The Frankish Reich

Are you sure it isn't the Trumpist position? No enforcement actions on restaurants (dishwashers), hotels (maids), farms (pickers)

Bloomberg, who was a Republican then, but more sensible than political.

No! Not THE Eduardo Vilchis-Ocampo!! This calls for a press release!

If I lived in NYC I’d hold my nose and put Cuomo first.

And note the difference between what I’m saying and what the Trumpy wingnuts are saying. Me: unbalanced/unsuccessful in life but with an elevated sense of his own abilities and importance. Has a late middle aged crisis. Lashes out at perceived enemies who thwarted his stupid plans by not supporting him. Them: Deep State operative! Lefty who went to (gasp!) AFRICA to try to set up an NGO!! Killed a moderate Democrat, therefore is obviously a radical lefty Democrat! Are you connecting the dots yet?? The difference between a rational assessment of the facts as we know them vs wild conspiratorial shift-the-blame to the “Marxists” thinking. See Sen Mike Lee.

For a Christian you are weirdly ignorant of the idea of the Christian missionary. I guess Tim Tebow is a radical lefty.

The correct response would be this: Sorry, guys, I got caught up in some wild rumors."

This girl actually BROUGHT THE FAKE TIME MAG COVER to her interview. And still got hired.

Tell me when you've connected those dots 🤣 This aged well. Failed the famous Liz Truss Head of Lettuce Test. By about 2 weeks. Didn't even last 48 hours.

It's not hard to do a WOWY ("with or without you") for QB records based on injury games/backup starting. I did it a few years ago and didn't save my results. But the common wisdom seems right. For teams with really good QBs and playoff hopes, it's usually "let's find a backup who can play roughly .500 ball while the starter is out." Of course a lot depends on the quality of the backup, but for most journeyman backups the .500 goal is reasonable. The interesting thing when I dug into this: true "replacement level QBs" aren't nearly as bad as you'd expect. You sign a guy off the street because your starter and backup are hurt. Think Thad Lewis with the Bills in the Tyrod days. Or maybe Joshua Dobbs or Josh Johnson. Those guys aren't useless - they probably win about 1/3 of their games. So that's the baseline. Which is why it amazes me when a team's QB (or QBs) are so awful that they play less than .333 ball (6-11 or so) over an extended time. Think Jets.

Acting U.S. Attorney - Trump's chief law enforcement officer in MN - announces charges. "Hiding" the "manifesto." Notes guy was targeting all Democrats. @Big Blitz will have to amend some comments.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/senior-trump-official-embellished-resume-had-face-fake-time-cover-n1080356 From the first Trump admin. At some point it has to be "it sure looks fake but we don't care."

Because embellishment becomes a habit that's hard to break. Particularly for politicians: you say it once, it's on the record, it's awfully hard to back down with the old "I misspoke." It's also hard to tell what worked and what didn't work in getting you elected in the first place. If we disqualify everyone who b.s.'d their credentials there wouldn't be anyone left.

Looks like a Winner to me!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/maga-sen-mocked-absurdly-calling-195432702.html MARXIST!! Now where have I heard that before....

Can I buy one with $TRUMP?

I will call for an investigation just as soon as he's nominated for a high-level position. Back to this guy: it was kind of easy to make up/embellish crap in the pre-internet/no real privacy days. 1990s: Guy says he's qualified as a commercial pilot? OK, fine. He's a pilot, so what, I'm gonna dig through some paper records in the Government Documents floor of the library to see if his name shows up, or I'm going to send some kind of request to the FAA and wait for a response. So why not? And this particular lie appears to be one that dates from those days. So you make up a fake credential, you can't just drop it suddenly ... it follows you. I don't think this disqualifies him in any way. I also imagine that any commercial pilots who worked for him knew damn well that this was a lie. Whatever.

Iran is (was? I hope we can say that now) uniquely dangerous because it does have an educated and competent society running in parallel with a crazed theocratic leadership. But I don't think anyone knows what happens if that theocracy is destroyed. Is there any way for a civil society to emerge after 40 years of total suppression? Will it be post-Soviet Russia? Will educated Iranians in exile (a generational thing now) be able/willing to reconstitute a civil society?

Weird how people lie about easily verifiable information. Hey, but I guess it worked for years, right up through his nomination.

I've been saying that we forget how well Americans live. 7-11 manager? Guy who transports bodies from nursing homes to the morgue? $520,000 home on 11 acres in exurban Mpls. I suspect the house of cards - marriage (guy with multiple failed careers), debt, no prospects - finally went over the edge.

Unless you work at a restaurant, in which case, well, never mind.

Trump had Jobba the Hutt say that it was 250,000.

Operational Guidance for ICE Officers, 16 JUN 2025 0600: Collateral arrests. When on criminal alien apprehension operations, you may encounter other aliens who admit to, or who you have reason to believe are, illegally present in the United States. These aliens shall be know as "collateral arrests." All collateral arrests shall be taken into custody for removal unless: - he or she works at a restaurant or hotel ("Hospitality industry.") To confirm such work, the officer shall ask the alien about his or her employment. An employee ID shall be sufficient to prove that the alien is working in an essential industry and no enforcement action shall be taken. - he or she works directly in agriculture or ranching or in an occupation directly supporting such agricultural or ranching operations. An employee ID or possession of tools or equipment consistent with such work (e.g., an artichoke knife) shall be considered adequate proof of such employment status and no enforcement action shall be taken. A violation of this operational guidance shall be considered good cause for termination. Please address any questions to your immediate supervisor.

It was Carter. Meant as a preparation/signal to the USSR after it invaded Afghanistan. I remember because I was just a year or two under the registration age and it would impact me soon.

Yes! Because throwing yourself a Big Military Birthday Parade is something North Korea's Dear Leader would do. The blowback was appropriate because the idea was offensive. So good on Trump's people and the Army for tacking in a different direction.