The Frankish Reich

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!

And NC Bills has done it for 40 years instead of med school. Just sayin' Of course I'm forgetting that that's because some minority probably got that supervisory job he applied for. All 7 times.

Love the part better (first video, 0:53) of her ragging on the "Bush-Clinton-Trump foreign policy doctrine." This was in 2020, after Trump had been president for 3+ years ... Yet another latecomer to the Trump party who can see that being a right-wing pundit is a lucrative position.

???

And would have voted for him again, given that a mentally unfit power-mad vulgarian is his opponent. And how Un-American is this? - "Biden is totally unfit to be President. He must stand down lest America be put in the hands of (continue in the hands of) a mentally decrepit octogenarian! This is an emergency that the MSM is ignoring!!" - Biden stands down - "How dare Biden stand down! The Dems tricked us!! Better that we have the possibility of a mentally decrepit octogenarian running the country for four more years than have him depart the race."

So now we officially have KDS. Kamala Derangement Syndrome. The Trumper meltdown is on! It's a coup! It's unfair! But you didn't tell us Kamala would be on the exam!!

I just loved that Thurgood Marshall response. He was 83 or 84 when he retired, obviously wasn't in great health, and reporters were stupidly asking "why are you retiring." No one ever said it better. Because I'm old, you effin idiots!

https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/23/donald-trump-speaking-style-interviews/ In interviews Trump gave in the 1980s and 1990s (with Tom Brokaw, David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey, Charlie Rose, and others), he spoke articulately, used sophisticated vocabulary, inserted dependent clauses into his sentences without losing his train of thought, and strung together sentences into a polished paragraph, which — and this is no mean feat — would have scanned just fine in print. This was so even when reporters asked tough questions about, for instance, his divorce, his brush with bankruptcy, and why he doesn’t build housing for working-class Americans. Now, Trump’s vocabulary is simpler. He repeats himself over and over, and lurches from one subject to an unrelated one, as in this answer during an interview with the Associated Press last month: “People want the border wall. My base definitely wants the border wall, my base really wants it — you’ve been to many of the rallies. OK, the thing they want more than anything is the wall. My base, which is a big base; I think my base is 45 percent. You know, it’s funny. The Democrats, they have a big advantage in the Electoral College. Big, big, big advantage. … The Electoral College is very difficult for a Republican to win, and I will tell you, the people want to see it. They want to see the wall.”

And yet, despite a brain resembling overnight oats, the United States continues to hum right along. Hell, even the markets aren't bothered a bit by the fact that the country is being governed by a dead man sitting. https://www.cnbc.com/us-markets/

What you really want to do is to compare the young Trump to the old man Trump. It's at least as compelling as the change in Biden.

Not a burn. Just the truth. Typically someone of Tarheel's age will have moved on to a supervisory role ...

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a the Woman he Finger Raped.

Yes. The Ozempic is sadly nonselective, reducing bust size too.

Poor Nancy Mace. Tried to pull the female version of the JD Vance pirouette, going from Never Trumper to Trump Humper. Even went all Ozempic on us to gain the great man's attention. (She looks good; now give her a sandwich already) And all for naught. But Hey, Secretary of Labor is out there for those who grandstand!

I stand corrected. 21 years as "Vodkapundit" and I have never received any opinions directly from him. Let's keep it that way.

The question here, "Why did Biden drop out," reminds me of what Thurgood Marshall said upon his retirement from the Supreme Court: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4552136/user-clip-justice-marshall-old "I'm old. I'm old and I'm coming apart." Sometimes that's all there is to it.

The upshot: his moronic and idiotic behavior has no medical cause.