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When a deal like this goes down. Everyone wants to look for a winner and loser.

Can't be done because the teams involved are in two different spaces.

The Rams are in their window with Stafford. Simpson is a future unknown.

The Browns are not in any window. Myles was their best player and had been for nine years. Nine years with one playoff win.

Berry set his parameters and held them.

The Browns are still in the "if category." If Shedeur can be more? No way in hell are the Browns extending DW.

The 2027 is nothing more than fantasy right now. If the Jets and Cardinals are ahead in the draft order of 27. We get the third QB selected.

If that fantasy player actually becomes the future. It will take more than his rookie year.

We made a deal that had to be done and we got all we could get.

We have lots of miles to travel before we sleep.

Your 'honest conversation' went from the war being about Iran having imminent nuclear weapon capacity (my point from the very beginning) to you trying to twist into Iran "being a threat" because it's not too hard to make a nuclear weapon... which is such a broad and undefined reason/excuse for a country to go to war, it's laughable.

Then on European allies - when they haven't supported all of the US actions in the Iran War - instead of acknowledging the very strong probability that is because they have been offered no evidence of Iran having imminent nuclear capability - you tried to opine that it was more likely it was down to weak leadership under political pressure at home. To support this opinion you then talked about France's troop deployment - which has ZERO to do with them allowing the US to use US airbases in France to launch or fuel planes that were proactively bombing Iran.

Sorry for using "ALL" instead of focusing specifically on the EU countries that denied the US the full function of the US airbases. While you might feel that's a gotcha - I disagree. But it was a mistake and I acknowledged that then and now.

You then tried to pivot and change the conversation to talk about my in depth knowledge of building and making nuclear weapons and conventional ordinance - which has nothing to do with how or why the EU countries made their decisions regarding the use of US air bases.

Apparently pivoting and changing the conversation is destroying people's logic ... which is funny because Pit gets accused of changing the topic constantly by you and others and it's always presented as a really bad thing to do.

Yes - for some reason I thought that he was a FA after this year. If his contract was up this year I think he has much less value. The caveat would be if we sign and trade him whereby the Browns eating his signing bonus helps the team out and makes the situation more appealing.

Trump has offered differing accounts of his ties to the contractor:

April 23 video: "I said, What we're going to do is, I'm going to call all three of these people that have worked for me in the past, doing swimming pools."

At another event on the same day, Trump said he told Doug Burgum, the secretary of the interior, "I have a guy who's unbelievable at doing swimming pools. Up the road, we have a club. We have an Olympic size swimming pool. He did it 20 years ago and it's perfect to this day. So I asked them, I said, I have an idea. I'm going to send my contractor over and take a look. He looked at it. He called me up. He said, ‘Sir, we can do something on it.’ He said, it's perfect, actually. He said, ‘It's really decaying and it's in terrible condition.’"

May 4 White House small business summit: "So I have some very good contractors, some good, one or two in particular. And I sent the two of the, actually, the three best. I said, Do me a favor, fellas, go take a look at the reflecting pool that sits in between Lincoln and Washington, the beautiful, what should be beautiful reflecting pool."

May 12 Truth social post: "Also, I didn’t give out the contract, ‘Interior’ did, to a contractor I did not know, and have never used before."

https://www.wdsu.com/article/fact-check-trump-reflecting-pool-timeline-cost/71434077

But hey, I mean if the pool guy said it. The law of averages alone would dictate the pool guy is more honest than trump. But at least now we know it wasn't something "the dems made up". It was the words of trump himself.

Normal people didn't elect a man convicted on 34 felony counts who a jury found sexually assaulted a woman and paid a porn star hush money. That's just a figment of your imagination created to make you feel better about your own choices.

Aw, using paid informants to gather information on right wing extremist groups has touched a nerve so badly they make it sound like a bad thing.

Matthew 25:31-46 isn't a verse. It's a compete story. You posted your truth. Those aren't facts. They are what you choose to believe and your interpretation of facts.

In case you missed it, "the entire Church" whatever you think that means, does not see things the way you see it either. Much to your surprise it seems you do not speak for all Christians. Also much to your surprise not all who see things differently than you do are some dark, evil forces trying to destroy America either.

Many democrats are Christians. They just believe in the teaching of the New Testament. The message of Christ which was the teachings for the Christians. They don't go back to pick and choose what parts of the Old Testament they want to preach and follow and which parts they decided to ignore the way you do.


Could it possibly be that he died in Feb. of 2018? Dear Lord man.

Because most people don't know dumb ends with a B.

It's obvious this message was meant for trump voters.

#notarando

So you just got called out on a bunch of your false allegations and that's all you got? I can't say I blame you.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has tapped Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to be the acting director of national intelligence — elevating a real estate scion without any clear national security credentials to a key post as the U.S. remains at war with Iran.

Trump made the surprise announcement Tuesday on social media that Pulte would be replacing Tulsi Gabbard, the former Hawaii congresswoman who had served as the director of national intelligence. Trump said Pulte will keep his other positions even as he fills in for Gabbard, who resigned last month after revealing her husband’s cancer diagnosis.

The Republican president cited Pulte’s work at the FHFA and his role as chair of the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as indicating that his real estate work would overlap with the skills needed to coordinate 18 federal agencies tasked with aspects of foreign and domestic security.



“William has deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America, the safety and soundness of the Markets,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

Trump’s choice to elevate Pulte, who would also continue in his post at FHFA, shows how the president is putting a greater priority on loyalty to him, even as the side effects of the Iran war has damaged Trump politically going into November’s midterm elections and raised basic concerns about the quality of advice that aides are giving to a president who has rewarded flattery.

It’s unclear what national security expertise Pulte brings to bear as the U.S. faces conflict in the Middle East, helps Ukraine defend itself against Russia’s assault and manages the emergence of artificial intelligence as a military tool. But Pulte, who’s 38 years old, has been a frequent guest on Air Force One as Trump has traveled to Mar-a-Lago, his home and club in Palm Beach, Florida.

On one such flight, the housing finance director stood in a doorway as Trump discussed with reporters the ballroom he’s building at the White House and handed Trump a series of renderings of the project that the president held up.

Questions about Pulte’s experience

Tuesday’s announcement quickly drew criticism from Trump administration opponents that Pulte could undermine the credibility and integrity of America’s intelligence agencies.

“The concern is not only that Mr. Pulte lacks the ‘extensive national security experience’ required by statute for the job, which was created after intelligence failures led to the deaths of thousands of Americans on 9/11,” said Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., in a statement. “It is that he appears to have been selected precisely because the White House believes he will provide the narrative it wants, not the intelligence we need.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Pulte has been “abusing his authority” as the federal housing finance director and Trump is now “rewarding his lackey — who has no national security experience — with a perch atop our nation’s intelligence community. What could go wrong?”

Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, the liberal consumer rights advocacy group, warned that Pulte was “Trump’s hatchet man” who would use the government against those Americans who object to the president’s actions.

“Placing Pulte in this post would position him to use the nation’s massive surveillance apparatus and police capacity to harass, intimidate and threaten the many, many people that Trump considers his enemies,” Weissman said.

Pulte’s attacks on Trump foes

As the grandson of the founder of PulteGroup, one of the country’s largest homebuilders, Pulte has cut a combative streak on social media and used his post at the FHFA to attack perceived opponents of the Trump administration.

His time overseeing mortgage finance has been linked with criminal referrals over allegations of mortgage fraud by public officials Trump sought to punish, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat; Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.; and Lisa Cook, a board member of the Federal Reserve, who was nominated by a Democratic president, Joe Biden.

The prosecution against James was dismissed in November after a judge concluded that the prosecutor who filed the charges was illegally appointed. Other referrals made by Pulte, including against Schiff and Cook, have not yielded any criminal charges. Lawyers for both have denied any claims of wrongdoing. But Trump did try to use the possibility of mortgage fraud as grounds for removing Cook from the Fed.

Cook’s lawyer accused Pulte of pursuing mortgage fraud on a partisan basis, focusing on Democrats and refusing to pursue similar allegations against Republicans.

Pulte told reporters at the White House several months ago that he had also made criminal referrals regarding at least one Republican official, but he declined to provide the name.

He has famously gone after then-Fed Chair Jerome Powell for not cutting the central bank’s benchmark interest rates as aggressively as the president wanted. He has also been linked to ideas such as the 50-year mortgage and efforts to lower mortgage rates through the purchase of home loan debt that have not paid off as promised, as mortgage rates began to climb after the Iran war started at the end of February.

Pulte has a reputation for cultivating enemies. In a legal feud pursued by Pulte that involved his family namesake’s homebuilding company, he accused his grandfather’s widow of insider trading. He was believed to be the driving force behind a website trashing an aunt as a “fake Christian.” And he publicly blasted another relative as “a fat slob,” “weirdo” and “grifter,” according to court records.

Politico reported in September that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened to punch Pulte in the face. The showdown occurred at a private dinner, and the treasury secretary claimed that he had heard Pulte had been badmouthing him to Trump.

If formally nominated, Pulte would need to be confirmed by the Senate to hold the position full time.

In his first term, Trump at various points had acting officials leading the Justice and Defense departments and in top posts at Homeland Security and the Interior.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-pu...ligence-281fd6ba9992487dc701768803f9c475

Justice Department says it will stop work on $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" after judge's ruling

Washington — The Justice Department said Monday that it will stop work on the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund following a district judge's decision temporarily blocking the program.

The move comes after the plan earned intense pushback from Republicans in Congress, which threatened to imperil the GOP agenda on Capitol Hill.

The Justice Department said on X that it would abide by the judge's ruling that halted work on the fund, effectively shelving plans for it for now.

"The Department of Justice disagrees strongly with the decision on the Anti-Weaponization Fund put forth by the United States District Court Judge in the Eastern District of Virginia, wherein the Court stated that, under no circumstances, may the Department of Justice proceed with the Anti-Weaponization Fund recently established in order to make up for the tremendous abuse, harm, and hate unfairly shown to so many people," the department said on X.

It continued: "This Fund was open to anybody who was so weaponized, targeted, or persecuted, whether they were Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Independent, or otherwise. The Department will abide by the Court's ruling."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-anti-weaponization-fund-dropped-republican-revolt/

Or you admit you don't know, while finding a client sending "💜😏🌹" to an allegedly "professional" massage therapist suspicious.

They caught and arrested the fleeing fugitive...............

ICE officer wanted in the shooting of a man during the Minneapolis crackdown is arrested in Texas

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal immigration officer wanted in the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s Minnesota crackdown was arrested Friday in Texas, authorities said.

Christian Castro, of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, was taken into custody 11 days after Minneapolis prosecutors charged him with assault and falsely reporting a crime in the Jan. 14 nonfatal shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis.

Hennepin County, Minnesota prosecutors said the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension located Castro, 52, in Texas, and the Texas Rangers said they assisted in the arrest in Cameron County, which borders Mexico in the southernmost part of the state.

The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General said its agents were not involved in or present for Castro’s apprehension, denying the Hennepin County Attorney’s office’s claims in press statements about the arrest.

“Any characterization that DHS OIG agents participated in or led the arrest operation is inaccurate,” the Office of Inspector General said in a statement.

Messages seeking comment were also left with ICE and the Texas Rangers.

Online court records do not list an attorney for Castro, and it wasn’t immediately clear if he has one.

In a statement, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty heralded the arrest as “a critical step forward in our prosecution of Mr. Castro.”

Castro is the second federal agent to be charged over their conduct during the Minnesota crackdown, which was known as Operation Metro Surge. He is one of two agents that ICE Director Todd Lyons said lied about the circumstances of the incident.

According to prosecutors, Castro fired through a home’s front door and shot Sosa-Celis in the thigh after Castro and another officer chased a different man, Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna, to the Minneapolis apartment duplex where he and Sosa-Celis lived. Sosa-Celis and Aljorna were legally in the U.S., Moriarty said.

Federal authorities initially accused Sosa-Celis and Aljorna of beating an officer with a broom handle and a snow shovel. A federal judge later dismissed the charges, and ICE and the Justice Department opened an investigation into whether the officers lied about what happened.

In a statement after the charges were announced, ICE said the U.S. attorney’s office was investigating statements made by the officers, who could face disciplinary action including being fired and prosecuted. ICE called the Hennepin County attorney’s action “unlawful and nothing more than a political stunt.” DHS’s Inspector General’s Office, which Moriarty credited with assisting in the arrest, is separate from ICE and is meant to serve as a watchdog for DHS agencies, including ICE.

Minneapolis last month released video showing the moments before Sosa-Celis’s shooting, captured from a distance by a city-owned security camera.

The video appears to show a person standing with a snow shovel outside the house, near the street, then retreating toward the house and tossing the shovel into the yard. This happens as a person being chased by another person runs up from the street, falls on the sidewalk, gets up, and keeps heading toward the house.

The three appear to scuffle near the front steps for about 10 seconds. The exact moment when Sosa-Celis is shot isn’t clear. A car with flashing lights pulls up, and another person walks up.

The Trump administration sent thousands of officers to the Minneapolis and St. Paul area as part of President Donald Trump’s national deportation campaign and considered Operation Metro Surge a success.

But tensions mounted during the weekslong campaign, and the shooting deaths of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal officers sparked mass unrest and raised questions about officers’ conduct.

Minnesota leaders and the Trump administration have clashed over who has the authority to investigate and prosecute federal officers for on-duty conduct.

Moriarty’s office last month charged immigration agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. with assault for allegedly pointing his gun at people in a car on a highway. He turned himself in last week, and his lawyer disputes the charges.

The county is also investigating Good’s and Pretti’s killings and sued the Trump administration in March to gain access to evidence in those cases and the Sosa-Celis shooting.

https://apnews.com/article/minneapo...sacelis-811eca576b7b7088694cc3a646999d51

Lead prosecutor on former FBI Director Comey's 'seashells' case withdraws without explanation

The department did not include any explanation for the move.

The lead prosecutor tasked with overseeing former FBI Director James Comey's prosecution stemming from his post of seashells that the Justice Department claims amounted to a threat against President Donald Trump has withdrawn from the case, according to a court filing.

Matthew Petracca was the lone prosecutor from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina assigned to the case when it was unsealed late last month.

On Friday evening, however, the Justice Department filed a notice with the court indicating that Petracca has been replaced by assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Severo.

The department did not include any explanation for the move in the high-profile case.

Comey's attorneys are expected to make a vigorous push to have the case dismissed before it can go to trial through a variety of legal challenges.

A Justice Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.

Comey was charged with threatening to kill Trump by posting a photo on Instagram of seashells on a beach arranged in the numbers "86 47." Citing the slang meaning of "86" as to "nix" or "get rid" of something, allies of the president allege that the post was a veiled threat against Trump, who is the 47th president.

Following backlash over the post, Comey removed the photo from Instagram and said he was unaware that the post could be associated with violence.

Critics of Trump say the indictment is another effort by the administration to punish the president's perceived enemies after a judge last year threw out an indictment against Comey on unrelated charges.

At a press conference announcing the charges last month, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche argued that Comey's post crossed the line between First Amendment-protected speech and speech that warrants prosecution.

Comey's trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 21.

https://abcnews.com/Politics/lead-p...comeys-seashells-case/story?id=133437435

This entire thing seems contrived, botched, manufactured and mishandled in at least 8647 different ways.

The problem with adding states is that the ones on the list would likely be democratic in political preference.

Fair is a fairy tale. We like the idea of things being fair and mostly equal, but the reality doesn't play out that way, be it pretty much in anything.

Depends. Can he shoot the trey? I like the idea. Cavs need some "bad assery."

Thank you everyone my dad
Died in Vietnam November 23 1968

I like the Braves just fine.

In that case I wish you all the best moving forward with your consulting service. AI may help your business be much more profitable and efficient.

But you have to admit this is rather humorous in and embarrassing kind of way........

March of 2022 watson was signed by the Browns. They claimed they had their QB of the future and finally had a franchise QB.

March of 2025 Browns co-owner Jimmy Haslam said the team "took a big swing-and-miss" in acquiring QB Deshaun Watson.

May of 2026 watson is #1 on the QB depth chart.

It's as if this team has a bad case of being bipolar.

And the question could become, if Monkin doesn't develop some of that "1st round" talent will it be the fault of Monkin for not developing that talent or will it be the talking heads were wrong about their evaluations on some of those picks?

As I said earlier, simple is the name of the game, especially if you plan on doing most of it yourself. Leave the complicated to the people who can afford personal secretaries, a team of accountants, and lawyers. Complicated takes a mental toll if you plan to do it yourself.