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It really reads like a friggin' Deep State story though. The spies are hiding in the woods, except the woods in this case are the upscale offices of one of the most recognizable senators in the country. She also sits on the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, presumably in the back row with a dunce hat and a sign with an arrow pointing straight up with the words "I'm with clueless" hanging around her neck. On top of that, she opposed the nominations of Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch and was instrumental in the character assassination of Brett Kavanaugh, now known as Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Clearly she's trying to shape the future of the country and given her ties to China one must ask "What do the ChiComms have on Feinstein??".

Rarely. And I can screw up typing messages with the best of them, so i generally do not go off script and insert tags. I do use the little idiot proof ones hidden behind the thumb though.

Listen, if you roll up on my crowd with your story of one mobster and a freaking socialist we laugh you out of the butcher shop. You make your bones with trafficking, everyone knows that.

I think if you dig just a bit into every person's background, its pretty easy to find ties to mobsters, gang rape accusations and payoffs, securities fraud and ties to human trafficking. It's the American Experience. But seriously "Frankin Delano Roosevelt D'Allessandro??". They had to be mob or that kid would have gotten his ass kicked with regularity.

Actually I thought you were just shooting the bull. I was not aware of that, thanks. Where RBG is concerned, it just seems to me that there comes a time when they send someone to scrape your name off the frosty glass window on your door. Happens one way or the other. I don't wish anything bad for her, in fact I'm kinda neutral there. She's had an amazing career, she seems at face value to be a woman that other woman can look up to, and it's been a good run. Still, one way or the other its probably time to go.

Screw that, I'm about to see what Ye Olde Minsk Towne Cryer is saying.

$#%#ing RUSSIANS again!!

So it goes like this? Russians/Putin seek to sow the seeds of chaos; Russians/Putin prefer Trump because of a personal vendetta against Clinton Inc, and thus the reality is Putin got Trump elected; Russians/Putin are hard-assed bastards who leave a trail of death and destruction in their wake in Crimea and amongst their own operatives abroad; But high ranking officials of the Russian/Putin government are the honest brokers of truth willing to put their lives at risk when they suggest the real strategy was Trump over Clinton? To be honest, I think we're all being played. The narrative that Clinton hurt his feelings with comments over the invasion of Crimea seems at odds with the fact that he surely would anticipate harsh criticism and little else in response to the move. So the Russian strongman invades a country but is hurt by the words of an aging female politician very unpopular in her own country? It goes hand in hand with the phony outrage over the expulsion of Russians as Obama left office, and the absurd Russkan colluison investigation that has suddenly morphed into an investigation into "Russian interfence". A "Russian interference" investigation would not require the hamstringing of a duly elected president for 50+% of his term. "Collusion" though....that's a word that has some meat to it. Sounds treasonous. We would want to leave no stone (Roger or otherwise) unturned to get to the bottom of that. In fact, we might even be willing to squeeze some stones to try and turn em if necessary. That leads to geared up morning raids covered by CNN (the official sponsor of doors being kicked in), and so on.

The media treated this like it's a sporting event, and the dumbing down of a complex situation is pretty standard fare. The fact that the DOJ and FBI was all in was icing on the cake. Simple sells to simple people.

Gossiping about bullying may be the worst thing ever.

You're turned around here a bit. I was pretty specific in what I said, and it was in response to the people who have said exactly what I said they said. The argument that the law is grotesque because it potentially results in the slaughter of innocents Is a separate argument.

Bullying is wrong. Gossiping is wrong.

NY is a vast wasteland of liberal ideology. I don't recall him using that terminology, but John Gotti spoke in code as well. He was dealing with a number of corruption issues, his right hand man went to jail, there's the ongoing issue with the Buffalo billions and of course the bid rigging trial of his main man at SUNY Poly. But he could be caught on camera robbing a bank and get elected. Btw, one thing that irritates me is the "MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS WOULD NEVER...." crowd. Here's yet another example of an angel of death: https://www.foxnews.com/health/california-nurse-charged-with-illegally-selling-thousands-of-opioid-pills-on-dark-web But maybe this is simply a medical issue best left between her and her patients.

Fans complain about every one of the situations outlined, they are human too. Why should anyone get a pass in this debacle? Btw, one thing that always bothers me. When you suggest the league advises the officials to swallow the whistle, that's one of the major problems I have with the league. A penalty should be called as a penalty, every weekend every game. Clearly that does not happen, teams win and lose as a result, so officials impact games. As an example, the Brady hit to the helmet. The official thought he saw something that he could not have seen, so he opted to throw the flag. Since it never occurred, it was either a mistake, an illusion or an intentional miss. I bet it was a mistake....but if during the course of the game you also employ the "swallow your whistle" strategy, invariably you end up with questions on officiating. This is a league-created problem.

I keep waiting for you to send me the "gotcha!" email, or for someone to knock on my door in to tell me I got punked. If the collusion angle is bogus, and if the FBI/CIA Obama admin/DOJ ran with it, and the SC is diddling around with it in an effort to subvert the president, I can't see where I'm overbroadening anything. But I'll tap out on this one, we'll have to just disagree on this issue. I mean I get that you don't have the energy to get riled up over global warming, or biggie v Tupac, or whether or not Cooper/Gaga were better than kristoferson/Streisand in A Star is Born, but a two+ year plot to overthrow.... ah, forget it.

I think her time has passed as well. With the change in the #metoo movement, she does not survive yet another assault on enabling bill, and 4 years down the road the young idealists that thought she was The One have been replaced with new, fresh idealists who have no idea who she is. Kamala Harris is an attractive candidate and likely will go full leftist. I won't watch the speech because I know the shtick, but she has some star power based on the fact that she's young, intelligent and female. Like everyone else though, skeletons tend to come out of the closet, and from all side when you run for prez. Oh, and now that we know there is zero fallout for using intelligence agencies to spy on candidates, Trump has some tools at his disposal.

I get that, it's why I find your perspective troubling. Some things bother you, but a full-scale assault on the presidency, the rule of law, and the weaponization of our intelligence agencies to subvert the will of the people isn't one of them. I'd honestly feel better if you were a zealot, because I enjoy reading what you have to say. It's like going to a dinner party and speaking to someone who says "I love American values, but nothing make me happier than when I see that North Korean fella whack a couple of adversaries. He just gets $&$& done.".

If talking to a HOF Qb, who was at the helm of one of the most prolific offenses in the history of the game, who knows as much about pressure in the big game as any many alive, who has tasted incredible success and the crushing sting of defeat, who likely has gained perspective on the relative importance of football v. life is going to ruin JA, well then JA is no JK.

Your perspective is one that I find most troubling. You've acknowledged that you believe Trump did not collude with the Russian govt, yet seem to be comfortable with watching everything thereafter play out like a science experiment. There is no denying this collusion issue is the love child of some of the most powerful people in our government, and it has created tremendous stress on the administration and destroyed whatever faith some may have had in our "leaders". The reality is that no one can perpetually withstand an all-out assault by the federal government when the two main elements of the investigation are "1. Find something and 2. Your budget is whatever you need.". At a minimum, mueller and his team are being paid a fortune to investigate, and their future looks bright indeed after this is all concluded just after 11/2019. I dont worry about extremists. When I see a post from one of the far leftys I know that somewhere on a liberal message board their twin brother is espousing some right wing bsto horrified libs. They are cut from the same cloth. I don't understand your comfort level here.

The NFL exists because fans are passionate about the sport, and part of that comes because of the perception that obvious and blatant penalties will be called as such. You're correct in that at the end of the first half in the first game that play draws the ire of local fans and not much more. However, passion can work against the NFL when the appearance is that the game was tilted by the officials. We can agree that if the saints had scored 42 points prior to that play, the hit was largely irrelevant. On the other hand, the NFL wants that type of game (minus the blatant penalty missed or let go for whatever reason), they should be prepared to deal with the consequences when it quite possibly results in the wrong team in the SB.

Agree, it's mostly just the reality that people are increasingly frail in their willingness to take a stand and simply wait 15 minutes for the facts to be revealed. I don't agree with most of what he says, and personally I just can't stand the shmarmy schtick. Arrogance to excess, and this type of monetized political commentary seems particularly predictable.

Always playing to victims, always. The disenfranchised now include individuals who bororwed ridiculous amounts of money to go to college and feel they should be forced to honor the bargain. The problem is that lots of people will play the victim to dodge responsibility.

Birthplace of The Great Khali.

I already acknowledged the need for security. I agree 100%, but let's not pretend your comments on your "Couch Potato to 5k" morning jog past BOs house was a reasonable counterpoint to the argument that physical barriers to entry and a reasonably secure border make sense. Even assuming the former prez had physical barriers out front, he's still behind reinforced walls and bomb resistant glass with Bill Gates level technology to keep him safe from harm. Bottom.line...hes got walls and they are damn good ones to boot. Conversely, the southern border would be improved substantially if the best plan our leaders came up with was to stack a few rows of Kleenex boxes 10 feet high. Somewhere between the Kleenex boxes and BO technology would be fine with me. I think walls are a part of that because walls are quite literally used....everywhere. Last thought on the safety issue. The president is rightly entitled to protection funded by the American people. On a national level, for the greater good, we all should recognize and support that. However, the tragic victimization of one not named bush/Clinton/Obama/Pelosi/schumer/Ryan at the hands of someone who entered the country illegally is no less tragic to the family than it would be if it happened in the family of the political ruling class. It would be no greater loss to see the name Chelsa Clinyon in the headlines rather than Molly Tibbets, though I'd bet you'd see a lot more political activity and handwringing afterwards. Molly Tibbets was disposable. Others are not. We know that because this problem has been going on for decades.

So, close like the secret service/technology/sniper/surveillance option. I understand your desire to push back on what you may see as the oversplification on the wall issue, but imo this is a fail on a massive level. BO and his family are protected by walls, technolgy, people beyond what any reasonable conservative would ever suggest at the border. I understand the need to protect these people and have never spent much time worrying about the enormous cost to do so. (Actually I wonder more about the hypocrisy of a guy telling me the planet is doomed if I buy an SUV polluting the planet like it's his personal carbon playground but that's an issue for another day). On a national level, providing security for people in this circle is of the utmost importance. However, all politics are local and the argument most people I know make is the border can be secured, reasonably but not without cost. It sure would be nice if our politicians cared even 10% as much about the people they serve as they do about the elite ruling class of American politics. Instead, they treat the victimized as disposable, collateral damage. Then again maybe im missing something and you were able to run up to the front lawn and buy some lemonade from one of the Obama girls when they were kids?