The Frankish Reich

I can't imagine even making sense of Tucker's "this is not how white people fight" comment. It kind of shows what a sheltered life he's lived, one where the TV shows he used to watch would have one guy in a bar challenge another to "take it outside" and then they'd dance around in some rock 'em sock 'em robot way.

They will. The problem is "how soon?" The magical material is nuclear to supplement renewables. I would love to have a heat pump to replace my gas furnace. My climate is really marginal for that. On the coldest days, I'd need to supplement it with something like electric room heaters, which would be really, really expensive. Technology will improve. But attempts to ban gas stoves as a way to get there is stupid, and it only encourages backlash.

Because Title 42 is based on a public health emergency (COVID). And that public health emergency declaration expires next week. I thought you guys believed any COVID emergency should have ended at least a couple years ago, right?

Are right-wingers ridiculously conspiratorial in their thinking? Absolutely. So the lefties don't aid their cause by doing something that clearly proves their conspiratorial point. This isn't about safety, or indoor CO emissions, or whatever. It is about nudging the American public toward an all-electric future, presumably with that electricity being produced by renewable energy. No gas connections to your residence = you have to get a heat pump instead of a gas furnace.

I thought I knew what that meant but I had to look it up to be sure. You're right! What is it with these modern-day George Will types desperately trying to seem manly? It says more about them than it does about the state of American masculinity.

That's what's so weird about this Tuckergram. A 50 year old "Christian" senses that there is some kind of unresolved conflict in his previously unexamined biases: - Antifa guy deserved to be killed, should have been killed - But the way he was jumped by 3 white guys was just uncool, not the Stand Up And Fight Man-to-Man Like A White Guy prep school Tucker standards, so maybe it's bad after all - But wait a minute: shouldn't I see that Antifa guy as a human being? What would Jesus do? So I guess it's good that he finally recognized this. Maybe there is a conscience somewhere in beneath that smug veneer. Here's Little Lord Tuckleroy learning How Honorable White Men Should Fight.

He was effective last year, and while he's definitely old, I see no reason to expect a significant drop-off this year, particularly (barring injury to the key guys!) with limited usage. I like the signing.

What a stupid, self-destroying policy. UNC went from "ordinary state flagship university" in my college days (it was a minor league neighbor of University of Virginia to the north) to "one of the top state research universities" in just one generation. What better way to kill that and drive leading scholars away. Republicans are now so obsessed with the owning-the-libs headlines that they're willing to engage in self-sacrifice.

Well, then it would benefit a team like the Bills to draft him in the 7th to eliminate his bargaining power, right? So I’m not getting it.

We need to get our chronology straight. Hodgins was the new Duke. Shorter is the new Hodgins.

Here’s what I consider instructive: the people you follow on Twitter.

Jordan Peterson back on the hillbilly heroin?

Where do these losers get the idea that they are the "strong minded," self-ordained to take out the "weak minded"? He's an 18 year old enlisted Air Force reservist with absolutely no record of accomplishment in his pathetic life. He spent hours and hours on gamer talk platforms with teenage losers who at least MAY grow out of it. We keep hearing about depressed teens and self-esteem issues. We have a crisis of unwarranted high esteem in our Gen Zers. Absolutely nothing in this little puke's life reflects strong mindedness or accomplishment.

I don'twanna even go there.

Better that he be named in honor of the God of The Dead than in honor of Cyrus Koundjio.

Osiris is the Egyptian Lord of the Underworld and Judge of the Dead, brother-husband to Isis, and one of the most important gods of ancient Egypt. The name `Osiris' is the Latinized form of the Egyptian Usir which is interpreted as 'powerful' or 'mighty'. He is the first-born of the gods Geb (earth) and Nut (sky) shortly after the creation of the world, was murdered by his younger brother Set, and brought back to life by his sister-wife Isis.

Those 2 sentences are all I will need to read about him. So he sounds like a 3rd rounder. Thanks!

That's my issue with the pick. Seems like the Bills window of opportunity is as open now as it will ever be, so why not go with an immediate contributor?

Disney will win this lawsuit. It is a classic case of of a targeted action meant to suppress one particular viewpoint. You can't do that. Desantis is a lawyer, and he knows this. But he also knows that "owning the libs" is the way you get attention now in a Republican primary, so he doesn't care. He doesn't even care if it will waste Florida taxpayer's money and cost them lost tax revenue. The Meatball wants to be President, to hell with everything else.

Toe the party line. Not tow the party line. As in carefully walk the line, not drag the line. Your tweeters need to get edumacated.

Well played, the last one.

True. But again, we aren't talking about Aaron Rodgers replacing Andy Dalton or Mac Jones. Those are ordinary mediocrities, the type teams are always looking to upgrade from. We are talking about this: Zach Wilson: 72.8 QB rating Mike White: 75.7 Joe Flacco: 75.2 Remember how awful Russell Wilson was last year? 84.4 Mac Jones? 84.8 Meanwhile, Aaron Rodgers (in either a down season or the start of a decline; the jury is out): 91.1. And that follows MVP seasons of 121.5 and 111.9. So even if he's the 2022 version of Aaron Rodgers, or even if he's somewhat worse than that, the Jets still get better.

Gotta love common sense thread starting rules

Right. I'm not all doom and gloom here, but it is now obvious that the AFC East is competitive again. I kind of wish we could have had our 2 decade run of opposition ineptitude like the Pats had. But that was an aberration in the modern NFL.

We should pray that he isn't that good. Favre took the Jets from being the 25th ranked scoring offense to the 9th ranked. Anything similar to that with Rodgers - and with the Jets defense - would not be a good thing for us. Exactly. We're not talking about replacing some middle of the road QB like Andy Dalton with Aaron Rodgers. We are talking about taking maybe the worst QB room in football and bringing in a guy who was the MVP in 2020 and 2021. He doesn't have to be godlike to make them a lot better.