The Frankish Reich

Just pointing out that someone's gonna inherit that accumulated wealth. Sometimes I think the kids of boomers are just annoyed that they are too healthy and living too long.

Well, as one of the tail-end boomers who's sinking a ton of money into the human capital of his kids (college and beyond), I don't think Gen Z has anything to complain about.

Yes. It still amazes me that three decades after we apparently passed the leadership torch to the baby boomer generation, we've somehow reverted back to leadership by the ancient pre-Boomer generation. Will someone step up? Gen X, I'm looking at you.

That's one for you, nineteen for me. - Taxman (George Harrison/Beatles) Inspired by George being stunned when he found out that the marginal tax rate in the UK was 95%.

Perfect. I had not seen the second video. There is no better response to the fools who keep saying it was a "mass trespassing incident." He came in violence, and will no doubt be spending the next 6+ years in prison.

I'm sorry we didn't get to the "evacuate or you'll be expelled" thing. That would've called their bluff. Meanwhile, the little careerists at Harvard are doing their own protest in a much more genteel (hah!) manner: From limited press coverage and videos, I expected that rank-and-file demonstrators would decline to talk and would refer me to designated spokespeople. I expected demonstrators to hold up keffiyehs to hide their faces. Instead, I found a semicircle of 10 people who spoke with me for an hour. I asked them to help me understand why they were in the yard. Initially they referred me to their banner, with three demands focusing on divestment from Israel-related companies. I told them this was small-bore thinking, useless because others would replace any withdrawn investment, and also intellectually timid because they weren’t engaging on the big ideas of how to solve the conflict. They replied that they are only students. I pointed out that they are Harvard students and should be able to engage intellectually. https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvards-protesters-arent-as-obstinate-as-you-might-expect-267b13d2 Something you could put on your resume as demonstrating commitment to DEI without actually causing a ruckus!

True. That's because Trump has turned it into a pure Cult of Personality. We saw that with how DeSantis (more Trumpy than Trump on policy) fizzled. There is never a Juan Peron Jr. And Melania ain't Evita even if she were eligible. To be fair, that's what happened with Obama too. There was a kind of Cult of Personality there too, and Hillary (and then Biden) clearly didn't have the same political talent. I don't know where the Republicans go in 2028 whether or not Trump wins. I do see some new talent on the Democratic side. Watch out for Wes Moore. I don't even know much about him on the policy side, but he's got the "it" factor. The dingoes.

I'm just saying that I've personally seen the incredible (and very short term) effects of a cortisone injection on someone with severe arthritis. High-dose Prednisone too. It just makes sense to me that the "energetic" Joe may have more to do with the timing of these typical old guy meds than with some extraordinary amphetamine thing as has been speculated about way too much.

What I'm hearing from some (not all). - Keon Coleman would've been a great draft pick if he'd run a 4.49 - Sedrick Van Pran-Granger (we gotta settle on a shorthand here) would've been a great pick if he had longer arms - Cole Bishop would've been a great pick if he played offense - DeWayne Carter would've been a great pick if he'd been taken in the 5th round instead of the 3rd In other words, if these guys all had Top 10 overall attributes, they'd have been steals. Nevermind that we never would've had a Top 10 pick. EDIT: I have spoken.

Columbia: having had kids go through the admissions process at some so-called "elite" colleges, I'm very familiar with what they like to see of applicants - a commitment to "social justice," which very often means involvement in agitation and propaganda. So they like this on application essays, and they accept a lot of these students. And then those students do EXACTLY WHAT THEY SHOULD HAVE EXPECTED when there is some hot-button political issue. They protest, try to shut things down, sometimes "occupy" the campus. And then they act surprised.

How many Russian citizens NOT currently involved in invading/occupying someone else's country (Ukraine) have been killed? Has Ukraine invaded Russia like Israel has invaded Gaza? I support Israel's right to self-defense just like I support Ukraine's right.

As usual, a completely unresearched scare tweet. Apparently this is a form that asks someone if they want a voter registration form. This is the actual voter registration form: https://www.sccounties.org/sites/default/files/uploads/resources/Association-Groups/SCARE/vr_blank_form.pdf Note these questions on it: Voter Declaration – (read and sign below) I swear or affirm that: -I am a citizen of the United States of America -I will be 18 years of age on or before Election day -I am a resident of South Carolina, this county and precinct -I am not under a court declaring me mentally incompetent -I am not confined in any public prison resulting from a conviction of a crime -I have never been convicted of a felony or offense against the election laws OR if previously convicted, I have served my entire sentence, including probation or parole, or I have received a pardon for the conviction -the address listed above is my only legal place of residence, and I claim no other place as my legal residence There is a point to be made here - the motor voter law (requiring DMVs and other agencies to give out voter registration forms) causes problems, since a lot of self-identified non-citizens still are required to be given the form. I've seen cases where the person who fills out the form clearly didn't know what the hell they were doing (those are rejected for prosecution). But ... this just isn't the registration form itself. It's basically a request to get/not get that form.

That says it all.

Yeah, let's just trust the Big Agribusiness Lobbyist Couple. The Kellys of Chicago.

Nice takedown of the latest Julie Kelly nonsense. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/30/trump-documents-case-rumor-false/ Kelly’s story is false. It’s not clear what document she was posting images from; she didn’t link it in her social media posts. There was an excerpt of the interview with Person 10 released last week, but it doesn’t include the discussion of pallets. It does, however, make obvious who was being interviewed: an employee of Trump’s post-presidential office who began working there in July 2021. That employee was at the center of another discovery of documents marked as classified several months after the Mar-a-Lago search. The interview with Person 10, though, doesn't matter. What matters is why there were pallets of material in Virginia and how they got to Mar-a-Lago. And we already know the answer to that, because The Washington Post reported on it in December 2022. After Trump (grudgingly) left office, he was allotted funding to run a transition office, a process that involved the GSA. Because he rejected his election loss for so long, his team was slow to set things up. Shortly before Biden was inaugurated, Vice President Mike Pence’s team chose a GSA-managed space in Crystal City for its office. Trump’s team asked whether it could be there, too. Former presidents are allowed six months of funding for their transitions. So, with a hard deadline of July 21, Trump’s team operated out of the GSA building in Crystal City. One staffer informed the GSA that “as many as 100 boxes of presidential gifts would be stored at the Crystal City office,” The Post reported, based on an email sent to the GSA. “[T]he Crystal City office was crammed with leftover stuff from the Trump White House with no apparent organization and little knowledge of what was even there,” our report noted. July 21 arrived, and the Crystal City office still had a bunch of stuff in it. Trump’s staff put material into boxes and boxes on pallets. Two pallets finally arrived at Mar-a-Lago on Sept. 14. The other four pallets (including two that had been repacked after a pallet became oversized) went to a nearby storage facility. *** Interestingly, a member of Trump’s team provided a letter to the GSA (at the agency’s request) attesting that “the items being shipped from Arlington, VA to Palm Beach, FL are required to wind down the Office of the Former President or are items that are property of the Federal Government” — stipulations required for the move to be paid for by transition funds.