39% of Democrats View Vandalism Against Tesla as Appropriate Form of Protest
“This is a long relentless fight that we fight everyday. And I am confident that we will bring Trump’s popularity numbers and strength down if we keep at it …”
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) has a genius for distilling complex matters into simple terms that everyone can understand. He shared his latest pearl of wisdom during a Friday night appearance on Fox News’s Hannity.
“The loon wing of the Democratic Party is firmly in control,” Kennedy said. “Now that’s great for the Republican Party, but it’s bad for America.”
Then came the clincher: “Our secret Republican plan for dealing with the Democrats is called, ‘Operation: Let them speak.'”
Excellent advice. We’ll keep an eye on their actions as well.
Oh boy, they sure love to run their mouths! pic.twitter.com/prNAzNbMGd
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The Democratic Party is now leaderless, directionless, and no longer stands for anything. Two polls released last weekend revealed the party’s lowest favorability ratings in over 30 years.
Yet those same polls found that a majority of Democrats surveyed support lawmakers intensifying their resistance against the Trump administration.
Democrat approval sits at 27%, and their strategy to climb out of that hole is apparently to send out the radical wing of the party on a speaking tour against oligarchs, while simultaneously engaging in a domestic t*rror campaign against the person they call an oligarch. pic.twitter.com/Mcltj3c0fM
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On Saturday morning, Rasmussen Reports released some surprising poll results about the recent wave of vandalism targeting Tesla dealerships and privately owned vehicles by anti-Trump protesters. The survey asked respondents, “Is vandalism against Tesla an appropriate form of protest?”
Rasmussen found that 61% of Democrats, 79% of Independents, and 78% of Republicans oppose using vandalism in their protests.
This also means that 39% of Democrats condone using such tactics to express their contempt for Elon Musk’s leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency. [Frankly, I’m surprised that 22% of Republicans and 21% of Independents feel the same.]
"Tesla automobiles and Tesla dealerships have been vandalized by anti-Trump protesters. Is vandalism against Tesla an appropriate form of protest?"
NO –
DEM: 61%
IND: 79%
GOP: 78%
All Voters: 72% https://t.co/F5un4XeCSU— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) March 22, 2025
In any case, as we’ve all seen on the news, this isn’t your run-of-the-mill vandalism either.
The L.A. Times reports, “Teslas have been set ablaze with Molotov cocktails, riddled with bullets and defaced with swastikas. Doors and windows at once pristine luxury electric vehicle showrooms are now scrawled with profanity and Nazi symbols.”
Additionally, privately owned Tesla vehicles and charging stations are being torched, and owners are being targeted inside their cars.
After several attacks on Tesla dealerships in the area, FBI special agent in charge of the Las Vegas field office Spencer Evans issued a warning to those responsible:
Specifically to those who might think that something like this is justifiable or potentially even admirable, we want to let you know it’s a federal crime. We will come after you, we will find you, and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. I encourage anyone that’s considering something like this to seriously reconsider.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sees the vandalism and arson attacks as “nothing short of domestic terrorism.” Following the arrests of three suspects this week, she warned would-be vandals that, if convicted, they could face prison sentences of five to 20 years.
“The days of committing crimes without consequence have ended,” Bondi said. “Let this be a warning: if you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars.”
BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi charges three left-wing extremists for their domestic terrorism attacks against Tesla vehicles and charging stations.
The individuals are facing up to 20 years in prison.
"The days of committing crimes without consequence have ended," Bondi… pic.twitter.com/UisazWP60q
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 20, 2025
It’s disturbing that such a large number of Americans find this form of protest acceptable. It’s also unfathomable that so many Democrats who denounced domestic terrorism following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, going so far as to launch a National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism that year and even passing Domestic Terrorism Prevention legislation in 2022 and 2023, are remaining silent in the face of actual domestic terrorism.
Fox News reported they had reached out to 13 Democrats who sponsored the legislation for comment, but none responded.
To his credit, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) called on his Democratic colleagues to “condemn it.”
There is zero tolerance for acts of vandalism against Tesla. Spraying the words "nazi cars" or lighting fire to dealership and chargers is wrong. Period. All Democrats should condemn it. https://t.co/4VF6dgy3BV
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) March 11, 2025
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel joked about the attacks this week.
Jimmy Kimmel wants more Tesla attacks pic.twitter.com/v48VdEKlOO
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 19, 2025
It must be asked: Has law and order become a partisan issue? How about cutting government waste, fraud, and abuse? It sure looks like it.
Even deporting members of Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan criminal gang (now a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization) has become controversial. [It’s worth noting that this group had no presence in America until former President Joe Biden opened our southern border.]
The Democratic Party is currently focused on opposing any and every initiative proposed by the Trump administration. In an appearance on the PBS program News Hour this week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) reassured voters that Democrats are fighting for them.
We are mobilizing in New York. We have people going to the Republican districts and going after these Republicans who are voting for this and forcing them to either face — change their vote or face the consequences.
This is a long relentless fight that we fight everyday. And I am confident that we will bring Trump’s popularity numbers and strength down if we keep at it and keep at it and keep at it.
Keep up the resistance Democrats. You are on the short end of every 80-20 issue facing the country today. You may be pleasing your base, but they’re not the ones who will decide the 2026 midterms.
Just a little something for you to think about.
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My God. At least we know what we’re up against. There is NO reasoning with these people.
Perhaps it would be best if we fight fire with fire.
Liberals burn Tesla cars and dealerships. Perhaps conservatives should start burning Subaru cars and dealerships.
Oh, wait. We have jobs and we don’t destroy property. That’s only for NotZee Democrats and Marxists.
Also we have nothing against Subaru or its owners.
Subaru was one of the few Japanese car manufacturers willing to defy the Arab boycott of Israel back in the day.
That’s really not that bad, since there truly aren’t that many Democrats.
At this rate, less by the day.
Tesla should hire security teams armed with less lethal FN 303 and dogs.
The first round is less than lethal, but the recipient will wish it had been.
The second round is magic and grants wishes.
Or maybe with FN-FALs or .303s.
You can’t secure every location. The terrorism is widely distributed, so you can’t know in advance where to stage the teams. But maybe if there are a few incidents, the rest will learn a lesson.
The entire rationale for the Second Amendment applying to actual citizens, as opposed to select state agents, is precisely so that every location COULD be secured,
Elon has hundreds of billions of dollars. He could hire a private army to seek and destroy or offer megabucks to rat some of these bastards out.
His money is mostly stock value which would drop if he starts selling it
Catch them vandalizing your property, blow their fu*king heads off, call the city to come clean the gutter
Be sure to call 811 instead of 911. You want to know where to dig when you bury trash.
You can’t do that if they’re merely vandalizing. Arson, you’re on better ground, but if they check that a car is empty before torching it you can’t use deadly force against them. Except in Texas.
I think it is a holdout from the days of horse theft laws, catch someone stealing or trying to kill your horse you can shoot them. Kind of the same thing applied to cars. And honestly most places here everything is so spread out that if someone destroys your car you are kind of screwed moreso than a lot of the country.
To be clear Should not is different than Can not. Lawless criminals bent on using violence and intimidation to advance their preferred political and ideological agenda (aka terrorism) don’t have a very compelling moral argument to use against those who seek to prevent their lawlessness with a more vigorous defense than the lawless anticipated.
They don’t care about moral arguments. If you use deadly force when it’s not legally warranted you will be arrested, convicted, and go to prison. So you can’t do that.
Go stalk some leftist social media websites.
These freaks feel as if their backs are against a wall while Elon and Trump advance on them with M1 Garands with bayonetts fitted.
It is an odd mass psychosis.
It’s induced by the media and most of the Democrat leadership.
AOC should return to her side gig giving hummers behind the bar. At least her shrill voice will be muffled.
Something she might actually be good at.
It is because, if they had the power they perceive us as having, then they would genuinely try to kill us. Remember, more than half wanted to put unvaccinated in camps and take away their kids.
If they could, they would line you and your family up against a wall and shoot you. They can’t fathom that we wouldn’t do the same.
That is their next step, and it’s not too far away. Their importation of their brown shirt army has been stopped, so they will resort to more dangerous levels of destruction.
I am pretty sure your take is spot-on.
The ultimate goal was to weaponize the trannies.
Let’s keeping pulling this spring back. What could go wrong? — every leftist strategist.
““This is a long relentless fight that we fight everyday. And I am confident that we will bring Trump’s popularity numbers and strength down if we keep at it.”
Another moron graduate of the Alvin Bragg School of Public Relations.
Of course this is terrible, and the criminals should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But remember, it was not that long ago when conservatives on this blog and many others were demonizing electric vehicles like Tesla, as part of the Green movement, climate change cult, Uni-Party, globalist, elitist, Biden administration, etc. But now all of sudden this is terrible because Musk endorsed Trump and now works for Trump? It works both ways. It’s sick. On both sides.
EV are mostly stupid and mostly toys and don’t help the environment. That said I never cared if people bought them with their own money and without manufacturers being coerced into making them. No tax credits not mandates. Buy what you want. Do away with CAFE standards and maybe Ford will build passenger cars again.
We weren’t vandalizing them!
I don’t recall much criticism of Tesla as product. Tesla seems to be one of the few EV that consistently delivers pretty much in line with their sales pitch. Most of the comments I recall were pretty balanced with the general consensus that consumers should have choice of EV or ICE without govt subsidies and that outside a 2nd vehicle or vanity purchase that EV don’t make sense for most households.
There has been quite a bit of.criticism of using the tax.code to subsidise ‘green’ energy in general as well as criticism of the dishonesty of the folks pushing ‘green new deal’ due to lies and distortions re the efficacy of the ability to deliver on the Cray Cray net zero mandates. I for one am looking forward to seeing exactly how NY State will cope without sufficient electricity as the mandates for ‘green’ take hold far ahead of the ability of the current technology to deliver the power demands. I very much suspect that NY leadership will not follow through on the ‘net zero mandate’ proving that they are as full of crap now as they were when they demanded it be adopted.
You retard. You keep posting this stupid garbage.
No one here “demonized” EV’s, you idiot.
We were, and still are, opposed to government mandates forcing people to buy EV’s.
And at no time were we ever in favor of torching EV’s or dealerships.
Get the hell out of here.
Well now you have truly gone and done it. JR will be convinced you are just playing hard to get. No doubt he is now begging the folks at Asshole of the Month club to be your next shipment.
JR is the “Sy Sperling” of the Asshole of the Month Club.
His motto is “I’m not only the Asshole of the Month Club president, but I’m also a client”
As long as you maintain your desired government control over every aspect of the people’s lives you will be happy.
No one was complaining about EVs. The complaint was the mandating of EVs to the complete exception of IC engines.
But your dementia keeps you from realizing that.
Criticism does not equate to firebombing, buckwheat.
Unlike a broken clock you are not even right twice a day. Seek professional help.
Saying “I don’t like something” is not the same as lighting other people’s property on fire.
“Everything before the word ‘but’ is horseshit.” -George RR Martin, “Game of Thrones
You don’t mean a goddamned word of your first sentence, you useless leftist toolbag. Do you not understand the difference between DISLIKING something and wanting harm? I hate Indian food. Am I going to go burn down a nearby Indian restaurant? No. Because I’m not crazy and ideologically possessed like these lunatics burning down Tesla dealerships. I would never, ever buy an electric car. I DISLIKE them. That’s it.
It’s YOUR SIDE that’s doing this. These are your people. Your fellow leftists. Your politicians and entertainment figures winking at the camera and pulling the same bullshit lines about how “Of course these people should be punished.” But they (like you) don’t mean a word of it.
And no, I don’t expect a response, you hit and run troll.
JR, you’re not making any sense.
Yes, it was not that long ago when conservatives on this blog and many others were demonizing electric vehicles like Tesla, as part of the Green movement, climate change cult, Uni-Party, globalist, elitist, Biden administration, etc. And that is still true.
But what is it that none of us ever called for, or condoned? Yes, that’s right, none of us ever called for vandalism against Teslas or Tesla, let alone arson. And had someone proposed it we would all have shouted them down. We would have called it terrorism, exactly as we are doing now. The fact that Musk is on our side politically has nothing to do with our attitude; it’s only the other side whose attitude is swayed by that.
Also Musk had not really said whose side he was on at the time. And the same people who criticized Tesla praised SpaceX and Twitter after he took it over. Mostly what I saw was the argument that we are not technically ready to replace gas cars with electric. Not enough charging stations, not enough power plants if there were.
Concern Troll Begins Second Sentence With But.
Also, Dog Bites Man.
I am not sure why anyone is surprised. There were similar levels of support for the ‘peaceful but fiery’ BLM anarchist hooligans as well as the antifa loons rioting on the west coast, laying siege to Federal Building and declaring the short lived ‘independence’ of CHAZ in Seattle. The left in the USA is all in on using violence/threat of violence as means to advance their political/ideological agenda and has been for a long time, many decades in fact.
My guess is that in the very near future our military will convert to electric vehicles, despite the insanity of doing so, and Trump will be driven around in an electric Tesla. Because of Musk. He is now in control.
LOL. You ever consider starting a comedy act?
The projected weight of an electric-powered presidential limousine is 60,000 pounds, minimum. Not practical.
Where do people like you come from. Humans are born through the vagina. Your comments lead me to believe you were born from the rectum.
From a Dyson vacuum.
Not. Going. To. Happen. The only way electric vehicles can operate is in an environment with in-place infrastructure to charge and maintain the vehicles. They are worse than useless out in the field. You can’t plug into a generator and recharge in the middle of a combat zone – not if you want to keep breathing.
Having our forces breathing- much less winning- was less important to the Biden Administration & his Pentagon than fighting global warming and having the right pronouns.
You could have something there. You should send a letter,no lots of letters to President Trump and Sec of Defense, Pete Hegseth. Use bright red crayon so they know you are serious! If you don’t get a prompt reply use letters cut from magazines and send your message again. If your hand cramps from all that cutting and pasting invest in a megaphone and shout your brilliant idea for all to hear. Get as close as you can to the W.H. and the Pentagon. Dress in military fatigues and a sequined feather boa. Make them notice you!
Good luck.
You’re an idiot.
That’s an insult to idiots.
As our shamas used to say, you should be on television. That way we could turn you off.
Do what? Musk is an advisor. POTUS isn’t gonna have an EV as primary ground transport vehicle. Weight of an EV from batteries restrict capacity for add on needed like armor. There are some narrow military applications for EV but not as a base vehicle like the jeep or HMMWV aka Humvee.
Put money on it, blowhard.
Black businesses didn’t work, so it’s Teslas.
Remember the days of yore when liberals were afraid of the great threat of terrorism posed by white supremacists?
Typical white conservatives. Couldn’t burn a city down if they tried.
Now liberals, that’s a whole new level of “burning down the house!”
Only 78% of Republicans oppose using vandalism in protests against Tesla? What the heck are the other 22% smoking?
No, 22% of the Democrats lied to the pollster and said they were Republicans.
39% percent of Democrats are domestic terrorists.
“Tesla investor Ross Gerber, the CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management, told Newsweek it’s time for the Tesla board to remove Musk as CEO in a phone interview Thursday evening.”
A loyal Lefti$t businessman who can’t see that the bottom line is being destroyed…not by Musk… but by the Left.
Ful;y in favor of the Hecklers’ Veto. Punish the victim.
I wonder if they would feel this way if it was their businesses burning down or their homes and cars being destroyed, Something tells me they wouldn’t.
I like the old Israeli solition to terrorism – kille the perp and destroy the family home.
39% of Democrats are completely insane and can’t be fixed
Two can play at that game. Republicans should do the same until the Democrats call for a ceasefire.
I assume most of them were lying, and are actually to the left of the Democrats.
The newest idiotic (D) meme not to catch on is “Elon is a thief” – because his customers all use the $7.5k subsidy the (D)s themselves fought for.
Every blessed EV manufacturer gets sales because of that subsidy.
Elon is the ONLY one called a “thief” because of that.
He’s also the only one in the West to actually not lose money making them – because when you come down to it – he’s Elon.
He’s also the only one to openly call for an end to the subsidies – like Trump he’s smart enuf to know when the stupid legislation the (D)s passed that favors him is a stupid idea – but not stupid enuf to be the only one not using it while it’s still The Law.
If I owned a Tesla dealership, on the 29th I would have a day-long barbeque on the premises with free food and beer. I would invite all of the neighborhood, with a special invitation to concealed carriers. Remember the rooftop Koreans!
As with the writer, that 39% of ‘Rat Party Donks believe it OK to torch the private property of others to salve their latest resisty tantrum is pro forma and no surprise; 1 in 5 “Republicans” thinking this way is unacceptable – wrong party. East into the land of Nod with you.
What % of republicans support what happened on 1 /6 which was ten times worse?
Deranged, as usual. Get help.
You truly are a special sort of stupid.
I believe it was close to 39% of Dems who thought Biden was doing a good job until he decided not to run. So that means that they are lost to reason and can be written off as nuts.
Probably Equals the percentage of Democrats who are Marxists
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