[pessimist]

The Democratic Governor of California denounced them publicly and stopped the effort.

Despite Musk raising millions and campaigning viciously against the Democrats the administration kept all of SpaceX contracts and Tesla ev subsidies. In fact the IRA benefited Tesla disproportionately.

Both sides are NOT the same. One is fascist and the other is not

[ETH_start]

The Democratic White House chose to not invite Tesla to their EV Summit. That was not political?

The Democratic DoJ and Democrat DAGs prosecuted dozens of former Trump administration officials and Trump allies, and even Trump himself:

Trump Administration Officials:

Michael Flynn – Former National Security Advisor

Stephen K. Bannon – Former White House Chief Strategist & Campaign Advisor

Mark Meadows – Former White House Chief of Staff

Jeffrey Clark – Former Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Peter Navarro – Former White House Trade Advisor

Trump Allies:

Paul Manafort – Former Trump Campaign Chairman

George Papadopoulos – Former Trump Campaign Foreign Policy Advisor

Rick Gates – Former Trump Deputy Campaign Chairman

Roger Stone – Longtime Trump Advisor and Friend

Michael Cohen – Former Personal Attorney to Donald Trump

Elliott Broidy – Former Trump Fundraiser

Rudolph Giuliani – Attorney to Trump, Former Mayor of New York City

Waltine Nauta – Personal Aide to Trump

Carlos De Oliveira – Property Manager at Mar-a-Lago

Sidney Powell – Trump Campaign Attorney

Kenneth Chesebro – Trump Attorney

Jenna Ellis – Trump Campaign Attorney

John Eastman – Trump Attorney

Dinesh D'Souza – Conservative Commentator, Trump Supporter

Joseph M. Arpaio – Former Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, Trump Supporter

Ray Smith III – Trump Attorney

Cathy Latham – Fake Elector, Coffee County GOP Leader

Robert Cheeley – Trump Attorney

David Shafer – Fake Elector, Former Georgia GOP Chair

Mike Roman – Trump Campaign Staffer

Shawn Still – Fake Elector, Then-Georgia State Senator

Scott Hall – Atlanta Bail Bondsman

Misty Hampton – Former Coffee County Elections Supervisor

Steve Lee – Pastor from Illinois

Harrison Floyd – Black Voices for Trump Leader

Trevian Kutti – Publicist from Chicago

I'm sure this was just Democrats following the law, with no bias, right?

This kind of narrative that you're forwarding now where the Republican Party are fascists and Trump is a threat to democracy is exactly the kind of mentality that was used to elicit this enormous persecution of Trump and officials near him.

Meanwhile, the real elephant in the room is always ignored:

The Democrats shovel hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money to large unions in order to secure their support and win elections. This is textbook corruption.

https://politifact.com/factchecks/2022/dec/14/kevin-brady/bi...

The recipients of USAID grants? All Democrats. Same story all across DC. That's why 92.4% of DC voted for Harris. DC, meanwhile, has a per capita GDP of $250,000.

[metabagel]

Because Tesla is anti-union.

[throwaway173738]

> The recipients of USAID grants? All Democrats. Same story all across DC. That's why 92.4% of DC voted for Harris. DC, meanwhile, has a per capita GDP of $250,000.

Why shouldn’t the recipients receive these grants other than that they are Democrats? What about their projects makes them not meritorious?

[conception]

I think you mean convicted. Because they did crimes. If they would stop doing crime they wouldn’t get convicted.

Still waiting for someone to lock Hillary up. Oh wait…

[rat87]

Yes it was them following the law and being unbiased.

Many of the people involved in prosecuting them are Republicans. Trump is the most corrupt president we've ever had and many of his allies are similarly corrupt.

These days they know they just have to follow the maga line to get out of jail free. The Attorney General of Texas was so ridiculously corrupt he was about to be impeached by Texas Republicans but then he just claimed it was a witchhunt against maga got Trump on his side and suddenly impeachment was cancelled and he's polling a win in the next Senate primary.

Also Trump supported an attempted violent coup in addition to things like telling the Georgia Secretary of State to find him votes after the voting.

Trump has been described as a threat to democracy by many leading conservatives and Republicans. Many of them have had their careers ended and been slandered by former associates despite being conservative who had dedicated decades to the party while Trump doesn't care about ideology or party or outcomes only himself.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/politics/trump-fascist-john-k... Trump's former chief of Staff General John Kelly

> in a series of interviews published Tuesday, saying the former president fits “into the general definition of fascist” and that he spoke of the loyalty of Hitler’s Nazi generals.

> He also confirmed to The Atlantic that Trump had said he wished his military personnel showed him the same deference Adolf Hitler’s Nazi generals showed the German dictator during World War II, and recounted the moment.

> Do you mean Bismarck’s generals?’” Kelly told The Atlantic he’d asked Trump. He added, “I mean, I knew he didn’t know who Bismarck was, or about the Franco-Prussian War. I said, ‘Do you mean the kaiser’s generals? Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals.’ I explained to him that Rommel had to commit suicide after taking part in a plot against Hitler