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'Astroturf': Critics speculate Tesla protests are not a grassroots movement, but carefully organized campaign
Fox News ^ | Emma Colton

Posted on 03/30/2025 12:48:50 PM PDT by RoosterRedux

"Who is funding and organizing all these paid protests?" Musk posted to X early Sunday morning, accompanied by a video clip of podcast host Joe Rogan discussing left-wing protests in recent days.

A "Tesla Takedown" movement formed in recent days, with more than 200 protests planned on Saturday in the U.S., and another few hundred planned protests in Canada and Europe as part of the "global day of action." In the U.S. the protests slated for Saturday were promoted by actors, filmmakers, congressional legislators, academics and activists who led a "mass mobilizing call" last week to rally support, and described in the media as a "grassroots" effort to buck Musk and Trump, while working to tank Tesla's stock.

Tesla locations have faced violence in recent weeks as Musk and his DOGE team investigate federal agencies in search of government overspending, fraud and mismanagement, while critics accuse the Trump administration of creating an "oligarchy" by tapping the billionaire to help streamline federal government operations.

DOGE is a temporary cross-departmental organization that was established to slim down and streamline the federal government. The group will be dissolved on July 4, 2026.

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"I know when something is AstroTurf. Fun fact: I was among the first reporters (if not first) to put the concept of ‘Astro Turf’ lobbying into the pages of the Wall Street Journal as an international trade reporter," former Wall Street Journal correspondent Asra Nomani posted to X after reporting on a Tesla protest last Saturday in Tysons, Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C.

"While local #TeslaTakedown protests may appear spontaneous and community-driven, they are the product of well-funded, tightly coordinated campaigns led by national political organizations like the Indivisible Project, http://MoveOn.org, and professional protest firms," Nomani continued.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antifa; astroturf; blm; bondihaters; bonditrolls; bondiwhiners; bondiwhining; domesticterroirism; domesticterrorists; easilyproven; musk; notspeculation; takedown; terrorism; tesla; teslatakedown; townhall; violence; wisconsin
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1 posted on 03/30/2025 12:48:50 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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Georgy Sorrow$


2 posted on 03/30/2025 12:52:29 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Schwartz Gyorgy.


3 posted on 03/30/2025 12:54:33 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: RoosterRedux

That’s been a given from the start.


4 posted on 03/30/2025 12:54:40 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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They need to get their asses kicked. The $200 they get for showing up won’t be worth a busted nose.


5 posted on 03/30/2025 12:55:07 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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6 posted on 03/30/2025 12:55:59 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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Who is paying for the protestors room & board food ,bail money , that stuff adds up real quick. Find the assholes responsible & crucify them.


7 posted on 03/30/2025 12:56:38 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (Treason is the reason for Democrat Sedition & subvertion )
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It’s been reported for days that 200 dealerships were targeted for protests.
Somebody’s running the show.


8 posted on 03/30/2025 12:57:15 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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Should not be hard for Musk with all his money and technical expertise to find out exactly who is funding these terrorists. Then if he is a truly serious person, he will hire some experienced Sicilian security consultants.Such people are effective and remain very quiet.


9 posted on 03/30/2025 12:57:28 PM PDT by allendale
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Collin Rugg
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NEW: Tesla protesters stop protesting at the Southlake Texas Tesla store the moment clock read 12 PM, according to @Carlos__Turcios.

“They all immediately left the minute it was 12:00 pm.”

Odd.

10 posted on 03/30/2025 1:00:34 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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All riots and mass arsons are tied to the democrat party note last 40 years.


11 posted on 03/30/2025 1:02:06 PM PDT by Vaduz
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And this support may be funneled through NGOs funded by (or formerly funded by) USAID.


12 posted on 03/30/2025 1:05:25 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (WWIII has begun. It's the Left in the U.S. and around the world against MAGA. )
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Anything that appears in the gaslight press is Astroturf.

Their sole mission is Communist propaganda.


13 posted on 03/30/2025 1:06:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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Could be many in line to help with it Soros hate America first and many more.

Colleges and universities have became a training ground for them.

CRT DEI................................................


14 posted on 03/30/2025 1:09:28 PM PDT by Vaduz
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Duh. Trump and The Stupid Party do NOTHING, which effectively condones, and by extension, encourages further illegal behavior. This is not complicated.


15 posted on 03/30/2025 1:10:16 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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Democrat Party street goons.

Again.


16 posted on 03/30/2025 1:10:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Are they back to printed signs? For a few weeks after Trump dropped the bomb on USAID I saw a lot of hand written signs, but I expect they should have the money laundry running again I’m even if Soros has to use his own money for a while.


17 posted on 03/30/2025 1:12:46 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (May Rachel Zegler and Disney never know profits.)
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To: HYPOCRACY
If it were up to me, I would have special forces personnel mingling in with these freaks, and at the end of the day, there would be hundreds lying in the streets with broken legs. And no one would know how it happened.

The response I get is: “That’s not who we are.”

18 posted on 03/30/2025 1:13:18 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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You don’t say.


19 posted on 03/30/2025 1:13:44 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: Nebr FAL owner; All

Hey, no problem. Pam Blondie will get to the bottom of this in no time! Threats work miracles.


20 posted on 03/30/2025 1:14:33 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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