The Frankish Reich

This Florida thing is insane. How did we go from "the COVID vaccine's cost/benefit ratio swings strongly toward cost with respect to younger people" to "let's let everyone say no to all childhood vaccines for no reason whatsoever." This will not end well, particularly in a state like Florida with, yes, a huge number of recent immigrants who travel frequently to less developed countries.

Yes, because you insist on reading only the free media. You get what you pay for. Again, I would challenge anyone to read the entire NYT article and come away with anything other than "they're covering this like the ridiculous conspiracy theory that it is."

See, here's the problem. Some Trumpy Tweeter posts a clip of a NYT story and mischaracterizes the whole thing. You people are not NYT readers, and it's paywalled and you're cheap (not that you'd read it if it were free). So you believe the bs characterization. The real thing: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/us/politics/trump-health-bruise-conspiracies.html And here's how it starts, long before it goes into the "why are people prone to hoaxes like this" explanation: For a swath of hyper-online Americans over the long Labor Day weekend, all of this was explanation enough: The president was either dead or about to be. Mr. Trump’s critics have speculated about his health for as long as he has been in national politics. And for his part, he has long declined to explain when and why he has sought out medical care, whether he was suffering from Covid or undergoing routine procedures. But there had never been a conspiracy wave as feverish as this one. On TikTok, influencers with legions of followers surmised that the White House was publishing old photos, suggesting that the president was being hidden from view. Reddit threads, one after another, were ablaze with commentary. On X, posts shared by anonymous critics disseminating dubious reports picked up thousands of interactions and shares. See the digs at the alt media conspiracists? "Hyper-online." "conspiracy wave" "dubious reports"

Trump either has some inside word from the SCt justices or he's even dumber than I thought. He just justified his tariffs as a great substitute for the income tax. In other words, his tariffs are a tax. Taxing power is committed by the constitution to Congress and only to Congress. He ought to be arguing that this isn't a revenue raising mechanism (a tax), but rather a foreign policy device (at least arguably a presidential power). His words will be used against him in a court of law ...

Did you see the alt media insight shared by some of our friends here about the Minnesota assassin? The one hired by Tim Walz to take out Amy Klobuchar? Now that's the kind of reporting that ought to win Pulitzers.

Are we allowed to wheel the guy in the iron lung into the polling place because he has to vote in person?

Trump is alive and he is suffering the biggest butthurt of all as his buddy Vlad dumps him for Xi and Little Rocket Man.

The same way I always have. China --> Canada --> USA.

And even worse, I've been told that some are not of predominantly northern European ancestry!

Please spend your retirement cataloging posts by your perceived enemies on a football forum. I can think of no better use of your time!

The Value Meal is back! I know most Trump voters order 2 for themselves, thereby calling into question the true value of the offer. But still, it's back!

That's what they want you to think ...

You really expect people who think Sweden is Norway to be up to date on that whole Brexit thing?

Don't try to beat dictators at their own game. The Chinese parade was impressive like a really good marching band. Ours reeked of the remnants of democracy - soldiers in fatigues smiling at the crowd, etc. I guess some people think that's a bad thing?

They are ridiculously overcharging in these cases. The Subway Sandwich attacker? They finally settled on the misdemeanor that it should've been all along. Isn't it nice to see grand juries doing what they were established to do?

You know who agrees with you? Trump himself. But he's afraid to say it out loud (he slipped up last week) because he doesn't want to lose that 2% who are anti-vaxx voters. And he really doesn't want to fire RFK Jr, which would just embolden him to take his 2% and launch an RFK 2028 campaign. Because it's all about winning. Not about good public policy. Well, that hand is rather puffy, no? Is that his hand-shaking hand or his carrot-waxing hand? Or both?

Thank you, JDSwillFan.

Just put your Jim Beam in a purple sack and tell yourself you're classy! It's an emergency!

I move freely in two or more worlds. I enjoy fine wines and spirits, yet yesterday I consumed about 2 quarts of Coors Lite. I enjoy fine dining and am willing to pay for truly excellent food, but I will gladly grill up a couple hot dogs (extra charred) to enjoy with chopped onions, Ted's hot sauce, and local sweet corn on the cob. I enjoy the Cracker Barrel breakfasts I have with my dad, now that I know how to order there, and I am weirdly unconcerned about their sign or the paint color of the interior. I contain multitudes.

Trash spirits favored by lower class Americans.

This is common sense. Mob that bypassed security starts banging on interior doors to get into Speaker's office. And the cop is supposed to say "I think I could takes her down without using my gun." What if an Antifa mob was trying to smash its way into Speaker Johnson's office? Should they size up the assailants before firing?

you were young and dumb. you had an excuse. had.

And so the federal appeals court reaches the obvious conclusion: Trump's use of a declaration of emergency cannot support his unilateral imposition of tariffs. The setting of tariffs is an enumerated congressional power; nowhere does the constitution grant the president the right to levy duties or other taxes. Onto the Supreme Court. I say there's a slight probability of them upholding the appeals court, but of course that depends on a couple of judges in the Republican-appointed majority to rule on the language of the constitution and not on obedience to the Executive.

Well played. There are certainly some questionable honorees. Most of the musical honorees however, have had pretty solid/influential body of work. Joni Mitchell, Earth Wind and Fire, Led Zeppelin - all great musicians and/or songwriters. There's probably some lesser talents there too. I have no problem with George Strait this year, as bringing back (keeping alive?) that western swing sound was a cultural achievement. KISS? Whatever. I guess they are living comic book icons.

Yes. But I am not going to criticize the do-gooder groups who take Christ's message seriously: do good.