The Frankish Reich

I will point out that the Indian-Ugandan refugees who resettled in Canada are remarkably successful and a big benefit to Canada.

You should actually like the "owns guns because he doesn't trust fascists" part. Isn't that what the 2nd Amendment absolutists always say? That if you disarm the populace there's nothing to stop the state from depriving you of all your other rights?

More catching up on this: Mamdani's nutcase father has published an "Idi Amin not so bad" book. Good Lord. I had a friend in law school who grew up in Canada. He was of India/South Asian ancestry; his ancestors had immigrated to Uganda, and his parents were Uganda citizens. The same as Mamdani. Idi Amin stripped people of Indian ancestry of their Ugandan citizenship. He "deported" citizens born and raised there.This was literally a textbook example of a gross human rights violation when I was in law school. Those who tried to stay didn't fare so well. Dad is nuts, and unfortunately son inherited that.

All true. Let's take a step back. Is it a good thing that all these companies seem to think that they need to spend shareholder dollars on this in order to keep on the good side of the biggest grudgeholder in the world? American politics today. And of course they'll be lining up to fund the Obama library or whatever too. Fine and dandy for individual donors, but for publicly traded companies this is donating shareholder money. And if challenged, the reason would be "it's a small investment to make sure that we stay on the good side of Trump."

I just got caught up on some of the latest NYC mayor race shenanigans. What an awful set of candidates, each one representing what is worst in American politics. Michael Bloomberg, where is your protege? Is there one? Or is that age just plain over.

I really can't understand how people with a strong connection to Buffalo and WNY (almost everyone here) isn't in favor of this. The impact of restraints on trade may be generally a bad thing for America, but it is definitely a really, really bad thing for Buffalo.

I'm sticking to more basic, less edgy humor for a bit.

How does this suggest that Reagan wasn't a free trade advocate? The problem here is that some part of what remains of Trump's brain still wants to claim he's a Republican and the successor to the most successful Republican President since Teddy Roosevelt. He isn't.

He or JD should have adopted a cat from the Springfield OH shelter. Now that would've been an epic troll ...

True. And advice for Trump rivals, whether Republican or Democrat: You Will Never Out-Trump Trump. So stop trying. This is one thing they should have learned by now.

At least he's nominally qualified and apparently not an RFK fringe nut. That's what it's come down to for me. Could've been a lot worse. Not high praise ...

Umm, no. It is (well, should be) beneath our political leaders to post stupid joke memes like this or like dumping feces on protesters. I get what Newsom is doing - trying to out-Trump Trump - but I don't like it.

I read the transcript, and I find nothing wrong with Ontario's take on Reagan the Free Trader. It was one of his proudest accomplishments. There's nothing in Reagan's history of the occasional use of tariffs in particular sectors that would justify the rise of a nominally Republican Tarriff Man. By the way, a hissy fit like Trump's latest is now "masculine?"

Beane has been so obsessed with getting that big receiver that he overreaches. Kelvin Benjamin: embarrassing bust. Gabe Davis: great value draft pick, faded fast Coleman: entering bust territory This can happen when you get into a mentality that's like "we're really good, all we need to do is to add a big #1 receiver and an excellent CB." You forget that we also desperately need run-stopping DTs, LBs, a speedburner at receiver ... enough things other than QB and lead RB that it still makes sense to take the best player available.

Not saying we're a good run defense, but we're 6 games in a a couple really long breakaway runs will do that ...

Not bad. We do know that Trump hates pets. Another reason to distrust him.

Pointing out what has always been there in your collective unconscious, MAGA.

Maybe George will give him a good Schlapp in the back now.

No, I'm proud of that title. While the rest of you think muscled Trump AI memes and WWE/UFC support think he's captured the masculine crowd, I am here to point out the truth. As far as every man hates what he has to deny: another brilliant line from Mark Smith/The Fall (author of yesterday's Who Makes the Nazis). I wish I could take credit for it.

Educate yourself. Here's a good example of what I'm talking about - take a look at the images (NSFW) from Kabul reproduced in this article; an article found by simply googling. Some may be military vets serving as contractors at the time, but ... come on, it's obvious. https://thedisorderofthings.com/2012/11/01/fratriarchy-homoeroticism-and-military-culture/

Proves my point that a lot of the reason for the military being all squeamish about gay men is that a lot of the military rituals have homoerotic undertones. A real out gay guy ruins all the fun. (Have at it, JDHill!)

Good point. He's kind of a Fetterman with a more checkered past. A phony blue collar guy who runs hard left, trying to get back to the days when union laborers were both Democrats and hardass manly men.

Yep. Pro-Nazi stuff? Not good, but not fatal. Anti-gay slur? Career killer!

Yep, another "breath of fresh air" who is in reality a weirdo. Back in my harder libertarian days, I used to quote William F. Buckley's famous line: "I would rather be governed by the first 535 names in the Boston phone book than by the people in our Congress." I've learned my lesson the hard way. Think about these "political outsiders" who got some traction in state or national races: Ross Perot. Jesse Ventura. That trans-loving governor candidate in NC. This nutcase in Maine. In my Colorado I was ready to vote for a Republican Governor candidate back in 2010, running against Denver's insufferable Mayor (now Senator) John Hickenlooper. And the Republicans nominated this fool as the "outsider/insurgent candidate." The Republican Party in Colorado hasn't been the same since. Right now I can only think of one "outsider" in recent memory who has been up to the job: good old Arnie in California. Today's Trumpies complain about him, but he did as much as any Republican could to drag California kicking and screaming into semi-sanity. No more "outsiders" please. I want to know who you are and what you stand for. EDIT: on the local level, a couple outsiders who I think were really good mayors - Riordan (LA) and Bloomberg (NYC)

Basically the old "but I'm autistic" defense.