Oh, don't look so surprised...

I guess what I'm asking is how hard is it not do do a Nazi salute? Like, I'm genuinely asking. And I don't think I'm alone when I say I can't, in memory ever raised a straight, right arm in anything resembling a Nazi salute. 

It's fairly easy to not do.

Hillary Clinton got 2.7 million more
votes that Trump in 2016 so...

I've been trying, for my own piece of mind, to avoid the news. I know today is going to be about the Right swaggering, posturing, and crowing about that historically narrow election which they will present as a mandate but is in no way a mandate. Not being from California, the President may be unfamiliar with what constitutes a landslide, but there is no math in which winning by two point three million votes in an election in which a hundred and fifty two million people voted isn't one.

But that doesn't matter to these people because it's day one and we've already been pulled out of the Paris Climate Accords, fifteen hundred January 6th insurrectionists have just been pardoned, and the billionaire who bought the election is already throwing up the Nazi salute.

Day. One.

Literally any other gesture is on the
table and he picked that one? 

Yeah. Now, according to the Anti-Defamation League in what can only be described as the greatest benefit of the doubt ever given in the history of benefit of the doubt giving, he was simply making an awkward gesture and we should all take a breath. But I mean, he did it twice. And again, how hard is it not to do a Nazi salute? Within in the entire range of human motion, there's like one really specific gesture we associate with Nazism, and we're saying he hit it on accident?

Musk, you may recall, attracted ridicule for his bizarre leaping into the air at Trump rallies, which his people later explained as him making the "X" logo...you know, that famously trademark-able letter, X? So I'll grant you that he's bad at imitating human bevaior, but you'll forgive me if I find this dubious at best, and a racist dog whistle at worst. 

Pictured: Definitely something humans do.