Monday, April 21, 2025

An unshared mania

There is a Tesla dealership just a mile or two from me.  I live in a very blue neighborhood (the Tesla dealership replaced a Whole Foods store) in a very blue city.  

Given all the ruckus and performative protests against Musk of the past couple of months, I have been awaiting some demonstrations at the dealership for some while.  So far nothing.

Until Thursday.  And then it was consistent with CatTurd's observation.

This is what I had been seeing reported across the country and ours was the same.

Maybe as many as fifty people at the intersection cornering the dealership.   A mix of handmade and printed signs but all hard to read from a distance.  A lot of yelling at drivers in traffic (oddly, just yelling at drivers, not necessarily Tesla drivers).  

It was a warm day which raised moderate alarm for the well-being of the protestors given the demographics.  The appearance was of white, college-educated, Boomer era women.  To be fair, probably not more than 65% of the small crowd met those criteria.  Maybe 25% appeared to be dutiful spouses/partners.  They seemed embarrassingly quiet and trying not to be seen.  

As usual, Pareto was present.  80% of the noise and activity was from 20% of the crowd, i.e. 10 little old ladies.  Silver haired, stick figured, they were marching around (individually), shouting at drivers, beating a drum, genuine anger marring their faces, etc.

The traffic stopped at the light, and then flowed by - normal people going about their business.  Tolerant of the old biddies, unengaged with their mania.  

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