Most successful business people stay out of public politics, although they undoubtedly spread campaign contributions around. The tale of Elon Musk’s political adverntures illustrates why. From Jeffrey A. Tucker at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
There’s a Tesla in my neighborhood with a bumper sticker that seems to be begging people not to key the car. “I bought this car before I knew that Elon was crazy,” it says.
Fascinating message there. Is it a protest, plea, or both? The car is brilliant, obviously and the guy loves it. But these days, driving a Tesla comes with implied messaging, due entirely to Musk’s political actions.
Elite liberals were buying this car for years as a status symbol of their love of the planet. Then everything changed. Now they are experiencing something like an existential crisis. That’s because a movement has emerged among elites who have turned against it.
Then began a campaign of violence against property. Marauding gangs have attacked dealerships and vigilantes have vandalized cars and trucks all over the country. It’s revealed a point about the political left that has heretofore been only suspected: it harbors a violent streak that is alarming, even terrifying.
This idea that we are what we buy—that our purchases are not just about the products but a judgment for or against the companies that make them—seems rather new as a mass phenomenon. We saw it in the mass consumer boycott of Bud Light.
That shit filled home made super soaker from the Tesla owner makes me LMFAO every time.
The way he says what ya doing there buddy as they get pelted cracks me up until my sides hurt. (H/T-J Salads)
And the slow motion cam with sound EFX is the greatness.
Will the baizuo virtue signal with Volkswagen (peoples car) made by Hitler and Ferdinand Porsche?
Honk, honk.