The Frankish Reich

I find it odd that they didn't elevate Trevor Siemien to #2 by now. Is he a good QB? Emphatically no. Is he a reasonably competent game manager who could win half his games, maybe a little more, on a team with an excellent defense? Definitely.

No, fire Joe Brady first.

Ty Johnson looks much better on his new team too.

The ultra Orthodox have been one of the key reasons why Israel is a mess today. I'm not talking about the Hamas attacks. I'm talking about the dysfunctional government and the weakening of the rule of law.

And watch Deion walk away. Oh, he may stay another year since Shadeur surely won't enter the draft after this season, but I can't imagine him staying beyond that. The team the poaches him "only" has to pay $10 million after December 31, so I wouldn't be stunned if he leaves anyway. When pressed by the media about his intentions, he wouldn't flat out say "yes, I'm coming back, and I fully intend to honor my contract." He just kept repeating the nonsensical "I'm here." As Buffalo guy Gregg Easterbrook always used to say about college coaches, "When you hire a coach who only cares about himself, you get a coach who only cares about himself."

There are a variety of reasons in Judaism for gender separation. In Pirkei Avot 1:5, Yosi ben Yochanan says that a man who spends too much time talking to women, even his wife, neglects the study of Torah and will inherit gehinnom.[1] Chapter 152 of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch details a series of laws forbidding interaction between persons of the opposite sex who are not married or closely related.[2] Some of the prohibitions include negiah (physical contact), yichud (isolation with members of the opposite sex), staring at women or any of their body parts or attire, or conversation for pleasure. During prayer services in Orthodox synagogues, seating is always separate. A mechitza is used to divide the men and women, and often to block the view from one section to the other. The reason for this is that a man might be distracted during prayer if he spots a beautiful woman. Halakha permits women to look at men in a synagogue during prayer services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_separation_in_Judaism#:~:text=In Judaism%2C especially in Orthodox,more than secular western society. Primitive.

“Spain’s descent into tyranny?” WTF is he even talking about? Tucker, go spend your abundant free time in that model of freedom and fine living, Victor Orban’s Hungary. Meanwhile, I will be enjoying the many pleasures of Spain.

I am not likely to be persuaded by adherents to a medieval form of religion. That's all.

True. Oh, there were temporary patches (the whole Title 42 thing, based on COVID) and some attempts to take executive actions that violated the immigration statutes. But the Republicans under Trump had the White House, Senate, and House and yet made no attempt to legislate to deter illegal immigration. All of the White House's legislative energy was behind Paul Ryan's tax cut, which remains the single meaningful legislative accomplishment of his administration. (One for which Paul Ryan is now weirdly banished)

Yes, it's a stupid take. Here's a smarter one: why the hell would I take seriously a protest by a group that still segregates men from women?

But the Paul Pelosi "conspiracy" thing - the idea that his attacker was in the home for some kind of consensual sexual tryst - was a whole new form of conspiracy theory. There was nothing to suggest that other than the fact that late at night, while in bed, Paul Pelosi was wearing his underwear. Really, nothing else there. It was like one of those psychological tests. I'll show you a picture and you tell me a story about what is happening. "Umm, it looks like two men were in bed together and had an argument and they were fighting over a hammer to attack the other with." Which, of course, tells us more about the storyteller than anything else. And even last weekend - long, long after the time that it became obvious that we were dealing with a highly mentally disturbed attacker who broke into the home - I see that Trump's latest rally including some kind of joke about Paul Pelosi suggesting the same thing. "And Paul Pelosi, what's up with that?" (Haha). The old dog needs a few new tricks.

Allow me to do the obnoxious "fixed it for you" thing.

It's running thousands of simulations that take into account the strength of the Bills, the strength of our opponents (that's the problem), and the strength of our competitors and their opponents. So did Cincy losing to Baltimore help us? A tiny bit - I get 28% now if we beat the Jets (and not knowing any other results). I preferred 538's model/predictor because it was more transparent and (I think) a bit more sophisticated. For example: I don't know if the NYT or ESPN models "know" that Deshaun Watson is out for the year, or that Joe Burrow is probably out for a game or two (or more), or the quality (lack thereof) of their backups. So that's a big wildcard that may not be in their model. My big takeaways: we kind of control our own destiny in that we can get above a 50% chance (again, not knowing anything else) by winning all our remaining divisional games. Of course, that wouldn't be enough (8 wins). Can we also beat the Cowboys/Eagles/Chiefs/Chargers? History would say that in the NFL we'll win at least one or two of those. The model "knows" that. And that may be enough.

Innocuous enough by itself. There were other comments associated by that poster that were more provocative (offensive? eye of the beholder) that come pretty close to the whole great replacement thing. Musk seems to be all over the place, retweeting things without digging deeper, so I will give him a pass on this one, assuming that he didn't do a deeper dig on what this particular poster had also said.

For a full explication of this famous event (honoring Russian propaganda outlet RT): https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/guess-who-came-dinner-flynn-putin-n742696 The origin story of Russian collusion, which was indeed a real thing.

What is the first rule of QAnon? You do not talk about QAnon.

No relation to Julie Kelly? Maybe we should ask Chad Kelly what he thinks.

NYT playoff simulator (I preferred 538's model, but that site is basically gone): 19% chance of making the playoffs. But, as they like to say in these parts, hear me out: - we beat the Jets: 25% - skipping ahead (because I dare not confront the fact of the next two games), let's say we win out in our division. That means Jets on Sunday, then Pats, then Dolphins in Game 17. Without predicting the outcome of any other games (ours or any other AFC teams), and with the NYT's model of every team's relative strength/likely outcomes of all games, we go all the way up to 50%. Yeah, we still gotta beat somebody (or somebodies) else, and that means the Cowboys, or the Chiefs, or the Eagles, or the Chargers. Right now I doubt we'd be favored in any of 'em. But it's the NFL and stuff happens, and we're not exactly a bad team, so ... ... yeah, I'm saying there's a chance, and it's not a wild/crazy chance like 2017, which did work out after all.

Canada can have him back. Let's say in 2057. I'm sure they'll restore his 2nd Amendment rights.

True. All I see is the obvious groan-a-thon of the Babylon Bee. I will be glad to further dissect the lack of humor there for you. Meanwhile, my own biting characterizations of the absurdity of certain beliefs never cease to amuse me. Which seem to fit with the self pleasuring purpose of this little corner of late 1990s style internet.

In other words, you started another stupid thread. Sorry I’m not in on the hilarious MAGA humor. And you’ve been conspicuously silent on the Paul Pelosi attacker’s conviction. You know, the “gay male hooker who was not in any way influenced by QAnon.”

Let's just take a step back. The thread's title is "Biden regime gives antisemites the green light to go after Jews." It is base on the fact that one Department of Homeland Security employee - currently put on leave pending disciplinary action - put up offensive pro Palestinian/anti-Israel social media posts. Meanwhile, Biden has been about as pro-Israel as any world leader this side of Netanyahu. He has done everything Israel wants short of personally dropping a bomb on Gaza. And he's taken a great deal of criticism for such strong support. And his administration has put a focus on investigating anti-semitic hate crimes. But such is the nature of some of the people here.

He is indeed an illegal immigrant. Which is what makes some of his opinions even more ridiculous. “Everything was a lie about Trump coming from the press,” he said. His hourlong testimony wandered across a range of conspiracy theories, none of which were supported by evidence. He mentioned Russiagate, a belief that the investigation into Russian interference in the election was a “deep state” attempt to destroy the Trump presidency. He brought up the debunked sex-trafficking conspiracy known as Pizzagate and said that “the ruling class, the cabal, the people who control us and run the media” are killing the “tree of liberty.” If Nancy Pelosi lied to him, DePape said, he planned to “break her kneecaps.” He also hoped the lawmaker could help lure out Target 1 so he could “expose the truth.” After that, he planned to focus on Gov. Gavin Newsom, who had recently signed a gun control bill. “Someone trampling 2nd Amendment rights needed to make the list,” DePape said. Illegal aliens have no 2nd Amendment rights, and Canada has no 2nd Amendment. But such is the power of idiotic conspiracy theories that they influence even Canadian nudist nutjobs. I'm sure B Man will share the tweet where Jack Posobiec apologizes for promoting the whole nonsensical Pizzagate thing....

The guy is just a sociopath. He doesn't even take ordinary steps to hide his fraud. Will the House expel him? They'd need a 2/3 vote, which means lots of Republicans would need to join in. Will they? Of course not. I think Hochul would be able to appoint his interim successor, which would make a slim 4 vote Republican majority even slimmer.

A joke! Haven't you ever heard that before? "Watch out mixing those things, you might just wake up dead!" Biden was a bit quiet and mumbly, but I watched it, and he did just fine. If this is all there is to pick on, well, I guess his critics have got nuthin'