I’m confident Tesla will come through but they’ve built up so much hype around the Model 3, I get this very subtle fear in my mindbrain:

Rolodex;

Throughout the SouthWest there are manned checkpoints on major interstates.

If the sanctity of the American electoral process was a fact, Voter ID laws wouldn’t be fought by the Left as hard as any anti-gun legislation is by the Right.

There is something to be said for a dual-track strategy.
Better relations as an end unto itself has some merit. We can still kill each other in a nuclear hellfire, and avenues of communication set up during the Cold War long ago shutdown; we should rekindle some of these channels.
Our interests align with respect to…

The same way technology embargoes in the Reagan years helped national security; keep the Soviets/Russians mired a half-generation/generation+ behind our state-of-the-art tech.

Many times in geopolitics, sanctions, trade restrictions, limiting sales of high-tech items has the unintended effect of encouraging an enemy…

You’re being pedantically literal.
The national anthem is physically sung while players are on the field; it’s an off-the-field (READ: NOT GERMANE TO THE GAME OF FOOTBALL) issue.

Smack talk about how another player is is an off the field issue?

(don’t think this needs a spoiler alert because I’m being vague; but warning)

Capable backups cost a ton of money, because the premium on the position is SO high.

You insist the locker room argument is BS; let’s agree to disagree.
If I’m right I’ve demonstrated a fairly exhaustive breakdown of why Kap remain’s Joe Q. Public.

If you’re right there’s still everything else: he is a distraction,…

I should admit Minnesota, when I typed that, was the weakest example and I was contemplating fluffing that out.
But their roster is a good one, even if Bridgewater never does recover, they went out of their way to scoop up Bradford for a playoff push.

“Win now” is a bit of a subjective word that people impart their…

No need for a coordinated blackout strike, even though it would be easy, since Moscow’s ABM would be providing that for us.

Backup QB with controversy surrounding him is an oxymoronic combination. That’s not rocket science, that’s good business sense and a desire for a focused locker room.

“Backup QB” and “distraction” are an oxymoronic combination.

So what about Kap as a starter?
1) have to build your offense around him, a-la his 49ers glory days
2) expensive (veteran) + distraction; not necessarily an oxymoronic combination (look at Michael Vick) but combined with #1, why bother?

So let’s look at…

The Juice Is Loose.

1) The Soviet-era system does rely on a perimeter radar which is VHF, and not UHF, the latter of which deals with blackout much better. (UHF is much-more expensive when you’re talking building-sized phased-array radars)

* Sorry, this is in response to the same quote (By dozenfury) and not to you, DramaLlamma

Don’t bury the facts behind “ICBM technology.”

American solid-fuel rocket motor technology outstrips that of the Sovie.... I mean Russians, or else our SLBM’s wouldn’t be so far ranged, accurate & boast greater throw-weight’s than…

My fanvote goes to Super Duper Hornet & Super Tomcat 21.
That’ll be range and reach to spare, and they’re not dedicated bomb trucks, either of them.

You misread or are ignorant of some very important bits about the history of the ICBM. They were primarily valued for, as you correctly point out, the ease with which they can be used (they’re deep in the American continent, armored behind slags of concrete, and get to the Soviet Union in ~22 minutes; I’m being…