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Politico @politico.com

Column: It’s now a hate crime to vandalize Teslas in DC – and that shows just how far the capital will go to placate the Trump administration, writes Michael Schaffer 👇

mar 27, 2025, 2:51 pm • 225 68

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tiredofitalltoo.bsky.social @tiredofitalltoo.bsky.social

…….. but not a hate crime to storm the capitol, beat up police, resulting in death, try to murder Mike Pence, try to attack politicians, and defecate on the capitol walls. Those people get pardoned and praised by the criminal president and republicans. What happened to republican values and morals?

mar 27, 2025, 4:36 pm • 1 0 • view
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dechardin.bsky.social @dechardin.bsky.social

Those “Christian” Nationalists who have backed the Trump/Musk/Vance/MAGA War on America should heed; Luke 11:17 “… Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste and house will fall against house.” There will be a reckoning. Your War of Division inevitably leads to your own destruction.

mar 27, 2025, 3:29 pm • 4 0 • view
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1nationundrhospice.bsky.social @1nationundrhospice.bsky.social

Conflict of interest # 235,688

mar 27, 2025, 7:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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trumpwatchdog.bsky.social @trumpwatchdog.bsky.social

Trump said experience wasn’t necessary for the job. Now the entire system runs on sticky notes, crossed fingers and text messages.

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mar 27, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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Aaron @aaronv.bsky.social

Does that apply to all Teslas or is there an exemption for the black painted ones?

mar 28, 2025, 5:57 am • 0 0 • view
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Truth is Beauty @truth-is-beauty.bsky.social

Since when do Republicans care about hate crime?

mar 27, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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fiyfj.bsky.social @fiyfj.bsky.social

Just bizar

mar 27, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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Michael Harrington @chromosomic.bsky.social

Laws should only apply if we like the victims. Everyone knows that.

mar 28, 2025, 10:14 am • 0 0 • view
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Charles Houston @liberalbskysocial.bsky.social

We are very nice with Elon Musk and FOX NEWS!

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mar 27, 2025, 3:32 pm • 1 1 • view
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Michael @rushstreetblues.bsky.social

IMHO, it should be a hate crime just driving a Tesla

mar 27, 2025, 3:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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Art & Soul @art-and-soul.bsky.social

There is no way that holds up in court.

mar 27, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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CR @littlleoldme.bsky.social

That discriminates against all other vehicle brands. 😂😳

mar 27, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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TracyD @tdezenzo.bsky.social

It's arbitrary and capricious to make that a hate crime. If tesla vandalism is a hate crime then all automobile vandalism must be made a hate crime. There is no way that's going to fly. Teslas are not protected classes.

mar 27, 2025, 3:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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be-a-rebel.bsky.social @be-a-rebel.bsky.social

This is one of the most absurd things I’ve ever read. This dictatorship is out of control

mar 27, 2025, 2:57 pm • 4 0 • view
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John Moore @johnofnorwich.bsky.social

Isn't the whole notion of a hate crime one of those woke abominations American conservatives loathe so much?

mar 27, 2025, 3:25 pm • 3 0 • view
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POTUS Facebook Group @potusfacebookgroup.bsky.social

Ridiculous!

mar 28, 2025, 1:09 am • 0 0 • view
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Kj @riseup0717.bsky.social

Seriously? What protected class does Musk fall in?

mar 27, 2025, 3:01 pm • 2 0 • view
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Penney Poker @penneyk.bsky.social

billionaire class

mar 27, 2025, 3:35 pm • 1 0 • view
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Zito @ultimadragoon89.bsky.social

The party of limited government my ass.

mar 27, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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Magnificat ☥ @maumagnificat.bsky.social

Shop till you drop. DJT -worst approval ratings in 70 years. In Sept 1955, Eisenhower suffered a serious heart attack, which led to uncertainty about his ability to govern. Censored by the presstitutes - turn any trick for a tax cut. m.economictimes.com/news/interna... @projectcensored.bsky.social

mar 28, 2025, 9:16 am • 0 0 • view
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rusty2020.bsky.social @rusty2020.bsky.social

Wonder what would happen to someone who got in a accident with a Tesla ? Guantanamo ?

mar 27, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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fbrefugee1.bsky.social @fbrefugee1.bsky.social

Just teslas. No other car. Just COPOTU$’ company gets this type of protection.

mar 28, 2025, 1:22 am • 0 0 • view
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chapamchivi13.bsky.social @chapamchivi13.bsky.social

Meh! Still, I will never buy one. I’d rather ride a buggy car or a bicycle. Just because

mar 27, 2025, 3:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jackson Tattoo Co @jacksontattooco.bsky.social

A hate crime against a nazi isn't a hate crime. Destroying a tesla is no different than tossing tea in Boston harbor.

mar 27, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mike Williams @drummike.bsky.social

Damaging Teslas is not a hate crime. The definition of terrorism is politically motivated violence, which seems to fit. Peaceful protests are better, IMO.

mar 27, 2025, 4:54 pm • 1 0 • view
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Wnil @wnil.bsky.social

And it's not a crime to shoot up a scool and kill kids??

mar 27, 2025, 3:27 pm • 1 0 • view
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melindaf206.bsky.social @melindaf206.bsky.social

Doesn’t a finding of “hate crime” require the victim to be a member of a protected group?

mar 27, 2025, 7:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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dixonherfani.bsky.social @dixonherfani.bsky.social

Trump and Musk deserve all of the hate that the planet can muster.

mar 27, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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svalocchi.bsky.social @svalocchi.bsky.social

Outrageous

mar 27, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
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DW @dwblue.bsky.social

Basically true, we hate what Musk is & what he's doing to the USA

mar 27, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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lmj911.bsky.social @lmj911.bsky.social

But you get pardoned if you attack Capital Police.

mar 27, 2025, 10:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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cqroftruth.bsky.social @cqroftruth.bsky.social

You get a medal for killing an unarmed woman.

mar 27, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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andrejern.bsky.social @andrejern.bsky.social

Vandalizing is not a good idea. I think recycling activity is a better name. It might also lead to a better use of rare earth metals.

mar 27, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
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Katherine Daniels @kfsdaniels.bsky.social

Loyalty-based system.

mar 27, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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Silvermercury @silvermercury.bsky.social

Vandalizing ANY vehicle is already a crime in DC. WTAF?

mar 27, 2025, 5:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social

@washprobs.bsky.social

mar 27, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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apprentice-of-mumu.bsky.social @apprentice-of-mumu.bsky.social

All any minority has to do is identify as a Cybertruck. No threat of persecution now ..

mar 27, 2025, 4:30 pm • 1 0 • view
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Amer.Renaissance @amerrenaissance.bsky.social

Teslas are inherently a risk. Soon they will be uninsurable.

mar 27, 2025, 5:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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hobsonny.bsky.social @hobsonny.bsky.social

I want to see that law go to the Supreme Court. Turn the entire gov't into a late night humor show.

mar 27, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
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hobsonny.bsky.social @hobsonny.bsky.social

Hate is a good word for Musk and Tesla but to make that a crime? We live in a joke country now.

mar 27, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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sgw73072.bsky.social @sgw73072.bsky.social

Isn't it time for someone to organize a march on Washington?

mar 28, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
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Jennie 🇺🇸&🇨🇦 @bfhaven.bsky.social

So, are billionaires a protected class now?

mar 27, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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Don @anagitator.bsky.social

The rule of law was something wonderful while it lasted.

mar 28, 2025, 8:20 am • 0 0 • view
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handlestohandless.bsky.social @handlestohandless.bsky.social

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mar 27, 2025, 2:54 pm • 2 0 • view
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Kolshack @redsun76.bsky.social

It's almost as if they were threatened

mar 27, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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Beautiful Ocean @stefaniegesierich.bsky.social

This government is a hate crime in itself

mar 27, 2025, 2:55 pm • 2 0 • view
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squamishviews.bsky.social @squamishviews.bsky.social

Dictatorship!

mar 27, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
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barbbon.bsky.social @barbbon.bsky.social

😡😡😡

mar 27, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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Predictive Stupidity @onemoney.bsky.social

So not only is Tesla the official car of the American Nazi movement, Tesla is the official car of MAGA snowflakes. Just to make sure the brand is dead and the corpse burned.

mar 27, 2025, 2:53 pm • 8 0 • view
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humpyydumpty.bsky.social @humpyydumpty.bsky.social

Maggots can’t afford that car! Most of them don’t make enough money! You forget that they are the uneducated! But I agree it is the official Nazi car!

mar 27, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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vhinx.bsky.social @vhinx.bsky.social

And to vandalize the Capitol is an act of patriotic love?

mar 27, 2025, 3:11 pm • 6 0 • view
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cqroftruth.bsky.social @cqroftruth.bsky.social

Obama's friends bombed it.

mar 27, 2025, 11:15 pm • 0 0 • view
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dixonherfani.bsky.social @dixonherfani.bsky.social

Orwellian, isn't it?

mar 27, 2025, 3:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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Flobby Gunt @flobby.bsky.social

You know what to do my friends.

mar 27, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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edickenson.bsky.social @edickenson.bsky.social

I like the strategy of using proctors to display fascist symbols & messages on buildings. No property damage, non violent, protected free speech…

mar 27, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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dennisp52.bsky.social @dennisp52.bsky.social

So a hate crime to vandalize a Tesla but vandalize the Capital is a pardonable and ok to do. Talk about weaponizing off government

mar 27, 2025, 4:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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willis-2.bsky.social @willis-2.bsky.social

Does Kristi Noem have an inspector clouseau outfit ready to go? Certainly hope so. Can’t wait to see how cute she looks in her hat, trench coat and carrying the magnifying glass 🔎

mar 27, 2025, 2:58 pm • 4 0 • view
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5thgenfljane.bsky.social @5thgenfljane.bsky.social

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

mar 27, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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tazztaytay23.bsky.social @tazztaytay23.bsky.social

"a crime, typically one involving violence, that is motivated by prejudice on the basis of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or similar grounds." we just hate Melon because he's the assholes asshole. None of the above apply.

mar 27, 2025, 4:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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sunflowerdragon.bsky.social @sunflowerdragon.bsky.social

That's exactly the reason I'm joining in on my local tesla protest this Saturday. Whitehouse infomercials & this bs. www.teslatakedown.com

mar 27, 2025, 2:56 pm • 4 1 • view
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VoX @sinthesized.bsky.social

This image is 4K at 20x30” and printable in poster size at all Walgreens and CVS locations.

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mar 27, 2025, 3:40 pm • 2 0 • view
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sunflowerdragon.bsky.social @sunflowerdragon.bsky.social

I'm going with this one. Large, double-sided, and color.

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👍 @ranmull.bsky.social

Their gizzards are in a tizzy! 🤬🤯

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mar 27, 2025, 3:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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Uncle Dude @mjdem1983.bsky.social

This is really becoming like Russia and Hungary. Soon it will be a hate crime to protest Tesla! He's the immigrant everyone should be worried about!

mar 27, 2025, 3:11 pm • 2 0 • view
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VoX @sinthesized.bsky.social

This image is 4K at 20x30” and printable in poster size at all Walgreens and CVS locations.

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mar 27, 2025, 3:38 pm • 1 0 • view
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Carol Anne Sundahl @carolannesundahl.bsky.social

"Even if all Tesla owners agreed with the company’s CEO on public-policy questions, they wouldn’t be a protected class. Someone convicted of tagging their cars would just be guilty of vandalism. But they wouldn’t have the harsher sentence that attaches to crimes motivated by bias."

mar 27, 2025, 2:55 pm • 2 0 • view
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T Lee Keene @tleekeene.bsky.social

So, don’t do it there? How about NY, NJ, FL? I guess the haters will have to step up.

mar 27, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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Erik Hoogcarspel @jehms.bsky.social

Why don't we just give Teslas human rights? 🤣

mar 27, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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B. Justice @zefirotorna.bsky.social

So hating Nazis is now a hate crime in DC?

mar 27, 2025, 3:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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lesliescully.bsky.social @lesliescully.bsky.social

As much as I detest musk and his co-president, violence is not the way. We cannot become like the J6ers.

mar 27, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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StLSparty’s Music Video of the Day @stlsparty.bsky.social

Is it a hate crime to give Elon a wedgie?

mar 27, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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macleodl.bsky.social @macleodl.bsky.social

🤣

mar 27, 2025, 4:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sergio Poblete Ortega @spobleteo.bsky.social

🤔

mar 27, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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Steve @ch13fn0b0dy.bsky.social

Clearing focusing on the priorities

mar 27, 2025, 2:59 pm • 2 0 • view
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javiercarrillo.bsky.social @javiercarrillo.bsky.social

🔥 The question isn’t *if* the people will fight back, but *when.* How much more will it take before the breaking point? 👀💭 #ChangeIsComing

mar 28, 2025, 6:10 am • 0 0 • view