The Frankish Reich

YOU ARE NOW UNDER MY NARRATIVE CONTROL. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

Hey, buddy, I just did a little public demonstration of how stupid this "narrative control" thing is. You are not likely to see me competing with the more frenetic posters, not here and not on the football side. In fact, I'm a very reluctant OP creator. What I was trying to point out is the utter pointlessness of simply cutting and pasting someone else's tweet. Really, if I want that Twitter feed, Twitter's algorithm is really good at providing that. If it's actual breaking news, well, fine. That's kind of the Yolo role over on the football side. But I see zero value (actually negative annoyance value) in reposting a tweet or blog commentary by some other (generally unknown) person, without any meaningful additional comment (i don't mean a clappy hands emoji) of one's own.

I now have complete narrative control. haha

Not about to let you guys reassume Narrative Control. My Bot is bigger than your Bot! (Clappy hands emoji)

The Clappy Hands emoji is adding value! By the way, I am sooooo burned up about that image of an old grandfather bragging about himself while driving his granddaughter around a golf course. Wow. If only my people could do that.

I think she meant Dupont. Kinda like how Trump mixed up Azerbaijan and Armenia. And somewhere in there was Albania too. Whatever. But I will commend the B-Man Bot for adding a presumably original thought about the No Kings rally this weekend. Then again, indistinguishable from AI "write a comment on the government shutdown from the perspective of a Trump supporter." So still NVA.

B-Man Bot needs to be reprogrammed to check what's already been posted on PPP. Zero. Value. Added.

It's a B-Man Bot trifecta! One auto-generated line in the last 3 posts.

Oops, the B-Man Bot is Back! Cleverly trying to pose as a human by inserting the language like "how did he lose his legs" in one out of 3 posts. Not fooling me anymore.

Insightful comment! And to think I was wondering if you were a bot. A bot could never have come up with that one.

Mr. ZVA (Zero Value Added) with another (Multi) Daily Double!

Thank you for the last 3 cut-and-pastes, Mr. Zero Value Added commenter!

So you illegally voted in California. Good for you! Somewhere Democratic Governor candidate Phil Angelides (had to look that one up) is giving a speech that says, "Actually, we DID win in 2006 ..."

I can attest that the Catholic nuns who were my teachers in elementary school did, in fact, bully me into submission. Thank you for another cut-and-paste that contains precisely one word of your own.

OMG! The Great Trumpy Schism of 2025 is underway! Next up: Tucker. By the way, where's my weekly Tucker Show update? Those seem to have disappeared.

The obnoxious Young Republicans who were outed are blaming the head of the NYC Young Republicans, Gavin Wax, for leaking their obnoxious messages. I saw a reference from Wax's LinkedIn (I think) that says he's Jewish. So not only are these outed young Republicans obnoxious, racist, and anti-Semitic, they are also terminally dumb; they included a Jewish guy in their hilarious anti-Semitic chat group. Incidentally, Wax, Jewish or not, definitely has the Young Republican Leader body type. It's contagious. I'm liking this role reversal!

Now tell us how many of those posts consist of your own thoughts rather than (or in addition to) what some other person tweeted. If I want to get your Twitter feed I can make that happen without the middleman. Challenge: spend one day - just one day - posting here without cutting/pasting anyone else's thoughts.

I'm crestfallen. Oh, by the way, here's the only female douchebag alongside her buddies. You can see she continues the tradition of the National Pete Hegseth Fitness Award winners.

Hawes is a more traditional heavy package choice, but man, I miss those runs with Alec Anderson clearing out a LB or DB like a snowplow in a Buffalo blizzard.

Yes, and we saw it with CJ Spiller, a fast but otherwise much inferior back.

What is "insane" about the argument made in your last cut-and-paste special? Isn't this precisely why Congress felt the need to pass the Voting Rights Act in 1965?

I loved the Chan Gailey designed screen. And that's the only thing I loved about him.

Well, the comment you, as the Common Scold, focused on is rather, umm, gentle in the current environment? "Let's bully their kids" vs. "I hope someone kills their kids" vs. "let's bring back the gas chambers."

Interesting from the logistics side. From the legal side: I took the Law of the Sea class many moons ago, so I'm not exactly up to speed on this. My understanding: we're talking about non-flag vessels in international waters. The law is murky here about what we can do. I'm not saying we can't legally do this, but I would like to see the legal theory tightened up here. There may be grounds for seizing the vessel; I'm not sure what grounds would lead to destroying the vessel, particularly if no warning is given. Here's a good summary from a maritime lawyer. https://federal-criminal.com/forfeiture-seizure/federal-laws-on-seizing-vessels-in-international-waters/ I understand they're basing this on a quasi-terrorism ground, but international law is actually a thing too.

Correction: Air Yards per Pass Attempt - Josh is still in the top third at 7.8, but Darnold is at 9.6. That's a huge difference.