I struggle to believe former Prime Minister Helen Clark thinks Elon Musk is a Nazi. That doesn’t stop her of accusing him of being one and of him advocating genocide.

Here’s her post on X on 26 January:

There’s a pattern here: first the nazi salute & now addressing an election rally of Germany’s far right party. When does this become too much even for Trump, or are there no limits now? Let’s remember that Nazi Germany was responsible for #genocide.

I can’t peer into her mind but I don’t believe that Helen Clark is stupid enough to believe what she is saying. And yet she says it nonetheless.

It’s the old communist playbook. Accuse your opponents of monstrous evil. And repeat the accusation. Endlessly.

The mob are trained to chant along. And it has worked. It hasn’t helped to say you are not a Nazi. All Nazis deny they are Nazis and denials fuels the accusation. The mob just chant louder.

Friends and supporters pull away. Potential allies are scared off: they don’t want to be similarly accused.

It’s a play that has worked well but it has been overworked and with X the responses are instant and compelling. The play has lost its sting.

Helen Clark didn’t originate the “Elon is a Nazi” accusation. She was simply a repeater of the legacy media including the New Zealand Herald. She knows her tribe. The accusation is made. She plays along, amplifying it for the mob.

No doubt the irony of her taking to X to denounce its owner was lost on her.

How crazy is it? Elon Musk invested US$44 billion in X so Helen Clark could call him a Nazi.

Elon Musk stands accused because he enthusiastically thanked Trump supporters saying his heart goes out to them and gesturing with his hand going from his heart to the crowd. That was enough. Was that a Nazi salute? Yes, it was! He’s a Nazi. Scream it from the rooftops. Fill the airwaves. Make it front page. Load up X. Pile in. Look, even former Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand says he’s a Nazi.

Helen Clark adds that Elon Musk endorses the German Party AfD which is a Conservative Party that opponents label right wing. Germany, right wing, extremist, Nazi salute, and so Helen Clark adds hashtag genocide.

Of course, Elon Musk’s actual crime is switching his support to Trump. The attack on Musk is to get at Trump. Elon is just collateral.

Think about that. Our former Prime Minister is calling the world’s greatest entrepreneur a Nazi as a way of attacking the President of the United States. Her post on X makes the motive clear.

She doesn’t care about the damage or recklessness of her post: her target is Trump. Her ends justify her means and any pain and hurt are just necessary collateral damage.

It’s nasty.

The very day before Helen Clark declared Musk a Nazi, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to X to defend Elon saying, “Elon is a great friend of Israel” and that he is “being falsely smeared”.

That’s a strong signal that Elon is not a Nazi.

Meanwhile Helen Clark supports UNRWA, calls for a ceasefire and demands a two-state solution. She is no friend of Israel.

As Elon Musk noted on X, “The radical leftists are really upset that they had to take time out of their busy day praising Hamas to call me a Nazi”.

Boom!

The perfect answer. On the perfect medium.

How great is X? The world’s greatest businessman, the Prime Minister of Israel, and the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, in their own words, instantly delivered to us.

There was a time that the mainstream media could clip and frame Elon Musk as a Nazi. But no more. We can all see what he actually said on X. And his reply.

If you are taking your news from the legacy media, you are being misled.

X is the media now.

Helen Clark has a big audience with 226,000 followers. Elon Musk has a bigger one at 215 million.

The New Zealand Herald and the New York Times are irrelevant.

The X posts: