ComradeKayAdams

What is James cooking? Josh nose and can still smell it: End-zone feasts for six! McD in trouble?? New career in tech support? THEIR head coach, not ours… Our guy also punts And does stand-up comedy: Triple-threat baldy!

Keyser Soze redux?? Eeek!!

Can you elaborate, please? What part of my “leftist religion” is preventing me from seeing your truth? If this is a reference to immigration policy, I can tell you that my own personal position is fairly nuanced and “centristy” and not quite what the Democratic Party or even progressives believe. I can give you an exact day, if you’d like, on which I believe the Democratic Party broke their commitment to the American working class: December 8, 1993. This was the day that President Clinton officially signed off on NAFTA. It’s admittedly a bit arbitrary and symbolic, however, because I could have easily zeroed in on other issues. If I want to be a policy pedant, I would probably say soon after World War 2 when the United States had its best opportunity to implement socialized health care and chose to forgo it.

What happened to the Democratic Party is that they abandoned the American working class, beginning in Bill Clinton’s first presidential term. The rise of Donald Trump is the consequence of this political miscalculation. The 44-point shift among Gen Z men in two years only highlights the political volatility among this demographic. In no way does this shift provide proof of permanence to a MAGA affiliation! The Gen Z boys crave good jobs and BIG BOOBIES. Democrats can’t help with the latter, but running more anti-neoliberal candidates can certainly help with the former. I expect Gen Z MAGA’s political loyalty to be tied mostly to the fate of tariff-induced inflation and Trump’s alleged domestic manufacturing renaissance. Charlie Kirk-like charlatans can demonize Mexican immigrants, the LGBT community, black males, and sassy yuppy liberal women only up to a point. Gen Z MAGA boys will eventually figure out, I hope, that the real enemies are the people arguing that raising the marginal federal income tax on the highest bracket from 37% to 40% is akin to communism. R.I.P. to Charlie Kirk, by the way, in case that sentiment wasn’t obvious… No one should ever lose their life for voicing an opinion. A democracy can’t survive when we dehumanize those with whom we disagree.

Zohran is neither a communist nor a Hamas supporter. As one of his campaign’s many volunteer canvassers, I know his political positions extremely well and better than anyone else in this subforum. Zohran is a democratic socialist who is proposing a relatively anodyne policy platform of social democracy, with only five distinctly socialistic exceptions: a public grocery store in each borough. He also happens to believe in a one-state Israel solution (i.e. full and equal citizen rights for all Palestinians living in Gaza and in the West Bank), even though one’s foreign policy is irrelevant as mayor… The 2025 Bills season could very well be a magical one! Try following our football team instead of posting down here ~1,000,000 times per day. Too much PPP is super unhealthy…

Monsters of the Leeway

Why Kay wants to murder Leh-nerd this morning: 1. Political Reasons: 1-A. Leh-nerd considers martial law to be a viable long-term urban crime-fighting policy. 1-B. He ignores the obvious political intimidation purposes of employing the National Guard in certain cities, with regard to Democratic Party strongholds and ICE objectives. 1-C. He continuously downplays the general creeping fascism of the Trump 47 administration. 1-D. He pretends to not regularly consume far-right news media of dubious repute. 2. Personal Reasons: 2-A. Leh-nerd keeps calling Kay and Tiberius “moops,” yet he doesn’t have the decency to at least provide a working definition of “moop.” Leh-nerd knows that language precision is important to Kay and that sentence context alone is typically insufficient. If Leh-nerd wants to continue with the name-calling, then Kay will match Leh-nerd’s “moop” with her own ad hominem attack of “poop.” 2-B. He keeps insinuating that Kay and Tiberius are involved in an illicit romantic liaison, one so illicit as to completely upheave the PPP subforum social order were it true. 3. Popular Culture Reasons: 3-A. Leh-nerd completely missed the scientific and philosophical point of the Terminator movie series, which was that Judgment Day was inevitable. 3-B. Chris Farley was a beloved comedy icon whose weight issues made him no less valuable a human or less worthy of love than Patrick Swayze. 4. Morning Logistical Reasons: 4-A. Kay would rather spend her Friday morning reading up on the Sunday night Ravens game. 4-B. She also has an important tech report to complete by 3:30pm today, and so responding to Leh-nerd’s incessant PPP drama is an obvious time drain. 4-C. She could also be holding planks for 3+ minutes this morning or performing other similar core workouts, even though her tummy is already ridiculously flat…but no point in resting on laurels… 4-D. She should also be picking out her outfit right about now for Casual Friday, which will undoubtedly be ridiculously chic…but there is still a distinction to be made between ridiculously chic and RIDICULOUSLY chic…should Kay just say, “eff it,” and go navy blue blazer dress for Casual Friday?? Ugh…why am I asking YOU for fashion advice, Leh-nerd?! You’re my arch-nemesis who only seeks to destroy my day. Watch your back, bruh…

From an unbiased outsider’s perspective, Mr. Grumpy Gus, it appears that YOU instigated your Labor Day morning fracas with Tiberius by referring to him as a “moop.” Tibsy is a fundamentally decent forum member who only means well. I may or may not be reminded of an ancient upstate New York proverb, crudely translated from the native Haudenosaunee tongue to English as follows: “Poke rear of black bear with hickory stick end, maybe face tomahawk of pale ingenue with impossibly flat stomach.” Heed the wisdom of those who came before you, Leh-nerd. << Narrator: Kay slowly licks the crimson residue off her virtual warrior blade, sending chills down Leh-nerd’s spine like the prevailing winds off of a great lake. With Kay’s menacing mountain lion-esque eyes fixated on Leh-nerd from afar, eyes black and cold like a winter night camping in the Tug Hill region, Leh-nerd’s chasmic frigidity finds momentary respite as he pees his pants in fear. >> << Also, Narrator: Leh-nerd notes that Kay is wearing a flowery long-sleeved maxi, with a very light beige foundation, well into Labor Day because Leh-nerd knows that Kay is never one to follow stupid fashion platitudes…because there was that one time Leh-nerd recommended that Kay not wear white into September, thinking Kay would actually find that outmoded advice useful…though to be fair to Leh-nerd, he was just trying to be helpful and it’s the sincerity that counts. Whatever. Kay is still going to threaten Leh-nerd with her virtual tomahawk if Leh-nerd acts up again with his MAGA stupidity. >>

True, to a large extent, but let’s also not forget that the party establishment has been putting their thumbs on the scale for unpopular candidates throughout the Trump Era! Oh, I’m always happy to expand and expound! You know my writing style, Mr. Tsujimoto… I’m referring to the stark contrast between the voting record of Democratic Party politicians and the policy favorability polling data among registered Democrat voters. The politicians are center-right on multiple key issues (gun regulation, M4A, collective bargaining, taxing the rich, etc.) on which the voters lean solidly left. This contrast, of course, is a direct consequence of non-democratic (little “d”) campaign finance laws. The midterm primaries revolution of which I speak is my own expectation of an intra-party civil war between neoliberal centrists and far-left progressives. The two expected catalyzing issues for the conflagration are tariff-influenced stagflation by 2026 Q1 and Israel’s genocide. I’m anticipating a heavy influx of dual DSA affiliates, Greens, independents, and disenchanted male MAGA Zoomers to successfully push the Democrats further left. Any incumbent who doesn’t center their policy platform on economic populism and who accepts AIPAC donations/bribes is vulnerable to a primary challenger. It’s a long-overdue revolution, writ large in 2009 following Iraq and the Great Recession, but delayed and subdued due to internal party corruption and the effects of the Citizens United v. FEC (2010) ruling. And yes, I do realize that the concept of the Democratic Party establishment being too far to the right sounds absolutely preposterous to this particular online community! I encourage you guys to remember that there is much more in the panoply of political discourse than culture war “wokeism” and dudes wearing super cute dresses. When can we expect Trump’s domestic manufacturing renaissance to arrive?? The tomes of American history depict FDR not as the harbinger of dangerous Marxist Leninist Maoist Zohranist socialist ideology infiltrating contemporary American politics, but rather as a political compromise that kept the REAL far-left commies at bay.

Meh. It’s just more of the same “vibes-over-policy” nonsense that corporate Democrats have been peddling since the early days of Obama. The disconnect between the party’s establishment politicians and its registered voters is now so profound as to render a midterm primaries revolution inevitable. A shift in the standards for political decorum, from a recent historical perspective, usually indicates that Americans are unhappy with their politicians prioritizing the interests of campaign donors.

Human morality comes from our ability to reason, to empathize, and to work cooperatively. It’s an emergent social phenomenon in evolutionary biology. If you need supernatural threats of eternal damnation to behave like a decent person, then you may be a sociopath. If you need religious commandments to inform you that murder and theft is wrong, then you may be a dumb-dumb. You’ve quoted vague Biblical verses here to justify Israel’s war crimes of collective punishment, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Have you carefully considered the ramifications of your Biblical interpretations, in terms of Christianity’s future worldwide reputation as a moral beacon?? And just to be clear: God’s support of Israel’s existence and its right to defend itself does NOT necessarily imply that God also supports the particular MANNER in which Israel believes it is acting in self-defense. I would hope that any deity worthy of reverence would encourage Israelis to seek alternatives to mass starvation programs against innocent Gazan children, violent settler incursions throughout the West Bank, and non-democratic systems of apartheid on either side of the Green Line…

My family’s official score (Dad and two brothers) is a 78: Bills, Sabres, Yankees, Knicks, NYC FC. My personal score rises to a 93 because I really only follow the Buffalo contact sports: Bills, Sabres. Actually…I am also a major fan of the NLL’s Buffalo Bandits. Since they are in the midst of an epic lacrosse dynasty, I suppose my score should be lowered. Fun site, though! I love quantifying my misery!!

OH MY GOD. Cameron Johnston is Sean McDermott moonlighting as an NFL punter. No one will convince me otherwise until I see them both on a football field at the same time.

American democracy, in my opinion, died with the Citizens United v. FEC decision back in 2010. I’ll concede, however, that it’s neither productive nor healthy to operate in the political realm as if that’s the case. I view Donald Trump as much more a symptom than a cause. I don’t see why population size is even relevant to the question of how a society will respond under social democratic policies. You simply scale up or down all of the nationalized goods and services, depending on the market demand. The far more relevant metric to any proposed Nordic model is probably consumption as a percentage of national GDP. The U.S. economy tends to hover around 70% for private household expenditures, which helps make it a very strong candidate for far-left economic policies. Getting back to the Bolivia topic, since it’s a super interesting one…their country’s current political turmoil has practically nothing to do with the eternal philosophical debate of capitalism vs. socialism. Let’s all think about why Evo Morales and MAS (Movimiento al Socialismo) failed: 1. Widespread government corruption: not unique to socialists. Why did the far-left rise to power there in the first place?? 2. Internal strife among political factions of MAS: same argument as above. 3. Dangers of having an unbalanced national economy: EASILY the most important reason for the Bolivian far-left’s demise. Their country has long been way too dependent on the influx of U.S. dollars from raw material exports. So when extraction production declines and international market prices also drop on these exported goods, combined with general international inflation on most others goods and services, the entire national economy will inevitably tank. But again…what did the non-socialists do to help diversify the economy while they were previously in power?? 4. Various environmental crises that have harmed Bolivia’s economy: poor sustainability practices (related to point # 3), pollution, and civil infrastructure/agriculture damage from a rapidly changing climate. The Bolivian government actually has really good environmental regulations under MAS, but their government is too corrupt and ineffective to enforce them. But yet again…what makes anyone think right-wingers will be better on these issues?? Historically, they are most certainly not! It does look like Bolivia is heading in Argentina’s direction of painful austerity measures, so we’ll see how long that goes until its citizens cycle back to the left. Bolivia’s best economic hope lies with their immense lithium resources, but I have my usual doubts that far-right Bolivian capitalists can impel their nation to efficient lithium extraction without horribly exploiting labor, the land, and indigenous communities. Then again, yes I do understand that the far-left had their share of opportunities to deliver and did not. Such is politics.