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I am not sure if Buffalo has had ten long term starting caliber quarterbacks in their entire time, but here goes. 1) Kelly: I think that Allen is eventually number 1, but not until there is a Super Bowl on his resume. Kelly played at a time when it was tougher for quarterbacks and made the Super Bowl four times in a row. That still gives him the edge for now. 2) Allen: Number one for stats, number two for playoff success 3) Ferguson, 4) Lamonica, 5) Kemp: My earliest football memories were mid 80's, so I do not know a whole lot about them. Based on what i have heard over the years and seen on stats, they all had stretches of success that were more than any other Bills QB outside of Kelly and Allen. If anyone else old enough to remember them thinks that I got the order wrong, feel free to correct me. 6) Bledsoe: Bledsoe was a good pocket passer and put up decent numbers, but played behind some of the worst offensive lines that I remember. This limited his success 7) Flutie: Many say that he was toxic in the locker room and his success was shorter than most of the others on the list, but he had a couple of great years that kept Buffalo relevant and on the the national spotlight for a little longer after the Kelly era. 8 ) Reich: Although he was never technically a starter, he came through when needed and was behind some great moments in Buffalo history. Given the chance earlier in his career in the right situation, I think that he could have been a serviceable starter for a few years. 9) Tyrod Taylor: His two years in the Rex Ryan era were productive and with better defenses, he may of broken the drought a little earlier. Defenses had him figured out by 2017, but he deserves credit for helping break the drought. It was too bad about his injury in San Diego a couple of years later, I feel like he may have had another shot as a starter somewhere if that had not happened. 10) Fitz: Some may have him higher, but the numbers don't lie. Fitzy has an iconic personality, is one of the most popular Bills and had some good years on other teams, but his win/loss record and propensity to make crippling turnovers in Buffalo shortened his time here. He still makes the top ten because after that, you have a lot of busts, has been and never was options..

Hey, maybe. It takes more that one month to gauge a President's impact on the economy, but there is no doubt that today's negotiation was a train wreck. I said that it would take a nuclear war for someone to be worse that Biden and my God, I meant that as a joke, not a prophecy.

So they are cutting back on staff, mostly for probationary employees (which I would still question), but the thread title says "so much for the national weather service." with an implication that they will be "NO WEATHER FORECASTING FOR ANYONE!!!" This is how we Propaganda!!!!! Here is an article with the real version of the story. The cuts are 10 percent of employees which are mostly probational ones. Agree or disagree if you would like, but base it on the real numbers instead of the OP fearmongering. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/noaa-doge-1.7471187 Edit: If they are already understaffed as the OP says, I don't like the decision either, I just think that a headline with the real news is enough instead of an extreme exaggeration.

How are you getting that out of my statement, is it poor critical reading skills or a deliberate twisting of words? Ready? let's try this again. Biden (meaning the guy who served as last President) was so bad (My opinion is that his performance was extremely poor) that Trump or any other President (not saying Trump is great, just that the bar is very low with Biden) that it would take a nuclear or civil war (Biden was so poor across the board that only a large disaster would have made it worse) to make a president worse than Biden (this equals Biden really bad, not Trump really good). Understand yet?

I would consider putting that card back in your deck and retiring it from the game altogether. The unemployment rate only counts those who are actively job searching and eligible to collect. If a person runs out of eligibility, or settle for a underpaying job, they are not counted towards that number but certainly not better off or doing well. It also does not count people who retired early because they couldn't find anything and the underemployed working side gigs and/or part time jobs. Even the dems are starting to admit that most of the economy stats during Biden's term were an inflated sham. Talk to anyone that is job hunting or run a search on the topic on your preferred social media outlet for "job searching 2024" and you will see quite a different sentiment from people of all ages, races, genders and walks of life. In 2024, Thousands of people out there could not find any job. Not a job in their field, any job. People have to put out hundreds of applications and go through multiple interviews to even get an entry level minimum wage job in many areas. Some may dismiss it is "they are just lazy or underqulaified.", "it's okay because I have a job" or worst of all "It'S aNeCdOtAl!", but the sheer volume of clips with the same experience make me think otherwise. It is not really any better in 2025 yet and remains to be seem whether Trump will improve that, but jobs were not good under Biden. Regarding the second question "You think Trump is so good that only a nuclear war would make him worse than an actual successful President?" The answer is no, I think that Biden was so bad that it would take a civil or nuclear war for Trump or anyone other future president for that matter to be worse. Huge difference. Disagree if you want, but please don't twist my words.

Are we going to pretend that your party did not do this with Trump? Hell, it was literally Biden, then Harris's entire platform. I know that progressives enjoy two-tiered standards, but this is ridiculous. Edit, I also find it hilarious that some dems on this board are saying "Yeah Biden was bad, but this is now!" Wait? Wasn't Biden the greatest President ever with a record economy? That is what we were told by politicians, media and trolls for four years. Are you admitting four years of lying?

Agreed, I am in Rochester, and yes it is nice to have warmer temperatures. I grew up in the 90's where we had a stretch of brutal winters tougher than this, but this was the worst one in a few years. Rochester doesn't get the massive lake storm that Buffalo and Oswego can get, so we were spoiled by three or four straight milder winters.

Do you really think that race is the reason that she was fired?

The whole process was shady, they dismissed the hundreds of reports on VAERS as anecdotal for the mRNA options, but pulled J&J and made it looks like poison on the media for fiteen blood clot cases cases which included some who had not disclosed that they also got the Pfizer or Moderna one. I've heard mixed things on the side effects and don't know the extent, but the bigger crime to me was the media hiding for the first few months that it did not stop you from getting COVID but only masked the symptoms. I understand that this may have reduced deaths in the short term, but if COVID has a connection to autoimmune diseases like some think, then that vaccine created a silent death sentence for thousands or millions. I am totally for vaccines. However, if something similar happens in the future, there should always be a choice, the government should allow the most effective and not the most profitable, and there should be full disclosure on what it does and does not do.

These are the same people that were all the way up to 2024, trying to tell us the bad economy under Biden was global and to give it time, three years in. What this means is as soon as the economy gets better, they have lost the ability to credit Biden's policies for the changes. If it is Trump's fault right away as they are impliing, that also means that is policies were in place and than anything positive in the future is also credited to him, can't have it both ways. Any statement otherwise only exposes them for being foolish and hypocritical.

Oh my God!!!!!!! Eggs are expensive and it is ALL Trump's fault, even the December increases!!!!!!!!! If Harris was in, they would have NEVER gone up. The media is right, Trump is Hitler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It looks like this thread was started back in the peak of the COVID vaccine release. It is dated since things have changed a lot since then, but I think that it would be smart for everyone to separate the issues with mRNA vaccines from others. For example, I feel like the mRNA COVID vaccines were not effective, and forced on us without giving out truthful information about them,. I also believe that most vaccines are beneficial, got J&J, then Novavax instead for COVID and feel that anyone who refuses a polio or MMR vaccine for their child is not making a wise choice. Surely most of us have to be somewhere in between "My baby will get herd immunity if they get Polio" and Get your 5th booster cause Travis Kelce said so!"

Many on the democrat side have believed that about Soros and Gates for years. The reality is that billionaires are very deliberate with where they invest their time and money and there will always be an ulterior motive beyond the "kindness of their heart." What is Musk's motive? We will find out at some point. I don't fully trust Musk but I find it funny how billionaires backing a party all of the sudden became taboo when one backed a different one from the rest.

"It's the best sports moment since Colin Kaepernick overcame two missed free throws by crossing 4th base to score a touchdown in the third period to win the world cup and secure trans-women's rights to play high-school sports while defeating racism!"

With the extremism saturating the left, the presence of politicians who care about nothing else besides taking him down and the fact that there was already two assassination attempts, I am afraid that you could possibly be right. Democrats and media have proven for almost ten years know that they will play as dirty as required and stoop to any level necessary to go back to establishment based status-quo.

A lot more people think this now than MAGA's. I am not referring to every Harris voter or even every Trump hater when I say TDS. I am only referring to the small percentage than have made it their religion to complain about Trump. They saturate their social media accounts and every conversation with the topic and can't go on with life because of the thought of him. Most of those people only parrot what the media and democrat politicians call them. That is a valid and fair question. Theoretically, there is enough recovered money to be able to do that. In reality, maybe, but most likely not. If it happens It is probably much less than that as Trump tends to exaggerate. As mentioned before, I have mixed feelings about DOGE, I love the concept but would be worried about Musk having too much power. My problem is more with the tone deaf thought of $5000 not helping the average person.

The only way that Trump will end up being worse than Biden is if there is a civil war or nuclear fallout. I voted for him, but I am by no means a MAGA. I can be objective about what i see from him. To me, this is what i see so far. Positive: Removing criminals and securing border: This is why he won and he is making good on it Being active and taking charge in the assistance of wildfire and hurricane victims: Western North Carolina was shafted by FEMA and needed aid, they got it. Trump worked well with the politicians in California last month when dealing with the wildfires. Using the tariff threats to get Canada and Mexico to work out better deals: I am not a fan of tariffs in general, but I agree that this worked well in his favor Negative: Overuse of the tariff threat: Countries will eventually catch on and retaliate. This means either actually putting out the tariffs and getting into a trade war that would severly hurt the economy or backing out because his bluff was called and looking weak. The whole Greenland thing, Gulf of America: Neither make sense and both give legacy media who is always looking for an excuse to bash him an easy target Jury is out: DOGE: I Love the concept, but would like to be more of politicians on both sides and less of Musk. Immigration/Where does it stop? No one should have a problem with removing criminals who got in illegally, but if it was to extended to people who have been here for decades, That is where i would personally draw the line and be against it. I believe that there should be a pathway to citizenship as long as they don't have a criminal record and are willing to cooperate. What annoys me the most and causes me to argue against the left 90 percent of the time is the inconsistent treatment of both. At least you were objective to admit something positive. Some people have been conditioned to hate Trump so much that they refuse to ever credit him for one thing. If Trump discovered a cure for cancer, people would be screaming about him taking away people right to get the disease. A real life example is politicians and mob members and TDS trying to tell everyone that $5000 wont make a difference to the working person as a result of DOGE because "rich man bad" "Orange man bad." These are the same people who sky screamed that "EvErYoNe wOuLd StArVe" is another 600 dollar stimulus package didn't go through five years ago. More and more people see through things like this and that is why he won this time around. 90 percent of the stuff that I see against Trump is not a persons own opinion, but merely a parroting of what they saw in the news. They make think that it is their own, but it isn't. Anyone who likes him or even thinks neutrally of him has to keep silent and conform to the swarm or people will ostracize, personally attack and sometimes threaten them. That is never okay and that is why I dislike TDS people more than anyone else. They are literally like dealing with a cult.

However Trump may end up being, Harris was going to be much worse, hands down. There was so much deep seeded corruption and chaos in the last administration and I feel like we don't know most of how bad it really was just yet. If you want to ask if people regret picking Trump in the primary, it may be a valid point, but there is almost no one who voted for Trump who is saying "Gee, I sure wish I picked Harris instead". The country rightfully got rid of the Biden/Harris two headed monster. Whether or not it goes from bad to good or bad or another type of bad remains to be seen, but any chance under Trump was better than the 0% chance of turning things around that we would have had under Harris

No, the problem was that you had a democrat party that did nothing for the people, catered to the elite instead of the blue collar workforce, and lied to everyone for four years about many things including a good economy and the mental capacity of the President. Next, they proceeded to pick Harris (who was seen by everyone including dems as a useless airhead)once the lie about Biden was impossible to cover without any selection process and ran on nothing but how bad the other part won. They made things so unappealing that anyone else looked like a better option, even Donald Trump. The only reason why Trump is less unpopular than last time is because he is cleaning up the mess left by Biden. No sir, your party, legacy media and people like you are the problem that got us here.

Seeing that the libs and legacy media were making excuses for Biden three years into his regime, I think that it might be only fair to give Trump more than two months. If not, than the media has no business crediting Biden instead of Trump if things get better within the next few months, you can't have it both ways.

Trump has done some things that I don't like, but I have no remorse. However bad Trump may be, I have no doubt in my mind that Harris was going to be worse. We could not have handled four more years of Biden's continued policies and the least transparent regime of all time. It will take a few years for everyone to realize just how bad Biden and Harris were. As far as Trump, It is what it is and I would rather have some good things and some bad things with transparency than nothing good with lying and gaslighting.

Nope, I literally wanted to find a neutral article to form my own opinion., calm the hell down. Have some damn patience and stop calling people names like an angry little boy. It was hard to find an article about it that didn't appeal to emotion with rage baiting and sob stories, but Newsweek came close to having a balanced neutral summary. https://www.newsweek.com/are-veterans-benefits-being-cut-trump-va-cuts-explained-2031047 My opinion, I don't like it. I understand eliminating red tape, but the VA seems understaffed as it is. I would have rather seen them make the VA run more effectively first before considering cutting. My hope is that it leads eventually leads to a more effective replacement but as of now, this is in the same category as "gulf of America" where I don't agree and think that it is quite dumb. This does not means that I think Harris would have better and this doesn't mean that I am going to make a daily TDS post like a jaded ex. Now that this is done here is some advice. Grow the hell up, be more respectful in your interaction and don't ever call me a coward again. You would not have the balls to say that face to face to someone and you know it.

Nope, I will look at it when I do. I am not going to give an opinion until I know for sure what parts of your statement were twisted and taken out of context. You see, because I am not either progressive or MAGA, I try to carefully form an opinion instead of letting my favorite news station form it for me.

Of course that sounds horrible, but I am sure that there is some missing context in your deflection. I would have to look more into it and read neutral sources before I could give a final opinion.