There may be campaigns but this is a different thing happening entirely. I’m quite tall, no high chair needed, more of a Man in the High Castle type as my mother was a historian. This isn’t just the left reverting to canceling Elon. This is something far deeper, visceral broad spectrum anger. I have family across the US, UK, Ireland, and Denmark, and what’s happening now feels different. When people see a billionaires with massive power openly signaling fascism, they don’t need unions, auto manufacturers, or “smart money” to tell them to be outraged. Elon has crossed a threshold. He’s part of an oligarch network that’s actively shaping a dystopian, corporate-controlled future. And he’s finally woken up serious people who recognize exactly what that means. Now he’s feeling the heat. Tesla needs him to resign, for its own survival if nothing else. Where I come from, Western Civilization, smashing fascism isn’t some abstract principle, it’s something we were raised to do. Well as Gen X anyway. Again, people who don't get out of bed for mundane social issues are for this.
Well, the only people buying TSLA are ultra-Musk fans. Tesla’s Retail Fans Buy the Stock at a Pace Never Seen Before https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-retail-fans-buy-stock-144151015.html (Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc.’s stock is in a freefall. Its sales are plunging around the world. Even its most avid Wall Street bulls are turning cautious. But one group is buying the electric-vehicle maker’s shares like never before: CEO Elon Musk’s fans. The company has long had an ardent fan base of individual investors who hang on Musk’s every word on X, the social-media platform he owns. They analyze Tesla in great detail in online forums and largely function as a hype crew for the stock. But their current level of enthusiasm is staggeringly high, even by recent historical standards. Individual investors have been net buyers of Tesla shares for 13 straight sessions through Thursday, pumping $8 billion into the stock, retail trading data from JPMorgan Chase’s global equity derivatives strategist Emma Wu shows. That’s the biggest inflow over any buying streak since 2015, which is as far back as the data goes. What makes the retail buying notable is Tesla’s share price has sunk 17% over this time, wiping out more than $155 billion from its market value. “I’ve missed several opportunities with TSLA in the past. Now that the stock has dropped significantly, could this be a good time to invest?,” wrote the author of a post on the Reddit forum for Tesla traders. Another said they were “very happy” to buy the stock at a $225-$230 range. The shares closed up 5.3% at $248.66 on Friday. “Tesla made some rookie to mid-stage public market investors extremely wealthy, a lot of people became millionaires because of this stock,” said Nicholas Colas, co-founder at DataTrek Research. “People don’t forget that. And they will come back to a stock again and again if they feel it has been beaten up.” Tesla shares have been on a steep slide since mid-December when it touched an all-time high fueled by optimism from Donald Trump’s election victory. But that euphoria vanished, with the stock retreating more than 50% from its Dec. 17 record, making it the second-biggest decliner in the S&P 500 Index this year. The rout has been so brutal that on Thursday, Musk sought to reassure Tesla employees during an all-hands meeting, likely sparking the rebound in the shares on Friday. The enthusiasm was palpable on X, formerly Twitter, where the stock was heavily mentioned, while on Stocktwits — another online forum for individual traders — Tesla topped the list of the website’s most active securities on Friday. What’s become clear is what Wall Street thought would be a boon for the company — Musk’s prominent role in the Trump administration as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency — has instead become an albatross. His growing political presence and involvement with controversies in Europe have triggered a backlash against the company and its leader, with the cars increasingly seen as political symbols. Protesters have thrown Molotov cocktails at Tesla showrooms and vandalized charging stations. Sales of Tesla cars have sunk in key European markets, such as France and Germany, as well as in China and Australia. Global numbers won’t be available until the company reports its first-quarter delivery figures early next month, but analysts across Wall Street have been aggressively cutting their estimates for sales and profits, citing the bleak data from around the globe. On Thursday, Morgan Stanley analyst and longtime Tesla bull Adam Jonas lowered his price target on the stock and reduced his sales expectations for the company, citing growing competition, an aging vehicle lineup and a “buyers’ strike from negative brand sentiment.” However, he kept his buy-equivalent rating on the shares, saying the weak near-term expectations are “not particularly narrative changing” for a company whose future depends on robotics and artificial intelligence. Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives on Friday lauded Musk’s efforts for “hand-holding” employees and investors at a key time, and said that if the CEO continued to lead on his vision, the stock will be on a growth path where 90% of its valuation will be led by autonomous-driving technology and robotics. This bullishness explains at least some of retail traders’ continuing enthusiasm for the shares. “These kind of investors don’t care about valuations at all,” Colas said. “They just believe in the future of the company and Elon Musk’s abilities.”
Sorry, Im too jaded to buy your argument. America voted for Trump by a significant margin on a nationalist populist platform, not a Republican nor a Democrat. European countries have been drifting far right for at least 20 years and now it is on the verge of (France) or won elections (Italy). I can totally understand some Europeans outrage over Musk; he is a billionaire after all. In a region where 20% of the electorate votes shades of communism and another 30% votes social democrat, there's no room in there for billionaires or millionaires, only variants of government redistribution (which I agree with sometimes). That the richest man on earth is also virulently opposed to any form of man created constraints is far more than at least half of Europeans can bare. And there, Tesla is paying a heavy price for its CEO's nonsense. I too, as a committed shareholder, am calling for his dismissal from Tesla, hoping it is bloody and ugly enough that consumers can once again feel ok about buying some of the world's best cars.
The majority of America voted against Trump,in all 3 of his elections. Trump is the first president since 1964 to not get the majority of the vote at least once in a 2 candidate race.