The Frankish Reich

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Correct.

So let me ask you, now that Biden is out of the race. Why do you think Trump is mentally fit for the most important job in the world? His own key appointees: "Idiot." "Effin' Moron." And from his latest key appointee, his VP candidate: "Idiot." Don't know about you, but I'm seeing a pattern here ...

Coup! I think we need another explainer for all Trumpies collapsing onto their fainting couches. This is like the Tories in the UK replacing Cameron with May, May with Truss, Truss with Sunak ... Will it end the same way, with that party losing power? Probably. Then if Kamala refuses to certify the results we'll have ourselves a bloodless coup. And if she send in some Antifa goons, we'll have an attempted bloody coup.

Damn, sucks to have spent so much time creating all of those hilarious fossil/cadaver memes Because it wouldn't be Blitzy without a conspiracy theory

A little cheat sheat of the worst things a politician can be called by his running mate: 1. Hitler [huge Grand Canyon sized chasm] 2. Racist

Because he made a clown of himself running for VP, only to find himself in the honorary minority Ben Carson Memorial Health and Human Services Secretary Derby.

No, Vivek, we still be laughing at you.

I'm sure Pizzagate Jack has special insight into what goes on between the Bidens. He's "hearing things" again. Why would anyone read anything from this buffoon?

They are having trouble keeping their talking points together.

There is, of course, Donald Trump's evil brain, the Jewish guy with the hair from a spray can.

And that's just from his VP pick.

Names being kicked about: - Josh Shapiro, to help in PA - James Stavridis (former NATO commander) to help with foreign policy/defense credentials - Mark Kelly, to help in AZ Who'd you like to see?

Ouch. That was below the belt.

Sweep the leg! Go for that cauliflower ear!!

You aren't remotely embarrassed that you've expended so much time cutting down Joe Biden that it finally worked and now you already miss having him as an opponent? Republicans now have the old nominee. You know, the one whose father died of Alzheimer's. 🙄

Absolutely. Similar thing. Bright, incredibly ambitious. And Wes Moore has pretty much exactly the same level of work experience as JD Vance. If I'm one of those Dem insiders I'm running Wes Moore for President or at least VP. The choice of Vance has killed any "too inexperienced" argument.

A question: didn't people say the same things about Obama? And they were right to ask about who this man really was.

It strikes me that Vance has one seriously underestimated talent: the ability to suck up to his bosses in the most committed way. How does a kid from a small town with a broken family sign up for the Marines after high school and wind up with a cushy assignment doing publicity/"reporting" for the Marine Corps? How does a kid from a state school somehow become the protege of law prof/author Amy Chua (of the best-selling Tiger Mom book)? How does a kid from Yale Law not follow the standard Yale Law career path - the one followed by his wife, clerking for top federal judges - but instead becomes the protege of billionaire Peter Thiel, never practicing law at all and despite having no background in finance/venture capital? And how does this same young man viciously criticize charlatan Donald Trump only to become a truer believer in Trumpism than Trump himself? He is smart and talented, but face facts: some of that talent is a rare talent at bs and sucking up to the rich and powerful. He is hugely ambitious, and now at 39, without any real record of success in any actual job (other than as a memoirist) he now finds himself the leading candidate to be president in 2029, if not sooner (Trump is no spring chicken). There's some good stories out there about his meteoric rise that we'll be hearing more about as the campaign continues.

Althouse is now a retired law professor who hid her Trumpie leanings until she retired. Profiles in courage!

When is the last time a sniper shot at a president? 1963, JFK. Since then we've had other shootings - Ford 2X, both up close. Reagan: up close. We've seen other politicians worldwide stabbed and shot at, but I can't recall one that was a sniper. Non-presidents: RFK Jr, up close. Steve Scalise, etc. Up close. MLK is the only post-JFK sniper attack I can recall. Maybe Secret Service (including the rooftop snipers they deployed) became a little too focused on threats in the immediate crowd - the guy who leaves a knife somewhere inside the security perimeter, etc. I would imagine that that's what they were most focused on because that's the kind of attacks we've seen in the last 50+ years.

At least you get that I'm trolling some of the "special" posters here.

Right. He'll turn 31 during the season. Look at the great WRs throughout recent NFL history and you'll see that it is a rare one indeed who doesn't show diminished production in his 30s. An article from a fantasy football site, but the stats are the stats: https://www.fantasylife.com/articles/redraft/how-does-age-impact-wr-performance-in-fantasy-football#:~:text=At age 30%2C WRs can,to 40% below prime years.

Trump in his first comment about getting shot, surreptitiously recorded by someone in the room with RFK Jr: it felt like a "big mosquito" biting him. Trump in his first public comment about it, in the RNC speech: " I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really, really hard. On my right ear. I said to myself, “Wow, what was that? It can only be a bullet.” Hmm. Big mosquito that hit really, really hard such that it could only be a bullet mosquito. And then why were his shoes not on? Since when does someone ducking behind a lectern lose his shoes? Many questions, many, many questions.