The Frankish Reich

It doesn't matter if it's true. They may not be eating the cats and dogs. Alternative facts live in my brain and the majority of Americans' brains. Sorry, Trump. Turnabout is fair play.

Jimmy Kimmel (yes, that Jimmy Kimmel!) does something similar in his This Week in Unnecessary Censorship bits, bleeping out words to let your mind fill in the blanks.

An educated guess. We know he was doing all sorts of girls. We know he was doing porno "actresses," somehow overcoming his germophobia to go where hundreds have come before. We know he enjoyed hanging out backstage at those Miss Teenage America pageants with girls in various states of undress. And that he bragged about it. I'm guessing (there's that word again) that he didn't ask to see ID every time.

It made an impact. They see the polling, they see the off-year election results, they'll keep going back to that well until it runs dry. Trump is either dumb enough to prevent that from happening, or there really is something damning there. My guess? It's all about Melania and her ties to Epstein's "model" immigrants.

Blame Canada! Those Mennonites do get around. They take Amtrak. Trains weren't exactly commonplace in the Bible, but Amtrak is sufficiently crappy that it is allowed.

All true. Embarrassing. To do your favorite turnabout: just wait till you see the Trump Center plans!

Yes, they're posturing. Yes, it's working. Yes, it's politics, and they know they've found an issue they can exploit. To paraphrase JD Vance: it isn't important whether the girls here are 18 or 21 instead of 15 or 17; the photos speak to a larger truth. He's eating the pets, the dogs, the pussys.

Look, you were wrong on the Texas outbreak. And the Canada outbreaks. No Third Worldy immigrants in either one. Everyone about as white as white can be. And now you're doubling down on South Carolina. Stupid White People in all 3.

Thanks for sharing the unredacted photo. Now I can rest assured that Trump was consorting with age-appropriate women.

Last I checked I can choose "neither of the above." By the way, the Church Zero of this outbreak isn't white Mennonites. It's lily-white Russian and Ukrainian immigrants. You know, the right kind of immigrants, the kind that you can get to come to America to become little Tucker Carlsons.

"The Way of Truth Church" appears to be the source of the SC outbreak. Interesting. I thought it would be La Iglesia del Camino de la Verdad.

ROFL. The corniest, groaniest "humor" on the internet. And that's saying something.

This thread has the potential to rival the Particle Sun thread. But you extinguish that possibility with this kind of conversation stopper.

I opposed Obamacare at the time because it seemed like an unworkable idea. The killing (by Republicans, of a Republican-style idea) of the mandate sealed its fate. It is failing, and that's why huge subsidies are needed. The adverse selection problem the mandate was supposed to address is real.

B-Man, I think you're right about Obamacare being intended as a bridge to some kind of true national health care. But TH3, you're right about the Republicans. "Concepts of a plan" still haven't ever been communicated; fair to say that's because even the concept (much less the plan) never existed.

That ship has already sailed.

Are you?

No mention of Cardi B? Pink fairy dust one the boat? His line of bespoke animal fur furniture?

The mohel may suck the blood out to help it coagulate. https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/safe-bris.page#:~:text=When a baby is circumcised,babies can get an infection. Maybe a little Manischewitz later?

Yes. Yes it is.

America has hit max stupidity.

Stay loyal to the Babylon Bee! Their Pope material never gets old.

That voice. Amazing. You could hear all of America in that voice. The high lonesome country, the Delta blues, the Cuban rhythm ... that's what we mean when we use the genre "Americana."

Like all successful professional comedians, Kimmel is at his best when he's responding to the heckler in the audience - in this case, Trump spouting off at him on social media.

Of course people die from complications of vaccines. We know that. We also know that more people die from the disease than from the vaccine. There's a word for people who can't keep these two thoughts in their head at the same time ... When I was a kid there was a stupid debate about seat belt laws. Opponents of those laws always used to say that sometimes seatbelts actually kill you; one person will be "thrown clear" in a head-on collision while the person in the next seat will be trapped inside a burning wreck because he had a seatbelt on. Yeah, once in a blue moon that did happen. So what? Stupid.