Those cars represent Elon and everything he stands for. Whatever bad things he does is in turn reflected in how his companies are perceived. Thus he is in fact responsible for people hating his brands. A large and growing swath of Americans now dislike Tesla as a brand and when you get into millions of Americans there are bound to be those handfuls of people who do deranged things like vandalize cars and dealerships. Democrats have for years had to deal with right wing threats, vandalism and violence as well. This is nothing new. |
There were few federal workers there also except the ones who have gotten fired. That tells you something. |
Should have been the lead story for NYT/WashPo. Instead it’s on the front page but not the lead. And of course no where I Fox News.
I hope the organizers continue to do this and Dem leadership steps up too. |
From anWashPo article “ I wanted to be at the heart of it, and D.C. is definitely the heart of it,” Behrends said. “I really hate that billionaires and the rich are in control of our political system. That is not what this country was founded on.”
Dems need to grab the populist message that Bernie and AOC have been using. Focus on how Trump is taking from workers and giving handouts to his buddies. All while riding in a golf cart. The D party and Harris raised tons of money. They should be running ads. |
Sure it was: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371072617112 https://www.foxnews.com/us/protesters-rally-against-trump-musk-hands-off-gatherings-nationwide https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/woodstock-hands-off-protest-trump-musk |
I was skeptical, but then saw some drones video of massive crowds everywhere on reddit.
I am starting to have hope again! |
Typical FOX slant in your 2nd article "Thousands of protesters gathered across the U.S. Saturday to object to Trump administration policies, including Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) federal downsizing, reciprocal tariffs and immigration reform:" It was estimated at 5 million country wide and i went becauseTrump was traming on the Constitution and making the country less safe to attack as well as alienating our true allies to buddy up with Putin While most protests appear to be peaceful, there was a large police presence on standby as of 4:30 p.m. ET Saturday" let's be real,.this great piece of fear mongering hides the fact that the real threat of danger was from Trump supporters And they end off the article by simping for Elon by mentioning the Tesla dealership fires. |
How do you know who was a federal worker? I’m a fed and I was there. Trump can stick it up his b*tt if he thinks he’s going to fire me for exercising my first amendment rights. |
What are you talking about? |
At this point I am sure that some feds are genuinely worried about undercover goons taking their pictures at events and using it against them to fire them for nothing more than exercising freedom of assembly and freedom of speech. I hate that our country has gotten to this. |
Absolutely this. Federal workers have rights too. It crazy how bad the Republicans have maligned federal workers! Now we aren’t entitled to any constitutional rights? Many of the federal workers I work with are ok with cutting the workforce provided the administration does it how it is supposed to be done! There are established procedures. I have zero problems with being RIF’ed but there is a process for that; we are not the private sector! (Nor should government be privatized.) |
Over 1,000 protests around the country and many of them were quite huge - NYC at well over 100,000, Boston's was huge, etc. Yes, millions is definitely likely nationwide but FOX spins it down to "thousands" and downplays. Typical. |
This. It’s not just firing, this would be the justification to make someone schedule f for “opposing the presidents agenda”. There are other things Feds can and should do though. |
I'm not finding any sources confirming your NYC numbers. And no news outlets have been citing a million total attendees (nor millions), including the organizers, who seem to be the only source suggesting more than half a million attendees: AP: Thousands of protesters in cities dotting the nation from Midtown Manhattan to Anchorage, Alaska, including at multiple state capitols, assailed Trump and billionaire Elon Musk ‘s actions on government downsizing, the economy, immigration and human rights. On the West Coast, in the shadow of Seattle’s iconic Space Needle, protesters held signs with slogans like “Fight the oligarchy.” Protesters chanted as they took to the streets in Portland, Oregon, and Los Angeles, where they marched from Pershing Square to City Hall. https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-protests-hands-off-472c574303260cbac315367cc808960d UPI: More than 500,000 people across the United States showed up to protests of President Donald Trump's "authoritarian overreach and billionaire-backed agenda" at more than 1,400 events nationwide, the largest protest since he became president again two months ago, organizers said. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/04/05/anti-Trump-protests-nationwide/6321743859607/ NYT: While crowd sizes are difficult to estimate, organizers said that more than 600,000 people had signed up to participate and that events also took place in U.S. territories and a dozen locations across the globe. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/anti-trump-protests-hands-off.html WaPo: In their permit application to the National Park Service, rally organizers in D.C. said they anticipated a crowd of 10,000. By Friday night, though, the organizers said they expected at least 20,000. Saturday afternoon, they were estimating the crowd was five times as big as they predicted [ie, 100,000 in DC]. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/04/05/hands-off-protest-trump-washington/ None of the above negates that these were large, global protests. |
Trump was asked about the protests and according to his reply it sounds like he doesn’t really have a clue about what’s going on. I think that they very carefully control what news he sees. |