Mr.TaterSalad

For those interested in going to a No Kings rally in Michigan here are all the communities where one is being held. Most of them are starting around 1pm, but check your local one to confirm the start time.

Veuillez renvoyer le directeur général des Red Wings, Steve Yzerman. You're right, it does sound better in French. I kid though. I'm not there yet.

Only the very best people speak at rallies for certain people. If you know, you know.

He also points out that they are welfare and taker states as well. Both of which, crime and being a taker state, Dems need to hit harder on.

I agree with your points here about why Newsom is effective. Frankly, honestly, if Newsome were a little less smug and arrogant himself AND was from a non-costal state I think he'd be a really solid, serious choice for Democrats in 2028. But being a costal liberal from California will be a no-go for Democrats I feel after Harris losing. I think Dems will end up nominating a midwestern or southern candidate for President in 28. That said, Newsom has been effective thus far it feels like. We will see if the people ultimately agree on the whole.

He got away with these things because he is a rich, white, male who was hyped up as being successful on a TV show back in the 2000s. Kamala Harris literally worked at a McDonald's as a summer job but they derided, mocked, and called her a liar. If Barack Obama or Kamala Harris had put on a hat and vest and did a McDonald's drive thru stunt Republicans and the media would call them Michael Dukakis and laugh at it. I used to be 100% against making fun of and chiding people with personal insults, but the facts are that they work. I was 100% opposed to the tactics Newsome used in his press conference, but it is effective I think. Democrats, like what Newsome did last night, need to fight back harder and get more down in the mud. Michelle Obama's old adage of "When they go low, we go high" is dated and doesn't work in today's politics. We need more of what Newsome did last night from Democratic leaders. And if someone insults the fact that Trump is the size of a blimp in a parade, ok.

Here are all the game winning calls from the various broadcasts last night. I thought the French announcer had great intensity and a good call, no clue who he is though.

Always cool to watch the emotion overcome the hometown fans when their team scores a big goal.

Amazing series so far. Every game but one has been thrilling to watch because we've gotten a great pace of place, intensity, scoring, and the drama of overtime. This is the best Stanley Cup Final I can remember watching since Bruins/Canucks in 2011 or Wings/Penguins in 2008 (Grrrrrrrr we won't talk about 2009).

He gave one to a pill-popping junkie in Rush Limbaugh, so this makes sense. Normally, I would not make fun of people for having a substance abuse problem. But since the right and MAGA always deride people on welfare and those who are low-income as drug addicts, no sense not calling El-Rushblow what he is.

I thought Trump was supposed to be a peace time President? He told us how easy peace deals and negotiations would be. He told us there would be no wars under his Presidency. What happened sir?

That women shot and murdered her own damn dog and MAGA didn't bat an eye. So I'm sure the dog killer supporters won't care what happened to Senator Padilla. I'm sure they'll celebrate it, just like they celebrated a dog killing Secretary of DHS being appointed.

I thought Mel Brooks' History of the World Part II miniseries was meh and only modestly funny. So I am hoping this will be better than that. The fact that they have Rick Moranis and Bill Pullman coming out of retirement for this project is promising. Moranis has done a movie in years, so I'm excited to see him act again. It will never be the same as the original Spaceballs, because you just can't emulate a classic like that. Also the fact that all of Dickk Van Patten (King Roland), John Candy (Barf the mog), and Joan Rivers (Dot Matrix) are all gone is sad because they played major characters that made the original so funny. But as long as the movie is funny to the majority of Spaceballs fans, myself and others, I'll be satisfied.

I am your father's, brother's, nephew's, cousin's, former roommate. What does that make us? Absolutely nothing!

NO, NOT THAT! YES, THAT! It's here, it's finally here. Spaceballs 2 the movie is being made. They better call it Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money.

I must have missed her op-ed after Charlottesville when MAGA was chanting "Jews will not replace us" and one MAGA individual ran a person over in a car and murdered them. Or her op-ed after January 6th and the attempted, violent coup on the capitol building.

It's been said multiple times. But he is an arsonist, who starts his own fires, and then brags when he changes course and decides to put the fire out. These labor shortages, which have existed for a long while now, are getting worse because of YOUR immigration policies sir. You are the one going into farms and workplaces to arrest migrant and undocumented workers sir.

Is Ryan McMahon from the Rockies worth targeting for our need at 3B? Career .743 OPS and great defensive third baseman.

We could do the same with second pairing defenseman. One period it can be Petry and Gustafsson, the next it can be Edvinsson and Holl, and then the third period it can be Johansson and Chiarot.

Roughly 42% of our farm and agriculture workforce is undocumented. Can't wait to see those grocery prices if they start mass deporting farm, agriculture, and food industry workers and stuff can't get harvested from the fields or processed fast enough at plants.

So another goalie that will block Cossa from getting NHL ice team or no?

The other part of the equation with Yzerman and when be critiquing him is the whole "Yeah, well, what moves would you have wanted him to make instead?" That is something that certainly should be taken into account and I am aware of. It is easy to arm chair GM and then criticize after the fact. They probably should have tanked for another season after 2022 and continued the rebuild going into the 22-23 season instead of bringing in what Yzerman viewed as quality starters like Chiarot, Copp, and Perron. I think I was onboard with this idea at the time. Though I did like the Copp and Perron moves when they were made. even if the money was steep on Copp. I never liked the Chiarot signing and I don't know that any fans really did. We all know we've had famously bad lottery luck, but there is no guarantee that would continue and you can't run a franchise acting as if it would. I don't think it would have been a bad thing to essentially continue the rebuild for one more season in 22-23. This would have given us get better lottery odds for a chance at one of Bedard, Carlsson, or Fantilli in the 2023 draft. I do think had we waited it out one more year we're likely in a better financial position without Chiarot and Copp eating up so much cap space. I do think our PK would be substantially worse without Copp and our defense marginally worse without Chiarot. That said, I would trade being worse in one of those two aspects if it meant we had a Bedard, Carlsson, or Fantilli to build around. Again though, no guarantee we would have gotten a top 3 pick.

If it's on the players that we missed the playoffs isn't it also on the front office and GM who chose to bring those players into the organization and/or keep them around? Also, when we collapsed at the end of the season under Fester Adams, no one made Yzerman keep Lalonde around and bring him back to start this season. Again, I'm not calling for Yzerman's head or anything, just for him to share in the blame a bit for where this organization is at and the neutral gear we've seemingly been stuck in the last two years after experiencing some growth early on.

Wang is the type of player we need because he's hard to beat. With that kind of size Wang can hang down low and move people off the puck.

Is this a way of saying he's potentially Andrew Copp 2.0 or worse if he's contract costs significantly more than Copp?