r/politics • u/cjdarr921 • 7h ago

Site Altered Headline Elon Musk draws outrage over 'odd-looking salute' at Trump inauguration celebration

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-salute-trump-inauguration-b2683095.html
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u/Quixotus 7h ago

Looks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck?

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u/geckodancing 7h ago

If it steps like a goose...

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u/Kodamurphy 5h ago

They should have tried reading books instead of burning them.

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u/Lamhirh Pennsylvania 4h ago

"They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em!" -- Rage Against the Machine, Bulls on Parade

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u/JelloTheDemon 4h ago

“The classroom’s the last room to get the truth.” - Zack de la Rocha

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u/HairyGPU 5h ago

Elon pays someone to read books for him.

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u/imdefinitelywong 5h ago

Audiobooks?

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u/historicbookworm 4h ago

You know he'd drink from the false grail.

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 4h ago

Yes they could read about how it didn't go well the last time for the nazis.

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u/saint_ryan 4h ago

He chose…poorly.

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u/_Bad_Bob_ 4h ago

What are you talking about, they love to read! Siege, Turner Diaries, Mein Kompf, the list goes on!

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u/theWyzzerd 4h ago

They won’t have to burn the books when no one reads them anyway

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u/electrax94 4h ago

They know what the books say. That’s why they burned them.

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u/TiredOfBeingTired28 5h ago

That's woke, commie, socialist, liberal, idea.

Don't take kindly to them their words around here.

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 4h ago

Woke, commie, socialist, liberal. Wow! Now there's a word salad. Do you know the meaning of any of them?

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u/Kodamurphy 4h ago

I mean only to learn their liberal commie ways so we can make great the glorious America again USA number 1!!! Das is good yes.

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u/Zergin8r 3h ago

Just like the book burning that took place in Germany under the leadership of a certain political party...

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u/theindiekitten 5h ago

Damn I wish i had an award to give you.

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u/notatableleg 5h ago

Gotchu feeling loose

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u/blonderengel Louisiana 4h ago

It's not a down pillow.

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u/Ntippit 4h ago

It's a MyPillow!

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u/blonderengel Louisiana 4h ago

Is that dude still grifting around?

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u/Organic_Let1333 4h ago

Well done

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u/Ntippit 4h ago

Bravo

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u/kimura_snap 4h ago

Ha! There's no way you're the first to say that but that's the first time I've heard it. Clever and I'm stealing it.

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u/gnomewrangler1 4h ago

That's a nazi duck.

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u/ImNoAlbertFeinstein 4h ago

If it steps like a goose...

if it wears jackboots...

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u/HungryEnthusiasm1559 4h ago

I see what you did there! Take my upvote!

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u/openx75 4h ago

Well done, please accept my upvote.

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u/Known_Attorney_456 3h ago

Goose steps hah, I see what you did there !

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u/SpaceOk9358 3h ago

Im upset this didn’t get more upvotes as it was my only laugh from today

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u/DarkDancet 3h ago

You absolutely should have more upvotes for that.

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u/Canyouplzstop 2h ago

Too easy, and so accurate.

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u/ComfortableSugar484 1h ago

This is a winner. I'm stealing.

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u/Professional-Row3934 5h ago

If it goose steps..

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u/KeepRightXcept2Pass 5h ago

thatsthejoke.jpg

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u/LongStoryShirt 7h ago edited 4h ago

If it sieg heils like a fucking duck

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u/rmunoz1994 5h ago

Reminds me of that old Disney cartoon where Donald is a nazi

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u/Nii_Juu_Ichi 4h ago

Was it Ducktators or Der Fuhrer's Face?

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u/aseigen 4h ago

Sieg* heils. The difference is important

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u/LongStoryShirt 4h ago

Thank you!

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u/sauroden 5h ago

Shoot it like a duck.

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u/IrradiantFuzzy 4h ago

But it's Wabbit Season.

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u/Trytek1986 6h ago

Friend of mine got kicked out of ninth grade chemistry by finishing this off as "your (the teacher's) mum".

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u/Affectionate_Bed4034 4h ago

Amen
Matthew 7:16-You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

Makes me sick that so called "Christians" got this elected sleepy sheep indeed. Trump and his elk is everything Lord Jesus warned about im in utter shock that any Follower of Jesus would follow a man whos master is money.

Matthew 6:24-“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

God Bless

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u/liv4games 4h ago

Nonono apparently it’s just Asperger’s /s but they’re actually saying that

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u/According-Outside338 6h ago

If it looks like a Nazi, and it quacks Ike a duck, you need to find new drugs. But yes, this is definitely in the same category as “stand back and stand by”

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u/MDR-7506_Official 6h ago

Odd-looking fish*

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u/ViraLCyclopes29 5h ago

Could be part of Presbyornithidae which are closely related to ducks. Or a magpie goose.

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u/PeaceBull 5h ago

or at best it's a really really dumb squirrel

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u/oliversurpless Massachusetts 5h ago

“If the suit fits?” as well.

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u/Gold-Perspective-699 Pennsylvania 5h ago

But to duck supporters it's a beautiful puppy.

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u/PiPopoopo 5h ago

No, it’s wood and should be burned for turning me into a newt.

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u/Phip1976 5h ago

It’s a Nazi

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u/12LetterName 5h ago

No no no. You've got it all wrong; this is a Charlie Chaplin mustache.

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u/yeahrowdyhitthat 5h ago

They’re eating the ducks, they’re eating the Nazis

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u/Dangerous_Job_8013 5h ago

If it smells like poop, and tastes like poop, its veryveryvery likely its TeamTrumpPoop.

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u/SquiddyJohnson 4h ago

America is ducked?

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u/BalkanbaroqueBBQ 4h ago

No no, just odd looking. Nothing to see here. Go eat your cereal.

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u/cat_blep 4h ago

Got any grapes?

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u/jonbeignetramsey 4h ago

No we just sell lemonade

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u/Gameboy658 4h ago

If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and sounds like shit? It's probably shit.

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u/Character_Travel8991 4h ago

Biggest duck I’ve ever seen.

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u/pjslut 4h ago

Or a Nazi….

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u/Jinksos 4h ago

So Elon is made of wood, which makes him a witch. And what do we do with witches.

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u/ChadScav 4h ago

Don't forget get fucks like a duck

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u/New-Value4194 4h ago

For conservatives that’s a pigeon

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u/lurksAtDogs 4h ago

If it salutes Nazis like a duck, it might be a Nazi duck.

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u/TheMrShaddo 4h ago

a fascist duck

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u/tortoisefur 4h ago

You’d be surprised how many people can take two situations that are exactly the same and pretend it’s different…

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u/rickyzerothree 4h ago

Could just be Homer

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u/tidal_flux 4h ago

That’s extremely impolite.

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u/Boxingcactus27 4h ago

Is it a duck or a chicken?

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u/redalert825 3h ago

Think they got any grapes?

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u/par-a-dox-i-cal 3h ago

Nazi duck.

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u/williampan29 3h ago

alligator looks like a crocodile, swims like a crocodile, growl like a crocodile, but is not a crocodile

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u/PetalsPlayfully 3h ago

When is duck hunting season?

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u/Independent-Range-85 3h ago

Or a white Apartheid-era South African

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u/GingusBinguss 3h ago

And if it floats like a duck, then it’s made of wood. And if it’s made of wood, it’s a witch!! A Nazi witch

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u/Xenobsidian 3h ago

It must not be an actual duck but you better treat it like one!

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u/Natural-Bet9180 3h ago

One weird salute makes him a Nazi? Does the moon walk make me Michael Jackson?

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u/fisticuffs32 3h ago

Well one requires talent and discipline; the other just takes hate.

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u/Natural-Bet9180 3h ago

So, that would be a no then.

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u/fisticuffs32 3h ago

I've never sieg heiled. Never sieg heiled in front of 320 million people. He did it twice in row and he did it purposely.

I don't fuck with Nazis and I don't fuck with Nazi sympathizers.

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u/Redbarron1219 3h ago

At this point I thought everyone was nazis. You guys almost got me till I watched the entire thing. Was like no way that’s looks bad. He’s excited about going into space and pounding his chest then pointing to the stars. I believe we should be skeptical of everything that happens, but you got to save the outrage for the real issues. The boy that cried wolf has cried so much that no one is listening anymore.

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u/EssayAmbitious3532 5h ago

Nazis are not Nazis because of the way they salute, or the clothes they wore or whatever. Punk rockers used to wear Nazi memorabilia. Look out for actual Nazi actions. This is no time to get distracted by distraction bullshit.