The Frankish Reich

Yep. for me, that's the worst part of it. I have in-laws in some smaller towns in AZ and NM. The hospital is what separates the surviving towns from the dying ones.

Yes, amazing how Trump announced those trade-freezing tariffs and kept them in place and then the stock market went up. I mean, that's what happened, right?

Thanks, Yogi, for reminding us that nobody wants to go there because it's always too crowded.

If the supporters here were being honest, they'd say that they're glad it passed because it made the 2017 tax cuts permanent, even though they acknowledge that it did, at best, nothing to address long-term deficits. So they'd be giving it a big two cheers. Is that what we're seeing? No. It's Three Cheers for Continued Lower Taxes and Huge Deficits! It's a cult.

In other words, unless you think it is hilarious that a highly educated black woman breaks into a dance instead of trying to debate her opponents, there is no joke at all here. And we have a word for that kind of humor: Racist.

So Trumpies, help me to understand: - we need tariffs to bring back the basic production jobs that have largely moved overseas to take advantage of cheaper labor. - therefore, we should put tariffs on foreign goods, including agricultural products, to encourage U.S. production - but we cannot grow tomatoes economically in the United States without foreign labor - so we should import (provide some kind of "pass" according to Trump; we call that a work visa) Mexicans to come and pick our tomatoes here In what way, then, does a tariff on tomatoes protect American jobs?

Exactly. Why do you think Senators from states with big poor white trailer populations (Hawley, Tillis) are all worked up about Medicaid cuts?

So explain to me what the joke is here. Black woman dances around instead of writing legal opinion. Hilarious.

I see the new management at the World's Least Funny Parody Site is backing off the anti-catholicism in favor of good old fashioned racism.

Military-Industrial Complex now shuddering in fear as they figure out how to spend hundreds of billions of new dollars.

Murkowski bought off again?

Are we all ready to join his new America Party? To be launched as soon as the Big Bloated Bill passed.

I don't like to make political points about these deranged shooters. If there's a pattern, it's a pattern about boys who are messed up by the social destruction we see in large parts of America. The only point I want to make here is that the right wingers love to focus on certain things like social forces leading to an increase in self-identified trans kids but tend to ignore the fact that a lot of their own are responsible for this kind of social decay - people who are too irresponsible themselves to be raising kids, with the kids left with no influences other than the corrupt influences of social media, video games, and online sociopaths, including those obsessed with gun culture. Social decay manifests in different ways, but the consequences are always bad.

From the NY Post: Roley was born in California and endured a difficult divorce between his parents when he was 10 years old in 2015 — a split which saw his father allegedly threaten to start a fire and shoot his mother, according to court documents obtained by CNN, though the father said those accusations were false. The suspect also aspired to be a firefighter working in forestry, according to his grandfather, and may have been in Idaho to pursue that career. Just another broken down traditional hetero family. Other reports say a kid who spent a lot of time playing video games who became way too interested in Nazis and guns as he was shuttled between family members in California and (I think) Oklahoma/Arkansas. Fairly typical of this type of crime.

Right. The prop bet thing is just a ticking time bomb. The one I'm waiting for: the prop bets for who scores the first touchdown. That's one that a playcaller can manipulate in addition to the actual players on the field.

Now you can smell like Trump too! I love that aging hooker drowned in old spice myself.

So now it sounds like they're putting together some red, white, and Blue washing deal where Larry Ellison skims off some TikTok money in exchange for an official ownership of US operations while bytedance retains operational control

My undisputed champion of the depressing yet beautiful song.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5375717-trump-temporary-pass-migrant-farm-hotel-workers/

Notice that what he’s really saying is that Trump has no idea what this bill actually does. It’s almost as if he’s a bronzed auto pen.

Alaska is exempt from the Medicaid cuts. Because, umm, we need Murkowski’s vote? that’s the way to drain that swamp!

People who rightly rip the NBA for blackballing Enes Freedom Kanter should be able to understand what Hasek is saying.

Except that he didn’t. His final projection was a probable Trump win.

I seem to remember a time when our Tarheel friend followed the Bills to London and then spent several days there posting insults on this very forum. Literally nothing better to do in the greatest city in the world.

Agree. I don’t know if he’s a gang member, a guy paying off his own debt to the smugglers who brought him, or the most wonderful family man in the world. I do know that the petty vindictiveness here is just bizarre. But sadly par for the course for the most petty and vindictive man in the world.