The Frankish Reich

Before the obsession with "narrative control" here, there was another similar obsession. As a grown-up, I didn't even know what it meant: Ratio'd. I looked it up. It means the ratio between likes:unlikes (or whatever they call it on Twitter; I don't have a Twitter account) to a post. So the same people were all excited when, say, a Kamala campaign post had 3:1 negative reaction. The rest of us were perplexed. I mean, does that tell me anything other than "new" Twitter/X has 3 times more right-wing than left wing subscribers? Or more accurately, 3 times more politics obsessed right-wingers than regular people? No. It doesn't tell me anything other than that. Why would a grown man (and they are all nominally men) care about this nothing statistic? Do the same people care if a poll shows the Dallas Cowboys have 3 times more self-identified "fans" than the Buffalo Bills? Are these the people who scream their heads off when some pathetic old nostalgia act says "Now right side only ... who's ready to rock and roll tonight!" Are they thrilled if their side is a touch louder? Yes. Yes they are. But such is the immaturity of the Trumpist. And it flows straight from the immaturity of that 79 year old who reposts ret@rded (he said that word is now in vogue again!) internet memes. Ratio me!! Use that little pukey emoji. I'll be crushed.

Now that's some narrative control at work.

REMINDER (isn't that how B-Man Bot personalized his twitter feed?):

YOU ARE NOW UNDER MY NARRATIVE CONTROL. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

Hey, buddy, I just did a little public demonstration of how stupid this "narrative control" thing is. You are not likely to see me competing with the more frenetic posters, not here and not on the football side. In fact, I'm a very reluctant OP creator. What I was trying to point out is the utter pointlessness of simply cutting and pasting someone else's tweet. Really, if I want that Twitter feed, Twitter's algorithm is really good at providing that. If it's actual breaking news, well, fine. That's kind of the Yolo role over on the football side. But I see zero value (actually negative annoyance value) in reposting a tweet or blog commentary by some other (generally unknown) person, without any meaningful additional comment (i don't mean a clappy hands emoji) of one's own.

I now have complete narrative control. haha

Not about to let you guys reassume Narrative Control. My Bot is bigger than your Bot! (Clappy hands emoji)

The Clappy Hands emoji is adding value! By the way, I am sooooo burned up about that image of an old grandfather bragging about himself while driving his granddaughter around a golf course. Wow. If only my people could do that.

I think she meant Dupont. Kinda like how Trump mixed up Azerbaijan and Armenia. And somewhere in there was Albania too. Whatever. But I will commend the B-Man Bot for adding a presumably original thought about the No Kings rally this weekend. Then again, indistinguishable from AI "write a comment on the government shutdown from the perspective of a Trump supporter." So still NVA.

B-Man Bot needs to be reprogrammed to check what's already been posted on PPP. Zero. Value. Added.

It's a B-Man Bot trifecta! One auto-generated line in the last 3 posts.

Oops, the B-Man Bot is Back! Cleverly trying to pose as a human by inserting the language like "how did he lose his legs" in one out of 3 posts. Not fooling me anymore.

Insightful comment! And to think I was wondering if you were a bot. A bot could never have come up with that one.

Mr. ZVA (Zero Value Added) with another (Multi) Daily Double!

Thank you for the last 3 cut-and-pastes, Mr. Zero Value Added commenter!

So you illegally voted in California. Good for you! Somewhere Democratic Governor candidate Phil Angelides (had to look that one up) is giving a speech that says, "Actually, we DID win in 2006 ..."

I can attest that the Catholic nuns who were my teachers in elementary school did, in fact, bully me into submission. Thank you for another cut-and-paste that contains precisely one word of your own.

OMG! The Great Trumpy Schism of 2025 is underway! Next up: Tucker. By the way, where's my weekly Tucker Show update? Those seem to have disappeared.

The obnoxious Young Republicans who were outed are blaming the head of the NYC Young Republicans, Gavin Wax, for leaking their obnoxious messages. I saw a reference from Wax's LinkedIn (I think) that says he's Jewish. So not only are these outed young Republicans obnoxious, racist, and anti-Semitic, they are also terminally dumb; they included a Jewish guy in their hilarious anti-Semitic chat group. Incidentally, Wax, Jewish or not, definitely has the Young Republican Leader body type. It's contagious. I'm liking this role reversal!

Now tell us how many of those posts consist of your own thoughts rather than (or in addition to) what some other person tweeted. If I want to get your Twitter feed I can make that happen without the middleman. Challenge: spend one day - just one day - posting here without cutting/pasting anyone else's thoughts.

I'm crestfallen. Oh, by the way, here's the only female douchebag alongside her buddies. You can see she continues the tradition of the National Pete Hegseth Fitness Award winners.

Hawes is a more traditional heavy package choice, but man, I miss those runs with Alec Anderson clearing out a LB or DB like a snowplow in a Buffalo blizzard.

Yes, and we saw it with CJ Spiller, a fast but otherwise much inferior back.

What is "insane" about the argument made in your last cut-and-paste special? Isn't this precisely why Congress felt the need to pass the Voting Rights Act in 1965?

I loved the Chan Gailey designed screen. And that's the only thing I loved about him.