Musk now has a badge to enter the White House complex and is likely to get a West Wing office. Previously, he had been expected to be in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
Guess he got a promotion after that salute 
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Note that the trump v1 staffers that lasted the longest were the ones who had stairs between their office and trump
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In December 2024, President-elect Donald Trump stated that he plans to revert the mountain's official name back to Mount McKinley during his second term, in honor of President William McKinley. Trump's proposal was strongly opposed by U.S. Senators from Alaska Lisa Murkowski (R) and Dan Sullivan (R), along with Alaska State Senator Scott Kawasaki (D). On January 20, 2025, Trump announced that he intends to sign an executive order changing the mountain's official name back to Mount McKinley on the first day of his second term.
So this what he will be doing now? Changing names of things? Is this because Obamna changed the name of this mountain? Or is Trump such a big fan of William McKinley:
Trump likes McKinley because he captured new territories for the USA, had an anti inflationary monetary policy, and made use of tariffs. He also was assassinated. Lots of parallels to what Trump is promising. Getting to reverse something Obama did is a bonus.
I think you are over-thinking it. No way Trump knows or cares about any of that. What he does “know” is that McKinley is the name the good white people gave it. Then the woke indigenous people got it changed. And since white people are superior, renaming it to McKinley is a way to express that white supremacy.
He mentioned a bit of this in his speech earlier, clearly someone on his team told him about it. American exceptionalism and white supremacy of course play a role, but Trump has been made aware of who McKinley is.
Also the father of American military interventionism.
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I decided to get some sleep for a few hours, and I come back to news about Musk doing fascist salutes 
There’s a whole thread on the Donald Trump forums saying that Hillary also raised her arm once so it’s okay if Elon did the Nazi salute.
I shit you not.
There’s a whole thread on the Donald Trump forums saying that Hillary also raised her arm once so it’s okay if Elon did the Nazi salute.
What was that quote? 
“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.”
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Okay but that was the most pathetic nazi salute I have ever seen dude has negative charisma lmfao
I hope the USSR is revived and this time they do launch the Topol M ICBMs.
I have ever seen dude has negative charisma lmfao
It's true, he's not very funny either, he's like reverse Trump. I think it's because his “humor” is like Reddit/Gen X humor.
He also can’t speak straight and just mumbles unconfident nonsense. Literal negative rizz is right
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Yes, it was high energy but still very cringe. Amazing how this guy is so wealthy and also such a loser at the same time.
Remember tho, we must give subsidies to Tesla and buy their cars to save the world!
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Apparently he is voting to end refugee resettlement for Cubans , haitians and Venezuelans.
So cutting off the gusanos. Will they learn that the country they worship doesn’t give a shit about them and channel that frustration into anti-American sentiments? Of course not! It’ll be the government of Cuba/Venezuela/Haiti that’s at fault.
*though Haiti’s government had been a problem but a lot of it had to do with US intervention
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Musk does a nazi salute https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1881433923433169381?mx=2
It is commom to chuds to do a plausible deniability nazi salute like Bannon some hours/day ago and that bimbo fox news lady some years ago. But Musk cant as he is stupid and could not mask well.
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Elon did a full Sieg Heil on live TV, not just the vague arm gesture, but a full on salute. And then he turned around and did another to the audience on the other side.
Hey America, how's it goin?
Musk does nazi salute, twice
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Damn I'm so glad I had left the US 4 year ago, at the very last moment sort of. It's not even a Trump thing, it's just generally the mass psychosis thing
Dollar hegemony means the country can be successful without being connected in any capacity to reality. The population is dumb, uneducated, and insane, but Americans just import everything so they don’t actually need to be economically productive.
Let the treat economy continue.
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This is actual good https://old.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/comments/1i62ja6/biden_commutes_life_sentence_of_leonard_peltier/ nice one Brandon :AIM:
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Hey would ya look at that, Tik Tok is back and it's tamping down on pro-palestine content like the rest of the American social media companies are.
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