The Frankish Reich

I agree. I know it’s fashionable in some circles to disparage the old gray media like The NY Times. And yes, they do make it too easy sometimes. But there’s still a wide, wide gap between a NY Times story and the kind of lazy “commentary” social media post I’m ridiculing here. A quick google search will find hundreds of items all over the mainstream media about the Indians good guy with a gun incident. Posting “liberal media ignored it because it doesn’t fit their narrative” is just lazy and foolish and can only be designed to feed the confirmation bias bottom feeders.

Ok. Thanks for the explanation. Right over my head, this one. I guess I don’t digest enough social media … It happened here in Colorado last year in a story that also got tons of coverage. This one ended tragically as the cops mistook the good guy with a gun for the bad guy with a gun. https://www.cpr.org/2021/11/08/olde-town-arvada-police-shooting-no-charges/

True. There are some bills that are out there solely to make a political point. But this wouldn’t be one of them. There is value in making members of Congress stand and be counted. Yes or no. This is your chance.

Really? How about: 1. Liberal CNN https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/07/19/opinions/uvalde-response-indiana-mall-shooting-filipovic/index.html 2. Ultra liberal NYT https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/07/19/us/armed-bystander-indiana-mall-shooting.amp.html 3. Lowest common denominator Gannett: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/20/indiana-mall-uvalde-shootings-gun-narrative/10104876002/?gnt-cfr=1 This story is all over the place. Weird-ass conservative media has one trick and they fall back on it even when it’s absurd: “the liberal press is ignoring this and talking about [climate change, critical race theory, transgenders: choose one or more from the approved list] instead. More lazy ass, imbecilic meme-ing. It’s what sustains Big Blitz! I have no idea what this is even supposed to mean. How about a little explanation so we aren’t forced to watch a clip from some unknown commenter?

I'm afraid The Federalist is "missing the point completely." It's a garbage write-me-800-words-for-250-bucks linkfest from a garbage "news" site. The writer hyperlinks the term "May Day," apparently oblivious to the fact that May Day is Communist Day. How stupid can they be? And did you even take a look at the linked article? Obviously not. You just saw the misleading headline and cut-and-pasted away as usual The headline that's supposed to show how liberal US media isn't covering conservative protests? It's about a damn anarchist protest. The antifa of France: "Black Bloc" anarchists ransacked a McDonald's restaurant on the Place Leon Blum and trashed several real estate agencies, breaking their windows and setting garbage bins on fire. Police responded by firing tear gas. About 250 rallies were organised in Paris and other cities including Lille, Nantes, Toulouse and Marseille. Overall 116,500 people demonstrated across the country, including 24,000 in the capital, the interior ministry said. In Paris, trade unionists were joined by political figures - mostly from the left - and climate activists. EDIT: Oh, no wonder the author of this garbage piece didn't catch the meaning of the May Day refererence: Beth Whitehead is an intern at The Federalist and a journalism major at Patrick Henry College where she fondly excuses the excess amount of coffee she drinks as an occupational hazard. You might ask, "what the hell is Patrick Henry College?" Founded in 2000 by home schooling anti-Darwinists: Teaching faculty must also sign the Statement of Faith and a more detailed Statement of Biblical Worldview, which represents the college's requirements for what should be taught.[15] For example, the Biblical Worldview Applications states, "Any biology, Bible, or other courses at PHC dealing with creation will teach creation from the understanding of Scripture that God's creative work, as described in Genesis 1:1–31, was completed in six twenty-four-hour days."[16] In 2006, PHC founder Farris commented that the college held the view that its faith was the only true faith ("we believe that there is truth and there is error") and expressed disapproval of religious and social toleration. "Tolerance cannot coexist with liberty" because "the crowd of tolerance wants to ban speech."[17] Is there an editor at the Federalist to check the work of the college intern from a minor "Christian" creackpot league work? Apparently not. But quote away! Little Beth Whitehead totally burned the New York Times, didn't she!

The Federalist is easily the dumbest of all lib trolling publications. Here’s what we have this time: the New York Times and Washington Post are ignoring economy-based protests in places like France. Those damn NY and DC lefties! And they explain: “Many of the French protesters took to the streets on May Day for salary increases and against President Emmanuel Macron’s increase of the retirement age. Fifty-four people were reportedly arrested in Paris after some demonstrations turned violent.” So … it appears that the left-liberal NYT/Wash Post are ignoring SOCIALIST protests against Macron’s old-school REPUBLICAN type reforms like raising the retirement age. Which would make those papers, well, conservative I guess. it doesn’t matter. The Federalist (which started life as a Never Trump pub) knows the B-Mans of the world will just mechanically embed their tweets without ever noticing the illogic.

Hmm, I wonder what we could call that approach. Wait a minute! I've got it. Let's call it Roe v. Wade. (And that's why I think the John Roberts approach of allowing adjustments to the Roe strict trimester approach is the right one)

Seek and ye shall find in the Declaration of Independence (not the Constitution). “the right to life…” Aha, our founders would have abhorred abortion had they even thought about it as a possibility. “liberty ….” Aha right back at you! Our founders grounded the new breakaway nation in the Enlightenment right to be left alone.

“Adam, Cain and Noah find God punitive but soothed by the smell of burnt flesh, mostly animal." - the late, great Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, in his introduction to a modern reprinting of the books of Jonah, Micah, and Nahum.

The Culture Wars work both ways. I think it was about 2010 when Andrew Sullivan—who really had a remarkable record of being wrong about a lot of things back then—predicted that two huge cultural issues would soon be decided: same-sex marriage, and legalization of marijuana. He was right. The first one required a big nudge from the Obama Admin (let’s face facts: still Biden’s leading achievement as a VP or Pres) and a sympathetic Court; the second one required the Obama (and then Trump) Admin’s willingness to back off and let the States lead. By the way, Alito was all fired up about how ending Roe doesn’t have anything to do with ending gay marriage. It was bs, and he knew it. If you are going to determine what is a fundamental right deeply rooted in historical (read: 1790s) concepts of ordered liberty, clearly you won’t find support for same sexual marriage. If Roe was wrongly decided so was this whole line of cases. Alito tried to do an “abortion is different” thing, but the there’s no real logical reason why it would be. Ted Cruz knows that. Unfortunately …

May I refer you back to approximately Page 497 of The Deep State War Heats Up, in which it is revealed that Trump's strategic genius in cozying up to MBS sent shockwaves through the foreign policy establishment, and that only The One, the True Incorruptible One, Donald J. Trump, could ever have accomplished this world-changing result. And now Biden kisses his ass too, and that's a bad thing? Where's the effin' Orb though? Did Trump take it to Mar-a-Lago like how the winning team gets to keep the Stanley Cup?

Does this Jeffrey A. Tucker know how to read? Birx is saying she'd produce her report, and then WHITE HOUSE STAFF would "revise" it to take out the things the Admin found (politically) objectionable. She would then sneak those things back in for her final draft, which was released to the public. In other words, the point of the passage is exactly the opposite of what Jeffrey A. Tucker says it is.

He wishes. “Carlson was briefly enrolled at Collège du Léman, a boarding school in Switzerland, but said he was "kicked out".[54] He attained his secondary education at St. George's School, a boarding school in Middletown, Rhode Island, where he started dating his future wife, Susan Andrews, the headmaster's daughter.[55] He then went to Trinity Collegein Hartford, Connecticut, graduating in 1991 with a BA in history.[36] Carlson's Trinity yearbook describes him as a member of the "Dan White Society", an apparent reference to the American political assassin who murdered San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.” Some kids have all the privileges in life. But you still gotta have some minimal IQ to get into the Ivies. Trinity College is kind of a safety school for failed preppies.

Thanks. That is a sound clarification on that particular talking point, which is deceptive. I don’t have cites ready, but I do believe some Republicans in Congress are talking about introducing FEDERAL abortion bans. I’ll look.

And that’s revealing. And not unexpected. So maybe this wasn’t just about an out of control Supreme Court thwarting the democratic process in each of the 50 states. Maybe it was about making abortion illegal in all 50 states. I hope the media presses candidates on this issue: Do you support federal legislation or a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion in all 50 states? We will see more evasive, cringeworthy answers like the one yesterday — it doesn’t even count as “an abortion” if the patient is below a certain age, etc.

It's oh so predictable. I saw an alert about Secret Service deleted texts. My first thought: oh, here come the Trumpy conspiracy nuts! They'll say the Secret Service deleted texts showing that they conspired with that Ray Epps guy and his ilk to make Trump look bad. Then I saw that the House Committee had requested the texts. And suddenly it was the other way around - Secret Service covering up for Trump and Pence! And it was our resident wingnuts deflecting: Benghazi! Stacy Abrams is fat and doesn't wear a mask! Next up: Hunter Biden. Look, this would be important information. We've seen reports that the Secret Service wanted to take Pence (in a back room at the Capitol trying to wait out the attack) somewhere in a car, and Pence said no; if you do that, he'd go far away and be unable to certify the election. So what they were talking about with regard to Pence is critical. Of course, Pence could tell us, but his bravery only goes so far as still wanting (in his own mind) to be a viable Presidential candidate will take him. So ... yeah. Benghazi? Not good. Stacy Abrams? Still fat. Hunter Biden? Still a sleazy drug addict trying to cash in on Dad's status. And the attack on the Capitol? Still an attack, and still one that came remarkably close to working even though on paper it sounded like the script to Netflix's Money Heist - if Pence had gotten in that car, he wouldn't have been around to certify the election, and we would've had a real constitutional crisis.

Well, the Dems who refuse to define "woman" have just met their match: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/catherine-glenn-foster-abortion-eric-swalwell-b2123411.html Sometimes you read these headlines and you think, "all right, I'm sure she didn't really say that." But yes, she did. She really said that if a 10 year old deliberately terminates her pregnancy, that wouldn't be an "abortion."

Challenge accepted. Just give me some time here! I’m doing this pro bono, for the good of Bills Nation. Or at least those in Bills Nation planning to travel to Miami this fall who may be worrying about whether, or in what context, they may say “gay.” Or whether there will be a Drag Queen Story Hour to attend after the game.

What exactly are “the questions [plural] raised?” I see one question: why is Ray Epps not in jail? And I answered it: because not every old fool is a criminal. Some are all big talk and no action. Introducing Ray Epps.

My oh my, how the internet makes everybody an expert. Lots and lots of nonlawyers ready to tell us what a law or even the Constitution means. Other posters are free to (and often do) dispute my football takes here based on my not-so-privileged position of self-appointed “informed fan.” But Big Molly is not a lawyer, and neither (to my knowledge) are DR and his caddy. So read and learn … … the Wisconsin law says a vote will be counted if “an elector mails or personally delivers an absentee ballot to the municipal clerk.” So I guess the actual “Municipal Clerk” (a real title in Wisconsin, held by a real person) must be there to accept it? Well, no. The Municipal Clerk may designate an alternate drop-off site overseen by his or her delegate. And the law says that the Election Commission may promulgate uniform rules for elections consistent with the statute. So they said “mail-in or drop-off is o.k.” After all, we know that the term “personally delivers to the Municipal Clerk” doesn’t mean handing it the actual Municipal Clerk; after all, she may designate someone else, somewhere else to receive it for her. So is a secured drop box overseen by the Municipal Clerk or her designee and not accessible by others “personal delivery?” The Elections Commission says “of course.” And that what we lawyers all do when we address a letter as “BY PERSONAL DELIVERY” and hire a courier to drop it off at the front desk of opposing counsel’s office. It’s not like service of process where the package actually needs to touch the real person being served. It’s still “personal delivery” in common parlance. So 4 members of the Wisconsin Supreme Court said that here “personal delivery” means something in between for this law. It doesn’t actually have to touch the body of the Municipal Clerk, but presumably it needs to be dropped off at the desk or filing window occupied by some kind of real person. 3 other justices said “you just made up that in between rule; a secured drop box completely fits the understood meaning of “personal delivery.” I’m not saying the majority was clearly wrong, but to suggest that the dissenters don’t care about election integrity ignored the fact that this is what lawyers and judges do all the time. The language is ambiguous; they argue and decide what those ambiguous words really mean. Consider yourself educated.

Where are these hundreds of political prisoners in maximum security prisons? In what way are they not getting due process? Source? [waits patiently for embedded tweet from some wingnut]

This Ray Epps sounds like a loser creepy old man to me. I just haven’t paid much attention to him. But from what I’ve read, he didn’t commit a crime. If saying that makes me a “defender” of him, well, call me a defender of the First Amendment. Had he stormed into the Capitol, that’s not speech.

If we didn’t have the first amendment, you and your Svengali would be in jail too.

Wow. Reading DR’s self-pleasuring convo with himself (what! No comments? I JUST POSTED THE MOST DAMNING TWEET IN HISTORY! Please pay attention to me!!), it appears that: - a guy named Ray Epps actually wanted to, and urged others to, march toward the Capitol. - he very suspiciously then obeyed the law and didn’t enter the Capitol. - and even more suspiciously, he hasn’t been arrested! What, no arrest after all that protected First Amendment activity? That proves it!! It was all a big setup!!! He used the 100s of morons like Ashli Babbitt! What a creep. Only the Q-Deranged can follow this line of reasoning.

Agreed If only. Actually, if Trump were to disavow any intent of running again (assuming we could trust him, which we can’t) I’d be happy to put this whole unfortunate episode behind us. But that’s not where we are.