JJ Husker

48 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

DeSantis has given conservative citizens pretty much everything they could ask for and is the only one who follows through on the policies he advocates for.  I assume you don’t care for his Disney stance (of which courts have sided with him), or the 6 week abortion law Florida has passed (I think that’s a bit extreme for an entire populace of a state with differing opinions).  The law was passed by legislature though and he signed instead of veto’d.   Beyoncé that, what policy things could you possibly have an issue with? 
 

DeSantis is not in the same universe as this I mentioned and as shown with Florida, he would make an exceptional President.   Unfortunately you are allowing the national media narrative about him to color your perception instead of looking at the body of work

 

Just getting “something done” is not a very good strategy for success.   Getting the right things done are what we should be shooting for.  The “getting something done” has skyrocketed the cost of healthcare for everyone.  

The cost of healthcare was/is skyrocketing with or without the ACA. That they failed to address that most important aspect is my biggest disappointment. At least some people who couldn’t afford coverage can now. If the Rs wouldn’t have spent every waking hour fighting against it and the mandate, maybe it could’ve been better. So yeah, doing something is an improvement over obstructing everything.

And btw, my perception of Desantis doesn’t have anything to do with national coverage. He’s a whiny little dicknosed b!^@h that is more interested in headlines than actual policy.

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

3). The hatred towards DJT and some of the Republican crazies doesn’t make Obama’s terms any more successful than what you claimed at the time.  I believe your thoughts were pretty respectful and spot on.  There is a reason someone like DJT made it through to the end in 2016 and it’s because people were so unhappy with the direction of the country (and HRC) 
 

 The other Republicans  I either don’t care about or wished they moved on (Gaetz, Boebart, MTG, Tuberville, McConnell).  

No, DJT and the other R crazies don’t change a thing about what Obama did or didn’t do. But he did attempt to work across the aisle in an attempt to better our country. And he did get at least something done towards trying to fix our healthcare quagmire. It may be in retrospect now but those are things absolutely nobody on the R side has even attempted in a long time. It’s more nuanced than simply saying DJT or some crazies alone changed my mind.

I think the problem with your list of Gaetz, Boebert, MTG, Tuberville and the Turtle is that it does not include Desantis. Given your feelings about him, it really casts a cloud of suspicion over your denouncement of the others. JMO as he is from the same cut as the others.

9 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Those are your words copied and pasted my man not mine. 

But what does any of this have to do with anything? How somebody may have felt about Romney 12 years ago? If your point is that many people are or used to be highly partisan, well hello captain obvious.

And back to my response and your sensed incongruity of my prior statements. I may be slightly misremembering when my thoughts about Obama changed. No, I didn’t like him originally and yes, I did change to thinking he was okay. Did I vote for him instead of Romney in 2012? TBH I don’t remember for sure. I may have voted for Romney and sometime later come to accept Obama. s#!t man, I’m getting old and that was 12 years, an insurrection and a pandemic ago. It has absolutely nothing to do with anything currently except that is the timeframe for when the republican party jumped the tracks, for me anyway.

Nvm

28 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

Is 'Mean' is about you?  Or which one?

No. She was the mean one and then she stole my words and made millions off of it. 

17 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

But here’s your thoughts on Obama contemporaneously….these are thoughts of yours that make me surprised you voted for Obama like you claim.  

 I will vote for anyone other than Obama at this point. He is a proven failure at solving our biggest problems. 

 

te a lot of excitement. 2- It doesn't take much to figure out that most any conservative leaning person would prefer any republican candidate to Obama. I seriously cannot think of one person, dem or repub, that I would not rather have than Obama. 
 

3- Things are not good economically for many many people in this country. Right or wrong, Obama and our elected representatives will pay for that. If there is one thing I have little tolerance for it is a man like Obama, who is still blaming the country's ills on his predecessor and not taking any responsibility for his inability to deliver on his promises. He promised us many things 4 years ago. He did not deliver on too many critical issues. He has to go and the sooner the better.
 

 

 

"This mess that we're in" was largely created by the last election cycle where people blindly voted for a persons skin color and empty but catchy promises of hope and change. How's that hope holding out? How much change did we see? How many promises were fulfilled? How's that real unemployment doing? If you're in the middle class, how has your situation improved? Does it feel like your income is keeping up with ever increasing costs for groceries and gas? Step back and ask yourself if you really want another four years as bad or worse as the last four.

 

Stop being part of the problem. Stop supporting these idiots. Stop mindlessly following people like Barack freaking Obama. Just. Stop

 

Are you drunk? Serious question because you are rambling on about nothing relevant.

This bulls#!t is exactly why Taylor and I broke up years ago.  Things were pretty hot and heavy between us then she dropped the same rules on me. I told her what she could do with her clothing allowance (only $250k at that time). She begged me to reconsider but I dumped her a$$. I told her that she was being mean and that we were never getting back together.

4 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

I absolutely believe that your world view is more consistent with a conservative (not Republican) way of thinking.  
 

I also agree with this statement that there are far too many Republicans who fit this description 

 

This is where I’m confused a bit, because on one hand you say you voted for Obama but your posts say you support Romney because he is the lesser of two evils.   That doesn’t sound like someone who thought an incumbent President did ok?  
 

On the other hand, your posting previous to that says you can’t find one single thing you like about Romney.   So you have one candidate you can’t find a single thing you like about, and a few months later you say he’s better that the current President we have, yet now say you voted for Obama because he was OK. 
 

Which all comes back to an earlier post to me about Republicans getting back to the Romneys of the world, yet you couldn’t find a single thing you liked about him…at the time he was running! 
 

I sincerely don’t think you wasted your vote, as that is the person you felt best to vote for.  If more people would think like you did and actually go through with it like you did, a third party movement could actually make some hay.   
 

Appreciate the feedback and discussion.  I think we are in agreement that this election would be better served without either DJT or JB in it. 

You might have me confused with someone else. Where/when did I say anything about Romney being the lesser of two evils? I also never said I couldn’t name one thing I liked about Romney. I only said I didn’t recall how I felt about him in 2012. ???

4 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Did you like Romney when he ran in 2012?

Here is who I have voted for in every election since 1984.

84 Reagan

88 & 92 HW Bush

96 Dole

2000 & 04 GW Bush

08 McCain

12 Obama

16 Ind Gary Johnson IIRC

20 Biden

24 Biden

I can tell you categorically the change was not that I switched sides. The problem was that my party had begun the bats#!t trajectory.  I thought Obama did okay in his first term so I bucked my trend in 2012 and voted for a Dem for the first time in my life. I liked that a Pres and party were actually attempting to address healthcare. That was my key issue at the time and I honestly have no recollection of what I felt about Romney at that time.
 

2016 I disliked both candidates so wasted my vote on an independent but I really didn’t feel all that strongly opposed to Trump. That changed by 2017-2018.  By 2020 I had grown to absolutely despise Trump and his MAGA BS, so much so that I voted for a Dem I did not like at all, Biden. Took a lot of heat within my family and my wife’s family for it. But I will absolutely do it again this year also unless somebody else with a very real chance to beat Trump comes out of the woodwork in the next few months. My hope is that DJT’s fat a$$ keels over dead from lawsuit stress and poor nutritional choices before November.

17 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

Where does that confidence come from? 

 

You could say that the NBA thinks traveling makes the game more exciting for fans, or that they're trying to protect certain favored players from calls given lesser players. But the evidence doesn't really confirm that. The evidence does suggests different ref crews have slightly different styles of calling games. And occasionally individual refs have individual beefs with individual players. They get reviewed every game. If you miss too many calls, you don't get to be on a playoff crew. 

 

Here in Warrior-land, we point to how Steph Curry is constantly fouled but gets fewer calls than any superstar in the NBA. I'm trying to weave that into a conspiracy, but can't figure out how it works or who it serves. 

 

And according to LeBron James, no player in the NBA is more victimized by refs than LeBron James. 

 

 

The confidence and evidence is in the games and the sheer number of ignored calls. It doesn’t require some tin-foil hat conspiracy theory. It’s blatantly evident that the league doesn’t want simple infractions like traveling, double dribble and palming called according to the rules. If they did, there would not be so many skipped calls and such blatant no calls. Why you ask. IDK you would have to ask the NBA. I suspect because it’s a better fan experience to not have the game slowed down with play stoppages.

4 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

There are about 500,000 possessions in NBA games a year. They get it right often enough. When they get it wrong we get to laugh at it on Shaqtin a Fool. There were some issues with looser traveling calls during the Allen Iverson era. Actually seems a bit better now.

 

NBA moves faster than NFL or MLB, closer to NHL. I don't know any sport that doesn't have a ref problem, given that we only notice them when they get things wrong. 

We’re going to have to disagree a bit here. Yes it’s a fast game with a whole bunch of opportunities to miss some trivial calls. But it does happen too often, often enough that it’s apparent that the league doesn’t want them all called and with more leeway for star players.

My problem with it is I used to play bball and I reffed for quite a few years following high school. Did lots of Nebraska high school varsity, jv, junior high, youth, boys and girls and mens league games. Switching pivot feet and taking 4+ steps with the ball is the easiest thing in the world to see no matter the speed of the game. I will grant you that sometimes that third step is tough in a high paced game. I don’t fault them for those. But time after time I see 4-5-6 steps and blatant carries and double dribbles. It’s way more than can be accounted for by the speed of the game.  
 

The toughest games for me personally were girls jr high games. Inevitably one of the coaches would ask us before the game to overlook an extra step on traveling. I was kind of a d!(k. Told them that if it was a problem they should work more on fundamentals and that I could call the game right or completely ignore all traveling calls. There wasn’t going to be any halfass enforcement.  The coaches always agreed that traveling should be called according to the rules. And yeah, it was painful to watch. But it wasn’t ever a problem at the HS level. Not sure why it needs to be dumbed down for the greatest players in the world.

5 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

I was at the game for that last clip: Westbrook walks seven steps up court without dribbling. Like it's a perfectly normal thing. You couldn't believe it just happened. Place was howling. 

 

But I'm certainly not gonna hate on the NBA for missing a few calls. There are plenty of traveling calls every game, and last night I actually saw them call Jordan Poole for palming. 

I don’t care enough about the NBA to hate on them. But the traveling, double dribbles and palming is out of control. These are the best players and best refs in the world and they can’t seem to get these basic easy things correct. 

5 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

I remember way way way back when Romney was “gonna put you all back in chains” and mocked for wanting to hire women in his administration if elected (binders full of women).  That he was gonna gut SS and throw grandma off a cliff.  That he was a Private Equity robber Barron that didn’t care about Black people.   Ahhhhh, but now people long for the sensible Romney
 

Remember way back in the Time Machine when McCain was just a war monger and racist for wanting to “finish the dang fence”.  When he was too old to elect.  Ohhh, but now we would all vote for them.  Gotcha. 
 

Cheney….well I mean do we really need to go down that road and see what the Left thought of her pre-Trump??  I didn’t think so.   

Not sure what your point is here. I would absolutely love to have a better choice than Trump or Biden. Romney, McCain, Cheney….any of those would do just fine.

The good thing about Trump is, he makes anyone other than him the super easy choice. I can’t think of one person living or dead or imaginary that I would pick Trump over. Not one.

32 minutes ago, Red Five said:

I am boycotting Wendy's until the bring back the SuperBar.

No SuperBar, hiked up prices at times people actually want to eat, good Frostys changed for the worse. What’s next, a kick in the nuts with every order of fries? 

6 minutes ago, Cdog923 said:

 

Wendy's has one of the best chicken sandwiches in the business, and those Frostys....but yea, this is highly stupid. 

Their Frostys used to be good. They changed up something, the last 2 I’ve had were a$$. Like a McDonalds chocolate shake bad.

10 minutes ago, teachercd said:

This is really not all that different than happy hour.

 

3-5pm or something like that...4-6pm...trying to get people in to get "cheap" drinks.

 

It makes sense but like @JJ Husker I don't think it will really change much for them.

Except this is the opposite of happy hour. People will show up for cheap drinks. A burger that costs more than usual at lunchtime….not so much.

But IDK, I’m not really their target demographic. I prob had Wendys only 2 or 3 times in the last year. I always thought fast food places loved it when cars were piled up in the drive thru while they had peak staffing scheduled. I mean it’s not like they really care about food quality or good service. I guess they want to profit even more for people with bad attitudes to throw s#!tty food in a bag and then tell you to pull ahead and wait to get the wrong things.

Will be interesting to see how this is received. My gut feeling is peak time volume is going to dip. And considering most people eating fast food are doing it within the lunch or dinner timeframe, they won’t make up that volume at other times. Possibly they’ll end up making the same amount with less effort.  Seems like a plan that could alienate customers without much benefit. But what do I know. 

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

Yeah Nebraska hasn’t looked great but Minnesota….woof. They have been absolutely turrible. Tough game to get any kind of positive flow going. I’m just glad I’m not a gopher fan today.

1 hour ago, teachercd said:

Yep!

 

I see it here when I send crazy progressives and crazy conservative kids off (from omaha) to Seattle or Portland and places in the South.  They have no idea what they are in for and come back home.

Ha. Their reactions could be entertaining, a kid raised in Omaha, a conservative to Seattle or a progressive to the south.

4 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

How absolutely effed up is our system that a duly elected representative is not immediately and automatically seated after being elected? I see no reason why it should be dependent on any party, let alone the opposing party, to complete the process.The voters in his district effectively have no representation while the children play their BS partisan games.

22 minutes ago, teachercd said:

USA conservative is not in the same UNIVERSE as what it is like in ussia.

Nope. Sad thing is, many staunch conservatives in this country, fed up with wokeness, LGBTQ….and other non-maga things actually think their values would be better supported in Russia. And some of those values would be, but it’s those many other things they take for granted here that bite em in the a$$ over there. Hard to have sympathy for stupidity.

3 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Charge the Majority Leader my guy  I don’t give a rip.  Just make sure and charge the rest.  And while your at it, quit acting like Russia is changing the outcome of elections. 

I’m not acting like Russia is “changing” elections. Maybe you could quit acting like they’re not “influencing” our elections. And you do you but if I was a big party line supporter, I would show at least a modicum of concern that Russia/Putin were showing such preference for my favorite party and politicians.

It’s as if Russia realizes that the best way to destabilize our country and democracy is to do what you do and support the MAGA led GOP.

2 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Another option would be investigate all of them and report on it.    But that wouldn’t be too much fun for folks like you.  I’m mean Swallwell banged a Chinese spy and got funds from sources over there and he was on the IC.   He’s a hero to bros who post about Mike Johnson.   
 

im on the side of charge em ALL for actual crimes they may have committed and prosecute/convict if facts call for it.   You and others don’t seem to be on the same page as I am

You would have to show me some, even one, example of how I’m not in favor of charging them all regardless of party affiliation. And remember, I’m not the one in this discussion whose take away from a post about the GOP house speaker taking campaign contributions from Russia was to shrug it off with some tone deaf reply about how many points he won election by. And then follow that up with the bandwagon/ad populum fallacy of claiming everyone does it.