The Frankish Reich

All right, so we have New Rules! - calling politicians garbage = o.k. - calling an island of Americans garbage = o.k. - calling people who support a felon who tried to undo the duly verified results of an election garbage = a bridge too far

Remains to be determined. If Von comes back and helps us win a couple playoff games (dare I say a Super Bowl?) then it's Von. Better signing because signing him was signing a player who could put you over the top. Signing Mario was always dumb because that team was nowhere near ready to compete with the big boys.

I hated that dumbass drug-addled hick when he was playing and I hate him more now.

My only issue is that you phrase this in the future tense. He is already claiming fraud on a regular basis. So expect him (again) to declare victory on election night. And if he actually loses, he'll blame fraud again. And if he wins, he'll say it was an even more glorious win than it appears since he won despite massive fraud. Roy Cohn's rules.

Vivek, it's Diwali. Lighten up.

It is, kind of. But it's not like he and his Pay pals (hah!) have been hiding their, umm, predilections. Read and learn.

Hey PFF subscribers! What's Xavier Worthy's run block rating?

No, it's Elon Musk's theory, and he's not a Republican. He's hitched his wagon to a nominal Republican, but he has his own agenda.

These "new right" types learned a valuable lesson from the Clinton Democrats: never let a crisis go to waste. And they're planning to take it one step further: create an economic crisis, then use that as an excuse to gain more power over the economy and politics.

But "moron" was a level above "idiot." Congratulations.

He's still mentally fit to do the job. He backed out of the nomination months ago and still the good old USA keeps ticking. There's something to be said for an old man whose Big Plans days are behind him. Unlike Mr. Big Plans on the other side.

World Series Game 4 out of reach, so I flipped around the various politics shows. Fun watching these career politicians position themselves for 2028. Nikki Haley criticizes Trump for the tone of his campaign events, focusing on women. Translation: if Trump loses, he and JD Vance are out of the way. It's time for a kinder, gentler Republican Party, and guess who's waiting in the wings! Josh Shapiro gently scolds Ol' Joe. If Kamala loses she's out of the way, and if it's because she lost PA, everyone says she should've picked Josh. Guess who's waiting in the wings! We're gonna see a lot of this in the next few weeks.

Well, at least he didn't say that Trump supporters don't pull out and multiply like hamsters. Which they kind of do. So there's that.

Yeah, whatever. He's history.

Not gonna change the news cycle. Although Biden still hasn't learned how to keep his mouth shut and get out of the way ...

And Mayor Adams knows there's no hope for him in a Harris administration. After all, the Biden-Harris FBI investigated him and the Biden US Attorney indicted him. So why wouldn't he curry favor with Trump now? Trump is running to keep himself out of jail; Adams is making Trump friendly noises to try to keep his own butt out of jail.

Weird. Really weird.

Mr. Mayor wants a pardon of his own!

No. She's no longer interesting. She was never a doctrinaire liberal (probably had to act a bit that way to survive in liberal Madison), and she had interesting takes on various issues and events. Now? Kind of limited to the usual righty stuff: I get Trump, they just don't get him, etc, etc, without any deeper thought. Her commenters were also good. They're not anymore. They're one-note acts. Kind of like certain people here (and I'm not including you - you've said some clever and insightful things. Just not recently)

Trump said he would. "Next time." He's got papers!! You can't expect to dig into something like that in a mere 3 hours. Where would you fit in the exploding hydrogen car story? Coming along right after he releases his Obamacare replacement plan.

I voted for the rank choice ballot proposal here in Colorado. Interestingly, while the official Colorado Democratic (and Republican) Party is against it, Gov Polis is for it.

Nothing like a little alarmism. And this is one full week before election day.

Couldn't agree more. Thank you, Mr. Mayor of that Garden City of Tomorrow, Allentown PA.

Good for her. She's smart (and attractive; don't overdo it, girl!) and unfortunately she saw what side her bread would be best buttered on, hence the transformation into Right Wing Commenter At Large. Maybe there's a third act.