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Should be a wild four years.

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Moonman exists canonically in the McDonald's universe. It's from an old commercial.
Yeah i knew moonman and those videos of him were originally from something like that. Just wasn't sure if that specific compilation of clips was. It's honestly still pretty sus they used one with him haha, if leftists still had the wind at their sails they would 100% be jumping all over that. It's exactly the kind of "dog whistle" they would sniff out back in 2019.
I'm choosing to believe that whatever zoomer put this montage together was listening to KKKhristmas KKKarols as he did so, though :)
One of my zoomer friends who's kind of wokeish, but who i'm also very close with told me I didn't like bo burnham because "it's an unusual guerilla style internet music that is shocking and asks questions you've never considered". She's very reddit-internet in the sense of "digs just below the surface but not too deep", ie: Bo Burhnam.

I told her I had heard "internet" songs of that nature that make bo burnham look like baby hour. She refused to believe me and kept pushing it and I basically told her she couldn't handle it but she just kept demanding. I'm close enough with her that we trust each other and I basically had to tell her to keep in mind this is a joke. I showed her this video
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One of the funniest moments of my life. God I wish i could somehow have recorded her reaction for you guys. Her boyfriend was laughing his ass off.
 
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Miller is unironically the best guy in politics rn. I want him to either be President, or at the very least Vance's VP in 2028.


>moonman
>dirty harry
>spuds mackenzie

litruhlly me:
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The Cure, Twin Peaks, Ferris Bueller, the 'YOU CAN BE FREE WHEN THE ONLY PEOPLE AROUND LOOK LIKE YOU' font?

Dude I am loving this government and never want it to change. The fucking government is Golden White Age posting.
 
Every political party has it's old guard and it's new guard, factions, coalitions, etc. Every political party goes through life cycles. It makes perfect sense that the younger generations are starting to challenge the existing parties. It's happening in the Dems with the unhinged progressives, but it's also simultaneously happening with the Republicans with the MAGA insurgency challenging the NeoCons and the establishment UniParty types.

The problem is that (as you were saying) the new Dem insurgency is so radical left that it can't appeal to anybody but the radical base or die hard Dems. MAGA has so much more mainstream appeal. It makes no sense for Chuck to keep holding on to power. He's going to get stomped by both Trump and the radicals in his own party. If he had more brains and less ego, he'd realize it's not worth it and walk away.
Both parties old guard started dying around the same time. The main difference is the democrats changed their rules to cling to power. This was masked for a while by Obama overcoming all odds to steal #HerTurn the first time. She adapted and managed to completely rat fuck Bernie out of the next primary. This was a microcosm of what happened across the entire democrat party. The new young blood or divergent thinkers were blocked from even having the chance to compete with funding tricks and weird rules. The result is a party full of old people who are out of touch.

Trump saved the Republicans by destroying that same stranglehold their leadership had when he beat off 17 men and 1 woman on live television. He openly stated he switched parties because the democrats would never let that happen. The Republicans actually let him run. They expected him to lose but they let him. Ironically if the democrats had newer more charismatic blood they would have won but they insisted on giving Hillary her 5th chance.
 
It's from an old McDonald's ad campaign, unfortunately. I'm choosing to believe that whatever zoomer put this montage together was listening to KKKhristmas KKKarols as he did so, though :)

I fucking read the rest of the thread before I posted this and still missed the other reply. Clock me, I've been bad.
Whoever’s running that account is 1000% a chud, they know what they’re doing lol
 
There is something endlessly funny to me about somebody getting memed on, trying to play the race card, and the leader of the free world called his computer guy and said "Meme him again while he's crying racism" lol.
And I am absolutely convinced that Trump has someone on his staff that is just "the computer guy". There's probably a guy making a six-figure salary within the white house whose job it is to make memes and shitpost all day to amuse Trump.
Their computer guy abides by the maxim "Meme them until they cry, then make memes of them crying."
 
It literally is. Pharmaceuticals is one of the most, if not #1, R&D-intensive industries in the economy.


Manufacturing cost isn't the primary cost of lots of things. Teva Pharmaceuticals, who produces Fiorcet, actually lost money last year. We can look at how they spend money, since they're publicly traded:
  • Research and Development (R&D) expenses, net in 2024 were $998 million
  • Selling and Marketing (S&M) expenses in 2024 were $2,541 million
  • General and Administrative (G&A) expenses in 2024 were $1,161 million
  • In 2024, financial expenses, net were $981 million
  • In 2024, we recognized a tax expense of $676 million
For some reason, people do not understand that 100% of these expenses are paid via sales. They think sales should just pay for manufacturing, and the whole rest of the company should operate out of magical money that falls from the sky, I guess.
Hey you know what we should do then? Take a slice out of that fucking TRILLION dollars a year we spend on the military and also stop sending aid to countries that hate us anyway, and then the government can kick in some of that "magical money that falls from the sky, I guess" to medication allocation.
If these people could bail the banks out, support Ukraine, sponsor Israel for the last 80 years and the laundry list of other stupid shit they put taxpayer money towards, I would actually breathe a sigh of relief if the government said we're shouldering some of the burden with big pharma so that medication prices aren't fucking unreasonable.
I mean Jesus Christ, we're the number one country in the world. We should be able to easily figure out a way to bring the price down on a $900 pill that costs $5 to make. I don't give a fuck about the HOW, just get it DONE.
 
Every political party has it's old guard and it's new guard, factions, coalitions, etc. Every political party goes through life cycles. It makes perfect sense that the younger generations are starting to challenge the existing parties. It's happening in the Dems with the unhinged progressives, but it's also simultaneously happening with the Republicans with the MAGA insurgency challenging the NeoCons and the establishment UniParty types.

The problem is that (as you were saying) the new Dem insurgency is so radical left that it can't appeal to anybody but the radical base or die hard Dems. MAGA has so much more mainstream appeal. It makes no sense for Chuck to keep holding on to power. He's going to get stomped by both Trump and the radicals in his own party. If he had more brains and less ego, he'd realize it's not worth it and walk away.
Note: I just said this in a different thread but it's extremely relevant to your point and it bears repeating here:

Honestly they are at the point where they are getting pushed to where they have to abandon all of the weird shit. You can already see it in the gaming and movie industry a little bit where they're stepping back because the bottom line for them is "Look we're not making any fuckin MONEY here" even comic books and cartoons are admitting defeat to mangas and anime.
The DNC is like that, except their bottom line is "Look we're not winning any fuckin ELECTIONS here" if you sell troon power on the menu and the convicted felon and insurrectionist beats shit out of the former prosecutor you ran against him, you're done. An entire country literally came together and told you that you're on walkabout and nobody's buying the creepy shit that you're selling to our children any more.
The funny thing is they have relied so much over the past 10 or 15 years growing their base with lunacy and troons and weird shit, they're married to it now. If they try to get away from these unpopular things like the fucking sex change experiments on children and letting illegal tortilla flingers vote, half of their base will leave to start a new party. Then nothing short of an act of God will keep both of those new parties from losing elections for a generation.
 
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I cannot take this world legitimately anymore. I just can't. This is the state of the discourse. This. This is where we're at as a society to do political messaging. We're fucked.
And of course the democrats still can't help but blend in straight up lies. Not even just misdirection, but lies. Nobodies running from negotiation, the answer to the negotiation is "No". You don't get compromise without leverage and without giving anything up.
 
And of course the democrats still can't help but blend in straight up lies. Not even just misdirection, but lies. Nobodies running from negotiation, the answer to the negotiation is "No". You don't get compromise without leverage and without giving anything up.
To be fair, for decades Republicans have caved to them despite having leverage.
 
I cannot take this world legitimately anymore. I just can't. This is the state of the discourse. This. This is where we're at as a society to do political messaging. We're fucked.
Fuck you man, I enjoyed the DHS Pokemon deportation video, and I'm glad my taxpayer money is paying for that one guy to basically shitpost online while pissing my opponents off.
 
Yeah i knew moonman and those videos of him were originally from something like that. Just wasn't sure if that specific compilation of clips was. It's honestly still pretty sus they used one with him haha, if leftists still had the wind at their sails they would 100% be jumping all over that. It's exactly the kind of "dog whistle" they would sniff out back in 2019.

One of my zoomer friends who's kind of wokeish, but who i'm also very close with told me I didn't like bo burnham because "it's an unusual guerilla style internet music that is shocking and asks questions you've never considered". She's very reddit-internet in the sense of "digs just below the surface but not too deep", ie: Bo Burhnam.

I told her I had heard "internet" songs of that nature that make bo burnham look like baby hour. She refused to believe me and kept pushing it and I basically told her she couldn't handle it but she just kept demanding. I'm close enough with her that we trust each other and I basically had to tell her to keep in mind this is a joke. I showed her this video
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One of the funniest moments of my life. God I wish i could somehow have recorded her reaction for you guys. Her boyfriend was laughing his ass off.
Here you go, fren

 
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