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Or 19 days. Or 90 days. Something like that.

Punching down is a core conservative value.

Trump is trying to win. This is exactly how they think they will turn out low-engagement young white male voters, the exact kind of people that would love to go door to door rooting out and murdering Democrats. This is the one wild card that could hand him victory.

Three things: The loathsome way he spit out the phrase “Jew haters” makes you wonder which side he’s really on. This sounds like the kind of language that’s a precusor to a purge. Betcha that callers on Washington Journal this morning will say he’s kidding.

lol

Too many people have the worm Trump and the Russians put in their brains.

I know you don't like George Carlin, but he said something very salient along these lines back in 1989:

Oh, I fully see how they characterize centrist Democrats as begin "far left", and it drives me bonkers. It's all branding and it works with their base. But it's not true, and I don't know why Democrats don't address it it in a more visible way, because by appearing to ignore it, they're ceding that point to Republicans, and that hurts the Democratic Party with the middle.

Democrats repudiated "defund the police" basically the day the so-called BLM movement first uttered it, because they knew it was the wrong way to phrase what it was they actually wanted to do, which was to shift much of the funding for dealing with people having mental episodes from police departments to social services departments, which I would agree with wholeheartedly. The party never embraced that phrase in any serious matter, and that goes double for Party leadership. The whole episode was one big gift to the Republicans so they could make hay on saddling Democrats with the phrase.

Assuming you and I define the far left similarly, I'm sure you'd agree that the far left is barely even a minuscule fraction of the size of the far right, and with even less of a fraction of the power and influence on the body politic. If I had to venture a guess on the numbers, I'd say the far left makes up maybe two percent of the population, while the far right makes up thirty percent. That's a function of how the far right has completely overrun one of our major political parties. People like to equivocate and claim the far left has similarly overrun the Democratic Party, to which I can reply only, "come on." The Democrats treat the far left as a wild child who goes prodigal a lot. The party sure would like them to fall in come Election Day, but they can't count on the far left not peeling off in a snit and voting for Jill ****ing Stein instead (as if she were going to save Gaza from Israel). Democrats don't cave to the far left because the far left isn't reliable, and besides, most of what animates the far left falls well outside the Party's policy positions, anyway. But Republicans must cave to literally everything the far right demands, because they currently hold the entire party hostage.

One objection I have about Maher is that he is an old school liberal until his ox gets gored. Two examples: (1) he railed against California's environmental regulations because they specifically affected his ability to put solar panels on his house; and (2) he rails against political correctness on college campuses in general specifically because he feels it has cost him college bookings for his standup act. He gets butthurt by an inconvenience wrought by a minor aspect of some larger thing, and so he flushes that entire thing down the toilet. It's so baldly obvious for the guy. All this said, I still enjoy the show for the debates at the table. I wish he still had the third panelist on it, which he dumped during the pandemic.

Yay, useless yards by Tony Pollard to get me fantasy points!

Good lord, we might score 70 today.

Special teams having a special day. What’s the team record for most yards by special teams in a single game?

I don’t think we should just give up on the idea because we’re too smart to believe it can ever happen. We gotta start changing it with a step in the right direction.

Maybe we should consider trading Tork while his value is spiking.

If this keeps us like this, the phrase “sixty forty” is going to take on a whole new meaning.

I’ll keep watching for the time being, because I like hearing the debates on it, but Maher has become this new breed of radicalized centrist, the kind who is cynical about everything; the kind who implies if not actually asserts that neither side is better than the other when thats clearly not the case; and who elevates the spectre of political correctness way, way beyond its scope and level of danger. I’m seeing more of that everywhere, and it’s getting really tiresome.

No! I don’t want one example. One example constitutes an anecdote, and right-wingers have made a cottage industry out of the use of anecdotes to create general hysteria and seize power. I want numbers. I want data. I want to understand the scope of whatever they want us to believe the problem is. I don’t think they can do it, and they should be trapped by their lack of data all day long and twice of Sundays.

Right, although TBF to some degree, if he starts shouting down guests, he won’t get any more guests. But man, this was just such low-hanging fruit.

I know people here hate Maher so maybe I’m a jerk for watching him. I will stipulate as much. He had Megyn Kelly on this past Friday, and she was spouting that ****ing nonsense about grade school children being transitioned to another gender after visits to psychologists, and I was screaming at the TV for Maher to ask her for the data, tell us how many, give us numbers instead of merely spewing some hysterical scenario, because I don’t think there are any numbers, probably because it has practically never happened, and all Maher did was agree that in same cases that does happen. I think my flying shoe may have scratched the screen.

Man, just cutting through them like a hot knife through soft butter so far.

I haven’t see Liz Cheney shill any Democratic Party policies. All I have seen her do is draw the line between a normal candidate and a Hitler-loving fascist who, not for nothing, is not anything like a conservative. She appears to me to be a conservative who is will to put up with Democratic policies instead of allowing the country and its Constitution to collapse into the dustbin of history. Maybe you don’t want her to do so, but I sure do.

I'd be interested in examples of (1) the left demonizing previous Republican Presidents, and (2) political correctness that they have constantly pushed. Not a whole slew of examples—maybe two examples for each. I want to understand what your bar is.