Voltaire

I took Bears this week. 1 Denver 2 Arizona 3 Seattle 4 Houston 5 Indy 6 Las Vegas 7 Chicago

#3 is up for grabs from Jefferson and Teddy.

He's taking on all sorts of long-standing problems that other politicians can't/won't/don't solve and having great success and trying different things to get good results. Some of these have greatly succeeded, some are in the process, but things like solve the illegal immigration issue, such as peace in the Middle East, ending the Russia/Ukraine War, destroying Iran's nuclear program, ridding the government of the cabal of left wing apparatchiks, defending US history and western civilization from leftoids who guilt shame or rewrite history in a related way ridding the government of DEI and using what leverage he has to do the same outside government, raising military readiness standards, cleaning up DC and rooting out crime in other major cities, ending big tech media censorship, dragging colleges kicking and screaming into ending practices of deeply entrenched racism, new and untried trade policies around tariffs designed to coerce companies to build and hire, I'm not a fan of MAHA and what RFK Jr is doing with that, but it is big and aggressive with new ideas at any rate. While I think birthright citizenship is stupid, I do think its constitutionally protected and SCOTUS will bat it down, but I do like the effort of trying to end it. Now he's looking at what if anything to do about Maduro. That's just off teh top of my head. He's doing a hundred good things all at once.

Tim may be well be right. While its premature to call the Middle East 'settled,' it is more at peace right now now than at any other time in my memory. That done, Maduro may be next problem he tries to solve. He's certainly considering his options on undermining him. Maduro is widely known to be a POS and Trump doesn't shy away from tackling big, intractable problems. If Trump thinks he can solve the problem on the cheap with no US lives lost, he now seems likely to do it do it. Trump is no warmonger; so a Bushtarded regime change war is off the table. Also, this is new. it was not my position a possibility like this existed a week ago. It didn't occur to me that that time that he may be interested in doing this. He got Iran to sit down and STFU with a well timed and placed strike.

It does start to look like he is testing the waters on Qaddafiing the focker.

And then there were the ones that didn't yell at cops and just walked through the building. What happened to them?

Those people got four years in prison, what do you suppose will happen to these ones? The complete lack of awareness is amazing.

Trump attempts to tackle longstanding intractable problems that other politicians can't / won't. He's been busy as there are dozens of festering problems to figure out, but at the seven month or so mark, he got around to addressing urban crime in Washington DC and it seems the results are pretty good so far but having catch and release Biden judges like this around handicap the effort greatly, similar to how they behave in every instance everywhere.

Which one fights crime? Like we give a about her credentials rather than results. That you think this is a worthwhile, effective, defensible judge speaks loudly your judgements. I tell you what, I rope a half empty bottle of booze to a fishing line, toss it in a dumpster, pull out a bum, give him the answer sheet to the bar exam, appoint him as judge, give him more booze, and put him in the courtroom next to Kendra Briggs. The two teenagers that assaulted a child of yours have their court date today. Whose courtroom do you hope they land in?

I use to think that John Candy was fat. Now, whenever I look at him.... er.... ah.... nevermind. Oooohhh! Nice color scheme Mike picked out here at FFToday isn't it?

Any team in the top 15 would be 5-1 with the Colts cupcake schedule. Its like being impressed by Andy Kaufmann's W/L record in pro wrestling. Give the Colts the KC Chiefs schedule and see what happens. The Colts won a coin flip with Denver and -give them the seven points they should have gotten vs the Rams but didn't due to the dumbest fumble in NFL history - and that game would have been a coin flip too. The rest of the teams they beat don't move the dial upwards. For the Colts to feel like they've arrived, they need a signature win. Tampa's a good team coming off a couple of impressive wins and doing it with many injuries. There's also no shame in losing to Philly. Maybe I was unfair to them. I'd not been terribly impressed coming into the season and some of that bias may still be there. On the other end of that, there are also probably more cracks in Philly and Buffalo than I care to notice because until this week they'd been able to buff them out decently.

You're right that OCDETF is being shut down. Its hard to pinpoint a reason but the closest as I can tell.is that there's been some reshuffling and the work is being conducted through other agencies with overlapping responsibilities. Trump has made fighting the cartels a major policy position with Joint Task Force Alpha and Vulcan, again I can't find the reason why this group OCDETF, was deemed expendable and its mission given to these other divisions. Thank you for the link.

You're link is behind a paywall, but I know a way around: https://archive.is/FLupk Well, I'll be damned, I was sure you were full of it. This makes no sense though since combatting transnational crime is a major Trump policy position. I'll have to learn more.

We're going to need more from you than this. My understanding is they have have expanded Joint Task Force Alpha and Joint Task Force Vulcan, which would mean that they are doing the exact opposite of what you claim. Here's my link, please provide yours: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-announces-significant-enforcement-and-expansion-efforts-dismantle