The Frankish Reich

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.

Well now you know how unhinged, angry, incoherent some people are around here. Policy talk? I enjoy that. So do some others. So don't be intimidated by the fools.

And no doubt Epstein's plane has some couches JD would enjoy sniffing.

I have to disagree Communication is his greatest strength. I’d go so far as to say his only strength as a politician. He is a master of making people believe something through sheer repetition. The “only I can fix it” type of thing. The “don’t believe your eyes and ears, the January 6 rioters were patriots and meant no harm.” Three and a half years ago that was a joke. All the other Republican leaders were shocked by what happened right in front of them. They still are privately shocked. But the Trump base? They believe him now. They actually think it was a good thing. There are not many politicians who can accomplish that. It is a superpower that I happen to believe is being used for evil, not good.

And the platform failed then too.

Trump: I’m so incredibly popular that probably 20 million people will want to watch my interview with Musk. Musk: a million people tried to log in; must be a DDOS attack!

He stole the valor of those formally promoted from E-8 to E-9! Like the alternate to the alternate selection calling himself a Pro Bowler. This cannot be tolerated. Valor!

Have you looked at his crowds? Have you noticed that a couple of morbidly obese people died while rioting on January 6? But like most Americans, including Trump, the label “fat” somehow doesn’t apply to them.

You mean the contingency plan in case Biden - having just tested positive for COVID - MIGHT have been taken to the hospital instead of directly to Air Force 1? Please listen to these thrilling police radio communications about closing off streets from the convention center to the hospital just in case they decided to take him there. I did. You’ll be on the edge of your seat.

The new title of this thread - Trump on X. Beats Trump on crack I guess.

You mean how Biden will wrestle it back for himself at the Convention? Or how Hillary or Michelle will suddenly be nominated? Sorry. Not gonna happen.

This one goes out to a young man in Cincinnati who goes by JD.

The inability to put anything together? Or the ability to weave all manner of unrelated events into one grand conspiracy?

Gotta admit it, I kind of love this: https://www.semafor.com/article/08/12/2024/poll-democratic-attacks-on-jd-vance-are-working You know those "word cloud" things? You mention a name and ask people what word first comes to mind. JD Vance Top 3: - Conservative - Anti-Woman - WEIRD

And that's how we know that the post-Trump "Republicans" aren't Republicans at all. It is a whole new party. The Trump Party. Everything else is excised from history, other than the occasional reference to Lincoln (with the understanding that Trump actually did a little bit more for black folks than Lincoln). It is as if George Wallace had gotten the Democratic nomination in 1968 and pushed out all competitors. It bears zero resemblance to the Grand Old Party.

Hey, Trump knows a deal when he sees one. Lightly used plane, estate sale, owner committed suicide ... Let's try this one: Trump ordered him killed so he could buy his plane for cheap.

Umm, because they're not funny? These stupid Walz/horse s[]men things aren't getting out of the right-wing twitter-sphere! Right-wing jokey fact checker fact checks it. NO ONE OTHER THAN YOU (and me, sadly) WILL SEE IT. Because it's not funny. I tried to explain, but there's no explaining humor to the humorless.

It is at a minimum amusing, no? Trump somehow acquired Epstein's old plane, thought nobody would notice ...

I think Tug of War was once an Olympic sport. I'd watch that. A lot more than I'd ever watch break dancing (exception made for that Australian Kangaroo Dance)

All conventions are just for show. The last time we had either party select a candidate at a convention, other than simply ratifying a pre-ordained conclusion? Maybe more than half a century ago (Chicago Dems 1968).

Every single DOD employee, military or civilian, is essential? Serious question: I respect JD Vance's active duty service and Tim Walz's reservist service. From a purely business perspective: did either one's service add net value to the defense of the United States?

1. Stay the course. Allow the Fed's monetary policy to continue to stabilize the money supply and inflation. Trump: change the law to allow the President to have a say on interest rates. In other words, allow me to inject more money into the economy for political purposes, thereby risking yet more inflation. 2. Pass the bipartisan plan, and enforce it. Trump: mass deportations. No indication of how this will be done with new entrants/asylum claimants. 3. Make Roe v. Wade the law of the land again. Trump: leave it up to the states. But I won't even tell you what I'm voting for my state of Florida to do. So leave it to the states as long as those states don't ask Citizen Donald what he wants. Appoint FDA chief who promises to ban Mifepristone, or maybe not, depending on the polls. 4. Continue with the tax/budget plans set forth by Biden. - Legitimate big questions here: would she let the sunset on the Trump tax cuts (including estate tax) happen? Would she keep Trump's tariffs in place? Trump: more tariffs. No tax on tips (but how to define who is a worker who ought to be considered a "tipped" employee?). Unclear how revenue gap would be made up. 5. Continue to support Ukraine/Israel/Taiwan. Urge a cease fire in Gaza. Continue to support a strengthened NATO. Continue to treat Russia as a geopolitical foe. Continue to support global free trade, including protection of maritime trade routes in the Pacific/Indian oceans against Chinese threats. Appropriate enforcement of money transfers that facilitate illegal/terrorist activity, including through use of cryptocurrency. Trump: weaken NATO. Allow Israel to do whatever it wants to do. Try to get China to cry uncle through aggressive use of tariffs.

Right on cue. That critical debate is happening right now. You tell me: Satire? Serious sex-positive feminist opinion? Because I can't tell. https://www.vox.com/culture/366257/pole-dancing-olympics-sport-sex-work-gymnastics-paris

Panic setting in.

Do they? This knee-jerk "the military knows best" thing is completely unsupported by the historical record. It is a huge bureaucracy, and anyone who criticizes the federal bureaucracy in general (and yes, there's a lot to criticize) shouldn't exempt the military.