The Frankish Reich

I don't like to make political points about these deranged shooters. If there's a pattern, it's a pattern about boys who are messed up by the social destruction we see in large parts of America. The only point I want to make here is that the right wingers love to focus on certain things like social forces leading to an increase in self-identified trans kids but tend to ignore the fact that a lot of their own are responsible for this kind of social decay - people who are too irresponsible themselves to be raising kids, with the kids left with no influences other than the corrupt influences of social media, video games, and online sociopaths, including those obsessed with gun culture. Social decay manifests in different ways, but the consequences are always bad.

From the NY Post: Roley was born in California and endured a difficult divorce between his parents when he was 10 years old in 2015 — a split which saw his father allegedly threaten to start a fire and shoot his mother, according to court documents obtained by CNN, though the father said those accusations were false. The suspect also aspired to be a firefighter working in forestry, according to his grandfather, and may have been in Idaho to pursue that career. Just another broken down traditional hetero family. Other reports say a kid who spent a lot of time playing video games who became way too interested in Nazis and guns as he was shuttled between family members in California and (I think) Oklahoma/Arkansas. Fairly typical of this type of crime.

Right. The prop bet thing is just a ticking time bomb. The one I'm waiting for: the prop bets for who scores the first touchdown. That's one that a playcaller can manipulate in addition to the actual players on the field.

Now you can smell like Trump too! I love that aging hooker drowned in old spice myself.

So now it sounds like they're putting together some red, white, and Blue washing deal where Larry Ellison skims off some TikTok money in exchange for an official ownership of US operations while bytedance retains operational control

My undisputed champion of the depressing yet beautiful song.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5375717-trump-temporary-pass-migrant-farm-hotel-workers/

Notice that what he’s really saying is that Trump has no idea what this bill actually does. It’s almost as if he’s a bronzed auto pen.

Alaska is exempt from the Medicaid cuts. Because, umm, we need Murkowski’s vote? that’s the way to drain that swamp!

People who rightly rip the NBA for blackballing Enes Freedom Kanter should be able to understand what Hasek is saying.

Except that he didn’t. His final projection was a probable Trump win.

I seem to remember a time when our Tarheel friend followed the Bills to London and then spent several days there posting insults on this very forum. Literally nothing better to do in the greatest city in the world.

Agree. I don’t know if he’s a gang member, a guy paying off his own debt to the smugglers who brought him, or the most wonderful family man in the world. I do know that the petty vindictiveness here is just bizarre. But sadly par for the course for the most petty and vindictive man in the world.

I used to laugh - I’ll admit it, still do - at things like the Norm MacDonald take on “pride” in enjoying the genitalia of another. I think I realized “pride” simply means “we’re not embarrassed to admit who we are.” And maybe I needed a parade or two to get it.

As Mencken defined it: “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be having a good time."

I walked passed (actually through) our pride parade today. I saw a lot of happy people enjoying themselves in a pretty wholesome way. Honestly, other than the flags they had (and one float for some kind of Halloween haunted house thing), it could've been the 4th of July. Beautiful summer day, happy people. I'm sure you'd fine something to complain about. Enjoy being miserable.

If you want to truly understand how petty, how vindictive, how personal all of this is: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/28/star-witness-against-kilmar-abrego-garca-was-due-be-deported-now-hes-being-freed/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUxMDgzMjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUyNDY1NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTEwODMyMDAsImp0aSI6ImVkZTBmMDcyLWEyOTEtNGU5Zi04NGIwLWY5YzdiZGYwMmQxYiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9pbW1pZ3JhdGlvbi8yMDI1LzA2LzI4L3N0YXItd2l0bmVzcy1hZ2FpbnN0LWtpbG1hci1hYnJlZ28tZ2FyY2Etd2FzLWR1ZS1iZS1kZXBvcnRlZC1ub3ctaGVzLWJlaW5nLWZyZWVkLyJ9._Nch735ocr9BypFYB3Xw3tJUhhZe5g2iCY6LIT4QPPA The administration is releasing a 3-time convicted felon who was set to be deported to get his testimony against Abrego-Garcia. It is commonplace to give small-time crooks this kind of benefit to go after the bigger fish. This is ass backwards. They are letting the more serious offender go free (and avoid deportation) in order to get revenge on a stupid schmuck who had the bad luck of being illegally deported due to an "administrative error." All of this just to avoid saying, "oops, we made a mistake."

Did Jack Poso provide a link to the video of those two high-agency males going at it? Can I access that link in Texas without providing age verification? I hope you used the last few weeks to get edumacated.

A rare point of agreement between Mayor Bass and President Trump.

Various types of people America would NEVER elect, all in my lifetime: - A divorced man (Reagan, and then Trump) - A serial philanderer (Clinton, and then Trump, and before my time JFK, although the public didn't know all about that) - A black man (Obama) - A convicted criminal (Trump) When people say things like this is says more about their own personal biases than it does about "America"

In what way does she come off as “unqualified?” Don’t rely on what people tell you about her dissent in the nationwide injunctions case. Read that dissent. It is a commonsense response to the majority’s hypertechnical can’t-see-the-forest-for-the-trees opinion. That stupid Babylon Bee thing someone posted reveals an ugly racism behind this line of “criticism”

Good points. Despite the blatantly racist characterizations of Jackson's dissent, there is a critical point there. Let's say there's a President Bernie or AOC. Day One: an EO banning "assault rifles." Guy in WY who wants to buy an AR runs to court; federal judge finds the EO unconstitutional. Maybe that only applies to him; every other prospective AR-15 purchaser also has to file his or her own lawsuit. Maybe the court finds it applies to everyone in WY. Then people in the 93 other federal districts need a similar ruling in their cases. But they're not gonna get it in, say, SF. So let's let the cases "percolate" through the courts until the Supreme Court hears it in two years. The Supreme Court ultimately finds that the EO violated the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. So for two years a large group of people have been denied their constitutional rights. Kind of a big deal, right? Kavanaugh wrote his own opinion recognizing the big dealness of all of this. He said the Supreme Court has to be ready, willing, and able to hear these constitutional challenges to EOs on an expedited basis. In the birthright citizenship case, that would mean a merits decision right now. Otherwise the ultimate decision by the Supreme Court (next June? June 2027?) may be that the EO is unconstitutional, and there will be a whole slew of babies and toddlers subject to deportation if they travel from California to Texas to visit relatives. Not good. So the Supreme Court did a legal half-assed decision that is full-assed from a political (make a point about anti-Trump injunctions) perspective. That kind of thing is the Dred Scott kind of thing - a decision that creates an untenable situation on the ground. The kind of thing they are supposedly trying to avoid as the highest Court in the land. Meanwhile, Barrett decides that we've got to look at what federal courts thought was allowed in 1789 in order to decide if a nationwide injunction is kosher. Yeah, let's all go back to 1789 when men were men and Amy couldn't vote.

Oh, I will. I will try my damndest to stay alive till 100 so you can work till you're 80 and then have a reduced social security benefit.

Washington: father of our country, leader of the winning revolutionary army Jefferson: statesman, political philosopher, drafter of the Declaration of Independence, completed the Louisiana purchase Lincoln: kept the country intact, freed the slaves, great orator whose speeches are still taught in classes today TR: created our great national park system, reform President, war hero Trump: made real money off Monopoly money scam, sold watches and Bibles, redefined "obliteration," banged a hooker, signed loser Paul Ryan's tax bill

Ouch! Me? I quite enjoyed watching the intersection of Quebecois meathead culture and Florida trailer park culture that is Hollywood, FL in the wintertime. Does this mean they aren't coming anymore?