Protesting Teslas in Boston

By adamg on Thu, 02/13/2025 - 6:18pm

Isabel Ravenna posts some video of people protesting the acting president's Tesla car and truck lines outside his showroom in the Prudential Center on Boylston Street today. Small group, but next time they should try more publicity in advance.

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He He Ha Ha

By John Costello
Thu, 02/13/2025 - 6:27pm

This is pretty funny.

This is like protesting a stable of Clydesdales out in Westford because you don't like Budweiser.

Laugh all you want

By BostonDog
Thu, 02/13/2025 - 7:13pm

The point of the protest is to tell others that if you see what's going on, you're not alone.

The Democrats and most big corporations are happy to roll over for Musk and Trump. But not everyone else is.

I tip my hat to protesters. Thank you.

Hopefully it works

By Ari O
Thu, 02/13/2025 - 7:44pm

Most of Elon Musk's money comes from TSLA stock, much of which is leveraged for other things. This article covers it well. TSLA shares are based on vibes, not the number of vehicles sold, and swasticar sales are plummeting in Europe and probably on the decline here. There are perfectly viable alternatives if you want an EV. But the company should not have a $1.15 billion and PE ratio of close to 200. It's all based on "full self driving" or whatever and … good luck with all that. Especially if there's no one to buy it. So informing people not to buy swasticars is a good way to punish Musk. Which is a laudable goal.

Musk's end game

By BostonDog
Thu, 02/13/2025 - 8:21pm

The first thing he did was fire all the inspector generals and anti corruption departments. You know, the sort of people who are supposed to call out waste, fraud, and other matters of public interest.

A week later he places an order for $400 million Tesla vehicles for the State Department.

Pretty soon it won't matter if anyone but people in red hats are buying Teslas because he can replace any lost private sales with ones for the government. And expect to see every department suddenly need Star Link phones for all employees. And all public communication will need to be via Twitter or Truth Social.

Even if you hate environmental regulations and cancer research, surely you can see the blatant corruption and outright theft of tax dollars, right?

He's looking for government waste and fraud...

By ckd
Thu, 02/13/2025 - 10:06pm

...the same way OJ was looking for the real killer.

To quote the late great Norm MacDonald

By spin_o_rama
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 9:13am

"In his book, OJ Simpson says that he would've taken a bullet or stood in front a train for Nicole.

Man I'm gonna tell you that is some bad luck when the one guy who would have died for you kills you."

It is blatant corruption, I

By xyz
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 2:09am

It is blatant corruption, I agree with you there. However, Tesla had 2024 revenue of about $97.5 billion, of which about $77 billion was from selling vehicles. Total, they "only" had $7.1 billion dollars in profit. It won't take much of a decline in sales--even with one or more government giveaways--for Tesla to lose money in 2025, and sales aren't just declining, they're in free fall, both domestically and overseas.

(Source: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/01/teslas-2024-financial-results-are-o...)

Tesla = swasticar?!

By robo
Thu, 02/13/2025 - 9:01pm

Lol, please tell me what you think about Volkswagen and all the brands they own. Next, you’re going to tell me you own a VW! Stick to trains. It’s what you know.

Please, live in the present

By Daan
Thu, 02/13/2025 - 9:49pm

Volkswagens are not produced by Nazis. Tesla is a company largely controlled by a modern Nazi. The kind that relies upon hard drugs, tells quite imaginative lies via a propaganda vehicle (sorry for the pun) and is obsessed with fertility and producing babies.

Trappings all of which were part of the original Nazis.

So Swasticar is very appropriate.

Muskmobile

By CAP
Thu, 02/13/2025 - 11:50pm

Or Muskwagon (wagen?) are fine alternatives.

In doing our little part to help poison the brand, it's probably better to remind your Tesla owning friends and neighbors that they are simply accidental stooges bankrolling the downfall of our government vs. branding them as neo-nazis, right? (ex; "Should I drive or do you want to take your Muskwagon?")

The all new all wheel drive

By Frelmont
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 7:01am

The all new all wheel drive Elontra?

You're right CAP, Musk is no Nazi.

By MrZip
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 10:17am

Nazis made GOOD cars.

"Schindler and I are like peas in a pod"

By spin_o_rama
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 11:54am

We’re both factory owners, we both made shells for the Nazis! But mine worked, damn it!

Volkswagens are not produced by Nazis

By necturus
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 11:35am

However, the original VW Beetle was designed by Nazis. It was promoted as the "KdF Wagen" ("KdF" = "Strength Through Joy") and the "People's Car" ("Volkswagen") by the Goebbels propaganda machine. No actual Beetles were ever sold under the Nazi regime, because the war intervened and the plant was converted to produce Kubelwagens, the German equivalent to our Jeep, for the Wehrmacht.

If memory serves, the Beetle was designed by Ferdinand Porsche based on a sketch by Adolf Hitler.

I agree with @robo

By Don't Panic
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 2:26am

Just because Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute at President $Trump's inauguration festivities doesn't make his vehicle a "swasticar". That's a step to far @Ari O.

Does anyone really believe Elon designed the Tesla Cybertruck? He has people for lowly tasks like that (Franz von Holzhausen).

Very crucial point

By deselby
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 1:11am

Musk's status as "the world's richest man" depends on that grossly inflated stock price. Tesla's never made a profit.

The legacy car companies like Toyota, Ford and VW have caught up with EVs. And Chinese companies like BYD and Dong Feng are already outselling Tesla in some countries.

Why the board hasn't booted Musk is a mystery. He's hurting the brand. But maybe Musk got involved in politics to avoid securities fraud prosecutions.

Isn’t Putin the world’s

By Frelmont
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 7:03am

Isn’t Putin the world’s richest man?

I'm sure you were told that

By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 02/15/2025 - 11:20am

Either as part of your "training" data set or when you signed on for paid duty.

Or at least it would be like

By xyz
Thu, 02/13/2025 - 10:48pm

Or at least it would be like that, if Budweiser were in the horse business, rather than the vaguely beerlike fluid business. What this is actually like is standing outside a liquor store discouraging people from buying Budweiser--and then the government deciding to buy $400 million worth of Bud with our tax money.

wait..

By notadoctor
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 2:26pm

Does Budweiser sell Clydesdales in Westford?

Edward Abbey has entered the chat

By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 8:05pm

Seriously, though, we need to think bigger than this.

Even if you are a Trump supporter, you didn't vote for Musk. That's a starting wedge.

The guy is an alien anti-American usurper. Full. Stop. Nobody elected him to lead the country.

We need to repeat this simple message until enough people across the spectrum get mad enough that they start pressuring red state reps and senators to stop their acquiescence.

If the famously warring denominations in Norway could set aside those differences to oust Quisling and the Nazi occupiers, we may be able to find uniting issues to do the same.

There are drivers who are

By anon
Thu, 02/13/2025 - 7:40pm

There are drivers who are Massholes, and then there are drivers who are Teslaticles.

Let's remember not to harass

By anon
Thu, 02/13/2025 - 11:11pm

Let's remember not to harass existing Tesla owners. They didn't buy their cars because they support all the awful stuff Musk is doing now.

Musk has been horrible for

By Anon
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 6:48am

Musk has been horrible for years. This isn’t a new thing. That’s like people who in 2016 suddenly were embarrassed to live in Trump buildings even though he’d been promoting racist conspiracy theories about Obama for years and had been doing other racist things for decades (and was prosecuted successfully for racist housing practices in the 70s).

We’ve known who Musk is for

By Bob Leponge
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 10:11am

We’ve known who Musk is for quite a few years now.

I don't like this rhetoric at all.

By Mike803b
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 2:05pm

Quite a few years...yea maybe 4-5 years. I think COVID is when he started getting political. People who bought Tesla's before then (and still some now) did so to support a cleaner future. Tesla was a great American company finally making electric cars viable when Ford and GM, who had massive R&D budgets, refused to make electric cars cool. So the people in the comments saying there are viable alternatives, sure go ahead and buy an electric Chevy. Point of my argument is do NOT judge or harass someone because they own a Tesla. That's disgusting. Except for Cybertrucks...they don't count here.

Buy a Honda prologue. It's

By anon
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 9:04pm

Buy a Honda prologue. It's basically a Chevy (blazer EV) but doesn't carry the Chevy "stigma" badge and is rapidly gaining in popularity. So you indirectly give an American company some business without making a Nazi even richer.

No, they didn't buy Teslas to support Musk

By necturus
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 11:43am

They bought them because they had more money than common sense.

Lots of Jewish people refuse(d) to buy Fords...

By CopleyScott17
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 2:56am

...due to the namesake founder's outspoken anti-Semitism. Nothing wrong with holding a modern-day Nazi's companies responsible for his actions and utterances.

Yet....

By John Costello
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 8:28am

Hell of a lot of Mercedes driving around Brookline and Newton.

It was a thing in the 60's, 70's

By merlinmurph
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 8:59am

Hey John, I think you're old enough to know that not buying a German car was a thing back then. Now, not so much as people with close ties have passed.

If the CEO of Mercedes...

By Pete X
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 10:30am

Started doing nazi salutes on national TV like Musk just did, I guarantee you the number of new Mercedes purchased in Brookline would go to zero.

... and the number purchased

By aNon
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 12:39pm

... and the number purchased in West Roxbury would skyrocket!

Magoo sez

By MisterMagooForYoo
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 7:14am

Magoo has developed the MagooMobile with design concept based on Frederick Flintstone’s mobile. Magoo

Next Protest is on Saturday

By Irma la Douce
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 8:07am

Part of a nationwide “Takedown Tesla” demonstration:

Saturday, February 15, 2025 • 10:00 AM Tesla Store Boston

https://actionnetwork.org/events/teslatakedown-boston-2

Thanks for This Info

By APB
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 11:02am

We will be there.

Always looking . . .

By APB
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 11:05am

for good slogans for signs for me and mine. Got any?

My favorite from the last protest: "The Electoral College is DEI"

Also at the Tesla showroom at

By chaosjake
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 3:29pm

Also at the Tesla showroom at 840 Providence Highway in Dedham on Saturday at 11am.

Also at the Tesla showroom at

By chaosjake
Sun, 02/16/2025 - 5:04pm

Also at the Tesla showroom at 840 Providence Highway in Dedham on Saturday at 11am.

I've been thinking of the

By Anon Man
Fri, 02/14/2025 - 11:24am

I've been thinking of the city of Las Vegas,, who's city council put out a bid for public transit and Elon woo-ed them into trashing that idea and building taxi tunnels. Theres already a few miles near their convention center (which is a waste already) and the city greenlighted a citywide build with Musks "Boring Co" and tesla. America's fastest growing city will not have trains, just taxi tunnels that no one can afford and if there is a fire.. oops no escape tunnels! So LV is basically the city version of a cybertruck owner. Paid for the dumbest thing ever and will have to live with its bad decision making.