Proud boys and militias come to the defense of Tesla

During the weekend, thousands of people joined the “Tesla Takedown” protest movement in society’s exhibition halls across the country. At the same time, a much smaller number of Elon Musk supporters turned out to be in Tesla’s locations for a counterproSet movement that some participants have nicknamed “Tesla Shield”.

Although the protest movement understands the angry people against the role of Elon Musk in the dismantling of federal government agencies, the counter-protection movement which arose this weekend was mainly populated by the supporters of Maga. Among them, there were a range of extremists from the far right, including members of proud boys, armed militias, and during an event in Idaho, a guy disguised as Hitler.

While the so-called Department of Government’s Effectiveness (DOGE) of Musk tears the great expanses of the federal government and puts the lives and the livelihoods of people in danger, Tesla’s protest movement has gained ground. Tesla’s equity price has dropped more than 30% since the start of the year. Isolated incidents of vandalism against the vehicles and chargers of Tesla as well as the concessionaires led Trump to push the Ministry of Justice to deal with the so-called violent demonstrators such as “domestic terrorists”, and now certain extremist groups have taken on themselves to help rinse.

“My people will be free, my people will reign again,” shouted David Pettinger, a member of the extremist group of the rights of antigan -government people, shouted demonstrators in a false German accent outside a Tesla dealer in Meridian, Idaho on Saturday, according to video images of the incident.

A mustache pettinger wore a t-shirt with the words “literally Hitler” written on the back and a photo of musk giving a Nazi salute on the front. Bearing jodhpurs and black boots, Pettinger walked in front of demonstrators and distributed heart -shaped stickers to musk supporters.

Pettinger told Wired that he got dressed in Hitler to “make fun of the terms of terms Nazi And fascist. “However, Pettinger’s articles on X Echo Hitler have deeply anti -Semitic the vision of the world.

According to the images of the counterpotest, a certain number of armed individuals also carried a certain number of armed people in images of the counterpotott published on Bluesky. Pettinger also seemed armed, according to video sequences showing a handgun nest in his jodhpurs.

Meanwhile, Josh Fulfer, who is known online under the name of Oreo Express and was at the American Capitol in Washington on January 6, joined a group of counterpotest in Fresno, California, saying to a local media: “We are here to show its support for Doge, Elon Musk, Tesla and this administration.” Fulfer can be seen on his own harassing and shouting videos to demonstrators.

Before Tesla’s demonstrations at Tesla withdrawn this weekend, proud boys and other far-right groups have put calls on their social media channels so that supporters appear in number and contradict the demonstrations.

A quasi-all of the dealers who had demonstrations this weekend, however, the number of anti-musc demonstrators was much more numerous than the pro-Musque demonstrators.