The Frankish Reich

Because they now realize that letting Trump be Trump is the best strategy. And how about Trump's strategy: please muzzle me! I can't be trusted to keep my mouth shut when it isn't my turn to speak.

Exactly.

So was it a travesty when the U.S. Government shut down Silk Road? Or is that kind of sex trafficking and drug-dealing site what we should be protecting?

Almost as big as the Adam Kinzinger defection!

Wow, marginal 70 year old Kennedy "kid" risks promising prospect status by throwing in with aging former All Star. What a storyline.

Correct. And as he always does, Trump redefines the very terms that describe his presidency. A RINO is now someone who is not a Trumpist, even though Trump was the OG RINO who tossed aside nearly principle the Party stood for.

You are correct that there is a fundamental realignment going on, and we are now seeing the third presidential election cycle of it. But your prescription was sadly wrong. You called for the Republicans to be the party of classical liberalism. There was a chance that could've happened at some point - any point - between 2008 and 2020. There were strong libertarians (small "l") in the Republican Party. Rand Paul (kook in some ways, but definitely a strong libertarian). Spencer Abraham. A few others long since forgotten. But that movement was killed by one man: Donald J. Trump. Free trade is a core tenet of classical liberalism; he is President Tariff. An expansive immigration policy is a core tenet too; he is President Deportation. That's just the start of it. Policy wise there is little that could be considered classical liberalism. And his governing style is a slap in the face of the rule of law. Right diagnosis; wrong prescription.

Why limit your question?

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4846433-harris-leading-trump-by-7-points-poll/

Aging Buffalo Area Man Remains Alive and Well After COVID Vaccines

“Extremely concerning” in an Idiocracy way

Hmm, dead man’s protege is winning. What does that say about Trump?

It’s worked out really well. Sign me up!

Well you guys certainly do suck at that.

I guess he would prefer a country of 100 billion people earning one dollar each per year to a country of 100 million people earning $100,000 each. It would make him proud to be an American where at least he knows he’s free. To starve. Per capita. Look it up.

I just fast forwarded through the Kamala’s speech, watching a couple minutes at a time. Good delivery, improved presence. No one remembers content anyway, so largely hope and joy is a good move. Calm, not giddy. Smiles, not cackles. Effective. Trump freak out is the best praise.

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean

Plus: remind me why I should care what total GDP is.

Hey, you, get off of my cloud

Crowned?

Trump shouldn't hide Barron, even if he is a bit special too. Walz doesn't hide his son. People see the love in that family vs. the dysfunction in the latest Trump family.

I like the title change. That'll convince us. "Specifically disavows." Did he specifically say that none of the contributors to Project 2025 would have a role in his 2nd administration? Too late. For a year or more they've been talking about how this time Trump will be ready, the agenda will be clear, and it will happen lightning fast before anyone realizes what hit them. Project 2025. That's what it was about. "Specifically disavow" all you want. You created it, you own it. Voters aren't that stupid.

The Walz "we didn't have any kids go to Yale" thing is dumb. They should be proud to have a kid from a small town high school go to Yale, or Harvard, or Penn. But you gotta remember where they're coming from. From a decade or more, Republicans have been harping on the "coastal elites" who run the country but are out of touch with middle America. Trump: Penn (Ivy League) Vance: Yale (Ivy League) Harris: Howard (HBCU) + Cal/Hastings Law (public) Walz: some small town public college in Nebraska + Mankato State You reap what you sow.

Frankish DNC Review, Night 3: - Bill Clinton: shut up already. One Clinton is enough. Voice weak, even more folksy than the bs artist who hit the stage in '92, yet still would be a better candidate in 2024 than the two we're stuck with. - Tim Walz: came on too late, even for me in Mountain time. Caught some highlights. Good old fashioned Democratic blowhard. Dare I say populist? JD Vance, you better toughen up. Tractor Walz is gonna roll all over you. - Stevie Wonder: I stopped watching and started listening to Innervisions for a while. Damn it's good. Musical genius. Still got it, not as a songwriter (that never lasts) but as a singer/musician. One of the greats. - Josh Shapiro: new style barnburner. Objectively "better" at it than Walz, but Walz has the it factor. - Oprah: sometimes something happens that makes me think for a moment "can we ever get rid of these guys." I'm not an Oprah hater, but ... enough. I liked when retiring meant you went away and we next heard about you in your obituary. Night 2 closing thought, Night 4 preview: - I forgot how annoying Hillary's voice is. - Kamala should be working on keeping her voice in a nice/modulated tone, not overplaying the folksy or for lack of a better term "ethnic." Boring is fine. Boring is underrated. Boring and grown up is too rare. But she could still blow it by trying to upstage her Veep.