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JambledUpWords said:
I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump’s stadium at Oklahoma had twice the capacity or more compared to Kennedy’s stadium.
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BOK Arena? 20,000 is the capacity but that's seating alone, modern buildings can afford far more in standing room compared to ones like Boston Garden.
Knowing how they manage crowds, they'd fill that thing quick if it weren't for the protesters.
 
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It's HK-47 said:
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They are really butthurt about that water.

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heyitsmike said:
I pay to go to a baseball game and I'm still not always in my seat in time for first pitch. I'm sorry, but them expecting everyone to have arrived in time to listen to Eric Trump, no offense to him, is laughable.

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So according to Pakman, there are simultaneously lots of people and few people... Interesting.

These losers are once again going to convince themselves that Trump has no support.
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When watching my A-League club on TV I noticed that you can't try and predict the crowd until about the 15 minute mark. My club gets shit crowds but I bet they'll still draw better than Biden.
 
Harvey Danger said:
They are really butthurt about that water.

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Just seeing these people seethe over something so minor is hilarious. If they didn’t screech about Trump drinking water with two hands, he probably wouldn’t have been so brazen about drinking water with one hand.
 
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JambledUpWords said:
Just seeing these people seethe over something so minor is hilarious. If they didn’t screech about Trump drinking water with two hands, he probably wouldn’t have been so brazen about drinking water with one hand.
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He's actually doing something really deep here. There's an old medieval concept concerning kings, relating the body politic and the body natural. The king embodies two sides: political power, which is greater than any man; and humanity, which tempers the coldness of the law. Both bodies are united in the person of the king, who literally personifies the health of the nation. This mirrors Christian theology where Christ was simultaneously 100% God and 100% man.

For all the pros and cons of monarchy, one of the obvious things it does is give a visual representation of the national state. And when the king gets sick, it implies the nation itself is sick. This association shows up in a bunch of different cultures, not just English Middle Ages. Depending on which culture and time you're in, it is taken more literally or more metaphorically, but it's still a powerful symbol: an ailing monarch reduces the confidence in your nation.

The modern emphasis on a person's mind over their body is relatively new to the collective subconscious. Our "mental software" hasn't fully upgraded, and we sill have these kind of associations to the people we look to as leaders. The medieval political theology was just a written-out explanation of what people naturally gravitated to, and when we lack alternative "intellectual" institutions that rationalize things otherwise, we fall back on these tendencies.

TL;DR Which is a long-winded way of saying, Trump had to prove he's healthy in order to make the nation itself feel healthy. The claims that he was sick was a political attack on his actions, not just on his person.

I don't think Trump is a medieval theological scholar, of course. But he intuitively understands the need to show personal health in order to restore political trust. Especially at a time when viral sickness is rampant (Kung Flu), and the political order has collapsed in cities (CHAZ). That's a double-dip into symbolism, and he addressed it head on.
 
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Harvey Danger said:
TL;DR Which is a long-winded way of saying, Trump had to prove he's healthy in order to make the nation itself feel healthy. The claims that he was sick was a political attack on his actions, not just on his person.

I don't think Trump is a medieval theological scholar, of course. But he intuitively understands the need to show personal health in order to restore political trust.
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It’s quite common for many world leaders to do that. JFK had photos of himself released with him doing sports to show how fit he was (in reality, JFK had many health problems, so the photos were created to give the impression of better health). Mussolini also had video footage of him doing heavy labor to show how strong he was. You’re right that it definitely does impact how people feel about their nation depending on the health and fitness of their leaders. That said, it may not be as deep as you made it. I don’t really think this has much to do with medieval theology, so much as the age old concept of healthy leader = healthy nation.
 
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JambledUpWords said:
That said, it may not be as deep as you made it. I don’t really think this has much to do with medieval theology, so much as the age old concept of healthy leader = healthy nation.
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Yeah, it's not theology, it's symbolism. We've had 3 weeks in the riot thread of blackpilling and doom-mongering. People believe that the threat isn't a misguided political opponent or errant ideology; it's the nation itself that was sick and collapsing. The timing of the ramp and the water stories fed into that. To a lesser extent, having senile Biden be the opposing choice reinforced the feeling.

Trump couldn't articulate the concept of "body politic" if you sat down and wrote it out for him. But he understands that he's a populist President in a nation currently being driven by emotions and feelings. He could've merely dismissed the stories as fake news, as he has so often before. But he grasped that it required a physical show of health, and dismissive scorn for the accusation.

For all the pretensions we put on about being a modern society driven by science, reason, and facts, we're still human. And we change our politics according to our emotions, not the other way around. (The BLM riots are proof enough of that on the other side.)
 
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According to the top 3 mirrors of the rally on Youtube, about 3.5 million people watched it from home. That's about 7 times the number of viewers watching CNN at any given time, even considering the fucked up way they over-count their viewers.

Edit: Beanie man is saying that internet viewers were as high as 8 million across multiple platforms, and that's not counting television.

Edit 2: Beanie man is saying 12-13 million.

 
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