The Frankish Reich

Not since the 1980s. Kind of a long time ago, right?

You just got done telling me that ultra low interest rates set by Jerome Powell & Co. during COVID allowed a lot of very young Gen Z'ers to buy houses. Those kids without college degrees are welcome to work for ICE where they'll get a 50K sign up bonus. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/30/ice-recruitment-donald-trump-00484885 Within a few years they can be making $120K/year and work toward retirement in their early to mid-50s. Rough living on that in NYC, so just apply for Buffalo, Detroit, etc. An ICE deportation officer married to a teacher will quickly hit 200K and have superb health care benefits, etc. Now tell me: Why can't they afford a house?

In other words: Than you, Dr. Fauci, for enabling these kids to become homeowners at an unusually young age. Speak for yourself. I have kids still under 25. I expect them to do perfectly fine, and then someday to inherit whatever my wife and I have saved (the whole "generational wealth" thing). Sometimes too much too soon isn't a good thing. Working for it puts iron in your soul.

Never let the facts get in the way of a good whine. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/09/05/how-gen-z-outpaces-past-generations-in-homeownership-rate.html

Every generation has its whiny stage. It’s called your 20s.

Not technically "cheating"; it's an ADA-type accommodation when your bloated cankles stop you from climbing down into the bunker. You know, it he's only walked the course a couple times a week (what? The foursome behind him was gonna complain?) he might be reasonably fit today.

You guys are really gonna enjoy it when President AOC or some similar lefty nutcase sues Fox News.

I don't know if I'll get through it. At this point I have to wonder whether a quick trip to Bordeaux to personally carry back my duty-free allowance would be more cost effective. I'll keep you posted.

The world that matters stands with me. Two Buck Chuck stands with you.

I thought the concept was the facts cannot be racist.

You wouldn't even recognize a real Nazi when he gets appointed. By Trump. https://www.kltv.com/2025/03/10/deleted-tweets-show-top-state-department-official-spread-false-rumors-about-marco-rubio/ Just a small selection of those deleted tweets: - 14 November 2020: I have more respect for Jeffrey Epstein than for Bill Barr At least Epstein wasn’t a ***** -21 February 2020: This is not what you think it is. It is a great troll, to be sure. But sources familiar with Q anon's thinking assure me that this is an esoteric signal, indicating the strong possibility of an Assange pardon. Time will tell Q

Damn fool mocks posts that he would agree with if he wasn't a loser without a WSJ account.

There's a larger point about freedom. Freedom to buy what the hell I want from whatever country produces it. I want case of Bordeaux? Dammit, let me buy the case of Bordeaux from the only place that by definition makes Bordeaux wine without incurring a ridiculous 15% sales tax on top of whatever my state charges.

Exactly. Oh, goody, I get to pay a 15% tariff if I want an Audi! Trump negotiated a lower import tax after setting it at 25%! (The pre-Trump tariff was about 2.5%)

Let the courts finally stick a fork in this never-ending unconstitutional tariff game.

Trump is to blame here. Prime example: WSJ story on Trump's contribution to the "birthday book." Trump says it's a lie, made up, no such thing, I never drew a picture for any reason ever. That's all easily refutable stuff. We've seen the scribbles of buildings and cityscapes. WSJ reports today that Trump is in that birthday book's table of contents; so is Bill Clinton. So is Alan Dershowitz. Trump gave the story legs. Don't blame the Dems. They didn't even know they had an issue until Bondi and Patel gift wrapped it for them. Coming soon: Trump says maybe "his people" fielded Maxwell's request and submitted something for him; he's a busy man.

Wow. Big national newspapers ignoring Trump's attempt to shift attention from HIS PERVY BESTIE.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democratic-party-poll-voter-confidence-july-2025-9db38021?mod=hp_lead_pos1 Unreliable.

The Boomer finally makes it to the Hall. @JDHillFan celebrates!

I see. MSNBC - a low-rated basic cable network - is now the "Mainstream Media." So I guess Fox News is also the mainstream media? MAGA says no. They're good! Translation: the "mainstream media" is whatever media is not in the bag for Trumpism; it is therefore unreliable.

Hey, how about I link to an entirely unrelated article from an entirely unrelated news organization! That'll work, right?

That's the weirdest thing about this. Of course Trump is in "the files." The files likely include all kinds of public information like the photos we've already seen (Epstein with Trump and the Clintons) and the flight logs (same). So there's really not much new here, except for the Streisand Effect amplified by Trump's ham-handed attempts to say "nothing to see here." The Epstein Birthday book submission is creepy of course, but again, it's not like we don't know that Trump proudly associated himself with the Epstein lifestyle of hitting on young women; I guess the dividing line is "yeah, but they were all of the legal age of consent." So it's the "I may be a creep, but I'm not a criminal" public defense. In other words, he's a Republican Bill Clinton. The Democrats were just too slow to make the pivot from downplaying Epstein to playing him up. That's because the Clintons wouldn't go away. Although Hillary lurks and acts like she'd be ready to run again if drafted, that ship has sailed. The Clintons are now peripheral to the Democratic mainstream, which has shifted farther left. Meanwhile, Trump is the Republican Party, nothing more or less. So the Dems have a lot less to lose by more reporting like "Clinton/Trump Both Loved Epstein and His Girls." They didn't seem to realize this until about six weeks ago. Turnabout is fair play in politics. I saw an interview with an attorney for some Epstein victims where he said that the executors of Epstein's estate (pretty much independent lawyers) likely have the Birthday Book and that Congress (or, for that matter, the WSJ now that it's been stupidly sued by Trump) can simply subpoena it. Prediction: it will emerge, and it will be a kind of National Directory of Scumbags. By the way, anything the Trump Administration comes out with about "interviewing" Ghislaine Maxwell is only going to make this worse. Trump can pardon her or commute her sentence (I can't imagine him doing that before January 2029, when I can really really imagine it) so we can only assume that anything she comes out with would exonerate Trump and perhaps throw the Clintons under the bus. The incentive structure is all in one direction. People may be fools, but not so much that they'd buy that.

Profiles in Political Courage. Nice work draining the swamp, if by draining we mean sending the swamp creatures back to their districts.

Because he was citing a Fact. Two facts. A much higher tariff on imported Japanese steel than on imported Japanese automobiles. These facts are objective. The conclusion is textbook economics.

Exactly. The Advantage Plans are an example of how private health insurers used political power to screw a lot of old folks.