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ZooeyModeratorThe man is brilliant. Reading his prose is a skip through butterflies in field of daisies.
ZooeyModeratorFeels like a bit of an insult to the current roster of players. It would be interesting to hear from McVay whether he thinks the on-field staff needs three years to coach up this team and whatever new players come along in the next couple of years. Will the head coach say ‘we are three years away’ before training camp even opens? Hell no. Maybe Snead is making excuses for his mediocre draft classes and is trying to sell this as a three year work in progress?
Well, seriously. It’s three years until Goff hits his prime. Whatever THAT is.
And, as a GM, what would you say? If you just hired a new coach?
“We expect an immediate turnaround.”
You’re not going to say that.
This is why I just don’t bother with interviews, and stuff. Because anybody with any brains is…you know, I am a teacher, and I run a theatre program, and when it comes time for a “speech” to the Company, I say what I think those people need to hear, not what I actually think. Just sayin’.
April 12, 2017 at 6:01 pm in reply to: Trump may not be able to repeal the ACA, but he could sabotage it #67336ZooeyModeratorThat is the favorite play in the greedy bastard corporatist playbook: make a public program so unwieldy, ineffective, and expensive that the public will be glad it’s replaced with something else. That’s how they killed public transportation in this country. That’s the plan for public education.
They impatiently tried to kill the beast in one swoop, and found they couldn’t, so they will take the time-worn, long term strategy.
ZooeyModeratorC’mon, Jack. Suck it up, big guy.
Yeah it’s been a bumpy ride for the last 1.3 decades but I bet if you thought about it, you wouldn’t change a thing.
I know I wouldn’t.
You know as well as anyone that happiness, fulfillment and satisfaction are journeys, not destinations.
ZooeyModeratorLet’s see. If you start the Rebuild Clock with the hiring of Linehan, then adding 3 years would make this a 13-year rebuilding project.
The Rams were so good in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. This futility is mind-boggling.
ZooeyModeratorBannon himself predicted a while back that he wouldn’t last past June.
I think pushing Bannon overboard would be about my most favorite thing so far, even better than the total failure of the healthcare plan. Bannon is just really a bad, bad guy, and if Trump would kindly be the man who would take all the blame for it from the neo-nazis, that would be pretty great. I’d rather the neo-nazis all get angry at Trump than angry at – you know – an investigation with a Jew on the committee, or the liberal media, or whatever.
Seriously, having the hard core racists mad at Trump would be about the best thing that could happen.
April 12, 2017 at 12:41 am in reply to: Football Outsiders says Rams were healthiest team in 2016 #67309ZooeyModeratorThe Rams may have been the healthiest, but their fans were probably the sickest.
ZooeyModeratorThat would be really compelling if:
A) it were not photoshopped, and
B) N. Korea was a socialist country.
Next…
ZooeyModeratorScott Ritter:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/syria-chemical-attack-al-qaeda-played-donald-trump_us_58ea226fe4b058f0a02fca4d
“…the American media and the Trump administration…has [mocked and ignored] the very illogic of the premise being put forward to answer the question of why President Assad would risk everything by using chemical weapons against a target of zero military value, at a time when the strategic balance of power had shifted strongly in his favor.”
This is the question that has been nagging me.
Why would Assad do this? And if he was going to do it, wouldn’t he have done a better job of it? I mean…despite the horrific results, it was a pretty crappy job, affecting a relatively small number of people by war standards, and targeting people whose death is to nobody’s benefit. The cost/benefit of this just doesn’t add up to me unless it is a PR move, and as a PR move, it isn’t Assad who benefits from it.
ZooeyModeratorWell, not much of a surprise now, is it?
ZooeyModeratorOf course, once again, that has nothing to do with my argument which is that America is great except for the other people.
I can just picture you and Colin Kaepernick, drinks in hand, lounging around his heated pool in your 49ers gear laughing it up and ripping on America and everything we hold sacred.
You’re cute when you’re jealous, you know that?
ZooeyModeratorI wrote a longer post in reply yesterday, and when I hit submit, it vanished and told me I had to log in – which I had been,
I’m sorry that happened. It’s an anti-spam thing. Now and then the system just asks you to log in again. It has happened to me numerous times, usually without any harm. In your case it was just an accident of fate that it did that after you typed a long post. In the future, if anyone has a long long post they worked on they do not want to lose, copy it before hitting post…we never know when the system might just decide it’s your turn to log in again.
So anyway again, my apologies.
If it’s any consolation I docked myself a huge percentage of my paycheck, which is instead being diverted into charities having to do with free meals for pandas, or something.
Of course, once again, that has nothing to do with my argument which is that America is great except for the other people.
ZooeyModeratorI wrote a longer post in reply yesterday, and when I hit submit, it vanished and told me I had to log in – which I had been, otherwise there would have been no box for me to type in. Anyway, it’s always demoralizing to write an epic post and have it washed away.
So what I said, in a nutshell, is that Warren is still around. I must have liked her on FB because I see her posts frequently in my feed. The thing with Warren is she is on the defensive. I mean…she opposed the Repeal and Replace Tax Cut for the rich, and Gorsuch, and a bunch of cabinet appointments, but there isn’t much more she can do. She’s in the minority party.
As for hope? Well, help isn’t coming from within the party. They outflanked Ellison, and made it clear that they believe the problem isn’t their policies, but just that they got ambushed by Comey, and Clinton was damaged by Sanders as an establishment candidate, and by the chauvinism of his followers (hence “Bernie Bros”). There is no recognition there that Clinton was branded establishment because she IS establishment. They just don’t make that connection. Nor that when it comes to empowering women, Sanders offered $15 minimum wage (Clinton counter bid $12 reluctantly), universal health care (Clinton said “No way”), and free education.
Now what would empower women more? Those policies proposed by Sanders, or having a woman in the oval office?
Anybody with any brains can see that Sanders is better for women than Clinton. Anyone who thinks having a woman president would help women should just be asked to explain how much better black Americans are today as a result of having a “black” president. Let us not forget that #BlackLivesMatter was born in the second term of a black president. That’s how much symbolism matters.
So there is a new book out called The Destruction of Hillary Clinton that explains how her loss is was everyone’s fault but hers, and reinforces the status quo in the Democrat party.
Here is a good takedown of that argument (by the New Republic, of all sources). https://newrepublic.com/article/141865/deification-hillary-clinton
Bottom line: the only hope is that progressives keep pounding away and take over the Democrat party. Those pigs are not going to change course because people want them to. They will change course when their piece of the pie is threatened if they don’t change course, so they settle for smaller amounts of payola.
ZooeyModeratorDemocrats have ignored every obvious lesson from the past 12 months, and doubled down on a losing strategy. They’ve decided the problem wasn’t the message, but how they got victimized by chauvinism and Comey.
ZooeyModeratorThis is when Maher is at his best…when he’s ripping on the GOP for, well, being the GOP – or the democrats for being spineless or for being complicit in the GOP’s douchebaggery.
Where he and I part ways is when he starts discussing feminism, Islam, political correctness, etc…
He rubs me wrong a lot. On the same topics you mention. He is a real dick himself at times.
But there are times he calls a spade, a spade.
ZooeyModeratorLawrence O’Donnell makes a plausible case as he gives reason’s why there is a possibility that Putin orchestrated the Syrian and Trump attacks.
I have to say, I don’t buy this one for a minute.
Russia has a lot of national face invested in being a supporter of Syria, which it openly defines as part of its own sphere of national interest.
I don’t think they sacrifice that to cover up what to them is a completely irrelevant, “no consequences either way” internal american election scandal.
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I tend to think the same thing, especially because this distraction is going to evaporate. It’s not like the congressional and intelligence investigators are going to show up to work on Monday and forget that they were investigating the Russian connection because…bombs!
ZooeyModeratorAny word at all yet on whether there is any evidence that Assad was responsible for the gas attack or whether there even was a gas attack?
Is it likely we will ever know who did what?
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vFWIW I saw video of people dying from gas, and being hosed off, and so on. I don’t remember where, or who claimed to have shot the film.
I have seen no story with provides evidence that Assad did it, but I have also not seen any serious alternative.
Syria is a mess, and it is always going to be unclear, I think. There are so many factions engaged with multiple alliances, and shady financing and arming, that only the Deep State knows who is doing what, as far as I can tell.
ZooeyModeratorI think DeVega is right about what white liberals get wrong about racism to a fair degree.
But I think Bernie knows that even while he downplays it. Bernie is clearly committed to avoiding name-calling, and “gutter” politics, or the appearance of it. He relentlessly looks to forge alliances, and that’s to his credit, I think. So he knows full well a lot of Trump’s appeal is to racists, but he knows nothing is gained by saying so. That’s my opinion.
ZooeyModeratorI always thought it was because of our sins.
ZooeyModeratorDiversity means different things.
I think a lot of people are just fine with racial and sexual diversity…as long as those people integrate.
They don’t really like cultural diversity. They don’t want their White “way of life” to be altered. So they’re all good with having diversity in the workplace, and in their advertisements, and the rest of it, but as soon as those people start choosing the music, and the menu, and the interior decorations….
March 30, 2017 at 1:42 pm in reply to: Paul Ryan accidentally tells the truth, rejects bipartisanship #66847ZooeyModeratorAnd Bannon, btw, is creating an Enemies List which includes Republicans.
What comes of THAT is unclear, of course. Maybe they will all just be put on Double Secret Probation, but I would certainly love to see catastrophic results for Republicans the next two election cycles.
March 30, 2017 at 1:40 pm in reply to: Paul Ryan accidentally tells the truth, rejects bipartisanship #66846ZooeyModeratorDid you see this? You must have. It is the lead story on my news feed, and I assume on many other people’s.
Trump tweeted: “The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don’t get on the team, & fast. We must fight them, & Dems, in 2018!”
The Muskrat in Chief just declared a Civil War. Whether the party follows him is another question. I assume the RNC will be a little more practical, but this kind of thing is troublesome for Republicans at the very least. And Freedom Caucus members don’t seem all that compromising and understanding. Shots have been fired both directions.
It’s a silver lining in these dark times.
ZooeyModeratorZooey wrote: I am assuming that is without pay.
Does that free up cap space, or not?
McDonald is an URFA. He does not count in the Rams’ cap space.
Right. For some reason, I was thinking of Trumaine Johnson when I read this, and I was thinking of his $16 million, and it took me a few posts before it registered with me that McDonald and Johnson are not the same person, but two entirely different people, who actually have different names to help tell them apart.
ZooeyModeratorI like Juju. He gets it done.
ZooeyModeratorSaw McDonald, so naturally my mind went to Johnson.
ZooeyModeratorI am assuming that is without pay.
Does that free up cap space, or not?
ZooeyModeratorI definitely think so. You combine Sean, a young, dynamic coach with the dynamic Los Angeles market. You can throw in weather too. And don’t underestimate the reaction of guys when they see the drawings of the new stadium and how special it will be. All of these ingredients, with a big part being Sean, when guys start thinking: “If I have a chance to (be a free agent) one time, L.A. seems like a cool, happening, on-the-cusp place to go play.
if goff sucks, none of that will matter.
Yee-up.
Goff, more than anything else, will determine the Rams’ destiny over the next 5 years, at least.
ZooeyModeratorI would love to download that man’s knowledge into my brain.
You know, every word of what he wrote in that interview strikes me as completely, obviously true. And yet, the man is an outcast in his own country, widely scorned, and largely barred from the media.
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