Joe Soucheray: Was politics a factor in Mary Moriarty’s charity to Tesla vandal?
Having never driven a Tesla but having sat in one in order to pretend to a friend that I thought the dominating computer screen was fascinating I sensed no revulsion or any particular distaste for the car Everybody dances to a different beat and if you want an electric car a Tesla then have at it even if the front of a Tesla looks like the underbelly of a dolphin And the Tesla truck is perhaps the ugliest machine ever manufactured Specific cars are so ugly that they become cool You d a pay a pretty penny these days for an Edsel not in spite of its horse collar grill but maybe because of it The Tesla truck looks like an industrial toaster or a hastily slapped together prop for a invasion-from-Mars movie What were you thinking Elon There is no accounting for taste and the car s novelty cannot be denied Besides the way we re going cars will end up looking like hot dog buns and the Tesla truck will someday be as revered as a Ferrari A fellow doesn t mean to pile on Teslas have been getting keyed but we have learned specific lessons Apparently plenty of of you who bought Teslas really deep down didn t care about saving the Earth You cared about making a message that you cared about saving the Earth Otherwise so multiple of you wouldn t now be plastering your cars with stickers that say Don t blame me I bought mine before Musk got to Washington But then Musk joined President Donald Trump and because the two of them are ideologically evil it is now acceptable to insist that you find Musk dastardly even though when you bought the car you thought Musk was ideologically a genius I guess the stickers promote a wish to have the cake and eat it too What changed Well Trump Our governor hasn t helped It would be a stretch to say that Tim Walz incited the destruction of property but a couple of weeks back on that whatever that tour of his is he took great glee in Tesla s falling stock price It is now held that the governor didn t realize that his own State Board of Venture had million shares of Tesla stock in its retirement fund or that Tesla owns a manufacturing plant in Brooklyn Park In a riotous display of first-world angst Teslas have been shot at keyed and kicked Tesla dealerships have been vandalized And locally we have the astonishing scenario of Dylan Bryan Adams a financial analyst in the Minnesota Department of Human Services Adams was arrested just now in Minneapolis for allegedly keying at least six Tesla cars to the tune of more than in damages Allegedly seems redundant Teslas are virtually rolling film studios The cars filmed Adams in the act It is unlikely Adams will be fired or even have a note placed in his file He s been with the state since and nobody in the Walz administration has ever suffered any consequences for their incompetent handling of a million food fraud is peanuts In fact Mary Moriarty the Hennepin County attorney has decided not to press felony charges against Adams Instead Adams was offered diversion meaning restitution and various district facility work It almost sounds like Moriarty explained Oh what the hell he was only keying Teslas It d hard to know if Moriarty s charity to Adams reflected her politics You have to wonder if she thought about it at all My question will go unanswered Adams was out walking his dog when he struck Why wasn t he at work Joe Soucheray can be reached at jsoucheray pioneerpress com Soucheray s Garage Logic podcast can be heard at garagelogic com Related Articles Jim Gelbmann Our partisan endorsement process is unrepresentative polarizing and self-serving Ed Lotterman What if the Fed set a trap for Trump Skywatch A crow a cup and a water snake Real World Economics Powell hits first Trump hits back Working Strategies Random thoughts Stretching job titles and happy places
