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joemadParticipantThat was great…
Neil is the man
October 22, 2018 at 12:20 am in reply to: What Niners fans are saying…before AND after the game #92672joemadParticipantMy favorite:
Even our blocked punts travel forward
Yeah, that was great….
I like the fan who calls Jed York a prick..
joemadParticipant1990 SF was 9-0…. Rams were a sucky 3-7 and heavy underdogs…… this game on Sunday is no gimme.
URL = http://articles.latimes.com/1990-11-26/sports/sp-3951_1_san-francisco-49ers/2
Rams Bounce 49er Streak, 28-17 : Pro football: Gary’s fumble turns into his third touchdown as San Francisco gets sloppy and loses for the first time in 19 games.
November 26, 1990|TIM KAWAKAMI | TIMES STAFF WRITER
SAN FRANCISCO — By the time Cleveland Gary was adroitly drop-kicking his way into the end zone, the Rams figured something strange and sweet was happening before their eyes.
Maybe it was that pass-lateral-shovel from fullback Buford McGee to Gary for the Rams’ first touchdown that did it. Maybe it was that confusing amalgamation of defenses the Rams threw at Joe Montana, making him look mortal at last.
Maybe it was the Candlestick Park wind and gray sheets of rain that seemed to comfort the Rams, not rattle them.
“We’ve had a tough season, but today was our day,” McGee said. “We felt that from the beginning, and we deserved it.”
Whatever it was, the 4-7 Rams ended the winning streak of the San Francisco 49ers at 18 games Sunday, 28-17, at least briefly resurrecting some of the distant memories of a season ago.
And it was a victory that cooled for now any speculation that Coach John Robinson could lose his job because of the Rams’ disappointing play this year.
“That’s the way we played last year,” center Doug Smith said with a broad smile, “and unfortunately, it hasn’t been the way things have gone very much this year.
“But we had that air of confidence, that belief that we were going to go ahead and do it. Jim (Everett) just said, ‘Hey, this is us, this is who we are, this is how we play football, and let’s not forget it.’ ”
Robinson, who had no intention of turning the improbable victory into his own personal salvation, chose to credit the Rams’ dominating 17-play, 10:27 drive that ended with Gary’s soccer-style, one-yard touchdown run, his third and most important touchdown of the day.
On that drive, the Rams started on their 10-yard line after Vince Newsome intercepted a Montana pass, one of three picked off by the Rams. With 14:28 left to go and gamely protecting a 21-17 lead, the Rams had to score or else leave the game in the hands of Montana.
“We had to move it,” Gary said. “Just took our time, and we did it.”
Slowly, methodically, the Rams took it out of Montana’s dangerous hands, and put it into Gary’s, which are dangerous for many reasons.
And on the last play of the drive, on third-and-goal from the 49er one-yard line, Gary, who had lost a fumble earlier, let the ball slip from his hands, kicked it along the ground once, then simply picked it up about four yards from the goal-line and went in untouched to put the game away with 2:31 to play.
“When you see something like that, I guess you know things are going right,” said McGee, who, in addition to his passing exploits, carried a season-high six times for 36 rough-and-tumble yards and a touchdown. McGee also mentioned a tipped pass to receiver Flipper Anderson on the drive as a sure sign, and he was hard to argue with.
After the Gary touchdown, cornerback Bobby Humphery intercepted a Montana pass, and the Rams had pulled off their third consecutive regular-season victory in this park.And had found at least a measure of the self-respect lost in the week-by-week crisis of their 1990 season.
“We needed that,” Robinson said. “It was a win that is very gratifying to us. Obviously, it makes it more gratifying to do it against a great football team. They’re one of the great teams of all-time.”
But not when a constantly changing, hard-to-pin-down Ram defense is holding Montana to 22-for-37 passing, for 235 mostly undramatic yards, and forcing six costly 49er turnovers. Not when receiver Anderson is making sharp cuts on a wet track, slicing up the 49er secondary for eight catches and 149 yards.
And not when a 49er team that had allowed just one rushing touchdown all year and was the No. 1 team against the rush allows three running touchdowns and 111 yards in 37 carries.
“We’ve beaten this team before,” Gary said, explaining how a 3-7 team could come into a game with the 49ers so assured. “What would make us believe that somebody was invincible? They’re a good football team, but we’re not a bad football team ourselves.”
What happened early was that the Rams, who have been losing ugly all season long, finally got the chance and the dreary climate to pull the previously unblemished 49ers down to their level.
With the football bouncing over heads, through hands and generally away from the 49ers, the Rams found the sure grip and capitalized on the 49er turnovers.
The first quarter was wild, as the Rams and 49ers traded the ball back and forth a combined five times, including three on successive plays.
Gary opened the unofficial rugby scrum in the mud when 49er defensive back Don Griffin stripped the football away early in the first quarter. On the next play, Montana was blindsided by Ram linebacker Bret Faryniarz, lost the ball and linebacker Kevin Greene was there to recover.
On the next play, Everett (16 for 27 for 224 yards and an interception) missed tight end Pete Holohan, and 49er safety Dave Waymer stepped in for the interception. But after a two-play miscue respite, 49er fullback Tom Rathman fumbled when Ram safety Vince Newsome crunched him, leaving it for Greene to fall on it again.Three plays later, the Rams razzle-dazzled the 49ers’ defense, with McGee taking an inside handoff on third-and-short, plunging into the line, then as he was falling, flipping the ball sideways to Gary, who trailed him to the sideline. All Gary had to do was haul the lateral-pass in and blow by the confused secondary for a 22-yard scoring reception.
“My job is just to fake the run and get it to Cleveland,” said McGee, who earned a game ball for his efforts.
After more messy play–a Montana interception, a bunch of sacks and three punts–a fumble by Jerry Rice right into the hands of linebacker Mike Wilcher gave the Ram offense the ball on the 49er 29-yard line early in the second quarter.
Three plays later, Gary hurdled over the middle of the 49er line and skipped into the end zone for a 10-yard touchdown run and a 14-0 lead.
The 49ers’ offense and Montana continued to struggle into the second quarter, but snapped out of it with a nine-play, 39-yard touchdown drive after the defense had pinned the Rams inside their five-yard line.
Montana hit receiver John Taylor with a lob over Darryl Henley for the five-yard score to cut the deficit to 14-7.
But on the next series, Everett hooked up with Anderson two times for a combined 71 yards on their way to a six-play, 80-yard scoring drive finished by a six-yard McGee touchdown run.
The 49ers opened the second half with the wind and drove down to the Ram two-yard line, but stalled out after three tries at the end zone, then couldn’t even put the 20-yard field goal through when the snap came in too high.
“I don’t think they ever had a rhythm,” Robinson said. “I’ve always believed that when Joe Montana gets into a rhythm, you might as well pack your bags and go home.”
Rice and Taylor, two guys who have killed the Rams in the past, combined for 12 catches for only 106 yards and one touchdown.
But on their next possession, Montana completed three passes for 62 yards, including a 23-yard scoring toss to running Harry Sydney. That made it 21-14 with 6:05 left in the third.
After another Ram punt, San Francisco closed the Ram lead to four points by going 31 yards on eight plays, finishing it on a 42-yard Mike Cofer field goal.
The 49ers threatened on their next possession, but Montana lofted one to Rice downfield too softly, allowing Newsome to slide in for the interception at the Ram 10.
That’s when the drive began and the Rams’ 1990 nightmare ended–at least for a week.
October 16, 2018 at 5:10 pm in reply to: Tweets – 10/15 Rams sign WR Nick Williams, cut K Santos #92440joemadParticipantI’m not too sure that the Rams win the last 2 games with Ficken.
Cairo Santos wasn’t perfect but made some important kicks
joemadParticipantMcVay’s Rams are pretty good at those 4th qtr time consuming nail in the coffin drives…. granted the nails got a little loose today…
Seattle and Denver are not easy places to win… it takes a good team to win back to back in places like that….the Rams are a pretty good team
joemadParticipantPlaying in Denver worries me too…. never an easy win there for any NFL team especially in the snow.
BTW the last win by the Anaheim Rams was against John Elway’s Broncos
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joemadParticipantMarcas Peters constantly watching for interceptions instead of playing his man doesn’t help with the pass defense either.
In all the years of watching football at the NFL, college, college intramural, high school, jr high flag, sandlot tackle, two hand touch street, Tudor Electric football, TECMO et el, I don’t recall ever seeing consistent blown wide open coverage like last week in Seattle.
Peters was unbelievable…… can Hekker play corner?
joemadParticipantMahomes:
21-30 yard range, completion percentage: 53.8%
31+ yards, completion percentage: 18%
everything over 20 yards: 37.5%Goff:
21-30 yard range, completion percentage: 85.7%
31+ yards, completion percentage: 50%
everything over 20 yards: 72.7%Damn, Goff is playing great right now.
joemadParticipantRams have had their share of rough hits in Seattle….
joemadParticipantOpponents have converted 47% of their 3rd downs against LA…. (80% 4th down conversions against Rams defense)
Despite allowing tons of yards and 3rd down conversions…. the RAMS have only allowed 98 points through 5 games…..
In addition, the Rams D seems to steps it up in the 4th qtr…..
BTW, Rams favored by 7 next week in Denver…. Denver has the best home record since the days of Lyle Alzado and Craig Morton… Playing in Denver is not an easy win… but it’s home cooking for Stan and his Denver Nuggets…. Let’s see how many 3rd downs Case Keenum converts next Sunday at Mile High.
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joemadParticipant4th qtr comeback on the road….
That was a great game to watch….
I guess helmet to helmet hits don’t count against the Rams
joemadParticipantHe was decent in Green Bay and had a great catch in the playoffs for them.
Perhaps Jeff Fisher’s practices sucked and his leadership lacked player discipline and accountability.
joemadParticipantQuote from the article:
“””Linebacker Bobby Wagner was equally accepting of Thomas’ gesture. In fact, he smiled when first told about it after the game. That doesn’t mean he thought it was warranted. But given the circumstances and Earl’s mental state in the moment, he did think it was understandable.
“When guys get hurt, and when crazy things happen, there’s a lot of emotions. There’s a lot of things that go through somebody’s mind and somebody’s heart,” Wagner said. “It might not be right. It might not be the best emotions, but it’s good to have emotions. Let him have emotions for whatever it is.”
joemadParticipantFinally, if Clinton or any democrat-for that matter-came before a court he was sitting on he would have to recuse himself after that rant of his.
I was blown away by this and his behavior on the stand after his rant..
His arrogance and his replies to his questioning were very surprising to me.. I couldn’t believe his replies….
What about the last guy questioning him? ” DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD?” “Do you swear to God you didn’t do this to Dr. Ford”
Are these assholes in 5th grade?
folks need to remember that this was not a trail……. allegations beyond reasonable doubt doesn’t apply in a senate hearing…. Any judge, no matter what court, should be held to a higher standard… with a bit more character. ,,,,
Kavanaugh showed the world that he’s a complete dickhead……A rich entitled asshole with a childish temperament…
Very disappointing time in our country, the culture is changing…… it’s ok and encouraged to be an arrogant asshole…
In addition, I think an FBI investigation is being bypassed because this type of behavior on girls was very prevalent during this time frame….. FBI investigation will certainly open a can of worms against other shitheads who are currently in power who treated women the same way that this asshole did 30+ years ago…
September 27, 2018 at 1:26 pm in reply to: reporters set up Vikes game (articles, vids, tweets) & what Vikes fans R saying #91528joemadParticipantDuring the 1970s. . .which was well before my time, and probably well before a lot of your times, too. . .the rivalry between the Minnesota Vikings and the Los Angeles Rams was one of the best in football. The two teams were at the top of the NFL during that time, and met a bunch of times in the postseason. In fact, the Vikings have more postseason games against the Rams than any other opponent with seven. (They also have seven playoff games against the Dallas Cowboys, but less than that against every other opponent.) Things weren’t quite as intense once the Rams moved to St. Louis, but with both teams near the top of the NFC again, maybe things will get rekindled a bit.
As we do every week, we’re going to take a look back at the Vikings’ history against their upcoming opponent. As the Rams kept all their history when they moved, it will encompass the history against the Rams at both locations, and for now will just focus on regular season competition.
As always, the numbers in this story are brought to you by the good folks from Pro Football Reference.
Total regular season games between the Vikings and the Rams: 38
All-time record: Vikings, 22-14-2
Total Vikings’ points scored, head-to-head: 868 (22.8 points/game)
Total Rams’ points scored, head-to-head: 820 (21.6 points/game)
Longest Vikings’ winning streak vs Rams: 5, twice, most recently from 11 October 2009 to 19 November 2017
Longest Rams’ winning streak vs Vikings: 3, twice, most recently from 15 October 1978 to 6 October 1985
Most recent Vikings’ road win in series: 7 September 2014 (final score 34-6, at St. Louis)
Most recent Rams’ home win in series: 30 November 2003 (final score 48-17, at St. Louis)
Biggest Vikings’ road win in series: 28 points, twice (34-6 on 7 September 2014, 38-10 on 11 October 2009, both at St. Louis)
Biggest Rams’ home win in series: 36 points, 22 September 1967 (final score 39-3)
Current streak: Vikings, 5 wins
Yes, the Vikings have run off quite the successive number of wins against the Rams, having matched their longest streak against the blue and yellow in team history. They got their fifth straight last season at U.S. Bank Stadium, when the Rams marched down the field for a touchdown on their first drive and didn’t dent the scoreboard after that. The game went into the fourth quarter tied at 7-7, but the Vikings exploded for 17 fourth quarter points, including a 65-yard touchdown pass from Case Keenum to Adam Thielen to ice it, winning by a final score of 24-7.
The last time that the Vikings had to travel to face the Los Angeles Rams came back on 29 November 1992. (The Rams didn’t move to St. Louis until 1995, but after this one the Vikings didn’t play them again until 1998.) In this one, first-year head coach Dennis Green took his team into Anaheim Stadium to face the Chuck Knox-led Rams. Terry Allen found the end zone three times that afternoon, twice on the ground and once through the air on a 36-yard touchdown pass from running back Keith Henderson on a trick play. The Vikings took a 21-point lead into the fourth quarter, and that was enough as they walked away with a 31-17 victory.
In fact, if we want to find the last time the Vikings lost a game to the Rams in Los Angeles, we have to go back over 30 years. The Wayback Machine would have to take us back to 6 October 1985, when John Robinson’s 4-0 Rams hosted Bud Grant’s 3-1 Vikings (after the one season where Les Steckel screwed things up so bad that Bud was the only one that could fix it). It was a defensive battle, as all of the first half scoring came on two Rams field goals to give them a 6-0 lead. Eric Dickerson then scored a touchdown in the third quarter to make it 13-0. The Vikings mounted a bit of a comeback, scoring on a Ted Brown touchdown run and a Jan Stenerud field goal, but it wasn’t quite enough as the Rams held on to win 13-10.
That’s a brief look at some of the regular season history between the Vikings and the Rams as we prepare for Thursday night’s game in LA. We’ll have more for you as we get closer to kickoff.
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Vikings 2018 Season, Week 4: Rams News and NotesjoemadParticipantVikes Pro Bowl DE out
Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen was growing increasingly paranoid and feared someone was trying to kill him in the weeks and days before troubling incidents Saturday at a downtown Minneapolis hotel and in his Minnetrista neighborhood sent law enforcement looking for him, according to police reports released Tuesday.
The behavior prompted the Vikings to ban a disruptive Griffen last week from practice and seek mental health treatment, the reports said, which also noted that the 30-year-old husband and father is not suspected of a crime.
By the end of Saturday afternoon, Griffen was taken in an ambulance for treatment, but not before another outburst prompted police to intervene and escort him to the emergency vehicles’ destination.Griffen did not play in Sunday’s 27-6 loss to Buffalo at U.S. Bank Stadium. He was on last week’s injury report as sidelined by a knee injury. On Monday, the Vikings listed him on the injury report as not having practiced because of “knee/not injury related.”
We’re going to do everything we possibly can, not only to help Everson, but all of the players on our team, and not just them but their families as well,” Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said Tuesday.
Griffen involved in police incident Saturday at Minneapolis hotel
Griffen is at a mental health facility for evaluation and treatment, NFL sources have confirmed.
Griffen first drew police attention about 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Hotel Ivy in downtown Minneapolis, where the three-time Pro Bowl player was threatening to assault staff employees and lying on the lobby floor, according to a Minneapolis police incident report.
Emergency audio dispatch revealed as events unfolded that he “said that if someone doesn’t let him in his room that he is going to shoot someone,” but no gun was seen.
An officer met with Griffen’s wife at a park Saturday in Mound and recounted events leading up to the hotel incident:
She said her husband awoke in the middle of the night on Sept. 16 and left the home. She said he does this at times when he is fighting “demons” in his head. She said he returned Wednesday only to leave an hour later and not return until Saturday morning.
She said Griffen wasn’t making sense, became combative and ordered her out of the Minnetrista home. He then went to the Hotel Ivy, which is where he stays during the week. She said Griffen needs to be medicated for his mental struggles and had been without sleep for days.
The officer called Griffen on his cellphone, and Griffen said he was going to be gone for about a week and was rambling incoherently before hanging up.Police learned from Vikings player development director Les Pico that Griffen “has been really struggling for the past few weeks,” the police reports read. Pico said Griffen “has been explosive, screaming and yelling” at practice, the reports continued. Pico called Griffen paranoid and prone to repeating himself.
The team notified Griffen’s agent that its defensive star was banned from practice until his mental health is evaluated.
Griffen’s wife then called and said he was at teammate Trae Waynes’ home down the road. Griffen was trying to break in, had jumped through bushes and was shirtless. Within minutes, Griffen’s wife notified police that he was in a pickup truck with someone who didn’t know what to do with him. The man had encountered Griffen at a gas station, and delivered him home.
Police met Griffen outside late Saturday afternoon, and he was making comments about “777” — having to do with angels — and that he went to Waynes’ home because “God made me do it.”
Griffen agreed with the officer to be taken for mental health treatment. But soon after the ambulance was en route, Griffen fled the vehicle. By the time police arrived, he had returned and had his hands in the air. Eventually, Griffen agreed to continue the trip under police escort.
The Vikings issued this statement from Waynes: “To clarify, there was no attempted break-in at our home and at no point did my family or I feel unsafe. We are friends with the Griffen family and we are here to support them in any way possible during these trying times.”Zimmer said he hadn’t spoken to Griffen since last week. “In the long run, he’s a really good kid,” Zimmer said, confirming that Griffen would not have played Sunday because of the knee injury and that Griffen will not travel to Los Angeles with the team for Thursday’s game against the Rams.
“I’ve always loved Everson … He’s always been a good model for us and he’s going through some tough times right now,” Zimmer said. “I just hope the best for him.”
Asked if the team could have ensured Griffen received a mental health evaluation, either on-site or by taking him to a facility, Zimmer said, “Honestly, I don’t know. That’s not really my area of expertise, and so, I don’t know the answer to that, to be honest with you.”
The Vikings selected Griffen in the fourth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He has been chosen for the Pro Bowl the past three seasons and received a four-year, $58 million contract extension from the team in 2017 that put him under contract through the 2022 season. He was elected a team captain for the third consecutive season in 2018.
Griffen was arrested twice in three days in Los Angeles in 2011, following his rookie season, for public intoxication and driving with an invalid license.
Star Tribune staff writers Liz Sawyer and Ben Goessling contributed to this report.Paul Walsh • 612-673-4482
Paul Walsh is a general assignment reporter at the Star Tribune. He wants your news tips, especially in and near Minnesota.
joemadParticipantI thought that Dan Fouts was a bit of homer in the booth…..
September 14, 2018 at 3:43 pm in reply to: setting up the ARZ game, including what Cards fans are saying #90833joemadParticipantWash At Arizona:
URL = http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/gamecenter/57577/ARI_Gamebook.pdfArizona 1 for 8 on 3rd downs..
Wash 6 for 13 on 3rd downs.
Bradford was sacked twice…
Arizona got to Alex Smith 3x.
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September 4, 2018 at 3:36 pm in reply to: What delayed humans from crossing the Bering Straight into North America #90405joemadParticipant
When on all fours it was 5 or 6 feet tall at the shoulder, and when it stood upright it could reach a height of 12 feet. It could weigh up to 1300 lbs. Despite its size, it was fast. It’s long legs allowed it to reach speeds of 30 to 40 mph.
fuck Aaron Donald… trim his claws and put this bear in a Rams uni…… sign him up… like Gus the FG kicking mule… but fuck Gus, the Rams have Zuerline!
joemadParticipantI binged this weekend and watched several games from the 2017 season and started with the losses: Not the condensed version of the game, but the whole enchilada….. I had the game on TV while working on the garden and manning the grill this weekend for 4 meals….
Philly Game (Rams had that game)
Vikings (OMG Kupp choked!)
Then started I the season:
Colts
Redskins
I skipped the Rams at SF game
Dallas game…. (special teams and Zuerline where huge in that game….)
no Judge Judy tonight as I resume my binge with Seattle at LA…
I forgot how good Robert Quinn was last year… I hope that the Rams don’t miss him… he consistently came up with some clutch plays in all games.
Rams open up in Oakland vs David Carr… this won’t be the home opener like last year vs Scott Tolzien.
Both the offense and defense better be ready Monday.
Offense wins games… defense wins championships…. the Rams have both…
August 31, 2018 at 1:22 pm in reply to: all reactions to Saints game…us, tweets, articles, etc #90170joemadParticipantSean McVay on Luis Perez’s night: “Luis got in there. To be in the position to even be competing in games like this is a great story, it’s a great credit to him. Really impressive person. Unbelievable guy.
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I can’t believe I sat and watched that entire game last night…….. I wanted to see Luis play….. I was pulling for him, but I think he’s gone….
joemadParticipantI learn something new everyday over here…..
initially I thought a lack of courtesy flush impacted Zooey’s initially bathroom visit, but later learned that a courtesy flush may provide a “plume” that might be hazardous to your health….
this thread is disgusting.
joemadParticipantWhy Trump Supporters Believe He Is Not Corrupt
What the president’s supporters fear most isn’t the corruption of American law, but the corruption of America’s traditional identity.
On Wednesday morning, the lead story on FoxNews.com was not Michael Cohen’s admission that Donald Trump had instructed him to violate campaign-finance laws by paying hush money to two of Trump’s mistresses. It was the alleged murder of a white Iowa woman, Mollie Tibbetts, by an undocumented Latino immigrant, Cristhian Rivera.
On their face, the two stories have little in common. Fox is simply covering the Iowa murder because it distracts attention from a revelation that makes Trump look bad. But dig deeper and the two stories are connected: They represent competing notions of what corruption is.
Cohen’s admission highlights one of the enduring riddles of the Trump era. Trump’s supporters say they care about corruption. During the campaign, they cheered his vow to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. When Morning Consult asked Americans in May 2016 to explain why they disliked Hillary Clinton, the second-most-common answer was that she was “corrupt.” And yet, Trump supporters appear largely unfazed by the mounting evidence that Trump is the least ethical president in modern American history. When asked last month whether they considered Trump corrupt, only 14 percent of Republicans said yes. Even Cohen’s allegation is unlikely to change that.
The swamp isn’t easy to drain.
The answer may lie in how Trump and his supporters define corruption. In a forthcoming book titled How Fascism Works, the Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley makes an intriguing claim. “Corruption, to the fascist politician,” he suggests, “is really about the corruption of purity rather than of the law. Officially, the fascist politician’s denunciations of corruption sound like a denunciation of political corruption. But such talk is intended to evoke corruption in the sense of the usurpation of the traditional order.”
The answer may lie in how Trump and his supporters define corruption. In a forthcoming book titled How Fascism Works, the Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley makes an intriguing claim. “Corruption, to the fascist politician,” he suggests, “is really about the corruption of purity rather than of the law. Officially, the fascist politician’s denunciations of corruption sound like a denunciation of political corruption. But such talk is intended to evoke corruption in the sense of the usurpation of the traditional order.”
Fox’s decision to focus on the Iowa murder rather than Cohen’s guilty plea illustrates Stanley’s point. In the eyes of many Fox viewers, I suspect, the network isn’t ignoring corruption so much as highlighting the kind that really matters. When Trump instructed Cohen to pay off women with whom he’d had affairs, he may have been violating the law. But he was upholding traditional gender and class hierarchies. Since time immemorial, powerful men have been cheating on their wives and using their power to evade the consequences.
The Iowa murder, by contrast, signifies the inversion—the corruption—of that “traditional order.” Throughout American history, few notions have been as sacrosanct as the belief that white women must be protected from nonwhite men. By allegedly murdering Tibbetts, Rivera did not merely violate the law. He did something more subversive: He violated America’s traditional racial and sexual norms.
Once you grasp that for Trump and many of his supporters, corruption means less the violation of law than the violation of established hierarchies, their behavior makes more sense. Since 2014, Trump has employed the phrase rule of law nine times in tweets. Seven of them refer to illegal immigration.
Why were Trump’s supporters so convinced that Clinton was the more corrupt candidate even as reporters uncovered far more damning evidence about Trump’s foundation than they did about Clinton’s? Likely because Clinton’s candidacy threatened traditional gender roles. For many Americans, female ambition—especially in service of a feminist agenda—in and of itself represents a form of corruption. “When female politicians were described as power-seeking,” noted the Yale researchers Victoria Brescoll and Tyler Okimoto in a 2010 study, “participants experienced feelings of moral outrage (i.e., contempt, anger, and/or disgust).”
Cohen’s admission makes it harder for Republicans to claim that Trump didn’t violate the law. But it doesn’t really matter. For many Republicans, Trump remains uncorrupt—indeed, anticorrupt—because what they fear most isn’t the corruption of American law; it’s the corruption of America’s traditional identity. And in the struggle against that form of corruption—the kind embodied by Cristhian Rivera—Trump isn’t the problem. He’s the solution.
August 16, 2018 at 9:45 am in reply to: Raiders game is live national broadcast 4 PM sat. 8/18 #89486joemadParticipantdamn east coast bias…. kick off is at 1:00 PM.
joemadParticipantVincent Bonsignore@VinnyBonsignore
Obviously the #Rams ate too many crabcakes this week in BaltimoreI think I agree with this… have you folks ever had mid Atlantic crab cakes from Maryland?…… they’re fantastic……
Mannion stunk last night, but I think a 90 man roster with a bunch of rookies having the
extra HOF game under their belt was big advantage for the Ravens extended roster….#42 for the Rams was a very smooth lookin running back… nice moves
John Kelly ended up 13 carries for 77 = just shy of 6 yards per attempt….joemadParticipant“There’s power in saying, ‘I don’t know’, and let’s figure out a way to collaborate together and find the best approach for our players, and for our team. And fortunately you’re in a situation where you have a lot of people you can lean on.
he seems to empower people on this staff to contribute and solve his team’s issues / plan….. in the long run, when he gets that collaboration, it’s easier to implement and execute since he’s getting direct feedback from his lieutenants to create the plan of attack.
seems like a great functional leader.
joemadParticipantThe Rams NEED aaron donald.
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vindeed… no matter how talented the secondary is, you need a pass rush to make the talent in the secondary great.
joemadParticipantBuild your village…
I think we should all meet and interact at a Rams game this year… how about Packers at Rams in LA?
anyone?
joemadParticipantThe Los Angeles Rams of Anaheim
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