It’s a Schadenfreude Morning

With apologies to Joni:

Woke up, it was a Schadenfreude morning
And the first thing that I saw
Was the sun through bright blue curtains
And a rainbow on the wall
Orange, yellow, green, and indigo to welcome you
Cobalt crystal beads to beckon

Oh, won't you stay? We'll put on the day
And we'll talk in present tenses

The Tesla Takedown is working!

It’s ultimately about hitting Musk in his wallet. We the people can have a real effect. We can fight back. Musk and Trump are NOT gods. Dismantle their wealth by making them and their products outcasts, unfashionable, embarrassments. Show the world they’re synonymous with hate, destruction, insane greed, and incompetence. Without their wealth, these two are nothing.

The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.
~ Elon Musk 

Yes, that human-shaped ruptured hemorrhoid really said that on failed comedian, Joe fucking Rogan's podcast.

The current backlash against Tesla across the U.S. and Europe likely has no comparison in the history of the automobile industry, the bank warned, slashing its first-quarter delivery forecast to 355,000 vehicles and reducing its price target to $120 per share.

JPMorgan auto analyst Ryan Brinkman warned clients the politically divisive entrepreneur is, in all likelihood, repelling far more prospective car buyers than he has gained through his proximity to President Trump and far right in Europe.(source)

How many of those 355,000 cars and trucks will actually be sold? How many will be torched? How soon before the Treason Transports are as much of a pariah as their Temu comic book villain CEO?

How does it feel to be the world’s most despised person?

Yes, I have this Dylan song  in my head now:

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People call say 'beware doll, you're bound to fall'
You thought they were all kidding you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hanging out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging your next meal

How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone

As of Monday, March 10, Tesla had its seventh straight losing week and has lost half its value since its peak in mid December. GOOD! Keep it going.

In other happy, encouraging news, there was a glorious protest at Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan. At least 100 people were arrested after protesters, mostly Jewish activists, held a sit-in. They were protesting the ICE arrest, disappearing, and jailing of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil.

Khalil is a lawful permanent resident of the US, has a green card AND his wife, a US citizen, is eight months pregnant with their first child.

In a new petition seeking his immediate release, Khalil's attorneys said his arrest was a "targeted, retaliatory detention and attempted removal of a student protestor because of his constitutionally protected speech."
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"Neither Secretary Rubio nor any other government official has alleged that Mr. Khalil has committed any crime or, indeed, broken any law whatsoever," the amended petition said. (source)

That Khalil is in jail AT ALL is utter bullshit. HELLO First Amendment!

Some days I feel like weeping from disgust and tiredness over the rock solid racist stupidity, the proud, willful ignorance, and complete absence of self awareness and empathy in my fellow humans. Today though, I’m feeling joy and hope. 

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
~ Denis Diderot