The Frankish Reich

The comment that you flag above had to do with the price of food at the Cheesecake Factory. What exactly is the "false narrative" you pointed out? Do you thinking moving toward a more tip-based economy is a good idea?

I need to go to a reeducation camp. My apologies if I offended anyone. The good news is that since they were warriors in spirit and practice, we may now delete the Ray Epps Made Me Do It thread.

Think how much better it will be when I'm expected to tip my Cheesecake Factory waitress 40% because tips are tax free!

Trump called them "warriors" in his Vegas rally. So I guess the days of "mass trespassing event" are over. They are now officially "warriors," and a warrior doesn't typically come in peace. The Spanish equivalent sounds even better to me. They were guerrillas.

So @B-Man, I checked out this "RSBN" ("Right Side Broadcasting Network"). It seems to exist to stream Trump events, and includes a completely preposterous chyron crawl (the one you posted says "dismal jobs report" - yeah, the same one that caused the markets to react to what everyone considers a very strong jobs report). Well anyway, here's another Trump aggrandizing post. Look at the strength, the agility, as he brings back what Bill Maher calls the jacking off two guys at once dance move, mixed in with the 90 year old Bob Hope faux golf swing: Buried in there is some actual news: Trump (seeking Vegas votes) says he'll make tips tax-free. Oh, what a wonderful day, when waitresses will be officially paid $1.00/hour and everyone in the damn restaurant will be shilling for tips. I can't wait till the busboy hands me a QR code with his Venmo on it. Let's just make the whole damn economy tip based. Maybe the illegal Venezuelan with the squeegee will do that too. Americans love tips!

So, as I just said ... you guys don't even bother to read each other's posts. It's all about trolling someone or someones ... I suppose that means me. In which case it's working since I do actually read these reposted tweets some of the time, and I notice the lack of any original thought.

https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/the-unlikely-new-real-estate-darling-restaurants-5308a2f3?mod=hp_lead_pos7 Revealed preferences. Food services accounted for more than 19% of all retail leases last year, rising in recent years to the highest proportion for any category since data firm CoStar Group began tracking the statistic in 2007. The uptick reflects how Americans are spending more time and money at restaurants, from fine-dining hot spots to fast-casual chains. Low unemployment, rising wages, the ascent of “foodie culture” and millennials’ tendency to marry and have children later than previous generations have likely contributed to increased restaurant spending in recent years, analysts say. Single households are less likely to grocery shop than families. It is a far cry from the depths of the pandemic, when tens of thousands of restaurants permanently closed. Four years later, robust restaurant leasing has helped power the retail-real-estate sector to its strongest position in years. The average household spent nearly 53% of its food budget on food away from home last year, a record-high proportion and up 10 percentage points from 2003, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Economic Research Service. Total restaurant sales have never been higher. They are on track to top $1.1 trillion this year, a 5.4% increase from 2023’s record-high level, according to the National Restaurant Association, an industry group. Money spent on dining out has been rising for years. In 2018, the average household spent slightly more money dining out for the first time since the USDA started tracking the statistics in 1997. Restaurant spending tanked in 2020 but quickly rebounded as establishments reopened and infection fears faded.

Strong ad. Nicely done.

The Iron Rule of Rightist Projection: party of the candidate literally born of a Holocaust Denier will be praised for vanquishing the "Nazis."

Lots and lots. All regular MJ users are presumptively banned from acquiring firearms.

Re: the OP's revised title. Yes, I agree that this is a Hunter Biden show trial.

That really is nicely done. You gotta stick with it for a while ...

The WNBA can't seem to get out of its own way. The Caitlin Clark phenomenon finally offered them a golden opportunity to move up a notch or three in the American spectator sports power rankings. They're saying a collective "no thanks." They'll get it in time, just as the old Detroit Pistons style gave way to MJ and the Bulls and ultimately to the new style of game.

More gay beer to worry about.

Kimmel reading Trump's tweet (or whatever we call it) in real time on the Oscars was pretty good. Gotta at least give him that.

I can't help but notice the little ticker on the right of my TBD forums screen. Leading posters: This week: 1. BillsFanNC 191 This month: 1. BillsFanNC 1,071 This year: 2. BillsFanNC 8,505 Which ordinarily would be a sign of a sad old man whose biologist career stalled out at 35, with nothing to do but post stupid political troll posts on a football fan forum. But fortunately for us, many of the posts are actually quite informative. I particularly enjoy the following: Bump Bump, with gif of shirtless guy on bus "f.ck stain" "urine/poop" stain Commie (with or without up arrow) Marxist (same) Lots of value added!

You guys obviously don't even bother to read each other's posts. So what is the point of reposting the same Twitter monkey's take multiple times from multiple people in multiple threads? It's some kind of weird performative Trumpism I guess. Second time I've pointed this out in the last two days, and that's just based on a quick skim of all the duplicative topics.

You mean when did Trump lose the authority. And the answer is when a federal judge enjoined it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/20/blow-trumps-immigration-agenda-federal-judge-blocks-asylum-ban-migrants-who-enter-illegally-mexico/

^ No Fool Like a QAnon Fool ^

Peggy Noonan wrote Reagan's speech. We'll see if she's offended. Honestly, we do this every 5 years now. Reagan's was the first, or the first big one. The greatest story ever told, at least since that first one. How much room for improvisation is there?

Don't let Natasha distract you. We are old enough to be her father. Grandfather in certain parts of the country. I did say the Hunter laptop thing fooled me. It is such a ridiculous story. Yeah, right, guy leaves laptop with incriminating evidence at strip mall computer repair shop, forgets to pick it up, it winds up in the hands of ... Rudy Effin' Giuliani. But as we've seen this week, that's our Hunter. Brother dies, he starts doing brother's widow and also introduces her to the thrill of crack cocaine. Writes a memoir that is essentially a confession to a federal crime. You can't make this up. In my career I've seen plenty of cockamamie schemes, but this one is ... special. Truly special. Natasha don't need hair extensions, botox, lip fillers, and she don't shoot no dogs for annoying her. She's kind of preppy, kind a a Frankish genteel lawyer's type, albeit when he was a quarter century younger. You can have your Kristi Noem and Megyn Kelly and Hope Hicks.

Yes. If they reported it as such, or if they ran editorial content decrying the laptop as a Russian disinformation campaign. I'm quite sure some did. But you know who didn't? Politico. That story that one of your boring he-does-go-on-a-bit friends here keeps posting. That story reported the news - 51 former intelligence community people say it bears the hallmarks of Russian disinformation, but Trump campaign types insist it's real. That's what we call accurate reporting; there's nothing to correct or to apologize for. Just one more time: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276 More than 50 former senior intelligence officials have signed on to a letter outlining their belief that the recent disclosure of emails allegedly belonging to Joe Biden’s son “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The letter, signed on Monday, centers around a batch of documents released by the New York Post last week that purport to tie the Democratic nominee to his son Hunter’s business dealings. Under the banner headline “Biden Secret E-mails,” the Post reported it was given a copy of Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive by President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who said he got it from a Mac shop owner in Delaware who also alerted the FBI. While the letter’s signatories presented no new evidence, they said their national security experience had made them “deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case” and cited several elements of the story that suggested the Kremlin’s hand at work. “If we are right,” they added, “this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this.” Nick Shapiro, a former top aide under CIA director John Brennan, provided POLITICO with the letter on Monday. He noted that “the IC leaders who have signed this letter worked for the past four presidents, including Trump. The real power here however is the number of former, working-level IC officers who want the American people to know that once again the Russians are interfering.” The former Trump administration officials who signed the letter include Russ Travers, who served as National Counterterrorism Center acting director; Glenn Gerstell, the former NSA general counsel; Rick Ledgett, the former deputy NSA director; Marc Polymeropoulos, a retired CIA senior operations officer; and Cynthia Strand, who served as the CIA’s deputy assistant director for global issues. Former CIA directors or acting directors Brennan, Leon Panetta, Gen. Michael Hayden, John McLaughlin and Michael Morell also signed the letter, along with more than three dozen other intelligence veterans. Several of the former officials on the list have endorsed Biden. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said on Monday that the information on Biden’s laptop “is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign,” though the FBI is reportedly conducting an ongoing investigation into whether Russia was involved. The New York Times raised questions on Sunday about the rigor of the Post’s reporting process, revealing that several of its reporters had refused to put their name on the Biden stories because they were concerned about the authenticity of the materials. The Post stood by its reporting, saying it was vetted before publication. Plus: the story is by Natasha Bertrand, who is pretty cute. Leave my Natasha alone, you haters!

Nobody wants to live there anymore. They're too crowded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra#"Yogi-isms"

What on earth is he talking about now? "That's how bad the actual date from the report is (sic)" [data = plural] Here's the BLS summary itself ... there it is, 272,000 jobs added, unemployment rate "little changed" at 4.0 percent. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf So the mainstream media = correct. Alt Media "Oilfield Rando" = incorrect for characterizing this as somehow being "bad"

Tarheel seems to believe that it was a good thing that "Hillary Clinton intentionally misclassified" payments to Christopher Steele. So what's he complaining about?