The Frankish Reich

When did Alex Van Pelt start looking like Nathaniel Hackett?

December was a huge month, so on an annualized basis we'd be looking at 3 million plus. Unsustainable.

There's a number of posters here who mocked Janet Yellen for saying "don't expect prices to fall."

To everyone who's been calling for deflation - this is what deflation does. I've been saying for a long time that commercial real estate will lead the next financial crisis. And still, where I live, I see new commercial office space projects being built all over the place. COVID didn't create the flight from the office; circumstances were already ripe for that to happen. It just sped up the inevitable transition. It won't be reversed.

Lots of Cognitive Dissidents here.

No. It's Rochester.

Words of wisdom from Il Piatto della Spazzatura.

The same defensiveness as Trump when anyone asks a question about his intellect or mental acuity. Telling. For both.

AOC graduated from BU, a pretty competitive school, so I imagine she did just fine grade-wise and on the SAT. Meanwhile, I'm not sure Boebert can even spell G-E-D-

And refs call a penalty that is almost never called to negate KC's big touchdown on Kelce's lateral, ensuring that the Chiefs will not have homefield, just so that they can add to the drama by making the Bills' defense suck against KC (and by making Diggs/Sherfield unable to haul in perfect Allen bombs) in the playoff game hosted by the Bills. Yeah, now it is all becoming clear to me ...

So you will avoid getting into World War III by starting World War III by nuking Gaza, Iran, Yemen, and Syria. Got it.

Yeah, IQ 187. Riiiiiight. Somehow I think he's probably 5'5"

HES is Harvard University Extension. Yes, it is part of Harvard University. But it is basically the open enrollment/continuing education/online extension. And it sure as hell ain't Harvard College, the elite undergrad component. Congratulations Mr. Rufo on your "Harvard degree"

The reference to Anchorman (and Scientology) in your name (good one!) tells me you are our rare relatively youthful Gen X poster.

Hail Satan!

I know EXACTLY why the electoral college and the distribution of electoral votes among the states was created: to give the southern slave-holding states a disproportionate representation in the House and a disproportionate share of the electoral votes for the President.

Is she still seeking refuge in that human rights paradise that is Russia?

Which is exactly the same thing. Try this one: "OJ Simpson was found by a jury to be responsible for the deaths of his ex-wife and Ronald Goldman" Same thing.

I can't answer for him, other than to say that there's a general lack of understanding here. For myself, i'll say: Yes, it is relevant that it was a civil verdict and not a criminal conviction. The standard of proof is considerably lower (here, the jury could have found that it is 51% likely that Trump did it). But it is also relevant that they returned a truly enormous award, which suggests that they were quite convinced that he needed to be punished for his outrageous behavior. So, sure, argue whatever you want about what it all means. But the fact is that the statement, "Trump was found by a jury to have digitally penetrated Carroll" is absolutely true.

On Travis Kelce and the creation/marketing of his "brand": https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/style/travis-kelce-managers-agent.html A cynic might say that Kelce is using Taylor in furtherance of his brand and his mission to be "as big as The Rock." That's kinda different from saying that the NFL fixed the playoff games to make sure KC was in the Super Bowl and that the NFL somehow manufactured the relationship.

Yeah. That's what it means to say "a jury found that he did it." And the "it" here is "rape" under the modern definition.

IT IS THE JUDGE'S ORDER. Not the WaPo's summary. The judge RULED that what the jury found Trump did constitutes RAPE under the current-day definition. It didn't constitute RAPE under the common law or under old NY law, since that require actual penis/***** contact. In short (haha): the jury found that Trump penetrated her with his fingers. Deal with it. EDIT: so weird that the automated censor lets you write penis but not its female counterpart ...

Agreed. Wentz was probably the start of the new trend toward drafting the "protectable" guys with great athletic skills. Wentz was good in college, but against minor league competition, so there were big doubts (now confirmed I guess) of how his skills would translate to the NFL.

Maybe that's because he's short-fingered. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/

They didn't call him the "Short-Fingered Vulgarian" for nothing. And you need to pull out the law books. The burden of proof is on the plaintiff. In a civil case, the plaintiff must convince the jury by a “preponderance of the evidence” (i.e., that it is more likely than not) that the defendant is responsible for the harm the plaintiff has suffered. https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/types-cases/civil-cases#:~:text=In a civil case%2C the,harm the plaintiff has suffered.