The Frankish Reich

I don't need a teleprompter! (I need TWO teleprompters)

So disappointed that Alito is not the manly man I thought he was. What kind of man allows his wife to fly Old Glory upside down outside his home? What's next? An upside down Princeton pennant when he doesn't raise the toilet seat? It's the war on masculinity, that's what it is.

Right!

As an old guy to many (like my kids) albeit a relative youngster here, allow me to express my end-stage boomer sentiments: - Professional women, particularly those of a certain age, should dress professionally. Lay off overdone hair extensions, false eyelashes, showing too much skin in the workplace, lip fillers, all that other trash culture stuff that has invaded previously genteel (hah!) institutions - Professional men should not be wearing gym shorts and hoodies to a formal workplace, and they should have a jacket and tie for formal proceedings like hearings. Doxxing means outing someone's real identity behind JDHillFan or TheFrankishReich. It does not mean "Butker, a resident of Lee's Summit ..."

I flipped on CNN when I checked into a hotel this weekend. Guess what? P Diddy video on what seemed like an endless loop. So there's the other variant: "the mainstream media refuses to cover it." Except that mainstream CNN was covering it a lot more than they were covering Butker's commencement speech at a minor college, and a whole lot more than an assassination attempt in Slovakia.

Where's @Tommy Callahan with his obligatory comment that "yeah, all that rise in the stock market under Trump was great for Blackrock and the globalists ...."

This hasn't aged well. I told you it was an idiotic take right from the start. Just look at the damn fool who attacked Pelosi ... you saw a gay hooker hiding under all that blubber? Another useless idiot? Mainstream Media wins. Again. Alt bs media concocted yet another backstory that a lot of fools bought.

Except that it turned out to be MAGA conspiracy nut attacks Speaker's husband after all. Should I go look for all those gay hooker comments too?

I'm pretty sure I saw Eppsie the Beagle in the vicinity.

May the baby Jesus shut your mouth and open your mind. - Captain Beefheart, the better Zappa.

This incredibly stupid post says everything you need to know about the "new" or "alt" or Trump right. Two things that have absolutely nothing to do with each other. A Christian conservative football player gave a speech espousing traditional Christian values at a Catholic college. As far as I know, he has never beaten up anyone, much less a girlfriend/wife. But meanwhile: a video of an aging hip hop artist beating up his girlfriend c. 2016 was released. As far as I know, aging hip hop artist did not say anything espousing Christian values or condemning Christian values. They have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Nothing. But the low IQ AI machines will still find something to say. It follows the format: "You called out [A] for doing/saying [B], but you didn't call out [X] for doing/saying [Y]." How illuminating.

Well, yes, I've never heard of it, and therefore I would have assumed that it is "fake news" or at least news that is pre-spun to support a particular agenda. Of course, the fact that we hit Dow 40K is in no way fake.

I think I go with the “it happened on his watch” theory of blame because these alternatives are, well, more depressing. But I fear that at least some of it is true. What we see here at PPP is a lot of high information voters. But the wrong information. Not all information is created equal. Some random Twitter feed’s take on a news story is not the news story. People have completely lost the ability to make that distinction.

So that “please don’t vote” thing? I think I found out who it should be directed to. You no doubt think that Rosa Parks was at fault for ruining the jovial Back of the Bus club.

Wow. Now that’s a special kind of spin. So the plaintiffs should’ve waited for the 14 week limit, or the 12, or Ronnie D’s 6. So again, back to my point: Trump suffered at the polls because COVID hit “on his watch.” There is no reason to believe it wouldn’t have hit under anyone’s watch. Of course Trump didn’t have to go out and make it worse for himself by doing dumb things and eventually catching it himself. But still… the “bad sh!t happened while he was president” theory.

Says the one searching madly for the latest Mulvaney news.

If I didn’t know better I’d assume that Trump’s little minions are a bit anxious about this …

Nice spin. but Biden won this cycle. “anytime, any place” = bluff called.

5 months later …

A bit more Stoicism from certain posters certainly wouldn’t hurt.

Well that degenerated into EVERY OTHER THREAD pretty quickly. Getting back to the point of THIS thread: why would anyone blame Biden for the erosion of abortion rights? My leading theory: it’s the “it happened on his watch” effect. Think about it. The sitting president gets blamed for everything that goes wrong (from the perspective of people who think repealing Roe was wrong). That may be because the sitting president tries to seize credit for everything that goes right during his term, whether or not he had anything to do with it. We’ve conditioned people that way.

A thread to document the appalling ignorance of a lot of Americans. a new survey of registered voters was released last week from Navigator Research showing that a sizable number of Americans, incredibly enough, held Biden responsible for “the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the elimination of the federal right to an abortion.” That opinion was held by 34 percent of self-identified independents, 32 percent of Black voters, and 42 percent of Hispanic voters. https://www.wsj.com/articles/notable-quotable-campaigning-on-roe-biden-held-responsible-new-poll-3c26a4fe?mod=WTRN_pos7&cx_testId=3&cx_testVariant=cx_171&cx_artPos=6

Whiners everywhere. Even whining like a b!tch about the emasculation of men.

They’re doing promo for the film. But I guess you didn’t know that.