The Frankish Reich

I saw that Beshear interview. That had to sting JD, the Hillbilly from the Ohio valley flats. And just because you directed me to Meridith McGraw's Twitter, how about this gem from a genius.

Actually, yes. I said that to my wife - ordinarily Trump would be far more insulting when someone said something as incomprehensible as Biden's "we broke Medicare." I'm not sure if he felt sorry for Biden (unlikely) or was hoping Biden would stay in the race (ultimately incorrect)

But I listened to you, and you assured me I was voting for a 3rd and then 4th Obama Term! I'm happy!

Charlie Kirk is on it! Just for fun, I looked at a LAS to BWI (closest major public airport to Dover) this morning. 4 hours, 10 mins airtime. A good tailwind and you're right in the ballpark. Not exactly supersonic or even "extremely fast" for a private plane where saving on fuel isn't that critical. But whatever. Feed the conspiracy monster, Charlie! Feed it.

No. Neither will the Clintons.

Who is this Joe Biden of whom you speak? Did he used to be a senator or something? Ancient history. Kind of a Jimmy Carter sans the longevity.

And exactly how likely is this? It's Donald Effin Trump. No self control. A man of huge appetites and endless insults. It's his brand.

Why Does Mike Lee Write in the Manner of Poetry Is He Crazy Is He High? Or Just an Ordinary Guy?

Absolutely she should be fired. I think the problem is a common one: we always try to prevent the last tragedy and forget about the ways that the next one could be engineered. Example: pre-9/11 everything was about stopping passengers with guns and preventing hijackings, including terrorist hijackings demanding ransom. Our entire air security apparatus was set up that way. The 9/11 terrorist exploited that by bring box cutters on board, and by working in small teams. They also exploited it by using the fully fueled jets as the weapons, flying them into buildings to go for the largest body count and (for them) the greatest symbolism. No one even considered that possibility. While hardly as novel as the 9/11 attacks, sniper attacks were, thankfully, rare. Crazed individuals In a crowd? Not so much. Think Salman Rushdie, or Reagan, or the Slovak PM. Security was focused on those kinds of threats, not on a rooftop sniper.

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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."