The Frankish Reich

Good taste. I mean, horrible taste in politics, but good taste in music. 😁 I'm old enough to have seen Soul Asylum when they were called Loud Fast Rules. The name said it all back in those days. Also incredible live, and really nice guys too. Minutemen were really (liberal) political, but even if you don't like that there was an incredible punk funk bass/drums thing that has never been equaled.

Agreed. This is the latest attempted expansion on Griggs, the case that held that a written test for firefighter candidates was discriminatory because minority applicants tended to test more poorly on average, and the test had no clear relationship to the job sought.

Something to make me feel really, really old: Milo (the guy who famously "went to college" right after that album) recently retired, and had a "mild heart attack" last year. I only saw them once. Fun band, not great live though. The absolute killer live band of that era was The Minutemen.

Cindy Adams, 94 year old gossip columnist. Oh, and she says her sources (what sources? the woman with the walker parked next to hers?) say "both sides" are looking for escape routes. Related: I flipped on the TV this morning to see if Trump had begun his long-promised testimony in the hush-money trial. Oh.

Haha. It's a Daily Mail story. Kind of a more reputable Murdoch version of the National Enquirer, the official campaign outlet for Trump 2016. Mama's Boy Barron is the kind of silliness they specialized in.

Right. Awesome band. I'm glad you picked up on that. I saw them about a dozen times back in the day when I lived in MSP.

Does that mean you don't post hoary old-guy memes?

While we're talking about screen names:

When I ignore someone, I typically don't read/analyze everything they've said. But that's just me.

https://pagesix.com/entertainment/who-is-harrison-butker-wife-isabelle/ Seems like a nice, respectable, pretty, intelligent woman. Maiden name: Tehrani. Good thing Trump's immigration policies weren't in place when her ancestors immigrated.

We really should've forced that backup QB to change his name to Rich. Or, I mean, just to pronounce it like that.

Meet the new boss... Just like Putin, right?

I wonder what those frat boys would've done if one of these commies had displayed the American flag upside down.

https://www.theonion.com/man-knows-unsettling-amount-about-nationwide-age-of-con-1819565878

Also note that Butker works about 6 months a year. Maybe he could do some of these things too?

Cook/Valet Walt Nauta could've come after them with his spatula! Or luggage cart. Or both.

The Nazis did not implement Nazi-ism. Discuss.

I understand a very strong, very powerful policy statement on Trump's proposed restrictions on contraception will be coming shortly. It is next in line after his very strong, very powerful substitute for Obamacare.

Maybe you should post this on a few more threads. I'm thinking "Bills WR room 2024" might be a good one. Or hey, even start a new thread! Maybe something like "Latest Communist Anti-Trump Hoax Targets Stupid, Confusing Trump Ad." Whatever. That was yesterday's Trump controversy. Time to move on. So: how about a new thread about how the mainstream media is slanted because it has the audacity to actually quote Trump's own words? https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/video/trump-clean-comments-contraception-110459861

Perhaps we should be thinking that the Irish have some special insight here, in that 25 years ago "the Troubles" seemed to be an intractable problem.

Does anyone have any clue about what this stupid ad was supposed to communicate? Watching it in a light most favorable to Trump, I guess it's something like "the world is a dangerous place and we need a strong leader." But I had to watch it three times to figure that out. So I file it under Hanlon's Law: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Funny, I know several people who've recently retired, and they seem to be loving life. You need to get out more.

I see why the prospective threesome partner was only interested in her. I like her. Give her the full Trump Girl makeover - some hair extensions, lip fillers, maybe a boob job, definitely an AR-15, a puppy, and gravel pit - and you've got real VP material there.

Things I learned today: 1. Can you believe Biden glanced at his watch during the return of a body of a soldier? He must be a communist. 2. Can you believe that the mainstream media made a big deal about an NFL kicker saying a gay lifestyle is a mortal sin, but didn't make an even bigger deal about a 2016 video in which a rapper beats on his girlfriend? The mainstream media are obviously communists. 3. Can you believe that I just discovered that there was something called the Frankfurt School in the pre-and-post-WWII years and that some of them were admitted Marxists? They are avowed communists. 4. Can you believe that some posters who don't even post as frequently as some other posters post a whole lot about the evils of Donald Trump? They are communists and should be ignored completely, except for when I spend hours conducting Boolean searches on their posts. Whiny. Sensitive. Old. But entertaining in a Joe Bidenesque way.