The Frankish Reich

Pseudo-journalist tries to use fancy word; fails. Unmoor un·moor verb release the moorings of (a vessel). "the ship was ready to be unmoored" cause to feel insecure, confused, or disconnected. "the loss of his wife has unmoored him"

Exactly. "Protect the Children" by keeping them safe from vulgarity...

Exactly. It is all culture war, all the time. That's why they see nothing wrong or inconsistent with waving vulgar flags (F--- BIDEN!) in front of little kids while pretending to be all about protecting the innocence of children.

So I went to a baseball game today in Denver. It happened to be a day where kids (little league age and under) could go out onto the field before the game. And guess what I saw ... not drag queens, not Dylan Mulvaney, not radical trans activists. No. With little kids all around making their way to the ballpark, I saw some pro-Trump protesters near the Sate Capitol waving big flags with the words "F&#K BIDEN" on them. That's right. The same people who want to protect our kids were out there proudly waving profanities in front of families with little kids going to a ballgame. Ladies and Gentlemen (and Non-Binary Persons, I guess?), I give you the New Family Values Republicans. The Trailer Trash Takeover of the Republican Party is complete.

You gotta love that. MTG and boyfriend, MTG having just dumped husband after openly banging her personal trainer. And now lecturing us on traditional morality. Didn’t someone here just tell us that Tucker treated us to a monologue about the slippery slope of a decline in traditional morality?

So you made me look at the cited link: So, does she want a man who is traditionally masculine or does she just want someone willing to swipe his credit card for dinner? In her follow up video, she literally bragged that the guy she met was socially liberal but “wants to provide financially for his girlfriend or wife.” So maybe she's looking for a man who matches her moral standards. But she also doesn't want to work for a living. We call this Gen Z: they are liberal in political orientation, but conservative in their lifestyle goals, particularly their love of leisure.

Fap away at them Folsom St pics, our dear friend in NC.

The National Review - still the leading voice of what we used to understand as "conservatism" in America - nails it: https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/06/the-trump-indictment-is-damning/ Equally damning, particularly for someone who was and would like again to be the nation’s chief executive, responsible for the enforcement of the laws, is the evidence that Trump not only deceived the investigators and the grand jury, but his own lawyers — knowing and intending that they would consequently obstruct the investigation. If the allegations in the indictment are true, Trump tried to nudge his lawyers into concealing or destroying incriminating evidence. Unable to bend them in that direction, he and an aide hid boxes of documents from them, causing them falsely to tell the grand jury, under oath, that the classified documents they delivered to the FBI in June 2022 were the only ones remaining in his possession. They weren’t lying; according to prosecutors, they were passing along what he told them. It is worth noting, moreover, that the substantiation of this allegation is likely to come from testimony of the lawyers themselves — not from people out to get the former president, but people who tried, futilely, to help him.

I see Julie Kelly has now moved on from the ridiculous defense that "he only had 100+ classified documents out of 13,000 total" (as if the ratio of legal:illegal is somehow the standard ... "but judge, I only had 10 grams of coke amidst thousands of grams of baking soda!") to the desperation approach: "DOJ stole 13,000 documents.!" Stole. With a properly issued warrant. And finally the implication that they actually planted evidence. Trump's knee-jerk supporters really haven't come up with anything resembling a decent defense.

Rex Ryan/Trump is perfect. Biden? Gotta be a bumbling, old coach, not completely incompetent but prone to gaffes and highly reliant on his assistants. Dick Jauron was too dull to fit the bill. Chan Gailey too ... Chan. Vic Fangio maybe? Longtime assistant with some record of accomplishment, finally promoted to the top job, but paradoxically both too soon and too late.

And this:

While you're at it, please clean my toilet.

I'm not sure what it is anymore. His stories, "defenses," whatever, are now of the Rudy Giuliani nature. Just laugh out loud bad. I think that's what people are forgetting here: you make a "mistake" like transporting documents to your personal home/offices like Biden or Pence, you bring in the professionals to apologize and come clean, the feds leave you alone. You compound lie upon lie, you encourage your underlings (including the Presidential Ketchup Provider) to cover up for you, you get indicted. Sometimes life is simple. Trump is a moron (his former Secretary of State) or an idiot (his former Chief of Staff). Take your pick.

Of course. We have a topic here - "You Have to Admit Biden Has Dementia." Well, o.k., debate away. I'll say he's lost a step or two and he never was the fastest guy in the WR room. But what about Trump? Some of this is so ... stupid, so flagrant, with various lies so inconsistent that it was like shooting fish in a barrel for the investigators. And the discussions with other people in which he admits he didn't declassify the documents. These are not the acts of a high-IQ fully functioning adult. We need a thread, "You Have to Admit Trump Has Dementia."

Just kidding. Relaxing, taking a summer holiday off usually isn't too bad a thing ...

You also have to remember that these are usually the same people that talk about the horrible federal raid of David Koresh and his Waco compound. You know, the compound where he was "marrying" (read: raping) underaged girls.

Exactly. As everyone who ever worked in DC has said since Watergate: it's not the crime, it's the coverup. And the coverup (and conspiracy to cover things up) happened in Palm Beach.

Interesting, because to the casual observer it appears that you were indeed "duped" into responding to a poster you ostensibly block, simply by his act of starting a new thread with a racist bait title. Loser.

And if they'd brought the indictment in DC, proud stay-at-home mom, non-lawyer Julie would be screaming that a compliant DC jury will convict Trump of anything. So non-lawyer Julie: what exactly is "shady as hell" here? They investigated, then determined that most (if not all) of the crimes occurred in the S.D. Fla., then brought the indictment there, where it has, at least for now, been assigned to perhaps the most pro-Trump judge in the entire federal judiciary. But I guess it still seems "shady as hell" to our non-lawyer legal expert. EDIT: glad to see our poster here keeps Julie Kelly Twitter open even while he searches for "Best Folsom Street Festival S&M Pics"

Greater crime: the classified docs in the bathroom, or the bathroom chandelier/mini toilet chandelier combo?

The other guy charged in the indictment: Nauta, whose full name is Waltine Torre Nauta, is from Guam and enlisted in the Navy in 2001. From 2012 to 2021, he served in Washington, D.C. as part of the Presidential Food Service, according to his service record. The Presidential Food Service. Really. And then he took a cell phone photo of one of the docs and shared it with someone else. Presidential Food Service. "Would you like another one of those tiny room service bottles of ketchup with your steak, Mr. President? And are there any Top Secret documents you would like me put next to the toilet so you can review them later on?"

I don't object in principle to Tucker's latest monologue (if this part accurately summarizes it). But Senator Moynihan said it better 30 years ago: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41212064 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1992/12/28/defining-deviancy-down/03bd5544-2b4a-4271-8450-51ef99f27418/ But this is a sticky business. When I was a kid (think 1960s/70s), being divorced and remarried was just emerging from the "scandalous" age. Reagan was our first such President. Being caught in an affair was deadly to most professions. And then Bill Clinton ... Paying a hooker (or shall we say "having sex with an adult film performer in which money or favors were exchanged") was criminal, and no one would want to be seen with you. And being divorced and remarried multiple times was also a career killer for a budding politician. And then Donald Trump ... Being photographed nude (tastefully! they say) pretty much negated your chances of being America's First Lady. And then Melania ... All of these behaviors were just not acceptable in polite society. Many moral scolds are fine with many (most? all??) of them now. I tend to follow a couple different old maxims: "Conservatism is the theory that every vice should be a crime; Liberalism is the theory that every virtue should be a requirement." "Puritism [read: modern moral conservatism]: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy."

Correct. And they won't, because it's a pretty clear cut case. So look forward to a year of: - but Hillary's emails! - but Biden's garage!! - but Hunter's laptop!!! All perfectly valid topics for investigation, but none of which have anything to do with whether Trump broke the law.

Somewhere deep within the recesses of North Carolina, a person assigned male at birth has completed their daily perusal of the Online Library of Sexual Deviancy, wiped the laptop screen, and returned to a football blog to respond to people they claim to ignore.

Alternative Headline: Horse-Faced Woman Annoyed That No Man Is Interested in Taking on a Commitment to Provide for Her Financially for the Rest of her Life."