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Liz Cheney for speaker. Then she can form a new Jan 6 committee.

let us never be conflicted about beating the bears. it is always good to beat the bears. always.

This will get the conspiracy theory whackjobs going but if you were to fix an election, a New Hampshire house seat (400+ delegation) would be among the lowest bang for the buck

https://9gag.com/gag/aO737jy

Lots of crazy happening in this sport.

i'm wary of anyone with big accuracy issues in college. in the end, all of the qb prospects are flawed in some way. the lions are going to have to pick one of them and live with the results. i really wanted bryce young but i dont think they'll get him barring a late season collapse (always possible with this team and they are probably one jarad goff injury away from that). if they cant get young then any of the next level qbs will be fine with me. i just hope they can snag one a little later in the draft and use their top picks on much needed defensive help. dt and cb in particular.

So I had an open reel tape deck back in the day and my friends and I went through the whole deal playing everything backward and track by track. It's been so many years the memory fades but I think a big hook was that played backward you heard "Turn me on, dead man." But the air sort of went out the balloon when we played around some more and found out that any one of us could record ourselves saying "Number Nine" (I think?) and it would always sound like "Turn me on Dead man" played backwards. So that was the end of that for us......

God I hope they beat the Giants so we can stop this what about the Giants.

Posted in the wrong thread. Edited to say: Fuck The Packers

the "Honorable" Matthew Schlapp?

Ask any one of those 13 questions, and the second question would never even be heard as Pence’s handlers would immediately commandeer him out of the room, while the rest of the media pummels the CNN reporter for jeopardizing their future access to Pence and perhaps others in the party without significant conditional concessions.

Then prison.

Possibley more on this. There is also reference in the House Practice manual ( House Practice manual Ch 34 ) to a source called "Deschler's Precedents" ( link ) which states the Speaker can be removed by the will of House. In the final analysis, the Consitution gives each House the right make its rules, and ultimately any rule can be changed by majority vote. Of course there are a lot things where precedent is extremely powerful and has vanishingly little probability of being overturned, but I would never say 'never' on an absolute basis.

If Trump is done and gone, then he’s taking a few million voters with him, because there must be at least that many who vote only for him. The question then becomes how many of those lost votes might be offset by moderate conservatives coming back to the party, those who used to reliably vote Republican but reluctantly went Democrat or stopped voting because the party went nuts. If the Mitts were to become ascendant again, how of those exiles many would come back? If it’s a 1:1 ratio coming back, Republicans might be OK, or even better off if the ratio is more than 1:1. I don’t think it is, though—I think Trump energized the voting process and drove more R voters to the polls, and Republican pols must agree, because otherwise why would they have been so eager to debase themselves by publicly fawning all over him? A complicating factor, though, is how the Republican base has become fractured among three distinct constituencies I can identify: the exiled Mitts; the ride-or-die red hats; and a faction that digs the cruelty and the fascism Trump unearthed in his base but without all the crazy acting out—those are people who would gladly vote for DeSantis or Abbott over both Mitt and Trump. That’s probably where the religious right will park their votes. If Trump gets spun out, finally, can the party reconcile the remaining two factions? Who caves for the other? I think it’s more likely the Mitts cave for the Christo-fascists, which they will justify because tax cuts, because they really don’t care or think about the social issues much. That would not only be sad, that would make it harder for Democrats to run against and win.

And again, it comes down to the actual voters. I kind of agree that the GOP elite is done with him at the moment. And certainly elite messaging against him can have an impact to a degree as well. But until the actual voters drop him, you really can't declare him done IMO. I'm curious to see some polling in the next couple of weeks to see if the voters match where the elites are, because something tells me they won't. Which in turn will mean that we are likely in another post-Jan 6 interregnum period where the GOP is floating trial balloons versus taking actual concrete steps away.

the lions had lost 98 straight games when trailing by 14 entering the 4th quarter. their first win since 1993. the bears are the first team in nfl history to score at least 29 points in three consecutive games and lose all three. in case you thought the lions defense was bad...

Can we get JV and Xander Bogaerts to sign multi year contracts in Detroit? JV might be willing to give the Tigers the home team discount. Tre Turner, Carlos Correa and Dansby Swanson, I believe, will be out of the Tigers price range. Bringing Bogaerts to Detroit would move Javy Baez to 2base and I would be okay with that.

If I’m picking unsung ‘84 Tigers, I’m going with Rusty Kuntz, Rupert Jones, Johnny Grubb and Doug Bair.

Ragnow left the stadium in a walking boot. It appears to be the same foot that has given him problems for 2 years. Fingers crossed it’s not a major injury.

Campbell and Holmes should be on the hot seat if they lose but shouldn't win a meaningless game because of draft picks.

nobody who has followed the msu football program since dantonio got there would find any of this surprising. i dont know about all that stuff on the sidelines, its all hearsay and horrible things are said on sidelines all the time. that said, if youve watched this game in recent times, the idea that msu players might try to hurt michigan players is par for the course. nothing institutionally will happen to msu. the players involved will be suspended for the rest of the season and that's it.

I would throw in Cuomo and NY Democrats for not getting away with gerrymandering. Also Newsom for only doing the minimum for California candidates. There could be a lot of finger pointing on both sides.

It was 49 seconds and it means you QB sneak.

Hopefully a turning point for the franchise. Let’s start winning more of these close ones

I think "wokism", "grooming", "CRT" "Socialism", are all just interchangeable shorthands for the people who don't like cultural change to hang a tag on what they feel they are against. The specifics of each term have some currency in the debates between the politically active, but probably don't signify much of anything to the rank and file right wing voter - other than that they are all samples from the same pot of stew they want no part of. The cultural values voter *feels* his cultural (or religious) bearings being eroded, the language is not meant for the precise service of argument but a charged one of emotion.

I think anti-wokeism is at least ten times the force that people imagine wokeism to be. The only reason the average person knows about wokeism at all is because of how much conservative media and certain comedians hammer it.

Clean house. New players please.

The problem for guys like Reyes and Harold who are fairly average for utility guys is just that they need the roster spots because of the long term injured they have and utlity players are fairly fungible - you will be able to find them again later once you get your 60's back on the 60 and you've brought in the primarly pieces you have decided to pursue.

Spelled his name wrong.

Just going back to this, it seems a missed opportunity to go to an alt red jersey which I thought there was some support for. Maybe I'm projecting my own opinion, maybe that was a popular sentiment around this forum, but I thought the reds last year were well accepted (teal and electric bolt aside). The storyline of St. Cecelia's and NBA players going there is cool. I don't know if the green is related to that or not. If so, they could have probably tied that into the Pistons' primary blue & red in some other way.

RIP Gallagher!