The Frankish Reich

It's just life. Remember when there was a minor brouhaha about Josh Allen's high school texts? He was the 7th overall pick, the future franchise quarterback (we hoped). Now if Jake Fromm had similar texts revealed? Different outcome. Sorry, not everyone gets the same breaks. Anthony Bass would've been cut as soon as he blew a couple leads in a row, just like he's been cut 8 times before.

Norm Macdonald did a funny bit on that ... ... but actually, it makes sense when you think of "Pride" as a shorthand for "Not Ashamed" or "Not Embarrassed About Being Myself." Should gay people be ashamed or embarrassed about letting everyone know who they are and (as is popular to say now) who they love? Of course not. Hence, "Pride." But should some people be embarrassed about letting it all hang out in public? Umm, yes. Yes they should.

I don't think you get it. Kyrie Irving says perhaps the stupidest and most offensive things ever. But when he's on the court, he's still one of the best point guards in the game. He will have a job. Anthony Bass is in the "shut up and pitch" category of journeymen.

"Riverton, Utah, Mayor Trent Staggs has announced that he is challenging Mitt Romney in the upcoming election"

Now if only he could've taught you to throw lefthanded you'd be set for life! You are Aaron Rodgers. Back-to-Back MVP and future Hall of Famer. You can say a lot of things and never worry about being waived. You are Anthony Bass. 35 year old career replacement level reliever and future Christian high school pitching coach. Don't piss off your boss. Life is simple.

Good news, Soros haters - his son Alex has now officially been named his successor, and he says he's "more political" than his dad.

From the article: "Michael Flynn co-founded the tour..."

In other words: Blue Jays release 35 year-old reliever with 4.95 ERA; Anthony Bass has accounted for 2.3 Wins Above Replacement Player over the course of 13 years and 525 innings pitched. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/anthony-bass/7982/stats?position=P This isn't MLB's reverse Colin Kaepernick. This is a journeyman who's hit the end of the line. June 5, 2008: Drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 5th round of the 2008 amateur draft. Player signed June 14, 2008. December 11, 2013: Traded by the San Diego Padres with cash to the Houston Astros for a player to be named later. The Houston Astros sent Patrick Schuster (December 12, 2013) to the San Diego Padres to complete the trade. November 22, 2014: Granted Free Agency. December 11, 2014: Signed as a Free Agent with the Texas Rangers. November 16, 2015: Traded by the Texas Rangers with Leonys Martín to the Seattle Mariners for a player to be named later, James Jones and Tom Wilhelmsen. The Seattle Mariners sent Patrick Kivlehan (December 2, 2015) to the Texas Rangers to complete the trade. January 7, 2016: Released by the Seattle Mariners. February 10, 2017: Signed as a Free Agent with the Texas Rangers. October 13, 2017: Granted Free Agency. December 23, 2017: Signed as a Free Agent with the Chicago Cubs. October 11, 2018: Granted Free Agency. December 26, 2018: Signed as a Free Agent with the Cincinnati Reds. March 25, 2019: Released by the Cincinnati Reds. March 28, 2019: Signed as a Free Agent with the Cincinnati Reds. May 20, 2019: Released by the Cincinnati Reds. May 21, 2019: Signed as a Free Agent with the Seattle Mariners. October 29, 2019: Selected off waivers by the Toronto Blue Jays from the Seattle Mariners. October 28, 2020: Granted Free Agency. January 27, 2021: Signed as a Free Agent with the Miami Marlins. August 2, 2022: Traded by the Miami Marlins with a player to be named later and Zach Pop to the Toronto Blue Jays for Jordan Groshans. The Miami Marlins sent Edward Duran (minors) (August 31, 2022) to the Toronto Blue Jays to complete the trade. EDIT: Dude has earned almost $11 million in salary over his MLB career, despite being outright released by his teams at least 8 times BEFORE this most recent time. Maybe he can do a right-wing podcast or something now.

I appear to be living rent-free in some fake Tarheel's brain. I ignore you! I can't ignore you!!

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.