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Vance doing his part to MAHA.

Are we sure that isn’t the English teacher (they are usually the freaky ones) and the janitor?

there are a bunch of artists that qualify Elton Bruno Garth Ringo ELVIS hmm lasting power of the Grateful Dead Yeah maybe not. But a great band nonethless

The NYT story yesterday is claiming the Minneapolis trans shooter's motive is still "a mystery". Huh? (Kunstler's stuff below is always a good read) The War On Reality is Over “. . . this time the story has escaped the narrative guardrails and some real reckoning looms.” —Jeff Childers James Howard Kunstler Aug 29, 2025 Unwittingly, that New York Times headline is a wondrous case of the self-solving mystery. You come here to understand the many social and political mysteries of the day. I will attempt to unravel this hairball. Most obviously, the suspect, now dead, in Wednesday’s Minneapolis school shooting was not a “her.” He was a him, a 23-year-old male, Robert Westman, who had been pretending to be a female for some years since undergoing puberty, with the encouragement of his parents and the cultural leaders of his city, including Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, backed by the expressed principles of the national Democratic Party. The essence of all that was a gigantic game of pretend, a broad and deliberate dissociation from reality for the purpose of maintaining a political racketeering operation, which is what the Democratic Party had become. Pretend that men can become women. Pretend that Covid vaccinations are safe and effective. Pretend that national borders don’t matter. Pretend that crime is not a social problem. Pretend that riots are mostly peaceful. Pretend that our elections are free and fair. Pretend that “Joe Biden” is president. Pretend that Ukraine is fighting for democracy. And so on. All pretend. Since the Democratic Party has zero useful ideas for improving the lives of this country’s citizens, all it has is pretend theater, which is public performative psychopathology, otherwise known as acting-out. Mass murders of school-children by so-called trans people are the most garish and horrific actings-out, the most offensive to society, a slaughter of innocents. Such an act grabs everybody’s attention. The New York Times pretends that all this is “a mystery” because to tell the truth would inculpate them in the ongoing criminal racketeering operation of their patron, the Democratic Party. They all know what the truth is in this matter: that Robert Westman became insane, at least in his time of puberty, possibly earlier, and that his parents resorted to persuading their child that he was born in the wrong body — as the trendy theory goes — to remedy his psychological distress. He was thereafter influenced to play-act as a female. Possibly, he was induced to go through some stage of medical “treatment” to supposedly advance his transition to the opposite sex — for instance, a hormone regimen. This has not yet been reported. (Has it even been investigated by police or the news media?) Of course, “gender-affirming medical care” is a vicious fraud, as is the preposterous idea of “sexual assignment at birth” (as if it is some kind of error-ridden clerical function). Males cannot be changed into females no matter how much their hormones are altered or how much surgery they endure. It is all just costuming and makeup, to an extreme degree, to enhance the game of pretend. It is also bound to be nightmarishly disappointing to the person undergoing such malign rigors. As in the case of psycho-killer Robert Westman, he discovered his tragic mistake in exactly the period of life — emerging into adulthood — when emotions tend to be most labile. If he also happened to be on psychotropic drugs such as SSRIs (Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, etc.), known to produce suicidal and homicidal thinking, combined with his emotional instability, there you have an obvious recipe for disaster. None of that is mysterious. Nor was the record he left behind in his “manifesto” or in the videos and social media postings he put up. Westman evinced stark rage and despair over the poor choice he was induced to make at a time in his life before the judgment region of his brain had fully developed. “I’m tired of being trans,” he wrote. “I wish I had never brainwashed myself.” It was hardly his own fault, though. He was pushed to do it by his own family and strongly supported by the culture that surrounded him in Tim Walz’s “trans refuge state” of Minnesota — the state that also gave us George Floyd, the fake martyr to black victimhood, whose death provoked a years’ long national race-hustle. And, of course, Tim Walz was a recent standard-bearer for the Democratic Party, a signature figure for all their insanity. Wednesday’s shooting in Minneapolis looks like a hinge event in American politics. We’re done pretending. Trans is done as a political fashion-statement. Doctors will have to give up their pretenses about “gender-affirming care” if they don’t want to be bankrupted by lawsuits or prosecuted for criminal malpractice. Politicians like Walz and Frey will eventually shut-up about trans. But you can sense something else beyond that. America is done being bullied and guilt-tripped into the matrix of untruth altogether, and the racketeering that thrives in it. And we are going after the racketeers. This week, President Trump suggested a RICO investigation and potential prosecution of George and Alex Soros, for using their vast philanthropic Open Society empire as a colossal money-laundering operation to fund Democratic Party activities, including all their efforts to disorder the legal system, sponsor riots, pay illegal migrants, promote trans activism, rig elections, and underwrite sedition. Without that money-flow — much of it used to winkle taxpayer dollars out of Congress — the party can’t keep paying its Antifa foot-soldiers in the streets, or the lavish salaries of its middle managers in a world of corrupt non-profit orgs. Between that and the coming prosecution of its many stars from the Clintons to Adam Schiff to New York Attorney General Letitia James and many other names you are familiar with, the Democratic Party — and its war against reality — may be truly done.

It's too much risk for me for a non-QB. I'm worried about injury mostly

If u were really interesting would look for yourself https://time.com/7222411/blue-states-are-bailing-out-red-states/

There are 32 teams in the NFL. 30 of them were not involved in this trade. For some reason, this thread is talking about this like there are only 3 teams in the league but the Bills were not alone in not doing this. If we take out the other three teams in the NFC East, 27 teams either couldn't or wouldn't make this deal because anyone could have beaten the compensation that GB sent back to Dallas just by adding a 3rd.

Why do they “leave the light in for you”, then show you a room in the dark? 🤷‍♂️ I think I know……..do not bring a black light to your room.

I think it's a real longshot for Lamar or Allen to win the MVP this season. Lamar has two MVP's and behind the scenes not many want to award him a third until they at least make a SB. Playoffs don't factor in to this award but there is a carryover in the minds of voters from the prior year(s). Josh having just won it, would have to do something extraordinary to win back to back. I don't think that happens. Keep an eye on one of the other big names to win MVP this season,, Mahomes, Burrow, Daniels, Hurts, etc.. Again, MVP is obviously the most important NFL accolade and sets a player up for earning HOF induction someday. They like to spread this around to reward players that could be worthy of that distinction.

Whitest crowd in Atlanta since Nate Bargatze’s last show in town.

1/2 PPR, one FLEX, 10-man league. Standard scoring except we have a "nuclear kick" benefit where if your kicker boots a 65+-yarder, you get 50 points. QB: Lamar Jackson RB: James Cook RB: Treveyon Henderson WR: Justin Jefferson WR: Brian Thomas Jr. TE: David Njoku FLEX: Zay Flowers DST: Steelers K: Tyler Bass Bench: JK Dobbins, Josh Downs, Chris Godwin, Aaron Jones, Colston Loveland, Jacobi Meyers, Braelon Allen. I picked 4/10. Kicker might be an issue. I'm also not thrilled with my RB situation. I like Henderson for his kick return ability, and I like the Jackson/Flowers stack.

But fewer pages than the Jordan Phillips (17 pages) and Jordan Poyer (20 pages) topics that were fueled by outraged Bills fans bearing pitchforks..

Probably bottom-5 in the NFL in terms of pass catchers. Probably the worst starting safety pair in the league. Milano is likely not a top tier starting LBer anymore. He’s missed two consecutive seasons. Taron Johnson had a mediocre season last year, we’ll see if it was a fluke due to injury or a new normal for him. CB2 is a question mark even with a low first round pick (were you penciling in Elam as a long term good starter when he was a rookie?). Very middle of the road DL, 18th in sacks last year (which is why we brought in 3 free agents there). We have 2 position groups that are top 5 in the NFL - OL (arguable) and QB. Our RB group is top 10 in the NFL. Every other group is 15th or lower. We had two pro bowlers last year and one 2nd team all pro. We made it to the AFCCG because Allen is the best QB in the league.

If Kincaid doesn't develop the TEs are below average. You have ?s for WR, DL & S Who are our top-tier LBs? Benard & Milano? They are good not great at this point in their respective careers. Elam was RD1 CB2, how did that work out? For a “championship caliber” team that's a lot of holes, especially year 8 of the process.

Looks like the future governor of NY to me... If only we could replace every white American with this fine gentleman...

First, why isn’t our roster good enough to make a big move like this? I’d say it was a lack of elite, difference makers at premium positions - outside of Allen, obviously. My fix is to find some. Parsons certainly qualifies. Those elite players at premium positions will cost you 2 or 3 good players. Teams have got to find reasonable replacements in the draft, FA and via trade. This season the Bills chose to play things safe and keep the band together rather than take some risk and chase upside overall. I just don’t see how the current tack works out for us in January.

He keeps getting sacked 40+ times a year I'm not sure he finishes the year. Lost in his great season last year was the 9 INTs, 11 Fumbles, and 48 sacks vs. 6 INTs, 5 fumbles, and 14 sacks for Allen. With Allen winning last year i do think the voters are looking beyond the volume passing numbers at who produced a better offense, and that players role in that offense. When you have a 1st-team all-pro WR, it can hurt your story as much as a back getting almost 2000 yards. When you can't run the ball you lose games - They were 3-6 in games where they had under 100 rushing yards. I also feel like you need to win your division to be MVP, and i'm not sure i see it with that defense. They also beat a LOT of trash teams last year in a 9-8 season: Carolina, Vegas, NYG, Browns x2, Titans, Cowboys (rush @ QB).

This is what it comes down to. There is no trading up to #1 for Arch.

funny you mention Edgar Martinez. I will always remember him for being my first pick the first time I ever played fantasy baseball. This would have been around 1988, and I was 10 years old. Probably spent 3 hours on the draft, and the league ended like 2 weeks later when we all lost interest in checking the newspaper box scores to try to keep score.

In 2027? Maybe? We've seen two games of Arch.... so NFL franchises are making 2025 decisions about 2027, based on high school recruits LOL Not to mention if Arch is the type of NFL prospect (2 seasons away) we think he will be, whos moving out of that #1 overall spot? Nobody!!!

Addressing what is the question. We really have no idea. Bass was out there for the 3rd pre-season game. Maybe he just tweaked something yesterday? Myabe they are just doing due diligence on some kickers. It's not clear.

I’ll give the League this, they’re great at filling up the calendar

McDermott was selected the best coach for this season by CBS: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nfl-survivor-squad-building-a-32-man-juggernaut-with-one-player-or-coach-from-every-single-team/ "McDermott's Bills win the division essentially every year. Since Josh Allen broke out in 2020, they have won it five years in a row. He has recently come out of his former conservative shell and been willing to show aggression in his decision-making, and even when undermanned his defenses tend to over-perform their talent level. The ultimate success has yet to come for him in the playoffs, but the Bills keep knocking on the door."