The Frankish Reich

What an insane/inane talking point. Yes, Zelensky could surrender. Isn't the whole point of this - including Europe's/the USA's involvement to avoid surrender to aggressive dictators? Aren't we concerned about what Putin may do next? About where this leaves Taiwan?

It was funny at the time, because it was a well-scripted parody. You and the Babylon Bee should use that as a learning experience. by the way, I changed my mind: it'll be Vance-Trump, and they'll be coy about the whole Vance Resigns thing. Then when Vance resigns Trump will appoint Eric as his veep. The sycophant is never respected, always double-crossed.

It's not clever, because this is exactly the scenario Trump has contemplated out loud. It is funny because JD Vance - the ultimate suck-up - would kind of be left twisting in the wind if this comes to pass. And yes, Trump's not looking so hale and hearty these days ...

Vance-Trump, baby! It's on. You can only be elected president twice, but you can be elected vice president and then the president can resign and the stand-in can ascend to the throne. And then the stand-in can appoint Laura Loomer as his new veep. JD will just have to wait his turn, watch those DJT DVT ultrasounds, and hope the timing somehow works out.

Glad to see the MAGAs are still running an anti-Hillary campaign strategy.

Bingo! MAGA: DEI is an abomination. If minority kids can't compete in the fields the 21st century economy values, well, too bad. I guess they just have to change or adapt to the times. But if white boys are failing or lacking interest in those same fields (say, health care-related "women's jobs"), well, that's a crisis. We need to create manufacturing jobs for them so they'll feel valued; who cares whether that would be economically inefficient. They have to feel valued! Don't make them change or adapt to the times. It's their feelings, dammit! Republicans used to call this "the soft bigotry of low expectations." Those were different times.

Good thing this has nothing to do with her sneaking Corey Lewandwski in her back door.

I tried to pull up the box score on ESPN and clicked on last year's game. Other than Josh Allen throwing 4 passes, it was basically the same preseason crap performance. Thankfully neither one means anything, except for the Bears who showed that they now (finally) have a competent HC.

Thanks for watching so I don't have to! This one must have taken all of your willpower and half of you liquor cabinet to get through.

What you say is correct in a perfect world, but that world was not the Biden World and certainly isn't Trump World. I think reparations are off the table. It simply won't happen. It's ridiculous that Trump has effectively taken NATO membership off the table in negotiations. It seems the thinking is something short of accession to NATO (with it's security guarantees) and something more like a European military presence. No one knows exactly what the sentiment of the Ukrainian populace is today, but it seems like there's a strong sentiment toward some significant territorial concessions as long as there is reasonable assurance that Putin will declare victory and leave them alone, at least as far as invasion/bombing goes ... I would expect him to keep meddling on the political/covert front, because the KGB is gonna KGB.

Could be fun given that he managed to make a fool out of himself when given the easiest possible setup pregame.

So glad I decided to DVR this one. Where’s the delete key?

As someone who has actually prosecuted illegal voter cases, I can say no, I never denied that it happens. Yes, including registered Republicans. Has it swayed any statewide election? Very unlikely.

Sorry, Thrilla, you blew the punch line. It's supposed to be "and now they have to go out and buy reissued vinyl again for $36.99 a pop."

Hey, just kidding. I like the hyperlocal stuff!

Well, yes, that's the old Michael Moore thing, but in his case he used Canada. So yes, there's something weird about the USA. But I am amazed at how many of our mass or random shooters have had documented mental health issues (often serious) and there is no real discussion of how you keep guns away from them. As for the second point: yes, a lot of this is gang culture. But a lot of it is also drug culture, and I don't mean criminal gangs involved with drug distribution. I mean bottom of the food chain drug users involved in the kind of petty crime that destroys everything good about our cities. The homeless guy riding a stolen bike while dragging another stolen bike alongside him. The car break-ins. The garage break-ins. The rampant shoplifting that makes our drugstores plexiglassed dioramas of teeth whitening strips (h/t Bill Maher). The encampments full of stolen crap the druggies hope they can extract some scrap metal from. The "firefighters" who spend most of their time responding to a collapsed human blocking a sidewalk or a store entrance. I live in a nice urban neighborhood where there is almost no violent crime. But you always need to be on the lookout for the petty crime. Heaven forbid I forget to press "close" on the garage door which auto-closes in 5 minutes, or that I leave a Target bag visible inside my locked car.

Ahh, preseason. We love you and we hate you for making us wait.

Maybe RFK Jr made himself afraid of needles. You know, heroin needles.

Are you suggesting Tre White is Black and some guy named Steve is White?

Key take-aways: 1. Allen sounds relaxed. 2. Kincaid looks skinny. 3. Not sure if it was Dawkins, but if it was he looks fat.

But are those Eggland's Best? You know I mark my calendar for Wacka's weekly trip to Tops.

says the poster who has never gotten over his crying when mommy took him to the Dr for his childhood vaccinations. A lot of the anti-vaxx stuff is nothing more than fear of needles.

Poor Roger Stone! Stone was found guilty of obstruction of a congressional investigation, five counts of making false statements to Congress, and tampering with a witness. The verdict followed a trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Stone faces a prison sentence of up to five years for counts one to six and up to 20 years for count seven. He will be sentenced on February 6, 2020, by the Honorable Amy Berman Jackson. According to an investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, including allegations that Russia was involved in the publication of documents related to the presidential election by WikiLeaks in 2016. On September 26, 2017, in testimony to the Committee, Stone made a number of false statements relating to the identity of a person he had referred to in August 2016 as his “back-channel” or “intermediary” to the head of WikiLeaks; whether he had asked that person to do anything on his behalf; whether he had written communications with that person; whether he discussed that person with anyone involved with the Trump campaign; and whether he had written communications with third parties about the head of WikiLeaks. On October 13, 2017, Stone sent the House Intelligence Committee a letter falsely stating that the person he had referenced in August 2016 was an individual named Randy Credico. Stone then engaged in witness tampering by urging Credico either to corroborate this false account, or to tell the Committee that he could not remember the relevant events, or to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid testifying before the Committee. Credico ultimately invoked his Fifth Amendment right in response to a Committee subpoena.the government’s evidence, in January 2017, the United States House of Representatives Select Permanent Committee on Intelligence (“House Intelligence Committee") This "Hoax" crap long ago jumped the shark. They are now trying to exonerate the ultimate political dirty trickster Roger Stone. What? Roger Stone would would work with Wikileaks Insiders? Not our Roger Stone!

1. Crimea. Admit that it's gone. Russia took it over a decade ago and the international community did little. It is the bargaining chip. 2. Some minor border adjustments in the Donbas to reflect the reality of the pre-war population (more Russia-oriented) and the current population (basically only Russian and Russian-oriented population left). Ukraine to have a very minor face-saving border adjustment of it's own. 3. Russia to withdraw from all other regions. 4. Status of Ukraine (EU/NATO membership) to be deferred to some kind of peace process.

Ignore the headline below the pic. Annoying old-time liberal Maureen Dowd has joined the enough crime is enough crowd. My own personal belief about a lot of this: both sides unfortunately reached the conclusion the the War on Drugs was a failure. It wasn't. We did actually arrest and imprison our way out of the crack crisis of the 80s and 90s, but didn't even try with the opiate crisis of the 2010s - today. Legalize (not "reschedule"; actually legalize on the federal level) marijuana and in the same bill go full-on War on Meth and Opiates.