Elon Musk interview of Trump hit by technical problems on X

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/elon-musk-interview-trump-x-social-media-network-2024-08-12/

by belter • 2 years ago

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ksaj• 2 years ago

It is definitely weird to see Trump re-using his nuclear threat/joke to Kim Jong Un about the size of his button. I've noticed he's repeating so many of his old quips again. But this particular time didn't even make sense.

belter2• 2 years ago

Reality is stranger than fiction: "Donald Trump is using Jeffrey Epstein’s old jet to fly to campaign events" - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

db48x2• 2 years ago

Why is that strange? Most jets have many owners, and most are sold when the current owner can no longer afford it. That means that most jets were at minimum owned by a failure. And if you’re the type to believe that all rich people are evil criminals, then every jet was owned by an evil criminal to boot. Or a corporation, which some people regard as even worse. The really scary thing is that it might have been owned by an _airline_.

swozey3• 2 years ago

TLDR: Friend and I kept track of Trump "stories" through 3 rallies and our tin foil hat leads to either dementia or him using some dictator cult speech technique to convince people things are true

My friend and I started a drinking game the Trump rally right before Biden dropped out. Then a week later Biden had dropped and Kamala was the competitor, we did the drinking game twice post-Kamala.

First Rally we didn't really know what to expect other than the usual clips but we picked words to drink to. Friend picked; Kamala and something else. I picked shark, hannibal lecter, and electrocution. The top hits. Not super relevant to story though.

Anyway, after playing the same drinking game at 3 rallies this is what we learned:

He tells the exact same stories over and over for 2-3 hours.

We can't figure out if he's reading them from a teleprompter in order or if he's got those specific stories memorized, but he uses the exact same numbers (say crowd size, 50,000) each time. So if he brings up a Kamala crowd size 15 minutes in he'll say 50k, then he'll say the same Kamala crowd size story 45-1hr later, 50k people, no change.

We couldn't figure out if he's telling the stories in some sort of logical order or if they come out completely random because we were just keeping track of specific words and not order. That's why we we're unsure about the teleprompter. A lot of the times right before he breaks into his Hannibal Lecter story he goes over the story of Kamala being a terrible border czar and rapists escaping the insane asylum blahblahblah to Hannibal Lecter blahblah.

But there were times he didnt! One debate he did the insane asylum to Hannibal Lecter story ONCE, but then did the insane aslyum/border tzar story 2-3 other times without bringing up Hannibal Lecter. Obviously I'm paying attention to this because I was drinking to Hannibal Lecter.

At rally 3, our last one, we started to wonder if it's either dementia or my more tin foil hat theory, he's been coached by some dictator or dictator-wannabe (Stephen Miller?) that repeating the same story in a loop over and over somehow digs things into his cult followers little smoohth brains and they become convinced that something ridiculous is true.

After Biden dropped out my friend who picked Kamala basically had to quit the game 5 minutes in because we counted up to I think 40 kamalas before we stopped counting them. Ranting and raving about Kamala.

I know nothing about fascist/dictator/hitler style rabbel rousing but I bet there are a lot of weird psychological tricks that they learn to do to keep a hold of people.

I wonder what his meetings with Putin were like.

belter2• 2 years ago

https://youtu.be/QYwlsesfdLs?t=586

rvz• 2 years ago

Great job by the engineers of X for overcoming that speed-bump. #hugops

verdverm3• 2 years ago

they apparently capped attendance to handle the load, not sure that is what most ops people consider overcoming

hnburnsy• 2 years ago

Musk said they fended off a DDOS.

Elon Musk interview of Trump hit by technical problems on X

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