupt and take apart large portions of the US government.
"It's a place where we can make a visible stand against him personally," Ms Koistinen told the BBC. "He should not be deciding the fate of our democracy by disassembling our government piece by piece. It's not right."
As part of an effort organizers dubbed #TeslaTakeover, clutches of protesters across the country gathered outside the company's showrooms, having largely planned when to meet and where on the social media platform Bluesky, an upstart competitor to Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter.
In some places, those protests barely numbered a dozen, with people in Washington DC, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh and Lyndhurst, Ohio, stamping their feet to stay warm amid snow and cold weather. Some held signs that read "Say no to Doge" and "Deport Musk".
The protest in Berkeley - a top California city for electric car ownership - numbered 200.
As part of his White House-backed effort called Doge, for Department of Government Efficiency, Musk has been sending teams into government agencies to comb through data and pushing for massive spending cuts as well as "clawbacks" of money already spent.
President Donald Trump, who received an historic amount of campaign donations from Musk, is on the same page, freezing hiring as well as laying off thousands of federal employees.
Musk says he has uncovered wasteful spending and his work is aimed at making the government operate more smoothly.
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Liberals are vile, evil people. We can’t coexist with them.
How many of the protestors got there by driving their Tesla to the protest? Or maybe the parking lot was full of Prius.
"our democracy"
Did they mean "their democracy"?
If those two Koistinen maggots were quietly praying outside a Baby Killer Clinic they’d be on their way to prison right now. Sometimes America just plain sucks and sucks really bad.
I don’t like EV’s but I defend your right to own one.
Saw this morning that Sheryl Crowbait who gave up using toilet paper gave up her Tesla. No wonder women had a hard time getting the right to vote.
Scattered, huh? What, no USAID money coming in?
Try it. You won't like it. Follow the protesters back to their gas-guzzlers & take pictures.
“clutches of protesters”
That’s just what’s missing in Teslas! Clutches.
Nice tantrum, folks. Did you try holding your breath, too? Maybe next time throw yourselves on the ground, pound the ground with your fists, and wail. That will help.
THERE IS NOTHING LIKE PITTING YOUR UTTER STUPIDITY ON PUBLIC DISPLAY-—DELIBERATELY
I wonder if their respective employers are watching???
IF either one was an employee of mine-—I would be serious about dropping them. RIF
It’s downright funny. Democrats go from wanting laws to more or less MAKE you buy an EV to being opposed to them because Musk is uncovering waste, fraud, and abuse.
Libs have been worshiping at the altars of Big Government and Environmentalism for a long time.
What's happening for them right now is a bishop (Musk) is becoming a turncoat blasphemer against the church. Their puny minds can only process this in emotional, religious piety terms.
Let’s count their successes:
1. Sex strike by ugly liberal women with hairy armpits and colored hair
2. Tesla protests
3. Schumer and Waters acting like raving mad lunatics flapping their arms and shrieking “We will win!”
4. Next up: the “Boycott” on February 28 that will accomplish NOTHING.
They love “democracy” but only if their person gets elected. They hate “democracy” when the other side wins and wins big.
So much for climate alarm!! Electric cars BAD now.
These Leftists need to meet with a sticky end...Not worthy of breathing.
Maybe those people haven't heard that the US government has been blatantly stealing us blind, is "throwing gold bars off the Titanic," is running unsustainable TWO TRILLION DOLLAR annual deficits, and is pissing away money on Alphabet People perversions all over the world.
For people who yap all the time that everything must be "sustainable," they sure turn a blind eye to the UNSUSTAINABLE, out-of-control behemoth that will destroy the nation unless it is tamed.
They all need to spend some time on FR to learn the simple facts of life.
Whiners
Who is cutting the checks for this bs?
Infiltrate.
Water cannons.
It will backfire as Tesla is now an option for 77 million new fans.
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