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  1. A major problem with Democrats in 2019 is that they not only believe that they're correct about everything, they also believe they're the intellectual superiors of our society by default. Why else did they allow an open disdain for the Midwest and for rural voters after Hillary lost? This complete dismissal of differing perspectives, especially about hot-button issues, is and will continue to be their political undoing. This open arrogance turned off swing voters during the 2016 election season. It turned off moderate voters like myself who are neverTrumpers in a moral sense but are not guaranteed Dem votes, and it is doing the same things during this election season. Donald Trump is going to win rather easily in 2020, and it could be a landslide victory.

     

    Until Democrats jump off the hyperbole and superiority bandwagon, they'll continue to fail. They're doing things Republicans have done from other perspectives for years, things they've called Republicans out for, and despite their sure belief in their intellectual superiority, they're not smart enough to realize it. Pot, meet Kettle.


  2. :shrug: Biden did something shady and Trump did something shady in response. Two wrongs don't make a right, but I'm not going to get all up in arms over it. Democrats are acting like Trump ran over Biden's dog and bragged about, for Christ's sake.

    Moderate American voters are desensitized because these things get blown so far out of proportion. 


  3. 3 minutes ago, Thanatos said:

    When one half the country believes a single guy who has lied more than 13,000 times since taking office is the sole arbitrator of what is right, I really don't know how to come back from that. I really thought this Ukraine thing would break quite a few of them off. Apparently they are truly in a cult.

    This Ukraine thing wouldn't bother most of us no matter who was President. It's just not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. I'm not personally bothered by it, but I also wouldn't have been bothered if President Obama had done something similarly. This Ukraine thing was never going to swing people. What should have swung people away from him was Stormy Daniels, because extra-marital affairs (forget just Stormy--Trump has many) should bother every single morally centered and emotionally stable person on the planet. Trump's immorality is exactly why I didn't vote for him and won't vote for him, but I refused to vote for Hillary and barring a complete surprise, I'll likely also refuse to vote for the Democratic candidate in 2020.

    To me, it's more important to have a better option to elect than it is to elect somebody other than Donald Trump. If Democrats provide a stomach-able, not absurdly radical about finances or social issues candidate, I'm in.


  4. 1 hour ago, Omerta said:

    Until the text or the anonymous whistleblower back up there statements with more than, "trust me" it isn't proof, it's a conspiracy.

    That is no different than any politician saying that they should check out the wrongdoings of their political opponents, especially when it involves other countries.

    I'm not saying he didn't, I'm saying there's no definitive proof. Right now there's a whole bunch of he said she said and then nothing. At the very least there's nothing that would hold up in a court of law.

     

    Our political and social climates are so interwoven now that truth bends to the will of the individual in question, and we're all guilty of it. The point at which our country progresses and improves is the point at which we rediscover what the word "truth" means.

     

    ^Interesting concept but I don't see any real revelation or obvious purpose. 


  5. 2 hours ago, seanbrock said:

    Skip to 4:45 where she says anyone who supports Sanders over Warren is sexist and it goes completely unchallenged by the host and the other pundit. Fun fact, Emily Tisch-Sussman is the daughter of one of Hillary's billionaire donors. Despite coverage like this and despite polls that are sampled to go against Sanders he is STILL the top candidate in the race for the Democratic nomination with BY FAR the biggest grass roots campaign of anyone in the primary with more donors, more money and more people volunteering for his campaign. Don't trust corporate media. Don't trust WARren. 

     

    No democratic candidates have come out against this as far as I know.

    It sets a dangerous precedent for our media, and our potential President, to do nothing to combat such nonsense.

    Also, this just makes me support Sanders over Warren even more than I already did.

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  6. The Eagles are absolute fools if they don't keep feeding Jordan Howard and sprinkling in Miles Sanders. It doesn't matter how high Carson Wentz's ceiling is--every quarterback that's ever existed needs a running game.

    Green Bay needs to get their running game going. Three straight weeks of Jones being neutralized is eventually going to catch up to the offense.

    The Eagles pretty much need to either trade for another corner, or hope they can get healthy in the secondary, stay healthy, and improve as the season goes along.

    Green Bay's secondary is fucking awesome and underrated, but if they can't stop the run, it won't matter.


  7. Eagles at Packers

    Sunday Sept 29

    Titans at Falcons

    Patriots at Bills

    Chiefs at Lions

    Raiders at Colts

    Chargers at Dolphins

    Redskins at Giants

    Browns at Ravens

    Panthers at Texans

    Buccaneers at Rams

    Seahawks at Cardinals

    Vikings at Bears

    Jags at Broncos

    Cowboys at Saints

    Monday night

    Bengals at Steelers

    point total= 31


  8. Truck drivers? Regulation is more of a threat to drivers than automation. There are drivers in this country who can't make money for a variety of reasons. In some cases it's how they're contracted, others it's they can only work 40 hours. I mean, I completely agree with making sure these guys aren't exhausting themselves to the point of falling asleep behind the wheel of a big rig, but for fuck's sake, we're over-regulating them in some cases.

    You want to regulate semi drivers? Give them 3 strikes and lose their license for 10 years with speeding, take their license away for 5 years if you catch them blowing a stop sign, etc. The crazy fucks are more dangerous than the long hour guys.


  9. 3 hours ago, Sarge said:

    Sean is right: most people are much more "moderate" in their general political views than both the vocal far right and far left minorities make it seem. And there will always be "single-issue voters" too.

    I used to consider myself a liberal in nearly every sense of the word. If I had to tally up my views, I'd still hold more liberal views than conservative views. I just don't feel the need nor the desire to get upset at things that the extreme left does. So what happens to me is liberals call me a racist, sexist Trump voter and conservatives call me a bleeding heart Obummer sucking snowflake. 

    I hate labels. I know why they exist. I just wish they didn't. I wish I could have one conversation about one issue without someone saying of course you believe that, you voted for Obummer! Or you think some racist jokes are funny! Why aren't you outraged? Go vote for Trump again, moron. 

    I get it from both sides. We're not allowed to admit that both sides have good and bad ideas. But I've never cared about society's rules, and I won't start now. 

    My exact experience. 


  10. As many of you know, I was staunchly liberal in my college years. Obviously, that's no longer the case, but the switch isn't as drastic as it appears to the reactionary eye. 

    In an effort to not go TL;DR on you folks, and because I'm on mobile, I'll just pose a general question and we can expand into specifics if this thread gains steam.

    How do you make the separation between what's real and what isn't in regard to how radical liberalism/leftism approaches hot button topics like racism, sexism, oppression, LGBTQ issues. 

    Those are just general examples. Feel free to dig on. And obviously we're not talking about whether these things are real as a whole. They exist, but the left blows them out of proportion, and the right minimizea them. Where, in the middle of those partisan tactics, do you find reality to be?

     


  11. Thursday, September 19

     

    Titans

    Sunday, September 22

    Bills

    Cowboys

    Packers

    Falcons

    Chiefs

    Vikings

    Patriots

    Eagles

    Panthers

    Bucs

    Chargers

    49ers

    Seahawks

    Rams

    Monday, September 23

    Redskins

    and total of Monday night game is= 41

     


  12. 1 hour ago, Omerta said:

    I didn't believe Blasey-Ford either. It's just seemed so forced.

    A few things that bothered me.

    1.) The $750,000 she got on suspicious gonfund me with plenty of deep pocketed "anonymous" donors. That is suspicious, but ok.

    2.) She can't recall the most basic of things. She is not sure what year it happened, or what grade she was in,  or how old she was. I mean really? The most traumatic event if her life and she can't give you the year or her age? Super suspect.

    3.) There is literally no coroborating evidence, no witnesses who were there, she didn't tell anyone until 3 decades later. The no evidence is a problem. That said the waiting I could understand. Her reason though was because she didn't want him in the supreme Court, but she let a raise sit there on the bench for 20 years and say nothing when she felt compelled by virtue to help other women? That seems odd.

    The lifelong friends she says was there, has no idea what she is talking about. The other witnesses she called... No idea.

    4.)  Her story changes a lot. She said talk to her shrink but the story her shrink documented was different from the one Congress got. She got the men in the room wrong, her age, and other pertinent details. She said she was angry in 2016 when Trump won because Kavanaugh was mentioned as a candidate. Well sure, but he wasn't mentioned or added to the list until mid 2017.  Her claiming she was claustrophobic but an ex says he never noticed especially when they were on a 2 seater plane to Hawaii and countless other occasions.

    5.) Her own family won't come back to attest to her character when she was coming out talking about her impeccable character. The ONLY family that did were her current husband's. It is telling imo.

    Now any one or two of these on there own, and sure it suspicious but no big deal. All of those combined and AT THE VERY LEAST she is unreliable. Personally, I think she is lying about it.

    That obviously doesn't mean I'm right but her evidence of the actual alleged crime was very weak. 

    And yes the guy is a douche, but I think the standard of proof has to be met seeing as how unimaginably foul rape is. If there is some ACTUAL proof he did it, then fuck jailing him, blow his brains out in the middle of the street. 

    That's what should happen to rapists but it's just too hard to prove with 100% certainty. I wish it were simpler. Based on the available evidence, he's innocent.


  13. 4 hours ago, Thanatos said:

    Puhlease, no one except Republicans give a fuck about manufactured outrage over a dude who is clearly a slimebag and absolutely did do what Ford is accusing him of. The Right does not care they stole a SC seat from Merrick Garland. The right does not care they used 9/11 as a decoy to get the Dems out so they could ram through a veto to steal Medicare from thousands of people.

    The right does not care that Brett Kavanaugh is not beyond reproach, is a complete sleazebag, or anything. All they care about is that he is politically on their side. People like McConnell getting all up in arms over Kavanaugh accusations doesn't move my sympathy meter one inch. Mitch is also outraged over vaping killing six people and not cigarettes killing tens of thousands. Or guns killing tens of thousands. Or any number of election security bills he refuses to even let hit the floor. The hypocrisy of the GOP is fucking hilarious. Trump has what, 22 people who have accused him of sexual assault? Kavanaugh has like 8. There is no reason for these women to come forward and lie about this. They get lambasted by people on the right. Sure maybe a couple hangers on tried to get their moment in the spotlight, but where is this much smoke, there is fire. Im not saying the guy belongs in jail unless we can prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, but he absolutely should not be a SC justice. 

    There is literally no corroborating evidence for even Blasey-Ford's accusation. You're making an obvious stretch, there.

    And what exactly makes him a sleazeball? Is it that he hired an all female staff after being named to the SC? Is it the fact he hired more women on average throughout his career? 


  14. If we want to know why Donald Trump will be re-elected (and probably quite easily, at that), it'll be because of things like the NYT running with a clearly false new accusation against Brett Kavanaugh. As a matter of fact, he probably made onto SCOTUS because of all the silly, clearly fake secondary accusations that surfaced after Blasey-Ford's accusation, but she was the only one with an even slightly believable accusation, though it held very little water.

    People get irritated by shit like this. Shit like this swings moderate voters. Might as well expect 8 years of the Orange Man, at this point.


  15. I guess we're going to agree to disagree. There are 5-8 RBs I'd take before McCaffrey.

    Other observations:

    1. Minnesota can't have a kicker, I guess. Aside from one or two years of good Walsh, we haven't had a good kicker since Ryan Longwell. But let's call a spade a spade--the Vikings gave up on Daniel Carlson way too soon.

    2. Carson Wentz has to get the Eagles offense into the red zone in the first quarter, moving forward. They can't keep having these slow starts.

    3. Time to start fearing Dallas, imo. Yes, it's 2 games against two bad teams, but I think this might be the scariest offense seen in Dallas since the season of the catch.

    4. All the analysts will blame Pittsburgh's 6-10 season on injuries. Hint: they weren't a good team even when healthy 

    5. I think Jacoby Brissett will be fine in Luck's place. The Colts will have to play a different style, though.

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