Leftist activists are promoting and encouraging protests and attacks on Telsa, the automotive and clean energy company headed by Elon Musk.
Activists plan a “Tesla Takedown,” a “Global Day of Action to stop Musk” on March 29. Anti-capitalist groups, politicians, actors, and transgender-identified activists are just some of those working to bring down Musk and Tesla.
One of the most appalling celebrations of the violence occurred on The Daily Show, as co-host Jordan Klepper showed news video of Tesla cars set on fire at dealerships around the country.
The audience cheered and applauded the destruction, to which Klepper said, “Wow, you guys like petty acts of domestic terrorism.” The audience laughed and cheered again.
Actually, those are felony acts, and one wonders if Klepper and his audience would laugh at the destruction of thousands of dollars of their own property.
Tesla, headquartered in Texas, employs more than 100,000 workers, developing and manufacturing electric vehicles and installing and maintaining energy systems.
Touted as a clean energy company and long supported by progressive climate activists, many leftists have now turned on the company due to Musk’s work with the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, a temporary agency created by an executive order with the goal of combating federal waste, fraud and abuse.
Here are some of the left-leaning groups and individuals who oppose Musk’s work with DOGE and, apparently, support a bloated, wasteful federal government.
Philly Anti-Capitalist “exists to promote and spread anti-authoritarian events and ideas as well as facilitate communication between anti-authoritarians and anarchists in and around Philadelphia.”
According to Fox News, the group “claimed credit for terrorizing a Philadelphia neighborhood near the University of Pennsylvania during what it called the ‘Summer of Rage’ in 2020.”
Now, the group is giving tips to would-be arsonists, in a blog post titled, “DONT USE MOLOTOVS: Some notes on safely burning Teslas (or other cars),” as Fox News reports,
“The group’s site recommends against using Molotov cocktails, as several radicals across the country have, in favor of more effective devices. It also directs combatants on how much explosive material to use and where to place that material on vehicles in order to cause the most damage.”
“Philly Anti-Capitalist also provides tips on using those devices without getting hurt and quickly enough to escape undetected, and directs would-be arsonists to another site for further details on protecting their anonymity.”
Indivisible is another leftist group trying to stop Musk’s agenda of cutting federal agencies’ abuse and waste. Paul Sperry, a New York Post columnist and senior reporter at RealClear Investigations, warned about Indivisible back in February, saying agitators from the group planned to mob Tesla “dealerships, showrooms, [and] factories.”
More recently, he posted about founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin, saying they had an $11.7 million war chest which included $7.26 million from billionaire George Soros, the far left donor to many radical causes.
Sperry also stated that Indivisible was paying protestors “$1,500 in ‘reimbursement’ cash” for participating in Tesla protests.
The nonprofit Action Network “trains and educates progressives on how to use technology to organize for change.” Action Network just announced that it is joining forces with MoveOn (formerly MoveOn.org), which also received funds from Soros.
Action Network lists the individual locations of the global Tesla Takedown protest, saying, “Elon Musk is destroying our democracy, and he’s using the fortune he built at Tesla to do it. We are taking action at Tesla to stop Musk’s illegal coup.”
The group gives no specifics about the alleged “illegal coup.” Nor does it explain how cutting federal waste destroys democracy or how Musk is using his fortune to do so. The group simply engages in empty sloganeering, as it urges those who used to support the clean energy company, “Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines.”
Politicians, Actors and Flight Attendants
Conservative Christian and social media influencer “Insurrection Barbie” recently posted that she sat in on an Indivisible call as the group discussed plans for the big protest day.
She noted that Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett was on the call, saying “March 29, it’s my birthday. And all I want to see happen on my birthday is Elon Musk taken down.”
Crockett, who advocates for abortion and “the LGBTQIA+ community,” stated,
“We are fighting for our country, we are fighting for our democracy, we are fighting for our freedoms. And when I say “fighting,” I am saying that figuratively. Obviously, everything that I’m promoting is nonviolent.”
Crockett did not explain how Tesla and Musk are threatening democracy, but she said elected officials weren’t listening to the American people and thanked the protestors for their work.
According to Insurrection Barbie, “Other prominent organizations involved and mentioned in the call” included: Planet Over Profit, New Republic 50501, John Cusack Civil Liberties Defense Center, Association of Flight Attendants, Troublemakers [and] Joan Donovan – original organizer of this entire project.”
The Association of Flight Attendants? Ironically, as reported by the Daily Citizen, while it works to “fight for our freedoms,” the organization is embroiled in a lawsuit for refusing to support its members’ religious freedom and free speech.
Back in 2018, conservative radio show host, author and Old Testament scholar Dennis Prager wrote an essay titled, “Whatever the Left Touches It Ruins.” He argues that leftists – who prefer socialism and communism to capitalism and want to “disrupt and dismantle” the West – have wrecked or poisoned art, education, sports, religion and more.
Rather than building something, as Musk, Tesla and its employees have done, radical activist are trying to destroy a company that creates, innovates and employs thousands of individuals – many of whom have families to support.
Rather than burning down businesses, it’d be good, instead, to see all that time, energy and money focused on creating things that are beautiful, useful and good.
Related Articles and Resources:
Antifa Assaults Families, Violently Breaks Up Christian Prayer Event in Portland
During Violent Weekend, Rioters Desecrated and Set Ablaze Houses of Worship
Over 400 Attacks on Churches in 2023, New Report Finds
President Trump Declares Antifa a Terrorist Organization. Here’s Its Long History of Violence.
Image from Getty.
The post The Progressives Who Want to Take Down Elon Musk and Tesla appeared first on Daily Citizen.
Daily Citizen