The Frankish Reich

Yep. I dumped Peacock after my free trial (yeah, I forgot to cancel, so I think I paid for a month or two). Then my wife started her own account when they were running that 99 cents a month for a year. This is getting really annoying. I'm ready for the streaming wars to end.

When I was younger I definitely agreed. His career just didn't equal that of many of his contemporaries. But as time went on, I changed my mind. It's the Hall of Fame. He was, well, really famous. And he did more than anyone else to establish the legitimacy of the AFL. Surely there's a few spaces in the Hall for guys who didn't dominate statistically but were nevertheless critical to the history of the NFL. Yep. He's the anti-Namath. Really good for a really long time, but never the best at his position or one of the leading lights of the game. It's that Bill James thing applied to football: https://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2014/11/9/7052865/baseball-hall-of-fame-bill-james-monitor-standards He's the Harold Baines of the NFL.

Grade 4 level = Valedictorian out on the island.

Ken Anderson.

I love me some Flynndicated bump. By the way, that Jeffrey Clark guy Trump wanted to install as Acting Attorney General looks, umm, kinda like a grown up special ed kid ...

Tell that to the Cherokee.

CNN is quite openly trying to reposition itself as the centrist news network. That's fine - there's a lot of acreage between the likes of Fox News and MSNBC. But this was a weird way to do it, giving Trump a solo platform with a friendly audience. I don't know if they've offered similar platforms to the other credible announced candidates (Haley, Hutchinson, etc.) or if they will do so for DeSantis. There was no indication that this was some kind of "town hall with the Republican candidates" series rather than a one-off. So it just looks like a ham-handed attempt at a reboot. Kind of just starting by kissing Trump, or maybe grabbing Trump by the pu$$y shall we say. Not a promising start.

BillsFanNC scrolling through our posts with one hand. As usual.

Right. Anyone (me for example) who thought CNN would pack the hall with fake "undecided voters" who were really Democrats was wrong. Just one example of an obvious follow-up that Collins (tied to her scripted "the evidence shows that didn't happen" interjections) failed to ask: Trump tried to make damn fool Ashli Babbit into a martyr and the Capitol Police cop who shot her into a criminal. So, President Trump, answer me this: if an angry mob that had evaded security was pounding on the doors to the Oval Office and they resisted commands to cease and desist, would you order the Secret Service not to fire?

Kaitlan Collins is a lightweight. I don't know if there were negotiations about CNN's choice of moderator, whether CNN believes Collins is their new rising star, or whatever it was. She was superficially "prepared" - ready with some canned retorts to Trump's ridiculous assertions. But she didn't know how you pin down a b.s. artist with follow-up questions. It's simple: when your guest doesn't directly answer the question, ask it again. Then tell him you he hasn't given you a straight answer to a simple question. Some of the former lawyers-turned-commentators could have ripped him a new one. That's why he didn't testify in that trial. Collins was superficially "tough," but in reality an ineffective pushover. Megyn Kelly was annoying but smart (and a lawyer). Collins is annoying and not very smart.

You must be referring to 2008, when they beat us twice. (That won't happen this year. Just sayin' ... oh, and by the way, nice to see my favorite parody account back in business!)

A charter flight should take about 7.5 hours from Buffalo to London. There is the 5 hour time change, but I can't see that this is much different than the Seahawks coming to Buffalo for a Sunday game.

Mr. Full Auto-Pilot AI suddenly all squeamish about AI in general. I think he's just envious.

Yet somehow those pu$$ies and their sick/Westernized Ukrainian freedom fighters are holding off the 21st Century Napoleon. Maybe it's time to rethink those idiotic Putin-ite memes?

Putin is careful not to refer to the Soviet Union. His nostalgia goes back way before his time to the Russian Empire. In fact, he blames the Soviet leaders for treating some of the former Republics of the USSR as real nationality-based states, when in his mind it was all a single, unified greater Russia in the golden age.

From some Eastern European friends: invasions like this don't come from a position of political strength; they come from a position of political weakness. Putin's Russia is an economic basket case. Realizing that there is no way Russia will be able to emulate the economic success story of Poland and the Baltics, Putin realizes his legacy will be in reconstituting some manner of the Russian Empire. This is what makes it difficult to find a resolution. Ordinary geopolitical type solutions don't work. Have some kind of semi-autonomous Donbas region and a kind of free state in Crimea? It would obviously make sense from a military standpoint, and it would offer the hope of economic stability or even growth in Russia. But its an absolute nonstarter for Putin; it would be seen by him (and his people) as conceding defeat.

Growing pains. Moving on from the country Firebaugh Kid thing. Trying to find his place in the world of 200-million-aire I Fly Private set. Give him some space.

LOOK AT ME! I'M IGNORING YOU!! I WILL CONTINUE TO TAG YOU UNTIL YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT TAGGING YOU IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF IGNORING YOU!!! CHECK BACK IN 10 MINUTES ... I WILL CUT AND PASTE PROOF THAT I AM IGNORING YOU!!!

Yeah, those enlightened Enlightenment men understood that the products of your labor belonged to you and only you! Except when they belonged to the master who paid good money for you.

That would be a very different kind of mascot. If the idea is to scare the bejesus out of our opponents, hey, it's worth a try

The Colorado Buffaloes always employ a female even though it's named Ralphie. More manageable, they say. I'm all for it, with a crazyass man on horseback shooting blanks at it.

I have been in two "fights" in my life. Both were groups of white guys coming after me. The last one because one of my college friends tossed an open beer at them without me even knowing it.

Thank God we have those rightist communists in China to save the Eastern Hemishphere. (Do you actually read what you've written before clicking "Submit Reply?")

OK. But you didn't answer my question, you Trump Parrot. Answer the damn question. Quote the post where your buddy, DR's Ghost, posts something other than Trumpist orthodoxy.

I understand BillsFanNC is performatively “ignoring” me. So to the rest of you: has there EVER been a post where he departed from new Trumpist Republican orthodoxy? (I have departed from Biden/Democratic orthodoxy many, many times. Most recently just now in the gas stoves thread. So no fair saying “what about you?”)