The Frankish Reich

I got over the bias against Wikipedia about 15 years ago. A study showed that it is generally at least as accurate - and often far more complete - than a lot of comparable privately edited sources. I'd be very cautious with articles about somewhat famous persons, since they clearly have their own publicists writing/editing entries (against Wikipedia rules, of course). But for major things, particularly those with at least a few months between the event and the latest version of the article, it's pretty damn good. As for the "something owned by Rupert Murdoch" - I get that, except that he pretty much leaves the WSJ alone. His other media, not so much.

"Cover up" - what a stupid take. We are not even one week away from the shooting and the general public already knows a whole lot about the circumstances of the shooting (ridiculous lack of coordination between Secret Service and the locals), about the shooter (no apparent connection to anyone else; fits the profile of a number of recent shooters), and we're going to hear testimony from the Secret Service director on Monday. What's being "covered up?" Looks more like an open book to me, but some people will find something sinister in every screw up.

He was a "project" draft pick, pushed into action a little too early, who looked like he'd really turned the corner and developed into a good RT last season. But that's the problem with projects. They start really producing just as they start getting really expensive ....

I just confirmed that the crotch grabber is none other than our Drag Queen Kimberly, seen here adjusting his junk.

Do you mean the unofficial January 6 theme song?

Not many, but as we saw in 2016 and 2020, just about 50,000 in a few key states can make all the difference.

Except for the hour-long spiel in the middle of a 1.5 hour speech. Other than that, he appeared perfectly sane and presidential.

He's so stupid he doesn't even realize it. The comms people pimped it as a "New Trump" who would be a peacemaker, bringing people together. And they wrote him a nice speech that touched on those themes. And then he negated all of that by going off script for nearly an hour with his old laundry list of grievances and self-aggrandizing war stories ("he said to me, Your Excellency - he calls me Your Excellency - we are willing to do what you ask us ..") Blah, blah, blah. Like when he used to pretend to be "John Barron," Donald Trump's publicist. We forget what an idiot this man is. No, because the takeaway will be "Trump rambles on for 1.5 hours in a low energy speech"

Damn right I don't care about this. His speechwriters wrote him a nice tight speech that touched on his near-death moment, moved into his love of country and his feeling that he has been given a new chance to make it better, and then ended on a high "we are all Americans in this together" note. And he effed it up with an hour long digression

So lack of eloquence is now a virtue. He sounded like a rambling old self-aggrandizing fool. At least I admitted that my guy stunk up the joint at the debate. Trumpies will insist that that was the finest political speech ever.

Don't lie ... you were staring at your watch as soon as he hit the 45 minute mark.

Talk about putting a positive spin on a disaster. UNSTOPPABLE is not a virtue in a political speech.

So which one do you dread most when visiting the Senior Home, the tired old guy who mumbles and you never know what he's saying? Or the full of himself teller of old war stories who won't let you leave the room?

Mumblin' Joe and Ramblin' Don. The best and the brightest NOT.

THERE IT IS! MELANIA JUST REJECTED THE HAM HAND!!

Holy crap ... walked away almost an hour ago and he's still going! Not dowdy. Preppy. Pretty. Makeup applied judiciously. A rather nicely written speech that as programmed ran about 25 minutes, sandwiching Trump's stupid rally speech. No self control.

"As Americans, we are bound together by a single faith." Cringe. Cut to Vance's wife please. I'm getting the software. A little AI and it'll be fixed. No one else will even notice.

The damn God Bless the USA. First time I heard it I thought what the hell kind of lyric is "I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free." That sounds like you're saying the country sucks in other respects, but hey, at least I'm free. Needed to be rewritten. "Where I'll always know I'm free?" Whatever. Dude has dined out on that damn song for four decades.

That's an old lady.

Damn, that misuse of penultimate ruined an otherwise good tweet.

Yeah, because he was a 77 year old man inviting a 70 year old man to strip off his shirt on the stage of a nominating convention.

Hulk Hogan firing up the crowd for Trump. What do people in other countries think about how effin moronic American politics is?

No, there's nothing that interesting in his Venmo contact. I really did mean this as a reminder to people. And could you move on from the Biden thing? It's really a pretty commonly held view if you'd get out more often. People have mentioned Nate Silver here as a pundit guru. I like reading him. Guess what? He goes away beyond me, thinking that Biden is in seriously bad physical/mental health. And yet he says he would vote for Biden over Trump in a heartbeat if that's the choice he's given.

Friendly reminder: Venmo default is "transactions are public." https://www.wired.com/story/jd-vance-venmo/

I'm on a roll. Outta my way, sonny. Although you have to admit you've helped me along with the Matt Gaetz thing. That is far weirder than anything I've pointed out.