The Frankish Reich

Bumping an Irv thread. Sad

/ / / / / / / / / / / Question: When is the last time - other than in a Supreme Court death penalty case - you've heard someone referred to as "ret@rded" or "severely ret@rded" or some such variant? Answer: Decades ago, because these same people are now called "nonverbal autistic."

Dear Kamala: Please go away.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-dropped-f-bombs-on-screaming-call-with-dhs-officials-after-embarrassing-stories/ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/kristi-noem-corey-lewandowski-dhs-fema-trump-enforcers.html Trouble in the love nest.

Dyslexia/ADHD. I've been saying it for a long time. Mom popped acidtomifin all during her pregnancy?

/ / / / / / / / / / / / Of course our old Pizzagate friend went all meta and conspiratorial here. Would you expect anything less?

That's a very pro-American decision by the very Canadian CEO of Sinclair!

Are you telling him to take some Ack-tem-fan and sleep it off? https://newrepublic.com/post/200772/donald-trump-tylenol-pregnancy-autism-rant Yeah, I know pharmaceutical names are tricky, but there is such a thing as practice ...

Sorry. Trump has had 2 chances to choose a Jewish VP. We know he thinks lots and lots of Jews are really great, including Steve Witkoff, Steve Mnuchin, Stev(phen) Miller, even some non-Steves like Howard Lutnick. And he went with born-again Christian Mike Pence and born-for-the-first-time-at-40 Catholic JD Vance.

Who said calling for a boycott was bad? I was merely predicting that it would be quite unlike Trump to just let it go ...

Good thing Trump chose the Jew from a purple state!

Good for them, good for America!

Well, that's what makes it interesting, at least for the rest of the week. Same old Jimmy? New neutered Jimmy? Who knows? All I know is my wife had on the start of the Emmy Awards and Nate Bargatze was horrible. Bring back Ricky Gervais! For every awards show. And give him a late night show too.

I think you are describing Colbert. Boring, predictable, liberals nod their heads and clap. I told you, Jimmy K. got just a little edgier, a little funnier when Trump started taking the bait and posting about him. Let's see how he comes out tomorrow ... There you go, sonny! See, it would have been better to wait for your Twitter opinion-shapers. That writing a post in your own words thing? Dangerous!

Called it!

Yes, he was my "favorite" of the 3 network talk show nightlies. (I'm not counting Seth Meyers here) Not a super high bar! I will watch Bill Maher pretty much every week, but the others only occasionally. But tomorrow night is Must See TV, baby!

You should wait for your official talking points before going all hot take on us. I'm pretty sure MAGA will settle in for "boycott Disney."

You mean Kash "there is no reason to believe Jeffrey Epstein procured underage girls for anyone but himself" Patel? Poor Prince Andrew! He should demand his money back.

This actually did happen. Thank you for the reminder! I suspect it is on Peterman's resume: "Won NFL starting QB job in a 3-way competition with former BCS Championship QB AJ McCarron and future NFL MVP Josh Allen." [Yeah, I know there were other reasons, but still ... it is true]

When I see things that don't make sense - like "why did Kristi Noem leapfrog Tom Homan to become DHS Secretary" - I keep that question in the back of my mind. And sometimes the answer becomes all too clear in due time ... Yes, there is a ton of corruption in DC, including the never-ending game of musical chairs: government official --> lobbyist --> government official. But this one sounds like a particularly ham-handed scheme. The video is either out there or it's not, and if it is out there, it's gonna surface.

Well, it just got more interesting. I expect Homan to resign to spend more time with his family before the tape leaks.

It's true. Jimmy's Very Unfunny and Poorly Rated audience is the perfect lead-in!

Kimmel himself has been very quiet about all of this. I suspect there's some kind of cooling-off period and a behind the scenes negotiation about some kind of apology ("I'm sorry that I obviously offended some people ... that was never my intent ...") and a return to the air until his contract expires, with some kind of understanding about no jokes even tangentially related to Kirk. Why? Well, ABC/Disney probably don't want to be seen as fully bending the knee (or bending whatever) to Trump. I'll admit it's a total guess. They could be negotiating a buyout instead ...

So far, the new vaccine and autism guidance doesn't bother me. These are fairly minor tweaks. Should Tylenol have a label like "if you are pregnant, you should consult with you health care provider before taking?" Whatever, that's fine, as with most medicines. Will Trump/RFK Jr. attempt to oversell this possible "link"? They already are. Will this oversell cause some woman somewhere to avoid taking Tylenol and to cause damage to her baby based on an untreated high fever? Almost certainly. Nothing is cost or risk free.

The bribery investigation explains a lot to me. I expected Homan to be nominated as DHS Secretary. Well ... that is obviously a position requiring Senate confirmation, and the then-ongoing investigation would've been a bit awkward for him to say the least. So create an uber-Border Czar position for him to exercise the same policy leadership without the need for all that messy stuff. Disgusting that people would think that a guy who took $50K cash in a Cava fast food takeout bag should have any place in public life.