Regis Kopper

VR/AR enthusiast, college professor, and liberal.

[Regis Kopper @regisvt]

@Adam_clayton013 Des Moines, Iowa, please! Or, better yet, Jack Trice Stadium in Ames!

[Regis Kopper @regisvt]

@MrBeast Congrats

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@BSam2424 @JimmyKimmelLive Yes! Wtf??

[Regis Kopper @regisvt]

@jk_rowling I disagree with your positions on gender identity yet your argument has deeply touched me. I’m sorry for what you’ve gone through, especially threats of violence. I wish society could be minimally tolerant again.

[Regis Kopper @regisvt]

Trump: “why hasn’t she fixed the border and all the things we talked about.” Amazing soundbite for a distracted malleable electorate. His laziness amuses me. #Election2024

[Regis Kopper @regisvt]

The #Debate2024 couldn’t have been better for Trump’s base. I am sure they are fired up and love their supreme leader as much as ever. It is so sweet to see such an insecure person unable to have the discipline to win new voters in lieu of applause from the everyday deplorables!

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people.

[Regis Kopper @regisvt]

When asked if he has an alternative plan to Obamacare, Trump said “I have concepts of a plan.” Laughable! #Debate2024

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Just keep giving him rope, he’s hanging himself. #Debate2024

[Regis Kopper @regisvt]

@jonfavs @PodSaveAmerica He’s falling into trap over trap set by Kamala!

[Regis Kopper @regisvt]

@jonlovett @jonlovett please please tell me this Kamala optimism is not 2016 all over again

[Regis Kopper @regisvt]

@GeorgeTakei I watched it. Not accidentally filmed, but accidentally encountered ex while filming.

Well, I’m cringing too!

[Regis Kopper @regisvt]

@GeorgeTakei How do you accidentally film an encounter?

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Donald Trump wants to take our country backwards to a time before many of our fellow Americans had full freedoms and rights, but we believe in a brighter future that makes room for all Americans.

We believe in a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by, but get ahead.

We believe in a future where no child has to grow up in poverty, where every person can buy a home, start a family, and build wealth—and where every person has access to paid family leave and affordable child care.

We will build a nation where everyone has affordable health care, and every senior can retire with dignity.

Building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency.

[Regis Kopper @regisvt]

@adamjam99 @AndrewHarbison1 @jonlovett @jonfavs I agree with you. If the guy is not leaving, and only he has the right to decide to leave, let’s stand behind him. This reminds me of the pledge Bernie made to back Biden in 2020 in case he lost the primaries.

Let’s coalesce behind Biden now. The democrat nominee NEEDS to win.

[Regis Kopper @regisvt]

@AndrewHarbison1 @adamjam99 @jonlovett @jonfavs But a hypothetically senile person may not be the best person for the job. The debate reminded me that Biden would be president at 85. There’s natural cognitive decay at that age. Still this is a Sophie’s choice. Im terrified because of how likely it is that Trump will win. 2/2

[Regis Kopper @regisvt]

@AndrewHarbison1 @adamjam99 @jonlovett @jonfavs I have to say that the debate worried me a lot. First and foremost it appeared that the race was over before it even started. Given the stakes, even hypothetically senile Biden would be the right choice. 1/2

[Jon Lovett @jonlovett]

There have always been two Joe Bidens. The empathetic, decent, big-hearted leader, forged in loss and grief, finding the good in his friends and opponents, in love with America, arms wide and open with space for everyone. And there’s the blowhard with a chip on his shoulder, stubborn, something to prove, his fellow senators rolling their eyes as the finger wags harder and the stories get longer. Statesman and politician, hero and fool.

Joe Biden ran for president for 50 years. He finally won because he ran as that hero at a time when the country was desperate for empathy and normalcy and wisdom and grace. It was still too close. But even when he was doubted by insiders and pundits (hi!), he persevered; he knew Democrats, he knew America, and he was right.

And then! To his great and everlasting credit, Joe Biden governed as that statesman too. He built a coalition wide enough to hold Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders. He defied Washington’s stodgy consensus when necessary, a consensus he spent a lifetime living inside. He adapted, he governed with humility and purpose, whether on how to revive the economy, or take on monopolies, or address student loans, or press for the largest investment in clean energy by any country anywhere on earth. And even as he showed the capacity to listen to the rising progressive voices inside the Democratic party, at the very same time he achieved bipartisan legislative successes in defiance of every political trend of the last thirty years. Joe Biden has been an extraordinary president! Statesman. Hero.

But it’s hard to deny that in the two weeks since the debate, it’s the arrogant and small Joe Biden we’ve seen most - hanging on, bragging, defensive, angry, weak. Who else but him? he wonders aloud. Only God could change his mind, he tells us. The stakes for the country are all that matter. The stakes for Joe Biden are beside the point. But it’s worth saying just the same: Joe Biden can leave office as one of the greatest presidents in our lifetimes, who defeated Trump and put his country first at every turn; or he can leave a stubborn old man who allowed hubris and insecurity to destroy his legacy and perhaps our democracy with it.

We all have our best and worst selves, scrambling over each other, battling it out in the moments that define us. Where is the Joe Biden we elected? Where is the statesman? I hope that version of him shows up soon. And I hope the people around him know where to look.

[Regis Kopper @regisvt]

This is as uncanny as it gets. I’m still cringing.

[Deedy @deedydas]

Gymnastics is the Turing test of video generation models

[Regis Kopper @regisvt]

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