Shoplift. Excellent.

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I think Mahommes is the best quarterback Ive ever seen,
and the Chiefs have so much speed on offense,
I think its their game to lose.

Chiefs 31
Bucs 24

Billy_T wrote:

As I’ve gotten older — and hopefully wiser — I’ve changed my mind a bit about the relative importance of coaching. Used to weight it far behind player talent. Not so anymore. I still think you win with superior athletic talent, and that it’s the most important factor, but that coaching talent is close.
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Andy Reid’s career is interesting. For so long he was “the good coach who couldnt win the big one.” Kinda like Shottenheimer or maybe Robinson for the Rams.

Enter Mahommes.

Now Reid is Mr Hall of fame coach.

I think it will interesting to see what Belichick
can do over the next few years, without Brady.

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Cal wrote:

Maybe people were wrong about Biden–he seems like he is proposing some interesting ideas. He seems serious about climate change.

And the child tax credit sounds impressive. Would this be the most important program to help poor people in the last 25 years?

From the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/01/22/biden-childtaxcredit-stimulus/

Under one draft of the plan being discussed, the IRS would be tasked with depositing checks worth $300 every month per child younger than 6, as well as $250 every month per child age 6 to 17. That would amount to $3,600 over the course of the year for young children, as well as $3,000 a year for older children, the officials said.

Unlike with the stimulus checks, the Biden administration and Democratic lawmakers are hoping to make these child benefits a permanent government program that would continue in future years, according to three senior Democratic officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning. The current proposal calls only for the expanded benefit to be enacted for one year, after which Democrats widely hope political pressure will force Congress to extend them. The benefit would be phased out for affluent Americans, though the precise income level has not been determined.

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Seems like just another corporate-DNC-democrat
to me, Cal. Looks like Obama/Clinton to me.

Massive, massive, massive, massive spending on
the Military-Weapons-CIA-Empire.

Very very little on the poor
and vulnerable.

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Interesting long thread by one of my favorite commie tweeters.
On Putin, Navalny, etc.
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this is cringey & made me uncomfortable bc i see that there’s a new effort to make young ppl pour out into the streets to protest navalny’s incarceration & larger extent of oppression under putin but no one questions what will happen when kids are arrestedhttps://t.co/sLYtwPmNXO

— katya (@kazbek) January 22, 2021

i actually read this entire thread
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marx: …so, revolution

batman: sounds criminal

foucault: sounds normie

marx: no it's not normie, it's the way one class overthrows another, and thus its regime of exploitation

gandalf: is this not to become just as bad as the enemy?

marx: god dammit gandalf

— Tom Frome (@TomFrome) December 29, 2020

I follow this guy, fwiw.

Klobuchar is speaking now . Earlier this summer I sent her documents about voter intimidation and asked for comment. She never acknowledged them and then raised them in Congress and ruined my story while taking credit for our work. Cool

— james stout (@jamesstout) January 20, 2021

Brady vs Aaron Rogers.

Cant stand either one,
but should be a good game.

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Bohemian, anarchist Chinese

I wrote about an anarchistic commune in China. 2020 really got me radicalized ;-; https://t.co/PrDd2ziMhz

— Aaron Wang 王炫迪 (@aaronwangxxx) January 16, 2021

In 1644, English statesman, Oliver Cromwell, banned the eating of pie. He declared it a pagan form of pleasure. For 16 years, pie eating and making went underground until the Restoration leaders lifted the ban on pie in 1660. #History pic.twitter.com/MoJheJia6J

— History Facts (@UnfadingWisdom) January 14, 2021

I read that if Trump is convicted by the senate
he cant run again. I dunno if thats true.

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Patriots coach Bill Belichick spurns Trump's presidential medal of freedom offer https://t.co/WT5Rmw1oNs

— The Progressive (@1Progressivism) January 12, 2021

zn wrote:

There’s a mixed take on the Capitol police. In some vids they are virtually compliant. In others they are directly under attack by the mob (to the point where 2 have died so far). It almost depends on what part of the building they’re being filmed. In some places, they are under assault; in others, they are letting people in without hindrance.

Though even in the places where they are assaulted…I can’t help but imagine if the crowd were people of color. Can you imagine that in that situation the police would just passively let assaults on them happen? I can’t imagine a situation like that where the police wouldn’t use guns.

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Yeah, it was mixed. Some cops fighting the Trumpies, some cops helping the Trumpies, some cops probably totally confused as to what to do.

It will take a year or so to untangle and research it all. I’m sure Woodward is beginning his book on it, as we speak.

I dont have anything original to say about it. Its just how things are now.

Fox News, Rightwing-Radio, Rightwing social-media, Q-anon, Evangelical-Religion
coupled with
Capitalism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Outsourcing Jobs, Opioids, etc
have spawned various shades of Trumpies. At one end of the Trumpie spectrum you have little old evangelical ladies like wv-mom. At the other end of the Trumpie spectrum you have the ProudBoys, Nazis, KKK, etc.

75 Million Trumpies. Probably a good 10 million on the Ultra-Right-Fascist end of the Trumpie-Spectrum.

Not enough for a Revolution, but enough for a lot more domestic terrorism
in the coming decades.

The FBI will probably arrest a lot of them in the future, but
so many of them are already IN law enforcement, its a complex problem,
as we see in the Capital Police situation.

80 million neoliberal imperialist CIA-loving Bidenites.
75 million rightwing-soft-and-hard-fascist Trumpies.

And about 1 million leftists.

Interesting times ahead.

Portugal calls.

link:https://www.nfl.com/news/x-rays-negative-on-aaron-donald-s-ribs-rams-dt-to-have-mri-sunday

The Los Angeles Rams received some positive news regarding All-Pro defensive tackle Aaron Donald.

NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo reported Sunday on NFL GameDay Morning that initial X-rays on Donald’s injured ribs came back negative for a break, per sources informed of the situation. The defensive tackle will undergo an MRI today to determine the extent of the injury.

Garafolo added that Donald could have re-entered the game late if needed in the 30-20 win over Seattle on Saturday.

Donald exited the tilt early in the third quarter after slinging Russell Wilson to the ground. The two-time Defensive Player of the Year hurt his ribs rolling over Wilson and appeared to have trouble breathing on the sideline. Donald took multiple trips to the locker room. He ended the game on the sideline but didn’t re-enter the match as the Rams pulled away with the win.

Coach Sean McVay told Garafolo he’s “hopeful” Donald will be ready for the Divisional Round.

“This guy is an absolute machine,” he said. “Never bet against AD.”

The Rams await the outcome of today’s New Orleans Saints-Chicago Bears bout to ascertain who they will face next weekend. If the Saints win, L.A. will face the No. 1 seeded Green Bay Packers. If the Bears pull the upset, the Rams will fly to Tampa to face Tom Brady and the Buccaneers.

Watched it. An ugly game. Lots of mistakes
by both teams.

Robert Woods, wide open with lots of space
and it goes right thru his hands. Etc.

Lots of credit to Goff. Playin without a thumb.
From one of those comments i read,
Sounds like he was playin a little angry, too.
Good win for Jared.

Where is the weakness on this defense?
Certainly not the secondary. Best secondary
the rams have ever had, i would guess.
Anyone think of a better one?

Dline? Has there been a deeper DLine? No.
Has there been a better one?
Well, sure but you have to go back
a long way.

Linebackers? I dunno. Sandwiched
by greatness, they look purty good.

Aaron Donald is so much fun, that i dont
wanna think of watching a game where
he’s on the sideline.

Akers is growing on me. But, I keep looking for something
‘special’ with Akers. And i never see it. He’s no
Faulk, no Steven, no ED. I dont even see a McCutcheon.
But there he is getting tough yards, play after play.
Maybe he’s Willie Ellison, i dunno.
What is he special at?

That pick6 was one of the best pick6’s Ive ever
seen. Holy shit, that was fun.
The only one better i can think of was
Isaiah Robertson’s against Sonny Jurgenson.

I cant believe that was the first game
without a rams-turnover. Boggles the mind.

I’ve picked against the Rams more this year
than any i can remember. I just dont believe
in the offense. So, whoever they play next
week, with or without Donald, I’ll be
pickin against them. I expect things
to come apart next week. Still…theres
that defense.