The Frankish Reich

It is a fact that the GOP was anti-Russia (to be more accurate, anti-Putin) in 2012. Mitt Romney: Russia is our number 1 geopolitical rival. Obama: snarky response that is pure cringe today. It is also a fact that Trump and the post-takeover GOP did a 180 on Russia. And despite all the evidence to the contrary (the “they aren’t expansionist or any threat to the West” thing isn’t playing so well now, right?), there’s an awful lot of Putin apologists and half apologists in the GOP now.

Did you even try to look up Mollie’s past statements? The relatively brief history of the Federalist? You will find that in 2016 Mollie disparaged Trump as a “demagogue.” She only changed her tune once it was clear he’d get the nomination. And The Federalist was started by Ben Domenech, who is so much part of the former John McCain wing of the Republican Party that he actually married Meghan McCain. Wikipedia, when backed up by the footnote sourcing noted here, is as good as any other source. The old days of “I’ll just change my own entry” are over when it comes to public persons. It is unreliable only in relation to obscure persons who essentially bypass the rules by creating their own entries.

The wiki entry on Big Mollie is absolutely correct. If you don’t trust Wikipedia, just trust the google machine. She (and her conservative rich guy funded Federalist website) was a never Trumper who now specializes in what’s called whataboutism.

You tell me, who is more effective? ChatGPT or Ken Dorsey? In the NFL, what are the most effective plays to counter a strong pass rush? In the NFL, there are several plays and strategies that can be effective in countering a strong pass rush. Here are some of them: Quick passes: The quickest way to neutralize a strong pass rush is by getting the ball out of the quarterback's hands as soon as possible. Quick passes, such as slants, hitches, and screens, can be effective in this regard. By getting the ball to a receiver quickly, the quarterback can avoid the pass rush and gain yardage before the defense has a chance to react. Play-action passes: Play-action passes can be effective in slowing down a pass rush, as they force the defense to hesitate for a split second while they determine whether the play is a run or a pass. This can give the quarterback a bit of extra time to find an open receiver and make a play. Max protection: Sometimes, the best way to counter a strong pass rush is simply to keep more players in to block. By using max protection, the offense can keep more players in to protect the quarterback and give him more time to find an open receiver. Rollouts: Rolling the quarterback out of the pocket can be an effective way to counter a strong pass rush, as it can give the quarterback more time and space to make a play. By rolling out, the quarterback can also force the defense to move laterally, which can create gaps and seams in the coverage that the offense can exploit. Draw plays: Draw plays are designed to take advantage of an aggressive pass rush by catching the defense off-guard with a delayed handoff. By allowing the pass rush to get upfield and then handing the ball off to a running back, the offense can create running lanes and gain yardage on the ground. Overall, the key to countering a strong pass rush is to be creative and keep the defense off-balance. By mixing up the play calls and using a variety of strategies, the offense can keep the defense guessing and gain an advantage on the field.

There it is. There is no need for this forum anymore. We should just automate conversations between ChatGPT and itself.

Toward the end of Thurmond's Senate career, critics suggested his mental abilities had declined. His supporters argued that, while he lacked physical stamina due to his age, mentally he remained aware and attentive, and maintained a very active work schedule, showing up for every floor vote. He stepped down as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee at the beginning of 1999, as he had pledged to do in late 1997.[284] Retrospectively, a Senate aide stated that "for his last ten years, Thurmond didn’t know if he was on foot or on horseback", while a 2020 New Yorker article stated that he was "widely known" by the end of his career to be "non-compos mentis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond Strom Thurmond was 100 years old when he finally left the Senate in 2003.

Yes. And it's both parties. The desire to get power and to hold onto it overcomes everything else. To the national parties a guy like Fetterman is not some kind of Mr Smith Goes to Washington story, the regular guy who arrives on the scene to bring regular guy common sense to Washington. He's a vote in the "yes" column for Biden-appointed judges, for Biden budget bills, whatever. And don't kid yourself. It's the same way on the other side of the aisle.

They bluffed us on the Sean Payton thing. He was the guy all along but they floated other candidates — one source said Jim Caldwell was a done deal — while they figured out compensation with the Saints. I suspect some of the DC names we’re hearing now aren’t the real guys in consideration. Is Gregg Williams still alive?

You don’t survive being “the most talented team in the NFL” (commonly heard until about a month ago) and “the favorite to win the Super Bowl” (heard everywhere preseason) and then not even winning the AFC Championship for more than 2 years. Next year is it for Beane and McD. Fair? Maybe not. But that’s life in the NFL.

What, that’s asking too much?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/nyregion/george-santos-marriage-immigration.html Just as I called it about a month ago. Gay man marrying a foreign woman typically indicates immigration fraud. If investigations show that that is likely what happened, will THAT finally be enough for the Republican power brokers to call for this fool’s resignation? Will ANYTHING be enough?

Leslie Frazier haters, remember that Rex Ryan is the antiuniverse Frazier: - fat white guy; skinny black guy - loudmouth know it all; calm, quiet tactician - all blitzes and stunts, forcing the action and gunning for the big play; all bend but don’t break, let ‘em kill their own drive.

I don’t disagree with you. I’m just accepting that it’s a generational thing that I will never understand. The Gen Zs are just simply not bothered by a lot of the artistic integrity stuff that seemed to be important to me.

You mean keep Shaq Lawson?

One comment about a gas tax: historically it has been a very good example of a use fee/tax. The more you use our highways and byways, the more you pay for their upkeep. EVs now cause that to be decoupled. So either use more from general tax revenues for Highway purposes, or find a more fair way to tax road usage. It may be mileage, it may be more. toll/transponder roads, etc. no such thing as a free lunch.

Not gonna lie. A part of me is dying to know what cockamamie theory he’s promulgating about the Chinese balloon and the lesser balloons. Aliens? The beginnings of our own military coup that will restore Trump to the presidency? Some George Soros Jewish mind control thing? But really, one Bills forum ought to be enough for anyone. EDIT: I’m out of practice. No doubt a test spaceship fueled by that stuff Hillary extracts from babies. Or is it Patton Oswalt that does that. I can’t remember.

All I know is he would get unreasonably testy when I used a line like that on him ….

A struggling would-be screenwriter in a basement apartment in Pacoima?

Oh, they have a clue all right. My teenage daughter loves Rihanna. Loves her for being a celebrity, for being a queen (not of the drag type) for making tons of money and living her best life. She doesn’t really love her music; I mean, she knows it if it’s on the radio or a Spotify playlist, but doesn’t actively seek it out. She loves the brand. And she couldn’t care less is Rihanna is lip-synching an entire show or if all the music tracks are prerecorded. She probably wouldn’t bother to go see some kind of 1990s “Rihanna unplugged” show with Rihanna sitting on a stool crooning her hits dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt. That wouldn’t be a spectacle. That’s what the kids love. A spectacle. By the way, she (and her friends) also like other music that she streams - actual songs written by actual songwriters - but unlike my generation it’s not an either/or thing. I wouldn’t be caught dead at her age listening to some pop garbage. My tastes were too “elevated.” Or so I thought. This generation? Not interested in being music snobs. Maybe that’s a good thing.

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There’s obviously serious doubt regarding whether Tua will make it back. And if he does, he may be one more concussion away from the end of his NFL career. Miami strikes me as the perfect fit for Carr - they are in win-now mode, Carr gets rid of the ball fast, and they have no one internally to turn to. Jimmy G or Carr? Slim pickings. I’d take Carr. Who knew that you could monetize (and charge a pretty penny) for sitting alone in the dark.

I hope Miami doesn't realize that he'd be their best option for 2023.

He says he was assigned to the NSA, so if he’s telling the truth he knows something about signal intelligence. Why shoot it down if it’s no risk? His take: because WE will learn a whole lot more about China and its surveillance programs/capabilities by shooting it down over the shallow continental shelf/ocean, where it can be easily retrieved and analyzed. That is, a whole lot more than China would have ever learned from the surveillance itself. The fact that the Navy has already retrieved the business end of the balloon lends credence to his theory (he says that part is pretty much a piece of cake for the Navy).

I’m not Tibs, but … I’m light of what Putin has said and done over the last year, why would you believe anything OTHER than Putin is trying to annex the whole of Ukraine? The “limited eastern provinces” action was there for the taking. It is highly doubtful that Russian tanks rolling into and staying in the Donbas alone would’ve met with this type of resistance. No. It started with bombing of major cities and a campaign of terror accompanied by tanks rolling straight to Kiev. I tend to believe a tyrant when he says what he’s going to do and then proceeds to try to do it.

I don’t know much about this guy (apparently a regular on a news network I rarely watch) but I found this to be the best explanation so far of what China is playing at and how it isn’t much cause for concern. The China part starts more than halfway through. The first part (Ukraine) is interesting too.