What would Walt Disney do after seeing Elon Musk trying to normalize Nazism year after year?
We need not speculate, given this masterpiece from 1943.
The studio said their picture came from a rather pointed song, as relevant today as it was then:
When Elon Musk says, ‘Wie ist der AfD in a race’,
We HEIL! (phhht!) HEIL! (phhht!) Right in Elon Musk’s face!
Not’seeing love for AfD is a great disgrace, so
We HEIL! (phhht!) HEIL! (phhht!) Right in Elon Musk’s face!
Disney pictures were such comedy gold that “Donald in Nutziland” won them an Oscar.
The deep and long-standing Nazi affinity of Tesla’s CEO has hardly been subtle – from the Nazis rallying around him, to Tesla’s extensively documented racist work environment, to the Nazi merchandise, to Twitter’s swastika rebranding that I pointed out way back in 2023 on day one, to an unmistakable pattern of Heil Hitler salutes (e.g. repeatedly using number “88” in Tesla docs and discussion).
That it took this public Nazi salute on a 2025 federal political rally stage for some to finally notice? A bit late, folks.
The comedians were right all along.
If only we had a Walt Disney here today being ordered to rouse public consciousness against fascism.
As Musk’s shadow lengthens, invoking his grandfather’s failed white supremacist global domination dreams, perhaps humor remains our most potent resistance to the millions of Swasticars being amassed into Nazi madness.
[Elon’s mother and family] came to South Africa from Canada because they sympathised with the Afrikaner government. They used to support Hitler and all that sort of stuff.
Meanwhile, Canada and Greenland are being marked for emergency Lebensraum. Will they be carved up in backroom deals and invaded by powers brandishing AI data center expansion plans, their fate echoing 1938 Poland?
Related: While I obviously never studied comedy, history is forever the key to accurately seeing and forecasting Nazism. I did earn a graduate degree in that from the London School of Economics (LSE), and was honored to be their 2024 commencement speaker based on my decades of security leadership in tech. And on that note Elon Musk just made a surprise appearance at a German AfD ultra extremist hate rally – a group so extreme their leaders have been jailed for Nazism and French fascists walked away to distance themselves – that he wants to erase history to enable the Nazi return to power.
Sing it with me now:
When Elon Musk says, ‘Wie ist der AfD in a race’,
We HEIL! (phhht!) HEIL! (phhht!) Right in Elon Musk’s face!
Not’seeing love for AfD is a great disgrace, so
We HEIL! (phhht!) HEIL! (phhht!) Right in Elon Musk’s face!