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I wonder if he feels blessed he wasn't raised a Bills fan. That experience can snuff the life right out postiivity. ?

Not surprisingly, I have a different take. I think Joe Biden is the perfect candidate for the dems and folks who see the world as you do. He's cut from the same cloth as HRC, the last heir apparent. Biden suggested recently that upwards of 50,000,000 Americans are bad people. You pegged the number at only slightly higher, around 61,000,000; Biden talks about Trump being divisive, then casts aspersions toward the 61,000,000. You're so turned around that that rhetoric appeals to you, and then spouting off absurdities such as the 60m+ who voted for him look at the world differently than you do, which makes them "ignorant, hateful scared" and not "normal". You're willing to ignore 40 years of visually documented perversion and inappropriate behavior and characterize that as what 'decent' people want from a president. In the same breath, you mention 2016 and by extension, then candidate and pop/vote winner Clinton who enabled her husband and the spouse of her most trusted aide (herself an enabler) as she attacked the women that dared to tell their story as 'bimbos". You and decent people like you agree, the victims are the bimbos when it comes to politics. Joe Biden's record on legislation directly aimed at decimating the minority community is atrocious, but you see it as what 'decent' people like you want. Joe Biden's readily available audio of nearly 5 decades of racist comments, including the unbelievably condescending comments during a national crisis that black voters are not black enough if they vote their conscience, and for people who think like that, it's what decent people think and say. Biden's support and respect for former Klansmen is well-documented, again---that reflects what "decent people" like Joe and Tibs think is reasonable. Biden's bizarre comments to a female voter about being a "lying dog-fced pony soldier", his bullying of voters who dare to question the very well-documented faux pas, legislative 'achievements" and stunning publicly documented lies and attempts to plagarize all represent the standard you and 'decent people" like you live by. Biden's backroom dealings to get his very troubled son a pay for play position in a Ukranian company, away from the prying eyes of the American public, his use of political thuggery to influence a foreign government to assist his son is Taminy Hall-type politics to a tee---just the sort of thing 'decent people' like you like to see. I could go on, after nearly 5 decades in the public eye, a laundry list of missteps and being caught stating emphatically what he truly believes, it occurs to me he's exactly the type of establishment politician that appeals to your narrow point of view. He's done virtually nothing to increase opportunities for people in poverty and/or people in color, but he's done an incredible job pandering to sensitive and decent folks like you. He's gone on a decades-long grope fest--all the while the liberal men who trot their women and children out to be fondled do so with joy in their heart ""Did you see Joe sniff my wife's hair! It was AWESOME!")---and that reflects the standard for you. At the same time, your fearless leaders have the perfect out if he fails. It won't be Joe's atrocious record, his list of accomplishments (which includes more trips to second base in front of a televised audience than Mookie Wilson), his drifting between 2020 & 1998, his dramatic statement that 45% of the population was killed in gun violence since 2008 but magically regenerated by 2020, or the fact that he often confuses Michigan with butterscotch candy...it'll be because of the ignorant and hateful folks like me. You're the road block to growth for your party Tibs...not Trump, not Mitch McConnell, not nobody but you. You're the status quo guy.

If Biden wins, it’s simply a reflection of some voters being comfortable rationalizing decades of sexual misconduct as “hyper-affectionate”, with decades of racially insensitive comments rationalized as “out of context”—including his most recent stunning claim about what constitutes a black voter, decades of Burisma-like corruption and pay-for-play, rationalizing FBI/DOJ/CIA misconduct as just politics. I just saw a story on NBC about concerns that the FBI slow-walked the initial investigation into the USA gymnastics sexual abuse claim ...and they questioned how that could happen. They didn’t mention that was under the O’Biden FBI/DOJ, and oddly, missed the connection between the FBI misconduct during Russia probe. The good news for you Transpy is that you’ll remain blissfully unaware of perpetuating this type of stupidity because all that sort of thing is understandable and acceptable as long as it’s your guy. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

She also used to say to me things like....”blah blah blah it was gross tech.”. She used it fairly often in a variety of contexts when I realized she was trying to say “grotesque”. She was 10 years or so younger than I, I really thought it was something all the cool kids were saying. It could be Pacino though, I hadn’t considered that.

I worked with a lady who, as it turns out, was a fundamentalist Christian. I was unaware and said to her one day "To play devil's advocate..." , she stopped, looked at me in horror and said "HE DOES NOT NEED AN ADVOCATE!". I wasn't even sure initially who she was talking about.

I think it's probably because he was fumbling around the abdomen/groin of the officers in question. I'd hazard a guess that if he casually walked up to just about any man on the street, engaged in dialogue and made those motions the response would be similar. If he did it to a woman, the response would be just as visceral if not worse. When I factor in a very tense situation, and police with a target on their backs, I'd think the officers were concerned with any number of outcomes, none of which are pleasant. As for arresting him, sure, that would have been nice. The narrative would shift to jackbooted thugs rounding up a harmless old guy who just wasn't aware that approaching the police in a riot line might make them very, very uncomfortable. Still, a much better outcome for the officers involved.

How was the dining experience on Saturday? I was catching up and saw that you had plans--was it tough to eat through the mask? Did you order a nice merlot and end up looking like The Joker? Seriously--any static walking in or out from protestors?

About 8 years ago I considered buying a farmhouse just on the county line a couple miles from my house. Part of the property was in the county we lived in and where my children attended school, the other in the neighboring county. As it turned out, the mailing address was the other county, and my children would have had to change schools had we moved. I spoke with administration, explained my situation, half-in the county half-out, right on a bus route, or I could drop my children off and pick them up. As I recall, there was a tax bill due on the property in the town where I live, so presumably there was a connection for my request. The school district relented and told me that for $11,000 per year, per child, they would work with me. As I have three children, the math all told would have been around $100,000 to make it all happen. I chose to pass on the house, though not before mentioning that I knew of two or three teachers in our district that lived in other counties but their children attended our school gratis. My point is that had I tried to beat the system, at $33,000 per year I’m thinking it could be a pretty big deal when caught. Then again, I wasn’t trafficking da hooch in addition to grifting the school district, so maybe they just drop a letter grade off the kids report card?

There it is....the weatherman fallacy. WaPo and NYT are wrong ion Russia for 978 days but they never got the date wrong on one single issue! Page3 always precedes page 4! Yiu have low standards my friend.

https://youtu.be/3JR_QLj8cI8

Ah, I see it now. @transplantbillsfan describes Joe's penchant for the fondle as a sign of being "affectionate". Its really on the people on the other side of Biden's fingers to realize he is the aggrieved party! I think the Nxivm dude would have done really well in dem politics, maybe even made it to VP. He was misunderstood as well, just like Joe. Who knew the girls did not want to be branded with his initials? Is that really on him?

That’s a different argument, and an argument made by the voting bloc all the time. It’s part of the process. Much of what’s reported as fact is inaccurately portrayed, incorrectly nuanced, and designed to shape the world in certain way by influencing the voting bloc. In other words, the notion of a free and independent press is an illusion.

This is excellent. I would point out the fact that he credits “Lacy” for accepting Fang’s forced public apology. She should be credited for mischaracterizing another’s body of work, setting the mob upon him for asking difficult questions? It sounds to me like she’s in the wrong profession. I would also point to the part where he spoke of journalists reporting inaccurately on the Clinton campaign in an effort to assist her, followed up by his assertion that they actually hurt her campaign, as evidence that the “free press” is nothing of the sort. Transplant uses his infamous weatherman analogy on occasion here, and misses the much larger point: a journalist trying to help a candidate is deliberate attempting to hurt another. Tiabbi misses a crucial point here, at least as it relates to the profession of the journalist: It should never be about helping or hurting a candidate, except on the Op-Ed page. Or, perhaps I missed that and am too lazy to read it again. I mentioned a while back about a radio interview I heard with a local reporter (Albany) who covered NY politics. The reporter offered up how it was common knowledge that former AG Schneiderman had a penchant for cocaine. I was waiting for the follow up question: “What did you find when you investigated one of the highest ranking law enforcement officials in the country with a reputation as a hard ass for illicit drug use?”. Of course, that question never came whic is infuriating to me. Those issues aside, I feel like I could have an intelligent conversation with this guy about the media, the attempt to destroy Trump, and the collapse of faith of the public in what passed today for journalism. He’s about 15 years behind me, and I’m far behind others, but there is common ground here.

In retrospect, then Candidate Trump should have been warned about the Obama administration and weaponization of the FBI and DOJ by Obama/Biden, the CIA attempting to unseat him, manipulation and lies to the FISA court, and unmasking of US citizens, and mainstream media outlets like the Washington post participating in circular and duplicitous reporting for 4 years to destroy his presidency. The Russians were irrelevant, more or less, until suddenly, as if by magic, in the waning days of the 8 year reign of team O’Biden, they were at the gates. Ironically, the greatest threat to a fair election was the segment of the population who bought the mythical tale of hookers, golden showers, the chastity of Team O’Biden, a free an independent press and anonymous sources, and a boogeyman from Leningrad. Phase II is the reimagination of Joe Biden as an able and honest statesman.

I remain uncertain as to the pronunciation. Tibs it down for me please.

I don’t cook, so I do not, but.,,,. Is it pronounced ‘sammin” or “sal-mun”? I’ve been going with option 2 and it drives my kids crazy.

If numbers spike, it's time to drag the leadership in cities and states where protests were allowed to go unchecked into the street (figuratively, not literally) and cast them to the dogs (not actual dogs, btw). I'm not against protests in the least, but if leadership is not mobilizing forces to warn people about the dangers at every turn, and requiring and enforcing social distancing at an absolute minimum, they are complicit in what will follow.

With due respect go your friends, they are a massive part of the problem. The virus has to be dealt with, and if they believe what they do, their support of protests will lead to disaster. Supporting the strain on hospitals, deaths of hundreds of thousands of protestors and and those they know beyond the protest zone is absurd given their perspective. It’s not even balls or lack thereof, it’s lack of any semblance of reason and a surreal willingness to lie in subservience at the feet of government types who clearly feel politics trump the safety of citizens. So Cal Chik-fil-a takes reservations ya romantic bastard?

17,000+ days in office...but now. He’s a joke.

This awesome. I use word salads as well. I try to cut it back sometimes but I just can’t. I never said it was a bad thing. I’ll take you at your word that you truly thought that I might have changed my mind because....well, nothing has changed so whatever. As I said back when this started, I applied the Golden rule according to Biden and the dem leadership. That is all, no more, no less. Hear me out on Biden w/re to Kavanaugh: I respect the heck out your stance on Kavanaugh being nominated. We probably disagree on this part: They tried to ruin him, destroy him with a preposterous story that had no time/place/date/witness and the people the victim claimed were in the know contradicted her. There was no need for a hearing, for the circus that followed, for a person to be able to derail the nomination and destroy the man with the aid of Harris, Schumer etc. On Biden re: Tara Reade: Biden and the leaders of the Dems set the rules in place. Delay the nomination. It’s a job interview and all bets are off. Involve the FBI. Trash the man in front of the world. I would expect the same treatment for Biden, indeed not a nominee for SC, but in an election for the most powerful position in the land. I didn’t make the “whatever is said must fully be vetted and let’s pump the brakes” rule—-that’s your false idol, not mine. When I add in the fact that Biden was a key member of the fraternity of powerful men who apparently harrassed female staffers for decades and did nothing about it, well he’s a major enabler at best and a serial predator at worst. Finally, the nomination hearing did absolutely nothing for guilt and innocence, it was a tribunal to assassinate the character of a respected jurist. That was the whole point—destroy the conservative and if it kills him, oh well. When all is said and done, Biden is a sleazy guy. Probably as sleazy as any Washington lifer, and while you are comfortable placing him in office, all I’m asking is that he follow the path he set out, and demand the FBI fully review this allegation. That he will not demand said investigation reveals much about his guilt per the rules of the dem party.

Certainly could be a set up, and he certainly was an active protestor. I can only say if I had some creepy old dude walking up to me pointing something at my mid-section during a protest, my response would be to get him away from me as quickly as possible. If I was a police officer worried it was urine, feces, acid or whatevs, I'd respond more forcefully.

Transpy, it's a word salad with you sometimes. Seriously, I was just sitting here, minding my own business and you sent me a note trying to dress me down on 85-15. Why? You did not answer 1 and 2, not at all. The first seven sentences were about your uncles, your aunts, and Hawaiian culture. Question 1. Was he accused? The answer is...yes. It's not hard to say it, that has nothing todo with your Uncle Buck. Question 2. Has he acknowledged his transgressions? The answer is yes, he's acknowledged making women uncomfortable. He went on to imply they just don't understand him. These were simple questions but as the Russian Rocket @Teddy KGBsuggested, you contorted to avoid answering. Keep in mind---you posed questions to me first--and I answered them. I usually will. Question 3. Well, if he called to postpone the nomination of Kavanaugh, wouldn't it make sense to pause his push for the White House, the highest seat in the land until her story can be fully vetted? He called for an FBI probe against Brett Kavanaugh, shouldn't he demand one into Tara Reade's claims? If he's sure he has nothing to hide, I would think he would beg for the chance to sit and go through it. Do you think he should pause it, hit the brakes and think about the presidency in 2024? Question 4. Good for you. I really am surprised and I misread what you were thinking. You say you supported the Brett Kav nomination, that's good enough for me. I apologize. Truthfully, I'm a little disappointed in you as well. The histrionics were unnecessary, disappointed in yourself blah blah blah. You knew with 100% certainty that my response to your undying devotion to Brother Biden would be met in kind with questions back. We just disagree, and that's ok.

The feedback from Coach Tuesday is fascinating, especially in light of the subject matter being discussed. I don't look to the NFL or pro sports in general for any great life lessons. I think as a rule, professional and elite athletes live substantially different lives than the average fan. They often show incredible commitment to the mundane. They are driven. They are used to having their @$$es kissed over an extended period of time, and that's not a bad thing necessarily, it just is. There certainly can be an entitlement mentality if its allowed to grow. The issue with Jake Fromm for me is that while young when he sent the message, he was old enough to know he wanted to play in the NFL. Regardless of what is in his heart, there wasn't much going on in his head. Compare that with the controversy over a 14 or 15 years old JA tweet, imo they are not even in the same stratosphere. The outcome of the Fromm controversy will be determined one way or the other. I'm a believer in second chances, in acknowledging I have no idea knew one way or the other "who" he really is. Seems like LoRax has opined from the football side of things, thats good enough for me, so time to move on for me. As for the comments made by Coach T, it's fascinating to me that he would launch into a tirade of angry and hateful language to paint posters on PPP as, well, hateful and angry. Interestingly, painting folks with a broad brush, without consideration as to their character or life experiences is directly out of the playbook of hate groups everywhere. Personally, I'll keep a good thought for him and not judge him so harshly.

You missed a couple questions my man, in fact, all of them. I knew you gave JB a pass, but those are tough questions to square up with the analogy with your uncles. I recognize the difference between hugging, and lecherous behavior, and I believe you do as well. I think you’re exceptionally gracious toward Joe Biden, and giving him a huge pass on even the hair sniffing and hands at/around the waist of the female in question. I also think the culture described at the Senate as a groping free-for-all in the time of Biden, Kennedy et al seems to point to a man epically unqualified to be President of the US. But, we’re all hypocrites from time to time.

....Breaking....Biden campaign rally song: Old VP, the subject of leftist fantasies He wants it so badly He’s fighting brain disease Inside him, mind slippingHe thinks it’s ‘93World burning, a chance now To move past Tara Reade Defund em Defund em Defund the damn police Defund em Defund em Defund the damn police