The Frankish Reich

How did Jameis Winston vs. Bo Nix, two teams with excellent defenses battling it out in the trenches, turn into the best shoot-out of the year?

HO LEE FOOK!

Jayden Daniels started faster, Caleb Williams has had his moments, Drake Maye has shown promise, but right now? In a do-over draft, I think I'm going with Nix first.

I think Sean Payton may have found his Drew Brees.

Amazing how Deshaun Watson going down turned this team around. Broncos are solid and (though it pains me to say it) well coached. But it's still a rookie QB and I'd much prefer to see them in the playoffs as opposed to the other two.

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The first part of your response is fine. But you start talking crap about Margaret, well, that's fightin words. Don't you mess with my Margaret. Apparently the great grand daughter of Herbert Hoover, which I find quite amazing, comparing them side to side ...

And there may be issues in your past that make you a security threat, subject to blackmail, etc. All reports say that the Trump transition team was pissed that Hegseth didn't disclose the police report naming him. Think about it: someone knows about that, the public doesn't, they use that information for leverage. Or other information that is similarly embarrassing/illegal. This is why we have the clearance process.

Kind of what I said - a mom's love for her son is surpassed only by love for her grandkids. The mom here didn't leak the email. Mom sent the email to Pete and to Pete's ex. It's not officially attributed to the ex, but we all know. Just messy and, shall we say, conduct unbecoming an officer. Lots of allegations of excessive drinking and other behavior that is only excusable as a "youthful indiscretion," which typically doesn't apply to those beyond college age.

Wonderful son-in-law father, whose illegal wheeling and dealing is described very nicely by the Trump's last Transition Team Chief. (How is it that he and the beguiling Margaret Hoover are of the same species? By the way, Margaret also thinks Hegseth is a loser) If Kushner Sr.'s criminal scheme were in a screenplay, it would be rejected as too implausible to pass the laugh test.

I read the New Yorker story (did anyone criticizing it do so?), and it strikes me as solid and fair reporting. I will point out that all of the Misadventures of Pete are the kinds of things that come up in a security clearance background investigation, and again, someone with this history would almost certainly not be granted a clearance if ordinary rules apply.

I now believe Biden will pardon Trump for all crimes under federal jurisdiction just before he leaves office. And in light of the Hunter pardon, I actually think that would be appropriate.

Affairs, plural. Again, I hate to be an old prude here, but affairs while serving as a military officer too. You've gotta go pretty far to have your own mother take your wife's side in a split-up. Obviously she thought her son was a complete creep and that his behavior harmed the grandkids. That's the only thing a momma loves more than her own son....

This game was actually validation of the bend but don't break defensive philosophy. The Niners ran the ball effectively. Until players got bunched up in the red zone. Play 8 in the box and let CMC or one of their other runners break one for a TD or two early and the game could have taken on a different character.

I think you missed the sarcasm ... Thank you. Someone got it!

I'll start with the old-fashioned qualifier ... ... With all due respect, don't you see that there is something just a little different about how Trumpworld is now treating character issues? That's what David Brooks is talking about. Someone with the known, umm, sexual libertinism of Matt Gaetz (setting aside whether a minor was involved) would never, ever have been nominated for a Cabinet position - much less the nation's leading law enforcement authority - under any other President. Someone like Hegseth would have been considered disqualified based on his own inability to keep it in his pants. These two aren't close issues historically. Never would have even dreamed of nominating him (Swingin' Matt), or would have been forced to withdraw (Horndog Hegseth) as soon as it became clear that the behavior was true. (again, setting aside any issue of assault). His own mother's letter would have been thought so damning that it would be over. But not anymore Rush Limbaugh loved to cite the old Daniel Patrick Moynihan line about "defining deviancy down." What was once deemed utterly unacceptable and a disqualification from serving in public life becomes acceptable. And then, as Brooks points out, almost a good thing - a powerful man takes what he wants.

To answer the OP's question: JOSEPH R. BIDEN. Pardoning Hunter is a very ballsy decision. It may spell the end of his future political ambitions, but that didn't deter him. No doubt he circumvented the normal Presidential pardon process. A Man in Charge. It's not too late to nominate Hunter to be the Ambassador to France for the next 49 days. Do it!

And you say I need to go to joke-writing school. Please: don't ever try to do edgy again.

Hey, if he had: 1. Stayed in the race instead of being pushed aside for Kamala. 2. Won the election, Then he wouldn't have pardoned Hunter until January 2029. If he were still alive. Proof that Joe is still the Man in Charge in the White House.

You mean the half that insisted the economy is garbage, that inflation is completely uncontrolled, and that things are going to hell in a handbasket? You mean the same half that suddenly thinks things are kind of o.k. after all?

High praise from the stripper-adjacent Ms. Luna!

To MAGA World, it's a feature, not a bug. David Brooks did a nice job unpacking all of this. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/opinion/trump-values-maga-cabinet.html What does heroism look like according the MAGA morality? It looks like the sort of people whom Trump has picked to be in his cabinet. The virtuous man in this morality is self-assertive, combative, transgressive and vengeful. He’s not afraid to break the rules and come to his own conclusions. He has contempt for institutions and is happy to be a battering force to bring them down. He is unbothered by elite scorn but, in fact, revels in it and goes out of his way to generate it. In this mind-set, if the establishment regards you as a sleazeball, you must be doing something right. If the legal system indicts you, you must be a virtuous man. In this morality, the fact that a presidential nominee is accused of sexual assault is a feature, not a bug. It’s a sign that this nominee is a manly man. Manly men go after what they want. They assert themselves and smash propriety — including grabbing women “by the *****” if they feel like it.

"Islamist invaders" started the fire? Let's just keep making sh!t up.

You might need to check on the definition of "ignore." Responding to my every comment would seem not to fall within that definition. But you be you.

⬆️ Sole redeeming virtue: the nanny was so repulsed by him that nanny-banging was just a sad fantasy