Unhinged Left Unleashes Attacks On Tesla

A hate fueled campaign targeting Elon Musk has turned violent.  The well-funded effort has rapidly escalated across at least 11 states.  Thugs have torched Tesla cars and trucks. Fired shots at dealerships. Vandalized Tesla charging stations.  Spray painted threatening signs: "Kill Elon."

The perpetrators have keyed Tesla cars in parking lots and garages. Spray painted swastikas, a symbol of Nazi Germany, on owners' cars. Tossed Molotov cocktails at parked cars.  Defaced cars and trucks with "f-Musk" in black paint.  The swarm of attacks appear to be more than just random acts.

A shadowy website called "Dogequest" has posted personal information of Tesla owners.  The dark site includes the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of Tesla drivers. The anonymous creators claim they will remove the data when owners prove they have sold their Teslas.

The site has also posted personal information on employees of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).  Musk confirmed publicly that most DOGE employees have received death threats. This is not a peaceful form of protest, despite what activists assert.   

The dishonest media also has painted a target on Tesla with disparaging coverage. In the latest example, the Financial Times posted a story accusing Tesla of financial shenanigans, claiming it identified $1.4 billion in missing funds.  Days after the story tanked Tesla stock, the Times admitted it was untrue.

The politically charged backlash is driven by Musk's leadership of an effort to cut waste, fraud and abuse at the federal government at the direction of President Trump. Democrats, desperate for an issue, have made Musk a lightning rod for their often incendiary language about DOGE. 

Less than a year ago, Musk was a darling of Democrats and the left.  The electric car pioneer exemplified the drive to save the climate by making gasoline powered vehicles obsolete.  Democrats celebrated Musk for his financial support of the party's candidates, including Joe Biden in 2020.

Now Democrats and leftwing activist groups have made it their mission to financially destroy Elon and Tesla. Predictably, the rhetorical signaling has lent a sheen of virtue to the blitzkrieg of destruction. Attorney General Pam Bondi has labeled the violence "domestic terrorism," an apt description.  

Several perpetrators have been charged, but the combustible forces of vengeance and unhinged anger are showing no signs of abetting.  Arrests and prosecutions are welcome, however, the Department of Justice needs to follow the money funneled to organizations agitating the aggression against Tesla.

The money trail starts with a familiar Democrat billionaire: George Soros.  His Open Society Foundation has given $7.6 million to a group known as Indivisible Project.  The leftwing group also received $2 million from the Sandler Foundation, which funds the news platform ProPublica. 

From the Indivisible Project website in bold red letters: "Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. We're taking to the streets nationwide to fight back with a clear message: HANDS OFF." Included on the site are signs reading: "GTFO Musk" and "Fire Elon Musk."

Indivisible Project is allied with Democratic Socialists of America, which is also backing protests against Musk. The group claims 78,000 members and has been a leading proponent of anti-israel protests.  The organization supports far-left Democrats, including Rep. Rashida Tlaib.

Ironically, a group which provides support for climate change protests is behind the effort against Musk.  Philadelphia-based Disruption Project urges anti-Musk opponents to: "Sell your Teslas.  Dump Your Stock."  On its website, it offers suggestions on how to support Gaza.  

Another leftwing activist group Action Network has aided Disruption Project and other groups to organize the "Tesla Takedown." Action Network brags it helped raise $70 million for Kamala Harris. The organization also donated $13 million to Harris, according to OpenSecrets.  

Action Network, headquartered in Washington D.C., has a fund raising arm that collects money for other activist groups.  The organization also helps like-minded groups set up a website.  In the past, it has hosted a site for the Communist Party and the Young Communist League.  

A joint effort by Action Network and Disruption Project was responsible for listing the addresses of Tesla dealerships for protestors to target. Disruption Project collects donations for its activities through Action Network, founded by a former vice president for the Service Employees International Union. 

Seattle-based environmental organization Troublemakers collects funds through Action Network as well.  Troublemakers has been involved in the "Tesla Takedown" protests at Tesla dealerships.  It's no coincidence that four Tesla Cybertrucks were torched and a car set ablaze in Seattle.  

These activists groups hide behind disclaimers professing they eschew violence.  However, they don't explicitly condemn it either.  The DOJ must hold these leftish organizations and their funders accountable for ginning up hatred that stirs anti-Musk adherents to commit violence.  

DOGE is A 104-Year-Old Idea

Those squawking about efforts to root out government waste, fraud and abuse act as if it's a dangerous, new concept.  They obviously haven't been paying attention.  The Budget & Accounting Act of 1921 birthed the Government Accounting Office, which was DOGE before Elon Musk rode into Washington. 

The GAO is a non-partisan congressional watchdog overseeing how the federal government operates and spends taxpayers money.  The 104-year-old agency, renamed the Government Accountability Office in 2004, has recommended thousands of ways to save billions of dollars during its long history.

This little known agency has examined every nook and cranny of the federal government from Social Security, to the Department of Defense weapons systems, to Medicaid, foreign aid, cybersecurity, Internal Revenue Service, to Health and Human Services and federal disaster programs. 

The agency's reports are circulated to Congress, often detailing waste, potential fraud and efficiency improvements. On occasion, their findings are used by lawmakers to highlight the government's shortcomings in Congressional hearings.  Sometimes the agency work receives muted news coverage.

But there's one problem.  Federal agencies cited in the GAO's reports more often than not equivocate in adopting changes to address glaring weaknesses.  Unlike Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, the GAO does not have authority to force federal agencies to cut waste or implement findings.

An examination of selective reports by this writer found an alarming number of instances where agencies made little progress, despite calls to implement cost savings, modernize outdated systems, manage fraud risks, address human resource violations and harden cybersecurity protection.

To underscore the recalcitrance, the GAO in February catalogued 4,387 recommendations it had made since 2010, but noted that 764 had not been fully implemented five years later. Of the 1,881suggestions involving so-called, "high-risk" areas, 463 have not been completed as of this year.  

Translation: the government bureaucracy resists warnings and suggestions for improvement.   

In some cases, the GAO's reports have served as a road map for DOGE to inspect deficiencies.  For instance, agency reports in 2023 and 2024 pointed out that "fraud poses a significant risk" at the USAID (United States Agency for International Development.). 

In its letter to the agency, GAO used unsparing language: "Our first priority recommendation calls for agency guidance to require regular fraud risk assessments for USAID programs and documentation of program-specific fraud risk profiles.." 

Sure enough, DOGE ferreted out USAID funds that ended up funding Al Qaeda affiliated fighters in Syria and supporting poppy production in Afghanistan, benefiting the Taliban.  Two Hamas linked groups were on the receiving end of USAID funding funneled through a third party.

After the hurricane and fire damage devastated many cities, it came as no surprise to the GAO that residents were unsatisfied with the federal government response. The GAO offered this blistering assessment of the federal approach in its 2025 report:

"...disaster recovery is fragmented across 30 federal entities.  So many entities involved with multiple programs and authorities, differing requirements and timeframes, and limited data sharing across entities could make it harder for survivors and communities to navigate federal programs."

Translation: There should be a consolidation of agencies and responsibilities to improve efforts to get aid faster to Americans who need it. 

When Musk called for the return of government workers to their offices, it was greeted with cries of outrage from politicians and unions.  But not one media organization pointed out that the GAO had identified the cost to American taxpayers of maintaining empty buildings.

In a report, the GAO underscored annual maintenance and operating costs for the 277,000 government buildings was $10.3 billion in 2023. The agency calculated that with the wholesale adoption of telework, deferred maintenance and underutilization costs totaled $370 billion in 2024.

That's chump change for your federal government. Since 2002, the GAO wrote that federal agencies have reported about $2.8 TRILLION in estimated improper payments, including over $150 billion government-wide in each of the last seven years.

Now you know why there was so much push back when Musk wanted to review federal payment data.

DOGE and its champion Musk will eventually fade into history.  If government worked the way our Constitutional framers intended, lawmakers would grab the reins and hold federal agencies accountable. Unfortunately, they often have been doing just the opposite: feeding the unaccountable beast.

The GAO, with a workforce of 3,100, has demonstrated its chops for uncovering waste and inefficiency. But it lacks teeth to force change. Congress should consider legislating authority for the GAO to compel departments to comply in a timely manner with its recommendations or risk budget and force cuts. 

Without drastic changes, 100 years from now another Elon Musk will be needed to take a chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy. 

Hysteria Over Elon's Twitter Purchase

Liberals epic meltdown over Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter exposes their support for media censorship. How dare a billionaire endorse Constitutionally guaranteed free speech! That cannot be allowed. Liberals sound like Stalinists demanding control of information for public consumption. 

Their arguments to reign in free speech would make the framers of the Constitution furious.  The founders foresaw the dangers to democracy if the government or politicians were to abridge unfettered public discourse. Authoritarian governments first instinct is to clamp down on free speech. 

CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post and other liberal media outlets are outraged that a billionaire has the audacity to takeover Twitter, a public forum.  Their hissy fit would be humorous if it wasn't so hypocritical. 

The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and one of the world's richest individuals.  The New York Times is the property of Carlos Slim, whose wealth dwarfs Musk's fortune. Another billionaire Mark Zuckerberg rides head over the social media platform Facebook.

The Los Angeles Times newspaper, a reliably liberal voice, is the plaything of billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, who has often been accused of financial misrepresentation. Billionaire Rupert Murdock sits on the throne of The Wall Street Journal.

Here a billionaire, there a billionaire. A handful of elites decide what information is ladled  out to the public.  Liberals seem fine with that. So why the visceral reaction to Elon's Twitter purchase?  The reason is simple.  Twitter has censored conservative discourse. Liberals want the censorship to continue.

No less authority than disgraced conspiracy theorist Democrat Adam Schiff took to Twitter to announce he was "concerned his (Musk) personal views will stop the fight against disinformation." This is the same California congressman who flogged the discredited Russia-Trump collusion story.

Time correspondent Charlotte Alter's diatribe is the perfect summary of the liberal media's hysterics. She wrote on Twitter that Elon's quest for free speech represented a "white male obsession" to spread disinformation.  Hmmm.  She never leveled such an accusation at the other billionaire media moguls.

Billionaire Democrat Party sugar daddy George Soros is so unhinged by the prospect of free speech on Twitter that one of his many left-wing funded organizations Open Markets Institute called on the Department of Justice to block the Musk deal.  The request drips with anti-free speech venom.

Twitter kicked off Reverend Franklin Graham for a posting about the power of prayer.  When Graham challenged the social media platform, the pastor claims the censors were upset about a comment on his own website about parental involvement in school board meetings.  Tut. Tut.  What an incorrigible man!

Even irreverent, comedic site Babylon Bee was booted from Twitter. Those ninny censors at the social media giant can't take a joke.  The Bee's offense was to spoof the the censors. That must have tweaked Vijaya Gadde, who rakes in $17 million annually for her role as Head Censor.  

When the New York Post dropped the bombshell about Hunter Biden's laptop, Twitter's former CEO Jack Dorsey banned any mention of the story before the 2020 election.  Dorsey used his speech-suppression sledgehammer to stamp out "disinformation" that is universally accepted today as accurate. 

Now liberals are openly worrying that Elon will use Twitter to influence elections. Imagine the irony.  They are the ones who lobbied Dorsey to quell the New York Post story because it might tip the scales to former President Trump.  Election influence?  It is only a good thing when liberals do it.  

This is what this liberal hullabaloo is all about: controlling the information the public views on the nation's online town hall.  Free speech scares the daylights out of liberals.  Forget the Constitution. Freedom of speech is bad because the public needs to be protected by liberal values from the truth.

Liberals are terrified that Twitter will lift its permanent ban on former President Trump.  That's the real agenda. Trump had 88 million followers at one time, the most ever on Twitter.  Mr. Trump is the boogeyman liberals hate.  Not drug or human smugglers who post on Twitter.

Elon was beloved by the media until he pulled out his wallet and threw money at Twitter. Now he's Public Enemy No. 1 for saying out loud that he supports free speech.  That sacred right was extolled by politicians and the media at one time. Today the media believes censorship is good of America.

As could have been anticipated, the Biden Administration has unveiled a new Disinformation Governance Board as part of the Department of Homeland Security.  You can't make this stuff up. The White House announced the board will crack down on what it deems online disinformation.

Elon Musk is now in the crosshairs of the powerful federal government.  In a warning shot, a federal judge denied Elon's request to scrap a 2018 settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission after the Twitter deal. If Homeland Security can't undercut Elon, the SEC will step in.

The administration's next move will be to re-open the lucrative billion dollar contracts Elon's Space X private company has with NASA.  Do not doubt this prediction.  Biden's minions in Washington will find a way to reinstate censorship at Twitter.  The truth will shatter their disinformation.

Americans should be insulted. The campaign against free speech is built on the idea that Americans are too dumb to decide for themselves what information may be false.  America's founders believed in the people's judgment.  They trusted the citizens with the freedom of speech.

Free speech is no longer free under the heavy hand of censors, either in the government or those who control wide swaths of information dissemination. The government, in fact, has been one of the biggest spreaders of misinformation and disinformation.  Who will censor Washington?

Attention Billionaires: Pick Me To Fly Into Space!

Being snubbed once is humiliating. But twice? Utter indignation. The Billionaire Bees, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, recently rocketed into space and left me behind.  They likely checked my puny stock portfolio and giggled. I don't fit the space traveler profile: rich, filthy rich or Warren Buffet rich. 

Branson--Sir Richard, if you please--became the first billionaire to soar into space aboard his Virgin Galactic rocket-whatever.  The voyage lasted a measly five minutes, hardly time for a Whopper and a  chocolate shake. Galactic jetted 53 miles into the atmosphere before landing in New Mexico.  

Not to be outdone, the second billionaire in space Jeff Bezos blasted skyward on a ten-minute flight that peaked at 66 miles, 10 miles higher than the first-in-space knighted mogul.  This kind of one-upmanship allowed the colonies to break free from the yoke of those snooty English lords centuries ago.

Every the gentlemen, Branson invited two pilots and three Galactic employees on his flight.  Amazon founder Bezos hand-picked his entourage: his brother (nepotism), an 18-year old from the Netherlands and an 82-year old Texan, who was one of 13 females originally chosen for astronaut training in the 1960's.

Bezos' slight is particularly irksome.  I am an Amazon Prime member for goodness sake. Surely Jeff at least recognizes my credit card number. Instead he picked an 18-year from a  nondescript country, who likely has never ordered gifts for his grandkids on Amazon.  Jeff obviously isn't loyal. Just ask his ex-wife.

If I am fuming, Elon Musk must be gnawing an electric battery in a fit of rage.  His peers, two billionaire company founders, beat him into space.  Humbling for a guy whose firm SpaceX pioneered private sector rocket launches.  Why is Musk dawdling, you ask?  You won't believe the answer.

Musk plunked down $200,000 for a ride on Branson's Virgin Galactic space vehicle.  He will join other tourists on a space junket chartered by Branson's company.  Say it ain't so Elon!  Don't bow to a Brit. Where's your pride?  Soon that tricky Sir Richard will be manufacturing competing electric cars.  

For that matter, why the heck hasn't Warren Buffet stepped into the space race?  Perhaps the 90-year-old figures he's too feeble for rigorous space travel.  But Buffet has more cash than the Federal Government, He could buy NASA and hire a doctor and a caretaker to accompany him on his journey.  Come on, Man!

Do it for your country Warren.  NASA will allow you to bring a case of Coke and one of your Burlington Northern rail cars in the cargo hull.  Besides Warren, you may be my last chance for a ride in space.  I hear you have an affinity for investors.  I am one. A lousy one.  But that shouldn't matter.

Honestly, your ego needs a boost, Warren.  Once you held the title of the world's richest man.  Now you are mired in ninth place with an estimated wealth of $101 billion.  Bezos is twice as rich as you.  The online peddler is worth a reported $206 billion.  Ouch! Warren, I feel your economic pain. Oh, I wish.

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are uber-rich but have no interest in space.  Gates is busy dictating health mandates across the globe, shoveling billions into everything from vaccines to population control.  Zuckerberg might be up for space, but he would need a gaggle of censors with him. Not happening.

My brother-in-law Cliff Mylett suggested an alternative. He theorizes all those Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) are actually billionaires from another universe zooming over Earth as part of interplanetary  space tourism.  Sounds plausible. Those planets must have more billionaires than Earth.

The National UFO Reporting Center announced there were 5,971 sightings in 2019, a giant leap from the 3,395 in the previous year.  California led all states in sightings.  Makes sense.  Every alien billionaire is hoping for a sighting of a Hollywood star.  If you're reading this Warren, bet you're green with envy.

Memo to Little Green Billionaires:  I am definitely interested in zipping around space in your UFO's. With your superior intellect, you already know my medical details and have stolen my internet identity.  Contact me.  I may not speak your language, but I own cryptocurrency. Surely, you know about crypto.

I have one dietary requirement (nothing fishy) and of course there must be a honking 85-inch flat screen television on board with 12 streaming services.  But I require little else in the way of comforts. Oh, and my own bathroom.  I'm not sharing one of those nozzles on my spacesuit with a green alien.  

I await your signal, Little Green Billionaire. I'll be patient.  But I am 75, so don't dawdle like Elon.    

Planning a Vacation? Book A Trip to Space

A road trip to the Grand Canyon.  A cruise to the Bahamas.  A private jet to Africa for a safari.  All sound mundane when compared to a boarding a beast of a rocket and roaring into space.  However, it likely will set you back $52 million, a mere pittance for my many billionaire readers.

Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk, the electric car mogul, unveiled  plans this year to launch a new Starship rocket into space in 2021 carrying a "small number" of passengers.  It will likely go to the edge of space, but not to the moon.  But what did you expect for $52 million?  Free peanuts?

Another billionaire, Richard Branson, has launched Virgin Galactic, a firm in New Mexico dedicated to making commercial space flights a reality in the not too distant future.  Branson has been more judicious than Musk, eschewing a launch date.  Estimated fares are a bargain: $250,000 per person.

A handful of private citizens have already experienced the thrill of a space junket.  Space Adventures brokered flights from 2001 to 2009 for seven tourists aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that shuttled the passengers to the International Space Station, floating about 220 miles above Earth.

The published price for the voyage was between $200 and $250 million, although many paid less.  Depending on your credit card limit, the price tag could easily be within your financial grasp. Think of posting a selfie on Instagram, your beaming face captured inside the space station. Priceless.

At this juncture, some of you are probably thinking: "Yeah, but I could fly Southwest Airlines to Witcha, Kansas, for a lot less."  True.  But when a friend asks where you vacationed, do you think a visit to Witcha will have the same cache as a space voyage?  Don't think so.  Think big.

Fancy you are at a neighborhood party.  The smug nuclear scientist who lives next door drones on about new discoveries and nerdy things like subatomic particles.  That's when you casually drop in the conversation: "I didn't see sub-whatever particles on my space trip." All eyes will shift to you.

You invite everyone over to your home. Every inch of wall space is festooned with photos of you in space.  All those pictures of your smiling kids have been banished to the closet.  Envious neighbors gawk at the photographs.  You have displaced the nuclear scientist as the neighborhood celebrity.

I admit that I am entertaining the idea of taking out a fourth mortgage on my home to pay for a space vacation. My only concerns are that I am a nervous flyer and I am afraid of heights.  But surely for $52 million stewardesses will hand out the anxiety drug Diazepam along with the pretzels.

The scariest moment will be when the rocket thunders off the launchpad, shuddering, trembling as it struggles to break the grasp of Earth's gravity.  Passengers will experience a maximum of three times the force of gravity.  Imagine being flattened against your seat, unable to move or sip Perrier. 

Of course, I will need an aisle seat on the spacecraft for my frequent trips to the restroom.  I refuse to use one of those gross devices inside a spacesuit.  Yuck.  For the price, there should be a nice facility onboard with scented towels and free combs.  If I wanted to rough it, I could have gone camping.

Since it will be a long rocket ride, I am hoping there will be inflight entertainment.  Movies such as "First Man," "Martian" and "2001: A Space Odyssey" designed to heighten our anticipation for the voyage.  Surely Musk wouldn't dare show, "Apollo 13," a near space disaster for America.

No tiny little screens for the movies.  This is costing a fortune so I am expecting a honking big screen 4K television at each seat.  I would be like the old drive-in movies.  A touch of the past on a vacation of the future.  What could be better?  I know.  Popcorn.  And Milk Duds.

Packing for the space vacation would be a snap.  It is not like formal jackets will be required for dinner, like on those snooty ocean cruises.  Wouldn't it be cool if Ralph Lauren designed the spacesuits?  No tacky white paraphernalia.  Fashion shouldn't have to be sacrificed in space.

And please, no ready-to-eat meals.  Who eats canned food even on Earth?  Hire a French chef to prepare gourmet dishes.  I know a gas stove might be considered a fire hazard on a spacecraft.  But a solar powered one would work just fine.  Food allergies?  Tough.  It's space.  You'll be fine.

At this point, I bet many of you are already daydreaming of contacting your travel agent.  You are done with banal vacations.  It will be worth it.  And there is no coronavirus virus in space, so no worries about having to change your plans.  Surely, that makes it worth $52 million.