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The Frankish Reich

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  1. 59 minutes ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:


    I am not a local, but a big weather worrier. 
     

    I am seeing 20 mph wind speed, which is high but manageable. The bigger issue is the gusts, which might be around 40 mph. If it is gusting like that with any frequency, forget about the downfield passing game. 

    So you're saying that favors us since we don't have this "downfield passing game" thing.

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  2. 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.

     

     

  3. 54 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:

    Do you knee jerk assume Clinton as another bad guy associated with Epstein or nah?

    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.

  4. 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.

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  5. 3 hours ago, Che Guevara said:

    I find this to be an odd message.  How exactly are the democrats aligning with Epstein because of their "mutual hatred of Trump?"  Epstein was a bad guy.  I don't think that pointing out that Epstein had information about Trump because he knew Trump (arguably pretty well) and had a longstanding relationship with Trump that allowed him to glean insights into Trump, is aligning with Epstein?  It implies that one bad guy may have been close to another bad guy and that they both contributed to bad stuff happening.  There is, minimally, guilt by association here which is, minimally, not a good look for Trump.  I'm not saying Trump is guilty of committing crimes here, I have no idea, but the fact that he had the relationship that he had with Epstein is worthy of more information and a closer investigation.  And, while I tend to find the democrats amusingly inept at politics, they are doing the most obvious thing that they ought to do here, which is to highlight Trump's association with Epstein, including this really bad guy's (Epstein) opinion of Trump.  

     

    It is my hope, and I would like to believe the hope of any reasonable, concerned, law abiding, citizen, that whomever was empowered by Epstein to engage in illegal activities and, particularly, pedophilia, should be outed with the Epstein files as well as any other sources of evidence and that such activity causes them to have to face consequences.  I also think that this ought to apply to everyone, democrat, republican, British royals, etc.  The fact that this topic can brush up so closely to Trump should probably concern all of us as he is the president and may have engaged in underage sexual activity with girls that were procured by Epstein.  Sorry, but, this is just bad.

    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.

  6. 20 hours ago, Mikey152 said:

    Saying they don't value #1 WR because they don't have one isn't exactly genuine. WR salaries are inflated, and most of the guys that hit the market aren't worth their cost. Like it or not, they decided they could build an offense around multiple guys, an OL and RB instead of investing heavily in a single player. It was successful last season and not as much so this season for some reason.

    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.

  7. 4 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

    Why didn't a reporter ask Leavitt "Why is it so important to trump that he has an 11th hour meeting in the situation room with Boebert to get her to remove her signature?"  "What is he hiding?" would be another good one.  Seems some maga's are asking themselves these obvious questions but not on PPP...

     

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5602400-trump-boebert-mace-epstein-petition/

    I hadn't seen this, but it really doesn't surprise me.

    I guess his extraordinary efforts show this is more than a hoax.

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  8. 9 minutes ago, B-Man said:

     

    For those who 'missed' it.

     

     

    And it's not like Giuffre was afraid of naming names when she was alive.

     

    Total nothing burger of a story.

     

     

    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.

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  9. 9 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

    Yes, all true, but the kicker for me is that on a percentage basis, the new kickoffs have five times the rate of concussions as regular scrimmage plays. Players aren't sprinting 40 yards down the field anymore, but they're sprinting 7-12 yards before contact and can build up a full head of steam in that window. 

    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.

  10. I'm just excited for a great Sunday of football. Looks like the best lineup all year so far. Send the family away, stockpile the microbrews, order a pizza just for me. Bills-Bucs, then KC at DEN, then DET at Philly. That's a good solid 10 hours in the basement. 

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  11. 3 hours ago, dave mcbride said:

    https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6798426/2025/11/12/kickoff-returns-concussions-injuries-nfl/

     

    "But the rate of concussions per 100 kickoffs through seven weeks rose from 0.09 in 2024 to 1.18 this season, according to internal league data that was shared with teams and viewed by The Athletic. The concussion rate per 100 kickoff returns climbed to 1.48 through seven weeks, compared to 0.29 last season. The data shared with clubs indicated that it is roughly five times the league’s baseline concussion rate on run or pass plays."

    I haven't read the article yet, but I would assume the starting point is this: a large, large percentage of pre-dynamic kickoffs were touchbacks into/through the end zone with almost zero concussions.

    The league got what it wanted - more returns. But with more returns come more collisions. Probably fewer grisly knockout type concussions, but more than with a kick through the end zone.

     

    After watching this for a while now, I think I'd like to just have the receiving team have the option of getting the ball at the 35 or having the kicking team kickoff with the new rules. Unless a team is trailing late it's likely to just take the 35, meaning zero injuries. But if you are trailing late, you get the option of trying for the big return.

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