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Let me help with context. Musk has also:
*declared Jews are pushing "hatred of white people"
*promoted the Great Replacement conspiracy theory (that globalist Jews are conspiring to fill America with brown people to replace the white majority)
*told Germany's Nazi-sympathizing & Holocaust-diminishing AfD party, two days before Holocaust Remembrance Day, that Germany has "frankly too much of a focus on past guilt and we need to move beyond that." (This was actually the main subject of our panel.)
To my knowledge Scott has done none of those things. So it should be even less problematic for someone like him to replicate this enthusiastic gesture, if on its own it is truly innocuous.
I didn’t ask Scott to "do a Nazi salute." I asked Scott to do whatever Elon Musk’s gesture was, since Scott said it was a mere greeting of enthusiasm for the crowd.
If that's the case, he should have had no problem enthusiastically greeting our live TV audience that way too
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) says poor kids should get jobs instead of receiving free school lunches.
The school lunch program serves grades preK-12, meaning it feeds children as young as 4.
And Trump’s actions aren’t exactly helping. E.g., admin blocked publication of CDC's morbidity/mortality reports, which had been published weekly since 1952. The first issue he blocked was scheduled to include 2 new studies on bird flu transmission
Meanwhile, egg prices:
How many more MAGA-ites will go on TV to defend this?

Even self-proclaimed pro-Hitlerite Nick Fuentes said Bannon’s sieg heil was “getting a little uncomfortable" and "a little excessive" even for him
Leader of France's far-right party -- which was founded by neofascists and Holocaust deniers -- pulls out of CPAC because Bannon's gesture was too overtly pro-Nazi
With multiple tariffs looming, farmers who support Trump grow nervous
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Every Trump aide has different, contradictory talking points about purpose of these tariffs.
Are they a negotiating tactic?
Actually permanent, because we need them to raise revenue/boost US manufacturing?
Are they designed to return us to 1790s lifestyles & living standards?
Source connected to CDC tells me: “The day of the massacre staff in the [director’s office] spent most of the day getting the staff who feed the animals in the labs reinstated. They had all been fired.”
GOP has eliminated laws of math in order to pass Trump tax cuts
Tax bill will cost whatever they says it costs. Doesn't matter what CBO says or how Senate parl rules
“In the end the Party would announce that 2 & 2 made 5, and you would have to believe it”
High Protective Tariffs Have Been Short-Lived in American History
Eliminating Head Start. Laying off all the CDC employees who work on lead poisoning. Discrediting childhood vaccines during a measles outbreak. Cutting funds for school lunches.
A look at some of the under-the-radar ways the Trump administration is waging war on America's children: http://wapo.st/4jcUg2f
“It was violent. There’s blood all over the house. It’s insane,” the homeowner, who is a U.S. citizen, told me. “It’s complete lawlessness. How does the government have impunity to jump into my home without a warrant?”
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Trump is uniting the world—against us, and with China.
A parade of foreign leaders is suddenly visiting China after many years away. On Friday, Canadian PM Carney wrapped up a trip to Beijing, marking 1st time a Canadian PM had been there since 2017. South Korean president was there earlier this month (last visit: 2019), and British PM will be there soon (last visit: 2018).
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Fed Gov. Stephen Miran—who in unprecedented move refused to resign his White House job while serving on the Fed—was asked about threats to US institutions.
He replies that "institutions in United States are very, very strong," anyone who says otherwise is doing so "for clicks"
India’s holdings of US Treasury bonds have fallen to a 5-year low as the nation pushes to support its currency and diversify its reserves. People “are looking to diversify away from US assets, and I would kind of describe it as quiet-quitting of US bonds"
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How hard must Bessent be rooting to have SCOTUS strike down Trump's tariffs, so he doesn't have to keep saying idiotic stuff like this?