By Roger L Simon
FIRST, Happy Christmas and Hanukkah (united in the calendar, a rarity) to all readers. Take this as yet another good augury for 2025. Things are looking definitely up. Let’s do our best to keep them that way.
Meanwhile, yes, I just bought, actually leased, the new Tesla Model 3 (not the Cybertruck above) even though I have been a global warming skeptic since they changed the name to climate change way back when. More about that in a minute, but first a few words about the Democrat’s new craze—Musk Derangement Syndrome.
On one level, it’s pretty laughable–a bunch of mediocre congresscritters who haven’t done much in their lives but get elected complaining that someone with an IQ triple theirs who runs upwards of eight businesses, all of them pioneering, is turning into a co-president.
They complain he is not elected, conveniently ignoring the fact that no one seems to know who has run the Biden Administration for the last four years, certainly not the senile incumbent.
Among those making the slur are Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and the omnipresent AOC who accuses Elon Musk of being a billionaire oligarch, the congresswoman showing no embarrassment for her recent trip to South America paid for by billionaire George Soros. I guess it’s my billionaire is better than yours—or something.
Ms. DeLauro is angry that Elon Musk who is trusted with returning the astronauts from the space station and who also arguably saved more North Carolinian lives than anyone during the hurricane via his satellite internet company and is working on a way to make the blind see through microchip implants (I could go on here) is incapable of understanding the intricacies of what she does—be ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee.
I told you it was laughable. (Has this woman no shame? Probably not.)
What really upsets them about Musk is not that baloney. It is two things. One, his X (formerly Twitter) is decimating the lies of the legacy media they depend on, even threatening to put most of them out of business.
Two, and possibly more important, Musk is an apostate, having, like a growing number of us, switched over from their camp. Muslims aren’t the only ones who abhor apostates, just the ones who, shall we say, take it the final level (cf. Salman Rushdie).
Apostates especially threaten liberals and progressives, and Democrat party leaders , because they have little left of their ideology now that woke and DEI are more than halfway down the drain. They have nothing to offer anymore.
So they’re angry at Elon Musk just as much as they’re angry with Donald Trump who was also an apostate.
Now here’s the bad part.
Some are even taking it out on their, or somebody’s Tesla. As a new buyer I’ve been hanging out on reddit’s Tesla Lounge and discovered this missive that was found, spattered with what I assume to be water but who knows, on a windshield in Portland:
Happy Holidays, indeed!…. Of course, this is Portland and my new Model 3 will undoubtedly be safer here in Middle Tennessee where there is far less Musk Derangement Syndrome and, needless to say, less of its father, Trump Derangement Syndrome than in Oregon. Nevertheless, I can imagine a lot of confusion in Portlandia (aka The City of Roses) where numerous Teslas were bought by global warming true believers over the years. Do they come from the Old Musk or the New Musk. Which cars do we key? What tires do we pop?
Well, that’s their problem.
To answer the question at top, short answer no. I bought the Tesla because it’s the coolest car out there for the price, irrespective of climate. I had been researching it, which told me the new Model 3 was their best car yet. I bought the all-wheel drive. What I like: I put one of those chargers in my garage and never have to think about gas stations or running out. The sound system is great, ditto the visibility. It’s super quiet and super fast when it has to be. There’s no blind spot because a video camera handles it. Also you can warm or cool your car through the app when you’re sitting at your desk and it’ll be ready when you are.. And there are a ton of things I haven’t figured out yet. Have I tried the self-drive component? No, but I suppose I’ll get around to it. I happen to like to drive, so I’m not overly compelled. Besides, it’s obviously not all the way there yet. When it is, I’m certain they’ll let me know. Best of all, the buying process of the car was by far the least stressful I have ever experienced. No dickering. No awful salesman or manager trying to sell you crap you don’t want or need. You just do the whole thing on the app, including photographing a car you might want to trade in, and then go pick the new one up. It takes about fifteen minutes and you’re on your way. It’s the most fun car I’ve ever driven. My only question is—am I ready for the Cybertruck?
First published in American Refugees
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One Response
The Communist Left buys Elon’s cars for years and give his company Tesla a still ridiculous valuation on the stock exchange.
Musk uses the money for free speech and against Communist Democrat Party censorship by buying Twitter. He starts up the US space program again making Obama’s Muslim outreach NASA forgotten and obsolete.
Then he joins with Trump and Ramaswamy to get visibility, accountability and openness in Washington DC and wants to throw the parasites out. He wants reform and is truly Progressive as originally meant. He is hated for that also.
The smartest, richest man in the world is eating the Democrat Party’s lunch – every day.
It’ delicious to watch.