I’ll probly watch some 16th century Italian football:

“….Of course, this requires action. But it’s so much easier to blame others — Big Ag, Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Circus, or whomever — than to make responsible lifestyle choices. Maybe that explains the media coverage.”
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Well, fwiw, they lose ‘me’ when they put this kind of thing in the article. That causes all kinds of alarm bells to go off in my head. I mean, why add that last sentence? Where does ‘that’ come from?

Those big-ass corpse are subverting what little democracy there is, polluting the planet, and destroying the biosphere. Thats ‘worse’ than causing cancer.

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Eternal Ramnation wrote:

Yawn The Manhattan Institute a free market think tank. Yes Medicare 4 All would cost a shitload which is about half what we’re already paying now…>

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Well, the mainstream-corporate-capitalist -LA-Times is owned by a South African Billionaire who made his money in the Health Care Biz. I dont know much about him, but I imagine the Times’ views on many big-econ-power issues are influenced by Mr Soon-Shiong.

“…In early January 2017, as announced by Sean Spicer, then President-elect Donald Trump met with Soon-Shiong at his Bedminster, NJ, estate to discuss national medical priorities.[38]…” Wiki

Article fwiw:https://www.statnews.com/2017/07/20/soon-shiong-conflicts-patients/
Expanding his medical empire is good for Patrick Soon-Shiong. But is it good for patients?

In the grand scheme of things, I kinda am-ok with the fact the Rams lost. I almost like it. There’s just somethin about this team that dont deserve to be 4-1. Ya know. 3-2 seems exactly right.

Just seems to me this year’s ‘identity’ has somethin to do with struggling, clawing, fighting. Last year was so…easy, up until late in the season.

This year they are gonna hafta win the hard way. Its not a dream-team. But if the OLine begins to gel, and the tight ends get in the flow…

There’s still a good chance this team can go far. But their gonna haf to ‘earn this.’

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I only saw the highlights, but it looks like Wilson is the best player in the NFC, right now.

Looked like the rams D was oh-so-close time after time, but RW is RW.

Gonna be a dogfight this season. No team is gonna run away with it.

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Rams rated worst OLine in NFL by PFF:https://theramswire.usatoday.com/2019/10/02/rams-offensive-line-woes/

Chris Carter mentions that in his take on the Rams:

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Billy_T wrote:

WV,

This is in dispute, of course, and it’s not an exact science. But several articles after the 2016 noted that far and away most of those “Obama to Trump” voters had previously voted Republican for their entire adult lives. As in, it wasn’t that they switched from the Dems to Trump. They switched from the GOP to Obama (first), and then back to Trump again.

Also in dispute is what caused the switch, but I think that’s where your comment about the Dems driving people into the hands of the “populist right” comes in..

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Yeah, I think thats true that many were Reps who switched to Obama, but it doesnt really change the issue. They ‘could’ have just stayed the course and voted for Hillary, who was essentially a continuation of Obama.
But they rejected that totally.

Somethin about the Dems just pissed em off, i guess 🙂

….Has any National American Politician ‘ever’ gotten people’s blood up
as much as Donald Trump? Lincoln maybe?

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waterfield wrote:

wv wrote:

Fair enough, but once in a while sit back and ask yourself how bad the ‘normal Dems’ had to be, to push half the country towards Trump. I mean, why didnt the Dems appeal to these people?

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My answer to that is: It wasn’t the Democrats that pushed them it was ALL politicians including republicans. .

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Well, I dont think Trump voters are some monolithic block. You dont think that either, right.

What you are describing sounds like the racist-nationalist part of his core. Maybe also the rightwing-evangelical-block but I’m not sure how many of them actually liked Trump.

But he’s got other blocks. For example many of the West Virginians who voted for Trump, had previously voted for Obama. How do you explain that one? 🙂

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Fair enough, but once in a while sit back and ask yourself how bad the ‘normal Dems’ had to be, to push half the country towards Trump. I mean, why didnt the Dems appeal to these people?

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Damn. What the heck do you do with ‘that’ fact pattern.

What ‘is’ she guilty of, exactly. Somethin. But ‘what’ exactly?

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