A 4-yard touchdown pass to receiver Cooper Kupp…was a teleported ball that disappeared from Stafford’s hands only to cross several space-time planes and re-appear in Kupp’s arms.

That’s how I saw that play, too.

Wellllll… I dunno who that Orr guy is, but I think he showed the world tonight why he is not an NFL starter. I wish the fella well, but he’s never showing film from this game to his kids, even if this is the only game he ever plays.

The Rams DL gets the game ball. That’s what I like. They just effed up Kyler Murray all night long, and that – along with two big TOs – is why they won. That INT by Jones was huge. Red Zone TOs are just killer, and Stafford made the best of it, driving down to score, and the Rams were in control from that point on. Leave it to the Rams to make it interesting by failing to fall on an onside kick, but a helpful penalty and DL pressure made sure the Cards couldn’t steal a game they were outplayed most of the night.

I liked it. I thought it was the Rams’ best performance of the season, in fact. They HAD to win this game, and they did, in spite of wide Covid chaos. I like the way CanadaRam called the secondary “high school,” because…man. That was not the starting lineup you want to see the Rams roll out on the road against the highest seed in the game.

Just… well done.

I thought I was going to scream when McVay started with 7 passes to 2 rushes, but he ended up using Michel effectively. I wanted more rushing, but when Stafford uncorks a throw like that to Jefferson, you can’t really complain that they should have given it to Michel to pick up 5 yards around the end.

And that TD to Kupp over there…what the hell was that? Looked like a bad pass in the dirt to a guy who wasn’t open, and couldn’t possibly catch that for a TD. It was so unlikely, that I wasn’t sure it was going to be good on the third replay. Just WTF was that pass? I don’t know how that ball got in there, and I don’t know how Kupp caught it, but I will take sandlot TDs any time the Rams feel like scoring them.

Best defensive effort of the season. Especially considering the state of the secondary. Wow.

1. Trump's "media company" is currently valued at $2 BILLION.

It has no product, no customers, and no revenue.

But it's much worse than that.

Follow along if interested. pic.twitter.com/YKyrgn2Hx6

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 11, 2021

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Today marks ten years since Gaddafi was murdered by NATO-backed rebels. The objective: to steal Libya's resources, and prevent African nations from adopting their own single currency, thereby threatening Western hegemony. My latest:https://t.co/59gjGVsMva

— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) October 20, 2021

With the new link, I got a notice from my network that it the site is not allowed, so it’s filtered from the computer I am using at work.

I did see most of the game. I think it was 10-7 when I started watching. I wanted to watch the first quarter.

I will try the link later. Thanks for your time, and all you do, Ag. Much appreciated.

Billy_T wrote:

I read the transcript. The video seemed to stop early.

A few observations: Stahl likely makes eight figures, and works for people who make nine or more. She isn’t going to tell the truth about capitalism, which is why she seemed intent on trashing China’s attempt to rein in its evil.

Capitalism killed off “free markets” on the way to becoming world hegemon — violently, thru slavery, genocide of Native peoples, and the mass theft of their lands and resources. I wish people would stop using that term as a synonym for it.

There is nothing capitalism produces than can’t be produced by a non-capitalist mode of production, and for far less, and with far better pay for the rank and file. It baffles me that so many people think that if we replace capitalism with economic democracy, suddenly all innovation dies and we’re living in caves again. Actually, the vast majority of innovation due to capitalism has been in the realm of squeezing more profits from workers, not in production of beneficial goods and services. Those have always come from the public sector.

No extra value is ever added by paying management or ownership hundreds of times more than the rank and file. In fact, and this is too obvious, all of that money hoovered up to the top radically reduces values for consumers, and dramatically suppresses rank and file wages. A company that pays its workers roughly the same amount, and its team leaders and management slightly more, has a ginormous amount of extra cash to invest in higher quality production, wages, etc. etc.

Every Bezos, Gates, or Musk is a horrible drag on the economy, on productivity, on consumer value, on wages, and inequality kills overall consumer demand, not to mention morale.

America has got to be the most gaslit nation in history, especially when it comes to capitalism, and we weren’t always that way. We used to know it was a terrible, immoral system. People just figured, “Well, we’ve got to make the best of it, right?” But roughly from Reagan on, that common sense/fatalism was replaced by a kind of religious devotion to a lie. No major party has the guts to tell the truth about it, tragically.

I agree with that. I coulda said it myself, but I would have said it in an angrier and less coherent way.

Eternal Ramnation wrote:

If the Rams come out with 6 OL 2 TEs with Michel they could keep KM and co off the field

Ahhh.

But do they HAVE two TEs?

I don’t know. That was a blowout win, I guess, but it was a mediocre one.

Even when the Rams win, they look like they have loose parts, and they kind of jangle their way through games.

Billy_T wrote:

It seems pretty obvious that the problem is the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the few. Best way to reduce the impact of the rich and powerful is to dilute that power and wealth, end those concentrations, disperse that to the four winds.

My wife and I took the unusual step of sitting down in front of the TV while we ate dinner last night, and when I turned on the TV, it was on CBS because I watched the end of the 9er/Hawks game earlier. It was during 60 Minutes, and whatshername was interviewing a Chinese economist about China’s moves to limit wealth, specifically some billionaires who had to cough up money to the government. You can see the skepticism from whatshername, who also interviews some Hoover Institute wealth apologist, and you can just see the Overton frames out loud. The idea that wealth concentration is good because those accumulators are the geniuses who make all the wonderful things in the world. You know.

But the whole thing made me a fan of China suddenly. I mean…I haven’t given the whole thing much thought, other than to observe that China is ascending, and will soon become the world’s superpower as the US continues to decline, but…these Chinese horrors all sound pretty good to me.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/xi-jinping-china-capitalism-60-minutes-2021-12-05/

I don’t know if this is “political,” per se, but here’s a thread of tweets I agree with.

Most people are deeply unconscious and patterned. Ruling elites are no exception, in fact they're MORE unconscious. It's a common mistake to think of these people as rational actors; really their minds are running on autopilot in response to conditioning put in place long ago.

— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) December 6, 2021