The Frankish Reich

So I tried to watch it. Everyone's taking it down. If it's so wholesome, so inoffensive, why are they taking it down? I realize Trump's campaign didn't produce it. But Trump himself posted it on his social media site. I stupidly gave Trump the benefit of the doubt, saying that it was an agglomeration of made-up old news headlines meant to communicate that the world is a dangerous place and we need a strong leader like Trump. But no. It literally tells us what to expect if Trump wins again, then zooms in on the headline about industrial production increasing under a "unified Reich." https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/politics/trump-unified-reich-video/index.html So that would be a new Reich, the Trump Reich. Which you could, I guess, say harks back to Hitler's First Reich (which I think was the Holy Roman Empire, which didn't have any industrial production, being a feudal realm that was neither Holy nor Roman), or some Bismarckian Second Reich (which did happen in the industrial revolution, but isn't exactly the best example that comes to mind when economic historians think "provide an example of the industrial revolution"). But really: it's right there. The new unified Reich. Who talks like that? Who has the German fetish other than the ancestral Drumpfs? What on earth was this meant to communicate other than associating Donald Trump with some kind of new (Fourth?) Reich? Some quick comparisons: - "What will happen under a new Trump Administration?" [cut to headline: "Napoleonic Empire Expands] - What will happen under a new Trump Administration?" [cut to faux Italian newspaper: "The Trains Now Run On Time"] - What will happen under a new Trump Administration? [cut to faux 1941 headline about "Emperor Declares Japan the New World Power"] It speaks for itself. It is so stupid, so offensive, that I assumed that people were unfairly jumping all over Trump for posting it. No. He should be jumped all over for posting it. Verdict: Not a Hoax.

I love how the flag code brigade is always up in arms about some alleged disrespect to Old Glory, but they're perfectly fine when a Supreme Court Justice('s wife) takes to flying it upside down to make a political point.

Yep. I guess when Trump brags about market performance in his first 3 years that was a different "investor class."

Should be cross-posted in the Please Don't Vote thread.

I think it's a huge impact, but we don't notice it. That favorable spot on 1st down? That extra foot? It can make a big difference. I just think we all understand that spotting errors are pretty much unfixable.

Somehow it failed to dawn on me that this is the famously mentally unstable Royce White, former NBA forward. Good Lord.

^^Still excited about that Stallone-Denzel breakaway union thing.

Slept her way to the (almost) top? Why, I'll call you and raise you a billion. Kamala, meet Nicole. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/technology/nicole-shanahan-rfk-jr-vp.html

First Columbia. Then Yale. And yes, friends. The protests have finally hit the Jewel of the eastern Central Valley, that Binghamton of the West, VDH's very own Fresno State. Damn elitists. https://fresnoland.org/2024/05/01/fresno-state-demonstration/

1st down play ends: some official puts his foot down within approximately a couple inches of the actual tip of the ball. 2nd down ends: repeat. 3rd down ends: repeat. Error of up to 6 inches after 3 plays. Bring the sticks out and find, definitively, that he came up an inch short! Hint: the laser won't improve this.

Because some guy named Jess Kelly just knows that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has never been drawn on for any purpose other than fueling our military. How dare you question him! I'm gonna have Julie of the Kellys do some legal research on this. Holy Oil Slick, Batman! I just learned that sales from the strategic petroleum reserve to reduce the (stated) deficit were authorized by the Republican House and Republican Senate in 2015!

I'm gonna fly this one just to freak everyone out.

Just bought gas in New Mexico, coming home from a road trip. $2.89/gallon. Now that's cheap!

Bad food (fast food) is cheap. Six buck, 20 nuggets last month. 5 bucks, McD's meal later this month. Taco Bell "build your own cravings" box (up to 1,760 calories!), $5.99. This is why we have a child obesity problem. Good food (fresh/unprocessed veggies, etc) is cheap. Good restaurant (typically not chain) food is expensive. Budget accordingly.

https://www.energy.gov/ceser/history-spr-releases We fill it up, we draw it down; we draw it down, we fill it up. Treason!

Doesn't Maine have that emblem now? I guess I just thought they were Mainers. Now I know they are faux Mainers, real insurrectionists

Alito's wife is a bit of a flagpole maniac, isn't she. I think the Philly thing explains it. She can have all the fun she wants with her Phillies flags, but the day she puts up a Flyers 1975 Stanley Cup flag is the day I start my own personal encampment outside her home.

Hey, you guys are finally catching on to these bs stories. I guess it depends how much wine you drink .... Meanwhile, for all the "I spent $25 for lunch at a fast food joint" people: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonalds-five-dollar-meal-fast-food-prices/

This is KJP's poster child. Paying off her student loan debt for 30 years until it was forgiven by Biden earlier this year. No explanation of how much debt, why it was extended over a 30 year term yet somehow she still had a balance remaining, what degree(s) she got and how she's using them, and why this loan forgiveness will finally allow this (apparent) 50-something person to finally achieve her dreams.

KJP's example was absurd. Someone who hasn't paid off a loan after three decades? I consolidated/refinanced my loans over a 30 year term; paid off in about 23

The years of middle school abuse that go with having the name "Butker" will tend to warp a man's outlook. Dick Butkus took out that pent up rage on running backs. Butler doesn’t have that option, so a gay married couple will have to suffice

But my point is that lefties freely call various women Nazis. To be fair, the line is somewhat blurred between "strident nationalist" and "Nazi/fascist." But as a finding aid: it resides right there between Meloni and Marine LePen. Good example.

Nice body, bad skin. There. I said it.

I agree with you on that (even though I continue to hold that you know disturbingly too much about Nazi and fascist theories of government and economics), but the point is that many women are called "Nazis," whether correctly or incorrectly.