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ZooeyModeratorKHive is going nutz, and blaming Sanders for this.
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ZooeyModeratorThe Rams will not be able to pick players like Donald, Brockers, etc, but every other team with a first round pick will……
Yes, but a lot of those guys will pick Tony Mandarich.
Meanwhile, the Rams trade for Ramsey.
ZooeyModeratorZooeyModeratorI think I’m optimistic about the year. The defense is going to be good, and the offense should be better.
I have two main areas of concern (outside of health which is always a concern, but uncontrollable) and those are the turnover in the coaching staff. That makes me uneasy. And the other is the lack of a deep game.
I haven’t seen an explanation as to why the Rams just didn’t have those explosive plays last year. We know Goff has made those throws in the past. What was different? I know they lost Cooks, but the Rams have some receivers, and they have some speed, and I don’t understand why the Rams didn’t stretch the field this last year.
Both of those issues may be forgotten by October as ever having been a concern, but those are two things about the Rams that unsettle me.
I’d like to see upgrades in personnel, but nothing really worries me there. They’ve got players.
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ZooeyModeratorThere is a deep problem in our democracy when the Executive branch is willing to bend over backwards to defer to arcane Senate rules to deny Americans a $15 wage but at the same time ride roughshod over Congressional rules & procedures to launch military strikes abroad.
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) February 27, 2021
ZooeyModeratorOn the 36th day of his presidency, Joe Biden bombed Syria, gave up on a $15 minimum wage, and didn't send out survival checks to the millions of people going hungry.
— Gravel Institute (@GravelInstitute) February 26, 2021
ZooeyModeratorYeah, so I fixed that Marjorie Taylor Greene video.@RepMTG #TransphobicCopKiller pic.twitter.com/trgMXib8JZ
— Paul Lee Teeks (@PaulLeeTeeks) February 25, 2021
ZooeyModerator”We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here… isn’t that refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama?” — Kayleigh McEnany, 2/25/20 pic.twitter.com/dXKHAKGrUn
— Matt Wilstein (@mattwilstein) October 5, 2020
ZooeyModeratorOne year ago today…
ZooeyModeratorJelly: Grape
Jam: Blackberry
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ZooeyModeratorAnd we may have stumbled upon the reason Joe Manchin doesn’t want to vote to confirm Tanden.
So it turns out Neera Tanden criticized @Sen_JoeManchin's daughter for her extraordinary pay increases, after she raised the price of the Epi-Pen from $100 to $600 and moved Mylan's HQ to the Netherlands to reduce taxes. https://t.co/K59rrwM05N. pic.twitter.com/snYaAK9Xfu
— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) February 24, 2021
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ZooeyModeratorI am hoping that some day, someone will be able to explain just WTF is going on this off-season because I’ve never seen this kind of thing happen before in 50-something years of watching the Rams.
This is just weird, and begs for an explanation, and I’m surprised that nobody has put together a story because everybody is asking the same question, I think. This is not a staff shakeup after a disappointing season of failed expectations. This is a team on the rise, legitimately in the conversation for next year, and there has been an unprecedented exodus of coaches. Why?
ZooeyModeratoryeah. i’m not feeling good about this off-season. not sure what’s going on.
hope mcvay doesn’t have a vermeil-like meltdown.
don’t know if he’s feeling the pressure of trying to win a superbowl…
That’s what it looks like from where I’m standing, but I don’t know.
One thing is for sure, though: The Rams are All-In with McVay, and McVay is All-In with Stafford, and it’s Super Bowl or Bust. I guess we should just take our seats early, and watch this damn thing go because it looks like we are in for a memorable season.
ZooeyModeratorNah, i messed up the link, somehow. It was sposed to be the yellow penguin,
which is awesome.I do not feel like that is sufficiently apologetic.
ZooeyModeratorSomething is wrong.
That’s all I got.
ZooeyModeratorI gotta say that…Ted Cruz IS a dick. But there is not one goddamn thing he can do about the current crisis. That’s on the governor and state people.
It’s not a good look. But this is about Optics. Maybe he shoulda known better, but this isn’t the best reason to hate Ted Cruz.
ZooeyModeratorSo, what you’re saying is the Rams are about to go from a Hav, to a Hav not.
ZooeyModeratorHere is another view, from Heather Cox Richardson, an historian who has a sizable following on FB. It proposes a theory for why the Dems abandoned witnesses for pretty simple, practical reasons.
“…Trump’s lawyers proceeded in the impeachment trial with the same rhetorical technique Trump and his supporters use: they flat-out lied. Clearly, they were not trying to get at the truth but were instead trying to create sound bites for right-wing media, the same way Trump and the rest of his cabal convinced supporters of the big lie that he had won, rather than lost, the 2020 election. In that case, they lied consistently in front of the media, but could not make anything stick in a courtroom, where there are penalties for not telling the truth.
In the first impeachment hearings, Trump supporters did the same thing, shouting and lying to create sound bites, and while the sworn testimony was crystal clear, their antics left many Americans convinced not of the facts but that then-President Trump was being persecuted by Democrats who were trying to protect Hunter Biden. So, while it’s reasonable to imagine that witnesses would illustrate Trump’s depravity, it seems entirely likely that, as Trump’s lawyers continued simply to lie and their lies got spread through right-wing media as truth, Americans would have learned the opposite of what they should have.
Instead, the issue of Trump’s guilt on January 6 will play out in a courtroom, where there are actual rules about telling the truth. Trump’s own lawyers suggested he should answer for his actions in a court of law, and in a fiery speech after the vote, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell set up the same idea. But even if that does not happen, the Capitol rioters will be in court, keeping in front of Americans both the horrific events of January 6 and their contention that they showed up to fight because their president asked them to.
The constant refrain of the January 6 insurrection mirrors the Republicans’ use of sham investigations to convince people that Democrats are criminals—think, for example, of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails—except, this time, the cases are real. This should address the problem of manufactured sound bites, and should benefit the Democrats with voters, especially as Republicans are now openly the Party of Trump.
McConnell tried to address the party’s capitulation immediately after the vote with a speech blaming Trump for the insurrection and saying that his own vote to acquit was because he does not think the Senate can try a former president. This is posturing, of course; McConnell made sure the Senate did not take up the House’s article of impeachment while Trump was still in office, and now says that, because it did not do so, it does not have jurisdiction.
McConnell is trying to have it both ways. He has made it clear he wants to free the Republican Party from its thralldom to Trump, and he needs to do so in order to regain both voters and the major donors who have distanced themselves from party members who support the big lie. But he needs to keep Trump voters in the party. So he has bowed to the Trump wing in the short term, hoping to retain its goodwill, and then, immediately after the vote, gave a speech condemning Trump to reassure donors that he and the party are still sane. He likely hopes that, as the months go by and the Republicans block President Biden’s plans, alienated voters and donors will come back around to the party. From this perspective, the seven Republican votes to convict Trump provide excellent cover.
It’s a cynical strategy and probably the best he can do, but it’s a long shot that it alone will enable the Republicans to regain control of the House and the Senate in 2022. For that, the Republicans need to get rid of Democratic votes….”
ZooeyModeratorDoesn’t this contradict your theory about how the Dems avoided trying to destroy the Republican party with the impeachment trial?
I am not sure what you mean. Are you saying that the general apathy would prevent the Dems from destroying the Reps?
I think calling witnesses would have ripped away a whole lot of complacency. I think that right now, a lot of people think it was bad, but basically some loose cannons who aimlessly vandalized the Capitol. I think calling witnesses would reveal a network of plotters who were serious about overthrowing the government, and that the network included some pretty powerful people who committed a treason against the government that was as great an assault as the Reichstag fire, and just as dangerous. I think the Dems pulled back from that.
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ZooeyModeratorThe role of the two parties is to keep us separated, while gaslighting us into thinking we’re a part of something bigger.
I wonder how many Dems or Republicans, at the individual level, know this is happening, promote it, go along with it, or fight against it.
I agree with all of that.
This last bit, though, reminded me of another thought that has been rolling around inside my head, and that is this: we just saw an attempted violent overthrow of a democratically-elected government, instigated by the defeated president of the United States, aided by members of the government at the highest levels.
That is just astonishing.
It should blow away even 9/11 and Pearl Harbor as the most shocking attack on this country in since the Civil War, if not of all American history.
And the country is DIVIDED on whether it was really such a bad thing or not.
AND…there is hardly a whimper of outrage from the public. Americans just really aren’t all that interested in it outside of the usual circle of people who follow politics for a hobby much the same way as we follow football. The entire country got upset at 9/11, and the Challenger disaster, and whatever, but this shit show got pretty low ratings, and America was – you know – flipping ahead in the book to see how many more pages were left. They wanted it to just be over somehow.
That right there is substantial cause for concern, imo. We just experienced a fascist coup attempt right before our eyes, right here in the US Capitol, and a few thousand Republicans dropped their party affiliation, and then we all tuned into WandaVision.
The people who supported the coup are all STILL THERE, the same place they were before the coup, and one failed coup attempt wiser in planning and coordination. And nobody seems to fucking care.
ZooeyModeratorNo Meghan, they can't, because 47 Republicans authorized Y'all Qaeda to come back anytime Commandante Don calls on them. https://t.co/AiQNq5t90h
— Nina Burleigh (@ninaburleigh) February 15, 2021
ZooeyModeratorAccording to several reports, Republicans reportedly threatened to wield the filibuster against Biden’s cabinet nominees and legislative agenda if Democrats called witnesses in the impeachment trial. The reasoning goes that Biden and the Democrats want to get something accomplished, so they caved to the threat of the Republicans to immobilize the government.
That’s probably true, but I still don’t think that is the real reason the Democrats didn’t call witnesses. If they had called witnesses, they would have destroyed the GOP. The tendrils in this were not just between Trump and his mob. The tendrils also connected to about 10 people we know of for certain in Congress who were not just complicit, but collaborative in this attempted overthrow of the government. There were also tendrils into the Capitol police, and possibly the Pentagon and the National Guard. But we know for sure Congress and the police. The damage the GOP would have sustained from eyewitnesses and participants would have driven a fatal wedge between the Corporate/Business wing of the party and its fascist QAnon/MAGA populist wing. And that would have finished off the political power of the right. The consequence of that would have been that the the progressive wing of the Democrat party would have filled that power vacuum, and the Democrats prefer Republicans to the progressives. They’ve made that abundantly clear over the past decade. We have all seen that the Democrats punch left, and negotiate right. And destroying the Republican party would have inevitably led to all kinds of things: Green New Deal (a real one, too), Wall St reform, Medicare for All, increased wages and benefits for workers, stronger unions, less imperialism abroad, reduced police state, all kinds of things that the financiers of the Democrat party do not want to see happen. The Democrats NEED the Republicans so that THEY can be the leftward edge of the economic and political spectrums.
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