The Frankish Reich

Nothing easier and more appealing to an Econ prof than to take a hard libertarian tack!

Other takeaways from tonight: -people like legal abortion. We saw it in Kansas in the summer, we see it tonite in several states. -people dont like taxes. My state (CO) is about to lower our flat state income tax rate again. -people like legal weed The libertarian moment may come after all.

I read an editorial in the Wall St Journal by Mitch Daniels today. Former R gov of Indiana and now Pres of Purdue University. At one time he was considered presidential material. That was before Trump killed the party. I want to go back to those days.

It’s a pretty remarkable landscape. Nice folks up there. And I’m not kidding about Bumpass Hell. It earned its name (volcanic hellhole)

I think that’s true. Most people are just done with the Trump drama. It’s time to move on. And until the Repubs finally push Trump aside, we will continue to see this effect.

What is it James Carville used to say? Philly on the eastern border, Pittsburgh on the west, West Virginia in the middle. Gonna take me a while to work thru this. Thanks!!

People don’t like carpetbaggers. I think the Oz is a NJ resident thing was a killer. And Trump delivered the nutcase loser Mastriano in the Gov race.

If I lived in NY I’d have held my nose and voted for Zeldin. But they need to bring back a Pataki Republican who may actually win something.

He’s pissed that O’Dea ran away from him. So he’ll blame O’Dea’s loss on not sucking up to Trump. Truth is Trump ain’t popular here. Even Trump Country (western CO) finds Boebert struggling to hang on.

Bumpass Hell. Worth a visit!

Don’t mess with my beefaroni

That something appears to be same old Democratic NY. Hochul by 20.

Colorado: Bennett (D) by nearly 20 over O’Dea (R). Repubs sank an awful lot of money into this one. Zeldin: not even close Mastriano: bloodbath in PA Boebert: may lose in a “safe” red district Michigan: Whitmer by a mile.

Trumpy fools badly underperforming other than in ultra safe red districts/states. Mainstream Repubs doing just fine. Turning point?

News from the wild Wild West: Lauren Boebert trailing. And it will be very close. Please please please end this idiot grifter’s political career.

Unfortunately, those were the 2 Republican governors I liked.

I like Chuck Todd. There. I said it.

Are you saying Stefon Diggs is *&!@*% Crazy?

Actually, He topped Dan Cox.

Yep. Just like a college basketball coach working the refs in the first ten minutes so his team gets that big foul call in the last 2 … both sides are furiously laying the groundwork for their upcoming complaints and lawsuits starting tomorrow.

Thanks for the share. For a brief moment I deluded myself into thinking that Kyle Orton was our ticket back to respectability and a playoff berth…

Meanwhile, Chef Jim is eating $69/lb handpicked morel mushrooms. Another poster is dropping $600 on a couple hundred wings (just a normal Sunday he says). This board is like a bizarro land focus group.

Damn! My algorithm failed to account for the Mennonite Wagon Traffic Jam Effect! Back to the drawing board. Umm, drawing papyrus. No whiteboards in the Bible … … seriously, that’s kind of interesting. Where do you live?

Good point. The McConnell-Garland trick was a low point for an institution that I thought couldn’t go any lower.

Weird picks, I know: Saffold and Bates. Bates seemed to stabilize the line at LG last season, and I thought he’d be a clear upgrade over what we had last year on the right side. Saffold is old but I thought he had something left. In other words, I thought Beane had modestly upgraded the line for little money. Now I think the line is actually worse than it was the second half/playoff time last season.