Leftist equates burning Teslas and charging stations with boycotts

The communists at MSNBC are outraged that conservatives are upset about insane Dem thugs burning Teslas.  Here's the headline on leftist shill site MSNBC on March 29, 2025 ("Tesla takedown" day):

The right’s outrage about Tesla protests rings especially hollow

Sub-head: "Conservatives love boycotts, as long as they get to choose the target."

Note how deftly the shitheads equate the left burning Teslas and charging stations, and cutting off charging cables, and shooting the windows of dealerships, to boycotting Bud Light.  Those things are not remotely the same, but the cunning, lying propagandists don't care.  This is a deliberate fake.

Around the country over the last couple of months, left-leaning Americans have gathered outside their local Tesla dealers to voice their opinions on Elon Musk.

Ahhh, so the shitheads bleat that "left-leaning Americans" have been merely "voicing their opinions on Elon Musk."  SEE, citizen?  Burning Teslas is trivial!  Merely free speech, eh?  "How can conservatives be upset about this?"

But of course that's not "free speech," no matter how much the shitheads at MSNBC bleat that it is.  They well know that burning and keying cars isn't "free speech" but will bleat that it is.  Why do they lie so brazenly?  Read on.

These protests, though numerous, have been mostly small and locally organized. But on Saturday, the anti-Tesla movement attempts to go national and even global. Hundreds of demonstrations organized under the name Tesla Takedown will target Tesla dealerships. The message is simple: “Sell your Tesla. Dump your stock. Stop Musk now.”

   Tesla drivers are peeved.  But their annoyance pales next to conservatives’ *outrage.*

Ahh, the MSNBC author doesn't have a word of criticism for the car-burners, but slams conservatives as "outraged."  Yeah, we sure are--as you would be if the roles were reversed.

The Right is appalled that a single corporation has been targeted for this kind of boycott and criticism, saying it impedes the smooth functioning of the market and the consumer’s right to make purchasing decisions free from social pressure. But it’s too late for conservatives to make that argument. They love boycotts, as long as they get to choose the target.

Again, boycotts aren't anything like burning cars and charging stations, keying cars, shooting the windows of dealerships and threatening Tesla owners on the road. Surely the shithead leftist author knows this, but still equates the two totally different things--cuz stupid people are easily led to believe absurdities.

Two years ago Bud Light sent a trans influencer a beer can with her picture on it as part of its social media outreach...

Ahh, "her" picture.  The "influencer was male, but the shithead MSNBC author uses the obligatory fake pronoun, cuz dat beez whut duh wokiez do, eh?

...prompting [all conservatives] to lose their collective minds.

And the evidence of that bullshit claim?  Why of course:  conservatives stopped buying the beer!  "SEE, citizen?  Not buying a product beez totally the same as burning cars and charging stations!  Yep yep yep!"

Being a conservative today means constant vigilance against brand-based assaults on your values.

Say, you lying communist son of a whore--you who fully supports burning Teslas and charging stations: How has the Tesla "brand" "assaulted your values," eh?  It hasn't.  Instead you simply hate the fact that the company's founder supports Trump.  There is NO equivalence here, no matter how hard you lie to try to establish one.
  But your stupid storm troopers--the brownshirts, thugs, antifa, trannies--will use your utter bullshit to prevent them from seeing the difference.

No matter how much you may hate the Lying Mainstream Media, it's not nearly enough.

Source: Democrat-fellating MSNBC

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/tesla-takedown-protests-musk-trump-rcna198594

All the reform efforts just went up in smoke

It is with great sadness that I must report that the last hope of saving the U.S. has just vanished:

Yesterday Trump pardoned a stock fraudster named Trevor Milton.

Now, unless you follow the stock market closely, that name means nothing to ya.   In 2014, as the mania over "electric vehicles" was ramping up, Milton founded a company to build electric-powered 18-wheelers.  He called it Nikola--the first name of electrical genius Nikola Tesla-- cuz "Tesla" was already taken.

In January of 2018 the company posted a "promotional video" on YouTube showing what it claimed was a prototype of its electric semi rolling along a highway.  This will be important.

Americans--swept up in the mania (which it certainly was) for battery-powered transportation eagerly bought billions of dollars in the company's stock.

In September of 2020, General Motors bought an 11% stake in Nikola for roughly $2 BILLION.  Because investors believed GM's CEO was smaht--and viewed the company's YouTube video from two years earlier--stock in Nikola immediately jumped 53%.  Nice.

The CEO of GM--then and now--was Mary Barra.  Mary is the only female to be CEO of a Big Three U.S. auto maker.  In 1985 she got a B.S in electrical engineering from the General Motors Institute, and as "wokiez" took over all major companies, was named CEO in 2014.  So if Mary urged GM to invest $2 billion in Nikola, every small investor saw that as the best endorsement evah!

And right after the GM investment, Nikola had a market capitalization of $30 billion--more than Ford-- *before it had sold a single vehicle!*  Cuz if the CEO of GM was eager to invest $2 BILLION of GM cash in Nikola, it had to be a totally solid company, eh?

Now, remember that promotional video from January of 2018--the one with the company's prototype electric semi rolling along the desert highway?  In September of 2020 it was revealed that the truck wasn't functional.  Wasn't moving under its own power.  They'd towed it to the top of a hill and let it roll down.

The video was revealed as fake on September 14, 2020--just six DAYS after GM announced its faaabulous $2 BILLION investment in the company.  Wow, timing, eh?

After that revelation the company issued a long statement saying they never claimed the truck was being powered by its engine, but merely that it was "in motion."  Ahhh, so totally not misleading, eh?

Nikola stock began sliding, and in July of 2021 Trevor Milton was indicted for fraud.  In October of 2022 he was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison.  He appealed, and has never served a day in jail, as he's been free while that unfolded.  

Yesterday Trump pardoned Nikola founder/fraudster Trevor Milton.

The pardon came two weeks after prosecutors urged the judge in the case to order Milton to pay $680 million to Nikola shareholders.  But due to the pardon, no restitution can be ordered.

The White House confirmed the pardon.

The utterly damning thing here is that CNBC says a month before last November's election, Milton donated $920,000 to Trump's campaign.

CNBC then notes that earlier this month Trump pardoned former Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, who had just begun serving a 21-month prison term after pleading guilty in a federal campaign finance conspiracy case.

SO...Nikola's cunning statement defending its YouTube video showing its truck rolling, claiming "We just said it was 'in motion,' nevah claimed it was under its own power'" clearly shows intent to defraud.  Milton was clearly a fraudster, and unless there was misconduct by the government he should never have been pardoned.

This scandal makes the "Signal" blunder look like a nothing.  Trump's pardon of this obvious fraudster has given the Democrats exactly the weapon they've been searching for.  It's ended any chance of the GOP retaining control of congress in the 2026 mid-term elections.

More crucially, this absurd blunder further emboldens leftist judges to block all efforts to reform government spending and deport illegals (which the judges have been doing all along anyway).

Finally, it worries me that none of Trump's supposedly astute advisors, like Susie Wiles, was able to dissuade him from pardoning the fraudster.  Definitely a cause for concern.

This shouldn't have happened.  The fact that it did sets off all my alarm bells.

Source: CNBC

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/trump-pardons-nikola-trevor-milton-ceo-securities-fraud-electric-vehicle.html

Fire in a "battery facility" in California leaves some *very* interesting questions

In January a fire started at a "battery facility" in Moss Landing, Monterey county, California.  A nearby TV station reported it like this: 

A major fire at one of the world's largest battery storage plants in Northern California is sending up flames of toxic smoke.  The fire chief said his crews are "not engaging with the fire" but are waiting for it to burn out.

A "battery storage plant," y'say?  Is that like a warehouse for batteries, say for Walmart or Costco?  And what kind of "batteries"?  Like the ones in your regular car?  I didn't know those would even burn.
 Hmmm...is it possible that a few key pieces of this story are missing?   Next paragraph:

        The Moss Landing Power Plant...

 Wait...at the top of the story they said this was a "battery storage plant."  How did it become a "powerplant"?  Ahh, here ya go:

...contains tens of thousands of lithium batteries. The batteries are important for storing electricity from such renewable energy sources as solar energy, but if they go up in flames the blazes can be extremely difficult to put out.

"...can be extremely difficult to put out," y'say.  Oh that's right, those are the batteries used in those faaabulous EVs.

One resident said "It doesn't appear that the fire department had the appropriate fire retardants to minimize this fire, so they and had to just let it burn."

And here's the last 'graf, and the topper:

There were fires at this plant in both 2021 and 2022, caused by a fire sprinkler system malfunction that resulted in some units overheating.

Ahh, "caused by a fire sprinkler system malfunction that resulted in some units overheating," y'say?  What kinds of "units"?  

The use of "malfunction" after "sprinkler system" suggests that the sprinkler systems are overheating.  That seems really unlikely: sprinkler systems are normally passive--a small piece of metal with a low melting point holds a water valve closed unless a fire melts the metal.  No electricity needed.  

So the "units" that were allegedly "overheating" almost certainly were NOT sprinkler systems.  So what were they?  Here's the REAL story:  The facility that burned doesn't "store" batteries.  They call it "storage" cuz it stores...electricity, in tens of thousands of lithium batteries--the kind that power electric cars--all because the woke Democrats who run California government DEMANDED that the state stop using carbon-based fuels, including clean natural gas.

And what did they replace that scrapped electrical-generating capacity with, eh?  Nuclear, right?  Cuz no carbon emissions!

Hahahaha!  No, the wokiez refuse to allow that, and in fact the Dems who run the state have ORDERED perfectly good nuclear powerplants closed, cuz nuclear is baaaad!

Okay, they probably replaced the scrapped gas generation with...hydroelectric.  Cuz no carbon emissions, right?

Hahahahaha!  No.  In fact after state voters voted in 2010 to approve billions of dollars to build *more* reservoirs, which could produce electricity, totalitarian Democrat governor Gavin Newsom refused to do that, and instead *destroyed* four dams, emptying their reservoirs.

"Yeah, dat's duh ticket!  Cuz hydro baaaad!"

See, dat Newsom guy iz smaaaht!  He know he need duh Left to gibs him millions to launch hiz presidential run, right?  An' destroying the four dams was a BIG goal of duh Left, cuz Native American tribes and sacred salmon.  See?

So...if duh great, smaaaaht Democrats scrap all duh gas-fired electric generation, how dey gon' get duh electric dey needs fo' all dem EVs, eh?

An' finally we find duh explanation fo' duh mystery at the top:  Dey replaced duh electric dat came from natural gas wif... "renewables"--so-called "green energy."  Wind and solar.  

But dere's a tiny problem wif dat plan: sun don't shine at night, AND wind doesn't always blow.

Wait...dat not a problem, is it?

Ahhh!  Solution!  We'll just store duh electricity produced by duh wind an' solar?  Yay!

So how dey gon' do dat, eh?  Easy: use some lithium batteries... Wait, define "some."  

"Some" is tens of thousands--duh same kind used in those faaabulous, non-polluting EVs!  But way bigger.  Ten-thousand should sto' all duh 'lectric anyone could need, eh?

Now that's the kind of idea that could only some from a state "lawmaker, eh?  Some REALLY high-powered thinking!

If you or I proposed putting tens of thousands of lithium batteries in a single place for ANY reason, how many years do ya think would it take to get the required "environmental impact statement" approved by duh state, eh?  But in this case I'm gonna guess it sailed right thru California's environmental poobahs in a matter of days!  Cuz...reasons.

Like magic, eh?

Let's search for "EIS vistra battery plant, Moss Landing, CA", shall we?  (EIS is "environmental impact statement.")

And here's the corporate press release parroted by a local TV station: 

Batteries such as those stored at Moss Landing make the grid more stable

There's that soothing, innocuous word "stored" again--jus sittin' there, like a WalMart warehouse, eh?  An' WalMart warehouses don't have to have an EIS, right?  So how do "stored" batteries "make the grid more stable"? 

What the reporter means is "an effort to compensate for the the gas-generated electricity your Democrat rulers scrapped."  So I guess "makes the grid more stable" is close enough for the Media, eh?

Experts say lithium batteries are a safe technology *essential for lowering carbon emissions* and making grids more reliable.

Ahh, there are those "experts."  This week only, half off the regular price!

Now here's the hoot: As everyone should know by now, lithium fires are really hard to put out.  In fact water not only doesn't help, the lithium reacts with water to make hydrogen, which makes the fire worse.

Ahh.  Say, would anyone like to bet that the "fire suppression system" in the "storage" facility used...wait for it...water?

Of course it used water.  So who was the moron in the state gruberment who, evaluating an "environmental impact statement" for a huge "powerplant" using lithium batteries, overlooked the obvious fact that a water fire suppression system wouldn't help a bit, and would actually make the fire worse, eh?

As the state's "environmental experts" were analyzing every aspect of the construction plan for the EIS, how many people never realized a water sprinkler system would make a lithium fire worse instead of better, eh?

Source: local ABC TV

https://abc11.com/post/moss-landing-california-fire-vistra-energy-power-plant-houses-lithium-batteries-causing-evacuations-monterey-county/15810772/

After Disney's remake of Snow White bombs, star thinks she had nuffin to do with it

For those who don't follow Hollywood, the egotistical raaacist below is Rachel Zegler, the lead character is Disney's remake of Snow White.

Rachel has a problem: she's got an oversized ego.  And as often happens with that trait, if her movie flops, she refuses to take any responsibility at all.  Always someone else's fault, eh?  So here's Rachel after the dismal opening weekend of her movie:

To everyone who hates when I win...I can only hope that...at every premier, and everything I do, people will wait in line to see it.

 

I can understand actors having to believe they're great in order to have the courage to BE the center of attention.  But for her to be this tone-deaf a day after the disastrous opening of a $250 MILLION-dollar movie...wow.

No worries: She'll be hired by CNN or MSNBC as an "entertainment specialist" or some such.