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Burrow seems like he’s leveled up this year. I think Zac still holds back the offense, but Burrow playing at this level makes that matter less and less.
Joe Burrow is taking a sack once every 25 dropbacks. That's 30% better than the NFL average, on pace for his lowest (by a longshot) ever. It's also an excellent figure for the kind of offense they run, which is especially demanding of OL.
And yes @PaulHembo I know it’s “out of 100”—doesn’t mean it always “makes sense
Trump raised the floor of the GOP, but a better and more disciplined version of him would have also raised the ceiling.
Before Big Orange came on the scene:
1) John McCain - 176 electoral votes
2) Mitt Romney - 206 electoral votes
3) Ohio, Florida and Iowa were swing States
4) Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were safely considered “The Blue Wall”
Since Trump:
1) THREE consecutive election victories(one obviously stolen)
2) Ohio, Florida and Iowa have been taken off the board
3) Democrats now have to wage war to win Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania
4) Sent into Retirement:
a) Jeb Bush
b) John Kasich
c) Chris Christie
d) Jeff Flake
e) Bob Corker
f) Pat Toomey(voted to impeach)
g) Ben Sasse(voted to impeach)
h) Rob Portman
i) Lamar Alexander
j) Roy Blunt
k) Richard Burr(voted to impeach)
l) Paul Ryan
m) Brad Raffensperger
n) John Cornyn
o) Bill Cassidy(voted to impeach)
p) 9 of the 10 GOP representatives who voted to impeach Trump are gone
5)) 12 states(of 31 that register by party) had more Republicans registered than Democrats. Today that number is 15.
6) 2016 - Pennsylvania had 1 million more Democrat active voters. Today it is 25,811.
7) USAID stripped out and mass fraud uncovered in blue state. 2016 Democrats had a $40 million cash advantage. Today Republicans have a $165 million advantage.
8) SCOTUS: from Five conservatives to Six
Donald Trump didn't ruin the Republican Party…he saved it!
4-2 is a great place to be at this point - especially since the 6 teams the Bengals have played are collectively better than you think.
Fascinating and likely accurate with terrible implications.
打了4年，占据了乌克兰20%的土地，为什么俄罗斯还不收手？答案很简单，随着冲突的持续，俄罗斯的目标变了。最早，俄只是想通过军事行动来阻止乌克兰加入北约。后来俄罗斯发现欧美全部下场了，不打不行了。刚开打的时候，俄罗斯压根没打算打持久战，更没想过要占乌克兰这么多土地，它最初的想法特别简单。
俄乌冲突打了四年，俄罗斯攥着乌克兰大约五分之一的土地，却始终没有收手的迹象，很多人想不通：仗打到这个份上，该拿的也拿了，该谈也能谈了，为什么还不停？答案其实就一句话：俄罗斯最早想要的东西跟现在想要的东西已经完全是两码事了。
刚开打那会儿，俄罗斯的想法特别简单，它没打算打持久战，更没想过要占乌克兰那么多地，对外公布的诉求就三条：阻止乌克兰加入北约，去军事化去纳粹化，保护顿巴斯地区的平民。
那时候俄军的部署，压根没按长期作战来安排，多路出击，快速往基辅方向推，打算速战速决，拿到谈判条件就收兵，说白了就是想吓唬一下，逼乌克兰签个字然后回家。
可战局没按剧本走，乌克兰军队没有像很多人预想的那样快速溃败，欧美紧跟着下场，武器弹药一批一批往里送，情报共享开着，人员培训搞着，北约多国公开表态持续输血，战场从快速决战，硬生生拖成了拉锯战。
俄军多路推进的势头被挡住，基辅没拿下来，哈尔科夫反攻还丢了地盘，这时候俄罗斯才反应过来：对面站着的不只是乌克兰。
欧美全部下场，这五个字改变了整场冲突的性质，俄罗斯原本以为是在跟一个邻居较劲，打到最后发现，对手是整个西方，你退一步，对方就往前拱一步，你收手，对方就武装乌克兰到牙齿，这种情况下，俄罗斯不打也得打，不是想不想的问题，是退不退得起的问题。
于是目标开始变了，从阻止北约东扩变成了守住已经吃进去的地盘，从速战速决变成了长期消耗，俄军逐步稳住乌东方向战线，控制区域不断扩大，第三方机构统计，俄方实际控制乌克兰大约百分之二十的国土，包括克里米亚、顿涅茨克、卢甘斯克、扎波罗热和赫尔松的部分区域。
这些地方，俄罗斯已经通过法律程序吞进去了，写进了宪法，你说撤就撤？那国内怎么交代？普京怎么跟老百姓解释，打了几年，死了那么多人，最后啥也没落下？
更关键的是，这些地盘的战略价值摆在那，克里米亚是黑海舰队的基地，丢了克里米亚，俄罗斯的黑海出海口就没了，顿巴斯是工业区，煤矿、钢铁厂全在那，扎波罗热有欧洲最大的核电站，赫尔松是克里米亚的陆路通道，这些地方连在一起，就是一条从俄罗斯本土通往克里米亚的陆地走廊。
有了这条走廊，克里米亚的补给不用再单靠刻赤海峡大桥，安全系数完全不一样，这笔账，俄罗斯算得比谁都清楚。
还有一层是国内政治，战争打了四年，俄罗斯社会已经进入了战时状态，军工企业开足马力，地方财政靠军费撑着，老百姓习惯了特别军事行动这个词，这时候你说停就停，那些靠战争吃饭的人怎么办？那些死了亲人的家庭怎么安抚？那些被宣传动员起来的民族情绪怎么收场？
普京要是现在收手，国内强硬派第一个不答应，梅德韦杰夫天天喊核武器，那帮人巴不得打到基辅去，你退一步，他们就敢往前推两步。
所以俄罗斯现在停不下来，不是它不想停，是停的成本比继续打还高，继续打至少还能守住已经拿到的东西，还能跟西方耗着，还能等国际局势变化，停下来，制裁不会取消，北约不会解散，乌克兰会重新武装，国内强硬派会翻脸，两害相权取其轻，那就接着打。
说到底，俄罗斯的目标从“阻止北约”变成了“守住战果”，从“速战速决”变成了“长期消耗”，这个转变不是谁设计的，是战场逼出来的，是西方介入逼出来的，是国内政治逼出来的，开打的时候没想占那么多地，打着打着发现不占不行，占了之后发现不守不行，守了之后发现不收手不行，一环扣一环，越陷越深。
乌克兰那边也一样，泽连斯基要是敢承认领土现状，国内立刻把他撕了，欧美要是敢让乌克兰割地求和，面子上挂不住，双方都被架在那，谁也下不来，这就是消耗战的残酷之处：打着打着，双方都忘了当初为什么打，只剩下一个念头——不能输。
所以别问俄罗斯为什么还不收手，它收不了，收了，前面四年白打，后面局面更糟，不收，至少还能赌一把，赌西方先撑不住，赌美国换个总统，赌国际格局变天，这个赌注很大，可它已经没有退路了。#UkraineRussiaWar
Mike Wilson retweeted
It's all fun and games until they screw with the Second Amendment.
Here's an underappreciated fact about the philosophical and legal theory behind the Constitution: the 10 Articles of the Bill of Rights are special. They do not grant rights that can be revoked, even by later amendments. Rather, they are considered to describe "natural" rights which are prior to the Constitution itself, and which no government may revoke without forfeiting its legitimacy.
(Supporting rant about the Federalist papers, English classical liberalism, Blackstone, and the revolution of 1688 is here omitted.)
Why does this matter in 2026? Because there's a rumor abroad that a shadowy constellation of left-wing groups has a plan to engineer a color Revolution after the 2026 midterms.
I'm not going to comment on whether I think that rumor is true or not. Instead, I'm going to take it at face value and do some scenario analysis based on what their political objectives are supposed to be.
Abolish the Senate in favor of a a unicameral legislature? Pack the Supreme Court? Constitutionally mandate things like universal health care or a right to abortion? These would be very radical changes, but they are things which at least in theory you could do at an Article V convention convened by state governors. We'd still be inside the system of the Constitution.
What they couldn't do is mess with the Bill of Rights. Doing that wouldn't modify the Constitution within its own premises, it would legally and morally blow the entire constitutional charter to smithereens.
In practice, this is a problem because all of the factions rumored to be among the revolutionnaires have at least one thing in common: they hate that Americans are armed and have the capability to resist tyranny.
They'll come after the Second Amendment. If they delete it, or any other item in the Bill of Rights, more than half of the country will correctly evaluate that the foundations of our political system have been dynamited.
That's when shit gets real.
Mike Wilson retweeted
liz warren: we’re gonna stop the mayonnaise company from buying a hot sauce company
elon musk:
Mike Wilson retweeted
What happened with ABC and Don Jr. is media lawfare. Brian is either part of it or too dumb to understand what he is looking at, despite being paid huge amounts of money to understand it and expose it.
The sooner people understand that the media are not merely a partisan group that hates Trump or a collection of biased outlets that routinely get things wrong, the better. They are built into the lawfare machine. They help plan, coordinate, amplify, and legitimize its operations. Without them, the whole enterprise would fail.
Alfa Bank’s emails gave us a rare look under the hood during Russiagate. They showed the media communicating with the Clinton campaign as participants in the operation, not just cheering from the sidelines. The evidence is right there for all to see. The ABC stunt shows the same machinery at work. The millisecond the fake story came out, an army of Democrats, activists and other media lawfare operators, already primed to respond, rushed in to reinforce it.
This is a highly coordinated, vicious, and evil system. It has to be exposed and destroyed.
Mike Wilson retweeted
For anybody outside Ohio: Acton was the face of Ohio's COVID lockdown. March 12, 2020, she said "the math is over 100,000" Ohioans infected. Ohio had five confirmed cases. Next day: "I'm saying I'm guesstimating." Schools closed on that number, first in the country. Two Ohio judges ruled her orders unlawful or beyond her authority. The legislature stripped the health director's emergency powers over DeWine's veto. She quit in June 2020. Now she's running for governor and won't take questions about any of it.
Mike Wilson retweeted
Sorry Dr. Acton, you’re lying about this again. I’m the CEO and made the decision to move to TX. That was my decision, not Vivek’s. And if you ever come near leading Ohio, a lot of other companies will do the same.
Mike Wilson retweeted
Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos , I’m asking you to look at this once through the eyes of the people wearing the uniform since you own @washingtonpost.
We volunteered and accepted the bargain. Missed birthdays, broken bodies, years away from our families, hostile fire, and the possibility that if we die, our families get roughly $500,000 in life insurance. In much of America today, that barely buys a house.
We know our lot and we’re not complaining about it.
But the job is hard enough without having to wonder whether an American newspaper is going to publish classified wartime command deliberations because its newsroom despises the administration and wants another cheap political scalp.
Fight the President, the Secretary, the Pentagon. Whatever, that’s politics.
But when the ammunition for that fight is information tied to ongoing operations and the private judgments of senior commanders, you’re spending our risk to buy your headline.
That’s the part WE need you to understand.
Murphy already gets a vote. So does the enemy. Exhaustion, bad intelligence, mechanical failure and plain rotten luck all get votes. We volunteered to face those things.
We did NOT volunteer to become collateral damage in the Washington Post’s feud with an administration it hates.
Your reporters will publish the piece, watch the engagement numbers, and go home.
Some American kid will still be standing watch when they do.
Jeff, give us a fucking chance. Come on man. You’ve got to clean house at that paper. The journalists are too blackpilled to be of any use anymore. In fact, they’re literally harming us.
Our brothers and sisters are in a worse situation now due to this reporting. Don’t agree with the combat operations, fine. But come on. Leaking an SDOB? That’s objectively insane behavior.
***to my followers: share so we know he sees this.***
EXCLUSIVE: Military leaders warned Hegseth that keeping the force of more than 50,000 troops in the Middle East is unsustainable, drawing “non-concurs” from them in recent orders to extend troops. (gift link) w/ @AlexHortonTX wapo.st/4wT23bL
Mike Wilson retweeted
Dolly Parton was uniquely loved because she had a unique ability not to jump into any cultural divide, but to be equally decent, caring, and kind to everybody.
If you’re trying to use her as a weapon in the service of your own political point of view, you absolutely do not get what made her special.
This is one of the few times where I see people all across the political spectrum united about something. Maybe we can just enjoy that because we haven’t seen that for a long time.
Mike Wilson retweeted
Ordinary Abundance. This is the greatest thing I've read in weeks. No kidding. This should win a Pulitzer in a category not yet invented. ordinaryabundance.com/
The best thing that may have happened this summer for @fccincinnati was Pavel Bucha being left off the Czech World Cup team. He had been on a heater since then.
This and the burrito discourse are related. One thing I haven’t seen discussed is expectations. I’m gen-x and I grew up in a typical lower middle class household. I worked from when I turned 15 because otherwise I would have nothing. I got married and bought a house at 20 and had 2 additional roommates to split the cost. I ate more ramen than a human should.
Me starting out on my own didn’t involve a big step back in my standard of living. I had similar space and amenities, but dreams of better. Zoomers grew up fabulously wealthy In comparison. They didn’t share bedrooms and had allowances. Mom and dad paid their cell phone and car insurance. Starting out in life and getting back to the same level they had growing up is a slog comparatively!
More Americans are having to move back in with their parents because of the cost of living crisis
A record 25.2 million adults under 35 are now living with their parents. This is more than any point on record, including Covid
One 34 year old says she was forced to move back in with her parents after a breakup, saying even working it’s impossible to afford bills alone
Only about 30% of Americans under 40 years old report being able to cover everyday expenses comfortably
Only about 20%of Americans aged 30 report being able to afford a home
Mike Wilson retweeted
“One of the privileges of a rich man is that he can afford to be foolish much longer than a poor man.” And this is the situation of the United States. The financial policy of the United States is very bad and is getting worse. Perhaps the United States can afford to be foolish a bit longer than some other countries.
The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God; inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy — a deliberate policy of people who resort to inflation because they consider it to be a lesser evil than unemployment. But the fact is that, in the not very long run, inflation does not cure unemployment.
Inflation is a policy. And a policy can be changed. Therefore, there is no reason to give in to inflation. If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government. Of course, public opinion must support this; the intellectuals must help the people to understand. Given the support of public opinion, it is certainly possible for the people’s elected representatives to abandon the policy of inflation.
We must remember that, in the long run, we may all be dead and certainly will be dead. But we should arrange our earthly affairs, for the short run in which we have to live, in the best possible way. And one of the measures necessary for this purpose is to abandon inflationary policies.
- Ludwig von Mises
Not sure an article from 2016 really tells us anything about a grocery price surge that started in 2020. But regardless, “it’s worse in other countries” is a really bad answer and it certainly won’t be enough to persuade voters. We expect to be better than other countries. This is America. Better than other countries is bare minimum.
Mike Wilson retweeted
Revenue no longer constrains spending. Deficits, debt, and debasement... all the way to the crash site. Send reinforcements.
More freedom.
Less government.
Sound money.
Secure borders.
Strong families.
Mike Wilson retweeted
He is the final boss of the shitlibs. The king of the managerial class. Never has there been such a powerful, high paid, micromanaging, incompetent bureaucrat who is so immune to personal accountability.
They worship him with good reason, for he is their god.
Mike Wilson retweeted
Peter is not correct about me in this case.
I have always known that dangers from Earth will also pose dangers to Mars. Obviously so. However, the immense difficulty of traveling to Mars means that there is a much higher likelihood of mitigating risks originating from Earth.
A clear example of major risk reduction would be a deadly pandemic. Since it takes 6 months to reach Mars, there is an automatic 6 month quarantine!
Even traveling at the speed of light, a deadly computer virus or AI attack can potentially be stopped due to Mars being ~4 to ~20 light-minutes from Earth.
This doesn’t mean that a Mars civilization eliminates all risk, but it absolutely greatly reduces the risk of consciousness being extinguished.
Moreover, Mars is a stepping stone to extending consciousness broadly within our solar system and ultimately to millions of stars within our galaxy, which would extend the probable lifespan of consciousness as we know it by many orders of magnitude.
That said, what I personally find most motivating is not the risk reduction aspect of extending life beyond Earth, but rather the inspiring nature of exploration and being out there among the stars!
Perhaps we will meet aliens or find the remains of long-dead civilizations that lasted millions of years …