The Frankish Reich

Luddite.

Don't know about you guys, but I find this ChatGPT version of Tarheel much more rational. Where's the stupid insult involving bodily fluids and f**k? Where's the paranoid style we've come to love and abhor? I think he should stick with the AI responses. Can pass for sane and semi-intelligent. Let's encourage him.

To defeat the enemy we are trying like hell to become the enemy. The latest bizarro "export tax" on chips sold to China is just the next step. Trump's ultimate goal (and he's stated it as such before, with things like the national cryptocoin reserve idea) is a kind of Sovereign Wealth Fund, in which he can dole out investments and pay back political favors with his own slush fund.

It wasn't. Brian Jones, dead at 27.

30 year old live at home with parents incel gets red pilled by covidiots, acts out in most violent way. End of story.

Someone asks this question once or twice a year, and once or twice a year I feel compelled to bring up two largely forgotten proto-Allens. This first one peaked before my time, the second one right when I started loving the NFL. Neither one won a Super Bowl. Let's hope Josh breaks that mold.

What did I tell you? It wasn't that this was a rabid anti-vaxxer. Or not just that this was a rabid anti-vaxxer. It is that he was a mentally disturbed rabid anti-vaxxer who blamed the COVID vaccine for his coincidental (although probably offset by years) depression and suicidal ideation. Nice work, RFK and friends!

Because the dealer doesn't bear the risk of a default. The loan/paper is immediately sold to a larger bank, if not initiated by the larger bank to begin with.

What'd I tell you: psychotic anti-vaxx nut. Lived at home with his parents, did odd jobs, started launching into anti-vaxx lectures to his neighbors. From the reliable reporting of the NY Times. But some neighbors had noticed a shift in him. Nancy Hoalst, who lives across the cul-de-sac from the Whites’ beige two-story house, said he had become “unsettled.” “He very deeply believed that vaccines had hurt him,” Ms. Hoalst said, “and that they were hurting other people.” His apparent obsession with anti-vaccine conspiracy theories seemed to come out of nowhere about a year ago, she said. Mr. White would launch into unrelenting monologues about it on her front porch, describing a vast and confusing conspiracy. She would just let him talk, finding it unwise to acknowledge that she herself was vaccinated. But, she added, she “never thought he would take it out on other people.” “It was a such a belief, it was almost like faith,” Ms. Hoalst said of his obsession with the vaccine. “It was a tenet of who he was.”

I hope Trubisky and White can improve on that in the reg season

Play by Play man: "Beebe broke his leg right about there." Tasker: "Yeah, it's funny."

Ouch.

Beebe looking good! Tasker, umm, whatever

Nice - and dismissive - take on the idiocy of Trump's tariffs in the final few minutes here.

Are you sure this isn't just a DEI pro-chubby chick move?

Dumbasses fell for another self-serving Memecoin prank. Don't give them any attention and maybe they'll go away.

Well, he seemed pretty healthy yesterday, running around with several firearms, shooting villains like an Atlanta cop and the exterior walls of the CDC...

I hate preseason football. I am glad I forgot this was a day game. I do, however, appreciate those folks here who do watch just to give us some analysis (who looks good, who doesn't). I'll wait for that.

Where are all the " what if he pulls a hammy" posts?

Reminder: some people actually bet on this. Another reminder: some people are degenerate gamblers.

We know the shooter claimed that somehow the COVID vaccine made him "sick." My prediction: we will find out that he got the vaccine in his mid-20s, then (as is unfortunately not unusual for mental illness) suffered a psychotic break. And then made the error of logic all too common around here: post hoc, ergo propter hoc.

Wow, look at the headline here! "Sources: Shooter appeared to target CDC headquarters, was sick from COVID vaccine" You can't hate the MSM enough. Oh, wait a minute. A little reading comprehension. CNN is quoting a source who said that. They are not reporting the results of an autopsy. RFK, Jr is winning! He got a cop killed!

I don't mean to sound cruel or classist here. Really, I don't. But this is true. COVID shutdowns and home schooling exposed those kids who aren't self-motivated, who don't have parents who value education, who were likely never to succeed on an academic track. It accelerated that natural division; it didn't create it. That's why I'm all for a system that provides second chances: GEDs, community college, etc., for those kids who couldn't stick to it when they were young but who have now found the necessary discipline.

Hey, if it pops into your head, why not make a whole new post for it! One of the benefits of HHS cuts is that traveling biological supply salesmen have more time to post rambling pseudo-political thoughts on football boards.

Maybe it'll be poor Maria Butina. Didn't Mike Flynn have the hots for her too?