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    The packers really blew it selecting Love

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    2 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:

    The Packers really blew it selecting Aaron Rodgers. I just watched Favre still sling it....

     

     

    This is what the Packers do. They have 4 HoF QBs (soon to be 5), and 3 QBs (Starr, Favre, Rodgers) make up 45 of 100 years of their existence.

    What a poorly run organization. Once again we see the idiocy of meddling billionaire owners.

     

    Oh, wait...

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    PPP Under Fire

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    4 hours ago, RealKayAdams said:

     

    Yay! BullBuchanan, I knew I’d finally run into someone at PPP who is ideologically to my left. If you’re looking for suitable Democrats in 2024, don’t hold your breath. For one thing, we could all be stuck with Kamala for up to 12 years. The best the Dems would offer you at the national level is a remodeled Newsom, possibly Warren, or possibly Sherrod Brown. There’s a tiny chance that Andrew Yang could break through if you’re big on UBI. AOC could theoretically always break out because she’ll just barely meet the age requirement in 2024, but the DNC wouldn’t let that happen and I don’t personally trust AOC enough to lead the progressive left movement, anyway. Keep developing her in the House to replace current Speaker, Cruella de Vil. Maybe Pramila Jayapal or Ro Khanna? The problem, however, is that all of these people I mentioned will shift heavily toward the center and sell out the progressive base in order to get nominated. Such is the inherent nature of the Democratic Party and the power of corporate campaign donations.

     

    That is why I hope you will join me in a mass left-wing defection to third parties! The Democratic Party can’t be reformed internally and must be pressured from the outside. Honestly…the whole party needs to be burned down to the ground a la 1850’s Whigs if we ever want to kill off America’s Sixth Party System and begin the Seventh that is inclusive of progressive policies. I recommend Nick Brana’s Movement for a People’s Party. They’re building a fairly standard social democrat platform, but a serious socialist like yourself will probably like it enough. It’s where all the coolest Bernie Bros and Bernie Bras are congregating after November! Many among the always rebellious West Coast + So Cal crew seem to have already defected. The Midwest and Northeast folks are slowly reconsidering, too, as long as they can simultaneously support Justice Democrat types like The Squad, Cori Bush, and Jamaal Bowman. I’m guessing that Nina Turner and Jesse Ventura would be the most likely 2024 People’s Party ticket at the moment. I adore Nina. She is my absolute favorite politician in America right now, and Jesse would be great to pull over many of the populists on the right.

     

     

    Ugh…it appears that the ghosts of Democratic primaries past have revisited us. This is neither the best time nor the best place, but I must interject. The will of Deranged Rhinos’s Rule #2 compels me!! So let’s quickly review all the complaints with Bernie Sanders the person:

     

    1. Commie sympathizer: yes, Bernie extolled some of its virtues during his early life and during his formative political years in Vermont. He was willing to buck conventional wisdom and explore ideas that were unpopular and dangerous to have during the Cold War era. He was looking for an economic system that was both ethical and practical. By 1990, he had settled on that region of the socialist spectrum between democratic socialism and social democracy. Throughout the 21st century, he has legislated like a social democrat.

    2. 1988 honeymoon in USSR: critics of this should first read Bernie’s own personal account (i.e. not from a right-wing website) of why he went on the trip, what he experienced, and what he learned there which shaped his later political beliefs.

    3. Misogynist: complete nonsense made up from somewhere within the DNC (Hillary?) and eventually passed through the Warren campaign. Bernie only ran in 2016 because Warren herself refused to run, despite HIS insistence.

    4. 1972 group rape fantasy essay: frigging hilarious AND kind of hot…I mean what hippie girl DOESN’T want her innocence to be stolen like a billionaire’s wallet from a group of strapping young socialists (maybe all with Cole Beasley’s hair too?!)?

    5. Owning 3 homes and possessing ~$2.25 million net worth: Bernie is a 79-year old man who has been earning 6-figure salaries as a Congressman for 3 decades, in addition to sales from the “Our Revolution” book in 2016. This isn’t even remotely a controversy, nor is it incongruent with his political economic philosophy since he’s a social democrat.

    6. Fidel Castro flattery: this is only a controversy for people who struggle to understand nuance or who have closed minds. Bernie said that there are still a couple good things we could take away from that awful regime, namely a large literacy program and universal health care coverage. I like Adolf Hitler’s vegetarianism and thought he had a pretty neat mustache. DEAL WITH IT.

    7. Putin supplication: this is a very fair point, but that would be because of the spinelessness Bernie has shown when dealing with the DNC during the past 5 years. Bernie Russiagated with the best of ‘em for the past several years, so how cozy would Putin really be with Bernie? Also, Russia hasn’t been a communist country since like 1992, so there’s nothing anymore for Bernie to sympathize with over there. While in Congress, I believe he has had committee assignments that gave him access to top national security intel. So if people want to Russiagate back at Bernie in the same way people did with other patriotic Americans like Tulsi Gabbard, then fine. But they are suggesting acts of treason punishable by death. I’d be a little more careful throwing around accusations like that if I were these people.

    8. Family/wife/personal financial corruption via Bernie’s public service: There are two sides to all these stories, and I don’t really care anymore because I moved on from Bernie and I’ve typed enough for today. But for the people who somehow think of Bernie as a corrupt self-serving politician…let’s compare with YOUR politician(s) of choice! Joe Biden?! Donald Trump?! Just say you don’t like Bernie because you don’t like his policies and leave it at that, please.

     

    Rationalize his self-serving pontificating as much as you like, but he is a ***** of a person who hates our way of life all the while getting fat at the public trough. He’s a first class hypocrite. 

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