IL Tesla Catches Fire Driving on Highway

The opening sentence shows just how normal it has become to expect a Tesla to burst into flames.

A Tesla has caught fire while driving on an interstate, needing support from three fire departments and a hazmat team.

The interstate, Route 255 in Bethalto, Illinois, was shut down for nearly three hours as emergency responders worked to control the flames underneath the electric vehicle emerging from its lithium-ion battery.

That’s a lot of taxpayer money down the drain, not to mention critical infrastructure disruption.

Mississippi Police “Goon Squad” Pleads Guilty to Severely Torturing Black Men

Related to a Presidential candidate warning about the “bloodbath” he will unleash on America if he doesn’t win, a recent case shows Mississippi hasn’t changed much in 150 years.

“The six white deputies broke into a private home, accused two young Black men of ‘dating white women’ then proceeded to beat, taser, attack, and assault the two young victims,” Shabazz said in a news release. “The tragic melee ended when… Deputy Hunter Elward attempted to kill Michael Jenkins by shooting him in the mouth.”

In August, all six pleaded guilty to multiple felony counts at the federal courthouse downtown. Just days later, the six pleaded guilty to state charges in Rankin County Circuit Court.

They are now being sentenced. Why “goon squad“?

Some of the officers called themselves “The Goon Squad” because of their willingness to use excessive force and not report it, federal prosecutors said.

…illegally entered their home and handcuffed, kicked, waterboarded and tased them and attempted to sexually assault them over nearly two hours before one of the deputies put a gun in Jenkins’ mouth and shot him.

Apparently they saw themselves as unaccountable domestic terrorists.

It reads like something straight out of 1869 when the KKK tried to torture and kill Black men who didn’t vote Seymour for president.

In related news, Mississippi GOP candidates are almost as bad as Louisiana and Arkansas.

…Darrell Leon McClanahan III, said a picture of him apparently giving a Nazi salute was from “a religious Christian Identity Cross lighting ceremony,” not a cross burning.

Oh, wait, I forgot North Carolina too.

On the Russian social media site VKontakte, McClanahan uses the screen name Gordon Kahl. Kahl was a member of the far-right anti-government Posse Comitatus movement and Christian Identity adherent who was involved in two fatal shootouts with law enforcement in 1983.

Russia again. You mean to tell me treasonous militant racists in America lean on Russia?

So this guy tried running for Governor of a state while claiming that his Nazi salute with a burning cross was an innocent event devoid of meaning. He may as well have called it his Goon initiation ceremony.

Six less votes for him now I guess with the sentencing.

Tesla Cybertruck Engineer Begs Owners to Stop Destroying It

Update March 21:


It seems that a notoriously misleading Tesla lead engineer working on the Cybertruck product took on a PR role to request that drivers stop proving their designs a failure.

Cybertruck has lived a tortured life for entertainment … invincible! … maybe Cybertruck can roam freely on and off-road in peace?

This situation seems like a classic case of gaslighting. Is the Cybertruck an invincible white supremacist warrior seeking violent confrontation without accountability, or is it immediately suffering from contact and seeking safe spaces for solitude?

Recent tests have revealed the following:

  1. Cybertruck can’t survive loose dirt or sand
  2. Cybertruck can’t survive a small concrete wall
  3. Cybertruck can’t survive a dip in water
  4. Cybertruck can’t survive in snow
  5. Cybertruck can’t survive a bump
  6. Cybertruck shouldn’t be used for towing
  7. Cybertruck shouldn’t be exposed to moisture
  8. … Cybertruck can’t survive a road trip

This fail whale is nothing more than an embarrassment to the American truck, a sad blight on American engineering.

It’s like something Soviet Russia would have cooked up and dumped on a closed market.

FL Tesla Kills One: Child in School Zone

Presumably the Tesla was not observing the posted speed limit, given critical injuries the road robot caused to a child.

Video captured by Chopper 6 showed the scooter and teen’s helmet on the ground next to the sidewalk, with a pool of blood and notebooks scattered on the street. A red Tesla with significant damage to passenger side of the front windshield could also be seen stopped in a designated school zone area where the speed limit is 15 mph.

Significant head trauma knocking the child unconscious and the windshield damage to the robot suggests impact at over 12 mph.

Update: tragically the child has succumbed to injuries. Was the Tesla on autopilot? Will the robot manufacturer be held accountable?