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The “experts” were finally notified of something we all knew long ago. The Vikings aren’t pursuing Aaron Rodgers. Now all the big outlets are plastering it all over the headlines like it’s an earth-shattering revelation. Dummies, they’re so gullible. I’ve heard other rumors that the Vikings are going to trade McCarthy to the Chargers for Herbert. I’ll go ahead and make an announcement: that isn’t happening, either. These folks just REALLY need something to write about.
Vikings News
MSN talks about what the insiders are saying about the Vikings plans for QB2. Pure guesses pulled straight from a rectal cavity.
At Vikings.com, Javon Hargrave and Jonathan Allen are ready to help Bryan Flores wreak havoc. I can’t wait to see this team hit the field.
Also at Vikings.com, Isaiah Rodgers talks about his favorite Super Bowl memory and his early Vikings connections.
We have all known this from the beginning, but the sports media just learned that the Vikings will not be pursuing Aaron Rodgers, from CBS Sports.
NFL News
CBS Sports looks at the top 5 remaining free agents in the NFL. A-a-ron, Russ Wilson, and Diggs are all still available.
Joe Burrow, Jared Goff, and Kirk Cousins are going to be featured on the next installment of Netflix’s “Quarterback” docu-series, per NFL.com. Wow, I didn’t know they featured backups on that show.
Cam Robinson will be joining the Texans on a one-year deal, per ESPN. If that’s their master plan to replace Tunsil, I feel sorry for C.J. Stroud. From my recollection, Robinson did not perform overly well last year for the Vikings.
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I haven’t watched live tv since the end of the football season. I forgot how much I dislike commercials.
Commercials/advertizing only exists to sell you something, they try to convince you that you need that something.
I find them all insulting and so unauthentic that I make sure I remember not to buy anything from any of them.
Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, announced that Canadian furniture maker Prepac is closing down its manufacturing plant in Delta, British Columbia (B.C.), and moving all production to its other manufacturing plant in North Carolina — which first opened in 2021.
Trump continuing to bring more manufacturing and jobs to the U.S. by imposing tariffs. Love it!
Don’t need no stinking jobs coming to America and improving life style. Teslas too. The left, cheerleaders for EV’s, now ok with domestic terrorism against it. Has any “notable” dim come out and condemn this? Guess i missed it.
This is just one of many examples the Dem’s have provided us showing how ridiculously unhinged, hypocritical, and unworthy of trust, they are.
The party of caring is a lie these days, and it’s sad. They once really had a decent platform. Today, they stand for nothing, as evidenced by all their violence against Musk and others.
Ha! I see Trump trying to eliminate the Department of Education…..there is no bigger or well armored Swamp Monster than the Department of Education…..
Good Luck President Trump!
Oh I’m sure someone is filing suit with a liberal judge as we speak.
Trump vs Swinegarden, I would pay to see that grudge match.
So, are we really sure that the whole department needs to be terminated? I think a lot of this is just agreeing with the orange man because he says so.
Seems a lot of people thought it was a good idea until the orange man decided to do something about it.
TDS is a hell of a drug.
The taxpayers have spent 3 Trillion dollars on this department since 1979. We have terrible education scores to show for it. Yeah, it has to go.
Whatever “good” functions there are within it, can be moved elsewhere.
One thing folks don’t understand when it comes to Congressional spending, is in recent history, they have either failed to pass a budget on time, or even pass one at all.
This changed in Trump’s first term somewhat, but after he left office, the Biden administration and Congress failed to pass a budget on time. Here is the last 30 years of budgets from Congress:
These eleven instances highlight the years when Congress managed to meet the budget deadline effectively. Three of them were under Trump.
Under Biden, the budgets have all run late.
Congress continues to fight over budgets, and use continuing resolutions to avoid government shutdowns during budget negotiations. Trump is the only President since 2005 to get a budget passed on time, and he did it three times.
All cuts/budgets are political.
Every Rep and Senator has ‘skin in the game’ for every item. That is why they cannot make cuts from inside Congress. No matter what is on the chopping block it will cost someone votes, money or support.
That is why it has to be done by an outsider ie Doge, Musk, Trump. That is why they are being fought every step of the way. Both sides say ‘cutting waste/fraud/abuse is a good thing but they can never agree what that is.
Once mans ‘waste/fraud/abuse’ is another mans valid entitlement.
Totally agree, but finally the right is fully backing the President and supporting real Government cuts. We didn’t need a new Congress… we needed a new President. I served a bunch of Presidents, but Trump is hands down, the greatest President I have ever worked with.
Was watching Purple Daily. Love Thorsday! Find Thor Nystrom interesting although a bit overly optimistic. Anyway, not sure if it has been mentioned here, but Joe Flacco is a free agent, not a cut so signing him now could impact comp pics. Did not realize that.
If they are indeed looking at him it would explain why they have not signed him yet.
The vikes should definitely be looking into flacco as our backup
PD are the truth! I try to watch them every day (minus their Reuso segment – or however you spell his name) Thors the man. They’ve been preaching the Vikings be making the moves that they have since 2020 so were on the same wave length.
A Georgia man that was held captive for over two years by the Taliban, the Islamic terrorist group based in Afghanistan, has been released following negotiations between the Trump administration and Qatari officials.
The Taliban abducted 65-year-old George Glezmann while he was visiting Afghanistan on December 5th, 2022.
He has now been released after negotiations involving Trump’s special hostage envoy, Adam Boehler, alongside Taliban and Qatari officials.
Trump – winning – MAGA.
It as to help him lose weight, it was for his health.
The Taliban helped him lose 60 lbs while he said with them.
That is better than Jenny Craig.
Wow… what a deal!
Ha, Taliban > than Jenny Craig 🤣
LOL Taliban diet.
Know Trump is a good negotiator but what did we give up?
Griner and Reese. How’s that for negotiating?
Trump wasn’t generous enough, should have thrown in Pelosi and AOC too.
You just say that because you know AOC is the future of the Democrat party and will usher in a new era in America and you’re scared.
You are correct. If AOC were to usher in a new American, or just the thought of it, scares me to death.
AOC is not the future of the democratic party. Enough with the progressive left. It’s time for some new leadership from that side.
Serious question. Leading us where? Their direction is towards destroying the country and taking away all our rights and freedoms. New leadership for that? No thank you. Trump has this all right. He will deliver the populace to a much better future.
Our biggest threat is the country’s out of control debt and spending. The left wants to tax us more (they say the rich, but their tax proposals don’t work out that way) as their solution. Trump has a better idea. Stop spending like drunken sailor, and bring tons (I mean Trillions of dollars) in new business into the country.
Spend less, bring in more external revenue. THAT is a salient plan. He has already brought in over two trillion dollars in new business in less than 50 days BTW.
Destroying the country? That’s their direction? I don’t think so. Taking away our rights and freedom? Where do you come up with this nonsense? C’mon, it’s not like that.
Destroying the country:
Allowing tens of millions of illegal aliens to transit into the country. Many of them murderers, rapists, human traffickers, and drug dealers for the Cartel. Then spending hundreds of Billions of taxpayer money to provide care and support to all these people.Spending Trillions of dollars we don’t have on stupid shit, or worse laundered through NGO’s into Dem political pots. Ultimately bankrupting the country, which of course is the end of the road.Supporting massive trade deficits with basically every country in the world, while also providing hundreds of billions of subsidies that prop them up.Destroying our young people by providing puberty blockers, and encouraging them to undergo gender transition surgery, which is permanent mutilation of their bodies and fucking them up forever.Teaching anti-semitism in our schools, and supporting terrorist organizations hell bent on destroying Israel and the Western world.Burning down businesses and destroying the property of anyone that opposes them. Also doxing anyone they deem an enemy.Jailing or even killing their political opponents.Race baiting every issue to the extreme, to convince the populace the country is fundamentally racist, and keeping people divided and hating each other.Mandating that men can compete against women in sports and beat them up in a ring legally.Etc, etc, etc. I could go on for days. Weeks maybe.
The Dem’s have been, and want to continue destroying the country, while professing they are the savior. It’s sick, twisted, and insidious.
Dems don’t want to destroy the country. And I don’t hear of any that proclaim they are the savior. But hey, you keep living in your bubble and only believe what musk and trump tell you.
Dem’s are already destroying the country as I have detailed. Everything they do takes us down the toilet, and increases hate. Everything. They proclaim only THEY can turn this ship around, but they have been steering the ship for decades. If you want to act like none of this is real, or accurate, then hey, keep pushing false narratives and lies. Up to you.
Don’t mean to gang up on you. Sure, they done’t claim to be ‘saviors’. but do believe they think they are saving America from the evil Trump. Save versus Savior? And we both know there was a recent campaign and that was the central theme.
The truth is both have pictures of the beautiful great America. Problem is the pictures are very different.
Hey, I agree that kamala and walz were not the answer. It pissed me off that the dems didn’t have an open primary on a new candidate. Biden fucked the party over by not stepping down after first term.
Since you are apparently leaning left, could you tell me what the Democratic Party platform is? I’m serious. To me it’s about hating Trump, and opposing him in every way, and absolutely nothing else. Oh yeah, woke ideology. Forgot that.
What do they want to do, that is better than what Trump is actually doing right now?
It’s a little late, you might be in bed. Just gotta say hating Trump is definitely something that the left is obsessed with. They need to get over it. Woke ideology? It’s gotta be the rights favorite word, WOKE, that’ll get em.
The don’t want to destroy the country, you can’t suck all the wealth and prosperity out of a corpse. They want it on life support so they can to rape it of anything they can get.
They want Socialism. They want the country to die, and then convince the public the Government has to come in and save everyone. All you have to do is forfeit all your rights and freedoms and we will take care of you.
A promise not to nuke Afghanistan.
I’m sure the deal was brokered by Biden before he left office and Trump is just stealing credit like usual.
But can’t be true. Because of time difference, it would be way past Biden’s bed time.
Who the hell thinks its a good idea to “visit” Afghanistan?
Yeah, I didn’t research “why” he was there. For the record, there are many historians and archeologists who visit Afghanistan from many countries. They go to ancient ruins and significant archaeological sites, such as Bamiyan Buddhas.
Well, people go to Philadelphia too although I have no idea why.
They go to see the Rocky statue, duh.
Safer to just watch the movie.
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Touche lol – good one
I can appreciate and understand the history of the middle east, especially from an ancient perspective. Its always been something iv had a curiosity for. But, considering the political (or lack thereof) climate and armed presence of its inhabitants, no amount of ruins or clay pots would convince me to go there.
Well, unfortunately I went there a few times for “work”.
That I will thank you for. I have a few Guard buddies who have also been deployed. Handful were in combat zones but nothing too wild. Most were in logistic units, doing repair on equipment, other was tasked to building bridges, etc. I forgot the exact term they use. But yeah, wont catch me “visiting” unless im armed.
I was hit by an IED and was “out of service” for 6 months. I lucked out, because we were doing a “tactical weave” where we went from one side of the road to the other side of the road periodically, to make us harder to hit. We were in the process of shifting from the left side of the road to the right when the IED detonated. It damaged the left side of the vehicle badly, and we flipped over, but we weren’t killed. Apparently that God guy that people don’t believe in wasn’t ready for me to depart the station yet.
Twas not your time. Glad thats how it went down.
@can people post more brony gifs?@
you have a thing for Brony James?
TMI, even if No Kink Shaming.
For the very first time this season, I have basketball on the tv. My brackets are going to be unbelievably fantastic.
I doubt it…..
Looks like we may have 3# 3’s next year from Sam and Cam, added with ours.
i think the guard we got, will fries, cancels Bynums comp pick
Cam Robinson.
ok yes, cam will net us a pick, not a 3rd round pick though
Didn’t read full article. I did see the word tentative.
Likely a low end 4th or high end 5th is what I read.
It’s too early to say really. We’ve signed a lot of free agents also. Kinda depends on how things go for all of them this season.
I read that the majority of FAs that we signed were cut by their prior teams for salary reasons.
Since their contracts did not expire they do not figure into the Comp Pick formula.
I did not do the research to verify this myself, just relaying what I read.
Oh, ok, I don’t really know enough about how it works. I hope we get a bunch of comp picks.
Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who purports to be transgender, said this week that he plans to compete in the Olympics in 2028.
Last year, this guy gained worldwide attention for beating up a female boxer, Angela Carini, from Italy. Carini quit after competing against Khelif in only 46 seconds.
This is despicable in the extreme. Female athletes train their entire lives to compete in the Olympics, in hopes of winning a medal. The Olympic Committee, by siding with transgender athletes, has wrecked Olympic competition for women. I suspect more transgender males will win more medals in women’s sporting events in 2028. Eventually, it may come about that all the medals in female competition will be won by men identifying as women.
If they’re not going to change it, then we should enter in a male pro boxer identifying as female to kick his backside.
I would fully support that.
Then once that guy is knocked out, we forfeit the next match so the women can compete without males taking away their medals.
What if they don’t meet until the finals… not the best solution.
Call up Tonya Harding before the matches start.
It’s A solution… there is no BEST solution if the Olympic Committee sticks to their insane position.
Wonder if DJT is going to try to strong arm the IOC to ban trans athletes from the Olympics on US soil.
Trans men beating women during the Olympics to world wide TV in LA would be highly insulting to Trump and his policies.
It would be tragically sad if it ends up a women gets severely injured by a man in the Olympics. Especially on U.S. soil. Obviously Trump signed an executive order banning such competition. That issue will definitely come to the fore.
I’d be all for that, this is the kind of shit that I hate about the left. I may lean that way, but it’s just beyond stupid to allow this crap. I’m not against transgenderism, (unless it’s children being involved), but it’s a common sense issue as far as I’m concerned.
I will probably be lectured about this statement, but there is plenty to hate on both sides.
Well both sides are full of Politics so of course that is true.
How dare you! Actually I agree fully with this statement.
Hey VP, not going to lecture at all. From your honest perspective though, which “side” do you feel is working towards making this country safer, more secure, more prosperous, and devoid of woke ideology demands?
One side may be “better” than the other, but there is plenty of “politics” on both sides.
Politicians as a rule are self serving liars. That’s why we elected a businessman (twice) to fix the country. Conservatives by nature are pragmatic, and prudent (that’s why they are called conservatives). Liberals are emotionally driven activists constantly seeking something to rebel against and wreck. They are not builders, they are destroyers. That said, there are many reasons why the country is $36T in debt, all associated with the politicians that spent it. One side is aligning behind a President working to make the country safer, more secure, more prosperous and “unwoke”. The other side is trying to destroy all that.
Americans want their country back. We don’t want liberals ruling us.
Definitely, I hate it that you’re either maga, or the looney left. There is way more to it. I wish the common sense people on both sides would make their presence be known much more than they do.
It seems most common sense people are quiet and just want to get on with life, but the loud agenda driven people scream until they get their way.
At least the quiet common sense people still decide elections.
It really confuses me. I mentioned this before, an old classmate of mine who is an ER doc in Minnesota was virtue signaling support for transgender athletes. My wife (who has the FB account) said that trans women should have their own league, egregious for women who have fought for equality in sports at all levels get beaten by men at their own game. Another poster started sparring with my wife, I told her to say Lebronna Jane is thinking of joining the WNBA now that he turned 40, bet she will put a real whipping on the record books. The reply was that Lebron is not transgender, but if he was he would have to go through rigorous medical exams and blood testing. Oh really? Good comeback. I’m not aware of any rigorous medical exams or blood testing that trans women undergo to compete as women in sports. Certainly blood tests for performance enhancing drugs but AFAIK there is not requirement for their testosterone to fall below a certain level. I could certainly be misinformed. Boy I’d love to do that physical exam…can you lift your penis to the side so I can check for lesions – AAUGH misgendered you’re FIRED!
I thought they did have to have their Testosterone below a certain level to be able to compete. I just remember this being the argument. Like testosterone is the only difference between men and women.
Gender is not simply a biological construct.
Pot stirring mode huh.
I have seen the error in my ways. There is none so blind as he who refuses to see.
ok 5.
I can only hope to become so enlightened.
Now that made me chuckle. Kudos.
This is true, it goes beyond science.
Question for the doctor types or those with Arthritis.
Does living in a dry, warmer climate really help?
Every time the barometric pressure changes, it sucks for me. Cold makes it worse.
Not football related, but this is all about me, dammit.
Watching JJ McCarthy this year will heal what ails you.
Have several joints with arthritis. Heat helps quite a bit and cold is a real no no for me. And moist heat seems to be even better. Most folks just hate Florida in August, but I feel my best, joint wise, with the heat and humidity.
Thanks for the feedback.
I am thinking FL or AZ eventually. Probably still have to suffer through a few more winters here.
I will have to take vacations in both to see if dry heat vs humid heat is easier on me.
Not TX?
Have family in AZ and FL.
Those two options make the most sense for me.
For sure
Yeah, I have a number of broken bones from military service. I’ve suffered a dislocated shoulder, broke my collar bone, broken ribs, fractured vertebrae, shrapnel wounds, etc, etc, etc.
I am in pain pretty much all the time. Florida heat and humidity does seem to make it more tolerable though.
Shot 41 this morning on a quick 9 holes to start the day. Played in an hour and 20 minutes.
Arthritis is a terrible thing. Like you, broke collar bone, tore rotor cuff in the other, tore a meniscus, and numerous dislocated fingers. Went thru life just fine. Then as one ages, seems like every joint of my body that was. injured earlier, now has arthritis. And you cannot beat it.
Haven’t been in the coarse for a bit, but am practicing pretty hard. As I mentioned, got my goal to work on.
Very happy to hear you can practice, and work on your game. It’s just a social event for me really, and a time to relax and have fun. When I play, my only goal is to not lose any balls, and of course try to play sub bogey golf. That’s about it.
Unfortunately I’m far too competitive, sometimes this is good and sometimes not. I actually love to play golf all alone, just me against the golf course.
Now the practice thing, and in mind of the srthritis, I am learning (the hard headed way of course) to manage my practice time better.
I will say, I have had times where my natural competitive nature has come out on a golf course. I was playing a friendly round with my buddies in Maryland, and one of our guys invited his neighbor to play with us. We were laughing and joking as we usually do, enjoying our Saturday recreation. At the turn this neighbor guy announced he had me by 3 strokes on the front. I shot 46 and he shot 43. My friend looked at me and said “Can you believe this guy? I think you should kick his ass.”
I shot 39 on the back while he collapsed and shot 48.
I keep telling my wife that if she would realize it is all about me, her life would be much better.
I think it should work that way in all marriages, but I’m a male chauvinist pig.
Know it’s mainly a sports site, but since it deals with Minnesota figured I’d post this.
“As Gov. Walz gloats about Tesla stock dropping, records from the Minnesota State Board of Investment show that as of 6/30/24, the state of Minnesota had 1.6 million shares of Tesla in its retirement fund, and 211,000 shares of Tesla in its non-retirement fund.”
Apparently Waltz Chairs the Minnesota State Board which determines what to invest in.
Guy really is a BOZO
Woke Logic is not very smart.
Yep, force you to buy electric vehicles by changing emission standards to save the planet, then try to destroy electric vehicles and charging stations because they don’t agree with the man producing them…
Same thing as Republicans boycotting Bud Light, Target, etc. Why does the right get to boycott and not the left?
Not buying does not equal destruction of property.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/tesla-vehicles-destroyed-vandalized-musk-began-role-white/story?id=119677836
This is a boycott?
Mostly peaceful protest, protected by the First Amendment.
Ok, I’ll give you that …
Boycotting is not violent destruction, and domestic terrorism JR.
JR???
Oh sorry Bow. My bad. I thought that comment came from JR.
How many fire bombs did the right throw at Target or But Light again?
They can boycott all they want, no problem.
They can even firebomb cars that they own if they want, that equates with Kid Rock buying cans of Bud Light and shooting them.
You are obviously just a brainwashed MAGA cultist.
It beats the alternative.
Either you are being facetious, or Edge has taken over your account.
After some personal reflection I have come to see the error in my ways. A weight has been lifted from my shoulders and I am unburdened by what has been.
Watched clip of Walz yesterday and recall listening to him during the election, never had before. At least to me, this guy comes off as a complete buffoon. I really can’t believe he is a professional politician.
He wants people to vote for him, to govern them. I personally can’t understand who would do so, or why.
People have been conditioned to rely on the government to take care of them, and tell them what to think and do.
Independence is dying.
I agree with this. There is an old adage. Strong men make good times. Good times make weak men. Weak men make bad times, Bad times make strong men.
Amen Brother!!
Truer words are seldom spoken.
Hungry dogs run the fastest.
Lol
He is well loved by Minnesotans and is the longest serving public servant in the state. Such blasphemy shall not be tolerated on this site.
He’s done some good things, and definitely some idiotic things for the state. Breakfast and lunch for all K-12 students, state funded, I’m ok with. Tax money has gone to worse things. Multiple days off because of mental issues, don’t agree with. I know people have mental issues, but this gets taken advantage of imo.
“Sick time” has been taken advantage of by many for a long time. It amazes me how some people have 100s of hours of sick time but others always run out. I know everyone is different and have different situations, but it is obvious that some people take advantage. Mental health sucks, but it is something that will be taken advantage of by those that are just looking for an excuse. I have had issues with anxiety and have never taken a mental health day. Maybe I should. For me, it is even harder to use sick time now because I can work at home so if I have a respiratory issue, I can stay home, work a few hours and take a nap. So instead of using 8 hours of sick time, I may only use 3 or 4 hours.
My wife is an RN that works at a place in minny, a bigger town not far from us across the border. She tells me that the younger employees abuse this “law” all the time.
Minny has Tesla dealerships, people who own stock and he comes out with this crap. I live in Minny and i find him a utter embarrassment
Petty people lack something in their character.
Sad to see Bynum go.
Not sad that we didn’t pay him 4 year $60M.
Was just coming here to share this! Great insight from Cam. Gets me excited.
So he works on football things on Tuesdays?
24/7/365. He lives football. If his girlfriend wants to spend time together, he makes her read plays and formations to him.
FTFY
I thought he was smarter than to get married.
For people who may be concerned about the left’s opposition of Trump using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to remove criminal aliens, here is a quote from the Act that will dispel the commentary that this is only a “war time” Act, and Congress must declare war, for the President to take any actions under it. That is a total lie to the public (as usual).
“Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated… against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government…who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies.”
Trump has met every standard of the Act, and is within his legal powers as President to remove these people without due process.
Lefts favorite quote:
“The Facts, while admittedly interesting, are ultimately irrelevant to the situation.”
Or as FJB put it:
“You have the facts but we have the truth!”.
Indeed
It’s not a real invasion though and he’s only doing it because he hates brown people so it’s akin to rounding up all the Japanese in WWII.
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Happy ‘SHIT* Day’. What are we going to argue about today?
*Sure Happy Its Thursday
Clever boy…
Happy first day of spring to all of my fellow vikings fans. We got 3-5 inches of snow yesterday, so doesn’t look like spring. March madness starts this afternoon, get your brackets turned in.
i have JJMac’s alma mater going all the way this year…BOOK IT
Well, they did win the big ten championship but kinda got a bad draw on the seeding. I have auburn beating them in the sweet 16.
I rarely watch any college basketball during the season, except for the conference championship games. These next 4 days are going to be fun, it’s right up there with wildcard weekend imo.
something i appreciate about the Vikings approach this offseason, and the past couple offseason’s, is they are being very intentional about adding successful pieces to the team that will help us win games AND because of that, they can go sign guys like Rondale Moore or Jeff Okudah who allegedly have ALL THE INTANGIBLES but lack the health to use their skillsets. Perhaps they can stay healthy and become major pieces for us, perhaps not, but we aren’t RELYING on some of these smaller added low risk HIGH REWARD players and i’m really liking that about what the organization is doing
I have already forgotten last season. I am wracking my brain trying to think who the Vikings lost to in the playoffs.
I know it wasn’t the Eagles. I don’t think it was the Lions.
Rams! It was the Rams!
I don’t know if this is dementia or simply mental self-preservation.
Why not both?
My wife has started lifting again at the gym, after about three years of just doing yoga and cardio. She is complaining about soreness and stiffness this morning. I told her that’s why I don’t workout anymore. You can’t pull flab.
Well, I’ve been doing yoga three times a week for thirteen weeks now, and that is quite enough for me. It has helped with soreness a ton, shed 9 pounds. No way I want to try and fit weight training into my already busy schedule for the pleasure of being sore. Tell her to go back to yoga!
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I hate that GIF. It sickens me to my stomach. This is what liberals want men to be, apparently. Then we have Waltz telling everyone how masculine he is, and the left sits there and tells us how much they admire him, and his masculine presence. Looney tunes.
Agreed.
Not all liberals want this. It’s just that the one’s with the loudest voices are the ones that your side believes the most.
Your party has forced this shit down our throats for decades. Let’s keep the record straight here.
They voted for all that crap even if ‘Not all liberals want this’.
My party? I consider myself an independent that leans to left on SOME social issues, but lean to the right on MOST fiscal issues. There can be an in-between. You need to stop putting everyone in box A, or box B.
OK, apologies. You said “your side” so I took that to mean you were on a side… not in the middle. My bad. Don’t defend the “other” side though for their insanity. There is absolutely no defense of what these lunatics demand us to accept as “normal”.
No apologies needed. I know how you feel about the left. I’m just trying to say that not all people that lean left are radical lunatics and not all maga are bad people. It needs to stop. I really try to keep an open mind about all the stuff going on right now.
Why is making America great again, a bad thing?
Because it is DJTs motto.
So if that means opposing it makes American worse off then it is Trumps fault.
Because that really means getting rid of minorities, women’s rights and giving tax breaks to the rich while stomping on the poor.
I am so ashamed of myself now…
It’s not. But I’ve always believed that America has always been, and still is great. I don’t need a business man/politician telling me that. With that being said, America is a better place when we are united, not divided.
This country has gone to shit with woke agendas and insane spending and debt, as well as crazy border policies. The rest of the world disrespected us daily, and took advantage of us every day as well. Inflation destroyed our buying power. Our schools encouraged our children to question their gender, instead of learning to read, write, and do arithmetic. Our country fell into total disarray. So no, we were far from great. Very far.
The reason we are divided is because of the identity politics of left. That fracturing was necessary for the left to garner enough votes to maintain power. Trump started getting more support from hispanics, blacks, women, Asians, and Jews. He is indeed the one person uniting the country. The liberals are fighting him tooth and nail, because if he continues to bring us together, make us safer, make us more secure, and make us more prosperous, the left has absolutely nothing.
But if the pions would just do what the liberal elite tell them to do then ‘America (would be) a better place when we are united, not divided’.
You mean united as slaves to the liberal government rulers? Yeah, we would all be united in misery.
I hate the woke agendas, but when it comes to insane spending and debt, both sides do it. You do know that DT added 7.2 trillion to the debt during his first term, the most in a first term than any other president. The worst thing about it is that alot of it was because of tax cuts for the rich. It’s one thing if the money goes to things that help the majority, but it did not during his first term.
You do know the Dem’s forced Trillions of dollars in spending due to COVID right?
Also, the loss in revenue because the country was shut down by the Dem’s. Businesses went out of business forever by the thousands.
The commentary that Trump added over 7 Trillion dollars to the debt, because of tax cuts to the rich, is a lie. The debt grew because of the money spent on COVID, and loss of businesses due to COVID restrictions. You remember Trump being crucified for suggesting all the COVID restrictions needed to stop, so folks could get back to work, right?
Deficit spend has many variables form one president to another. You mentioned COVID. Yes Trump signed the bills but they were passed bipartisan so i guess Trump gets hung for it.
The political pressure from the left insisting we inject everyone with a COVID “vaccine” that didn’t even slow it down, was ridiculous. Trump really had no choice but to approve the Congressional spending bills. The country thought COVID was the plague.
Deficit spending is the norm, unless a President stops it like Bill Clinton did. Deficit spending in extreme circumstances occurs. Doing it as a way of life is insane. If a surplus of $500 billion per year were achieved today, it would take over 80 years to pay off the debt. That isn’t a balanced budget. That’s if we can achieve a surplus budget.
Well, alot of spending went towards covid because it was kind of a big deal. Yes, many people/businesses abused the funds that were given out for covid relief. There should be no tax cuts for the rich either way. He’s the president that gave the biggest tax cuts for the rich ever!
@ this obviously doesn’t affect him though @
No, COVID was an illness. There were countries that didn’t shut anything down, didn’t mandate their populace inject themselves with an unknown substance, didn’t wear masks or social distance. Their morbidity rates were no higher than the countries and governments that did all this. As a result, their economies were not impacted and their lives went on as usual.
COVID was not the plague. Most of the millions of COVID deaths reported weren’t even from COVID.
Yes, I realize it was an illness. I didn’t agree with the shutdowns. It affected both of my sons, being that my oldest graduated that year and my youngest was only 2 years behind him. I disagree with a lot that was done during that time, but it was an unknown at the time, and it’s easy to judge after the fact.
Not really. People knew that wearing masks, social distancing, washing your hands, and even taking the shot would have little effect on the spread of COVID.
Nobody knew this at the time. What we were told was mostly wrong, but it was unknown territory at the time.
……and washing your hands is always a good thing.
Everyone in the medical community and pretty much all of Government knew this. It’s just a fact that a cotton mask does nothing, social distancing does nothing, and washing your hands frequently does nothing to stop an aerosol virus.
People were heavily chastised for saying it though, and the politicians refused to reveal it to the populace. Trump got fed up, took his mask off, and got crucified for “spreading lies to the American public, and endangering them”.
It was proven afterwards that a lot of the things that were told to us wasn’t true. When things were going on, it was an unknown. It’s ok when to admit when you’re wrong, but now it’s all political and nobody wants to be wrong.
No it wasn’t an unknown. The whole medical community knew that what we were being told was a lie. Pretty much all of our elected Government representatives knew too, but “for the good of the country” (including what they invested their money into) they lied to us. Fauci lied, and eventually Trump caught on. Then in 2020 the Dem’s kept saying Trump completely mishandled COVID, which was completely baseless rhetoric, in the election campaign. Remember Biden telling everyone if they had just worn a mask, millions of lives would have been saved? He knew he was lying, but it discredited Trump. People believed the lies of the left, and not the honest truth of Donald Trump.
He had his video up of him claiming he could beat up almost any MAGA follower on facebook, I told him to come prove it. He never responded.
I’m 70 and I guarantee I could beat him to a pulp.
I thought toxic masculinity was a poison. He’s not being hypocritical is he?
No, on the left their ideology is fluid like their gender.
Fluid. That is truly a great post. Well said!
I rock that outfit at the My Little Pony reunions, broseph!
Rod Beck an MLB closer once was asked by a reporter at spring training about his increased weight. Beck’s response, “never heard of anyone going on the IR for a pulled fat.”
Laughing…. indeed. The wife wants me to start swimming, so that is probably a good compromise.
self-preservation for sure.
it’s easy to remember when we only lost to 2 teams last year….
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Looking forward to the Netflix show-
They like having a good QB, an ok QB and a failure.
Do they want an armchair qb? there are ALOT of them here
Gotta have more dorky dad moments so Kirko can trick and fleece his next team.
the next season of quarterbacks was filmed in 2024, so he wasn’t a backup YET
He is filling the spot that Mariotta did in the last one.
So, how did they know before the season, that the three QB’s they followed in QB1 that it would work out that one QB would end the season early and in misery, one would have a good season, and one would make the Super Bowl? They didn’t. It just worked out that way.
In QB2, none of them made the Super Bowl.
Because the NFL is rigged, duh.
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