Leftists always justify what they do because they claim to be morally superior. I'm convinced they'd put a bullet in my head and sleep soundly that night, secure in the smug feeling that it was for the common good.
The modern Democrat party is every bit like the Bolsheviks, Maoists, or Jacobins. They firmly believe their use of terror, intimidation, and violence are legitimate means to advance their agenda.
When they say "By any means necessary," they mean it.
Most people buying Teslas are might one say uppity, above average income, college educated, leftist minded flakes. Save the climate? No it’s more about looking cool to your neighbors. More importantly it shows your ideological persuasions. And those aren’t pretty at all. These are basically people all in for voting for democrats. And that my friend is deliciously called payback. Democrats are definitely mentally ill and hate the USA with all of their evil wicked and stupid hearts.
As a Latin Mass attending Catholic, the likes of which was labeled a "domestic threat" by the FBI, I can barely contain my rage at watching how these protests are being encouraged, celebrated and validated by those who would have gladly thrown me in cage for praying outside an abortion clinic. I can only hope that there are enough "normies" on the Left that can see this behavior for what it is - straight up terrorism.
Shared on social media and with friends in local emergency services. Thank you.
I've also advocated for the local fire departments to charge the perpetrators with criminal and civil charges against government employees and interfering with government operations.
The chemicals in these fires are highly toxic even when wearing appropriate breathing apparatus and protective gear, the fires are extremely hot due to the type of batteries and metals burning and the duration of the fires, they are very complicated to put out unlike regular car fires, so are overly dangerous to emergency personnel. That also means they can cause extra danger to any civilian who tries to help victims out of the cars.
(I was a volunteer firefighter for 11 years, taught fire safety education with the County Fire Marshall's Office for 8+ years, and have had close connections to emergency services personnel for over 40 years.)
Wow, I’d sell my Tesla, but I have a feeling that the market for Teslas is softening. Ironically, my guess is that most Tesla owners, like me, were not Trump supporters. I’m trying to think of the humorous side of this, and all I can really come up with is the fact that I’m going to cancel my reservation for a cyber truck that I put money down on. Politics makes strange truck bed fellows I guess!
It's not. Idiots made it political when they made buying a vehicle about being on the "green" side or you were killing the planet and the future of human life. Then Musk was their savior from death and darling.
Now that he's trying to DO what Clinton, Gore, and Obama said they would do in the '90s and 2000s to reduce fraud and waste in government so they had more to spend on people at home Musk is their satan. And the idiots are destroying their precious planet by burning his products thinking 1) We'll bankrupt him (absurd, he's got billions) 2) We're so noble (while burning toxic crap into the air that's going to destroy the planet more than cow farts) 3) We'll all buy Chevy trucks and show him. (and contribute to global warming, what blasphemers!) Keep your Tesla. Go, DOGE.
(I kept my 2005 gas guzzler with no tech and plan proudly to milk it til I die, thank you very much. But I may put a decal on it that says, "My car identifies as a Tesla". And eat beef!)
Sorry guys, but I must take exception. (John knows that that apology is insincere, because he knows that I live to take exception, hopefully polite exception.) Buying a car has long been a highly political act. Early ony following World War II there was tremendous resentment against people who bought German or Japanese cars. “See the USA in a Chevrolet” was more than just a catchy slogan that rhymed, it was an exhortation to patriotism. The rise of the quality of Japanese cars in particular was an early harbinger of the reshaping of the world into a global order intentionally (and in my mind brilliantly) lead by the United States at Bretton Woods. The kind of car a person owned and drove had more to do with their status than it did with its functionality and reliability, and status is inherently a political statement. What is fascinating to me is that the ownership of a Tesla as a form of political statement is a perfect manifestation of the principal symbolized by the story of the Tower of Babel, a story with fascinating significance to our proliferating digital world. When I first bought my Tesla, I did so partially as a statement of affirmation of things that I believed in that are inherently political. I supported the concept of a cleaner form of transportation (I realize that's debatable), the power of individualism represented by Elon Musk's “go it alone” entrepreneurial spirit, resistance to the dominance of entrenched corporate interests, and a variety of other things that I felt were essentially Liberal. Now the ownership of a Tesla speaks to so many different things to so many different people across the political spectrum that the message is completely garbled. I still think it's an amazing vehicle, but what I'm saying by owning it is, at this point, is pure babble. As the brilliantly lucid thinker Michael Sandel said in a recent interview, all politics comes down to identity at some point, and it’s largely tied to economics. The kind of car we drive has much to do with how we identify ourselves. What is most troubling to me is the desperation and volubility attached to our collective need to proclaim our identity as one kind of American as opposed to another. This doesn’t happen when a people are united against a common enemy, take for example the Chinese In WWII fighting the Japanese. It happens when a people are too weak as a nation to stand tall in the world’s school yard and must find someone nearby whom they perceive as smaller to pick on, as it did in Germany post-WWI. We should all stop thinking about what these unreliable indices of supposed identity mean, identify as Americans without applying litmus tests to one another’s identities, and leave it at that. We will not build ourselves up by identifying what divides us, but rather what unites us.
I cannot resist making one other observation to refute you when you say, “The kind of car a person owned and drove had more to do with their status than it did with its functionality and reliability, and status is inherently a political statement.”
When we bought our house in the mountains here (where, others should know, you and I shared a memorable long weekend), I sold my Porsche 911 and bought a Dodge Ram pick-up. Political statement? No, pure functionality— I can load my dog, plenty of fishing gear, and more rocks and mulch in my truck that I could ever squeeze into a 911!
And, more to the point, I’ve owned a lot of trucks and I’ve always felt that they did make a statement about me as well as being highly practical. I loved that statement. In my early years living in Idaho and hauling kayaks around in my trucks, I was always aware of the fact that even though I was broke starting out, driving old truck around made a statement that driving an old wreck of a car didn’t. I never got to drive a Porsche around but I would’ve liked to have made that statement. Just has people have long debated whether clothes make the man or the man makes the clothes, we can have a similar debate about types of vehicles. In your case John, both Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG and Chrysler are in your debt.
Breck, you make a valid historical point that many Americans’ refusal to buy German and Japanese cars after WW II was a political decision. But I think that your thoughtful comment inadvertently makes a larger point that perhaps you did not intend.
I began drafting a comment in reply but it quickly became too long, so I have decided to make it a separate post.
I am leaving shortly to drive up to the mountains, so it will be later in the day before I can finish what I have started. Stay tuned for more, my friend.
Leftists always justify what they do because they claim to be morally superior. I'm convinced they'd put a bullet in my head and sleep soundly that night, secure in the smug feeling that it was for the common good.
The modern Democrat party is every bit like the Bolsheviks, Maoists, or Jacobins. They firmly believe their use of terror, intimidation, and violence are legitimate means to advance their agenda.
When they say "By any means necessary," they mean it.
And they always have. It's just that stupid people refuse to believe them.
Thanks, John. It's terrorism. It is part of the Marxist playbook.
Most people buying Teslas are might one say uppity, above average income, college educated, leftist minded flakes. Save the climate? No it’s more about looking cool to your neighbors. More importantly it shows your ideological persuasions. And those aren’t pretty at all. These are basically people all in for voting for democrats. And that my friend is deliciously called payback. Democrats are definitely mentally ill and hate the USA with all of their evil wicked and stupid hearts.
Launching a terror action against a member of Delta who owns a Tesla? Talk about a death wish!
As a Latin Mass attending Catholic, the likes of which was labeled a "domestic threat" by the FBI, I can barely contain my rage at watching how these protests are being encouraged, celebrated and validated by those who would have gladly thrown me in cage for praying outside an abortion clinic. I can only hope that there are enough "normies" on the Left that can see this behavior for what it is - straight up terrorism.
I just might stop by our local dealership on the 29th with a dozen doughnuts.
That is a great idea!
incitement
Shared on social media and with friends in local emergency services. Thank you.
I've also advocated for the local fire departments to charge the perpetrators with criminal and civil charges against government employees and interfering with government operations.
The chemicals in these fires are highly toxic even when wearing appropriate breathing apparatus and protective gear, the fires are extremely hot due to the type of batteries and metals burning and the duration of the fires, they are very complicated to put out unlike regular car fires, so are overly dangerous to emergency personnel. That also means they can cause extra danger to any civilian who tries to help victims out of the cars.
(I was a volunteer firefighter for 11 years, taught fire safety education with the County Fire Marshall's Office for 8+ years, and have had close connections to emergency services personnel for over 40 years.)
Thank YOU for your informative comment and for sharing.
DemZzz mental illness running rampant 😳👹💥🤪🙃
Wow, I’d sell my Tesla, but I have a feeling that the market for Teslas is softening. Ironically, my guess is that most Tesla owners, like me, were not Trump supporters. I’m trying to think of the humorous side of this, and all I can really come up with is the fact that I’m going to cancel my reservation for a cyber truck that I put money down on. Politics makes strange truck bed fellows I guess!
Why should buying a car be political?
It's not. Idiots made it political when they made buying a vehicle about being on the "green" side or you were killing the planet and the future of human life. Then Musk was their savior from death and darling.
Now that he's trying to DO what Clinton, Gore, and Obama said they would do in the '90s and 2000s to reduce fraud and waste in government so they had more to spend on people at home Musk is their satan. And the idiots are destroying their precious planet by burning his products thinking 1) We'll bankrupt him (absurd, he's got billions) 2) We're so noble (while burning toxic crap into the air that's going to destroy the planet more than cow farts) 3) We'll all buy Chevy trucks and show him. (and contribute to global warming, what blasphemers!) Keep your Tesla. Go, DOGE.
(I kept my 2005 gas guzzler with no tech and plan proudly to milk it til I die, thank you very much. But I may put a decal on it that says, "My car identifies as a Tesla". And eat beef!)
Unfortunately, inadvertence has always been my strong suit. Fire away my friend.
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https://youtu.be/AtO2L_ydO7A
Sorry guys, but I must take exception. (John knows that that apology is insincere, because he knows that I live to take exception, hopefully polite exception.) Buying a car has long been a highly political act. Early ony following World War II there was tremendous resentment against people who bought German or Japanese cars. “See the USA in a Chevrolet” was more than just a catchy slogan that rhymed, it was an exhortation to patriotism. The rise of the quality of Japanese cars in particular was an early harbinger of the reshaping of the world into a global order intentionally (and in my mind brilliantly) lead by the United States at Bretton Woods. The kind of car a person owned and drove had more to do with their status than it did with its functionality and reliability, and status is inherently a political statement. What is fascinating to me is that the ownership of a Tesla as a form of political statement is a perfect manifestation of the principal symbolized by the story of the Tower of Babel, a story with fascinating significance to our proliferating digital world. When I first bought my Tesla, I did so partially as a statement of affirmation of things that I believed in that are inherently political. I supported the concept of a cleaner form of transportation (I realize that's debatable), the power of individualism represented by Elon Musk's “go it alone” entrepreneurial spirit, resistance to the dominance of entrenched corporate interests, and a variety of other things that I felt were essentially Liberal. Now the ownership of a Tesla speaks to so many different things to so many different people across the political spectrum that the message is completely garbled. I still think it's an amazing vehicle, but what I'm saying by owning it is, at this point, is pure babble. As the brilliantly lucid thinker Michael Sandel said in a recent interview, all politics comes down to identity at some point, and it’s largely tied to economics. The kind of car we drive has much to do with how we identify ourselves. What is most troubling to me is the desperation and volubility attached to our collective need to proclaim our identity as one kind of American as opposed to another. This doesn’t happen when a people are united against a common enemy, take for example the Chinese In WWII fighting the Japanese. It happens when a people are too weak as a nation to stand tall in the world’s school yard and must find someone nearby whom they perceive as smaller to pick on, as it did in Germany post-WWI. We should all stop thinking about what these unreliable indices of supposed identity mean, identify as Americans without applying litmus tests to one another’s identities, and leave it at that. We will not build ourselves up by identifying what divides us, but rather what unites us.
I cannot resist making one other observation to refute you when you say, “The kind of car a person owned and drove had more to do with their status than it did with its functionality and reliability, and status is inherently a political statement.”
When we bought our house in the mountains here (where, others should know, you and I shared a memorable long weekend), I sold my Porsche 911 and bought a Dodge Ram pick-up. Political statement? No, pure functionality— I can load my dog, plenty of fishing gear, and more rocks and mulch in my truck that I could ever squeeze into a 911!
lOL, picturing a 911 “goin’ fishing”
And, more to the point, I’ve owned a lot of trucks and I’ve always felt that they did make a statement about me as well as being highly practical. I loved that statement. In my early years living in Idaho and hauling kayaks around in my trucks, I was always aware of the fact that even though I was broke starting out, driving old truck around made a statement that driving an old wreck of a car didn’t. I never got to drive a Porsche around but I would’ve liked to have made that statement. Just has people have long debated whether clothes make the man or the man makes the clothes, we can have a similar debate about types of vehicles. In your case John, both Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG and Chrysler are in your debt.
OK, so the shoe doesn’t fit and you don’t have to wear it. That doesn’t mean it’s not a shoe.
Breck, you make a valid historical point that many Americans’ refusal to buy German and Japanese cars after WW II was a political decision. But I think that your thoughtful comment inadvertently makes a larger point that perhaps you did not intend.
I began drafting a comment in reply but it quickly became too long, so I have decided to make it a separate post.
I am leaving shortly to drive up to the mountains, so it will be later in the day before I can finish what I have started. Stay tuned for more, my friend.
Are there preparations for March 29?