The Frankish Reich

Yes, in politics today that is true. See, e.g., the Biden wanders off from photo shoot in France thread.

Chuck's dogs look pretty good. Needs a little more Buffalo char though. Grill lines shouldn't be so distinct.

Maybe you can explain what a video clip of Obama, Clinton, and Bush 43 praising the tradition of a peaceful transition of power has to do with some plot to replace Biden four years later .... .... then again, we already know that you don't actually read/listen to the tweets you embed like it's a race to be first in breaking the news to a dozen Bills fans.

Ooh, Trump got the endorsement of a former Mayor of Detroit! I wonder why. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2021/01/20/trump-pardons-ex-detroit-mayor-kwame-kilpatrick/3955404001/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/14/cheapfake-biden-videos-enrapture-right-wing-media-deeply-mislead/ Yeah, yeah, here it comes ... The Washington Post, of course it's pro-Biden! But the article is spot on. It shows the full videos, then the edited versions sent out by the RNC to their army of tweeters, which are then picked up by the football forum bloggers at the bottom of the propaganda chain.

Agreed. But which candidate are you talking about?

I'm just pointing out that we are now far, far into what the Brits call the "silly season." I'm old enough to remember this "gotcha" moment: Look! Bush doesn't even know how a grocery store checkout scanner works!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarket_scanner_moment#:~:text=The term derives from a,unfamiliar with daily American life. You guys are always worked up about not trusting the media. Well, maybe a bit of that is in order here ... There is no "substance" here. Old man Senator tries to use social media; fails.

Look, some of the doddering, stumbling behavior is obvious. I'm not about to say that Biden is the picture of health. I believe there should be a constitutional amendment setting a maximum age for the presidency. If you need to be at least 35 to have the maturity to do the job, why don't you have to be under 70/75/80 to have the peak energy/acuity to do it? What I'm objecting to is obviously manipulated video to try to make him look utterly confused. We saw that with the "sitting in the phantom chair" video, with the "wanders off at France photo shoot," and now in the "has to be led offstage by Obama." These are stupid, and ideally shouldn't work on people with a modicum of intelligence who ought to know when someone's attempting to manipulate them.

The idea here is "how hilarious, Schumer tries to act like a man of the people, reveals himself to be lifetime NYC apartment dweller who doesn't have a basic understanding of how the vast majority of Americans live." So, yeah, vote for Joe Biden, the Corvette driving, Amtrak riding man of the people, not Big Lord Fauntleroy, the guy who lives in hotels. I've never been one of those "I like him because he's just like us" voters. Manufactured bs. Let's see Trump with his little doggie poop bag in action.

This is batshit nuts. We know exactly how and why it happened. A well-meaning but ultimately stupid mother decided her troubled autistic son would find the shooting sports a good way to bring some happiness. He shot her with the gun she bought him, then shot a bunch of kids at his school. Yeah. Those are the facts. You don't like them because somehow it doesn't fit your preferred narrative. There is absolutely no mystery here, no unknown facts, no unexplained gaps in the evidence. If you think there are, you just might be a conspiracy theorist.

We should definitely see if Trump can drive a car, something that I suspect he last did when he was a teenager. We should also see how he does at the manly task of target shooting. We know he can perform, for a minute or two, the manly task of banging a hooker.

Come on. Nothing unusual about this. Politicians stopping to wave/acknowledge some particular supporter in the crowd. Ex-Prez then puts hand on current Prez's shoulder as they walk off together. It was deceptive editing, much like that one where Biden "wanders off" in France when he's really trying to say something to the parachutist. Stupid official Republican Campaign clipped videos.

Schumer is extremely intelligent. Like 2 SDs from the mean intelligent. He's lived in apartments/condos his entire life. He doesn't have a clue about working the grill.

Can't get trichinosis from beef.

PEI oysters on my breath and in my gut. Must wait before visiting Schumer house.

Not kosher. Can't mix dairy and meat. Embarrassing. Could lose ultra-orthodox support. Must delete.

^ Another weak individual who couldn't resist the influence of charismatic leader Ray Epps. "Ray Epps made us do it"

Not just some random religious leader. The guy who made the Southern Baptist Convention a conservative political force when he wasn't otherwise preoccupied with boys and young men. Groomer. “Paul Pressler will go down as the biggest hypocrite in Baptist history. He split the Southern Baptist Convention and decimated the ministries of countless seminary professors, denominational workers and pastors, all the while preying upon young men who believed his sanctimonious tripe,” said Marv Knox, former features editor for Baptist Press and later editor of the Texas Baptist Standard. “Thank God, Pressler lived long enough for the truth of his malevolence and debauchery to be known across the SBC and beyond.”

I sure hope it's not any of those 4. Awful choices, like Kamala awful. Burgum? Whatever. Old school Republican. May be able to keep Trump a little bit more stable than otherwise.

The GM/Management spot: Buddy Nix. He sounded dumb and well past his prime in his first media events. His decisions lived up to those impressions. The Old Days spot: Gary Marangi. For a long time he held the record for Worst Starting QB (minimum 4 starts) Ever. 0-7 record, 30.8 QB rating. The New School spot: Nathan Peterman, who arguably managed to surpass Marangi as Worst Starting QB Ever. 32.5 QB rating as a Bill. Then got one Game 17 start with the Bears to vault him well past Marangi on the career loserboard. (what are the chances that one franchise - the Bills - would have the 2 worst ever NFL QBs?) The Coaching spot: a close one. Oh, the names: Kay Stephenson (10-26). Hank Bullough (4-17). Chan Gailey (16-32). And the special Ruined a Team that Appeared Ready to Make the Playoffs Rex Ryan Award that goes to none other than ... Rex Ryan. But when I look back there's really one name that stands out. He was the coach when I first started paying attention to football as a kid. Harvey Johnson. 1-10-1 in 1968 (I don't remember that one), inexplicably brought back as HC in 1971 (that's the one I remember) when he led the Bills to a 1-13 record. (Why on earth did that season make me a lifelong Bills fan?) His wiki page includes this bit of trivia: "It was speculated that Johnson's love of thoroughbred horse racing, a passion he shared with owner Ralph Wilson, allowed him to stay on the Bills payroll despite his poor performance in coaching." Yeah, that must explain it. Not sure any other franchises can match Nix-Marangi-Peterman-Johnson.

Addictive. At least to the weak. That came later. The way "Hamlin" handled that fake punt last year ... I'm not so sure anymore.

Hah! Belongs in the latest Deep State thread. That's nothing. One of the former posters on here ate up this stuff and actually found himself followers. Hey, so did Jim Jones and Charles Manson.

Not surprising. There were huge loopholes even in the policy as announced. This may explain why I haven't heard about any litigation challenging it yet - the immigration advocacy groups may be thinking they'll just leave it alone and assume that the exceptions will swallow the rule. EDIT: Never mind. Here it is - https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/immigrants-rights-groups-sue-biden-administration-over-new-anti-asylum-rule My assumption has always been that the Biden Administration put this new rule out for messaging reasons, knowing (hoping?) that a court would strike it down, thereby allowing them to shift blame back to Congress for not passing the Lankford-Schumer bill. That is actually kind of true.

What's next? The Dollar Store becomes the Two Dollar Store? Hamburger Helper becomes Ground Chicken Helper? Hot Pockets become Pockets of Gold? When will this gouging end?

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