The Tesla Takedown group will be holding a protest in Watertown on March 15. See the announcement provided by William Beckett.
We are protesting Elon Musk/Tesla. Unelected Elon is using his DOGE to dismantle programs including programs for vulnerable children and veterans. Elon had the nerve to call Social Security a “PONZI” scheme!
Billionaire Elon says he wants to be a trillionaire, he supports tax cuts for the wealthy only to enrich himself. He does not care about the American people.
No one is coming to save us, we must persevere, protest and boycott for as long as necessary. It may be week after week, month after month, year after year. We must sustain these protests for as long as necessary.
Most importantly we will do so peacefully and courageously.
Open to all concerned citizens
Start: Saturday, March 15, 2025, 10:00 AM
End: Saturday, March 15, 2025, 12:00 PM
Location: Tesla Service Center, 457 Pleasant Street Watertown, MA
“Most importantly we will do so peacefully and courageously.”
“Peacefully” would put you at odds with your brothers and sisters burning and shooting up Tesla property around the country. If this is your answer to my oft-asked plea to denounce the violence rampant across the land, it… will have to do, I guess.
PS: Social Security IS a Ponzi scheme, as the SSA itself would freely admit. Named after Massachusetts’ own Charles Ponzi, it is “a form of fraud in which belief in the success of a nonexistent enterprise is fostered by the payment of quick returns to the first investors from money invested by later investors”. We Baby Boomers will have sucked SS dry (as we have so much else) by the time we shuffle off this mortal coil. Sorry about that, but we all should have had more children. Instead, we scared our kids out of having families to save the planet. Which is what EVs like Tesla are supposed to be doing. So what gives? Do you people even listen to yourselves? I’m about done.
Which cuts did DOGE cut specifically that you don’t like?
Please list them so I can make an educated decision on protest.
Interesting…No programs have been cut that serve our children or veterans. Months ago you loved Tesla.
Count me in! Boycott, protests, town halls and the lower courts make a difference. Tesla’s stock was heading down over a year ago, anyway, because Musk does not solve problems – he creates them. They also had to end Republican town halls because Republican constituents were vehemently angry over the purposed cuts. Montana just protected some transgender rights because it was government overreach to enact certain laws.
Everything the administration attempts to do is a test, and when people don’t stand up then it is taken as an acceptance. Almost every time there is push back, the administration has had to backpaddle. Where are the tariffs? They rely on our demoralization, fear and division. Don’t give in to that. Ignore the critics. The critics benefit, otherwise they wouldn’t be voicing opposition. If it didn’t have an impact, they’d remain silent. This is not a left-right issue; it’s a liberal vs illiberal issue and who benefits. More people did not vote than voted for either Trump or Harris, and he got the slightest margin (1.5%). There is no mandate just a lot of people who wanted someone else.
Regardless, fight for the programs. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid , the National Parks, Department of Education, the VA and many more are all on the on line. No amount of charity or donations the persons insured by these programs. But the administration and its supporters do want things covered. They don’t even want R&D covered. R&D means innovation. Innovation means competition. Competition means no monopolies. Monopiles mean no choices. Remember everything the go after or against is competition for their messaging, their programming or their way of operating. They can’t win in the battle for ideas. Once the church was displaced in the natural chain of order, the king got more rights. Once the king did that, the people displaced him. I will fight to keep the United State from becoming a monarchist society with serfs. Happy St Patrick’s Day to all my Irish American friends and Happy Evacuation Day to all Americans – send the monarchists back!
And no violence! If you won’t denounce violence, at least don’t add to the pandemic of violence on the left. Arson, too. Leave the Molotov cocktails at home. No property damage, either. Which includes spray paint, stickers, “keying”, and any other defacement of private property. You don’t have to buy a Tesla, but you might like it as much as my friends like theirs. It’s “beautiful”, as President Trump said of his. “Everything’s computer!” Who would want that?
No violence, only peaceful tourist protest and legitimate political discourse, just like we saw with our own eyes on January 6, 2021. The hypocrisy of MAGA on this issue is mind boggling. But no worries…we have the used car salesman in chief shilling for Tesla on the White House lawn while the stock market tanks. What a world.
Let’s talk about the violence on January 6. How about that? And Charlottesville. You don’t seem to want to talk about the violence that Trump has fomented?
Please. . .this is whataboutism at its finest. I am sure that Rita doesn’t have a Molotov Cocktail in her backpack.
Good graciousness. . .
No Molotov cocktail just mace and an umbrella. The only property I have ever damaged was in a couple of minor fender benders. I have been on the other side of it. Someone wrote on my car once during the second Iraq war because they didn’t like my bumper sticker. They wrote in a sharpie, “Next time you decide to speak out about the president and war, I will slash your tires.” And there have been the occasional Halloween pranks. All super annoying, but no died. If people find speaking up as violent, then they need to cover their ears.
Then I wish you all the best in your exercise of our First Amendment on Saturday!
Give it a rest Josh. No decent person makes false accusations against well intentioned neighbors. No one on this board is going to take the bait.
Typical Republican tactic: Distract from the real issues by making spurious allegations. All in the service of defending the indefensible.
Can’t wait to see the pictures from the protests. Were there as many swastikas and SS imagery as I saw elsewhere around the country? As many uses of “Nazi”? As many pictures of burning Teslas? While Elon Musk’s spaceship was docking with the ISS to rescue astronauts stranded for nine months (thank you, President Biden), protestors gathered to slander the man who made possible what all of NASA failed to do. That’s free speech, even if the 2026/28 election commercials make themselves. Same time next week?
Sorry “no violence” is triggering to you! But no one here will denounce it. Not once. As I have repeatedly, most recently to you, Joe. I’m starting to wonder. “Goodness gracious” are just the words I was looking for. Thanks.
Not triggered at all. You are trying to make a big deal out of an issue that doesn’t really exist here. Just more false equivalence bovine excrement.
Hark, is that a renunciation of violence I hear? Still no? Maybe next time. I may no longer be a liberal, but I’m forever a bleeding heart.
That’s today’s opportunity blown. But tomorrow is another day. Any day is a good day to denounce, renounce, repudiate violence. Which is why I do, every day, without rest. Except for her mace and umbrella, Rita had no problem either. So, every day, and every dyspeptic comment, I wonder more and more about those who just can’t. Even after all these days, it still doesn’t feel like too much to ask.
On and on. . .like a broken record. . .and no one is listening. . .no one cares
Meanwhile in NY:
“ A deranged, anti-Elon Musk dad scrawled a swastika on the side of a Cybertruck in Brooklyn in a brazen attack caught on security footage and viewed by The Post. Michael Lewis, 42, a self-described “geek of all trades, master of few,” was charged by police with aggravated harassment.“
Geek? It’s more like a naive or credulous person who can be manipulated or exploited to advance a cause or political agenda aka useful idiot.
You asked where the swastikas are. Here you go.
And I would like for the right to stop killing people at protests – DC, Charlottesville and Kenosha. If you don’t care for the lives of human beings, and property is your only concern, then I’d like for them to pay for what they did at the Capitol. Breaking windows, doors, and leaving human excrement behind. That was a very violent protest – police being squashed by doors and beaten.
“ Breaking windows, doors, and leaving human excrement behind.” ? I thought the topic was about fringe Tesla protesters, not NY or San Francisco unhoused people. Homeless, to those who do not speak woke.
By the way, the “brazen attack” on the Brooklyn cyber truck was actually Mr. Lewis tracing a swastika with his finger in the road dirt on the truck. A fine example of making Mount Vesuvius out of a molehill in an attempt to cover the moral bankruptcy one’s own position.
Josh:
Here they go again. MAGA, MAGA, MAGA and of course January 6!!!!
Is just me or is this repetitive mantra indicative some deeply held shortcomings?
Joe:
So you are OK with it? It’s still vandalism. It’s still a senseless, stupid act. I guess the fact that Lewis got arrested is another pesky irrelevant bit to you, like any others that don’t fit your ideology. And it is the message that matters here; it was a Swastika after all. And you have no problems with it.
I guess you would be fine if someone does that to your car? No, you will be dialing 911 in a nanosecond, particularly if the message is offensive to whatever beliefs you may have.
I will take monopiles (sic) any day. DOA and, to a lesser, have a reason to be worried. The others not so much or at all. Those who say otherwise are spreading misinformation.
And this is not a test. This is for real. You know, like when someone said “I have a pen and a telephone” and “Elections have consequences”.
The Case for Tesla Fightback
I object to “Telsa takedown” even though I dislike its rogue CEO, Musk, simply because you don’t shoot the message with the messenger. As an environmentalist, I like Tesla and think the fossil fuel industry is very happy with the Tesla Takedown. This movement conflates the issues and is unaware of how it is aiding the fossil fuel industry that dreads hybrid cars. Ironically, a lot of progressive liberals who are anti-Musk also like Tesla for obvious reasons, but they need to make the proper distinctions here, instead of labeling anyone pro-Tesla as necessarily being pro-Musk. This is not to argue against anti-Musk rallies even at Tesla, but to jump the gun and target an environmentalist car, which employs thousands, is highly improper and questionable. Hence, I support the opposite “Tesla fightback” for the reasons stated above.
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Are you reading the stories of arson and violence at Tesla dealerships around the country, Joe? It goes “on and on… like a broken record”—in the latest incident in Las Vegas with both Molotov cocktails AND shots fired. How about “swatting” anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders? I think people DO care. They’re just embarrassed and ashamed to be associated with the thugs and goons who would commit such dangerous acts that actually might get someone killed. People SHOULD be embarrassed and ashamed to be associated with those acts, and people should denounce them. Instead, crickets. “Silence is deadly.”
Thanks for all the comments. Some of the interactions are getting to personal and aggressive. Please stick to your point, and not focus on other commenters.
It would seem, from what I have been reading, there are supporters of the felon president and his administration, who is currently engaged in economic warfare on the American people, neighboring countries, and the rule of law.
The felon has declared his desired to be a dictator and it is clear that this is his motivation for his actions.
Dictators are not allowed under the American democratic constitution but none the less he has been planing and undertaking this war for many years and the weapon of choice is the drugs of anger and hate.
DEI is a prime example of a hate and anger target. The border and non-whites are another. It is notable that every republican supporter engaging in dialog on this platform, denouncing violence also has no problem with the violence of Jan 6th and the felon president involvement with it.
There is a war going on in America and it’s been declared by Donald and it’s promoted by the republican party.
Let me remind you of the findings of the congressional investigation;
“President Trump or his inner circle engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of public or private outreach, pressure, or condemnation, targeting either State legislators or State or local election administrators, to overturn State election results”. Also, Trump directed the crowd to go to the capital, he told them to “fight like hell”. when the riot was going on, Donald did nothing, Nothing to stop the attack on the capital for 187 minutes! and when he did it was a statement of “We love you, you’re very special”.
Donald, the felon president, Trump has always’d use anger, hate and calls for violence in his rallies. His supporters love it. It’s an emotional addiction and this addiction is destroying the rational discussion in the country.
Trump supporters have no right to call out violence by anyone when they support a president and administration who is actively engaged in economic violence and intimidation on the American people everyday.
To be a supporter of the felon president AND a supporter of non violence is a lie.
Surprise! Surprise! Mr. President Trump has supporters. Such a splendid discovery; I am happy.
Once again (this is about the 20th time?) January 6!!! appears to remind us of how limited discourse can be. There is a reason why the January 6!!!! Commission quickly destroyed all records and alleged evidence gathered in the course of the so-called investigation. As there was a reason why someone autopen-signed pardons for Cheney & Co.
It is not true to say that Mr. President Trump “has always’d (sic) use anger….” We do, however, love a President who can speak clearly for more than 45 seconds without a cue card.
I have every right to denounce violence while supporting Mr. President Trump. And that is the truth those who feel differently must witness and deal with it.
To support Mr. President Trump and denounce violence is the right thing to do. To say otherwise is a lie.
Yet we do (support) and do not (lie). And we do (call out violence) and they do not (call out violence). It’s really that simple.
I guess I’ll have to give up my quest to elicit even one categorical denunciation of violence and property damage here, and be grateful that at the very (very, very) least no one here cheers for it. That’s happening across the left, but our neighbors are above suborning arson and gunfire. Let’s take our victories, however insignificant, when we can.
Not quite. I denounced violence a few hours before your post.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. . .
Now, that’s progress.
I think that’s the sound of the earlier mentioned bovine excreting, Erik. Pity about the methane emission, but can’t be helped.
Good one. And all that CO2 from the hissing…
Very funny you guys, but don’t quit the day job.
When you applaud a movement that stands by and allow kids in Africa to starve and die from disease; when you cheer taking benefits away from veterans; when you take medical care away from fellow Americans who desperately need it, that speaks louder than all the wise guy stuff.
You can try to dress it up in many ways, but it is still fundamentally anti-humanitarian. There’s no virtue there.
Golly, when you put it like that, Joe…
One thing of which we’re 100% innocent is torching or shooting up an auto dealership. Not since Bill Ayers’s Weather Underground have I seen such an appetite on the left for arson, gunfire, and wanton violence. Well, Antifa and BLM, too. And Jane’s Revenge. And Just Stop Oil, Earth First, and the Animal Liberation Front. And Students for Justice in “Palestine”. And MOVE. And Occupy.
Of course, none of these terrorist organizations can hold a candle to the “insurrectionists” on January 6th, the vast majority of whom strolled between velvet ropes as they were escorted by uniformed personnel through the Capitol. We never hear about that dread day here. Odd.
But still, progressive terrorism spawns more violence than any healthy society needs. Maybe any movement that lionizes the Unabomber and Luigi Mangione isn’t all that healthy.
Oh yeah. . .there’s domestic terrorist under every rock. Sounds kinda like Joe McCarthy.
Josh:
You forgot the tree spikings in CA during the 80’s.
Of note, in 2021, President Biden nominated Tracy Stone-Manning to lead the Bureau of Land Management despite her involvement in a 1989 tree-spiking plot. Wasn’t that special?
@Joe Levendusky, there are a lot more McCarthys these days. Decency is impossible to find in the current administration, and shame doesn’t exist. Where are our Joseph N. Welchs? Where are the ones will stand up to the likes of a McCarthy? If the kids in the audience haven’t been taught about this incident, then read on:
Lawyer Joseph N. Welch to Senator McCarthy:
“Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Fred Fisher is a young man who went to the Harvard Law School and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with us. … Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. It is true he is still with Hale and Dorr. It is true that he will continue to be with Hale and Dorr. It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty, I would do so. I like to think I am a gentleman, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me.
Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyers Guild … Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
Mr. McCarthy, I will not discuss this further with you. You have sat within six feet of me and could have asked me about Fred Fisher. You have seen fit to bring it out. And if there is a God in Heaven, it will do neither you nor your cause any good. I will not discuss it further. I will not ask Mr. Cohn any more witnesses. You, Mr. Chairman, may, if you will, call the next witness.”