The Frankish Reich

Actually, this explains it. The cockamamie libertarian idea of the quasi-autonomous island state just off the coast of mainline Honduras. The new El Cryptador.

Anthony Burgess, is that you?

“Vetted” means they checked his background/associations, etc. and found no concerns. Which may mean that he had nothing in his record that suggested he would be a threat to Americans as of April. As of November, who knows.

I wonder what the leading members of the (((Frankfurt School))) had in common. Isn't that how they do it?

Clearly illegal, and now I see what prompted Mark Kelly and the others to put out that illegal orders video.

He was granted asylum. From what I've seen, that happened in about April, under the Trump administration. Before being granted asylum, the law requires a security investigation. With an Aghani, that's not going to be perfunctory, like simply running fingerprints. So someone in the Trump administration, in Kristi Noem's DHS, certified that the background checks were complete and the case was ready to proceed to a grant of asylum. Fact.

Yeah, but no one - not even the Browns or the Jets, and certainly not the Bills - suffered through a QB hell like the Bears.

Kingpins are worthy of our respect! Water Mules? Kill the mofos.

No way this is legal. Not surprised that I’m not surprised.

Exactly. Stafford was the keeper, everyone else was disposable. substitute “Allen” for Stafford and you have the model.

Now that the spirit of Thanksgiving. Or maybe with Trump every holiday is Festivus. Did he put a grievance pole in the new ballroom?

Unwittingly highlighted years of government loose money failure, which continues unabated, encouraged by Trump's bullying of Jerome Powell.

Oh. Nevermind. Not aging well, is it. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-pipe-bombs-innocent-womans-name/ Mods? If we had them, they'd delete this entire obnoxious evidence-free thread rather than continuing to libel this unfortunate woman who apparently shares the gait of someone else.

The problem is the explanatory graph with the vertical Trump line. The one that shows a long-existing trend continuing unabated. As I said, just stop after making the point that Amy's graph is of the wrong thing.

Poor girl found a way out of rural WV. Actually volunteered for DC duty to allow her colleagues to stay with their families. Started to like the city. And then got killed for it. Horrible.

Well, then perhaps just stop while you're ahead.

Fewer crimes. Not "less" crimes. But on substance: I also heard that the crime rate for concentration camp detainees was nearly zero!

In any normal world, an impeachable offense.

So you're saying that Trump has very, very slightly - almost imperceptibly - bent the curve. High praise!

No, he's neither. He is human fallout from a terrible war and disjointed U.S. policy in Afghanistan. Blame Bush 43, Obama, Trump, Biden. Yeah, and probably Carter and Reagan and Bush 41 and Clinton too.

Wow. That's scary. I guess we'll see a lot of Gilliam staying home to block.

Anderson is clearly a good run blocker, but I have no idea how he does in pass pro (or even at tackle in general). Van Demark is ... not so good.

So Van Demark starts on one side. Who starts on the other side? Anderson?

All of these various influences (Calvinism, the Iroquois confederation, etc, etc) can be found in the thinking of the founding fathers. Everyone sees a little of what they want to see. Liberal bleeding hearts see respect for native American governance; religious righties see hardcore protestantism. But the one giant who towers above all others combined? Montesquieu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montesquieu

Yes, it's a political exercise. And of course El Presidente has just insured that it will work as intended through his comic overreaction.