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Teslas Are A Protected Class Now? -- Digby
https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/27/teslas-are-a-protected-class-now/
You have to see this to believe it:
None of the defendants on January 6th were charged with hate crimes. But sure, vandalizing Trump’s BFFs cars is a horrific act of political violence that requires a long jail sentence, maybe even the death penalty.
The country is being run by your drunken uncle sitting in his recliner watching Fox and yelling “throw the book at ’em!”
D.C. police say they are investigating the ‘Nazi’ comment, an apparent reference to a gesture criticized as a Nazi-style salute that Musk made on Inauguration Day, and one other, as potential hate crimes. [my emphasis]
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“I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20-year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla,” the president wrote on social media on Friday. “Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions!”
The FBI announced this week that it has formed a task force to investigate “the increase in violent activity toward Tesla.” In a post on X, FBI Director Kash Patel called the attacks “domestic terrorism” and said that “those responsible will be pursued, caught, and brought to justice.”
After police released a statement on the D.C. incidents that included photos of the two people being sought, Musk took to his platform X and reposted it, without comment. In a separate response to a post on X about an arrest in a vandalism case targeting a Tesla in Massachusetts, Musk wrote: “Damaging the property of others, aka vandalism, is not free speech!”
Prosecutors must prove a person was motivated by prejudice to secure a conviction in a bias-related crime. While targeting someone based on their political affiliation opens the door for such a charge, prosecutors ultimately decide after an arrest has been made and a motive developed. Police statistics show that until now they have not investigated a politically motived hate crime in the past four years in D.C. Through the end of February, police have investigated 17 crimes as hate-related this year, based on ethnicity, national origin, race, gender identity and religion.
None of the defendants on January 6th were charged with hate crimes. But sure, vandalizing Trump’s BFFs cars is a horrific act of political violence that requires a long jail sentence, maybe even the death penalty.
The country is being run by your drunken uncle sitting in his recliner watching Fox and yelling “throw the book at ’em!”
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That pic 
