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Guys JD Vance is in the foreground, forced perspective makes him seem taller.

Tenpoundbass says

Guys JD Vance is in the foreground, forced perspective makes him seem taller.

Or Trump is shrinking? Though I do agree the positioning could be a factor. I do think it's photoshopped and is a troll to make Trump look weak. I don't care, but that's not the point. 0.05% do that might vote differently. Especially woman voters.

Most men aren't tall anyway. So they've gotten over their Napoleon syndrome and it wouldn't mess with voting for men. Women like taller men and this makes Trump look weak and old. Hence why I think it's doctored to make him look bad.

JD is also only about maybe 1' in front of him? Elon is 6'2" and standing right next to him. If Trump really is 6'3", which I believe to be true, that would put Musk at 6'5"-6'7"??? Hell no.

Or maybe Ceffer is on to something. For this event they may have gotten an actor. Almost dying isn't a joke. You give a guy $50k for an event from campaign funds and call it a day. Journalist aren't asking for your ID. You just have to look the part.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/hegemonic-sunday-october-6-2024-c

Yesterday, twelve fast-paced weeks after being shot there, President Trump dramatically concluded his rudely interrupted rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He began his remarks standing next to his now-historic immigration chart and spectacularly pronouncing, to wild applause, “so, as I was saying.”

In other words, yesterday President Trump finished what he started.

But this time, President Trump enjoyed company. ...

The Hill ran one of several Butler II stories headlined, “Elon Musk: Voting for Trump ‘only way’ to ‘save’ democracy.” Indeed. More on that in a minute.

NBC’s Jake Taylor, who covered Butler II live, tweeted that the crowd “might be the largest I’ve ever seen.” Estimates suggest over 100,000 Trump supporters attended. Scads of conservative luminaries were also in attendance, along with a star-studded lineup of speakers.

In one of the rally’s most moving moments, the late Corey Comperatore —the firefighter killed by an assassin’s bullet at Butler I— was memorialized first by having his jacket and helmet installed in a special reserved section of the stands where he was slain, a heartbreaking reminder that precluded media from minimizing the seriousness of the attack:




Comperatore was also honored through song and rhetoric. Exactly at 6:11pm, the moment of Corey Comperatore’s death, President Trump called for a moment of respectful silence, followed by a haunting rendition of the Ave Maria. ...

Elon’s appearance occupied much of the coverage. The New York Times ran its Butler II story yesterday headlined, “Elon Musk Leaps to Trump’s Side in Rally Appearance.” The world’s richest man donned a custom black MAGA cap with the words “Never Surrender” stitched into the side. During his comments, Elon referred to himself as “Dark MAGA,” a dig at the Democrats’ ridiculous “Dark Brandon” meme.

The billionaire was really feeling it. Words cannot adequately describe this image:




Musk badly triggered corporate media when he commented that voting for Trump is necessary to save democracy, this time co-opting the Democrats’ silly campaign theme. But in Elon’s case, he was right, and he explained exactly how the Democrats’ immigration policy will end our democratic republic and install permanent one-party rule.

Several outraged media platforms labeled Elon’s undeniable logic “overheated rhetoric,” completely missing the irony.

Security at Butler II was markedly improved over round one. This time, the Secret Service overcame its fears of a mildly-pitched roof and staffed the shooter’s position atop the now infamous warehouse. They also, apparently, figured out how to use their drones.

Following the rally last night, Elon Musk finally changed his awkward profile pic (thank heavens) to a patriotic, user-supplied image from Butler II:




Musk is clearly all-in. How this will financially affect his companies remains to be seen, but he will surely pay a price.

Senator and VP candidate JD Vance also spoke eloquently, creating another stark contrast with his older, China-loving, truth-stretching competitor Tim Walz. ...

WookieMan says

Or Trump is shrinking? Though I do agree the positioning could be a factor. I do think it's photoshopped and is a troll to make Trump look weak. I don't care, but that's not the point. 0.05% do that might vote differently. Especially woman voters.

@WookieMan Yes, the photo seems photoshopped. Here's a real photo of Trump and Elon:

https://www.ahaber.com.tr/dunya/2022/05/10/twitteri-satin-alan-elon-musktan-trump-hamlesi-geri-donuyor

Patrick says

WookieMan Yes, the photo seems photoshopped. Here's a real photo of Trump and Elon:

Trump Twisted his body to reach back to place his hand on Elon's shoulder. Also draw a line from the toe of the shoes of Elon and Vance, you can see Trump is behind them, in the perspective of the dwarf midget that took the picture.



Where as in the other image Trump and Elon seem to be standing 90 degrees of each other, and Trump is just reaching his hand out to the side where Elon's shoulder is. The photographer, is someone as much tall stature as they are, facing their vertex when he snapped the picture.

It was probably taken by Baron. That kid is really getting tall.

Tenpoundbass says

It was probably taken by Baron. That kid is really getting tall.

Not denying any of it. @GNL might have a better perspective as a photographer. But I still think it's photoshopped to make Trump look like a small man. It literally would take 30 seconds to just stretch Elon and Vance in a many programs.

Gotta remember the size of your hands BS during '16. The left plays childish trolls. Not good ones, but childish basically insinuating Trump has a small dick. Anyone that's been in a locker room knows it's height, not your hand size.

I'd say foot size is a bigger factor in that realm as someone in the know ;) Vance looks like he's wearing a 12-13 shoe size. We might have a big dick VP. I'd guess 8" by the shoes. Average is 5.5"

https://nitter.poast.org/EndWokeness/status/1842766408729460873#m

https://sashastone.substack.com/p/as-i-was-saying

Unless you’ve watched a Trump rally from start to finish, you’ll never get the Trump thing. If you only get bits and pieces plucked from a long speech, stripped of context, devoid of humor or sarcasm, all it will do is confound you. It doesn’t make sense when you chop it up and look at the pieces separately.

But when you watch his rallies all the way through, as I’ve done going on five years by now, his gift for storytelling is impossible to miss. Trump has been telling stories his entire life, going all the way back to high school. He is telling an ongoing story to his supporters about the America they’ve lost and the America they should fight to bring back.

To the Left, that amounts to “we won’t go back” to the “white male patriarchy.” But that’s not why this story resonates so deeply. It’s that half of this country has been left behind, and they can feel it. But this rally, this moment in the race, isn’t about the past, not with JD Vance and Elon Musk flanking Trump: it’s about the future. A future, should America turn out in enough numbers to hand Trump the win, a second term after all.

I watched the rally last night with a black friend that is a drummer. We both haven't been doing much musically this year.
He wants me to play with him at his church. I really don't want to do it, but in my life I have found forcing myself to do things that otherwise outside of my comfort zone, or forced myself to do. Has always been great experiences, and glad I did it. He was also telling me, that it's only about 10 people in his congregation, "People don't go to church any more..." that was sad to hear. He said during Trump years, they had about 50 to 60 people. We wont have a bass player or a keyboard player, just him on drums and me on guitar. He kept responding to my reservation about that, how he's been just playing drums while they(the 10 people there) sing. I asked him why doesn't the pastor just put up a big screen and find gospel Karaoke?

He was having me bring up songs to go over. In our Youtube searches the Trump rally kept coming up.
So he finally said, let's watch it.

We jumped in about 10 minutes or so before Trump came on. He made a hilarious remark, "That's a lot of people... THEY don't Look Rowdy to ME!"
The media has had him convinced that Trump rallies were chocked full of racist rowdy red necks hooting and hollering how much they hate everyone.
He was impressed, with Trump's words his speech, he agreed that he's the right man for the job. He even stated that nobody has been investigated for doing wrong shit, more than Trump. If anyone was corrupt and shouldn't be in office, it would be known about Trump. They didn't find nothing on him after all of these investigation, so when he says he's going for the people. Kermut believed him 100% and was throwing in a bunch of "That's Right!" the whole time Trump was speaking.

Here's the thing with Kermut, he's never spoken much politically but he's never protested while others in the room may have been speaking. Shortly after the stolen election in 2020. I walked up on him, discussing politics with another black musician away from us White musicians that were all bemoaning Biden and Trump's stolen victory. Kermut was telling the other musician... "See these white folks are all mad at this shit. But Biden is going to be giving us all kind of Shit. You watch and see. They all mad as hell because they know the black man is going to get everything now." Then he noticed me, and there was just awkward silence.

But last night Kermut was lamenting how everyone in the hood supports Donald Trump now. He said he's already early voted for Trump. He said we got to get back to sanity, safety and making money. These people are crazy and got to go.

We also got a good laugh, when I told him that "Blacks for Trump" usually sit behind him.
He was laughing how in Trump's return to the exact same spot as the shooting, you can't pay a black man to sit behind him.

How come Elon didn't get a bullet to the ear. Doesn't he rate?

Tucker interviews Elon

https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1843375397024485778

(0:00) Elon Musk Is All in on Donald Trump
(6:35) Providing Starlink to Victims of Hurricane Helene
(9:22) If Trump Loses, This Is the Last Election
(21:49) The Epstein and Diddy Client List
(33:38) Vaccines
(35:49) The Movement to Decriminalize Crime
(50:22) Gavin Newsom
(53:11) Europe’s Declining Birthrate
(57:02) We Need Religion
(1:08:04) Why Is There So Much Anti-Human Messaging?
(1:19:33) AI and the Woke Mind Virus
(1:43:01) Musk’s Role in a Trump Administration

https://www.distractify.com/p/why-does-elon-musk-have-a-scar-on-his-neck

Why does Elon Musk have a scar on his neck?

During the interview, Elon was framed in a close-up and was wearing a t-shirt, which allowed the scar to be quite visible. As it turns out, that scar, which is on the front near the bottom of his neck, comes from a C5-C6 spinal cord surgery he had done. The C5-C6 vertebrae are found at the back of the neck, but surgery requires an anterior approach, which is why the incision was at the front of Elon's neck.

As Elon himself explained in a tweet, he had the surgery because he was suffering from a bone spur at those vertebrae. A bone spur often leaves less room for your spinal cord, and if it's left untreated it can lead to pinching of the vertebrae or of the nerve base around them. Eventually, this can lead to both physical weakness and numbness. It's unclear exactly when Elon had this surgery, but he explained why he had had it in a tweet in 2020.

Interesting: Elon points out that hormonal birth control makes women depressed, sometimes suicidal, and changes their personalities and mate preference.

He's the GOAT of trolling. I love it. He bought one of the largest platforms to troll people and does. Like Space X but not Tesla so much. I don't think EV's are the future. The cars are at least assembled in America, though not all components.

As a foreigner (Musk) I actually think he has good intentions overall.

Patrick says

that scar, which is on the front near the bottom of his neck, comes from a C5-C6 spinal cord surgery he had done.

Boring. Better that it was from an old dueling wound.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/religious-fervor-tuesday-october

The interview started strong, noting Elon’s muscular Trump endorsement. “If he loses,” Elon wryly —and correctly— noted, “I’m f*cked.” As Tucker laughed, Elon followed that noteworthy observation by asking, “How long do you think my prison sentence is going to be?”

The wide-ranging interview has already racked up 26 million views. “I’m not anti-vaccine,” Elon said, invoking the exhausted specters of smallpox and polio. But he was firm on one thing: “we shouldn’t force people to take vaccines. I believe in freedom.” Elon developed the theme, adding, “We should try as much as possible to maximize people’s personal freedom. That’s what’s made America great.”

It was a fascinating, funny, sweeping interview. I’m reluctant to call it Tucker’s best or his most important interview, because there are so many great candidates since the former Fox anchor got fired and started his own gig. But you cannot deny that we live in a remarkable period in history where we enjoy the opportunity to hear directly from the world’s richest and most productive man in something close to real-time.

We are the first generation in human history to enjoy that opportunity. Think about that.

Speaking of productivity, a topic about which Elon is a real expert, he described the left’s appalling war against builders. “Every year,” he explained, “we’re making it harder in America for actual builders to get things done. We’re in this weird Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged scenario, where there’s yet another regulation, another rule. That phrase from Atlas Shrugged, ‘oh you’ll manage, oh you’ll manage.’ Eventually, you’re like, you can’t get anything done.”

Elon said his whole once-democrat family is becoming Trump voters. “You know what’ll turn you from a democrat to a Republican pretty fast? Getting punched in the face while you walk down the street,” he explained, adding “and then no action being taken against those who hurt you.” The space billionaire described how his former-democrat mother lives in New York City, and several of her previously-democrat friends have been red-pilled by enduring a transformative experience that literally woke them up like a punch in the nose.

Not himself especially religious (Elon called himself a “cultural Christian”), the world’s most successful and biggest-thinking entrepreneur spoke to the critical importance to civilization of religion. “Nature abhors a vacuum,” he explained. “So when you have an increase in the secular nature of society, for most people, they need something to fill that void. And so they adopt a religion —it’s not called a religion. But like, woke, the woke mind virus. It takes the place of religion, and they feel it with religious fervor. Essentially like a holy war.”

It’s a long interview. But how often do you get the chance to hear unfiltered thoughts of the most transformative and influential man on the planet? Make time to listen to the whole thing. You can thank me later.