nittany ram wrote:

I want the Rams to have Julio Jones.

That same thought went through my mind while I was watching the game.

First of all, I didn’t say the Clintons DID murder Rich. I said quite clearly that I don’t know. Your syllogism doesn’t match anything I said.

And the rush to dismiss conspiracy theories to avoid appearing like a loony sharing a bed with unhinged right-wingers is a bad position.

There are conspiracies. These things DO happen. It is naive to dismiss them all out of hand. Sure, conspiracy theories are dangerous vortexes that people get sucked into, and often get addicted to, but responding to that by dismissing all of them is an erroneous position masquerading as common sense. Be skeptical, sure.

Did it happen in this case? Dunno. Neither do you. And “C’mon, man, they wouldn’t do THAT” isn’t a good argument. It’s an open question, though not one I’m going to waste much time worrying about since the answer to that doesn’t really change anything anyway. Murdering somebody in a political coverup is a drop in the Potomac compared to wiping out Libya and Syria and Iraq etc. It’s a drop in the ocean of corporate/government malfeasance. So I don’t really care. But I certainly do not put it past them. These are people who have made decisions that have killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people…in the millions, probably. And destroyed millions more. But you think they wouldn’t kill a single American in cold blood. Really?

I wonder what would happen if the media responded to Trump’s insistence to decide who covers the White House and who doesn’t by not sending anybody at all. How great would it be if nobody showed up to a press briefing.

Mackeyser wrote:

What we can’t acknowledge is any domestic political assassination.

I mean which one can we acknowledge? Name one.

Point is that there is tremendous antipathy for people on every part of the political spectrum to allow for even the thought to pierce the critical thinking veil. However, simple deductive reasoning leads us to the logical and inevitable conclusion that it MUST be happening here.

I am with Mackeyser on this. I think domestic assassination is one thing NOBODY wants to think about. But I don’t know why anyone would think these people have a single scruple. And I think that to take the position that they “wouldn’t risk it” is naive. The Clinton machine has connections (and not just the Clintons…the whole web of government and deep government). Get one of your people to place a call to somebody in law enforcement, or even national security, to take over a murder case…it would be easy. There are a lot of people in Washington DC who are trained to never ask questions from their superiors. Just do what you’re ordered to do. Clean up a crime scene, and dispose of it. End of story. I mean…you think Oliver North would have balked at a command to act outside the law? He testified before congress that he did, and that he was not only without remorse about it, he was proud of it.

Yes, these people would whack somebody in a heartbeat.

Where, exactly, they have done that, I have no evidence. But these are very bad people.

You think the Kochs, or Mercer, or Scaife, or any of these people would hesitate to rub somebody out? I don’t. I don’t think they would hesitate at all. They are quite happen to poison people, sell them life-threatening products, shaft them out of life savings without thinking twice. They are sociopathic. Total psychotic sociopaths.

My wife just informed me she is going to the march in Sacramento tomorrow.

Here’s what they learned:

Sure. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. I started to read Coates’ piece in The Atlantic, and made it about 6 or 7 paragraphs into it, and just couldn’t take it.

I love this line: “liberal brains pickled in the formaldehyde of identity politics.”

That piece got off on the wrong foot with me, with it’s use of passive voice “It’s been reported…” and the derogatory use of “Fisher guys,” whatever that is supposed to imply.

Who reported this? Where does this come from? Looks a lot like speculation rather than inside information.

And why would you let Britt walk? Why not keep Britt AND get another WR through FA or the draft? Let Quick go. Britt is a good #2. Give him a buddy on the other side, and the Rams have a more imposing passing game.

And while it’s great that the draft is deep in DBs, it’s also deep in DEs – which is a need – and they don’t have enough picks to fill all the holes. I would keep Britt and Johnson if possible. Whatever deficiencies the Rams have, those two guys aren’t the problem.

zn wrote:

Nothing has happened yet, and La Canfora’s reports about the Redskins have been…hit or miss.

It’s been my observation that La Confora’s reports on everything are hit or miss. Either his connections play him a little bit, or he infers too much from what he is given. But I would think it’s a safe bet he is right on this one. It would really make sense for Wes to join LA if he is, in fact, offered that position. Those three guys are obviously close, and if McVay is serious about still being the playcaller, a former assistant coach to McVay would make sense there.

wv wrote:

Yes, agreed, Zooey. Sigh.

…and yet….there was the Bernie phenomenon. A small flickering light in the darkness, perhaps.

Its all we got.

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It’s all we got.

And yet Cory Booker and 10 or 11 other democrats voted against the pharmaceutical amendment Sanders proposed.

Really, the only hope is to convert some Trump supporters into Sanders supporters, and I don’t know how you do that without a vast propaganda network, and leftists don’t own that.

Okay, now I’ve watched the Hedges thing, and the first thing I am compelled to say is that those Hawk silhouettes flitting across the screen are the most irritating thing I have seen on any news show, and news has had increasingly irritating visual pollution since about 1980.

This thread and the Greenwald thread seem to be merging.

The way I see it is that neoliberalism and fascism are pretty much the same thing. The difference is in degree, rather than kind. Neoliberalism is polite fascism. Polite fascism is better than impolite fascism in some respects, although there is the possibility that impolite fascism will be resisted more forcefully. I mean…even the Clintonistas may get on board for opposing the excesses we get to witness over the next four years (or more).

What has been unleashed now is unapologetic neoliberalism, economic policy which no longer pretends to have gone to finishing school. This is brazen. I liked the description of Trump as a conman. This new government – and I include congress as much or even more than Trump – just is no longer going to expend energy putting on a pretty face. They will come out and say whatever, contradict it tomorrow, blast their opponents ruthlessly, disregard facts, and just bulldoze their way through everything. Like McConnell, who literally complained that democrats were going to be obstructionists. Who literally complained that the hearings on the cabinet appointees shouldn’t be held up by the very rules that he used to hold up Obama’s appointments. They will just ram their way through everything, steal everything in sight, and keep throwing racist meat and patriotic bullshit at their pissed off base (who, apparently, will believe ANYTHING whatsoever, and may NEVER understand that they have been conned because there will never be a shortage of minorities and atheists to blame for everything).

As far as foreign policy goes, I think that comes down to industry interests.

The (few) neoliberals who are isolationist (like Trump might be), simply don’t have investments that require subjugating Poland or Syria. That’s the military-oil-finance billionaires. But some people who have more local empires just see that as an expense that doesn’t benefit them directly, and which creates unpleasant blowback. It’s a waste of money to them.

But Trump has no principles because he’s a narcissist. Narcissists only care about their personal image, about being better and more entitled than everyone else. He is malleable. And because of the people he has surrounded himself with, I think we can count on the military/oil/finance people carrying on with their destruction of the world, although it may be tempered slightly in the case of Russia. There’s still China to fuck with, and maybe they will compromise that way.

Okay. Well. Again, I just want to cry.

I am sure Mercer would be pleased to know that he and his companions have completely demoralized me once again.

There is nothing comparable happening on the left. And I use “left” here to include standard issue liberals.

These guys have written all the rules so that they can completely dominate the political game, completely control propaganda (with the small and temporary exception of the internet), shield their profits from taxes, and have riled up a large enough minority of people in this country to win the “culture war.” They are succeeding spectacularly even though they are a minority. And with Trump’s victory, the racists and militarists and jingoists are so emboldened, they won’t go away no matter what happens at polling stations. Their self-perception has changed from “persecuted minority” to “winners,” and they won’t accept defeat.

There is no pretty future. It looks to be like Greed has won the day.

Is it certain Phillips will switch to a 3-4? Has he always run a 3-4?

I read that he works to the strengths of the players he has, rather than trying to force people into roles they aren’t good at/capable of.