Pennsylvania elected official resigns after she made a gesture similar to Elon Musk's controversial gesture

www.cbsnews.com Pennsylvania elected official resigns after she made a gesture similar to Elon Musk's controversial gesture

A local elected official in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, has resigned after coming under fire for a social media post.

"controversial gesture". It's a Nazi salute you pathetic journalist.

Also I wonder if Fetterman will be hiring her.

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Wow, CBS still diligently avoiding calling any of this what it very obviously is to anyone not trying to protect Nazis. I guess CBS is happy to be known for visibly protecting Nazis.
- CBS is ~~billionaire~~ oligarch propaganda
- It's kind of like so much of the "liberal media" keeps calling those terrorists that stormed the Capitol (as part of something that was planned for fucking WEEKS and MONTHS) "rioters".
  They brought weapons, including guns, too. They planted bombs. They had a fucking gallows out. They brought zip-ties to restrain Congresspeople and who knows who else.
  They let bullshitters on the right keep getting away with saying they were "unarmed". That is a fucking lie and they let it slide so very often. And now their narrative is that these terrorists were "overcharged", because I saw that dickhead Watters use that term more than once. The qons are apparently going to send brown people to Gitmo for being brown, meanwhile, these terrorists, who should have gone to Gitmo, are given a blanket pardon.
- If they call it a nazi salute Musk will sue them and could win because he isn’t provably a member of a nazi organization. He could be a neo-nazi but CBS can’t call him one without proof.
  
  So call it a "fascist salute", "Hitler's salute", or "the salute that the Nazis used"
  All of which is factually correct.
  
  He would definitely not win. What he did is a Nazi salute. Whether he thinks what he did is one doesn't matter because he did a Nazi salute.
  If I flip someone off, I can tell people I was just letting that person know I think they're number 1, but that doesn't mean I didn't flip them off.
  It takes a real coward to not call out a very clear and worldly infamous hand gesture that has existed for 80+ years, when a man that also spews hate rhetoric throws it not just once but multiple times. Further, to my knowledge he has never even denied it, just joked about it and criticized people that criticize him.
  
  https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/pennsylvania-laura-smith-towamencin-township-nazi-salute-controversy-elon-musk/4089263/
  https://www.huffpost.com/entry/laura-smith-elon-musk-salute_n_6797ced6e4b0792017b78e5e
  https://www.newsweek.com/pennsylvania-county-official-resigned-after-salute-video-2021155
  https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/adl-nazi-salute-towamencin-supervisor-laura-smith-20250126.html
  Guess we'll see how much these journalists with a spine will be successfully sued.
- I get where you're coming from, I do, but can we please stop with the purity tests?
  
  Takes a pretty spineless person to clutch at pearls over calling a Nazi a Nazi.
  
  The day I start walking on egg shells to cater to Nazis, I'm checking out. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi, and with nothing left, I'll take out as many of those fuckers with me as I can.
  I'll never be a sympathizer like yourself, so I'll never get to that point, but that sentiment stands.
  
  Trying to not upset the oligarchs with accurate language and reporting is a big part of how we got here IMO. it's not a purity test to want the media to call a Nazi a Nazi.

She made a Nazi salute. The fucking media are complicit.

IT WAS A FUCKING NAZI SALUTE YOU FUCKING DONKEYS

I'm fucking so tired of reading the words "a gesture." We know what the fuck it is, and you do too you fucking cowards.

CBS nazi collaborators

Learned she didn't have enough money to just do it.

As someone who grew up in this area... Montco is full of the worst, most privileged, racist magats imaginable. Zero surprise that this happened there.
- I was a bit surprised to see where exactly it was, but then again the local car dealership was plastered with signs for the guy running for office that assaulted a senior citizen at a clinic while he brought his 12 yr old to watch, and right down the road from that is the farm that was all plastered with giant signs and trailers covered with Trump and Jesus banners. It's a shame how often beautiful farmland here gets uglied up with that crap.

Even if you want historical accuracy, and you say it's not a Nazi salute, it's at best a neo-Nazi salute. So stfu.
- having just watched it. Which I have to say how funny it is that it was from tik tok. I have to say that is the most nazi salute I have ever seen. I mean I feel like if you you used some device you would see a near perfect 45 degree angle straight ahead. Now Im feeling this my heart goes out to you thing is something talked about in the circles to try and start doing it while saying its not it.
- Well said

You must have :raises arm to chest height: this much money to make a Nazi salute and get away with it.

"a gesture"
Wait, did she give the bird or something?
Also, I thought this happened last week?
- Only if birds have evolved to do Nazi salutes. Which I guess you'd be the first to know.
  
  Apparently, one has to add an /s to everything. I know full well it was a Nazi salute, this is commentary on how the fucking "liberal media" won't call it such.
  
  Anybody got that gif from the Daily Show?

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