#Musk is Making America Great in the image of #Tesla.
Shot of the Tesla showroom in downtown #Chicago, off fashionable #MichiganAvenue (aka #MagnificientMile) today, where there are more police officers than sales people, and ZERO customers.
These are not private security guards, but taxpayer-paid #ChicagoPolice guarding private business.
The officers seem like permanently stationed. They weren't just passing by. They have a desk on which they can be seen enjoying #Starbucks.
⬆️ >> Shot of #Tesla showroom in downtown #Chicago, off fashionable #MichiganAvenue (aka #MagnificientMile), where there are more police officers than sales people, and ZERO customers.
Who needs sales staff when you can have #POTUS hawk for you?
via @Nonilex >> #ElonMusk Looks Desperate
"For years, #Trump’s critics have accused him of behaving like a crooked used-car salesman. Tues afternoon, he did it for real on the WH South Lawn"
⬆️ >> Shot of #Tesla showroom in downtown #Chicago, off fashionable #MagnificientMile, where there are more police officers than sales people, and ZERO customers.
via @vij >> #Tesla now fully Reich-era #VW
Go to a dealership (They lie fallow, I can attest), or go to the WH Lawn, where #Trump will personally shill for #Musk.
#PamBondi is not kidding. I can attest to that too — Look at #ChicagoPolice stationed comfortably inside a Tesla showroom protecting a private business on taxpayer dime.
Hundreds of protesters at #Tesla showroom off #MagnificientMile in downtown #Chicago today. This is the largest crowd I've ever seen here
Hundreds of protesters at #Tesla showroom off #MagnificientMile in downtown #Chicago today. This is the largest crowd I've ever seen here.
#UAW was there.
Hundreds of protesters at #Tesla showroom off #MagnificientMile in downtown #Chicago today. This is the largest crowd I've ever seen here.
A protester holding sign that says "#Elon's the Only #Immigrant taking our JOBS"
Hundreds of protesters at #Tesla showroom off #MagnificientMile in downtown #Chicago today. This is the largest crowd I've ever seen here.
"Bo you #Nazi the problem yet?" asks a protester
Hundreds of protesters at #Tesla showroom off #MagnificientMile in downtown #Chicago today. This is the largest crowd I've ever seen here.
"Washington, D.C. renamed #Muskcow"
Hundreds of protesters at #Tesla showroom off #MagnificientMile in downtown #Chicago today. This is the largest crowd I've ever seen here.
Hundreds of protesters at #Tesla showroom off #MagnificientMile in downtown #Chicago today. This is the largest crowd I've ever seen here.
"Impeach First Lady Elonia."
Hundreds of protesters at #Tesla showroom off #MagnificientMile in downtown #Chicago today. This is the largest crowd I've ever seen here.
Hundreds of protesters at #Tesla showroom off #MagnificientMile in downtown #Chicago today. This is the largest crowd I've ever seen here.
"Fuck #Musk"
Hundreds of protesters at #Tesla showroom off #MagnificientMile in downtown #Chicago today. This is the largest crowd I've ever seen here.
#CorporateMedia observing and recording the protests from a safe distance. There's #ABC, #CBS, and a third one with a #hooded camera, who apparently didn't want us to know who they are.
The guy in shorts had his ID dangling for the public to see. From that I found out he is from #NewsNation — never heard of them 🤔
Hundreds of protesters at #Tesla showroom off #MagnificientMile in downtown #Chicago today. This is the largest crowd I've ever seen here.
I took a lot of video, but if there's one you should watch, it is this one.
A protester with a small baby is in front of the showroom with other peaceful protesters. There are officers stationed both inside and outside the showroom. Suddenly, some officers open the showroom door and start provoking the man to move
#ElonMusk's crusade against working people is getting #religious overtones —
“It’s actually disadvantageous for me to be in the government…,” he told #FoxNews about his role with #DOGE. “My companies are #suffering because I'm #InTheGovernment.”
#God & #Religion are the biggest, worst, and longest-running scams invented by humans.
Just a matter of time before #Musk intones, "Like #Jesus, I #suffer for the sins of others."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/business/tesla-takedown-elon-musk-doge/index.html link via @ordabchao
Hundreds of “Tesla Takedown” demonstrations are taking place in the United States, Canada and Europe as activists ramp up their opposition to CEO Elon Musk’s efforts to slash federal government staffing and budgets.
⬆️ >> #TeslaTakeDown #ElonMusk's crusade against America is getting #religious overtones. It's just a matter of time that “My companies are #suffering because I'm #InTheGovernment” becomes "Like #Jesus, I #suffer for the sins of others"
#Musk twice admitted to #FoxNews that he is IN THE GOVERNMENT.
via @UnitedStates
Musk’s unchecked influence over #government programs has reached a dangerous tipping point.
Congress must stand up to Musk’s dangerous anti-worker agenda
⬆️ @vfrmedia
>> I've worked as a broadcast engineer and my employers are sometimes interviewed by our national/state broadcaster (BBC), camera hoods are more to protect the exterior from weather and shield the viewfinder from glare rather than conceal the camera…
I didn't think he was concealing the huge camera. It was the media brand that was hidden.
Pardon my skepticism. I used to give a lot of deference and leeway to media personnel, but they've ruined it for themselves and everybody else.
@rameshgupta our news cameras used to be prominently branded (about 20-40 years ago) but tend to be plain these days. Operators may or may not openly carry ID cards (there's no requirement to have one in the UK to film on the street).
A lot of the time they run unbranded because they are freelancers hired at relatively short notice (there are very few in house staff in media nowadays) - but there's also the chance they are working for right wing channels and want to hide that as well..
@rameshgupta Also you are also 100% correct to be sceptical and wary.
*Any* random bootlicker can turn up in "media circus" bit of any protest action with a broadcast quality camera (they aren't /that/ expensive second hand), set up as "news agency" indistinguishable from "legit" media and gather as much footage as they wish to hand to fash or cops (there may be freelancers already getting paid doing this).
@rameshgupta when I worked in broadcast engineering there were numerous layoffs amongst British PSBs (public service broadcasters) due to new tech and ruthless capitalism leading to regional TV companies devouring each other.
A *lot* of newly redundant engineers, and camera operators taught Police in Britain and Nothern Europe to use broadcast quality cameras to surveil protests and activism as part of evidence gathering, they also advised on how to improve town CCTV schemes..
⬆️ @vfrmedia
>> A *lot* of newly redundant engineers, and camera operators taught Police in Britain and Nothern Europe to use broadcast quality cameras to surveil protests and activism as part of evidence gathering, they also advised on how to improve town CCTV schemes..
LOL.
#ChicagoPolice use a simple nondescript #iPhone to surveil, as you can see at the very end of the video in this post on #Chicago #TeslaTakeDown #Tesla protests https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/114247636061244409
@rameshgupta one thing to be wary of in near future is when cops combine their portable radio schemes - which at present look like obvious cop kit and even the digital radios look like a giant 1990s mobile phone with modern LTE smartphone technology.
Both USA and European agencies are working on this.
Detectives will then be able to use any smartphone (usually ruggedised sets, but normal one would work) for comms and be much harder to spot when working covertly..
@rameshgupta love to hear about the large crowd!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsNation
"The channel has publicly claimed to be centrist, but had senior staff defections in 2021 amid concerns they were being pushed by management to lean to right-wing politics in news coverage."
And these days "centrist" is right leaning...
Ramesh #NotGoingBack
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