The Frankish Reich

Just put your Jim Beam in a purple sack and tell yourself you're classy! It's an emergency!

I move freely in two or more worlds. I enjoy fine wines and spirits, yet yesterday I consumed about 2 quarts of Coors Lite. I enjoy fine dining and am willing to pay for truly excellent food, but I will gladly grill up a couple hot dogs (extra charred) to enjoy with chopped onions, Ted's hot sauce, and local sweet corn on the cob. I enjoy the Cracker Barrel breakfasts I have with my dad, now that I know how to order there, and I am weirdly unconcerned about their sign or the paint color of the interior. I contain multitudes.

Trash spirits favored by lower class Americans.

This is common sense. Mob that bypassed security starts banging on interior doors to get into Speaker's office. And the cop is supposed to say "I think I could takes her down without using my gun." What if an Antifa mob was trying to smash its way into Speaker Johnson's office? Should they size up the assailants before firing?

you were young and dumb. you had an excuse. had.

And so the federal appeals court reaches the obvious conclusion: Trump's use of a declaration of emergency cannot support his unilateral imposition of tariffs. The setting of tariffs is an enumerated congressional power; nowhere does the constitution grant the president the right to levy duties or other taxes. Onto the Supreme Court. I say there's a slight probability of them upholding the appeals court, but of course that depends on a couple of judges in the Republican-appointed majority to rule on the language of the constitution and not on obedience to the Executive.

Well played. There are certainly some questionable honorees. Most of the musical honorees however, have had pretty solid/influential body of work. Joni Mitchell, Earth Wind and Fire, Led Zeppelin - all great musicians and/or songwriters. There's probably some lesser talents there too. I have no problem with George Strait this year, as bringing back (keeping alive?) that western swing sound was a cultural achievement. KISS? Whatever. I guess they are living comic book icons.

Yes. But I am not going to criticize the do-gooder groups who take Christ's message seriously: do good.

Thankfully we do, however, have independent video proof of his athletic prowess.

I'm sorry. I realize this was all just more proof of my cultural illiteracy. I seem to have missed this classic performance/proof of life video! In 2022, Gaynor competed in season eight of The Masked Singer as "Mermaid" who rode around on a giant clam-like vehicle that the Men in Black had to push around. After being eliminated on "Andrew Lloyd Webber Night" alongside Mario Cantone as "Maize", Gaynor did her encore performance of "I Will Survive". Will Trump join Gloria on stage to do his jacking off two guys at the same time signature move?

The correct headline: "Anti-Trumpers Point Out that Long-Forgotten Disco Queen Suddenly Given Kennedy Center Honors For No Apparent Reason Turns Out to Be a Republican Campaign Contributor" If you'd asked me last month "is Gloria Gaynor still alive?" I think I'd have answered "No."

Maybe we could replace him with people like JD Vance's non-white in-laws? Racist^

A QAnon poster! Usually you guys hide it, but this time it's right there. WWG1WGA!!

⬆️ Go back to France, you Unmitigated Gaul!

Hey, sounds less painful than the Abrahamic way! Burn him at the stake!!

James Fishback has the unmitigated gall to call her French. Hey, when you're trying like hell to be eloquent, make sure a word you use means what you think it means!

Well, we can agree that in this case whatever the "transition" process was, it didn't make him happy or well adjusted. Maybe some are, at least happier and better adjusted than they would have been had they not been afforded the opportunity to transition. I don't know. But I do know that every kid who expresses a desire to transition is by definition unhappy and maladjusted; that's why they call gender dysphoria (that is, unhappiness) I wonder if there was a dad in the picture at all. I don't want to go too far with this (in fact, didn't the CDC shooter's dad try to turn him in?), but it certainly appears to be part of the pattern.

It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to turn a kid like this into a "liberal." He hated everyone and everything, not the least of which was him(her?)self. He venerated other mass murderers like the guy who shot up the Tree of Life synagogue. He hated Jews (I assume just because why not pile on here?), he hated Trump, he hated his former school, he just ... hated. There is a real similarity here - no doubt explained in the dark depths of some weirdo internet "community" - with the guy who tried to attack the IVF clinic a few weeks ago. That guy was apparently pissed off that someone chose to bring him into the world without him choosing to be born, a weird paradox indeed. It was nihilism to the max, as was this. Destroy everything, or at least whatever you can.

There was this little thing called Schengen, which allowed freedom of movement in EU member states including the UK and Bulgaria until Brexit. UK voters decided by a slim majority that this was unwise, hence Brexit. It seems to me that the distinction between "we let him in and then decided that policy was a mistake" and "he came in illegally" is pretty important here.

But what about spasmodic dysphonia? And how do I know if I have cancer of my turbo?

To be serious for a moment: this case is a perfect exhibit for what Trump 1.0 critics called malicious incompetence. Incompetence in that he was deported to the one country a final legal decision said he couldn't be deported to. Malicious in that they refused to clearly admit the mistake and quickly undo it. (In fact, they fired the lawyer who told the judge it was a mistake.) And malicious in that they threw together an extraordinarily weak criminal charge as some kind of face-saving device to bring him back to the USA. And malicious in that they got Costa Rica to agree to accept him for deportation, but then said we're not gonna send you there unless you plead guilty to that extraordinarily weak criminal charge. And malicious in that they came up with a wacko third country - Uganda (probably conditioned on some promise of help to that nation) - if he refused to plead guilty to that extraordinarily weak charge. I worked on cases like this. Sometimes people are deported too soon or to the wrong place. It happens. (It is more likely to happen when you're in a mad dash to make numbers look better.) In those cases the U.S. government does what it should do: admits the mistake, and works with the alien's lawyer to restore the status quo ante. Usually that's in a legal agreement. "We'll bring him back, but he stays in our custody." Maybe they could've even gotten an agreement to "we'll bring him back, but then he's going to Costa Rica." But no. We have the President he refuses to admit a mistake, even a common mistake that doesn't reflect poorly on himself personally. And now his attorney is once again seeking asylum, and arguably he is eligible to do that because there is no agreement to say that he can't, and because he has entered the country this last time under one year ago (that's why he was deemed ineligible for asylum the first time around). They screwed up a really simple matter in an attempt to score political points. What a mess.

He also doesn't speak the predominant language of the United States, but that hasn't stopped him.

"overburdened with mitochondrial challenges" indeed

Like that whole bump stock thing never happened.

Do we need 3+ million active/reserve/guard/civilian employees in DOD? Are you suggesting we should just trust them without question? What happened to the promised DOGE comes to DOD phase?