১৮ অক্টোবর, ২০২৪

"See I'm obviously here in person. This is me not not a clone of me" — Elon Musk does a solo pro-Trump town hall.

That was yesterday, in Folsom, Pennsylvania (near Philadelphia).

"I think the things we we we all want are simple... sensible. I mean common sense things um you know we we obviously want we want secure borders we want safe cities uh you know sensible spending and you know you know what I'm I'm being told at times that these are like right-wing values. I'm like, you are insane. They're literally the fundamental values that made America what it is today and anyone who's against those things is fundamentally anti-American and the hell with them. Yeah.... Like you should be able to feel safe walking around American cities um and it's not just you know Philadelphia has a challenge um New York has got has a challenge uh every major city in the US. Like, my you know my mom lives in New York for example three of our friends have been assaulted on the street this year. You know it's it's like and it's getting worse and and now if when she takes her dog for a walk she has to stay you know inside of the building so that so she can call for help if need be this is not the future we want um and and if we get if we get four more years of this I mean we're going to be fully Mad Max. You know and it's like oh it's it's nice to watch a Madmax movie but we don't want to be in the Madmax movie...."

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RCOCEAN II বলেছেন...

Yep. Musk reminds me of Scott Adams in terms of his politics. They're just moderate, pragmatic, non-idealogical Businessmen. Which is what Adams really is. They want "Good GOvernment" and "the trains to run on time". And they're shocked that lots of people don't care about either.

When men like this realize our leftwing elite have gone bonkers and are out-of-Control, you know things have gotten bad.

traditionalguy বলেছেন...

Poor Elon is a captive of Reality, he cannot survive in FantasyLand, and that makes him a right wing MAGA nut. To Mars with him.

Political Junkie বলেছেন...

Fight Elon, Fight

mikee বলেছেন...

That ending of "to hell with them" is the correct summation of how to deal with
leftists and their opinions.

Kevin বলেছেন...

What other person on the planet would have to assure the audience they were not a clone?

Dave Begley বলেছেন...

He's right. We will end up like Mad Max. Or maybe "Escape from New York."

Inga বলেছেন...

Cringe.

Yancey Ward বলেছেন...

What part did you disagree with, Inga?

Peachy বলেছেন...

If you like crime - vote Democrat.

Hassayamper বলেছেন...

Show some respect to the man who is destined to be the most consequential human being since Churchill.

Real American বলেছেন...

Democrats plan for crime: Increase it
1. Disarm citizens
2. Keep criminals on the streets
3. Defund the police

hombre বলেছেন...

Too many "you knows", but sound.

Kevin বলেছেন...

What she means is she felt the feminism leaving her body.

Eva Marie বলেছেন...

Both Elon and Trump never raise their voices. They never have to raise their voices to make a point. Yesterday Kamala was making a speech in front of an audience and she started yelling something about Trump. The women at all the anti Israel protests also did the yelling bit. It’s such a turn off. I discussed this with a female friend. She made the point that when someone starts yelling, your anxiety level goes up and you pay attention to your own agitation more than you do to what the person is saying. It makes you more compliant, submissive. Maybe Kamala thinks this keeps her staff in line. But I think it makes them less prone to be truly helpful. No one wants to incur the wrath of their boss. But silence doesn’t mean agreement. Yelling seems to be more socially acceptable coming from a woman but it’s counterproductive.

Howard (not that Howard) বলেছেন...

What's "cringe" for you is that he's a real person, with real thoughts and emotions. Not made-up ones designed to play to cretins.

Howard (not that Howard) বলেছেন...

Hate it when people speak like normal people, with all their mistakes from speech class back to haunt them, he said ruefully.

Original Mike বলেছেন...

"I'm like, you are insane."

It is insane. I truly don't understand democrat voters.

Lem Vibe Bandit বলেছেন...

It’s funny he was near Folsom PA, when he and Tucker were yucking it up, just days ago, about Musk going to prison if Kamala wins.

Lem Vibe Bandit বলেছেন...

Inga uses “cringe”, when we all know she wants to say “retard”.

rehajm বলেছেন...

In NY public schools they herd all the smart kids together so they don't do damage to the regular school population. Many of my friends speak like Elon...stereotypical nerd behavior...

Scott Patton বলেছেন...

About a year ago, I commented either here or on Locals that Trump should reject the "red" team color in favor of gold. It's total bullshit that the GOP let the lefty culture get away with making the Dems blue instead of the more appropriate red. Letting the lefties get away with shit like that is one of the gazillion ways the GOP ended up with Trump. It's too late now, but if he had gotten a bee in his MAGA bonnet about it, he is one of the few people that might be able to push through such a change.

Eva Marie বলেছেন...

Agreed.

planetgeo বলেছেন...

Speak, Nurse Ratched. Explain to us with your advanced wisdom why the common sense things Musk mentioned are bad and therefore are not acceptable in your Democrat vision for America.

loudogblog বলেছেন...

Mad Max is a good analogy. But not the sequels. I honestly think that even though the original Mad Max was the cheapest made film in the series, it's the best one. In the original Mad Max, the police (called "the bronze" because of their bronze badges) have to deal with a criminal biker gang that is out of control. When they actually arrest one of them, the court has to let him go because none of the witnesses show up to the trial. The police are not supported by the system. They're underfunded and have no support from the public. Eventually, officer Max realizes that he can't bring the gang to justice using the system. So after the gang attacks his wife and son, he goes rogue and dispenses justice himself. (Like Charles Bronson in Death Wish) Unlike the sequels, it's a society that is not too different from our own. It's a city with cars, trains, bars, hospitals and electricity. Just no law and order. (And Max's Ford XB Falcon police car is the last of the V-8s.)

Here's a pro tip for watching the movie: The American audio track that American International Pictures did for the American release is terrible. A lot of the dubbed voices are almost cartoon like. Get a DVD or Blu Ray that has the original Australian audio track (and the original actor's voices) and watch the film with that.

loudogblog বলেছেন...

Musk is not a great public speaker. His talents lie elsewhere.

MadTownGuy বলেছেন...

It's Tim Russert's fault.

planetgeo বলেছেন...

America has definitely morphed into Mad Max times in several of our Blue cities, most notably San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis, and New York. Criminality is essentially "legal" in these cities and openly supported by criminal-coddling DAs and Democrat city councils. I have no idea why anyone would want to be a cop in any of these cities. Frankly, the problem would be cleared up quickly if all the cops were gone entirely, so nobody was protecting the criminals anymore and they could be disposed of the old fashioned way.

Eva Marie বলেছেন...

MadTownGuy says
“It's Tim Russert's fault.”
No. Prior to that, the colors on election night switched between red and blue. The majority Democratic news services seized the opportunity to saddle Republicans with red which for the past 100 years was associated with communism. And per usual Republicans just went along with it. I can guarantee you, if that election year TV graphics had shown Dems as red, the colors would have been switched in the next election cycle regardless of what Russert said.

Drago বলেছেন...
এই মন্তব্যটি লেখক দ্বারা সরানো হয়েছে।
Drago বলেছেন...

"cringe"

The reply of an utter moron, a walking Dunning-Krueger confronted by genius that is advancing the human race.....but does not want to be controlled by P-Inga's New Soviet Democratical Party..therefore he must be destroyed.

When people wonder what sort of people loved living in East Germany and the Soviet Union and Castro's Cuba, you are looking right at them when you read P-Inga's posts.

But others, light years more intelligent than P-Inga see the truth....as witnessed by the Op-Ed published by none other than Michael Bloomberg today in Bloomberg magazine where Bloomberg lays out the entirety of the insanity and stupidity of the entire legacy space/political performance and cost failures that SpaceX should replace in one fell swoop:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-17/michael-bloomberg-nasa-s-artemis-moon-mission-is-a-colossal-waste

"A celestial irony is that none of this is necessary. A reusable SpaceX Starship will very likely be able to carry cargo and robots directly to the moon — no SLS, Orion, Gateway, Block 1B or ML-2 required — at a small fraction of the cost. Its successful landing of the Starship booster was a breakthrough that demonstrated how far beyond NASA it is moving."

The saddest part: even if P-Inga were to read it, she could never in a million years hope to understand it. She is an intellectual pigmy standing on the shore throwing spears at the steel warship that just arrived and is anchored in the bay.

Drago বলেছেন...

Clearly one of the things that turns P-Inga into a spittle-flecked anger ball, is how Elon is happy to take questions and comments from hundreds of thousands of online listeners and in person attendees for 45 minutes straight...which is another demonstration of how different people of real accomplishment deal with public as contrasted with the drunken, installed by coup, kamala-la-la-la.

Hassayamper বলেছেন...

Frankly, the problem would be cleared up quickly if all the cops were gone entirely, so nobody was protecting the criminals anymore and they could be disposed of the old fashioned way.

Yep. The police are not there to protect the taxpaying honest citizen from criminals. They are to protect the criminals from the citizens, thanks as always to the nice progressive upper middle class white ladies of the late 1800s, whose delicate sensibilities were offended by the sight of rotting corpses dangling from stout oak trees at the crossroads.

I'm fine with going back to the old way of doing things. They very seldom got it wrong, did not incur the ludicrous expense of supporting the criminal scum for decades in prison, and suffered no recidivism.

This will happen one of these days, too, when the effects of our spending spree catch up with us, and military and police salaries are being paid with grocery sacks full of worthless billion-dollar notes.

Peachy বলেছেন...

The left demand a moral-less crime ridden lie filled society. They are demons of a sort.
$oro$ is top demon.

Peachy বলেছেন...

Elon is smart and successful - and cannot be co-opted by the corrupt left. Loyalist Soviet hacks hate that.

JaimeRoberto বলেছেন...

He shot a rocket into space just to watch it fly.

Two-eyed Jack বলেছেন...

Loudogblog said "Musk is not a great public speaker. His talents lie elsewhere."

I must say, his "ums" and "you knows" sound just like me. Kind of normal.

Michael Fitzgerald বলেছেন...

It's obvious that a Party member transcribed the speech since every um, uh, and stutter was included. Party members get their transcriptions cleaned up and edited for clarity, they'll even remove unflattering passages and insert improved content.

AnotherJim বলেছেন...

There is a plague of videos on Youtube that feature an Elon Musk clone doing some kind of tech talk. They offer "free Bitcoin" if you snapshot their QR code and open your Bitcoin wallet to them. What probably happens is your Bitcoin wallet goes empty.

Kakistocracy বলেছেন...

How is Musk going to run a government efficiency department on top of all his other jobs? He is a genius but spreads himself too far. His focus on X (and all his tweets) and SpaceX meant that Tesla is struggling. No new cars models between 2020 and potentially 2026/2027 and years behind Waymo in autonomous are the result of this. At the same time the Chinese are winning share in most markets. Tesla investors are the losers whether Trump wins (Musk has even less time) or looses (Democrats put off by his aggressive campaigning for Trump, buying other EVs).

In 10 years, people will remember Musk for his incredible innovation, not his endorsement in the 2024 election.

Mason G বলেছেন...

"The reply of an utter moron, a walking Dunning-Krueger confronted by genius that is advancing the human race....."

The utter moron is too clueless to realize that it's people like Musk who have created a world where she has the ability to broadcast her ignorance to everybody on the planet with an internet connection. Robert Heinlein was right. He was talking about poverty here, but could just as easily been addressing an overall quality of life...

“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck.”

FastFreddy বলেছেন...

Cringe is what you say when you know you’re wrong but check the box anyway.

Drago বলেছেন...

Your idiocy knows no bounds.

Musk has already announced major leadership changes and promotions at Tesla and SpaceX in just the last weeks and month in order to carve out additional time for other activities.

If you actually paid attention to anything outside the daily DNC, Media Matters and Harry Sisson feeds you would know that already.

I'll chalk up this latest narrative failure on your part to both your standard mendacity + continued reeling from kamala-la-la-la-la's horrific Fox Interview and astonishingly incompetent and cowardly "performance" at the Al Smith dinner along with the implosion of kamala's poll numbers and staffer infighting.

Drago বলেছেন...

"...and years behind Waymo in autonomous..."

Funniest thing I've yet read today.

Drago বলেছেন...

I guess I'll be able to purchase a Waymo as a private vehicle next year....

LOL

Abacus Boy strikes again!

Jim at বলেছেন...

In 10 years, people will remember Musk for his incredible innovation, not his endorsement in the 2024 election.

With any luck, in 18 days nobody will remember you.

Hassayamper বলেছেন...

"Courtesy editing."

Barack Obama got the benefit of it from every media outlet with every word that fell from his mouth. If you recall, he has always been a good speaker when he has a text to follow, but his off-teleprompter interactions were appallingly inarticulate, especially early in his Presidency. Of course, none of his verbal tics and stutters ever made it into print.

In contrast, the news media scum went to great pains to transcribe every single misstatement of George Bush the younger to cast him in the worst possible light.

Jon Ericson বলেছেন...

On one hand, while endlessly entertaining, it is sobering to think that our lefty trolls appear to believe the crap they're pushing.

JIM বলেছেন...

The Oligarchs running the Democrat party thought "fundamentally transforming" America was necessary. People just can't be left to their own thoughts.
Frightened people are easier to manipulate. Trump is the Monster on the loose.

Narayanan বলেছেন...

who will build the 'Mars Dome' and send in Truman Musk show

Rusty বলেছেন...

In what way has he harmed you, Inga? How has he diminished you? What has he taken away from you?
I don't think you know. I think you've simply been told he's an evil person by others that you admire.

walter বলেছেন...

AInga's Migrant Happy Hostel is making good $$$. Improved insulation muffles the rape noise.