I'm not gonna waste a lot of energy making an "if it bleeds, we can kill it" footnote on a bad pain day, but pursuant to the above post about boycotts, Elon Musk is upset enough about the movement to take down Tesla that he's still crying about it while trying to buy a state Supreme Court election in Wisconsin.

https://archive.ph/hp771

Elon Musk Says He Has No Clue Why People Hate His Guts

“In fact, it’s costing me a lot to be in this job,” Musk said. “You had Tim Walz dancing onstage showing a chart on Tesla stock, which is a really awful thing for him to do.”

On his tour of Republican districts, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had trotted out Tesla’s tanking stock, saying that watching Musk’s value plummet gave him “a little boost” during the day.

Musk seems to have taken Walz’s jab as fighting words, and claimed that people were trying to put “massive pressure” on him and Tesla, in an attempt to get him to stop DOGE. The billionaire bureaucrat added that it was a “big deal” that his Tesla stock “went roughly in half.”

“So, not only is it—I’m not getting paid, I’m definitely not stealing money and would never get away with it, but the value of my Tesla stock is in half! So this is a very expensive job, is what I’m saying,” Musk said.

Musk had previously whined about Walz’s Tesla teasing Thursday night, during an exclusive interview on Fox News, calling the vice presidential former candidate “a big jerk.”

“He was overjoyed,” Musk said. “What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Who derives joy from that?”

The answer to Elon's question of course is that millions of people watching these fascist chucklefucks strip away their rights, loot the public coffers, and try to starve their grandparents with impunity, quite rationally seem to be deriving a lot of joy from seeing Musk finally suffer *some* consequences for his blatantly corrupt and authoritarian actions.

Again folks, I don't want to go too overboard here; boycotts and targeted protests hurt the fascist regime, but it's not going to make Trump surrender. By that same measure however, Musk wouldn't be crying about what a small innocent bean he is and why people are so cruel to him when he only wanted to transform America into Apartheid South Africa and a subsidiary of his companies, if this wasn't hurting him; after all, this is the same guy who spent his first two months as co-president sneering at you and waving around a chainsaw - something changed Musk's tone, and based on his squealing, that something is clearly the Tesla protests and boycott. I'm less interested in what Tim Walz has to say about it, but if Democrat politicians want to encourage people to boycott companies facilitating Trump's fascist regime, that would at least be making themselves useful for a change. The important point here is "if it bleeds, we can kill it" and Tesla is bleeding hard enough to make Musk moan in public about it for weeks now.

Just remember, if you can do it to the world's richest man and a company like Tesla, you can do it to any of these rich nazis and the corporations they control.

@georgetakei

Civil Disobedience eg Take down Tesla
https://theconversation.com/trouble-at-tesla-and-protests-against-trumps-tariffs-suggest-consumer-boycotts-are-starting-to-bite-252489

Boycotts from Ireland to Trumpland
https://theconversation.com/consumer-resistance-is-rising-in-the-age-of-trump-history-shows-how-boycotts-can-be-effective-251448

Look, I won't want to give people the impression that, by themselves, boycotts are going to end fascism. By that same measure if the rich nazis paying for all this fascism do have a soft underbelly, it's definitely their ties to the capitalism system and their need to keep accumulating profit. It's not going to be the knockout blow, but cutting the flow of capital to corporations and businesses that support the Trump regime's fascist agenda does hurt and hinder these nazis; which is easily demonstrated by observing the panicked reactions of both Elon Musk and the Trump administration to the ongoing Tesla protests and boycott actions. Furthermore, while many Americans have not yet realized the only way out of this is to "shut it down" so hard it's impossible to do fascism for profit anyway, data shows that an increasingly large number of people (particularly younger and nonwhite people) who don't like fascism, broadly support boycotting companies that collaborate or comply with Trump's fascist agenda.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/22/boycott-companies-tesla-trump-musk

Exclusive: 20% of Americans support boycott of firms aligning themselves with Trump agenda

"One in five Americans plan to turn their backs for good on companies that have shifted their policies to align with Donald Trump’s agenda, according to a new poll for the Guardian.

As high-profile brands including Amazon, Target and Tesla grapple with economic boycotts, research by the Harris Poll indicated the backlash could have a lasting impact.

“Companies and consumers are playing a high-stakes game of chicken – corporations betting on convenience winning out over conviction, while consumers wield their spending power like a weapon,” said Libby Rodney, chief strategy officer at the Harris Poll.

“The data suggests this is a miscalculation,” she said. “When 20% of Americans are permanently changing their consumption habits and nearly a third of boycotters say they’ll hold out indefinitely, convenience may no longer be the decisive factor companies think it is.”

When asked about the boycotts that have been making headlines over the last few weeks, 36% of Americans said they are or will be participating."

Again, I don't want to get too carried away because history tells me that when you actually do make these rich nazis suffer consequences for their actions, they're going to try and make you keep paying them by force; at which point all hell will break lose, just like it did during the formative years of the American labor struggle. Right now however, nobody is really doing enough to make it cost more to be a nazi than corporate CEOs and investors gain from supporting the new nazism, and that's a situation that isn't good for any of us who don't want fascism. Boycotts are obviously only a start in the fight back against fascism; but a start, is definitely better than doing nothing.

@ufwupdates I remember the years of boycotting and picketing at retail stores so that the grape #boycott would yield a fair union contract. I hope it is still in place and that the workers can live decent lives. #unions

@VeroniqueB99 Absolutely despicable.... the world has forged ways to speak to avoid hitting the mouth and it's just inviting us to it... We're not in trouble madame,(except if you are in desunitedstates) we don't have to stand their ires... It's not true that thousands of rednecks are going to piss off millions of people from the world. #tariffs #boycottusa #boycott #unsocial #mépris

@SuneAuken The solutions to fascism are #resistance and #boycott. Eventually the fascists will succumb out of fear and loss of money.

Nobody in their right mind will go anywhere near them, if they can avoid it @aral
Stay well away
From the USA

#USpol
#boycott