"Trans people, refugees, and migrants are not the threats," the group said. "The billionaires with close ties to our new president who flash the Nazi salute and seek to replace the old elites with a new caste—that is the real threat to America."
"Such a gesture, given his already known proximity to right-wing populists in the fascist tradition, must worry every democrat," German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach wrote in response.
Far-right extremists, for their part, celebrated Musk's gestures, which they appear to have had no trouble interpreting.
As Rolling Stone reported, "The Proud Boys Ohio chapter posted a clip of the Musk video to its Telegram channel with the text, 'Hail Trump!'"
"The far right is celebrating what it views as a clear signal from the X owner and Donald Trump associate, who made the gestures on stage Monday."
“WE ARE FUCKING BACK” the administrator of a Nazi meme channel on Telegram wrote under a clip of Musk giving the salute. Members of the group responded with the lightning bolt emoji, a well-known neo-Nazi reference to the SS.
“I don’t care if this was a mistake, I’m going to enjoy the tears over it,” Christopher Pohlhaus, the leader of the American neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe, wrote on his Telegram channel under a gif of the Musk salute.
Evan Kilgore, a right-wing political commentator, wrote on X: “Holy crap … did Elon Musk just Heil Hitler at the Trump Inauguration Rally in Washington DC… This is incredible.” Kilgore later wrote: “We are so back.”
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Saul Alinsky, "Rules for Radicals"
9. "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself."
I sincerely wish my wife would consider moving. If she were of like mind I'd be looking at countries with rational and compassionate leadership to relocate to.
The Orange Narcissitic Bone Spur Felon president and his fascist oligarch scum buddy musk are the ones who ought to be deported. To Siberia. Putin's backyard.
The same was said by the people who supported Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, et all. They found out -fj they were wrong. So will you.
Bullpuckey!
We saw what Musk did. Any NORMAL American, but ESPECIALLY an incoming POTUS would have condemned what Musk did.
"The thing itself" was terrifying to see during an incoming administration performed by Trump's co-president, and to read and listen to cowardly Americans dismiss it as nothing.
Our democratic republic is in deep peril. And, IMO, people like you are responsible
That Trump said nothing about Musk's two Nazi salutes tells Americans and the world that he's okay with it.
I have close friends and family members who lost relatives in the Holocaust. What the Nazi salute represents is the annihilation of the Jews and other people the Nazis didn't like, as well as thousands of dead Americans.
IMO, Musk is a reprehensible jerk. And, IMO, Trump is worse than that for being a yellow-bellied coward and not calling Musk out for his stupid actions.
You and I live in Massachusetts, an island of sanity for now. I don't know what horrors the crazy tyrant has planned for those of us who refuse to kiss his fat orange arse.
Depends on one's point of view. A religious zealot would claim Elon is pointing toa returning Jesus who will cast the sinners into hell before establishing 1,000 years of peace. A weirdo would would think he's pointing at a new pic of a nude Melania by the look on Elon's face. Trump might think Elon is warning him Melania is about to strike him with a golf club. Only Elon knows for sure. Till he comes clean I'm good with making sport of him.
Yes, Shaw. For now we're fine.
But, that does not mean that ultimately we are insulated from the effects of the Bone Spur Felon president, his fascist beliefs, and his fascist oligarch buddies running his facist administration.
Maybe the sane folk in MA should petition Canada to absorb us as part of Canada. Giving the big middle finger to Bone Spur Felon president.
Who knows, before long the US may have citizens seeking political asylum in Canada.
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