Even before Elon Musk became acting “president” of the United States, Tesla was a bad company. For years, there have been consistent stories (backed up with ample evidence) that Teslas are the deadliest vehicles out there, that they are death traps on wheels, and that Musk never gave a sh-t about safety. Since Musk’s takeover of the American government, people have been protesting Musk through Tesla. There’s been an organic divestment from all things Musk and Tesla, with people selling and trading their Teslas at a steady clip and refusing to buy the cars as well – Tesla sales are facing a significant global slump, and Tesla stocks have fallen more than 40% since Musk “came into office.” Musk has personally lost $121 billion from his net worth in the past three months. People are also vandalizing Tesla dealerships and car lots, especially in Europe. Well, Musk is apparently big sad about it.
Elon Musk has some words for Tesla vandals. Asked about the widespread incidents against Tesla dealerships and vehicles during a Fox News appearance on Tuesday, Musk denounced them and said the vandalism had reached levels he had never seen. He also attributed the incidents to those on the political left.
“It’s really come as quite a shock to me that there is this level of, really, hatred and violence from the left,” Musk said. Protests have spread across the US since Musk began his work with the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, in January. Across the pond, the slogan “Don’t buy a Tesla” has been used as a rallying cry of sorts in countries like Berlin and Wales.
The grassroots “Tesla Takedown” protest movement, which started on BlueSky, a competitor to Musk’s X platform, has called for Tesla owners to sell their vehicles and stock in an effort to “stop Musk now.” A website for the effort has listed dozens of public demonstrations at Tesla showrooms in recent weeks.
“I always thought that the left, you know, Democrats were supposed to be the party of empathy, the party of caring, and yet they’re burning down cars, they’re firebombing dealerships, they’re firing bullets into dealerships, they’re smashing up Teslas,” Musk said.
“Tesla is a peaceful company,” he said. “We’ve never done anything harmful.”
Musk also suggested, without evidence, that the protests and vandalism incidents may be part of a broader conspiracy against him. “I mean, who’s funding and who’s coordinating it? Because this is crazy. I’ve never seen anything like this,” Musk said.
“We’ve never done anything harmful” – beyond all of the Tesla deaths, Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk has used his newfound power to break America’s federal government, put tens of thousands of Americans out of work, publicly Nazi-saluted Donald Trump and the MAGA cult, and openly called for another American civil war. This is not a “broader conspiracy against” Musk, it’s an open protest against all things Elon Musk.
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— Alex Winter (@alexwinter.com) March 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
#TeslaTakeDown in Berkeley today!
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- CPAC, Conservative Political Action Conference is an annual political conference attended by conservative activists and elected officials from across the United States and beyond Featuring: Elon Musk Where: Oxon Hill, Maryland, United States When: 20 Feb 2025 Credit: POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- CPAC, Conservative Political Action Conference is an annual political conference attended by conservative activists and elected officials from across the United States and beyond at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center at National Harbor Featuring: Elon Musk Where: Oxon Hill, Maryland, United States When: 20 Feb 2025 Credit: POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- United States President Donald Trump speaks in front of a group of Tesla vehicles with Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and Senior Advisor to the President of the United States, and his son, X, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. on March 11, 2025. President Trump has said he will buy a Tesla to support Tesla and Elon Musk after recent attacks on Tesla charging stations and calls for boycotts of Tesla products. Featuring: Donald J Trump, Elon Musk, X Musk Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 11 Mar 2025 Credit: Samuel Corum/POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and Senior Advisor to the President of the United States, speaks in front of a group of Tesla vehicles with US President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. on March 11, 2025. President Trump has said he will buy a Tesla to support Tesla and Elon Musk after recent attacks on Tesla charging stations and calls for boycotts of Tesla products. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Sipa USA) Featuring: Donald J Trump, Elon Musk Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 11 Mar 2025 Credit: Samuel Corum/POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- United States President Donald Trump speaks in front of a Tesla Model S with Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and Senior Advisor to the President of the United States, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. on March 11, 2025. President Trump has said he will buy a Tesla to support Tesla and Elon Musk after recent attacks on Tesla charging stations and calls for boycotts of Tesla products. Featuring: Donald J Trump, Elon Musk Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 11 Mar 2025 Credit: Samuel Corum/POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
King of the Dangerous Nerds.
What a loser.
I wouldn’t even classify him as a nerd. He’s nothing but a grifter.
No muskrat it’s not a conspiracy it’s an outright plan to take you down. It’s real and it’s happening!! Get used to it!!
I really recommend following Tim Walz on Bluesky.
He’s having great fun trolling Musk, while also getting the message across even to red areas that Trump and Musk are messing up everything for them.
Did Musk actually think MAGAs were buying his cars? He’s in the “find out” stage of life.
Way to tell on yourself, Elon—“the democrats are supposed to be the party of empathy”. So what does that make him and all the MAGA followers?
“Countries like Berlin and Wales….” erm….
Ugh, the language of the people he needs to communicate with, and unfortunately, I cannot tell you how many Americans think Amsterdam is a country. I’m not kidding.
When my Swiss ex was living in the US, he had to explain to someone that he wasn’t from Sweden on probably a weekly basis. It’s embarrassing.
What do you mean?
Isn’t Holland the capital of Amsterdam?
My MIL did not know that South Africa was a country until…..well some point in the last 10 or so years. I was with her when she was looking at a globe and she was like “wait its a country?” She just thought when people said “South Africa” that they meant the southern part of the continent.
I’m sure grasp of geography will be much improved when education is ‘returned to the states’. When that happens, NY and California should make sure that red states get no subsidy from them. The state wants it, the state pays for it. The most extreme beliefs of evangelical Christianity and pickling vegetables for Armageddon prominent in the curriculum.
I swear all of this is just because these billionaires are still trying to sit at the cool kids lunch tables. I wish we didn’t have to be dragged down because they’re still dealing with being unpopular as teenagers.
That said I don’t understand why these conservatives feel like they should be immune to boycotts? It’s a favorite thing from conservatives to talk about boycott and Disney, or Costco, or Anheuser-Busch because of their ” wokeness”. Now it’s unfair and some sort of conspiracy against him that people don’t have to spend their money supporting his business?!! GMAFB.
Because their feelings are hurt.
See, my theory is that their dads never loved them but yes, it’s all pretty funny coming from the Go Woke Go Broke crowd.
That too. Elon has major dad issues. Just like Murdoch. He’ll never, ever be good enough.
Elon is funnily enough a Cancer (astrologically). So yeah he’s got massive daddy and masculinity issues.
We need a Government Dad to come in and give these guys a hug. Maybe that will make them stop.
Fun fact, Elon‘s stepsister is also his stepmother
Chaine you are correct. That story is so crazy the first time I heard it I thought this can’t possibly be true.
Wasn’t his mom on TV recently telling people they should have more kids and stop going to movies so they could afford those kids? You know what’s better than avoiding movies? Avoiding her son’s expensive cars. I did and I’m enjoying my avocado toast this morning…
Disney is an interesting case.
First the right boycotted them because they were “woke”, now the left is also boycotting them because they started bowing for Trump.
That’s exactly it—they want to be cool, they want to be rock stars, with groupies fawning all over them and the envy of all.
They’re used to us being the nice ones that you can treat in whatever horrible way they want.
They think it’s perfectly fine to deprive us of everything, but cry when we don’t smile at them.
Yep.
Booohoo asswipe, I cannot even tell you how happy I am about this!
Hitting him where it hurts because really that’s all he ( and they) care about. Becoming richer and more powerful, with total disregard for any and all poor souls who stand in the way of them and money. I hope Tesla tanks completely.
@Carrie: what is it with cancers?! Freaking know-it-all entitled brats who act like they’re too good for you, but then get jealous if you dare to spend time with other people. I’ve known many cancers, both male and female, and I’ve had volatile dynamics with every one of them.
Zero sympathy for the Nazi-loving, douche bag.
Sorry to sound racist, but…
GO BACK TO SOUTH AFRICA, FOREIGNER. NOBODY WANTS YOU HERE.
I love those posts on Reddit saying this is the one person you can shout go back to Africa to! Lol Then Africans chime in don’t send him back here!
Canada is trying to ascertain whether they can charge him with fraud. There’s been widespread support of stripping him of his Canadian citizenship with some even calling for him to be charged with treason in Canada.
Remember VH1’s best week ever? Dude’s worst year ever – and it’s only going downhill from here.
He just assumed the rest of the world would be like the MAGA racists clapping like seals in the room at his stupid nazi salute, and when he realized he did not read the rest of the rooms correctly, he had the nerve to blame his racism on autism.
Please do it ASAP Canada. You’ll be doing the rest of the world a massive favour.
I saw a Doug Ford clip yesterday: “We’re ripping up Ontario’s Starlink contract. It’s over. It’s done. We won’t award contracts to people who encourage & enable economic attacks on our province & our country.”
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The YT clip went on to say Starlink is/was EM’s growth vehicle & there’s 1.5million customers in the US. CA is its 2nd largest market w/ 530K. Mexico is 3rd @ 435K. Competitors like Telesat or Explorer should have no trouble quickly raising capital to step into those markets.
Canada could shut down starlink for security reasons at this point.
Carrie,
That’s not racist, it’s xenophobic. But in this case it’s appropriate. 😉
It’s just you Elon.
Anyone with a brain doesn’t like you so you’ll just have to live with that. Your character needs a 180 so do take the Tesla boycott very, very personally. 🙂
Also, is he asking the Democrats for forgiveness or rescue? What a strange man. Getty vibes.
Take down Starlink next.
YES. Call companies that do business with Starlink and tell them you’re boycotting until they sever ties with Starlink. My mom was talking to a rep at T Mobile about signing up with them, and then he told her they’re in partnership with Starlink. She said, “in that case, never mind” and hung up.
Thanks for the heads up about Starlink and T-Mobile. I’m switching carriers right now! Don’t want that fucker spying on me.
I like your mom.
“…they’re burning down cars, they’re firebombing dealerships, they’re firing bullets into dealerships, they’re smashing up Teslas”
While Republicans fucking beating and killing and destroying ACTUAL LIVING, BREATHING PEOPLE. This pathetic, inhuman piece of shit. Sketchy K dealers of America, please do your worst. Quickly.
Miranda, I think I liked one of your comments recently, and I’m back to say you’ve done it again!
Yes please sketchy K dealers, you know what’s up!!!!
There has been quite a lot in the British press recently about people OD-ing on ‘Special K’. We can only hope ……
“We’ve never done anything harmful”
Putting tens of thousands of Americans out of work is just a number for him. Just playing around in a spreadsheet or something. He has no concept of the impact on thousands of families.
Like a big fucking baby pushing random buttons “What does this one do???”
It’s unreal to watch this man single-handedly destroy his companies and his legacy. He has annihilated any last bit of good will people had towards him. He won’t be remembered as a scientist, an engineer, or an innovator–he’ll be remembered as a billionaire tyrant who helped to destroy America.
Sh*t, shutting down all those USAID offices & stopping the grants has literally caused the deaths of people. ‘No harm’. 😡
While brandishing a chainsaw….so not violent 🙄
I wonder how much of this is true: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sneider_dark-maga-if-youre-a-little-confused-activity-7304595429201981442-aJs5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAABMnNkBdH5uUpq_Z0Nex9NinKKMJzLRAl8
It’s definitely true. Vance has referenced Yarvin (who is batshit crazy) many many times.
What about this: https://youtu.be/gE7xoHJkgvE?si=Axz0nGx5Zj1vAYlM
Yes, this a all true, and thanks for posting this here. A great synopsis. Yarvin’s writing is truly scary. These neo-Nazi tech bro’s really do want to replace democracy with corporate-run dictatorship.
Oh boo fucking hoo dude is only worth $320B instead of $450B. Even as he slashes vital programs like social security and Medicaid. It’s amazing how we’re supposed to feel sympathy for an unelected billionaire who is quite literally trying to kill us and replace us with AI. Fuck right off, sir.
right??? hes lost over 100 billion and is STILL the richest man in the world, and is trying to take away healthcare and social security from people barely scraping by.
Tax.The.Rich.
He desperately want’s the title of Trillionaire. His new uniform should be a bright red dress w/a peter pan collar because he’s practically Veruca Salt-ing the earth in order to get it.
Awww poor little nazi. The 1 thing ALL MAGA people have i common is they are sucks!
Boo hoo sucks to be you!
Cry more Elmo. Sounds like you need a vacation, why don’t you go hop on one of your rocket ships and take a break for a while? Twenty or thirty years sounds about right. I mean Teslur and X can’t do any worse while you’re away right?
Let’s not forget that Tesla has been sued many times for racial discrimination so to say that Tesla has never done anything harmful is delusional and is a peaceful company is delusional and a lie.
This. They literally instituted their own version of apartheid in the California Tesla factory (since closed and moved to Texas).
Total lack of self awareness. He such a bro-y douche notwithstanding all the stuff for Trump. He just is not very likable. Combined with breaking federal agencies, plummeting of the DC real estate market and mass firings and personally poor judgement like bringing your toddler to the White House – the dislike is pretty universal on the left. How long will it take him to realize that? I think he’s autistic. Maybe his therapist will have to break it to him.
I don’t think he has a therapist unless it’s male which won’t be because of his daddy issues.
He needs a female therapist who is not of child-bearing age but I think he dislikes women who can’t breed.
Hence, I don’t think he has a therapist 😂
Being neurodivergent does not make you an asshole. That’s his choice.
Yes, for all of Bill Gates’ faults, he never sought to overthrow American democracy nor install Nazis and anti-scientists in.
Please don’t blame his shithead tendencies on being autistic. Plenty of autistic people (myself included) are appalled by what he’s doing, and would never even dream of doing anything like this themselves even if they had the means. This is someone who has never faced consequences, who has had everything handed to him, who has never had to deal with anything more than people not kissing his ass when and how he demands. Contrary to popular belief, you can be autistic and be a perfectly nice, kind, loving person. It seems the real issue here isn’t his autism, but the fact that he has never actually has to interact with other people as people.
Indeed.
A lot of autistic people are very empathic to other people.
The ‘no feelings’ thing is an absurd lie, and only created because feelings are expressed less or differently.
I very much doubt he’s autistic. It’s something else and far less friendly.
I knew this man was a blithering idiot when I read his views about 1) free speech and 2) fertility rates. Clearly has ZERO understanding of relevant policy and it’s not hard to learn, even a 101 class would impart that. The way he was blathering his views on the internet without bothering to learn a thing told me this man was a fool long before he demonstrated his stupidity at X and now.
The Tesla divestment campaign is one of the few things that’s actually working against Musk and the regime. Leon can dish it out but he can’t take it. As for the left supposedly being empathetic, speaking for myself, my empathy for Nazis is non-existent.
They think of the left as feminine and to them feminine is:
Lower than them, easy to abuse and we are still expected to smile at them and cuddle them no matter what they do.
When we don’t ‘operate’ like that, they start screaming foul.
We are conspiring for him to fail😊
I love that this is the type of boycott people just started doing by their own accord.
It didn’t start with a few leaders saying: “Let’s stop buying TESLA”.
More and more people themselves decided to stop buying TESLA over the last year or so because they hate this clown and now it became a movement.
“I always thought that the left, you know, Democrats were supposed to be the party of empathy, the party of caring…” Seriously? The right has ridiculed, vilified and called everything about the left as evil, and now he wants compassion from them? And now, even MAGAs are starting to hate Musk. Good job, dude. You wanted everything, but you’re going to end up with nothing.
Exactly.
They’re always sooooooo offended when we don’t like them anymore, despite all the abuse they give.
Very comparable to how misogynists want to treat women and why they get angered so quickly. They want woment to have way higher standards for our own behavior than they set for themselves and get mad when we don’t meet them.
Piggybacking on this, as it’s so close to what struck me: “quite a shock to me that there is this level of, really, hatred and violence from the left”–really showing his whole ass here–yah, you already knew the level of hatred and violence on the RIGHT and that’s who you decided to align yourself with. People on the left are standing up and pushing back on VEHICLES, for God’s sake–Lefties aren’t separating you from your family, we aren’t putting you on a plane and not following the law…jesus these people cannot handle when the world THAT WAS LITERALLY BUILT FOR THEM quivers even slightly.
YES! Exactly this!
The guy appealing to the people on the ‘left’ for empathy is the guy who stated this week “the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.”
Empathy for ME but not for thee!
Conspiracy implies secrecy. Everyone is being very vocal about why they are against Tesla.
Read the room N*zi Ellen
People don’t want to buy Swasticars, thus the massively overvalued Swastistock is crashing.
“countries like Berlin and Wales.”
Ehm… 😀
EDIT: saw another commenter already said almost exactly the same thing lol
The reality is that he overstayed his student visa and should have been deported for that years ago.
The brutal reality of FAFO! Glad to see the global backlash against that unhinged, ketamine-addicted, Nazi-loving fascist Elon!!
Key them, paint them, sticker them, just don’t burn the cars. Firefighters are begging people to consider the toxic gasses released when Teslas are burnt.
Otherwise, carry on gutting this turd of a company. Also destroy your Alexas, and stop using Amazon.
No, please don’t vandalize Teslas. I bought the car before I knew, and I can’t afford to offload it. The day after the election, a white woman in her 60s keyed my car on the door opening to my autistic son’s huge car seat. I had parked the car in our doctors’ office parking lot to take in my immunocompromised daughter for a checkup. Please don’t punish me and my family, and make us scared for our lives, because we chose to get an environmentally friendly car. I have enough in my plate to then also be punished by people who need a more productive outlet for the anger (that I also share).
I wish this horrible man would sell the company he did not found.
Keep it going. Make him Hurt.
#TeslaTakedown March 29
Fuck him.
This little man has the nerve to say that the liberals have no empathy and are mentally ill. He sided with the J6 whackos who have now turned against him. He has legal issues in other countries which will allow them to take his assets. I truly believe that he is over extended. If FAFO were a person. Now that other countries realize that he is using Starlink to help Russia against Ukraine, he’ll be crying about Starlink soon. He’s arrogance is his downfall.
When he decided to change parties and went more right, that’s when it’s been going downhill for him.
Musk didn’t create Tesla he just bought it out like twitter. He cuts corners and makes the product worse. He just knows the products are things people want and thus will put up with his shenanigans longer than otherwise. Hopefully tide is turning
Tesla’s consumer base was never compatible with MAGA. Different incomes, motivations, access to charging stations, stylistic and function preferences, tech savvy. He ran out of buyers on the left, tried to expand to a wider audience, entered a spiral of hubris and greed, and here we are. Now he’s trying to placate the original base, but he took things entirely too far and consumers are fickle. Rivian and BMW can supply tech bros with superior vehicles. Any basic business sense and he would have stayed out of politics entirely. This is not ASD, it’s the stupidity of one person.
Bwahaha! Feelon Muskrat has never seen his wealthy liberal clientele turn on him for having no empathy and slashing our government? Our vital programs like health insurance and social security retirement are ponzi schemes according to him. You know what is not a ponzi scheme? Retirement savings. Government programs for Veterans that have bled and sacrificed for us. He has betrayed us, his customers. The least we can do is repay him by scorning his substandard cars. The power plant near me has had repeated Tesla power plant battery fires! What a coincidence! There are many, documented cases of Teslas batteries blowing up and catching on fire. He’s empowered by our dollars, we can now remove that power. Elon you’re fired! LoL. Let’s get rid of this knuckle dragging grinning buffoon bootlicking orange deranged red tie Daddy. Go back to South Africa you are not an American, you do not understand or respect us. Stop *aping us as a country. You ungrateful unhinged prig. Let’s drain him of all his net worth. Boo hoo psycho clown. Don’t expect a penny to come your way from us ever again. Expect more shock and loss Elon. We will never forget what you’ve done, what ALL of you have done.
It’s true… we are all conspiring to make him go away … fat and for a long long long long long long time