The Frankish Reich

This appears to be misdirected. I will try to forward it to Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff.

Giant Douche Canoe.

It would have passed with support from Trump.

You usually don't get the Nobel Peace Prize after one side has been bombed to smithereens. People can argue till the cows come home about whether we should've dropped the bombs on Japan, but one thing we know is that Truman wasn't a Nobel winner.

With his arm, size, and intensity I'd say the guy could've been a MLB quality pitcher. But baseball is probably the most difficult sport to project; at a minimum, it would have taken a full-time commitment. I definitely think he could have been a track and field decathlete.

What is this Project 2025 you speak of? I vaguely recall Trump saying he knew nothing about it, so I never bothered to study it.

This is one of the weirdest attempt to massage the numbers that I've ever seen ... The real numbers, unmassaged: https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html

Heat pumps are great ... in the right climate. It just won't work for me in Colorado, or in Northern NYS. Probably Buffalo is marginal? It doesn't get as cold thanks to the damn lake effect, but it's close. So yeah, bad plan if it doesn't differentiate Lake Placid from Staten Island ...

EDIT: Does Tarheel have a trans kid who won't speak to him just like Elon Musk does? Seems personal.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/31/donald-trump-josh-hawley-stock-trading-bill/85454893007/ https://nypost.com/2025/07/30/us-news/trump-rips-sen-josh-hawley-over-pelosi-act-congressional-stock-trading-ban/

By the way, silly name aside, the PELOSI Act was probably the best thing to come out the the Trump 2.0 Congress. Trump himself killed it. In this age of index fund dominance, I see no reason why members of Congress or Administration officials should be trading individual stocks. You trade individual stocks if you believe you have better information about that company than the "wisdom of the crowd." And if you are in Congress or a senior government official, that "better information" is almost always because you have advance information about the regulatory state. Telling that Trump hated it and whiffed on this attempt to end corruption in government AND to troll Pelosi at the same time.

/ / / / / / / / / Please play me the greatest hits, Tarheel! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR HOW CLOSE TRUMP IS TO MOLESTERS!!

This is what grooming is. Creep in a position of authority starts working on a 12 year old to gain her trust, then molests her for 4 years. Those of you who use the term against Netflix, etc., are simply cheapening the horrifying reality.

You mean Trump 2016 "spiritual advisor" Robert Morris? Yeah. The same one.

"Grooming" what? Is the cartoon character going to come and molest your 7 year old? The parents are letting the kid watch it. Enough with the "grooming" stupidity. It had a specific meaning, and a valuable one: the idea that some adult, usually an authority figure like a coach or a priest or a teacher, gradually works on a naive kid to make him or her receptive to inappropriate and illegal sexual advances. That was a good and useful meaning because it was a common and dangerous pattern that parents and kids could be on the lookout for. You've cheapened that term and made it impossible to distinguish that disgusting behavior from general media about gender and sexuality. That probably makes "grooming" easier for the real groomers. Nicely done. By the way, this is all about this: In the old days they would have said that such things are the product of an absentee father.

As I said: I don't know any 7 year old with his/her own Netflix account.

UFC, WWE: also homoerotic, also MAGA coded. deal with it.

I'm not aware of anyone watching Netflix in school. If the kids are, well, the parents should find out. If they don't, they probably don't care.

Netflix is a streamer, so it's not like the old over-the-air broadcasters that caused such hand-wringing in the 1990s. I lived through the era of child parental locks and all that stuff that had extremely low uptake - the idea that you'd prevent your kid from stumbling upon something inappropriate while he's doing what we used to call channel surfing. It is extremely easy to monitor what your kids are watching on Netflix. Ridiculously easy. Easier than monitoring what your kids see on X. Surely the World's Smartest Man can figure this out. I mean, I didn't think my kids should be watching Chapelle or Louis CK, and they didn't because, among other things, they would consider it incredibly boring and weird that I'd watch some guy talking for 90 minutes. Here's what the MAGAs don't get: there are a lot of liberal parents who think its a good thing that their kids learn early on about things like sexual/gender identities. This isn't being foisted on them. They think it's good! They're Americans too, and I'm not going to get involved in censoring how they choose to raise their children. Not my choices (hell, my kids went to Catholic schools!), but not my decision either.

It's not "the gays." It's the self-hating and/or closeted/repressed gays. And I'm including here the MAGAs with a strange attraction to trans people. Take a closer look at this Nick Fuentes guy. Yeah, he's fringe, but not so fringe that he hasn't had lunches and meetings with the big leaders of MAGA. There's always been a homoerotic subtext to fascism and militarism. Peter Thiel anyone?

https://tower.mastersny.org/16464/opinion/netflix-greenlights-controversial-stand-up-with-new-tony-hinchcliffe-specials/ Plus: Chapelle, Burr, Rogan, etc. Good on Netflix for not giving in to left or right cancel culture.

Isn't Netflix kind of the ideal streamer? They refuse to engage in cancel culture from either side.

Maybe you folks want to think about this the next time one of the Nationalist-Populist MAGAs starts talking about the "fictional" separation of church and state.

I'm sorry, I don't index all your thoughts. Saves a lot of brain capacity. So ... ... I take it you are saying he is fit to serve? I just mentioned I watched JD Vance's presser today. Impressive. A lot of bs, but impressive in delivering it in a convincing and (on the surface) logical, coherent manner. So he is clearer fitter than Trump. Surely you agree with that. Fitter means the other guy is less fit. I say so much less fit that he is unfit. See how this dissolves into the same thing? Fitter than. Fit enough by contemporary standards. Wildly unfit as compared to Adams and Jefferson. Not objectively "fit" or "unfit." Would be easier if you just answered Yes. Then I could ask you what the hell was going on when he posted the MedBed thing.