LeviF

Fascism is when, for democracy to win, you must ban the fascist’s campaign, corruptly bury the democrat’s bribery convictions, invent scandals near daily to kill the fascist’s credibility, threaten journalists covering the fascist’s POV, use vote buying schemes to bribe people to vote for the democrat, and prevent cabs and billboards from displaying the fascist’s face.

Yeah. When the other team volunteers to take away their own best chance at winning, you happily accommodate them.

So the convict coincidentally won exactly one region, the only one completely run by narcos and gangs. Democracy wins!!!

Oh don't get me wrong Hochul will win but it'll be closer than it has any business being with NY's current D/R splits. +7 probably turns into +4 or +5 on election night.

History repeating itself, a Cuomo (in spirit at least) ousted by an upstart Republican who sells the "tired of this *****" thing pretty well during an economic downturn and rising crime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_New_York_gubernatorial_election

Talk to co-workers?

Well I know what my first one of the year is going to be!

Hochul has sanpaku eyes. Indicative of some defect of character. Zeldin is a puss but at least he tries to talk tough on occasion. NY under Hochul is as predicted, much the same as NY under cuomo. Corrupt, listless, and wayward.

Calendar for the local venues hasn't even really been filled yet. Seeing Springsteen in March (as a patron) and will be working a few, especially come summer.

I hear you. And don't get me wrong, I don't mean you should "take it out" on the flight attendants but often the airline will compensate you if you cannot get accommodation in-flight. Just something to consider if you ever find yourself in a similar situation again.

That's unacceptable and you owe it to yourself to bring it up with the flight staff when that happens. The more of these folks that get kicked off a plane for not buying two seats when they should the better.

SF doesn’t have many firsts left.

lol, lmao.

I want the cowboys but Pete’s right, it really doesn’t matter who from the NFC gets there so long as the Bills get there.

McD seemed legitimately pissed for a second there lol

lol, lmao.

Time to go on the record as to why the reigning, repeat MVP suddenly looks like a listless JUGS machine without the pop. I have some hot takes and I want to hear yours. Much has been made of Green Bay's inability to draft offensive weapons in the first round. Doubs and Watson have a lot of promise but they're raw, coming from small schools without premier football programs. I don't necessarily think LaFleur is a bad coach, but if the endorsement for him is anything like the endorsement of Nate Hackett (he was Aaron's drinking buddy) you have to wonder if there's any firepower on this staff that can get Rodgers to care. I know it's funny to joke about the ayahuasca experience but if you listen to anyone who isn't a drug-addled weirdo talk about it you quickly find out that it's not all (if any) good for everyone. Powerful hallucinogens have the ability to change people, for better or for worse. Three years/$151M in guarantees/$101M guaranteed at signing. 'Nuff said. Shailene seemed like a nice girl 😢 this new one reminds me of Gwyneth Paltrow in all the worst ways. Related to the new contract, the Packers couldn't have been more clear in their messaging that Jordan Love is going to be a bust (can we call him a bust if he never starts?). He's bad and they should feel bad for drafting him when they did.

Things might be getting bad at home, but the Global American Empire (GAE) is as strong as ever, as our “friends” in Western Europe continue to be reminded of. The Bolsheviks in the former USSR didn’t care about how the kulaks fared so long as they could leverage their foreign influence to continue to enrich themselves. This is instructive.

And there it is. Utah didn’t cover though lol.

You know, I was trying to think of something that could provoke China into really pushing the Taiwan thing.

You have this backwards. I did a double take when I saw it too. Vegas thinks USC is completely fraudulent. Something’s off here.

Get the free trial and binge it after the season wraps. It started a little shaky and the time jumps can be messy for the viewer (especially if you haven't read the source material) but after the past couple of episodes I think that this series can bring some serious redemption to the franchise after the absolute mess that GoT was for the last few seasons.

Doesn't deserve its own topic but it's tangentially related: Us Americans can no longer make any "loicense" jokes about brits until we figure out why a guy can be fined $1,000,000,000.00 for saying things.

My reflex thought was "well that's a hot take" and now that I'm thinking more about it it's not so hot after all. I could probably make a case for Mariota. Fields at least shows flashes and he gets bonus points for playing for a franchise that drags every QB it gets into the mud. Geno's out there in the PNW having a great year. Davis Mills way outplays his draft position. But yeah by my count Wentz was at best the 30th best starter going into week one this year. And now? You're right, probably the worst.

"We needed this distraction so that people stop paying attention to the fact that we let a player out there after he could barely walk due to a head injury."