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ZooeyModeratorI am surprised I haven’t seen any comments or memes on Cohen’s attorneys.
Do these guys look perfect for a Scorcese film, or what?
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ZooeyModeratorI cannot wrap my head around human trafficking. Have never been able to understand it. The level of complete sociopathy necessary to do that just exceeds my imagination.
ZooeyModeratorThe Stupid on that channel is truly something.
It has become satire of itself. And it’s really…I mean…people believe this stuff. They really believe it.
I ran into someone on the net the other day who believes that Barack is gay, and Michelle is a man, and their two kids are not really their kids. Seriously.
This network is dangerous.
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ZooeyModeratorThe only reason to do that is that you think Bernie is Too Radical, and you want Bernie Lite because you fear Bernie is too radical. Or you like the Radical, but think somebody else is a better Bernie than Bernie is.
You missed one… people think he’s too old…. and he kind of is…. 77
and that’s too bad
I think his age is only going to matter to people who don’t want him to win, anyway. People who support Sanders can see he is in pretty good shape. I think 80 is the new 70, anyway, personally. My dad is 90, and he’s still going strong.
Meanwhile…this is from Daily Kos, apparently. I would think they must be having shit fits over there. I may have to go peek in on them to see how they are handling the news.
ZooeyModeratorAgree about the Hegelian dialect thing too. Though I wonder how that will impact 2020, exactly. I knew, for instance, before the 2016 election, that it was madness to run another Clinton, a dynasty candidate, the insider’s insider, when the electorate was in such an anti-establishment mood. Well, that is, anti-establishment for Americans, which usually just means voting for yet another elite/member of the ruling class, etc. So will they be pining for one of the old guard to make them feel comfortable again after the madness of Trump?
That struck me as the other dialectical outcome, but I am all but ruling that out (pending a response to Biden, but…) because the one pulse right now that is beating the most strongly in this country is complete irritation with the awareness that the government is not representing us. That transcends party affiliation, and that is where the greatest animus is. I think we are in a pivot point in the US, and that pivot is between total authoritarianism and a jerk back towards democracy. I don’t see Status Quo of Politicians Pretending to be Of The People as an outcome. I really don’t. I think Biden would get a ton of money and media backing and fizzle. I don’t think the choice is between Trump and What We Had. It’s a choice between Trump and What People Want.
That’s the way I see it.
And I would suggest that that’s the way the Democrat Party sees it too, or else we wouldn’t have 203 Democrats suddenly pretending to care about people.
ZooeyModeratorPrognosticating…
Bernie disrupted Democrats. There are 204 candidates running now, and they are all taking planks from Bernie.
But…there’s Bernie.
So…why vote for an Imitation Bernie when there’s Bernie?
The only reason to do that is that you think Bernie is Too Radical, and you want Bernie Lite because you fear Bernie is too radical. Or you like the Radical, but think somebody else is a better Bernie than Bernie is.
Of the Bernie Lite candidates, Warren has the best credentials. That is to say that every other candidate has moved Left from their own historical record. Warren is who she is. Bernie Lite. Everyone else is pretending to be Warren, basically. Warren is who she is…she’s never faked it. She is a liberal Democrat. Booker, Harris, Gillebrand, and the other 199 candidates are all pretending to be liberal Democrats, but all of them have voting records that prove they aren’t, or just “saw the light.” So there is Bernie, and everybody competing to compete against Bernie. And of all of those, I think Warren has the most street cred.
But she isn’t going to light a fire under enough people, though. She’s professorial…which I don’t care about, but other people do. She will fire up a bunch of women who still have their knickers in a twist because they think Bernie and the Male Bastards killed off St. Hillary, but that just isn’t going to be enough, imo. She will contend, but the passionate, get-off-the-butt, door-to-door passion is still behind Bernie. It just is.
Harris is formidable. I’d hire her as my personal lawyer in a second. She’s smart, and tough as nails. But her record is compromised, and she and Warren will split the women vote for long enough for Sanders to take the lead in delegates.
Biden can screw it all up if he enters, but I think the energy of the Democrat party has moved away from the Old Answers, and Biden epitomizes that. His opportunity was 2016, and he sat it out.
Bernie already did this. He learned from his previous run, and he just doesn’t get drawn into the bullshit stuff. He stays on message. And they aren’t going to be able to dig up anything on him that is new. He already weathered the only semi-scandal they could find about his wife, and I just don’t think dirt will stick to him. They can attack him on Age, but he could kick Trump’s ass in a one-on-one athletic match of any kind, so there just isn’t anything there that is going to stick, I don’t think.
I think he has to be the favorite for the nomination in spite of the pissed-off-Hillary types. There will be noise. There will be ugliness. But he has the passion and the numbers, I believe.
So I think Bernie Sanders…who is SO far to the Left that he is practically Dwight Eisenhower…is the likely nominee.
One other thing. I have noticed a Hegelian dialectic with presidents. Seems to me Americans tend to vote for a President who is strong where the previous president was weak. Trump’s biggest apparent weakness is he is completely full of shit. I think everybody sees that. Bernie has authenticity up the wazoo. He is constitutionally unable to lie. He has been consistent for 40 years, or more. He’s just honest. If nothing else. And I think that’s where voters will ultimate lean.
ZooeyModeratorYeah, I agree with all that. I took it for granted, in fact. The suit was about collusion and lost wages, and that is a separate issue.
I was sort of responding to the same argument, or the imaginary argument that his protests amounted to nothing in the end. I think they mattered. I think he did some good.
And I think the NFL colluded, and he should get compensated for that, and he did.
ZooeyModeratorKaepernick, through his actions, at the very least got…
the issue of social injustice into the public conversation, and
the NFL to donate $89 million to social justice causes
ZooeyModeratorBecause the Lakers are the only team in the NBA that actually matters.
Dude, Paula Abdul is no longer a cheerleader, Jack Nicholson and Diane Cannon no longer have their butts in the Forum….
Dr Buss is dead and so are the Lakers.. they won’t even make the 8th seed this year……
without searching DUCK DUCK GO, Does anyone even know the name of the current Laker Head Coach? I’ll give you a clue, he was a Warrior assistant and his dad won a ring as a back up center vs Paula Abdul;’s showtime team……
BTW I do hope the Lakers make the 8th seed so the Warriors can sweep them…….. these are not Chris Mullens nor Sleepy Floyd’s Warrior teams….
Listen. Your bitterness and envy have left your soul a mere cinder. I see it all the time.
You know, deep in that ashpit of a heart, that you will not live to see the Warriors hang their 16th Championship banner in the rafters – as I have done with the Lakers.
ZooeyModeratorBecause the Lakers are the only team in the NBA that actually matters.
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ZooeyModeratorAny society that has homeless people and billionaires is a fucked up society.
The fact that that is unclear to most Americans is a reflection of the depth of the fucked-up-ness of society.
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vYeah. Seems to me you have hit on a dividing line there.
Some folks is gonna line up on the side of defending that as somehow good and proper.
And other folks is gonna say, WTF?
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ZooeyModeratorWhat I don’t understand is why – if Gurley was well enough for 10 or 12 touches – why isn’t he good for 20? I hope it’s not his meniscus, as someone suggested quite plausibly.
I think it’s a different game if Kupp is in there. He is the Rams’ Edelman…that guy who just gets open somehow. He would have – at least – moved the chains a couple of times to keep the D off the field, and improve the field position game.
One other thing…and I haven’t seen anybody reference this yet, and I thought it was a big momoment – I would have taken one of those penalties with 2:25 left in the game to push NE out of FG range. I don’t get it. I mean…from right there where it happened, declining the penalty meant NE lost a down, and has a 50-yd FG to make. But they have 2 downs to improve on that position – which they did. Now the Rams are down 2 scores with 1:12 to play. Seems to me a no-brainer to try to push them back and stop them and getting the ball back with – say – a minute to play down by one score.
There are a bazillion articles out there. I’m sure somebody has addressed this, but I don’t understand that call at all.
ZooeyModeratorI don’t know how to tell what’s on the coach. The Rams OL got overwhelmed all game long, and that’s that.
And Cooks lost two TD passes.
If you had told me the Patriots would score only 13 points before the game, I would have taken that happily. The Rams defense really played well.
ZooeyModeratorI got spanakopita, dolmas, buffalo wings, and a pasta salad I made.
ZooeyModeratorhttps://www.therams.com/video/road-to-the-super-bowl
i don’t know of this has been posted yet. it’s narrated by dick vermeil.
another thought. donald’s gonna have to go off on sunday. just absolutely go off and make brady’s life miserable all day. just be in his face constantly.
that would be a great ending to a great season with aaron winning superbowl mvp. the best player in football leading the rams to one last victory.
I Love You.
ZooeyModeratorThis time tomorrow, the Rams will be up by 20 points.
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ZooeyModeratorWell…I think Sam Bradford was as good as Troy Aikman. Really. I think they are the same guy.
One is in the Hall of Fame, and the other is the forgotten…Missed Opportunity Guy.
Troy Aikman would not be in the Hall of Fame if he was drafted by the Rams in 2009 and had a shredded knee a couple of times.
Sam Bradford is one of the Most Robbed players of All Time in my book.
And I say that as a Non-Bradford fan. I wanted Suh in that draft. But I just have to say I think Sam Bradford was one of the most unlucky people ever. I mean…apart from the fact that nobody in the world ever got paid more for less production than Bradford. On the monetary scale he came up roses.
ZooeyModeratorOn Bradford…I think that guy is the Anti-Foles.
Nick Foles is an Adequate Guy who benefited from every imaginable circumstance. A guy who was always in the right place at the right time. Everything outside his control always came together for that bastard. Luckiest guy in the world. And that’s not a knock on Foles personally. I like the guy…you know…on that level. Nice guy. Good for him.
Bradford is just the opposite of that.
Bradford was a very talented guy who just always got the short straw in the NFL.
He couldn’t throw a fade. That’s the worst I can say about the guy. That pass eluded him…at least in his time with the Rams. I didn’t watch him after that. But that was his limitation while I watched him. But he did everything else. And did it well.
He was fucked over by injuries and limited talent around him. That’s Sam Bradford in my book.
On the 5th weapon…I agree. A TE would just make this offense completely unstoppable.
I think the Rams have bigger needs…as you say…DT, LB, OL…but if they landed a blue chip TE…the Rams would score on every fucking possession.
ZooeyModeratorOkay, well, that reading that about Jack Youngblood has irritated me.
I think that guy epitomizes the Rams to me. He’s the guy I would pick for that honor.
If it has to be a Super Bowl winner…what do they do in years when a team wins for the first time?
99 is the only year the Rams ever won.
So who is the guy from that team? Kurt Warner? Marshall Faulk? Nate Hobgood-Chittock?
I go with Isaac Bruce.
ZooeyModeratorferragamo79
Interesting comment on Golic and Wingo radio show
they had Adam Thielen on and he picked the Rams to win the Super Bowl due to their offense. Said Belichick is very good at game planning and taking away one weapon, but the Rams have multiple weapons and their offense is legit.
This makes no sense, except it does…
I have to say that my confidence level would be double what it is if Kupp was still active.
I just have always seen Kupp as the straw that breaks the camel’s back. You simply cannot stop Woods, Cooks, Gurley, AND Kupp.
I think a good defense…a REALLY good defense…can limit up to 3 guys.
I don’t think there has been a defense EVER that could stop 4 guys.
ZooeyModeratorBut…Jared Goff has never taken a snap under Center. His whole life before now. He’s a bust.
ZooeyModeratorLOL
ZooeyModeratorYa know…the last time the Rams wore THIS uniform combination in the Super Bowl was in “Heaven Can Wait.” The Rams won that game behind a QB with the jersey #16.
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