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Georgetown, Washington DC—A Saturday morning drive along M Street in Georgetown would find one passing the Tesla Takedown dancing crew. For the 43rd consecutive week, they’ve been trolling Elon Musk’s Tesla electric vehicle company by wearing costumes and dancing. The DJ spins well-known disco hits from the bygone disco era while dozens spin and shake their hips outside the Tesla showroom. Their dance is a joyous resistance to Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the trigger of a wave of destruction within government agencies and firings of thousands of federal workers.

Over the past 10 months they’ve created space where residents, shoppers, and tourists heed their call to resistance by joining their dance troupe. The Georgetown community has grown used their weekly presence outside the Tesla showroom every Saturday from 11-1.

On February 15, early this year, the Georgetown Tesla Takedown dancers began their continuous run when three locals decided they had to do something about the takedown of government agencies and join the social media campaign to protest Elon Musk’s DOGE government takeover. And they thought in order to make it welcoming they had to make it fun. And ever since then they’ve created a space where anyone can easily join in, not feel intimidated by a sense of conflict that newcomers typically feel when going to their first protest, and give them a reason to look forward to returning.

The first few months DC Metropolitan Police were always parked nearby on M Street or across the street keeping an eye on them. Why police? Well, one can never know what to expect from joyful citizens dressed in retro disco disguises, or wearing taco costumes, having fun dancing outside a Tesla showroom. They may do the unthinkable. In fact they did a few times. They served free bean tacos (Trump Always Chickens Out) with hot-sauce and plenty of cold beverages one Saturday. Police didn’t accept an invitation to dance or enjoy any of the hot bean tacos. Eventually DC police realized there was no threat and stopped showing up on Saturdays altogether. There just wasn’t that much danger from those fighting fascism by dancing outside the Tesla showroom. Besides there was a backlog of real cases needing cracking elsewhere. And that’s why Trump said he was calling up the National Guard to the nation’s capital, to fight a “crime wave.”

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