The Frankish Reich

Bongino may be noticing that it's a lot easier - and more lucrative - to toss Conspiracy Bombs when you're a right-wing radio host than when you're the Deputy Director of the FBI.

Raise taxes, bring in more revenue! Thank you, Mr. Tax and Spend.

I've read - and argued - with poster Dilan Esper, a civil rights lawyer, in other contexts. So thanks for posting him here. Is your X feed now serving up liberals too, or only liberals when they say something you happen to agree with? (I agree here too)

Moderately amusing! The Bee's new ownership is making progress. Very, very slowly.

Those Guatemalan children would be so, so much happier and healthier selling Chiclets in Tijuana.

"Once in 1,000 years" meant "once in 4 decades" in the Hill Country of Texas. As the old song went, "It's a one-time thing, it just happens a lot."

OK, let's train a Large Language Model. Instead of scouring Wikipedia, this one will scour Twitter/X. Then let's ask it a provocative question, like "what group is most responsible for causing pain and suffering in the world?" Then let's sit back and let it rip through all the racist and anti-semitic tweets your little corner of the internet has enabled ever since you bought it. Then let's all act shocked when AI becomes MechaHitler. Garbage in, Garbage out.

The same place flooded and killed kids before. How difficult would it be to have kids run an evacuation drill on the first day of camp?

I love how that retweeted thing sounds exactly like our old friend Deranged Rhino. Maybe it is him. Use your discernment, as he was wont to say. The Shoe of Conspiracy is now squarely on the Artificially Elevated Trump Foot.

80% tariff please. They are so selfish.

Nice story. Good on you, Josh. I get it. Famous people get a little tired of being bothered all the time. So we appreciate it when a hero actually appears grateful. There used to be a PGA tournament near where I lived. I attended a couple of them. Here's what impressed me: Greg Norman was reaching the end of his competitive days. He was making a little run for maybe the last time. People were trying to follow him hole to hole. And all it took was a little nod, a little smile, a little wave, a little acknowledgment from him that his fans were there. And he did it. Just the smallest gesture was all he needed to get the love of the crowd. I think Vijay Singh won that year. He wasn't rude in any way, just generally immune to the crowd. No acknowledgment at all. And he basically had no fans. It doesn't take much...

The larger picture: - WTF are we doing with cannabis. It is readily available - in a store - where most people live. Yet it remains federally controlled. Neither party is willing to get ahead of the issue and just federally legalize/regulate it. This system is absurd. - Growing lettuce, tomatoes, artichokes, cannabis in the USA depends on cheap labor. Cheap labor means immigrants. WTF are we doing in America where we both encourage and discourage immigrant labor. Neither party is willing to face reality. Broken government. Umm, yeah.

Well that was illuminating.

Synthetic diamonds, baby. Substitution. It is the first thing any competent economist should think about.

We are depriving these children of their futures in Mexican fentanyl factories.

1984/85: I honestly can't remember watching a Bills game. Post-Chuck Knox, boring teams, sad old Fergie, then Vince Ferragamo (had to look it up), before Jim Kelly, plus I was in college and just a little distracted.... ... I can't believe I stuck with the team in those JP Losman/Trent Edwards years. But I did.

This one is really something. Even for Trump. Notice that Trump barely even pretends that there’s an economic justification for this action. This is all about punishing Brazil for putting Jair Bolsonaro on trial. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-dictator-protection-program Please, please Appeals Court, put an end to this embarrassing nonsense.

Trump earlier this week said that he might have done things differently than Elon Musk if he had been in charge. If he'd been in charge. What was that about President Autopen?

Welcome back.

Nice work pulling up Biden Admin tweets. I thought that's why we elected Trump, to drain the swamp! Never mind. So turns out Trump is PART of that ruling class that covers up gross immorality and crime? I never would've guessed it.

Well, thanks. In addition to those 3, there's also the good ol' Trump is Playing 5D Chess. The prosecutions/military tribunals/whatever are still coming, and to release the list(s) now would compromise those efforts. Note that this is essentially an updated QAnon: "Hillary will be arrested in March (2017)" etc, etc. So which camp are you in? I am going with old I'm shocked (shocked!) that there are a lot of sleazebags in high positions in business and politics.

The fun thing with this Epstein business: the right wing echo chamber can't come up with a convincing talking point. Is it the Bidenites (read: Clintonites) destroyed everything before Trump stormed back into office? Is it that Bondi has been co-opted because rich and powerful Floridians (hey, Mr. Trump!) are on the list and key Dems aren't? Is it because ... well ... we just grossly exaggerated the Epstein Influence/Blackmail Scheme and there really never was any evidence to support it (that is, we lied about it to get people like Blitzy all hot and bothered?) The Laura Loomers are going with the Bondi is Corrupt theme. Here? Well, I know, let's talk about Biden and immigration!!

Hmm, seems a bit off topic here. Wondering why you posted it.

Yeah, go ahead, call him a communist. He fits the bill. Then think about the communist things he's said as opposed to some ordinary Democrat or even ordinary Democratic Socialist. I don't think even Bernie has talked about seizing the means of production.

Looks like a truly hellish place to live. "Inside a windmill." Meanwhile, the Very Strong and Powerful President Xi continues on his coal burning beautification project.