In an Inauguration Day rally, Elon Musk spoke to a crowd of Trump supporters at DC’s Capitol One arena. During his brief talk, he twice bumped his chest and threw out his right arm to the crowd, once to the group in front of him and immediately after to the crowd behind him. He said just before this talk that he was giving thanks from his heart to all those who had worked and prayed and contributed to Trump’s electoral college and popular vote triumph last November.

The American Public Broadcast Service (PBS), a news organization funded by tax payers as well as private donors and corporations, tweeted that Musk’s gesture was a “Nazi” salute, a la Hitler’s Sieg Heil arm motion and the Italian fascist ‘Roman’ gesture. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a watch-dog for Neo-Nazi behaviors and anti-Semitism, immediately responded that Musk’s gesture had been misinterpreted by PBS and that, stressful as the transfer of power was for many in the US, a little grace was in order. It was not, from their view, a “Nazi salute.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (‘AOC’), an American politician and activist serving since 2019 as the U.S. representative for New York’s 14th congressional district, weighed in to condemn both Musk for the salute and the ADL for being ‘soft’ on Nazi-ism (!). (She was not at the inauguration or any of the balls afterward because “I don’t celebrate rapists.”) Firebrand and catnip that she is to friends and foes respectively, her branding Musk’s gesture as a sure sign that he is a closet fascist showing his true colors generated the inevitable memes of other politicians, to include AOC, extending their arm in that fashion while speaking to the public. Historians of twentieth century totalitarianism, most notably Gerald Posner and Niall Fergusson, dismissed AOC as a partisan crank.

I share all that because Joanne Rowling Murray (‘JKR’) teamed up with Gender Critical feminists to mock on Twixter those Progressive gate-keepers who make risible historical analogies. These “TERFS” as a rule who have spent the last five years being branded by leftists as “Nazis,” “fascists,” even “Holocaust deniers” because of their resistance to “transgenderism.” JKR’s preferred partner in these staged satirical conversations, as we’ve seen earlier this month, is Julie Bindel, who wrote Rowling with a true confession about her struggle with Nazi salutes:

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President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order today only hours after his inauguration, one titled, “DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.” As he pledged during his campaign almost a year ago, Trump delivered on “Day One” a Gender Critical feminist ‘magic wand’ wish list. Read the whole thing at the WhiteHouse.gov link above, but here is a handy summary of “Defending Women:”

Responses from Gender Critical feminists varied in their enthusiasm for this breakthrough Executive Order that sets the cause of Transgender Radical Activists back to zero.

On the one hand, many women lauded Trump for delivering on his pledge to “defend women” and “restore biological truth:”

Other feminists chose to lament that, though Trump’s Executive Order delivered everything that the Gender Critical community could have wanted from an American politician, that this man they despise was the one to do it.

Rowling tweeted about the “Defending Women” Executive Order in response to a Susan Dalgety tweet on the subject.

Dalgety, the editor of The Women Who Wouldn’t Weesht, despises Trump. Her twixter feed during Trump’s inaugural address featured a series of tweets that snarkily dismissed his pledges to pursue American energy independence (“Fuck the planet“), to “bring back law and order to American cities” (“Says the first convicted felon to be POTUS“), and to “extend our territories” even to Mars (“Thank you says Musk“). She even chose to mock Trump’s ‘air kiss’ to his wife with the suggestion that she wore a broad brimmed hat to prevent him from landing lips on her face (“Form meets function” reposted from ‘The Daily Show’). Most revealing, perhaps, of her Trump Derangement Syndrome was her tweeting “Crazy Stuff” as her verdict on his judgement that he was “saved by God to make America great again.”

Dalgerty’s take on the “Defending Women” Executive Order? Predictable — ‘It’s okay, but, y’know, Trump:’ Read More “Rowling Tweets about Trump Executive Order Contra Gender Theory Ideology”