Mr.TaterSalad

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You can't have nuance with people who barely have high school education and refuse and reject any notion of learning or intellectual stimulation. You also can't have nuance with 70 year old people like my dad whose racism and intolerance have been ingrained in him/them for 55-60+ years. Nuance escapes people like that and some of them just don't have the intellectual heft to think critically or move beyond bumper sticker politics and slogans designed to make them angry and afraid. What Democrats need to do is frame social issues back to economics, quality of life, and safety and security of the general public. Win people over with bread and butter values about making a fair economy, rewarding hard work with good-wages and an equitable tax code, keeping people safe while ensuring the system of justice is equitable, etc. A melding together of both the Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Bernie Sanders approaches to politics. The focus on values over specific ideas of Obama, the working-class zeal of a Joe Biden, and the Democrats will always be on your side kind of toughness and fight of a Bernie Sanders. You get the hopeful, optimistic nature of an Obama and Biden blended with the willingness to fightback when you're kicked and tenacity of a Bernie Sanders. There will always be a block of people wo will continue to watch Fox and OAN or read Brietbart and never go along. Let them do what they are going to do and win everyone else in the middle or anyone capable of any level of introspection or critical thought back over.

If I'm Joe Biden, I'm going on a month-long tour touting my infrastructure bill and I'm only visiting working class and urban communities to hype it up. I'm going straight into the heart of white working-class America to sell that this program will put people go with with good-paying jobs, while making vital improvements to our infrastructure in each local community I visit. I'd also hammer home the fact that the great negotiator Trump and Congressional Republicans failed time after time to get a deal done on infrastructure. From a metro Detroit perspective, think communities like Allen Park, Clawson, Dearborn, Detroit, Macomb Township, Roseville, Taylor, Sterling Heights, Warren, Westland, Woodhaven. Those are the types of communities I'd send him to. I'd focus on these 7 or so states for my infrastructure world tour: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin. The gloves need to come off though and Biden and the Democrats need to hammer both their success and Republican/Trump's repeated failures to get a deal done on infrastructure. When you put Democrats in charge, this is the kind of progress you get. Hell, bring Obama back out and let him help sell it too.

It's sad when you're supposed to be a great negotiator and deal maker and you shit the bed and got nothing done. Good thing there is a lot of cleanup money in this bill, because there is a lot of shit to clean up.

I think in-regards to Hockenson there were many Lions fans clamoring for a defensive player. Specifically one of Brian Burns, Devin Bush, Ed Oliver, or Montez Sweat. We can MMQB that one because it felt like the majority of the fan base was calling for a defensive player of any kind to be picked. On the Tua subject, there were a lot of fans who stated they would have been happy with Herbert at the time. So while I do think some fans revised history after the fact to they would have been happy with Herbert as well, many were on board with both at the time. I remember wanting Isiah Simmons, Tua or Herbert at the time with a strong lean towards Simmons and Tua over Herbert.

I was looking at Goff's stat line from the bye week . . . 12/27, 162 yards, 0 TDs, 1 INT and 2 fumbles.

Washington beating Oregon helps Michigan a teeny, tiny bit if nothing else.

Like MCS had, I'd rather have Tucker over Harbaugh too. That said, as a regular 97.1 listener Valenti and Rico were insufferable this week bragging and boasting about MSU and I had to turn it off after it got old 1 hour into their Monday show. Now they have to go out there on Monday's show, tail tucked between their legs, and act all aggrieved by what happened. That's one reason why this lost satisfies me. The other is of course the fact that it still technically, even though we'll get rolled by Ohio State, keeps Michigan in the hunt for a Big Ten title.

Hey Mike Valenti, sit and spin. You and your boy Rico ran your big bleeping mouths all week and then your team went and chocked away your chances at a Big Ten Championship and CFB Playoff by losing to Purdue. Big Game Brohm does it again. Mel who?

I'd laugh at Sparty losing to Purdue, but I know Harbaugh would lose too. How f****** sad is this too, that Harbaugh loses to MSU like a punk and then MSU goes out the next week and loses to Purdue. Where's all that Mel Tucker hype now?

Trump always does come up a little short.

It's really not that funny, but at the same time it really is. I had a good chuckle during Biden's press conference today.

Willis definitely needs to be smarter with the football and doesn't always showcase pinpoint accuracy, but highlights like this are a small taste of what the guys potential is. If he has the football IQ, mental acumen, and attitude to sit and learn, he could really turn himself into a Josh Allen-type QB with the athleticism and arm strength he possesses.

Brandon must be sad that his guy didn't measure up. Brandon's guy acted like a dick for four years instead of passing an infrastructure plan and came up short time after time. Sad. 😥

I think Biden should write a book about the success he had here. Maybe call it The Art of the Deal II: I Actually Got a Deal Done.

Speaking of cracks, Joe Biden's going to be repairing them in the roads and bridges with his shiny new bipartisan infrastructure bill. Joe's certainly got more done than the hot air that was always leaking out of your boys mouth about infrastructure weeks during his 4 years. Maybe Biden put some money in the bipartisan bill to fix the leaks.

Where does Levi Onwuzurike rank among DTs, stopping the run or getting after the passer? With 12 tackles and no sacks and no QB hurries I can't imagine he ranks very high. I think virtually everyone was clamoring for JOK.

Fair enough on a 3rd being too steep. As for the Jets trading Wilson, Arizona did it after taking Josh Rosen with their 1st round pick because they felt someone better was there next year in Kyler Murray. With White getting hurt last night I think it's all a moot point now.

First off, I said I'd consider offering a pick for him if he plays like he did against Cincinnati for the remainder of the season and cuts down on his INTs. Second off, I never said the Jets would trade Wilson, just that they would have a decision to make between White and Wilson if White played at a high level thru the rest of the year.

He can't win big games, so he's not beating OSU. Lately, he's not even competitive against OSU. Were someone to ask me to make a prediction for the score of the UM/OSU game I would probably guess something around the 51-27 or 54-36. It's going to be a total bloodbath and Harbaugh has given me nor any fan a reason to think differently.

How many waiver wire QBs have an 82% completion percentage and go 37-45 with 3 TDs and 2 INTS (one of which was a tipped ball by his receiver) in their debut against a good defense like that? If Mike White keeps up those kinds of numbers and cuts his INT rate down to 1 or fewer a game, he's going to be a commodity on the trade market. Now, if he goes out over the next 2-3-4 games and lays an egg on the field ala Matt Flynn, than this conversation is done and we move on. If he doesn't though, I think Holmes and Co. have to be at least pondering that option.

I do think there will be Dem midterm implosion if they don't get BBB, Infrastructure, and Voting Rights passed soon. They need to give their candidates red meat and ample time to campaign on a bold economic agenda and a list of accomplishments. I think Gottheimer and his gang of 3 or 4, Sinema and Manchin realize that finally and are coming around. I think once BBB and Infrastructure get passed and people slowly start to feel its effects over the next year the Biden and Dem approvals will rebound. I think it is going to be real hard for Republicans to run on repealing the Child Tax Credit, repealing lower prescription drug prices negotiated through Medicare, repealing penalties on drug companies who cheat their customers, etc. BBB won't be the political grenade that Obamacare was because it is so broad, wide and sweeping and has more immediate effects on people's lives that the ACA did. Much of the ACA didn't go into effect until 2-3-4 years after it was passed, where as BBB has programs that will begin to have an immediate impact on people's overall quality of life. I feel once BBB passes, as long as it isn't too watered down, and the coverage of Democratic in fighting stops, we'll be doing better. I do think the remaining items on the table that could hurt Dems are inflation and woke culture around policing. Inflation is obvious, prices are up, people feel squeezed financially, and the President and Dems in Congress get the blame. Defund is obviously different. I have finally come around to the idea that "Defund the Police" has far more negative effects to the Democratic brand than I previously thought. Where I live we had an election this year. For some anecdotal evidence, all the candidates who won are either Dem or Independent/Dem-leaning. All of the winning candidates were endorsed by the Police Department and the PD sent a mailer out to voters homes touting the candidates they endorsed when absentee ballots were mailed out. 3 of the 4 who won were also endorsed by the Fire Department and they sent a mailer out about it. Yes, people will except things like hiring a Social Worker to deal with domestic/family-related issues, they will except drug-addicted persons getting rehab instead of jail time, or having a Citizen Review Board to have greater police accountability. But public safety is still king among the issues and people want well funded police departments that are capable of producing quick response times when they call 911 for an emergency situation. They will not accept rhetoric about defunding or abolishing police. Even if the defund movements goal is largely to shift more money into public education, public and mental health, and not end policing as we know it, the average person doesn't processes "defund the police" that way. They hear that phrase and think no one is showing up when I call 911. I dislike Bill Clinton and James Carville, but I do believe they are still right in that "It's the Economy Stupid" and if Democrats stay away from rhetoric around wokeness that people feel controls their speech and defunding police departments and instead focus on a bold economic agenda that's in BBB, they will be able to be more successful in 2022.

Not Wilson for a 3rd, White. If he keeps this up to season's end, you have to kick the idea around seriously I think. If he is Matt Flynn and turns into a pumpkin after a game or two then of course you don't trade based on one game.

I get saying no on Wilson, but if Mike White keeps playing at a high level you wouldn't consider trading a 3rd or a 3rd+ and roll the dice on him? We'd need to see more than we saw from Matt Flynn back in the day, but if this production keeps up through season's end I think we have enough draft capital to roll the dice. If the Jets are insisting on a 1st or 2nd in return for White, then I'm out, but I'd be in on a 3rd or 3rd+ if this production level sustains.