The Frankish Reich

Right. Sloppy, pick-up game style passing game. They have the athletes to make the plays, and Wilson gave them the chance to make the stat sheet look decent, but there was no crispness to it. I think it will come. "Smartest man in the room" Hackett treated camp and preseason as nothing more than an opportunity to get your players hurt, and it showed here.

And this same Mike Flynn was out in charge of our nation’s security. He is 100% baths!t 😜 I guess he’s now trying to claw his way back into some semblance of relevance by … claiming that he was the victim of a government hoax called QAnon? Does that count as Flynndication? (I love this thread and only comment on it to keep it alive. Sadly the Q Analysis thread went away alongside the Original DR)

Shaq seems to be the same guy whether he’s getting paid now or whether he’s playing for his next contract. Phillips, on the other hand …

He has been impressive. He’s doing what I thought DiMarco was supposed to do. But where’s the love for Jerome Felton?

They were perfectly timed to allow Cole to collapse to the ground after 8 yards, each and every time.

Kinda true. I like the guy - seemed like a great teammate who knew his backup role well. So I was trying to convince myself that he’d actually be good in his second go-round as a starter. But the highest praise I can come up with so far is “maybe a slight upgrade over the 2021 version of Big Ben.”

Yes, I'll answer: Because the guy was the "Clark County Public Administrator," which (if you're not embezzling money) apparently means (I had to look this up) he "secures property of people who pass away in Clark County while a search for family or the decedent's executor is performed." Not a very sexy or political job. In other words, who cares? This is what I mean about the Culture of Victimhood. All you people can say is "but if it had been a Republican, the headline would've been "Election Denying Trump Ass Kisser Arrested for Murder." Sometimes your job is boring and nobody cares about your political affiliation because it has no connection to the story.

It looks like that "complete hack activist journalist" was as much of a nobody as your Julie Kelly. Someone who writes for what used to be the free alterna-rag in Las Vegas, churning out bad takes for 50 bucks a story. My point: the mainstream media covered it, covered it well, and continues to cover it.

Well, thank God we have Big Mollie to set the record straight. Completely local official in Las Vegas who nobody ever heard of outside of Las Vegas MUST BE LABELED A DEMOCRAT! Otherwise we might think he was a Republican doing some kind of Jan 6 inspired targeted killing. The persecution complex among Trumpies is getting absurd. This got tons of coverage, it had nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with a corrupt local official, exposed by a good journalist, taking revenge.

Since you mention the Wash Post tagline, here's their coverage: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/slain-las-vegas-reporter-spent-career-chasing-corruption/2022/09/09/4b4283c0-2ff6-11ed-bcc6-0874b26ae296_story.html In the weeks before the June primary, German bylined reports about an office “mired in turmoil and internal dissension” between longtime employees and new hires under Telles’ leadership. Following the stories, county officials hired a consultant to help oversee the office. Telles blamed “old-timers” for exaggerating the extent of his relationship with a female staffer and falsely claiming that he mistreated them. He posted complaints on Twitter about German, saying he was a bully who was “obsessed” with him. Telles ended up finishing last in the three-way primary and was serving out the remainder of his term at the time of the killing. The articles “ruined his political career, likely his marriage, and this was him lashing out at the cause,” Chief Deputy Clark County District Attorney Richard Scow said Thursday. Why did I bother to check? Well, because this is what happens why social media junkies like Big Blitz depend solely on those insta-comment/hot take twitter feeds for their news. The Wash Post and all other media outlets covered this story, covered it well, and continue to cover it.

Well, since you summoned me ... Correct. You are no attorney. So I read this stay-at-home mom's legal analysis, and I can assure you that she (B.A., Eastern Illinois University) is no attorney either. The claim: a co-worker of a selected juror heard this juror (let's call her Juror 1) say that she had been called for federal court jury duty, and that she hoped that she'd get selected because (something about the Whitmer case). The co-worker supposedly contacted the attorney for one of the defendants, and the attorney filed a motion to dismiss Juror 1 based on that. It seems that the jury (including Juror 1) had already been impaneled by this time. The investigation: the Clerk of Court was deputized to follow up on the allegation. The clerk found that the allegation was actually this: a friend or associate of the co-worker heard THE CO-WORKER (not Juror 1) say that Juror 1 wanted to be on the jury. And then apparently the co-worker didn't confirm the story. So that's it. That's the whole whoop-de-do that gets stay at home QAnon moms hot and bothered. I think the technical lawyer term is "a Hail Mary Pass."

Don’t interrupt DRs Ghost, please. He’s in the middle of a conversation with himself.

The Rams took a step back personnel-wise. The Bills took a step forward. The Rams are still very talented, and their management has shown the creativity to adapt and get better as the seasons goes on, so I’d expect some clever cap manipulation and a key trade acquisition or two before the deadline.

Thanks for the explanation. I missed all of that - if the network doesn’t replay it I’m always hesitant to run it back myself and get out of synch with real time action. I like Gilliam and the idea of having a FB to mix up the sets, and I think we’ll continue to see more of him this year.

Yep. I’m used to Von wearing 58, so when I saw 40 coming off the edge to get Stanford from behind I thought “which safety blitzed there.” That’s how sleek and trim Von looks out there now. Von slimmed way down to regain that old quickness, just like his buddy DeMarcus Ware did for his last couple seasons in Denver. And it’s gonna be fun to watch.

I did say “not better than Kupp.” I think we’re seeing they’re two of the best.

Update, early returns (3:00 left, 2nd quarter) strongly suggest that No, Diggs is not better than Kupp.

I think maybe this thread has run its course? Having said that, I’m hoping that after tonight it’s back in full force, Diggs having proven the point.

Agreed. If only we could turn back the clock to about 1980 to start all over again. That was the age of “no nukes” that really took off after Three Mile Island. When nuclear was largely abandoned, the US (and then the world) turned sharply toward fossil fuels again. The risks of nuclear failure were immediate and obvious: potential meltdowns (really only one - Chernobyl - has ever happened), problems storing waste, etc. The risks of fossil fuels were distant and diffuse, but potentially much greater in impact.

Tell that to my spring peas that withered and died when May brought July like temps. I assume that this is not 100% serious. But you do have a point - climate change is extending growing seasons in areas that were previously pretty marginal for agriculture. That partially offsets the loss of other agricultural production in lower latitudes. But I don’t think you’ll find anyone arguing that this is a net gain.

I'm not a "liberal," but I'll play one on this forum. Why does Trump need to be charged? (Not necessarily "go to prison," but be charged): The only defense I see would be the "I was careless about what I did with classified documents. I may have left them where they could be packed up and shipped -- relatively securely (albeit not in the manner classified docs need to be moved around) -- to Mar-a-Lago. Maybe it was my fault that it was done in a mad dash given that I was kind sorta hoping never to have to move out of the White House, but there was certainly no criminal intent." That's pretty close to why Comey says Hillary wasn't charged. Remember the old debate about "reckless disregard" vs. "carelessness" vs. many other near synonyms? That's the defense. So far his people aren't making that defense in public statements, and maybe that there will be some evidence that he hand-picked the documents he took to his house/hotel and played around with them once they were there. On that part, we'll see. There isn't much to the elements of the basic offenses here. If it's mishandling of classified documents, well, that happened. The "I had a blanket order declassifying everything I took" isn't likely to work, but I guess they'd need to try it. The obstruction thing is a little harder to prove - you'd need to prove intent - but again, that would have to amount to "I'm a bumbling old fool and I didn't know what I had or didn't have at Mar a Lago." Not a good luck for an aspiring president.

It’s probably Knox or Gabe eventually. But “not enough money under the cap to pay all our good players” is a classic good team problem. As far as the wisdom of committing scarce money to Knox vs. Gabe (or another WR): it makes sense to me. They are at about the same stage of development right now - guys who took a big step last year and are poised to enter the ranks of the pro bowlers at their positions. But TEs generally peak later, and elite TEs are a more rare commodity. Ask yourself: when did this franchise last produce one? (“Never” is the answer that comes to mind.) The likelihood of replacing Gabe’s production through other avenues is greater. So yes, this does tie Beane’s hands a bit starting next year, but it’s the kind of calculated risk I applaud him for taking.

I don’t see anything leaked that was national security information. The latest leak is that Trump had some type of nuclear capabilities assessment re: a foreign country or countries. It is no secret that the defense intel community is charged with making such assessments. If someone (including the Trump team) were to leak the contents of that report, then it’s a different story.

Funny, it seems that the leaks so far have proved to be true: - the search was for classified docs. TRUE. - prior friendly requests, and then a subpoena were met with a refusal to return all classified documents (despite an attorney certification to the contrary). TRUE. - some documents were at the highest level of classified. TRUE. Do you want to make a friendly wager as to whether some documents involved nuclear weapons/nuclear assessments? So far the so-called leaks (much of it not a leak at all but info mentioned in the return on the warrant) are batting 1.000

Translation: I never had classified documents in my home. And if I did, they were handed over voluntarily long before the search warrant. And if they weren’t, they were declassified anyway. And if they weren’t declassified, they weren’t very important anyway, and surely had nothing to do with nuclear weapons. And if they did have something to do with nuclear weapons, I only took them to defend myself against anticipated trumped-up charges that are even worse than the mere taking home of classified documents. And besides, what about Hillary’s emails? What about Benghazi?