Posted on 03/29/2025 1:06:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The left's pathological hatred of Elon Musk has reached a new level of insanity. The crusade against Musk and Tesla has already turned violent, with dealerships being firebombed and vehicles being vandalized. But now the same people who constantly screech about climate change want to kneecap the most successful electric vehicle manufacturer in history because its CEO doesn't share their political views.
In New York, a Democrat lawmaker is actually trying to ban Tesla from selling cars directly to consumers.
State Sen. Pat Fahy (D-Albany) isn't even trying to hide her Elon Derangement Syndrome-fueled vendetta. "No matter what we do, we've got to take this from Elon Musk," she declared, showing exactly how petty and vindictive Democrats can be when someone doesn't toe their ideological line.
Tesla has been successfully operating five direct-sales locations in New York since 2014. But Tesla is suddenly "problematic," because Musk leads Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Let's be clear about what's happening here: Tesla dominates the EV market. The Tesla Model Y is the most popular car in the world. And Democrats, once hardcore advocates of electric cars, are going to war against Tesla because Orange Man bad.
Tesla still sells more electric vehicles in the U.S. and New York than any other manufacturer. The company eschews the traditional dealership model of selling cars through third parties via franchise agreements. Instead, Tesla sells directly to consumers.
In many states, auto franchise laws limit this approach. In New York, Tesla was allowed to continue operating five locations to sell directly to consumers under a deal with brokers in 2014. The state’s powerful auto dealers want to completely ban Tesla’s model.
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The article notes that “Fahy in previous years championed legislation to fully lift restrictions on direct sales by EV makers,” because she “wanted to see electric vehicle sales take off to cut emissions in New York and help achieve the state’s climate goals.”
But for the crime of associating with Trump, she’s flip-flopped. “Tesla has lost their right to promote these when they’re part of an administration that wants to go backward,” Fahy admitted.
Congress might allow Musk to sell his Tesla shares tax free.
@AGPamBondi: it may be hard to have every Tesla vandalist charged with Domestic Terrorism. How about a FEDERAL charge of Green New Deal policy violation. Practice your public display with tears running down your face as you decry how it is all an existential threat to our planet!
Which proves they are certifiably insane.
Yes.
There are two types of people in this country as Democrat leftists see it. There are enlightened and nuanced liberals that operate in an environment void of facts and realities, in favor of fallacies and fiction. And then there are the deplorables rest of us. They would kill the deplorables if they had a spine, so instead they import slave mercenaries thru open borders to kill us and set fires. They call it “Backburning for Social Justice”. Really.
Democrats are humorless, immature, evil excuses for human beings.
And they want to control the country and us.
NO THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, not insane. It suggests a large degree of not being responsible for their actions.
They are evil. This is all a choice on their part. They KNOW what they are doing and scheming to accomplish that. That shows too high a degree of rational thought.
This is quite a dilemma for the leftist types.
On the one hand, they had loved Teslas because they want us all to drive electric cars. But their guy with the electric car company had the audacity to work with the evil Trump.
So does this mean we aren’t supposed to want electric cars now, so we can make the political statement against Trump and Elon Musk?
The article notes that “Fahy in previous years championed legislation to fully lift restrictions on direct sales by EV makers,” because she “wanted to see electric vehicle sales take off to cut emissions in New York and help achieve the state’s climate goals.”But for the crime of associating with Trump, she’s flip-flopped. “Tesla has lost their right to promote these when they’re part of an administration that wants to go backward,” Fahy admitted.
Tesla is not part of the Administration.
The message is clear: in Democrat-controlled states, your business's right to operate depends entirely on whether you have the "correct" political views. So much for their supposed support of green energy and innovation.
The technical term for this is FASCISM.
another case of “conservatives seek agreement while liberals demand compliance”. or else!
Tesla still makes far more profits than any other EV company on the planet,
No one is even close.
It also helps if you aren't losing 10s of thousands of dollars on each car sold like F and GM.
Yes.
Trump should look into stopping all subsidies of alternative electric car makers unless they publicly denounce attacks on Tesla and describe them as indefensible. If they do this, they may become targets too, but if they don’t they don’t deserve US taxpayer subsidies.
In addition to TDS / MDS, I bet they are being paid by BYD to help the Chinese EV maker to destroy out its main competition.
Trump and Musk are ripping out the Democrats’ graft pipeline in the federal government, which is the main source of their wealth and power. Naturally they’re fighting back with every dirty tool at their disposal, legal or not. This definitely includes street violence and terrorist acts of arson and destruction inflicted by their brownshirts, Antifa and Trantifa. The Left are defending their revolutionary seizure of power. This is going to get much worse before it gets better.
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