Yesterday evening, Tesla reported first-quarter earnings for 2025, and they were abysmal: Profits dropped 71% from the same time last year.

Musk sounded bitter on the call with investors that followed, blaming the company’s misfortune on protesters who have raged at Tesla dealerships around the world over his role running DOGE and his ardent support of far-right politicians.

“The protests that you’ll see out there, they’re very organized. They’re paid for,” he said, without evidence.

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        Fuck that, take my ideas.

        I’ll donate $50 to the legal defense of anyone who rids us of this turbulent billionaire, and I’m not the only one who would

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          I interpreted what you wrote as paying the government for the right to protest.

          I wholly supported crowd funding the fixing of legislation and ending billionaires and preventing billionaire influence in our political, economic, social, and environmental systems.

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          This is an important part of protesting, if you don’t want to protest yourself you can always do things like this!