Mr.TaterSalad

Wouldn't he be the next Kurt Warner since it's the Rams?

All I'm saying is that I don't think we should be holding up Manchin and Sinema for doing the right thing on this when it's clear they had nefarious motives for killing and doing the wrong thing on prior, much more impactful legislation. If I have a loaves of bread and can feed 100 people and prevent them from starving to death, but I selfishly choose to feed only 20 and let the other 80 die, I'm not a good person for having fed the 20 that I did, I'm still a bad person for letting the other 80 perish. Sure, I fed 20 people, but you can't hold me up as a beacon of good by forgetting about the other 80 who starved and died. That's what Manchin and Sinema did here. They watered down and killed the most impactful climate and social welfare legislation since the Great Society all to protect the coal industry, mega donors to their campaigns, and the filthy rich. There isn't nobility in what they did and they should still be criticized. Furthermore, saying this is "the biggest climate bill ever" completely negates the argument as to whether or not it actually goes far enough in addressing the immediate climate emergency that we are in. A bad politician can't be let off the hook for their sins just for doing the right thing once in a while.

That's a bullshit argument and not one people should be making. Sanders helped author the biggest climate and social welfare legislation since LBJ and the Great Society but because Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema care more about protecting the coal industry, mega donors, and the filibuster we couldn't get it passed. So a rotten and corrupted individual does the right thing once in a while, we're supposed to ignore their sins and give them credit. Tony Soprano liked ducks, that doesn't make him a good person or worthy of being exalted with high praise.

This. Her decision was made for her by mega donors and corporate-affiliated Super PACs. Sad that she used to be a radical leftist and now she exemplifies everything wrong with DC politics.

Fuck her for taking out the Carried Interest loophole. This is better than nothing, but still fuck her for opposing it. The woman is the definition of bought and paid for.

My optimism on Ohio is that Ryan is running a campaign targeting working-class and rural economic issues, not falling into the defund the police political traps, and has a uniquely bad opponent to run against. As we've seen from prior elections, wedge and cultural issues work. JD Vance being an out of touch, San Francisco elite who carpet bagged his way back to Ohio to run for Senate is indeed a wedge issue, we'll see how effective it is. If Republicans were to lose all of Arizona, Georgia, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Pennsylvania in one Senate cycle, that would be be a huge political blow for them.

I don't know that it will work as Ohio has burned Democrats time and again with the false hope of winning. That said, Tim Ryan is hammering Vance as an out of touch, elite, billionaire who helicoptered back into Ohio from San Francisco to run for Senate. He's taking a similar, aggressive, offense-based approach that John Fetterman's campaign is using in PA against Dr. Oz. He's using an old Republican tactic by hammering Vance with a culture war, wedge issue as a San Francisco billionaire.

Still the very best follow on Twitter . . .

Nah, Putin can't run that fast, he's belly's too fat.

Maybe Don Jr. will do to his dad what Michael did to Fredo.

Trump wants to execute drug dealers now . . . after his own god damn criminal justice reform bill worked to create shorter sentences for convicted dealers.

Someone did a mildly amusing spoof of those old Tom Emanski training video TV ads with kickball instead of baseball.

Vice had an interview with him. https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3n3m8/guy-reffitt-capitol-rioter-family-torn-apart

I suppose it is better than a longer or full season suspension, but it feels like their season is over with Jacoby Brissett starting out of the gate and not Watson. There are worse QBs than Jacoby Brissett that you could have as a backup, we have two of them, but you're not generally winning with your backup QB. Unless of course you're Matt Flynn and you play the Lions. The Browns are @Panthers, Jets, Steelers, @Falcons, Chargers, Pats to start the first 6 games of the season. I could see the Browns though being 2-4 or 1-5 to start the season, thus being eliminated from the playoffs by the time Watson comes back.

It takes a set of balls for the GOP to tweet that. Iraq, January 6th, right-wing violence in general that never gets condemned by high-ranking Republicans.

I don't think I've been this excited for a season to start since 2012 when I thought this team would build off their 2011 success. I am legit excited for the Lions.

The 538 generic ballot average is R+.3. The Real Clear Politics generic ballot average is R+.9. Fox News had a poll just two weeks ago that was R+3, Emerson R+1. So R's are still ahead in the generic ballot averages. Maybe that will change with time. Additionally, Fox News had a poll and it asked voters what are the most important issues and who trust the most to handle them and Democrats were getting crushed in that. Overall, 41% say inflation will be most important to their vote for Congress. That’s about four times as many as say guns (12%) and abortion (10%). Next, it’s border security (7%), followed by climate change and crime (5% each), election integrity and voting rights (4% each), coronavirus (3%), and foreign policy (1%). The Republican issue advantages are larger and, importantly, on the top issue. They are preferred on inflation (R+19 points), border security (R+19), crime (R+13), and foreign policy (R+8). A Monmouth Poll from the beginning of the month told a similar story. Nearly half of the public names either inflation (33%) or gas prices (15%) as the biggest concern facing their family right now. The economy in general (9%) and paying everyday bills (6%) are among other financial concerns mentioned. Abortion, which has registered less than 1% on this question in prior Monmouth polls going back to 2015, is currently named by 5% That to me shows that voters don't care about January 6th all that much, and only moderately care about abortion rights and guns. As James Carville correctly stated: "It's the economy, stupid." Note, I am not calling you stupid, just pointing out that people care about economics far and above anything else. People vote with their wallets and for the economic wellbeing of themselves and their families. If gas and inflation stay high, Democrats will pay the political price if the Fox News and Monmouth data are any indicators. It partially explains why a candidates like Tim Ryan can overperform in polling in Ohio and candidates like Sherrod Brown can win there. Same goes with Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin and (potentially) Fetterman in Pennsylvania. Fetterman and Ryan run as an economic progressive populists, like Baldwin and Brown do. Their messaging and way of campaigning separates them from the standard Democratic candidates.

I saw Walker up +5 in the poll put out by John Bolton's Super PAC. Data for Progress, which leans D in terms of polling, also had Walker up +2 at the beginning of the month. I know the aggregate shows Warnock leading, but when you look at the data, gas prices and inflation are what voters care about and it's bad for Democrats now. You intermix that with a football God running and that's where Walker gets an advantage.

People in Georgia LOVE football as much as the Alabamans who just elected Tommy Tuberville. I think Walker beats Warnock because it is both a bad year for Democrats due to gas prices and inflation, as well given that Herschel Walker is a football GOD down there. I don't think any of the baggage Walker brings: from holding a razor blade to his girlfriends throat to threating to kill her and her kids to threatening to kill himself to his sheer stupidity to being a huckster for fake Covid cures. Walker went to Georgia, he won the Heisman Trophy in college, is viewed as a football God, and will get lots of crossover and independent voters to go his way on the basis that they remember the good ole days of Georgia football in the 1980's. I don't think it's a blowout by any means, but I think Walker wins by 2-2.5 points and football will be a big reason why.

As Tony Soprano once said, nobody knows anything! I don't think we know all that much about what type of team the Lions will be and still have so many unanswered questions about the roster, individual players, and coaching. What type of QB is Jared Goff; the guy that went to a Super Bowl with the Rams, first half of the season Goff, second half of the season Goff? How good/bad is this roster? How good of coaches are Dan Campbell and his staff? Can they develop talent? Can they make the right decisions in game? Is he Caldwell 2.0 where the players love him but he makes in-game errors? We won 3 games last year with a very bad roster constructed mainly of players from the old regime and had a rookie head coach leading it. I think that makes it harder to make judgement calls and projections for this years team. Last year felt like a throw away given how pathetic the roster was and that it was constructed of mostly holdovers from the Quinntricia regime. In some ways, this year feels like the true first season for Holmes and Campbell to prove themselves. Their fingerprints are now firmly on the roster and coaching. My guess is a total shot in the dark, but I am going with 7-10 for the Lions record and have them finishing third in the division. AFC East Buffalo Bills (13-4) (1) New England Patriots (9-8) New York Jets (8-9) Miami Dolphins (6-11) AFC North Cincinnati Bengals (12-5) (2) Baltimore Ravens (11-6) (6) Cleveland Browns (6-11) Pittsburgh Steelers (4-13) AFC South Indianapolis Colts (10-7) (4) Tennessee Titans (7-10) Jacksonville Jaguars (3-14) Houston Texans (2-15) AFC West Kansas City Chiefs (12-5) (3) Denver Broncos (12-5) (5) Los Angeles Chargers (10-7) (7) Las Vegas Raiders (5-12) NFC East Philadelphia Eagles (10-7) (4) Dallas Cowboys (10-7) (5) Washington Commanders (5-12) New York Giants (4-13) NFC North Green Bay Packers (12-5) (2) Minnesota Vikings (8-9) Detroit Lions (7-10) Chicago Bears (2-15) NFC South Tampa Bay Buccaneers (11-6) (3) Carolina Panthers (9-8) (7) New Orleans Saints (8-9) Atlanta Falcons (3-14) NFC West Los Angeles Rams (13-4) (1) San Francisco 49ers (10-7) (6) Arizona Cardinals (8-9) Seattle Seahawks (4-13) AFC WILDCARD Bye: (1) Bills (2) Bengals over (7) Chargers (3) Chiefs over (6) Ravens (5) Broncos over (4) Colts NFC WILDCARD Bye: (1) Rams (2) Packers over (7) Panthers (3) Buccaneers over (6) 49'ers (5) Cowboys over (4) Eagles AFC DIVISIONAL (1) Bills over (5) Broncos (2) Bengals over (3) Chiefs NFC DIVISIONAL (1) Rams over (7) Cowboys (3) Packers over (5) Buccaneers AFC CHAMPIONSHIP (1) Bills over (5) Bengals NFC CHAMPIONSHIP (1) Rams over (2) Packers SUPER BOWL LVII (1) Bills over (1) Rams

NO WAY these midterm polls, funded by a John Bolton-supported Super PAC, can be correct . . . right?

I don't believe the gap will be that wide in the end, but Oz is an exceptionally terrible candidate to run against a guy with the broad, working-class appeal of Fetterman.

Apparently Klingberg fired his agent and is hiring a new one. That tells me they overplayed their hand and overestimated his value on the market. it also seems to suggest that Klingberg wanted a massive pay day this year, well beyond what teams thought he was worth, given the team-friendly contract he had been on with Dallas. Maybe it's best the Wings didn't bite on signing him and patience proved its worth.

Just sickening that 1-2 fucking people can hold the entire country hostage. I will be donating money the next time Sinema is up for election to whoever her primary opponent is. Hopefully it's someone decent like Ruben Gallego.