Anti-Elon Activists Target Tesla – Protests at Showrooms, Reports of Car Owners Being Threatened
Well, the silly season is upon us again (not that it ever truly left). We are seeing that not just with the over-the-top anti-Musk/Trump demonstrations Democrat members of Congress are staging at federal departments like the ED, but also from leftist protesters at Tesla showrooms and charging station locations across the country.
For the past two weekends now, small groups of people — many who look like aging hipsters from the 1960s — have been demonstrating in states like New York, Maine, Texas, California, and Washington, urging potential buyers not to buy a “swasticar” because it will make Musk, who they say is a coup-staging “Nazi,” richer and more powerful:
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.
[…]Saturday’s protests were promoted by prominent disinformation researcher Joan Donovan and the actor Alex Winter, who played Bill in the 80s movie “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.”
Here are some videos and photos from some of the protests:
Waterville protesters target Elon Musk at Tesla charging station’It’s completely illegal and it removes Congress from having the financial control that is constitutionally theirs,’ one protester said of the billionaire’s access to government payment systems.
www.pressherald.com/2025/02/05/w…[image or embed]— Angels In Velvet (@angelsinvelvet.bsky.social) February 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
There have even been reports of vandalism and threats to Tesla owners:
A group calling itself “Students Against Nazi Extremism” is reportedly issuing threats to Tesla owners ito sell their vehicles or they will be vandalized, according to a local media report.Lost Coast Outpost reports that residents in Humboldt County in northern California found notes left on their Teslas saying “no Nazis in America.” At least one of the notes was tied to a brick, according to local media reports.The group mailed a supposed manifesto to the news outlet claiming responsibility for the notes. The manifesto also issued threats to Tesla owners in Rohnert Park in Sonoma County north of San Francisco, Hayward in Alameda County in the city’s East Bay, and Seaside in Monterey County.
On the somewhat tamer side of things, left-wing singer Sheryl Crow virtue signaled on Instagram recently by showing her Tesla vehicle being hauled away after she sold it and gave the money she made to NPR:
Though the vandalism and threats are disturbing, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry over the rest of it. There is no “coup” going on. Elon Musk is not a Nazi. Waste, abuse, and fraud need to be rooted out no matter where they are located. It’s just as simple as that.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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