The Frankish Reich

So here's where I stand because it's where the evidence takes me. -Trump has playfully commented a couple of times on Epstein. The first was the famous "Jeffrey loves women, a lot of them on the younger side." Then we saw the weird birthday book submission referring to every day being a new special secret. There was no indication of any disdain regarding Epstein's behavior; it was more like this is our own little thing. - the recently released 2011 Jeffrey-Ghislaine email - created long before the Presidential run - talks about Trump as a frequent visitor. - Trump himself has made weird creepy comments about his own teenage daughter. He has deliberately put himself in situations where he is around underage models (Miss Teen America, etc) and has been known to cop a look at them as they are partly clothed - We just saw new details of Matt Gaetz's 17 year old "escort." The basic facts surrounding this sordid tale have been well known in Congress for quite some time. Yet Trump nominated him to be Attorney General. Conclusion: Trump doesn't think that this was a big deal. Lots of guys do that. Himself? - He has said that when you're famous, you can do whatever you want. - He has had at least one (and where there's one there's usually more) with an "adult film actress" - someone who had sex for money, commonly known as a prostitute. He is not exactly the classic happily married man; he is a serial creeper - Virginia Giuffre killed herself, but before that had said nothing untoward happened between herself and Trump - Trump also has the known practice of paying off people who could release embarrassing information about him Conclusion: I think it is very, very likely that Trump had sex with women procured by Epstein/Maxwell. I think it is quite likely that he had some kind of inappropriate engagements (think "sensual massage" as Austin Powers put it) with at least one underage girl, and that there is a reasonable probability that this involved sexual activity of one sort or another. Am I saying there's proof that would stand up in a court of law or impeachment proceedings of these things? No. But I am saying that anyone who strongly disagrees with my conclusions is just being blinded by politics. The pattern is just too clear, both with Epstein and with Trump. If we were talking about Mike Johnson or Chuck Schumer hanging out with Epstein and his girls, my conclusion would be different. Clinton? Trump? Yep. Probably. With a high degree of certainty.

Yes. And last I checked, he is not the President. He is a private citizen, and if he were to somehow run again for public office I would expect a full interview in which he confronted with documents and photos involving Epstein.

Trump may ease tariffs on bananas and coffee. Rationale: we don't grow bananas and only a negligible amount of coffee. But I thought these were "reciprocal tariffs," aimed at getting exporting countries to treat us fairly. If you're going to have leverage over Colombia's treatment of our exports, you're gonna have to tariff coffee (oh, and cocaine). Just another example of the lack of any logic to Tariff Man's entire concept.

And somehow the Trumpistas think that their hero threatening all kinds of other people if more Epstein truths are revealed exonerates Trump. I guess they've never heard of "if you reveal my dirty secrets I'll reveal yours."

Agreed. It is certainly not surprising that bad people would hang together. Or even that one bad person would think another bad person is worse.

Peter Thiel is gay, so I doubt it has anything to do with Epstein's girls.

When you have a QB on a rookie contract playing at an elite level like Maye, you have money to do lots of other things.

The headline says it all. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/hes-acting-pretty-damn-guilty-trump-epstein-petition-shutdown-elites

I'm confused. I thought Obama was secretly gay and that he married a man. Now you tell me he may have been lusting after teenage girls. Please clarify.

So it took the Administration 7 months to realize that the United States doesn't produce bananas or coffee and that tariffs on those products would hurt rather than help. President Chaos.

I hadn't seen this, but it really doesn't surprise me. I guess his extraordinary efforts show this is more than a hoax.

Yep, so far they've avoided the slut shaming of the 14-16 year olds, but when it starts getting a little too close to their hero no holds are barred.

I like how your little tweeter puts "VICTIM" in scare quotes, suggesting that she was nothing more than a 16 year old slut rather than a victim of rape. Nice.

Well we weren't going to need him against the pathetic Dolphins anyway.

You're right, but i'm not sure there are many other plays in a game where players collide with each other head-on at 7-12 yards. It's still inherently more dangerous than plays where guys are changing directions, hitting each other across the line of scrimmage, or hitting at an angle.