Paid Protestors

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Tulsa man offers to pay Tesla counterprotestors

In a reversal of a Republican talking point, a Tulsa man says he's planning to pay $50 to people willing to oppose a group of protestors who've been regularly picketing a Tesla car dealership in Tulsa.

Steven Vining, 45, loves the cybertruck he ordered three years ago and picked up in January. These days, though, he says the electric vehicle is attracting the wrong type of attention.

After an elderly woman "flipped him off" and hit his car with her bag of groceries in a Reasor's parking lot, Vining said he'd had enough and wanted to show support for Tesla owner Elon Musk. He attached "Make America Great Again" and "Fueled by liberal tears" stickers to his car, which he says was maybe not the best idea.

Vining, who is a real estate investor by trade, says he's received hundreds of message from interested people and he plans to pay the first 40 who responded, as advertised. Multiple sign companies are offering to print signs for him, he reports.

Vining's deal is a little ironic in light of recent GOP talking points. Top Republicans have advised lawmakers to avoid in-person town halls due to "paid protestors" flooding the venues to express anger at Trump and Musk.

https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/local-regional/2025-03-20/tulsa-man-offers-to-pay-tesla-counterprotestors

[dbacksfan 2.0]

Poor little butt hurt neoliberals who just five years ago would have kissed Musk's feet to get a Tesla plant in Oklahoma.

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Poor little butt hurt neoliberals who just five years ago would have kissed Musk's feet to get a Tesla plant in Oklahoma.

From just five years ago:

Musk was declaring Covid to be a hoax so he could open up his Cali plant despite health department objections, worker safety be damned. He's still riding on the denier train at full speed because he's an a$$ who can't be wrong about anything (sound familiar?).
I'd just rather see 50 smaller companies who had 20 employees each that sold widgets to multiple companies than one company have 1000 employees to sell one widget to a limited audience. Tulsa needs to not forget the oil crash of the early 80's and keep diversification at the forefront instead of going all in with a company that has $16 billion in debt.

Just another in a long line of events that show what a asshat musk is. I'm glad we didn't get any kind of tesla facility now. Who know what the future of his companies look like when he alienates everyone and becomes another mypillow like COE that survives on a cult base.

Tesla's wounds are self-inflicted.
https://jalopnik.com/tesla-learns-hard-lesson-go-anti-woke-go-broke-1851429030

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They glued on the quarter panels on a truck.

[patric]

They glued on the quarter panels on a truck.

The Cybertruck is glued together in several places. https://www.tiktok.com/@car_cultureco/video/7398928427069246763?lang=en

[dbacksfan 2.0]

lol, the face may be where I draw the line. Now we are groveling at the feet of Elon.

I wouldn't doubt he would pay a visit to acknowledge the recognition and let us down easy. Probably just a rumor that he is visiting today though.

Now how can we shift this energy into attracting more likely corporate entities to Tulsa/OK?

https://www.tulsanow.org/forum/index.php?topic=21857.0

https://ktul.com/news/local/golden-driller-transformed-into-elon-musk

[dbacksfan 2.0]

The Cybertruck is glued together in several places. https://www.tiktok.com/@car_cultureco/video/7398928427069246763?lang=en

Ford, GM, Chrysler, Honda, Toyota, BMW, Audi, Ferrari, Mercedes, and a long list of others use bonding, and rivet bonding, similar to the manufacture of airframes both civilian and military, since they use thinner high strength steel and composites to build cars. Tesla bonds the sections on the Cyber Truck since the stainless steel panels are attached to dissimilar metal used for the framework of the body.

It's been done for years.

Since the F150 bedside panels are aluminum here is how they are replaced