The Frankish Reich

No. Russia had killed them. It turns out that they only did so indirectly, since but for Russian aggression in eastern Europe they'd have had no need to conduct exercises on the Lithuania-Belarus border.

More opportunity to use bogus "emergency powers" to take over more and more parts of the government and the economy. There's really no other explanation. Enjoy the economic downturn. You can feel a lot better that Buffalo and East Palestine OH may be absolutely poorer, but hey, at least not as big a chasm between them and the sunbelt. https://www.investors.com/market-trend/stock-market-today/dow-jones-sp500-nasdaq-nvidia-stock-nvda-coreweave-crwv-lulu/

Looking like a really sad accident.

You forgot "loser"

Wow, J Michael Waller, cut-and-pasted above by an equally logic-impaired fool. Goldberg added to group text. Figures out its real. Sits on it until op is done to protect Americans/American interests. Releases part of the thread, holds back another part because it sure as hell looks classified. Told repeatedly by Cabinet officials that nothing was classified. Calls their bluff and releases the whole enchilada. Sure as hell that part looks really classified. So a journalist had non-classified info dumped into his lap, he waited for someone to say, "umm, please don't release the rest," they said essentially "go ahead, it's not classified," he did it, they say he should be treated as a spy. Am I a spy if Hegseth accidentally emails me the China War Plan? Here I thought being a "spy" required some kind of, you know, active spying ... Goldberg is the guy who found the Top Secret document left behind on a bus.

We have a new competitor for Worst Pardon Ever! This is the guy marketing the EV/Hydrogen fueled commercial truck. Spoiler: it didn't work. Like at all. He staged a video for investors where they allowed a truck to roll downhill. He claimed it was a working prototype. In other words, it was a scam. A ridiculous, ham-handed scam. So why was he pardoned? You tell me. Meanwhile, I'll tell you this: - he sold about $400 million of Nikola shares before the stock totally tanked - he used that money to hire new AG Pam Bondi's brother to be his pardon attorney - he also used it to donate about $1.8 million to pro-Trump PACs. They aren't even trying to conceal the corruption. Pardons for sale. - he contributed

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/03/27/u-s-automakers-distracted-by-tariffs-gives-china-an-innovation-edge-former-ford-ceo.html While we fight with our "allies" China will just keep chugging along.

I'm old enough to remember when NAFTA looked - at least with respect to Canada - like the beginnings of an EU style open border. This would have been a major move forward. Free flow of business and people. A new future. A freer and more efficient one. Then 9/11 happened. And the uncontrolled U.S.-Mexico (yes, the fault of the U.S., starting bigly with Bush 43 and amplifying every administration since) followed. And now we've retrogressed to a U.S.-Canada situation far worse than the one I grew up with as a kid in Buffalo. Think about the express policy now: we will levy high tariffs on Canadian goods to encourage manufacturers to move production south of the border. Oh, but meanwhile we will seek to annex Canada as the 51st state, meaning that we are seeking to impoverish that new state. It is so ridiculously incoherent that it could only come from the mind of Donald J. Trump. Elect a clown, expect a circus.

It is truly horrible that Pfizer may have delayed release of this DNA-ALTERING POISON in order help defeat Trump. This was, after all, Trump's DNA-ALTERING POISION FAST TRACK and he should have gotten full credit for its creation, just as he should now be given full credit for pointing out that it is in fact DNA-ALTERING POISON. It's a wondrous Trump Achievement! It's the Andromeda Strain! It's all things to Trumpies, all at once.

Just wanted to say that I enjoy these occasional reports from Wacka's World, otherwise known as the area described by a circle with a radius of 2 miles, centered at Genessee and Union.

I actually feel sorry for Vance's wife, getting sucked into this fiasco as her first public mission as Second Lady. She's a really smart (smarter than her husband, who is by no means dumb), very accomplished, and ought to be given some kind of respectable assignment, like encouraging kids to learn civics or some such thing. Maybe Be Best. Not Be Half of Dumb and Dumber.

Kristi got the boob job too? Was it to balance out the face injections?

Lots and lots of people leave their Venmo contacts public. The default really ought to be private, but I suppose Venmo likes it this way. Anyway, no one cares about the simple fact of Waltz leaving his Venmo public. It's only interesting now because it is chock-full of REPORTER contacts. Making it pretty easy to imagine that this is a guy who loves leaking to the media, most likely for self-promotion purposes. And oh, very likely Jeffrey Goldberg is among the reporters.

At the same time Tesla is tanking. Go Trump, Stocks Slump? Maybe the message here is just make a good product and keep out of politics.

Yes, we all know that "but Biden" line.

https://prospect.org/politics/2025-03-26-michael-waltz-venmo-public-full-of-journalists/ We’ve got a leaker! Mystery solved. Hold off on bringing in those brilliant tech specialists.

I'm sure that CIA Intel officer will be thrilled! It will "work" in that it exposes the clownish lack of experience and judgement of Trump 2.0's version of the "best people." This didn't happen with Mattis, Kelly, McMaster, etc. Remember "my generals?" Now we have "my Fox weekend commenters."

Yeah, where does that comes from anyway. Damn unAmerican lefty crap. Eff that 4th Amendment and the Bill of Rights it rode in on! Obviously not as important as the 2nd because, well, it comes later. (also not the 3rd, but that screws it all up) Wow. They got Bail hearings. That sounds kind of like process. Maybe we should call it "due process." Has a nice ring to it!

Funny, you don't seem to be missing anything. In fact, you seem obsessed with me

Ordnance. Not Ordinance. I love it when these guys try to talk all military. I don't because I know what I don't know. And I know grammar and usage, not military. Exactly. If there was nothing Secret, there would've been no need to use Signal. Good old government issue iPhone texts or phone calls. They couldn't be bothered to get to a SCIF (it was the weekend! What's that I just got done hearing about lazy-ass government workers?). This is how we know it's a lie.

Not my political party. Fiercely independent. Hey, the Dems like to burn Teslas, the Repubs like to club Capitol Policemen. To each his own. We independents sit back and watch it all on TV.

Or maybe you're just embarrassed that the car you drive everyday makes everyone think of a damn fool jumping up and down like a little girl.

Basically he's free to do it now since everyone in the administration has denied that there was anything secret here. And he should. That'll teach him not to sit on a story out of some misguided sense of patriotism. The noble act that resulted in him being called a vile loser by the very people whose asses he saved. PLUS: notice that at times like these - breaking news, some Trumpy has just done/said something incredibly stupid - the Trumpies here go quiet until their Twitter monkeys feed them their talking points.

Look, there's nothing wrong with "I'm kind of old, I must've clicked on the wrong contact." Except that that would require him to admit that the "vile" "loser" Jeffrey Goldberg was already in his contacts. Which he obviously must've been unless the Columbian cartel members who killed Nicole have reemerged to put nefarious contacts in the phones of Trumpies. Yes, Mike, I have done that when I save Jeffrey Goldberg's phone number under the wrong name. That is a beautiful explanation. Good think he isn't in charge of anything that requires a working knowledge of technology.

Waltz is going to find the real killer! https://nypost.com/2025/03/25/us-news/national-security-adviser-mike-waltz-takes-full-responsibility-for-embarrassing-signal-leak/ Preposterous.