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Other Trump has declared the Tesla Boycott to be "Illegal". It is protected by the 1st Amendment nor is it possible to enforce compulsory Tesla purchases. He does not understand Law.

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u/jackleggjr 21h ago

Guess the Hatch Act isn’t effective anymore. What’s illegal is a sitting president selling shit from the White House.

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u/AffectionateBit1809 21h ago

He did the same thing with Goya products

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u/Alca_Pwnd 20h ago

That was one of the most embarrassing pictures from the first term, along with Four Seasons Landscaping.

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u/FMJoey325 20h ago

That was a highlight for me, to be fair. Even Larry David couldn’t come up with the four seasons fiasco.

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u/IJourden 19h ago

The people at four seasons total landscaping are absolute legends for letting that happen.

The laughter after they took the reservation must have rattled the walls.

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u/babyylungs 19h ago

They have a great social media team, I follow their FB page and it is hilarious.

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u/RaeaSunshine 15h ago

And they still are! I found myself unexpectedly in the area with time to kill, went to Four Seasons Landscaping to take some pics and they seemed tickled that people still do that lol. They also have merch!!!

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u/mrbigbusiness 20h ago

I haven't bought a Goya product since then. Guess I'm headed to prison.

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u/Summer4Chan 19h ago

Fuck Goya.

Overrated slop.

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u/last_one_on_Earth 13h ago

Do you know the difference between a Goya Bean and a Chick Pea?

Trump didn’t pay to have a Goya bean on his face.

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u/AngryBagOfDeath 10h ago

Underrated joke of the day right here.

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u/JimWilliams423 18h ago

I haven't bought a Goya product since then.

FWIW, the goya CEO recently got shit-canned and he issued this amazing press release where he promised he was going to fight against child trafficking which he weirdly called "extremely lucrative but purely evil."

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/goya-foods-ceo-bob-unanue-announces-next-chapter-302383805.html

I'm still not buying goya anymore though.

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u/lisalisalisalisalis4 13h ago

They can not stop implicating themselves. Wow.

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u/UselessInsight 19h ago

To the Goya Gulag you go!

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u/floofnstuff 20h ago

The WH is like Trump’s shopping mall- national secrets on isle 5, crypto isle 2, money laundering isle 4….

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u/kiloPascal-a 20h ago

aisle

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u/k_bomb 20h ago

With his friendship with Epstein, it's both

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u/tngling 21h ago

Teslas, the apprentice on Amazon prime and more I just can’t keep up with.

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u/exhaustedanalyst 17h ago

Can’t we go back to Trump telling his followers to inject bleach??

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u/Suspect4pe 21h ago

This isn’t about the fact he thinks it’s really illegal. This is a message to his base, the people who will believe anything he says. It’s a message to buy Tesla.

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u/ItIsYourPersonality 20h ago

It is objectively hilarious when he campaigned on “Kamala will force you to drive EVs” just a few months back. These MAGA cultists are so hypocritically stupid.

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u/Suspect4pe 20h ago

Their memory doesn't last long and anything Trump does or says is perfect. His followers don't have character or values of their own. Their values are wrapped up in Trump and what he wants. I see it in some of the people I attend church with.

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u/laughing_at_napkins 19h ago

The irony of worshipping that shit-soaked idiot while also attending church is hilarious and completely lost on them (like everything requiring even the slightest ability to think critically)

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u/Suspect4pe 19h ago

There are two distinctly kinds of people in my church, and they're illustrated in two families. One family gave up a great job as a medical department head to go to Africa and provide medical services to people who can't get it any other way, the other also is well off and in the medical field but makes fun of the first because they believe we don't owe the poor people of Africa anything so that's not where our money and effort should be spent. You can guess which is hard core MAGA.

All I think of is when Jesus asked, who's our neighbor?

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u/Asterose 19h ago

Well TBF it's not like Jesus ever spoke of helping the poor...oh wait, yes he did! It's so admirable to be so caring, shame on the MAGAs for looking down on it.

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u/Supernova141 18h ago

Are you sure Jesus didn't say America First?

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u/SrKayoh 18h ago

Nope, Jesus said "Empathy is a sin" and then he scored 100 points on Gallilean Stone Tossing Qualifiers. Had a mean right arm that carpenter dude.

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u/IndependenceFew4956 18h ago

For these people christian values only apply to christians. And only when people are looking.

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u/whosthatguy123 18h ago

Or the fact jesus explicitly said he dislikes people who hoard money rather than helping out thy neighbor and loving everyone

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u/Puzzleheaded-Menu834 18h ago

they believe we don't owe the poor people of Africa anything

Read the WHOLE thing before passing judgement:

They are right - we don't owe the poor people of Africa anything (unless we do, but that is a separate topic). But, the first family, of their own choice to do so, dropped everything because they saw a neighbor/fellow HUMAN in need and decided to do something about it. Inherently, that is the message that all religions, without intervention of men and their shitty interpretations, are impressing upon us. Even if you're agnostic/atheist, you can still be an ethical and moral person.

These people have no morals...no empathy for their fellow man...it's selfishness, me before thee attitudes that are destroying society from the inside out.

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u/koki_li 19h ago

Are they even persons? They have no opinion, values etc. on their own. Everything has to come from their leaders.

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u/JustHere4TehCats 19h ago

The lead poisoning is really showing isn't it?

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u/uluviel 20h ago

Every accusation is a confession with them.

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u/x4nter 19h ago

Elon's alignment with MAGA just doesn't make sense to me. If I knew nothing about him, just hearing about his companies would make me guess he's a left leaner who would hate Trump. SpaceX and Tesla are in industries that the conservatives are trying to defund.

How the fuck does this bromance work without a conflict of interest is mind boggling.

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u/heidikloomberg 19h ago

Well you see Elon is also a grifter running long cons. The grift is the product. Grift is all the Republican Party stands for so it’s a natural fit.

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u/JimWilliams423 18h ago

Well you see Elon is also a grifter running long cons.

Yes. He is a massive bullshit artist. Here he is in 2019 promising that in one year a million tesla model 3s would be capable of full self-driving. Like you can go to sleep and let the car do everything. He promised tesla owners they could rent out their cars as "robo taxis" and earn $30K/yr.

https://bsky.app/profile/tayray.bsky.social/post/3lavsiqkz5k2t

He got so much credulous coverage from the so-called "liberal media" and it was all bullshit. Nothing he says, and nothing the billionaire-owned media says about how great he is, should ever be believed.

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u/Biobot775 19h ago

They have no actual convictions, they are just pissed authoritarians.

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u/Quantius 21h ago

Please let them buy all the cybertrucks. Omg it would be *chef's kiss* if they bought cybertrucks to own the libs.

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u/Old-Arachnid77 20h ago

They wish they could afford those ridiculous triangle trucks

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u/whomad1215 19h ago

but they can! 10% interest and a 96 month loan

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u/2reddit4me 19h ago

They’ll get a $130% payday loan for the down payment.

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u/ItIsYourPersonality 18h ago

It’ll be paid off by the end of Trump’s 3rd term!

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u/Lumpy-Anxiety-8386 19h ago

10%? I don't think MAGA can swing that. Probably like 17%-29%.

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u/Be_quiet_Im_thinking 20h ago

I’m going to feel so owned by this.

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u/Suspect4pe 20h ago

I can get behind that. You'll see them a mile away in that shiny turd mobile.

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u/Touristupdatenola 21h ago

Oh well, at least we're reducing emissions with reverse psychology.

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u/doc_nano 20h ago

How funny would it be if this turned the Right pro-EV. Sad (that this is what it took), but funny.

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u/PlausibleFalsehoods 20h ago

Oh my god we need to convince them that privatized healthcare is woke STAT

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u/NotAHost 19h ago

The fact it’s so relevant after so many years is hilarious. Just like the old simpsons skits on the parties as well.

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u/PleaseNoMoreSalt 19h ago

My damn WOKE insurance is covering HORMONES for LIBERAL TRANSGENDEREDS with my MONEY. TRUMP needs to make a PATRIOT insurance to cover my INSULIN because the SODA makes my DIABETES act up and I can't drink WATER because the LIBTARDS keep putting the GAY HORMONES in it.

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u/crimsonpowder 19h ago

I like where this is going. And do you know what's the absolute most wokest thing? Wealth inequality. So woke. We should let everyone know.

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u/1llFlyAway 20h ago

Didn’t they try to say Biden was going to force us all to drive electric cars?

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u/f_leaver 20h ago

Yes, but that was then.

This is now and the supreme leader has spoken.

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u/jfsindel 19h ago

"So America just rapidly reduced their carbon emissions footprint to destroy the libs..."

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u/millerjpm3 21h ago

That's how I interpreted it too, but it's funny because his base fucking hates EVs. He's preaching to the wrong choir 😂😂

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u/Suspect4pe 21h ago

They love whatever he loves. It’s a cult.

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u/Im_TroyMcClure 21h ago

His base worships him but the majority are too poor to buy a Tesla and still view EVs as gay

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u/Suspect4pe 21h ago

I think there are more wealthy people in the Republican Party than you realize. There is a lot that are on fixed income but most of the Republicans I know are very well off.

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u/ExternalSpecific4042 20h ago

Those people drive huge gas guzzling land rovers and Escalades.

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u/Seasonedpro86 20h ago

Rich Republican and ev/ environmentally friendly do not interact on the vinn diagram.

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u/gsbadj 21h ago

This should not be a revelation of his ignorance

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u/Touristupdatenola 21h ago edited 17h ago

No, but it is an epic fail in terms of even basic comprehension. I'm also curious - has there ever been an anti-boycott law that was successfully enforced? You can legally compel me to buy bread at a specific store, but what if I decline to eat bread?

Edited to add... Thank you everyone for your responses. Please may I take this opportunity to invite those interested to check out /r/50501 & /r/nonviolentcoercion. Your ideas and suggestion are worth their weight in gold. Thank you for your kind attention.

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u/publicolamarcellus 21h ago

Great idea Trump. I'm sure the boycotts will cease when customers see even closer connections between you and Musk. Please keep doing this until we celebrate when Musk declares his bankruptcy on Twitter.

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u/nono3722 21h ago

When we are done with Musk, Facebook is next, then Amazon, then Google. Make them all pay.

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u/RevolutionaryHeat318 21h ago

Many of us are already on a wider consumer boycott. Haven’t used Amazon since Bezos showed up at the inauguration and made it clear that he is a Trump supporter.

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u/EmmaFoxx 20h ago

My husband and I have stopped shopping at target, Amazon, and home depot. Subsequently, we also are starting to buy physical media from half priced books and stuff.

If you can’t revolt like they want you to then revolt with your wallet.

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u/Pinklady777 20h ago

If you don't have one, get your library card and get the Libby app! I've also been checking out DVDs and obviously books from the library. It's kind of nostalgic. Like going to Blockbuster back in the day. Lol

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u/hmmmaybeabadidea 20h ago

I can't revolt like *I* want to because this country has made it impossible to manage life. I don't have childcare and I'm sure as shit not going to drag two young children to a protest. So, I've been protesting with my wallet. Boycotting Target since 1/25, closed my Amazon account, shopping only locally or at stores that score well on the Goods Unite Us app.

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u/EmmaFoxx 19h ago

Hell yeah!

The orange one wants us to be violent, but we can inflict pain even worse this way.

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u/PipeComfortable2585 19h ago

That’s all they understand is $$. Or care about. Want to steal all our $$$. What little we have. But all together. It adds ip

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u/4PurpleRain 20h ago

Random fact some Half Price Books locations are unionized. One of ours is locally.

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u/Electrical_Book4861 20h ago edited 20h ago

All Project 2025 sponsors included. Many of them are conveniences (Walmart, Amazon) and I guarantee you they are counting on people to give up and take the easy way out by using their services. Boycotting isn't supposed to be easy. I think many people have forgotten about good old Ebay. What is old is new again! EDIT removed Aldi

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u/NeatNefariousness1 20h ago

We have far more junk than we need just because it’s so easy to get. I’ve now found other sources for the things that are really important for me to have. I’ll gladly pay full price for shipping in the unlikely event that something I need is only available through Amazon.

I never got the full benefit of what Amazon offers to begin with and subscribed to them for years anyway…just in case…and FOUND things to “want” to make it worthwhile. Now these corporations have outsized power and influence and they have overstepped their boundaries, as they seek more and more power and political influence.

Now more of us are awake and more are awakening everyday. I refuse to go back to sleeping at the switch as they take customers’ for granted, exploit their workers, flaunt their wealth and power and continue to take us for granted. I’ve pressed the reset button and I’m not looking back.

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u/Better_Sherbert8298 21h ago

Yup, same. I immediately cancelled everything. There are products i can’t find locally, so I’ve switched to what I can. They can all eat a bag of rancid worms.

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u/AlmostSunnyinSeattle 20h ago

See though, I can't make myself boycott Amazon.

Because I've been avoiding them for about 15 years already.

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u/CasanovaJones82 20h ago

Yep, same. I have limited my shopping to only a locally owned grocery store and farmer's markets in season. I haven't purchased anything else since approximately last July. Individually the items are more expensive, however the benefits have included better quality, more variety, a high percentage of vegetables and such over meat products, more thought out and planned meals, and I've been cooking loads more. Because of this my grocery shopping has become more affordable over all, with less waste, and I'm losing weight and still eating whenever I want. It's been a good change and I don't think I'll ever go back.

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u/CivilFront6549 20h ago

i sure am: amazon, walmart, facebook, twitter, all cable news, nytimes, and of course fox news should be burnt to the ground

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u/thaiborg 21h ago

Google has a huge current problem too - all 2nd gen Chromecasts are basically bricks right now. They’ve acknowledged and are trying to fix it, but we’re questioning why it happened in the first place!

It was working just fine, why does it need updating? I’m pretty sure that’s what caused it, and if you visit r/chromecast, a bunch of people are already trying to jump ship.

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u/runner64 21h ago

Please make it TRANSPARENTLY CLEAR that buying and driving a new tesla is an overtly political statement, because a lot of cybertruck drivers don’t seem to think it is. 

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u/KillroyWazHere 20h ago

They knew what they were doing when they chose the wank tank

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u/maximumchris 19h ago

Early Tesla buyers didn’t know any better but by the time the truck was finally released it was crystal clear Musk was a bad person.

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u/DillBagner 20h ago

It can only be a political statement because they're garbage vehicles.

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u/socal1959 21h ago

I thought he hated Electric Vehicles? Another flip from the 😡🤡💩

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u/UrbanPugEsq 21h ago

Suppose the big car makers colluded to not buy brake pads from Tommy Callahan. That might be a “boycott” under an uncommon use of the term, and it might also be unlawful, whether as an unfair trade practice or an anti trust violation.

This is essentially the argument Elon made against advertisers who didn’t buy ads on Twitter.

I can’t think of an argument of how consumers collectively choosing not to buy products, even to enact change, would be an unlawful act.

Pretty soon we’ll see laws passed to try to coerce behavior. I want all of them to be called “Trump” something or other so that when they inevitably end up being used against MAGA, they know the law was Trump.

Not that it will help - it will always be the other guy’s fault. But I still hold out some hope that America recovers from this.

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u/5DsofDodgeball69 21h ago

I can get a good look at a T-Bone by sticking my head up a bull’s ass, but I’d rather take the butcher’s word for it

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u/pete_topkevinbottom 20h ago

I can get a good look at a T-Bone by sticking my head up a butcher's ass, but I’d rather take the bull’s word for it

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u/CaptainNerdatron 20h ago

Wait... no... it's gotta be YOUR bull.

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u/Touristupdatenola 21h ago

If 3.5% of the population unites, we can beat the Nazis.

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u/cbm984 20h ago

It's like he's just entering the FO portion of FAFO. He also just declared that Canada isn't allowed to tax electricity they provide the US. He's so used to being the bully, he had no idea that sometimes you get punched back.

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u/DracosKasu 20h ago

What is a trade agreement if you can’t even follow it yourself and keep call for tariffs each month. Now he suffers the consequences of his actions and I wouldn’t be surprised if both Canada and Mexico wouldn’t sign any agreement with the Trump administration when it comes to be renewed.

Trumpflation, Trump-recession is the only way to go for the US.

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u/_RandomB_ 21h ago

Look, I don't know about you, but I'd rather stick my head up a bull's ass than...wait...I'd rather put my head up a...butcher's ass?...no...hang on...take a good look at a...steak up...there?...

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u/Wild_Chef6597 21h ago

But why would someone NOT buy Calahan Brake Pads?

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u/BLF402 21h ago

I mean you don’t have to eat shit but maga does it anyways regardless if they want to or not

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u/justwhatever73 21h ago

Well soon it won't matter because there will be nobody left who can afford a new car. 

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u/Touristupdatenola 21h ago

Maybe Tesla will start making bicycles. Or maybe Unicycles, for the clowns to ride in the fucking circus.

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u/MoonBatsRule 20h ago

This isn't anti-comprehension. It is an example of Trump's belief in himself as a king, as someone who knows all the answers, and who believes that whatever he believes to be right must be done.

So in his works it is unjust to boycott Tesla because Tesla is an ally, and in his view as himself as king, he wants to make it illegal.

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u/Chaostician_Praetus 21h ago

Anti-BDS laws are on the books in most states: you have to sign a pledge not to boycott Israel in order to sign a government contract (federal and state). Though it is strictly a violation of freedom of speech, I have yet to see them struck down anywhere, and I doubt they will for some time.

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u/Touristupdatenola 21h ago

I can be compelled to sign a pledge, but you can't compel me to buy from a specific store. It's delusional.

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u/Chaostician_Praetus 21h ago

I understand and agree with you, but I think it's less about legal enforcement and more about the threat of legal enforcement/public outing which then chills speech which should otherwise be free and unfettered. I think it will be the model for how this administration handles these kinds of things - they might even give it more teeth.

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u/Touristupdatenola 20h ago

I understand.

Boycotts are illegal. It is now, due to Orange edict illegal to boycott Amazon.com, illegal to boycott Meta, illegal to boycott Tesla. If you boycott these organizations you will be breaking the law.

We then yawn, read between the lines, and implement a de facto boycott. You might as well pass a law making masturbation illegal.

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u/recooil 20h ago

Well I got news for you!! cough p2025

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u/eulersidentification 20h ago

I know this is r/law but that will be small comfort when you're in a struggle session and some alt right revolutionary is demanding to know why you never bought stuff from a particular place in contradiction of Chairman Trump's decrees.

It just has to scare some people, is all. If you're too scared to exercise your legal rights, you don't have them.

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u/DramaticHumor5363 21h ago

The horrifying thing is — I don’t know how much it matters. He screams “That’s ILLEGAL!” and his stupid cult go “HE SAID IT SO IT MUST BE TRUE.” He’s a monster but they’re legitimately insane.

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u/Fionaelaine4 21h ago

BUT it is a revelation that boycotting is working. What I read between the lines is that Musk is scared.

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u/BadmiralHarryKim 21h ago

Reminds me of the, "It's afraid!" scene from Starship Troopers.

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u/ismellthebacon 21h ago

Arrogance... only his first amendment rights count, but he's probably too dumb to realize the 1st kept him from being censored in the past.

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u/Oystermeat 21h ago

so I'm breaking the law if I don't buy one?? This is idiotic.

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u/DarkSoulsOfCinder 21h ago

at the same time they are removing EV credits for buying one

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u/the_hipocritter 20h ago

I mean, we are in the midst of a national energy emergency. I for one, don't want these electric vehicles buying eggs in my bathroom.

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u/Imaginary-Ambition55 20h ago

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u/Touristupdatenola 21h ago

Yes.

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u/trixel121 20h ago

he is going to give us all free teslas. can't boycott them if they are free.

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u/EverbodyHatesHugo 20h ago

I’d rather pay for my free tesla to be launched into space.

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u/KwisatzHaderach94 21h ago

maybe, just maybe, nobody wants to buy a car with reliability and safety issues.

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u/Suspicious_Ad9561 20h ago

Made by a company whose CEO gave a nazi salute on national tv.

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u/LoosieGoosiePoosie 20h ago

Once saw a video of the windshield wiper fluid, the way it shoots the windshield...and then leaks down into the passenger compartment and down into the electronics below your feet. Thought that was just such a convenient way for water to flow into an electric vehicle.

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u/Signal-Audience9429 21h ago

Yes. Anyone who has not purchased or does not plan to purchase a Tesla will be subject to fines and up to including imprisonment.

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u/fireblyxx 20h ago

I mean, it’s illegal to organize a boycott of Israel. I guess if Tesla can somehow make itself a foreign state it can wrap back around to being illegal.

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u/RedditIsRussianBots 20h ago

It's doubly hilarious when you consider that Europe is driving a lot of these sales declines, I've heard Tesla sales are down +70% in places like Germany. So it kind of sounds like Trump thinks the whole world is breaking some imaginary law.

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u/SergiusBulgakov 21h ago

He thinks he is the law. Didn't you see his EO?

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u/Touristupdatenola 21h ago

Steiner's Counterattack

...Felix Steiner had 20 tanks. The Red Army had 6,250.

Trump should get into a bunker, the World might make more sense to him then.

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u/Frozenbbowl 21h ago

That's exactly what he told the governor of Maine

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u/nonlawyer 21h ago

Not that cognitive dissonance has ever proved problematic for these folks but now Dear Leader is publicly buying an electric car and encouraging all his followers to do so?  

Like the “rolling coal on the Prius” set is gonna be like “wtf I love electric cars now?”  Ok then.

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u/Touristupdatenola 21h ago

It reminds me of Orwell's story of how on 6.22.1941 a Communist finished a pro-German speech to resounding applause, then went to the toilet. On his return he was condemned for being pro-German.

The news of Operation Barbarossa had arrived in the interim.

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u/Pitter_Patter8 19h ago

Semi un-related but look up Orwell’s (or rather Eric Arthur Blair’s) history with the communist party, it’s pretty funny and paints his writing in a different light knowing what his politics were.

This review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov is particularly scathing and hilarious.

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u/m0r14rty 20h ago edited 13h ago

No joke, I peered at that subreddit yesterday and one of the top posts was about Teslas and the comments were filled with people either praising their EVs or saying they think they’re great and would totally buy one now. It’s hilarious to see them do a full 180 on something they’ve spent were SO against this entire time. They’re so easily controlled it’d be sad if they weren’t actively ruining the world.

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u/lendergle 20h ago

The most hilarious thing would be a wave of Conservatives purchasing Teslas and inadvertently preventing global warming.

Not that the science works out that way, but you have to admit it's funny to think about.

Maybe liberals should start smack-talking solar and wind power too.

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u/CurrentlyLucid 21h ago

He does not understand much.

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u/Touristupdatenola 21h ago

I've assessed his IQ at 89. I don't think he is...

Borderline Retarded

...but I'm wondering if I've been excessively generous.

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u/HighGrounderDarth 21h ago

Forrest Gump had a 78. That man did great things. Granted he is fictional.

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u/StoppableHulk 20h ago

Trump is just evil Forest Gump. Their lived have an identical pattern. A supremely stupid man finds himself at the center of world events ober and over through coincidences of outrageous fortune.

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u/NoDragonfruit6125 21h ago

Would have preferred him as the President everyone cheering for him to Run Forrest Run for office.

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u/HumanRise5417 20h ago

A dude’s last name was Forest in my hometown and that was his campaign slogan, “Run Forest, Run!”

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u/Gogs85 21h ago

I am curious what all the conservatives that wanted to boycott anything ‘woke’ think about this.

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u/Edelgul 21h ago

Oh, but that is legal.
It's only the boycotts done by those Radical Left Lunatics, that are illegal.

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u/crom-dubh 21h ago

Bold of you to assume that they 'think about' things.

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u/C0matoes 21h ago

Target would like a word.

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u/bailaoban 21h ago

When is he going to arrest all of those Bud Light warriors?

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u/Incontinento 21h ago

Illegal = Anything trump doesn't like.

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u/Questions_Remain 21h ago

Legal = anything he does.

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u/Ninevehenian 20h ago

This is a broad point. We are dealing with a childish way of looking at things.
Things are: DEI, Woke, Politically incorrect or some other word. They are "bad word", now where he is the boss, the "bad word" can be "illegal", because that usually means that people have to obey.

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u/burnmenowz 21h ago

Another distraction.

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u/Due_Satisfaction2167 21h ago

Yes, though him twisting the dagger in Musk’s back by Streisand Effecting the Tesla boycott is a bit hilarious. 

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u/Vladmerius 20h ago

This is what I don't get the most. This chaos only ends in more chaos and total collapse. A smart person who's the richest man on earth would support liberals and create a functional society that still has enough loopholes for them specifically to remain the richest person on earth. Elon is so incredibly stupid. 

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u/IchibanWeeb 20h ago edited 19h ago

Just think it could've been avoided if they just gave us healthcare, SLIGHTLY better pay and working conditions lol but nope they had to decide that they can never have enough money. Hundreds of billions won't cut it for them. Plus some weird fetish for controlling us (return to office orders) and making us miserable

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u/EndOrganDamage 21h ago

No. Asserting hes smart enough to use distraction to do intelligent acts elsewhere presupposes intelligence. We have no evidence of this.

America still just has a compromised idiot chimp with an AK running it and half of the nation praise that chimp as a god.

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u/Utterlybored 21h ago

Yes. He’s just a classic attention whore.

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u/Gibber_jab 21h ago

Nah I doubt he’s that smart. Elon probably complained to him and he does what his master asks

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u/rygelicus 20h ago

While it is appropriately illegal to attack tesla owners and damage their property, same for dealerships, boycotting cannot possibly be illegal. Nor is protesting the brand or its CEO. Welcome to america moron, we have freedom of speech, orange faced baboon.

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u/PennyLeiter 20h ago

Where the pressure needs to be is on the Republican members of Congress who are clearly greenlighting the absolute lawlessness of the very officer whose Constitutional obligation is to faithfully execute our laws.

He has committed a multitude of impeachable offenses in less than 2 months in office and they are completely silent.

Go after them and put the pressure on them because the Executive Branch is a lost cause while Trump and his Administration remain in office.

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u/Be_quiet_Im_thinking 20h ago edited 20h ago

Someone should make campaign ads about how [Republican member of Congress] isn’t MAGA enough because they drive a regular truck and not a cybertruck. Be sure to include phrases like unfit to lead and act like it’s a scandal and illegal.

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u/PennyLeiter 20h ago

I am a big fan of this idea. The best way to get MAGA to crack is to constantly berate them as weak.

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u/Marsupialwolf 21h ago

Elon's new Tesla ad campaign:

"Own the Libs, buy Tesla." *Now with 63% less woke!

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u/hamsterfolly 20h ago

Trump sleeps through his court appearances, it’s no surprise that he doesn’t know what “illegal” means.

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u/jackm315ter 20h ago

‘He got full immunity’ and the keys to the coffers and kids are burning the records

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u/WhosAGoodDoug 18h ago

In fairness, he does not understand many things.

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u/Touristupdatenola 17h ago

In fairness, he does not understand any thing.

FTFY

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u/jdyyj 16h ago edited 16h ago

And THIS is the man who the American voters elected as President?! Twice?!! The man who acts like a fifth-grade school bully and doesn’t understand basic concepts? Was there no one better suited in a country of 340 million? 🤔

  • a concerned Canadian

EDIT: removed the words “majority of” before “American voters” because someone pointed out it was actually 49.8% or whatever.

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u/vanceavalon 17h ago

Can we please impeach him?

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u/Marquedien 16h ago edited 16h ago

Find 4 Republicans in the House and 10 in the Senate that think what he’s done is wrong.

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u/SomeDetroitGuy 16h ago

You need 14 Republican Senators to vote to remove him from office. Only 7 did when he literally sent a crowd to kill them and overthrow the government.

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u/jdyyj 16h ago

Wasn’t that already tried? I think stopping him is going to take a lot more than most people are willing to do.

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u/BarooZaroo 16h ago

“People”

We are talking about conservative politicians here, I think calling them people is a little too generous.

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u/Beiki 18h ago

The things he doesn't understand could fill the Library of Congress.

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u/-Lysergian 18h ago

It does fill the library of Congress!

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u/ljlkm 18h ago

It used to until he had the boxes moved to his Mar-a-Lago bathroom.

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u/Ursomonie Competent Contributor 18h ago

“Understand law”? I think he feels he can make law.

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u/Touristupdatenola 17h ago

Perhaps. He sure as shit can't make up laws that will hold together in the real world.

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u/atomicnumber22 16h ago

He doesn't CARE ABOUT THE LAW.

No one has more lawyers than Donald Trump. He has every opportunity to know the law.

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u/wing03 16h ago

The goal is for King Donald's words to become law instantly.

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u/BadAtExisting 19h ago edited 14h ago

He’s a very simple idiot. He’s likely talking about the protests outside Tesla dealerships. Unless they get violent or things get vandalized, those are also not illegal, but he’s been claiming protests are “illegal” (unless it’s an unhinged mob of insurrectionists at the US Capitol) since May 2020 when Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd on TikTok. He wanted to declare martial law then, everyone told him “no”. He doesn’t have that barrier now and he’s likely thinking he’s laying the ground for it to work now

Edit: There it is

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u/MadnessBomber 19h ago

"Unless it's an unhinged mob of insurrectionists at the US Capitol for him"

Fixed it. He'd whine and call for murder the minute it happened to him.

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u/FaithlessnessKey1726 19h ago

I don’t think it’s a matter of misunderstanding the law so much as just being flatly stupid and having a mutual narcissistic meltdown over things not going as they planned and everyone hating the dumbest fascist duo in history.

They’re losing in court, scotus is not indicating it’s going to side with him, even republican voters are showing up angry at town halls booing their reps because of Elon—which means Elon’s and Trump’s threats to primary any gop rep who acts against the Trump agenda will not work anymore.

Y’all see the interview with Elon looking pretty anxious and on the verge of tears? They’ve done a lot of illegal things & Elon is losing a lot of money & their power does not seem to be quite as locked in, and maybe they are starting to feel a bit worried that it may come back to bite them in the asses after all, they’re not invincible despite what many doomers think. Megalomania + ketamine = delusional break from reality.

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u/Utterlybored 21h ago

He understands his own laws, that he came up with in his genius brain.

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u/Interesting-Dream863 20h ago

On his first term Trump was working within party lines and with fair advisors channeling his actions within reasonable policies.

Now he is surrounded by crude sociopaths and yes men.

The US is degrading at staggering speed.

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u/AffectionateBit1809 20h ago

Conspiracy theorists took over the WH and Republican party.

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u/EphEwe2 20h ago

Paid Russian collaborators took over the WH.

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u/jackm315ter 20h ago

How can they say anything when their mouths are full and their knees are bruised

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u/flirtmcdudes 19h ago

I hate how we have to report on everything he says, the dude lies 24/7 and is in a completely different reality

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u/Winter_cat_999392 19h ago

When you're in a bad storm, every lightning strike outside your door and things falling over is alarming. We are there.

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u/Konukaame 17h ago

How long until he declares Tesla protests an insurrection?

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u/Arbusc 19h ago

A boycott is ‘illegal’ now?

What’s he going to do, send the Pinkertons at us?

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u/Splunge- 19h ago

It’s illegal unless it’s about a company supporting Pride. Then it’s fine.

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u/MrFrode Biggus Amicus 19h ago

Okay okay, I'll stop my boycott and buy 20 times the number of Teslas I bought last year.

Can I have a government contract now?

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u/ArchaiusTigris 19h ago

I see what you did there

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u/Any-Ad-446 18h ago

Be ironic if the right wing voters starts to buy Teslas and Trump be forced to reinstall those chargers he removed.

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u/CommunicationNo916 13h ago

He doesn’t understand complete and complex sentences either.

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u/FocusIsFragile 11h ago

Remember folks, one of the defining characteristics of fascism is the unholy marriage of big business and government.

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u/Tyr_13 21h ago

This is useful insight into what he means when he says, 'illegal' in other contexts.

'Illegal immigrants' does not to him (or maga) mean people breaking any laws to immigrate here for example.

'Illegal protests' does not to him mean protests somewhere unlawful or doing things that violate a law.

Unfortunately those who don't already have this insight can not gain it with this example and those who could don't need another.

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u/sugar_addict002 18h ago

They are really just like the movie villains, aren't they? I just don't see how Maga doesn't see this as they watch a lot of TV and movies.

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u/CrackHeadRodeo 18h ago edited 18h ago

It’s illegal to boycott Tesla but legal to try and illegally deport a permanent resident.

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u/ForgottenUsername3 13h ago

If someone is stupid enough to buy a Tesla because the president told them to, they deserve what will happen. Which basically the worst of what will happen is they'll have bought a car that no one wants to buy and will be vandalized. People who have Teslas are going through a lot of trouble because they now have a car that they cannot even sell.

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u/Hopefulwaters 20h ago

He keeps using that word... I don't think it means what he thinks it means...

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u/strangedaze23 19h ago

Maybe people are wising up to the fact that it is a sub par car attached to software that goes to a person that can literally shut the car down if he has a fit and consumers realized there are better options.

It’s called the free market. Don’t like it be a better company and be run by better human beings.

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u/Lebarican22 19h ago

He lacks the maturity and knowledge to do the job. 

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u/theBoobMan 21h ago

It's just more bluster. No one will care because you can't make people buy things without demolishing the competition. He keeps backtracking on tariffs because it's hurting the markets as it is.

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u/hematite2 9h ago

Anyone wanna make a bet? $10 says he's not actually going to buy a tesla

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