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That's sort of what I thought... And that's OK... having a backup who is a competent backup and be able to do backup things is good enough... ... for a #4 RB. If Swift wasn't so breakable he could be a #3. JJ seems decent enough in the return game and catching the ball out of the backfield... so he has some usefulness methinks. But with Swift's porcelain running and health... that means we need another RB that could potentially take over as the bellcow/ gamebreaker. That's not Jamaal (tough yards) or JJ (solid backup only)... I'm thinking about the draft next year of course... 2nd to 5th round RB with speed & athleticism & (yikes! ... "Potential" !!!)

Anybody watch Justin Jackson on the field...? Thoughts on him...?

I am sooo freaking conflicted... I mean, I want them to win... NO, WAIT, they need to lose for draft position! But I want them to win... But they NEED TO LOSE...!!! But I WANT them to WIN!!! Wait... they won...!!!! How was I supposed to feel about that???

3 sacks in 1...!!!

Could be a bone bruise if he got kicked or something like that...

I have it as 221-214 at the moment... regarding those last 5... Dems currently have AZ01 (equals 214...) But need to steal the other 4 to maintain control... 3 of those are within reach of possibly doing that but the 4th (CA22) seems out of reach (never say never...). Which says the House could end up at 218-217... for either party.

Independent since 1990. Due to hindsight review of Reagan and deciding he wasn't so terrible after all. Was extremely liberal in college before that... 95% still caucus with Dems. Not too many Republican votes but I've had a few. Including a key one I made in 2004 on ethical grounds that... I may have made a mistake on... Trump is a fucking pig. Scum. Lying POS who F's people over for a living. Corrupt/ amoral to his marrow. A fascist scumbag through and through. And he's been that way for over 40+ years. I hate him. I've always hated him. I will never NOT hate him. And he opened up Pandora's Fascist White Trash Bigoted Republicans Box. I'm in a fight to the death in trying to keep my Democracy and not have it MAGA-handed over to Trump's wannabe fascist dictatorship. Thank you everyone who voted against this POS and any of his lying fascist followers. As a white almost 60 y.o. male, I want to say a thank you to all the women, young kids, and POC that have helped save this country from Trump's fascism. A special kudos to ALL of you!!!

A few issues/ questions: 1) Do the Moderate/ Establishment Republicans want to to take back their party from MAGA Republicans? Now is the time to do it. Trumpublicans got nearly wiped out this cycle. Republicans all over the map are bashing Trump. Donors included... Do moderate Republicans wanna make a Power Move? Nominate a centrist Republican for Speaker and whip Dems to see if they'll climb on board for a vote. Nominate a centrist/ moderate Republican and I bet nearly 100% of Dems will back his/ her candidacy. Better being tied in the middle and repudiating McCarthy/ MTG and that ilk... and attempt to bring back sanity to the party. Now is the time to take that chance. Just my 2 cents. 2) Don't face voters again for 2 years. That's time to not fall under the sway of the Crazies/ MAGA/ QAnon crap... Legislate instead of investigate... And have the time to allow for Trump's complete and total fall from grace (he is already WELL on his way)/ figure out a way to keep or hold onto MAGA while Trump drifts off into Purgatory (no easy task)/ as well as the time to create some kind of future direction that Republicans can sell to AMERICANS and not just MAGA. But that's just me...

Excuse my french but... That is a SORRY fucking list...!

I had a fever dream last night that a moderate Republican threw his/ her hat into the Speaker ring (of fire) with the stated position that they are rejecting the Freedom Caucus and looking for moderate Dems to align with... And I didn't even partake of any of MCS's edibles last night either...

"All's fair in Love & War...". Except war criming/ genocide that is... Shelling retreating troops is fair game.

I'm on board...

You need to include a southern state. Georgia would be best... especially now that it's so purple... If not then any of North/ South Carolina/ Virginia would have to do... I would choose Michigan and Georgia, personally... to get a read on a broader/ broadest base of Dem voters possible. California/ NY/ NJ are givens in a national election. After Iowa and NH (at least a read is there on New England Dems...?); Michigan would give the best read on midwestern/ rust belt Dems and Georgia would give the best read on southern Dems... including appeals to purple-area Independents.

BTW: Russians just emptied out of Kherson completely so no face-to-face confrontations. About as orderly as one could expect on the Russian side which actually surprises me... I thought it would be a lot messier and a lot more confrontational... But Ukrainian flags now all over Kherson...

The Ukrainians wouldn't be that beastly to them... Just capture them as POW's if able to do so. Cut them down or use artillery to blow 'em up if they can't. Both of which are acceptable in war. Torture isn't... and I've heard mostly humane treatment of Russian POW's by the Ukrainians...

OK gotcha. So it's automatic. They don't have to "elect" anything or file any paperwork/ procedures just... Service time = automatic.

Right... but what I'm saying is that they have to do "something". Technically, they are still with the organization if they've been outrighted... at least until they do that "something" that triggers their freedom (in loud Mel Gibson scream...).

Saw some further info as I am catching up in this thread... Not trying to get technical here, but... "outrighted to Toledo" means that a guy is still with the team, doesn't it? The player has to do "something", either refusing assignment or electing free agency, in order to trigger that free agency. They don't "automatically" become a FA if they've been outrighted to Toledo... Or am I reading that incorrectly?

Wait a second... if they've been "outrighted to Toledo", aren't they still with us? If they are "gone", doesn't that mean that they would have to "declare" free agency in order to be gone? And if they haven't declared, again, they are still with us...?

He's still with the Tigers. He's just not on the 40 anymore...

This is the best tweet of that thread/ quote (truncated...): "I think the reason you see a number of right-wing activists turning on Trump himself is simply that ... (p)olitically he's becoming an obsolete husk. " Obsolete Husk. I like that picture...

Sure, fine... You are technically correct that they timed it to try to damage Biden's/ Dem's mid-term election chances... if that's what you might want to stamp a foot down for... But I maintain that their timing is essentially meaningless... at least compared to needing the past few weeks to strip Kherson of anything valuable, including its people... and that timing this against Dems in the election and after some Republican's stupid anti-Ukrainian commentary is basically a non-factor. It had zero effect on the election. Everyone could see that this was going to happen regardless of their timing on any "announcement". And their typical "performance theatre" over this issue/ announcement was as much for their domestic audience, to cover Putin's ass, as for anyone else... Just my 2 cents...

I like this more than The Mandalorian.

I don't think Republicans winning or losing has anything to do with the current battlefield reality. Russia started pulling out of Kherson three weeks ago and every day since. Well before anyone would have any idea how last night would go. In fact, they removed Russian flags from Kherson three days ago. That was more telling than anything from last night.

To strip Kherson of anything and everything valuable. Including forcing every resident it could, by gunpoint, to cross the river onto Russian held territory (knowing they were going to give up Kherson City). They stripped every piece of equipment, artwork, metal, inventory, Ukrainian citizen that they could out of there. The Russian Nazi's Rape of Ukraine continues...