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I suspect that especially the Iowa House is going to look radically different come January. Not only getting a few real firebrands elected but more moderate incumbents reading the room.

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Jones and many statehouse candidates are running wo the benefit (/s) of Dem consultants in races that looked like kamikaze missions as recently as the June 2 primary.

Also, office sought. In Iowa at least, there's a pretty significant gulf between the moderates running for federal office and governor than the vibe from statehouse candidates, to say nothing of Chris Jones for AG Sec.

I'm fortunate to not have this problem here, but I do worry about some of my shooters (read: constituents) fedposting over on Facebook...

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Kidding aside, enjoy it! Wyoming smoked. Denver somehow converted back-to-back 2 point conversions. Iowa had one that's going in the Top 10 of KF. What a weekend for football.

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<Bronco fan voice> We both know more pain lies ahead.

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I am Jack’s smirking revenge | Fight Club

Both Hinson and Miller Meeks are former state legislators, doing a Jack's Smirking to "let's steamroll the Iowa Legislature."

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Fun fact! My grandparents place in Lone Tree was the site of the first steel foundry west of the Mississippi (maybe excepting California), Zimmerman Monarch. In 1915 they relocated to Burlington to be on the river. After 111 years of M&A, they're still a going concern, now known as Niagra LaSalle.

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"They're really troubled people" Amazing (highly derogatory) how the Iowa Republicans just grin and eat shit.

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Fire up the campaign video machine, Iowa Democrats.

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*setting aside aspirin, reaching instead for the nitro*

Iowa with a 1.4% win probability with :02 in the fourth.

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I think Google got it mostly right, probably because they did it ten years ago. I've been using a Voice number for... 18? years now and it's been interesting seeing how it mixes with Google Fi (not well).

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I get the ring a beat after you've called and announced, so I pick up to an automated prompt, "Call from, [voice of caller]" and hit 1 to answer and 2 to send to VM.

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It sounds like the implementation is different with Apple. The way Voice works, is if you call me and I don't have you as a contact, you get a prompt to introduce yourself.

Google has been offering a version of this for a decade with Voice, and voicemail transcription even longer than that. I, for one, appreciate it, even if it's a response to a pretty ugly regulatory failure.

When's the last time a franchise executed back-to-back 2 point conversions?

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Some of you people might call yourselves sickos, but you cannot fathom the cardiac damage of being an Iowa Hawkeyes and Denver Broncos fan.

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I never know if my mentions are sincere, deranged or some mixture of the two.

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Having smoked 20 Marlboros today, anything I could possibly add to this discourse is poison and I shall therefore refrain.

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We can go round and round, at the end of the day if AOC mounts a presidential bid I'll squeak with glee. I know she understands the importance of the Lege, I just don't want the rest of us to lose sight of it.

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I agree completely with you (concentration of power in the president) and that's precisely why I think caring as much about Congress is vital. We've got to restore power to the Congress, and any willing president, itself a tall order, is going to need a partner.

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To John Wilson's point that we both responded to, I agree a Senator (or MoC/House) could be a good president. Experience as a MoC is useful, same as executive experience such as Gov. I worry, though, that we're too focused on president. It's going to take a muscular Congress to unstick this mess.

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Probably someone not currently on our radar, but if you pushed me, Pritzker. He's got executive experience, Fuck You money and has seemed steadfastly good.

I agree, but that analysis doesn't require the someone to be AOC. We need folks willing to put in the time in the Congress.

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Boy howdy, I would love it if she decided to be the next great lion of the Senate.

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I think most folks are severely underindexing on "where she'd do great." Congress is going to need to get its shit together long term, and we're going to need lions to do it. Barrasso and Grassley and Thune are as responsible for the mess we're in as anyone.

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Stumbling across this clip, I now better understand my most prolific Facebook troll. He's just wordvomming Alex Jones into my comments. I would have preferred had I remained oblivious to this, but I am utterly unsurprised.

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We contain multitudes — and sometimes those multitudes are competing vacuums, apparently.

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Forgive the low language, but I think we're well past the point of diminishing returns on how rage-horny the right is. Communists aren't raising prices, President Poopy Pants is.

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