The Frankish Reich

I won't even ask ...

P for Perv

smut, pure smut I say. Glorifying lesbianism as a lifestyle choice. https://nypost.com/2016/07/30/melania-trump-like-youve-never-seen-her-before/

It wasn't this month, and it was about Greenwald showing no apparent appreciation for the people and the party that actually made his marriage a legal one. It is obvious to me that he is so obsessed with the Edward Snowden thing that he's lost his judgement.

Hey, all our other special status days honor the good, the bad, and the ugly alike.

Seems ultra reliable. Big if true!

Hey, you can wear whatever you want! Or don't want.

And in my jurisdiction, driving with expired tags. Or no plates at all. And shoplifting from Target. And smoking fentanyl in plain view. And playing Fast and Furious by racing down my street at 2:00 a.m. And porch pirating packages. "File an online police report"

Hey, Jimmy's parents: stop using your kid to try to troll his Catholic school. Here's Jimmy carry a "Make SBS Great Again" campaign sign. With matching MSBSGA hat. We all know what this is about - a parent trying to inject Trumpism into a middle school event. https://nypost.com/2024/05/22/lifestyle/california-parents-demand-principal-be-fired-for-humiliating-son-censoring-speech/

Here I was thinking that Jesus sought out the downtrodden.

I'm confused. I know the NY Times is Marxist propaganda, and I tried to get my local school to make the right-wing freedom-loving NY Post an alternative, but Moms for Liberty says the NY Post violates the last principle? https://nypost.com/2016/07/30/melania-trump-like-youve-never-seen-her-before/

Here's journalist Glenn Greenwald just 11 short years ago, right after the Windsor decision dragged a large part of America into the modern age. It may be a good time to remember that it is only a decade ago that same-sex marriage was illegal in the United States, and was even decried by many as some kind of abomination. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/26/gay-marriage-supreme-court-defeatism It really is a bit shocking how quickly gay marriage transformed from being a fringe, politically toxic position just a few years ago to a virtual piety that must be affirmed in decent company. Whenever I write or speak about any of the issues on which I focus, I always emphasize that a posture of defeatism - which is a form of learned impotence: a belief that meaningful change is impossible - is misguided. This demonstrates why that is true: even the most ossified biases and entrenched institutional injustices can be subverted - if the necessary passion and will are summoned and the right strategies found. Still, this is a momentous change in both public opinion and law that affects - and improves - the lives of millions of people (DOMA is what prevents me, and thousands of other gay Americans, from living in the US with my spouse, while the legal and social stigma of officially sanctioned inequality is, by itself, devastating for gay children). The discrimination has been rooted in centuries of intense social and religious indoctrination. That this is now being uprooted is a testament to how core political liberties - free speech and free associational rights - can enable all forms of political change. That same type of rapid and previously unthinkable change is visible with other unjust laws: oppressive drug prohibition being the leading example. But one can easily find all sorts of examples from American history and the recent history of other countries which reflect the same truth: radical, positive, and relatively fast political change is always possible, no matter how formidable the obstacles seem. And Greenwald was right. The Supreme Court showed us that the basic respect for human, individual rights that underpins the Constitution sometimes allows the Court to nudge people in the direction of justice and righteousness. And the project didn't end there: respect for the rights of other gender and sexual minorities needed to follow, and we are slowly but surely getting there. It is easy to laugh about "Pride" Month - what, a whole month? If you were born that way, what's to be proud of; it's not an achievement, it's merely a status. But it's really not so hard to understand. We may be proud that by an accident of birth we are Irish-American, African American, Native American, etc. -- all groups that faced the scourge of discrimination that now come proudly forward to say this is who I am, and this is who we are as Americans. So yes. Take a moment and honor social progress. Take all month if that's what you need.

#MAGASpellingBee

Oh, I think there's plenty of people talking about it all right.

a/k/a 51 people who have been far more successful than Ol' Bitter Tarheel.

that dead chicken thing is bs. I know dogs. No dog I've ever known would be deterred by the smell of rotting meat. They'd roll around till that dead chicken found its way into their mouths. I learned a long time ago that the smells dogs most love are: 1. Urine 2. Rotting meat 3. Feces In other words, the stuff Tarheel thinks about 24/7.

^ Thinks it's funny to spell "flags" to make it look like the "l" is missing ^

Hah! Reposting Jenna Ellis, Esq. Thankfully the "Esq." is considered a silly self-honorific that doesn't mean one is a lawyer. Because in Jenna's case, she's not. At least not one that can actually practice law. Blitzy was just all proud of himself for having nothing to say about Hunter. My, how things change. https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/former-trump-lawyer-jenna-ellis-agrees-law-license-suspension

Proving my point. Obsessed with gays and bodily fluids.

It truly is an obsession. Pride flags. Bud Light. Trans stuff. Every man hates what he has to deny.

Glenn Greenwald back in the day, before he went batty. In other words, back when the OP would have decried him as a cultural Marxist. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/26/gay-marriage-supreme-court-defeatism Still, this is a momentous change in both public opinion and law that affects - and improves - the lives of millions of people (DOMA is what prevents me, and thousands of other gay Americans, from living in the US with my spouse, while the legal and social stigma of officially sanctioned inequality is, by itself, devastating for gay children). The discrimination has been rooted in centuries of intense social and religious indoctrination. That this is now being uprooted is a testament to how core political liberties - free speech and free associational rights - can enable all forms of political change. That same type of rapid and previously unthinkable change is visible with other unjust laws: oppressive drug prohibition being the leading example. But one can easily find all sorts of examples from American history and the recent history of other countries which reflect the same truth: radical, positive, and relatively fast political change is always possible, no matter how formidable the obstacles seem.

Could Vivek get just a touch closer to the camera? There's a couple pores I can't quite make out. Talk about talking points all boxed up and ready to go. Choose your own ending 1. Hunter found not guilty: See what I told you? It was rigged. He chose a favorable jury (what? At least three jurors with close friends/relatives who've been addicted?), they deliberately chose a shaky charge, and he was a Biden in the very state his father began representing in the 1970s! Foregone conclusion. Compare poor Donald and those ugly liberal New York jurors. 2. Hunter found guilty: See? It was getting too hot. They had to throw America a bone, showing that being a Biden didn't confer unlimited privilege. A foregone conclusion just so they could say "look at our justice system at work."

Here we go again. "Greg Price" tweet quoted 45 minutes ago by Ol' Tarheel, then posted again 13 minutes ago by Blitzkrieg. They really only do this to troll the libs. They don't even read each other's comments. And yet they say they ignore us. Good one!

Good choice, and lots of stuff on them that I never knew on the great podcast History of Rock Music in 500 songs.