"Let's try to divorce the ur-pedophile from the concept of pedophelia" is exactly the kind of crazy hubris I expect from elite psychos.

I think the bet is "even if the Democrats ever win/we hold free & fair elections ever again, they'll be too chickenshit to do anything about it." Which, given the evidence, is not a terrible bet.

i wouldn't mind AI if it was "here's a way to automate some extremely basic stuff" or "look at this goofy shit you can do here to dick around on your computer" - afaik but no one is asking for "we want to make a trillion dollars hopefully by destroying everything that makes life worth living"

Wrong! It's meeting a fundamental American need to hit it big off a complete fraud. A need for classic American-style Deals

ALAB theory stays winning.

Here's a photo of my dog watching very intently as they act out the scene at the end

"Well, well, well! Turns out not sending incriminating emails IS harder than it looks, huh smart guy?!"

-Frank Quattrone, probably