Mr.TaterSalad

Devin Funchess is a Lion now. Just signed today apparently.

https://www.macombdaily.com/2022/06/05/poll-marlinga-holds-big-lead-for-primary-narrow-margin-over-john-james/ Macomb Daily reported on a poll from Ed Sarpolus at Target Insyght that had it Marlinga 44% and James 40%. Sapolus is a middle of the road, non-bias pollster I believe. I don't think he is a Dem-affiliated pollster.

Here are more of the crosstabs for those interested in the Ryan/Vance poll . . . https://innovationohio.org/uncategorized/poll-tim-ryan-maintains-lead-over-gop-extremist-j-d-vance/

Don't let yourself get excited, it's waaaaaaaaaaaaay too early and it's only one poll. But damn, if Tim Ryan beat J.D. Vance that'd be the upset of the year!

Nope. According to bozos like Larry Summers, the entire reason we have inflation is because of the $1,400 stimulus checks in the American Rescue Plan. Mind you, this is the same Larry Summers who told Obama and his White House team to cut down the size of the stimulus plan after the economy had just fallen off a cliff and into recession in 2008-2009. Summers pushed and was victorious in getting a significantly smaller stimulus than was actually needed to help people during the Great Derivatives Financial Crises.

We've been taught as capitalist consumers and Americans that it is our patriotic duty to buy more and spend your money on things and services. A good quality of life is measured in America not by your relationships you build or your health or education level, but rather measured by the amount of crap you are able to amass as a good capitalist consumer. With inflation and higher gas prices there are legitimately low-income and poor people who are severely and dramatically effected by the rise in the cost of living. These people have been falling further behind for a while and haven't felt real, nominal wage increases for a long time, if ever. Then there is another group of Americans, working class, lower-middle, middle, and upper-middle earners. Folks with median household incomes north of $50k. These are your capitalist consumers who just want to spend, spend, spend! These people want to spend a big percentages of their paychecks on Amazon, at Target, and taking vacations. They drive into work and feel the pinch of gas prices. They also vote, unlike the average low income individual, and are probably blaming Biden and Democrats on higher prices and will thus stay home out of apathy or vote Republican because they can't buy, consume, and travel exactly as they had been. Inflation and gas prices have forced cutbacks.

Given that QBs normally take two years to hit their stride, if we do go out and get a QB in the 2023 draft, how does that effect our playoff window? Do we start the rookie from game 1 or or shortly there after and expect the 2023 season to be a lost cause as far as making the playoffs goes because we expect growing pains from that rookie? Does he sit behind Goff for the year and thus we expect to be a playoff contender in 2023 with Goff at the helm and the rookie taking over in the 24 season?

Democrats will lose because and there will be no accountability in the end.

Yep, there is no reason why local clerk's offices can start counting mail-in/absentee votes before Election Day. If someone wants their ballot back they can simply find that ballot number, spoil the ballot, and allow the person to revote with a new ballot. Additionally, if, like Trump, you are worried about votes being counted over night and into the early morning hours, you can allow Clerks to count them prior to Election Day as they come in.

Stirewalt is a good, credible, effective witness.

Stepien looks quite nervous today.

Post Malone needs to take a pause on his rap career and do a country/bluegrass album. Between his cover of Cocaine Blues here with Billy Strings and his cover of Strugill Simpson's You Can Have the Crown, he's got the skills and chops to make a real doggone country album.

I never realized Reince Priebus' real first name was Reinhold. His middle name is Richard apparently. I more or less just posted this comment so I could point out that his name his Reinhold Dick Priebus. America got it in the Reinhold alright. By a big dick named Trump

I'll believe it when I see it. No more false hopes of actual accountability happening.

More projection! I do one thing but accuse you of doing it. Projection is the playbook for the GOP.

Violence from the party of law and order? If they would just comply.

https://michigandems.com/new-tudor-dixons-participation-in-offensive-disgusting-films-complicates-own-crusade-to-demonize-public-schools-and-healthcare-providers/ Tudor Dixon acted in some B-rated, low-budget tv show with blood, guts, gore, and nudity.

I get that. I used to somewhat be that way in my old days around here, so I certainly understand that style of posting he uses. One of my favorites from that time period was a thread I started bashing on Amtrak. I remember starting a whole thread about the failures of the Amtrak system simply so I could use that as broader conjecture to link the failings of an underfunded transit system to the broader system of government, trying to point out that because Amtrak had shortcomings that must mean all government programs are destined to fail or have done so already. I wasn't arguing facts or researched information and I wasn't living in the complex realities of the world we live in. Nor was I looking into the underpinnings of what Amtrak failed to live up to expectations.

Serious question, have you ever written a research paper in your life? Do you know the process of putting research together and validating that research through a works cited page or bibliography? I ask because it is always projection and conjecture when you post and very little evidence, fact finding or source citing. You continuously make claims about "Biden hurting the American people so badly" or him having dementia/alzheimer's (like Ronald Reagan did when he was in the White House) but routinely fail to cite or provide any concrete evidence to backup your claims. I think many of us would much rather debate you if you tried validating your claims with credible sourcing and citation of evidence. Whether you want to find evidence from Wall Street Journal, American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, Heartland, hell, even credible, factual stories from Fox News or sources from mainstream media outlets or centrist think tanks, give us something. It is constant conjecture and finger pointing from you without backing up the claims. Sure, a lot of that, plus a lot of hand wringing, went on during the course of the Mueller Investigation. Myself, others here, were all guilty of that from time to time. But, a lot of us still like to engage in factual debates, grounded in reality. Sure, we may also be partisan or ideologically driven often too. I don't dispute that. But generally, we don't live in a world of fiction, created within our own ideological ecosphere. When asked to, we can backup and validate our claims on a host of issues with credible, cited evidence and facts.

I'm in the believe it when I see it camp at this point. We've had a lot of false hope thinking that at least some of what Trump and his family did would be held to account and thus far he has not been. Misreporting tax information, tax evasion, misrepresenting and inflating/deflating assets, Jared's dealings with the Saudis, etc. I could be way off base (and hope I am) but I think similar to Nixon, they don't want to set a political precedent of prosecuting a President. That's a big mistake IMO if it is indeed true, because it sets a lawless precedent.

A lot of people, esspecialy among Democrats and progressives, think Merrick Garland has not done enough to hold Trump and his cronies accountable. They see a lack of inaction and a lack of prosecutorial power being wielded against the former President. Do these hearing finally prod Merrick Garland's DOJ into taking prosecutorial action against Trump himself? Do you think Garland's DOJ has been working on a case and taking action against Trump all along regardless of what comes out of these hearings?

Does the average American, independent or moderate voter watch this? If so, do they care? Do you think they've done a good enough job thus far showing them and and getting them to understand the gravity of the situation? Do they understand the dire consequences of voting Trump-worshipping Republicans back into power?

That's going to be a key, repeated word for the average American watching this to help them comprehend and grasp the gravity of what the hell happened and why it's so serious.

Liz Cheney is doing a superb job thus far!!!