The Frankish Reich

Well, that certainly is "counterintuitive."

Yes, loyal reader. I was.

"No doubt the healthiest man to ever serve as president." Yeah. Open. Preposterously so. By the way, I just saw a clip yesterday where someone zoomed in on a Fox video showing Trump's hand and his pathetic makeup cover-up job (no doubt of an IV bruise; isn't he on anti coagulants too?) That's why they came out with this "update"

Yes. Stephen Miller is making all kinds of immigration decisions with Trump appearing to find out only later. Trump himself has said that if he were in charge (now there's a thought), he might have handled DOGE differently than Musk. He also would've never appointed Jerome Powell. And probably wouldn't have stopped arms shipments to Ukraine. Look, all old men are in decline. It's relative. And it's a big job. Show me the guy with swollen ankles who says he's at the top of his game - golf or professional - and I'll show you a liar.

Well, Stormy Daniels said it was quite a sight to see. So there is that too.

Care to comment on Old Man Trump's chronic health conditions?

Yeah, and JFK Jr. isn't coming back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_4483 Jimmy Carter pardoned an entire class of draft evaders without even specifically naming them. This is the dumbest of all MAGA obsessions.

Who is the senile moron who appointed Jerome Powell?

Now Elon is censoring Elmo after Elmo called for the Epstein files to be released. Sick.

River of Diet Coke will take you out!

A steady hand, the type that no longer exists.

As @JDHillFan would say ....

All true. I'm sticking to this specific case of the campground dorms. There was time to warn, and time to get the kids to slightly higher ground outside of the floodplain. It would require a flood evacuation drill ahead of time. Probably they don't do that because they don't want to spook the parents and because people prefer not to think about the potential for disaster. There are sensible things we can do that are low tech/low cost. My guess: just like in 1987, we won't do them after this one either. Instead, the campground simply won't be rebuilt, which is probably an overreaction.

I'm not blaming Trump or FEMA or whatever. But we need to learn from mistakes. I say this every time there's a disaster. Why is our evacuation plan always "throw all you sh!t in the car and start driving for higher ground?" It's a floodplain. It floods. There's not much warning, but there's enough to even go on foot to high enough ground. It's the difference between life and death.

Is Food Lion still around? Nothing said "you're in the south" like the Food Lion meat fridge.

Yes, but that kind of thing is now considered a virtue in MAGA world. He dumped his old wife for something newer, better, younger, no doubt with lip fillers and MAGA hair. Shows that despite the total nerd appearance he's actually an alpha male. Eff God and all that Sixth Commandment crap. That's for elementary school plaques, not powerful men. Winning! EDIT: not quite. More Uncle Newtie's 3rd wife or John McCain's 2nd. Or Kari Lake. The kind of butch haircut these closet cases love.

Exactly. Hey builders, lock up your copper every night!

⬆️ Has never occurred to him that people enjoy making fun of him behind his back.

Excellent points. And imagine a world in which things were going in the other direction, toward a true free trade zone with Canada. How great would that be for Buffalo? Guess we'll never know.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/tariffs-south-korea-japan-donald-trump-trade-a9075145?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAg8CiniOscz3K9YcKJ_hOChj6p9jDXDxPYc9c720h2JmZMGqEG5nDp1lSslWVg%3D&gaa_ts=68718d6f&gaa_sig=bNAXRWupj0dXLTVdwG3ExUZpn7ZGMzlt3H0uA-1JXvC-hB81HYmfkW5WEc5aIFHtnctceKSp-QjtWkKCvhpbtw%3D%3D Those radical lefties at the Wall St. Journal are picking on Trump again.

I never got that. What is that alternating caps thing supposed to mean anyway?

@B-Man Let's just say that while I don't know what kind of economics they taught at St. Bonaventure c. 1970, I do now have some insight into how Bob Lanier died bankrupt.