Probably just say he was joking.
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This is what I think would be most probable too. It's still too socially stigmatized to outright say something that effectively just means "I'm a Nazi," so they'd have to play it off as some kind of joke.
I do, however, think a lot of them would suddenly, for no reason in particular, begin saying things like "Well, Hitler was a bad guy, but he did have some good ideas..." while going on to describe some of the worst ideas known to man.
This is already a thing
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Well, after they wash the jizz out of their pants, they'll probably try to gaslight us into thinking it was just a joke and he was doing a parody and we're just too dumb and librul to understand.
Wooooooow, how ableist of you. Don't you know he has autism and ADHD? He obviously didn't know what he was doing.
If you're on ketamine you can't be hold accountable for your actions taps head
βA masterclass in owning the woke snowflakesβ, or something like that
βHe was just joking bro, donβt be such a snowflake.β
"Clearly a joke"
it was an awkward verbal tic
He's autistic, let's be a little more respectful of people with mental illness?
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"Oh no, he was just saying 'hail hit her.' Because one of his ex-wives got hit by frozen rain that one time."
Or some ridiculous mental gymnastics horse shit like that.
hail hit her
π€£
And they'll say the hand gesture is just "pointing at sky to desmontrate how the hail fell on her"
Iβd guess they would start saying Hitler was a really good guy.
More likely would be "heil Trump". Validating Trump as Fuhrer of America. Conservatives might be ok with this. Watch for congress to burn, and blame on DNC, that results in banning the party.
"No, you misheard. He said 'Kyle Kitler.' What? No. I have no idea who that is either."
Theyβd suddenly become autism experts
"The left just looove to call people racists and Nazis, and he gave them exactly what they were asking for and now they're losing their minds. He's the world's biggest troll! I think it was hilarious, honestly - sure, he probably shouldn't have done it, yeah, it wasn't pc, but you call people Nazis long enough, what do you expect. Everyones a Nazi, everyone's racist, meanwhile you've got liberals voting for people who sleep their way into positions of power and politicians who want to bus in votes from Mexico. It's all bullshit smoke and mirrors. Politicians are all dirty. I like Trump because he doesn't care what the mainstream thinks- he'll burn it all down if he needs to to drain the swamp, and he's doing it while thumbing his nose at the political establishment with statements like this."
βOMG HE SAID IT!!!!β and various posts celebrating it. Go look on 4chanβs random board and Im sure youβll get a preview
Reach into their bottomless bag of excuses.
They're not big on accountability or accepting loss. Or educating themselves.
He's doing it ironically to own the libs and mock them for thinking he was a Nazi.
The playbook isn't all that deep.
"He made an awkward statement / expression" Would be the statement posted to win the platinum medal in mental gymnastics. Just exceeding gold medals at this point.
Jizz their pants, presumably.
More likely at this point, he'd do "Heil Musk!"
Trump is just a tool. In so many definitions.
r/conservative should be renamed to r/neonazi
Nah, The Neonazis like what he did and are open about it.
Its more like r/Neonazis_in_denial
Like, what if musk just do the βHeil H**lerβ too?
They would congratulate on his language skills.
They would just say Elon was saying like "my heart goes out to you" or something
Oh wait...
How has /r/kanye been taking the βI love Hitler tweet?β Probably similar to that
If you want to do a pointless hypothetical, at least make it ethically interesting.
What if Harris did the Natzi salute while shouting "Heil Hitler!" before the election? No change in policy or anything else.
Would you rather vote for Harris doing a Natzi salute or Trump doing Trump things? Words or actions? Or would you give up and not vote at that point?
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They will just deny it ever happening and say itβs taken out of context. He canβt possibly be a Nazi because he likes Israel. And if it happened (which it did not), itβs not important. Libs are so easily triggered these days.
They will all put on their 'I luv hitler' tshirts and join in. It's the GOP duh!!!
They would just claim he has Nazi Tourette's.
He would yell heil fΓΌer and claim he's talking about Trump, not Hitler
If Biden supported genocide & Kamala said she would do the samesies, what would Democrats do?
See, you mistake being in the pocket of oligarchs with supporting genocide. Not the same thing.
Biden didn't send weapons & money to Israel to commit genocide & have his cabinet veto UN security council resolutions to end the genocide? I mean he's literally on camera saying he's a proud Zionist. He didn't earn the name Genocide Joe for no reason.
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I don't know about the conservatives but the press and 'centrists' will probably go "Hmmm maybe it's just autism. Surely he didn't really mean it. No, can't be. I can't think of any past behaviour of his that would make this seem intentional. Autistic people do nazi salutes and say heil hitler all the time."
Itβs just bots at this point. They ban anyone with a brain. Got banned from there like 8 years ago for posting a tweet by Trump that criticized his actions during his first term. Banned within 2 min.
"Well, he did give us the Volkswagen."
Exhale a collective sigh of relief, and say "Finally a US President who gets us."