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Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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ColdBlueSteel said:
Just happened to watch the first Gladiator last night. Noticed this gesture being made as the gladiators entered in the coliseum for the Carthage battle.
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Cool. If only this was 180 AD, Elon would have the perfect reason to flash that salute.

Unfortunately, we're living in 2025 Anno Domini, where there isn't a single person on the planet who doesn't know what that salute represents.
 

Trump warns global business leaders of more tariffs as he forges ahead with agenda​


“… President Donald Trump slammed his predecessor’s policiesand said his presidency began a “revolution of common sense” in remarks to the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, where he warned business leaders to make their products in the US or face tariffs. He also said he wants OPEC and Saudi Arabiato cut the cost of oil to help end the war in Ukraine.



Trump pitches world businesses to make products in the US to receive "lowest taxes of any nation on Earth​


“My message to every business in the world is very simple. Come make your product in America and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on Earth. We’re bringing them down very substantially, even from the original Trump tax cuts. But if you don’t make your product in America, which is your prerogative, then very simply you will have to pay a tariff, differing amounts, but a tariff which will direct hundreds of billions of dollars and even trillions of dollars into our treasury to strengthen our economy and pay down debt,” Trump said during his remarks at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
 
finesse said:
What do you mean the 1920s? They were active in the 60s as well. Who do you think did the Birmingham Church bombing.

They were active in NC as well. In 65, I saw a cross burning in Kinston that had 1000s of people there and later that year we had a private one at our house after a sermon my stepfather preached.

Be stupid and make light of this.
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I'm just not seeing it. I see an irrelevant organization that likely has less than 100 members in NC and likely similar percentages in KY riling up a bunch of people with a flyer. And people fall for it every time. Ignore them and they go back to their trailers. Or don't. Make fun of them and they go back to their trailers humiliated
 
He doesn't really strike me as the neo Nazi type.

Elon Musk says he's 'Jewish by association' after Auschwitz visit, sees 'almost no antisemitism'
“I’m aspirationally Jewish,” Musk said. “So I was like, ‘What are people talking about with this antisemitism?’ Because I never hear it at dinner conversations."

Elon Musk said he is "Jewish by association" during a conversation with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro after a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland.

Musk, the Tesla CEO and owner of social media platform X, made the comments during a conference on antisemitism organized by the European Jewish Association. The association had arranged for Musk to make a private visit to Auschwitz, where an estimated 1.1 million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust.

"I must admit to being somewhat frankly naive about this. In the circles that I move, I see almost no antisemitism. ... Two-thirds of my friends are Jewish," the billionaire tech mogul said in a video posted on YouTube by Bloomberg Technology. "I have twice as many Jewish friends as non-Jewish friends. I’m like Jewish by association."

The association organized the visit to address a worldwide surge of antisemitism after the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

www.nbcnews.com

Elon Musk says he's 'Jewish by association' after Auschwitz visit, sees 'almost no antisemitism'

“I’m aspirationally Jewish,” Musk said. “So I was like, ‘What are people talking about with this antisemitism?’ Because I never hear it at dinner conversations."
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lawtig02 said:
Not at all surprising, but I'd be so embarrassed if I supported an administration that caused my own party's most senior judges to say things like this.


Judge John Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee who sits in Seattle, granted the request by Washington Attorney General Nick Brown and three other Democratic-led states for the emergency order halting implementation of the policy for the next 14 days while there are more briefings in the legal challenge.

“I have been on the bench for over four decades. I can’t remember another case whether the question presented was as clear,” Coughenour said.
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Another quote from the Reagan-appointed judge, which echoes thoughts I've had about almost every GOP-led legal action over the last few years --

“Where were the lawyers” when the decision to sign the executive order was made, the judge asked. He said that it “boggled” his mind that a member of the bar would claim the order was constitutional.

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This goes to a point super has made many times. The courts and the bars are absolutely TERRIBLE at enforcing the rules of professional conduct for lawyers. You basically have to be taking dollar bills from your trust account and using them at strip clubs to get disciplined these days. When attorneys can solicit and advise fraudulent electors in an attempt to make the loser of the presidential election the leader of the free world, and the bar has nothing to say about it, why have rules at all?

Of course, "Why Have Rules at All?" is probably a good motto for the federal government over the next four years.
 
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ZenMode said:
He doesn't really strike me as the neo Nazi type.

Elon Musk says he's 'Jewish by association' after Auschwitz visit, sees 'almost no antisemitism'
“I’m aspirationally Jewish,” Musk said. “So I was like, ‘What are people talking about with this antisemitism?’ Because I never hear it at dinner conversations."

Elon Musk said he is "Jewish by association" during a conversation with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro after a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland.

Musk, the Tesla CEO and owner of social media platform X, made the comments during a conference on antisemitism organized by the European Jewish Association. The association had arranged for Musk to make a private visit to Auschwitz, where an estimated 1.1 million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust.

"I must admit to being somewhat frankly naive about this. In the circles that I move, I see almost no antisemitism. ... Two-thirds of my friends are Jewish," the billionaire tech mogul said in a video posted on YouTube by Bloomberg Technology. "I have twice as many Jewish friends as non-Jewish friends. I’m like Jewish by association."

The association organized the visit to address a worldwide surge of antisemitism after the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

www.nbcnews.com

Elon Musk says he's 'Jewish by association' after Auschwitz visit, sees 'almost no antisemitism'

“I’m aspirationally Jewish,” Musk said. “So I was like, ‘What are people talking about with this antisemitism?’ Because I never hear it at dinner conversations."
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

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Do you go out of your way to find articles that make the position you're defending seem as absurd as possible?
 
WaynetheDrain said:
Two for three. When you brush it off as no big deal, you normalize their actions.
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Meh. I'm not seeing it. Whoever did this wants the attention so the organization seems somewhat relevant again. Ignore it and they don't get that.

This very well could be one guy that found a printer at Goodwill. I just don't think it's enough to get all stirred up about, although in fairness, this is way better than I expected. I remember 10 Kluckers marching in Hillsboro a few years back with about 500 counter protesters and you would have thought there were lynchings in the street from some of the reactions on the old ZZL. I'll have change my opinion if this holds up.
 
rodoheel said:
Imagine someone saying with a straight face that they're "aspirationally Jewish" and "Jewish by association" in response to claims of antisemitism, lol. Next-level version of "lots of my friends are black!"
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The only thing worse is Shapiro giving him a platform.

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Fwiw, I'm sure that the Klan has diminished a great deal but the same sort of people with different names for their groups are still with us. A lot of those guys and the kids that went to the Christian academies they founded are still with us. I might misremember but I don't think they were big on inclusion. I think we're going to see some of the veils slipping off that group's racism.
 
ChileG said:
The lie that MAGAs were really just concerned with illegal immigration has been exposed.
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This type of thing is what leads me to think Dems need to come out strongly supporting overhauls to our legal immigration system, advocating to make it much easier to legally immigrate to the US for the people who do it "the right way."
 
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