Arlington, VA—On Saturday, the Tesla Takedown crew of Arlington met for their 41st Saturday in a row outside the Tesla showroom on South Glebe Road. Yes, they’ve been meeting since February 14, and they’ve managed an improbable continuous marathon of weekly protests outside CEO Elon Musk’s Tesla showroom ever since he was appointed the principal of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to dismantle government agencies.
The afternoon sun was low but the mid-November air was mild when they showed up Saturday, though some still wore jackets. The artists among the core group had collaborated the week before to create a thread of signs drawing out the grossly wasteful payment to Musk of a $1 T pay package if he met certain corporate benchmarks over the next 10 years. That’s more than the nominal gross domestic product of Switzerland and the 120 countries ranked after it.
The Tesla Takedown crew designed a giant hand made banner accompanied by a tapestry of plain black and white signs for display outside the Tesla showroom asking the question: ‘Elon, what will you do with your trillion dollar bonus?’ Several held up the big banner, while underneath it, others held signs answering the question for Musk as to what good a trillion dollars could be spent on. Pay off 25 million student loans, pay childcare costs in the US for 15 years, open 1,000 rural clinics, and fund cancer research for 138 years, were a few of the signs.
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