The Frankish Reich

Once again: the January 6 riots were just a tactic in an overall strategy to subvert the constitution and the electoral process in order to keep Donald Trump in office. The strategy: - get Mike Pence to refuse to certify certain state electoral counts. Then return the issue to those state Republican-controlled legislatures. Then have those Republican legislators ignore the will of the people and certify Trump as the "true winner" of their states. - the tactic: send in rioters to disrupt the certification process (it worked, for a while). Intimidate Mike Pence ("hang Mike Pence!") into doing Trump's bidding (it didn't work, but only because Pence apparently cares about his oath of office) BLM protests turned very bad in a lot of cities. The violence and destruction is indefensible. But it was not an attempt to subvert the constitution and the electoral process. Apples and oranges. And as usual the Orange was worse because it was part of an attack on our entire system of governance and not "just rioting."

Why did Walt Disney make a movie of this grim (Grimm?) fairy tale in the first place? What was wrong with reading it to our children? Did Snow White the animated movie surpass the fairy tale on its own terms? Oh. I see. It was to make money. So I looked up this John Hinderaker. 72 year old retired attorney. Old man says all modern entertainment is crap. Well there's a shocker. I look forward to his upcoming essays: "Josh Allen couldn't carry Johnny Unitas' jockstrap" and "they don't make them like Mickey Mantle anymore." What is the purpose of the New Snow White? To make money. If Disney miscalculated and it doesn't make money, well, then I guess Hinderaker should have sold his Disney stock. That's Disney's problem. Why Hinderaker is somehow offended by their (arguably bad) business decision is beyond me. But the Outrage Machine wants - demands! - something to be outraged about. I was outraged that Disney re-themed the Tower of Terror ride from The Twilight Zone to the more marketable Guardians of the Galaxy. You know what? Nobody cares.

And yet A New Hope Arises ... ... Somewhere in a garden level apartment in Pacoima, a lone deranged rhino, waylaid by the commie strikes, works on the spec screenplay that will undo all the wrongs that Hollywood has perpetrated on good honest UFO-fearing Americans for generations. Ladies and Gentlemen and Non-binary individuals, its The Rhino Code, in which Donald J. Trump and His Low Class Army square off against the combined axis powers of George Soros and His Hyped-Up on Adrenochrome Hebrews and the Non-Mexican Alien UFO Invaders. Coming to a big screen near you...Never.

This is an actual Florida problem that the Governor should be addressing. And there's nothing "woke" about it; Farmers and other insurers exiting Florida is purely a business decision. The risk of a rash of hurricane-related claims simply exceeds the benefit of selling policies there. At some point you gotta shut up about everything being "woke" and actually develop policies that deal with problems actual Floridians are facing.

I haven’t looked yet to see if it’s the case. But if he hasn’t blamed The Jews for his father’s assassination yet (by a Palestinian), it’s just a matter of time.

Here's the tell, for someone who still needs one: RFK Jr. also said "I thought we were off the record." (the reporters there disagree) In other words, he rambled on about his deepest Jews-and-Chinese conspiracy thoughts because he thought they wouldn't quote him on that.

It's mostly that Iowans with skills and degrees have left Iowa, leaving the state's voters older, and hence more Republican. Election season is here, and we can expect a lot more from the self-appointed "experts." Demography is destiny ...

I doubt that Americans will hold Joe's ne'er do well son against him. If anything, we are now too tolerant, too unwilling to blame parents for anything. The consensus seems to be a but for the grace of God that would be me attitude. Now that's separate and apart from the idea that Joe and family profited from Hunter's sleazy deals...

I remember the legendary Lee Smith scoring on that play ...

What questions? This is the typical new-model conspiracist. "I'm just asking questions, is that so bad?" Questions like "why does it seem that the Jews aren't dying from COVID?" "If the Jews had conspired with the PRC to produce an ethnic-cleansing virus, wouldn't it look a whole lot like the COVID 19 pandemic?" "Who profits from COVID, Big Pharma? Don't a lot of Jews control major pharmaceutical corporations?" Yeah. Just asking questions. Absolutely no evidence that Ashkenazi Jews (why not Sephardic Jews?) had lower COVID rates or more immunity to it than the population as a whole. In fact, some of the early publicized outbreaks in the U.S. were among hasidic (Ashkenazi by ancestry) Jewish communities. He is just making it up. So yes, completely fair characterization. And his attempt at damage control is simply asinine. Nothing like, "I was wrong because someone gave me wrong information." Just an "oh, nevermind about the Jews. And you misquoted me!" It's right there. He seems proud to be an idiot. And who are these fools around the table suffering his idiocy without saying a word?

Tom Cotton was considered presidential timber just a few short years ago. Now he's completely out of the mix. Why? He refused to go full Trump Mode and retained just a bit of common sense. Meanwhile, Elon: what do you propose we do? Just let Putin have Ukraine? Because that's "the outcome" if we do.

Me too.

I'm responding to an article that says Vivek is trying to appeal to evangelical Christians (not my variety, and apparently not yours either) by suggesting that his Hinduism is close enough. It isn't for them. Either you're a Christian who has unequivocally accepted Jesus as your lord and savior, or you are doomed. Their doctrine, not mine. That depends. I have lived in strongly evangelical areas of the country in which people don't even consider Catholics "Christians."

I don't see anything misleading. He goes on and on about COVID being genetically engineered to selectively target blacks and caucasians (which to him apparently doesn't include Ashkenazi Jews). He later retracted that with respect to Ashkenazi Jews, but without any indication of why - other than political blowback - his original musings were incorrect, but only to the extent that he (mistakenly? why?) included Ashkenazi Jews, and "clarifying" that he didn't suggest it was deliberately engineered to have a different impact on different races/Jews. Which only leads one to wonder what on earth he thought he was talking about, because without that idea his rambling thoughts become less offensive but more idiotic. If anything the NY Post kind of softballed the story, in that the totatlity of RFK's musings is even stupider than indicated.

Other than that one Commandment most of them follow about "thou shalt not have false gods before me." You know, the first one. (Actually, I consider myself a Christian but of the sort that believes that the New Covenant wiped away much of the Old)

About time we were rid of Kennedy hangers-on.

This will really, really help him with raising money from all of his wife's west side LA Jewish friends ... ... time for this nut to go away. By the way, his anti-vax shtick is a profitable one! https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/us/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-money.html

You missed out on the "I'm Hindu, which means that I worship the false gods you Christian evangelicals are always on about, but even so it's better to have a religion, even a polytheistic one, than no religion at all, so we're not that different after all and you should vote for me." He is really taking that tack: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/vivek-ramaswamy-hindu-republican-christianj.html

Now, either you're going the snarky response route or you're not a real doctor. Maybe ... IF they are actually somehow protected (is there ANY epidemiological evidence of that?) then there would have to be some genetic basis for immunity. It is a preposterous stretch. So why does he say these things? Simple explanation: it feeds the Jewish conspiracy myths that have sustained the conspiracy theorists for centuries.

I need to draw a Venn diagram. Do they still teach those in California?

Well, I know you understand logic better than this ... ... "The constitution doesn't PROHIBIT the right to use most types of birth control" is quite a different proposition than "The constitution PROTECTS the right to use most types of birth control." These propositions are (to me) both true. But they are not equivalent in logic or law.

https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/rfk-jr-says-covid-was-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews/ Drunk old man at fundraiser dinner starts talking about "the Ashkenazi Jews." Can anything good come from drunk old gentiles talking about "the Jews?" Umm, no. Then defends himself by saying that he didn't mean that COVID-19 was engineered to save the Ashkenazi Jews. But doesn't deny that it was engineered to affect caucasians (but not Ashkenazi Jews? What are they? Sub-Saharan Africans?) and blacks. And to spare Asians. And says something about genetic codes. Which is also very interesting since COVID-19 first burst on the scene when a BUNCH OF CHINESE PEOPLE DIED in Wuhan. What a frickin' idiot. How people have convinced themselves to support this guy is beyond me.

I assume you mean fetus = person. Which we can have a philosophical argument about, but let me ask you this: what clause of the federal constitution or its amendments tells the state that they must protect "other people?" But that is precisely what Connecticut did before Griswold and its recognition of a constitutional right to privacy. So ... you may be saying "but no state currently WANTS to ban birth control," but that's quite a different thing than saying "the constitution protects the right to use birth control."

Of course there is! Biden Crime Family proponents say he was getting a cut of Hunter's illicit deals. Biden supporters say there's no proof of any such thing. Put on your evidence! And if Hunter's guilty plea is accepted (it will be), he presumably won't have a 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination. Let's get it on!