The Frankish Reich

I'm just saying that I've personally seen the incredible (and very short term) effects of a cortisone injection on someone with severe arthritis. High-dose Prednisone too. It just makes sense to me that the "energetic" Joe may have more to do with the timing of these typical old guy meds than with some extraordinary amphetamine thing as has been speculated about way too much.

What I'm hearing from some (not all). - Keon Coleman would've been a great draft pick if he'd run a 4.49 - Sedrick Van Pran-Granger (we gotta settle on a shorthand here) would've been a great pick if he had longer arms - Cole Bishop would've been a great pick if he played offense - DeWayne Carter would've been a great pick if he'd been taken in the 5th round instead of the 3rd In other words, if these guys all had Top 10 overall attributes, they'd have been steals. Nevermind that we never would've had a Top 10 pick. EDIT: I have spoken.

Columbia: having had kids go through the admissions process at some so-called "elite" colleges, I'm very familiar with what they like to see of applicants - a commitment to "social justice," which very often means involvement in agitation and propaganda. So they like this on application essays, and they accept a lot of these students. And then those students do EXACTLY WHAT THEY SHOULD HAVE EXPECTED when there is some hot-button political issue. They protest, try to shut things down, sometimes "occupy" the campus. And then they act surprised.

How many Russian citizens NOT currently involved in invading/occupying someone else's country (Ukraine) have been killed? Has Ukraine invaded Russia like Israel has invaded Gaza? I support Israel's right to self-defense just like I support Ukraine's right.

As usual, a completely unresearched scare tweet. Apparently this is a form that asks someone if they want a voter registration form. This is the actual voter registration form: https://www.sccounties.org/sites/default/files/uploads/resources/Association-Groups/SCARE/vr_blank_form.pdf Note these questions on it: Voter Declaration – (read and sign below) I swear or affirm that: -I am a citizen of the United States of America -I will be 18 years of age on or before Election day -I am a resident of South Carolina, this county and precinct -I am not under a court declaring me mentally incompetent -I am not confined in any public prison resulting from a conviction of a crime -I have never been convicted of a felony or offense against the election laws OR if previously convicted, I have served my entire sentence, including probation or parole, or I have received a pardon for the conviction -the address listed above is my only legal place of residence, and I claim no other place as my legal residence There is a point to be made here - the motor voter law (requiring DMVs and other agencies to give out voter registration forms) causes problems, since a lot of self-identified non-citizens still are required to be given the form. I've seen cases where the person who fills out the form clearly didn't know what the hell they were doing (those are rejected for prosecution). But ... this just isn't the registration form itself. It's basically a request to get/not get that form.

That says it all.

Yeah, let's just trust the Big Agribusiness Lobbyist Couple. The Kellys of Chicago.

Nice takedown of the latest Julie Kelly nonsense. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/30/trump-documents-case-rumor-false/ Kelly’s story is false. It’s not clear what document she was posting images from; she didn’t link it in her social media posts. There was an excerpt of the interview with Person 10 released last week, but it doesn’t include the discussion of pallets. It does, however, make obvious who was being interviewed: an employee of Trump’s post-presidential office who began working there in July 2021. That employee was at the center of another discovery of documents marked as classified several months after the Mar-a-Lago search. The interview with Person 10, though, doesn't matter. What matters is why there were pallets of material in Virginia and how they got to Mar-a-Lago. And we already know the answer to that, because The Washington Post reported on it in December 2022. After Trump (grudgingly) left office, he was allotted funding to run a transition office, a process that involved the GSA. Because he rejected his election loss for so long, his team was slow to set things up. Shortly before Biden was inaugurated, Vice President Mike Pence’s team chose a GSA-managed space in Crystal City for its office. Trump’s team asked whether it could be there, too. Former presidents are allowed six months of funding for their transitions. So, with a hard deadline of July 21, Trump’s team operated out of the GSA building in Crystal City. One staffer informed the GSA that “as many as 100 boxes of presidential gifts would be stored at the Crystal City office,” The Post reported, based on an email sent to the GSA. “[T]he Crystal City office was crammed with leftover stuff from the Trump White House with no apparent organization and little knowledge of what was even there,” our report noted. July 21 arrived, and the Crystal City office still had a bunch of stuff in it. Trump’s staff put material into boxes and boxes on pallets. Two pallets finally arrived at Mar-a-Lago on Sept. 14. The other four pallets (including two that had been repacked after a pallet became oversized) went to a nearby storage facility. *** Interestingly, a member of Trump’s team provided a letter to the GSA (at the agency’s request) attesting that “the items being shipped from Arlington, VA to Palm Beach, FL are required to wind down the Office of the Former President or are items that are property of the Federal Government” — stipulations required for the move to be paid for by transition funds.

Diet Coke, cortisone, the momentary thrill that comes with shooting your puppy dog ...

Don't you love how they suckered Putin into invading them just because they love having their civilians bombed? That's a special kind of war mongering.

There was a lot of silliness about Biden being amped up on stimulants for the SOTU address. But I do wonder this: we've been told (and have seen) that he has "moderate to severe arthritis." I've seen this with my own relatives who get cortisone shots (I think they limit them to 2 or 4 times per year). It's like a very brief fountain of youth. They move better, the have a great increase in energy, etc. So that's my theory. Good old cortisone. Anyone watch Succession? Here's Logan Roy pulling it together after one of those self-administered shots.

In the alt universe, somehow fighting the aggressive Russian force led by the former unreformed KGB communist officer is now "being a commie."

How can you sweep the leg with your foot on his throat?

I'm loving how MGT is marginalized. No support from King Donald on this one. She's out on a limb.

I'm not so sure how Trump the Wuss ("it's freezing in here! can I get a space heater?") would handle even a few hours of jail time.

This is a turning point for Democrats. They finally get the political risk of being viewed as the party of disorder. It may be too late, but at least it's happening.

I saw someone float another theory: that the story of the dog killing was already known in SD circles, and that she knew it would come out if she was seriously considered for VP. So she tried to get ahead of the story by putting it in her book (the classic campaign book no one will read) and putting her spin on it. Whatever the idea was, it's been a spectacular fail.

I won't defend Trump getting pissed at court observers who say he's falling asleep. That's childish. But yes, he has good reason to fall asleep! Witnesses today included an officer of a court reporting company, called to authenticate the transcript of a Trump deposition. If you've ever had to sit through a trial, this is a lot of what goes on. Silly ritual that should be avoided by both sides stipulating that Exhibit A is a true and accurate transcript, etc.

She'd be doing your crazy ass campaign manager behind your back.

Well, there's kind of a difference between saying "I consider your 1980s policy statements to be racist" and actually working with the fake news media to make up stories (complete with photoshopped grainy photo) like "Ted Cruz's father linked to Oswald." That's what's happened in the Trump era. People (his defenders at least) have completely lost the ability to recognize clear distinctions. No, not "everybody did it," at least not in the same outrageous way as Trump.

No one needs Sarah Palin 2.0. 2024: passed over as Trump's VP 2025: divorces 2026: Fox News commenter 2028: reality show star

It's official: low information voters support Trump. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/poll-biden-trump-supporters-sharply-divided-media-consume-rcna149497 Takeaways: - Not surprisingly, those who get their news through mainstream sources support Biden by a healthy margin. - those who get their news through social media, etc., are basically split evenly between supporting Trump vs Biden - those who really don't follow the news at all strongly support Trump

You don't seem to know it, but you are giving us a generalized monetarist explanation for inflation, typically associated with an expert, Milton Friedman. I am pointing out that a pure monetarist explanation doesn't work so well with what we've seen going on in national and the world economy, and that therefore economists are turning back to what business cycle theories have taught us over the years. Your expert, my expert. Unless of course there's a hidden Orlando Theory of Inflation that hasn't been publicized.

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/01/17/what-economists-have-learnt-from-the-post-pandemic-business-cycle

I guess one good bite will change my whole way of thinking …