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Great post that I condensed down. 4 is happening all over this forum and with people I talk with in real life. It is hilarious how Russia has now become the boogeyman for the right. Bernie has been in the senate for 14 years and congress for 16 before that. 30 years of government and he's a secret communist that will destroy the very fabric of america! My favorite might be 3 houses and a millionaire. He has a condo in dc, a house in vermont, and a vacation home. Sounds ritzy right? I ask all of you to google those homes. He is worth approximately 2 million. 795k for a book advance is 2016 and he has been drawing a senators salary (174k) for more than a decade. He is no more a boogeyman that will destroy America than Donald Trump is. If you had a public track record of almost 30 years exhibiting though it would...

Self admitted democratic socialist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Bernie_Sanders

https://itep.org/corporate-tax-avoidance-in-the-first-year-of-the-trump-tax-law/ Profitable American corporations in 2018 collectively paid an average effective federal income tax rate of 11.3 percent on their 2018 income, barely more than half the 21 percent statutory tax rate. Key Findings: The 379 profitable corporations identified in this study paid an effective federal income tax rate of 11.3 percent on their 2018 income, slightly more than half the statutory 21 percent tax 91 corporations did not pay federal income taxes on their 2018 U.S. income. These corporations include Amazon, Chevron, Halliburton and IBM. An ITEP study released in April 2019 examined 2018 Fortune 500 filings released to date and found 60 companies paid zero in federal income taxes. Now, all companies have released their 2018 financial filings, and this report reflects that. Another 56 companies paid effective tax rates between 0 percent and 5 percent on their 2018 income. Their average effective tax rate was 2.2 percent.

Here’s a radical idea: The person with the most votes should be the Democratic nominee. #DemDebate — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 20, 2020 Only 1 out of all the candidates to say this but he is the one who is against democracy...

Randy Moss made Daunte Culpepper. The list isn't long but there are examples. What is true is that talent at wr helps young qbs tremendously. I have put the list up so I will only do the condensed version here. Eagles went out and surrounded Wentz, Rams did the same with Goff, hell even the Bears tried to with Trubisky, Mahomes walked into an incredibly talented team. Almost every young qb is given excellent receiving talent to help them out. It is part of the winning with a qb on a rookie contract formula that so many teams are using (succesfully I might add). It is what makes this year so important for the Bills. They need to give Josh some bonafide A talent on offense.

Has anyone ever seen Head of State with Chris Rock? Pretty funny movie but the gist is the presidential candidate dies and they prop up a candidate they expect to lose to make the party look better. That is Pete Buttigieg. Then the dems can claim we have put a black man, a woman, and a gay man up the last 4 elections. See we ARE inclusive. I don't care how you feel about Bernie Sanders the candidate. If you are on the right it must be nice seeing the dems being exposed for their corruption. If you are on the left it continues to be embarrassing that your party is so bad at hiding their subterfuge.

This is pretty old. Still hilarious but pretty old. Do we really want to show the fringes though? I'm sure I can dig up idiotic conservatives being well idiotic.

I got 2 of your guys then lol. For the Vikings I knew I was going cb. Not only does Zimmer love dbs but it was a big need. Fulton was my target as it drew closer. I thought about Diggs just for the storyline of the Vikings drafting Stefon Diggs' brother. For the Bears I went with oline help. Kyle Long retired and even though he has been injured it created a hole. They have good enough wrs, have invested in Trubisky, and Montgomery so I wanted to help them be successful.

I considered him on 43 and then again at 50 for the Bears. I gave them 2 lineman but think they are set at center with Whitehair. They started last season with him at guard but after Daniels washed out they moved him back. He has a pretty large contract that he earned at center so I figured I would leave it alone. I was surprised to see Biadasz still sitting there so it was a no brainer imo for the Vikings.

Vikings need help on the offensive line and get the #1 center in the class late in the 2nd round! He and Bradbury can battle it out with the loser moving to guard. With the 57th pick the Minnesota Vikings select Tyler Biadasz C Wisconsin. @Reed83HOF and the Texans are on the clock.

@wppete you are on the clock

The Chicago Bears select John Simpson OG Clemson. Replacement for Kyle Long and more beef up front for Montgomery and Trubisky. @GunnerBill and Dallas are on the clock

With the 43rd pick the Bears select Trey Adams OT Washington. Can't look for Trubisky's replacement just yet so I am going to get him some protection. @BuffaloHokie13 and the Colts are on the clock Please do yourself a favor and google pictures of this meat head lol

I don't hate Trump. I think it is embarrassing that our president engages in twitter beefs with people, doesn't know simple geography, etc and I think we can do better. He isn't this evil dictator that people want to make him out to be. He is however a troll (in the internet sense of the word) and I will admit that at times it makes me chuckle. However I don't think that is a role our leader should be playing. As for Health Insurance I appreciate your views. I work directly every day with benefits in my role as an HR Director and just simply see things a bit differently. I have watched premiums sky rocket while adding deductibles to plans that didn't have them with worse coverage. Insurance companies were forced to offer coverage to everyone and pretended that it caused a tremendous burden for them financially. Meanwhile Excellus made 99.5 million profit in 2016, 182.3 in 2017, and 150 million in 2018. That is a non-profit company making 432 million dollars in profits in 2 years. Their CEO received a 23% raise from 2.3 million a year to 2.9. As I work in a smallish company (about 115 employees) I also see the cost to the employer. Minimum wage hikes are going to push a lot of businesses out as they struggle to maintain competitiveness while labor costs skyrocket. If employers weren't on the hook for premiums they would become more sustainable and profitable. I posted in a separate thread about why Medicare is so expensive. Part of that is due to the population served and the risk associated with them. The other part is that the govt is forbidden from negotiating medication prices. I have family living abroad with socialized medicine and they have no issues with wait times, providers, etc. All the boogeyman talking points being pushed are exaggerated. Funny thing is we currently have to go where our insurance says we can go so we already have issues with providers (in network vs out of network), we have to wait sometimes months for specialists as it is, and most PCPs don't accept walk in appointments anymore. The talking points are current issues!

Sorry for the delay in responding. I like to post on PPP from a computer as it is easier to be a windbag than it is with my phone Yes I am a Sanders supporter. I was last go around as well. He has a tremendous track record of being on the right side of issues from segregation to gay marriage to conflicts that we have engaged in. I don't agree with all of his policies namely the college loan forgiveness but I am a big believer in single payer or universal health care. Being the greatest nation on earth means we should take care of our people. Health care in America is less than ideal to put it mildly. Insurance companies have made bank off of the ACA because it is a half measure. We dipped a toe in and all it did was allow insurance companies to raise their rates astronomically while offering worse coverage. People have to make decisions on whether food or medicine is more important, stay at terrible jobs because they need insurance, and go broke trying to pay hospital bills. I would like to see health care fixed in this country above all else. That is my most important issue in this election. All that said I am on record saying Trump gets re-elected and this cluster does nothing to change that prediction. All of this is exactly what we were talking about. It is almost set up to be overly represented by young people with no responsibilities (who are generally apathetic) and older people (who generally participate). That would skew results with an unrepresentative (is that a word? lol) total of the state. Voting is less than 5 minutes generally from the time I park until the time I am back in my car. 2 hours? Can't do that. As you said unfortunately that is probably the point. From your link: The latest Emerson College tracking poll, however, shows Buttigieg has gotten a large bump in support thanks to his surprise success in Iowa. The delay in reporting the results of the Iowa caucuses has led some to speculate that the entire debacle was a calculated move by the Democratic National Committee to let Buttigieg soak up the spotlight ahead of New Hampshire.

Yeah i can do that.

I had the patriots who don't have a 2nd round pick so I can pick up an extra team if needed @Virgil

Yannick is part 2 of the guys I don't want the Bills to sign (Amari Cooper thread was part 1). I have posted the stats elsewhere but on a per play basis Shaq had more sacks than Yannick. Shaq finished with 6.5 sacks and Yannick had 8. The difference in their contracts will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 million a year apart. I don't think 1.5 sacks is worth 10 million.

No way Mike Zimmer goes 2 years in a row without a cb especially after watching rhodes deterioration last year. The Vikings take Kristian Fulton, CB from LSU The Dolphins and @wppete are on the clock

The New England Patriots select Leviska Shenault WR Colorado. No I'm just kidding. I think the Patriots will try to trade down from this spot and recoup the second they gave up for Sanu. That didn't work here and I would be really surprised to see them go wr back to back rounds. Offensive line was a huge issue last year but there was a run on ots. Bill loves drafting Georgia players. Therefore, with the 23rd pick the New England Patriots select Solomon Kindley, og, UGA. @CNYfan and the Saints are on the clock

Patriots are open to trading down from their pick if anyone wants to jump up...

Cooper (along with Yannick) are 2 incredibly over hyped guys for the production they bring. I'm glad he doesn't want Buffalo because I do not want them to blow tons of cash on him. Here are some interesting Cooper stats for you: 8 out of 16 games he had less than 5 catches 12 out of 16 games he failed to crack 100 yards receiving 7 out of 16 games he failed to crack 50 yards receiving When the Cowboys season was on the line 4th and 8 with 1:21 to go he was benched for Tavon Austin!!!! His own coaches in a do or die situation decided they would rather have Tavon freaking Austin out there. Here is a quote from him “It’s frustrating,” Cooper said. "You’ve got to look the ball all the way through before you run. That’s the main thing you want to do when it comes to catching the ball. And that’s just the challenge. It’s a challenge for some guys. I know it’s a challenge for me at times. "If this game was played to where you couldn't have run-after-the-catch, then you would catch everything because you wouldn't even think about running before you catch. And that's just a challenge for every receiver, I think. You're just so anxious to score a touchdown or get however many yards after the catch to where you don't look the ball all the way through every time." I am glad he doesn't want Buffalo...

Happy to take on a second team as well

I think amused is the right answer. I watched last night because I knew Bernie would have a strong showing and I wanted to see how CNN spun it. I was surprised by how poorly Biden did and how well Buttigieg did. When I first turned it on around 9 expecting to see some results they were still showing different precincts and discussing candidates. Then the fun began. They showed Biden supporters that were not going to be viable, Warren supporters that wow had such huge numbers, then Sanders which was larger than Warren and they quickly moved past it. The night continued to get worse for Biden and then they started to get impatient waiting for results. I eventually had to turn it though, watching politics on tv is anxiety inducing. So much sky is falling, doom preaching, and arguing. Then I woke up to something glorious this morning. Straight out of the Trump playbook. Sanders wasn't going to let the DNC screw them so they had someone at each and every polling place. They were keeping their own numbers! Then it comes out that it is a discrepancy between their numbers and the DNC which caused the hold up and I couldn't wipe the smile from my face. Then it comes out that the poll that was scrapped showed him winning. DNC has been exposed and I enjoy when people that abuse their power get their comeuppance. Dummies don't understand how the world currently works. People will be outraged the more apparent it becomes they are screwing Sanders and only energize his base more. On a side not how terrible are caucuses? I was talking with my wife last night about this. You don't get to vote in private and it takes hours to complete. We have 2 small children and therefore would have to decide which 1 of the 2 of us got to vote. My house with 2 registered voters would only get 1 vote. I have to imagine this effects many people. Between childcare, working, and/or other responsibilities, how are people supposed to participate in this democratic process? Unless that is the point...