The Frankish Reich
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What happened to our regular teasers for the latest Tucker Carlson episode?
I guess that's my role now. I grudgingly accept.
Latest one: Nick Fuentes! Cross-posted with the Closeted Gay Republicans thread.
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Black Christians are being slaughtered in Nigeria.
The majority of the extremely limited (7,500) refugee admissions under Trump 2.0's first full year will be white South Africans farmers.
Discuss.
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1 hour ago, JDHillFan said:
Of course not. Makes me wonder what your childish “pandering to the Christian right” comment was about.
Because that's what it is.
Guy who scoffed at concerns about Saudi Arabia dismembering a journalist and Russia inflicting radioactive poisoning on political enemies (remember: "we've done a lot of bad stuff too") suddenly can't stand watching human rights abuses?
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Just now, JDHillFan said:
No, I don’t got it. EVERYTHING is overcome by events, all the time. People and politicians adapt. It’s a certain sort that gets confused by that and whines on a message board.
but TRUMP said…
Look, I am a neoconservative as it comes to such things. I think we do have a role to play in human rights or the lack thereof in other countries (which doesn't necessarily mean I want to invade them, etc.).
It's just that Trump is publicly 100% against that.
If he's changing his mind having seen some atrocities, well, good. Nothing wrong with admitting that? Or is there?
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1 hour ago, JDHillFan said:
Who is confused. You and Billstime?
We will not get involved in other people's wars. We cannot stand by while some other people's wars go on.
Got it?
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There really is a human rights crisis in parts of Nigeria. And Christians really are being slaughtered.
The confusion here is that Trump essentially ran on a "human rights don't matter unless they directly affect Americans" stance. America First. Avoid getting involved in some other country's wars.
So ... a dose of reality? Or just pandering to the Christian Right?
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I remember that the Griese dog-induced injury was assumed to be a cover-up of a drunken stumble. Some of the cover stories are fantastic in the level of detail they provide ... in baseball, all-star 2B Jeff Kent famously claimed that he hurt his wrist washing his car; the real story was he took a spill on a motorcycle. Riding a motorcycle was a contract violation.
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The guy actually had the Dolphins on the verge.
They had one of the best rosters in the entire NFL a couple years ago. They brought in a coach who fit perfectly with their offensive personnel.
It turned out their QB was too fragile and probably wasn't good enough even when he was healthy. And then they made the fatal mistake of committing to him financially for the future, watched that roster get expensive and age, and now find themselves in the rebuilding period they tried to deny for a year or so.
Compare: Beane, criticized for not going all-in, trying to build a consistent, durable winner.
You just can't win.
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2 minutes ago, sherpa said:
This is a signal, as have the boat strikes.
The message is that we have intel that lets us know what you are doing and when, and we intend to eliminate you if you operate.
All meant to dissuade folks from engaging in drug smuggling into the US.
Part of it, no doubt.
But this is going way beyond signaling.
There's really no way to disincentive Maduro's government/military from engaging in drug smuggling; this is what they do, and this is what keeps them in power. It is a pure kleptocracy.
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1 hour ago, milfandcookies said:
Vance is the king of spin. It’s not shiteing on his wife and kids. What will happen is his poor mean wife left HIM!
And Erika Kirk got closer to him through tragedy… happens all the time
It sounds like bs, but I love it: JD dumps Usha for Erika Kirk, changes son Vivek's name to Charlie.
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I kind of thought a US military action against Venezuela was coming back in Trump 1.0. He had recognized the government in exile of Juan Guaido (I had to look up his name; that's how forgotten he is). We had the international law basis - Guaido could ask for military assistance to eject the "false president" Maduro's government - and it looked like that's how it was setting up.
I think concern about the price of oil probably killed that. Now that doesn't seem to be particularly important, with oil prices down so much that it's disincentivizing US drilling. And we just had that bizarre "we are authorizing covert CIA action in Venezuela" statement.
Bay of Pigs (covert op)? Or Operation Just Cause (overt Panama op under Bush 41). If forced to choose, I know which one worked.
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For about the 20th time in response to such questions: Dawson Knox.
You know that someday it'll turn out to be right?
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So I took a look at the law about that SNAP emergency funding bucket.
There's really no legal reason not to use it IF the Administration wants to keep funds flowing. There's more than adequate justification in doing so based on how the law is written. In fact, better justification than for things like paying active duty military.
So I must conclude that this is, of course, political.
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27 minutes ago, sherpa said:
But, the point is, I have no idea why we would ever strike Venezuelan military targets on terra firma.
Isn't Venezuela just a bigger Panama c. 1989?
It actually surprises me that the US hasn't acted against Venezuela for all these years of their provocations.
I'm not saying it's a good idea. I'm just saying that it would be in line with US military actions throughout Cold War and post-Cold War history, and Trump's apparent new love of the Monroe Doctrine.
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1 minute ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
You're becoming more flumdacious with each passing day.
We need a word like that!
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On 10/28/2025 at 9:26 PM, Hank II said:
What makes you more mad? That he's as corrupt as Biden? That he's better at it? Or that he doesn't feel the need to hide it?
Remember, Trump was about as a big a crypto-skeptic as you could find in politics in his first term.
What changed? Well, I guess there's a very slim chance that he saw that crypto was a necessary and useful innovation after all.
But in what way? Has he ever explained why he thinks it is useful after all?
Meanwhile, what obviously changed is that he and his sons were approached by major crypto advocates with ideas about how they too could make tons of money out of nothing.
And so personal gain changed policy.
We call that corruption.
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4 hours ago, Homelander said:
Watch. She will quite publicly convert to Catholicism ahead of the 2028 primaries.
So much for the tolerance of the masses.
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So all of you can be proud that you proved the OP's point.
It started off with a general question: hey, you won, why are you still so angry?
And withing about 4 posts it turned into something about Somalis is Minneapolis allegedly not assimilating.
And so it goes. And goes. And goes ...
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28 minutes ago, unbillievable said:
If nothing else, this SNAP controversy opened my eyes to money wasted on this program.
I never realized that the average benefit spends 5X more than I budget for food per month.
Money is fungible, so call it food stamps and it frees up money for whatever else.
And there is a significant black market in food stamps, with people buying things like cases of coke and reselling them at a 50% discount.
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3 hours ago, EssexBill said:
I’m a big MMA fan too, and you sir have been watching the Joe Rogan podcast 😉😂Joel Romero still looks like a Greek God at 50 or whatever age he is, Ed Oliver looks like fatass Greek philosopher Socrates so I don’t hold on to much hope that he has similar healing genes 😂
I don't follow MMA, but I just took a wild guess that maybe it's genetics + a little something extra.
Bingo.
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30 minutes ago, unbillievable said:
Paid $2.99/gal driving through Santa Fe
Yeah, but that's only 86 octane!
(high elevation makes that fine)
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2 hours ago, DCOrange said:
I'm not going to argue that Coleman is good, but I will point out that his yards per route run is fine, and specifically against man coverage he's been a lot better than Shakir this season
Isn't that what you'd expect from the slot guy, who is going to be schemed open a lot more than he's going to flat-out beat his man?
Shakir is doing his job, and particularly after the catch. Keon sometimes is called on to beat his man one-on-one, and it just almost never happens.
I was a Keon defender last year, since I thought he showed signs of emerging. I've officially given up on him.
20 minutes ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:No WR is going to put up big numbers in this offense. It’s the entire premise on how it’s built. I don’t understand how people still aren’t getting it. It doesn’t matter who it is. There are to many guy that will touch the ball. A good day for a WR is going to be 4 catches. It’s how it’s always going to be with Brady. It’s by design. And our RB is one of the best players in the league. Even he should get more touches than he does. It’s a waste of time worrying about who these WRs are. This is how we want to play offense. Colman is going to do what he’s doing because this is what we are trying to do. The Bills don’t even hide it. They flat out said it was going to be that way and people still don’t get it lol
Well, yeah, but that wasn't the way it was with peak Diggs.
So basically you're just saying that Coleman isn't even in the same league as a true #1 receiver. He's not even in the same league as peak Gabe Davis. Which is to say: a disappointment, even at 33.
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1 hour ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
The acceptance of inferior midlevels in place of physicians is a reason why healthcare quality is dropping
No offense, but this is what MDs always say. There's a protectionist/limiting competition reason for that.
My take: it is better to have access to a primary care provider, even if it is a PA or NP, than it is to have no access at all. And that's kind of where we're heading in a lot of parts of this country. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Should we allow NPs/PAs to practice without onsite physician "supervision" (supervision that exists more on an org chart than in reality) in underserved areas? Absolutely. All those routine physicals, well-baby appointments, taking blood samples and adjusting blood pressure meds, treating strep, etc., etc. We are spending way, way too much on all those things.
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2 minutes ago, LeviF said:
The term "American Exceptionalism" was coined by communists.
So, yeah, that's kind of the point.
Famous Communist Ronald Reagan: "anyone, from any corner of the world, can come to live in America and become an American."
No stronger statement of American Exceptionalism has ever been voiced.
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MAGA has a major closeted gay male problem - and it’s busting at the seams
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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In which Tucker apologizes for calling Nick gay.
Nick (previously): "having sex with women is gay."
He explained that he's chosen to be an incel. Basically a voluntary involuntary celibate. Whatever. Definitely not at all gay. Why would anyone think that, Tucker?