ELON GOES THERE - WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT?

We’ve been here before. A century ago, a man who revolutionized an industry, and as a result gained both social and political as well as economic power, used his position to introduce America to “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” In a 1931 interview, Adolf Hitler said the man was a “mentor” to him who had clarified his understanding of the threat posed by the Jews. In addition to a car factory, the man also owned a newspaper all his own, in which he could have published everything he wanted America to know.

The man was Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, which revolutionized car production and put ownership of an automobile within reach of average Americans, who revolutionized industrial relations when he announced he was paying his workers a guaranteed $5 per day, more than any other company in America, period. He said he was doing it so that te men who made his cars could afford to buy and own one. He was also the most notorious anti-Semite in America. Much of “Mein Kampf” was lifted directly - word for word - from articles published in Ford’s newspaper, The Dearborn Independent; in the first edition, that book’s author lauded Ford by name. In 1924, when ford mooted the thought of runnihng for President, Adolf Hitler considered sending some of his “astorm troopers” to America to aid the campaign.

Last night - a century after Ford - this generation’s Henry Ford promoted the same conspiracy theory on X, the social media site he owns.

The incident began when a conservative Jewish user of X posted a complaint about the increase in anti-Semitic content appearing on social media since the beginning of the current Gaza conflict. “To the cowards hiding behind the anonymity of the internet and posting ‘Hitler was right,’ You got something you want to say? Why don’t you say it to our faces.”

A minor white-nationalist account quickly responded, attributing this growth in anti-Semitism to minorities, blaming it on the Jews: “Jewish commun[i]ties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them. I’m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that [they] support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much. You want truth said to your face, there it is.”

Within 30 minutes, the small-time exchange between a conservative Jew no one knew and a white supremacist no one knew became an issue of international import when the man everyone knew, the owner of X, decided to weigh in, posting on the thread and to his alleged “63 million followers: “You have said the actual truth.”

Things can move quickly on social media. It took little more than an hour for the 21st Century’s Henry Ford to realize his six-word post was doing some really profound damage to his already dented reputation. He decided he would straighten out everyone’s misconception of what he meant about the perfidy of Jews by posting that he was only referring to the Anti-Defamation League.

That lasted a whole five minutes, until another critic posted that it was “not fair to say or truthful to say that ‘Jewish communities’ promote dialectical hatred towards white.” Our 21st Century Henry Ford replied: “You right that this does not extend to all Jewish communities, but it is also not just limited to ADL.”

That post is not a critique of Benjamin Netanyahu or Israeli government policy; it promotes no deep thoughts about the desperate need of a two-state solution.

That, in case you don’t know what it is, is exactly the same raw, undiluted anti-Semitism one could find any day in The Dearborn Independent.

Elon Musk, “unreconstructed” Afrikaner white supremacist, heir to a dodgy family fortune founded on participation in Apartheid South Africa’s dodgy African wars that allowed the Musk family access to “conflict gems” and “blood diamonds, has a long history of walking up to the line with dog-whistle rhetoric about Jewish people, particularly billionaire George Soros, who incurred the Wrath of Musk this past May when he sold his Tesla stock, saying that he no longer wanted to be associated with Musk or make money from his businesses.

This is the same Elon Musk who promoted an anti-Semitic X account that promoted debunked videos justifying the October 7 Hamas terror attack, saying the videos were “ reliable sources of information.” It took three days before he deleted that posting in the face of a substantial public pushback.

Our “Edge Lord” realized by yesterday morning that he had crossed what was an invisible red line even in his world. Backtracking, he insisted that, of course, "the mass murder of Jews is unacceptable to any reasonable person.” I suppose he expected to be thanks for demonstrating he is an awfully reasonable. The problem is that he is. Awfully. Reasonable.

If you have to go through all that to find your inner liberal humanitarian, you are, by definition, awful. An awful person.

But then after that, within 30 minutes he lashed out again at the Anti-Defamation League and “any other groups who push de-facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind.”

Yes, Elon Musk is the 21st Century Henry Ford. Great wealth and profound ignorance are often found hand in hand. Unfortunately, the real American religion is the belief that great wealth bestows virtue. Many slavering predators with the blood of thousands if not millions on their grasping hands have been portrayed in the American Myth as laudable prototypes, the embodiment of Horatio Alger and his unquenchable belief that if he worked hard and acted as an honorable man should, that wealth and virtue would be his. For many twisted reasons, Americans seem to enjoy listening to these proofs that there is no connection whatsoever between the brain and the bank account.

Personally, I think we all should consider what George Soros did last May. He excised Musk from his life. He refused to do business with a disreputable scumbag.

“BOYCOTT TESLA!” should become a public campaign. Musk has demonstrated repeatedly that it is easy to get his attention when he thinks you are threatening his bank account.

Ask the next Yuppie you see climbing out of their tinny toy whether they’re comfortable giving money to a Nazi.

BOYCOTT MUSK!!

I don’t know why anyone who is not a white supremacist, a neo-nazi, a Trump-loving election denier, a right wing traitor, a fascist moron, still uses X. The proper name for that place is Xitter, which is properly pronounced “shitter.” It’s time to get off it. “Access” is not a valid argument for staying in a stinking fascist-friendly swamp. Make Elon the Chief Xitter.

Our side is supposed to represent the moral high ground. That means No. More. Elon.

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