The Republican salute

Automotive website Jalopnik is running a story so bizarre, that I really, really hope it's a hoax. Except it probably isn't.

The story concerns the heartbreak of CyberTruck owners who, after blowing somewhere between $80,000 and $150,000 on one of Elon Musk's fragile pedestrian mowers, discover that people are laughing at them, making snide comments, and flipping the occasional bird.

Stung by how people are refusing to award them the cool points they expected when emptying their bank accounts for a car that looks like bakeware gone bad, the article suggests that some CyberTruck owners are uniting around a response.

We really should salute each other like Elon threw out his heart to the crowd. Deep down inside we all think like Elon which is why we purchase his products to support his and his quest to help humanity.

The "deep down inside we all think like Elon" bit is exactly why those flying fingers and banana peels are coming their way already. But the idea that the solution lies in giving each other a good Sieg Heil whenever they meet may not garner the results they want.

Owners of these monstrosities describing comments about their truck as "hate speech" and suggesting that they defend themselves with a Nazi salute breaks through irony barriers that even Donald Trump has not achieved.

But the CyberTruck cucks are not alone. On Jan 25, Anglican Catholic priest Calvin Robinson signed off his speech at the National Pro-Life Summit by repeating the full-Nazi that Musk performed after the inauguration. As The Guardian reports, the church immediately revoked Robinson's license to practice as a minister.

“We believe that those who mimic the Nazi salute, even as a joke or an attempt to troll their opponents, trivialize the horror of the Holocaust and diminish the sacrifice of those who fought against its perpetrators,” the statement reads. “Such actions are harmful, divisive, and contrary to the tenets of Christian charity.”

Robinson responded on his Facebook page by saying that his action was “a joke” in “mockery of the hysterical ‘liberals’ who called Elon Musk a Nazi for quite clearly showing the audience his heart was with them.”

Which seems to confirm everything the church said when removing Robinson.

But at this point, it's clear the barrier is thoroughly broken. Followers of Trump and Musk are eager to get in on this hot new trend. Give it another week, and Republicans won't just be throwing up these salutes in the halls of Congress, they'll be calling out everyone who doesn't reply in kind.