The Frankish Reich

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I am at the point where discussing whether something is or is not technically "genocide" is part of the problem, not part of the solution. It is a humanitarian tragedy.

What a life! A fine coach and a kind and decent man. And many more ...

At least you finally understand that the new tariff regime is essentially a VAT on American consumers. Baby steps.

This is the guy who supposedly went to the Bills game in London and still managed to sh!t post here approximately 40 times a day. In London. Hence the get a life comment.

So let's say I want the Fed to lower interest rates. It is well understood that the Fed will be hesitant to do so if the economy is running close to full capacity because that would be inflationary. So I get a report that says "number of newly created jobs last month fell below expectations" and that "prior monthly jobs created were actually lower than initially reported." I am a Very Stable Genius President. I respond by: A. Saying, "See, economic growth is slowing under these high interest rates after all. Now is the time for the Fed to act to ensure continued growth." B. Saying, "These numbers are politicized lies; we are growing at a faster clip than ever before. Everything is wonderful. I am firing the person who cooked up these fake numbers." [Therefore, interest rates should remain high, or perhaps go a tick higher before the Trump 2.0 economy overheats?] Sometimes you just gotta conclude that he is that stupid.

Now look me in the eye and say that.

So I took some time to read that Annex stuff. I think Ross Douthat just about sums up where I'm at on all of this: Then consider Russiagate, where we have cycled from one conspiratorial reading of the 2016 election to another: The resistance theory about malign Russian influence over Trump’s campaign or Trump himself, which birthed the Robert Mueller investigation and a climate of hysteria, has given way to the Trumpist theory that the Obama administration conspired to promote a false narrative about collusion in order to cripple the Trump presidency from the start. In each case, the theories have been interpreting the same underlying conspiracy, largely hidden in 2016 but more visible since — a Russian information operation to undermine American democracy. But both theories, at least as I read the evidence, have ended up assigning too much conspiratorial agency to their domestic enemies, and too little to the Russians themselves. The anti-Trump side looked at how eagerly the Trump campaign responded to the 2016 email hacks and WikiLeaks dumps and assumed, they must be in cahoots with Putin. And now the pro-Trump side looks at the misinformation and motivated reasoning involved in the inception of the Russia investigation and assumes, they must have known that this was a fake story from the start. But in both cases, it’s quite possible that the only self-conscious Machiavellians were the Russians; it was their conspiracy, in which both Republicans and Democrats collaborated as marks. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/opinion/conspiracy-theories-epstein-russia.html Bottom line: - Russia did try to "influence" the election by making Hillary look bad (and in a 2-person race, by definition make Trump look good) - Trump's people eagerly played cheerleader - When it became clear that Trump's people (Manafort, Don Jr.) got a little too cozy with Russian assets, the Democrats eagerly played cheerleader - Politics is a dirty game Remember, Trump wasn't impeached over "Russia, Russia, Russia." It turns out that Russia did try to influence the election, and Trump's campaign was involved in a couple of ham-handed efforts at lending support ("collusion"), but, as the Mueller Report concluded years ago, that never amounted to much. Democrats had more than enough to genuinely believe that there was more there, but they also understood that simply the implication that there was more there was helpful to their cause. No one is pure as the driven lake-effect snow here, and that includes Trump.

And guess what Nixon 2.0 just did! President Trump said he directed his team to fire the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official after the bureau issued a weak jobs report on Friday. Trump in a social media post said Erika McEntarfer, the BLS commissioner, would be “replaced with someone much more competent and qualified,” asserting without evidence that the government’s jobs numbers have been manipulated for political purposes. So predictable. https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/jobs-report-today-stock-market-08-01-2025?mod=hp_lead_pos1

And how has your alt media done on that Minnesota shooter story? Has your Catturd issued a formal retraction of the “contract killer for Tim Walz” angle? How about your frenetic friends here?

Well, now we know what the initial quid pro quo was. One of the better moments of Succession was watching Tom (the guy they were throwing under the bus when the Feds came looking) leafing through a binder of federal prisons put together by his “prison consultant.” Yes, that is a real thing.

What? You mean the Trump job numbers were also revised sharply downward? Conspiracy! When this happened to a previous Republican president, he demanded that his minions count all the Jews working at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/jobs-report-july-2025.html

Sounding vaguely like, umm, what do you call them, incels?

Another fine addition to the crowd-sourced Incel Manifesto we're developing here.

Not since the 1980s. Kind of a long time ago, right?

You just got done telling me that ultra low interest rates set by Jerome Powell & Co. during COVID allowed a lot of very young Gen Z'ers to buy houses. Those kids without college degrees are welcome to work for ICE where they'll get a 50K sign up bonus. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/30/ice-recruitment-donald-trump-00484885 Within a few years they can be making $120K/year and work toward retirement in their early to mid-50s. Rough living on that in NYC, so just apply for Buffalo, Detroit, etc. An ICE deportation officer married to a teacher will quickly hit 200K and have superb health care benefits, etc. Now tell me: Why can't they afford a house?

In other words: Than you, Dr. Fauci, for enabling these kids to become homeowners at an unusually young age. Speak for yourself. I have kids still under 25. I expect them to do perfectly fine, and then someday to inherit whatever my wife and I have saved (the whole "generational wealth" thing). Sometimes too much too soon isn't a good thing. Working for it puts iron in your soul.

Never let the facts get in the way of a good whine. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/09/05/how-gen-z-outpaces-past-generations-in-homeownership-rate.html

Every generation has its whiny stage. It’s called your 20s.

Not technically "cheating"; it's an ADA-type accommodation when your bloated cankles stop you from climbing down into the bunker. You know, it he's only walked the course a couple times a week (what? The foursome behind him was gonna complain?) he might be reasonably fit today.

You guys are really gonna enjoy it when President AOC or some similar lefty nutcase sues Fox News.

I don't know if I'll get through it. At this point I have to wonder whether a quick trip to Bordeaux to personally carry back my duty-free allowance would be more cost effective. I'll keep you posted.

The world that matters stands with me. Two Buck Chuck stands with you.

I thought the concept was the facts cannot be racist.

You wouldn't even recognize a real Nazi when he gets appointed. By Trump. https://www.kltv.com/2025/03/10/deleted-tweets-show-top-state-department-official-spread-false-rumors-about-marco-rubio/ Just a small selection of those deleted tweets: - 14 November 2020: I have more respect for Jeffrey Epstein than for Bill Barr At least Epstein wasn’t a ***** -21 February 2020: This is not what you think it is. It is a great troll, to be sure. But sources familiar with Q anon's thinking assure me that this is an esoteric signal, indicating the strong possibility of an Assange pardon. Time will tell Q