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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.
ZooeyModeratorJesus Christ.
Some things that get said are just breath-taking.
ZooeyModeratorAs you well know, newspapers are compromised, too. But if they eventually fold, we are in serious trouble. The only kind of news we will have anymore will be crap like Crossfire (if that is even still a thing).
ZooeyModeratorToub sounds intriguing. After reading that article he’d be my first choice but if the Rams are looking to make a splash with a big name then he probably doesn’t have much of a chance. I seriously hope that Kroenke understands that winning football games will do more for the viability of his franchise than recognizable names or the flavor of the day.
• Kyle Shanahan, Falcons offensive coordinator: The best of the available hot-shot coordinators, Shanahan has revamped the Falcons’ offense to cater to the strengths of Matt Ryan and Julio Jones. Ryan’s similarities to Jared Goff would make Shanahan the best possible option to groom the Rams’ young quarterback, which should be a top priority. Perhaps he’d bring his dad, Mike, and his Super Bowl ring along, too.
This is why I prefer Shanahan to McDaniels. Shanahan has the ability to adapt his offense to the players he has. This is exactly what McDaniels couldn’t/wouldn’t do that caused him to fail in St. Louis.
Nice acorn you posted there. Got it right this time. Shanahan sounds like a better fit.
FWIW, I don’t think Kroenke will go for sizzle over steak with this hire, though it wouldn’t surprise me if he is watching the reactions to the names as they pop up in the media. There is a ways to go, of course, since the Rams can’t interview some of these guys for quite a while yet. In any event, with Spanos probably moving in, the Rams have to win. He wants to be the Top Dog in his stadium.
ZooeyModeratorI really enjoy TJDS.
Jimmy Dore is a hoot. I get that he’s a comedian, but he’s only pretty spot on.
I mean he doggedly jumped on DAPL. He gets most importantly the DEAL about WHY it’s not okay to give in to corporatist, warmongering DLC Dems because the Reps are nightmares.
For a comedian, he’s more clear about the mission of the fourth estate than almost anyone in the MSM.
Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind that comedians do more accurate reporting than the MSM these days?
I bet if you could get most of the MSM celebrity types alone at the office party, you would hear them admit it, too. There are probably a few arrogant prats who think they still are doing 4th Estate work, but I bet most of them know they aren’t.
Everybody saw what happened to Dan Rather. They know what they are doing, and what has happened to the system.
December 22, 2016 at 5:20 pm in reply to: Trump's pick for budget director questions whether govt should fund science #61541ZooeyModerator
ZooeyModeratorYeah, I’ve started to catch up on the Syria story, and these two videos about sum it up.
Here we are supplying, training, and financing ISIS and al-Qaeda in Syria. I mean…that fact alone ought to just discredit the US government.
It will be interesting to see what happens under Trump. If there is a silver lining of any kind whatsoever in a Trump presidency, it is the probability that he will ratchet down the Syrian conflict and the confrontation with Russia generally. We will see if the president actually has any control over foreign policy, I guess.
ZooeyModeratorYeah, that feeling is mutual. No interest.
ZooeyModeratorI love NYC. One of my favorite cities in the world.
If I were in my 20s, single, and had some money/income, I’d live in NYC.
ZooeyModeratorAw the little professors don’t like being called out for wasting classroom time spouting their personal political beliefs. Too bad. So not sad.
IMO, any college who hides behind “tolerance” to eliminate real free speech should have its federal student loan program revoked. No free speech zones or sensitivity safe campuses. Return to what free speech is all about. Just like this forum. We can disagree with each other here. We may not like what someone else says, but we can agree to disagree.
Well, it CAN’T be free speech if you are threatening to take money away from the program.
The problem is – who decides what is “hiding behind tolerance?” Because the people in charge of determining that are necessarily going to be political.
December 21, 2016 at 12:25 pm in reply to: Bonsignore tweets: Chargers may rebrand if they move to LA #61425ZooeyModeratorI don’t think he will do it. He would lose more fans than he would gain doing that.
ZooeyModeratorI am the same way.
If the Rams don’t beat SF, I will.
December 20, 2016 at 10:40 am in reply to: NYT: All This Talk of Voter Fraud? Across U.S., Officials Found Next to None #61363ZooeyModeratorThis Post-Truth understanding is important. And I don’t see any way whatsoever to tackle this problem.
December 17, 2016 at 11:38 am in reply to: Bleacher Report on coaching changes, says the Rams are targeting McDaniel #61262ZooeyModeratorI believe zn is right on McDaniels. An asshole is an asshole.
He may recognize some errors he made in Denver, but assholes will just make errors in new ways even if they don’t make the same error twice. It is a character thing, and I don’t want him with the Rams.
ZooeyModeratorI have had it. I will not watch another Rams game for several days.
ZooeyModeratorI know that Quinn went on IR today, but that article is from when he went on IR last year. The rams didn’t play the bears this year. Unless there was a game you all kept secret from me. Also, TJ isn’t on IR, Cunningham is on IR.
I heard that Fisher isn’t head coach anymore, either.
ZooeyModeratorAnd preseason football has begun.
ZooeyModeratorBiggest mismatch of the year according to Vegas.
Seattle -16.
ZooeyModeratorAs long as we are sacking people, Williams and Fassel are the only ones I’d keep. Maybe Waffle, but I can’t tell how much there is talent, and how much coaching. The DL underperformed along with every other unit that didn’t involve kicking the damn ball.
December 15, 2016 at 12:37 pm in reply to: how many of these movies have you seen? an arbitrary list #61122ZooeyModeratorI will be watching Cool Hand Luke again tomorrow.
It’s part of the final on the anti-hero/huck finn unit. CHL is a great anti-hero. And all that messianic imagery makes it great for English lit types.
December 14, 2016 at 11:26 pm in reply to: how many of these movies have you seen? an arbitrary list #61110ZooeyModeratorNo swimming pools in Kurosawa.
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