The MSM has been getting into a furore over the US Department of Justice classing the burning of Teslas as 'domestic terrorism'.

NPR reported:

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement Thursday:

"The days of committing crimes without consequence have ended," Bondi said. "Let this be a warning: if you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars."

And:

"It's absolutely domestic terrorism. I know that may discomfort many people. But vandalism is a crime that if it's committed with a political motive, can certainly be defined as terrorism," says Bruce Hoffman, senior fellow for counterterrorism and homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the co-author of the forthcoming book, God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America.

Some in the MSM are trying to pooh-pooh the hoohah claiming this is just vandalism. So let's unpack that a little.

Vandalism is when someone goes through a car park, randomly scratching cars with a key, presumably for kicks.

When someone picks particular car makes to scratch, such as Porsches, it's likely to be motivated vandalism - in other words motivated by something specific such as envy or maybe anti-German sentiment.

When someone uses a molotov cocktail to set fire to Tesla EVs that are made by a company run by Elon Musk who is linked to President Trump, it's probable that this kind of vandalism is politically motivated - although it's by no means clear what the political motivation of the perpetrator actually is.

Maybe they don't like EVs or Serbians or people with lots of kids but most likely they don't like Musk or Trump or both of them.

So while it may not be terrorism, it's cerrtainly one of those 'hate crimes' we are told are on the rise everywhere and usually blamed on 'extreme right' perpetrators - people who are highly likely to support Musk and Trump.

Only this time the hate is not directed at Muslims or Jews or migrants etc but a man whose American businesses lead the world in AI, EVs and space travel, so apparently that's different.

Anyway, it can't be a hate crime as who in their right mind hates visionaries trying to take humanity to Mars?

Who indeed.