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ZooeyModeratorYeah. It’s over. Capitalism is in Stage 4 cancer right now, and we are basically looking at palliative care. I’m kinda curious how these completely self-sufficient billionaire bunkers are going to work out, but I won’t be around to watch that part of the story.
ZooeyModeratorGiven how we already look at the poor of other nations as animals and are trying to build a wall to keep them out, there is little hope that we will respond humanely when whole populations of them are forced to move as climate change progresses.
Yes, that’s been disturbing me for quite some time. There are going to be hundreds of millions of people displaced. Mostly poor, brown people. And they are going to head north.
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Fox’s take on it, so far:jesuschristmybrainisbleeding.
Wow.
Well…if Bleached Blonde C-Cup says so….
ZooeyModeratorI’m sorry, but the second somebody utters the phrase “progress them forward,” I’m out.
I can put up with a lot of things, but you may not tarnish the English language without consequence.
ZooeyModeratorTrump is an entirely new level of corrupt. He has moved the country from a state of polite corruption into a state of corruption in broad daylight. The really discouraging thing to me is that a significant minority of the country is perfectly okay with that. Not “Trump? Whatever.” There are 50-60 million people in this country who are “Trump? Fuck, yeah!”
That aside…if this whistle-blower thing is what it appears to be…Pelosi cannot sit on her hands any longer. This is treason. This isn’t just run of the mill malfeasance, obstruction, lying, embezzlement whatever. It’s flat out treason.
I believe Pelosi has calculated that it will be better for Dems to let Trump continue to inflame the country with his corruption, incompetence, and racist hatred than to impeach him. The dude is blowing himself up on his own petard, and the likelihood of a blue wave in 2020 is pretty good, imo. Nobody is going to incite a massive turnout like Trump. And I think that has been her thinking.
But that calculus has to go out the window if, in fact, Trump has leveraged a foreign nation in an attempt to interfere in the election.
And I think this is serious. ALL of it is serious (which is your point), but this is like Super Duper Uber Serious. An intelligence official has just galloped his horse with guidon blazing over a cliff. No matter what happens as a result of this, that person has just killed his/her own career. You cannot blow the whistle on the President and keep your day job. For somebody to do that, it has to be the Real Deal. Not some kind of librul hitjob made out of nothing. You don’t accuse the president of failing to come to a complete stop at a stop sign. This has to be a Hit and Run under the influence. You don’t throw away your career on anything less.
So. IMO this is it. If this doesn’t lead to impeachment, it’s time to pack the bags and get out because the country is officially over.
ZooeyModeratorJake W. Goldman@JakeWGoldman
Guys: “I let my wife pick all the colors for our wedding because I’m terrible with that stuff.”Also guys: “I prefer our alternate uniforms because the helmet doesn’t clash as much with our pants and compliments the secondary color we use for our jersey piping.”
Yeah…that’s not accurate.
It’s…”The alternate uniforms are better cuz the other one sucks.”
ZooeyModeratorIs there a yapper who deserves a paycheck less than Skip Bayless?
I’m not sure that anybody on the planet takes him seriously.
ZooeyModeratorWell, I’m sure people are very interested in this, and that whatever they do is going to generate controversy among fans.
I had originally thought that they would change the logo, and modify the colors based on some sort of blue/white or blue/yellow combo. Then I saw the shape of the stadium roof from above, and thought it looked very similar to the current Rams logo, and thought that must have been done on purpose. I guess not.
Anyway…the ONE THING they CAN’T do is get rid of the horns. They have to know that.
They know that, right?
I mean…they radically change the helmet, and there’s going to be a frenzy.
ZooeyModeratorChristopher Todd Massey.
It’s unbelievable that it needed to be said, but wv spends his Sundays watching the 49ers, so it’s not surprising.
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ZooeyModeratorWithout a doubt…that is the flimsiest set of arguments I have ever read.
ZooeyModeratorBash on, regardless.
September 18, 2019 at 8:21 pm in reply to: the one-shot tweets thread (diff'rent stuff, funny angry interesting) #105284ZooeyModeratorJust got this from a student this afternoon.
ZooeyModeratorYou are out of your mind.
This has been argued since Roger Staubach, but it’s never happened.
There’s always a guy or two like Wilson, or Elway, or Young, or Staubach, or Tarkenton…
But there are a lot more Vicks and RGIIIs and Tebows et al.
Those college running QBs are going to learn to stay put, or they are going to get kilt. Meanwhile later round picks like Tom Brady, Joe Montana, and Jeff Smoker are going to dominate in the future.
ZooeyModeratorPro Football Talk: 5th (5th)
It may not be sustainable, but 2-0 is still 2-0.
In our expert analysis, we really didn’t think the Rams would be undefeated this deep into the season, but so far…they are. Gotta admit it.
September 18, 2019 at 7:22 pm in reply to: Do the Rams stand a chance against mighty Cleveland? #105279ZooeyModeratorI don’t think I’ve seen the Browns play since Ernest Byner fumbled.
I have heard that the Browns are likely to go to the Super Bowl, so I figure the Rams win by 17 in this game.
ZooeyModeratorFor Weddle, the game Sunday was his first at the Coliseum, which is about 45 minutes from where he grew up in the Inland Empire.
That’s bullshit right there.
There is no way to get from the Coliseum to the Inland Empire in 45 minutes without a helicopter. Unless it is 3 am on a Sunday night.
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ZooeyModeratorJ.B. Long@JB_Long
Sean McVay on RG Austin Blythe:
Good news. He’s day-to-day with a low ankle sprain.*If Blythe is unable to go in Week 3, it would be the first time a @RamsNFL offensive lineman misses a start due to injury since McVay was hired.
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ZooeyModeratorI’ve watched that blown call play many times and I think it should have been a personal foul on Davenport Rams’ ball 1st and goal. Forearm shot hit Goff in the head and upper chest and ribs . I looked it up and yes it’s a loss of 15 yards penalty but because his Jersey doesn’t say Brady or Rodgers nobody says a word.
This is the Cam Jordan fumble recovery play?
ZooeyModeratorSeems like a lot of people are reluctant to give the Rams and Goff credit. I don’t know why that is. But their winning seems to be minimized, and their mistakes presented as their True Character, or whatever.
This team is really, really good. Really good. And people are saying they are going to miss the playoffs?
Yeah…I don’t think so.
ZooeyModeratorI already lost a good female friend this weekend because she told me to calm down because it was just a game. Any idiot that says that doesn’t realize what being a saints fan is all about. I am proud to be a saints fan since it is about family, integrity, loyalty, perseverance, and flat out passion.
I think your female friend might be on to something.
Saints fans have every reason to be bitter. There was the Minneapolis Miracle one year, followed by last year’s bitter defeat.
So I understand they wanted to exorcise all those demons yesterday in magnificent fashion, and I get that the blown call hurt.
But the Rams beat the shit out of the Saints yesterday, and that’s the truth. So those fans will get over it, and they’ll be back. Especially after they march into Seattle next week and beat Nittany’s favorite team back to the Stone Age.
ZooeyModeratorEnh. Okay. Hands to the face.
Can’t tell that he deliberately took off the guy’s helmet. I kinda doubt that was the intent because…nobody in the heat of a play calculates that taking off somebody’s helmet is a good plan. Looks to me like they were scrapping, and that thing happened. And the “blow to the chin” looks to me like a push off to the chest, but that’s me.
Also…I won’t miss Peters if they don’t resign him given the depth they have, and his likely price tag.
ZooeyModeratorI thought the call on Noteboom was marginal, but only got to see it once on replay.
ZooeyModeratorWell, i keep thinkin either bernie or warren will have to drop out, and maybe they join forces and will be on the same ticket. I would think that would be about as good as the duplicats can get.
Biden is just such an embarrassment in so many ways. And the DNC’s great hope Kamala, was a disaster.
Trump is by far the most…’interesting’ politician I can think of.
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vI oppose having them both on the ticket. The VP is the trophy wife of politics, and if we are lucky enough to have one of them as president, we will need the other one in the Senate. Getting rid of McConnell is arguably more important than anything else. Support for Kamala seems to have stalled which is a good thing. My big fear is a brokered convention, and I think we will get one unless either Sanders or Warren drops out. Hopefully they work that out. Can a candidate “will” his/her delegates? I don’t think so. I think they are free to vote differently on the second ballot at the convention, though. Not sure. I think the last brokered convention was ’68, and all I remember of that was the police arresting everybody outside.
But Biden, Sanders, and Warren could each come up short of the winning number, and then the DNC fucks everybody over by forcing Biden on us, and Trump gets a second term, and Ginsburg dies, and Trump appoints Alex Jones to the Supreme Court, and we all get to live The Road while billionaires live in luxury bunkers.
At the moment, I’m for a Sanders/Castro ticket. I think that’s a winner.
ZooeyModeratorHe’s the best shot we have.
We don’t know if he will get us anywhere.
But we know for sure none of the other candidates will.
ZooeyModeratorThat was interesting.
Funny, though. I remember the Boston Patriots, and disapproved of the name change to New England.
Had NO idea that happened when I was 11 years old. Would have guessed late 70s, or even 1980.
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ZooeyModeratorYeah, the only reason it was called the National Socialist Party was because socialism was popular among the working class in Germany during the economic turmoil following WWI. The newly formed Nazi party simply wanted to tap into that.
I use the same argument you mention above whenever my brother thinks he’s scoring points by reminding me that the KKK was started by southern Democrats. Then I remind him which political party the modern KKK endorses. It shuts him up for about a week. Then he’ll rehash the same argument. It’s like I’m stuck in a bizarre, Trumpian Ground Hog Day time loop.
No matter how often I tell him that even though I’m a registered Democrat, I don’t really consider myself a Democrat. I’m a Dem only because in a two party system, I was forced to choose between the lesser of two evils. Regardless, he still thinks he’s going to shock me into submission by reciting Dem transgressions. He can’t see beyond the Dem/Rep false dichotomy, or understand that the Left and Liberals aren’t synonymous.
Yeah, having been around in circles on several topics with my own idiot brothers, I can sympathize. It’s funny the way they think they “score points.” It’s often “Obama” or “Clinton” or whoever, sometimes it’s sheer fiction (or both…like when my brother argued that the Iraq War was fine until Obama allowed ISIS to take over. Recently he pulled the “I’m a scientist, so I know better” card on me during a debate on climate science. He’s a physician.
Thing is…they aren’t interested in anything other than protecting an ideology. We will never convince them that Nazis don’t share an Essential Authoritarianism with the Left no matter what. We aren’t going to convince them that Republicans are racist no matter what. I can’t convince my brother that the overwhelming preponderance of climatologists around the world have the weight of evidence on their side, and are not motivated by the desire to further enlarge the government appetite for destroying business.
We occupy different realities. They FEEL like theirs is the Truth, and that’s that.
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