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Is that what you took away from that? FYI, they are not loans if used to keep folks employed and fund payroll, the PPP extends grant money, ya silly goose. On your point about being connected--I agree with you, those with the capacity and power get in line first and have the resources to get things accomplished that I do not. That's an unfortunate part of life, but it's a reality that is on a continuous auto-loop decade after decade after decade. As an example, @transplantbillsfan indicated he is a teacher. Seems like a nice enough guy, probably has a couple loose screws upstairs ?, who knows--maybe he feels the same about me, or thinks about me not at all. I don't know where he works, but let's assume he's a teacher in the public school system. Relative to most Americans, he would be a have. Income continues unchecked, benefits continue unchecked, pension continues unchecked and ultimately unmarred by market performance on the down side. There has not been one call, one scream, nor even a whisper to stop/forgive/defer/negotiate property and school taxes even though "people are hurting". I'm self employed, my business is impacted and I shared my PPP story. I still have to figure a way to pay the king come October, like it or not, income challenged or not. He's a have*. I'm a have not. Do we really have to pretend this doesn't play out everyday across the country, pandemic or not? It seems silly to me. I wish nothing but good things for Transpy as a human being, but the facts are what they are. Stay safe. *Again, in my analogy, the presumption is Transplant isn't the Sex Ed teacher at Cardinal O'Hara.

I've been reading your posts. Well laid out, it's pretty obvious how you feel, but this seems like an odd place to concede. You indicated that Trump said the virus was a hoax, cite his own words in bold print--how could there be a difference in context? On the other hand, maybe context is everything, so we should politely disagree on everything else?

Key Bank for me. Long story short, my wife submitted her app, I submitted mine. Seems the fact that we used the same email address (our home address) brought the entire %$#@ing system down. My wife's was approved, which helps assuming they fund--they assure us they will, mine still lost in limbo. 20 phone calls, emails, promises but in the end, nothing. Credit union squeeze was diff. Exec level manager told me they tried to help many, probably too many, and were too stringent. I'm really sorry to hear about your issues Snaf, best of luck on the next go round.

Damn, that’s funny. I was doing some math in my head. jim + Cali + money dude + age = stimulus check??

Adlai Stevenson. Walter Mondale. Hubert Humphrey. Incredibly, all would offer a better, more cohesive and consistent message than Joe Biden at this point in his life. Plus, you could trust them to keep their hands off the ladies.

I found out today I was a victim of red tape, system issues and a local credit union that wanted the standard to be higher than the PPP required. My complaint to the CEO of the credit union has me in line for round two, but in some cases, it was a free for all, in others an orderly and excessive ckusterf$ck. It was an exhilarating, frustrating, painful and ultimately fruitless pursuit. I’m over simplifying, but indulge me...if a meteor or struck the entirety of the dem leadership while they were black-tie’ing at the Kennedy Center, I’d not be undisappointed. Plenzy in the house. Welcome back, and thanks for sharing.

Ironic that the pencil drawing represents the very type of person your boy Joe gropes, or worse.

Well, when the contact is consensual, as he suggested in the clip, it wouldn’t be assault...it would be consensual. But yes, I can see how Joe Biden, a politician with decades of experience plagiarizing material, lying about his experiences, and who acknowledged wrongdoing riiiiiiiiight about the time he wanted to president, certainly could have misjudged a lady struggling to get free from the clutches of an extremely powerful and creepy man as wanting to have him assault her on a sidewalk.

The “timeline” was filled with innuendo, assumptions, leaps of reason, and the obligatory unnamed sources. The paragraph he included, and the link provided, reads like a high school term paper. You know that, I know, but geesh. The issue of budget cuts and how OBVIOUSLY they lead directly to mismanagement——I heard a story today about a company that is assisting people in all 50 states with filing for unemployment benefits. The response on the state level has been problematic, crashed websites, overwhelmingly phone traffic, confusion and mayhem. This company automated the submission for all 50 states, with a team of 7. Being a cynical man, I’ll wait to see how this all plays out over the long haul, but it sure is a bad look for the combined firepower of the staffing and budget for a whole boatload of state agencies.

One day, you’ll talk to your grandchildren about all the stupid Trump supporters (ironically while teaching them good old fashion traits like civility) and how Trump was a sexual predator, and you hitched your wagon to Fightin Joe Biden, push up champ of King of Prussia circa 19ought57. Those sweet little faces will look up at you and ask “Gumpy ‘Splant, defender of women, what made Joe Biden so different than mean old President Trump?”. If you’re honest with them, the only answer you can give will be “Penetration, children, Joe got penetration.”.

Maybe it takes a simple guy to point out the obvious, but to break the tension a bit. You folks are all capable of handling yourselves, but this struck me as damn funny: "...as this is beginning to get personal..." came after "Make sure you suck that jackboot good and wet before you beg the king to shove it up your ass, Joe." This could be better than Ali-Frazier. edit: Then Joe comes up with a call for "grievances". Jackboots, Kings and Grievances! I feel like I'm watching that TV show "Turn", except I can never understand the characters as they sound muffled, like a bunch of muffled tory's.

Well hold on just a second. A few years back, a friend of a friend of mine had an accident where he drove his car through the front of a liquor store. He called me to help out, so I drove over to help him out. He was a big cat (RIP), and I'm a horrible judge of that, but he was 450-500+, maybe 6'1. He was actually waiting for gastric bypass but could never get low enough to have the surgery. Anyway, his car was being towed, I told him I'd give him a ride home. He had medical issues, of course, including the sheer effort it took to get his legs up into the vehicle I was driving at the time. When we got to his house, he told me he needed help getting out. I helped get his legs out of the vehicle, he sorta rocked to get moving forward and damn near tilted past the point of no return, as I was attempting to secure him from a fall like a doomed movie hero holding the door closed from a hoard of zombies on the other side. Anyway, we stopped him before he fell, and the math suggested that had things gone sideways, I was about to be crushed in the aftermath. Fat phobia is for reelz...and all you lovable b*stards would have laughed because nothing brings people together----libs, conservatives, bernie bros and klansman, like the unfortunate and most decidedly unhappy ending to some poor bastard crushed under a massive falling fat guy.

HB Chef!

Sad, and sorry to hear about the loss of your family member.

Pizza Hut. Uber. Drive through at McDonalds. Home Depot. Grocery store. Landscaper. Electrician. Insurance claim. Withdraw money from the bank. Amazon warehouse. Many, probably most of the UPS/Fed Ex deliveries made. There are millions of interactions going on every that have very little do to with true 'need' when considered in the cataclysmic sense. It's an illusion at this point, and ratting out the Amish amounted to a few coins, at most.

You seem conflicted.

I've seen this movie, but the people seemed younger.

There's a time for retrsopection, to analyze what went right and what went wrong. Thereafter, as we all know, we can trust government to put a program in place to deal with future pandemics. When in doubt, there is always another tax to be added, another trust fund to raid, and another crisis not to be wasted. I find it a gigantic waste of time to performer a retrospective using sound bytes from anyone mid-crisis. You have indicated that Dr. Fauci has zero reason to lie, and I guess the implication is that everyone else does. If I was pondering that question, I guess I'd want to know why, when Trump did act, it took governor Gov Cuomo so long to act for the people of NY, and why when he closed off Mt. Vernon, he didnt act more quickly in cordoning off NYC, or set a line in the sand at the northern edge of Westchester County. Moving backwards, had Trump acted two weeks earlier, and based on your thoughts, I'm thinking you would have supported a total shutdown of...everything, across the 50 states? At the same time, I would wonder if the US had been locked down 2, 3 or 4 weeks earlier, and by that I mean a real lockdown, how many people would have been impacted adversely given one less month of saving, one less month of shopping and preparing, one less month of income? Given the run on essentials as the shutdown was phased in, what might it all have looked like with that sort of lockdown? Would a run on the banks have occurred? Civil unrest? Chaos? Finally, the economic impact on those not susceptible to most severe impacts of the virus, the non-vulnerable among the citizenry...what might the impact of an early lockdown been on their psyche? We already see signs of both governmental overreach and a willingness to push thr envelope, what might that have looked like? I appreciate your confidence in Dr. Fauci's integrity, personally I don't ever trust anyone that completely when acting in a political or quasi-political role. I think he's done a good job walking the nation through this, but 30 days ago I couldn't pick him out of a crowd and couldn't tell you a thing about him. Still, he said what I would hope a man in his position would say "...it's complicated". That's the understatement of forever. Sincere best wishes to you and yours, and a hope we get back to some version of normal soon.

This seems like common sense. In fact, I’d think if we applied social distancing techniques, shuttered people in place and shut down the economy with regularity we would have less deaths by the flu, car accident, and line drives to the skull at baseball diamond.

I remember this episode!! 1938, W-ENNNNNNNNN-B-C radio.

“The letter of the rule is clear! Stop complaining!” ”My God...forget the rule and what the official called on the field, let’s unpack the player’s emotional baggage and figure out his intentions!”. The NFL ought to get Dr. Phil in the booth.

I like Trump, I certainly don’t think him infallible and 4 days out of 7, I wish he handled things more tactfully, with less bravado and and sticking to the script. I didn’t care for Obama as President, I thought 6 days out of 7 he was a horrible President, but 7 days out of 7 he was good on the script. Finally, I think 7 days out of 7 politics is nasty &$#@ing business, the people who swim in those waters are often vile and despicable human beings, and in the end, it’s all about power. That pre-dated Trump. The pandemic response is what it is, mistakes were made, Trump made mistakes as did just about every other leader in any position anywhere. If you believe it’s all on Trump, then Faucci, Biden, Pelosi and Schumer et al erred in not demanding time on CNN to tell the world the ONLY way to save us all was to shut everything down ASAP. They would have willingly provided the air time.

I got hung up on “forcible contact”, which is different than “contact” implies judgement, and the fact that similar calls were not made in subsequent games, including at least two Mahommes scrambles thereafter. The fine line between “Holy crap what a play” and a flag is razor thin. Also, it’s hard to separate rational “ah, they viewed it as forcible” when a shot to the head is not called as well. And when black-suited officials suddenly rush into the field, like evil Spider-Man in a Marvel comic book. ? The NFL, phrases like “good no call!” and the relative dearth of obviously flag-worthy calls as the game comes to critical points is the true culprit here. When the league improves the officiating experience, people will have less to complain about.

Allowed him to get close, then turned on the jets! Awesome.

I’m wondering if the Michigan gov would ban that sort of delivery.