The Frankish Reich
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14 hours ago, BillStime said:
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Perfect. I had not seen the second video. There is no better response to the fools who keep saying it was a "mass trespassing incident." He came in violence, and will no doubt be spending the next 6+ years in prison.
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1 minute ago, JDHillFan said:
With the amount of faculty involved, they seem more complicit than surprised.
I'm sorry we didn't get to the "evacuate or you'll be expelled" thing. That would've called their bluff.
Meanwhile, the little careerists at Harvard are doing their own protest in a much more genteel (hah!) manner:
From limited press coverage and videos, I expected that rank-and-file demonstrators would decline to talk and would refer me to designated spokespeople. I expected demonstrators to hold up keffiyehs to hide their faces. Instead, I found a semicircle of 10 people who spoke with me for an hour. I asked them to help me understand why they were in the yard. Initially they referred me to their banner, with three demands focusing on divestment from Israel-related companies. I told them this was small-bore thinking, useless because others would replace any withdrawn investment, and also intellectually timid because they weren’t engaging on the big ideas of how to solve the conflict. They replied that they are only students. I pointed out that they are Harvard students and should be able to engage intellectually.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvards-protesters-arent-as-obstinate-as-you-might-expect-267b13d2
Something you could put on your resume as demonstrating commitment to DEI without actually causing a ruckus!
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6 minutes ago, ScotSHO said:
The GOP bullpen is a mess
True.
That's because Trump has turned it into a pure Cult of Personality. We saw that with how DeSantis (more Trumpy than Trump on policy) fizzled. There is never a Juan Peron Jr. And Melania ain't Evita even if she were eligible.
To be fair, that's what happened with Obama too. There was a kind of Cult of Personality there too, and Hillary (and then Biden) clearly didn't have the same political talent.
I don't know where the Republicans go in 2028 whether or not Trump wins. I do see some new talent on the Democratic side. Watch out for Wes Moore. I don't even know much about him on the policy side, but he's got the "it" factor.
3 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:Wait. Do you actually have dogs, or is this some Only Fans Gen Z euphemism? If so, understand I'm not judging. If there is an Aussie trick or two to be picked up here from down under, I'm all for it.
The dingoes.
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Just now, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
You know that "Succession" is a television program, yes? Also, that Logan Roy is a fictional character, and that he probably wasn't shot up with anything at all.
It is quite conceivable to me that Biden was given medication intended to improve focus, energy and to boost his concentration. I wouldn't necessarily fault a candidate for that, within reason. And if the medicine for his moderate to severe arthritis would control the stutter that causes him to make up words and misremember things like which world leaders he spoke with recently are dead or alive, or that his uncle was the victim of cannibals in Guam, all the better I suppose.
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.
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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.
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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.
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6 minutes ago, SCBills said:
Yes, Russian citizens are in fact innocent people.
It’s sad that you can’t separate people from their government.
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.
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3 minutes ago, KDIGGZ said:
People need to go to jail over this
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:
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.
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3 minutes ago, SCBills said:
They are morally superior because they want to enrich the MIC by sentencing innocent ... Russians to death.That says it all.
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1 minute ago, BillsFanNC said:
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A King / Finding circle jerk?
Always illuminating.
Yeah, let's just trust the Big Agribusiness Lobbyist Couple. The Kellys of Chicago.
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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.
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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.
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1 minute ago, KDIGGZ said:
I need something. I'm always tired. Maybe I should run for president
😂
Diet Coke, cortisone, the momentary thrill that comes with shooting your puppy dog ...
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2 minutes ago, Tommy Callahan said:
Lol. It's interesting reading blood thirsty war mongers (Ukraine) talk about the sanctity of life and no war in another country.
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.
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1 minute ago, KDIGGZ said:
Better start pumping Biden with vitamins again
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.
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3 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
It's cool to be a commie these days.
1 minute ago, KDIGGZ said:Funding war is cool?
In the alt universe, somehow fighting the aggressive Russian force led by the former unreformed KGB communist officer is now "being a commie."
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48 minutes ago, SydneyBillsFan said:
In the words of Kreese from "The Karate Kid" - NO MERCY!!
Keep that foot on Hamas's throat!!
How can you sweep the leg with your foot on his throat?
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I'm loving how MGT is marginalized. No support from King Donald on this one. She's out on a limb.
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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.
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1 minute ago, BillStime said:
President Joe Biden said protesters at Columbia University were “wrong” and “not peaceful” after a group occupied a building on campus early on Tuesday morning, a move that forced the college to close its Morningside Heights campus to most students and faculty as tensions escalate between protesters and the administration.
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.
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13 hours ago, ScotSHO said:
It’s a politically poor example of making a hard decision; who advises these people? Self inflicted wound, and a CLM (career limiting move).
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.
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3 hours ago, Doc said:
More like extreme boredom and lack of worry.
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.
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1 hour ago, 4th&long said:
Yes, but I’m not sure she’d be worth the trouble. She seems batshit crazy. I had a buddy with a wife like that, hotter than a pistol but man was she a headache!
She'd be doing your crazy ass campaign manager behind your back.
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4 minutes ago, reddogblitz said:
Why not? Then Senator Harris called Joe Biden a racist on national TV and he still picked her for Veep.
These people (politicians) will do anything for more power and money no matter what.
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.
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No one needs Sarah Palin 2.0.
2024: passed over as Trump's VP
2025: divorces
2026: Fox News commenter
2028: reality show star
🇺🇸 🇺🇸 President Biden, A Good American President! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
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That's one for you, nineteen for me.
- Taxman (George Harrison/Beatles)
Inspired by George being stunned when he found out that the marginal tax rate in the UK was 95%.