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Viking News:
From MSN, Brian Flores compares Dallas Turner to Dont’a Hightower.
SI.com shared a post-draft 53-man roster projection.
NFL NEWS:
At NFL.com, Bengals QB Joe Burrow says his wrist feels great following a workout.
At MSN, the NFL’s last minute Christmas plans are likely the reason that the NFL schedule release is delayed this year. You ever watch SpongeBob? You know how greedy Mr. Krabs is? Mr. Krabs reminds me of the NFL, pure greed.
Media Selection:
Here are some J.J. McCarthy highlights for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!
Question of the Day:
What week do you expect to see J.J. McCarthy become the starting QB for the Minnesota Vikings?
Rookies getting noticed…
https://twitter.com/MikeGarafolo/status/1788608736698716552/photo/1
Biden the liar publicly claims he inherited 9% inflation when he took office.
Biden’s factually incorrect claim came during a rare interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett on Wednesday evening, when he was asked about low consumer confidence regarding the economy, including housing costs going up, real income adjusted for inflation going down, and weak economic growth since Biden took office.
“No president has had the run we’ve had in terms of creating jobs and bringing down inflation. It was 9% when I came to office — 9%,” the 81-year-old president said.
In fact, inflation was just 1.4% when he came into office in January 2021. It grew to 9.1% in June 2022, 17 months later.
He also claimed he had created 15 million jobs since he became President…
And I bet CNN fact checked him on his claim didn’t they, any ‘News Station’ would after all.
No… but Trump Jr did… grin.
When Nasty Nancy brought up the job stat the MSNBC interviewer brought up context about the pandemic and she got hissy about it.
“You may be a Trump apologist but I’m not!!’
They are not used to being fact-checked on Fake News.
Joe is still living in the 60’s… before the internet. He thinks he can say things that are patently untrue to make a case for himself, and no one can fact-check his lies.
It has been working for him since the 70-80s why stop now?
Not like he understands where the truth stops and ends any more.
Made it to Minneapolis.
Hanging with Mom.
I will try to remember to duck when needed.
Stay out of jail… homicide is frowned upon I hear.
I would NOT want to sit in jail in Minneapolis right now.
Yeah,
Stick to looting and carjacking like the rest of the city.
Hang in there. In case of real emergency, use the Holy Hand Grenade!
A group of illegal immigrants staying at an encampment in Denver, Colorado, have sent a list of demands to the mayor’s office.
The group submitted a list of 13 demands, which include access to free immigration lawyers, shower facilities, employment support, free visits by medical professionals, free transportation, and fresh cooking ingredients that will be “provided by the City.”
Blue Cites and States never took a course in logic.
Maybe in Woke Logic, kind of like Teen Logic.
Good analogy there SoCal… teen logic.
Mayor should’ve taken a shit, put it in a box, and sent it back to them. There’s your reply.
Laughing… I think you got something there!
He cried during his press conference when Congress didn’t pass a budget that gave money to Sanctuary Cities.
No Benzs to get around town.
“Immigration” used as a weapon. This shit will blow up somewhat ugly one of these days, over here as well.
They plan to use the immigrant population to skew the census which is used to determine where $$ is allocated and #s of Representatives to Congress.
Which is why most of them are being sent to Blue Cities.
Many years ago when I was in Germany, a politician was running for Chancellor and his only platform was, “if you elect me, I’ll kick all of the Turks out of Germany”.
He almost won.
On Large Trash Day when Germans can put out large items, like furniture and such, the average Germans proclaimed it a ‘Turkish Holliday’ due to the large number of Turks (low income laborers) that would go around looking for ‘bargains’..
A new poll has revealed that Independent voters believe President Joe Biden is a bigger threat to Democracy than former President Donald Trump.
An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll showed that 53% of participants believed Biden is the greatest threat right now to Democracy, with Trump receiving 42% of the vote.
The poll consisted of 1,199 Americans who participated from April 22nd-24th. There is a 3.6 point margin of error.
Yeah Susan, I can’t believe it’s only 53% either…
“I find it shocking,” MSNBC commentator Susan Del Percio said about the poll. “I can’t make sense of that number. I wish I could. I wish I had some really great insight into it.”
Tell us you have a severe case of TDS without telling us you have a severe case of TDS.
Go Wolves, they hunt in packs!
Was watching a Ravens game earlier while I was writing up a report. There was a replay, and the expert commentator mentioned the defense was playing “quarters”. I looked up and had to laugh. The defense was playing 2-Man, which is a two-deep, man-under coverage where the two deep-half safeties take the deep coverage over the top. It wasn’t close to a quarters defense. Quarters (or Cover 4) is a four-deep, three-under zone defense. In this alignment the three linebackers are responsible for splitting the underneath section of the field into threes, while the cornerbacks and safeties are responsible for splitting the field into fours on the deep section of the field, from sideline to sideline. There is no way anyone with a modicum of football knowledge could mistake Cover 4, for 2-Man. Just boggles the mind.
Yeah.
Some of the ‘experts’ come up with some stuff that gets you shaking your head.
That is why I appreciate the good ones so much and post there stuff here.
Heard one on the radio this morning that talked about how the Vikings haven’t been able to find a consistent 1000 yard rusher since the lost Dalvin Cook years ago…
Is it the runner?
Or the IOL?
Or the scheme?
I don’t know, I just thought it would be kind of hard to have a consistent one when they’ve only been missing cook 1 year
Yep… they didn’t lose him years ago. Mattison just made it feel like that.
Twinkies won while I wasn’t looking.
15-1
now 22-15.
On a roll, it seems. Too bad I never got into Baseball.
Just 3-2 since the streak ended.
But Seattle was a decent team and Twinkies took the series 3-1.
11-1?
I was using ‘Poetic License’ as they had struck out the Seattle batters 15 times.
#honest
Wow.
AAA league (9 & 10 year olds) starts Monday. I can’t wait, I think I’m more excited than my son.
He tried out for this AAA team and made it, one of a few 9 year olds on the team. There are at least four kids on this team that I coached last year. So much fun.
You must be a pretty good coach…
I doubt that. I just love the game, it probably rubs off.
You going to help coach this year?
If so the AAA league? or the old team??
Absolutely, I coach kiddo’s team every year.
JJ 6’ft, 3″. Like that. Seems to have good pocket awareness.
219 lbs.
Solid kid, I like him. I think his skillset will translate to the NFL.
I agree. I like him. He has the traits to be a very good NFL QB.
He seems genuinely humble, which is impressive.
He didn’t go the draft in Detroit because he said he wanted to spend the evening with the people who got him there and there wasn’t room for them all at the NFL event.
Classy.
Plus, it would be boring as hell sitting there. At least when you’re at home, you can go do something when you’re bored.
An appeals court in Georgia has decided to re-examine a decision made by a lower court that allowed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to carry out her legal prosecution of former President Donald Trump’s “election meddling” case.
Trump has gotten another favorable ruling that could push any future trials beyond the November election. The judge in Trump’s Florida lawsuit involving confidential materials had postponed the trial date indefinitely as well.
Due to Willis’s intimate relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, which clearly seemed like a conflict of interest, Trump and other defendants in Georgia worked to have Willis and her office removed from the case. However, Judge Scott McAfee of the Superior Court ruled in March that there was no conflict of interest that prevented Willis from taking the case.
McAfee was a joke the way he controlled the court room. And Willis is a joke and the idea of using the Rico laws in this instance is a tragedy.
I agree. The liberals are twisting jurisprudence like a pretzel, trying to convict Trump of “something”.
Complete clown show, reckless spending to make sniffer something he isn’t. Sickening. Cackles behind him. Scary.
It’s a witch hunt. Trump is by no means perfect, but the far better option (though he is controlled as well). In the end all of this is just a grand side show for the masses.
this is far far beyond a witch hunt. This is one of our political parties, the one in control, using the full power of the government to take down its principal opponent – the one guy they believe can take them down.
Agreed
300
Only 120 to go…
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter had his appeal on three gun charges rejected by a federal court, setting up a June 3rd trial date in Delaware.
The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals cited a lack of jurisdiction and dismissed Hunter’s bid to consider having the case thrown out, according to a Thursday court filing.
However, lawyers for Hunter Biden can seek a review from the full bench of the 3rd Circuit or petition the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the case as well.
If I recall the full bench of that court has a slim one vote republican. Unfortunately three of the judges are Bush appointees – not always the most reliable.
The judgement to dismiss the appeal here is completely sound legally though. They can try another court, but it would just end up the same way. He might be trying to stretch it out past the election is all.
Don’t know the process outside DC. There, Appeals Court is the most liberal (democratic) in the country. You can get lucky in initial case and draw 2 Repubs and 1 Dem judge. And win with solid legal reasoning. But it the full Court takes it up, and their are political overtones, guess who is going to lose every time.
Judges can be impeached for misrulings. This is a pretty standard legal finding. No way any panel can really overturn this dismissal without risking repercussions.
You may be right. And I believed once the House sent impeachment orders to the Senate, they were required to have a trial. Found out in the Mahorkis event, not the cased at all.
Watching A New Hope right now because my girlfriend wants to get into Star Wars. Han shot first!
You have the original version?
I found it online somewhere and downloaded it, hate that they doctored that scene.
As well as others (added in creatures in some scenes, etc.)
Yup, indeed.
https://x.com/vikingzfanpage/status/1788603401258881068
Kyle Sloter… we’re paying attention to HIM? Puhleeze!
You win and it’s Alice in Wonderland. Lose – and the entire ‘ Playbook of Excuses’ comes into play.
I think the Cowboys should sign Sloter.
Love it!
That would be fun.
Slotergoat!
I guess Wisconsin is a Biden loving state now, wonder how much money it’s costing taxpayers. FJB. FTP.
Thought it was still in play?
Voting sniffer is voting more of same or worse. He gets in i’m leaving country with Whoopi. lol
the Whoopi who believes she is Jewish but doesn’t think the Holocaust was about race. Maybe leave the country and travel to the Holy Land.
I’d buy her a ticket. One way, of course.
She’s a nut. Imagine being stuck on a deserted island with her and Sunny Hostin? I’d start swimming.
PS I can’t imagine what I would have to talk about on a dinner date with a pornstar. I mean a real dinner date not some weird escort dinner date.
a porn star and a convicted felon for perjury are your principle witnesses.
And love the language of the press – “adult movie star” You and I might say porn queen or hooker.
huh…internet is an amazing thing.
A cousin of my father’s recently died in Wales. I believe I met her once while visiting back in 1978. A probate firm was able to track down my half sister (dad’s daughter) through ancestry.com and they are reaching out to my sister, half sister and I later today. Maybe she is deep in debt and they need cash now.
Maybe they know a Nigerian prince
Ever see the John Goodman movie ‘King Ralph’ ?
I was going to mention that maybe he is royalty.
Nope. My dad was the son of a coal miner and grew up in poverty, food scarcity was a real thing during and after WWII. Hence hopping on a boat to Canada at age 16 with $8 CDN in his pocket.
Have them call J. G. Wentworth.
GO TWINS! Can’t wait to watch in playoffs in October. Purple mini camp tom, i think.
I’m ready to get way too excited by highlights of meaningless controlled passes. The first video of a JJ to JJ pass is going to be orgasmic. I can’t imagine what training camp and the preseason are going to be like.
Not expecting much. Maybe we get lucky on the QOTF.We’re due.
I choose to believe JJ is the guy until he proves otherwise. Why wallow in misery and miss out on the excitement and just end up looking back in a few years when he is signing a big extension and wish you would have enjoyed it more?
Might be a year to cheer against. Falcons high on my list.
Cheer against the Vikings or against the Falcons?
Falcons, no love affair for Kirk. I guess i hate evry team but my own. I should work on my anger issues.
I was hoping that’s what you meant, but wanted to be clear. I want every team to lose every game except the Vikings.
I would not be upset if the Vikings went 5-12 this year. We would get a high pick that we could use to replenish next years draft capital.
Brudda from anudda mudda.
My floor is 3-14.
They’d win more than 3 games with Mullens/Hall/Dobbs, especially since they don’t have a 1st place schedule this year.
NFCN tough, could lose 4-5 games.
That’s what I’m thinking, about 12 and five
My expectations for this season are quite low. In some ways it would be best to have a shite record as they can let some QB hungry team trade up for that pick, and make up for the absent picks in the later rounds. Moving down from one of the top 3 picks can get us some plum draft picks.
Believe
https://x.com/TPPSkol/status/1788618753183252800
Hate and anger are sort of ‘woke and progressive’ traits.
Sports can wind me up. Sometimes i’m relieved not to watch post season. MT’s Oil let one slide by. He ain’t happy today.
No shit. They had that game gift wrapped in a bow, could ease off the gas game 2 and let the Canucks get into panic mode. I’d rather Dallas and Colorado tear each other apart while the Oilers rest up.
Think they need a split Friday w/o home ice. Hang in there.
Good to know – I was afraid politics might wind you up.
Now me, I just think about biden and my bp goes up 20 points.
I’m retired, getting a bit long in the tooth but this country better wake up or there won’t be a country.
I’m old too and think we are well on our way and not sure it can be reversed.
Plenty of people think a civil war is coming.
Glad I’m in the South then. Got a spare bedroom if you need a quick exit.
Good luck to the purple haired hippies if they get west of the Mississippi. We’re ready and waiting.
You need to go down and buck up the boys in Arizona, NV and Colorado
And since Liz Chaney is still out there somewhere, that area probably also needs some help – she’s still running her big mount.
Chaney doesn’t actually live in Wyoming, just claims residency. I trust that the people of Wyoming will solve that problem if she shows up. Colorado will be too stoned to realize what is going on, and I have faith in NE and and KS holding that line. AZ, NV will be alright. NV may be a lost cause, but the desert will be hard to get across and the mountains and mormons of Utah will stop the advancement from the west. Northern CA may be lost since they are surrounded, but they could probably take OR and then with ID they’d have WA surrounded and can push em into the Puget sound. After that is successful, push southern CA into Mexico.
Got a extra bedroom too. Afraid to leave for a weekend, come back and squatters own it.
The takeover already happened “without a single shot being fired”
well i just figured out why the Wolves are gonna end up losing to the Nuggets…
minneapolis mayor jacob frey has been texting the denver mayor, talking trash about the games…
IDIOT.
That is dumb.
almost as dumb as believing that something as arbitrary as a text exchange between two civic leaders has any bearing on the outcome of a sporting event.
Is it also dumb to think that Jobu can have any bearing on the outcome of games?
Wolves have lost to lesser teams at home this year. Seemed to have upped their game i playoffs. Pound the hell out of Jokic and Murray. The D seems relentless. Having said that they’ll prob lose.
This doesn’t sound like something somebody should be doing in public and on tv.
Beats cereal talk.
All you needed to say was Mpls mayor and idiot.
It goes without saying…
Today is my 4th wedding anniversary (we’ve been together 10 years total)
Have a dinner reservation at our favorite soul food place tonight @ 8
Then some drinks at the Starlight Lounge – a dark little underground joint with 1950’s decor and fantastic martinis. Being type 2, I don’t drink very often but tonight I’ll make the exception.
I’ll pour the wife into bed around 11, take Goose for a late night walk and end the day with a joint on the porch.
I’ve got plans in motion to take her to Maui for our 5th anniversary – wood is the theme for a 5th anniversary and I proposed to her underneath the Lahaina Banyan Tree there in 2018.
We’ve never been to Maui. I might go to the Mayo rad cme there next January.
If I ever hit the lotto (won’t happen as I don’t play) that’s where I’d go. Was absolutely beautiful. We drove the Hana Highway while there and it was an awesome experience.
Yeah, it is wicked expensive to live there, travel there, etc…
I’ve met a few friends of friends that have relocated to Hawaii in their retirement, of course they love it there but the biggest detriment is family doesn’t come to visit nearly as often as they hoped. End of the day family is one constant in our lives, I would miss them.
Absolutely right about being expensive. We stayed 10 days and our first trip to the grocery store there was over $500 – and we made a few trips. Most of the food trucks and fish stands were pretty reasonable in price. My SIL was with us (they were living in Paris at the time where there is very limited fast food) and she insisted on Taco Bell one afternoon. It was almost $60 to feed 4 of us – at Taco Freaking Bell – never again.
This (and some Kona coffee) was the only souvenir I bought while there. Watched this dude carve this thing by hand, then I paid for it and he sanded and lacquered it and I picked it up the next day. Cost me $50.
60 bucks at Taco Bell for 4 people would be a bargain now thanks to the strength of the economy and Bidenomics.
Agreed. In 2018 it was sticker shock. Wasn’t my idea – when I travel I don’t want fast food of any kind. I want local fare. Mom and pop joints. Only other place we went to that was a chain was Bubba Gump Shrimp – and that was only because we heard a rumor that Tommy Chong was there.
“Strongest economy in. the. world”
Wood is the theme.
I’m really surprised that one of the perverts on here have not made a comment about that.
Give it time VP…. It’s early.
I purposely avoided it because he was speaking of his wife. If a GF I would have pounced.
lol….
You’ll only pounce on a guys GF? I guess it’s at least some boundary.
LOL
Awesome man! Have a good one. What’s the soul food place called?
Lila Mae’s… 31st & South streets.
Congrats!
Darnold is a heaping pile of goat fucking incompetence wrapped in whoreshit as a QB, hopefully that fact doesn’t cause KOC to rush JJ onto the field
what do you wrap whoreshit in?
asking for a friend
Bacon. The answer to what to wrap something in is always bacon.
I would hope one of those Red Biohazard Bags.
Had to learn about such stuff working in prison.
Same. Gross.
You wrap things with it, like if you wanted you could wrap Christmas gifts with it
I’ll have to remember that at Christmas time. Just need a bucket and a quick stroll down the red light district….
Trade Darnold and start the season with Mullens?
Yeah, might get a conditional 7th if you eat like 7 mil in cap space
Why so vague? tell us how you think of Darnold.
If Darnold was coming out of College this year with the same college career he actually had… He would have been top 3 guy taken. Who knows how he’ll be with some actual weapons… (probably like shit but I’m hoping damnit!)
C’mon, tell us how you really feel.
Harrison Phillips says Kirks departure a big void. Replacing him not probable.
Odd a player would say something like that.
He will be hard to replace.
Don’t disagree, but usually the players rally around whoever the team brings in, and presents a positive front.
Hopeful for JJ but doesn’t even turn 22 till next year. Kirk left. turn the page i guess.
Kirk was not really asked to return… he wanted to stay, but KAM had to balance the books.
I guess i get both sides. These option years. JJ, Darrisaw. Money seems to be ruining sports in general.
The cap is supposed to create parity, but there are so many ways to manipulate the cap, and the cap keeps climbing, so players are expecting record breaking deals every year.
Simply talking about his leadership and positive attitude. He also said they’ll be just fine because they have a good leadership team.
Yeah… nothing to see here folks… move along. Just talking about his leadership that folks here claimed he never had. That’s all.
And Phillips really said it would take a team of new leaders to replace him. Think about that statement. A “team of leaders” will be needed to replace Cousins.
QotD I say first game 2025
I didn’t know the question today was when JJ started his run to the Vikings first SB
Good morning Nordic Nutbags!
QotD: IN KOC I TRUST
McCarthy will see a ton of preseason reps – guessing Darnold gets the start with McCarthy after and Hall/Mullens in mop up duty – one of those 2 is out of a job regardless.
I think it’s Darnold starting the season.
Buuuuuuuut…..
Russell Wilson started as a rookie. Ben Roethlisberger was 13-0 as a rookie starter.
Countless examples of rookie QB’s who were ruined by starting sooner than necessary.
If McCarthy proves competent in OTA’s and training camp, it would not surprise me to see a bonafide QB competition played out in preseason reps.
McCarthy starts by week 6.
That’s what I think, he starts by mid October
Wilson threw the ball the fewest times of any QB in the league in his rookie season. The SeaHawks were built around Beastmode and one of the greatest defenses ever (Legion of Boom). Wilson himself accentuated the running attack more than anything, with his scrambling ability. It’s far easier to be a running QB than a passing QB in the NFL. If JJ is going to be successful as a rookie, then our defense needs to play historically well, and our running game must also be historically strong.
Big Ben was also last in attempts his rookie year – also behind a great defense and a solid running game.
My point was they both started and won as rookies.
Not ruling out McCarthy doing the same thing.
Well, the Vikings would need to take a quantum leap in defense and the running game to make that happen IMO.
Well…that sucked. Being up 4-2 going into the third period is the worst score in hockey.
Being up 4-2 is worse than being down 4-2??
Canadian logic I guess.
It’s not like I have kept track but it is a lot of times I have watched the Oilers in the playoffs and they have lost a game in that exact scenario. I watched the game to the end of the second period and went to bed thinking they were going to piss the game away…I was right. Something about that score, it is not the same as 3-1 or 2-0. They sat back in a defensive shell, Skinner let in soft goal #1…then bang bang two goals in less than a minute and game over.
Ahhh The Prevent Defense Strikes again.
Watched part of the Oilers game, I thought they looked like the better team. Was surprised they managed to lose the game in the end. Let’s not talk about the Bruins, please…
They managed 4 (FOUR!) shots in the second half of the game. 30 minutes of skating and you get 4 shots. 0 by McDavid. Skinner was awful, he has a tendency to lose a game all by himself every series, hope he bounces back hard.
OK, 4 shots is really kinda pathetic. Skinner has his moments from what I saw, but he seems to be a liability at times. Swayman looked unbeatable until last night… goalies can indeed make or break a team.
Anyone see Cooper DeJean former hawkeye drafted by iggles say he could beat Clark 1:1 in bball? I guess he had D1 offers for bball as well as football. Clark said she’d beat him. I say he would destroy her, but I get sick of the comparisons. Boys and girl are different and that’s ok. Also, after the bye for JJ.
Obviously Cooper is the more explosive athlete but I think Clark would obviously have the better shot and defensive skills… It might be close either way.
She might have the better long range shot but she can’t get above the rim to stop him either.
He is the #2 Scorer in Iowa HS Basketball History. He can play BB.
It came up because teams kept asking him the question in interviews.
Big nothing burger unless they play for charity or some such, both U of I grads.
he’d school her…
Shift a hosers (only old DN people know what that means) just landed in mpls, man, say what you want about this city, but this airport is >>>>Orlando’s
orlando sucks, period.
glad you are home.
you missed a ton here….someone got decapitated, we had a funeral for a bird
So just another episode of the office
pretty muchhhhhh
I actually watched the bird funeral episode yesterday
I like Florida, but yeah, Orlando does suck
Amen brother. I’ve been flying into Orlando for over 30 years and it has become a shitshow. I swear every time I get in one of those Disney style lines for TSA (we have precheck – stand in a line called precheck – ask the TSA agent if we’re in the right line he looks at us like we are cattle “can you read the sign” get to the front and they say “your precheck, if you want to keep your shoes on go over there (gesturing to a line on the other side of a massive pillar), else you gotta go gen pop bitch”.
MSP is sweet. Almost as sweet as SLC or SeaTac.
I got there at 4:30 for my 7am flight, I like to schedule flights for meal time and site down at a restaurant and eat a meal, Orlando airport is such goat fucking incompetence of a shitshow that arriving 2.5 hours early for the first flight out gets you all of 10 minutes ahead of boarding. It is ass, wish they’d have had the conference in Tampa.
How did our constitution get so twisted. Congress just passed like 15 bil funding for Israel. Now President says he will belay sending arms (from the funding) unless they agree to only use the arms in a way he decrees. Don’t believe Congress had strings on the funding. Not suppose to be this way.
Could have swore one of the last presidents was impeached for supposedly withholding funds….
Quid Pro Quo.
@Not like Sniffer ever did that.@
Sniffer admitting it previously on camera is one thing, but isn’t this also a quid pro quo? I will not give you the money that congress has approved unless you do what we want?
Too complicated for me.
He is playing to the radical base to try to get them back on board.
Does it rise to the level of misconduct? Up to the courts or voters to decide.
Woodrow Wilson?
He was a bitch
I just wanted to throw out a random president lol
I would like to throw out a random president also.
can’t they just find an accounting error in the pentagon and send some money over like they have been doing for like 2 years for Ukraine?
Presidents can do whatever they can get away with.
That has always been the case.
Heck A. Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus during the Civil War.
Congress and SC were designed to limit his actions, up to them to do their job.
If a bill has 100% or 0% support of the people (only slight hyperbole, nothing is ever 100 or 0 but you get the point) that bill still has roughly a 30% chance of being passed no matter what. We the people do not matter, have no say. It’s gotten so twisted because at the root of the matter is we the people don’t care enough to do anything about the fact our say literally means nothing to them. We the people refuse to hold any politician accountable for not caring about we the people by pretending to care and saying all the right things every 4 or 2 years. We are the politicians perpetual prom date who never learn that they will tell us anything so they can fuck us. And then it’s supported by voting for them.
In antiquity it was bread and circuses, now a 6 pack and a good game. Also keep faux divisive issues prominent so the populous is distracted. agree with above.
The voting base is dumb and falls for stupid political ads. Take Jon Tester for example. One of the most corrupt Dems in congress and has taken more money from lobbyists than anybody, but he will win this fall. They have already started non-stop ads and have painted Tim Sheehy as nothing but a rich out of stater and the Republicans have not countered at all. This is the same playbook they use with this guy every time and it works. People are not informed and just fall for a 30 second ad that says Sheehy is the reason their property taxes have went up because he bought a ranch and a house in Big Sky. This is all not to mention the fact that the only time they have acknowledged his Special Forces background was a lie about him shooting himself. People will fall for it. Every 6 years Tester hops in an old pickup and pretends to be a farmer and “real” Montanan and people go with it because they are dumb.
Tester votes a straight D ticket except on 2A which he knows would be political suicide. Largest out of state donor recipient in congress both houses.
Yeah, but the narrative is already set that Sheehy is the bad guy and not one of us. The Republicans should have been taking out ads saying exactly what you are months ago.
Ad after ad showing Tester’s voting record and him rolling in out of state cash.
It’s too late. They’ve successfully painted Sheehy as a rich out of stater. It is easier to set the narrative than to counter it. It will take 10 times the ads to change the narrative and convince people that ole Teste is as corrupt as he is and that he doesn’t have Montana’s best interest at heart because he threw a hay bale on a commercial and the commercials say that he is against the open border and is working with Republicans to protect Montana. He’s a slime ball and should have been easy to beat, but the Democrat machine is better than the Republican one. All the Republicans need to do to win that seat is put up a decent Republican from Montana but every time it is somebody who is too easy to paint as a rich out of stater that doesn’t know anything about Montana. Oh and Rehberg was a great choice 12 (?) years ago. Let’s put up somebody for election that is suing the fire department because a wildfire burnt up brush on the property that he wants to develop. The Republicans are idiots.
Agreed, other than Missoula and east LA, Montana SHOULD be one of the easiest states for an R to win.
Yep and even there, there is enough sane people that if you put up a halfway decent candidate, Tester would get smoked, but if I had to bet I would say he gets re-elected and then we’ll see him back in a pickup in 2030.
I feel the same way about Noem in SD… There’s no one who can really oppose her though with the fact most old farts want to bang her that’s pretty much half your voting populace in SD. Plus she has the correct letter behind her name lol.
The Republicans are so dumb in Montana that they keep getting a Democrat elected and one of the most, if not the most corrupt one in congress.
I mean, fuckin wow. I am actually kind of impressed haha. Was Montana a red state before this guy?
Purple but moved red. Missoula is totally whacked as is Bozeman. Missoula had a tranny in one of their state congress seats.
Yeah, Missoula and BozAngeles are bad but there is enough sanity mixed in there and the rest of the state that Tester should not be within 20 points but he will win again.
I could give two shits less if the person was a tranny or not. Do they legislate well. That’s all I care about.
He did not.
It’s a red state other than this dummy. We’ve elected other dems as governor too but not that radical. It’s not that Tester is popular, but in the 20 years I’ve lived here, they Republicans have never put up a decent candidate. They give him easy ones to go against and the playbook is the same every time. Make sure everybody know that the Republican is rich and from out of state, put ole flat top in an old pickup and remind them that he comes from a farming family.
Incredible haha, they do similar with Krusty but she’s at least dooping her own side is that better or worse? lol.
When is she up for re-election? I can’t see the last couple of weeks ending well for her long term political career.
When he was in the state senate he had a pony tail. The guy is a phony.
Serious question, don’t know much of Noem. Why don’t you like her?
He asked her to prom and got shot down.
Figures
She’s dumb
Sounds like because she refused to give him a BJ in a cornfield.
Lots of reasons. Let’s talk about one reason that is near and dear to Mjolnir. SD passed Medical and Recreational weed… but of course she found a way to nix the recreational part while at the same time her reasoning for saying SD isn’t going to do a blanket shut down during covid and mandate vaccinations was because we as South Dakotan’s are adults who can choose what we do and don’t want in our bodies, that is of course except for the devil’s lettuce. The real issue for her in those whole ordeal is what really gets to me. Her husband sells federally backed crop insurance and if SD farmers started switching to weed which isn’t federally legal they’d lose money on that. So she was very much against hemp saying cops won’t know the difference between hemp and weed… really?
She’s politically savvy while being a policy weakling. Her biggest strength is the realization that most voters aren’t paying attention and that South Dakota lacks an adversarial media environment. The few policy areas where she does care are the worst ones–moralizing cultural issues like abortion and weed. Her ambition for higher office exceeds her reasons FOR higher office. She uses her office to enrich her family personally. 4.5 million in tax payer direct cash payments to her family business She spends VERY little time actually legislating for SD. She was known as No-Show Noem when she was in the US House
Behind closed doors struck some kind of deal with a bunch of key decision makers to get her daughter 3 opportunities to get her real-estate license and Kristi was found guilty of wrong doing there. Also known as Nepotism Noem as governor.
Lying about being behind the law suit by the Pennington co Sheriffs, and then coming out “oh yeah that, that was me”.
That’s enough for now
Also no BJs in corn fields at prom, that’s the real reason!
Sounds corrupt
Sounds like a politician.
Sounds like anyone who sounds like what I described should be voted the fuck out of office no matter if they are Pub or Dem… but nope… people would rather be complicit in the corruption.
The problem is you’re just voting out corrupt to replace it with a new corrupt no matter if you’re going D>R, R>D, R>R, D>D, D>I, etc, etc, etc so people lose hope and stop giving a damn.
We don’t know that. We’ve never done it. Just like Pelosi should have been voted out LOOOOOONG ago and same for Mitch the Bitch. but party loyalty is a real thing.
We can hope that is not going to be the case, but when that is what happens to people over and over, then they lose interest. There are not enough good people getting into politics because it is too cut throat. Why would a decent person want to get involved knowing that every tiny detail of their life is going to be aired out?
I knew it!!!
She learned how to do all that from Pete Ricketts.
Medicinal Marijuana was on the ballot here after reaching the required 100,000 signatures (we hit almost 130,000) At the time my wife worked for the non-profit run by state senator Adam Morfeld – who was co-sponsor of the petition along with another state senator, Anna Wishart. I helped canvass this city and a bunch of counties in western Nebraska. We hit our goal. Getting it on the ballot was the easy part. This thing would’ve passed on Election Day with no problem.
Enter Pistol Pete Ricketts – he gets the Lancaster County Sheriff to protest saying the petition broke the state constitution – it did, the ballot initiative allowing medicinal marijuana broke the states ‘single subject’ rule for ballot initiatives. Many other previous bills have violated this rule and were overlooked. Not this time. NE Supreme Court tossed it off the ballot. Which means we had to start over and collect the 100,000 signatures again. We were willing to do so, but one of our major donors to the issue died. Despite a valiant effort, we came up short on signatures.
We’re regrouping and have gotten commitments from several high-end donors. We will make this happen, the right way – it’s just taking longer than we would’ve liked.
It’s worth pointing out that while Pete Ricketts vehemently opposes marijuana legalization his dad Joe, founder and onetime CEO of TD Ameritrade – sent an email out to TD clients boasting about the investment opportunities of medicinal and recreational cannabis farms in Canada.
Well, that seems a no brainer email to send given the parent company (TD – Toronto Dominion).
Have no problem with that at all – but Ricketts damn sure stands to make money off of those investments while telling his constituents ‘marijuana will kill your kids’
It’s just Canucks, though.
Lol
So John tester also fellates guys in corn fields… big news
HA!
It wouldn’t surprise me. There’s not much to do in Big Sandy.
I’m going on record saying that Sheehy takes the senate seat.
I hope you’re right, but I’ve seen this story too many times.
On a serious matter, Bow draw any tags? I got 0 and max preference points. Well, I don’t have max on goat, drew in 2015.
Nope, I didn’t draw a thing. I’m only at 8 points on everything though. Not sure where the other points went. I must have missed a year that I don’t remember.
Was thinkng more short term – and BOTH parties as members of Congress should be concerned here. Reasert their power of the purse.
They should immediately pass a resolution for the arms to be released – NO Conditions. Then the President is in clear violation of the law and can be impeached
Both parties in Congress should be concerned about any President taking powers away from the legislature.
Is power of the purse anything like power of the pu$#y?
Not possible when the Senate is in Brandons pocket and even if they did pass it he would just veto it so it would never become ‘A Law’.
But that’s the BIG PICTURE problem for both parties. The Executive branch has taken (some given) power from the legislative branch. If hurts Dems just as much if there is a Repub President.
Those things are easy to overlook when you are in power and are only looking at the short term. That seems to be an issue lately with politicians and big business.
QOTD.
JJ starts Week 1, unless he doesn’t.
Rinse and repeat every week after that.
This way I can claim I was right no matter what happens.
Gump you’re a GD genius…
A snarky one, it really is a gift.
I think JJ starts when circumstances require it.
Team is doing very poorly due to QB play, Darnold is injured, we are eliminated, 2025 and Darnold didn’t get an extension.
To be a great NFL QB, you need four things. First exceptional arm talent. Second exceptional processing ability. Third, a really good scheme and receivers. Fourth, a really good O-line.
Note, two of the four things are out of the QB’s hands.
um you forgot the 5th and most important…
a hot wife
A HOF agent helps I hear.
*ducks and covers*
Well since it is already a SHIT day…..
*Sure Happy It’s Thursday*
Great Gif by the way.
Ponders only one of the 5
Hawt!
Too fat – Five
She looks like she had a stroke in that gif.
She does.
she’s just holding her dip in funny
QOTD… last preseason game? And after that whenever he has reached “milestones” which means whenever KOC feels loike it.
QOTD, as soon as Darnold gets hurt.
Good point, with our weak IOL, he may go down early in the season.
Then we must hope that JJ isn’t the next to go down behind that weak IOL.
I’m hoping that after two seasons of designing and running this offense, KOC has enough experience to scheme around individual weaknesses. If we run a little different scheme, we can nullify some of that IOL weakness.
Yes GF, SpongeBob was always on the tube when my boys were growing up. They loved it and I liked it also.
QOTD: Unless injuries force his hand only put JJ in if you are 100% he’s ready. Not 98 or 99% but 100%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
QOTD and in regards to comments below.
If Darnold is plating well – and we could still lose games for other reasons – you’d bench him to play a rookie ?
I think this is a salient point. Fans will certainly call for the rookie, in this case. It’s nonsensical, but that’s what many fans are.
I’m a fan. I want to see the best ‘product’ as possible on the field. And all about merit.
You’re also a former competitive athlete. You know one guy doesn’t win a team game all by himself, and no one has ever carried a bad team on their shoulders to success. Ever.
You earn your right to be on the field, and you earn the right by your play to stay out there.
Yep
What do Darnold’s dinner making skills have to do with who plays QB this year?
Wise a****. Just seeing if you are awake. Wait till you get my age – I’ll going to come back nd get you.
Better a wise ass than a dumb ass.
That has always been my excuse.
You sure about that. Walk into the right bar and be a dumb ass – probably get by. Walk in same bar and be a wise ass and things may well go very differently.
Good thing I don’t go to bars.
as well as most endeavors of life – the wise ass stick just never plays well.
I often enjoy it.
The Teacher seems to as well as she is determined to stick around.
QOTD: if we are out of it by our Bye week, i think he starts after our bye.
also, i may or may not have watched the video up top, yesterday when i was bored at work
Hahaha!
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRwqqG9w/
Can’t hear it – what does it mean?
Someone asks her, “Governor, is Kim Jung Un in the room with us right now?” HA! She’s been a snake in the grass and it’s finally catching up to her. I still pose the question, does she have body dysmorphia? She clearly keeps going under the knife to change her body to be something she isn’t naturally.
I didn’t click on the link, so don’t know what this is about. Tik Tok is a problem to me. Don’t want to open that link up.
I prefer the term “seasoned adult”… thank you very much.
Are those your preferred adjectives? I’m not playing your game, you were scientifically born in the Boomer era, so you are a BOOMER! lol
BOOMER. – Children of the Greatest Generation!
Grandchild. Tail end of the boomer generation.
My Grandparents grew up during The Great Depression, fought in WW II and then helped raise us brats.
I remember my great uncle having to give up his Class A license when he became 80, Tough old guy, miss them all.
I identify as a millennial, why can’t I sleep until noon and get everything handed to me like big Stuflake?
HAHAHA!
Did you not see Krusty Gnomes newest issue with her book?
i’m glad we are in the same boat, haven’t opened a “tiktok” ever…
what a waste of time MUCH DIFFERENT THAN SPENDING TIME ON HERE
HA! Just like the generation before you felt the same way about Facebook and such.
Were they wrong about Facebook though? It has been a key cog in the destruction of society.
all of social media has been a key cog in the destruction of society…
Amen!
Is this Blog considered to be “Social Media”?
Of course not. This may be one of the few things left that give hope to the continuation of society.
no no no, of course nottttttttttt
Very true.
Much like a gun, the issue isn’t the tool it’s the user. So yes. They are wrong. There is inherently nothing wrong with Facebook.
The problem is that there is a commie in control of that gun, not to mention the personality and personal social issues it (and other social media) cause on people, especially kids.
i disagree, i’m unsure how to word my disagreement, but i don’t think this is as similar as saying it’s like a gun.
perhaps if you handed a child a loaded gun….because social media is like a child with a loaded gun
facebook was great for what it was actually made for, college students only. i crushed facebook then, looking up the local college girls and getting dates etc…
when it became open for anyone, i dropped it.
Seems millions of women have thst problem. Should hsve been s plsstic surgeon.
Q ot D: Week 7.
Merry Thorsday
Skol FTP
Happy Thorsday!
GM
FTP!
SKOL!
QotD – I think JJ is starting by Thanksgiving, unless coach thinks he is ready sooner or the team is undefeated with Sam at QB.
I agree Surly, He will be starting by Thanksgiving….
But he’ll have to outplay Darnold
Teddy couldn’t… twice.
The difference between Teddy vs Darnold and JJ vs Darnold is there is a considerable difference in arm strength with JJ. Love Teddy, but he didn’t have an above average NFL arm, quite the opposite. Darnold doesn’t have a particularly strong arm either.
I say JJ is starting by November.
While “arm strength” is certainly important, I’d just say Jeff George had the biggest arm I ever saw, and he was a nothing burger as an NFL QB. On the other hand, Joe Montana didn’t have a cannon.
Agree on the Jeff George arm strength thing – he had a cannon and was a master of the off-the-back-foot throw.
Unfortunately he was also a master at pissing off teammates and coaches and whipping the ball into triple coverage out of pure petulance.
Crazy arm strength though. Probably the strongest I’ve ever seen
‘million dollar arm and a 10 cent head’
That sounds like a weird San Fransisco street corner problem.
I am sure you can find whatever kink you are looking for there.
Have not been to S.F. in 15 years and have no plan to even go back.
I thought Kirk went to Atlanta, not SF
I liked Ponder better than Teddy.
That is my spicy take for the day.
Teddy is quite possibly the most boring QB I have ever seen. He hydrated with Valium.
this is not a big issue to me and I agree teddy didn’t have strong arm. Our offense is our offense – lot of shots downfield – then why you bring in a guy, pay him 10 mil, if he doesn’t have the arm to throw it down the field, Just seems strange to me.
I agree with this take. The Vikings invested in Darnold, so naturally one would think he has the physical traits necessary to run KOC’s scheme.
I don’t expect to see JJ start until week one of the 2025 season.
I’m the same. Next year, he starts.
I’d say JJ starts after the Vikings are eliminated from the playoffs, or if the team completely sucks with Darnold at QB.
so week 1 then, darnold is complete ass
If they are .500 with Darnold, he will keep playing.
True
Where all you losers at?
On my way to Jamestown right now
J-I-M-M-I-E-S! Yes Jimmies here’s to you!!!
IDK Pizza!
Or the Depot for breakfast food.
Jamestown. Doesn’t that have something to do with Pilgrims or poisoned Kool-Aid?
yes, jerry jones told everyone to meet at the big bison and drink some kool-aid
QOTD has already been asked, but my guess is October 6
A repeated QotD? Fire that Admin guy!
Remember GF has been “busy” “working”. He didn’t get to see the QotD when you posted it.
First.
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
First auto rec