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Dude, reread what I wrote and pretend anyone beside 'ewsieg' 'tigerholic' or 'archie' wrote that and i'm guessing you'll get my point. To be very clear, if my little 7 year old innocent niece thought it would be funny to create an AI version of her and all of her friends as Lion King animals singing a Lion King song; if she showed me I would have said 'oh that's cute'. If she said 'can you put this on your social media' to show everyone what I did, I would have had to tell her it wasn't funny or original enough to be shared and I would have had to remind her she's 7 and to stop acting like a baby and get a real sense of humor.

Agreed, plus Higgy is ~55 now. Even if he has kept in shape, no way are we're getting a full season out of him.

I'm not sure what is more offensive, the fact that they used the Obamas as Gorillas or the fact that even if someone created that with no racist intent, they created it and actually thought it was good. Not only good, good enough to share.

I would concur, yet I have more faith in him that Meadows. Thus I must have some faith.

Here is the story. A major election denier, tinfoil hat, weirdo (I never dug into it like you, but you're probably right with that characterization) pointed out that they found something fishy and pointed out to a ton of small, but continuous donations. Is that fishy? Honestly I don't know. You know how you would go about trying to confirm if it's all bull****, go to the state and federal files that detail campaign donations and then see if those people 1) exist and 2) can confirm they authorized the payments. Leduff found a (fairly) local person and 1) confirmed they existed and 2) confirmed that she didn't give that much money, at least knowingly. Is ActBlue money laundering? Is ActBlue performing acts to scam supporters out of money? Did this women authorize 80k to be taken from her and simply didn't notice it? IDK. Also to note, even Democrats are concerned about ActBlue and unlike the GOP, they are trying to ensure ActBlue is being on the up and up to protect democratic donors. https://campaignsandelections.com/industry-news/actblue-taking-heat-from-practitioners-as-campaign-fundraising-faces-greater-scrutiny/

Yes, I do remember you refusing to acknowledge what the real story was and instead focused on smearing Leduff. LeDuff pursued an allegation. You would pursue an allegation from Putin if it was against Trump. If the guy was completely wrong and made up the allegation, I would have guessed no one would have heard about it, instead LeDuff reached out and found a Michigan based person listed in state and federal filings that he could confirm if she did in fact contribute 80k+ over 8k transactions and when asked about it, said she didn't do that. So in the end, someone is lying. Pointing that out seems responsible, not malfeasant. If he was focused on some of the tactics the GOP is doing to suck the money out of older people, my guess is you wouldn't care you gave him the information on that lead.

This potentially could be huge. The grift talk with Trump is not new, but outside of media, no one really has been talking about it. Would be nice to see the flood gates open and see others call this out as well. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/ken-griffin-citadel-republican-donor-donald-trump-critic-white-house

I know no one around here like Charlie LeDuff, but instead of covering the election process, he chose to work it in Detroit in 2020. He was at the TCF center, right where republicans tried to barge in. His coverage after the fact, explaining the process, how many different eyes/hands touch the ballots, how they break down the process between teams and match up at the end to confirm all the numbers work out and audit discrepancies, he was thoroughly impressed.

I think MTG is just proof of Dunning-Kruger. She knew something wasn't right with our government and jumped towards the conspiracy theories. Once in office, she became more educated on issues and realized it's a lot more nuanced and eventually kind of realized Trump really doesn't know what he's doing. She still wants to side with that side, just like smarter folks on the GOP side were fine with him not really knowing anything because he was a useful idiot to them. Unfortunately they realized long ago they can't control him but continue to trick themselves into thinking that if they go along with him for now, if its important, they will be a check on him. MTG, for all her faults, appears to have a backbone though and as she is realizing she's wrong on some things, she's standing up to Trump. We want people to change, to get better, but we need to find a better way to get more sensible people in congress right off the bat, because most want power and don't care about getting better.

Jeez, it's gotten so bad for Trump this past week he's out there releasing Epstein docs to distract.

Daily Show last night had a great segment on exactly this.

Guess just full speed ahead and hope you don't hit anything.

Kind of crazy that this part is true when the guy ahead of McGonigle is 19 at already 6'4".

I listened to a Brett Hull podcast/interview recently where he claimed that Sergei was put on defense as a punishment because Bowman didn't believe he was consistently giving 100% but then was even more pissed off after because he realized he had a norris trophy level player in him if he kept him on D and wasn't sure if he actually had learned his lesson or not.

I just recently learned he was part of that group. Gimme Some Lovin was released in 66, so he's 18 with those vocals... unreal.

Despite wanting to like/try all music, I've never gotten into Zappa. That said, nothing that i've heard I considered bad either, just never seemed to work for me. In listening to what you guys say about him, kind of reminds me of David Byrne. Byrne seems to be getting some redemption later in life as interviews indicate he at least understood he was difficult. Unfortunate that Zappa never got that chance.

"Look at that flexibility, that's fresh right there" as he's demonstrating the wipers blade. Seriously though, I do need new windshield wipers. If this is a thing and you 'maybe' know someone, please DM me. lol

I hope my wife doesn't find out about this. As soon as it's dusk, all shades get shut. If I look out my back door 45 degrees to the left is a neighbor, and completing the triangle, directly across from them and at 45 degrees to my right is our other neighbor, so I get it a little bit, but man does she get adamant (nice way to not say mad) that they get closed.

I enjoyed No Doubt early, but as they moved away from Ska, it slipped into awful power pop and that was even before she jumped the shark and went solo which was even worse. That said, I had to check out this new song for the hell of it and I don't think it's a new song. Or at least she had another song called Rich Girl about 15 years ago. I can't seem to find anything related to new music outside of some Christmas stuff she put on youtube. I think your music portal trolled you!

Acting was solid, I think Penn might have stole the spotlight from DiCaprio. I felt they pushed the tropes a little too much, like you say MAGA folks might not like it, but they did it with both sides, for instance DiCaprio trying to call the 'help' line and he gets into it with a guy getting triggered by words. Overall though, much better than most movies I watched in 2025.

I suspect my thought here is likely baseless, but in the NFL one of the things i've always heard is 'If team X is healthy, they can win it'. It's a violent sport. Seems like at least for the last few years we're one of the worst with injuries. Just a couple of unlucky years? At some point, is it valid to question why we seem to be one of the most injured teams?

If he would be willing to come back for that, I'd take it in a heartbeat. I suspect he stays retired at this point though.

Frank had a grade 3 hamstring strain and was like 'Yeah, I can play, put me on the roster and I think I can be game ready in 2-3 weeks'. I have no idea if he's thinking of getting ready to come back or not, but I'm positive he's not going to come back just to backup anyone.

I grew up about a mile from MBS and now I'm near Selfridge air base. As you say, it's quite noticeable when a plane isn't where its 'supposed' to be. My first flight wasn't until I was 18. My dad flew regularly for work though and I was flying with him. We went through a thunderstorm. I had a window seat and all I could think off was I was going to see that monster from the Twilight Zone on the wing with the next flash of lightning. I was amazed at how much the wings could flex from the turbulence. My dad was calm the entire time and just said most flights aren't this bad, but it's normal. The next day while visiting my sister, she asked how the flight was, my dad quickly announced it was awful, he thought we might die, he never experienced anything like that in his life, and he was a little afraid to get on a plane to go back home. The plane ride home was uneventful and I never developed a fear of flying. It would have been wildly different if he expressed how he was really feeling during that flight though!

A quick google search today to see if there was any talk on Bregman and I saw this too from multiple websites which I wouldn't have generally considered spam, at least at one time. Then read that Harris quote, mind you he said it soon after it was widely reported that the Tigers almost signed him, so all he's saying is he believed in this team prior to the season. Oh the horror! Like you say, someone determined that was an insult to Bregman and now there is no chance the Tigers will be in on him and it'll likely affect Skubal as well and they all run with it. SMH.