Virtue Signaling Now Means You Have To Sell That Tesla
Remember when all the best people, the elites and elitists among us, the correct thinkers, the self-appointed guardians of all things good, were buying electric vehicles, particularly Teslas? What a terrific way for them to demonstrate their green street cred. But that’s passé. The latest in look-at-me virtue signaling is selling that Tesla to make an important political statement.
Because Tesla CEO Elon Musk is aiding President Donald Trump in rooting out federal waste and corruption, he’s become a villain to the left. To be caught in one his cars is simply an embarrassment to status seekers and the prigs obsessed with placing themselves on Barack Obama’s “right side of history.” So like entertainer Sheryl Crow, they have to unload their Teslas, and, naturally, do it as loudly as possible.
Last week, Crow “dramatically bid adieu to her black Tesla,” the New York Post reported, to protest the man she tagged on her Instagram account as “#PresidentMusk.”
Crow took to social media on Friday to reveal she had sold the electric car and was donating the money to NPR, “which Musk has repeatedly called to defund as his Department of Government Efficiency looks to slash federal funding.”
“My parents always said … you are who you hang out with,” wrote Crow. “There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.”
The money she received in return will be “donated to @npr,” she said, “which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes that the truth will continue to find its way to those willing to know the truth.” Which truth is that, we wonder? The truth that Washington is a pit of vipers freeloading off the American people while simultaneously lording over them – and that Crow supports this corrupt arrangement?
There’s also another truth Crow ignores. She and the entire clan of wealthy entertainers and rich elitists are free to fund National Public Radio with the vast U.S. dollars that they earn in our capitalist economy. After all, NPR is a playground and protective bubble for the elites and is in part funded by the Americans they and the NPR editors, producers, hosts and guests constantly mock.
A day later, demonstrators in several big cities descended on Tesla showrooms. Called the TeslaTakedown, the campaign urges owners to sell their cars and shareholders to dump their stocks. In an obvious show of ignorance, one group of protesters chanted “stop the coup.” Signs insisted that someone, just whom we don’t know, “Unplug Mad King Musk“; claimed “Musk is the fraud,” a charge that we’re sure hurt his feelings; and urged someone, again, we don’t know whom, to “Deport Musk.”
The protests would be much more fun if the participants were creative, but no, they reveal their limited thinking when they make signs that say “This car runs on facsism” and wonder “Who buys cars from a nazi?” At least they’re good a repeating meaningless talking points.
Though not as famous or as influential as Crow, one Berkeley, California, (of course) woman told the media that “at first, we loved” the Tesla Model 3, then “about a year ago when Elon Musk came more into the public domain” and teamed up with Donald Trump, she “couldn’t stand driving it.”
“I couldn’t stand having anything to do with the Trump administration,” she said.
In nearby Oakland, there are apparently some hostiles who can’t even stand it for someone else to own a Tesla. One man told the local media he saw a “flyer stuck on the windshield of a Tesla” that said “Sell your car or we will get rid of it for you. Nazi cars not welcome here.”
Neither the vanity nor the lunacy are limited to the U.S. The London Telegraph has noticed that many of Tesla’s “more left-wing customers to have second thoughts.”
“Message boards and Tesla forums – populated by the carmaker’s more die-hard fans – have become full of people questioning whether they should give up their cars. Bumper stickers with slogans such as ‘I bought this before Elon went crazy’ are selling fast,” says the Telegraph.
One Brit who is letting his Tesla lease expire, said the brand, “from my point of view, has become toxic. It would be like buying a VW Beetle in 1939 Germany.”
That’s a narrow point of view as well as an irresponsible and vicious slur. He might be just one man, an everyday Englishman, but there are many others who think like him and then wonder why Western society has become so divided.
Such as a former owner over there who somehow has convinced himself Musk is Russian propagandist and had reached the point to where he “couldn’t bear to put any money in that man’s pocket.”
That’s his choice and he’s free to make it. What’s regrettable is that it’s a decision made from ignorance, intolerance and blind emotion – and isn’t at all isolated.
Obviously the minds on the left have been soaking up so much sun that it’s impaired their ability to think clearly. They’ve come undone.
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