SaintsInDome2006

I have no idea why anyone would find it disgusting. When my grandparents came here the Holocaust was over. They were escaping Communism and they came here for a better life. That is why most people come here. I’m sympathetic to such people and I’ve never quite understood why others wouldn’t be. I have a theory on this. I think the reason why is that everyone in this country (except NA's) has someone who came from some other country. Of course. Almost no one came here because things were great in the Old Country. It's always a variety of reasons but usually it's war, poverty (or as Trump would say a real sh!+hole country), disease, hunger. One of those things. I mean, why would HT2 or anyone like him drop everything they have in the world, all their family, all their possessions, their property, anything they have and everything they're ever gonna have in that place, to travel thousands of miles away? Obviously because they were desperate. That was certainly the case for Trump himself. His grandfather fled war (he evaded the draft making himself a wanted criminal in Germany). His mother fled poverty (Isle of Lewis was a fishing community that had overfished its stock, it was the sort of sh!+hole place Trump talks about). His grandfather fled the US to Canada to run prostitutes out of a "hotel", returned to the US, left the US, was evicted from Germany despite begging to stay, had to come back to the US. Trump's mother, Mary McLeod, worked as a maid, a domestic servant (she followed her sister & lived with her), but she also left the US & returned to Scotland and planned to stay there if she hadn't hooked up with a wealthy Manhattanite. Apparently McLeod (his mother) finally became a US citizen, but only after popping out two kids. Of course this is exactly the sort of person being targeted & deported today. Trump's grandfather changed his name, like so many other people with "weird" sounding names. "Drumpf" sounds awfully, oh I dunno, foreign. I think what's going on is that people lose touch with their roots. Who knows maybe HT2 has had 40 forbears who came to America? Maybe just 4? Who knows, but if we had a "live look in" for why they left it was probably awful desperation - war, famine, disease, etc. - same as everyone. Probably not all or even many or most didn't have their paperwork. Many people got passed along the way, by the Italians, Irish, Hispanics, blacks, who knows, which probably fueled resentment. But I think at the core of it it's often a sense of shame. That's what I think motivates Trump. Can't prove it but shame is a powerful motivating factor, for much bad behavior in the world or at least just negativity for lack of a better polite term. Now what this has to do with Russia-Ukraine, I don't know, except we seem to have to constantly learn the lesson in this country that abundance and democracy abroad means abundance and peace at home. And again after maybe 3 generations people just forget. (Folks, I'm not replying. I just thought Tim's heartfelt reply deserved a decent response. God Bless America. Have a good one.)

Did you see the interview with Kupp talking about how defenses adjusted to what McVay was doing? But in general I agree, & it goes back decades. Gilman, Coryell, Stram, Paul Brown, Walsh, Belichick, on & on the innovators expanded the game &… very few followed them over the hill. Another thing that gets me is how multifaceted players can change games… and they’re rarely replaced after they’re finished or if they’re injured. Gifford, Matte, Tebow, Ward, Randle El, Edelman, Stewart, Bush, Hill… no one else can shift positions?

People expect too much. IMO Carr will return to play football. But regardless for the Saints given their long history of ineptitude outside the Brees era, Carr might have been their 2nd-4th best QB all time. He thrived under Gruden & that was prematurely ended. The main thing with Carr IMO was a lack of on field vision & leadership. And he wasn’t a great one with the fans & community, which is not unimportant. He had some laziness to his decision making. He had a beautiful deep ball & he’d rather play downfield than take the 1st downs. Definitely a mixed bag. But he had a successful NFL career.

Amigo I’m gonna walk over to the Pirate Bar today. I love this stupid heat. It used to better IMO, they got rid of the Abita & the bar stools which really sucks. But it’s one of my favorite places. And I think you’re right in general on this. I’ll see y’all next football season on the FFT bored, maybe if I re-up for FF for a 26th (!) season. Gotta get one more trophy though.

Unfortunately I thought this was going to be something else entirely.

No, my buddy was proudly making this argument in the 80s. I had to listen to a lot of Prince not mention his protégés. I was first introduced to him with 1999 but he was already known for Controversy & Dirty Mind.

Elly May was a Miss New Orleans? Did not know that. Also won Miss Baton Rouge. She was a Louisiana girl.

Thanks, great stuff, interesting. I had an old friend who passed away recently, he railed for years about how Prince was a musical genius. He used to argue with another guy we knew who was a huge Metallica fan & at first we thought he was crazy but he came to be proved right. As an aside Prince’s family I think on both sides but definitely his dad’s were Louisiana people. IIRC his father who was a jazz musician couldn’t get work in New Orleans (or he just hated it here) because of the segregation thing so he headed up north to Minny. Anyway cool video, that was indeed one of the all time great rock solos.

Ok that was pretty funny…

>>Many are now asking how you can support Carol and also Mr. Trump. “I voted for Donald Trump, and so did practically everyone here,” said Vanessa Cowart, a friend of Ms. Hui from church. “But no one voted to deport moms. We were all under the impression we were just getting rid of the gangs, the people who came here in droves.”<< Mizzou town thought Trump meant he was only going after bad guys.

One of Epstein’s earliest accusers Maria Farmer is suing the federal government for not acting on her reports.

Musk gutting huge swaths of government without direct presidential approval seems relevant. No doubt that’s how all this really ends, with some disaster caused by lack of staffing or funding & Trump claiming Musk did it without his permission.

Fair question, there’s likely a similar memo from his early weeks as president. Likely chief of staff & his staff secretary. But I agree people should know.

Trump’s own White House first week he took office granted auto pen authority to chief of staff Susie Wiles & staff secretary William Scharff for all matters. Biden likely had something similar as did other presidents. Though Wiles just had her phone hacked which is pretty scary & unprecedented.

Who runs Trump’s? He also uses it, like every President since at least Clinton.

>>As Elon Musk became one of Donald J. Trump’s closest allies last year, leading raucous rallies and donating about $275 million to help him win the presidency, he was also using drugs far more intensely than previously known, according to people familiar with his activities. Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.<< >>The White House did not respond to questions about whether it had asked Mr. Musk to take drug tests. As a large government contractor, his aerospace firm, SpaceX, must maintain a drug-free work force and administers random drug tests to its employees. But Mr. Musk has received advance warning of the tests, according to people close to the process.<< >> Mr. Musk had been using ketamine often, sometimes daily, and mixing it with other drugs, according to people familiar with his consumption. The line between medical use and recreation was blurry, troubling some people close to him. He also took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms at private gatherings across the United States and in at least one other country, according to those who attended the events.<< Musk’s drug use even greater than thought.

The President's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, had her phone hacked. - Wiles was using her private cell phone for White House business. More golden competence.

My point exactly, same guy doing the deep dive on the Trump foot licking hoax also wrote the piece on Biden's secret politburo.

I get the whole thing about politicians and candidates and their wives and hangers on selling books that campaigns and PACs buy as a way to mill campaign money into private pockets. I just don't understand it as to Obama and Biden. Biden got a huge advance on his book deal, but when? When he was leaving office? What are they being bribed for or influenced for if they're out of power?

It was in the indictment. - 2 informants, 2 undercover agents. Patel and Bongino and Bondi know all this right? They're going to blow the lid off this thing I guess, any moment now. Actually no they won't because criminal investigations use informants and undercover agents all the time. They bought night vision goggles, a taser, explosives, they built IED's, they cased the vacation property, openly discussed the actual word "kidnap," they planned to blow up a bridge behind them, and they built a safe house (basically a shed in the woods) to hold Whitmer in. On and on.

Wapo: Qatar says Trump initiated the Qatari plane gift & wants it in writing.

I'm posting on a 13th 36th in a list of 14 37 forums on a little visited FF site. I'm fine with it going only this far.

Detailed article y'all, by Ryan King of the NY Post, also known for his investigative work on "Cyberpunk behind AI video of Trump kissing Musk’s feet was on taxpayer-funded union time: whistleblower"

Right, Trump files a lawsuit claiming mental anguish from an interview in which his opponent for the presidency of the US said mean things about him. Trump is too emotional to be president but sure liberals also made him file a lawsuit over this.

Ron Klain - chief of staff Bruce Reed - deputy chief of staff Mike Donilon - Senior Advisor to the President Steve Ricchetti - Counselor to the President This is how White House administrations work. Trump has the same roles in his administration as he did in Trump1 and this is how White Houses have worked to at least Roosevelt if not before. Last time people could just "show up" for a meeting with the president it was probably the Van Buren administration.