I & I Editorial BoardRemember when all the best people, the elites and elitists among us, the correct thinkers, the self-appointed guardians of all things good, were buying electric vehicles, particularly Teslas? What a terrific way for them to demonstrate their green street cred. But that’s passé. The latest in look-at-me virtue signaling is selling that Tesla to make an important political statement.
Because Tesla CEO Elon Musk is aiding President Donald Trump in rooting out federal waste and corruption, he’s become a villain to the left. To be caught in one of his cars is simply an embarrassment to status seekers and the prigs obsessed with placing themselves on Barack Obama’s “right side of history.” So like entertainer Sheryl Crow, they have to unload their Teslas, and, naturally, do it as loudly as possible.
Last week, Crow “dramatically bid adieu to her black Tesla,” the New York Post reported, to protest the man she tagged on her Instagram account as “#PresidentMusk.”
Crow took to social media on Friday to reveal she had sold the electric car and was donating the money to NPR, “which Musk has repeatedly called to defund as his Department of Government Efficiency looks to slash federal funding.”
“My parents always said … you are who you hang out with,” wrote Crow. “There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.”
The money she received in return will be “donated to @npr,” she said, “which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes that the truth will continue to find its way to those willing to know the truth.” Which truth is that, we wonder? The truth that Washington is a pit of vipers freeloading off the American people while simultaneously lording over them – and that Crow supports this corrupt arrangement?
There’s also another truth Crow ignores. She and the entire clan of wealthy entertainers and rich elitists are free to fund National Public Radio with the vast U.S. dollars that they earn in our capitalist economy. After all, NPR is a playground and protective bubble for the elites and is in part funded by the Americans they and the NPR editors, producers, hosts and guests constantly mock.
A day later, demonstrators in several big cities descended on Tesla showrooms. Called the TeslaTakedown, the campaign urges owners to sell their cars and shareholders to dump their stocks. In an obvious show of ignorance, one group of protesters chanted “stop the coup.” Signs insisted that someone, just whom we don’t know, “Unplug Mad King Musk“; claimed “Musk is the fraud,” a charge that we’re sure hurt his feelings; and urged someone, again, we don’t know whom, to “Deport Musk.”
The protests would be much more fun if the participants were creative, but no, they reveal their limited thinking when they make signs that say “This car runs on facsism” and wonder “Who buys cars from a nazi?” At least they’re good a repeating meaningless talking points.
Though not as famous or as influential as Crow, one Berkeley, California, (of course) woman told the media that “at first, we loved” the Tesla Model 3, then “about a year ago when Elon Musk came more into the public domain” and teamed up with Donald Trump, she “couldn’t stand driving it.”
“I couldn’t stand having anything to do with the Trump administration,” she said.
In nearby Oakland, there are apparently some hostiles who can’t even stand it for someone else to own a Tesla. One man told the local media he saw a “flyer stuck on the windshield of a Tesla” that said “Sell your car or we will get rid of it for you. Nazi cars not welcome here.”
Neither the vanity nor the lunacy are limited to the U.S. The London Telegraph has noticed that many of Tesla’s “more left-wing customers to have second thoughts.”
“Message boards and Tesla forums – populated by the carmaker’s more die-hard fans – have become full of people questioning whether they should give up their cars. Bumper stickers with slogans such as ‘I bought this before Elon went crazy’ are selling fast,” says the Telegraph.
One Brit who is letting his Tesla lease expire, said the brand, “from my point of view, has become toxic. It would be like buying a VW Beetle in 1939 Germany.”
That’s a narrow point of view as well as an irresponsible and vicious slur. He might be just one man, an everyday Englishman, but there are many others who think like him and then wonder why Western society has become so divided.
Such as a former owner over there who somehow has convinced himself Musk is Russian propagandist and had reached the point to where he “couldn’t bear to put any money in that man’s pocket.”
That’s his choice and he’s free to make it. What’s regrettable is that it’s a decision made from ignorance, intolerance and blind emotion – and isn’t at all isolated.
Obviously the minds on the left have been soaking up so much sun that it’s impaired their ability to think clearly. They’ve come undone.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
“Obviously the minds on the left have been soaking up so much sun that it’s impaired their ability to think clearly.” It is not “sun” they have been soaking up. “Leftists” suffer from a malady known as “RECTO-CRANIAL INVERSION”; I leave you to guess what it is their “brains” having been soaking up!
Seems the environment & global climate change is not important now.
Wonder how they are going to get around to the next save the planet function ?
Bicycle, skateboard or perhaps an evil ICE driven thru a ride share service.
Proving every day that the left is just full of sheep.
The good news for those dumping their Tesla cars: They still have some financial value. If they wait a few more years, they’ll become more expensive to maintain than they’ll be worth.
If you look at the video on Instagram, you’ll notice there are green leaves on trees and still others changing colors. The leaves on the ground are a dead giveaway, too. This video was made when she sold her Tesla (likely to CarMax), but not after Trump was elected. It was last fall. Other commentators at Instagram have pointed this out as well, including residents of Tenn. Funny how not one ‘journalist’ picked up on this obvious fake news.
Heck of a predicament. The folks who hate Musk won’t buy your used tesla and the folks who really like what he’s doing won’t buy an EV. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!
If you notice the trees in the video, the leaves are turning. This is not a recent video, it was taken sometime in the fall season. Just more DemocRATic nonsense.
The only entertainer whose lead I follow is Bobo the dancing chimpanzee, under the job description of “entertainer” he is the only intelligent one I could find.
These people are so petty. I would bet that Cheryl Crow couldn’t explain the why.
How many of these virtue-signalers replaced their “Nazi” Tesla … with a VW?
Don’t hide in an oil burner or settle for a 3rd rate electric copycat. Show Elon you’re willing to burn the environment and zillions in missing tax dollars at the same time. Why not just put a “Harris-Walz ‘24” bumper sticker on the back? Virtue signal, feel better about yourself, and drive a great car at the same time!
The people (like, in my opinion, many in BLM and the people who block streets or mess up Tesla showrooms) are the same types of people who hanged African Americans under many of our Jim Crow laws-which, incidentally, were implicitly approved by the Federal, local and state governments and thus, in violation of the 14th Amendment. But that doesn’t bother the self-righteous who always believe they are in the right.
It’s amazing how these people constantly inveigh against violence-while actively engaging in it when they don’t get their way.
These are the same types of people who spat on soldiers in the late 60’s and early 70’s, those who came home from Vietnam (many of whom probably didn’t want to be in Vietnam in the first place-but they were drafted, and so felt that they had to fulfill their commitment to honor and duty).
It would be funny-if it weren’t so tragic for the owners of the desecrated Tesla showrooms. Anti-capitalist morons who protest in $40 jeans while destroying other people’s property. And all the while, like the Jim Crow contingent, they believe they are the anti-violent ones and in the right.
Additionally many of them, no doubt, will be going to tomorrow’s rally to be held in protest against the 2nd Amendment.
These are the true Americans-but only in name only.
Look at the video clip Ms. Crow posted showing her waving good bye as her Tesla is driven off on a flatbed truck. The leaves on the tree are clearly in fall colors, yet she is just posting this now in January.
What I find particularly ironic is that there really is no secondary market for used EVs. Most people who are in the market for an EV (especially a Tesla) won’t buy a used one knowing that within maybe 5-6 years, they’ll have to shell out upwards of $20K to have the battery pack replaced; they’re better of just buying a brand new vehicle.
So what are the chances Ms. Crow’s vehicle ends up being quickly turned into scrap metal? What are the chances the battery (with all of its toxic components) ends up in a landfill? What about the plastic interior? I suppose some of it could be parted out, but a lot probably ends up in landfills, too, since it’s not all that efficient to recycle.
Her little publicity stunt sounds incredibly environmentally irresponsible to me. Maybe she should have just kept her mouth shut and kept driving it to at least take advantage of its useful lifespan, but I suppose her virtue signaling and moralistic preening are more important.
Maybe I miss something. Are the virtue signalers hypocrites for taking money from a Nazi who purchased their used Tesla. I would think that if they really wanted to virtue signal they would drop plastic filled sea water on the tesla watching it ignite while also burning microplastics from the ocean, while signing “all I want to do is have some fun”