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SeahawksI like the fact this is a tough 7 game schedule. (the dolphin loss was an absolute killer)
I assume they can beat the Jets.
Other than that, every game can go either way, in my mind. Today’s prediction is Losses to Eagles, 49ers, Seahawks. Wins against Bills Cards Jets. I have zero thots on the Saints game. Maybe a tie.
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vMy Bingo card has a Win over the Eagles. And the Saints, Jets, 9ers, and Seahawks. I think the 9ers are unravelling. Just too many injuries and a shoddy OL. They’ll beat the Seahawks because they’ve beaten them, like, 47 times in a row, and I don’t think that’s going to change. The Jets and Saints are target practice. The Bills will crush them, and I have no idea what will happen with AZ, but it will be winner-take-all, imo.
The 9ers, btw, have the 2nd-hardest remaining schedule. They is done.
They worked on Purdy’s shoulder before practice yesterday, and held him out. I didn’t hear anything new this morning, but Bosa, Trent Williams, and Purdy were all out yesterday, and there is concern. If they don’t play on Sunday, the 9ers are gonna lose. They probably will lose anyway, but they have no chance without those guys.
I haven’t heard about Kittle’s condition, but he and Williams are the only guys on the OL who can block, and in Kittle’s absence, the 9ers rush game has been bad. It’s still top 10, I think, but without Kittle, it’s been bottom 1/3 of the league the last couple of weeks.
It just isn’t their year. Been there, done that, recognize the symptoms.
Incidentally, Deebo has had a significant falloff in breaking tackles. McCaffrey and Kittle have a lot of mileage, and looks like Deebo is fading, too. The outlook for the 49ers is absolutely brilliant. And to make it even better, some Shanahan grumblings have started, and that makes the picture even rosier. There is speculation that the league has “figured him out.” I think that’s bollocks, and I doubt there is any concern inside 49er headquarters, but it’s fun to listen to the fans whine.
Okay. Well, I’m not a a loss for reasons for wishing she had won, and I’m a bit jaded etc., but all that is heartening. Nevertheless, we iz fecked.
ZOOEY–I don’t know how in the fuck I did that, but I ended up editing you instead of quoting you. WTF.
I’m sure being a woman of color didn’t help, but yeah…
Right. Which speaks to the fact there are some factions in the Blue or Red pies that are just givens. There is a white supremacist faction that will always go Republican. And Patriarchal ‘family values’ fundamentalist christian faction that will always go Republican. Also a white-wealthy-country-club crowd that will always go Rep. So, yeah, the woman of color thing hurt the pr0-genocide, pro-ecocide, soul-less, mind-numbingly-dull Dem. w v
What they need is an exciting black woman.
I dont have much respect for Bernie anymore (‘my friend Joe’ etc) but he did at least say some useful things to his buddies in the Ecocide-Party. (and i hate TYT, btw, fwiw)
Yeah…I saw Bernie’s statement both on twitter and facebook yesterday, and I didn’t read it. I did watch the video you brought here, and I guess I’m glad he’s found his voice again, now that the bargain he made is at an end, but it feels like too little, too late. His capitulation to the party went exactly the way we all expected it would. He gave up his voice in exchange for a committee seat that got a few things passed that will be a little bit of help to a few people. That was the deal. It wasn’t enough, and now we have Trump again.
How Trump won the election
Jason Hickel
All the takes about Trump winning the US election are correct and yet they also miss the point.
Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it. It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.
But these are all just symptoms. The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly.
Progressive
It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.
Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even basic steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee – things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes.
And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.
Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct.
They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment. At home, they suppress and demonise progressive and socialist tendencies.
Risk
Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.
The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of ‘mistake’ but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.
And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.
They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time – this election being only the most recent example.
Formidable
They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they – and I mean the liberal ruling class here – don’t really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation.
They 100 per cent prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative. So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of “converting” the Democratic party is dead.
This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation.
This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.
This Author
Jason Hickel is a professor at ICTA-UAB and visiting senior fellow at the LSE, London. He is author of The Divide and Less Is More. He writes about global inequality, political economy and ecological economics. This commentary first appeared at X.com where Jason uses the handle @jasonhickel.org
