The Frankish Reich

This thread didn’t age well.

Well, reading that thread was a wonderful waste of 5 minutes of my life. thanks for the bump.🙄

McRib, McSchwib. I am awaiting the return, someday, hopefully while I am still around to enjoy it, of the Halloween Whopper, the one that allegedly turned your poop purple. I waited too long to get it last time and they were all sold out. Saddest day of that year.

Well, if it turns out to be a problem during the season, I'm sure it will be addressed long before the playoffs. I know the punter always holds these days, but certainly Keenum could (I know, I know, the whole "practice with special teams" things, but we are talking about maybe half a season here), or there's probably someone else on specials who has good hands and could pick up the job pretty quickly. If Araiza wins the punting competition, well, you'd have to weigh the net benefit of Better Punter/Field Position vs. Very Slightly Increased Risk of a Missed Field Goal or Extra Point.

True. CNN in the post-Jeff Zucker world is trying to position itself in the middle. More straightforward news, less (liberal) point of view. I doubt it will work, since there seems to be little appetite for straightforward news these days. But that's the story here.

Jairus Byrd was franchise tagged in 2013. (yeah, a lot of that had to do with overall roster strategy, but still) Think about that for a minute. On second thought, don't bother. He would be a backup safety on this team. But it's not like those drought teams were without talent. James Cook dreams of having the start (but not the finish) to his NFL career that CJ Spiller had. Devin Singletary is the poor man's Fred Jackson. Dion Dawkins is good, but not prime Jason Peters good. Prime Stephon Gilmore is prime Tre White good. Hell, even rookie Kiko Alonso (before he broke down) would find plenty of snaps available somewhere on this team. By the way, amazing how many of these guys I just mentioned had their Bills careers end badly. In retrospect, was it really about those players, or was it about an inept organization frustrating the hell out of these players? Thank goodness that's all history now.

When your big position battle in preseason is Punter/FG Holder, you probably are a really good football team.

Conspiracy nuts are always interesting. This is not snark. It’s true. I find it fascinating to see how the human brain can twist an assortment of trivially connected events into a grand mega conspiracy that Explains Everything. An example of the Narrative Fallacy on steroids.

Welcome, Plato. Your highbrow opinions will illuminate many here. OK if we lather you with ketchup and mustard and throw you onto a card table now?

Keenum, Barkley, whatever. Heaven forbid, Josh misses 8+ games or the playoffs: season over. Josh misses 4-6 games: Keenum might, possibly, under the best case scenario, get you one more win than Barkley would. Maybe that turns out to be critical in playoff seeding. Most likely: no difference at all. If money isn’t critical right now, keep Keenum. If someone else goes down in camp and you need the money to fill a hole, dump him.

I wish I could hear DR’s Ghost, but the D.UM.B.S ARE PUNCTURING MY EARDRUMS. (and this is his prophet?)

It may be time to bump the Flynndicated thread again?

So you’re saying it’s a form of performance art. Look at me! Look at me! I’m ignoring you!!! Paranoid man in a cheapsh!t room (garden level, the worst part of North Hollywood) talk real big. that’s a plea — please ignore me.

Don’t criticize a man(hood) unless you’ve walked a mile in his jockstrap. https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2022/08/06/hunter-biden-attributes-his-penis-obsession-to-body-dysmorphia/amp/

Hmm, phantom DR has chosen to ignore content from Tiberius, yet he tags and responds to that very same Tiberius a couple hours later.

Trump is the undisputed master of the “tell a lie enough times and people will believe it” rule. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/29/politics/fact-check-trump-false-claim-opposed-iraq-invasion/index.html When radio host Howard Stern asked Trump in September 2002 if he is "for invading Iraq," Trump responded, "Yeah, I guess so. I wish the first time it was done correctly." Trump did not express a firm opinion about the looming war in a Fox interview in January 2003, saying that "either you attack or don't attack" and that President George W. Bush "has either got to do something or not do something, perhaps."

I’m no fan of smoking these days, but damn … that’s one badass mofo.

Now there’s a fair and honest take. None of these numbers are made up or lies. It depends on what you’re trying to measure and for what purpose.

It was. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-11/one-chart-that-shows-inflation-really-was-0-in-july What do you mean when you say “stop inflation!” Do you mean deflating prices to where they were in July 2021? Across the board price and wage cuts? Or do you mean “stop the rise in prices so that I know that my savings or salary today won’t be worth a whole lot less next month or next year.” Prices did not increase overall from June to July, and they don’t appear to be increasing from July to now. In fact, fuel has gotten considerably cheaper. I do not make economic decisions based on what prices were a year ago. I make them based on what I expect prices to be a year from now. The year over year inflation numbers can be useful for some limited purposes. But here they are being used for shock purposes or political purposes.

On recruiting veterans as teachers: once in a while DeSantis let’s his libertarian side out. This is a decent idea. But it shouldn’t be restricted to vets. There’s a whole lot of talented people who’ve had successful careers who would be more than willing to teach as a second career. Let’s stop some of this mindless credentialing and not turn away talented/qualified/responsible people who want to help our kids develop. Compare DC, which has just decided, in its wisdom, to require college degrees for day care workers. Yeah, they always call it preschool or early learning or whatever, but it’s day care.

Correct. We have the worst and least efficient tax collection system of any developed country. By the way: we do need to audit more lower income earners too. I previously worked in a field where I saw a lot of tax returns from lower earners. “Refundable” tax credits (a euphemism for “the government gives you “back” money you never paid in) — the earned income tax credit, additional child credits—are out of control. We saw this type of thing bigly too in the PPP fraudulent claims. I get that everyone hates the IRS, but you gotta hate the game, not the player. And for people like me who don’t cheat on our taxes, we’ll, if kinda like to see other people not getting “back” thousands of dollars that weren’t even withheld in the first place.

It’s not returning kickoffs, which are still inherently more dangerous for everyone, not just the returner. I don’t think there’s any reason to believe there’s a higher injury risk returning punts than there is catching passes over the middle. That guy up in Foxborough had pretty important players in Welker and then Edelman returning punts for years. So I’m fine with it if Diggs wants to do it and the coaching staff thinks he’d be the best guy for the job.

But Trumpheads demand, I say DEMAND, that the FBI raid some server closet in an industrial park in suburban Virginia where Hillary's emails were stored. Otherwise it's just not fair.

Another day, another reason to rue to deletion of the 700 page "Q Analysis" thread started by the late great (or does he survive here as his own Ghost?) Deranged Rhino. Ahh, but I'm no Joe Biden. I remember it all: https://qalerts.app/?q=trust+wray&sortasc=1 The god of Q himself, when asked who we can trust in the bureaucracy, said ... ... Trust Wray. So let's trust that he knows what he's doing and he's on the side of goodness and light. I'm sure DR would agree!

Summoning DR, through the intercession of his Ghost …. What exactly is the latest Q Glorious Restoration Date, when Trump again ascends to the Iron Throne?