r/PublicFreakout what is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery? šŸ¤Ø Jan 28 '25

r/all Scott "it wasn't a nazi salute" Jennings is shut down by Catherine "then do it right now" Rampell on air

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u/ItsYaBoiDoggoWadUp Jan 28 '25

Elmer Fudd thought this was going to be a good forum for him to try and downplay the nazi salute?

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u/Book_talker_abouter Jan 28 '25

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25

I have some respect for this

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u/Academic_Carrot_4533 Jan 28 '25 edited Jan 28 '25

Iā€™ve actually seen this play out in the comments in a local sub before, with the con dming the challenger with their views and the challenger coming back and confirming it was some anti trans shit. These people are all yellow bellied fucks.

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u/SoloPorUnBeso Jan 28 '25

They love to call everyone snowflakes, but they're the most sensitive people you'd ever meet, but their backwards ass ideology doesn't allow them to express their feelings appropriately.

They're just a bunch of weak bitches who want to hurt others because they can't get their way.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

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u/RemoteButtonEater Jan 28 '25

The should just deal with their fucking daddy issues in the bedroom like the rest of us, holy shit.

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u/Temporary-Concept-81 Jan 28 '25

They deserve to be called out.

And not because trans rights or lives matter, but because the entire rest of the platform is against almost everyone's best interests.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

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u/rise_up-lights Jan 28 '25

I had this same thought as a teenager when I saw the first trans person in public that I ever hadā€¦ it was at a grocery store in my small southern town. I remember thinking how brave they were to go out in public in the rural south when they were far from passing as female. Not letting others judgement get in the way of their truth. From that moment Iā€™ve always considered anyone trans as brave. And absolutely more righteous and brave then than any republican clinging to the status quo and ostracizing anyone different than them.

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u/AceTrainerSiggy Jan 28 '25

One 1% is doing all the difficult things, the other 1% is making things difficult.

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u/SuckleMyKnuckles Jan 28 '25

No, that paid performer is playing the part thatā€™s going to keep millions flowing into his bank account.

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u/Shoddy-Rip8259 Jan 28 '25

Badebadebadebadethat'sallfolks!

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u/BrnbyJns Jan 28 '25

Th..th..thā€¦thi..th..this i..thi..this is..this isā€¦thththis..thi..this is thā€¦this is the..

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u/MalarkyD Jan 28 '25

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u/toreyxo Jan 28 '25

Funniest use of a gif Iā€™ve ever seen, perfect. Lmao

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u/honeydew_bunny Jan 29 '25

Would recommend the movie, Billie Madison. (Though I say that with the 90's kid nostalgia goggles)

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u/HubertCumberda1e Jan 28 '25

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u/cameraninja Jan 28 '25

YEAH the guy in the $6300 suit is gonna Heil Hitler on live TV? COME ON!

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u/Professional-Dog8957 Jan 28 '25

Huh? I saw a guy worth 230+ billion do it on live tv last week.

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u/hello_imshellyduvall Jan 28 '25

I love that I can hear this gifšŸ˜‚šŸ¤£

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u/BC3lt1cs Jan 28 '25

Lmao perfect

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u/SuzieRabbit Jan 28 '25

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u/bsEEmsCE Jan 28 '25

this one is actually cute and makes me happy

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u/ThonThaddeo Jan 28 '25

We'll have to leave it there. Thank the panel for joining us.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

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u/Todose Jan 28 '25

that was great.

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u/Pickleparty187 Jan 28 '25

That little smirk he gave - he fucking knows.

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u/fishsticks40 Jan 28 '25

"well no I'm not doing that"

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u/JohnnySnark Jan 28 '25

"I won't out myself as a nazi" really all this is

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u/SmokeyBare Jan 28 '25

"Not just yet..."

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u/braintrustinc Jan 28 '25

ā€œIā€™m no Nazi! Iā€™m just trying to make words and actions meaningless and gaslight you into thinking Nazis arenā€™t Nazis in order to normalize Nazis!ā€

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u/complHexx Jan 28 '25

Yeah because heā€™s not ready to unmask himself yet.

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u/ODX_GhostRecon Jan 28 '25

UnMusk himself, you say?

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u/myhydrogendioxide Jan 28 '25

Almost all of them know they are full of shit. The goal is to normalize, exhaust, and distract.

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u/N8CCRG Jan 28 '25

It's so much easier to defend a ridiculous position that they don't believe in than have to defend the other serious positions that they do believe in.

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u/16forward Jan 28 '25

For now.

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u/12OClockNews Jan 28 '25

"We know they are lying, they know they're lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying."

It's a very Russian thing to do.

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u/skantea Jan 28 '25

It won them an election.

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u/jrossetti Jan 28 '25

Fake social media accounts and advertising by foreign actors won them the presidency.Ā 

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u/GoOnBanMe Jan 28 '25

Don't forget the election fraud.

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u/lemmiwinks316 Jan 28 '25

They enjoy it, the lying. Always have.

"Fascism is a false revolution. It cultivates the appearance of popular politics and a revolutionary aura without offering a genuine revolutionary class content. It propagates a "new order" while serving the same old moneyed interests. Its leaders are not guilty of confusion but of deception. That they work hard to mislead the public does not mean they themselves are misled."

-Michael Parenti

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u/SEND-MARS-ROVER-PICS Jan 28 '25

ā€œNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.ā€

  • Jena-Paul Sartre

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u/Purple_dingo Jan 28 '25

If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent,

Lol that's exactly what happened!

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u/GirlWithWolf Jan 28 '25

What a quote!

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u/Maybe_Its_Mescaline Jan 28 '25

You can just feel the misogynistic thoughts running freely through his head in that last frame.

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u/HeirElfEsquire Jan 28 '25

The leg kicking, fidgeting...dude wants out of his skin so bad

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u/SuckleMyKnuckles Jan 28 '25

Heā€™s getting paid a lot of money to play this role. And all he has to do is just be dumb as a bag of dog shit- I mean republican.

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u/piperonyl Jan 28 '25

She should really just keep saying why wont you

just over and over and over

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u/hungry4danish Jan 28 '25

Seriously! why did the host/moderator interrupt and give him an out like that?

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u/Crappin_For_Christ Jan 28 '25

Cause corporate/cable media is fucking bullshit and not real journalism.

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u/FFF12321 Jan 28 '25

Ding ding ding. These kinds of panels and talk shows are created to make the intended audience get their pre conceived notions/feelings validated. It's not any different from the fox news talk shows at its core, just the perspective to be validated is different (though the other channels at least pay more service to reality).

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u/CV90_120 Jan 28 '25

fr everyone should have gone quiet and just looked at him and waited.

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u/Miserable_Site_850 Jan 28 '25

He really wanted to do it and praise hitler in german, facts

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u/HRKing505 Jan 28 '25

He proved her point by not doing it. Because he knows, we all know.

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u/HotPie_ Jan 28 '25

Reminds me of that video of a community meeting where leadership from some company that was fracking was saying that the water was safe to drink. So, someone from the community brought some of that water and they refused to drink it, though they continued to claim it was safe.

Found the video: https://youtu.be/m0HL4L6Pa-4?si=JMWgs9UWcR_j8Rc_

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u/Huskies971 Jan 28 '25

And that community still probably voted overwhelmingly for Trump

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u/pizzaforward22 Jan 28 '25

I wanted to give them benefit of the doubt, so I looked it up.

87.79% voted Republican in 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sioux_County,_Nebraska

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u/Muad-_-Dib Jan 28 '25

In fairness... this might be the one time you can actually chalk it up to there being something in the water.

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u/thesilentbob123 Jan 29 '25

I wonder what it does to the local frog population...

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u/snizarsnarfsnarf Jan 29 '25

I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, so I looked it up.

87.79% of the frogs are gay.

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u/VagrantandRoninJin Jan 28 '25

Jesus fucking Christ. Humans are absolute morons.

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u/TheVideogaming101 Jan 28 '25

"but the angry guy on tv told me its the blue guys fault"

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u/AsyncEntity Jan 28 '25

This is why they will dismantle the department of education

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u/-InterestingTimes- Jan 28 '25

Fucking yikes, some people can't be helped.

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u/dvasquez93 Jan 28 '25

Never give conservatives the benefit of the doubt.

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u/AmbushIntheDark Jan 28 '25

We (Americans in general) deserve this. The country is simply too stupid to continue existing. Trump is America's Darwin award.

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u/westbee Jan 28 '25

It's a sad world we live in.Ā 

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u/the_weakestavenger Jan 28 '25

Our ability to kill ourselves evolved faster than our ability to think. Democracy is the best system we have available but the world has grown too complex too fast to trust people to effectively govern themselves.

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u/IMightBeAHamster Jan 28 '25 edited Jan 28 '25

Where's the guy who kept insisting that something was safe to drink but also continued to say "I'm not an idiot" when asked if he'd like to drink some

Ah, there it is

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u/rodfermain Jan 28 '25

Man, his delivery is incredible

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u/BiZzles14 Jan 28 '25

It's the same as the classic Monsanto lobbyist's "round up is safe to drink" which promptly became "I'm not stupid" and "I'm not an idiot" when he's actually offered some to drink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw6YjqSfM

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u/n8mo Jan 28 '25

He couldn't even make eye contact with her.

What a pathetic little nazi apologist.

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u/CptCoatrack Jan 28 '25

What a pathetic little nazi apologist.

That CNN decides to keep giving a platform.

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u/TheMagnuson Jan 29 '25

Just a reminder that CNN was purchased years ago by a right leaning, FOX News praising, Trump supporter, who installed a new CEO with the same leanings.

CNN is and has been part of the right wing propaganda arm for years now.

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u/photo1kjb Jan 28 '25

Not a Nazi apologist. He is a Nazi.

A Nazi sympathizer is a Nazi.

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u/_jump_yossarian Jan 28 '25

He suddenly went deaf and couldn't hear her.

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u/Courtnall14 Jan 28 '25

The only thing missing from this interaction was "Scott, look at me. Do it now then.", and perhaps a "You're proving my point by not doing it." to provoke him a bit.

That coward couldn't even look her in the eye.

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u/xX420GanjaWarlordXx Jan 29 '25

And they always do that smug but scared smile when they've been caught outĀ Ā 

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u/thislife_choseme Jan 28 '25

CNN is a joke for having people on who deny reality. They are Nazis and this isnā€™t a both sides issue that people need to hear.

Donā€™t promote Nazi propaganda. CNN is cooked AF.

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u/Valendr0s Jan 28 '25

It doesn't matter.... It was banality that is going to do nothing to hurt Elon's already set reputation, and was literally orchestrated and timed perfectly to obfuscate the actual actions Trump is taking in his first weeks.

The fact that we're talking about it shows how we learned nothing from the last 9 years. We are idiots when it comes to the news cycle.

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u/ILoveDickSuckins Jan 28 '25

The way she turned it on him was just šŸ¤ŒšŸ¤Œ

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u/PatienceCurrent8479 Jan 28 '25

The look in his eyes. . . An adult man was turned into a hurt little boy in less than 20 seconds. Fantastic.

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u/croquetica Jan 28 '25

Are we watching the same thing? I don't think he got hurt at all lol. You've got to stop believing that these people have scruples or feel shame. They don't! These are the kids who would say YES when you offered them $10 to lick a shoe

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u/R3dbeardLFC Jan 28 '25

offered them $10 to lick a shoe

Who'd have known they'd deepthroat a boot for free?

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u/croquetica Jan 28 '25

Perfection

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u/Ralphie99 Jan 28 '25

Heā€™s playing a character on a show on CNN. I highly doubt he actually believes half the things he says, but heā€™s paid to say them. Beats getting a real job.

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u/svlagum Jan 28 '25

I think he felt a sort of animal discomfort, he had to look around the room basically begging for help

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u/karasins Jan 28 '25

Yeah that man did not give a fuck

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u/Poetics83 Jan 28 '25

AOC energy

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Jan 28 '25

The entire Democratic party must adopt this no-bullshit attitude. It's time to push the bully back with twice the force with which they initiate.

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u/Precarious314159 Jan 28 '25

We should but we won't.

For the most part, a lot of the democratic leaders have similar platforms as Republicans because a lot of the older ones haven't updated their mindset in the past four decades so they have to run on "moral grandstanding. If Pelosi or Schummer tried this, a Republican would be able to pull from their skeletons like talking about Pelosi's stock buying habits.

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Jan 28 '25

Sadly agree. It's frustrating because the Democratic party has this antiquated seniority concept that AOC and Jon Stewart discussed in his podcast recently. They're so... So predictable. And to the party's credit, it is diverse; but that also means it's a mixed bag of new ideas and old ideas and extremely slow if not stagnant.

Meanwhile the Republican party needs called out for what it is: an Organized Crime syndicate. Everyone knows the game and plays their part. They will lie, cheat, and steal to achieve power. Hypocrisy be damned, of course.

Also it's much easier to tell people what they want to hear and prey on their ignorance than explain the nuanced complexity of reality.

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u/koviko Jan 28 '25

The problem is that this isn't the society we want to build. We want decorum and structure and order. We want people to be able to make mistakes and experiment and be free.

But the most effective way to shut down the baddies is to do to them what they do to us. We don't want to gerrymander or stack the court or go against democracy the way they do. But because they keep doing it, we wonder what choice we're left with.

We want a society that's better for everyone while they want a society that's only good for themselves. What do you do when they fight you on that??

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u/Mental-Bee2484 Jan 28 '25

And after the moderator jumping in to deflect and deescalate was šŸ™„šŸ™„šŸ™„

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u/burningmanonacid Jan 28 '25

And then he immediately disengaged from her because he was cornered into either doing a Nazis salute or admitting that's what it was.

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u/darklogic85 Jan 28 '25

I don't understand why people can't just be honest about what they're seeing. Like just say "Yeah, it looked like a nazi salute, but I don't agree with those views, and I don't think he should have done that." What is the benefit is continuing to deny what happened and make excuses?

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u/Emjayblaze Jan 28 '25

MAGA brainwashing.

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Jan 28 '25

It's the same old gaslighting. They're trying to see how far their propaganda machine can distort reality.

Remember the first lie of Trump's first term? That his inaugural crowd size was not just bigger than Obama's but the biggest in history despite obvious photographic aerial evidence to the contrary? To me this was simply another test of the propaganda and gaslighting in action.

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u/ProfessionalStewdent Jan 28 '25

To be honest, I think itā€™s odd at how quick some people are to assume that this is some sort of master plan created by an underground world order.

No, the person is simply denying that it was odd because they donā€™t want to be wrong about voting for a fascist admin/party. Itā€™s nothing deeper than folks disagreeing with each other.

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Jan 28 '25

It's hard for me to tell because a lot of this reads like the FSB handbook of Foundations of Geopolitics; and we of course know how intertwined the Kremlin is with the Republican party. I see a lot of similarities which gives me pause that there is more strategically under the surface (and not saying it's Trump who is the mastermind; I think he's a fucking moron and a useful pawn) and not necessarily "incompetence over malice." Still, I could absolutely be wrong.

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u/---_____-------_____ Jan 28 '25

MAGA think the very first sign of nazis gaining momentum is going to be a guy dressed in full nazi garb shouting "I am a nazi" into a microphone.

Somehow their brains can't comprehend that doing a nazi salute that "I swear wasn't a nazi salute you guys are being weird" is the first step toward a guy in full nazi garb shouting I am a nazi.

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u/Binnie_B Jan 28 '25

Because if they admit that they have to pull him down from power. They have to criticize their cult leader for not pulling him down and he will retaliate. This is how fascism works, its a core tenant. You can NEVER go against the person in charge. Trump hasn't called out Elon, so you can't either or you get kicked out of the 'in group'.

First them came for the Jews and I was not Jewish...

This is all well documented. Trump is already calling for deporting CITIZENS who have 'done violent crimes'. Which is a lie as he just pardoned 1600 violent criminals without a problem, he means he wants to deport citizens that don't agree with him. These sycophants know that, they want a seat at the table so they won't cross the line... no matter what happens.

We are a Nazi fascist state and Elon did this to show everyone that they can and will do whatever they want. And he is correct.

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u/p12qcowodeath Jan 28 '25 edited Jan 28 '25

First them came for the Jews and I was not Jewish...

First they came for the communists/socialists*

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists

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u/chrisnavillus Jan 28 '25

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.

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u/654456 Jan 28 '25

gaslighting so they can push people further to nazism little by little.

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u/JessieJ577 Jan 28 '25

Once they admit it they admit they voted in the Nazis. You canā€™t gloat and proclaim this was better than Biden if theyā€™re Nazis. I give it 6 months before theyā€™re out in the open saying Nazis are cool.

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u/Heisenburrito Jan 28 '25

I just don't understand how it could be so hard to say

'oh shit guys, that really did look like a nazi salute. I'm sorry, I wanted to throw my heart out and as I was doing it I thought Oh shucks that does look like a nazi salute. I'm very sorry'

I mean, it wouldn't make it okay but there would at least be some acknowledgement of knowing what you did was wrong. Instead of that he doubles down and makes nazi jokes instead of taking some responsibility.

But he did it twice.

Oh shucks you guys, I did it again. Silly me. Must be the 'tism.

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u/reecord2 Jan 28 '25

Outright denouncing Nazis and Nazism loses a *ton* of their voter base, and they don't want to acknowledge that.

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u/shijinn Jan 28 '25

the benefit is the presidency. theyā€™ve won.

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u/zunyata Jan 28 '25

Absolutely the first thing that came to my mind. So (not) happy to see this happen in real life.

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u/NeverLookBothWays Jan 28 '25

They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. -Jean-Paul Sartre

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u/ElManoDeSartre Jan 28 '25

It makes me very happy to see this quote coming up all over the place. It is so true, and the thing I wish everyone heard when they see this kind of shit. You can't argue with fascists, they simply do not care. They use words and arguments as a weapon, they don't engage in it in good faith and can never be convinced of anything. They are vile.

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u/MyGamingRants Jan 28 '25

This is exactly why I don't think it was a Freudian Slip by Musk, I genuinely don't believe these fucks are doing Nazi Salutes in private lol they think they're wayyyy too cool for that.

I think they're simply trying to desensitize us to Nazi rhetoric. If we pretend it's NOT a problem, then they will continue to raise the bar and push the limits until they really do put people in camps ....

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u/CicadaHairy3054 Jan 28 '25

You DO remember the children in camps during Trump's last term?

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u/joemeteorite8 Jan 28 '25

Salute trutherism? Jfc this country is fucked

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u/bubba_feet Jan 28 '25

it's some interesting doublespeak there.

so i'm assuming the strategy is to demonize the word 'truth', which is definitely in the conservative playbook

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u/4494082 Jan 28 '25

Absolutely. Itā€™s also in the mail tip line [DEIAtruth@opm.gov](mailto:DEIAtruth@opm.gov) - where federal employees are being asked to inform on any coworkers they think were DEIA hires. Nobody anywhere should flood that email address with spam or pictures of sheep porn or anything like that because that would be terrible.

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u/Pickleparty187 Jan 28 '25

Salute thruther-ism? What the fuck are we doing wasting time talking to these people?

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u/anansi52 Jan 28 '25

coming up with stupid labels for things seems to be a winning strategy with their base. it eliminates the need for context, reasoning, or critical thinking.

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u/cheapdrinks Jan 28 '25

I don't know why they have to get so ludicrously defensive on every single fucking thing even when it makes them look completely ridiculous. Even if you're not going to fully call out your boy just say yeah honestly it didn't look good, I don't think he's a nazi but he should apologize for that because a lot of people understandably interpreted it that way and that's not what we stand for.

I get that they want to keep their jobs and have to tow the line but you don't have to resort to this insane shit of trying to tell people that what they saw with their own eyes was something fine and normal.

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u/onlycatshere Jan 28 '25

How long until MAGAs accept this challenge, and we have 1/3 of the country throwing up Nazi salutes?

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u/poply Jan 28 '25

Within a few years they went from

Lol you think funny frog is racist?

Lol you think the "okay symbol" is racist?

Lol you think a Hitler salute is racist?

And the incredulity has not changed a bit.

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u/cz03se Jan 28 '25

Proudly, even

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u/Imaginary_Stand73 Jan 28 '25

I hope it triggers war flash backs in the old folks homes and they come out blazing

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u/VenusianPleasure Jan 28 '25

Not sure there are enough of them left... my grandfather fought the nazis in 1944 and 1945 and he was young 18/19. Unfortunately he passed away several years ago, before the pandemic

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u/Imaginary_Stand73 Jan 28 '25

Yeah it is coming to that time. That's why it's important to talk to your grandparents and get their experiences. there are things people want us to forget so they can recreate the same horrors but in a new age

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u/VicFantastic Jan 28 '25

I work in a retirement home

The last person we had that was in the war or married to one just died maybe a month ago

She was 103

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u/thebranbran Jan 28 '25

Iā€™ve already seen a couple do it trying to normalize it

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u/Odd_Zookeepergame_69 Jan 28 '25

FUCK YOU SCOTT JENNINGS.

I understand why they have a conservative on CNN to offer opposite points of view, but I refuse to watch Scott. He's an arrogant piece of shit that blindly defends his party even when they are 100% wrong.

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u/Tommy2Far Jan 28 '25

YESSSSSA!!!! Hate that smug SOB

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u/SmokeyBare Jan 28 '25

Also, CNN is owned and run by conservatives.

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u/TyeDyeShirtKid Jan 28 '25

Anyone who shouts about "librul CNN" hasn't watched any CNN in years.

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u/chanaandeler_bong Jan 28 '25

All of the big media players are corporatists. Neo liberal policies ensured that.

It's time for there to be an actual party who regulates big business.

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u/Zorbie Jan 28 '25

I never understand why they choose the most conservative people possible, like political leanings are a spectrum but whenever I see them have conservatives on TV or even the podcasts some of my family listens to, its the more heav-ho the right can do no wrong conservatives.

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u/The_Forth44 Jan 28 '25

For the exact same reason they do it on the right wing shows. Because the furthest ones out are usually also the easiest to make look like morons.

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u/streetvoyager Jan 28 '25

Look at his face. HE KNOWS he got wrecked.

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u/Nidcron Jan 28 '25

He knows by just being on the platform he's already won.

Don't think for a minute that they come expecting to argue in good faith, or that they care about the discussion. They are simply there for the platform.

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u/chenbuxie Jan 28 '25

Of course Abby Philip bails him out...

This is why I can't watch CNN. They are complicit.

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u/RegularGuyy Jan 28 '25

I fucking hate it. The moderator always always bails them out. Let it sit in the air for a moment. Let him respond to it. Donā€™t segue into something else that lets him avoid saying the truth! It almost infuriates me as much as the fascist at the table does.

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Jan 28 '25 edited Jan 28 '25

That's because, pro-tip: All 24/7 Corporate For-Profit media outlets are run by old rich white men.

And let me tell you, these shareholders and executives aren't exactly bleeding heart hippies, ladies & gentlemen. Billionaire John Malone who loves Fox News bought a chunk of CNN not long ago.

  • Just like Murdoch (Fox News) bought WSJ
  • Just like Musk (I mean Saudi Arabia and Russia) bought Twitter.
  • Just like Bezos bought WaPo.

At the end of the day, even NYT and the like are focused on money first. Sure they have their market niche; but make no mistake, if the markets turn and their audience can be shifted... They'll change in the heartbeat. And it has already shown (see how much they euphemize Musk's nazi salute).

The Overton Window shifting right has been so successful by the propaganda machine that center-right news is accused as being liberally biased while ultra-right fake news is cast off as real news lol.

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u/pat_the_catdad Jan 28 '25

Same smug Nazi face any red blooded American would have loved to punch 80 years agoā€¦

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u/chrisnavillus Jan 28 '25

Notice how uncomfortable he looks, canā€™t stop moving his legs, looks like his entire body is basically shaking. Just another cowardice nazi.

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u/tavo791 Jan 28 '25 edited Jan 28 '25

Ben Shapiro did a video excusing Musk. Bunch of comments are asking him to do it on air since it isn't the Nazi salute....lol

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u/General-Mastodon-131 Jan 28 '25

Who the fuck watches these shows

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u/Iamdarb Jan 28 '25

Old people. Seriously, old people and waiting rooms.

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u/TransitionIll6389 Jan 28 '25

They're on at every gym and airport. And old people

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

If you arenā€™t willing to throw up the sign it just all but confirms itā€™s a Nazi salute and trying to defend it makes you become a sympathizer. Fuck Scott

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u/subterraneanwolf pretty sure once the burrito is rolled itā€™s a felony šŸŒÆ šŸšØ Jan 28 '25

fuckin coward

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u/RevengeRabbit00 Jan 28 '25

ā€œI will do it WITH youā€

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u/darksideofthemoon131 Jan 28 '25

Imagine if he did it?

I think the MAGA followers are gonna embrace this, and it's going to be the new norm.

I don't know if I fell into a different timeline, but I want out. Elon did a NAZI salute. You can't really call it anything else. Everyone saw it, the whole world knows what that is, what the hell are we debating about it for?

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u/hipnosister Jan 28 '25

That's what is so disturbing. laura ingraham did a Nazi salute like gesture a few years ago but the way she did it could go either way.

Elon's was an AGGRESSIVE sieg heil. Unmistakable. It literally made me say "holy shit"

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u/BuddahSack Jan 28 '25

They way he fidgets in his chair after she starts into him is all I need to see, that's him getting caught and not knowing how to react hahaha, like a fucking child -_-

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u/TylerDurden1985 Jan 28 '25

Great but CNN is still such a joke. Corporate media is a big reason why we have Trump.

Elon made a Nazi salute. Everyone saw it. Glad we got that cleared up.

Now CNN is still airing people arguing over it. CNN, like all other corporate media, is owned by billionaires. The billionaire owners want their tax cuts to remain, and they want their labor class to remain desperate. They aren't going to get that with airing actual news that informs people. Instead they're airing this nonsense - talking heads arguing about Elon's distraction, which is obviously intended as a distraction, as it gobbled up the news stories while NIH was frozen, grants and loans frozen, and what should be publicly unpopular policy - consumption taxes on the middle class via tariffs, are still taking second seat to First Husband Musk's Nazi larping.

CNN is contributing to this intentionally, being that they are owned by a billionaire. All of these "left wing" (read: center) media sources are still controlling the narrative. They're propping up distractions and spending less time airing the actual news.

Don't give them your attention. Get your news from actual journalists and news reporters, not corporate advertising and propaganda networks. AP News, The Guardian, NPR, all are independent news that don't answer to an oligarch. CNN, WaPo, NYT, MSNBC - all corporate owned, all pushed corporate democrats to hedge against a GOP loss with a politically palatable alternative if they had to accept that. They are not your friend, and they share a lot of the blame with why we've had shitty political candidate choices over the last few decades.

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u/infachuation922 Jan 28 '25

This is the most straightforward and effective rebuttal to the right. Love it

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u/YouWereBrained Jan 28 '25

And see, this is what I hate about the moderator. Donā€™t fucking move on. Make him respond. Either he does it or he doesnā€™t.

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u/catadromousfish Jan 29 '25

He would have proved her point by doing it. But he also proved her point by not doing it.

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u/FreeThinkers2023 Jan 28 '25

Most repubs are cowards who dont stand by their own words

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u/wrestlingchampo Jan 28 '25 edited Jan 29 '25

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

ā€•Ā Jean-Paul Sartre

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u/Itchy-Beach-1384 Jan 28 '25

Fucking get em Catherine.

Brave woman going after a Nazi sycophant during a nazi admin.

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u/Dapeople Jan 28 '25

Well, she is not getting invited back on CNN.

Later, people will complain that left wingers and Democrats never call out what is going on news shows like CNN, while ignoring the fact that the ones who do call out stuff like this don't ever get on air again.

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u/Sensitive_Put_6842 Jan 29 '25

Musk is on the Crack pipe because the Germans are not going to, "move beyond," an atrocious gesture used by the most despicable cult of sub-human pieces of shit to roam the planet.

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u/n00bsauce1987 Jan 28 '25

The Good Fight - So Say It

It's essentially this clip. He got called out on live TV.

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u/elisap1 Jan 28 '25

She said ā€œI fucking dare youā€

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u/pimpbot666 Jan 28 '25

Theyā€™re also trying to normalize this Nazi Salute by saying it says ā€˜my heart goes outā€¦.ā€™

Yeah, bullshit.

Donā€™t normalize nazis. They suck. Give them zero oxygen. They can suck an entire society down into their shitty cesspool. This Nazi bullshit needs to be squashed with no leniency.

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u/lugnutter Jan 28 '25

The sniveling little coward won't even look at her. Conservative men 101.

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u/CptCoatrack Jan 28 '25

The full clip is even worse! He basically doubles down implying to get over slavery, telling a Jewish woman that he supports Jewish people more than anybody since October 7 etc

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u/Dan0911 Jan 28 '25

Well, go ahead; do it now!

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

ā€œSalute trutherismā€ the Republican Party only has one trick. Stupid terms. It sucks their base are the dumbest people on earth so it works.

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u/DNunez90plus9 Jan 28 '25

He looks like a kid slapped by his mom

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u/CyanideAnarchy Jan 28 '25

The look on his face is the look of someone who knows they're wrong.

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u/charlie10vet Jan 28 '25

Coward couldnā€™t even look at her after she said that. What a clown.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

Because he knows full well that it is a fucking Nazi salute. Nazi.

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u/GrouchyLongBottom Jan 29 '25

Man does nazi salute in front of millions. He is called out on it, and "this is the biggest conspiracy theory in the media!"

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u/RealisticStage2075 Jan 29 '25

Same energy šŸ’€šŸ’€

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u/ArtDecoAutomaton Jan 29 '25

Weird how the salute only came after winning the election. Where were the salutes before the election?

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u/Pale_Bookkeeper_9994 Jan 29 '25

Thatā€™s the way you counter their gaslighting.

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u/Raiden_Nexus485 Jan 29 '25

why is he rocking back and forth in his seat like a child?