MAGA protestors surrounded a Tesla retailer in California with their fuel vehicles in what needs to be the least efficient counterprotest ever.
Once you want MAGA and Proud Boys to counter-protest to your model, your model is in hassle.
The ‘Tesla Takedown‘ motion is a grassroots motion that has been organizing peaceable protests at Tesla shops all through the US.
Their purpose is to encourage a boycott of Tesla, which they see as Elon Musk’s private piggy financial institution to finance the rise of what they consider is Trump’s authoritarian regime and fascism.
Each weekend for the previous two months, they’ve been holding rising protests at dozens of Tesla areas throughout the US.
There have been fairly a number of altercations with Trump supporters counter-protesting, however we at the moment are beginning to see full-fledged counter-protests by MAGA supporters and even far-right neo-fascist teams, just like the Proud Boys.
At Tesla’s retailer in Rocklin, California, MAGA got here by the handfuls to counter-protest a Tesla protest with a barrage of gasoline vehicles in entrance of the shop:
The issue in MAGA’s logic right here is that their counter-protests is perhaps simply as efficient at deterring potential patrons as Tesla Takedown’s protests.
Who desires to undergo that to purchase a automotive? Proud Boys members have been additionally reportedly on the occasion. Whereas there have been some interactions between the Tesla protestors and counter-protestors, no important incidents have been reported.
Apparently, not a single considered one of these MAGA counter-protestors had a Tesla car. Based mostly on the movies, all of them confirmed as much as assist Tesla in gasoline vehicles.
Electrek’s Take
I’m not gonna lie. I don’t know what timeline we’re in proper now, however it’s a reasonably humorous one. A bunch of MAGA climate-deniers and Proud Boys neo-fascists are displaying as much as “shield” Tesla towards left-leaning protestors who see Elon Musk as utilizing Tesla to finance the rise of fascism within the US.
Only a few years in the past, I by no means thought I might write that.
It’s changing into tougher for folks to argue that Trump will not be authoritarian and fascist, as his administration is now overtly defying a 9-0 Supreme Courtroom order to assist convey again somebody that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement admitted they mistakenly deported and is now in a overseas jail.
Defying a Supreme Courtroom order is as authoritarian because it will get, and deporting folks right into a overseas jail with out due course of is fascist, giving weight to the Tesla Takedown argument that Musk, by financing Trump’s election, is financing the rise of fascism within the US.
In the meantime, Musk lately admitted that his DOGE effort will not be working. He first claimed he thought that he might reduce $2 trillion. He decreased that to $1 trillion final yr. Final week, he stated that he now believes DOGE can save the US about $150 billion in 2026, when his DOGE mandate ends.
On the identical time, Trump is speaking about rising spending and chopping taxes, which can enhance the US deficit, which was the entire cause for DOGE.
It appears like Musk destroyed his fame for nothing.
