One vs millions. 🤷♂️
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One vs millions. 🤷♂️
Honestly, I'm not sure how a QB does such a thing. But Peyton Manning and Tom Brady sure as shit could do it.
He's a QB who can be relied on to win when he's surrounded by real talent. He's not really a QB who can magically elevate the players around him from "good" to "elite". Not like the greats do/did. He's close, but not quite there.
In the first game of the season? Against the COWBOYS??!? He'll be lucky to not be suspended for six games. Goodell is going to make an example out of him; bank on it.
And Teddy?
A fool and his money are soon parted.
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I can't think of a single example of "disruption" in the media ecosystem, in the last thirty years, that didn't ultimately fuck over the consumer and/or society.
I have bad news for you.
"Fellow Millennial"? Christ. I picked a hell of a day to stop drinking.
Any feelings on the Patriots? I'd like to think they'll get to 9+ wins, but I think it's more likely they'll fail to exceed 4. That O-line is a bunch of frauds and it'll be exposed very quickly.
Remember the routine George Carlin had about listening to Yankee games in Spanish? "Just to hear the tongue. I mean, who cared about the Yankees, really? We were a national league neighborhood." www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGWN...
You know what you have to do.
@lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social You called it, sir. We missed a chance to make the world's greatest nonstop string of fat-asshole jokes a few years ago.
I'm done arguing with an angry piece of furniture.
I wonder how much money the state has lost by slow-walking an effective weed regulation system until all the profit margin has evaporated?
I'm not excusing Colorado here. Jesus.
Smells like Debbie Elliott has fallen into the trap of reporting for too long on the same region / topics. She forgets that not all is self-evident to the audience. But it's also, as is often the case, a damning indictment of her editor. This happens ALL THE TIME at NPR. Where are the editors?!?!
It uses different parts of the brain. I once recorded an interview with a renowned mezzo soprano in an assisted living facility who could barely speak due to a stroke (and she was in her late 40's I think) but she could SING! And I don't mean she could sing, I mean HOLY SHIT SHE COULD SING!
It's somewhat less true today, but you used to see hordes of Red Sox fans in the stands when they played at Baltimore, Toronto, NYC, Miami, Tampa, Cleveland and several other cities. Popular teams have fans that'll travel.
Every player on both those teams should hang their down in shame at how few fans are in the stands. That's atrocious.
Well obviously he's not leaving her, but did he get the girl in trouble in the first place?
With a few tweaks, Newsom might be a really effective Veep. I don't think he's capable of making those tweaks, though.
People hold their nose and vote for Newsom. They vote for Trump because they'd die for him. (and that's true on several levels)
Most people instinctively detect and appreciate when someone cares a great deal about a given topic, has researched the hell out of it, and can write about it in a way that says "isn't this just the coolest shit you've ever seen?!?!?"
One of the great lines in Moneyball is about Bill James' obsession and deep knowledge of baseball, and I'll have to paraphrase here: "if you write well enough about one topic, you needn't write about anything else."
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Yes. My point exactly. 😬
If @gavinnewsom.bsky.social were really on his game, he'd release a deepfake video that looks *exactly* like Trump's video today, except there's copious amounts of drool coming out of his mouth.
Thank you for mentioning this. The famous line "it's remarkable what you can do with Photoshop these days" is no less than 20 years old now. In 2025, generative A.I. can easily make a deepfake that's damn near impossible to detect without access to the video file.
That's because hair never renders properly in AI-generated videos, sir.
Notice that AP story's picture of Trump is from 2017? My what a difference eight years makes...
Did you notice that Matt Patricia won his game at Ohio State? That's gotta sting. www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
Well, for once, we know who got the girl in trouble and left her...and who couldn't even manage that.
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I'm not alone in noticing that the lights and shadows on Trump don't match anyone else in the photo, am I?
@dicknixon.bsky.social Sir, what the hell...?
My apologies, I know you're not a Hopium smoker. I'm just saying a lot of people in the media who claim Iowa is in play ARE. And I don't think the GOP needs to invest in Iowa in the slightest. We're in post-democracy fascism now. Winning the race is irrelevant. STEALING the race is what matters.
Sir, every single thing he's said or written in public for ten years has been a stroke-induced word salad. The facade was always strong but brittle, because it was a millimeter thick and there's NOTHING behind it.
Sir, Broadus crossed a line when he sold out and performed at Trump's inauguration. And he's never walked that back, either.
I see your point, but I don't buy Iowa for a second. We've been here before, and not just recently. Hopium is a hell of a drug amongst social media and it's at lethal levels in most of the MSM.
Iced out. Pence's people never knew shit, either.
That's true...but I have a vague sense it's less true today than it was, oh, thirty-forty years ago? Seems like everyone in the goddamned world is living in a reality distortion field these days.
To be clear sir: they announced it, true. That doesn't mean it's what he has. As one analysis I read mentioned: if he didn't have the bruising, etc a few months ago and he does today? That's not "chronic", it's "acute" and that's much, much more serious.
Dry that one out & you could fertilize the lawn.
@wychstreet.bsky.social not a word of this story makes any actual logical sense, and yet it feels pretty good. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
I'm gonna guess that's an autocorrect from "executed".
Well, now that I think about it...the early aughts were an ocean of shit music. It wasn't hard to look really good back then. Still...
I'm not exactly a Gorillaz fan, but it's hard to argue they didn't try, and at least moderately succeed, to come up with something interesting and clever. It collapsed under its own weight pretty fast, but it started out ok.
It's like Ron Swanson and veganism.
This should be pants-shittingly terrifying on no fewer than three levels for any thinking person.
Someday we're going to learn that Trump has ordered the nukes flying at least half a dozen times, solely out of pique, and a cabal of insiders has worked together to make sure those orders never reach NORAD, and that Trump is immediately medicated enough to forget he every said it.
At my age, I've seen enough to know that it's genetic. Either you have the ability or you don't. But, you are correct that having the ability alone isn't enough; you DO have to be taught how to use it effectively.
Jesus, the temperature in my room just dropped ten degrees.
This isn't hyperbole, folks. A cold hate is something you can use. You don't have to, but you can. A hot hate uses you. It's no different than a bad temper. The President of the United goddamn States cannot have a temper. HE. CANNOT. HAVE. A. TEMPER. That's how the goddamned nukes start flying.
A despicable Douthat column? I mean, is there any other kind? I'm grateful you read his exercable bullshit so I don't have to, but at this point why bother?
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Literally any profession that requires licensing, or has a history of organized labor does. Cops, lawyers, doctors, plumbers, electricians, pilots, truck drivers, architects, civil engineers, etc etc etc etc etc etc
Oh phooey! Mea culpa - I totally misread that you said MY parents not OUR parents. I thought you were talking in a very general sense.
Having been on ICQ as a teen in the 1990's and knowing how unbelievably prototypical my useless WASPy boomer parents were? I can 100% say you are, unfortunately, dead wrong on this one.
Well there's 57 seconds of my life I won't get back.
If you're explaining, you're losing. C'mon Taylor, you know that.
More like "stays" than "suitable replacement" because he's majority leader. Wall Street won't give up that power willingly.
Before everyone gets their AOC boners on, remember that Schumer is 100% bought and paid for by Wall Street, and they will spend what dollar amount it takes...well into the billions...to make sure Schumer stays, or someone just like him takes his place.
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ONLY residents within 1000ft of any proposed housing development should be allowed to have any legal say in these. And if the residents lose in court? Their house is burned down with all their possessions in it & they are banished from the state. Get some skin in the motherfucking game, assholes.
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Oh come now, Teddy at least made *something* of himself after being a total murdering fuckup.
Dark City deep cut FTW!
Talk to some black people about it.
Rape underage women with no consequence.
If you have to beg, it's not that important.
I have bad news for you about America from roughly 1890 to 1970.
On that note... bsky.app/profile/volt...
To be clear: whether or not Taylor Swift, or any of these focal points of idolation, have any talent at all? Totally irrelevant. I hate Swift's music but I don't deny she's got talent. And certainly she's a smart businesswoman. But she could be terrible at both and still have an army of cultists.
They're all idiot cults. All of 'em: Swifties. Star Wars fans. Trumpazoids. Hoosiers & Buckeyes. Whatever. And prior to the cancer of social media, we could simply ignore them until they finally Darwin Awarded themselves. That's the only answer, Justin: ignore them. Their "logic" is irrelevant.
Tim Tebow is 100% the wrong comparison, because as shameful as the Shedeur Sanders coverage has been? It's not even 1% as shamelessly detached from reality as the coverage of Colin Kaepernick was. @dicknixon.bsky.social
I should temper this a bit: when 2028 rolls around, it may LOOK LIKE there's a '28. But there won't be in reality. Even if it takes Putin/Medvedev-level of chicanery, Trump is the last elected President of the United States of America.
Sir, there won't be a '28. There just won't. We're long past that being a question anymore. bsky.app/profile/brad...
@dicknixon.bsky.social My God, sir.
God help us, what's a man to do when he's in Chicago on his way to Milwaukee?
I've heard he at least prefers the good stuff these days. Well, there's the Schlitz, but what's a man to do when he's in Milwaukee?
Can the concept of Double Jeopardy be applied at the Grand Jury level?
I wrote this for the Washington Post ten years ago. They wouldn't print it now. Here's an archive, because I no longer subscribe & Bezos can kiss my ass. It addresses the tiresome subject of Nixon's letter to Trump, etc. archive.ph/koODf
GODDAMNIT DAVID IT'S NOT "FALSE", IT'S A FUCKING *LIE*.
90+ percent, easily. 🤷♂️ How many of them CARE? Aye, well, there's the rub. Less than 10%, I'd wager.
Fucking Boomers.
That's depressing that New Yorkers would ever accept that the bar for leading them is so low, but it's true.
Ask Ned Ludd: when it has ever not been thus? As you said, your (and my) generation of techies believed politics was beneath you. It never was. It was merely privilege that allowed us to think it was.
Ok now I've read it. You don't explicitly say enshittification, but it's slithering between every line. 😉
