The Frankish Reich

Always good when you guys revert to the what about Kamala or Joe or Hillary line. I don't like being lied to. I don't care by whom. This is an epic lie, somehow tying these Venezuelan cocaine boats, headed to some non-US trans-shipment point, to the fentanyl crisis.

Just a reminder of How It Started, How It's Going. Febrile fantasies of Julie Kelly and her bottom, NC Bills Fan.

It went to ... Mark Kelly? Hah. Just kidding. You literally can't embarrass the Le Grand Orange. They're doing wall-to-wall coverage on Fox whatever. Seems like an SNL sketch, but I promise you, it's actually happening.

OK, I'll admit it. I had watched (well, speed watched, wearing out the FF button) the 2 Chiefs themed movies last year. My wife and daughter like Hallmark Christmas movies. Kind of comfort food for the holidays for them, so I've seen bits and pieces of a lot of them. Based on my embarrassing familiarity with the genre, here's my Graded on a Curve, genre-specific scores: 1. Chiefs LIFETIME (not Hallmark) movie: 7 our of 10. They didn't have access to Chiefs regalia or Chiefs player cameos, etc. Lifetime seems a little racier than Hallmark. They're definitely doing more than a final kiss. Pretty decent for the genre. Not eyerolling Chiefs worship. 2. Bills movie: 4. Pretty cringe at times, but still kept the pace going. Player cameos fun for Bills fans, pretty innocuous for non-Bills female audiences as far as I can tell. Wife and daughter sat through this one with me. If it hadn't been Bills, they might not have sat it out, but still, o.k. 3. Chiefs Hallmark movie: 0. Awful. This is the one with Travis Kelce's mom, which alone is enough to drop it a couple points. Awful plot - they didn't want it to get uncomfortably close to real life Travis loves Taylor, so the love interest is ... a Chiefs office worker? What? That's gonna get the female viewers all hot and bothered? Just unwatchable for anyone but a hardcore Chiefs fan, or your hardcore Hallmark movie reviewer (I watch so you don't have to). Disgusting Chiefs hagiography; basically a Chiefs fanfic, but by a really untalented screenwriter. Avoid at all costs. You're welcome.

Hey, if you like be lied to by your own government, good for you.

MAGA: you think the story here is that the pipe bomber was arrested, and that it was not an "inside job." No. The story is Jake Tapper said something stupid! Distract. Never apologize for being an idiot.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/drug-boats-venezuela-are-mainly-moving-cocaine-europe-not-fentanyl-us-rcna244583

To defeat the enemy you must become the enemy. So who do you think Trump/Vance fear the most in 2028? Newsom: glib, good looking, but they'll hang California around his neck Beshear: yeah, the classic candidate who looks good on paper (red state Dem!) with a personality deficit he can't overcome AOC: she'd get traction in Dem primaries but never in a national election. Almost too easy. Kelly: weird looking, not glib, which strangely adds a note of seriousness, performs well in a purple state, makes Vance or whoever look like he belongs at the kid's table. Odd candidate for a national election, but (as we're seeing) smarter at playing the political game than he looks

The best performance by a real life Bills player or coach goes to ... McD. His scene was remarkably un-cringey. The rest? Mega-cringe.

https://amgreatness.com/2022/02/14/the-january-6-pipe-bombs-look-like-another-fbi-hoax/ The author? Why, none other than the ultra-reliable insider herself, the Bride of Monsanto, Mrs. Julie Kelly. The timing? 4 days ago. Brilliant.

Sounds like this is right. I will say people think this is far easier than it is in real life. All those police procedural dramas, etc. Bondi said it herself: a needle in a haystack investigation. I was never out there pounding the pavement or compiling spreadsheets of license plate numbers. But I worked with agents who were doing that, and sometimes you keep digging, digging, digging until you have enough information to get a search warrant, and then the search blows the case wide open. Sometimes the feds have someone on the radar but not enough to make an arrest, so they hang back and watch and keep working the case to get that information to make the arrest. Kash Patel's scolding of the people who named the wrong person suggests exactly that - barking up the wrong tree here did nothing to advance the investigation and may have hindered it.

Yeah, but the gait of a white woman! You rely on looks, I rely on the science.

What? I truly believed that someone left two pipe bombs near the Capitol on the night of January 5. I never believed stupid conspiracy theories that it was an "inside job." As of tonight, my instincts have been proven sound on both counts.

Walks just like a female soccer goalie!

He may have already done so, wittingly or unwittingly Cling to your conspiracy fantasies, salesman!

Or he'll be a crypto bro who buys the Cardinals and signs free agent Josh Allen to do a late-career Elway. Josh Rosen is currently attending the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, where he is pursuing a Master's degree in Business Administration. After his NFL career took him to multiple teams, he has shifted his focus to a business education.

Suspect described as quiet, a loner, lives with his parents, something about anarchist social media. Whatever. Fits many a recent profile of a disaffected, likely on the spectrum, young male. No apparent connections to anyone in a position of power. Goodbye "inside job" theory. Now it'll be all distraction: Kash Patel wonderful, Joe Biden incompetent, blah, blah, blah. All that crap about the inside job? They'll never comment on it again. They'll never say "oops, sorry, we were wrong." The damn fool who created this thread probably won't even edit it to remove the name of the girl he libeled.

I can see that. But I think he'll decline faster than Allen, so the clock is ticking.

Mayfield, Darnold, Allen, Jackson* All still in the hunt this year. It kind of surprises me that a class this good is still waiting for its first SB appearance, now nearing the end of their collective 32 seasons of NFL football. For comparison, the great Class of 1983 (Elway, Kelly, Marino) saw their first SB with Marino, then a couple with Elway, then already had one with Kelly by the end of their 8th season. (Yeah, and zero wins, but still.) And that's despite Kelly losing time to the USFL. Right now I'm still sticking with Josh. I think the Bills patch it together and come back strong in the playoffs this year and the next couple years. But I can see a really good argument for any of the others too, particularly Darnold (that defense) and Lamar (those injuries won't last forever). Mayfield? I think he's a really good QB on a very average team. *Josh Rosen exempted; he joins Todd Blackledge as a footnote to NFL history.

And how many kids have contracted childhood diseases and died from them?

The poor girl libeled by The Blaze would have a damn good lawsuit, if the remnants of that idiotic outfit have any money that could actually be collected. Strikes me as an Alex Jones situation. You'd have to come up with a theory to get to Glenn Beck personally. Or maybe NC Bills Fan can be sued in his personal capacity. I'd be glad to pitch in my ten bucks to finance it.

Mark Kelly just moved himself into the first tier of potential 2028 Dem candidates. Trumpies are just a little bit scared of that.

Let's see today's PPP favorite news items: Florida takes on chemtrails!

1:01:53 - Tucker continues to ask the hard questions, or at least the question that get him hard.