The Frankish Reich

Allow me to recharacterize: so nothing good has ever come out of San Francisco.

Kinda milfy. I give her a pass.

So we all agree that the tweet you posted - the one about the UFO Hearings being convened to distract from the Fed's interest rate decision - was stupid?

I just did go to the gas station. $3.49. Which is up significantly from summer 2019 (the last fair comparison), but a lot lower than peak summer 2008, even in real terms. Oh, and on the “education” thread I just noted that you can make a hindred or so PBJ sandwiches for ten bucks. I’m not ascribing the good economic news solely, or even in significant part, to Biden. I am pointing out that there’s a Republican panic starting to well up. What if the economy actually looks good a year from now? Is anti-trans mania the issue we have to run on?

Shocking! I used to have one of those gauges in an ICE car. It would tell me my range was 430 miles, then drop like a rock whe. It hit 150. Bad engineering, not fraud in that case.

Maybe we should just keep reposting asinine crap.

On the order of $35 million or more. His wife, Elaine Chao, has served in cabinet positions twice. Makes her valuable as a lobbyist.

Yes! It would. I have said here that I think the Bragg prosecution is ill advised. But hey, turnabout is fair play. EDIT: I know it can be difficult to keep the players here straight. Lord knows I mix up my Big Blitzes and B Men. But I am in favor of investigates Hunter and following where the leads take us.

So … in what way did Ukraine launder Biden money? Biden has a dacha there? I thought they paid Biden money. That’s kind of the opposite of laundering it. Stupid ignorant “joke.”

More “bad news” haha He’s not a QAnon guy. Several Republican members of the Oversight Committee are QAnon gals. They scheduled the hearing. They are obsessed with UFOs. The initial poster’s take that the UFO hearings were scheduled to distract from the Fed’s July decision was idiotic. You reposted it. Own it.

A bit off topic, but ... surely Hunter committed some kind of crime in some Republican state? I mean, he was openly traveling cross country doing drugs and hookers everywhere he went. Where's the Republican DA working up an indictment on him? I am aware of a police report that came out of ultra conservative Prescott AZ, where he returned a rental car with a crack pipe in it. They didn't prosecute - probably difficult to establish chain of custody of the car, etc, and it's not the type of "personal use" case that typically gets prosecuted. But come on ... there's something out there!

Glad to hear we share a hatred of Bud Light. For whatever reason or reasons.

Don't Muslims do this every day during Ramadan? Weakest "hunger strike" ever.

Keep trying. Here's the simple, obvious explanation: nutcases like MTG and Boebert are deeply infected by QAnon. Remember your old friend Deranged Rhino? Remember how he wasn't just fascinated with sex and children and martial law, but also all worked up about UFOs? Same thing here. Deny all you want ... this was a QAnon influenced hearing supported by QAnon nutcases in Congress. Oh, and by the way: they hate your Pope too. And think before you re-post idiotic comments. The Republican Chair controls the agenda. You can do better.

Yep. She was. I didn't understand what the hell she was doing 30 years ago. "Stop child abuse" and ripping up a photo of the pope? Oh. Now I get it. RIP. What a talent. What a sad end.

"Secret peeping." I guess there's such a thing as "open peeping?"

I don't think they "stink." They are more mediocre, kind of a .500ish team, which in this division probably leaves them in the 8-9, 7-10 range. Payton is an arrogant blowhard. But after watching Nathaniel Hackett and Fangio before him, I gotta admit its kind of fun. At least for now.

True. That was a very different Randall Cunningham. And the best Randall Cunningham ever was, even at 35, and even as his age meant his legs were no longer a big weapon. Too bad it only lasted one season. Kaepernick came really, really close ...

Thank you for re-posting the SINGLE MOST IDIOTIC COMMENT OF THE YEAR. The one in which "they" - namely, the REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE* held stupid UFO hearings in some kind of bizarre own-goal to distract voters from the impending economic collapse caused by Biden. *The Committee majority that includes such geniuses as Marjorie Taylor Green, her b!tch Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Jim Jordan, Byron Donalds. You know, the committee that rides the short bus.

Lawrence in his second year was ahead of Allen in his second year. While it is no certain thing that he'll take the Allen 2020 leap, it's promising. And he still has the Texans twice, the Colts twice (I'd expect Anthony Richardson to play and to be like a rookie Justin Fields), and the Titans with maybe a rehabbed Tannehill, or maybe a quick trigger if they start poorly to go with Will Levis. So they have a Bills 2020-21 type setup as a strong team in what will be a really weak division.

No, but we had runaway inflation that hadn't really been tamed by the time of the election. Guess what? It's been tamed well over a year before the 2024 election. You are proving my point: the beginnings of panic at the thought that the economic numbers/situation may actually be good come Fall 2024. Republicans in 2022: "the Fed just keeps printing money! That's why we have this runaway inflation!" Republicans in 2023: "give us back our easy money!"

I would agree if the Jets won 7 games with mediocre QB play. Think Jimmy Garoppolo, or Derek Carr, or even some journeyman like Jacoby Brissette. But they won 7 games with truly awful QB play. Like laughably horrible from Wilson and Mike White and Joe Flacco. It was so bad that I think Flacco has an argument that he was the best of the 3. They don't need Rodgers to be the second coming of the God of Green Bay. They just need him to be a Jacoby Brissette to get better, or a Jimmy Garoppolo to get a lot better. Or a 90% of peak Rodgers to be really good.

I left off Mahomes because he didn't meet my "averaged 30 yards per game rushing OR had a 400 yard rushing season." You could argue that he belongs. I do think there is a significant difference between how he plays the game vs. Allen, Hurts, and the other "running QBs" with respect to designed runs, pulling the ball down and taking off downfield when plays break down, etc. He strikes me as more of a pure situational buy time/scrambling QB who will run in important game situations when the opportunity is there. And that's reflected in the lower rushing yard totals. Terrible after the injury. That great 2004 season when they still only went 8-8? 26th ranked defense. Give him the Bills defense of 2021 and it would've been a different story.

We're just starting to get an inkling of the panic that will set in among Republicans if we avoid recession prior to the election. Right now the markets are pricing in about a 60% chance of a recession in late 2023/first half 2024. Which means a 40% chance of the Biden wet dream (not that those are happening anymore, at least I hope not) of a "soft landing." And consumer confidence is trending strongly in the right direction. https://apnews.com/article/economy-consumer-confidence-inflation-interest-rates-567ac06e3d904967ab76b429ca777b00 Bidenomics!

No surprise, I'm not a DeSantis fan. Actually, I would be a fan of what I think DeSantis would be without Trump in his head all the time, with DeSantis trying to out-Trump the OG. But I will admit: this counts for something. If you are the governor of a state and the people of that state overwhelmingly support you, that says something.