The Frankish Reich

/ / / / / / / / / Please play me the greatest hits, Tarheel! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR HOW CLOSE TRUMP IS TO MOLESTERS!!

This is what grooming is. Creep in a position of authority starts working on a 12 year old to gain her trust, then molests her for 4 years. Those of you who use the term against Netflix, etc., are simply cheapening the horrifying reality.

You mean Trump 2016 "spiritual advisor" Robert Morris? Yeah. The same one.

"Grooming" what? Is the cartoon character going to come and molest your 7 year old? The parents are letting the kid watch it. Enough with the "grooming" stupidity. It had a specific meaning, and a valuable one: the idea that some adult, usually an authority figure like a coach or a priest or a teacher, gradually works on a naive kid to make him or her receptive to inappropriate and illegal sexual advances. That was a good and useful meaning because it was a common and dangerous pattern that parents and kids could be on the lookout for. You've cheapened that term and made it impossible to distinguish that disgusting behavior from general media about gender and sexuality. That probably makes "grooming" easier for the real groomers. Nicely done. By the way, this is all about this: In the old days they would have said that such things are the product of an absentee father.

As I said: I don't know any 7 year old with his/her own Netflix account.

UFC, WWE: also homoerotic, also MAGA coded. deal with it.

I'm not aware of anyone watching Netflix in school. If the kids are, well, the parents should find out. If they don't, they probably don't care.

Netflix is a streamer, so it's not like the old over-the-air broadcasters that caused such hand-wringing in the 1990s. I lived through the era of child parental locks and all that stuff that had extremely low uptake - the idea that you'd prevent your kid from stumbling upon something inappropriate while he's doing what we used to call channel surfing. It is extremely easy to monitor what your kids are watching on Netflix. Ridiculously easy. Easier than monitoring what your kids see on X. Surely the World's Smartest Man can figure this out. I mean, I didn't think my kids should be watching Chapelle or Louis CK, and they didn't because, among other things, they would consider it incredibly boring and weird that I'd watch some guy talking for 90 minutes. Here's what the MAGAs don't get: there are a lot of liberal parents who think its a good thing that their kids learn early on about things like sexual/gender identities. This isn't being foisted on them. They think it's good! They're Americans too, and I'm not going to get involved in censoring how they choose to raise their children. Not my choices (hell, my kids went to Catholic schools!), but not my decision either.

It's not "the gays." It's the self-hating and/or closeted/repressed gays. And I'm including here the MAGAs with a strange attraction to trans people. Take a closer look at this Nick Fuentes guy. Yeah, he's fringe, but not so fringe that he hasn't had lunches and meetings with the big leaders of MAGA. There's always been a homoerotic subtext to fascism and militarism. Peter Thiel anyone?

https://tower.mastersny.org/16464/opinion/netflix-greenlights-controversial-stand-up-with-new-tony-hinchcliffe-specials/ Plus: Chapelle, Burr, Rogan, etc. Good on Netflix for not giving in to left or right cancel culture.

Isn't Netflix kind of the ideal streamer? They refuse to engage in cancel culture from either side.

Maybe you folks want to think about this the next time one of the Nationalist-Populist MAGAs starts talking about the "fictional" separation of church and state.

I'm sorry, I don't index all your thoughts. Saves a lot of brain capacity. So ... ... I take it you are saying he is fit to serve? I just mentioned I watched JD Vance's presser today. Impressive. A lot of bs, but impressive in delivering it in a convincing and (on the surface) logical, coherent manner. So he is clearer fitter than Trump. Surely you agree with that. Fitter means the other guy is less fit. I say so much less fit that he is unfit. See how this dissolves into the same thing? Fitter than. Fit enough by contemporary standards. Wildly unfit as compared to Adams and Jefferson. Not objectively "fit" or "unfit." Would be easier if you just answered Yes. Then I could ask you what the hell was going on when he posted the MedBed thing.

Look, it's a simple Yes or No. It's not a trick question. I answered your Biden question, and I stand by my answer. I've explained my reasons, which you find risible. Fine. But at least I'm not scared of taking a clear position on a football forum. So will you do the same, or will you be like B-Man, who can't even say whether he thinks the FCC should try to shut down Kimmel. (Really, I'm not making this up. He's afraid to answer.)

Well, so ... answer my question. Trump today: fit to serve until January 19, 2029?? Yes or no.

I know why I did it: because they are in the same category. They are both calls to prayer coming from a place of worship. I imagine one man's bell is another man's muezzin.

Fit enough. More fit than the other guy. Your turn: do you believe Trump is mentally fit today to serve out his term?

Well, I guess we know who's responsible for the War on (anything other than Christian) Religion.

Red Sox lost. Nothing to look forward to as I have zero confidence in the Reds. When I get a Med Bed of my very own I'm gonna advance it to 6:30 MDT. Really: you know Trump was so effin stupid he thought this was a thing. He wouldn't have quietly deleted it if he didn't.

You've never been to a European city or even one of our beautiful college campuses (Cornell?) where the bell rings the quarter hours? You've never heard a bell concert? I agree that I find the bells pleasant. I even used to count the bells to get the time of day. I have never lived in a place where I could hear the muezzin's call to prayer, but I imagine that if I finally make it to, say, Turkey, I will quite enjoy it.

Bed time for me, time to hit the Med Bed for you.

Old and Losing It vs. Old and Totally Off His Rocker.

If I lived in a state like NJ (and I have: California), I would typically vote for the Republican for Governor. I would (and have) done that in my current Colorado too, but the Republicans keep nominating absolute clowns. Is Sherrill the better candidate overall? Sure. (The Annapolis thing seems to be about her violating the honor code by not ratting out other students. Not great, but not like cheating herself.) Does there need to be a check on Democrats at the state level? Absolutely.

Hmm, boys or girls? The people want to know.

Yes. Churches do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_bell