These Protesters Are So Pathetic

"Look, don't drive Swasticars." That's the chant outside a Tesla dealership, captured on video and being watched by Asmongold and his co-host. The scene shows older protesters holding signs, chanting, and—in the hosts' view—making themselves look ridiculous. But the episode isn't just mockery. It builds a specific argument about who these protesters are, why they're protesting, and what's actually driving the anti-Tesla movement.

The Central Thesis: A Protest Against Technology Itself

Asmongold's core claim is that the Tesla protests are, at bottom, a protest against computers. "Elon Musk represents computers," he says, "and they probably never like computers." The protesters skew old—retirement-home old, in his telling—and they've been fed a steady diet of mainstream media their entire lives. "If you only consume mainstream media and you grew up in a cold war era," he argues, "you've had this like drilled into your head for your whole life. And now they're telling you that it's happening here."