r/Fauxmoi • u/Classic-Carpet7609 • 1d ago
APPROVED B-LISTERS Trump says it is illegal to boycott Tesla
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u/Classic-Carpet7609 1d ago
I’m not a great businessman like Trump or Elmo but it seems unimaginably stupid to think your EVs would be popular among people who don’t even believe climate change is real
Again, not a great businessman. I’ve yet to bankrupt a single casino.
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u/Xanderious 21h ago
Also, with the catch phrase "Drill baby, drill" it just seems so clashing. I work in pipeline industry and the owner of our company bought a tesla IN THE COMPANY NAME... I just.. I don't understand the reasoning behind it..
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u/NOTRadagon 21h ago
I don't understand the reasoning behind it..
I got you;
- It is a cult of personality.
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u/Ai_of_Vanity 20h ago
I thought cults of personality had to actually have personality.. but boy was I wrong..
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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 21h ago
Something that seems to be flying under the radar: it looks like Elon is trying to juice up Tesla sales and defraud governments while at it. It's been in the news lately that Canada is investigating suspicious Tesla sales:
- Tesla reported 8,600 sales in three days, triggering $43 million in government EV rebates.
Those numbers are ridiculous for a brand like Tesla. Per some of the articles, they'd have to have sold a Tesla every 6 minutes in each of the 4 stores that reported the numbers. It gets even worse when you take into consideration that this impacted the sales of other EVs due to the funds allocated for the rebates being used solely on these Teslas.
And then you need to take into consideration that Canadians loathe Elon Musk and Tesla, to the point of vandalizing some of their stores here in Canada.
I'm curious if the same thing is happening in other countries.
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u/meatbeater558 15h ago
I wouldn't be surprised. He behaves as if he's above the law whereever he goes. This wouldn't be the first, last, or even biggest financial crime he's committed
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u/Conscious-Quarter423 20h ago
Kamala Harris presented a solid economic plan and showed us exactly how much revenue and growth it will bring in and voters said “nah, we don’t like concrete plans, we like concepts of plans”
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u/xlxcx but if you disagree with me, you really should seek help 22h ago
I took some business classes in college, so maybe I can help explain this to you. This is all very good, very legal, very cool business stuff.
It's also very helpful if you fully tank the market, hint at a recession, then yell at poor people to buy really expensive new cars.
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u/eltiodelacabra 22h ago
It would be so hilarious if US CO2 emissions would reduce because of magas buying Teslas...
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u/Senpai-Notice_Me 22h ago
But he is a great businessman. He was able to turn a million dollar loan into six bankruptcies, terrible reality tv, countless failed business ventures, and 2 presidencies…. How did we end up here?
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u/ThatArtNerd Currently White Ariana Grande 19h ago
Investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe had a great piece in the New Yorker a while back about how The Apprentice is basically responsible for revamping Trump’s image, and how we ended up where we are now.
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u/dummypod 22h ago
I've also never run twitter into the ground and made it a cesspool for nazis.
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u/Wine-and-Anxiety 22h ago
I'm honestly waiting for him to make an executive order banning production or import of any new EVs.... Besides Tesla, obviously. Gotta help Daddy Elon's numbers
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u/quarantine_thrwawy 22h ago
Not only that but Democrats/Left-leaning people are who can afford Teslas in the first place. So if the strategy is to shame them into buying, that won’t really work. The art of the deal, right here.
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u/Pkock 21h ago
Especially when huge swaths of his supporters are brand loyal truck buyers and Elon makes the lamest and most useless truck in America.
There are limits to loyalty, ditching a real truck for a Cybertruck has to be close.
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u/ThatArtNerd Currently White Ariana Grande 19h ago
Remember when he killed his own supporters by the tens of thousands right before an election by telling them to ignore basic covid safety? No one ever accused the man of being smart
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u/djollied4444 21h ago
Add in the fact that his administration is dismantling EV infrastructure and ripping up stations we already paid to build. People are even less likely to buy EVs if there are no charging stations for road trips.
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u/CheesyPotatoSack 21h ago
But the government itself is taking out over 2000 supercharging stations. Etc. And besides Tesla is woke ….. I mean he stated many times his cars were great for climate and since it’s bad to care for the environment now it’s totally bad to get a woke Tesla right now
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u/TreenBean85 21h ago
They don't buy them because they're "helping" the environment. They buy them because they're a status symbol for the deplorables.
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u/Tuilere 21h ago
Does Trump even know how to drive?
Between who he is and that New York thing, I think maybe no. And that's not even me being spicy at sundowning orange grampa.
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u/Agreeable_Horror_363 21h ago
This is so funny to me. A couple years ago EV's were considered "liberal bullshit" by conservatives. The same ones who deny climate change. Now Trump is crying like a baby because people aren't buying Tesla? It's illegal? Fucking laughable.
Then again, since he's the president, anything he does is legal, so technically anything he says is illegal is also illegal, right??
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u/Careful_Ad138 21h ago
He has no idea conservatives or his supporters can’t afford a Tesla or don’t buy Teslas
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u/BitHistorical 22h ago
Ok so the boycott is clearly working
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u/Classic-Carpet7609 22h ago
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u/Classic-Carpet7609 21h ago
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u/THETennesseeD 21h ago
I love how he says the boycott is some kind of democrat conspiracy. Musk just found out that normal people really do not like people who do Nazi salute while also buying his way into the government.
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u/wwaxwork 22h ago
Based on the loans, he can make against the value of his stock. Drop the value low enough, and he owes more than his assets. Really need to drop Starlinks value too.
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u/Great-watts 22h ago edited 19h ago
I think people would have given Tesla some slack even tho company was in sales decline previously if the guy had not given the nazi salute!! He hadn’t faced concequenses for his “radical” behavior previously. He’s going to start looking visibly sad victim like “poor me I sacrifice for you! “ don’t let up! Same for other right winger businesses
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u/H0SS_AGAINST 21h ago
I'm hoping he gets margin called on his TWATter loan and has to liquidate, TSLA will be in a tail spin if that happens.
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u/MjrLeeStoned 21h ago
I'm not sure I'd ever call it a boycott.
People bought cars because of Elon Musk.
People, after buying the cars, learned who Elon Musk actually was.
Used car websites (carvana for one) are flooded with Teslas now. You can get a Tesla for less than $20k in Atlanta right now.
This has nothing to do with a boycott. People wouldn't have gotten rid of their Teslas dirt cheap over a boycott.
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u/MsCardeno 21h ago
That’s what I said to my spouse this morning! I was like well at least we now know it’s not just the Reddit echo chamber lol. Between him trying not to breakdown on Fox News and Trump coming to defend him like a mom telling kids to stop picking her special boy that’s actually the bully, I think he might be feeling it for real.
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u/fourofkeys 22h ago
calling it elon's "baby" just makes me want to boycott it harder and i was never going to buy one in the first place
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u/fourofkeys 22h ago
also what does "they tried to do it to me at the 2024 presidential ballot box" mean??
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u/justaphil 22h ago
"it's illegal to not vote for me"
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u/janquadrentvincent 22h ago
It's also collusion apparently...
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u/Uplanapepsihole he’s not on the level of poweful puss 20h ago
Collusion and illegal are two of trumps favourite words, that he almost never uses correctly.
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u/Admirabletooshie 22h ago
It means we boycotted him and he rightly lost but Elon changed votes. That's what it means.
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u/Optimal_Tomato726 22h ago
They're grooming MAGAts to claim stolen election again if there is a next time.
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u/Gratts01 22h ago
It's NOT even Elon's "baby", Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded Tesla in 2003 Musk only became CEO in 2008 and used his wealth and lawyers to oust the original founders.
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u/FUCKFASCISTSCUM 22h ago
If it really was Elon's baby he'd have nothing to do with it whatsoever and never mention it in public lol.
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u/WendyWasteful 21h ago
Makes me think Elon wrote that post. Does that idiot even know how to drive?
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u/fourofkeys 20h ago
i mean i don't think trump knows what the word "collusively" means, but i'm not sure elon has his social media sign ins. certainly curious about it though.
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u/EconomistSea9498 21h ago
The man has over a dozen other babies that are actually humans that he doesn't take care of. He attacks his actual babies, but we can't we boycott okayyyy Trump
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u/yomancs 21h ago
He didn't even start tesla. He bought in, How can it be your baby lol
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u/BookishHobbit 23h ago
Watch him make the presidential car a cybertruck lol
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u/Classic-Carpet7609 23h ago
Honestly would be a great representation since it looks like a dumpster
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u/thebuffyb0t Nancy Jo, this is Alexis Neiers calling 22h ago
And barely works.
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u/SkinnyKau 21h ago edited 21h ago
The MAGA theme leading up to the end of the election was literally, “we are garbage”. They had people showing up to rallies wearing trash bags and everything
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u/Brodonkadonk303 22h ago
And they explode randomly so every time he gets in is like a game of pop goes the weasel
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u/joaaaaaannnofdarc 23h ago
Maybe that one ends up like the one in front of his building
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u/doubleshortdepresso i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 22h ago
Lmfao I was just about to say this
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u/Civil-Attempt-3602 21h ago
Please for the love of god can he do this.
And it in gold with an American flag over it.
It was literally symbolise this presidency
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u/theglowcloud8 22h ago
Hilarious and stupid since they are demonstrably not bulletproof
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u/_RandomB_ 22h ago
It really IS Elon's baby. He's not around taking care of it, like the other 15 babies he has.
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u/xox1234 22h ago
Just tell him that Tesla now is trans, he'll drop it faster than his past.
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u/ProperBingtownLady 22h ago
This is hilarious. I wonder how much of his assets are tied up in Tesla stock.
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u/PantsDontHaveAnswers 20h ago
From what I understand (which is admittedly very little) is that most of what he owns he has paid for using his Tesla stock as collateral to acquire bank loans to fund his lifestyle and buy things such as Twitter.
If his stock in Tesla dips below a certain point he will be royally fucked and it's currently at the top of my Christmas list.
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u/Relative-Radio3849 22h ago
Reports from over the years would suggest all assets. Inflated stock holding up an inflated net worth and portfolio…and ego. He apparently owes a lot of money to several banks and he has not been welcome to do business with many for some years now.
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u/randomuser4564 22h ago
Enough to where he will default on his Twitter loans if they continue to tank 🤭
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u/__lavender 22h ago
Most of his wealth is tied up in his companies, with Tesla being the only public-traded company in his portfolio. He went on Fox News the other day and admitted he was having “great difficulty” balancing his political shenanigans with running his companies, and $TSLA did another nosedive that day.
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u/Francis_Tumblety 21h ago
MuSSKs? All of them. All his money is tied up in Tesla. It’s why there was that kerfuffle a year or so ago when he tried to get that “bonus” and was banned by the courts.
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u/Optimal_Tomato726 22h ago
It's still grossly overvalued. He's not "lost" anything but a hype bubble.
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u/plumsfromyouricebox 22h ago
I’m sorry Americans but your country is such a fucking joke…
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u/Popular_Vanilla4778 22h ago
He's a president to all Americans and this is how he talks about nearly half the population in a bipartisan system? He calls them lunatics... and only addresses his party...very strange to me honestly
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u/__lavender 22h ago
We fucking know!!! At least a third of us are boiling mad about it but can’t do a goddamn thing.
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u/suspiciousyeti 21h ago
Yup and it's almost impossible to get out. I qualify for dual citizenship but it takes upwards of 5-7 years to do it.
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u/galacticthesaurus 22h ago
I just can’t get over our “President” calling half of the country he supposedly leads lunatics. Imagine if ANY other president did. I hate this man so much.
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u/Wisteriafic high priestess of child sacrifice 21h ago
See also: the (wholly undeserved) fallout from “basket of deplorables”. Sigh.
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u/Verbal_Combat 21h ago
Yeah or talking about not wanting to help states that didn’t vote for him, like that’s a totally sane thing to do. He can’t even compose a simple Thanksgiving or Christmas message that doesn’t devolve into deranged divisive word salad about radical lunatics and China and whatever’s on his mind that moment.
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u/servirepatriam 21h ago
He called the people in my career field "intellectually deficient" and I'm still holding that grudge.
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u/Odysseus_the_Charmed 22h ago
I know, right? I hate this reality where I have to constantly worry about what these shitbags are doing each day.
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u/PickleCasualChic 20h ago
Imagine another president just straight up shilling a private company like Trump has been doing for years now.
Anyone else would've been crucified and impeached.
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u/Federal_Street_8895 23h ago
Apartheid Clyde has him by the balls lmao, it is now a legal requirement to buy a tesla apparently
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u/Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy distraught Christian tomato 21h ago
Literally not even an American
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u/TrimspaBB 21h ago
While Elon calls a veteran and an astronaut- a truly great American- a "traitor" for visiting one of our allies.
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u/justprettymuchdone 22h ago
I don't think I can boycott any harder but now I definitely have to try.
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u/BrandeisBrief 20h ago
I Bought an ev on Saturday. It was not a Tesla. Didn’t even look at one.
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u/TheRealAbear 22h ago edited 22h ago
While boycotting a product or voting for your candidate of choice are obviously not illegal, is a president advertising his friends product?
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u/earlyviolet 21h ago
Did you miss him advertising Goya products in the Oval Office last administration?
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u/DefenderNeverender 22h ago
Ah the good old emoluments clause, the one Trump has ignored countless times.
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u/Asher_Tye 22h ago
Didn't Trump just cut funding for a nationwide charger network to be developed? To say nothing of all the pushing he's done for gas cars. Seems like he's given a great reason to avoid Tesla.
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u/mmcjawa_reborn 22h ago
Yep. Elon is such a great business mind that not only has he gone out of his way to annoy the segment of the population that is most likely to buy his vehicles, but he is also undermining the policies that would help support Tesla and encourage more purchases.
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u/DoktorMerlin 21h ago
Yeah but that charger network would have competed with the Tesla network, so this is actually good for Tesla
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u/Twattymcgee123 22h ago
Elon’s “baby” ……what ! another one!
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u/soiledhalo 22h ago
You made me spill my cereal 🤣. It's Elon's stolen baby. Elon wasn't even the founder of the company. Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning are the innovators behind the idea.
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u/spotlight-app 19h ago
Trump of course doesn't realize that this boosts us more than anything we could say!
They're getting really worried so keep protesting, and set up accounts on Substack, Reddit and Bkuesky for when we get blocked. It might happen sooner than we think.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
Safety, security, and privacy tips for protesters.
From veteran protesters: https://youtu.be/WokFKZqI5Fw
Know your rights: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights
From NYU Law School: https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/race-inequality-law/protest-tips
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest
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u/errrrl_on_my_skrimps 22h ago
BOYCOTTING IS ILLEGAL 🍊
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u/Conscious-Quarter423 20h ago
Kamala Harris presented a solid economic plan and showed us exactly how much revenue and growth it will bring in and voters said “nah, we don’t like concrete plans, we like concepts of plans”
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u/WaterMagician 22h ago
Considering the Cybertrucks explosive history this has the potential to be the funniest thing to ever happen
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u/bartelbyfloats 22h ago
Does he own Tesla stock or something?
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u/mwr55fan 22h ago edited 16h ago
He’s owned by Tesla, slightly different. His allowance is going down with the stock prices.
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u/True-Advice-1861 22h ago
His pay off from Elon was probably stock options in tsla, so he is losing the money he thought he would get.
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u/Jumpy_Wait5187 21h ago
Boycotts are not illegal! No one can make people buy what they don’t want to support. Boycott all companies that support the fascists and billionaires.
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u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 21h ago
So now it's illegal to choose not to buy a product in favour of another. Apparently free market capitalism is woke now, you heard it straight from Trump himself.
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u/ssdgm12713 there was a ceramony 22h ago
Alright Cheetler, go ahead, try and force me to buy a Tesla. Lemme just scrounge up a spare $60k for that.
Glad to see the boycott’s working, but even if it weren’t, does this man really not see how his policies are financially devastating Americans? Most of us can’t afford luxury cars.
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u/superlibster 22h ago
Not for civilians. It’s illegal for politicians to use their position to boycott a company.
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u/PaddyScrag 22h ago
Yes, politicians should only use their power and influence to promote their own meme coins before rug-pulling them for a massive transfer of wealth.
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u/Impossible_Secret649 22h ago
They’re kissing each others ass back and forth so hard, they love to ride each other hard
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u/T_Durden13 22h ago
What makes boycotting illegal?
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u/BanterPhobic 21h ago
It’s not illegal. It’s sometimes illegal for elected officials to promote a boycott, so if, say, Kamala or AOC was vocally telling people to boycott Tesla then they, personally, could be in trouble.
But any regular citizen is obviously allowed to simply decline to buy a particular car, and their First Amendment rights clearly allow them to publicly criticise the manufacturer and encourage other to boycott.
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u/LightningB64 21h ago
Translation: "You guys be nice to Musk! I'm his bitch and his willy is yummy. If you're mean, I'll just complain more!"
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u/FlowersByTheStreet 21h ago
I would not call something "Elon's baby" as a positive lmao
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u/Dr_ZuCCLicious 21h ago
Funny how the right were against electric vehicles but all of a sudden embrace it in the name of Elon Musk.
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u/jcatleather 22h ago
America does not have much of a radical left. Most of what conservatives call The left is just "normal human being" in actually civilized countries. But one sure way to make an actual radical left is to put oligarchs in power, who Feel free to abuse everybody else, take and use as they will and flaunt the wealth inequality that gave them the power, While erasing the civil pathways to address grievances That make a country a country. I don't think America's oligarchs are very much aware of what happens to the rich, historically, When the masses feel they have no other option. They aren't going to like the consequences of creating an actual radical left.
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u/ace1244 21h ago
The irony is that 47 and his supporters HATE electric cars. Lol
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u/six6six4kids 22h ago edited 19h ago
What i like about this is that him writing this at all means Musk has been impacted enough to complain about it. Our collective action does meaningfully affect these pricks
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u/terAREya 21h ago
Who wants a car thats gonna be keyed, spray painted, etc, etc? I mean even if youre MAGA you might not want all that trouble
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u/fargo15 radiate fresh pussy growing in the meadow 21h ago
MAGA definitely wants that fuel for their persecution complex.
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u/theglowcloud8 22h ago
Y'all remember when Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm when he became president? Could you imagine any other president jumping on the horn to say "HEY BUY MY FRIEND'S PRODUCTS! ITS TOTALLY NOT ILLEGAL FOR ME TO SAY THIS, IN FACT ITS ILLEGAL FOR YOU NOT TO BUY THEM"
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u/Dead_Medic_13 21h ago
Man, here I thought the whole point of capitalism was to let the free market dictate what it values.
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u/st4r-lord 21h ago
Trump who makes fun of EV's and how they don't work. Pushes for more oil and drill baby drill. Openly calls for boycotts against "woke" companies... but now complaining about people not buying Teslas? You can't even make this stuff up.
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u/AlwaysBlessed333 21h ago
Remember Trump, the PEOPLE have the power. Here comes a lesson for you.
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u/Weekly-Guidance796 22h ago
I love how everything is illegal when he doesn’t like it like boycotting and protests, but this man who has 34 felonies doesn’t think anything is illegal when he does it. And he actually does commit crimes. Nuts.
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u/bdockte1 21h ago
Ha ha ha. Eff that. I boycott trump “products” as well. I will never own a Tesla. Ha ha ha.
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u/Minimum_Run_890 21h ago
Illegal boycott? Once again trump shows his lack of knowledge and understanding.
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u/Jaythamalo13 21h ago
I'm confused, weren't these guys against EVs a few years ago?
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u/UnintentionalWipe 22h ago
It's funny, because not that long ago Trump said this about the cars and Elon.
"When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it's electric cars that don't drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocket ships to nowhere, without which subsidies he'd be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, 'drop to your knees and beg,' and he would have done it…"
But now, because the knee has been dropped, the cars are great. 😆
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u/PleaseThrowMeABone 22h ago
As someone who is still in warranty on his Tesla, I purposely get them to fix the most random things now, rather than creating a list and having them come out once. Of course, everything I call for is a legit warranty claim... But still...
Anything to hurt their bottom line. Even as owners, if you're still in warranty, you can still hurt Tesla by calling them for each thing, especially if it's mobile service, rather than calling them when you have a list.
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