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wvParticipantGideon Levy gives a heckof-a powerful speech here. Quite a speaker.
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vwvParticipantSigh. Probably the right thing to do at this point while he still has some value,
but I will miss Quinn. Or I will miss what he used to be, and still showed flashes of last season.Shame about his back problems.
Vintage, Healthy Quinn was an awesome force to behold.
I guess they can sign Watkins and Donald and Joyner now.
Maybe they draft a pass-rusher.
I hope they get a third rounder for Quinn.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantWhitworth is what? 6’7″, 35″ arms and 330?
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arms:https://www.milehighreport.com/2015/4/9/8353255/broncos-2015-draft-arm-length-and-the-offensive-linewvParticipantIt’s a bit of a sobering thought, isn’t it? Since Nixon, it’s been about escalating the arms race and becoming the greatest imperial power in foreign affairs, and deregulating finance, weakening unions and the social safety net, and running up the score on Wall Street.
wvParticipantYes.
Though, when i read things like this, I am skeptical:
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“…its decline. As he wrote then, ‘Thirty-five years from now, America’s official century of being top dog (1945-2045) will have come to an end; its time may, in fact, be running out right now. We are likely to begin to look ever more like a giant version of England at the end of its imperial run, as we come face to face with, if not necessarily to terms with, our aging infrastructure, declining international clout, and sagging economy.’…”
———I read that kind of thing all the time. I’ve been reading that kind of thing for two decades, and i really dont see any evidence of it.
I think the Empire is growing and ‘adjusting’ to new circumstances all the time.
The Empire just looks more Fascist-like to me, but it doesnt look ‘weaker’ to me.Just seems like the Empire is based on Military/Weapons sales/production. And Gas/Oil/Energy Corpse. And Entertainment/Media/Propaganda industries. And Agro-bizness.
I dont see any of those things faltering anytime soon.
Granted China and Asia and Europe and Russia will carve out pieces of the pie. But I dont see America becoming another England. Who knows though.
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vwvParticipantTeams that use him right will get value from it.
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I hope so, but I dunno. He’s gonna have to get his confidence back as a punt returner. And he’s gonna have to stop putting the ball on the ground.
And as the hits mount his speed is gonna erode, of course.
I’d love to see him zooming around like he did in college, but I’m skeptical at this point about his value.
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vwvParticipantI doubt that much will come of Mueller’s investigation. This woman could be made a scape goat and everyone and te higher-ups who pull the strings will get nothing. I expect to be disappointed.
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I dont think much will come of it either. Republican Senate. Republican House. Republican Judges. Propagadized, dazed, confused, Human, Citizens.
America is toast.
Have a nice day 🙂
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vwvParticipant1 Improve Run Defense. How? I dunno, draft a big fat DT ?
2 Improve Redzone Offense. How? I dunno.
3. Quality depth on OLine. Draft/sign some players.
4. Sign Donald, Joyner, Watkins, Quinn.
5. Draft lots of good CBs and a LB.
Is that about it?
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vwvParticipantNixon was the last president
who gave a rat’s ass about
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Well.
I think if we are now missing Richard Nixon
these may not be the best of times.w
vMarch 1, 2018 at 9:37 am in reply to: Chaos and Corruption in Trumpland. Huge newsday yesterday #83310wvParticipantThat said, I do have to give Trump some credit for his gun control summit. If he keeps his word — ”
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guns:https://shareblue.com/trump-bans-bill-nelson-school-safety-nra/
Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, an NRA opponent, was not invited to a White House school safety event even though he represents the community targeted.
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) supports the teenage survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High school shooting, but he has been excluded by Trump from a White House meeting on school safety.
Trump did invite other Florida lawmakers to the event, including Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who has been a vocal proponent of the NRA….
wvParticipant… I am on rooting for the tipping point. No more business as usual . Something good could come out of it….
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So many of us have or have-had this thot/notion/idea/hope^^^
I’ve read this same idea from some many people. See the vid below. I set it up to run at the point where ‘this’ point is discussed…Fwiw.wvParticipantPS — if anyone watches that vid in the post just above this, check out the 28 minute mark or so. The Australian progressive sez Bernie Sanders would be considered a rightwinger in Australia. Thats how far to the right America has become. According to her.
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vwvParticipantHey, WV,
Gotta run some errands but will come back to watch Dore. I respect him.
Could you add your own thoughts regarding the first video? And, if you feel like it, thoughts about my response to it?
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First Vid? Well, i posted it before i watched it. Always a dum move 🙂
I thought it was less than scintillating. Way too much yacking about legal definitions of ‘traitor’ and not enough give and take on the russia-gate thing.
I ‘did’ agree with Greenwald obviously, so i liked the rest of his comments more than you. His emotionalism didnt really bug me. You saw it as ‘defensive’ — i
just saw it as ‘passionate.’…i’m watchin this tonite….If u watch it for a few mins, I like the “Hulk Smash” line, btw 🙂
wvParticipantJust some actual examples of the ‘russian interference.’ Fwiw.
I find it interesting that i have to wait for Jimmy Dore to show me this stuff. I never see collections of concrete examples on the MSM. Maybe they show them, but i never see them anywhere.
wvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantBut Trump has already killed more than Obama did in his eight years, according to an article I saw on Business Insider. So, first-year death totals probably go Nixon, LBJ, Trump and then Obama.
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Ok, so if we are talking about flat-out Killing humans, then Trump is not even close to being the worst president. At least so far. Is that what we are saying?
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February 28, 2018 at 1:16 pm in reply to: Schefter: “Rams finalizing trade with Chiefs for CB Marcus Peters #83270wvParticipantThe trade just makes perfect sense to me, given the totality of the circumstances. Ie, the Rams need at that position, the Rams being on the cusp of challenging for a title, the cap-space, the talent of the player in question, the wisdom of Wade, etc.
Reminds me a bit of the Randy Moss pickup by the Pats, years ago. It was a risk, but they were ready to make a serious run at a title.
Just makes perfect sense.
And its still a risk.
And btw, despite what the KC fans think — giving a 2nd round pick is not chicken-feed. Thats a premium pick. It aint ‘nuthin’. They can get a solid starter with that pick and the rams lose a solid starter for that pick.
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vFebruary 28, 2018 at 12:32 pm in reply to: teachers (images/ideas of teachers in the wake of Florida) #83265wvParticipantLol.
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vwvParticipantNo politician in American history has gotten away with as much illegality, immorality, mendacity or personalized viciousness toward others as Trump has.
I have to call my own number here. Early in election discussions, some people flirted with the idea that Trump wouldn’t be that much worse than any standard issue dem. My view was, he was going to be far far worse. By a huge margin. I think that’s exactly how it played out.
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Well, to me this is not an easy analysis or comparison. Because of foreign policy.
I agree totally Trump is the worst prez of my lifetime as far as domestic policies. He’s in a league all his own. And what makes it Beyond-Words, iz that he has the Senate, the House and the Courts. And we know what Chomsky called the Rep-party — something like “the most dangerous organization in the history of the world” or somethin like that.
His-AND-The-REPS domestic policies are gut-wrenchingly, heart-breakingly, heart-stoppingly, heart-stompingly, mind-numbingly deadly for the poor and the oppressed.
Its so bad i rarely even comment on Trump anymore. I mainly stick to his base and the voters in general. I’m more curious about ‘them’ because he is just too much for words.
But on the foreign policy things get tricky for me. ONE way to think about FB is to simply add up the murders. Who killed more in his first year? Nixon? LBJ? Obama? Trump? That gets a little tricky. For me, anyway. For me.
It also gets complicated because domestic environmental policies can kill people abroad…over time. Trumps hideous enviro policies may doom gazillions abroad over the next fifty years or so. So THAT might make him the worst ever. I dunno.
But so far, i would guess Nixon killed more Asians than Trump his killed abroad.w
vwvParticipant< But I think the impeachment process will bring out so much Trumpian ugliness, he’ll be forced to step down by his own party.
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I’d bet the house against that ever happening. Trump step down because of Republican pressure, ugliness or whatever? Never. Ever. His nature is to fight, fight, fight. And then fight some more. His base will never leave him. Ever.
He’d fight impeachment to the end. And so would his base. He’s here for the duration of his term at the very least. Imho 🙂
I always keep in mind, fwiw, that it took actual TAPES for Nixon to be forced out. Nothin else mattered. It was only the existence of the tapes that did him in. He would have and could have stonewalled everything except for the tapes. Aint no tapes with Trump. Just witnesses sayin this or that. He’ll just disagree with them witnesses, play dum, turn it into a political circus, etc.
The upcoming Dem vs Rep elections will be interesting. Maybe the Reps will gain seats. Who knows. This country is a shit-stain country 🙂
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vwvParticipant“…Still, only 45% give the President a positive rating on handling the economy and almost three in five (58%) say the country is heading in the wrong direction.
Even worse for Mr. Trump, more voters overall say they are worse off financially today (43%) than say they are better off (35%). And the numbers who say that “having Donald Trump as President makes them pessimistic” are higher today than they were one year ago….”
wvParticipantnewsweek:http://www.newsweek.com/trump-approval-states-rating-poll-805561
Trump’s Net Approval Rating Is Positive in Just 19 States, Half As Many As At the Start of His PresidencyAfter one year in office, President Donald Trump has a positive net approval rating in only 19 U.S. states, half as many as when he first took office in January 2017, according to the latest polling data.
While the Republican has seen a slight increase in overall net approval rating over the past several months, Trump’s work during his first year in office was widely panned by respondents, Morning Consult’s data from all 50 states released Tuesday showed.
Last month, Trump had a 44 percent approval and 51 percent disapproval rating among registered voters. Those numbers still represented a two-point increase in net approval rating—the difference between approval and disapproval ratings—in September and a four-point jump compared to October and November.
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But while Trump’s overall numbers may have improved recently, over the past year he’s lost support from more than a dozen states. When he first entered office in January 2017, Trump had a positive net approval rating in 38 U.S. states. West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and Wyoming led the pack, all with a net approval rating of at least 34 percent.
Trump managed to maintain those strongholds but has since seen his net approval drop across the country. Even in West Virginia, Trump went from a 37 percent net approval to 22 percent over 12 months. Similarly, Kentucky and Tennessee both went from 34 percent to 16 percent, while Alabama dropped from 36 percent to 29 percent.
Those drops weren’t the only bad news for the president. The number of respondents who strongly disapproved of Trump’s performance also climbed significantly. A year ago, 28 percent strongly disapproved of Trump, but last month that number had increased to 39 percent. Conversely, 27 percent strongly approved in January of last year, and now only 22 percent have the same feeling.
Still, Trump has managed to rally Republican support as 2018’s midterm elections draw closer. Last month, 48 percent of GOP voters strongly approved of Trump’s work, a significant increase from 43 percent in September.
The data was based on Morning Consult surveys taken between January 20, 2017, and January 29 of this year and drew responses from more than 800,000 voters from all 50 states.
February 27, 2018 at 9:19 pm in reply to: teachers (images/ideas of teachers in the wake of Florida) #83245wvParticipantFebruary 27, 2018 at 4:40 pm in reply to: some tweets, 2/26, including on Peters on NFL.net … & the interview (vid) #83241wvParticipantYeah, he is not Lawrence Phillips or Pacman Jones. Strikes me as more of a Terrell Owens, but with anger outbursts instead of big ego outbursts.
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Agree. I think his teammates will like him.
Who knows though.
…i ‘do’ think there will be an incident or two next season. He’s never gonna be Aeneas Williams 🙂
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantHenry Giroux:http://noliesradio.org/archives/143487
“make the larger connections”
“its not about whether we wanna take away your guns, its about whether we wanna live in a democracy….”
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vFebruary 27, 2018 at 7:46 am in reply to: some tweets, 2/26, including on Peters on NFL.net … & the interview (vid) #83231wvParticipanti gotta say, watching that innterview, i like him. he may be crazy. but i like him. i just hope he’s able to mature.
i think this guy has it all – just has to learn how to keep his emotions in check.
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I liked when he noted how he will miss his team-mates. And he named some of them. That was genuine.
I’m sure there will be incidents in the future, but my impression is he can be reasoned with.
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