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January 9, 2017 at 12:40 pm in reply to: Trump is such a baby: Meryl Streeps speech and Trump's reaction. #62932
ZooeyModeratorUnlike Trump, he’s fully capable of hiding his despicable nature, and his plans.
And he is more practical, more focused, and less divisive.
It will be easier to rally opposition to Trump than to Pence.
January 9, 2017 at 11:55 am in reply to: Trump is such a baby: Meryl Streeps speech and Trump's reaction. #62916ZooeyModeratorIt was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter.
For the life of me, I don’t know why that wasn’t the end of Donald Trump right then and there.
In any event, here is the President of the United States getting into a pissing contest with an actor. An actor. What kind of guy does that?
It is who he is. He cannot help himself. He is going to continue to be an embarrassment, and at some point – inevitably – he is going to do something that is finally the last straw.
I do not think he will make it four years. I think he will eventually piss off enough Republicans, and they will impeach him. There will be ample things to impeach him for, and they will choose one, and they will remove him.
And then we will have Mike Pence, who might be even worse.
ZooeyModeratorDear Zooey,
Thanks for your continued support. We couldn’t do it without ya, Brah.Love,
Pete
Say…isn’t that the same Pete Carroll that coached USC to multiple national championships?
ZooeyModeratorYeah, I’ve been thinking about how lucky we are the Rams don’t have to go on the road this year in the playoffs.
I see your jubilation over Seattle’s playoff victory yesterday hasn’t tempered your sarcasm.
Nice.
You just have no idea how LIBERATING it is to get in touch with your inner Seahawk.
ZooeyModeratorYeah, I’ve been thinking about how lucky we are the Rams don’t have to go on the road this year in the playoffs.
ZooeyModeratorWell done.
January 7, 2017 at 3:23 pm in reply to: Obama should pardon the 11 million undocumented immigrants before leaving office #62574ZooeyModeratorYeah, that’s not going to happen.
What Obama should have done…and I can’t think of why he didn’t…is appoint Garland to the Supreme Court as a recess appointment. That would have circumvented congress and directly placed Garland on the SC (temporarily – for one year) which would have been a practical and legal thing to do.
But he didn’t do that.
And he’s not going to pardon illegal immigrants.
Picking Garland in the first place was a huge mistake, IMO, and indicative of the Democratic Party’s false sense of its own cleverness and its bad faith. Obama and the Dems knew the GOP would block anyone he chose, so why not go big, go to the left of liberal, and really make a statement showing the stark contrasts between the parties — even though they don’t actually exist?
Fire up the base. Inspire new people to get out and vote.
But they thought it would be really clever to choose a moderate-to-conservative jurist, and force the GOP’s hand. The GOP just slapped that hand away and laughed.
Which brings us back to your original suggestion. Yes, he should have done a recess appointment, but how much better would that have been if the judge had been at least a true progressive?
A lot better. Because it would be political difficult and expensive to toss the justice aside in December. So Obama should have done it.
But.
We know who Obama is. And that’s why he didn’t do it.
ZooeyModeratorPeople DO want government to work proactively on their behalf. They really don’t want “small government” at all. They just don’t like it when the government does proactive stuff for people they see as “undeserving.” It’s an issue of perception, not actual substance.
I completely agree with this. People love all the benefits they get from the government…while not recognizing they are from the government. They have this idea that the government steals from them to give to lazy people elsewhere, and have been trained to hate that. It is, as you say, an issue of perception – misinformation, really – not actual substance.
ZooeyModeratorI’m not shedding tears if he goes, but I prefer to keep him for the reasons you mentioned.
I think Barron in particular is a very good player that only Williams uses to maximum effect, and a new DC is likely to miscast Barron, or dispose of him. Doing that would create two linebacker jobs to fill, along with a couple of DEs, and secondary help, to say nothing of an OL or two, and a WR.
Williams is better for continuity. Let’s not forget that the defense is pretty good. The problem is the offense. And revamping the whole thing is too big of an assignment for one offseason.
ZooeyModeratorIt is going to be interesting to see what happens next in this country, after the rural and working classes realize that they are getting shafted even harder by Trump and an all-Republican government. I suppose a great deal will depend on whether the reins of the Democrat party stay where they are, or are taken over by progressives.
Or if the old populist scapegoats become dominant in people’s minds.
Immigration, race, fear of another nation, demonization of “wrong thinking” conspiratorial enemies within.
That’s quite possible, as you know.
I mean…Rush Limbaugh, and Michael Savage, and Alex Jones and all those other twats are not going to place the blame where it belongs. I think we can count on that. And the Dems will be difficult (though not impossible) to blame since Republicans control the whole enchilada. I suppose it depends upon how much success the progressives have at slowing down the carnage this government is intent on unleashing.
January 7, 2017 at 1:52 pm in reply to: Obama should pardon the 11 million undocumented immigrants before leaving office #62554ZooeyModeratorYeah, that’s not going to happen.
What Obama should have done…and I can’t think of why he didn’t…is appoint Garland to the Supreme Court as a recess appointment. That would have circumvented congress and directly placed Garland on the SC (temporarily – for one year) which would have been a practical and legal thing to do.
But he didn’t do that.
And he’s not going to pardon illegal immigrants.
ZooeyModeratorChomsky.
He’s right about all of that. Again.
It is going to be interesting to see what happens next in this country, after the rural and working classes realize that they are getting shafted even harder by Trump and an all-Republican government. I suppose a great deal will depend on whether the reins of the Democrat party stay where they are, or are taken over by progressives.
ZooeyModeratorThey can’t give it to him.
If they do, then everyone and his agent will be approaching owners and saying, “We missed by THIS much,” and it becomes a nightmare.
In any event, I don’t think the league would allow it, either. A contract is a contract. It has nothing to do with goodwill.
ZooeyModeratorRapoport: Rams might not want to pay a hefty price for Sean Payton.
Payton’s had three consecutive years of 7-9 bull shit. Am I the only one bothered by that?
No. I don’t get it. Why is there any interest in Payton? Does Demoff know him personally?
ZooeyModeratorPenn State will make USC look like the Rams.
Wait, sorry. That was terribly unsportsmanlike of me. I’m sure Penn State will demolish USC but they won’t make them look as bad as the Rams. There is no place where that sort of talk is acceptable and I do apologize.
Pfft.
Sure. Your boys have never SEEN weather like this. The temperatures have plummeted to the mid-50s in Los Angeles, and there is even a slight chance of drizzle.
ZooeyModeratorI’m not confident in Demoff, either, but I’m not confident in anybody. I don’t know how to hire the right head coach. Demoff is in a better position to know what the team needs than anybody else is.
It comes to this:
1. What went wrong?
2. How do we fix it?The talent didn’t just disappear overnight. There is talent on the team. (Britt had a very quiet career year, btw. Over 1,000 yards. That isn’t nothing).
Anyway. I have my theory: The Move Was Too Damn Distracting.
Now, Demoff is presumably in communication with all the coaches, and Snead, and has a better grasp of what the team needs than anyone else. I would be looking for a coach that did his homework. Knew the Rams’ problems, and had a plan for how to go forward with the pieces the Rams have, and acquire the other parts he would need to make it work.
And go USC.
ZooeyModeratorWhy the loathing of Demoff? How is he responsible for any of this? Apart from letting Jenkins go – and afaik nobody knows for sure whose decision that was – what has he done apart from negotiate contracts?
This team is a mess on the field.
I think these guys got distracted by the bright lights, big city. Hard Knocks. All the novelty. I think it was growing pains, but not the normal ones. This was the move.
They need a coach who not only knows his Xs and Os, but someone who can get everyone to focus and buy in. There is more than 4 wins of talent on this roster. If the next coach is any kind of motivator of men, this team will be better next year. I think burning it to the ground would be a mistake, though I sympathize with the feeling.
Clearly, the team needs additions. But what it needs more than anything else is discipline. It needs leadership. It needs to interview Henry V.
ZooeyModeratorFor me…here’s the deal…
This is just another example of why we doomed. And this isn’t even in any of the inner circles of the reasons why when it comes to news. I mean…big deal…there’s a feed of stories that local stations can buy from a source in order to flesh out their hour of “news.”
Really, the problem is that news is not motivated by illuminating the important stuff that is happening.
It is motivated by profit.
And it is cheaper to buy a stupid story from Big Source than it is to send somebody down to City Hall to ask questions. And more people want to see a bit about a puppy that survived a spill off a ledge than by a policy analysis.
ZooeyModeratorWhy is there a laugh track?
ZooeyModeratorI did.
I didn’t care about it very much. Lots of action sequences, of course, but you can see what’s coming next all the way through. The big plot thrust was a mission that had no organization or plan, but they manage to pull off. Eyeroll stuff.
Short on character development, so in the end, just didn’t care about it very much. There were some interesting characters – just not enough development to get attached to any of them, or care if/when they died.
Like the prequel trilogy, I just thought story and character was subordinated to the deaths of silly numbers of stormtroopers, etc.
ZooeyModeratorOh, good. A case study of the backfire effect.
ZooeyModeratorIf this is a vote, then put me down for No.
ZooeyModeratorWhat if you’re NOT a dem, not a Hillary lover, and you know full well about American intervention in foreign elections, and you STILL think there’s something to the Russia story?
See that’s my problem with editorials that frame things according to standard issue myths of who is saying what.
It’s not just Hillary people who are interested in the Russia story, and it’s not just people who are naive about american interventions abroad.
Addressing it that way tells me nothing informative either way.
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I completely agree with what you are saying here, but I thought the piece read decently as an assessment of the Democrat party nonetheless. I agree with the reasons he gives for why the spin of this story appeals to the Clinton apparatus within the party, and his prediction that it will continue to frame the anti-Trump narrative. I agree it is a dodge from their responsibility for having shaped the party into a pro-corporate Republican Lite and its uselessness as a party except as the 1%’s foil for this charade of a democracy. I think all that assessment is right, and that the “Clinton” wing of the party is not in any way permanently damaged. The progressive wing of the Democrat Party is still going to be shut out from the Adult Table on the Hill.
December 26, 2016 at 10:48 pm in reply to: the esteemed profession of sports writers previews the ARIZONA game #61862ZooeyModeratorZooeyModeratorI think I am going with the “distracted by Los Angeles” hypothesis.
Next year, they may be more able to focus on football after the novelty wears off.
ZooeyModeratorI was spared watching this game. I was running around doing errands most of the afternoon, but I did hear a lot of it on the radio. The 9er announcers, of course.
And I just have to echo what others have said. I hate this team. I would have to go back to 98 to find a team I hate as much as this one. This is a collection of feckless losers and incompetents. And there is talent. That’s why I think I hate them. This team is better than the teams Spagnuolo had, for example, but his teams played harder. Just…what the hell.
A lack of desire. No big plays. Did they EVER have the upper hand this season in any game? Any game when you just saw that the Rams were in control? No. Not once.
I do not know what the answer is because I don’t know what the problem is. All I know are the symptoms, and it all adds up to bad, bad, boring football.
ZooeyModeratorno way should the rams give up any picks to get a head coach.
they already traded this year’s first rounder.
I think we are all thinking the same thing.
There isn’t a coaching candidate who is clearly superior to everyone else and worth draft picks.
ZooeyModeratorDamn. If I’d just kept my virginity, I could have been a genius.
ZooeyModeratorSeveral weeks have gone by, and nobody has mentioned Norv Turner. Not that I have any interest in him – I was interested in him as a Boras replacement – but with all the names out there, I would have expected someone to type his name up in a column somewhere.
ZooeyModeratorJesus Christ.
Some things that get said are just breath-taking.
Or hit too close to home.
Okay, I am going to go through this once, and that is the end of it. I am going to deliver a couple of facts to you, and it ends there.
1. Nobody here supported Hillary until the end when the choice was between her and Trump. And it wasn’t support of Hillary as it was a vote against Trump whom everyone here considers to be a man who is likely to go down in history as the worst president of all time.
2. As far as the US offering aid and support to our enemies…you are 15 years too late for that conversation. We have been discussing the US government here, and it’s entire sordid foreign policy history for so long that, 5 years from now, we will still consider you “new” to the forum. So your revelation that America is funding its own “enemies” is so well-known to us that we take it for granted that everybody already knows that.
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