Mr.TaterSalad

I ****ing love this guy. What a genuine, relatable, regular ****ing human being.

Is anyone at all surprised that January 6th or Trump's criminality hasn't been brought up more by Obama?

Sleepy Joe is fiery as hell tonight!

He likely suffers from some type of brain health issue. I certainly hope he gets the mental healthcare he needs in this situation.

I think the Lions are going to do special things this season and be a really good team once again. I think they want to get back and accomplish what they were so closed to doing last year. They are a team on a mission this year. Now they have the upgraded talent at positions they were weak at last year (CB, DT) to not only sustain the success of last year but push them forward and be even better. The only downside for us is I worry Green Bay and Jordan Love take another step forward too. I still prefer our roster to theirs, but Green Bay is the team I worry about most in our division. I'd say I worry more about Green Bay than any possibly other NFC team besides the 49'ers. I think Green Bay will be better than Dallas and possibly Philly as well. Here are my predictions below for the Lions and the league. Lions Schedule: 12-5 vs. LA Rams Win vs. Tampa Bay Win @ Arizona Win vs. Seattle Loss @ Dallas Win @ Minnesota Win vs. Tennessee Win @ Green Bay Loss @ Houston Loss vs. Jacksonville Win @ Indianapolis Win vs. Chicago Win vs. Green Bay Win vs. Buffalo Win @ Chicago Loss @ San Francisco Loss vs. Minnesota Win NFC North Detroit 12-5 Green Bay 11-6 Chicago 7-10 Minnesota 4-13 NFC South Atlanta 10-7 Tampa Bay 7-10 New Orleans 6-11 Carolina 4-13 NFC East Philly 11-6 Dallas 10-7 Washington 5-12 New York Giants 5-12 NFC West San Francisco 13-4 LA Rams 9-8 Arizona 7-10 Seattle 6-11 AFC North Baltimore 12-5 Cincinnati 10-7 Cleveland 10-7 Pittsburgh 7-10 AFC South Houston 11-6 Jacksonville 10-7 Indianapolis 8-9 Tennessee 5-12 AFC East Miami 11-6 New York Jets 10-7 Buffalo 9-8 New England 3-14 AFC West Kansas City 12-5 LA Chargers 9-8 Las Vegas 4-13 Denver 3-14

Metro Atlanta is growing so rapidly and faster than the metro Charlotte area. So given the size of suburban Atlanta and the greater Atlanta area, it helped Georgia catch up and surpass North Carolina in-terms of being a purple state that will flip. I am surprised at just how rapidly it happened though.

Clearly resigning Goff was a mistake. Should have just turned the reigns over to Hooker. Seriously, he looked solid today and it does give me a small amount of hope that we have our backup QB position locked down this year.

So God allowed there to be dozens and dozens of women Prime Ministers and Presidents in other countries, just not the USA?

Really excited for the new economic agenda Vice President Harris rolled out today. It sounds like some level of price fixing or price capping might be involved in her agenda and this is a big step in the right direction. Corporations have gouged consumers for decades and much of the inflation bout we went through was greed-related price increases. So to see her economic agenda addressing this with at least some level of price fixing would be great.

Some other tunes I enjoyed off of Post Malone's new country album include his duet with Luke Combs Missin' You Like This, California Sober with Chris Stapleton, Right About You, Nosedive with Lainey Wilson, and Mexico with Billy Strings. If you're into either country music or Post Malone I think the album F-1 Trillion is worth a listen all in all. It's by no means going to redefine the genre or become a Metamodern Sounds of Country Music or Southeastern type of album. That said, I can appreciate Post elevating artists like Billy Strings, Sierra Ferrell, Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers and the like on this album and throughout his career.

Post Malone said he'd be recording a country album and he did just that. Given his prior affinity for artists like Sturgill Simpson I had some hope for this album. I'm honestly about 50/50 on his new country album titled F-1 Trillion. I'm 100% in though on his duet with Sierra Ferrell called Never Love You Again. A straight forward, well written, traditional country song and collaboration if there ever was one.

If Boyd had signed here, has Jamo done enough to prove he would deserve WR #2 target shares over Boyd? No reason to think based on past performance that Boyd couldn't be the #2 guy on our depth chart and Williams the #3.

Just listened to this tune this morning after you posted it. Such a good song. Rodney Crowell wrote the song with another songwriter and so it makes sense that it's good. Rodney Crowell is one of the best songwriters out there.

The Fetterman campaign in 2022 spent the entire election cycle clowning on Dr. Oz like like this with press releases and social media posts. I generally think they will be fine as voters on the margins aren't seeing a lot of this content anyways, unless the media picks up on it or it goes viral on social media.

What are the odds that Simon Edvinsson gets called up and gets first line minutes with Seider right out of the gate? Any chance they end up paired together at the the start of the season or sometime shortly there after?

I really feel for the Vikings organization and fans at this point. Everything that can go wrong has for them. We've been there as Lions fans and experienced the tragic death of a young player in Eric Andolsek and a promising young QB go down for the season in Matthew Stafford. This all really sucks for the Vikings.

They'd flip back the same reason some potential Hillary voters flipped when the Comey Letter came out in October 2016. Harris, for better or worse right now, is still largely a blank slate to the average voter. There is a race to define her to undecided and swing voters. Trump and the Republicans haven't really been able to define her with a narrative that's stuck yet, ala Crooked Hillary. Trump is stumbling and slurring and flailing his way through awful nicknames and narratives. As is his party on the whole. But they'll keep trying until they feel they've found one they think works, if they can find a narrative at all. Trump may be simply too stupid and undisciplined to make anything work. She's too liberal, a radical leftist, too far to the right on certain issues, Border Czar, a tax and spend liberal, a floozy who slept her way to the top, whatever. Some of these swing voters flipped back to Trump, went third party, or left the top blank in 2016 in part because the Crooked Hillary narrative stuck and the Comey Letter was the last minute icing on the cake. So if they find a narrative that works and there is a confluence of events that add to that narrative, people could flip back as they did in 2016. I think it's highly unlikely to happen and I think Harris is much better positioned than Hillary was back then. People have gotten a taste of who Trump is now and how ****ing bananas his tenure in office was. So I do feel they're less likely to flip to Trump, to third party candidates or leave the top of the ticket blank. The things the Clinton campaign did to themselves that hurt them seem not to be happening here. She's campaigning everywhere, has messaging that's polling well, has a robust get out the vote effort, etc. I don't know that any of this will happen. Kamala may just, and hopefully will, win. I'm just trying to answer your question as best I can think of.

Did you believe Christine Blasey-Ford or no? If yes, did you believe her allegations were enough to disqualify Brett Kavanaugh from the Supreme Court? Regarding Biden, he wasn't accused by three different woman of inappropriate behavior like Clinton was. He was accused by one woman, who changed her story multiple times.

In the era of MeToo trotting out a man accused of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and taking advantage of a 21 year old girl who was your intern makes us look like hypocrites as Democrats. We are supposed to believe Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford and E. Jean Carroll. However, we're not supposed to believe Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey. Not to mention that we're trying to make the case against Trump because he was on Epstein's flight logs knowing that Bubba was on them too.

Who am I to say what the DNC should look like. But one thing the RNC did that I liked was they had a theme to each night. I would do something similar for the primetime speaking hours of the DNC Convention and have speakers that match the theme. I would center everything around resorting freedom, protecting basic rights, making America a compassionate and welcoming country for all, promoting economic fairness and equity, and taking on extremism to protect democracy. These are the themes and speakers I came up with for each night. The primetime speakers would be from 7pm to 10pm. The 2020 DNC Convention averaged about 7-8 primetime speakers per night, so I stuck with that for this schedule. Monday (Creating a fair economy for all Americans and standing up for workers): Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Sara Nelson, Vice President of the National Nurses Union Catherine Kennedy, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Sen. Bernie Sanders, UAW President Shawn Fain (Keynote) and a performance by Bruce Springsteen. Tuesday (A compassionate, welcoming country for all Americans): Sen. Cory Booker, Voto Latino CEO Maria Teresa Kumar, Sen. Ruben Gallego, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, First Man Doug Emhoff, Congresswoman AOC, President Barack Obama (Keynote) and a performance by Demi Lavato Wednesday (Standing up to extremism and protecting democracy): Capitol Hill Police Officer Michael Fanone and Capitol Hill Police Officer Harry Dunn together, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Governor Wes Moore, Governor Josh Shapiro, Governor Gavin Newsome, President Joe Biden, Michelle Obama, VP Nominee Tim Walz (Keynote) and a performance by Beyonce Knowles Friday (Protecting our freedoms and resorting our basic rights): Gun Reform Activist David Hogg, Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill-Johnson, Martin Luther King III, Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson, Congresswoman Ayana Pressley, Congressman Jim Clyburn, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Vice President Kamala Harris (Keynote) and a performance by Taylor Swift.

How many teams have had their starting QB go down early/mid season and still have been able to make a successful season out of it? I don't have the direct stats for the question I'm asking, but I bet the answer is not many. I agree that Sudfeld can't be our option at backup QB. I think we should make an offer to Ryan Tannehill if Hooker isn't ready to go or keeps getting hurt. But if Goff goes down, even with this Oline, set of weapons, and Ben Johnson's coaching, we're still f'ed I believe.

No, it's still DubyaMD. As bad as Trump is, he has yet to commit war crimes, torture, or engage in an illegal invasion and occupation of another nation under false pretenses and fabricated intelligence reports as DubyaMD did in Iraq. Over 4,000 American servicemembers lost their lives and hundreds-of-thousands of Iraqi civilians did because of DubyaMD's and HaliburtonDick's lies and war crimes. Bush should have been tried at the Hauge for war crimes, authorizing torture against other human beings, and the use of chemical weapons (when he used white phosphorus bombs) during combat. He should presently be sitting in a prison cell for the remainder of his life for committing war crimes, authorizing torture of other human beings, and using chemical weapons on the ground in Iraq. And to the argument that Trump wanted to subvert democracy and is an authoritarian leader, so did Bush. Let's not forget that him and HaliburtonDick were believers in and pushed the Unitary Executive Theory. They sought to expand the Presidential powers well beyond what is regulated and allowed by the US Constitution. Not to mention, Bush was against search and seizure requirements and attempted to subvert the US Constitution with the Patriot Act and provisions around warrantless wiretapping. Trump is awful in every way imaginable. But Bush is still the worst!

An injury to anyone's starting QB will derail an entire season. Just look at the Jets last year with Aaron Rodgers. For every Tom Brady, ready and waiting to take over from Drew Bledsoe type of scenario, there are dozens and dozens of failed seasons because the backup simply isn't as good as the starter who went down.

Nate Sudfeld looked really bad last night and like he hadn't read the playbook ever. I don't think they can go into the season with Sudfeld as the backup if Hooker isn't ready to go. I don't know if it is Ryan Tannehill, Blaine Gabbert, whoever is the right person to bring in as a backup QB. But Nate Sudfeld just isn't the answer it seems.

That was a dud of a first half. Sudfeld looks awful.