The Frankish Reich

Not even close to the dumbest climate protest ever. This one is the new champion; let's blame the Druids!

Agreed. I don't think people really comprehend just how bad the Jets' quarterbacking has been the last couple years. 2023: team passer rating 70.5 2022: 75.0 Compare other teams with some really poor QB play: Commanders 2023 81.6 Steelers 2023 84.6 And also compare: Rodgers 2022 (last full season) 91.1 Tyrod (their new backup) 2023 89.1 It is just stunningly bad. Like sub-replacement level bad. As long as they can keep at least one of Rodgers/Tyrod on the field for, say, 14 games, they are virtually certain to improve. A lot. Having said that, they are the Jets, so take the under ...

You need a couple months. Tarheel needs a full Year of Gay.

And for the slow learners here, the answer to the question posed by the OP: Currently, 83% of Democrats, 74% of independents and 46% of Republicans favor legalized same-sex marriage. As with support for same-sex marriage, Democrats (81%) -- and, to a lesser extent, independents (68%) -- are more likely than Republicans (40%) to say relations between gays or lesbians are morally acceptable. Whereas a majority of Democrats have thought same-sex relations are morally acceptable since 2006, no more than half of Republicans have said the same throughout Gallup’s trend, except for three readings -- 51% in 2020 and 2021 and 56% in 2022. The current 41-point gap between Democrats and Republicans ties 2011 as the largest on record. https://news.gallup.com/poll/646202/sex-relations-marriage-supported.aspx A lot of Trump apologists here will tell you it's not about the LG (or even B) part of LGBTQ, that they are fine with gays/lesbians and same sex marriage, but that it's all about the T part and the groomers and the agenda and blah blah blah. The truth is that the majority of Republicans haven't even come to terms with the reality of gay sex, much less gay marriage. The reality is they are old fashioned haters, not some kind of new-style protectors of our innocents.

All the MAGA/RNC Twitter monkeys are getting nervous. He's going to lose to a brain dead corpse? The excuses are now all in place.

Perhaps you should watch this. The report - Tapper is the anchor, not the reporter here - is that SOME of the conversations detailed in the Steele Dossier are corroborated by U.S. Intel intercepts, that these comments are between foreign nationals (and not U.S. persons), and that the most salacious details have not been corroborated. So what exactly is wrong here? What did Tapper (who introduced and interviewed the investigative reporters) say that was wrong? He actually summarized the reporting accurately: some conversations have been corroborated, some haven't. Answer: Nothing. He had the nerve to present actual investigative reporting on his show. Trump people wish he had been more like Fox News hosts, who don't make any distinction between reporting and editorializing. That seems to be the complaint.

Trumpists playing the Lowering Expectations game again. - Biden will be juiced up - It will be 3 on 1 vs. Trump Please keep us up-to-date on tomorrow's pre-game talking points ...

I will debate you any time, any place, you just tell me where to show up, Joey!* *we reserve the right to object to Jake Tapper (or indeed anyone other than Sean Hannity), to make preposterous publicity-seeking demands for drug testing, to claim that the rules we negotiated are nevertheless stacked in Biden's favor.

It's a grift.

As a kid in Buffalo, I learned about racism in America, civil rights, segregation, etc. by going to the public library and borrowing biographies of baseball players. Hank Aaron was a big one. I remember being astounded by all those stories about not being able to stay in certain hotels on the road, about the sting of racism that he felt every day as a young ballplayer in the south. And then the great Satchel Paige taught me that there was this thing called the ***** Leagues, and that until baseball was finally fully integrated we white fans never really saw the game at its best. Sports can be transformative like that. They taught me lessons that never would have had the same impact in some dull history textbook.

You're right about that one. Look, the Ten Commandments thing is silly. It is an own the libs move. Pointless at best, offensive to (most) Americans' values at worst. Kind of like those old (2000s) debates about schools teaching "creation science," which literally is not a thing. It distracts from the better policy - one that I am in favor of - school choice. Yes, I would like to see standardized testing (indeed, standards in general for the private schools parents can choose from), but that is the real solution to the very real problem of public education today. I went to Catholic schools, sent my kids to Catholic schools. Religion was a subject, prayer was a daily thing, and the curriculum was strong enough that any motivated kid would be prepared for whatever higher education path he/she wanted to follow. So let's stick with that agenda, not the silly own the libs agenda.

Particularly when among Republicans the most admired Republican politician fron 1980 - 2015 was an actor by trade, and the most admired from 2016 - present was a TV personality

Yeah, quite a guy that Old Testament God. “I order you to sacrifice your son to me.” [time passes, Abraham readies sacrificial altar] Sike! Just kidding. Burn the cute little lamb instead. If they’re allowed to show this as well, I have no objection.

did you read the headline?

I did answer it. Of course I'm not ok with child sacrifices. The "Satanic Temple," which is an actual organization, doesn't say that it's ok with that either. Probably some non Satanic Temple satanists think child sacrifice is o.k., but that's separate, and those people (if there even are any) are stupid and evil. And again, Jews/Christians/Muslims worship a God that - at least at one time - ordered his follower Abraham to sacrifice his first-born son.

So here's what I think is going on. My kids' school (a private school by the way) is on a 4.3 (I think) max for a non-AP class. That's an A+ You don't get a 5 (or 5.3) for anything other than an A/A+ in an AP class. The AP exam (scored 1-5) is totally separate and taken for college credit. The score on those exams isn't factored into GPA. This is pretty normal among college prep high schools (I know from having gone thru the dreaded college app process for highly competitive colleges). Even freshman/soph "Honors" classes are scored max 4.0/4.3. There are no 6s. Why would there be 6s? I have never heard of that anywhere else.

Of course not. The Satanic Temple thing is clearly, obviously a troll. They even say they don't worship Satan or even believe that there is an actual "Satan." It is supposedly a stand-in for an atheistic commitment to rationality. And yes, they are making their point by forcing their inclusion under existing constitutional doctrine. By the way, this is exactly the same tactic the right-wing Christians are doing by requiring posting of the Ten Commandments. You know who was ok with it? Abraham. Until God told him he was just being trolled.

More Daily Mail speculation on top of speculation nonsense. Rupert Murdoch generally leaves the WSJ alone (the high net worth subscriber base is too important), but he's meddling again with his trash media (Fox News, Daily Mail, NY Post, etc.) Read the article! There is absolutely nothing in it to support a "plot" to replace Biden with Hillary. Nothing. Read it and quote me where it says that ...

First, I actually love the "Baphomet" statue. It perfectly captures generic idol worship but with a satanic label. We all make fun of trolls, hate trolls, etc. But a damn good troll with a point to it is worthy of grudging respect. Well played. Second, as far as a matter of law ... yes, if you are requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in classrooms (not as part of a display on "major world religions" including Hinduism, Buddhism, whateverism) you are endorsing the view that there is one god, one true God, and it is the god of Abraham and the Abrahamic religions. And even with the current Supreme Court, that is a bridge too far.

Pagan monument. Should be replaced with replica Ten Commandments slabs.

It is, as they say, a binary choice. A second Biden Administration. Not a wonderful thing. But stable. Predictable. How many cabinet secretaries has he fired? I think the answer is zero. Not even Lloyd Austin. We used to have a word for dull, predictable, even keel: Conservative. I don’t really even care if Biden isn’t a hands-on guy. Reagan was a good president in my estimation, and he was famously not a details guy. And he did fine even though we know, in retrospect, that he was in serious mental decline during his second term. A whole new Trump Administration? The first one was chaotic. Firing people left and right. Inner circle people calling him an effing moron. And a pledge this time around to have no more strong personalities to rein him in, just sycophants kissing the ring. Radical policy proposals like 60% tariffs to set off trade wars. Prone to 180 degree turns on any number of issues and policies. Unstable. With no trusted, consistent advisors to temper that instability. And yes, losing it in his own rage prone, dangerous manner. We used to have a word for that: Radical. Two deeply flawed candidates, both in their decline. One becoming more dependent on the circle of trusted hands around him, one lashing out at his former trusted hands and promising to do it all his way, all by himself the second time around. Easy choice.

Lee DaVinci update: He had 8 monthly Spotify listeners when we last checked in on him. He's lost one! Now just 7. They're falling out of love with his dick! B-Man: rescue him before it's too late!

First question: we've gone over it ad nauseam. I do think at a minimum the France parachutist/photo opp video was deceptive. Second: I think he's mentally fit now. I have no way of knowing whether he'll be mentally fit when he's 86, and there is certainly cause for concern. I would have rather seen a younger candidate. I would have also rather seen a younger, more stable opposition candidate. We play the hand we're dealt.