#TeslaTakedown, Mechanicsburg, Pa

My favorite sign from our #TeslaTakedown on Saturday, March 29, at the Tesla Dealership in Mechanicsburg, Pa!

I was born in 1961. The number one song in America when I was born was "Hit the Road, Jack" by Ray Charles. That's an honorable birth-song, but, you know, I completely missed the 1960s in my childhood. The first real hit song I remember was "American Pie." Missed The Beatles. Missed the Civil Rights Movement. VietNam did not register in my young mind. I missed draft card burning. I never went to a single protest... Until Saturday. And I gotta tell ya... Protesting is FUN! But wait. I'm getting ahead of myself. For those of you who don't know about it, the #TeslaTakedown movement grew up organically from people like myself who were getting more and more fed up of eating Elon Musk shit-burgers every night on the evening news. Trump's Co-President has taken charge of a make-believe government agency called The Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE, snarkily named after this megalomaniac's crypto coin) where he thinks he and his staff of 20-something tech-bro flying monkeys can just run into places like the Social Security Administration and start pulling plugs and wires. The sceptics among us believe they are not actually looking for fraud, but rather ways to privatize big chunks of the government that do not, and should never, operate with a profit motive. We believe that they want to get their hands on that sweet pot of trillions of dollars stowed in our social security accounts. We believe they want to ravage Medicare and Medicaid and rob us of the public funds we've paid into so that they can run up, I'm guessing, $4-6 Trillion more in public debt on the taxpayer's dime while they back up Brinks trucks to the treasury and laugh all the way to Mar-A-Lago. So here's some photos from a robust, peaceful, joyful day in Mechanicsburg, Pa! Enjoy!

You can see the Tesla dealership right behind this very shady spy looking protester. Yes, that hunk of shit behind him is indeed a "Swastikar," less familiarly known as the "Cybertruck." Quick note on Cybertruck, they'd just had a 100% recall because parts apparently were falling off of them. Also, their horns, we found, sound like a fart passed through a Moog synthesizer.

We had about 200 or so protesteers on scene there that day. Good weather and better spirits. The Tesla dealership is located on the Carlisle Pike in Mechanicsburg. This is a six lane roadway with a complex traffic light controlled intersection, meaning we were able to succinctly put our messages before the vast amounts of passing motorists.

This handsome soul seemed to want to EAT Elon. He's got the black gloves and the Dad-Bod for it I guess. But he's always going to lose out in Dad-Bod of the day to the guy to his right doing the very exciting Elon-Jump from the Republican National Convention. To be fair, the admiration many lefties had for President Elon has diminished almost as fast as the Tesla's market capitalization. It takes a real idiot not to realize the people you are offending are primarily your best customers, who buy things like electric vehicles because we've always thought, you know, Climate Change is a real thing.

What kind of ketamine fueled dream was President Elon having when, at the Republican National Convention, he trolled us all by emphatically delivering the Nazi salute live on national television? You can't do that. Seven million people died because of that salute, Elon, you unthinking turd. So, listen: That salute is going to come home to roost at all your dealerships. Where people who believed in you once upon a time can show you how trolling is really done. Elon has made many public statements in support of hard right autocrats. And no matter what good he might have done in the past, it doesn't mitigate the fact that he's an incredible ass-hole.

This young fella gets the Dad-Bod award while doing the Elon-Jump. I mean, I thought I had a shot, but, man, I'm not that flexible and my vertical is... I mean... 6 inches if I'm being generous. In the background you can see the Tesla dealership where maybe they were not gonna make their quota this month. I felt bad for well meaning folks who bought Tesla who drove in for service or what have you. They're not bad people. They're victims of Elon's massive ego. They thought they'd bought a car they could be proud of, but now they might as well be rocking a red MAGA hat.

Here's a great sign. This protester is saying that America, the home of the free, should be more welcoming to refugees and should tell Musk to fuck-off back to South Africa. If you're looking for corruption, you might want to start with the guy who has billions in federal contracts, has paid $300 million to get Trump elected, and then gets put in charge of firing people with oversight on his contracts. #ConflictOfInterest

This protester doubles down on this notion. You can bet President Elon won't find any fraud or waste in his OWN gigantic contracts with the government. And... wait a minute... Did anyone else see that Trump turned the White House lawn into a used car commercial last week? I've heard, and I don't know if this is true, that Trump doesn't even have a driver's license. Just a driver. And he wouldn't be caught dead in a Tesla.

Here is a protester improving the view of a Cybertruck. He seems to be implying that Elon has affinity for authoritarian things.

The message, if I can quote The Dead Kennedys...

Nazi Punks Nazi Punks Nazi Punks Fuuuuckkkk Offffff!

Here's a thought. And this is something I hear coming from the MAGA crowd all the time and I get tired of it. When THEY protest - It's tourism. When WE protest - It's terrorism. It's more like when we disagree with something we peacefully show how we disagree. When they can't accept some reality like an election result, for example, they beat up cops and shit on the carpet. I asked this guy if he was what cha call an "Antifa." Mask and all. Intimidating. But, to date, I have yet to meet an "Antifa."

This was the guy who wanted to eat Elon from above. This sign imparts another edge in the #TeslaTakedown movement. Get people to trade in their Teslas. According to Edmunds, Tesla owners have been trading in their cars at record levels since CEO Elon Musk joined Trump's White House.

Musk himself has recently said his wealth, which is primarily the result of his Tesla stock, has been cut in half.

Here is a protester with a great message to think about. Using Elon's now infamous Republican National Convention Salute, he seems to be wondering why some immigrants are villified and others are elevated. Clue: Bribery I'll just let the protesters speak for themselves for a bit.

In this photo, we're quadrupling down on the whole Nazi-Punks thing. But the idea on the right is a more pro-active one, I think. And I think it goes out not only to protesters, but to civil servants and to our elected representatives. Basicly, don't be pussies. "STAND UP! FIGHT BACK! FASCISTS NEED YOUR FEAR... SHOW THEM YOUR TEETH." Well said. It is ironic that you can't see this good man's teeth, but the idea stands. This fellow seems to have decided, rightly so, that a fight is on and we'd better match the fascists because they don't play by the rules. They need us to bend the knee. They need the American populace to self-regulate in the face of the American Putsch that they're organizing. We need to find ways to scare them or make them back down because they ain't stopping. Smashing Elon's stock price is a good way to make HIM pay. But we need to find other direct responses that affect Trump, Trumpism, and their lackeys and henchmen. Perhaps a good idea is to find a way that such protests can hurt Fox News. Because I believe Fox News created Trump and feeds and enables their decrepit golden Frankenstein to this day. You can complain in a restaurtant that has Faux News on in their establishment and tell them that Fox harshes your chill. Or, if you don't like raising a stink, you can simply buy a TV-B-Gone! There's nothing more satisfying than surreptitiously turning off Fox News with your own easy to conceal universal TV remote! Most people won't even notice, but you'll feel the air in the room suddenly become lighter. If they turn it back on, you can wait a minute or two and turn it back off. Before long, they'll think their TV is on the fritz. And did you know that if you have cable television you are paying Fox roughly $20 per month? A good movement might be to send a message to your cable provider that you don't want to pay $20 of your sexy-liberal dollars to support a "news" agency that undermines democracy. If they will not drop the price of your cable, disconnect. The internet still works without Comcast or Xfinity, believe me. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if you are a cable subscriber, you are enabling Trumpism. Cut the cord, people!

These protesters are understated but maybe have one of the most powerful messages on the day. The US Department of Veteran's Affairs is suffering deep cuts under MuskTrump. You know, my dad was an Anti-Fascist in the U.S. Navy in World War II. He endured seven invasions in the Pacific Theater. We OWE our service men and women these services, and cutting them is at the very least disrespectful. This fellow also told me he worked for 17 years at Accu-Weather up in State College, Pa., and that he had a low opinion of the owner. Did you know that Accu-Weather uses taxpayer funded data and wants to privatize NOAA? Well they do! And that would be a dick move, because poor people wouldn't be able to afford to know when, like, a hurricane is coming. So people like Joel Myers of Accu-Weather need to know that TrumpMusk needs to go. Accu-Weather would be a fine place to go and protest, don't you think? Corporate America is always wanting to take personal possession of the things that we tax payers pay for if they're not getting straight-up bail-outs to begin with. Other science based cuts have been made at NIH, CDC and the FDA. These DOGE-holes just cut the measles response in the current Texas outbreak, for chrissakes!

Loved this last protester image, though I've got dozens more photos to share. This lady, with her VERY good boy co-protester, was decked out in the blue and yellow in support of Ukraine, which is in a battle for its very freedom and independence. It cannot go unnoticed that TrumpMusk have sided with the aggressor, Russia, in this three year old war. Trump's first presidency started with his attempt to shake down the Ukranian president. Now it is plain to see that TrumpMusk have sided with the cold blooded killer Vladimir Putin, a war criminal, and "president" of Russia. Trump has kicked out fine news organizations like The Associated Press and others while allowing Russian state-sponsored television into the White House briefing room. It's not a good look from the president and his henchmen.

Musk's DOGE henchmen?

But hey! He's modeling himself after Putin, Viktor Orban (the Hungarian dictator), and other dick-taters. But I digress... You know, being my first ever protest, I felt stronger every minute I was there. The community of people I'd never met before were intelligent, humorous, loving, and of a single mind. Every minute we stood there, Elon Musk's stock price fell a little further. And, after all, for men who worship money, nothing could be worse than watching your stock crater and watching other EV makers pick up your market share. If you'd like to be involved, it isn't like we're done. Just google TeslaTakedown.com and you'll get the goods. Get off your hands, quit yelling at the television, and come on out and blow kisses to a Tesla dealership. Another great resource can be found at Hands Off, which is sponsoring a major national day of protest on April 5th! Big events are happening everywhere. Don't miss out. I'm probably getting to Harrisburg for their big protest on Saturday, or perhaps I'll head on down to the Washington Monument to take it to the nation's Capitol. There are events popping up everywhere and not just on Saturdays, folks. So, let's go. We didn't pick this fight, but we sure aim to win it.