The Frankish Reich

Oh no! Say it isn't so!! People paid good money for Donald J. Trump's personal investment advice only to discover it was plagiarized from standard sources! I mean, they could've just googled it and got the same advice for free. You mean The Trump Institute was neither Trump nor an Institute? It just republished standard advice? This definitely disqualifies him from the presidency. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/us/politics/donald-trump-institute-plagiarism.html

Notice how all the gun rights open/concealed carry types think that there's absolutely nothing threatening or sinister about a guy going around town with a gun suddenly think there's something threatening or sinister when there's a Trump Rally going on nearby?

A rare instance where I agree that they very well might have been non-Trumpie provocateurs. At any rate, the boat parade did the right thing and excluded them from their little party.

Really? You now need a footnote for official government statements in a "popular" (quotes because it was not, in fact, at all popular) campaign book? Maybe the aggrieved "Calfornia government website" should sue her.

Agreed. I've called him a white nationalist (and I don't think he denies that moniker), but one man's white nationalist is another man's white national socialist

And they were soft interviews on Republican Joe's (back then) program, well before our favorite power couple turned on him.

Imagine if Kamala had taken a bizarre 39 minute music/dance break and had a teleprompter at her rally ....

Thanks to Tarheel for finally clarifying something that has confused me for decades. Which fat annoying comedienne I've long avoided named Rosesomething is now the ultra liberal? Which one the uberTrumpie? He quotes Rosie with derision and Roseanne with applause. Now you know too.

So ... good! She's going into the lion's den. When might we expect Trump's MSNBC interview? And will there be a dance interlude?

I stand corrected. Thank you for your service, Field Commander Trump. (but how the hell did he march with those bone spurs?)

I dunno, I think the Bill Barr doppelganger is a slight improvement.

well, that term is a blast from the past. And yes, please do read the article. Don't worry about the author's political stance. The facts strike me as true. I'll be glad to explain how the system works, and how the system fails if you have questions. It's all right there in the example the author uses of one repeat illegal entrant from Honduras.

WTF? Reminder: Trump's father had dementia.

How 'bout we just don't vote for him in the first place, thereby avoiding the inevitable? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/14/trump-music-sways-town-hall/ OK, there's the teleprompter telling Trump to take two more questions after the weird music/dance interlude. Did they have a malfunction regarding which plants were going to ask questions? Were they the same people who fainted, thereby leaving no pre-selected questions? What on earth was this? Weird. Overused word, but yeah, really weird.

All those ads for gold bars and magic pillows and supplements tell us two things about the Republican core: (1) they're old; (2) like a lot of old people, they're really prone to snake oil salesmen.

I know the gay community did call AIDS "the gay cancer" before we knew what it was ...

As you guys used to remind us several times a day, there's a difference between 71 (when he was first inaugurated) and 83 (when his term would end) ....

You mean like this?

Trump's crypto thing is his shadiest one since Trump University. And that's saying something.

I hate to say it, but the Senate is looking bleak for the Dems. But I do agree that Ted Cruz is more than a little nervous - he just called out McConnell for not spending money on his race. In other words, just a little too close for comfort. I think Cruz is more concerned about winning by an embarrassingly slim margin than he is about actually losing.

Exactly.

I am old enough to remember when simply MAKING the playoffs seemed like a implausible dream.

Not just in their heads. They should've won last night. The missed field goals and the incredible Taron INT sealed it. Other than KC, who has really stepped up to look like an AFC contender? Not us, not the Ravens, certainly not the Dolphins. The perennial "on the cusp" Chargers?

I think the idea is to turn those missed field goals into missed extra points.

... Tarzan. Who actually made a difference last night! One (count 'em, one) big catch but involved in PI penalties, blocks, etc.