The Frankish Reich

Apparent reason: hey, don't forget about me! I'm made of presidential timber!! You try to create a perfect Democratic candidate, you start objectively with Cory Booker's attributes. Kind of an Obama Jr. But somehow the whole is way less than the sum of the parts. I just don't see it.

Right. Talk about Orwellian.

It was an illegal deportation. The Trumpistas are generally correctly citing the background. But here's the key: a judge found that he is properly deportable, but also found that it was more likely than not that he would be subject to extreme abuse (persecution) if returned to his native El Salvador. And this happened under Trump 1.0, so if his Homeland Security officials disagreed they had the right to appeal that decision to try to get it overturned. Apparently they didn't. So it became final. That meant that the U.S. could deport him to any country other than El Salvador. Get Venezuela to take him? Fine, off he goes. Get Mexico or Honduras or Vanuatu to take him, same thing. There's literally one place you can't send him: El Salvador. And they sent him to El Salvador. Yes, we should request his return, not to freedom in the USA, but to immigration detention in the USA. And then we should look for an alternative country that will let him in, and deport him to that country. Or if the DHS thinks they can show he'd no longer be subject to persecution in El Salvador, they can ask the judge to reopen the case to update the evidence and basically start again. That's how it works, that's what obeying court orders means. In America we fix our errors when we can, and try to get it right the second time around. At least we have for a couple centuries now.

Let's begin with some extra spacing so Tarheel can't pretend he just happened upon this. / / / / / / / / / / That should do it. The good thing is your vote is still private. Elon can't make you come in with your ballot, make sure you've ticked the Republican candidate, and then watch you deposit it in the box. But I'll admit here that this is a real concern with vote by mail and other non-voting booth old fashioned in-person voting ... ... Having said that, the fact that some Young Republican college organizer "won" the random drawing does raise and eyebrow, doesn't it?

I’m not sure it has anything to do with Trump directly. But has any Russian player said anything vaguely anti-Putin? That’s the kind of fear Putin strikes in any would be opponent. You’ll end up falling out of a window or grabbing a radioactive doorknob.

Sh!t. This is buried on Page 3 of the Moderna COVID warnings: Avoid severe impacts to the chest/thorax area, including those that may be incurred in a vehicular collision or during an NFL contest.

I thought we needed to eliminate the FBI? What's Pammy doing praising it? Good to see Kash is eyeballing foreign gangsters. Two at a time.

I guess Russians buy hockey skates too.

Yeah, I was - still am - kind of late to the whole "he's just trolling the left" party. I've been told that we did have a peaceful transition of power on January 20, 2021. You know, the peaceful transition that followed the violent attempt to stop that transition. It was all a joke!

Normal cycle in sports. 1970s: the "bump and run" stifles passing games. Nobody had ever thought about playing CB that way until some guys (I remember the name Jimmy Marsalis) started doing it. It wasn't against the rules, but it was messing with the game. The NFL outlawed it. 2024 MLB: the defensive shift was messing with the game as we'd always played it. Nobody had ever though of playing 3 guys on the right side of the infield against lefty hitters until some clever analytics nerd suggested it would work and it wasn't against the rules. A few years later everyone was doing it. It changed the game in a way that most fans didn't like, so it was banned. The tush push was illegal as "aiding the runner" when I was a kid. In the early part of the 2000s the NFL changed the rule (why?) but it took about 15 years for some clever coach (probably analytics nerd to be honest) thought about exploiting the rule change. To me it's made the game less interesting, more predictable as that 4th and 1 is automatic. (Or at least it was until we decided it requires the QB to go left) I'd rather see Jalen Hurts or Josh Allen rollout and make a great athletic play. Or a defender make a great athletic play to stop it. Ban it.

When I first heard someone say that, I thought "good one." Now I'm thinking it's the Democrat's only way to counter the latest Trump stunt.

What about the 12th Amendment? If you are constitutionally ineligible to be President, then you can't run as Vice President, right? Minor inconvenience. Remember Gerald Ford, our first (and only so far) unelected President? VP Don Jr. resigns. Is replaced by Don Sr. Then Pres JD resigns. Bingo! Third term. Unconstitutional? Probably, in theory. Unconstitutional to our Supreme Court today (and even worse after another Trump appointee?). LOL. Bottom line: no one is going to save the American electorate from itself.

He already speculated out loud that he would pull a cynical Putin-Medvedev switcheroo. But given that he's Trump, he'd take it a step further and have "President" JD Vance resign so he could ascend to the formal presidency again. And I suppose that if Vance says hell no, he'd just run Don Jr. as the figurehead. After all, according to Putin's favorite political philosopher, Putinism has won in the USA. Or they may try to go the constitutional convention route, which would require 34 states to sign on. As a practical matter you'd probably need 34 states with a Republican "trifecta" - Republican control of both legislative houses (except unicameral Nebraska) + the Governorship. They're quite a bit short now, but they'll keep on trying ...

Keep at it, Cockeyed Kash!

He wants one of the most prominent Russians in America to say something about how his President is killing thousands of people in a neighboring country. When Enes Freedom Kanter did it, you thought it was great. When he was blackballed by the NBA, you thought it was awful.

Exactly, but who is rushing to conclusions? THE OP! Could be any number of environmental factors, or could actually be random (they are apparently not the same type of brain tumor in all). Of all things to jump to the COVID vaccine just shows a confirmation bias. We distrust the COVID vaccine, it must be that. We don't even know if they all got the same vaccine. Where are all the sick doctors? Other health care workers in the same hospital?

Talk about jumping to conclusions. Ten nurses in a hospital, over a period of time (several years) developing brain tumors of different types. Null hypothesis: fooled by randomness. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc reasoning.

Translation: of course it's illegal. But it was improperly venued! That's a compelling defense. Pretty daughter. He should be proud of her. No need for Laura Loomer maxillofacial surgery. Weird though that she has that kind of power over him. Or maybe she just happens to agree with his legal decisions.

I'm pretty sure those Woke Chickens conspired to drive up the price. Probably formed a Woke Chicken Union. These morons will believe anything.

OK, so tariffs are used as leverage to exact concessions from our trade partner. Makes sense so far, although the legality of using tariffs for that purpose under the guise of national security sounds a little suspect ... ... but tariffs are also supposed to replace other taxes - like income tax revenue, right? I mean, Trump said it himself when he coined the term "External Revenue Service" (a/k/a the United States Customs Service). So if his tariffs as bargaining ploy work, his tariffs as revenue generators fail. So it's pretty much bs. Or he really doesn't understand the zero sum nature of these two conflicting purposes. Or both. You are more adept and grammar/spelling/usage than at economics/game theory.

I always enjoy a good spelling/grammar reply. Kudos to you for joining my team (at least on this issue). We'll soon be teeming with grammarians.

effin idiot. I was in favor of a vaccine from the get-go. I wanted it released en masse absolutely as soon as testing was completed. If Pfizer dragged their feet for whatever reason, that's not good. I am pointing out the particularly ret@rded view here that Trumpies accuse Pfizer of delaying a vaccine that they later categorized as a public health menace. the "rational scientific view" is not something our dear failed scientist and current lab supplies salesman has any business talking about.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/investing/us-stocks-tariff-uncertainty-volatility Since Trump took office: - S&P 500 down 7.7% - NASDAQ down 12.3% - Consumer Confidence at its lowest level in 2.5 years Who needs immigrants when out of work Americans will soon be lining up for those jobs?

Weirdo.

https://www.investors.com/news/president-trump-broke-stock-market-record/ And it's worse now. Keep on winning! Bring on that recession. Nothing better than a weak job market to suppress wages for the working men and women who voted for you. But no dudes on the lacrosse team! That'll put meat on the table.