The Frankish Reich

Holy crap, Batman! Duck and cover, Kamala. "Quisha King" is also on her way to Jacksonville to put you in your place! Not Quisha King! They're pulling out the big guns now. What a miscalculation. Maybe Ron DeSantis will comment "haven't read it yet."

Shocking news! Billionaire on the management/ownership/production side says labor demands will kill the industry! I've been kidding about struggling screenwriter and mentally unstable Deranged Rhino. All ye on that other board: what's his take on the strike? With the commie union out of self-interest or fear of being blackballed? Now's his big chance to step up to the plate!

You can tell when a politician knows an argument is a loser. They do what DeSantis did: disclaim any knowledge or involvement in it, and hope that it blows away after this news cycle. You can also tell when a politician knows an argument is a winner. They immediately try to focus attention on the gaffe, even sending one of their weaker surrogates (Kamala) right into the mix.

Hunter doesn't do soft drugs. He's inside with a different kind of smoking device. Seriously: isn't he on some kind of pre-trial release on conditions? A typical condition would be to keep away from places where illegal drugs are used. And to be drug tested periodically. Does marijuana simply not count now? These are federal charges and marijuana is still illegal on the federal level.

Action film with octogenarian star? Coming after the last Indiana Jones abomination with mere senior citizen star? Maybe do the obvious thing and reboot the franchise with a younger star and a cameo of Harrison Ford handing over the reins. You know, like the ultra successful Star Wars reboot. The only “woke” thing about this failure is Disney’s anti-ageist notion that the world wants to see an old man leading an action film.

I'm not a PFF subscriber, but even the free summary shows that this list is weighted heavily on PFF's positional gradings. In other words, it stupidly ignores the fact that QB is overwhelmingly the most important position in football. The true test will never be run: in a total free agency free-for-all, starting from scratch (no one under contract) which players command the highest salary? I'd guess: Mahomes, Allen, Burrow, Herbert (in some order) get the 4 biggest contracts. And that Hurts is somewhere in the Top 7 or so. Rodgers? Too old.

It almost certainly wasn't "in a Bud Light ad you saw." It was in someone posting outrage ABOUT a Bud Light instagram post from Dylan Mulvaney. And then in millions and millions of expressions of outrage that Bud Light made a silly Dylan Mulvaney special label so that Dylan could post about it.

So you're saying that you followed Dylan Mulvaney on instagram before the controversy erupted? You need to get out less.

Mulvaney is said to have had about 1.8 million followers before the Outrage Machine jumped on the Bud Light posting. That's about what Stefon Diggs has. Now, we love Diggs, but I'm quite sure the majority of Americans would say "who?" It then increased by over a million. And is probably higher now. One person loving the controversy? Dylan Mulvaney.

In some kind of social media post that virtually no one saw UNTIL the Outrage Machine got wind of it. Correct. The Right Wing Outrage Machine must be fed. It is constantly looking for some perceived slight or nontraditional thing to jump on. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing that the Left Wing Outrage Machine is giving them a run for their money with the "slaves sometimes learned valuable skills" controversy. Turnabout is fair play?

Pure speculation on my part. But here's what I think happened. Biden was not lying when he suggested he was one of the poorer members of the Senate. After all, he didn't have a lot of inherited family money and he was in the Senate since he was 30 years old. So not much opportunity to accumulate wealth. Just the very good but not enough to get rich on Senate salary. Around the time of Obama-Biden's reelection, he decided that 2012 campaign would be his last. Hillary was, for symbolic and practical reasons, the annointed successor. Hunter had started trading on his family name. Biden - knowing that he wasn't going to be a public figure anymore - let his guard down and decided there was nothing wrong with making a little family fortune of his own to leave to his family. And his personal fortunes certainly do seem to have gotten a lot better since 2009. I don't know what he knew and when he knew it, but he probably did benefit from some Hunter deals, at least indirectly. One key is whether these things happened while he was VP or after. After? Unsavory, but probably not illegal. While VP? A whole different story. That's why I do believe that investigations are warranted here. I'd rather not have it turn into a congressional circus, but that's the world we live in.

Good to see Hunter staying on brand through all this turmoil: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12325023/Hunter-Bidens-lawyer-Kevin-Morris-seen-smoking-BONG-balcony-LA-home-clearly-visible-road-visit-presidents-son.html

There must be some kind of conspiracy against Oppenheimer too!

Yes, you are. Maybe it's best not to start a thread (now onto 4 pages) on someone none of us had ever heard of before the Right Wing Outrage Machine made him/her/them/whatever a cause celebre?

Let's see how it goes when Trump and DeSantis propose Muslim Immigration Ban 3.0, and all those petitions filed by Muslim Americans to bring over their moms and dads are voided.

No doubt some slaves learned skills that they used productively once freed. But it's ridiculously tone deaf. And I can't really think of an important reason to include it. So I must assume that it is included to satisfy the "America must not be presented as bad" guys. Think about similar jaw-droppingly stupid things we could say in a "fair and balanced" look at various atrocities. - The Holocaust was the worst abuse of humanity in the history of the world. Having said that, some Jews who escaped with their lives had developed survival skills that contributed to their success in building the state of Israel. - The Irish Potato Famine was caused or exacerbated by colonial British policies that led to the starvation and exodus of millions. But for those who survived and remained in Ireland, it spurred them to innovate and diversify their economy. It is the logical outgrowth of a political stunt led by DeSantis. One that he doesn't have the guts to defend on the merits now. Oh, he'll take credit for changes to the curriculum. Just not this change, which he won't even bother to defend on the merits. "I didn't write it." Kamala 1, Ron 0. Ouch.

All I know is your campaign is not off to a good start when even Kamala Harris is given the opportunity to own you. She's not a good speaker, but this is right in her wheelhouse and DeSantis was left whimpering about "not his idea to add this"

No doubt about it. That was my dad's story - his time in the Army turned his life around in a very good way. As they say - and I mean it here - thank you for your service.

Over the years many 18 year olds have made decisions like joining the military. Many of them live (or don't live) to regret it.

Irony is dead, Part 987: The Epoch Times is owned and operated by an actual cult.

Remains to be determined. You know, innocent until and all that. What do I think of the cases filed against him? - NY case based on falsifying a business record (the Stormy Daniels payoff): stupid case to bring. Bragg has an arguable legal theory, but it's a stretch. Stupid anyway. - Classified documents case: looks solid to me. Trump's main defense ("I'm the President, I can declassify anything just by thinking about it") refuted by his own recorded words. Some non-LOL defenses here, and a very favorable judge for him, but it looks solid to me. - Jan 6 case that's being worked up now: also seems like a strong theory. Keep in mind that there's Trump the Candidate and Trump the President. He blurred the two more than anyone else in history. He sought to intimidate election officials to find him votes. And we'll see, but it appears that Smith will have a witness or two willing to testify that he knew he lost, showing that his statements were not of the order of "since I know I got more votes than Biden, I need you to keep working to count them accurately," but rather on the order of "go out there as a good Republican and help me perpetrate a fraud."

Definitely not North Korea. Landscape was all wrong. See, with my many areas of expertise I study these things. I must have missed the Gillette issue. Or maybe it's just the Pats connection? I'm ok with boycotting anything Pats related.

Coulda fooled me! Give me a list of what movies and other products you are currently boycotting. That may save me from doing my next Woke is Whatever I Don't Like analysis.

Oh, I most certainly will. By the way, did you notice this in your anti-woke Maverick? And still you stream it with all the groomers.

Let me as The Woke Police. We have a lot of anti-woke cops around here. Woke or Not Woke? Top Gun II: Maverick featured a white hetero male lead and a white hetero male sidekick. Even though the obviously Iranian "enemy" is not named, the Americans were obviously the good guys (which they wouldn't have been if the "enemy" was the eastern Ukraine, in which case they would have been perpetuating the military industrial endless war deep state, but whatever ...). What if it had: A. Featured Tom Cruise as a straight white male lead with a young straight black male sidekick? [I'm guessing "not woke" since this is apparently kind of o.k.] B. Featured Tom Cruise as a straight white male lead with a young gay black male sidekick? I'm guessing it'd be labeled WOKE! C. Featured Tom Cruise as a straight white male lead with a young lesbian pilot sidekick? Come on, that's too easy. D. Featured Tom Cruise as a straight white male lead with a trans sidekick? You gotta be kidding me. E. Featured Tom Cruise as a straight white male lead in a mission to knock out a uranium enrichment facility in a rogue country controlled by a white nationalist leader? This version would be boycotted. F. Featured Tom Cruise listening to a lecture in front of a map which has Taiwan in the same color as the PRC? Probably o.k. so long as his character hasn't come out as bi.