President Donald Trump has suggested sending people who are attacking Tesla to prisons in El Salvador if they are convicted of crimes, as a number of the automaker’s vehicles and showrooms have been targeted by reported arson and other violence.

Trump’s comments appear to be referencing a deal his administration made with El Salvador to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members from the U.S. to serve out their jail time. Rights groups have criticized the deal, citing harsh conditions in Salvadoran prisons.

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    Who is this messaging for?!

    Ok, you heard your lord and Savior, MAGA. Now go buy those EVs you hate so much.

    Tesla is circling a drain. I literally cannot see a path for them to exist as a company in 5 years. They’re in too deep with someone wildly unpopular across the board.

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      People don’t realize how fucked Tesla is.

      If protestors burn just 0.1% of Tesla cars on the road every year, then that means insurance companies will need to charge an additional $200-$500 per year to insure a Tesla compared to a similar car of any other brand.

      If they burn 1%, then it’s more like $2000 per year in extra insurance costs.

      They will become uninsurable.

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      Business/tech conservatives fucking love them. And a lot of apathetic Americans (which is most) literally do not care about any of the Elon stuff. They just see an EV car.

      Now, the only market for Cybertrucks are the douchiest rich tools. There’s other cooler EV trucks if they didn’t want to buy a drivable billboard.

      …Actually, the only people who SHOULD want it are people with a business because it actually works pretty well as a drivable billboard.

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      So foreigners don’t have constitutional rights like citizens, they only have civil rights, and that’s the legal loophole the admin is using to justify this El Salvador deal. Actually doing this to a citizen would be wildly unconstitutional. I am not saying they won’t try, but if they do try AND succeed, well it’s time to do those things that have to be done when tyrants void the rule of law.

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        locked in a cell with no internet, no phone, no visitors, no hamberders or diet cokes. just barney 24/7 on a big screen.

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          You’re cruel as hell. How is he gonna vent in all caps on Truth Social from the shitter in the middle of the night?

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            Well I guess you could give him a fake Internet connection connected to an AI and let him post to the fake Internet where the AI would pretend to be his fans but they would all be against him so he can post into the void but the void hates him.

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              Actually true. He probably doesn’t even know what AI is. So that could work lmfao.

              Dude is a fucking idiot. Just look at his stupid face. God I hate him. Sorry for rant.

              I have some opinions that would be considered right wing. But this guy takes the fucking cake.

              He’s 80 isn’t he? When is he gonna do the thing? I have my imaginary champagne ready (I’m poor).

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    I know two people (and their teenage „employees“) who actually deserve to go to El Salvador. Tesla haters are not one of them.

    At this point they have fucking blood on their hands. Just look at the Medicaid cuts.