The Frankish Reich

BREAKING: HARRIS COMPLETES COUP! Markets up sharply. https://www.cnbc.com/markets/

He sounds kind of like Trump in this one.

And the summer of COVID. Whatever. It sucked. I am much, much better off today. And I think most people, if reminded of what their lives were like then, would agree.

So you're saying it works. 😀

So laziness/incompetence, not nefarious plot? Make your mind up!

"Someone who regularly visited Crooks' home also visited a building in Washington DC" Ooh. That narrows it down. Maybe the postman went to DC. That mystery visit was on June 26. Right at or adjacent to Capital One arena. Wonder what was going on there on June 26? Anyone bother to check? I doubt it. So much more fun to make ordinary things appear sinister.

Really? Time to stop. Now.

Deranged Hippo!

Trump: we need to end illegal immigration. We also need to severely limit legal immigration. It should be limited to my Mar-a-Lago worker visas. And to Melania, a lingerie model of world renown. And to Vivek's parents. And to JD Vance's wife's parents. But definitely not to Nikki Haley's parents. We also need to end family chain migration. Except for Melania's parents.

Wouldn't that be fun. Even if not VP, getting some key Trump defectors on her side would be a good thing.

Yes, I'm better off than I was 4 years ago! Summer of 2020, for those of you with short memories.

I didn't want the 49ers to win the Super Bowl. But I really didn't want the Chiefs to win again. So I rooted for the 49ers. Is that so difficult to understand?

I never believed that urine part. The hooker part? We've already seen that Trump has no aversion to hookers (err, "adult film actresses," = hooker with a camera on), and I'm not so naive as to think that Stormy was his one and only experience. Still ... a cell phone pinged at the shooters house and also pinged at a very busy location in DC. That's it? Really?

Fair question. Although I am definitely not a "lefty." My preferred choice, particularly with if at least one chamber is controlled by Democrats, would be what used to be called a Republican. Mitt Romney, or someone cut from that cloth. So no, not a "lefty." The worst case scenario for me would be a Trump win alongside the Republicans taking the Senate (and keeping the House). With the current Supreme Court, there would be no real check on what I consider to be Trump's crazier impulses. The best case would be a moderate Democrat. Kamala is too far left for my tastes. The way Biden governed was also too far left. I would say something like Beshear (Gov of KY) who understands what it means to work with Republicans for the good of the state. Obviously there are others of the same type too. I don't need big personalities. I want functional government. In my lifetime the best example was the Bill Clinton administration: balanced budgets, reform in key areas (welfare and yes, immigration, although that fell apart quickly through lax enforcement, sound tax policy, generally sound foreign policy, etc. All with a very adversarial House for a good part of his presidency. Bill Clinton came from that same background: governor of a conservative state, used to working with people across the aisle.

Likewise, I was utterly unenthusiastic about Biden. Just slightly more enthusiastic about Kamala, but something far short of actually being "enthused." The less-bad candidate, the less-bad result for America remains my position.

Did that come before or after the very Christian Trump wished me a "Happy Good Friday."

None. It was a favorite response of the right wingers when laid off journalists complained about poor job prospects. In January 2019 Huffington Post, Gannett, BuzzFeed and Verizon Media announced layoffs of journalists. As the journalists confirmed their involvement on social media, strangers responded with a torrent of mockery and hate speech mixed with suggestions to learn to code. The harassment was found to be coordinated on 4chan, a lightly moderated and anonymous message board that had previously coordinated the GamerGate campaign.[43][44] Twitter responded by blocking accounts involved in the harassment,[45] drawing derision from Fox News personality Tucker Carlson and suggestive endorsements of the harassment from right-wing figures Ben Shapiro, Donald Trump Jr. and David Duke.[46]

Have you actually looked at what your buddy is posting? Tracking data from advertising firms shows that someone who was at/near the shooter's home also at some point visited a very central location in the middle of Washington, DC. That's it. Nothing else. Even if correct, how preposterous is it to infer something nefarious from this?

And a nugget for you too! I hope you can read. If so, please tell me which of Trump's close advisors you most agree with: __ "An idiot surrounded by clowns" (Gary Cohn, Chief Economic Advisor) __ "No more than semiliterate" (various staffers as related by Michael Wolff) __ "An idiot" (Steve Mnuchin, Treasury Secretary) __ "dumb" (Cohn again) __ "a dope" (H.R. McMaster, National Security Advisor) __ "a moron" (Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/can-you-read/2018/01/04/46d967a2-f18c-11e7-b3bf-ab90a706e175_story.html An email Wolff describes as "purporting to represent the views" of chief economic adviser Gary Cohn neatly summarizes what campaign workers and White House staff have been telling me about Trump for two years. He is an "idiot surrounded by clowns. Trump won't read anything — not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored. And his staff is no better." "Can you read?" Awkward silence. "I'm serious, Donald. Do you read?" I continued. "If someone wrote you a one-page paper on a policy, could you read it?" Taken aback, Trump quietly responded that he could while holding up a Bible given to him by his mother. He then joked that he read it all the time. I am apparently not the only one who has questioned the president's ability to focus on the written word. "Trump didn't read," Wolff writes. "He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semiliterate. Others concluded that he didn't read because he didn't have to . . . He was postliterate — total television." But "Fire and Fury" reveals that White House staff and Cabinet members believed Trump's intellectual challenges went well beyond having a limited reading list: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called him an "idiot," Cohn dismissed him as "dumb," national security adviser H.R. McMaster considered him a "dope," and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson infamously concluded that the commander in chief was a "moron." I actually believe Trump is dyslexic and has ADHD. He's been covering up the dyslexia for decades. It is probably part of the reason his academic performance was so poor (and where are his transcripts by the way?) The ADHD can't be covered up. At any rate, it is untreated and it makes him totally unfit for the job of president of the United States.

Maybe learn to code? [sorry, but isn't that what Republicans loved to say, like, a few short years ago?]

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's official. Our New Deranged Hippo.

ooh, I just saw that Biden's COVID symptoms have "nearly resolved." Biden His body double is planning to travel back to the White House to address the nation. Catching up, catching up. Still a ways to go.

Not at all like a rambling old man who's lost focus. But where's the Hannibal Lecter reference? Is he waiting outside the boat too?

So now you see that constantly firing you staff is a sign of poor management skills.

The world, it's UNFAIR!