Musk to Unions: The Nazis Are Coming
How Elon Musk’s DOGE logo is not a dogwhistle, it’s a slap in the face
Last week, the man currently rummaging around in our personal information, firing hundreds of thousands of workers, and embarrassing America on the world stage, posted this logo for “DOGE” — an odd cartoonish thing that I originally dismissed.
But a friend pointed something out which is very important. Note the golden wheel.
Here’s a comparison of the logo and a short clip from a documentary about the Nazis.
The German Labour Front was the Nazi replacement for the trade unions that Hitler dissolved completely in 1933. Here was their logo, complete with 14 teeth, the same as the DOGE logo.
Consider that we are less than one month after Trump was inaugurated. This is how they treated unions in Nazi Germany. The German Labour Front was a division of the NSDAP. This is what the golden gear represents:
As early as March 1933, two months after Hitler was appointed Chancellor, the Sturmabteiling began to attack trade union offices without legal consequences. Several union offices were occupied, their furnishings were destroyed, their documents were stolen or burned, and union members were beaten and in some cases killed; the police ignored these attacks and declared itself without jurisdiction.These early attacks occurred at random, carried out spontaneously by rank-and-file Nazis motivated by a desire to destroy Marxism, and the Nazi Party leadership only implemented a general policy in May. On 2 May, 1933, trade union headquarters throughout Germany were occupied, their funds were confiscated, and the unions were officially abolished and their leaders arrested. Many union leaders were beaten and sent to concentration camps, including some who had previously agreed to cooperate with the Nazis.
The number 14 has significance to American National Socialist movements because it represents the “14 words” — the most famous neo-Nazi slogan, written by white supremacist terrorist David Lane:
“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”
Yesterday when Trump quoted Napoleon, Elon Musk chose 14 flags to celebrate it.
On the DOGE logo there are 8 stars above the cartoon, and 8 stars on the flag inside the gear. This is another National Socialist signal. It means Heil Hitler. Musk has used this signal numerous times, in addition to quite literally doing two Hitler salutes at the inauguration.
Elon Musk is daring the world to acknowledge what he is. He is daring unions, or government workers, or the press to stop him. It’s almost as if the corporate media and public is too embarrassed to simply call a Nazi, a Nazi.
We should be embarrassed. Say the quiet parts or die regretting you didn’t.
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Jim, brilliant decoding of the Nazi references in DOGE, which is really the 'Department of Government ELIMINATION'. This regime is so much worse than I feared, and I knew what they planned through Project 2025.
Before the election I never envisioned Musk being the real power behind the throne, with an agenda to completely dismantle the government. In my naivety I thought tRump would merely wreak havoc via the Republican majorities in Congress, and not bypass them completely.
Thank you for your keen eye on the symbolism and fascist underpinnings of this new Amerikan fascism. May we all prevail against it!
Neo-Nazis, those that have money to throw around, must have a field day on that site. Out of curiosity, I looked up that flag, and I think the description of it, and what it was used for is also relevant to Musk using the same sort of logo in his cartoon logo. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but for a man that DEMANDS that the people around him work until HE'S satisfied, which is never, it seems as though he may have picked this gold cog wheel motif as another "secret" statement. Or sometimes a banana is just a banana.
Description from the website: "Original Third Reich Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) Flag/Banner For Exemplary Factory Production- These were awarded to productive factories. On August 29, 1936 Hitler announced an annual national competition for factories and businesses to compete for award of the newly established DAF Exemplary Factory flag with the criteria for award of the flag being, maintaining social order within the factory, raising productivity and living standards, observing the NSDAP’s policies on marriage and family life and obtaining production goals as laid out in the four year economic plan. Award of the flag was accompanied plaque to be displayed at the factory, an award document and award of the DAF Golden Honor Pin to the factory head. These flags were first introduced as a competition in 1937, the criteria to be awarded one of these flags was that as a factory, you followed the rules and standards for the workers set out by the NSDAP. In the first year of its creation, it is believed that only 103 flags were awarded. In 1939 on the outbreak of war the competition was abolished until re-instated in 1941 as the War Exemplary Factory competition and the flag was changed."