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.
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That’s the truth. They are under demonic influence.
So, are these protesters going to embrace gas-powered automobiles now and drill, baby, drill to get back at Musk?
Morons on Parade!
A few years back their was an effort to run me off this site for my support of Musk ...
I never thought I’d see people selling an EV to prove they are liberal. This is great.
Go back 5 or 10 years ago and how many would have believed this? A world turned upside down eh?
Remember when Alyssa Milano traded in her Tesla because she didn’t want a product in “alignment with hate and white supremacy”?
Instead, she bought a Volkswagen. Yeah, ya can’t make this stuff up!
received an historic amount of campaign donations from Musk,
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Another lie.
I do not believe, Trump got anything historic from Must.
Miriam Adelson was the biggest Republican donor.
Back then, Elon Musk was associated mainly with electric cars. Maybe that’s why you got grief here?
Broadly speaking, liberals want to shove electric cars down our throats, while conservatives oppose that. The ideological lines get muddled, when electric car builder Musk, is aligned with the hated (by liberals) Trump.
Tesla turned out to be Musk’s loss leader along with X. The more people do not buy electric vehicles, the more they will rely on traditional gas vehicles. The irony of California liberals never fails to entertain.
“4. Next up: the “Boycott” on February 28 that will accomplish NOTHING.”
I disagree. Next up is the demand for Trump to be impeached because Bruins fans going to the Canada games this week in Boston will boo the Canadians and the media will say Trump is inciting violence.
That requires liberals to go past the “prima facie” level of thinking - past the emotional reaction.
Liberals: Make the US government mandate that everyone must drive electric cars.
Also Liberals: But not American electric cars!
Telsa has its own derangement syndrome now.
Maintaining fraud, waste and abuse is important to some citizens.
They mean “ our bureaucracy.”
“are these protesters going to embrace gas-powered automobiles now and drill, baby, drill to get back at Musk?”
Gosh I hope so
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