... which is going to feel different to different people, perhaps depending on whether the music has any context for you. Me, I know the music is called the "Undertaker" theme, and though I know what an undertaker is — and I don't think you want the leader of your country analogized to a professional who disposes of the dead — I don't know who "The Undertaker" is — some movie/TV/video game character? Just off-hand, I'm reading Trump's message there as a threat to his antagonists, the so-called "enemy within," to whom he's going to say "You're fired" when he wins, which he wants them to believe he will. It's some scary music for them, but it's delightful to his admirers.Trump (who was 3 hours late to his rally this evening) took the stage to ominous instrumental music.
— Jake Traylor (@jake__traylor) October 26, 2024
He stood on stage for several minutes as it played out. pic.twitter.com/Ruwlyg1idG
I got to Traylor's tweet from "Meanwhile in Michigan, Trump has finally arrived" (Intelligencer): "He made it to the stage of his Traverse City rally three hours late, then stood there as they played the full Undertaker theme song (instead of the typical Lee Greenwood)."
The link on "Undertaker theme song" goes to YouTube: "WWE The Undertaker Theme Song 'Rest In Peace.'" We can listen to the song, which takes 6+ minutes and look at an image of a sneering man in a black leather hat and a low-cut black leather coat. Presumably, this person is a wrestler with the stage name The Undertaker.
But let's read his Wikipedia page. I don't follow wrestling — not since the days of Gorilla Monsoon and The Golden Terror — but I don't want to be a complete ignoramus about a significant cultural figure, and I can see from Wikipedia that he was a big star in World Wrestling Entertainment. The character, The Undertaker, played by Mark William Calaway, persisted for 3 decades, and I'm not going to try to summarize how that got started and changed over the years. It's a complicated story that's been entertaining people for a long long time. I suspect that those people look with disdain on callow newsmen who hear the theme and call it, generically, "ominous instrumental music."
Let's remember that Trump will put on the biggest show of his campaign tomorrow at Madison Square Garden, and Madison Square Garden is the biggest wrestling venue of the modern world. I think Trump wanted to establish that great wrestling theme as his theme so it will work especially well when it plays over his entrance into Madison Square Garden.
Perhaps the newsfolk who'd be inclined to just call it something like "ominous instrumental music" will be up to speed by tomorrow. But perhaps not. They might prefer to string along their own followers with whatever descriptions they can type out that make Trump seem weak, weird, and confused. They're so dishonest!
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The Undertaker -- legendary pro wrestler.
RIP democrats!
There's a professional wrestling script where the Good Guy gets hammered mercilessly by the Bad Guy, but then at the last minute revives and kicks ass, to the delight of the crowd.
That crowd would never fit in the Tampa Sportatorium.
Please don't forget to pay your respects to the Undertaker's urn-clutching manager/side-kick, Paul Bearer.
I don't know The Undertaker either, but I read that Trump just did his podcast.
Ominous portends something bad imminent. I'm not sure what you call music that say something bad is happening right now. Whatever the word, it does not describe John Williams playing Bach.
Frankly, I thought it a bad choice. His campaign has been so 'up' these last couple of weeks. He's been funny and engaging. The Lovable Trump that appeals to so many. And all week the left has had the tops of their heads exploding off as John Kelly proclaimed Trump really IS Hitler. They've been doubling down hard on Trump being evil. Evil Trump instead of Lovable Trump.
So what does his team do: Play Evil Trump music and lose their upbeat, we're above the fray appearance.
I thought it a bizarre, wrong move. Keep it upbeat. Ignore the bullshit.
Trump has swapped out his trademark red tie for a yellow one. I wonder why?
Aaaand with this, even Zeihan concedes that Harris is toast. If he didn't see Trump as inevitable, he wouldn;t be posting this video. He makes some good points in this one regarding the Ukraine mess and NATO's options under a Trump administration.
Europe Takes One Step Closer to Nukes...
Possible themes: Halloween is coming up? Kamala is toast?
Yellow tie matches lettering on Dark Maga hat?
It made me think that The Undertaker had died. But, nope. He had Trump on his podcast and endorsed him.
The music is ominous to the people Trump will take out once he regains complete Presidential immunity, brought to you by the new Supreme Court.
Democrats are FOR complete Presidential immunity when Barack Obama is the one doing the killing of American citizens who haven't even been convicted of any crimes, much less charged with them. They were for that then and they're for it now because they obviously haven't arrested Barack Obama for those killings. They're legal.
And they're gonna be legal when Donald Trump does it too.
That's ominous. To them.
It reflects light back into the night-vision scopes of the assassin's that will be lining the rafters of Madison Square Garden shortly.
The Harris campaign hasn't been hacked?
Must be that Tampon Tim is on speed dial.
And highly popular monster truck too.
They have been hacked. A bunch of people showed up to a Harris campaign rally in Houston and suddenly Willie Nelson and Beyonce started giving a concert, totally drowning out Harris' speech.
You can tell because CNN has no accounts of her speech. She said nothing of note that could be heard by the audience owing to these two hackers taking over her rally.
The Undertaker had Trump on his podcast. An he endorsed Trump.
People still cannot figure out why Trump got millions more votes than their stuffed shirt GOPe cuck losers.
Awesome and for me, very educational. Thanks Wince!
"I thought it a bizarre, wrong move. Keep it upbeat. Ignore the bullshit."
When he does upbeat, like "YMCA" and "God Bless The USA" and does his little dance, they portray him as a lightweight clown.
Whatever move he makes will be the wrong move.
But that's a wrong move for them — them = the elite media — because they've turned him into an underdog. That's why it looks like I'm promoting him. I just follow the elite media and pick on their lies/distortion/bias.
Trump changes it up so you can’t get bored with his rallies.
You are platforming Literally Hitler™ by discussing the Democrats lies/distortion/bias, acting as an agent of Russia, if not in actual fact being one. Your posts have all the hallmarks of Russia Collusion, Ann. You are a threat to OUR Democracy™.
See how easy this is once you get their lingo down?
The Undertaker theme is tongue in cheek, obviously, but your Trump-hating, humorless scold doesn't appreciate the joke. Trump's rally-going supporters think it's hilarious and fun. Like the Devil, Trump's haters can't stand being laughed at. That's not to say there aren't some pants being pissed in Washington DC right now.
Early voted and stood in line for over 40 minutes. Actual voting took about 10 mins max. The process was flawless. It's been a while since I had to wait in line to early vote at a presidential election. Never have i seen the large number of people in line using walkers and wheelchairs. Even in Florida this was unusual. The line was as long when I was done and leaving as it was when I got to the early vote location.
I think TheUndertaker, I think the monster truck, but that's me...
Obviously the fight is over low engagement men. Harris offered $20K "repayment optional" loans to black men, she frets every day about not being able to reach men, no matter how many times she calls them sexist and racist. This is how Trump does it. Trump doesn't think all the time in indicative and declarative mode, you know, the way AI does. He is not a simple-minded and "humorless scold," like Harris. He uses irony, he uses drama, and the conclusion these low engagement men draw from this performance by Trump, even subconsciously, is that he sympathizes with them, he doesn't hate them, he likes them.
The silliest thing about Harris' $20,000 bribe attempt at black men is that she limited it to only 1,000,000 men.
There are currently 20 million black men in America so you only had a 5% chance of getting your payoff.
Now, Harris has zero intention of ever fulfilling these payoffs. She knows they're patently unconstitutional and some friendly court will get her off the hook by ruling it out ... then she can come back to black men and say "Well, at least I tried."
So why cheap out on the bribe? Why extend this bribe to only 5% of America's black men.
It's stupid.
This is why I'm voting for Trump. He's not that fucking stupid.
Here is Undertaker taking on the Hot Ones wing challenge.
Speaking of a humorless scold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxHVrU-N26M
One key to understanding Trump was his foray with WWE. White collar people really look down on it, but it is essentially melodrama that appeals to our lizard brains. I stopped watching it at about 13.
“And highly popular monster truck too.”
Our 5 year old grandson would be losing it over this.
Watching Tampon Timmy hit the stage - any stage - and the resultant over-amped mincing, stomping, arm-waving, heart-tapping, priest-humping clownshow, one must conclude the corksoaker’s on speed.
Its amazing how Trump (whos almost 80) and almost killed, is out there giving giving hour long speeches, going on Rogan for 3 hours, doing interviews and expressing what he will do for the USA.
And Kamala, hides way. Doesn't do any interviews unless they support her. Doesn't give speeches without a telepromter. Doesn't do townhalls unless she has pre-scripted questions from friendly audiences. And generally just sits in DC saying nothing.
Of course the MSM campaigns for her. Writing puff pieces and attacking Trump 365/24/7. Biden had the excuse of Covid. Kamala just doesn't have what it takes.
I stopped watching it at that age as well, but white collar people think they are "intelligent" for looking down on it. In reality they are dangerously unaware of cultural trends and basic acting methods which fueled the Trump persona, and by extension the MAGA movement. No wonder they want to imprison Vince McMahon. But it's nothing President Trump can't nullify, leaving the McMahons stronger than ever.
“As a lifelong Democrat, I CLEARLY will be voting for who will be our 2nd Black President: Donald Trump. My man was shot, worked at McDonald’s and has kids from 3 different baby mamas. He’s blacker than Tupac.”
—— Tyler Fischer
Trump last night: “Tonight, the Middle East is a tinderbox. It's ready to explode. People are being killed... Nobody is in charge. Joe Biden is asleep, and Kamala is at a dance party with Beyonce.”
This was fact checked to point out that Harris and Beyoncé did not actually dance at her rally.
The red one got grease spots on it from when Trump was cooking fries.
(A) the clip made me laugh, so I think a lot of other people will see it and laugh too and (B) I suspect Trump's rally audience is familiar with the Undertaker theme in a way that I (personally) am not. I am familiar with the character only indirectly -- podcasters and Youtubers I follow sometimes talk about pro wrestling, so I've heard of him and other famous wrestling characters that way.
Dixcus…
Your description of the Harris rally in Houston is a complete lie. I watched the entire rally and no such things happened. BUT there were pro-Palestinian protestors there who did distrupt for a moment. Her speech was heard in its entirety. Willie Nelson and Beyonce were not on the stage at the time either.
I will make a prediction — and save you the trouble of reading the polls.
On November 6th — or thereabouts — Trump will declare himself the winner.
In the following weeks either Harris will accept defeat or Trump will claim that the election has been stolen, call for counts to be halted — or continue — and launch a series of baseless legal actions.
Then the fun will begin.
All the rest is noise.
Kamala said nothing about anything that is actually going on today. The middle east is on the brink of all out war and Kamala has nothing to say about it because she caused the war.
This is the most pathetic candidate ever put in front of the American people and there have been some bad ones in our history.
Rich’s hat is currently @ 99.995% capacity with rank codswallop intermittently spilling over.
That is all.
White collar Republicans just watch US Politics instead of WWE.
At least WWE gives a nod to being fake. People watching and participating in US Politics actually take themselves seriously.
I agree. It will be clear on November 5th that Trump got the most legitimate votes.
Democrats will claim it takes days to count and start trying to make up the difference. They have already been caught cheating in multiple places.
The only question is how obvious the Democrats are going to be at cheating.
The Trump campaign released a list of 29 people who will speak/perform at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden tomorrow. The list ranges from Mike Johnson to Rudy Giuliani.
Not on the list: The 7 Republicans running in New York's competitive House races and Melania/Barron Trump.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/a10096d3-f985-4122-9ac0-b518b6ecd403
It’s a veritable “who’s who” of “who?”
(Your URL didn't take, FYI.)
He forgot 'unfairly prosecuted on trumped-up charges-'
The MSG speaker list:
Sen. JD Vance
Speaker Mike Johnson
Rep. Elise Stefanik
Rep. Byron Donalds
Tulsi Gabbard
Rudy Giuliani
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Lara Trump
Eric Trump
Donald Trump Jr.
Elon Musk
Dan Scavino
Stephen Miller
Dana White
Tucker Carlson
Brooke Rollins
Steve Witkoff
Howard Lutnick
Grant Cardone
Sergio Gor
Michael Harris Jr.
Tiffany Justice
Lee Greenwood
Christopher Macchio
Mary Millben
Sid Rosenberg
Kill Tony
Scott Lobaido
David Rem
Nightmare rotation
In Hollywood this would be labeled a “D-“ list. They don’t get an F as I’m always entertained by Giuliani just rambling on about absolutely nothing.
They've polled people who were invited to hear Kamala speak at length about her election.
She turns off almost EVERYONE who she is presented to. That is why they are hiding her. She is like Hillary Clinton: The less people know about Hillary and the less people ever heard Hillary or saw Hillary, the more they liked Hillary.
Then once they met Hillary, they viscerally hated her. And for good reason. NOBODY likes Hillary Clinton. Nobody.
Inga, you really, really have absolutely zero sense of humor or appreciation for irony. The point of my post is to illustrate the obvious: Nobody comes to a Kamala rally. They go to see Beyonce and Willie Nelson. They SIT THROUGH the Kamala crap to get a free concert out of the deal. Everybody is aware of this ridiculous tactic to try to falsely portray Kamala Harris as being popular when nobody likes her.
"It's not fake, it's scripted."
Figure that out, and you'll figure the game out.
The world is on fire. Israel and Iran, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Gaza, Houthis, Ukraine, and where's the President of the United States? Where's the VP as the President is gaga?
Another lie by Dixcus he’s going to say was a joke, sure, right. Dixcus must think you people here are stupid. He comes across as a foreign disinformationalist or a moby. There were 30 thousand people at the rally in Houston, people were not leaving after Willie Nelson and Beyonce who did not perform, BTW. She gave a short speech.
The task at hand is to select the President, no to cast The West Wing.
Dang it. Ok, https://youtu.be/zav8i32PCio?si=qAr5xMg03qDwGPcd
Ah, Tucker Carlson who has actual Nazis on his show. Nice. He should come on stage and yell, “Who’s your Daddy?!”
Bich and Inga are literal comedy gold the last couple of weeks.
There has been substantial use of the opera sung Nessun Dorma at both the RNC in Milwaukee and Trump rallies. It was made famous as it played at the end of the movie “The sum of all fears” . Enjoy its beauty and deeper meaning.
https://x.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1814156315079463194
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Dixcus killed Inga.
( A joke, not literally)
I don't know why, with the homophobic vibe of his campaign, he plays a song glorifying guys picking up guys at the YMCA.
Newspaper description of Beyonce Rally, featuring Willie Nelson and in very small type, down at the bottom ... Kamala Harris:
Beyoncé fans furious she didn't perform live at Kamala Harris Houston rally: 'We wanted a free concert!'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14005397/beyonce-performance-kamala-harris-houston-rally-texas.html
Dixcus sites the Daily Mail to spread yet more lies.LOL.
Kamala Booed at Rally After Beyoncé Concert Promise Turns Out to Be Another Hoax.
Look at the disapproval on the faces of the people behind her.
Ominous music needs a sting. Today called a horror sting. It's used in scary radio narratives.
But Kamala has Beyonce performing at her rally right?
Oh wait she just played Beyonce songs and got booed. nm.
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I thought it a bizarre, wrong move. Keep it upbeat. Ignore the bullshit.”
Oof. Trump is targeting a specific demographic. Their grandmothers will never see this.
I’m impressed with what an intelligent, asymmetric, campaign the Trump people are running. Contrast this with Romney in 2012 and you’ll understand why the GOPe is a slowly rotting corpse. If Trump can overcome the fraud machine this year I’m guessing it might spur profound changes in the Democrat party as well. Who knows? We might be headed back to normalcy….
My niece and her husband were at the TC rally last night. Ended up behind Trump, up about 5 rows or so. They had a good time.
“I don't know why…” may be the best summation of your life, Fredo.
That is great stuff!
Trump on Rogan’s show is good, but one may also wish to view former CIA officer Amaryllis Fox Kennedy (RFK Jr.’s DIL) appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show. Quite an indictment of the Democrat Party. We think it’s bad, but we don’t have a clue just how deep the rot is. Incredible.
PUPPET SHOW!
& Kamala Harris Rally
The monsrer truck was Gravedigger.
OM, quit being so dishonest. Harris wasn’t being booed, the pro Palestinian protestor was being booed . The audience after booing at the protestor immediately starts chanting “Kamala, Kamala, Kamala!” It’s a LIE that she was booed. I didn’t think you would sink to such levels OM.
Different segment, Inga.
I don't post intentionally dishonest stuff.
OM…
Harris was NOT booed by her own supporters, your story is dishonest.
“Vice President Kamala Harris was reportedly heckled and booed by several Donald Trump supporters who crashed her rally in Houston, Texas on Friday. The current Democratic candidate was there as part of a final stretch of campaign stops in order to reach voters before the upcoming election.
Harris was greeted by a very enthusiastic crowd which only seemed to grow as she began to speak. The commotion left Harris reportedly trying to keep command of her event.
“I love that there is so much enthusiasm, but let’s talk about the work that we have to do, because we’ve got 11 days to see this through, and we will win,” she said. According to the Associated Press, moments later, a man was escorted out by security.“
https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/breaking-kamala-harris-heckled-booed-770434
I don't know about you guys, but as for me, the fact that ultra-pampered A-list movie stars, the ones loaded down with the filthy lucre for looking good while playing pretend don't like Donald Trump and prefer Harris, well, that does it, I am switching my vote to Harris!
Zeihan is a historically ignorant hysteric. He never once mentions the obvious. A negotiated peace pushed by an American president who isn’t a grifting witless war pig.
"We wanted a free concert!"
Free? Definitely sounds like the Democrat's target demographic. Not a smart move to piss them off.
Plot twist: Trump will not be the 47th president, but the 48th.
For me, it was the trans “Days of Girlhood” TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney promoted by Bud Light.
Do I get refunds on all the MAGA 45-47 hats I have bought?
OTT Kari Lake remarked that as a middle-aged woman she was flattered that Bill Clinton said she was physically attractive, but she thought Bill liked them much younger.
Trump owns the pro-wrestling audience, because he used to appear at wrestling events. I half thought the Clintons' "no holds barred" style would give Hillary an advantage with WWE fans, but of course I was wrong.
Bill Clinton said Kari Lake was attractive. He also implied that Lake and Vance were "prostrate before the master [Donald Trump]." Good for her for picking up the compliment and ignoring the rest of Clinton's trashy speech.
The only possible reason for this to not be decided that night, is voter fraud by democrats. You know it. There is no excuse for this to happen. It’s the kinda crap they do in third world shitholes. And here now. You support that shit. You’re the fascistic bad guy.
Hey, Inga! The Mirror has some really good reportage!
I'm definitely going to add them to browsing repertoire.
When Rich’s hat hits five 9’s capacity - which it can be relied on to do - that will signal there’s less than a minute until the defecation hits teh ventilation.
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