Sen. Cory Booker roasted by pundits who accuse him of making Nazi salute at political event
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The Garden State Democrat made the gesture at a Democratic convention in California — placing his hand over his heart and then gesturing to the crowd with a straight arm and an open hand above shoulder height.
Internet influencers were quick to jump on Booker’s salute, and wonder where the outrage is when there was so much criticism by Booker’s fellow Democrats and others on the left of Musk.
Some X users were more pointed in their criticism of the differing receptions Booker’s and Musk’s gestures each garnered from the pundit class.
“Same gesture. Different political party. Funny how that works,” Brandon Straka, founder of the Walk Away movement, wrote on X .
“This better be a national story for the next week!,” another X poster joked
Former DOGE chief and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk infamously made a remarkably similar gesture at an inauguration celebration at the Capital One Arena back in January.
“Thank you for making it happen. Thank you, my heart goes out to you,” Musk said, placing his hand over his heart and then extending his arm to the crowd.
Despite widespread public outcry over one-armed gesture’s similarity to the Hitler salute, prominent figures in the Jewish community rose to Musk’s defense.
“It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge,” anti
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Tough day for democrats, they either have to kick Cory booker out of the party as a nazi, openly become the party for Nazis, or make absolute asses of themselves yet again by being the biggest hypocrites possible.
As soo as the GOP gets rid of trump.
Here’s a list of all the news networks who have not covered Cory Booker’s salute: - NYTimes - CNN - Washington Post - MSNBC - NPR - USA Today - Reuters - Axios - ABC News Every single one of them wrote stories on Elon Musk’s “salute”… …do you get it yet?
How appropriate. The sick game played by the left has come right back at them. To no less than Spartacus, he who speaks for hours without saying anything.
The whole thing is silly. Did the folks on the left that tried to make a big deal out of Musks wave really think it would never bite them in the ass?
It is like when they tried to tell us that the OK sign was a secret "white power" gesture. Hey, maybe a nose wipe is actually a Nazi recognition signal?
All supposedly gestures to groups that do not exist.
What really does exist is two Communist nations with nuclear weapons, and a former Communist nation led by a neo-Communist megalomaniac with nuclear weapons, and an Islamist regime on the verge of having a nuclear weapon and a handful of terror groups with just enough power to stage a 9-11 type attack on the US and a host of Socialist countries who can no longer defend themselves and last but not least a violent arm of the American left which staged the riots of 2020 which lasted for over 100 days, took two dozen lives and caused about $2 billion in damage.
Did the folks on the left that tried to make a big deal out of Musks wave really think it would never bite them in the ass?
unsurprsingly, they will ignore it. The very same action that set off mass hysteria about musk being a fascist just a few months ago suddenly isn’t a big deal because it would hurt democrats. But it’s not 1992 anymore. Left wing media doesn’t control what people see. So even if the left ignores the story, social media won’t. And progressive hypocrisy will be noted and mocked. And yet progressives will wonder why not outside their bubble takes them seriously.
People are so dishonest in their desperation to “win” at politics. This soft wave is not close to the stiff salute we got from Musk.
Thats what I thought when I saw it. It is more of a wave "goodnight" than a Nazi salute and one of the ways we can know that is because Booker left the podium immediately after.
I'm not going to worry about this nonsense though. There are more important things going on.
Incredible. Exactly what I expected.
Biden didn't freeze. It's a cheap fake! Same playbook.
Biden? What seed are you trying to comment on!
You need that explained? The "same playbook" wasn't enough?
No, because I don’t obsess on political minutiae and petty tribalism. The desperate connections you make are just not top of mind for me.
I don’t obsess on political minutiae and petty tribalism.
As you were just arguing that the same gesture by two different people are nothing close to each other. No obsession with minutiae here.
But that's another example of what I was talking about. Pointing out the President was mentally incapacitated and citing the myriad of examples demonstrating it was "petty tribalism" because it was a democrat.
Ignore your senses. The two gestures are nothing like each other! All the videos are cheap fakes!..
I actually observed that they were different gestures. Apparently, you assign some political quality to that observation, but that is from your need to do so. I did not say that I thought Musk’s salute was specifically intended to be that of a Nazi, although given the body of evidence we have of his opinions and actions, I can see why people would get that impression.
Again, you are oddly focused on someone whom I did not bring up and is not even mentioned in the seed.
The point being of course, they were the exact same gestures and only political motivations could explain why someone would claim that they were "not close to each other." Claiming there salutes "aren't close to each other" is bizarre. I'm sorry. It really is.
specifically intended to be that of a Nazi, although given the body of evidence we have of his opinions and actions, I can see why people would get that impression.
But you aren't making political observations...
are oddly focused on someone whom I did not bring up and is not even mentioned in the seed.
Just pointing out that you keep following the progressive laybook of ignoring the evidence in front of your eyes in order to make ridiculous reality defining claims. Why that's so hard for you to follow is a question you'll have to answer for yourself.
It's all they have...."look over there!!!"... Pretty sad honestly.
That’s the lens through which you view the world. It is not my lens.
You see everything that way, so you assume everyone else does, too.
A lot of people can’t stop talking about Biden. Heck, they still talk about Hillary Clinton, and she only ran for president.
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As Tacos said, a fair evaluation of Musks salute and Bookers "salute" do not warrant the same conclusion in both instances.
Musks was more like this
Really? LMAO!!!
I think more like this:
Don't bring facts into it. It makes some people cry.
Imagine college educated people trying to pretend that Musk is a Nazi?
College education doesn't necessarily mean they are smart.
That is all too true. We lost that when the universities got rid of the testing standards.
Remember, these are the same people who told everybody the ASL sign for OK was racist.
They do like to interpret every little thing don't they?
I'm afraid to motion to make a left turn.
You've summarized the Democrats and the left pertty well.
So, you see no problem with Musk, Clinton, Harris, or Obama giving the same gesture.
Sigh. Another “I’m rubber; you’re glue” comment. Awesome.
It’d be neat if you read my comments before replying to them. Then I wouldn’t need to read junk comments like this.