If you are a liberal, hating Tesla is the “in” thing right now.
As Ed wrote earlier today in his excellent post on the Daily Show audience’s thrill at watching people shoot up, burn, vandalize, and terrorize Tesla and the owners of their cars, liberals lovingly embrace political violence just as much now as they did in 2020, or for that matter 1968.
“Wow, you guys like domestic terror”
The Daily Show’s audience applauds the domestic terror incidents against Tesla, disturbing even the liberal host… pic.twitter.com/WAyFPS0ZrK
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 20, 2025
Who can forget the entire leadership of the Democratic Party cheering on the George Floyd riots, calling for even more resistance, and chastising those of us who were appalled by this cry for #justice? It was sick then and sick now.
As far as I know, not a single Democratic Party leader has called out the terrorism that is sweeping the nation. Quite the opposite, in fact. Many are justifying it, or blurting out equivocal statements like, “Violence is bad, but…” I call it the Luigi Mangione defense–sure, he shouldn’t have shot that guy, but he had a point…
Kimmel doubles down: After playing clips of Tesla arson attacks, Kimmel then accuses of Elon of “trying to drum up sympathy for himself” —
— then explains to Elon why he deserves it:
“When you pull out a chainsaw to celebrate firing thousands of people, they get mad.” pic.twitter.com/0QGTHkV6bf
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 20, 2025
My governor and former Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz, the super-masculine-not-at-all-effeminate-or-gay He-Man, is on the Tesla Takeout bandwagon. As you know, this not-at-all organic movement is well-funded by billionaires and through ActBlue, and Walz thinks it is just great. He is definitely on board with the most American car company in the world–all the Teslas you buy in America are American-made, American-designed, and built by 60,000 Americans who have created a new car company out of nothing in about 20 years.
As Gov. Walz gloats about Tesla stock dropping, records from the Minnesota State Board of Investment show that as of 6/30/24, the state of Minnesota had 1.6 million shares of Tesla in its retirement fund, and 211,000 shares of Tesla in its non-retirement fund. I’ve reached out to… https://t.co/W0EA0cPASS pic.twitter.com/r1obVBpfU7
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March 19, 2025
Tesla’s value has not just skyrocketed over the past two decades–by orders of magnitude, in fact–but it also forms a key part of the pension funds for people in both the government and the private sector. When the stock does well, so do Americans who are saving for retirement.
Dems’ New Plan to Stop Musk: Firebomb Some Teslas, by @jtLOL https://t.co/2kXpzrjw5u pic.twitter.com/CRVgj1060J
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) March 19, 2025
That is true for all of us, but especially true for Minnesota’s government pension holders. The State Investment Board is presided over by Governor Walz, so he knows that better than anybody. The way the pension fund works is that the top elected officials in the state preside over the Board, and all four of them are lefty Democrats.
All of these people are radical leftists. You do know Tim Walz, but you may also recognize Keith Ellison, Antifa fan and former Deputy Chair of the national Democratic Party.
Well, it turns out that as of last reporting the State Board of Investment had HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars invested in Tesla, and for good reason: it performed beautifully for the taxpayers and retirees.
But now Tesla is politically inconvenient, and the Democrats are engaged in an open conspiracy to destroy the company. And by open, I mean advertised as their goal. They want Tesla gone, kaput, destroyed, and the earth salted where it used to sit. It is one of their top goals, and a key to their strategy of opposing Trump.
Has Minnesota divested itself of Tesla stock in anticipation of achieving this goal? I don’t know, and only the Board does, as far as I know, because the current holdings are not reported yet, and the Board is not answering questions. If they sold the stock for political reasons, that is wielding the power of the state to destroy a political rival; if it didn’t, then Democrats here and elsewhere are working against their fiduciary duty to increase the value of the state’s investments for their retirees.
In either case, the Democrats are not just working against the interests of Tesla workers but the retirement funds of every American who relies on investments or pensions to secure their present or future income.
The Democrats keep calling us fascists, but they keep adopting Brownshirt tactics and wielding the power of the state against their political opponents to achieve their ideological goals.
They do all this, of course, in the name of “justice” and “democracy.”
