The Frankish Reich

Looking at pro football reference, his top "similarity score" QBs/career: Bobby Douglass, Gary Danielson, David Carr, Mark Sanchez, Tom Flores, Bob Berry, Jay Fiedler, Pat Haden, Bubby Brister, Marcus Mariota. Some before my time, but Sanchez and Mariota kind of fit the bill. Guys who gave the illusion of being competent early on, but were very quickly exposed as defensive coordinators got some tape. Another good comp. Thanks.

Erstwhile Masseur Lindsay reaches Peak Stupidity.

And it's not like he did anything on the Bills that would give them encouragement beyond decent preseason performances 3 years ago. But still: I'm kind of shocked at how a guy who looked like he was a competent QB for the Bears at age 24 would suck this bad at 29. I have to assume it's just a complete collapse of confidence since he seems physically the same.

Even abandoning Buffalo won't break the curse. So don't even think about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Braves

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/election-deniers-refuse-certify-chaos-2024-1234988747/

If you've been following the under-the-radar MAGA strategy, the plan is to gum up the electoral college process long before it reaches VP Harris. They've installed MAGA electoral officials all over the place in battleground states with the idea that they will refuse to certify their county's vote. Since many states require certified votes from all counties before they will approve an electoral slates, that would result in neither candidate getting a majority and the vote being thrown to the House. Where, of course, Republicans have the advantage. When people pointed out that Trump was gearing up to do something like what came to fruition on January 6, I thought they were just paranoid. And then I realized they weren't. Watch out for the latest attempt to thwart the will of the people, coming to you on approximately November 10. https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/election-certification-deadlines

Julie Kelly: "Son of former presidential candidate was the subject of internal debate" Big news in June 2024. It's August.

Well that's what I'm asking you. Should Texas have the right to prohibit its own pregnant women from traveling to another state if they have reason to believe it is for the purpose of obtaining an abortion? Yes or no.

Creep of the old fashioned style. Also the most successful presidency of the last three decades.

Republicans last month: how dare they let a kid with an AR-15 walk around the fields where Trump was about to give a speech! Republicans now: how dare they stop people who could be armed from walking around the streets outside the arena where Biden is about to give a speech!

Follow the logic of "Drew Hernandez." Democrats wall off protesters. This is why they want to "take your guns." Drew Hernandez obviously thinks its a good thing if Antifa/Marxist protesters are allowed to protest at the entrance to the United Center carrying rifles.

As you put it: why would the people of Texas, through their elected representatives, pass a law this broad if they didn't want someone to enforce it? Your anti-abortion people passed it. You own it.

OP: Pravda now good. US MSM bad. Pravda more reliable. Putin no different than Biden. Please stay on message.

So answer this: under the Texas anti-abortion law, any person can bring a cause of action against someone who facilitates a woman having an illegal (under Texas law) abortion. What happens when such a cause of action is brought? Abortion is legal in New Mexico. It's also legal in Old Mexico or Costa Rica. Should that lawsuit be allowed to proceed? Against a friend or relative who drives a pregnant woman to New Mexico? Against a travel agency that offers a package vacation/abortion trip to Costa Rica? Against a NM doctor who advertises in Texas that she will provide mifespristone abortions in Las Cruces, NM?

It depends where you live. I'm in Colorado. This is the classic purple state turned blue. In the metro areas along the Front Range (Denver suburbs/Colorado Springs), the MAGA supporters are generally doing well. They are the small business owners, the contractors, etc. In the suburbs at least, Trump supporters strike me as better off economically than Democrats. Go into the more rural areas and a lot of Trump support is more of the WV type. This is a strange coalition of course. But so are the Democrats these days with a combination of the largely white/highly educated in the cities and inner suburbs and the generally much poorer minority groups in the cities.

Which could happen after another election loss. There is really nothing holding the MAGA wing and the Traditional Republican wings together other than the desire to be back in power.

https://www.iowacorn.org/corn-facts-faq/#:~:text=Iowa leads the nation in,percent of all American ethanol. Iowa leads the nation in ethanol production, with 62 percent (1.6 billion bushels) of the corn grown in Iowa going to create nearly 30 percent of all American ethanol. Should we phase out the ethanol mandate?

Most Americans.

Here you go. https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTER-PLATFORM.pdf 92 pages of general goals and specific policy proposals. Read away. Feel free to tie this to Kamala. It's fair to do so. Just as it's fair to pin the Republican Party's brief Executive Summary style platform on Trump, as well as the expanded edition called Project 2025.

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-will-not-tolerate-price-gouging-hoarding-critical-supplies-needed-combat-coronavirus/ Every politician decries "price gouging." They never really define it or do anything about it, which is a good thing in my book because it really is not a thing for serious economists.

That's what I'm hoping for. I'm not a huge Kamala Harris/Tim Walz fan. But it is essential that the Trump takeover of our only real opposition party ends, and a reformed/serious Republican Party rebuilds itself.

Isn't that a counter example? NASA privatized space launches, and here we are.

Agree. Much like the issue of slave states vs. free states in the 1850s, we have the issue of abortion access states vs. abortion ban states now. The "leave it up to the states" theory is on a collision course with freedom of movement. Do we really think that anti-abortion/pro-life (I'm not interested in arguing nomenclature) activists will be happy that abortion is banned in Texas but that the number of Texas women having abortions remains the same because they are traveling to New Mexico for the procedure? That they'll be happy with the new status quo? I can't imagine that. If they truly believe that abortion is murder of an innocent child, well, then the issue of interstate travel for abortion access can't be accepted as moral. We'll see some of these states attempting to prosecute their own women who travel out of state to get abortions, or (more likely at first) to prosecute or civilly sue groups that help facilitate such movement. And add to that the issue of federal control of Mifepristone vs state attempts to override that. Dred Scott, anyone?

Same here. Why is it a thing?

This is almost as clever as DonOLD Trump.