Rams at 6-6. Game behind Seattle.

Bills at LA
49ers
Jets
Cards at LA
Seahawks at LA
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Intriguing schedule. I certainly see zero reason to trust this Ram team, but there is a path to the division title there. They can still take it. Or they can finish Last.

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I dunno how they come back after a game like that Eagle game. I mean that was just an outright Alice’s Restaurant Massacre. A physical humiliation. A beat-down.

I got the impression that as the Eagles game wore on and the D was getting challenged physically, they began to “press”–get undisciplined trying to make plays. If you listen to the analysis from Rodrigue and others, they made mistakes and abandoned their gap discipline, which of course made things worse. Or, I guess, even worse. It was a regression because since the bye they had been tighter when it comes to that.

We’ll see how much they learned from that and if learning from it can improve them this year. But you can learn from that. IMO? No one who is competitive enough to play in the NFL just “quits” because of a loss.

Heck the 2021 Rams suffered an embarassing 31-10 loss against the 9ers in week 10, allowing 156 yards rushing while getting just 52 on their side, and throwing 2 INTs including a pick 6. That Rams team as you know won the super bowl. So they came back from that game. I doubt the super bowl is on the horizon this year but they can learn from a bad loss and come back better.
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Ok, but what about getting plum mad-dog mean?

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So, once again, a team played its best game against the Rams.

And, Philly is being touted as a super team. Maybe.

But watch the Eagles come out and play like shit, and Lose next week.

Because the football gods hate the rams.

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Sigh. 5-6.

Saints
Bills
49ers
Jets
Cards
Seahawks

To have a winning season, they have to go 4-2, now.

This is officially, a ‘disappointing season’ btw.

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Eagles – 31
Rams – 28
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Bet the house.

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“that game scarred McVay SO MUCH….” – the fangio game (Bears). Belichex copied the Fangio approach in 2018.

“This is the nerd game of the year…”

Now, they meet again. Fangio vs McVay

I’m calling this a Revenge Game. I dont care.

Some of us still remember.

And don’t let them film the pregame walk thru, or
deflate anyone’s balls.

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Just some Thomas Frank

I dont like it when teams have their best game of the year against the Rams. I maintain that is a bad thing.
Cards, Bears, Dolphins.

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Fwiw, I heard a blurb on a vid: “those making 50,000 dollars or less supported Trump. Those making 100,000 or more supported Kamala”

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3 Prices were high. I mean food costs are bad.

To be honest, for me, that’s the main one. Biden didn’t have charisma either and the millions of racists and sexists among Magas were the same in 2020, but Trump had a bad economy in 2020 so there was turnout for Biden.

As for the world ending, I have actual, real, and authoritative divine assurances that that won’t happen till after the Rams next super bowl win. So, things are fine.

I think high prices were the main one, too. Not the only one, but the main one.
Every Kamala ad on my internet leading up to the election was about that issue. But I suspect she was not believable. Biden seemed more believable. (I’m not saying “I” believed him)

Maybe Covid helped Biden, too, and hurt Trump. All the chaos.

If the Dems can win the House back in two years, maybe the world wont end quite as quickly.
I mean how much damage can the Reps do in two years 🙂

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The David Brooks piece in the NY Times is getting a lot of attention.

The problem with that entire argument is that it acts like the racism and sexism and transphobia etc of the Trump voter is just this superficial thing and they’re voting for their economic interests.

It’s bs. They’re voting AGAINST their economic interests.

They’re voting FOR their race, gender, cis, straight, anti-immigrant prejudices. That’s how they’re conned into voting against their economic interests.

It’s just another weak version of the “class is everything” argument claiming there is a working-class wisdom to the Trump vote. Well, no, and puke. If there;s any group of people who vote most blindly against their own economic interests it’s Trump voters.

The whole “class is everything” approach is invariably done wrong. Plus it has the added drawback of dividing the left. To me an actual, real class analysis of this election would focus on the ways in which Trump voters routinely vote directly against their own class interests.

Well, I am a doomer in part because i think a large amount of the working class will not and can not relate to a leftist economic argument.

For example, i have never forgotten the fact that Bernie was winning the Dem Primary — because the opposing forces were divided. But as soon as it got down to one — Biden — the voters picked Biden. For lots of reasons but the choice was stark. A lot of people like to talk about that election like the DNC cheated Bernie, but the voters knew what the diff was between Bernie and Biden. No-one twisted dem arms to get them to pick Biden.

I could go on about why, i agree a class analysis just bounces off DEMS, let alone Reps.

This is a long subject. Way too much for me to type.

I think the Left is fucked. And thus, so is the planet.

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Bernie’s got a vid where he solemnly, calmly states he ‘disagrees’ with Kamala’s Israel policy, etc. I watched it and thought, what if a Nazi politician had done a vid where he ‘disagreed’ with killing all the commies and jews. ‘Disagreed’. Jeezus.

I see a lot of voices (tweeter) on the left trying to make out that Harris lost bc of Gaza, and…you know…that’s not it. One thing I’ve noticed in my life is that few people get upset at the suffering and deaths of people they do not know personally. Is that a Leftist thing? I’ll have to ponder that.

Yeah, Leftists took the genocide seriously, but the rest of the country couldn’t care less or were misinformed, or loved jesus-and-israel etc.

I dont think the US-Israel genocide had much of an impact, except maybe in Michigan.

Which sez a lot about the complete moral-decay and capitalist-pathology of US primates.

At any rate, I’m pretty disconnected from Dem-Rep politics, though, these days.   So, I dont have a good sense of the exact algebra of why the soul-less Duplicat lost and the Buffoon Replicant won.

But I am curious.   (In a quirky, doomer, apocalyptic, wry way. )   I like to keep up on mainstream capitalist-pathology and ecocide-culture.  🙂     So, i will read around, the next few weeks, as i did in 2016.    Probly the same exact forces are at play.  Same factions.

My gut tells me, that Kamala is John Kerry.  She’s Bob Dole.  She’s just got a dull personality that did not excite enough people.   Shallow amerikunz.  Ya know.

Leftists often like to say Dems lose because the party moved too far right, and abandoned the working class.  I mean, leftists always say that.   Could be truth to that.  I dunno.  Thats why LEFTISTS didnt like her.  But Clinton won twice by moving right.  Obama won twice by moving right.   I mean, the Dem ecocide-coalition sometimes works.  Sometimes it doesnt.   I dunno.

RD Kelly saying the usual leftist stuff about the Dems abandoning the working class…

The David Brooks piece in the NY Times is getting a lot of attention.

White women.

“…Trump’s success with white women highlighted a longstanding truth: this group votes for Republicans. Over the last 72 years, a plurality of white women have voted for the Democratic candidate in only two presidential elections – in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson won 44 states, and in 1996, when Bill Clinton ran in a three-way race.”  Guardian