The machines are known for not working.
Probably related to this:
It’s a ruling from the US Copyright office that carves out an exemption to allow people to diagnose, perform maintenance, and repair “retail-level commercial food preparation equipment.”
The biggest problem the the McD ice cream machines has been a software lock from the manufacturer put in the code that rendered the equipment inoperable if not serviced by the manufacturer. The DCMA made it illegal for third-parties to re-set or modify the software to get the machines working. Corporate policy forbade franchise owners or operators to violate this provision by hiring others to work on the machines.
This ruling will allow the franchise owners and store operators to legally hire other firms to repair their machines.
So, it’s already been fixed. All Trump can do now is screw it up.
ETA: The ruling was published yesterday afternoon, effective Monday, October 28, 2024.
Jon Stewart explains it in 45 seconds
[Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
WHEN I’M PRESIDENT THE MCDONALD’S ICE CREAM MACHINES WILL WORK GREAT AGAIN!
Here is a candidate who truly has their priorities straight. I, for one, can”t wait for the historic day when newly re-presidented trump signs the landmark ‘MAKE THE MCDONALD’S ICE CREAM MACHINES WORK GREAT AGAIN’ bill into law, surely by early 2025.
Surely we can look forward to “Mussolini Trump made will make the trains run on time”?
And if someone were clever they’d start asking Trump about mass transit scheduling.
How about “Trump will make all the fries on time.”
As Stewart pointed out, Trump apparently didn’t know that the employees don’t scoop the fries with their hands.
“Quick, someone order some ice cream! I need to cool my oil-burnt hands!”
So, a working ice cream machine is necessary for worker safety. I mean, how many times can you scoop up hot fries with your hands before you need an order of ice cream to cool them down?
If all the food he’s ever gotten from McDonald’s has been delivered to him, and is therefore at least 10-15 minutes old, he’s obviously never had warm fries. No wonder he thinks you can scoop them by hand.
He could still claim credit for it!
In some list of the craziest things seen in the workplace (or something like that) someone told about when they were training a new employee at some place with a deep frier and the trainee dropped some sort of kitchen tool into the oil and before the trainer could react he reached in with both hands to get it out. He, of course, left in an ambulance and never came back (and is probably crippled for life). So (assuming the story is true) there really are people that stupid.
Re: Trump thinking Obama is still President. (Link posted earlier by @smapti.)
My Trump cultist friend explained it away.
Trump is trolling (iykyk) !
he knows exactly who is president and it certainly is not the late Joe Biden
I told her ‘Bless your heart.’ (She’s in Savannah, GA. And yes, she believes Joe Biden is dead and is being represented by a body double.)
“We’re close to World War 2”
“Kamala Harris is a train weck wreck”
“If something goes wrong and Marjorie Taylor Greene with that beautiful blonde hair is driving down the highway in a hydrogen car … you’re not recognizable … she’s no longer recognizable. We found some of her.”
“I like China and I like President Cheese”
“Oh, Congo. They’re sending a lot of their peep-- cause you know what? They don’t want to take care of them. They’re gonna send them here. We have a lot. Them come out of Congo prisons. But they come from Africa.”
“All of your sons and daughters will end up getting a draft notice”
“As California attorney general she redefined sex trial, uhhh, think of this, sex child trafficking.”
80 years? Well in geologic time, that’s but a second. 
REALLY long walk, especially if you have to come up for air every minute or so.
Hey, Donald! You keep our posters’ names out of your mouth!
Well, we’re close to reliving WWII.
Life imitating copying art:
Well we’ve always been extremely interested in modern drama … we were of course the first Townswomen’s Guild to perform ‘Camp On Blood Island’, and last year we did our extremely popular re-enactment of ‘Nazi War Atrocities’. So this year we thought we would like to do something in a lighter vein…
So you chose the Battle of Pearl Harbor?
Yes, that’s right, we did.
ETA: And this threads imitates the non-sequitur Monthy Python thread.
Today Trump nonsensically claimed that Kamala Harris is putting up billboards at the border offering free legal services to migrants.
“Who would want transgender operations for everyone in the world? They want that.”
His TV ads falsely claim Harris is giving Social Security to “illegals” .
Is there really nothing that can be done about blatant lying during an election? Especially when large cable tv outlets are aiding and assisting in they lying?
I mean, if I put out an advertisement that lied this obviously about one of my business competitors, I’d get sued into penury.