The backup plan is A Weekend at Donnie’s.

Astonishingly, most of Twitter users commenting on the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation’s instigating post are calling them full of shit in claiming the ad “misrepresents” the original clip.

https://xcancel.com/RonaldReagan/status/1981524620265046408

https://xcancel.com/shelcou/status/1981610518709186994

The unedited version even more supports his distaste for tariffs. He was a big fan of immigration too. Now the stewards of his legacy are bootlickers, something Reagan never was.

https://xcancel.com/Misanthropist_X/status/1981580610872479969

Did you listen to the link you posted? Reagan actually went even further criticizing tariffs than in the clip from the commercial.

I don’t think they actually think they’re smart. I think they’re just selfish assholes.

Time and time again, I come across the argument that “it will make the price of everything to up because now businesses have to pay workers more.”

Ok—so? Businesses are forced to pay workers to a standard that allows everybody to live without drowning in debt and inescapable poverty. Isn’t it a good thing that people won’t be suffering?

No, not to them. Their wages won’t increase equivalently, and now they have to pay more to maintain their standard of luxury. It’s wealth redistribution away from those who can afford excess towards the people who can’t afford basics. They actively choose not to support that because it’s a personal inconvenience to them.

It’s an amazing demonstration of “equality looks like oppression to the privileged” and “fuck you, I got mine” attitude.

Even if the server had zero knowledge of your private keys (which is doubtful), I’m sure the client code won’t have any backdoors. It’s only the social media “platform” owned by the world’s most thin-skinned billionaire.

if (message.contains("elon") || message.contains("musk")) {
    upload(chat.privateKey)
}

remember when Trump pretended to care about this kinda thing?

Not really. He appointed a puppy-killer as the head of DHS and a brain-worm addled deer hunter as the head of the FDA. It’s been pretty clear that he supports armed thugs killing animals for leisure and gratification.

Now, unarmed immigrants not killing or eating pets, on the other hand…

I think you mean 99.5%. The mask is off now, and I doubt they care much about preserving the illusion of democracy now that they think they’re untouchable.

The fact that that statement was never treated as treason or conspiracy to commit an insurrection is both disappointing and expected.

No one thought this would happen to this extreme.

No, it was actually pretty easy to imagine when:

1. Trump told people to “find votes” for him;
2. Trump had himself pre-emptively certified as the winner in some states; and
3. Trump used stochastic terrorism to incite a riot outside a government building, as a response to his impending loss of power.

All of that screams “power-hungry facist”, and the predictable outcome of someone like that regaining legal authority, obviously, is an attempt to transition towards fascism so they can retain that once-lost power indefinitely.

I wouldn’t count on it. I’m 100% expecting them to follow up on this in another update, blocking devices from wirelessly debugging themselves for “security” reasons.

That suggests Trump will take the repercussions for them. Maybe try this template?

https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/277315444/Big-guy-protects-small-guy

No no, they were engraved in the matches before they were burned to ash.

Unless he actually answers, it’s probably safe to assume Sr. Keyboard Warrior.

Playing Devil’s advocate here:

Releasing the Epstein files is something that people on both the left and right can mostly agree on. Even a subset of MAGA want it.

On the other hand, killing protesters is disappointingly more of a partisan concern. Traditional Republicans probably wouldn’t approve, but MAGA has been brainwashed into supporting “retaliatory” violence against anyone left of them.

Pushing the Epstein files will, therefore, be more effective when trying to get people together.

I know it’s a joke, but some of them think they’re doing exactly that. The propaganda machine has them convinced that they’re the real Americans and everybody left of them (which is basically everybody but other MAGA) are anti-American, Antifa, terrorist, communists.

To prevent future radicalization and violence, the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit must appear before the Oversight Committee and explain what actions they will take to ensure their platforms are not exploited for nefarious purposes

In other words, explain what you’ll be doing to add censorship to your platforms.

They really could not have picked a worse demographic to try that on. Not only do online gamers despise censorship and policing, their vocal minority is known for being extremely toxic and unrelenting. The icing on the cake is that a good number of them are right-wing, too.

Have fun dealing with the shitstorm you’re about to create!

Remove half of the context and it finally becomes accurate:

No one has ever been as hard as I am when it comes to exploitation, particularly, they say, the sexual exploitation of children. No one has ever been as hard.

Hypocrisy is a demonstration of weakness in accepting fault and/or being able to justify one’s position in the face of contradicting evidence.

The only reason it manages to work for him is because his followers are the manifestation of confirmation bias and are willfully ignorant about anything he says or does that they don’t agree with.

Saying they are complicit suggests they’re quietly looking the other way. If you look at our good friends at Fox or Newsmax, they are enthusiastically going whole-hog into it.

People with high end systems (5090s etc) are apparent having a lot of performance issues, and are unable to run the game at 60fps/4k without AI upscaling or frame generation.

It’s even better when you realize that the performance degrades the longer you’ve been playing that session. It’s unoptimized and leaky.

Wow, you weren’t kidding.

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