We’ve reported over the last few weeks about instances of Tesla showrooms facing protests, with some Tesla owners and prospective owners being flipped off and sworn at and told not to “buy swasticars” unless they want to be lumped in with a supposed coup-staging “Nazi” like Elon Musk.
In two particularly disturbing incidents, the same Tesla location in Salem, Oregon, was targeted twice, with the first incident reportedly being an act of arson and the second one being shots fired into the building.
Tesla owners in states like California have also faced threats, with some allegedly finding notes tied to bricks on their cars that read in part “no Nazis in America” and which also contained warnings of an “open season” on anyone who didn’t sell or trade their Teslas by a certain date.
One glaring common denominator in all of this is the fact that much of what we’re hearing about has taken place out west in liberal enclaves. It would appear there is a bit of “left eats left” action at play when one considers the left’s fondness for electric vehicles.
As evidence, we turn to Seattle NPR news station KUOW, which has talked to and heard from several Tesla owners who say they are “deeply conflicted” about owning the vehicle:
Hoffmeister owns a Tesla herself, but hers is dirty and has a bumper sticker saying, “I bought this before he was a fascist weirdo.”Like many Seattleites, she’s deeply conflicted about owning the car: Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s full-throated support of Donald Trump, recent moves to downsize the federal government, and apparent Nazi gestures and jokes haven’t gone over well in this part of Washington state.
From replacing the brand’s logos with others to getting rid of the vehicles altogether, we heard from dozens of local drivers about how they’re navigating the politics of Tesla ownership in 2025.[…]…the city also has more Teslas per capita than any other American city except for San Francisco and Honolulu.
They also noted that they received an “untraceable email” from someone who claimed to be behind some of the acts of Tesla vandalism in one Seattle neighborhood:
“I keyed two of them (with a knife) and used spray paint on two more. I wear a mask so I do not show up on the Tesla security cameras. I am doing it so that people see the vandalism and are less likely to buy a Tesla, which will hurt our unelected dictator, Elon Musk,” they wrote.
Relatedly, videos are surfacing of Tesla owners who are out on the road being harassed in apparent road rage incidents where drivers are being flipped off by people driving in other vehicles:
Before the 2008 election, I was targeted on two different occasions while driving by other drivers who did not like my “Nobama” bumper sticker. In one of them, a woman kept wildly weaving back and forth between lanes after getting in front of me, presumably to make sure I saw her Obama-Biden sticker. In the second incident, I firmly believe the guys in the vehicle were trying to run me off the road.
There is just no call for this type of behavior. At all. These Musk Derangement Syndrome sufferers are going to get someone hurt or worse if they don’t stop. And the even sadder part about it is that, depending on where it happens, there may be a soft on crime prosecutor who would try to get them off the hook.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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