The Frankish Reich

So what do we know about those "price controls?" Basically nothing. I know there's a promise to continue the Biden DOJ opposition to the Kroger-Albertsons merger. But what else other than a vague commitment to do something so stop "price gouging?"

RG3 was a natural on TV. Not too many former players have that. He'll find another job, and soon.

The mainstream media telling the truth.

Pro-natalist policy in Israel, late 70s/early 80s. They wanted to raise the birthrate out of concerns that total fertility level was dropping below replacement value. The government created a "Star [as in Star of Israel] Mother" award to go to women who had 3, 4, or more additional children. The program was disbanded after a couple years. Why? Well it turns out that Palestinian women were winning most of the awards.

A little self-deprecating humor. Not particularly funny, but nice to see one - the only one - of our 4 candidates for national office is able to poke a little fun at himself. Has Trump ever done that? For that matter, have you ever seen him laugh? And it wouldn't hurt JD to adopt a little of that too. And for Kamala to tone down the fake laughter. Walz = Less Weird.

Is Stolen Valor worse than Diminished Valor?

What on earth could the killer's dead body provide?

I just think that the feverish interest in posting anything considered government ineptitude on a football fan forum, often on two or more topics at once, and then commenting on one’s own posts even though no one else has been interested enough to comment is, well, what’s that Word of the Year again? Oh yeah. Weird.

Because he is commenting on his comments? Which usually means a lonely old guy who doesn’t have a girlfriend, who gradually falls deeper and deeper into conspiracy theories in a vain attempt to feel useful? Other than that, no reason at all.

Damn good point. The SS mythical “trust fund” will drain a lot faster if this goes through. Everyone 62 and over will claim ASAP before the tax code has a chance to revert back. The Froot Loops campaign.

Did I tell you about the time I was on a chopper with Willie Brown? Whatever.

More than a little.

Because claiming to be in the same college class as Susan Collins isn’t exactly saying you were roommates with Mark Zuckerberg and have him the idea for Facebook. So give us a name or two of a “very fine person” who thought it would be a good idea to march alongside Nazis and other racists.

I’d leave out the Broncos for a change. Watching early on, I’m guessing that Bo Nix and Sean Payton will mesh really well.

Yes. Not a comment on Milano, but some bulk up way too fast by any means necessary. We see it in baseball too.

Damn. Really affordable, and while he’s not an exact Milano replacement he would fit that role of the guy who always seems to be in the right place to make a big play.

No one will seize onto a passing comment quite like the former JD Hill Fan.

Stolen Valor. The real top 15% object. You should definitely change your screen name to CollegeFriendofSusanCollins.

^ Knows just a little too much about pipe bombs.

Absolutely. Fair game to hit Harris/Walz on their old nutty liberal comments too.

Look who's surreptitiously reading my posts again! And this is so stupid that not even he can really believe it. Anti-Trump Feds (under the direction of, umm, Trump) plant pipe bombs, let/encouraged rioters to enter the Capitol and disrupt proceedings so that a pipe bomb could later be "discovered" and thereby change the course of the election, and with it, of history. Is Deranged Rhino giving him his screenplay ideas?

Exactly. But it's the old rule: what you run on to win in a primary or a VP beauty contest may hurt you in the general.

Although in JD's Hillbilly Elegy world there is nothing "post-menopausal" about most grandmas. Teen birth at 16 followed by teen birth at 16 = 32 year old grandma.

Ross Douthut, resident NYT opinion conservative, nailed it. He said that JD has been doing the alt-right conservative podcast/interview thing for so long that there's a huge library of things he's said or agreed with that seemed perfectly normal and mainstream in that echosphere, that now seem embarrassing or just plain sexist in the wider American culture. That's kind of what happens to people who decided to go all-in for Trump as a way to get ahead in politics. You reap what you sow.

All true. I also kind of hate what the new tipping culture has done. When I went to Starbucks or wherever, I used to have my standard buck or two for the tip jar. For the last few pre-COVID years it was the only reason I'd even carry cash. Around Christmas I'd drop in a 5 or 10. Once in a while even a 20 if I was a regular. Made me feel like a good person. I'd notice that I was definitely in the minority here. Most people didn't leave any tip at all. Now that a tip is an expectation it's taken away that feel good about myself moment. My breaking point was a restaurant that started adding TWO tip lines. One was the standard, split among "front of the house" workers. The other was deducted to the "back of the house" - the chefs/food prep folks. Never went back after they did that.