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To fully understand just how remarkable today’s exchange with Colombia was, you need to understand how Washington DC has traditionally worked through these sorts of issues, and the different way it works now under Trump. I’ll illustrate. Traditional Approach: 1. Colombia announces it will not take our repatriation flights. 2. On Monday, the State Department convenes an interagency task force with DoD, NSC, DEA, INS, ICE, Commerce, Treasury and Homeland Security. 3. The task force meets for four days and develops a position paper. 4. The position paper is rejected by the Secretary of State, who is unhappy that insufficient equity considerations are built into the process. 5. The task force reconvenes a week later to redevelop three new, equity-centric courses of action and create a new position paper. 6. The process is delayed a week because Washington DC gets three inches of snow. 7. SecState approves the new position paper for interagency circulation, and considerable input is received from the heads of other departments so the task force must reconvene. 8. The original three proposed responsive courses of action are scrapped in favor of a new, fourth course of action that achieves the worst aspects of the three prior courses of action but satisfies the interagency. 9. Someone in State who disagrees leaks to the Washington Post, who writes a story about how ineffective the Presidential administration is. 10. The White House Chief of Staff sets up a session three days later to brief the President, who approves the new fourth course of action. 11. Over a month after the issue is first raised, the State Department Public Affairs Officer holds a press conference announcing that Colombia has agreed to try to send fewer criminals into the US and everyone declares victory. Trump Approach: 1. Colombia announces it will not take our repatriation flights. 2. After a par-5 third hole where he goes one under par, Trump uses his iPhone to post on social media as to how the USA will destroy Colombia’s economy if they do not do what the USA demands. 3. By the time Trump gets to the par-4 sixth hole, Colombia’s President has agreed to repatriate all the illegal Colombians in his own plane, which he will pay for. 4. Trump finishes three under par and goes to the clubhouse for a Diet Coke where he posts a gangsta AI image of himself and the new FAFO Doctrine. 5. Winning. See the difference? It’s called LEADERSHIP.

Oh, I'm aware. Offline since September 2019

Of course it's completely absurd, but NFL officiating is absurd and its never going to change. So there you have it. Accept reality and be better.

Imagine being Daz and coming into this thread daily taking massive L after massive L. I don't need any part of the IC, most of all the CIA, to bolster any conclusions about the origin of covid that I already came to years ago. I was able to make those conclusions by first using plain common sense like most of us have. But beyond that I also have the benefit of having actual hands on experience at the bench conducting these same types of experiments. So this recent CIA report, that was withheld from the public until after a certain orange dude got in, has nothing to do with bolstering my scientific interpretation and conclusions. It's just more evidence of the CIA being the CIA .... lying, hiding, obfuscating.

You want definitive proof? Let the Wuhan Institute of Virology open up their lab notebooks and databases to international investigators. Yeah, sure.

Good on ya. It was just the most likely explanation for your bizarre conclusion. So to summarize my take: The Bills were out coached and out executed. For this I blame the Bills and the coaching staff. The officiating in the NFL is awful. It's a constant. The only question is how the bad officiating is going to swing. Playing on the road especially at the Chiefs yields a very high probability that the bad officiating on balance will not be in your favor. And as expected it wasn't. Was it an egregious example like the Texans game was? Absolutely not. Either way I do not blame the officials as they did as they always do, I blame the Bills for again not coaching and executing well enough in a one score game to remove this from the equation.

I never said or implied that the game was rigged. So are you sober yet?

Sober up. Re-evaluate. Then post again.

We would have won. Definitely.

The officiating in the NFL is awful. The Bills got out coached tonight. Both can be true simultaneously. The Bills had a game tonight where they obviously needed to be better than the opponent and in all likelihood the officials as well. They failed. On both. They lost more due to being outcoached but the officiating didn't help either.

Milano gets called for a face mask. Right call but at sideline and often missed. Rousseau ends up with his helmet on the ground front and center a few plays later and nada. This is the the WWF NFL. In a game with two evenly matched teams these calls and missed calls are CRUCIAL. Especially when you're getting outcoached simultaneously

Listen. The officiating in the NFL is AWFUL. Did it impact both teams tonight? Yes. But the Bills were massively outcoached while also having worse calls AND non calls against them. Again this is something that is par for the course in the 2025 NFL. Be better than the other team AND the officials. The Bills were better than NEITHER the Chiefs or the officials. Thus they lost.

You need to play a flawless game if you expect the officials to have an impact. Flawless game? No. Refs making questionable calls? Yes Recipe for expected L.

Find a way.

Need to be better than the other team and the officials. No excuses

A reliable media tactic in use for a long time.

Frank Figliuzzi. Classic Roundy-esque stupidity.