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I suppose we have been saying that since the early 1800's.

Just open your eyes and unclog your ears.

Let me as you a question. We have been jibber jabbering on here for close to 25 years.

In the beginning you identified as a Republican. Then when you found an easier way to pay for insurance you became a Democrat.

Now you seem off the deep end. Is it fair to say you now identify as a socialist?

You ask for proof. I suppose there is no piece of paper to hand you so I offer that Russia, the USSR identified as being a Socialist nation but I think we all know it was a little more than that.

I like Chock full o nuts. Good coffee. As a New Yorker you should drink it, its roasted somewhere in the city.

I'll have to look in the store to see if they distribute K-cups. I haven't noticed them. I have seen those vacume packs.

I am strictly a K cup guy now. No more drip or perk machines for me. I have tried filling those reusable pods but they always seem to "blow up" and you get grounds all in the machine and cup of brew. Cleaning them is also a pain.

We had one (specialist), he now is HC for Patriots

That is exactly what I due.

Pit, if there is an ongoing investigation, DOJ could block the release of the files when Congress votes to release next week

Yeah, it really sucks

I think that whole thing has gotten BLOWN out of Proportion!

I think lack of cap space and lack of draft picks are reasons 1 and 2... and I certainly understand the logic of saying who we have making those choices are to blame as well.

We seem VERY reluctant to spend high for receivers. Less so for OL back when we had the cap to do so.

Trumps entire game plan is to outlast Carroll... Not sure he can. But SCOTUS needs to recuse itself from all cases involving Trump... They have demonstrated Bias at about every turn.

you got any proof he's a communist? Or are you just listening to Trump again?

Is that due to bad hires, or is it lack of Cap Space?

We live in unprecedented times.....................

Administration actions during government shutdowns have targeted billions in federal infrastructure/energy funds for cancellation or pausing primarily in Democratic-led "blue" states, with little evidence of comparable large cuts in "red" states, though some GOP-led states did see cuts due to specific program rules or legal battles over green energy funds.

It's been all about the war on blue states and clean energy.

When things were "normal" you had a point. Things aren't "normal" anymore.

I propose that what happened once will happen yet again because people never learn their lesson. It already happened in 2007. The housing bubble will burst. Many regulations were put in place to keep it from happening again but most of those have been repealed. I understand that you live in "your reality" and that's great. You seem to think your income and your life is typical. It's actually not and especially now. The average first time home buyer is now almost 40 years old.

I understand how people that live in "gated communities" who grew up at a time when financial upward mobility was much easier to achieve think the way you do. I'm not that much younger than yourself and I'm fully aware of the way things were "back then". But here is the reality that exists today. College students have massive debt when they graduate. They're far more behind the 8 ball than we ever were. How much student debt did you have and how much did college cost when you went to school?

And I know people say they should get a trade job instead of college. They keep talking about "You can make 100k a year!" But what they're talking about are union jobs which are far more rare these days and even at that they would almost have to live at work to ever make that. You know, unions. Which those on the right hate, try to break up and hope will end.

Let's be factual here. The average skilled trade job pays $54,604. An average "Trade Worker" earns approximately $21.17 per hour, while specific jobs like electricians and plumbers can earn over $60,000 annually, according to recent data.

The average home price is about 400k. All you are really proposing is that people who really can't afford homes buy them anyway. That they become "house poor". Where they can barely pay for their homes and not afford to live otherwise. In the end all that will be accomplished is higher foreclosures rates and increased bankruptcies.

You may has well have opened your post with "Well back in my day". It's not back in our day anymore and the average young person doesn't have the wage to cost ratio in terms of affording a home that we did. Nobody making 60k a year can afford a 400k home's mortgage payment.


Maybe that's your objective. My objective is to see young people being able to afford a single dwelling home. And $200 less a month payment on a mortgage costing well over 2k a month doesn't address that.

That is a bit different. Large projects get delayed or canceled all the time for political reason.

A good example is right here in Chattanooga. The Tennessee river runs through town. There was a big need to expand the lock through the Chickamauga Dam. The lock was crumbling under hydraulic stress and could only allow 1 barge to pass at a time. I know you live north of Nashville, but the Tennessee is a major waterway.

Anyway, a lock expansion was approved and work started on the project. It got to maybe 25% complete then President Obama, or during his administration pulled funding and it sat idle for 8 years. The lock was inoperable at that point so no shipping could happen north of Chattanooga.

There is a lot of commerce heading down that river north of Chattanooga.

It's back under construction and nearing completion.

My point is this isn't a President Trump problem in singular; it's been going on for a long time.

It doesn't have to be as I explained.

Look, I don't kow what some of you want. We want to see young people being able to get in to a single dwelling home.

You can't force prices down. You can't set a price on building materials and labor unless you are a communist.

As I said, if people buy in to a 50 year and plan to pay it off over 50 years, they are stupid. They need to pay more when they can.

My wife and I never paid off a house we lived in for almost 40 years. We pulled some equity to do other things with that money. We still tonned out when we sold it 4-5 years ago.

We never needed a big house in old age. We didn't want to own crap. Too many associated costs with a home that don't go away if you "own" it outright. Property taxes don't go away. Insurance doesn't go away. You still need to cut grass, paint the place, fix a roof or a dock and deck. Maintenance can be endless unless you want to live in the crappy house on the block.

We did what we planned 40 years ago....move in to a nice apartment complex. It's gated, the maintenance is covered down to changing light bulbs if you want. Yes, we still have some insurance costs, but just the property minimum on liability costs and some riders we carry on several paintings and items of jewelry with high appraisal values, but it's nothing like insurance in case you home burns to the ground in addition to the items mentioned.

For us it works. We have zero financial stress because we used our home as a financial tool, not simply an ends to owning a home.

Homes are hard to give away once you die. You can gift cash before hand. You can give away things that probate won't even know about.

Die broke. Just don't be broke long before you do.

The tangent is over. Again, what do you propose? I am open to a better solution.

Lauren Boebert withstood the pressure to change her vote on the Epstein Files, so now Mike Johnson is less likely to get into Heaven than a woman who gave a handjob in a theater.

Andy Borowitz

An appeals court last year upheld a lower court's judgment that Trump sexually abused Carroll in the 1990s, and later defamed her after she went public with her allegations.

President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Monday to review a $5 million civil judgment that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.

A jury in 2023 awarded the judgment after it found Trump liable of sexual abuse, following Carroll's allegations that Trump assaulted her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in 1996 and later defamed her during his first term by referring to her allegations as a “hoax” and a “con job.”

“There were no eyewitnesses, no video evidence, and no police report or investigation,” Trump's lawyers wrote in their filing to the Supreme Court.

“Instead, Carroll waited more than 20 years to falsely accuse Donald Trump, who she politically opposes, until after he became the 45th president, when she could maximize political injury to him and profit for herself,” the filing added.

It is unclear whether the high court will take up the civil case.

CNN first reported on Trump's court filing.

A spokesman for Trump's outside legal team said in a statement on the filing, “The American People stand with President Trump as they demand an immediate end to all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll Hoaxes. President Trump will keep winning against Liberal Lawfare, as he continues to focus on his mission to Make America Great Again.”

Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, declined to comment to NBC News last night.

A federal appeals court last year upheld the judgment after Trump argued that U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the case, had erred in allowing testimony from two women — Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff — whose allegations of sexual abuse Trump has denied.

A panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found in December last year that Kaplan had not “abused his discretion” by permitting their testimony.

Trump had also asked the appeals court for a rehearing of the case in June, which was denied.

Trump has repeatedly sought to have the judgments in Carroll's cases against him overturned. A separate appeal that Trump filed to overturn Carroll’s $83 million defamation judgment last year, in a case tied to his defamatory comments about her while president and after the $5 million verdict, failed in September.
Garrett Haake

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/su...arroll-judgement-sexual-abuse-rcna243124



AI Overview;

The U.S. Supreme Court hears very few appeals, accepting only about 100-150 out of over 7,000 requests annually, and a significant portion are civil cases involving federal law, though the exact civil/criminal split varies but it's a small fraction of all cases, meaning most federal appellate decisions are final, with SCOTUS choosing cases based on significant legal questions, not just to correct errors in individual civil disputes.

Booh Hoo Whiny Face is at it again.

Epstein Emails Linked To Putin/Russia Before First Putin Meeting With Trump In 2018 


Emails: Jeffrey Epstein offered to give Russia “insight” into Trump

New emails show that Jeffrey Epstein tried to contact Russia’s top diplomat with knowledge about President Donald Trump prior to a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2018.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ve-russia-insight-into-trump/ar-AA1Qo7nH

I wonder what kind of 'insight' Epstein may have offered to Russia..?

...a year later (Aug. 10, 2019) Epstein was dead.

And here it is right on cue....................

President Donald Trump said Friday he will ask Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to many other high-profile figures, in an extraordinary step that comes just days after Democrats released emails from the late Epstein that mention him.

Trump announced the directive in a Truth Social post that accused Democrats of trying to revive attention to his past ties with Epstein, contending they are “using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures.”

“I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him,” Trump wrote.

The move represents the president’s most significant effort yet to discredit the push by Democrats and some Republicans to release all of the Epstein case files, and to divert focus away from himself.

Trump earlier this week tried and failed to convince Republicans to block a discharge petition in the US House forcing a vote on the release of the Justice Department’s Epstein files, with the White House even holding a Situation Room meeting with one key GOP lawmaker who had signed on ahead of it receiving its decisive 218th signature. Speaker Mike Johnson has since said he’ll schedule the vote next week, which is now expected to attract significant support from rank-and-file GOP lawmakers.

On Friday, Trump vented his frustration in a series of Truth Social posts, blasting Republicans backing the Epstein files release as “soft and foolish” and repeatedly branding the issue a “Hoax.”

“This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats,” Trump wrote in one post.

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. CNN has reached out to Clinton, Summers and Hoffman.

In a statement, JPMorgan Chase spokesperson Patricia Wexler said the bank “ended our relationship with him years before his arrest on sex trafficking charges.”

JPMorgan paid $290 million in 2023 to settle a class action lawsuit filed by Epstein’s survivors that alleged it turned a blind eye to unusual cash transactions that they claimed enabled Epstein’s sex trafficking. JPMorgan also paid $75 million to settle with the US Virgin Islands. The bank did not admit or deny any wrongdoing in either settlement.

“The government had damning information about his crimes and failed to share it with us or other banks,” Wexler said. “We regret any association we had with the man, but did not help him commit his heinous acts.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/politics/trump-epstein-doj-investigate-enemies

Of course this moron still doesn't get it. People want ALL of the information on Epstein and those associated with him! Regardless of who it is or what party they belong to. It's about uncovering pedophiles and making them accountable.

But you know he is. Point his sword at his enemies and thinking it's all about him.

Nope-not even close

There is alot in the release-if this is the low hanging fruit that they don't have to redact-the bad stuff has got to be really bad.

There is something else I saw this morning asking if putin has pictures of trump with bubba-

Meltdown mode coming-

Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheney.bsky.social

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

God I am clearly a much worse judge of character than I realised. I thought you had a brain.

We were doing that before it was cool. We just allowed the OL to age/degrade since the Watson trade. At this moment in time, we have adequately replaced nobody on the Oline since before that trade went down. Hopefully Zinter and Wypler end up being starters, but the interior of the line is the same, and only person we've attempted to replace is Wills (with Dawand Jones, which hasn't panned out).