JP Davy

Web Developer & IT Manager. Husband to @Goody2shoez, father, coffee lover. IT, Woodworking, Tesla, and Porsche enthusiast.

[JP Davy @divtag_it]

Got these sweet new tires on my Tesla. The coolest part: they GLOW IN THE DARK!! Tron mode!

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

(Warning: long rant)

My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue.

I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues.

Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious.

And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left.

Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly.

I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and—absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine—you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own.

Here are the facts:

Fact 1. Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman—a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter—stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over.

Fact 2. Two days later, tens of millions of Americans watched a video of Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family. Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept.

Fact 3. Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man get shot in the neck, these same people logged onto Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, school teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it, but cheering it.

These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are nevertheless factual statements.

Here’s what it means for you, the Democrats reading this:

These normal, middle-of-the-road, non-political citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics. After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families—the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not.

These people are now sprinting—not jogging, not walking, but racing—to the right. Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened.

When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice.

They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends—their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges—and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter bullshit.

And they blame you. Because, even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their family’s safety.

When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who (1) calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and (2) constantly jokes—“jokes”—about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.”

They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin. They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep.

And they blame you. Because, even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social-media struggle sessions has now turned to 30-06 bullet holes.

When these Americans log onto social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst. These people—whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve—start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person.

And they blame you. Because, even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them.

For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but bullshit.

In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post bullshit statistics about reductions in reported crime, when everyone who’s ever been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, only for victims not to waste their time reporting it to cops that don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors that seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanor citations.

In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but bullshit whataboutism.

> “What about January 6th?” (Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares anymore.)

> “What about Mike Lee making a dumb joke on Twitter about some guy in a mask in Minnesota?” (No one outside of Utah, DC, or Twitter knows who Mike Lee even is.)

> “What about Paul Pelosi?” (That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. And, again, Paul who?)

> “What about regulations on assault rifles?” (That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.)

In response to teachers, healthcare workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more bullshit and misdirection.

> “It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” (Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.)

> “I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” (We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs—especially their taxpayer-funded jobs—for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.)

All bullshit. Not even smart bullshit, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ bullshit. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells.

You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it.

Because I’m right, and, as you reflect on this, you know I’m right. The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members this week. We have a mandate to ensure these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do.

If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

Apple's new UI doesn't feel real.

Why would you make it more difficult to use your phone by making it harder to read/see?

Apple is on this very weird trend to make their products HARDER to use - they used to be the opposite.

Apple Intelligence has made notifications and Siri WORSE. And now this UI change.

Really, really strange. Their M-series laptops are incredible, Apple watch is useful, and Airpods work extremely well.

But they need to be extremely careful.

If they don't reverse course on the direction they're taking with their phones, and that leaks onto their other products, I'm afraid people will begin making the switch away from the Apple ecosystem.

You can't abuse the stickiness of the ecosystem. Yes - it's incredibly difficult to switch, but if you're making me think about it, imagine how bad your products have gotten.

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

I’ve been impressed with Trump’s restraint and disappointed with Elon’s, now that it’s become clear the whole Epstein thing was an emotional outburst.

I’ve also been impressed with Elon’s principled stance and disappointed with Trump’s.

Trump’s admin and the GOP were voted in to deal with America’s horrific financial situation.

There isn’t enough being done to address this. You can claim that taxes from a booming economy will offset spending. Doesn’t matter - spending is still going up.

Congress cannot continue to pass the buck down to later generations to deal with a growing government budget, and put the burden on the private sector to carry them.

You are essentially asking citizens to buck up and work harder so we can give more money to a completely broken and inefficient system.

This is the real issue. Trump is supposed to be a hammer. The reality is that he’s much closer to the swamp than he sells himself as.

As much as Elon looks like an idiot for deleting the Epstein shit, in the end, he’s 100% correct.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

These guys don't understand each other.

Elon Musk is too guileless. He says exactly what he thinks is true with little regard for how others will react. He alienates allies by airing disputes in public instead of settling them behind closed doors.

Because he is a sperg engineer who leads companies of sperg engineers, and to do this, you must be 100% truthful and transparent.

Donald Trump is too guileful. He says exactly what will advance his plans with little regard for telling people what he actually thinks. He alienates allies by expecting their unconditional support without sharing any aspect of his strategic plans with them.

Because he is a New York real estate developer, who thrives on winning negotiations and gaining advantage from unshared knowledge, and to do this, you must be 100% calculating and opaque.

Here's what happened.

Musk worked super hard, and took great personal risks, to get a head start on balancing the federal budget. He correctly believes that federal spending is an existential risk to the nation.

Trump regards those savings as a political asset.

And, since he lacks leverage in congress, he took them and traded them for other things he wanted, apparently dealing with border control, the courts, etc... problems which he correctly believes are an existential threat to the nation.

He may have concrete plans for balancing the federal budget in the future, but, frustratingly, he won't tell his own team what they are.

Trump could have squared this in advance with Musk, in private, but he appears to either have assumed his loyalty (treating an ally like a subordinate), or been unable to persuade him.

Likewise, Musk could have raised his complaints in private, but either he was too upset to try, or was not able to reach an agreement when he did.

Trump doesn't understand how to deal with spergs. You have to tell them the truth, not expect them to read subtext. They refuse to read subtext. They want to be spoken to honestly.

Musk doesn't understand how to deal with Machiavellians. They think of language as a power tool, and think of those who insist on truth as naive.

Both men are used to being in charge, and are used to dealing with subordinates, who must cater to their preferred style of communicating.

They are both therefore uniquely unsuited to having both the patience and the capability to speak the other's language.

The truth is that both the federal budget and the federal bureaucracy are existential threats to America. Maximum priority.

Trump's concerns about the "art of the possible" are probably valid, but Musk's sense of urgency should not be dismissed lightly.

It is churlish to leverage the superior strengths and talents of people on the autism spectrum while making zero allowances for their unique needs.

That said, spergs can be frustratingly dogmatic, even when they aren't the richest and most successful man in the world.

A few other things to notice:

The democrats have said nothing. That's because there are no democrats. They have no independent intellectuals, only paid schills.

A response will not be forthcoming until the wholly organic grassroots PR committees have met, and the wholly grassroots talking heads have been cut a wholly organic grassroots check.

There's also a strong case to be made for Team Nothing Ever Happens. Remember that Musk will sometimes shut up when he calms down, and Trump has no problem calling someone the Antichrist one day and working with him the next.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

The saddest, most shocking reply of the year from Elon.

Essentially confirming what I already feared.

The GOP not codifying the DOGE cuts has convinced Elon to give up on saving America from bankruptcy.

They burned their strongest ally and last hope towards America’s solvency.

[JP Davy @divtag_it]

@niccruzpatane https://t.co/2aHuF8nizQ

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

Dear Congress,

You serve the people—not yourselves.

You seem to have forgotten this. We haven't.

Sincerely,
America

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Put simply:

Before anyone is pardoned for a crime or crimes, shouldn’t the crime(s) be disclosed to the American people?

I understand that the power to pardon is enshrined in the Constitution, but where in the Constitution does it say that the crime that is pardoned shall remain undisclosed to the American people?

The requirement that the crimes be disclosed before they are pardoned should be made law. There is nothing in the Constitution of which I am aware that prevents this requirement for transparency from being made law.

Why would anyone oppose such a law?

Constitutional scholars please put forth your views on this issue.

[Matt Couch @RealMattCouch]

This is a MF Mic Drop!!!! Well said Congressman!

[JP Davy @divtag_it]

Expose the crimes to sunlight. Don’t let those in government continue in secrecy, even if they can’t be sentenced.

[Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza]

If Biden issues preemptive pardons, I say: prosecute them anyway! Put them through the ordeal of a trial. Ruin them financially. The pardon erases the sentence; it does not prevent the process of getting to a conviction. Moreover trials are a showcase for exposing crimes!

[JP Davy @divtag_it]

@ianmiles Reminds me of the car from the SNL cartoon the Ambiguously Gay Duo.

[eve @eveforamerica]

Wow Wow Wow

A must listen.

[JP Davy @divtag_it]

I’m channeling my inner Ron Swanson: giddy at the thought of do-nothing, overbearing government agencies being gutted.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Let that sink in

[JP Davy @divtag_it]

@JenniferSey She desperately tries to speak as if she has profoundly deep thoughts, but she ends up sounding like a character from The Simpsons. She’s a real life caricature of people who call themselves Thought Leaders.

[JP Davy @divtag_it]

The Optimus robots being teleoperated seems totally on par with how Tesla works. Think about how our current Teslas gather data: with a human operating the vehicle. The learning comes from watching a human do it, many times over.

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

Underrated tidbits from Tesla Robotaxi event:

Letting Tesla Bot out in the wild amongst the public, even if teleoperated, implies Tesla is comfortable with liability, specifically regarding movement of the bot. This means they've largely solved the movement problem. Now it's largely a brain (AI) problem, not dissimilar from their fleet.

Also - there were a decent number of bots out there, and the design looked quite advanced. I think Tesla's moved away from prototype and into alpha testing. They are comfortable with what they have for large-scale manufacturing, and any upgrades - most importantly the hand - could be as easy as yank the old hand and forearm out, plug the new one in.

The leverage of teleoperated bots is obvious - even if you have a basic AI that can throw you an error when it has failed a task, a human can beam in and continue the work. You can probably increase leverage by 3x - at least. 1 human per 3 bots or something. This feels disruptive. I think teleoperation is a feature, and it will be how Tesla will gather data.

Tesla didn't say a peep about much rumored compact car - this means two things. Either they are not making it and we need to move on, even if they teased something like it in the quarterly earnings report... or they are making it and are solidly waiting for start of mass production.

Also - is the Cybercab design the compact car but without steering wheel and pedals? It is very interesting that the design of Cybercab is still "car" shaped, and not the monstrosity (I say that lovingly) of the Robovan. You wouldn't want the compact car to look too futuristic, or too out there, since it would be selling into the largest TAM in auto.

Also, the body of Robotaxi is clearly not stainless steel, but it could be a brushed or some sort of polished e-coat. e-coat is the layer manufacturers put on a car before paint goes on to protect the metal.

In order to save money on the paint shop, it would be hilarious if Tesla simply takes the ecoated parts, and then puts a protective layer on the car that can bypass the creation of the paint shop. Wouldn't put it past them.

Robovan is insane. I cannot believe that they are actually gonna make that thing. The more I think about it the more excited I get about its implications. RV life will change forever. Party buses. Transport of goods. High density urban travel.

Wild.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Just received this note from a SpaceX engineer helping on the ground in North Carolina.

@FEMA is not merely failing to adequately help people in trouble, but is actively blocking citizens who try to help!

“Hey Elon, update here on site of Asheville, NC. We have powered up two large operating bases for choppers to deliver goods into hands. We’ve deployed 300+ starlinks and outpour is it has saved many lives.

The big issue is FEMA is actively blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away to state they are their own. It’s very real and scary how much they have taken control to stop people helping. We are blocked now on the shipments of new starlinks coming in until we get an escort from the fire dept. but that may not be enough.”

[JP Davy @divtag_it]

Learning as I go!

[JP Davy @divtag_it]

@SawyerMerritt Go ahead and use mine. I love that Tesla brought this back! https://t.co/2aHuF8mKKi