I’m not sure car makers are required by law to be self-serving assoholics. It just works out that way, apparently. Today, we have Elon but the LAST time the United States of America flirted with Fascism, it was car maker Henry Ford at the front of the charge. In fairness to Henry, the Nazi nightmare had not played out yet. Though, in fairness to history, he didn’t seem to mind, even as it did…

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I’m okay with people protesting the actions of Muck and the trumpster in front of Swasticar dealerships. I’m not a fan of setting them on fire or shooting them up. I mean, I get it. I understand the impulse. Once they’ve burned, they can’t be sold, right? It hits Musk right in the wallet. But it crosses a legal line and my concern is it will become the excuse for a crackdown.

Mostly, though, nobody NEEDS to break laws to have an effect on Swasticar sales so just stand down and let the cars burn themselves. The protests are accentuating Musk’s destruction and the car and stock are nearly in free fall. It’s gotten so bad, I saw one story where a high-dollar Swasticar investor is publicly expressing his anger that the CEO is AWOL while the company crashes and burns. You know, like the car, itself, does so often.

So THAT seems to have prompted Elon to attempt a little damage control. He found himself a media safe-space on Fox Not-News and pretended to be shocked, shocked, I tell you. “It’s really come as quite a shock to me that there is this level of, really, hatred and violence from the left,” Musk said. There you go. He DID get the requisite dig at the left in there. “Oh, it’s just crazy lefties” is a standard MAGA slur. My guess? There are people there from both sides of the aisle in these protests, though I suspect it’s MORE thinking people than Trump supporters.

“I always thought that the left, you know, Democrats, were supposed to be the party of empathy, the party of caring, and yet they’re burning down cars, they’re firebombing dealerships, they’re firing bullets into dealerships, they’re smashing up Teslas,” Musk said. Suddenly he sounds less like he’s trying to protect the Swasticar and more like he’s trying to demonize Democrats.

Still, it’s a bit of a revealing comment. The Democrats ARE the party of empathy (or what’s left of one). MAGA dogma holds that the left is comprised of “snowflakes,” soft and weak. And they cry when you challenge them on that. Then they’re surprised when the left comes out swinging. Guess what? ‘Empathy’ and ‘milquetoast’ are NOT synonyms.

“Tesla is a peaceful company,” Musk said. That part is probably true. The company just wants to sell cars. “We’ve never done anything harmful.” Okay, I can only give him half credit on that one. A ridiculous number of people have died in his cars. It feels like a shopping cart bumps a “Tesler” and the car bursts into flames.

Oh, “feels like.” What am I, MAGA? Of the 393 people who have died in incidents with Swaticars, 95 have died from fires or using the Autopilot “feature.” During the 1970’s, Ford (remember? The OTHER fascist car maker) sold a car called ‘the Pinto.’ It had a design flaw, too. It, too, commonly burst into flames in certain crashes. 27 people died by fire in those crashes and by 1980, the car was removed from sale.

One would think the NTSB would bar Musk’s rolling crematoriums from sale, as well – which might explain why Musk keeps trying to shutter agencies that oversee his products. While I HAVE heard of the death traps (sometimes ALL of them) being recalled to address various design flaws, I haven’t heard of any major design improvements. I’d call that “harmful.”

I’ll tell you this: because of the dangers associated with driving one, I wouldn’t buy a Swasticar in the first place, but the Tesler isn’t really the issue, here. The CAR has become a symbol of the CEO and his attack on the American people – and people are fighting back. Rather than being surprised people are fire-bombing his cars, he should probably be thankful people are NOT fire-bombing him! (For clarity, I am NOT suggesting nor endorsing fire-bombing Elon Musk…)

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Holy gods, is this real? The Felon is out and about, claiming that Biden’s pardons aren’t official because, according to the lying Felon, Biden used autopen, a machine that signs for people. Bear in mind, the trumpster hasn’t provided any evidence that Biden used autopen. Like so many things that come out of his mouth, he may have just made it up.

I suppose a handwriting expert might be able to discern but, of course, we’ve been told never to listen to anyone who knows what they’re talking about, right? Experts suck. So who can say? Oh, I know, Joe Biden could say. He hasn’t yet, but he could. He should.

But is 47 REALLY so desperate to “get even” with people who said he’s a criminal based on nothing more than all of those crimes he’s said to have committed, he’s actually having handwriting experts examine Biden’s signature on documents? Oh, AND, that means Donny trusts experts, right? Well, unless he just made up the autopen story.

I think we all know, now, that Donny is going to ignore laws he doesn’t like. Even if Biden says he didn’t use autopen, 47 will just insist he did, anyway. It really doesn’t matter, though. The courts ruled some time ago that a President can direct a subordinate to use autopen to sign an official document. The subordinate can’t decide an issue, but once the President has made his decision, he CAN direct someone to use autopen to “sign.”

That means that even if Biden DID use autopen, the pardons are still solid. THAT leaves The Felon hanging his hat on “Maybe Biden didn’t know about the pardons.” All he has to do is ignore the “Maybe Biden DID know” bit. Biden knew and the signatures are legal. Donny just wants an angle to harass people. I’m sure MAGA is all in. I’m sure the rest of us are not.

Yo, Donny, just go play another round of golf. You suck at THAT, too, but at least you’re not hurting anybody…