Posted on 03/20/2025 9:29:26 AM PDT by DallasBiff
President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to expand the definition of domestic terrorism as it aims to crack down on a wave of attacks in which Teslas have been shot and set on fire, apparently to protest CEO Elon Musk’s powerful but murky role in cutting the US government.
Critics of Musk and Trump will see irony in use of the term “domestic terrorism” to describe people attacking electric vehicles after Trump issued mass pardons for more than 1,000 January 6 rioters who stormed the Capitol and tried to disrupt confirmation of the 2020 election results.
Under President Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Department of Justice announced a new national strategy to combat domestic terrorism after January 6 as well as a wave of deadly mass shootings by White nationalists and right-wing extremists. The term will apparently take a new meaning under Trump as the FBI and law enforcement agencies will now focus on anti-corporate vandals targeting vehicles
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What would happen if conservatives were torching Planned Parenthood workers cars? The media would be going nuts, the congress would be calling for hate crime investigations and arrests.
The Democrat Party has used street goons to intimidate Americans since 1968.
> a wave of deadly mass shootings by White nationalists and right-wing extremists.
When did this happen?
They are unwittingly performing the role of the brown-shirts, as of the AstroTurf "most peaceful" violent participants across years and years of "protest."
“as well as a wave of deadly mass shootings by White nationalists and right-wing extremists.”
Huh? A wave?
Looked like a "mostly peaceful protest" to me.
Destroying Tesla’s fits the literal definition of domestic terrorism:
“The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.”
It is also probably a hate crime.
And in the case of the Tesla owner attacks, the Democrats are attacking fellow Democrats for the most part (because that’s who owns Teslas).
But they are peaceful protesters according to leftist media.
“according to Donald Trump” -notice the skepticism and word smith. CNN_-They aren’t really terrorists just because “Donald” says they are.
CNN sucks. Causing destruction and violence against civilians to achieve political or social objectives is the exact definition of terrorism. It’s not “expanding”. MSM sucks my dog’s anal glands.
I think the vandals should be charged with crimes against the clean air act.
I’d say it actually started when the demonrats founded the KKK.
Hillary Clinton was a big one behind the ‘Resist’ movement and I see that word on the storefront window.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/hillary-clinton-resistance-onward-together/index.html
Obviously.
No, since the 1860s.
Correct!
Some older assclown in San Jose got busted for felony vandalism for keying a tesla. Probably end up reduced charge.
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