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wvParticipantlink:http://www.denverpost.com/2015/11/07/paige-wade-phillips-a-good-ol-and-funny-coach/
“In 2014, the nomad coach couldn’t get a sniff of a job, or even an interview, in the NFL.
In fact, a year ago last week, he barely could secure a ticket to see Dallas play at AT&T Stadium,…Is everyone obtuse? Wade has been a defensive coordinator for eight teams. All improved considerably in his first season. There was sound reasoning why he became the highest-paid NFL assistant…….Wade had trained under two of the premier defensive coaches in history — his father and Buddy Ryan, architect of the Bears’ defense in 1985….and Wade was not a screamer or a dreamer. He is a sound, fundamental, hard-working, smart-scheming football man…..”
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vwvParticipantwvParticipant“…they neoliberal the shit out of it”
January 12, 2017 at 7:37 pm in reply to: The mammal precursors that lived before the dinosaurs… #63305wvParticipantWhats the earliest life-form that we have Fossils of ?
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vThere are fossils of bacterial colonies called stromatolites that are 3.5 billion years old.
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link:http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Tree_of_Life/Stromatolites.htmwvParticipantI’m with you on all of that.
But I’m just not sure how GG goes from that to the idea that Trump is a victim of some huge conspiracy against him, cooked up by the Deep State..
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Well thats where things get tricky and all we got is speculation and stuff.But my gut/intuition tell me GG is right. For whatever reason the deep-state dont like Trump. I dont know why. They LOVED hillary. Ab-so-lutely LOVED her. And ‘they’ dont like Trump. I dunno why.
I’ve been wondering that for a while now. Why does the system attack Trump? One would think they’d love him. I dont have an answer to that.w
vI don’t know, WV. I’m not seeing that love for the Clintons. Not by the powers that be. By her own team? Sure. But unless we think of the GOP as a dissident, anti-Deep-State party, and the Dems as the Deep State’s only representative in DC, I don’t buy it.
Cuz, the Clintons have been hounded by the GOP for 25 years, deserved or not. This happened while Bill Clinton was governor, and accelerated massively once he became president. It never let up until the impeachment failed. And it continued into Obama’s presidency, as soon as HRC took the position at State. Endless hearings, Benghazi, the email server, etc. etc. The GOP was relentless. And we just don’t see that reciprocated by the Dems, historically.
If anyone has been the victim of a coordinated, decades-long attack, it’s the Clintons. Fair or not. Justified or not. And everything in between. And I’d say they brought much of it on themselves. Their politics make me ill, so I’m not defending them. But to me, if she really were the Deep State’s pet, I don’t see those endless hearings taking place. The GOP would be in on the fix too, cuz they definitely don’t strike me as the anti-Deep-State boys coming to America’s rescue.
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Yeah, ok, i will think about that.I guess i think of the ‘deep-state’ as more of the Dem-Neoliberal-media-Machine. …but it seems like the CIA has chosen sides and is now part of the Dem-neoliberal-media-machine. And that, as far as i know, is NEW. And a bit odd. And i dont know where to plug that into my brain.
‘Deep state’ is probly not the word to use for the new Dem-Neoliberal = CIA alliance.
I will give it more thot.
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vJanuary 12, 2017 at 7:19 pm in reply to: The mammal precursors that lived before the dinosaurs… #63292wvParticipantWhats the earliest life-form that we have Fossils of ?
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vwvParticipantIt certainly was a bold hire. What is he, like, 17 or something?
This offseason Should be inter esting.
Lost in all this is the fact that Snead is still the personnel guy.
Does he deserve to be?w
vwvParticipantI’m underwhelmed. I agree with zn that we fans are not at all accurate when it comes to predicting how new HC hires will do, but I really was intrigued by Shanahan. It would be unfortunate if the Falcons success combined with bad weather were factors in the Rams missing out on a Shanahan if he turns out to be great. In the meantime I’ll just hope for the best with McVay. I’ll be interested to watch his staff come together.
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Well, fwiw, McVay was influenced by the Shannahans. He worked with/for them, i believe.w
vwvParticipantI’m with you on all of that.
But I’m just not sure how GG goes from that to the idea that Trump is a victim of some huge conspiracy against him, cooked up by the Deep State..
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Well thats where things get tricky and all we got is speculation and stuff.But my gut/intuition tell me GG is right. For whatever reason the deep-state dont like Trump. I dont know why. They LOVED hillary. Ab-so-lutely LOVED her. And ‘they’ dont like Trump. I dunno why.
I’ve been wondering that for a while now. Why does the system attack Trump? One would think they’d love him. I dont have an answer to that.w
vwvParticipantwvParticipant“This is an exciting day for the Los Angeles Rams as we welcome Sean McVay as our new head coach,” Rams Owner/Chairman E. STANLEY KROENKE said. “The accomplishments and success that he has rendered in less than a decade in our league are remarkable. I am confident in his vision to make this team a consistent winner and to ultimately bring a Super Bowl title home to Los Angeles.”
McVay, who enters his ninth NFL season in 2017, joins the Rams following three seasons as offensive coordinator for the Washington Redskins. He was originally promoted to Washington’s coordinator position after serving as the club’s tight ends coach for three seasons (2011-13) and one as an offensive assistant (2010).
“I am incredibly honored by this opportunity and I want to start by thanking Mr. Kroenke and Kevin Demoff for their faith in me to lead the Los Angeles Rams as head coach,” McVay said. “Collectively, we are committed to building a championship caliber team, and I’m excited to start that process and make our fans proud.”
Last season his offensive unit finished second in the NFL in passing yards per game (297.4), passing yards per play (7.84) and yards per play (6.4). Under McVay’s leadership, the 2016 Redskins became the first team in franchise history to average more than 400 yards per game in a single season and their 6,454 total net yards also set a team record, which was previously established in 1989. The Redskins concluded 2016 as the NFL’s third-ranked offense and with three Pro Bowlers on offense (TE Jordan Reed, G Brandon Scherff, T Trent Williams).
McVay’s group posted a breakout campaign in his second year as offensive coordinator in 2015, including record-setting performances by quarterback Kirk Cousins and tight end Jordan Reed. McVay’s scheme and tutelage helped Cousins break Redskins records for attempts (543), completions (379), passing yards (4,166) and 300-yard passing games (seven) in a single season. Reed has been a direct beneficiary of McVay’s work, spending 2013 as a member of his unit during McVay’s time as tight ends coach and being a focal point of the offense in 2015, as Reed recorded 87 receptions for 952 yards (both team records for a tight end) with 11 receiving touchdowns (one shy of the team record) in 2015.
Collectively, McVay’s 2015 offense recorded top-10 rankings in third down percentage (43.5, fifth in the NFL), red zone scoring percentage (61.2, eighth), yards per play (5.6, 10th) and points per game (24.3, 10th). The Redskins also led the NFL with a team-record 69.5 completion percentage in 2015, leading the league in the category for the 11th time in team history and the first time since 1970.
In his first season as Washington’s playcaller in 2014, he helped spawn a top-10 league ranking in yards per play (5.7) despite starting three different quarterbacks. His work with the three passers was instrumental in setting a team record for completion percentage (66.5 percent, later broken in 2015), and helping facilitate the explosive debut of wide receiver DeSean Jackson. Jackson averaged a league-best 20.9 yards per reception and became only the fourth player in team history to lead the NFL in that category.
In 2013, McVay played a crucial role in Reed’s development, as the then-rookie compiled 45 receptions for 499 yards – both Redskins’ single-season rookie tight end records – despite Reed playing in only nine games. Under McVay’s tutelage, Reed joined Chris Cooley (2004) as the only Redskins tight ends named to the PFWA All-Rookie Team. In addition, McVay helped tight end Logan Paulsen from an undrafted free agent into a 30-game starter from 2010-13, with Paulsen increasing his reception totals each season.
During Washington’s NFC East championship season in 2012, McVay’s unit produced despite losing starting tight end Fred Davis to a torn Achilles tendon in Week 7. Davis had led the team in both receptions (24) and receiving yards (325) through seven games before being placed on the Reserve/Injured list. McVay guided a unit that provided reliable receiving options on top of contributing significantly as blockers to the Redskins’ league-leading 2,709 rushing yards.
In 2011, McVay played an integral role in Davis’ emergence, as the then fourth-year tight end surpassed his previous career highs despite playing in only 12 games. Davis caught 59 passes for 796 yards, the second-highest total on the team in both categories. Before missing the final four games of the season, Davis was on pace to set a franchise record in receiving yards by a tight end and to post the first 1,000-yard receiving season by a tight end in Redskins history.
McVay joined the Redskins prior to the 2010 season after an undefeated regular season with the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League (UFL). The Tuskers finished a perfect 6-0 before losing in the UFL’s inaugural championship game.
McVay originally entered the National Football League as an offensive assistant with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2008.
McVay graduated from Miami University (Ohio) where he played wide receiver from 2004-07, earning Miami’s Scholar-Athlete Award in 2007. He is the grandson of John McVay, who oversaw five Super Bowl championship squads for the San Francisco 49ers and was inducted into the 49ers Hall of Fame in 2013.
wvParticipantlink:https://popularresistance.org/election-interference-the-u-s-has-done-it-in-45-countries-worldwide/
Election Interference? The U.S. Has Done It In 45 Countries WorldwideAmerica has a long history of meddling in the elections of foreign countries, new research shows
Russia’s attempt to sway the 2016 election continues to consume American politics as the Obama administration struck back with a series of punishments targeting Russia’s spy agencies and diplomats. The White House on Thursday moved to expel 35 suspected Russian intelligence operatives from the U.S. and impose sanctions on the Kremlin’s two leading intelligence services in response for what the U.S. says were a series of cyberattacks conducted by Russia during the presidential campaign. For the time being, Russian President Vladamir Putin has indicated that he won’t immediately retaliate, though that could change.
The simmering tit for tat has kept the issue of election meddling burning bright in the national spotlight, fueled even further by the belief among U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia wanted to help Donald Trump capture the presidency. Yet neither country is a stranger when it comes to directly trying to sway the election of other nations. In fact, the U.S. has a long and stunning history of attempting to influence foreign presidential elections, recent research by political scientist Dov Levin shows.
Levin, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie-Mellon University, found that the U.S. attempted to influence the elections of foreign countries as many as 81 times between 1946 and 2000. Often covert in their execution, these efforts included everything from CIA operatives running successful presidential campaigns in the Philippines during the 1950s to leaking damaging information on Marxist Sandanistas in order to sway Nicaraguan voters in 1990. All told, the U.S. allegedly targeted the elections of 45 nations across the globe during this period, Levin’s research shows. In the case of some countries, such as Italy and Japan, the U.S. attempted to intervene in four or more separate elections.
Levin’s figures do not include military coups or regime change attempts following the election of a candidate the U.S. opposed, such as when the CIA helped overthrow Mohammad Mosaddeq, Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, in 1953. He defines an electoral intervention as “a costly act which is designed to determine the election results [in favor of] one of the two sides.” According to Levin’s research, that includes: peddling misinformation or propaganda; creating campaign material for preferred candidates or parties; providing or withdrawing foreign aid, and; making public announcements that threaten or favor certain candidates. Often, it also includes the U.S. covertly delivering large sums of cash, as was the case in elections in Japan, Lebanon, Italy, and other countries.
To build his database, Levin says he relied on declassified U.S. intelligence as well as a number of Congressional reports on CIA activity. He also combed through what he considered reliable histories of the CIA and covert American activity, as well as academic research on U.S. intelligence, diplomatic histories of the Cold War, and memoirs of former CIA officials. Much of America’s meddling in foreign elections has been well-documented — Chile in the 1960s, Haiti in the 1990s. But Malta in 1971? According to Levin’s study, the U.S. attempted to “goose” the tiny Mediterranean island’s economy in the months leading up to its election that year.
Much of the America’s electoral meddling occurred throughout the Cold War as a response to containing Soviet influence through the spread of supposed leftist proxies, the findings suggest. And to be clear, the U.S. wasn’t the only one trying to sway foreign elections. By Levin’s count, Russia attempted to interfere in other countries’ elections 36 times between the end of World War II and the end of the 20th century, bringing the total number of electoral interventions by the two countries to 117 during that period.
Yet even after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the U.S. continued its interventions abroad, including elections in Israel, former Czechoslovakia, and even Russia in 1996, Levin found. Since 2000, the U.S. has attempted to sway elections in Ukraine, Kenya, Lebanon, and Afghanistan, among others.
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‘Good Anthropocene’: Grassroots Initiatives Worldwide Show October 14, 2016wvParticipantMy own view is that the CIA/NSA/Deep-State/Gangster-Nation of the USA,
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the Russian-Gangster-Government
as well as many other gangster-nations CONSTANTLY do all kinds of spying and dirty tricks in an effort to gain power or keep power.So, thats where i start. With that view.
With that starting-point, i read that the gangster-state of the US is accusing the gangster-state of Russia of playing some dirty tricks, such as supporting the gangster-Trump over the gangster-Hillary.
Well, aint that ‘shocking‘. 🙂
I assume the gangster-state of Russia has been trying to blackmail Obama, Bush, Clinton, and every other powerful-gangster in America for a long time. And i assume the US-deep-gangster-state has been doing the same to powerful gangsters all over the globe since WWII.
Again, ‘shocking’.
Enh.
The only odd thing about this particular dynamic to me, is Trump aint playin by the usual gangster rules. He’s like a gangster from out of town or somethin.
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vJanuary 12, 2017 at 2:52 pm in reply to: Another Russian Bombshell. And I don't mean Larissa Antipova. #63231wvParticipantI agree with Glenn Greenwald.
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vwvParticipantShoulder, concussion, seizures — all things he can recover from.
It was the Back i was worried about — and it seems to have held up fine.
So, I’m cautiously optimistic about Q.
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vwvParticipantI hate this.
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vJanuary 11, 2017 at 4:37 pm in reply to: Chomsky on Trump…emphasis on climate change, racial demographics #63138wvParticipantSo what does the writer say is the reason for the lack of resistance?
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vJanuary 11, 2017 at 3:36 pm in reply to: get rid of the idea that Russian hack stories are about disgruntled dems #63130wvParticipantWhat’s your take on that, WV? On what they mean by “the system” and what they want to replace it with.
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Oh, i just think most of em are prisoners of mainstream rightwing memes, and propaganda. The usual blame the poor stuff.Corporate-capitalist Propaganda works.
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vJanuary 11, 2017 at 1:31 pm in reply to: get rid of the idea that Russian hack stories are about disgruntled dems #63112wvParticipanthttps://www.facebook.com/RBReich/posts/1434615213217737
Robert Reich
This morning a friend told me he’s stopped reading or watching the news. I asked him why.
“Because it just gets me upset,” he says.
“So you don’t know what’s been happening with Trump?”
“No. I have enough on my hands.”
“You’re not interested in claims that Trump and his people might have colluded with Putin’s henchmen in trying to throw the election for Trump?”
“Why should I be interested? What’s anyone going to do about it? He’ll be president in a few days.”
“If it’s true, he won’t get away with it,” I say.
“Of course he will. He gets away with everything. He doesn’t disclose his taxes. He gets away with it. He doesn’t divest his financial interests. He gets away with it. He breaks the nepotism law by putting his son-in-law and business partner into the White House. He gets away with it. He gets away with nominating the CEO of ExonMobil for Secretary of State – a man who’s buddies with Putin, who came up through the ranks at Exxon by managing the company’s Russia account, who got the fu*king “Order of Friendship” from Putin. This morning Trump has the audacity to send out a tweet saying we’re Nazi Germany because the FBI is investigating his Russian connection.”
“So you have been keeping up with the news,” I say, smiling.
“And you remember Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort? He’s a key player here. He knows the Russian oligarchs around Putin, and made a bundle from them. He was a go-between. Also Michael Flynn, Trump’s foreign policy advisor, who’s been in cahoots with Russian propaganda. And Trump’s guy Michael Cohen, his lawyer from way back. Cohen was involved, too. Had a meeting in Prague with Russian operatives. Cohen …”
I break in. “Hold on. You know more than I do.”
“I guess I have been following it a bit,” he says, sheepishly.
“That’s good. All of us have to stay informed.”
“It just gets me upset. Nobody’s going to do anything about any of this. Trump will get away with it.”
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Not really responding to that article, but just an off-tangent response — I was talking to a cop today at the court-house. He’s a trump supporter. And i asked him point blank about all this ‘russian hacking stuff’ and he said, and i quote: “Its all bullshit”I think he speaks for a lot of trumpies. They…dont…care. The MSM and the CIA could come up with videos, photos, audios, and a thousand witnesses — and the trumpies..would…not…care. Cause they hate the ‘system’ more than they care about the details about Trump. They ‘know’ he’s shady. They think the system is ‘worse’.
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vJanuary 11, 2017 at 1:27 pm in reply to: get rid of the idea that Russian hack stories are about disgruntled dems #63111wvParticipantYou think class and id-pol can both be talked about, and i think class needs more emphasis. Blah blah blah.
As far as I am concerned, the “identity politics” phrase is empty. It doesn’t mean anything. It’s a catch phrase from those who reject certain (what are to me clear and obvious) truths.
Namely this.
You cannot separate class and race in discussing the USA and its politics. Not even by any “percentage.” Not even for “emphasis.” In the USA those 2 things cannot be separated. By any degree.
To me, any effort to do so just distorts everything.
Selecting one side of that and calling it “identity politics” does nothing for the discussion.
And in fact the majority of Trump voters are decently well off.
And, white.
So the demographics do not support the “beleagured working class support Trump” idea. Especially since in the USA there IS such a thing as “white working class,” a lot of whom are pro-Trump (in fact that’s his real majority. You leave race out of it and the way I see it, you’re just chasing windmills).
I never use the term “identity politics.” To me it is automatically dismissive.
I say “race.”
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I agree that, that is how you see it 🙂
We can both write each others posts on that topic.w
vwvParticipantWell but the MSN always thot Kissinger was sexy. You left that out.
Try and be more balanced in the future.w
vJanuary 11, 2017 at 11:44 am in reply to: Chomsky on Trump…emphasis on climate change, racial demographics #63097wvParticipantMan, oh, man. As january 20 approaches, I just get sicker and sicker in my stomach. These cabinet appointments…Jesus Christ. And Pence and McConnell and Ryan. The lunatics have taken over the asylum.
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Well, zooey we were totally screwed either way. As you know.I dont know if Trump will be worse than Hillary, because i dont know what effect the Trump presidency will have four years from now. I also dont agree with noam that every single policy of Trumps is worse than Hillarys. I mean its conceivable to me that Trumps trade deals will be better than Hillarys. I dunno.
He’s a monster though. No doubt. And his cabinet and supreme court justices and fed judges are gonna be nightmarish.
But maybe it will shock people into some kind of leftist-resistance. I think you agree that is our one ray of hope.
…Speaking of Trump tweets andd trump talk…Someone today told me Trump supporters take him seriously, but dont take him literally. And anti-trumpers take him literally but not seriously.
I dunno if that makes any sense but thats what i heard at the water cooler today.
January 11, 2017 at 11:34 am in reply to: get rid of the idea that Russian hack stories are about disgruntled dems #63095wvParticipantAnd i wonder how much the CIA interfered in RUSSIAN politics
over the last few decades? Where’s the stories on that?Should either one happen? Remember, some of us can’t be tarred with the “yeah well the USA does it too” brush. Some of us have been complaining about THAT all along, too.
And, of course, how exactly would the USA intervene in a Russian “fair election”? Who is the Russian Barry Sanders? Maybe the USA backed HIM.
Though one thing has happened. We’ve gone from the “there was no Russian election intervention” story to “well okay but what difference does it make” (which is Trump’s reaction, after initially denying it was real.)
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Um…no. I have never ever said there was no russian influence. I have said what Chomsky has said: “enh”. That is way different from denying the russian hacking.My own emphasis is on the hypocrisy of all the MSN sites howling over the russian hacking. Their howling is selective and it distracts people from all the shit this government has done to other nations.
So, my thing is, dont complain about the rooskies if you are also not going to complain about the CIA. (I know u complain about both).Which is the more important story — what the rooskies did or how the US has interfered in countless elections all over the globe? Which story is going to get played up in the US and which story is going to get suppressed or ignored?
So which story ‘needs’ more energy devoted to it?
And which story doesnt.For me this is similar to the class vs id-politix thing. You think class and id-pol can both be talked about, and i think class needs more emphasis. Blah blah blah.
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vwvParticipantI would ‘guess’ that many rightwingers would have a different list of reasons. I would ‘guess’ many rightwingers would say people are poor because they are ‘lazy’ and feel ‘entitled’ etc.
And thats part of the big core-divide between the left and right, i guess.
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vJanuary 11, 2017 at 7:51 am in reply to: get rid of the idea that Russian hack stories are about disgruntled dems #63081wvParticipantAmerican intel has already made clear that among many other things the russians did, yes they hacked the dems (and the republicans too they just didn’t release that info).
They did do the hacking. That’s not all they did.
And this topic has nothing to do with who won the election. It has to do with whether it’s true there was russian involvement in the election in various ways.
And. Yes, there was.
ON TOP OF IT, this is not about dems whining. It goes way beyond that. Anyone who tries to construe it as JUST dems whining is just not engaging with the entire issue and all the info we have.
I see this discussion as Jane Democracy’s corpse is found and this discussion is focused on the small cuts and abrasions on her back.Are they from glass beer bottle glass? whiskey bottle glass ,what store was the glass bought at? Meanwhile there’s a massive hole where her heat used to be , a large and very bloody butcher knife with noticeably stumpy fingerprints on it lays at her side and a trail of bloody footprints leading to a limo headed for an inauguration.
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Well, I’m in a similar camp. The “russian hacking” story seems like a minor issue to me, given what the corporotacracy (and the CIA/NSA in particular) is and has been doing to the biosphere over the last fifty years.
Others have a different view, i know.
I wonder how the powers-that-be will try and counter
all this ‘hacking’ in the future, btw?And i wonder how much the CIA interfered in RUSSIAN politics
over the last few decades? Where’s the stories on that? 🙂w
vwvParticipantAccording to WikiLeaks, the Russians
were behind the Fisher extension leak.
Or maybe it was the Patriots. Or the Joker. I forget.The main point is,
this is one sorry ass team.And i think it needs a big rebuild.
It will be very interesting to see how many of these
rams are still on the team in two years.w
vwvParticipantI assume the way the Repugnants will play is something like this — they will scream and yell and diss ObamaCare to their Core/Base voters. And they will talk about fighting the good fight for freedom from big-government, etc. And they will allow the Dems to derail their ‘effort’ to Repeal ObamaCare.
That way they can pretend to fight for something ‘better’ and they can blame the Democrats for blocking their efforts.
Simple.
They are not stupid.
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vwvParticipantAre they high on Gurley, i wonder?
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vJanuary 9, 2017 at 8:47 pm in reply to: Trump is such a baby: Meryl Streeps speech and Trump's reaction. #62996wvParticipantbut i also agree that trump for some bizarre reason is able to tap into that anger even though he too is part of that elite class. i don’t know why people don’t see that. it baffles me
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Well its not new. How many Duplicats or Replicants can you name that were NOT part of the multi-millionaire-class ? John Kerry? Clinton? Bush? Trump? Gore? ..just go down the list.Americans have been trained that they only have two choices. The Dem-elite or the Rep-Elite. Trump was just one more in a long line. Sure he had billions instead of Hillary’s hundred million, but still…
Why do Americans vote Dem or Rep every single time? Cause they’ve been trained by the system to do that. In all the ways weve discussed for ten years.
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vwvParticipantWell we know some players didnt quit. Like the Oline.
I mean to ‘quit’ you have to actually begin to play in the first place.
…i keep thinkin of that Chris Long vid. The one where he was asked to compare his experiences with the Rams and Pats, and he said he wouldn’t compare them — but then he emphasized the “Pats players are unselfish“.
One could reasonably conclude he was making a point there.
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