Republicans get behind effort to make hating Elon Musk domestic terrorism
Republicans get behind effort to make hating Elon Musk domestic terrorism
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and her colleagues appear to be stepping up the pressure on the FBI and the Attorney General to investigate instances of Tesla vandalism as acts of domestic terrorism, which Donald Trump has championed.
Summary
Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers are pushing to classify vandalism against Tesla as domestic terrorism.
Trump declared that those damaging Tesla dealerships would face terrorism charges, calling the company “a great American company.”
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and others urged the FBI and Attorney General to investigate alleged Democrat-linked NGOs behind Tesla attacks, though no evidence was provided.
Greene may have violated House ethics rules by advocating for Tesla while owning its stock.
Republicans are something society needs to leave behind in full. They literally don't stand for anything and are net negative for society.
The destruction of the mainstream conservative media by companies like NewsCorp have yielded great results for right wing authoritarians.
At this point, they clearly aren't even for corporations or shareholders, given the most recent cascade of economic catastrophes.
This is the only hope for America not to fall, if Trump and Musk also screw the elites too much there will be much more likely a revolution.
Such big man babies, they are going to make it illegal to not like them??? There is not a word in the English language that describes how baby, child like and immature this behavior is. I think we shall call it being musk. They are being extremely musky about this.
Serious question: Historically, has a fascist movement ever been put down without the use of violence?
It always ends in violence. The kind of person that creates these racist movements simply does not operate with a human mentality. They wake up in the morning and their first conscious thought is to benefit themselves, the second one is hurting others to benefit themselves. They are pure evil.
Spain? Not super familiar with their fascist history.
Not once the ball gets rolling, no. Plenty of Fascism has been averted through preemptive nonviolent action though. In fact, that's basically how Democracy works; Constant nonviolent vigilance keeping Fascism at bay. But once Fascism gains traction, the only thing that works to get rid of it is violence. More people need to understand this. It's like that Kyle Reese speech in the first Terminator movie.
"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!"
Not being republican is now illegal. Cool cool cool.
I mean they had to find some way to incentivize people to vote for them.
So, the land of freedom is now trying to tell people what emotions they can feel? Against the guy who's supposed to be a free speech absolutist?
"You can say whatever you want, as long as it doesn't upset me."
The hypocrisy is unbelievable. You'd think they'd at least avoid making themselves look like complete fools, try to hide it a little?
And decided by the guy who started the birther conspiracy, feeds the pedo conspiracy (while openly being one), and told the world that his Presidential rival "turned black".
Fuck Trump and Musk, they both seem to be real musky about being called out for being awful humans. Trump should probably be more concerned with what JD is doing to the White House furniture, going to have to get plastic sheets to cover them all.
You'd think they'd at least avoid making themselves look like complete fools, try to hide it a little?
That'd require the ability to feel shame. These dipshits are proud of their ignorance.
from TFA:
go for the tires. easily accessible. high energy density.
Just avoid setting the whole thing on fire. Lithium battery smoke is extremely toxic.
Nice. If they'd had that as a color option, they might have sold more!
Next thing you know they’ll be calling democrats an insurgency.
They've been waging war on words for years now. Keep using them improperly until they don't have any meaning left. So... totally on brand
They have been... In this very article they claim (with no evidence) that the Democrats are finding the NGOs that are doing this.
What a bunch of snowflakes. What's wrong? Are we hurting his feelings? The richest douchebag, who doesn't know what he's doing, with his head is so far up his own ass I'm sure he can taste it, doesn't like being called what he is? 🎻
Fuck him. I have no pity for fascists. 🖕🏾
Poor Musk
how do we Luigi mtg she has to be a dumb easy bowser
According to this, avoid her magic rings, and jump on her head three times.
SMB3 might be the single greatest video game ever created.
Quick history moment:
The US government has always treated politically motivated vandalism as domestic terrorism.
The FBI defined Earth First!, Earth Liberation Front, and similar radical environmental groups as terrorist organizations decades ago, because they spiked trees and burnt subdivisions and SUV dealerships.
The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act makes it an act of terrorism to vandalize a factory farm or animal research lab - even nonviolent protest that "intimidates" employees is illegal.
Some of y'all are acting like burning car dealerships was protected speech before Trump. Come on.
It's not that. The law will be written vaguely enough to apply to people keying cars or slapping a sticker on them. You should probably start paying more attention. Fascism loves to creep like this.
This coupled with the Laken Reilly act will be used to disappear people. They'll continue writing even more vague laws to classify people as terrorists. And the whole time half this country will just nod their heads and say "yea, makes sense to me. Those guys are bad guys". At least until they come for them or someone they know personally.
If they revoke your greencard then they'll use the same logic to revoke citizenship for immigrants. Then they'll start revoking citizenship for children of immigrants born here. Then anyone that is a "terrorist threat".
Your history is correct. But this is not the same. Don't fall for the reasoning given by fascist for why they want to implement new laws. Ask yourself: if the laws are already on the books to allow these acts of violence to be classified as domestic terrorism then why do they need a new law?
It's because that new law is gonna give them much more power while needing far less (or no) evidence.
This goes a bit further than that. They are trying to make spray-painting "ASSHOLE" on a Tesla an act of terrorism akin to burning down a Tesla factory. The two are not the same. This kind of law would make every graffiti artist a terrorist. That's not what anti-terrorism laws should be used for.
"We Are All Domestic Terrorists."
My dogs face when I'm holding bacon is how I imagine Republicans look when they see a boot.
There is a lot of shit people aren't doing because they don't want to cross the line and become domestic terrorists. You do NOT want to move that line over them.
Is it still terrorism if you destroy a Tesla on January 6th at the U.S. Capitol?
But what about those of us around the world that hate him? Am I an international incident yet?
"terrorist" has been so overused it no longer means much of anything. Like so many other words.
never did. it was always a word to justify state violence.
🌎🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
Stop it guys, you’re scaring him!
We are all domestic terrorists
That only incentivized boycott more
I think those Teslas spontaneously incinerated themselves out of embarassment.
I hate Elon and I don't even disagree with targeting Tesla. But let's be real. Mass targeted vandalism and especially arson are clearly forms of violence. The victims of this violence are civilians and the purpose of the violence is to achieve political goals through instilling fear.
Agree with the actions or not, that's terrorism.
If people started targeting and burning down costcos for being woke/DEI, that would be terrorism for the exact same reason, not because the ideology is different.
People need to stop pussyfooting around the label and accept that words mean certain things. The issue is not whether or not it's terrorism. The argument should be whether or not the actions are justifiable.
It's like whinging about whether or not we say "Osama Bin Laden was killed" or if the person who shot him is a "killer" because killing in general is bad/wrong.
Now the government response of categorizing certain people vs others as terrorists matters. What it means for people resisting Trump matters. But those are different arguments.
Buddy. This is pure rage. Terrorism is calculated. And comparing burning a Tesla to Osama Bin Laden is fucking laughable.
I wasn't comparing Tesla to Osama Bin Laden? I was making an analogy to clarify my point of calling an obvious spade a spade. Terrorism doesn't have to be calculated, it just has to be politically motivated. I happen to agree with the political motivations and stance of the violence in this case. That doesn't change what it is.
Those who make peace revolution impossible make violent revolutions inevitable.
JFK 👆
After 9/11 terrorism gained a much more negative connotation I think. Idk fully about what it was like before since I wasn't alive but in Deep Space Nine you literally have a character who said she was a terrorist and that's not really seen as like an inherently evil thing like it would be in the current day. I think people understood the nuance back then that sometimes terrorism ends up being justified when you're fighting for freedom against an oppressor.
Totally agree.
There is no political goal, He is not a politician. It is to force migrant Elon to pay tax on his loan collateral(stock) by crashing tesla stock prices.
Trying to pin it on Democrats who supposedly funded it is pretty far out. Come on. How much funding does someone really need to make a fire?
Dude I want to live in this world where the Democratic party is so far left that they're burning Teslas and talking about seizing the means of production from Elons factories. I really wish the Democrats were HALF as radical as these idiots on the right pretend they are.
That makes me an international terrorist, i guess 😂
Me too, you wanna hijack a plane? /s
“Who is behind it? Who is funding it? Is there a link with Democrat-leaning NGOs [non-governmental organizations]?” Greene wrote Wednesday on X, hinting at some kind of nefarious conspiracy.
Have you considering the 2 million or so federal workers who were fired thanks to DOGE with Musks face plastered all over it? Pretty big axe to grind there.
Fucking jackasses.
Didn’t think they’d abandon Musk this quickly
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cpac-banner-domestic-terrorists/
"trump was right about everything", denial is the first stage of grief. the rest will come in due time don't worry.
*ANd that's why "You never go full maga..." They should of watched tropical thunder could of prevented their whole movement.
2A supporters are just a bunch of cucks and cowards. They just want their guns to "Ali Wong" themselves and not protect anything.
…”Ali Wong”?
You hate him. Good. Then the time has come for you to take the last step. You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him: you must love him.
That dude is EMBEDDED.
She looks so happy!
Great. Now I wake up a domestic terrorist and I didn't even do anything...