On the same day that Trump turned the White House lawn into the shopping channel: <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna195905" rel="nofollow">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna195905</a><p>So I guess Tesla is now semi-officially an arm of the executive branch. Totally cool and normal!
It's pretty interesting how he considers violent attacks on Tesla dealerships to be terrorism, but the violent attacks of Jan 6 are not.<p>I'm not defending violent attacks on either of those things. It's just another example of Trump's attitude of "whatever I dislike is criminal, whatever I like is not".
It seems clear to me that Musk is positioning itself to be one of the greatest welfare billionaire ever. The logic will go as follow:<p>1. Musk selflessly gives the US an immense service for which all americans should be forever grateful.<p>2. Some agitators try to hurt Musk through boycotts and other whatnots.<p>3. Because we are grateful as americans, we'll financially compensate Musk for his losses.<p>Plot twist: the money funneled to Musk through this rhetoric will end up exceeding any savings DOGE ever achieved.
If the attacks are coordinated and the purpose is to cause fear in the owners of the cars, it isn't entirely not terrorism.<p>But logic and truth shouldn't be used to defend the behavior of people who themselves corrupt both logic and truth all the time. Like Trump, Putin and Musk.