Dan T.

Bang Tweeted a comment that I thought was on-the-money. I'll paraphrase: The league is trying to reinvigorate what has become a boring play in the game, all while keeping player safety at the forefront. This is a change that does both. They are trying to incentivize runbacks under the new, presumably safer format.

The kick-off has become the second most boring play in the NFL next to the extra point. And so the league is trying to change that by adopting a new kickoff rule modeled after the XFL. NFL Kickoff Rule Proposal | NFL Football Operations Kickers will kick off from their own 35-yard line. The 10 other players from the kicking team will line up on the opposing team’s 40-yard line. The receiving team will have at least nine players line up in the "setup zone" between the 35- and 30-yard lines. Two returners will be stationed in a landing zone, from the 20-yard line to the goal line. No players (except the kicker and returners) can move until the ball is received by a returner. Returners can return the football wherever it lands. A touchback at the 20-yard line would occur if the ball touches the ground or player in the landing zone, rolls beyond the goal line and downed in the end zone. A touchback could occur at the 30-yard line if the ball goes out of bounds behind the receiving team’s goal line, if it strikes the goalpost, or lands at or beyond the goal line and downed in the end zone. For it? Against it? Will it kill the onsides kick?

BTW, **** Fox News.

Yeah, apparently the ship put out a Mayday signal, giving officials a bit of time to limit vehicular traffic on the bridge.

Now there are reports that Diddy’s private jet has left the U.S.

Nah, I hear lawyers are a little too chewy.

Did he replant the trees he illegally cut down before donating it?

This was good too from Moskowitz.

A telling quote from Jim Jordan above that gets to the heart of their motivation... "There's no time limit in the Constitution on how long you can do an investigation."

It's a joke. A good one. He was originally sitting in a parked car but someone 'shopped in the background and sound. Fact Check: Did Mike Lindell Film Himself Driving Recklessly Along Highway? (newsweek.com)

[Tweet from A Call to Activism, below] A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read: “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of ****. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a **** was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.” -Nate White

To cut through all the noise, the bottom line is that Joe Biden is a decent, empathetic man and Donald Trump is a vile human being. For the future of this country, I hope that counts for something.

Surprise. Katie Britt, in her SOTU response, caught in a flat-out lie… the

Trump, who repeatedly called Republican opponent Nikki Haley "Bird Brain" in social media posts, is now calling for unity in the GOP. Suck eggs, you orange turd.

At the polling stations in Virginia you were asked if you want to vote in the Republican or Democratic primary. You could choose which, regardless of your party affiliation. This is anecdotal, but there was a lot of talk about Democrats and Independents, knowing that Biden was a shoo-in, choosing to vote for Haley as a way to repudiate Trump. Haley garnered 240,839 votes, 34.8% of GOP votes. I'm betting a good chunk of those were non-GPO voting anti-Trump.

^^^ Oh I hope so. Nail those traitors to the wall.

Ultimately it's depressing to me how ****ing stupid Trump supporters are...