The Frankish Reich

Well if Blondi is gone, why not Matt Gaetz? What's he up to anyway? Cut out the middleman, install the underage sex fiend himself.

He doesn't speak the Queens English. By that I mean the borough, not the monarch.

So if they're a tax on producers, how is that not "theft" too? It's only theft if it is a tax on consumers? You sound like one of them communists.

"helping reunify with their parents ..." The parents who paid a smuggler to take them to the USA so they could make some money to send back home because they were living in abject poverty. This is what I mean about the fake concern about the poor children. If you want to say something like, "cutting off employment avenues for child immigrants is an important deterrent to illegal immigration for both children and adults," well, fine. But please ... enough of the "we are doing it for these children."

Would it strike you as good economic news if the headline were "federal revenues up since Biden, Congress agreed to hike tax rates?"

Imagine how well we'll be doing when that 35 percent Canada tax kicks in.

"freed" = "deported to adject poverty" Because he loves the little children. Look, I'm not saying they shouldn't have raided this pot operation. Looks fine to me (although I'm not sure of the tactics.) But let's not pretend this is about helping the teenage illegal workers ... So you tell me ... we found illegal teenage workers. What should we do with them? Give them permanent residence? Citizenship? Foster homes and the right to attend school in America for as long as it takes to develop their potential? Or should we SEND 'EM BACK to a country with no education for those over 12 or 13 years old and no functioning economy. I suspect you think we should do the latter. Because, well, we love them.

Wow, it's almost like 3 months have passed since the April 9 Liberation Day and subsequent retraction. Not to worry. He's gearing up for Liberation Day 2.0! The VIX will be ready for that TACO Tuesday.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5392555-trump-ukraine-weapons-shipments/ you mean his sharpie autopen authorized it?

Well, Laura Loomer is Trump's lapdog, so I guess I should listen.

Bongino may be noticing that it's a lot easier - and more lucrative - to toss Conspiracy Bombs when you're a right-wing radio host than when you're the Deputy Director of the FBI.

Raise taxes, bring in more revenue! Thank you, Mr. Tax and Spend.

I've read - and argued - with poster Dilan Esper, a civil rights lawyer, in other contexts. So thanks for posting him here. Is your X feed now serving up liberals too, or only liberals when they say something you happen to agree with? (I agree here too)

Moderately amusing! The Bee's new ownership is making progress. Very, very slowly.

Those Guatemalan children would be so, so much happier and healthier selling Chiclets in Tijuana.

"Once in 1,000 years" meant "once in 4 decades" in the Hill Country of Texas. As the old song went, "It's a one-time thing, it just happens a lot."

OK, let's train a Large Language Model. Instead of scouring Wikipedia, this one will scour Twitter/X. Then let's ask it a provocative question, like "what group is most responsible for causing pain and suffering in the world?" Then let's sit back and let it rip through all the racist and anti-semitic tweets your little corner of the internet has enabled ever since you bought it. Then let's all act shocked when AI becomes MechaHitler. Garbage in, Garbage out.

The same place flooded and killed kids before. How difficult would it be to have kids run an evacuation drill on the first day of camp?

I love how that retweeted thing sounds exactly like our old friend Deranged Rhino. Maybe it is him. Use your discernment, as he was wont to say. The Shoe of Conspiracy is now squarely on the Artificially Elevated Trump Foot.

80% tariff please. They are so selfish.

Nice story. Good on you, Josh. I get it. Famous people get a little tired of being bothered all the time. So we appreciate it when a hero actually appears grateful. There used to be a PGA tournament near where I lived. I attended a couple of them. Here's what impressed me: Greg Norman was reaching the end of his competitive days. He was making a little run for maybe the last time. People were trying to follow him hole to hole. And all it took was a little nod, a little smile, a little wave, a little acknowledgment from him that his fans were there. And he did it. Just the smallest gesture was all he needed to get the love of the crowd. I think Vijay Singh won that year. He wasn't rude in any way, just generally immune to the crowd. No acknowledgment at all. And he basically had no fans. It doesn't take much...

The larger picture: - WTF are we doing with cannabis. It is readily available - in a store - where most people live. Yet it remains federally controlled. Neither party is willing to get ahead of the issue and just federally legalize/regulate it. This system is absurd. - Growing lettuce, tomatoes, artichokes, cannabis in the USA depends on cheap labor. Cheap labor means immigrants. WTF are we doing in America where we both encourage and discourage immigrant labor. Neither party is willing to face reality. Broken government. Umm, yeah.

Well that was illuminating.

Synthetic diamonds, baby. Substitution. It is the first thing any competent economist should think about.

We are depriving these children of their futures in Mexican fentanyl factories.