Donald Trump calls Tesla boycotts illegal
www.newsweek.com
The president said protesters were trying to "illegally and collusively boycott Tesla" because Elon Musk is in his administration.

Jesus, this guy gets dumber and more dementia addled by the day.

  • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    1 day ago

    Suck my balls. The US constitution says differently, little piss baby.

    • Revan343@lemmy.ca
      5·
      23 hours ago

      Does he still take questions from journalists? I thought they were only letting sycophants in as ‘press’

  • blady_blah@lemmy.world
    4·
    24 hours ago

    I’m sure Trump saying liberals have to buy Teslas will drive up sales… how could that possibly fail?

  • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    23·
    2 days ago

    which critics said resembled a Nazi salute.

    There’s journalists right now getting murdered for standing up to tyranny and this spineless ass-kissing ball-gargling excuse of a tabloid writer is excusing Nazis.

    • alucard@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      23 hours ago

      Journalists employers are all friends. This Makes it nearly impossible to for journalists in large orgs to stand up to oligarchs. Although it does make for great pageantry for non-billionaires.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 days ago

      I think what he wants is all our 401k by law having to invest in Telsa stock. I wouldn’t put it past him to lauch an EO demanding that.

  • Wren@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 days ago

    So, do I turn myself in, or just wait for someone to call the authorities?

    I think I’ll wait.

      • Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world
        151·
        2 days ago

        I was actually reading this wikipedia page earlier after posting and it seemed like these Anti-BDS laws only apply to government offices and government contractors

        Most anti-BDS laws have taken one of two forms: contract-focused laws requiring government contractors to promise that they are not boycotting Israel; and investment-focused laws, mandating public investment funds to avoid entities boycotting Israel.

        A broad law mandating that the public at large can’t not buy certain products, or can’t ask others to do the same would be unenforceable I would think – though I’m not going to doubt the Roberts Court ability to find some way to make something that absurd law if asked by their king…

          • Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world
            7·
            2 days ago

            Uh same to you? Did you check up on how that case from 2018 ended? She won and they changed the law, and the latest I found with a quick search is that CAIR was appealing to get Texas to pay her the compensation she was owed from the original trial but denied because since the state changed the law Texas was arguing they no longer had to pay the original amount awarded (typical Texas, big fuck you to Ken Paxton)

            The original law in Texas that got Bahia Amawi fired was amended in 2019 to avoid targeting individuals and only apply to companies applying or bidding for contracts greater than $100,000.

            (WASHINGTON, DC, 4/5/2022) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, argued yesterday before the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on behalf of Bahia Amawi, defending an Austin, Texas, federal court’s decision to award Amawi more than $140,000 for costs and attorney fees after winning her landmark First Amendment victory against the State of Texas, which found Texas’s Anti-BDS law unconstitutional.

            Did you have another example?

    • lunarul@lemmy.world
      19·
      3 days ago

      I don’t even understand how a boycott would be illegal. It’s illegal to not buy products from a certain company? How can you tell if a person is not buying because they’re boycotting or because they never had the intention of buying in the first place?