Arlington, VA—Activists were back at it again outside the Tesla showroom in Arlington with a new tactic—a night time light projection show. They turned the darkness around the stumbling Tesla compound into a light show by showing Elon Musk and his stockholders that their vote to pay him a trillion in cash and benefits is misguided and a waste of resources. Stockholders recently voted to pay Musk a trillion in cash and benefits if he meets certain sales projections and corporate benchmarks by 2030.
The light show was a test of their newly acquired equipment and the activists said that no, George Soros did not pay for it either. The projection equipment was loaned temporarily by an artist who supported the idea of lighting up the Tesla showroom to reflect what a Trillion could buy if it were put to practical use in society. The calculations were meant to point out useful alternatives for capital of such a grand scale, instead of being funneled into the pockets of one man—in this case the world’s richest man, who appears to already have a net worth of $500 billion. This is due primarily to his ownership of stock in both Tesla and SpaceX.
The activists messages flashed on the outside of the Tesla dealership after the sun slipped beneath deep purple cumulus clouds:
What can a trillion buy?
— $3,000.00 to every person in the U.S.
— 42 million new cars
— 5,600,000 new homes
The light projection also referred to SpaceX as a resource sink, a massive energy hog, and a local noise and global polluter. The SpaceX company that has waxed the ego of one person who envisioned sending humans to Mars. This is another of Musk’s dead ended projects that will end up costing trillions. This is because several NASA launches already have sent robotic rovers to Mars, effectively doing the work much more cheaply and much more safely than humans could do and for much more effectively than the trillions it would cost to safely land humans on the red planet. And that’s assuming they could even be safely returned from Mars 18 months later.
As for Tesla, its European sales for November are “crashing” according to a published report in Elektrik. “ Sales fell year over year for November by 30-40% on average in most European countries but were expected to fall further once Norway’s tax breaks lapse as 2026 rolls in.
The activists plan to return to the Tesla on another night but wouldn’t commit to a date. This action was a test run and some of the images did not fully fit on the Tesla dealership but that will be fixed next time technical challenges are worked out.
The night time Tesla light projection action is but a small piece of a larger national campaign of organic resistance springing up as the Trump regime grows more desperate in its methods to assert and consolidate power. Nearly every effort it has taken has been seen as anti-constitutional in some way, has been challenged by groups impacted, and supported by ruling after ruling in the federal courts. And if not for whims of a Supreme Court court bent on “extremism” as Joe Biden put it, it is likely many of Trump’s methods would have been overturned and stopped on their final appeal, articulated in written decisions, and not ordered on a shadow docket.
Meanwhile more actions like the Tesla light projection will continue popping us as citizens resist to seeing their rights and liberties further curtailed.
