Protests used to be really something in America. Back in the anti-war 70s, college kids and young adults were protesting continued U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and it was effective enough to alter the direction of the country. Those same hippies are now grandparents and great-grandparents, if they're still alive. You might guess that a lot of their grandkids are the ones protesting Elon Musk and Tesla, Donald Trump, ICE, and whatever else they think is wrong. But that doesn't seem to be the case most of the time. Many are foreign nationals here on a student visa. A lot of them are paid protesters.  

At Republican Congresscritter town halls all over the country, rooms are filled with people funded and Astroturfed in by left-wing advocacy groups. In Wisconsin over the weekend, Elon and a few Trump cabinet members appeared in their personal capacities to get out the vote in the Wisconsin Supreme Court battle between Republican Judge Brad Schimel and Dane County leftist Judge Susan Crawford. Musk offered two different $1 million dollars prizes for people that attended the rally. Wisconsin's Democratic Attorney General, Josh Kaul, sued to keep that from happening, but the courts did not give him the relief he sought, and the giveaway ensued. When the protesters at the rally began disrupting, Musk noted that it was inevitable that the George Soros contingent would be present. 

While a lot of the talent from the Trump get out of the vote effort in 2024 have become cheeseheads the last couple of weeks to drive up turnout, Democrats in the Badger state chose a different way of 
protesting - by running over Schimel yard signs before losing control of their car. 

Just got this from a listener:

"This morning someone ran over my Brad Schimel for WI Supreme Court sign in Brookfield, WI and is now stuck in my ditch." pic.twitter.com/WME3yDZ3RD

— Dan O'Donnell (@DanODonnellShow) March 30, 2025

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy took the stage in Wisconsin and noted the lengths to which people previously espousing environmental concerns are willing to go in order to destroy Teslas, the best-selling electric vehicles in the country. 

🚨 TRANSPORTATION SEC. SEAN DUFFY WITH THE TRUTH NUKE

"Before this last election they all wanted to force us into an EV, after the election they’re burning EVs. How crazy is that?”pic.twitter.com/M05PJZowxO

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 31, 2025

Meanwhile, on the side of the road, another protest developed. This one was the two-person type, holding up the obligatory Musk is a Nazi sign. 

Masked liberal protester does multiple Nazi salutes on the side of a busy road.

"Only Nazis Want Musk," the sign the man was holding read as he did multiple Nazi salutes.

Lmao.pic.twitter.com/qFfOpNNc1a

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 31, 2025

Gotta love the mask-wearing...outdoors. They must have gotten the secret memo from Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins that COVID is still deadly and spreads most virally on the side of the road as people drive by doing 70 mph giving these two the bird, creating a wind draft behind them. They're much safer on the side of the road facing oncoming traffic covering up their piehole. The mask will help keep their loose teeth in one place for identification purposes later when someone hugging the shoulder because they're checking their texts whacks them with the rearview mirror. 

Grandma did not seem to understand the concept that there are more cameras on a Tesla than there are at a space launch. 

TERROR: Democrats are completely unaware that they’re being filmed when they attack Teslas because the drive-by media isn’t covering the attacks. pic.twitter.com/p3LRXnDDf2

— @amuse (@amuse) March 30, 2025

In New York City, protesters are saving democracy by burning Teslas.

NYC- The current scene in front of a Tesla showroom in New York which is being completely surrounded by anti-Elon Musk protesters.

One protester is holding a sign that reads “Save Democracy, Burn a Tesla” | @sav_says_ | @TPUSA pic.twitter.com/z0xERACHh6

— FRONTLINES (@FrontlinesTPUSA) March 29, 2025

This totally normal-looking woman is now a resident in the Graybar Hotel because she gummed up, literally and figuratively, a Tesla. 

Florida woman slapped with felony charge for vandalizing Tesla with ‘large wad’ of chewing gum: report https://t.co/UzkH0dGbVP pic.twitter.com/PCtCc2vrCQ

— New York Post (@nypost) March 29, 2025

In Seattle, this protest also passed as a Doo-Dah Parade.

Tesla building security watching overhead as protesters dance on the street during a #TeslaTakedown protest in Seattle pic.twitter.com/FGMexOAIit

— Lindsey Wasson 📸 (@lindseywasson) March 29, 2025

In my head as I was watching this, I was wondering where the "Springtime For Hitler" song from the Producers was playing behind them. Didn't have to wait long. 

Found the original audio… pic.twitter.com/wzdsWdNRAL

— Dave Trebas (@DTrebas) March 30, 2025

🚨 #BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem just issued a GRAVE WARNING to this man who called on others to sho*t at ICE agents, and any potential criminals who follow through.

"If you threaten or attempt to harm a law enforcement officer we will find you and prosecute you to the… https://t.co/DMVx9aZKAC pic.twitter.com/fiIUrNTVmH

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 30, 2025

But my all-time favorite in the category of dumbest protest ever has to go to these Columbia alums who are so anti-Semitic that after they've paid the money, passed the classes, and earned the diploma from one of the more elite institutions in the country, they tear it up to protest the crackdown on anti-Semitism on campus by the Trump administration. 

Pro-Palestine Columbia graduates rip up their diplomas to protest the Trump admin pic.twitter.com/hfOmrbf5OY

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 30, 2025

I'm fairly certain that show of solidarity will finally turn everyone in the country against the Jews once and for all. If you've ever wanted to see a live demonstration of the difference between someone being book smart and street smart, well, I'm not sure this video is actually going to help. If you have deluded yourself into thinking tearing up $300,000 in 2025 dollars is the way to convince others to join your cause, you are too dumb to have received the paper in the first place. You're actually weakening the judgment and prestige of the university with each rip. 

Remember this from Donald Trump's State of the Union in February, 2020? 

Speaker Pelosi tears up President Trump's speech as the president ends his State of the Union address.

“It was the courteous thing to do considering the alternative.” pic.twitter.com/Lg1pdfgyyI

— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 5, 2020

That didn't cost her $300,000. If you add up the seven people I saw in that video who tore up their diplomas, that's about $2.1 million dollars' worth of what used to be considered among the finer educational experiences in the world. 

Now take this woman in the middle, the one whose name you can read on the diploma now rend in two. Her name is Eliza Margarita Bates. Just out of morbid curiosity, I did a little digging to see what would come up about her. In 2022, as part of a Mexico-based writing residency called Under the Volcano, Ms. Bates put this up as her bio, demonstrating her fun, wit, and positive outlook on life. 

I am a chronically ill and invisibly disabled writer and communications consultant to the Left. I have worked in the labor movement almost my entire adult life, first as an organizer and now in communications strategy. I pay the bills ghost writing OpEd’s (you may have seen my writing under the names of labor union leaders in fancy outlets) and speeches, and supporting workers in telling their own stories in the press. My personal writing focuses on work and the body and is centered on disability, illness, and on finding meaning — and sometimes dark humor — when our bodies are no longer able to produce labor under capitalism. I take a lot of expensive medications to stay alive, including immunosuppressants, and I spend my free time fighting with greedy health insurance companies. I live in Brooklyn, NY, with my musician husband, my 4-year-old Batman unicorn princess boy, a very sweet pit bull, and two mean cats.

She certainly sounds like a catch, doesn't she, fellas? Too bad she's off the market. Today's left is a collection of the most humorless, soulless people on the planet. Think there's a lot of mostly peaceful thoughts going through her head? 

We're just over two months into a four-year term. If this is the energy and direction that's going to drive the Democratic Party, I'm pretty optimistic about who's going to lead the country for the foreseeable future. Today's Democratic party features prominently members of Congress like Jasmine Crockett, who seems to have a problem with people of a different race than hers. Watch this from The Breakfast Club late last week. 

Now racist Jasmine Crockett has a problem with Byron Donalds interracial marriage…

I wonder why she didn’t have a problem with Kamala being married to Doug?

She needs to be expelled from Congress.
pic.twitter.com/byK4Fl9dab

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) March 30, 2025

You know, it wasn't too long ago that on MSNBC, gaslighting about Donald Trump outlawing same sex and mixed race marriages was opined on the airwaves. Of course, that was nonsense. Crockett, a regular feature on the network, seems to genuinely have a problem with mixed race unions. I was previously under the impression that holding such a viewpoint was racist. 

The fun part about all this? It's only Monday. 85-90% chance that this column will not feature the craziest stuff said and done this week by the time we get to Friday.