The Frankish Reich

Where are the people clamoring for him to resign right now if he's so mentally unfit today. No. Big majorities didn't want him to run because they were concerned about where he'd be in 3 or 4 years. Because, you know, he'll be like 85 or something. Oh, America is crumbling under senile Biden right now! Inflation went way up, now it's under control. The markets go up, up, up, but not quite as much as the went up, up [way, way down, then Fed intervenes], way way, way up under Trump! We don't have troops involved in any foreign conflicts! Oil production hit an all time high! How much more of this winning can we sustain!

Trump has proved the point. - You say it before the election, over and over. "The only way they can win is by rigging it." - You say it as the election is happening. I'm winning, and the only way they can "catch up" (meaning: counting ballots already cast) is by cheating. - You say it every day after the election: We won. We won. We won. And people will start to believe it. And then become firmly convinced of it. No matter what 60 dismissed lawsuits find. No matter what your own audits (Arizona, Georgia) find. No matter how much your people are ordered or agree to pay in settlements for making completely unsupported or even disproved allegations of fraud (Fox/Dominion, Rudy Giuliani/Georgia election workers). No matter anything. That is brainwashing. Trump is a master at one thing. He has convinced you that egging on protesters to raid the Capitol and disrupt the counting of electoral votes to send the slates "back to the states" (which would then summarily declare Trump the victor) wasn't an attempt to overthrow the validly certified electoral slates of those states. He can convince you of anything. You are mesmerized by him. He knows it. That's why he said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue in broad daylight and you'd still vote for him. He knows you better than you know yourself.

Do you have ANY examples on non-NBC affiliated Olympics Twitter videos that haven't been taken down? They take down all of them.

I guess you have to be fully brainwashed to understand then.

You have a problem with comprehension. This is ostensibly a football forum. So let's try that. Bills move on from Matt Morse. Didn't want to re-sign him to a multi-year contract. Standard opinion: "He was fine at Center last year, but with his age and health history there are concerns about whether he will remain effective throughout a 4-year contract extension." Now do a global find-and-replace for "Morse" with "Biden" and for "Center" with "President" As a great man once said, it all depends on what the meaning of "is" is. Take that one to heart, Mr. "Biden Is Mentally Fit. (You suck at argument)

No one knows what this is supposed to mean.

Keep fighting yesterday's battles! That'll work like a charm. Yes, I'm with Pete: we've all seen that Biden is effective as president, and we all know he's getting old. As you guys love to say, "Now do Trump."

This is how the immediate post-Hezbollah attack headline reads on my Wash Post online account: Strike in Israeli-controlled Golan Heights kills at least 12 and threatens to spark a wider war A rocket strike at a soccer field in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights has killed at least 12 children and teens It does have a bias, but you ain't gonna find it here.

The identity of the girl in the photo is described right there in the caption to the photo! Just because your side is lazy and can't read anything other than 24 point text doesn't mean the rest of of can't. These "media is biased things" have reached a new level of idiocy.

I think Dominion had something to do with it. Sure, it used to be Chavez/Venezuelan, but it appears to be All American now. I'd blame them.

Agreed. That's probably the direction we need to go in. Not everyone needs an individualized hearing. Cuba: we all agree it sucks and is an abusive human rights regime. As long as you can show you weren't complicit with the government, you get to stay. Chile: we call agree that it is a democracy that respects basic human rights. Unless you come with actual proof of something extraordinary, your case should be summarily denied. We'll never get out of this mess through the idea that everyone, regardless of country of origin, needs to have a full and complete asylum hearing and appeal rights. Difficult cases: China. But that's only a 1.4 billion people ...

For those that didn't click play ... you'll be underwhelmed. "We were all aware of how he's doing. We've watched him lead, and we're also aware that he's 10 years older than he was 10 years ago." Ooh, gotcha! He just admitted that Biden ages chronologically! Pete is too smart to fall for it. But the RNC will run with it anyway, knowing that none of their followers will do anything other than read their stupid mischaracterization.

You have to work harder to understand the Trumpist right. It amounts to this: - Israel good. Jews in Israel good. Jews who support Israel good. Netanyahu good no matter what he does. - Jewish financiers bad. Jews who support Jewish financiers bad. George Soros bad not because he's Jewish or a financier but because he's a Jewish financier.

Basically that is the US policy with respect to Cubans. The law says they can get permanent residency if they come in and manage to stay one year.

I didn't know that. Leggings on the beach! Or in this case on the sand dumped in front of the Eiffel Tower. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-13682545/Paris-Olympics-Games-2024-women-beach-volleyball-bikinis-uniforms-sexist-complain.html

Doesn't that mean "just let them in?"

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1. So do you think Mike Pence was a good choice? 2. So do you think Paul Ryan was a good choice? 3. So do you think Dick Cheney was a good choice and a good VP? 4. So do you think John McCain was a good man and good presidential candidate? Because all I read here is that they were war-mongering, Trump-denying "globalists."

Yep, definitely not Mike Pence! Or Paul Ryan. Or Dick Cheney. It's almost as if you guys hate the 3 most recent white male Republican VP picks. Counter-example: Sara Palin, but I'm not sure if the Trumpies like her anymore. She's got the "dumb like a regular American" thing going for her, but she is sullied by her association with John McCain. Who you also hate.

From the last couple comments, it is obvious that the Trumpists fear Shapiro, bringing up anything that can be spun into a misleading headline. So I say he's my man.

I'm not sure the Singapore model scales to a country like the USA. And by the way, it also effectively bans gun ownership and has the death penalty for firearms offenses. As for jail (and this one is from personal experience): it is amazing how even a little time in jail focuses the minds of many criminals. I live in a city that effectively made drug use/possession legal. Police don't arrest/jail people doing drugs in public. Take an addict and put him in jail even for a week and he goes through withdrawal. Most spin right back out and use again. Some don't, and go to treatment. And a lot move along to a city that doesn't arrest them for doing drugs in public. Lack of even basic enforcement of the laws is a terrible idea that has had terrible consequences, even if the penalty is not severe.

Of course not. I will agree with you that that has been the fallback position of the immigrant advocacy groups. Since we really can't know who has a legitimate claim, let them all in until they have a hearing. And when you let them all in you break the system and people have to wait 5 years for a hearing. And when people have the expectation that they will be let in and it will be 5 years before they're hearing, even more come. So no, this is not sound policy and it is not sustainable. Neither is summarily block/deport them all. There are valid responses, including detention while a claim is heard, but both sides continue to talk past each other.

Interesting that it would be o.k. to blaspheme Smurf Dionysus. Who will speak for the pagans?

I'm not sure about corporal punishment, but on punishment in general (jail) we agree.

True. The system itself needs reform. The system as it stands has no way of separating legitimate asylum applicants from illegitimate or fake/fraudulent ones, at least not until the applicant has waited years for a hearing. There needs to be an honest discussion, but we're not going to get that from the current stances of our political parties.