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Trump is 6ft 3. This makes both Elon and JD look about 6ft 5. The 5ft 4 Kamala would look like a midget standing next to this group.
Trump is 6ft 3. This makes both Elon and JD look about 6ft 5. The 5ft 4 Kamala would look like a midget standing next to this group.
I gather the 'stumping Trump' is a patriot who is happy to promote the role, but at least he appears competent vs. the Kamala avatar (Baphomet military guy) or the various Biden Actors.
Trump is 6ft 3. This makes both Elon and JD look about 6ft 5. The 5ft 4 Kamala would look like a midget standing next to this group.
Guys JD Vance is in the foreground, forced perspective makes him seem taller.
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. ...
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:
It was probably taken by Baron. That kid is really getting tall.
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.
(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
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.
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 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.
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