The Frankish Reich

Why limit your question?

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4846433-harris-leading-trump-by-7-points-poll/

Aging Buffalo Area Man Remains Alive and Well After COVID Vaccines

“Extremely concerning” in an Idiocracy way

Hmm, dead man’s protege is winning. What does that say about Trump?

It’s worked out really well. Sign me up!

Well you guys certainly do suck at that.

I guess he would prefer a country of 100 billion people earning one dollar each per year to a country of 100 million people earning $100,000 each. It would make him proud to be an American where at least he knows he’s free. To starve. Per capita. Look it up.

I just fast forwarded through the Kamala’s speech, watching a couple minutes at a time. Good delivery, improved presence. No one remembers content anyway, so largely hope and joy is a good move. Calm, not giddy. Smiles, not cackles. Effective. Trump freak out is the best praise.

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean

Plus: remind me why I should care what total GDP is.

Hey, you, get off of my cloud

Crowned?

Trump shouldn't hide Barron, even if he is a bit special too. Walz doesn't hide his son. People see the love in that family vs. the dysfunction in the latest Trump family.

I like the title change. That'll convince us. "Specifically disavows." Did he specifically say that none of the contributors to Project 2025 would have a role in his 2nd administration? Too late. For a year or more they've been talking about how this time Trump will be ready, the agenda will be clear, and it will happen lightning fast before anyone realizes what hit them. Project 2025. That's what it was about. "Specifically disavow" all you want. You created it, you own it. Voters aren't that stupid.

The Walz "we didn't have any kids go to Yale" thing is dumb. They should be proud to have a kid from a small town high school go to Yale, or Harvard, or Penn. But you gotta remember where they're coming from. From a decade or more, Republicans have been harping on the "coastal elites" who run the country but are out of touch with middle America. Trump: Penn (Ivy League) Vance: Yale (Ivy League) Harris: Howard (HBCU) + Cal/Hastings Law (public) Walz: some small town public college in Nebraska + Mankato State You reap what you sow.

Frankish DNC Review, Night 3: - Bill Clinton: shut up already. One Clinton is enough. Voice weak, even more folksy than the bs artist who hit the stage in '92, yet still would be a better candidate in 2024 than the two we're stuck with. - Tim Walz: came on too late, even for me in Mountain time. Caught some highlights. Good old fashioned Democratic blowhard. Dare I say populist? JD Vance, you better toughen up. Tractor Walz is gonna roll all over you. - Stevie Wonder: I stopped watching and started listening to Innervisions for a while. Damn it's good. Musical genius. Still got it, not as a songwriter (that never lasts) but as a singer/musician. One of the greats. - Josh Shapiro: new style barnburner. Objectively "better" at it than Walz, but Walz has the it factor. - Oprah: sometimes something happens that makes me think for a moment "can we ever get rid of these guys." I'm not an Oprah hater, but ... enough. I liked when retiring meant you went away and we next heard about you in your obituary. Night 2 closing thought, Night 4 preview: - I forgot how annoying Hillary's voice is. - Kamala should be working on keeping her voice in a nice/modulated tone, not overplaying the folksy or for lack of a better term "ethnic." Boring is fine. Boring is underrated. Boring and grown up is too rare. But she could still blow it by trying to upstage her Veep.

The couch thing has run its course. So I won't bother to explain why it was clever in its own silliness whereas the horse thing is just juvenile.

It's on the wife.

Well you'll see all right. Just a not very smart, narcissistic ne'er do well from the generation of Failed Kennedys.

I keep hearing that Trump is Pat Buchanan 2.0 or America's Orban. Every time I see these things I realize its simpler. He's Lyndon LaRouche 2.0, somehow this time actually getting votes. From his Wiki page ... see if anything sounds familiar: Born in Rochester, New Hampshire, LaRouche was drawn to socialist and Marxist movements in his twenties during World War II. In the 1950s, while a Trotskyist, he was also a management consultant in New York City.[10] By the 1960s, he became engaged in increasingly smaller and more radical splinter groups. During the 1970s, he created the foundation of the LaRouche movement and became more engaged in conspiratorial beliefs and violent and illegal activities. Instead of the radical left, he embraced radical right politics and antisemitism.[10][11] At various times, he alleged that he had been targeted for assassination by Queen Elizabeth II, Zionist mobsters, his own associates (who he said had been drugged and brainwashed by CIA and British spies), in addition to others.[12][13] LaRouche's campaign platforms advocated a return to the Bretton Woods system, including a gold-based national and world monetary system; fixed exchange rates; and abolishing the International Monetary Fund.[112] He supported the replacement of the central bank system, including the U.S. Federal Reserve System, with a "national bank";[113] a war on drug trafficking and prosecution of banks involved in money laundering;[114] building a tunnel under the Bering Strait; the building of nuclear power plants; and a crash program to build particle-beam weapons and lasers, including support for elements of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). He opposed the Soviet Union and supported a military buildup to prepare for imminent war; supported the screening and quarantine of AIDS patients; and opposed environmentalism, deregulation, outcome-based education, and abortion:[115]

RFK Jr was all the way down to 4 percent in recent polls. It's not clear how much of that is folks who really like him vs. the pox on both their houses "double haters." I do think the remaining 4 percent breaks just slightly toward Trump, but that's by no means clear - if they like Trump, why not plan to vote for him? I suspect we'll see the national polls settle in at about Harris +3 or 4 after the weekend.

Will a bear cub be involved? A dead girl in a cold lake?

I said the DNC would have special guests "younger than Hulk Hogan." I was wrong. This guy is 74. His voice is strong and clear. His message is stronger and clearer still.