The Frankish Reich

I have a new conspiracy theory. Or a new wrinkle on an old one. Under the old one, satanic people kept basements full of terrorized children because those kids produced the purest adrenochrome to harvest. Under my new wrinkle, the continued bombing of Gaza has created the most abundant source of terrorized children we've seen in a long time. In other words, the real reason Israel continues this campaign. And I think George Soros (hint, hint) may be behind it. Adrenochrome for everyone!

Don't knock it till you've tried it. It's good sh!t. A temporary tizzy is a known side effect, but it's worth taking that hit. It does suck. I'm also a resident of what is know a solid blue state, and I am well aware that my vote in the Presidential election will have zero impact. And therefore neither candidate has any interest in tailoring their messages to appeal to me or the many, many people like me - basically what used to be called "centrists."

The point: any "cartoonist" using adrenochrome as an example of a nootropic is a cartoonist steeped in the muck of QAnon. Any PPP poster trawling social media who stumbles across an "adrenochrome" joke is a PPP poster fishing in those same fetid waters.

10 pages in about an hour for a D-level signing? We are not winning this off-season.

Sure, his best days are behind him. But I loved watching the Poyer-Hyde team these last few years. I'm gonna miss it.

Looky, looky ... B-Man is still prowling around the remnants of QAnon world. See the strange reference to "Adrenochrome" in that little funny? Now where have I heard about that "no known medical use" substance before? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenochrome Adrenochrome is a subject of several far right conspiracy theories, such as QAnon and Pizzagate,[19][20][21] with the chemical helping the theories play a similar role to earlier blood libel and Satanic ritual abuse stories.[22] The theories commonly state that a cabal of Satanists rape and murder children, and "harvest" adrenochrome from their victims' blood as a drug[23][24] or as an elixir of youth.[25] In reality, adrenochrome is synthesized by biotechnology companies, solely for research purposes, and has no medical uses.

Headline: "$100 million net worth QB Joe Burrow reassessing his political priorities given new proposed Biden tax on $100 million net worth people"

Ken Buck pulls off the Colorado Screwjob on Lauren Boebert. Way too complicated to explain here, but if you want to know more than you ever wanted to know: https://www.coloradopols.com/diary/199235/breaking-ken-buck-to-resign-from-congress-and-drop-anvil-on-lauren-boebert#comment-755155 Buck obviously can't stand Boebert, and he's now called her bluff of changing congressional districts to try to save her job.

True. here’s the problem (from what people who actually know have told me): we can’t send Venezuelans back. Maduro’s government won’t take them. Same as Cuba. So these “temporary” fixes respond to a real world world affairs problem.

You mean Julie Kelly didn't like it? You mean she's providing accurate reporting after all? I watched a couple clips again. Unbelievably awful. "Overcoached" seems to be the kind critique. The fake emotion was just cringe. There's a deeper problem here: Republicans have created just one credible female candidate so far (Nikki), and they just trashed her entire future.

Of course it didn't "unite the country." The last times we saw the country united: - 2008, after Obama's first election - 2001, after Bush's 9/11 megaphone speech at the Twin Towers site Angry old man > Senile old man. He cleared the bar. He held it together although the rapid fire thing caused him to mess up his words more than once. That's all he cared about. He's right: he's in a much better position this morning than he was yesterday morning.

"Natural?" Well, I think he set about being aggressive, loud, "fiery" to combat all those "sleepy Joe" memes. I see no reason to say he was on amphetamines or anything like that. Maybe a little too much caffeine for the old man at night. I haven't jumped on the "Dr Ronny fed Trump amphetamines" silliness either. They are both career loudmouths. I doubt Biden could do this several times a week, but once or twice a year? Yeah. It wasn't polished either, just loud and aggressive.

That part is true. He clearly viewed it as an 81 year old's marathon. He was gonna linger in the aisle as long as possible, before and after the speech, and then deliver the speech itself at 90 db. Hey, even when you're reading it's hard to do that for over an hour. So he passed that test, which even his critics concede when they are saying he was amped up on stimulants. I used to say that every time Gronk caught a pass, but we still kept losing to them.

Not in my experience. It's gobbledygook because the immigration laws need a total rewrite. Not the type of the immigration bill that the Repubs just rejected, but a total rethinking so that we don't have so many quasi-legal statuses. Post of the year!

As Marx famously said: History repeats twice, the first time as tragedy (RFK Sr.), the second time as farce (Jr.) The old commie had a way with words.

What is "Nimbra?" Her name is pronounced exactly how it's spelled - Nim-ahh-RA-ta. Sound it out. Presumably you think "Nimbra" was meant as an insult, but I have no idea who or what a "Nimbra" is (I know what a "Nimrod" is, but he didn't call her that), so it makes no sense as an insult. Whatever. Is the point that Biden is old and mangles names? Gotcha. Is the point that he wasn't practicing saying her name over and over again like a mantra until it is burned into his two remaining neurons? I don't see why that's relevant. Is it that her name wasn't mentioned in the prepared text? Yeah, that would be a valid point. So make it. Say Their Names about all the non-George Floyd victims of unjustified police shootings. Other than Breanna and George, I doubt you can come up with one. Let's stop these silly games. Just saying that that is confusing too. Maybe (probably) immigration law should be simpler. Legal or illegal, no gray area. But that Venezuelan killer was in a gray area - authorized to come in and stay, but without valid immigrant or nonimmigrant status. Back in the Reagan amnesty days there was an awful bureaucratic acronym: PRUCOL. For "permanently residing under color of law." Yeah, it's really messy. And it is fair to blame Biden for allowing it to get even messier. Irv himself would recoil in horror at the mess.

Off point, but a little info from someone who's worked on cases involving crimes committed by "illegal aliens." We don't use the term "illegal alien." We really never did. Not out of fear of being called a racist (nobody complained about racist implications until fairly recently), but because it is too vague for lawyers to use. There's the classic "illegal alien" - sneaked across the border undetected. They are usually called something like EWIs ("eewees," for "entered without insepction.") There's visa overstays, which the general public wouldn't call "illegal aliens" but that's what they are. (In the trade they are called, not surprisingly, "overstays") There are people like the Venezuelan who apparently killed Laken Riley. He was "paroled in" to allow him to apply for asylum. He's not a classic "illegal alien," so people in law enforcement would probably call him a border parolee or something like that. Just if people are curious. There's many flavors of aliens present in the United States, many of whom were authorized to enter and to stay until something happens (an asylum application is finally decided) or for a period of time (until they complete a degree, or for 90 days, etc.)

And when did Trumpies get all worked up about the silly "say her name" thing? I thought that came from the other side. They goaded him to say it. He took their sticky thing and said it, stumbled over it, but said it. Get over it.

If your point is that old men stumble over unfamiliar names, well, you got me. Sometimes they even do that in writing where they have time to check their work! In a post on his Truth Social account, Trump repeatedly referred to Haley, the daughter of immigrants from India, as “Nimbra.” Haley, the former South Carolina governor, was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, as Nimarata Nikki Randhawa. She has always gone by her middle name, “Nikki.”

The Catholic Church is consistent. It believes that life begins at conception. Human life begins at conception. Therefore, methods of birth control that prevent implantation of a fertilized egg are wrong; they deliberately "end life" by interfering with the natural development of that life. They also believe that IVF is wrong because it necessarily involves the destruction of some fertilized eggs at the embryonic stage. (They think it's wrong for other reasons too, but those reasons are beside the point here.) The Alabama Supreme Court is consistent. The people of Alabama, speaking through their elected representatives, believe life begins at conception. They even accord such life "personhood." The Alabama Supreme Court therefore says that IVF procedures that would include the destruction of embryonic human life is illegal under Alabama law. Mike Johnson believes human life begins at conception. So does Katie Britt, Senator representing the very same Alabama and soon to be forgotten over-emoting SOTU response speaker. Yet Mike Johnson and Katie Britt support legislation that exempts IVF related "deaths" from the standard protections given to human life. Mike Johnson and Katie Britt are inconsistent. Taking an innocent human life is taking an innocent human life. We wouldn't say, "this woman seems to be carrying quadruplets, and to increase the survival chances of the largest two we must abort the smaller two." But apparently we can say "implant only the one or two best looking test tube embryos and dispose of the others." If you believe human life begins at conception and that such life is entitled to all the protections we apply to "persons," then you cannot agree with any IVF procedure that would not result in implantation of every fertilized egg. I am not just saying that Mike Johnson and Katie Britt and their ilk are hypocritical. They are politicians. I am saying that they don't really believe their own position. That strikes me as worse than hypocritical. They are not saying, "Yes, IVF procedures that may dispose of embryos constitute a form of legalized abortion, but politics is the art of compromise, and here we understand that public opinion is against us, so we will allow that exception." No. They are pretending the issue doesn't exist. They are inconsistent, hypocritical, and they are liars.

Look, I'm trying to be nice here. But yeah, weird name, and surely not the first time someone has stumbled over it. LACK-en? LAKE-en? "LOCK-en." That's all you got? It's not like he called her Mitterand.

So you're telling me that that mythical $20 Taco Bell lunch may get a bit cheaper? It's almost as if inflation is no longer a problem!

Yes, because you have so many friends named "Laken." From a quick Social Security Administration search: Laken is not in the top 1000 names for any year of birth beginning with 2020. Please enter another name.

Nice work!

I'm old enough to remember when 800 bucks would get you cutting edge technology.