By Craig Rucker
The Left is torching electric vehicles.
Can the news get any more bizarre?
That’s right, the same folks who scolded that the world will “burn” unless the government forces every one of us to buy an EV or stop driving, are now torching the world’s best EVs with Molotov cocktails.
“Wow, you guys like petty acts of domestic terrorism, huh?” asked bemused Daily Show host Jordan Klepper when his audience hooted, cheered and applauded a news clip reporting “multiple cases of possible arson targeting Teslas and cyber trucks.”
Could it be that the anti-America, anti-capitalist Left’s obsession with electric vehicles was never about saving the planet at all?
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, America’s top entrepreneur, brought us reusable rockets, internet for all, amazing A.I., robots that actually work, and much more.
Elon just rescued Butch and Suni, two astronauts who were stranded on the I.S.S. for over nine months.
EVs were nowhere until Elon showed the world they could be amazingly innovative and incredibly cool. Tesla EVs may very soon be fully self-driving.
Making EVs cool was a tall achievement considering that EVs suffer from short range, long charging times, heavy weight, prohibitive expense, batteries that burn uncontrollably and require scarce rare earths that are too often mined under appalling circumstances.
Despite those challenges, Elon’s Tesla is now mass producing electric vehicles that are solid choices for some. They are not the best choice for all. Elon’s cool with that.
You’d think the Left would be erecting monuments to the man who made their EV dreams come true. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Protesters used a Tesla EV to carve “DON’T BUY A TESLA” onto a beach in Wales. They included an image of a man extending his arm out straight. This, despite the bizarre notion that Elon telling an audience that his heart goes out to them was somehow an authoritarian salute, has been massively debunked.
Tesla was removed from the Vancouver International Auto Show the day before it opened, reports The CBC. Organizers cited “safety” concerns. Tesla vehicles have also been removed from Vancouver’s EV subsidy program. “Safety” is frequently the rationale employed to justify institutions retaliating against free speech and has been used to silence speakers on college campuses.
Minnesota Governor and former V.P. candidate Tim Walz has been celebrating the recent drop in Tesla’s stock price. As if rooting against an important company that created 80,000 American jobs was not bad enough, Walz and the Left’s cheering against Telsa requires shamelessly cherry picking their stock data. Tesla stock may be down from the high it achieved in January resulting from the “Trump bump,” but remains up nearly 34% over the last year and 18,000% since it went public!
The Left cannot forgive Elon for bringing free speech to X/Twitter, endorsing President Trump, and now for applying his unmatched talent to rooting out waste and making government more efficient.
As Congressman Wesley Hunt put it, “Musk, Musk, Musk, Musk, Musk, Musk Musk. What’s funny about it to me is, you’re mad at the guy that found the fraud, but not mad at the people who wasted YOUR money.”
I wonder just who is organizing the “ direct action”? Or financing it?
Trade Unions in general and in California specifically do not like Elon Musk. They’ve been going toe to toe with him for a number of years now. Trade Unions in California love the one party political power and the current majority party loves them.
So you can figure it out if you think hard enough. Same goons and thugs as it ever was
And who are the Trade Unions working for? Certainly not for the worker.
The FBI is looking into who is financing these terrorist attacks.
The people funding terrorism are going to jail.
The people carrying out the terrorism are going to jail.
Pam Bondi says there will be no bargaining with those arrested for domestic terrorism crimes. If they get convicted, they go to jail for 20 years, without the possibility of parole. So think about that.
I think the FBI has arrested five people so far, and three of them are facing 20-year jail sentences. I imagine the guy carrying the assault rifle and placing firebombs on Teslas is guaranteed 20 years.
I think the burning of Teslas will diminish as Delusional Democrats wake up to the reality of consequences.
If the Delusional Democrats don’t get what they want, then they turn to violence. It’s built into the Delusional, Leftwing, Democrat mindset.
Random reality check audit: are you talking about the very same sort of people who get their own testicles removed for a status bump?
They will be receiving a long-term, all-expenses-paid, stay at a “health resort” in El Salvador.
The issue will be the judges these people go up against. If it’s a liberal one, probably a slap on the wrist.
And they use their Green Shirts, Climate Jugend and Antifa like creatures as cannon fodder. I suppose they presume to get pardoned as soon as democrats return to the White House.
Or protected by Democrat judges.
Could it be that the anti-America, anti-capitalist Left’s obsession with electric vehicles was never about saving the planet at all?
Err.. well some of us suspected all along the climate religion was a lot like Islam and you didn’t want to be branded an infidel and become an object of reform by the true believers. Apparently the idea is to keep your head down and buy a commie spy car for a change of weather.
They ARE the people who wasted your money.
Seen on the back of a Tesla: “I bought this car before he became a Nazi.” Honest truth. Bet that person regrets the purchase.
They are climate kooks…they don’t know truth.
I’m saying that it is true that I saw that. I’m not making it up.
The truth should not get a down vote. And I bet you are correct, the person probably does regret his purchase of a Tesla, otherwise he wouldn’t feel the need to make excuses for driving one.
I imagine the current situation causes a lot of people to decide not to buy a Tesla just to eliminate the potential problem of being harassed, or worse, by some Leftwing Fanatic.
And you know that Democrats have to be the biggest purchasers of Teslas, so the Fanatics are attacking their own, in some cases. Which just goes to show how fanatic these Delusional Democrats really are.
I think everyone if underestimating the bitterness and hostility of the laid off government workers. I served in DOE for almost 5 years and became aware of that the civil service employees look upon their job as a right. They believed that good performance was not necessary and all were looking forward to a fat retirement. All I knew were terrified about the thought of seeking employment in a competitive world. They thought I was crazy for leaving this “guaranteed” job to start a business. These tens of thousands of laid off workers are potential terrorist to show their rage about the layoffs. They prefer lawfare and violence to seeking employment for which they are qualified.
Leftist ideology and rationality cannot occupy the same mind space.
This whole Tesla stuff is irrefutable proof of my hypothesis.
It sure is.
https://youtu.be/sGhiftpmI-4?si=EGiPPxa_PL2Uyazm
I wonder how many of the d-bags torching Teslas drive Volkswagens.
Better polling data to gather would be how many Tesla owners – before Trump’s second inauguration day – were eco-zealots who bought the thing to save the planet from global warming. So now, when the “#MuskManBad” people doxx Tesla owners and target them for vandalism / firebombing . . . . . they’d be destroying their own people’s cars and targeting their own global warming believers. It’s all completely illogical, the mobster terrorists just have not thought this whole deal all the way through. Somebody should grab one of the mobsters and ask what the carbon footprint of a burning Tesla dealership is, combined with the carbon footprint of replacing all that got torched.
Lots of Tesla drivers not going to be voting for the Defunctocrat Party now. Well done.
Do these “leftist” people think they are going to change the voting public’s opinions by doing this horrible antisocial stuff? They’re not even leftists. Everything about the so-called left is phony in the US. They’re the Taxation-rip-off Party and hopefully going away.
Remember «A glass of water with a ‘D’ next to it»?
Why wouldn’t they?Which cities their other mob was burning not so long ago, again?
Was their existence ever proven?
Anyhow, assuming this to be counterproductive is… rather naive.
The classics!
And the carbon footprint in china . Let’s find out how many want to move to china and give them a helping hand.
I thought that most Tesla drivers are more of the “early adopter” type and (not exclusive) the folks that change iPhone to the latest model.
What’s this world coming to? I blame the AMA for giving syth-mones to batshit crazies causing severe endocrine malfunctions.
I’m not worried about my ride, a Ford F-150. Everybody knows we’re packing, and the whack-jobs have some survival instinct left in their reptilian sub-brains.
Maybe the owner would do well to not let the onboard electronics have political affiliations. Or (gasp) assume the car’s gender (since the traditional Chukchee test of looking under the rear bumper is not considered valid in this crowd).
Laughable lack of awareness.
The Nazis are the people trying to use an imaginary crisis as an excuse to dictate every aspect of your life, including:
Where you can live;
How you can live;
Where you can go;
How you can get there;
What you can eat;
How you can cook it;
How you can heat your dwelling;
How ‘efficient’ your appliances have to be (to the point where they don’t work);
Oh, but somebody exposing waste, corruption and squandering of taxpayer’s money we don’t even have on things not a nickel should be spent on (sice we’re trillions in debt) makes someone a ‘nazi.’
That is an insult to Musk
NAZIs, as in Germany and now in Ukraine, are not free-speech absolutists.
They are more into “massaging the narrative”
I’ve never had any problem with Teslas given that they are well engineered muscle cars that can blow the doors off most I/C cars. The problem for me has always been their owners, who seem to span the entire obnoxious spectrum from virtue-signaling progressives to over aggressive drivers who also favor BMWs and Audis.
^^^ That
A “lefty snowflake” in a any car is still a “lefty snowflake”.
I was never a fan of the subsidies.
My son-in-law is far from being one of these types of people. He is Republican, from California, just completing serving 21 years in the Army and is soon moving to CA to retire. He bought a Tesla last year because he figures that he can power it at home even with pricey CA electricity cheaper than running a gas vehicle. They love it but are now concerned it might get vandalised where they now live in KS
For protection, he should put a MAGA sticker in the window.
More likely it would have been vandalized in California! Not that many leftoid idiots (but then I repeat myself) in Kansas!
“blow the doors off most I/C cars.”
Quarter mile? sure. 500 miles? 12 hrs.? 24 hrs? Cannonball Run? I don’t think so. I’ll bet real American money that I can mambo my Toyota Avalon to my daughter’s house 360 mi away from my house a day before you can get there in your Tesla.
I don’t own a Tesla. I just said they’re well engineered and quick. Limited range and potentially long waits to recharge are separate issues.
Don’t knock BMWs and Audis mate. They’re rocketships when you need them to be. I would know. I’m also a Jeep Wrangler guy and I’m not apologetic for my CO2 emissions.
“I’m not apologetic for my CO2 emissions.”
Nor should you be. 🙂
More CO2 ppm in atmosphere will grow more flora and fauna, and increase crop yields to feed hungry people.
Thank you for your CO2 contribution
They are deal-killing issues
It takes 500,000 kg of raw material to build one Tesla
Really? I’m skeptical.
Especially in winter. 😉
They can probably accelerate faster than most normal cars – which is basically a pretty useless feature in any practical fashion. Most EVs today have acceleration that provides the ability to pass others safely and comfortably. Most drivers know that they are not in a race.
One thing Teslas are not is well engineered. They may be in an american sense, but not to the rest of the world. We happen to know what “well engineered” actually means.
I think the new Chevrolet Corvette can equal the acceleration of an EV.
The new corvette has over 1,000 horsepower.
All I need is about 400 horsepower. 🙂
The car companies are still building Internal Combustion Engines.
Maybe it does. The 1000 horsepower is just as useless as the ludicruous speed feature of a Tesla. Yes, the engine can produce it but only at its peril – you can not sustain 1000 hp, and you will struggle even to get the car into a situation where the engine even comes close to producing that power.
Most people fail to understand that with cars you really need very little power. That is why EVs are possible, even a very good solution for most any use.
“cars that can blow the doors off most I/C cars.”
EVs are designed to blow their own doors off .. & consume other cars around them.
The problems with burning EV’s are starting to be discussed on television now.
One tv commenter this morning said a Fire Official told her that if an EV catches fire in your garage, the whole house is going to burn down.
Internal combustion is inside a garage, external combustion is outside anywhere.
Yeah but you can only do “ludicrous speed” runs a couple of times, then the battery needs a rest. A Hemi (among others) can do it until the gas tank is empty and/or the tires are worn out – again and again. 😁
Oh, and of course on a long trip, a Corolla will beat a Tesla to the destination since the Tesla’s charge stops will add hours and hours to the trip time. Might make a good modern day “live action” redo of the Bugs Bunny tortoise and hare race cartoons when Bugs is always losing. 😆
Leftists torching Teslas to make a statement, and leftists cheering them on, unaware that the statement that most people get is, “I’m a lunatic.”
Phony leftists. More votes for Trump/Vance.
More votes for Trump/Vance.
Hopefully. I saw an interview with someone whose Tesla was vandalized who couldn’t even consider that.
Tim Walz actually used exactly the same Elon’s “heart” salute several time during the election. !
No-one said anything !
Yes, he did, among other gestures. The Wags on Fox News call Waltz “Jazz Hands”, because he’s always waving his hands and arms around.
The Delusional Democrats seize on anything they can to try to denigrate conservatives and Republicans, and if they can’t find something substantial, then they just make it up like they did here with Elon Musk.
The Delusional Democrats lie all the time. The Truth is not in them. They have a political agenda, and they want to force that agenda on you and i. That’s what they are about. And when things don’t work out for them, they get angry and violent. They are motivated by emotion, not reason.
Tim Walz actually used exactly the same
That’s (D)ifferent
It was never about climate, environment or weather. Has ALWAYS been about money and political control. Period. Full stop.
Indeed. Further evidenced by killing whales with offshore wind.
And birds (in particular magnificent raptors including endangered species), bats an insects with onshore wind.
There is only one just punishment for these mongrels. Work camps to tear down, haul away and recycle wind and solar farms. All the green NGOs can pay for their food, clothing and shelter.
As I replied to Bob in an earlier post –
First and foremost, automobiles are a tool for transportation of personnel and their luggage.
You buy the most suitable tool you need to do the job at hand.
Any considerations after that are personal consumer choices / indulgences.
Governments have no business dictating what tools we need and choose to satisfactorily meet our personal situations and requirements.
You want to spend your own money on an EV?
Go for it.
But do it for your own rational reasons, not what you think other people might approve of.
Remember, people who want to lower your standard of living are not your friends.
With Green friends that championed buying electric everything now setting fire to electric cars, who needs enemies?
If the left didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all!
If they did not cheat at elections, very few of them would get elected
Do not despair, Tesla owners! You can always disguise your vehicle:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G6x20XrNps8
Or buy one of these and hope for the best:
That “Pre-Madness Edition” may be counterproductive, as the sign is essentially saying the Leftwing attacks on Tesla are madness. Leftists wouldn’t take kindly to someone calling their actions madness.
From the article: “The Left cannot forgive Elon for bringing free speech to X/Twitter, endorsing President Trump, and now for applying his unmatched talent to rooting out waste and making government more efficient.”
This is exactly why the Delusional Democrats are attacking Elon Musk. His actions are destroying their “Socialist/Marxist Paradise” right in front of their eyes.
Delusional Democrats don’t want the rest of us to have free speech. They don’t like being questioned.
Delusional Democrats don’t want Elon Musk endorsing President Trump.
Delusional Democrats don’t want a reduction of the Swamp Federal Workforce and they don’t want waste, fraud and abuse identified and cut, because it is *their* waste, fraud and abuse that is being cut.
I don’t think the Left gives a rats ass about Twitter,. Musk is doing far greater damage elsewhere, And mostly to the ordinary American, not the just the Left.
Now we know that the Left had it coming,. We also know that the state is big and bloated.
But just closing EVERYTHING is a little…stupid?
Babies and bathwater.
Your enemy’s enemy is not necessarily your friend…
Musk has said about 50% of the federal establishments need to go.
I agree, because at least that part is unconstitutional
The SOVEREIGN STATES never ceded these rights/domains to the federal government
FYI, there is no Twitter.
Who is closing everything? Have you been watching CNN again?
He’s repeating Leftwing propaganda. Don’t know which channel he’s getting it from.
“But just closing EVERYTHING is a little…stupid?”
DOGE isn’t closing “EVERTHING”. Just exposing the waste and fraud.
“But just closing EVERYTHING is a little…stupid?
Babies and bathwater.”
You are buying into leftwing propaganda.
Trump is not closing everything and he is not throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Some of the personnel moves were of essential personnel, this is true, but what the Left doesn’t tell you is this was quickly fixed and essential personnel are still on the job.
If you or someone on the Left disagrees, please provide evidence of essential personnel being permanently cut from the federal government.
I don’t think you can because the leftwing media is not showing us example after example of this because they don’t have any examples, otherwise, they would not hesitate to show all the essential services that have been cut and all the poor federal workers who have been abused.
They aren’t doing that. You should ask yourself why. The answer is they are lying to you and the rest of us, for political purposes, just like they do every day of the week.
Thanks for this article, I’ve been waiting to make this point- is there a single instance of right-wingers burning Teslas (or any other EV, for that matter) back when they were virtuous to the left (two months ago)? We have some good researchers here, especially the EV enthusiasts who comment here (well, they used to! Where are the EV fans??!!), is there even a single news report from the last ten, twenty years of this sort of violence from the “other” side? Never mind a wave of organized assaults. Nope. Remember this the next time somebody throws out the “both sides do it” palaver.
BTW where are all the EV fans these days? Trying to unload a car?
Right-wingers are patient and smart. They know that the Teslas will destroy themselves.
“Remember this the next time somebody throws out the “both sides do it” palaver.”
Yes, it is the Left that is prone to violence, not the Right.
not the Right.
“What about January 6th” – that’s the constant refrain I see from the left.
The January 6 demonstrations started out as peaceful demonstrations, but deteriorated into a small amount of violence from a few people, which can happen spontaneously depending on the circumstances.
The only person killed on January 6, was Ashley Babbitt, a Trump supporter who was shot in the head by a Capitol policeman for no good reason.
I would like for President Trump to make the circumstances of this killing public.
I would also like Trump to declassify all things having to do with January 6, but of course, there is a lot that Trump can’t make public because the Democrats and Liz Cheney destroyed a lot of it, for some reason. We have to assume the reason the information was destroyed is because it doesn’t fit their January 6 narrative that Trump was trying to overthrow the government.
Tesla EVs may very soon be fully self-driving.
Having worked in autonomous navigation, nope.
Scottsdale, Arizona has been invaded by these creepy droid-taxies called “WAYMO”s. They cruise around suburbia in pairs hoping someone will hire them and wasting battery charge, nearly always with no one inside. When I first saw one I thought it was a Google street camera car, but they festooned with sensors. Witnessed one creating its own left turn lane where none existed, forcing cars behind to pass it on the right. Cringe.
Musk has made that claim. One model coming out soon, supposedly, won’t even have a steering wheel or pedals.
Will it have a sprinkler system?
LMAO.
Hell, even a Halon system wouldn’t put one of those out.
Maybe the ultimate irony would be people trying to put them out with CO2 extinguishers. 😆
Given the fires have a significant thermal component and the chemistry supplies the oxygen, CO2 extinguishers will not stop the fires. Might save some of the upholstery (seat covers).
Teslas are self-driving, until they don’t
Having worked in autonomous flight vehicles, I agree. But there is money to be made, and who cares about safety?
Um, is not the answer to your question self-evident?
There is an exception to my post.
A vehicle on a limited circuit, using a variety of inputs including video, can successfully navigate on a known fixed path. Sort of like training a mouse to run a maze.
The serious question is, if the vehicle has to divert onto a route it is not programmed for, how does it manage?
Note: GPS as wonderful as it is, does not work all the time. Rain, clouds, signal reflections on tall buildings, trees, etc. Can take it into a searching for satellites mode.
At the end of WWII, the Soviet Union and Communist China recognized they could not go toe to toe with America and win. A united American people backed by what was then the greatest economy in the world was indominable.
What we have seen over the past many decades, especially in the present with these so-called “social justice” activists is a very successful program of dividing our house against itself.
Climate Apocalypse is the means to trash the economy.
Add to the mix both political parties are now power voting blocks raising a real concern of one party autocratic governance and a blind person can see, their 100 year plan is working.
People need to understand that this whole torching Tesla business aims to further divide American society. It is not about green. It is not about anything Trump/Musk are doing. They are using it as an excuse to pit us against ourselves, scare us into submission, brainwash us, the works.
Should also be noted that someone has created a website listing personal information about Tesla owners, telling them that if provide proof that they sold it they will be removed (and replaced by the new owner perhaps?)
That sounds like those running that website are aiding and abetting terrorism.
The FBI may be knocking on their door.
“Minnesota Governor and former V.P. candidate Tim Walz has been celebrating the recent drop in Tesla’s stock price.”
All the more reason Walz is a “former V.P. candidate,” and not “former V.P.” He’s stupid enough to make a huge public display of joy at the drop in value of Tesla stock, of which his state’s retirement fund holds 1.6 million shares.
Classic Left nonsense yet again.
Musk has become the face of DOGE.
DOGE is cutting of the tax-payer funded cash cow of the Green NGOs plus the Rainbow NGOs.
Of course they hate him.
PS What are putting in the Molotov Cocktails? Some form of fossil fuel?
Splendid post.
Of course.
Another take on Tesla burning.
Anti-Tesla Protests BACKFIRE! – Trump is a Genius! | Buddy Brown
The “Don’t But a Tesla” message image is “modified.” Can we say FAKED? Enlarging the final image shown in the original video shows that no Tesla or any other vehicle actually dragged a plow to make the letters. There are no tire tracks between the individual letters or silhouette.
How could anyone have been fooled by this nonsense?
I glanced right over that picture, until I read your comment, and went back and looked at it.
Is the person depicted in the image giving a Nazi salute?
That is suggested by the image, yes.
Bottom edge. Halfway between left and midpoint is a vehicle of some sort.
It looks like there is something behind it and the image suggest a possible mowing apparatus.
The vehicle on magnification looks like a van or sub, definitely not like any Testa I have seen on the road.
On close examination under high magnification, there definitely are no tire tracks anywhere.