The Frankish Reich

The right-wing Twitter monkeys are getting their posting alternatives ready. 1. Shooter turns out to be crazy as hell: This was another false flag op, meant to build public support for a new assault weapons ban. 2. Shooter turns out to be a Democrat: This is what the wild rhetoric about Trump being a threat to democracy hath wrought. 3. Shooter turns out to be a disgruntled Republican: He's crazy as hell.

The PA that James Carville famously called Philadelphia in the East, Pittsburgh in the West, Mississippi in between.

You forgot. Those were fake. Only the ones that target Republicans are real. Everything else is an elaborate false flag operation or the results of trying to pick up the Ugliest Male Hooker contest winner.

This has to be the the odds on favorite.

Page 27, in which your paranoid comments become indistinguishable from my broad parodies of them.

Damn, I hate having to be the voice of reason. It was fun for an hour or two pretending to be a PPP conspiracy theorist. But it seems I just can't help myself, so ... ... not so fast. We don't know yet. J6 was about a thousand or more rioters with a collective goal: stopping the certification of an election that their guy lost. They acted rationally (even though some were irrational Q Anon adherents at heart) to accomplish a goal. That may be the case here. Or it could be a seriously mentally disturbed individual with a grudge, or under some delusion. So maybe wait a bit? Right on cue. Looks subnormal to me ...

Watch as Trump grabs his own ear to pop the blood pellet. False flag op.

It was indeed satire. But I am not making that up about Vincent Fusca, QAnon Hero, standing behind Trump in his signature hat...

Exactly.

I see I made my point.

False flag op. Look who's behind Trump. https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2022-03-07/vince-fusca-who-some-suspect-of-being-a-kennedy-is-running-for-senate-as-his-own-man Notice how everyone but him flinches. Crisis actors. Trump worried about his polling even following the Biden meltdown. So obvious. I learned all about such things right here.

Free the hostage James White! I saw some guy who looks suspiciously like Ray Epps egging him on ....

Quite a conspiracy there, buddy! We definitely need an investigation into how quarter-trillionaires like Musk and quarter-billionaires like Rogan are having their livelihoods impacted here.

What is the world coming to when a guy worth $7 billion like George Soros (having already contributed $30 billion to various Marxist causes that would otherwise view him as a personification of Das Kapital that must be overthrown) can intimidate a guy worth a quarter trillion dollars? It just ain't fair! More than that, it's a threat to democracy!!

Translation: Guy whose net worth is at least $250 billion may be intimidated by potential advertisers on his personal toy social media site. James Lindsay is worried!

Nice work! That's more Mt. Rushmore square footage than there is in the entire Black Hills. Too soon. https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/o-j-simpson-1947-2024-nfl-star-defendant-in-trial-of-the-century/

No thread that borders on the "most athletic QB ever" conversation will be complete without me mentioning this guy (RIP) And as a runner. Is it Josh or is it Roman?

There's a free market all right. Part of a free market is that advertisers get to decide what programs/feeds they support. And there's always the weird PPP side of a football fan forum if all else fails.

I'm not sure Vance is a Trump understudy. He's a very smart guy and to some extent he's been playing the role of Trump understudy to put himself in line for 2028. But if Trump be inevitable (I still have hope for a Biden replacement), at least he is genuinely interested in policy and governance. Maybe, just maybe, Trump could focus on the public stuff while Vance actually put things on a sound policy path?

Oooh, oooh, oooh, I can hardly wait!!!! The advertisers are lining up. My Pillow, some kind of Viagra supplier, maybe copper-infused trusses

Ahh, New Mexico, my very special neighbor to the south. I know it well ... very nice people, very beautiful landscapes, very inefficient and corrupt leadership ... let's just say I'm not surprised that this whole thing started as a fiasco there and ended as a farce.

There's this idea out there that men are averse to doing "women's jobs," which unfortunately means the jobs that are more in demand.

Although the schedule is making it look like Rubio v. Vance, I still predict Burgum. Burgum is a secular Pence. No charisma, hence no threat to Trump. Virtually no chance of catching on as a VP and planning his own 2028 run, so no incentive to try to distinguish himself (even in subtle ways) from The Boss.

First point: yeah, I get that. But the MSM isn't purely one-sided. There is clearly a mainstream liberal/Democratic bias to the NYT and the Wash Post, but there's also some good discussion from the other side. That's why I share the Ross Douthut pieces on JD Vance. Second point: also true. JD could've taken his time and been his own man for 2028 ...

What you miss if you do the whole "I never read the mainstream media" - a pretty interesting/fair discussion of JD Vance from a NYT columnist who obviously likes him. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/opinion/jd-vance-interview.html Or even better, this audio discussion: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/opinion/jd-vance-populism.html I don't like how Vance pivoted to sucking up to Trump. But hey, it's working, isn't it ... but take away that sycophantic tendency and there's a pretty interesting guy who is starting to see what a "populist" vision means in terms of actual policy. I’ve known the senator since long before he was a senator. He’s first very culturally interesting because he’s someone who rose to prominence as a memoirist of working class life, white working class life, who was sort of taken up by the liberal intelligentsia in 2016, 2017, as someone who explained the pathologies and cultural disarray that led to Trumpism, but who then sort of became a leading Trumpist himself. That is, to begin with, a kind of fascinating transformation of his sort of place in American culture. But then he’s also interesting because he is much more than most people, most Republican politicians, who have sort of adopted populism. He’s someone who’s really interested in the policy dilemmas around populism that we were talking about earlier, right, that show up in the United States, as well as Europe. The question of, can populism actually offer solutions to the mix of economic and cultural problems it’s interested in? So to the extent that there’s sort of a place where a populist agenda might come from in a second Trump term or over the next 10 or 15 years, it’s probably going to come from someone like Vance.