The Frankish Reich

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?

An actual (not PPP-style insult) honest-to-goodness COMMIE (and terrorist with "cognitive issues") backs Trump! Or maybe doesn't. If this doesn't convince all of you normies out there walk away and join MAGA Nation, what will? From his wiki page: Fellow Black Panther Party member and BPP Central Committee member Donald L. Cox has suggested that during Hilliard's stint as BPP Chief of Staff, Hilliard became an autocrat highly influenced by Stalin. Cox has stated that as the party explored Marxist theory, Marxist-Leninism became the party line and that in particular Stalin's book Foundations of Leninism was read and practised. Reflecting those principles, Cox alleges that Hilliard began to place loyalty to the party above all and dealt out punishment, denouncement or expulsion from the Black Panther Party to those who opposed him or the party line, even for the slightest of offence, with his orders being carried out by internal enforcers known as the "Black Guard" and "Buddha Samurai".

I don't see anyone ripping Tesla, other than of course knee-jerk anti-EV types out there. Likewise Space X or the Boring Co. or whatever. People on the left do rip him for what he's doing to Twitter/X, but that isn't exactly the innovator side of Musk.

Hey, maybe High Energy Dr. Jill is the person really running the government after all. There's your answer to the question posed on that topic...

The New Luddites - the MAGA "conservatives." We are in a great period of innovation! Let's run away from it like scared kittens.

Like minds devour the same Twitter feeds. If we want to see what some guy named Benny Johnson thinks is noteworthy, we’re all capable of seeking him out … no pointers needed. Zero. Value. Added.

Putin's stooge. Useful idiot, as some here are fond of saying.

That's why we fly it upside down. - unidentified MAGA supporter

Griswold (how's that for editing, hotair.com!) established the very same right to privacy on which its successor, Roe, depended. When Alito and friends pulled the right to privacy rug out from under the plaintiffs in Dobbs, Griswold was left equally susceptible. So the only thing keeping it in place is that no state has seen fit to re-legislate Griswold-type limits on contraception. Yet. Things like IUDs and morning after pills are absolutely susceptible to "life begins at conception" based laws. The Democrats are right to put Republican Senators on the record here. Why wouldn't they recognize that Griswold is still good law?

That's our Sloppy Steve, all right.

I agree. I thought we had a real find there. In retrospect, Karlos shows how difficult it is to be an NFL success. He had all the physical abilities and toughness. But you need to work, work, work. And he had a running style that made him susceptible to concussions. And apparently a life outside football that wasn't conducive to success on the field. Kind of a sad story.

Sorry. I forgot. Is it ok to call it "meat-like product?"