The right's outrage about Tesla protests rings especially hollow
round the country over the last couple of months, left-leaning Americans have gathered outside their local Tesla dealers to voice their opinions on Elon Musk. These protests, though numerous, have been mostly small and locally organized. But on Saturday, the anti-Tesla movement attempts to go national and even global. Hundreds of demonstrations organized under the name Tesla Takedown will target Tesla dealerships throughout the U.S., in many places in Europe, and as far away as Australia. The message is simple: Sell your Teslas. Dump your stock. Stop Musk now.
Tesla drivers are peeved. As the head of one Tesla owners group said, people like him want to just drive a car, they dont want have to have a political statement on where they stand with Elon. But their annoyance pales next to conservatives outrage. Fox News host Sean Hannity announced that he is buying a Tesla and is running a sweepstakes where you can win one. Musk is paying the price for taking the lead, said Fox Business host Stuart Varney. Progressives, who frankly hate him ... [are] trying to ruin his business. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., demanded the Justice Department investigate which sinister leftist donors are supposedly funding the anti-Tesla ferment. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-Va., posted a picture of herself standing next to a Tesla.
The right, in short, is appalled that a single American corporation has been targeted for this kind of boycott and criticism, impeding the smooth functioning of the market and the consumers right to make purchasing decisions free from social pressure. But its too late for conservatives to make that argument. They love boycotts, as long as they get to choose the target.
Two years ago, Bud Light sent a trans influencer a beer can with her picture on it as part of its social media outreach, prompting the entire American right to lose their collective minds. If a man drank the same brand of beer as a trans woman hed never heard of until the day before, could he still be a man? The only reasonable response was to put on a MAGA hat, get out a rifle and film yourself pumping bullets into a bunch of beer cans, which is just what Kid Rock did.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-outrage-tesla-protests-rings-100000759.html
Did Kid Rock buy the beer before he shot it up? Make about as much sense as the idiots who bought Nike shoes so they could burn them.

sheshe2
(90,886 posts)BeyondGeography
(40,375 posts)and were crazy to protest an unelected billionaire who hijacks the government when he isnt gutting it, depriving people of their livelihoods, their necessary benefits (in the case of Social Security their earned benefits) and their peace of mind.
This country is insane.
UpInArms
(52,421 posts)A protest in front of a swazicar showroom is just the same as smearing shit on the walls of the Capitol
ETA
not directed at you
just the subject matter
Scrivener7
(54,934 posts)That's sarcasm, right?
I read it as serious at first.
UpInArms
(52,421 posts)
I thought it was fairly dripping with it

Grins
(8,169 posts)
after Keurig pulled its advertising from Hannitys show after he endorsed a guy for Senate who prowled shopping malls for teen girls so he could finger-fuck them.
(Yes; Roy Moore.)
Scrivener7
(54,934 posts)used to circle the Tesla charging stations so the Tesla drivers were blocked from using them because they didn't need no electric vehicles in their Christian towns.