Expanding Protests at Bay Area Tesla Dealers and Beyond

Photos: Leon Kunstenaar

(San Francisco, March 15) Protests at Tesla dealers against Musk (all Tesla dealers are Musk owned) are catching fire. Conversely, Tesla sales are being extinguished. Someone who knows a Tesla salesman in SF reports that they have not sold a car in two weeks. Normally, they sell three to five per week.

Demonstrators quickly filled the sidewalk in front of the Van Ness Avenue dealership and spilled over to the median and opposite sidewalk. The blare of approval honking from passing cars and trucks was continual.

The action at the Van Ness dealership was as big as the one the previous week. It was raucous and loud. There was a Cybertruck piñata - all enjoyed watching it getting smashed. Many protest signs characterized not only Musk but the entire Trump administration as infested with Nazism, accusing swastikas on signs were abundant as were injunctions to not buy a "swasticar." The Musk-Trump Nazi accusation was perhaps due to Vance's remark that Germans needed to get over their "guilt" over World War II, as well as the overt racism of the Trump campaign against "woke."

Musk's Nazi salute has apparently cost him $200 billion so far, casting doubt on his reputedly great business acumen.

Drivers of Passing Teslas were implored to get rid of their cars. One sign recommended the purchase of a Rivian, a competing electric truck.

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