Bannon's Nazi salute

[EndlessWire]

I saw that clip. Yeah, I believe my eyes. That's what it was. It was in response to something someone in the audience did. It is easy to imagine that someone gave a Nazi salute to him, and he responded with one. But, I don't know. He was saluting in response to something.

My Father was a guard at the Nuremburg Trials. He watched one of those Nazis get hanged. It was real intense. And now, here we are, with a little Nazi comeback right in our own country. I am not concerned with the optics. First chance we get, we lock them all up. Ship them out to Gitmo. My parents did not live through WW2 for the likes of Trump, et al. to turn our country into the Fourth Reich.

We will see more and more of these pricks saluting in the open. Wait and see. They think it's cute. Not sure how we got back in the 1930s, but here we are. Now we get to see how we would've acted had we been Germans. We just can't go there.

[riversedge]

1. do you mean Musk's Nazi salute?

[Gore1FL]

2. Bannon's CPAC one was most recent. nt

[allegorical oracle]

21. CPAC is a creep convention. It draws every shady Repug in the nation. Surprised Tarrio and

Rhodes weren't there. Oh, they were busy at Capitol Hill, where Tarrio was arrested.

[Gore1FL]

23. I think I heard Rhodes and/or Tarrio were turned away from CPAC.

Imagine being too big of an asshole for CPAC.

Glad to hear Tarrio was arrested. I hadn't heard that, yet. I need to google that good news!

[SCantiGOP]

33. They were both let in later

N/T

[Maraya1969]

49. Wait. Rhodes? I only know Rhandi Rhodes

What Rhodes am I missing? (Sorry I'd look it up but this laptop is acting like it's 100 years old)

[Gore1FL]

52. Stewart Rhodes. (I may have the spelling wrong)

He is a Jan 6 nutjob who lost an eye in a firearm accident. Tragically, he was pardoned from a double-digit sentence.

[Evolve Dammit]

31. They both want FBI positions. Seriously

[riversedge]

47. Thanks, I just read about Bannon also doing thee vile salute. It is horrible that Trump associates with these creeps.

[usedtobedemgurl]

60. My Great Aunt always said....

Show me your friends and I will tell you what you are. Never forgot that.

[mtngirl47]

10. See it here.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/132261712

[riversedge]

46. Thanks. I just found this also. damn!!

[Gore1FL]

3. They cannot call Bannon's a Roman salute.

Romans had baths.

[niyad]

8. Snort!!!

[LastDemocratInSC]

16. Bannon was frequently referred to as "Pigpen" in earlier times here on DU.

[niyad]

17. yes, I remember.

[slightlv]

38. I'd still call him that, if that had been my moniker.

To me, he never looks any different. I've just called him the red-faced sot.

[Trueblue Texan]

57. I saw one of those separated at birth things with...

...Bannon and Otis, the town drunk from the Andy Griffith Show. Uncanny physical resemblance. But Otis was a harmless drunk. Not so Bannon.

[Quiet Em]

4. French far-right National Rally president Jordan Bardella knows that was a Nazi salute

and he cancelled his speech because of it.

They are right out in the open with it now. It's deplorable.

[hlthe2b]

19. All those who question whether it was or not--have they NEVER seen one of a zillion WWII/Hitler documentaries?

Really?

No damned way that was anything but a Nazi salute.

[58Sunliner]

5. Bannon-is he dead yet?

[misanthrope]

6. His aim was to troll

He is trying to set teeth a-gnashing yet again.

[allegorical oracle]

22. Yep -- he's beside himself that he's not the baddest guy in the dumpster anymore.

[EndlessWire]

7. Here's a clip of it.

[Botany]

28. 3 times

There can be no doubt.

[KatyBR]

32. I'm glad my father did not have to see this, he was a Marine at the Chosin

and my mother was a navy nurse. They gave their livelihoods to this country.

[Skittles]

50. I hear you

my mum survived German bombs as a child in WWII, it would have broken her heart to see this fascist resurgence

[slightlv]

39. Fascist Style salute? Bullcrap! That was a Nazi salute.

If we don't get back to calling things what they are, they're going to normalize every bad behavior acted out since the days of the cavemen. Bannon's not on trumps special list any longer, and he's desperately trying to get back to the front of the line by speaking up for a "third term."

Gods, I want back the rule of law and I want all these idiots, traitors, and criminals thrown in jail for so long everyone forgets their names.

[Wonder Why]

9. Ain't no doubt about it! And DeeJay's speech earler was just as bitoted as one could be.

[HarryM]

11. They didn't get all the Nazis

That's why now they have come out of the woodwork, like the cockroaches that they are, and are using their same tired tactics.
Too bad that they don't teach history properly in the US. These nuts would rather bring religion into the classroom than teach meaningful things like history.
This time when we get the Nazis, we have to get ALL of them. What happened in the 1930s and 40s can never be permitted to occur again. EVER!

[ShazzieB]

51. Not sure what you mean about not getting all the Nazis.

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We got them in WWII, except for the ones that went into hiding under new identities after the war. Over the years, Nazi hunters found a lot of the hiders, and there can't be many still alive at this point, because they'd be so old.

The Nazis that are coming out of the woodwork now are younger ones that have come along since the war. I'm not sure when they started making a resurgence, but I first became aware of them in the 1970s, when one group made a stink by trying to hold a march in Skokie, IL, home of a huge number of holocaust survivors. If you're not familiar with that incident, you can read about it here: https://abcnews.go.com/US/skokie-legacy-nazi-march-town-holocaust-survivors/story?id=56026742

Sadly, there are new crops of young neo Nazis coming along all the time. The original German Nazis are gone, but their ideology is a part of history, and there's a certain kind of white supremacist RWNJ mentality that is (unfortunately) attracted to it and (even more unfortunately) wants to emulate it. As long as that mindset continues to exist in our society, they're going to keep regenerating.

Fortunately, the Southern Poverty Law Center.org has some great tools for keeping track of the activities of neo Nazis and other hate groups at https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/ and specific info on neo Nazis here: https://abcnews.go.com/US/skokie-legacy-nazi-march-town-holocaust-survivors/story?id=56026742

[IcyPeas]

12. Oh pleeze! This was done for the cameras. He knew it would be repeated incessantly.

[BadgerMom]

35. Yeah. But he did it.

It might get him attention. He might like that. But it’s garbage. And we should call it out. That’s because we have moral fiber. If that makes them make fun of us, I’m okay with that. Being laughed at by their ilk is an honor.

[Prairie Gates]

53. So? What's your point?

[Botany]

13. Both Musk and Bannon knew exactly what they were doing

[allegorical oracle]

44. That photo shows that Musk and Bannon salutes are wishy-washy by comparison. Adolph

knew how to do it properly, as verily he should because he invented it.

[John1956PA]

14. . . .

[calimary]

29. Dear God...

[dalton99a]

15. Evidently all the Jews in the Trump administration are ok with it

[Crowman2009]

62. The ADL seems to be ok with it as well.

The Likudniks have taken over mainstream Jewish organizations in America.

[Behind the Aegis]

64. The ADL condemned it.

"The Likudniks have taken over mainstream Jewish organizations in America."

uh-huh.

[Behind the Aegis]

65. Seems other minorities are OK with it too.

[GiqueCee]

18. Charles Lindbergh...

... and the German American Bund would have been proud of these evil shitstains. Decent people are not.

[PatSeg]

20. It is like a disease that lies dormant

for the most part years, even decades at a time, but periodically it comes to the surface infecting everything it can. It is such a destructive force; like cancer there appears to be no real purpose to it other than chaos and suffering. In the long run, no one benefits, not even those responsible. It is madness.

[SunSeeker]

24. "Bannon Salute at Right-Wing Event Sparks Outcry, Even on French Right"

A gesture by Stephen Bannon at CPAC echoed a move by Elon Musk and prompted the president of France’s far-right National Rally to say it had evoked “Nazi ideology.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/us/politics/bannon-salute-cpac-musk.html

[Aaeia]

25. Nazi's

The wild thing is, Hitler would probably put them all in camps & confiscate their wealth for himself.

[Blue Owl]

26. I'm ready to stomp out any Nazi that crosses my path

Fuck these depraved lunatics

[Evolve Dammit]

27. great post.

[multigraincracker]

30. I'm glad my father didn't live to see this.

He was a decorated commander in The Battle of the Bulge.
Sorry Dad.

[slightlv]

40. My dad was a medic.

I am SO glad he's not around to see this, tho I miss him so much. He'd have had a heart attack with trump's "first" administration.

[multigraincracker]

43. Dad went to OCS with Reagan.

Said he was a bad actor and soldier.
Reagan staid home and made commercials while dad fought in the Battle of the Bulge.

[slightlv]

45. When my Dad came back, he didn't talk much about the war.

I know he enlisted when he was 17. Depression kid, with no home and no means of support. The Army was a godsend to him, in that way. I know he first went to North Africa, and that he LOVED Italy. Also know he was stationed in Europe at some point. But beyond what he told me about the countries (or an old girlfriend... gryn), he rarely talked about any of it. How he went through all that hell and still came out willing to give anyone the shirt off his back (even if it was his only one) really makes me proud of him. And he was so proud when I stood there in the AAFES office and took my oath to the country, he was busting buttons. It'd kill him to learn how many in today's services cowtow and bleat over the orange nazi menace.

[multigraincracker]

48. Dad only talked about the funny stuff.

Then I drove him to a reunion and I heard the real stories.

[whathehell]

55. So was mine..

in the Navy during WWIi..How about yours?

[slightlv]

63. Army Medic during WWII

I went into the AF during VietNam. He and I were the only two military people in the family, altho he told me he had a great uncle who fought at the Alamo. I did see the plaque with his name in it inside the Alamo, so I've no doubt that's true.

[whathehell]

66. As mentioned, mine was in the Navy

He saw terrible things, which he didn't speak of much. That said, he was a total patriot and a lifelong Liberal FDR Democrat.
So you have an ancestor who fought at the Alamo?...Cool..It must have been amazing to actually see his name there.

[usonian]

34. It's not even novel. Copycat creeps.

They act out the fascist playbook without reading the ending.

Mussolini pic redacted.

No regime lasts very long and always ends horrifically. For what?

If it's for the cruelty, the "best" eternal reward is nothing, and it's all downhill from there.

[Nigrum Cattus]

36. I hope they don't think that is funny

Because it's not -
Deadly serious

[Karasu]

37. By the end of this year Republicans doing Nazi salutes is going to be fucking commonplace.

[slightlv]

41. I think it will either be commonplace, as you say...

or it's going to be so hated they won't dare do it. I'd bet on the former, but wish dearly for the latter.

[Hekate]

42. "Now we get to see how we would've acted had we been (1930s) Germans"

Indeed we do

[Iggo]

54. Salute or no salute, he's a fucking nazi.

Don’t get lost in the details.

[OhioBack2Blue]

56. And, he is one of....

Trump's rodeo clowns.

[LW1977]

58. How is the right "consplaining" this?

I just came up with a new word! Consplaining

[louis-t]

59. They are trying to normalize it.

Slip it in once in a while. Soon, the outrage will fade just enough. I call CPAC 'hate camp' because that's what it is.

[Crowman2009]

61. Bannon sure caved in like the Trump worshipping pussy he is.

Turns that this whole "Musk must be stopped" thing was all a show.