Who showed up to defend Tesla? The Proud Boys, armed militias, and at one event in Idaho, and a guy dressed as Hitler.

[applegrove]

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Guess who showed up to defend Tesla? The Proud Boys, armed militias, and at one event in Idaho, and a guy dressed as Hitler.

More on the "Tesla Takedown" protests here:

[Maru Kitteh]

1. Well, if you are looking for a community w/citizens likely to have Hitler costumes on hand . .

Idaho is a pretty good place to start.

[newdeal2]

2. Tesla brand is trash

If you walk into a Tesla dealership now, you know exactly who you’re supporting.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Civil war is coming...the attacks on Tesla were orchestrated by musk, obviously

[yellow dahlia]

5. I am concerned that instigators are in place to promote civil war.

[dem4decades]

4. I'm sure the Proud Boys drove there in their Teslers.

[OldBaldy1701E]

11. The irony, right?

Defending a billionaire who makes cars that they will never be able to afford.

(Idiots.)

[PatSeg]

12. And would never drive even if they could afford them

They're just hankering for a fight and usually they don't even care what they're fighting about.

[UTUSN]

6. K&R

[flvegan]

7. I don't see a bunch of gun toting nazis as being conducive to selling cars.

Lord Wankpanzer, I don't think this is the look you really wanted here.

Shitty CEO of a shitty car company defended by a bunch of otherwise shitty people. Sounds about right.

[AStern]

8. Come now. People need to stop looking down on Nazis. This is why Democrats lose.

[central scrutinizer]

9. They're going to have to sell a lot of meth

To buy one of those cyber-dumpsters.

[Gore1FL]

10. A bunch of armed people at a protest really brought in the business... Nt

[JI7]

13. Why don't they actually buy them ?

[jmowreader]

28. You can't roll coal in those things

[Marie Marie]

14. Oh goody. You just know these fools have been all dressed up and waiting

to show up and play tough guys somewhere - anywhere .Now they can scrape their pennies from Mom's sofa cushions together, buy a Cybertruck and pretend that they own an actual armored tank - until the exterior panels start flying off.

[louis-t]

15. It is the proud boys that will eventually

shoot protesters in the legs. If they are arrested at all, tsf will pardon them. It's getting really scary.

[orangecrush]

18. He can pardon them

But he can't protect them if they start shooting people.

They can bet their candy little asses on that.

[hadEnuf]

19. Shoot back.

[hibbing]

16. Corporate bootlicking is so edgy n/t

[Skittles]

17. IOW, the usual suspects

[ILikePie92]

20. SA

The proud boys, militias, etc....are Trumps modern version of Hitlers' Sturm Abeilung or SA......the brown shirts. They're the violence distributing arm of the MAGAs.

[BidenRocks]

21. If one of those fucks get shot,

the rest will run!
Think Ashley Babbit. FAFO!
A dead coward. She never would have been there if not for chumps bullshit!

[multigraincracker]

22. He says the uneducated and billionaires are his base.

They don’t look like billionaires.

[FakeNoose]

23. 'Memba them? This was from a few years ago ... before all the arrests & convictions...

Their fannies spell out "F-U-C-K--A-N-T-I-F-A"

Clever guys, huh?

[FoxNewsSucks]

24. Actually, compared to most MAGAts, those are their geniuses.

[oasis]

25. Buffoon's battered booties. Brilliant!!!

[dchill]

26. Where's the birdshot?

[CentralMass]

27. Rock salt.