The state can sell the stock.
As to collateral damage, I am a government worker. What kind of collateral damage do we think Mr. Musk has done to people over the past 8 weeks? And I don't want to hear about how he isn't in charge, I have personally had to clean up after his bullshit several times over the past few weeks. From his bullshit "take this money or I fire you" offer from his people's own personal servers to the stupid 5 things email to the fact that ****ing Twitter has been the way the government has been sending messages to the various Departments the past 2 months. He paid $200 million for access and boy oh boy is he getting it. His cronies are data mining the entire government, he makes money off of having the largest social media platform (that serves as the way government messages are delivered) that he purchased by leveraging the aforementioned Tesla stock, and he even got to turn the White House Lawn into a showroom for his car while the President and the Commerce Chief encouraged people to "buy Tesla". So no, I don't have an issue if in protest people hit him where it is most likely to hurt him. He injected himself and his companies into the government and the natural reaction to that is going to be to hit his pocket book. I don't like the guy, if they manage to knock some of his influence off by making him a few hundred billion poorer, good. **** him.
I don't support the vandalism. It is dumb and counterproductive.
He does me. And I am not a Walz fan. I just happen to be in a spot where the enemy of my enemy is useful.
Again, that doesn't seem to be a concern of Musk for me, the people I work with, or the other folks who have been fired by his department. Russ Vought made a point to say that I should suffer because of where I work and should be made to feel a villain. When the Republicans take that stance against me, well...**** em. And this isn't just a "You are just sore because people are getting fired, that happens to everyone so suck it up" situation. I have been laid off in the private sector before. The people who laid me off didn't make it part of their messaging to insult me and say that making me as uncomfortable as possible while getting half the country to join in on the hate train part of their lay off messaging.
Responsible public servants are in short supply these days. The Trump administration part deux has been almost completely devoid of responsible public service. This administration has done a few good things but on the whole it has been a complete shit show.
Again, I don't support the vandalism. Economic warfare isn't that. A more apt analogy would be getting advertisers to stop advertising with The View to hopefully get them pulled off the air. That is completely acceptable protest.
I don't feel I have. Frankly I have about bitten my tongue off the past two months while people talked up this moron when I have had to personally deal with the fall out of his dumbassery. Don't firebomb his cars. Don't wipe your ass on them. Don't key them. But make the brand radioactive in the hopes of decreasing his power and influence? Yeah, I am all in on that.
