Mr.TaterSalad

Yikes! Goff looks awful, the passing blocking looks awful, the run blocking looks awful. What is going on tonight?

Texans running game is non-existent which is a big plus for us.

Play the god damn ball Arnold!

A James Houston sighting. Big play by Houston and big stop by this defense.

Has anyone followed this story? It turns out a several right wing media influencers were on the Russian payroll. Members of Tenet Media, including Benny Johnson, Julie Chen, Lauren Southern, Dave Rubin, and Tim Pool were taking millions of dollars in sum total from individuals affiliated with Russia Today and the Russian government lead by Vladimir Putin. JUST LOL that Rubin and Pool, the "free thinkers" and "truth tellers" of the interwebs were telling us for years how Ukraine was the real enemy and Russia was our friend. Now that they're in legal hot water the truth comes out that these clowns were paid to have an opinion and potentially directly told what to say and thing. What a bunch of Russian hacks.

RFK Jr is responsible for the deaths 83 children and people in American Samoa thanks to his vaccine lies and misinformation. This guy has said the childhood vaccination schedule should be outright pulled or changed dramatically. Great ****ing job America. Make Measles Great Again! https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/note-robert-f-kennedy-jr

We're always only full when its a mass of Irish or black/brown-skinned immigrants coming over. When the right types of people come over suddenly the country has room to take in the tired, the poor, the huddled masses, and others.

https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/feeding-america-how-immigrants-sustain-us-agriculture#:~:text=born workers%2C foreign-born naturalized,three decades (Figure 1).&text=Source%3A Economic Research Service%2C Department of Agriculture. 40% of our farm and agriculture workforce is comprised of undocumented persons. If you round them up and mass deport them all in a short amount of time you are going to devastate the food supply, food economy, and supply chain. Prices will almost assuredly go up as demand rises and shortages in food occur. Many crops won't be planted or harvested in the event they are planted and that scarcity will create inflation.

THIS. YESSSSSSS. Democrats need to vilify rich people, billionaires, and big corporations. We need left wing populism and make people have disdain for the wealthy elites who are truly holding us down. John Edwards, of all people, had a great narrative about this when he talked about Our America vs. Their America. One America for the rest of us and one for the wealthy. We need populist messaging without the socialism framing of Sanders. This is why I want a guy like Shawn Fain for 2028. He can be our populist outsider with disdain for the wealthy elites.

I actually agree with this quite a bit. I think of Trump reignited inflation, caused the fed to have to raise interest rates yet again, enabled recession conditions, and created food and labor shortages with mass deportations that could be a death knell. His whole theory of the case is that he is a business super genius who alone can fix the economy himself. I do wonder if all the worst case economic scenarios were to play out would the emporer finally have no clothes?

This guy was Trump's dinner date. I don't know about the kinds of people you have over for dinner, but I hope they aren't like this.

One of my biggest fears is that two things happen simultaneously. One, he sells Ukraine out, stops funding them in any capacity, and allows Russia to continue to take over territory. Two, the war itself doesn't actually stop but he declares victory because he stops funding them and the American people buy his bull**** and respect him for it. So Russia is still at war with Ukraine and making further territorial gains without US support, but because so many Americans believe his lies, they actually think the war has ended because of Trump.

Trump claims he'll end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. I think we know that's BS. What will actually, likely, end up happening? Will he sell out Ukraine and demand they surrender territory to Russia? Will he stop arms sales to them and claim that as a victory? Will the war just drag on as normal and Trump will look foolish for talking about how he can end the wars in a day?

I guess I can just move past the check out counter the next time I'm having dinner at Mexican Fiesta.

It's too bad Lebron didn't retire already. I think Brown is the right candidate for it. But eventually, Democrats need to work on courting LeBron to run in Ohio.

So why is it ok for a President of the United States to behave in such a fashion?

All the incumbent parties in developed democracies lost in 2024 from the Democrats here to Macron's Ensemble in France to the Tories in the UK. Oddly enough in France, it was the far left New Popular Front coalition that received the most votes overall.

What's your view on stiffing contractors and not paying the bill? Are you ok with those things?

So the common person wants a person who walks out on the waitress without paying the bill or leaving a tip? Trump has stiffed contractors time and again. He's ripped off thousands of people with scam charities, scam "colleges", and scam items he's sold. So the common person wants a con artist?

Saw this stat on Twitter, credit Derek Thompson. For the first time since WWII, every governing party facing election in a developed country this year lost vote share, via @jburnmurdoch 2024 Democrats are the red dot. Absolutely critical context to any postmortem.

RFK Jr wants to take kids off the childhood vaccine schedule. ****ing madness. I'm getting a Make Measles Great Again shirt made.

I think UAW President Shawn Fain is the guy I am most interested in for our candidate in 2028. He's the type of working class populist we need to counter Trump. Plus, if the economy is in the ****s and inflation is high thanks to Trump's tariffs, tax cuts for the wealthy, and mass deportations, a labor guy like Fain is the perfect person to push back with. Plus, he was a good Democrat this past election.

If Democrats made the same exact suggestion though that would be called socialism and would be bad. I saw something somewhere (can't remember where) that said Trump would repeal the Obamacare and reimplement it under the exact same guidelines but rebrand it Trumpcare. People would fall for it too.

Will America elect an openly gay man as President though?

I read a stat today from a study that an estimated 40% of farm and agriculture workers are undocumented persons. If that stat is close to reality for many farms, I can only imagine deporting 40% of their workforce would harm crop production and raise food prices. Feeding America: How Immigrants Sustain US Agriculture