The Frankish Reich

HA HA HA HA HA. So the idiot MTGs and Boeberts (and yes, their orange master) get their comeuppance. First Ken Buck shanks Boebert, now Gallagher (a true, not MAGA conservative and one of our best in Congress) gets his revenge. Maybe try, umm, governing instead of making a damn fool of yourself?

Well played. I would have felt insulted but the "genteel" made it all better.

Another stupid cross-post from Tarheel in which some other Kelly vaguely threatens civil war.

Hold on a sec ... aren't we talking about the budget the MAGA-LED REPUBLICAN HOUSE just passed?

Isn't there some dedicated Ray Epps board somewhere for Tarheel to cross post his same old "news" in multiple topics, like he just did here. Reminder: No. One. Cares.

That would make sense if we weren't talking about $4.5 million. I know Ohtani's interpreter must be one of the best paid interpreters in the world, but this is way beyond any interpreter's resources. If the bookie extended credit, well, that was no doubt with the expectation that Ohtani himself was good for it ... whether Ohtani was in the loop or not.

Chinese group, so I'm guessing knockoff counterfeit Canada Goose. But still ... folks I know who work in this field tell me every single new arrival has a smartphone.

Same state so how could their governor complain? And here I was thinking that the Hunt family seemed like the rare wholesome, decent type of owners. Let them go to Oakland.

Well maybe the response would've been just as bad. Who knows. But not as comically bad. That was a Trump Special.

The red heifers are ready to ascend to the sacrificial platform. Two religions trying like hell to out-primitive each other? https://allisrael.com/blog/what-do-five-red-heifers-have-to-do-with-the-oct-7-massacre Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount is controversial even within the religious community. The ritual impurity of a population void of the sacrificial system, paired with not knowing exactly where the Temple would have stood, could allow for an accidental desecration of the site. To avoid this possibility, visiting the site – let alone praying on Temple Mount – is discouraged by many Rabbis; however, if the heifer ceremony is successfully completed this spring, that could change things. According to the Book of Numbers, chapter’ 19, the heifer ceremony results in the creation of an ‘ash and water’ mixture used for cleansing the nation of Israel from the ritual impurity of coming in contact with the dead. The ceremony also requires some of the blood to be sprinkled at the front of the Tabernacle and, in later history, the Temple. The ceremony, which traditionally took place on the Mt. of Olives, outside the camp, is essential for all other aspects of Temple worship to take place. "Adam, Cain and Noah find God punitive but soothed by the smell of burnt flesh, mostly animal." - Alasdair Gray

Right ... vacillation and weakness with respect to Russia. It's the Ironclad Rule of Trump Cult Projection.

I'm not denying that re: travel from China. All I'm saying is that Trump's overall score for his pre-election handling of the pandemic: D And the only reason he doesn't fail is Operation Warp Speed, which he seems uncomfortable about touting.

Folks, it's gonna be another nail-biter: https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/biden-leads-in-6-new-polls-the-booming https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/ The country is fundamentally divided. On a national basis, I see nothing that would convince me that there's any change in the roughly Biden +5 (closer to +7 in 2020) advantage. On the electoral college basis: Once again, every state but 7 is irrelevant/a foregone conclusion. PA, MI, WI, GA, AZ, NV, NC. Latest polls (mostly Feb, before a recent tightening) show Trump leading in all of them, albeit within the margin of error in most. So when Biden tries to curry favor with the UAW (Michigan!) or Trump tries to curry favor with "his" blue collar base (100% tariff!), remember, that's what we'll be seeing the rest of the year.

Hah. I've always been kind of a centrist on the whole COVID response thing. It's fair to say that Biden (and a lot of governors) kept distancing/masking/remote schooling/whatever rules in place far too long. But it's also fair to say that Trump's initial response to COVID was comically bad, ending in the perfect comeuppance: he gets COVID himself and has to be airlifted to Bethesda.

Standard Trumpie Response #1: I didn't really say that! You took me out of context! No, he didn't say he wanted to redevelop Gaza as an Israeli resort. And that's not what the report that I linked (from The Guardian) said. But what he did say was jarringly stupid and inappropriate. Sometimes that's bad enough, no?

Awesome campaign ad.

You mean God DIDN'T make Trump as America's savior? I've been deceived!

TRIGGER WARNING: TARHEELS BY BIRTH OR CHOICE PLEASE IGNORE. DO NOT EXPAND OR SCROLL. ADDITIONAL SPACING ADDED TO AVOID INADVERTENT TRIGGERING. One would think that a delicate snowflake who needs a trigger warning for my posts ("I don't even want to SEE them! Put them on permanent IGNORE!!") would not be tempted to read those posts just because they are quoted by someone else. I mean, sometimes you even have to hit "expand!" I assume our favorite Tarheel-by-way-of-Buffalo must enjoy being triggered. A kind of neuvo Internet Masochist.

I like how it needs captions because Mike is in full brain damaged mumbling stage. In other words: what an endorsement!

At first I thought it was a story about the interpreter using some petty cash (when you sign a $700 million contract "petty cash" can be a few thousand) to place his own bets. When I saw that it was $4.5 million, I thought the same thing - really? He's not a financial advisor, he's an interpreter. I have no idea how he would be draining Ohtani's accounts unless Ohtani authorized it. More to come. Bad for the Dodgers = Good for Baseball! Unfortunately, this is true too.

Re: Kushner. First, it never occurred to him that it is jarringly inappropriate at this time to be talking about development possibilities on the Gaza waterfront? Second, even if he doesn't mean it, it provides fodder for the belief that Israel is now trying to permanently eradicate or displace the Gaza population. Some kind of refugee camp in the Negev (yeah, that won't engender another century of animosity), couple with the Trump Resort/Gaza Strip?

Nope. You're right. That's why it fizzled away when the bogus informant was revealed.

This is awesome. Good insight into how the fake news machine operates.

And it's official: no one cares. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4544660-newsmax-host-jim-jordan-biden-impeachment/

May we all take note of the ultra-defensive poster. I have written many posts that include my own legal analysis. You can check them against other sources, or with lawyers you may happen to know. They may disagree with my conclusions, but they would have no doubt they're written by a lawyer. Meanwhile, the Resident Ignorer When He's Not Surreptitiously Reading My Posts has shown us zero when it comes to advanced training in biology, biochemistry, whatever. In fact, he's made tons of jaw-droppingly stupid statements in relation to COVID treatments and vaccines. Hence: Lab Tech until further proof.