"Tesla Terrorism,"
March 27 Hits & Misses
I had to re-read Katharine Biele's "Tesla Terrorism" bit to make sure I wasn't seeing things.

Just when I thought liberals—and I used to be one, when they were sane—couldn't get more frightening, here they are openly cheering on violence.Smashing Tesla dealerships? "Activism." Walking through the Capitol? "Domestic terrorism." You can't make this up.

January 6 was a psyop, crafted by the media precisely so that the Bieles of the world can justify any and all behavior against President Donald Trump and his supporters. No one was injured except the Trump supporter who died—Ashli Babbitt, gunned down in cold blood.

But now the same brainwashed NPCs who clutched their pearls over a glorified tour of the Capitol are celebrating real destruction. And for what? Because Elon Musk, at great personal expense, is taking on the bloated, corrupt government siphoning this country dry?

This state-approved hypocrisy is a bit much, even for Biele.
MARIO RUIZ
Salt Lake City

Signs of Dissent
A couple things surprised me about the "Hands Off" rally at the Utah State Capital on April 5. First, the size of the crowd. It grew from large, to very large, to huge. The rally crowd was possibly bigger than the crowd at the first day of April Conference jamming into the LDS Conference Center a few blocks away.

Second, the mainstream nature of the crowd. I expected to find a mix of longhair leftwing anarchists, college students, hippy-druggies, minorities, Arabs, college professors, LGTBQIA+ activists. The actual mixture was more housewives with girlfriends, families, old folks, working professionals, small business owners, church-going people, union members, most as white as the snow still hugging the mountains.

If I wasn't such an ignorant and misguided human being, I might even venture to say this rally was a political party shift in the making in Utah. Are some MAGA Republicans actually finding some other faith to believe in?

One cute sign carried around by a large, churchy young family said, "It's so bad, even the Latter-Day Saints are here today." Others read, "El Salvador is the new Auschwitz," "Orange lies matter," "I'm tariff-ied," "The only fraud at SSA is Elon" and "Not a paid protester."

Also, "No kings, dictators, Russian assets," "The power of the people is greater than the people in power," "I could be illegal" (carried by a white businessman-type guy), "This is not a drill, it's a coup," "T-RUMP MUSK GO," "Lincoln never said, 'Of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires'" and "Delete DOGE."

Still others, "Evil wins when good people remain silent," "Save democracy from broligarchs," "My ebooks have more spine than the GOP," "Foxtrot, Delta, Tango," "Red Don," "Stop looking left and right, start looking up," "Trump deserves an extra term ... in prison," "Our future is not for sale" (held by a teenager protesting alone), "Congress, do something," "Tax wealth, not work."

In other words, this was a homemade, grassroots demonstration of displeasure with the current administration. It didn't hurt that American investors had just lost $6.6 trillion in the stock market the previous week.
KIMBALL SHINKOSKEY
Woods Cross

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