The Frankish Reich

River of Diet Coke will take you out!

A steady hand, the type that no longer exists.

As @JDHillFan would say ....

All true. I'm sticking to this specific case of the campground dorms. There was time to warn, and time to get the kids to slightly higher ground outside of the floodplain. It would require a flood evacuation drill ahead of time. Probably they don't do that because they don't want to spook the parents and because people prefer not to think about the potential for disaster. There are sensible things we can do that are low tech/low cost. My guess: just like in 1987, we won't do them after this one either. Instead, the campground simply won't be rebuilt, which is probably an overreaction.

I'm not blaming Trump or FEMA or whatever. But we need to learn from mistakes. I say this every time there's a disaster. Why is our evacuation plan always "throw all you sh!t in the car and start driving for higher ground?" It's a floodplain. It floods. There's not much warning, but there's enough to even go on foot to high enough ground. It's the difference between life and death.

Is Food Lion still around? Nothing said "you're in the south" like the Food Lion meat fridge.

Yes, but that kind of thing is now considered a virtue in MAGA world. He dumped his old wife for something newer, better, younger, no doubt with lip fillers and MAGA hair. Shows that despite the total nerd appearance he's actually an alpha male. Eff God and all that Sixth Commandment crap. That's for elementary school plaques, not powerful men. Winning! EDIT: not quite. More Uncle Newtie's 3rd wife or John McCain's 2nd. Or Kari Lake. The kind of butch haircut these closet cases love.

Exactly. Hey builders, lock up your copper every night!

⬆️ Has never occurred to him that people enjoy making fun of him behind his back.

Excellent points. And imagine a world in which things were going in the other direction, toward a true free trade zone with Canada. How great would that be for Buffalo? Guess we'll never know.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/tariffs-south-korea-japan-donald-trump-trade-a9075145?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAg8CiniOscz3K9YcKJ_hOChj6p9jDXDxPYc9c720h2JmZMGqEG5nDp1lSslWVg%3D&gaa_ts=68718d6f&gaa_sig=bNAXRWupj0dXLTVdwG3ExUZpn7ZGMzlt3H0uA-1JXvC-hB81HYmfkW5WEc5aIFHtnctceKSp-QjtWkKCvhpbtw%3D%3D Those radical lefties at the Wall St. Journal are picking on Trump again.

I never got that. What is that alternating caps thing supposed to mean anyway?

@B-Man Let's just say that while I don't know what kind of economics they taught at St. Bonaventure c. 1970, I do now have some insight into how Bob Lanier died bankrupt.

Well if Blondi is gone, why not Matt Gaetz? What's he up to anyway? Cut out the middleman, install the underage sex fiend himself.

He doesn't speak the Queens English. By that I mean the borough, not the monarch.

So if they're a tax on producers, how is that not "theft" too? It's only theft if it is a tax on consumers? You sound like one of them communists.

"helping reunify with their parents ..." The parents who paid a smuggler to take them to the USA so they could make some money to send back home because they were living in abject poverty. This is what I mean about the fake concern about the poor children. If you want to say something like, "cutting off employment avenues for child immigrants is an important deterrent to illegal immigration for both children and adults," well, fine. But please ... enough of the "we are doing it for these children."

Would it strike you as good economic news if the headline were "federal revenues up since Biden, Congress agreed to hike tax rates?"

Imagine how well we'll be doing when that 35 percent Canada tax kicks in.

"freed" = "deported to adject poverty" Because he loves the little children. Look, I'm not saying they shouldn't have raided this pot operation. Looks fine to me (although I'm not sure of the tactics.) But let's not pretend this is about helping the teenage illegal workers ... So you tell me ... we found illegal teenage workers. What should we do with them? Give them permanent residence? Citizenship? Foster homes and the right to attend school in America for as long as it takes to develop their potential? Or should we SEND 'EM BACK to a country with no education for those over 12 or 13 years old and no functioning economy. I suspect you think we should do the latter. Because, well, we love them.

Wow, it's almost like 3 months have passed since the April 9 Liberation Day and subsequent retraction. Not to worry. He's gearing up for Liberation Day 2.0! The VIX will be ready for that TACO Tuesday.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5392555-trump-ukraine-weapons-shipments/ you mean his sharpie autopen authorized it?

Well, Laura Loomer is Trump's lapdog, so I guess I should listen.