The Frankish Reich

I mean, I should be astounded. That's 2 Republican candidates - both expressing worries about the "trans agenda" - in prominent state races who have been found to have a secret predilection for trans "adult content." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Robinson_(American_politician) Every man hates what he has to deny ...

Never out of the fight! Trans-Loving Seal. Not the furry type. The Navy type. What's the old line? "The only way he could lose is if he's caught with a dead girl or a live boy." Now updated to "or with trans porn on his laptop."

And so he likes "Jiz Lee." Is that a crime? How would he know about the horrors of transitioning without, you know, inspecting the final product? Hoax.

I'll take this latest scolding like a man. A fiercely independent man.

The PPP Scold strikes again!

Watching JD Vance's presser now. He's good at this. I don't think his preppy condescension does it for the masses like Trump's 5th grade vocabulary bludgeon. But to me, a would be elitist, he's good. I despise JD Vance. I dislike Gavin Newsom. But Newsom is damn good at this too. Glib. Which for a politician is a backhanded compliment. 2028 debates could be fun!

The title says it all. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/10/no-one-applauded-i-remain-optimistic-about-democracy.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_scold Thank you for proving that I hit the nail on the head!

You have knowingly summoned the PPP Scold. Be careful what you ask for. He may very well have a digest of your comments expressing happiness or unhappiness.

I don't know about you, but I definitely take my parenting advice from the chronically absentee sperm donor (who sex selects embryos to have more males, and then is crestfallen when all that work goes for naught when that male becomes female) with at least 11 genetic spawn by at least 9 women. Crushin' Gay Beer!

Some blowhard posted this (no quote box here as my response may offend!): "Last week I started House of Guinness...and what do you know five minutes into episode 1.... we are introduced to Arthur Guinness being gay." I can't tell whether this means I should be boycotting Netflix or Guinness. I mean, what if Guinness, not Bud Light, turns out to the ultimate LGBTQ Beer?

Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens.

I forget: are we allowed to go to Walt Disney World now? I just saw that Michelob Ultra Light - a curiously beer-like soft drink - has supplanted Modelo as our top selling beer. Can my wife drink it, or is it too close for comfort to TransBeer? At least you'll still have Matlock. I mean, the old one. The new one is on CBS, which is, perhaps, ok now that Larry Ellison's kid owns it. You tell me.

Exactly. That's what a conspiracy theory always comes back to.

If it is this critical to the Republicans, they can change the filibuster rule for continuing resolutions only. They have control of everything now, and nothing the Democrats do can change that.

Somalis: there is a ton of fraud. I would guess that over half of Somali asylum seekers were already living in refugee camps (awaiting refugee processing from abroad, which is similar but different to asylum), or actually resettled in Kenya or elsewhere. Very often they were living in abysmal conditions, but they weren't immediately fleeing in fear for their lives. Vital recordkeeping is basically non-existent in Somalia, so in many places a date of birth is always given as January 1, with only the year changing. Those granted asylum can petition to bring over family members, so the pressure back home (and sometimes the monetary incentive for those here) is to claim cousins and other people as their children, or someone unrelated as a spouse. And yes, I do believe that Ilhan Omar probably "married" her brother, who was already living legally in the UK. In other words, in no danger.

This is why I was waiting for DOGE to take a close look at DOD. (Or is it now DOW? That's confusing.)

By the way, why does Hegseth have those weird extended thin sideburns? Both are true. He serves at the pleasure of the President; he serves to defend the constitution and the laws of the United States of America.

Do any of the services allow beards or long hair? I mean, other than, say, Sikhs for religious reasons? I don't get what he's talking about.

This is how you do it!

Ted Cruz, 2013, the Shutdown that propelled him into the White House. Remember?

I suspect the same. Ex-wife left him for a Mormon guy and converted. Mormon boss at work promoted another Mormon instead of him. There's a million possible perceived slights. He certainly didn't live a life of being a religious warrior as far as we know.

1. Woman works at a university (not a professor). Posts the following on her private Facebook: “If you think Charlie Kirk was a wonderful person, we can’t be friends.” One of her followers screenshots it. It winds up on Libs of Tik-Tok. University gets wind of it. She's fired. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/charlie-kirk-free-speech.html 2. University of South Dakota art professor posts the following on his social media: “I don’t give a flying f*** about this Kirk person,” Mr, Hook wrote. “I wasn’t paying close enough attention to the idiotic right fringe to even know who he was.” He added: “I’m sorry for his family that he was a hate spreading Nazi and got killed. I’m sure they deserved better.” Three hours late he deletes it an apologizes. Too late. The Governor of South Dakota - the Governor - decides to get involved. Calls for his firing. And gets it. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/charlie-kirk-free-speech-and-the-right-2b60b73c?mod=WTRN_pos8 MAGA culture warriors now wield the cancel culture hatchet. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

/ / / / / / / / / / I'm really glad our leading poster added that (U) to the topic. I was kind of scared I was reading DR's top secret classified info.

Looks kind of gay of the heavy hairy type. Not that he has issues or anything like that.