The Frankish Reich

No. It was a really good joke tweet! Knowing the old rule that it is impossible to analyze comedy ... 1. JD Vance is kind of stiff and awkward on the national stage, and he's trying too hard to be Joe Sixpack, if the Sixpack is Diet Mountain Dew. He's also trying way too hard to be a Trump insult comic. Instead, as one commenter said, he's the Great Lakes Ron DeSantis. 2. Somehow the "sex with a couch" works against that backdrop. 3. The tweet itself was simple yet specific. It involve a rubber glove and a couch. And it gave a reference in standard citation form (Vance, p. 179-81). Far enough into the book, knowing that most people never made it that far. Simple. Elegant. Beautifully done. Dare I say "edgy" which a lot of old fogeys here just don't get.

There's a reason that joke story has legs, and it's because JD Vance - at least the current incarnation of JD Vance - is acting kind of weird. See "Low Energy Jeb."

Simmons just hit the market at the wrong time. A time when teams just aren't willing to shell out that much for a safety, no matter how good.

^^^ Weirdo. Who cuts and pastes empty quotes?

I just read the obituary. Here's what I never knew: it was so difficult to find/keep people in the military at the height of Vietnam that a horribly incompetent/unqualified guy like Calley was promoted way, way beyond his capacity. From the NYT: On the morning of March 16, 1968, Second Lieutenant Calley, a 24-year-old platoon leader who had been in Vietnam just three months, led about 100 men of Charlie Company into My Lai 4, an inland hamlet about halfway up the east coast of South Vietnam. The Americans moved in under ambiguous orders, suggesting to some that anyone found in the hamlet, even women and children, might be Vietcong enemies. While they met no resistance, the Americans swept in shooting. Over the next few hours, horrors unfolded. Witnesses said victims were rousted from huts, herded into an irrigation ditch or the village center and shot. Villagers who refused to come out were killed in their huts by hand grenades or bursts of gunfire. Others were shot as they emerged from hiding places. Infants and children were bayoneted and shot, and an unknown number of females were raped and shot. A military photographer took pictures. Although Lieutenant Calley’s immediate superiors knew generally what had happened, the atrocity was covered up in military reports that called it a successful search-and-destroy mission. It took nearly a year and a half — and persistent efforts by a few soldiers and an independent investigative journalist, Seymour M. Hersh, who later won a Pulitzer Prize for his disclosures — for investigations to grind forward and the story to reach a stunned world. By then, Lieutenant Calley, a short, stocky man scorned by his troops and fellow officers as an insecure leader who could hardly read a map or a compass and who seemed to lack common sense in the field, had been promoted to first lieutenant and awarded a Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster and a Purple Heart.

Hillary has a point, doesn't she.

Don't you understand? Those little kids were scarred for life because their parents put masks on them! Probably at the height of COVID, but whatever. As a parent of older kids, I can assure you they will have no memory of the mask-wearing thing when they were kindergarten age or below. None. But still: scarred for life!

Rest assured that if you are not a professional athlete, you are just entering your prime.

Some of the hits he was penalized/suspended for were questionable. Each one is isolation may be "could go either way." But there's a record of repeated questionable hits, and the reputation that goes with that. And that's on him.

Dirty player, and the penalties/suspensions for it were no longer offset by performance as he hit his mid-30s. I'm hoping he doesn't make the cut.

Did you read the NYT story? Because if you had, you'd realize there's nothing unfair here, unless you think that revealing personal emails is inherently unfair. It makes Vance look like a kind, decent, thoughtful, open guy. That is, up until he started running for political office as some kind of Trump mini-me. At that point he became kind of an a-hole, insulting groups of people for no good reason other than it made him look better to Trump. For me, it raises some hope that the kind, decent, thoughtful, open guy is still there under the layers of sycophantic bs. For Trumpies, it scares them to death that he may be doesn't really hate the people he's supposed to hate. Which really tells you all you need to know about Trump's base supporters.

the only basis for choosing him was the idea that it would put NC in play. Which Cooper probably realizes is not the case, polling or otherwise. So drop out now rather than being passed on

I just typed "JD Vance" into the Google search bar. I got: "JD Vance wife" "JD Vance net worth" "JD Vance height" as my top 3 results. No indication of "JD Vance couch" or "JD Vance sofa" even though I know these have to be the leading current searches. Rigged!

In order: - Biden angrily denied that he lacks the mental acuity to do the job - Trump told America that he was shot in the ear and he felt a bullet pierce his earlobe - Kamala clarified that "border Czar" was a name made up by others about her assignment - Yet JD Vance has NEVER denied having sexual relations with that nonwoman, the couch. Hmm.

Why are you gloating at a river remaining polluted? You got something against Paris? What has it ever done to you except ignore you and your small mindedness.

No one except 100% committed Trump voters cares. No one. The USS Biden has set sail. Into the sunset.

Many, I suppose, are good people

It’s not too late! too bad he chose Vance

Now please go look at Elon Musk's middle school insult on the other thread. Offended? Or is it not edgy? Or is he young enough to do edgy? You tell me.

So Biden should obviously resign today. Kamala should run as an incumbent. Is that what I'm hearing? Because if Biden is mentally unfit today, well, that's what follows. But you (or at least Trump and those millions who hang on his every word) don't want that. So, you must believe that Biden at least is "fit enough" to continue on until January 20. But "fit enough" = "fit," because you either are or you aren't. There's no little bit pregnant or little bit fit. At least Trump believes that. In other words, we both believe Biden is mentally fit. Maybe it wasn't worth changing your screen name over your poorly reasoned attempted distinction. Aren't you stuck with it for 6 months? You are wasting your opportunity to influence the election! You could have gone with "Kamala is a Laughing Hyena." That could've swung it. At least in Wisconsin.

Unlikely if you expect that all ballots are received and counted randomly at the same time. Guess what? They're not! Some states have weird rules about when early voting ballots are counted/tabulated. Mail in absentee ballots may be counted later. All sorts of weird rules. I agree with you that we ought to have more consistent voting rules across the states to avoid this kind of speculation about what it all must mean, but not because there's anything inherently sinister here.

Keep posting this. Don't watch it, that's unnecessary. "We're all aware that he's 10 years older than he was 10 years ago." I call that an Admission Against Interest!

But they keep churning out those Star Wars sequels/prequels/spinoffs. Because people keep watching them. What does that say?

You're pretty good then, analyzing a graph without defined axes or units. Or maybe you'll believe whatever they throw at you?