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I never heard of this person before but this speech should go national and should be the basis for democrats in the future

I will because I might be a carrier without knowing it and the 4 year old sitting behind me can't get vaccinated and may be on their way to see Grandma who is immunocompromised. My mask and her mask provide a great form of protection. Her mask and my lack of a mask provides less. I care about other people and will sacrifice a few hours of extremely minor discomfort to do as much as I can to keep people safe. Once again, 2 year into this fucking pandemic and we still have to teach people it's not about you, its about the person next to you.

Ironically enough...Morris was shut down in his rookie year because of shoulder issues. Jack needs to learn when to shut up

I think the thing that might be confusing some people here, assuming they honestly believe that Trump is nothing but a benign businessman, is the idea of Trump wanting to overthrow democracy and become more or less a dictator. That can’t possibly be true, they might be reasoning, because Trump is not a politician. He’s a businessman who happens to be practicing politics. He has no real inclination nor acumen to be a political animal in Washington. His motivations are business-oriented, not politically-oriented, so his intentions pure and clean. Therefore, he can’t be trying to overthrow democracy, because that’s a political goal sought only by politicians, not businessmen. The thing is, Trump doesn’t have to be a political animal to want to overthrow democracy. He doesn’t have to have a grounding in political theory, or to talk the talk of the political “swamp”, to seek democracy’s demise. All he needs is the desire to take the decision of who becomes the leader of the USA out of the hands of the voters and into his own. That’s what Trump has be wanting to happen, and what he has been clearing the way for his minions at various levels to accomplish on his behalf. I would agree that Trump is not interested in the political theory behind any of it. To him, it’s all business. As far as he’s concerned, government’s only goal is to strip him of as much of his power to conduct business in whatever manner he sees fit as they can manage to; therefore, Trump’s opposing goal is to basically change the very structure of government by getting rid of the one that’s out to get him, and replacing it with a government cast in his own image, one that gets out of his own business’s way, and bonus, one he can also use as a tool to personally punish his enemies. Trump doesn’t have to be considered a Washington politician to seek all this and then act on it. All he needs is a cabal of enablers to make it all happen, and for the good people who oppose him, and who trust the system itself to automatically stop him, to stand aside and let him get away with it.

It's Comic Con for idiots. Instead of mid level super hero actors, you aint getting Chris Evans or RDJ at one of these, you'll get Sebastian Stan (my wife would leave me for him, she already told me), or Michael Rooker. Instead of being fun and and happy like at a Comic Con, you get herpes from DJT Jr and his ho.

Or you could do what republicans do and sunburn their berries

My company does the discussions for diversity and inclusion and usually it's for minorities, women, LGBTQ, etc. Well, apparently they are having one for the white male experience. Guessing some insecure white men complained. I signed up because this is probably going to be good. I'm going to secretly record it on my phone. I may be a social media star after seeing the airing of grievances this will no doubt become.

History rhymes

What gets me are the guys who try to hold onto the few strands of hair left on their head. Guy, you look terrible just shave it or cut it closer.

Super important fair question

Oblique is the way to go, Jim Adduci figured it out. You get 6 weeks on the DL at full pay, and no one can tell if you are really hurt or not

The new Benjamin Franklin by Ken Burns is really fascinating.

It'd be nice to see it actually rewarded!

Did Josh Donaldson really just blow a kiss to Gerrit Cole after catching that TORK! line drive?

Hard to tell when you can't hear anything but I also would put that on Barnhart. But then Alexander also needs to get the F out of the area so Barnhart does not get thrown off by it. Ideally, the first or third baseman calls both of them off.

All you guys bag on Patterson but he's the best QB the Panthers have had in decades. Put him on a different team with good parts around him and I bet he wins a championship. In all seriousness, @davidsb623 is right, he wasn't the biggest problem. He looked really bad in the first qtr, in part because his OL was non-existent. But he performed decently in the 2nd half. I'm not saying he's NFL caliber, but he good enough for the USFL I thought.

Damn those lawyers. I think there are even worse than sabers.

Fortunately for Jack, the Veterans Committee didn’t share those high standards.

Not out of the woods yet, but Macron has seen his numbers rise anywhere from 3-5% in the polls since the First Round concluded.

people can catch the flu on an airplane and die from it, so everyone that gets on a plane must wear a mask forever because someone on the plane might get sick.

A vaccinated 4 year old can still get and transmit Covid. Heck any vaccinated adult can get and transmit Covid. This will never end for you because you’ve fully bought in. I’m not saying that to be insulting. I’m saying that because you’ve already set yourself up with an untrainable expectation which, if the vaccination is available for all, will you really then say “ok I’m done” or will it be 100% vaccinated at that point? Be honest. it’s with us forever and an immunocompromised person knows this and will have to make a choice about interacting with the four year old Given the air filtration on an airplane, if the four year old becomes a spreader, it’s more likely or happened away from the air travel

This is 'merica.... we can't be like foreigners. If they do it then we must not do it or else we aint superior! They're a bunch of pussies.

For me it will be when vaccines are available to everyone. Contrary to popular belief we haven't gotten there yet. On an airplane I would because there's probably going to be kids around on the plane and it's an easy thing to do to sit there with a mask on. It's cost free. If I can potentially help someone at no cost to myself why not do it? I don't wear them to baseball games. I don't wear them to hockey or basketball games because. I wear them to grocery stores because the one I go to is kind of small and can be crowded and it's as much to do with flu as covid. I'm going to keep doing that. I don't wear them at the gym. That's a risk I've chosen to take. Others take it too. If I were ever to be asked to wear one I'd gladly do it. I'll never understand the resistance.

We are to a point that "Science" says masks are not needed in MOST places. Yet the argument is arghhh crybaby, selfish etc....

OK, it wasn't Hebert to Carter . . . . but . . . . . Patterson wasn't as big of problem as his offensive line.

Honest question: how high does the vaccination/immunity rate have to be in order for you to change your thinking on this? Right now we are sitting around the 66% rate for full vaccination nationwide. Add a few additional points to that for unvaccinated people who have had and recovered from COVID, and in my view, that's high enough for me. Of course, I don't have children under 5, or otherwise vulnerable people in my everyday life that I have to be very careful around, so that's another data point for my feeling that we're far enough along to allow me, specifically, to forsake masking in all but the most necessary places (e.g., healthcare facilities). I can see where someone might believe this to be not high enough to go back to living as we did in the beforetimes, but my question is, how high would it have to be before you conclude, OK, we're far enough along with vaccination/immunity, time for that small minority who have to deal with unfortunate issues to take their own precautions to protect themselves in public, instead of mandating the vast majority who are themselves in the clear from hospitalization or death from COVID to take precautions to protect them? I believe we as a society have accepted the idea that we will always have COVID with us, so even in a hypothetical 99% immunity environment, there is still always going to be the possibility of encountering the 4-year-old sitting behind you who can't get vaccinated and may be on their way to see Grandma who is immuno-compromised. Do you still wear the mask in that 99%-immunity situation? Because if that's true, you've basically decided you'll be wearing the mask in public for literally the rest of your life. I'm not trying to be argumentative about this—I'm trying to understand if you have such a line, and if so, where that line is?

I have a standing order every 6 weeks or so for a cut with a #2 blade. No desire to shave my head completely (serious receding hairline). I'll pay the extra rather than do it myself or try to convince my wife along with the cleanup.

This is certainly true on its face, but on the other hand, how diligent are people these days about wearing masks correctly and in an airtight way when they do? A couple people here have pointed out how the masks come off in public when eating or drinking, and how some people are constantly adjusting their masks for both comfort and to get an unfettered breath of air every once in a while. I'm definitely guilty of that last one myself. I would guess that, granting how BA.2 is the most contagious strain yet, part of its virality in due in part to people dealing with mask fatigue two years in, even people who are totally in favor of enforced masking, where just one slip of the mask ("Oh, it won't hurt me to get just one nice fresh breath of air") is enough to take in the virus. I assume that people are not keeping their masks as firmly affixed in April 2022 as they did in April 2020, when the novelty of mask-wearing was still palpable and people honestly thought COVID-19 would completely subside within a matter of weeks. And this doesn't even contemplate that eyes are still exposed to the virus floating around, as well as to your wayward fingers.

I have to wonder just a bit how much different the Wings and Canucks would be if it had been the Wings firing their coach and hiring Bruce Boudreau earlier this year. Sure, talent is talent, and the Wings don't have enough. But the Wings were ahead of the 8-15-2 Canucks when Vancouver made the change on December 5. Now the Canucks are 18 points ahead of the Wings.

I may have gotten it in January when everybody was getting the Omicron strain. A couple of family members (who I didn't have a lot of contact with) tested positive and I got a cold. I thought it was better just to stay home rather than run around trying to get a test.

if someone asks me to wear a mask, i wear one. i put it on on the train ride home. i dont complain about it. but i'd rather not and i dont think there's a big need for it anymore.

have they traced it without people wearing masks on planes?

Agreed, I was only responding Rob's example he used to compare.

If worn correctly, a cloth mask is mildly effective but let's be real here for just a second: how many people on a plance are wearing them correctly? Optimistically three. Pragmatically none. They're off for meals and drinking. They're constantly being adjusted which will cause the hands (the germ petri dish) to constantly be near the eyes. It's silly and a charade on planes at this point, which, btw, have the best filtration system currently available. Again, you are always welcome to wear yours. No one is stopping you just like no one is stopping you from driving to your destination instead either.

wearing masks may have some marginal effect on preventing airbirne illness, should everyone be required to wear one all the time in the future in order to slightly restrict the spread of such illnesses?

But you can always just wear yours if you really think they work so sounds like you might be the crybaby.

Love to see a perimeter guy getting it. Rim protection is so over rated in the NBA.

Serious, serious Jeff Beck vibe...

Buddha's rationalization is basically firing shots at someone, missing, but the victim didn't die so everything is ok.

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I think it's pretty obvious that Trump knew what was going to happen on January 6 and that he encouraged it. I don't know if that's enough legally or whether they can sufficiently prove it, but it's enough for me. It's even more obvious that he tried to overturn the election. He said he was going to do it and he broadcasted it as he did it. He is 100% guilty.

He did not say Trump should be prosecuted for anything. Evidentally, because he didn’t March with them (you know, the aforementioned “perpetrators”) and personally assault the WH police that day, he’s in no way liable for anything that happened that day. He is just a little spoiled brat. And what…. No responsibility. I disagree.

I disagree with the argument that Trump doesn't want to end the American Republican. Trump literally wanted to install himself as a autocratic dictator and that's what January 6th was all about. At best he wants rigged, unfair elections like his boy Viktor Orban has in Hungary with a state-controlled media apparatus backing him up. At worst he wants what Putin has in Russia and Alexander Lukashenko has in Belearus. January 6th was an orchestrated attacked on the rule of law, democratic institutions, and free, fair elections. Trump wanted the legal counting of electoral votes stopped. He wanted his people to seize voting machines. He wanted a Secretary of State in Georgia to change over 11,000 votes to declare him the winner of a state he lost. He wanted votes overturned in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin as well. That is autocratic by its very nature and spits in the face of democracy and our American Republic.

Jones is such a puke.

This is an interesting article. I do agree that Bridges is not a great fit with Grant and possibly even without Grant if we are in position to take a guy Holmgren, Murray, Smith, or Banchero. I also definitely agree with Casey that Bey is a better fit at either forward position than shooting guard. I am not a huge fan of signing Brunson. He is a quality player but fit is everything to the Pistons right now. The goal is not to just pickup quality players to be a playoff team. It's to build around a Cade, and to a lesser extent Bey and Stewart, to be a championship team. Brunson is best with the ball in his hands and does not have great size or athleticism for defense. I kind of want somebody next to Cade who can be elite on defense while also play well off the ball. So while I am not really a huge fan of Ivey as a prospect, he does kind of fit the bill for what I want next to Cade.

Trump didn't do anything good and even if you think he did, it all gets cancelled out by the unforgivable stuff he did at the end. There is no way you can just overlook what he did at the end and pretend that he was a good president. You just can't. And even if you hate liberals so much that you are OK with him trying to overturn an election, how can you possibly defend his throwing his way too loyal Vice President under the bus at the end? He's just an utter disgrace and deserves every bit of vitriol coming his way. And I do consider you a Trump supporter because you keep defending him over and olver.

Guy wearing an inflatable costume unknowingly subjected to having liquid ass sprayed into the vent.

Here’s the man cave, with my autographed card display

More conversation fodder. Check out this year in albums. I think I'm going with Who's Next or Hunky Dory.