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This sucks, we desperately need Joe Biden for 2 more years...the alternative is terrifying
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4 hours ago, ChiGoose said:
You could just scroll through the numbers and see that the majority of countries had better success at preventing deaths than we did.
the United States Covid death data is beyond laughablenot remotely accurate
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11 hours ago, EasternOHBillsFan said:
As soon as Damar's uncle said that they had to administer CPR AGAIN at the hospital, I think that people SHOULD be concerned if he's still under after over 24 hours. This is out of concern for Damar and medical experience probably has nothing so do with it IMHO
They just said this was not the case, he was resuscitated just the once on the field, at least that's the latest I've heard
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What an absolute dirtbag this Klain guy is...clueless too
Hey Moron, your EV subsidies basically target exactly zero cars and zero buyers because you're such a moron
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This thread is embarrassing.
The guy had 83 catches, like double (season-adjusted) what anyone will have as "the #2" this year, yet he had a bad season last year.
Just ridiculous. Stop with the inane comments about this our that...players (especially those making tough yards over the middle) get hurt, and the ones ACTUALLY PRODUCING deserve our respect.
This team has not replaced Beasley's production this year, simple fact...
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16 hours ago, ChiGoose said:
I don't think supporting Ukraine to this extent was the original plan. If I remember correctly, the Biden administration offered to pull Zelensky out of Kyiv and set up a government-in-exile when Ukraine inevitably fell to the Russians. Based on the poor performance of the Ukrainian military in 2014, there was little expectation that they would have much success against the much larger and better-resourced Russian military.
But after Russia invaded Crimea in 2014, Ukraine changed it's military posture from a post-Soviet strategy to one aspiring to NATO standards. The goal was to better adhere to how Western militaries worked (valuing the lives of the soldier, delegation of control to NCO's in the field, advanced Western weaponry, etc.) instead of continuing the Russian model of meat grinders and a kleptocratic military leadership, which had clearly failed.
What we didn't realize was how successful they had been. I think if we had known, we may have provided them more arms prior to the invasion. But we thought this was basically the same army that got its ass handed to it 6 years prior and had basically no chance of winning. Instead, they surprised the world and repelled the initial invasion in the north on their own, though they still struggled in the east and south. Once it became apparent that the individual Ukrainian units were far superior to their Russian counterparts, the question became: what support do they need to actually win this thing (or at the least, get back to the 2014 borders via truce)?
In the end, a Ukrainian defeat of the Russian army aligns with the United States' global strategic goals and diminishes the powers of those who wish to take the global hegemony away from us and put it in the hands of the China-Russia-Iran (and maybe India?) axis. For just a fraction of our budget and none of our blood, that seems a worthy investment to me.
Thank you for the thoughtful reply.
There actually (as I recall) was really no military defense of Crimea at all, Russia just rolled in their Men in Black and annexed the territory. Don't think a shot was fired. They also infiltrated other Men in Black into those Eastern sections of Ukraine back then too...
Now, to your point, no doubt over the ensuing 6-7 years, Ukraine realized they had to beef up their defenses, and they had.
I'll acknowledge that at the beginning of this current conflict, Russia's aims were grander (Kyiv, Regime Change) such that the Ukraine/US response had to flex accordingly, so I get that. But that was essentially over after a few months, whereby Russia focused on the Eastern sections that had really been in conflict/occupied over the last 8 years anyway.
So, what's changed from "give them Russian-leaning Crimea 8 years ago, fine" to "at all costs defend the Eastern Russian-leaning sections of Ukraine - back to original borders" strategy?
I think there's something a lot bigger going on, that we're not being told about. Starting with COVID (there are 4,000,000 cities and towns in the world, and COVID came out of the one with China's bioweapons lab? Uh huh), now the re-alignment along "Energy & Natural Resources" of Russia, China, Middle East and even India, and now a picture begins to emerge.
There's a Global East vs. West war going on that is probably just getting going, started by the Leftist Western Civilization self-weakening around eco-Green energy production concerns which left their societies weak and susceptible.
The interesting part...our MAD system was probably centered around conflict with one nation. I wonder if we've contemplated Nuclear war against a bloc of like-minded nations?
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6 hours ago, Tiberius said:
Wrong. More Russian occupation is more pain. Winning is good.
Putin is being beaten down and that's just a good thing. He can't help people win elections here now. Love that.
Perhaps you don't realize this, but that was the argument for the Vietnam War.
We assuage conflict on this planet everywhere almost every day (I'm told)...why we are blasting Billions of Dollars, but more importantly hundreds of thousands of lives, over some regions near Russia when Obama simply let them annex Crimea, HAS to be perplexing even to a Biden lover like you, no?
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4 hours ago, Tiberius said:
The annual federal deficit has also fallen, from $3.1 trillion for fiscal 2020 to $1.4 trillion for fiscal 2022.
More low-knowledge Leftist nonsense.
Idiotically spendint $2-$3T on "COVID Testing & Vaccines", and then Not spending that money, is not any kind of Fiscal restraint.
This country will be in a world of hurt in 3 months and the moronic Libs have no clue about it.
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11 hours ago, IronMaidenBills said:
China is doing just fine, not that I want to be China.
The China Communist Party is doing fine, the people are definitely not
you could argue the "People's Republic of China" has already collapsed and been replaced by whatever that is right now, and what it will be shortly.
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9 minutes ago, BillStime said:
You sound like a real patriotNo problem, just learn how to apply critical thinking before it's too late.
And I hope you're not buying stocks right now, for your sake.
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1 hour ago, BillStime said:
Now do Faux News
idiots
I don't like to use nasty language, but I hope you are aware of how dumb you are/seem on this site, and don't apply those principles in your real life.
Just to help you out, there are ZERO surviving LEFTIST civilizations, and thats for a reason. Go read some books and learn.
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The most important thing here is that it will be BEASLEY hopefully making these catches for 5-8 yards so that it frees up Knox/Diggs/Davis for Intermediate and then Diggs/Davis for Deep passes.
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1 hour ago, Robert Paulson said:
not to pick on you but Beasley was a shell of himself his last year. Keeping Beasley wasn't the answer but lil dirty has disappointed as his replacement- and i like lil dirty
Um, Beasley had 82 catches for nearly 700 yards and was #2 on the team last year...
His "replacements" are on pace for 50 catches
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6 hours ago, Rock-A-Bye Beasley said:
McDermott said post game that they thought the pass to Knox was worth the risk. He basically said he was involved in the decision which was the correct one. Josh just needs to run there or Knox needs to hold on to the ball that’s in his arms.
Are you someone that blamed Daboll too? McDermott clearly has influence on what the offense does.
I liked the call, the route just needed to be 12 yards not 20 given the conditions. Would have basically ended the game
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It's the Offensive Line. It's simply not playing well, run-blocking or pass-blocking.
Agreed with the stuff about situational 3rd down Defense, but that would be less of an issue if our OL wasn't playing like 28th in the league.
Just my opinion
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8 hours ago, Chef Jim said:
They've been talking about the "surge" in Covid hospitalizations in LA county. There is a very interesting footnote. Of those admitted only 40% were admitted because of Covid. The other 60% were admitted for something else but tested positive for Covid. So is it safe to say that the number of deaths FROM Covid vs those WITH Covid could have been a similar ratio?
Simply, they are liars, and they've been lying to us for 2.5 years.
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On 11/14/2022 at 8:47 PM, Gene Frenkle said:
The world is experiencing insane inflation because money printer go brrrrrr for so long, especially since the 2020 crash. Overleveraged banks and Wallstreet have benefited from quatative easing policies that went on for far too long, leading to a massive economic bubble in many sectors around the world. Long term inflation is caused by literally one thing: printing more money. We (and many other countries) printed way too much and the bubble will pop spectacularly sooner rather than later.
This problem far pre-dates this administration, so anyone pinning it on Biden Bad is either disingenuous or stupid AF. This issue spans multiple administrations, so I'm not necessarily even blaming Trump. We never fixed anything after 2008, just printed more money to bail out institutions (casinos) that were "too big to fail". It's a greed problem, mixed with a lack of transparency and poor timing. Blame Jay Powell and the Fed (a private organization) if you want a reasonable recent scapegoat, but that's not 100% right either.
This is true and not true.
Printing money definitely causes inflation, but I and many others argued about shutting down the economy and its impacts, and the clear and easy biggest issue with shutting the economy would be and is Inflation.
There is monetary inflation, supply-side destruction inflation, and demand inflation inflation, and this Leftist-Western cabal managed to nail all aspects of every one of those.
These people have no idea how the world works, that much is clear. The Fed is not perfect but was "easy" for a long-time. The Primary Issue was the indoctrination of horrendous Leftist policies. To think Bernie Sanders wanted to print $7 TRILLION and was only stopped by Manchin?!?!?!
These people are just plain stupid, and we'll all and are paying the price
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4 hours ago, HomeskillitMoorman said:
The big thing with conservatives when it comes to abortion is such a huge chunk of them are pro-birth rather than actually being pro-life, and what it reflects about them.
One of the examples is a good percentage of pro-life people are also against gay marriage, which can affect the ability to adopt. You could have a kid that's in a terrible foster home that a loving, supportive gay couple would like to adopt and the kid wants to go there and could be in a stable home, and they can refuse it if they are not comfortable with having gay parents.
Here's what those conservatives want to tell a kid like that..."YOU shouldn't get to have that because of MY personal religious beliefs". It's sickening. It's not about the life of children, it's about control. It's a microcosm of what that party and wanting to integrate church into state is all about. The idea that they want "less government" is the biggest crock of ***** and most young people can see that.
I'd probably consider myself more Libertarian than anything, because I actually want less government involvement.
Extremely good points
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RSV and other Viruses have children's hospitals nation-wide at full capacity.
We protected 86 year olds to the detriment of 6 year olds.
Just stupid people running this place, most of them Leftists
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1 hour ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
If you walked by a Jennifer Rubin raging at Glenn Youngkin for not publicly apologizing while she was chomping on three slices of Sbarro meat-lover pizza at the local mall, would you stop and engage? Take a minute to explain why a handwritten note is sufficient to apologize to the offended party? Remind her that people devoted to a life of public service make mistakes, too?
No, more than likely, you would shake your head, catch the eye of another shopper and both shake your head at the crazy woman making a fool of herself.
Who cares?
You're right, I don't care in the least, end of the day
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3 hours ago, Tiberius said:
Quite the world we've turned this into, where a "public", often insincere apology, is more "acceptable" than a sincere, private apology.
*** obviously I haven't seen the private apology to assess its veracity
But this is the Liberal world and how they want it. It's pathetic, frankly
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16 minutes ago, BillStime said:
Oh... you sound desperate.
Indeed.
What did Biden inherit?
Deficit Tracker | Bipartisan Policy Center
(Why do I even bother) Joe inherited an Economy that was affected by Leftist-driven shut-down because these people WANTED to be controlled. As a result of the massive decline in Economic output due to the Leftists' cult-driven thirst for power, the Gov't printed Trillions of dollars and simply gave it to the population, thus ensuring massive inflation and the resulting upcoming Economic crash.
More poignantly, Joe hasn't done anything, the Leftist cabal in charge of our lives since March of 2020 did this.
The 2019 deficit was just fine and the Economy was strong and promising. What we have now is nothing close to that, despite what your Leftist echo-chambers are telling you
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2 hours ago, All_Pro_Bills said:
Curiously the Household Survey reported a drop of 328K jobs in stark contrast to the Payroll numbers. This divergence has existed for several months. Along with a labor force participation rate of 62.2%. My guess is most of the "new" jobs are workers already employed that are taking on 2nd or 3rd part-time or "full-time" jobs because of increases in the cost of living and the impact those rising costs have on their households. Not new workers entered the labor force. Hardly a case for strength.
The problem the Fed is having is they started way too late in the cycle to address rising inflation and while their aggressive hikes will eventually have an impact there is a significant time lag between the rate hikes and their impact. To say they're behind the curve is an understatement and when they realize they've gone too far it will be too late to avoid a disaster.
This is all correct.
Be wise to save your nickels. Fed Funds above 5% plus a virtual certainty that China will take advantage of weak US Presidential Leadership (Biden-Harris-Pelosi) to invade Taiwan within the next 2 years means we are in for a rocky road.
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3 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Job growth was stronger than expected in October despite Federal Reserve interest rate increases aimed at slowing what is still a strong labor market.
Nonfarm payrolls grew by 261,000 for the month while the unemployment rate moved higher to 3.7%, the Labor Department reported Friday. Those payroll numbers were better than the Dow Jones estimate for 205,000 more jobs, but worse than the 3.5% estimate for the unemployment rate.
Although the number was better than expected, it still marked the slowest pace of job gains since December 2020.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/04/jobs-report-october-2022-.html
Just to help you out here, this is kind of worst-case scenario
The jobs that were created were not of high-quality:
Full-time workers: -433K
Part-time workers: +164KThe pretty sizeable layoff announcements that have been hitting everywhere would have not have impacted this number. BUT, it means the Fed has to keep tightening, meaning raising interest rates, which are at levels we already can't afford.
Housing and Auto finance is already done for. Fed keeps hiking to 5% Fed Funds and you're talking 8-9% Mortgage Rates, 12% Auto loan rates...all that joyful stimulus spending the Biden Admin launched into the economy won't mean a thing.
I am certainly not rooting against the US Economy, hoping we can avoid a worst-case crash...but from an analytical stand-point this does nothing good for us right now.
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Good Enough...Got to Be Better Next Week
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Hate to ask this question....
But does it really come down to JA just tossing a ball up in the air under pressure (up 17) that becomes an INT and a 50 yard return? Which turned into points.
And then a JA fumble where he didn't recognize the blitz and fumbled and cost the team 7 points?
To me, the issue is the book says to pressure (blitz) JA because he doesn't handle it properly, and that only got more support today.
So we're bashing the team, but JA himself cost them about 70 yards and 14 points today. I'm not bashing, just saying if one guy makes some better decisions, the Team would have looked a lot better.
(I don't blame him for the INT off Beasley's chest when a penalty arguably could have been called).
OL protection and DL pressure need to be addressed.