Guy Chamberlin

Remember what happened after the Mueller Report and the two Impeachment Hearings? That's what's going to happen after the Insurrection Hearings.

Kevin McCarthy Proposes Removing January 6th from Month of January By Andy Borowitz May 19, 2021 Photograph by Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Borowitz Report)—In a controversial proposal that has raised eyebrows among political observers, the House Minority Leader, Kevin McCarthy, is urging that January 6th be removed from the month of January. “There’s been a lot of disagreement over whether January 6th is actually a real day in the month of January,” McCarthy said. “The American people want us to move on.”

Trump genuinely likes to model himself after the mafia figures in New York in the 1980s, not to mention the strong arm dictators around the world. But they are so much better at it than Donald & Sons, who are simply playing characters they've seen in the movies. If Donald Trump was a real mob boss, someone would have put the reckless loudmouth in an oil drum years ago.

Revisit the quote and tell me which part misrepresents either you or the situation. Remember, everything I've ascribed to you is based on posts you've already made. Or just cut to the chase: you've stated what you prefer for the future of the Republican Party. It aligns almost identically with Liz Cheney. But you've since accepted that it's still Trump's party moving forward, and you think Liz Cheney should do the same. I don't know any other way to read it. The presumption that a Trump dominated agenda will move past the 2020 elections, loyalty tests, and conspiracy theories to pursue responsible conservative policies can be a separate debate.

No, but the invasion of the U.S. Capitol featuring Trump supporters headhunting for both Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi probably made it feel a lot more tangible.

So just to clarify: Republicans lost the 2020 Presidential election. The only conversation now is HOW to move on. Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Nikki Haley, Kevin McCarthy, Liz Cheney and Archy 1221 all agree that the election was fair, Trump claiming fraud wasn't helping the party, and it was time for the GOP to move forward without him. Then comes immediate blowback from the base: it actually isn't about the agenda, it's about Donald Trump, and anyone openly disloyal to him risks losing their votes. The death threats just add a little spice to the fractionalism. So while it appears even more clear that Trump is not going away, that his cult of personality actually IS the agenda, and that anyone who prefers the GOP that Archy 1221 pines for is suspect, the real trouble-maker is Liz Cheney. Even if she was right, Liz needed to shut up and move on. Right?

And you back with the lovefest stuff. Pretty sure you've stopped reading the actual posts. I couldn't be more clear about my lack of love for Liz Cheney. fwiw....you're doing a bang-up job of answering the questions that nobody is asking. But I'll play along: what is it about 81 year old LIz Cheney that will make her even more loveable, and why are you so devoted that you'll wait that long for her?

I keep asking you to pick a lane, but you've made it clear that you already have. My bad.

when does it become about principle for you?

Well, yeah. I guess that's the scariest part.

Let's walk through this slowly and simply, just one last time. Liz Cheney will still be able to vote. No Democrat supports her voting record. They've actually pointed out the discrepancy. But Liz Cheney has asked the Republicans to choose between their conservative ideology and a slavish devotion to Trump. Everything she advocates matches what Archy 1221 says he wants the Republican Party to do moving forward. And yet when given the choice, Archy 1221 joins the crowd in knee-capping Cheney and pretending the Trump takeover of the party is no big deal. Of course you'd prefer that Donald Trump just fade away and not cause problems. But clearly that's not happening. All of this confirms that thoughtful Republicans are afraid to speak out against their lunatic fringe, from leadership on down to state elections and voter suppression efforts. Many people find this increasingly creepy. Pick a lane.

Nobody really knows what you're trying to say. Something about the GOP infighting being no big deal?

The discussion is about the soul of the Republican Party, and the flashpoint at the moment is replacing Cheney with Stefanik. You keep saying stuff like "she's just a placeholder" as if that means something. What does that mean in this particular discussion? It's interesting because on and issue by issue basis, Cheney voted with Trump more often than Stefanik, and GOP opposition to Stefanik comes from those who thought she was far more apt to side with Democrats. Stefanik simply doubled-down with a full-throated endorsement of Trump, a willingness to support the Big Lie, and a promise to vote party line, earning the direct endorsement of Donald Trump himself. So for those who pretend to be issues-oriented Republicans; the Republican who is loyal to the issues just lost her influence because she wants the party to break from the irrational path of the Trump cult. She was replaced by someone who proved herself willing to say whatever Trump and his loyalists want her to say, because that's the new GOP. Republicans being asked to pick a lane actually have two terrible choices. GOP policies continue to be dangerous misrepresentation of what a majority of Americans want, and the additional tenets of Trumpism are literally insane.

She is literally saying out loud what you claim to be thinking. It's also what makes her poison to her own party, and unlikely to find a path to power. Along with all that media time, she's also getting death threats. So maybe she's speaking her conscience. One can imagine she's speaking for a lot of people who are too chickens#!t to do it themselves. Are you suggesting she's dismissible simply because she couldn't win the Presidency herself? Since when is that the metric for speaking your mind? If you've got a second, remind me of your preferred choice for President.

You can put this to bed by naming the Republicans who you think are advancing an issues based platform, urging the party to get beyond its 2020 election fixation, and not afraid to call Donald Trump useless to the party. Some might suggest Liz Cheney fits everything you describe, but for some reason you consider her totally dismissible.

It was one of the worst games of football ever played.

If you're saying that you have no use for Republicans who can't get past 2020, then you have no use for Republicans. Thank you for picking a lane. Together we can fight this GOP monstrosity.

You know who can afford to post their opinions on HuskerBoard several times a day? Probably not people busy at their s#!tty jobs.

I think 2009 was still Shawn Watson, and in fairness that offense was a work in process because neither QB was great at one thing, much less two. When Watson had a month to prepare for the Holiday Bowl, Zac Lee ran a very efficient version of the RPO and put up 33 points on Arizona, one of the best defenses in the country. It's almost inconceivable that a slightly better QB doesn't beat Va. Tech, Iowa State, and Texas that year.

Well Florida is kind of a thing all by itself. No doubt undercounts and confusion and inconsistency can be found in every state. Florida probably got a little extra heat on this one for past performance, including the previous Governor prohibiting the words "climate change" in any state report, even the ones dealing apolitically with issues like sinkholes and rising water lines. Florida is the mayor of Amity Island, insisting the water is safe for the big holiday weekend.

I hope she suffers the fate of all those who advance false conspiracy theories. Of course the Florida situation remains a tad more complicated than The Nation's attempt to put it all to bed: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/florida-covid-19-deaths https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/9/22166012/florida-raid-rebekah-jones-covid-19-data-dashboard

As I've mentioned every now and then when this subject comes up: if either Taylor Martinez or Joe Ganz had that 2009 Nebraska Defense behind him, we may not be talking about his shortcomings, or learning anything from the run first/past first debate. We'd be too busy celebrating.

But the whole discussion we've been having, and the whole point of this thread, is that the GOP finds itself caught in a loyalty oath to Trump. When the job demanded advancing an actual platform, Trump generally followed the GOP playbook. But as a candidate, President, and now ex-President, the agenda was almost always about Donald Trump himself, and he spent an inordinate amount of time talking about his enemies. In one of the few speeches he made recently, he railed at a hand-picked group of guests at Mar-a-Lago about the Republicans who didn't back him loudly enough, and how they need to be replaced. The understanding is that future candidates and primary strategies will be running through Mar-a-Lago. You keep discussing Marjorie Taylor Greene, Laurene Bobert and Matt Gaetz as minor figures that shouldn't concern us, but like current and aspiring Republicans they have secured their political fortunes by aligning as Trump loyalists, despite their glaring ineptitude. Matt Gaetz should have been ousted from the party, and quite possibly in jail, but instead the ex-President hosts him at Mar-a-Lago events. You start to care about Republican leadership positions when the Republicans dump their #3 leader and openly declare that loyalty to Trump is the issue. That tends to influence your down party tickets in every state. In case you're really not following this, Trump is going to talk constantly about 2020, he has no further platform or agenda, and it is a cult of personality. It's really not a stretch to say the camps have split around a single issue: was Donald Trump cheated out of the election? Even Republicans who don't believe that are afraid to say so in public. That's pretty creepy. What you just stated above is exactly what Liz Cheney was saying. But you also chose to talk s#!t about Liz Cheney, as if she's yet another of your non-factors. By your own definition, Donald Trump is useless going forward. Pick a lane.

The problem is that Nebraska tends to entice dual threat high school quarterbacks with the promise that they can keep playing QB at Nebraska when other Power 5 programs want to convert them to other positions. That particular pool of talent tends to land us kids who are better runners than they are passers (Christian McCaffrey) and in today's NCAA you really need to flip that around (great passers who can run), or go with a straight up passing QB. QB prospects looking for a path to the NFL don't consider Nebraska, and although we get some really entertaining playground ballers like Tommy Armstrong and the two Martinez's, they sometimes lack the discipline of the guys who know how to plant their feet, run their progressions, and kill a play rather than force a turnover.

38 minutes ago he said that while he may not be able to win an argument with facts, he will content himself with being right.