dgrochester55
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This fearmongering over losing SNAP is the equivalent of when the executives of networks and cable/streaming providers bicker over how to divide millions amongst themselves and flood programs with messages telling you that the other side is going to take away your station by January 1st and that we need to call them to complain.
SNAP benefits will not get taken away, the chaos that ensued from that would be much more costly than moving things around to make it work. Even if the budget is not settled by then, there will be a "Last second miracle" that allows SNAP to continue.
The real problem is that not enough people realize that both sides are at fault and that their bickering always ends up taking precedence over our well being. Talk does not matter anymore, only action when it comes to this budget. I don't care whose fault it is anymore.
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I still believe that Buffalo has the better team, but the cupcake Schedule that New England has is extremely concerning. The Bills are going to have a small margin of error going forward to win the AFC east. I am hoping for something similar to two years ago where we take the division back when it counts after letting the division rival enjoy it for awhile like when we did that to Miami.
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Who would win in a Basketball game between the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres, if the Ohio State football players were the refs and Josh Allen and Tage Thompson switched squads?
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Joe Klopfenstein, for just one day, then he will be cut and they will sign who they really want.
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I got frustrated and stopped watching in the second quarter. When they did better in the 3rd quarter, I started watching again and that is when they fell apart. If I had just waited to check the score until after the game like the Ravens game, they would have come back and won in the same manner.
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This system is not working. It is time to move on from McDermott. I would rather have a mini rebuild and a chance at a Super Bowl before the end of Allen's career and miss the playoffs for a year or two to get there, than seven more straight years of 11-12 win wild card seasons and a defense that allows 30+ a game.
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If Allen is shaken up, shut him down for the game and keep this day from getting worse. Then make some heads roll in the coaching staff tomorrow.
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9 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
They were filling refrigerator tractor trailers with bodies because the morgues were overflowing. The most reasonable course was the most restrictive.
I blocked you months ago, but am going to say this, then block you again.
You are a knowledgeable person, as doctor you have to be. However, I have yet to see you say one thing that does not line up lock and step with the far left ideology. This is a willful prioritization of politics over science and an abuse of your knowledge because instead of trying to educate everyone with neutral and objective data and make everyone around you more informed, you choose to wield that knowledge like a hatchet to present one sided data that aligns with your political view and tell everyone that we are not to question you because you are a doctor.
You may know more than the rest of us about science, but you misuse that knowledge for self serving gratification and to demean others. That is the opposite of what science should be and you should know that better than anyone else on PPP. That is why you offend me so much more than the rest of the resident progressive trolls. Now, back to being blocked.
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It is many people get all of their opinions from media spin and social media rage bait instead of thinking for themselves. For example, the same people up in arms about a warning label on Tylenol because there is only an inconclusive connection to autism that needs further research instead of a statistically significant conclusion had no problem when Fauci was doing the same thing prematurely in every single phase of COVID. Regardless of whether they think RFK's decision was right or wrong, it should be consistent with their views of premature conclusions during COVID, but it wont be.
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13 minutes ago, Lost said:
That particular statement wasn't comedy. It was straight up lies and slander. ABC dropping Kimmel was gonna happen merely from the massive pushback from the community and declining revenue from the show as @boyst pointed out earlier in this thread. The FCC threat was just the icing on the cake for Disney to wash their hands of the situation.
Jimmy had no problems with other tv show hosts getting canned in a similar manner. Here he is rejoicing over Tucker Carlson getting fired from fox.
I'm sure he was equally delighted when President Trump got banned from Twitter and Facebook.
The Libertarian part of me does not like to see anyone cancelled, the conservative side of me makes it hard to feel sorry for him because, what goes around comes around. Most of those who are upset today about Kimmel getting cancelled were not quite as upset when conservatives were getting cancelled from 2020 to 2023.
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I ripped the defense in previous posts, but they came through when it counted, I stand corrected. Hopefully as the season progresses, they become more consistent as the newer players gel together. Great comeback, Go Bills!
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I expected a rough night for the defense because Baltimore's offense is always a tough match for the Bills, but the listless effort and constant giant gaps in defense with no one around around for ten yards is inexcusable.
A prevent defensive scheme with players that are 20 lb undersized will never get us to a Super Bowl no matter how good Allen plays.
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5 hours ago, Big Blitz said:
Ok we might not have the right Karen
Funny that in a sports weekend with the opening week of the NFL, a new college football season and the peak of the pennant race that the biggest news of the weekend is going to be finding out that Elizabeth Warren is a Phillies fan.
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We are getting gashed by screens today, I hope we can figure it out before the season.
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It's been nine years and this on defense still? I know that its preseason, but at some point, McDermott has to realize that the bend but don't break prevent scheme is not going to get us to go all the way no matter how good Allen is.
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3 hours ago, Niagara Bill said:
So how did this work out for you...not mellow, 51 step getting closer.
I don't post here much anymore because 80% of the posts were dominated by a small six or seven person TDS echo chamber with no interest in anything except for the same 10-15 talking points that we have heard for over a decade. It's not democrat vs Republican, it's only TDS. its an animal like impulse and reflex to be against Trump 100% of the time no matter what. For example. if Trump was to ban Pharmaceutical ads, we would get ten new threads a day from the same two people about how informative and popular Big Pharma ads were and how our ability to make medical decisions is being violated.
As far as Canada and the US, the only thing that I see are a failed tariff negotiations and an unhealthy obsession from you that seems to have still been going on for months. I wish you the best in getting treatment and recovery for that. Enjoy your day, and Go Bills!
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It's a bad look for Trump for fire her right after the report, but it is a good riddance. The job market has been awful for the last two years, go to your favorite social media site and you can find at any given time numerous videos of people from all walks of life and career paths telling us how hard it is to find any job. Despite, this, we are being told that plenty of jobs were out there and the job market was better than ever.
I believe that the job numbers given this week were accurate, but I also believe that she was covering this up for two years and tried the equivalent of the "What did you do!" scene with the car door in Tommy Boy to make it look like it was all at once and solely from the current administration. This makes it harder to see how Trump is really doing on this because the numbers are creating a different story from the reality (record number followed by a sudden plunge) Whether this was deliberate or not, it was not accurately reflecting the actual market to Americans.
Regardless, we definitely need to find a new way to measure jobs that factors in people who ran out of unemployment, gave up searching, took side gig work or accepted a job well below the pay range that they would other be qualified for.
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11 hours ago, GoBills808 said:
Barely an NFL talent if we are being honest
Good on him for earning a second contract
Not consistent enough to start? Makes sense. Not an NFL talent? I don't agree. He is a good blocker and capable of big plays. Someone like that could help as a #3 or #4 option on plenty of teams.
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I've mostly stayed away from PPP in the last two months, but the thread topics today make it feel like it has only been one day since i was here.
The TDS is strong with a select few here. Mental health is real and these are clear cases of OCD.
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4 hours ago, reddogblitz said:
I too believe there is a lot hype and BS of the leftys take on some of this. Personally I'm really tired of hearing what all we local schmucks must do to save the planet. I do my part by recycling, driving a 13 year old car with less than 40,000 miles on it which has polluted less in 13 years than all those people in their new electric cars, etc. Meanwhile those with the bucks and power do stuff like flying cross country on taxpayers dime for a 90 minute meeting, or 1/2 way across the world to attend Hunter's trial or The Blue Angels coming to town dumping 600 tons of carbon or Building massive data centers polluting out the wazoo. So why bother?
That was a minor point of my post. The $200,000 per hour is only to fly the airplane (how is the refurbishing big beautiful airplane going?). There's also the cost of bringing the secret service and the beast and all their other paraphanalia. President Trump's big campaign pledge was to stop fraud, waste, and abuse for every else except him and his staff I guess.
30 minutes ago, Trump_is_Mentally_fit said:Liberals/Democrats made a huge mistake by trying save the planet the hard way, forcing change on people. Carbon sequestration should have been the focus from the beginning. If we put a man on the moon we can create technologies that take carbon out of the atmosphere. Converting to non-polluting energy sources is a great idea but forcing people to drive cars they don't like is just not going to work.
I agree with both points. Adding to that, one topic that I have rarely seen come up anywhere is the amount of energy that a generative AI search burns compared to a normal one. The amount is exponentially more. Despite that Google has made it their default and there is no option to opt-out, or uniform easy way to disable it. Why should I only turn my AC to 79 degrees, stop eating meat while paying more money for hyper processed "plant based" alternatives and buy a twice as expensive electric car with no resale value when used and a battery that is damaging to the environment when Big Tech just made something that burns that much energy a default? We can certainly make individual changes because we think that it is the right thing to do, but forcing intrusive, expensive and impractical lifestyles on regular people while those on top did not follow suit was never the answer.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-do-googles-ai-answers-cost-the-environment/
https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-turn-off-ai-overviews-google-3445771/
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If the thread has a dramatic title from a progressive troll, it must be exactly true as is and not exaggerated in any way at all.
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Since every media outlet will only tell you their reason why they think it is good or bad. Here is a link to the actual house version of the bill for those who are interested. I plan to reserve judgment until I have read the final version.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/text
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The funny thing about national injunctions is that Dems in 2022 and 2023 including Harris and some of the justices found it important to reduce or ban national injunctions when Texas judges were doing the same thing against Biden. In all fairness, I am sure than many conservatives were fine with the process back then. Realistically, we can all admit that if the Supreme court had made this ruling two years ago, that the party reactions would have been opposite. With that in mind, I think that it is a fair ruling and would have also thought it back then.
The ruling went beyond partisan. This loophole was always there, but was now being weaponized. This was a power that was starting to be abused by both sides over the last few years and was way getting out of hand in this term. It would have only gotten worse for Trump and even more so for the next President, regardless of party.
The ability to start the process of a class action ruling gives state judges the power to fight what they perceive as unfair, but requires a little more support so that it is not the same few extreme people (for either party) having the power to slow the progress of a President down at will and using it frivolously. The decision yesterday was good for the country as a whole and gets rid of an disproportionate power balance while replacing it with a more reasonable solution.
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1 hour ago, B-Man said:
In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court granted the government's applications to partially stay the district court's nationwide injunctions in the birthright citizenship cases, noting that universal injunctions "likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts."
As we've discussed previously, the issue before the court here wasn't the merits of the executive order or birthright citizenship. Nor was the court asked to decide here whether nationwide injunctions might be appropriate in other contexts. Rather, the issue before the court was whether it is appropriate for district court judges to issue nationwide or universal injunctions in this context, although the language contained in the opinion certainly is encouraging as to the broader context.
No doubt there will be further analysis to come on this one, but this is a solid win for the Trump administration.
Politics aside, this ruling is logical. I am not sure how it makes sense for someone at a lower level to be able to have enough power to universally override the higher-ups ruling at will if they do not like it. We can't do that to our managers and supervisors at work and Josh Allen couldn't override Beane and McDermott on a free agent signing after it has been done. They should still have a complaint or appeal process, but now it is more balanced so that judges on either side can't use frivolous stall tactics in the name of partisan politics..
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Billy this is… (AFC East Edition)
in The Stadium Wall
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"Billy, this is Tre'Davious White. He was part of the team that ended the drought, a two time pro bowler and has lead the league in interceptions before. Perfect veteran leadership and body is as good as new..... from the waist up, only catch is that his legs are ravaged by injury, rendering him incapable of covering someone for more than 5 yards"