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March 20, 2025
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Late Night Laughs While Tesla Dealerships Burn. “Audiences at ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live,’ ‘Daily Show’ giggle over domestic terrorism.”
JORDAN SCHACHTEL: ‘Tesla Takedown’ is a full-fledged domestic terrorism movement. Prosecutors on the state and federal levels must take action.
SpaceX, the premier space company in the world with no peer competitors, last opened up a tender offer valuing the company at $350 billion. X is now valued at $44 billion. xAI is accumulating new funds at a valuation of $75 billion. Lastly, Musk owns Neuralink and the Boring Company, which are multi-billion dollar endeavors.
So even if the “Tesla Takedown” movement succeeds beyond the wildest imaginations of its organizers and deals a significant blow to Tesla, Elon Musk will in no way be strapped for cash anytime soon. The man has effectively hacked capitalism, and he will never in his lifetime find himself with limited access to his own or outsiders’ capital.
The more imaginative “Tesla Takedown” organizers know they will never deprive Elon Musk of wealth. So, what’s the real goal here?
The goal of “Tesla Takedown” is to employ domestic terrorism through the use of violence, fear, and intimidation to achieve its political objectives. The movement aims to coerce the Trump Administration into conceding to its demands by amplifying the psychological impact of their actions beyond the immediate victims to create widespread disruption.
The Trump Administration and state governments are right to label this movement as much more than a protest movement. Hopefully, prosecutions on both the state and federal levels will ramp up dramatically in the weeks and months to come.
The woke mind virus has deposited the far left in a very dark place:
HOW MUCH LONGER IS CBS GOING TO CARRY MARGARET BRENNAN?
Rubio and Graham didn’t even have to put forth much of an effort to make Brennan come off like an idiot. Neither did Vance when he cranked out that “I Don’t Really Care, Margaret” nuclear bomb to her career. This keeps happening and yet there doesn’t seem to be any effort toward making a change at CBS. It’s hard not to wonder where the leftist journos are who can at least hold their own without snarling or saying something disqualifyingly stupid while trying to have a debate with a Republican politician.
If it’s absolutely necessary to have the debate at all rather than an interview. I’m going to venture a guess that even CBS’s rump audience would rather listen to what Rubio has to say than hear Brennan berating him. Though maybe I’m wrong, and CBS has lost those people already.
Which begs the question why Vance, Rubio, and Graham even let themselves be booked on those shows rather than simply do a long-form podcast interview with somebody who draws a lot bigger audience, like for example Megyn Kelly.
And the success of independent New Media types like Kelly, who found themselves flushed out of alphabet-soup media and found that it was the best thing that ever could have happened to them, would seem to be a bracing development for the suits at CBS. Do they now think Brennan is the best they can do?
Didn’t CBS employ Lara Logan, Sharyl Attkisson, and Catherine Herridge not so long ago? All of them were regarded by everyone as serious journalists. One could argue all three are doing quite well now that they’re independent New Media players.
How well do you think Margaret Brennan would do if she had to swim in that deep water?
You don’t have to answer that. We’re coming rapidly to the point where we’re going to find out soon enough. Because even at a place like CBS, there has to be a level of embarrassment beyond which they’re not willing to go.
They should have reached that point by now, for certain. But given the current direction, it’s only a matter of time before she crashes into that wall.
In the meantime, as Steve asked last month: What the Hell Is Wrong With CBS News?
To be fair, that’s been an ongoing question for over sixty years now.
HE’S ALWAYS SEEMED LIKE A GOOD DAD: Trump Gets Personal, Talks About Barron (Who Turns 19 Today!)
“MOSTLY PEACEFUL” FIREBOMBINGS? CNN Host Compares Anti-Tesla Terror Attacks to Conservative Boycotts.
As several people have commented, we don’t buy Bud Light. We don’t firebomb Bud Light trucks.
LEFTISM AS A MENTAL ILLNESS, EXHIBIT #1,000,006:
BREAKING – A man from Indianapolis smears his OWN fecal matter onto a Cybertruck.
This is the state of the democrats.
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) March 19, 2025
Vandalism is always stupid but it’s particularly stupid when it involves a car embedded with cameras. And this guy is both stupid and nuts.
JOHN NOLTE: Critics Ravage Disney’s Snow White Remake — Prepare for Woke Dopey.
The slow-rolling train wreck that is the Disney Grooming Syndicate’s live-action remake of Snow White continues to roll along with a disastrous 47 percent “rotten” score at Rotten Tomatoes.
What makes this especially gratifying is understanding how the rigged review system works, which is like this…
A total of 98 reviews are in, meaning every reviewer received exclusive access from Disney’s public relations department to an early screening for critics. The earliest Normal people can see it is this afternoon.
This means that all of those 98 are “on Disney’s approved reviewer list,” and you know most of them wanted to love Snow White, wanted to redeem the movie just to stick a finger in the eye of MAGA, and kiss Disney’s sweet ass.
But.
The movie sucks so hard, they couldn’t even do that.
At the Wall Street Journal, Kyle Smith dubs the new Snow White “A Disney Princess’s Pointless Return.” “Disney’s first ‘Snow White’ isn’t perfect—the prince is badly underwritten and doesn’t even get a name—but it is, by turns, enchanting, scary and moving. Version 2.0, starring Rachel Zegler in the title role and Gal Gadot as her nefarious stepmother, has been in the works since 2016 and already feels like it’s from a bygone era. After fans seemed grumpy about the rumored storyline and the casting of Ms. Zegler, Disney became bashful about releasing it last March and ordered reshoots to make everyone happy. Unfortunately, the story is so dopey it made me sleepy.”
Heh, indeed.™
JIM TREACHER: Dems’ New Plan to Stop Musk: Firebomb Some Teslas.
There’s even a website called Dogequest, with an interactive nationwide map that allows budding terrorists to track down Tesla dealerships and even individual Tesla owners.
The proprietors of the site claim their intent isn’t malicious, which must be why the map cursor is a Molotov cocktail.
If you’re a Tesla owner and your private information is on Dogequest, they’ll take it down… if you can prove you’ve sold the car. That sure sounds like extortion.
Call me old-fashioned, but destroying other people’s property is wrong, even if you’re angry about losing an election and you think a billionaire is a jerk.
I’m starting to wonder if Democrats really care about saving the environment. Apparently the fate of the planet isn’t as important as keeping a guy they don’t like from making more money.
You know who loves all this? Tim Walz. He’s so happy about it, he even tweeted out this video:
Walz didn’t get to be vice president of the United States, so now he’s celebrating vandalism against an American company. Hey, if Musk is going to fire a bunch of useless bureaucrats, why shouldn’t people who actually build things for a living suffer as well?
I have some problems with Musk, mainly the way he runs Twitter.1 And it’s fair to criticize his role in the Trump administration. But that doesn’t justify violence against him or his companies.
Musk himself will be fine. He’s not about to go hungry anytime soon. But if you condone this terrorism — and that’s precisely what this is, the systematic use of terror as a means of coercion — your soul is bankrupt.
No wonder you’re a Democrat.
Flashback: Tim Walz’s Wife Gwen Kept Windows Open During BLM Riots to ‘Smell the Burning Tires.’
Related: Loudmouth Tim Crows About Tesla Stock Dropping. Minnesota Had Millions Of Shares In Tesla.
RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: Media’s ‘Green’ Pandering Lures Developing World Into Disaster.
ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME IT WAS HARMLESS: Marijuana users at greater risk for heart attack, stroke.
DISPATCHES FROM THE LEFT’S WAR ON WOMEN GIRLS:: What Dems Have Done to Deerfield girl—and the rest of Illinois—is Just Plain AWFL.
You hear that gruesome story of the 13-year-old middle-school girl from Deerfield confronted by school officials and ordered to disrobe in front of a male classmate?
It sounds too AWFL to be true.
But it happened, according to her mother Nicole Georgas who said Tuesday she was filing a police complaint with the police in Deerfield on top of a complaint she filed with the U.S. Department of Justice.
The mom alone standing up for her daughter’s privacy was repeatedly mocked and insulted by hostile trans activists as she addressed a crowded District 109 School Board meeting.
The story has gone viral world-wide and was broken by the Lake County Gazette and Dan Proft’s radio show “The Morning Answer.”
To understand this bizzarro world, please understand this:
Even though President Donald Trump has signed an executive order protecting girls’ privacy, and has vowed to cut federal education funding to rogue states, the Illinois Democrats are funded by billionaire Gov. JB Pritzker, who is the bankrupt state’s leading activist for transexuals.
And he’s running for president.
“The male student was present in the girls’ locker room,” Georges said at the school board meeting. “Feeling violated, the girls made the choice not change into their PE (physical education) clothes with a biological male present.”
The next day Georgas said, the officials at Alan B. Shepherd Middle School tried to bully a girls’ PE class into changing in front of the boy.
Read the whole thing.
MUSK DERANGEMENT SYNDROME: NBC10 Boston’s Pete Bouchard under fire for saying SpaceX splashdown had ‘strong hints of AI.’
Bouchard, after the NASA astronauts who were stuck in space for 9 months finally returned to Earth, said the SpaceX splashdown had “strong hints of AI enhancement.”
The chief meteorologist at NBC10 quickly faced criticism from online followers, and he deleted his post that questioned the dolphins suddenly surfacing.
Then he put out a new Facebook post Tuesday night about the splashdown involving Elon Musk’s company.
“I’m no conspiracy theorist, but that splashdown today had strong hints of AI enhancement in the drone footage,” Bouchard posted. “Lighting looked cinematic. Was it the camera?”
“This doesn’t take anything away from the brave astronauts or remarkable scientists involved in returning a capsule from space,” he added. “It’s a remarkable feat and a heroic moment for our country.”
Bouchard later updated his post for clarification.
“My original post was simply commenting on how visually appealing and perfect the landing looked using the drone,” he wrote. “I was curious about the technology and the camera the crew used to capture the scene.”
His Bluesky post still included a mention about the dolphins.
“I know I won’t feed the conspiracy theorists on this platform, but that splashdown today had strong hints of AI enhancement,” he posted on Bluesky. “And the pod of dolphins that just happened to surface?”
“Totally realistic at reentry, then when they cut to the drone footage at sea level when the parachutes deployed, the lighting looked off,” he added. “Maybe the camera settings?”
Bouchard, who has more than 11,000 followers on Facebook, was slammed online for his post.
” ‘I’m no conspiracy theorist’ but I have a conspiracy theory,” someone posted. “You can’t make this up.”
No matter how big their market, all local reporters dream of playing in the national leagues. Bouchard is clearly angling for a gig at ABC News – and then possibly even moving to Ireland.
HE’S VERY POLITICAL, BUT WITH TERRIBLE POLITICAL INSTINCTS: Chief Justice Roberts’ Impeachment Rebuke Delegitimizes the Court in a Bid to Save it.
IT’S SELDOM SMART TO BET AGAINST ELON:
From the moment he took over we kept hearing, "Twitter is dying." https://t.co/U3iEpNkp5h
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) March 19, 2025
NEXT STOP, CONGRESS: Trump to Sign Order Eliminating Education Department. Now Comes the Hard Part.
INJUNCTION DYSFUNCTION OR TYRANT DISRUPTION? Trump-Era Judicial Paralysis Explained.
Can a single judge unilaterally thwart the president of the United States?
That’s the contentious question the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve last week in response to court orders blocking its effort to curtail birthright citizenship, and after a slew of decrees requiring the president do everything from halting major actions on DEI and domestic spending to disbursing billions in foreign aid.
At issue is a legal remedy, universal injunctions, that allows any of the nearly 700 federal judges to prevent the president from enforcing policies not only against those bringing a case but anyone, everywhere. Universal injunctions were rare until the first Trump administration, when their usage exploded as Democrats and progressives turned to the courts to block many of his policies.
In the early days of Donald Trump’s second administration, courts have issued such injunctions at a historic pace and with growing potency, notably over the weekend with a suspension in deportations of Venezuelan gang members without a hearing. During the month of February alone, district court judges, most nominated by Democrats, ordered 15 such injunctions – more than Joe Biden faced during his first three years as president. Courts from Washington, D.C., to Washington State have issued injunctions in “epidemic proportions,” now not only governing “the whole nation” but “the whole world,” the administration says.
The injunctions come in response to the 100-plus lawsuits that, critics argue, blue states, progressive nonprofits, and ex-government officials have deliberately brought before sympathetic judges – a tactic known as “forum shopping” or “judge shopping” that both parties have employed.
Read the whole thing.
Related, from Glenn at his Substack: Trump and the Lower Courts. Some thoughts about what he’s doing and what he might do.
BEYOND IMPEACHMENT. MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY IS UP: Trump and the Lower Courts: Some thoughts about what he’s doing and what he might do.
UPDATE: Thanks, Randy, for the plug and the kind words.
A must read Substack by @instapundit on possible reforms of the lower federal courts that, unlike impeachment theater, would require simple majorities and make a real difference. https://t.co/vjkh5F0nuY
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) March 20, 2025
IF XI IS ANGERED, I’M PRETTY SURE IT MUST HAVE BEEN A WIN: China’s Xi Is Angered by Panama Port Deal That Trump Touted as a Win.
The Xi leadership had originally planned to use the Panama port issue as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Trump administration, according to people close to Beijing’s decision-making, only to see the rug pulled out from under it.
President Trump, who in the first minutes of his administration called for the U.S. to reassert control over the canal, celebrated the deal as a victory over Chinese interests in America’s backyard, turning Panama into a symbol of the U.S.-China battle for global influence.
Xi’s unhappiness suggests he, too, sees the canal that way and doesn’t like to be painted as the loser.
Exit quote: “Despite Beijing’s unhappiness, it doesn’t have a simple way to halt the deal. The assets to be sold are all outside mainland China and Hong Kong, and the parties to the transaction have expressed confidence that it can be completed.”
It certainly does look like a win.
READER BOOK PLUG: From Bob Madison, writing as Scott McRae: Targets West.
DOGE IS FORCING A TRANSPARENCY EXPLOSION SO WHY ISN’T SUNSHINE WEEK CELEBRATING? Americans have learned more since January 20 about how the federal bureaucracy and politicians are spending their tax dollars than at any comparable time in history.
So why aren’t celebrants of Sunshine Week crying hallelujah!??? Could Trump/Musk Derangement Syndrome have anything to do with it? Check out my latest PJMedia column.
LAWFARE UPDATE: Trump’s Fight With the Federal Judiciary Is Coming to a Head.
