The Frankish Reich

Definitely sane. No question about it. We should honor his memory, kind of like how Pink Floyd fans venerated Syd.

One of the few things I may agree with him on. Maybe not in the precise way he states. But why not a big tariff on imported oil? That would incentive U.S. production and at the same time aid in the transition from ICEs.

These hearings demonstrate what is wrong with America. There is a good reason to hold the hearings, but it is not to score cheap political points (ooh, look, there's Fauci sitting in an empty section with two other people at a ballgame and he's LOWERED HIS MASK!). It is to discuss - and come up with a policy - to prevent future pandemics and to deal with them when they happen. So the lab origin theory should be addressed, as should funding and certification/inspections of any labs doing gain of function research. The part that annoys me the most: we now know that the most effective strategy to prevent spread of airborne viruses like this is air circulation. Why no policy on improving this in schools? In public buildings? And also: the immense fraud in COVID money giveaways. Even worse, things like this: https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-feeding-our-future-pandemic-fraud-73610b59bb60bf33f2aa06063bb592d2 A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic. “This is completely beyond the pale,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said in court on Monday. “This is outrageous behavior. This is stuff that happens in mob movies.” These seven are the first of 70 defendants expected to go to trial in a conspiracy that cost taxpayers $250 million. Eighteen others have pleaded guilty, and authorities said they recovered about $50 million in one of the nation’s largest pandemic-related fraud cases. Prosecutors say just a fraction of the money went to feed low-income kids, while the rest was spent on luxury cars, jewelry, travel and property.

Maybe one of our resident quants can answer this question: how many times has the cult-run money laundering scheme known as the Epoch Times been quoted (unironically) on these pages? https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/chief-financial-officer-multinational-media-company-charged-participating-scheme The scheme is remarkably crude: buying and selling things like prepaid (stolen) credit cards, turning proceeds into crypto, etc. A garbage "newspaper" that somehow went from fringe Falun Gong cult rag to one of the most beloved right-wing go-to sites.

Didn't used to be that way. Gender was linguistic. Feminine noun, masculine noun, all that fun stuff. Sex was sex. Male, female. Period. You talk post-modern gender studies talk without even realizing it. Marxist. Commie.

BUMP Just because. Must talk in code. Deep State sniffers sniffing my ... whatever. Use discernment.

See what I mean? Until they (that's a plural they!) started all that "sex is not gender" stuff, you would have just said sex. They've got you. You're now one of them us. Welcome, fellow commie. Welcome.

You are learning - nice use of the nonbinary pronouns!

Is that why you're not The Eggman anymore? I mean, it was your only clever addition to this board.

In which our resident junior "scientist" forgets that COVID barely existed in the USA for the first quarter of 2020 and that the vaccines were not widely available until the summer of 2021. Oh, never mind! My error. The vaccines actually killed more people than they saved. All the the low cost of that little government tracking device in our arms.

It's too late to turn back now. Tarheel has, like the children he worries about when he's not dreaming up new ways to evade the auto-censor, been mesmerized by that compelling drag queen. I now expect him to write-in Barney Frank and to march in his Village People scientist costume on Pride day in NC.

We cannot let this stand. No. I don't mean all those attorneys getting prosecuted/disbarred. I mean a thread that does not echo what certain posters think all threads should be about! I predict that the OP will be called a whole new kind of bodily fluid. Has anyone used pus yet?

This kinda summed it up for me. And for my HS age kid (might not have scored in the 99th percentile on the SAT if school had been in the way!) The students at her school actually put together a petition in opposition of a "return to in person school" plan.

It is, isn't it? But you know I really live for being called a commie or some kind of spell-check evading permutation of the eff word and a bodily fluid.

Remain in Mexico is back. https://www.wsj.com/us-news/biden-to-issue-executive-order-on-southern-border-limiting-asylum-rules-a9a021a5?mod=hp_lead_pos1

I think you were previously the eggman. Expert texpert choking smokers, Don't you think the joker laughs at you?

Astounding that a mere 4 years after lockdowns (you mean I have to eat at home?), mask mandates (you mean I can't see your teeth when you snarl?), and at-home schooling (you mean we finally separated the reasonably diligent wheat from the lazy-ass chaff?), we are traveling more than ever, spending more than ever, investing more than ever, with so much free time on our hands that we can spend hours, days, months, years whining about missing a boring graduation ceremony (I just went through a few of those so I know what I'm talking about) ... And of course you naysayers just know, to a certainty, that a totally laissez-faire approach would have left us in a better place today. Because, well, you prayed or something.

Of course you are. What else could explain your incessant commenting?

https://allisrael.com/red-heifers-in-israel-a-sign-of-the-end-of-the-world As crazy as it sounds, a bunch of red cows from Texas have sparked conspiracy theories about the Third Temple, the wars of Gog and Magog and Armageddon, and the coming of the Antichrist. All very sane. And yet it is the unreligious who are a threat? (I always liked that Gog and Magog thing. Sounds like a little kid made it up)

Dinesh is smart. So, umm ...

See above. File Under: Football Blog Commenter Has Big Plans

Is that before or after you nuke Gaza?

Not only that. A specific conspiracy ... to distract from Fauci on Capitol Hill! Actually, Fauci on Capitol Hill is distracting from Hunter Biden on Trial. But that one is on the House Repubs.

You know it. Dinesh D'Souza: incredibly dorky chinless young Incel. Somehow, after becoming a darling of the rightist echosphere, actually finds not only a wife but a mistress too. And then follows the rightist script by lying about campaign contributions. And then cries "selective prosecution" when he's busted. This right-wing bloviator business can be very enriching. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/dinesh-d-souza-sentenced-manhattan-federal-court-five-years-probation-campaign-finance

My goodness, these snowflakey pearl clutchers. Imagine if Tarheel had been exposed to drag queen story hour at a young age. He would probably be marching in the Pride parade in full S&M gear. Or maybe he wouldn't even be a "he." So fragile a sexual identity ...