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  1. If we only score 21 points on these clowns, I will be extremely disappointed
    8 points
  2. Marc Thiessen (@marcthiessen) Tweeted: Operation Warp Speed is quite literally the greatest public health achievement of modern times. The fastest development and distribution of a vaccine for a novel virus in history. Say what you will about Trump’s handling of the pandemic, he deserves credit for this.
    6 points
  3. That's what you call it? 75 minutes? Well done.
    6 points
  4. Almost a year ago to the date... Nebraska 54 Maryland 7 I think Nebraska easily covers and wins by 3+ scores.
    5 points
  5. I loved opening this up and seeing it unanimous. Reminds me of the old days. I think we win AND cover.
    5 points
  6. Just do what it was always intended to be. 11 starters at the beginning of the season. Guy gets replaced, blackshirt gone earn it back by winning the job back. Stop with the "performance reward giving them out" crap. Fans and media have crapped on this for far too long.
    4 points
  7. Bulls#!t @BigRedBuster Maybe stop being a troll. I have already said Trump lost, I haven’t agreed with Trump on this nonsense. I only posted two things about post election. It was on the anomaly of 2020 rejection rates for mail in ballots compared to previous elections including the 2020 primaries. I also said he has the legal right to challenge an election, but he better have evidence if he does otherwise it’s harmful. Apology will be accepted at any time.
    4 points
  8. Why should a governor replace Harris with someone from a different party?
    4 points
  9. I watched 9 minutes of this and couldn't handle any more. What a total bunch of BS that people like @Archy1221 and @Notre Dame Joe are going to eat up and contribute to the tearing down of our democracy.
    4 points
  10. Is that his hair dye or his brain bleeding out his ear?
    4 points
  11. You don't have to "believe it". All you have to do is look at maps to see that it happens. I also firmly believe that both parties do it in certain states. However, interestingly....the movement to change things so it doesn't happen seems to only be coming from one side. The other side fights the effort. That should tell you something.
    4 points
  12. I mean... trumpists - what are you doing? Why are you sitting on your hands? Why is the GOP congress doing nothing? How long will they allow this to go on?
    4 points
  13. This is what trumpists and those who look the other way are doing to our democracy. No more happy talk about the "uniquely American transition of power." Trump presidency and this post-election period confirm that the US is *less* committed to democratic norms - and has *weaker* institutional safeguards for democracy - than peer wealthy democracies. I asked a German diplomat friend to detail the safeguards against, say, a German chancellor trying to extend her tenure despite losing an election. He replied that such a thing was utterly impossible, he couldn't begin to enumerate the reasons why. And he was right of course. Nobody wondered, "Will Gordon Brown or Theresa May leave office if defeated?" Ditto the Netherlands, New Zealand, and newer democracies like Portugal or South Korea. Democratic culture is deep, and election law is administered impartially. For all the boasting, not true in USA Normally, inauguration day is a day of self-congratulation. This next one should be a day of self-reflection - and commitment to self-improvement. The US not only lags other democracies - it has regressed even by its own standards. Time for a new era of reform. And reform begins with acceptance of some grim and unwanted realities. The problems are not "on both sides." The illiberal authoritarianism of some dean of students somewhere is not equivalent to illiberal authoritarianism by the Attorney General of the United States. Renewal of democratic institutions in the United States should be *non*-partisan - outside the everyday work of government - but cannot be *bi*-partisan when one party is so committed to (or frightened of) the individual leading the attack on democratic institutions. And of course it's not just Trump. As I detail in these 3 related articles theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… even the non-Trump Republican party has committed itself to a program of minority rule The American System Is BrokenIt should not take the largest voter turnout in U.S. history to guarantee that a president rejected by the majority of the American people actually stops being president.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/american-system-broken/616991/ There Is No Trumpism Without TrumpThe Republican Party now has two paths forward.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/gop-has-two-paths-forward/617105/ The Raw Desperation of the Republican PartyThe GOP is in danger of losing an entire system of political control.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/raw-desperation-republican-party/616904/ It's hard thus to imagine that Congress can effectively conduct an investigation into Trump-era abuses by itself - since so many Republicans in Congress accepted, protected, and even connived in those abuses - and since so many Republicans in the states are now adding to the list An independent commission with subpoena power is what is needed instead - tasked to recommend reform measures - and supported by a citizen movement outside the party system to pressure for state and federal reforms for voting rights, fair elections, and an honest Executive branch A reader registers the below objection to the foregoing. (Answer coming) Now counter-question How does "liberty" - or more exactly the democratic idea of regulating state power by impartial law - get into the hearts of men and women in the first place? It's not innate! By nature, we prefer that our tribe dominate. The democratic idea is learned. Learned how? Learned by practice, and practice based upon laws and institutions. (Remember Tocqueville's astute remarks on the importance of jury duty to self-government?) So we have to build our institutions fair and strong to foster individual commitment to democracy The Republican thralldom to Trump followed 20 years of undoing voting rights and civil rights. Republicans became acculturated gradually first to minority rule, then to authoritarian rule. Trump's false allegations of fraud rest on carefully nurtured prejudices. I'm going on too long. But if anybody is still bearing with me, one last point ... If I've had any one message in everything I've written about Trump and Trumpism since 2015 ... it's that the direct involvement of the people in elections is democracy's LAST line of defense, not its first. Joe Biden summoned 80 million Americans to defend democracy. Great, but that massive collective undertaking only followed the internal failure of the checks and balances erected to protect democracy in the long intervals between elections. And as we saw in 2020, malign actors can corrode voting rights during those long intervals between elections 80 million people voted to eject Trump and replace him. One official at the General Services Administration has successfully defied that vote for some 2 weeks. In a more democratic culture, she'd say No. The story of the Trump years is how many like her have said Yes. Ok the (belated) end. For now.
    4 points
  14. This is still an interesting thread, because while it's clear that games will be played and television revenue shared, it's still not clear if we can call it a season, rationalize a champion, or count the stats. As weird as this clusterf**k is, I watch the Nebraska game with the same rooting obsession I've always had.
    4 points
  15. I agree that this is how it should be done. The second wave should go to the education system such as teachers, professors, students. Yes, students even though they are the least likely to have major health problems from getting it. They can and do spread it a ton. The last wave should be people like me who are not in any of these situations. However, I do travel quite a bit (flying) so maybe someone with a job like mine should have it before someone who never leaves their social circle. The part of the first group to get it that concerns me is the elderly. Yes, they should get it. But, these were rushed through testing. If there's any group that is going to have problems from actually getting the vaccine, I would think it would be them. I would hate to have a major health problem go through this group of people simply because they got a vaccine that was rushed.
    4 points
  16. This doesn’t make sense because defenses have become so specialized. Some player who plays 40 percent of the snaps doesn’t deserve a blackshirt because he doesn’t start the first play of the game yet plays his a$& off, yet a “starter” who played 50% of the snaps and only considered a starter because he played the first snap of the game gets a blackshirt no matter how well he played
    3 points
  17. 1) It’s not in dispute that Flynn was spied on. It’s not in dispute that Biden brought up possible Logan Act. 2) It does matter because the narrative was set early by the fake Russia/Trump narrative and it derailed the first two years of his chance to govern. That said Biden should be allowed to start his transition and I can’t explain or justify why that isn’t happening. It’s similar to Bush not being able to transition while Clinton was holding everything up. Wasn’t right then and isn’t right now.
    3 points
  18. nice trip down memory lane in this thread. Well worth the read
    3 points
  19. Well, then don't get your feelings hurt when I call BS on you.
    3 points
  20. Because if I were Gavin Newsome I would first avoid fancy indoor dinners with large groups and then appoint competent people with rational ideas. That leaves out most Democrats, especially those from CA. Which leads me to Issa. Or maybe Arnold (just kidding).
    3 points
  21. @Archy1221 Adam Schiff steal your girlfriend or something?
    3 points
  22. This is an actual tweet from the actual GOP twitter account. Republicans, clean up your mess!
    3 points
  23. If they do decide to do student loan forgiveness, which I 100% disagree with, I will not be sending a dime to MIT next year and will recommend my son take out the maximum amount of loan since it’s free anyways. I’d may go ahead and apply to get my MBA also so I’m admitted if this law passes that way I can max out a loan also, take a few classes and put the excess in the market. since many of us paid our bills and got no relief, might as well take advantage if things change.
    3 points
  24. i think we win by 3 scores...but with our redzone issues it might be 3 field goals we win by. but....winning by any score is good enough this year.
    3 points
  25. B1G adjusting to us, apparently 247
    3 points
  26. Played in 15 of the top 50 matches and 4 of the top 5 matches none to shabby.
    3 points
  27. So bring a lawsuit. Run for office and make it your priority. Start a grassroots effort to get the issue on the forefront What do you want me to say or do that I haven’t already?? Gerrymandering is illegal and shouldn’t happen. Both parties do it and unfortunately it doesn’t get called out enough. Reform needs to take place. We are on the same side here yet you continue to try to argue for some reason I can’t comprehend. And while we come together on gerrymandering, let’s add in term limits for both houses of Congress so we can actually get things accomplished in DC
    3 points
  28. Read this story. It's fairly disgusting.
    3 points
  29. The other thought that occurred to me is it will make the dumb people question the legitimacy of the election even more, even if it doesn't accomplish anything tangible.
    3 points
  30. College daughter staying on the East Coast, but coming back for a month around Christmas. She plans to have a small Thanksgiving with her cousin in Boston --- but "small" still means mixing a couple people from different cohorts. I guess we still rationalize our risk factors as needed. So it's just me, the wife and the teenage boy for Thanksgiving dinner here. With fewer mouths to feed we might try duck instead of turkey. My wife doesn't get along with her brother, the only family within a thousand miles, so COVID has us covered on that invite. We hope to have dessert outside with the people on our street. They're great folks. We're thankful for our neighborhood. My 84 year old mother-in-law will be having Thanksgiving dinner with at least a dozen members of her retirement community in Florida. They are all rabid Trump supporters and COVID deniers and have no intention of wearing a mask for any of it.
    3 points
  31. 3 points
  32. Hope for swift recoveries and hopefully only minor inconvenience for you and yours. The bolded is the sh*tty part.
    3 points
  33. Note: this kind of election interference by a candidate is illegal.
    3 points
  34. My son has been quarantined for a little over a week now (we held out our two older girls from school too), one of his preschool teachers had it, and my wife went and got tested today, with minor symptoms (no taste, or smell). It sucks when you feel like your family has been doing what you're supposed to do, and it still gets in your house. We're lucky, though. I'm assuming all of us in the house have it, but only a couple of us have had any sort of symptoms. Not sure about the 4 month old. She doesn't say much.
    3 points
  35. And yet his NSA choice was under surveillance and Biden wanted the Logan Act looked into for him. An offense that I don’t think has ever been prosecuted. Crossfire Hurricane was a nice transition present from Obama too
    2 points
  36. And....they’re to chicken s#!t to come out and claim they’re laughing at something. Thet says more about the person laughing than anything.
    2 points
  37. I don’t know. Let’s see if she comes over for Thanksgiving. If he did then my wife will be happy.
    2 points
  38. So is this when we start ripping Frost for not honoring traditions and playing games with who gets them and keeps them?
    2 points
  39. That's possible, but the Federal Reserve has indicated that route is unlikely. You are correct, the government would essentially be paying itself to borrow. In the current climate, the Government is still paying itself to borrow. Just to a lesser extent. In essence, the government can pass and spend whatever it wants right now, paid for (even profiting) via inflation.
    2 points
  40. This is what's more important than the percentages people throw out. The flu has 140,000-810,000 hospitalizations per year since 2010. Right now we are at peak Covid hospitalizations so far with 62,000, and there have been 525,000 total this year. That's in 8 months. If the hospitalization rate stays the same we will hit 785,000 in a 12 month period. And the hospitalization rate probably won't stay the same, it will go up. And the flu still exists. And I'm only guessing on this one based on everything I've read since this started, but I assume Covid hospitalizations last longer.
    2 points
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