The Frankish Reich

True. But overall, we muddled through it and after that rough start we were able to recover - at least economically - remarkably fast. That's my issue with all the hindsight heroes. You know the type: we shut down for too long, required masks that did nothing, moved to work/school from home too readily, pushed vaccinations too hard, etc., etc. Do these people know that the number of deaths wouldn't have been considerably higher had we not taken these steps? Of course not.

Currently at 1.187 deaths. So ... the estimate was off by a factor of about 5. Even if you discount that number by 50% (the old "died with coronavirus rather than because of coronavirus"), that's still over half a million deaths. We shouldn't forget how awful this pandemic was, and how, despite an initial comedy of errors, we were able to take prudent (and sometimes exceptional) steps to work our way out of it.

Four years ago the country was awash in nutty conspiracy theories. I mean, you don't see this kind of nonsense anymore, do you? (Hint: if you don't, just look a little harder.) From March 16, 2020. Anyone recognize yourself? Read this interesting tidbit today, whether it's true or not it's still interesting The Great cover up of 2020: Yesterday morning at 4:30 a.m., Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was served a criminal indictment by the U.S. for corporate and financial crimes. Media owners were instructed to brainwash everyone that Trudeau and his wife have the Corona virus, and that they won't be leaving their house for a while. Tom Hanks was arrested a little over 48 hours ago for pedophilia and he is currently being kept in a hotel room in Australia, refusing to fly back to the USA. The next celebrity arrests will be Celine Dion, Madonna, Charles Barkley, and Kevin Spacey. All will claim Corona virus infections. Italy's airports have been completely shut down, as over 80 Vatican and financial officials have been served the same criminal indictments for financial crime, pedophilia, child trafficking, and sex abuse. United Emirates have completed mass arrests of their own Royal Family and affiliates. Convicted Hollywood rapist Harvey Weinstein agreed to a deal in exchange for his testimony against hundreds of top Hollywood celebrities and their involvement in the drug business, pedophilia, and child trafficking. Instead of a 55-year sentence, he only received a 23-year sentence. In exchange he provided testimonies against some of the biggest and most powerful names, including Prince Andrew of the U.K., former president Bill Clinton, former vice president Joe Biden, Tom Hanks, Oprah, Ellen DeGeneres, Quentin Tarantino, Charlie Sheen, Bob Saget, Kevin Spacey, John Travolta, Steven Spielberg, Podesta, NXIVM and PIZZAGATE sex trafficking clubs, and hundreds more who all were directly involved with Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein was similarly allowed to make a deal and have his suicide in prison faked in exchange for his testimony CEOs of some major world corporations have been indicted/arrested, and some have been forced to resign — all in the last 30-60 days — such as the CEOs of the NBA, Harley Davidson, the Bill Gates Foundation, Intel, McDonald's, Cesar Awards, and Disney; the Vatican Chief of Police; etc. Approximately 700-800 more resignations are coming in the next 3 months. The lab-created Coronavirus was a cover-up for the mass mandatory vaccination agenda. Now it has become the biggest covert U.S. Intelligence operation that the world has ever seen. This mass 158,000-arrests operation will remove and capture the biggest evil and corrupted politicians, celebrities, and CEOs, including global elites and bankers such as George Soros, U.N. officials, and the founders of GRETA, inc. President Trump will win the 2020 elections, and arrests of former U.S. presidents will occur in early 2021. All major arrests will be portrayed by the media as accidental or as conspiracy theories. All arrested individuals will be given "Rommel Death", meaning that they will have a choice between their death bring portrayed to the public as a suicide or an accidental death in return for assurances that his or her reputation will remain intact, or, alternatively, they can choose to face a criminal trial that would result in public disgrace. Some top religious leaders will be arrested or forced to resign, and some will suddenly get "sick." The Vatican will be the first, and the Pope will be removed in 2020. Production of human extracted Adrenochrome will be revealed, and Hollywood and the Vatican will be exposed as being directly responsible for that. Coming up there will be a 2-month complete shutdown of the world's most common operations, such as schools, the stock exchange, some banks, airports, shipping, travel, events, galas, expos, sport games, sport championships, music award ceremonies, NBA/NHL/Baseball games, and ship cruises. There will be food shortages and staged electricity power loss. Gas prices will go down, food costs will go up, insurance will go up, gold and silver stocks will fall, and many corporations will either go bankrupt or take a significant financial loss, such as in the case of what's about to happen to Air Canada, Disney, and Coca-Cola. Welcome to the Geat Awakening. What's about to happen this summer and fall will change the world's timeline. All the world's a stage.

Pyro Pastor "finds" trailer with hundreds of burning Bibles. "It was 100 percent directed at (Global Vision Bible Church)," Locke said. "It blocked the entrance to our campus and the fact that it was an entire load of Bibles is rather conclusive proof that is was most assuredly directed at us. "It did not, nor will it stop us. It was cleaned up in time for people to drive into the parking lot. We had a full house and a marvelous service." Global Vision has held burning events in the past that involved materials the church believes is connected to witchcraft and the occult.

For whatever reason, Jussie Smollett comes to mind. Should burning the Koran be investigated? Burning a children's book about gender identity?

Cringe is overused, but ... cringe.

Follow the arrow ... I'm pretty sure he just called Jesus a trans DEI commie cultist ...

During Holy Week, my wife and I started watching The Chosen, an unambiguously (evangelical) Christian telling of the life of Jesus. I believe it is by some of the same people who made the "controversial" Sound of Freedom movie. I like it. It does not shy away from the radical interpretation of Jesus as an anti-authority (Rome, the internal Jewish hierarchy) figure and as a communitarian (if not socialist if you prefer) leader. There is also a focus on how as a charismatic preacher he was able to recruit and spiritually transform those reviled by ancient Jewish society: the woman of ill repute Mary Magdalene (here creatively presented as the victim of family violence, suffering from mental problems), the tax collector Matthew (here presented as someone definitely on the autism spectrum), the hothead Simon/Peter, etc. A nice departure from the crime stories that seem to dominate the leading streamers these days. And no blond Nordic Jesus. Well worth watching if you are at all interested in a somewhat different take on the greatest story. Hope all had a Happy Easter.

And NCBills would most definitely call him a commie. Maybe a fcu.k stain too.

Very Christ-like sentiments.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/30/michigan-congressman-tim-walberg-suggests-nuking-gaza-ending-humanitarian-aid-nagasaki-hiroshima/73156051007/ @Irv, is that you?

This is getting close to Picketty's argument, which I find pretty compelling on its surface, but so far not really supported by most good examinations of economic history.

Thanks.

I agree. I don't see any reason for these proclamations in general. As for "no religious symbols" - I agree with the Biden White House on that one. There's the religious Easter (church services, prayer, and expressions of communal joy), and there's the secular Easter (real bunnies, creepy grown ups in Easter Bunny costumes, egg rolls and egg hunts, Peeps, etc.) and it's best to keep those two very different things separate. I wouldn't want to go to Easter Mass and be assaulted by a priest in an Easter Bunny costume handing out Peeps either.

To her credit: She worked like hell to get pregnant with Sergey Brin's child, ensuring her financial security forevermore.

Have you noticed the duplicate threads posted by someone else? Look at the list this morning. And look at the pointless repeated postings of Trump as Lincoln/Moses/whatever. A lot of people would benefit from a little course correction.

That's the best explanation I've seen. I do see that this "Day of Visibility" is always on March 31, so no, it wasn't chosen to coincide with Easter, which of course moves around every year ("the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox" if I remember correctly).

Thanks - I've read the descriptions of the fire and it was horrible. We had relatives in Cheektowaga when I was a kid in the mid/late 60s. I can't believe I'd never heard about the fire until this year. Maybe people didn't want to talk about it?

Thanks. I admit I do need to practice that “when they go low, we go higher” thing.

No, I didn't notice whatever it is you are trying to say. I was too enraptured by the photo of Trump without full makeup.

A thread for speculation. And for amusement, as we point out the the Road to Mar-a-Lago conversions to Trumpism of the various contenders. First up: Byron Donalds, Florida Congressman. “Trump is a huge distraction, and cares more about himself than the country in my opinion, but I could care less about him,” Donalds wrote in a Facebook post in April 2011 when discussing Trump’s claims that Obama’s birth certificate was fake. “I don’t question his religion or his citizenship,” Donalds said. “Quite a few Democrats and liberals still think Bush caused 9/11.” “Trump is a self-promoter yelling about 25% tariffs on China,” Donalds said in the same string of Facebook posts. In other public comments from the same time, Donalds argued against Trump’s calls to boost US manufacturing, saying it was cheaper to make clothes in China than in Michigan, and said he favored privatizing entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, which would be better as a “voucher,” along with raising the retirement age. A spokesman for Donalds defended him in a comment to CNN. “President Trump is considering Byron as his running mate because of the Congressman’s steadfast support for the 45th President and his historic policy agenda. The fact that these decade-old posts are now resurfacing in the middle of running mate deliberations is weak but typical of CNN.” https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/29/politics/kfile-byron-donalds-trump-criticisms/

Ooooh, someone said something that triggered Ol' Carpetbagging Tarheel again. Here comes the "I ignore you, I ignore you, look at me ignoring you" response! Whatever shall you do? Now, now ... we don't know for a fact that he's white.

Ashli Babbitt probably would have been, but like many mentally disturbed criminals she committed suicide by cop before we had the chance.

⬆️ The Ironclad Rule of Trumpy Projection, in which the supporters of the party that officially call for outlawing gay marriage accuse everyone else of being what they are. I just read in my Bible, King Donald edition (2024 rev.) the following: "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable" (Leviticus 18:22) and "If a man lies with a man as one lies with woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads" (Leviticus 20:13).