The Frankish Reich
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22 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
You don’t want to risk getting caught, slim as those chances appear to be. Best to start practicing a new stride.
I thought of the same skit when the whole gait thing came up.
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1 hour ago, BillsFanNC said:
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Continues to exhibit that he cannot ignore me.
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On 10/1/2025 at 1:07 PM, JDHillFan said:
Inflation hits home! More specifically, hits the basement.
Between that and the potential disruption to my air travel, I'm about to go all J6.
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36 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
Within days of J6 the FBI had staked out the house next door to the alleged pipe bomber......and then nothing happened.
You meant to say "while Trump was still President"
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On 6/15/2025 at 5:12 AM, BillsFanNC said:
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#DoucheSwede
Wow, look at you!
There aren't even 70 posters who comment in this little backwater. Maybe 20, of which only 10 or so are regulars?
You have truly mastered the art of self-pleasuring, posting only to yourself.
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1 hour ago, Che Guevara said:
By caving and agreeing to reopen the government without getting any of what they were asking for as the basis of the shutdown means that the democrats just took ownership of the entire shutdown.
They were never going to get their demands from Trump and the Republican Senate.
The shutdown accomplished a couple things: it probably took Trump's approval down a tick or two and, more importantly, ensured that Democratic turnout would be higher in the VA/NJ races.
I haven't seen specific language in the Senate deal, but if it includes a commitment that Thune will take an extension of Obamacare subsidies to a vote, AND if that somehow happens on the House side too, then the Dems make every Republican publicly vote on that specific issue, which they will use in the midterms.
It is what it is.
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14 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:
Reminder: "your government" on January 5, 2021 = the Trump government.
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5 hours ago, B-Man said:
I worked under your FAA @PeteButtigieg and, after 34 years, mostly as
an Air Traffic Controller, I retired because of how you and the Biden
administration, to use your words, ***** on every employee at the FAA
and ruined a once fine agency.
You allowed men into my office bathroom. I had to work with and for
people you hired and promoted because of the color of their skin or who
they have sex with who were wholly and completely unqualified for their job.
You FORCED me to inject an experimental dangerous drug into my body
in order to keep my job and paycheck.
As for what the current ATC's "have been through", every single one of
them is eligible for an interest-free loan program which their credit unions
initiate during every government shutdown.
As well, they all can withdraw from their TSP accounts.
Every FAA employee knows these are both well established, common practices
during shutdowns, so the only ones not coming to work are the ones
making a political statement.
President Trump is right to call them out.
You, sir, can sit down and shut up.
"once fine agency"
Now there's a telling comment.
It's always been a federal disaster area ever since Clinton undid Reagan's blow-up of it.
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2 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
CBS did a “bad edit” of a Kamala interview a little over a year ago. The esteemed barrister @The Frankish Reich deemed it a nothing burger.
Turned out to be a $15M nothing burger but I’m sure he’s still right with his analysis of the matter.
Yeah, $15 million is a small bribe to pay to get the FCC to approve the hugely profitable sale of your company.
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18 hours ago, Johnnycage46 said:
Patriots are winning the Super Bowl this year. Its our punishment for being fans of this team.
Tom Brady will in in Santa Clara, just down the 101 from where he grew up, to usher in the new dynasty.
Robert Kraft will be seen exiting one of the Thai Massage Parlors of San Jose before putting his greasy hands all over the Lombardi.
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1 hour ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
He was able to extract a Moratorium on Mischief, which was Harris-esque in scope and importance. I heard somewhere he was looking for Abeyance on Azzholery but just couldn't pull it off because the elections snuck up on him.
At the airport, somewhere in American, an annoucement shall soon be made:
HIS ROYAL NIBS....THE FRANKISH REICH, HE WHO SHAN'T BE DISRUPTED...
You nailed it.
No one cares if the National Arboretum closes.
Some people care if food stamps are cut off, but they're not the people politicians care about.
But eff with my Thanksgiving plans? Now we care.
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27 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
I noticed you had no comments on the link I provided from a US government agency. Seems like it would have been a good chance to beef up your “junk science” claim. Now this paper from the U of Dundee, published in 2017, is “the best” you can find? What makes it the best? Are you even trying?
You have moved from “junk science” to a “primer for courts” published 8 years ago.
Let’s just agree that, even though you won’t say it, we both want this Maga bomber brought to justice.
Junk science.
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Shutdowns are dumb. Glad this one is over. I have a couple flights scheduled this month and early next month and I don't need any disruptions.
Both sides can pretend they "won" something. In reality, the Air Traffic Controllers are the most powerful force in America.
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5 minutes ago, OrangeBills said:
You keep saying "how much interest would I have paid?"...Um, you'd have paid less interest than the Montly rent you paid that was just thrown away.
Your monthly rental payment will have included all the factors of home ownership - the owner's financing costs, Insurance, taxes, etc etc
So while the long-term interest question/point is valid (in terms of 30yr vs. 50yr., it's not relevant over a considered 7-10 year own/rent decision
I would assume if my monthly 50-year payment was $2,000 that I would be amortizing maybe $300/month, which over 7 years is $25,200 of Equity built up (not assuming down payment or asset appreciation)...
If I put down 5% down on a $500,000 home, and the asset appreciated 10% and that was my loan payment, then I'm looking at $100,000 of Equity 7 years later, and I got to live in a better place, etc etc.
You guys are freaking out about the 3-5% of people who would live in the same house for 50 years, who by the way could pre-pay to over come this stuff.
No sensible
You sound like a mortgage lender, maybe even a subprime one 😀
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2 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
There’s no conspiracy regarding not hauling this person in. It’s a simple fact. It has yet to happen. I’m dissatisfied that there is a Maga bomber roaming free. Can’t believe you are OK with it.
"Haul her in" based on ... her average height and gait analysis.
This is the best survey I could find re: forensic gait analysis. Not compelling evidence to say the least. I don't expect you to read it; the worst conspiracy theorist is the one with no self-awareness.
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Just now, JDHillFan said:
I just can’t believe the Biden administration did not move heaven and earth to bring this person to justice. They seemingly found every other granny that acted out that day. Hard to believe they couldn’t come up with anything related to the cell phone usage of the perp.
Almost as hard to believe is you getting upset over the possibility there could be a lead in the case. Junk science! In the AI era no less. Have you ever made a post indicating that you want this person brought to justice?
3 hours ago, JDHillFan said:Conspiracy theories are a business these days. The purveyors rely on people like you.
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On 10/17/2025 at 9:31 AM, B-Man said:
100 ballots found in homeless camp
From Fox-40 (Sacramento),
An investigation is underway after the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said it discovered nearly 100 ballots during a cleanup at a homeless encampment.
According to SCSO, deputies responded to the area of Elder Creek Road and Mayhew Road to abate a homeless camp in the area. When officers arrived at the scene, they found nearly 100 ballots and other election items amongst other mail.
Deputies reportedly collected the ballots and election mail and returned the items to the county’s election office.
I’m sure it’s nothing.
The homeless have a right to vote.
It looks like here they got their ballots but never cast their votes.
Wow. Big story.
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1 minute ago, OrangeBills said:
Fine, but you are getting indignant without factoring all the variables involved here
Like location and quality of the home/apt/condo...if the Lease payment is similar to a 30-year mortgage (again, these are USUALLY similar) and the 50-year is $200-$300 less AND I build some Equity over 7 years, maybe that's what I'd opt to do to also live in a better place? Especially if they bring down the frictional costs associated with buying & selling (another variable)
The fact is during the first term the Trump Admin wanted to sell 50 and 100 year Treasuries, and everyone called them dumb...which was stupid, because it wasn't long till we were borrowing TRILLIONS at durations in the 30 day to 2 year time-frame, creating financial pressures in our system
So, let's hold off on the "they're stupid" stuff
There's a not-so-hidden assumption here that housing prices will always go up. And over the long term I guess that's right.
But what if there's a deep recession and housing prices - particularly in some markets - go down sharply as workers in those markets lose their jobs, are forced to move, and are forced to sell?
2008 is what happens.
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1 hour ago, Orlando Buffalo said:
I am actually curious why everyone is having a hissy fit over it. A 50 year mortgage is not a good thing but neither is a 8 year car loan but at least with the house you might make some of that money back. Currently if I were to sell my house I would basically walk away with what I have paid into it, so I have lived rent free for the past 22 years. As long as there is still an option for the shorter mortgages then I don't see the issue, and a few advantages especially if the interest rates are lower longer term
I'm not against the concept. If the free market decides to start writing 50 year loans (Bill Pulte, what's stopping you?), then we will have 50 year loans. I don't get why the federal government has a role in this unless it is to subsidize those loans in some manner. And that's what I object to.
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9 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
You believe the bomber is a bad maga person, right?
The theory of why a MAGA J6er would place pipe bombs near the Capitol is simple: it would likely cause chaos and delay the counting of votes - the very same counting of votes that Trump was urging Pence to delay.
The theory of why a Biden supporter would do that is, well, what? To gain sympathy for Kamala? As I understand it, it is something like this would make public opinion turn against Trump (the same public opinion that had just caused him to lose the election, so why does anyone need to shift it?) by showing his supporters to be violent. Thankfully his supporters obliged by being violent the following morning.
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22 minutes ago, OrangeBills said:
I mean, the current spread between the 20-year Treasure and 30-year Treasury is a couple basis points (4.68% vs. 4.70%)
How much more would you think Banks would demand for a 50-year over a 30-year (when they know the average home ownership period is 7-10 years, which BTW makes a 30-year mortgage not smart but so be it)
True, we are in a period of compressed yield curves.
I think more relevant is that even now a 30 year fixed rate mortgage is about 80 basis points higher than a 15.
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15 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:
This shows how a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
The Marx quote the esteemed "Gnostic Death Cult" uses here is Marx quoting Goethe's Faust. (Yeah, as if you've read that)
In context, Marx was using that to show how quickly, how easily the French Republic allowed itself to slide back into a kind of dictatorship. It is from the same tract that included the famous line, "History repeats; the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
I have a feeling Marx would have said the same thing about Trump 1.0 vs. Trump 2.0. And he would have a point now just as he had then.
The context (and it wouldn't kill you to read your Boogeyman Marx rather than "Gnostic Death Cults" stupid and ill-informed take on him):
The constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the platform, the sheet lightning of the daily press, the entire literature, the political names and the intellectual reputations, the civil law and the penal code, liberté, egalité, fraternité, and the second Sunday in May, 1852 – all have vanished like a phantasmagoria before the spell of a man whom even his enemies do not make out to be a sorcerer. Universal suffrage seems to have survived only for the moment, so that with its own hand it may make its last will and testament before the eyes of all the world and declare in the name of the people itself: “All that exists deserves to perish.” [From Goethe’s Faust, Part One.]
It is not enough to say, as the French do, that their nation was taken unawares. Nations and women are not forgiven the unguarded hour in which the first adventurer who came along could violate them. Such turns of speech do not solve the riddle but only formulate it differently. It remains to be explained how a nation of thirty-six millions can be surprised and delivered without resistance into captivity by three knights of industry.
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2 hours ago, JDHillFan said:
Because it’s bullsh*t. Conspiracy theories are a business these days. The purveyors rely on people like you.
Good thing you're not falling for the J6 "Gait Analysis Perp" thing.
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3 minutes ago, jaybeezee said:
I also remember Brane neglecting the WR position when we drafted Cody Ford over DK Metcalfe as well. How'd that work for us.
Imagine DK and Stef on our team during those years! I know its all retrospect, but just one of too many flubbs by Beane for my taste!
Yeah, but then we would've been without Cody Ford dominating on the O line!
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