keepthefaith
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So where are the Biden supporters on this? Do you have any principles? Will you call out the complicit media that has ignored this story for the last 18 months and particularly now? Are you for a free and FAIR press and are you for integrity among our elected officials?
Remember Rod Blagojevich from 10 years ago, gov of IL who tried selling Obama's senate seat? That was one of the rare recent occurrences where the media reported it straight up and even lefty citizens and pols called it for what it is. Shouldn't Joe and Hunter be given the same scrutiny?
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54 minutes ago, SoTier said:
I think that the Republicans will continue to be dominated by the Radical Right for a few more election cycles -- until they get tired of continually losing because their ideas don't resonate with most Americans -- or the party fades away and results in the rise of a new party that's fiscally conservative and socially moderate. A lot of rank-and-file Republicans have become independents already.
Can you define radical right from a policy perspective?
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After Biden referred to him as the Mormon Governor when he couldn't remember his name the other day? Nah.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/biden-forgets-mitt-romneys-name/
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5 hours ago, Kemp said:
Funny that Barrett isn't sure whether a President can postpone an election. I thought she's supposed to be an originalist.
Maybe some of the time?
Judges don't render judgments on things such as this without consulting the text of laws and related case law (if any) not to mention deliberation with other SCOTUS judges if she were one.
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8 minutes ago, IgotBILLStopay said:
thanks for the link.
But Bolt is starting from 0 m/s - a RB typically is already moving when he gets the ball.
also there is self selection - they become RBs since they are the twitchiest - so I wouldnt be surprised if the elite RBs have greater initial acceleration than Bolt but a lower peak.
I just cite another source (see the post link above) - haven’t really measured it 😀. But actually looking at the great link you provided, I find the 21 mph number quite believable, no?
If they're talking about 4 strides after the LOS and he's accelerating hard before the LOS then maybe. Maybe close to that. Now if we calculate the guy's mass and speed compared to lighter less north and south backs, the answer for sure will be he's a load.
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On 10/12/2020 at 12:20 PM, IgotBILLStopay said:
Most RBs fit a physical profile - small 5-9 to 5-11 and tip the scales at a muscular 215 lbs. But Derrick Henry does not fit that mould - he is a legit 6-3 and about 250 lbs. That size doesnt make him slow however. I read somewhere that he gets to 21 mph (typically an elite RB speed) by the time he gets to his 4th step. And each step of his covers 7.5 ft (2,5 yeards) - which means he covers 10 yards in 4 steps. Derrick Henry in modern football is what Usain Bolt is to track - a physical anomaly.
The guy had 370+ yards in consecutive games during the 2019-20 playoffs, something no one else had done. And he likes contact - it is what sets him off. Oh and did I forget to mention that he has the endurance of an Alaskan Husky. At Alabama, he would get his most carries in the 4th quarter since he was never gassed. Even in the NFL, he is the back with the best third and fourth quarter stats. Quite simply, HE IS the engine that drives the Titans.
Fortunately, unlike track, football is a team sport and good teams have managed to stop the Titans by stopping Henry. But, without Lotuleilei, it will not be easy. Also, the conditioning of our defenders the first few games has been suspect. They were so gassed against the Rams in the second half. Our run defense has been gashed a lot this season though the second half against Jacobs (oh he is a typical 5-10 220 lb back) and the Raiders was sublime. I rewatched the Chiefs limit Henry to 69 yards in the Conference Championship game and here are some lessons from that.
1. We may have to play the traditional 4-3-4 instead of our preferred 4-2-5. No way Taron Johnson can handle a guy Henry's size.
2. Frazier's first pet phrase: Gap Integrity - you have to stay disciplined - cant bite on fakes and leave your running lane open. While one defender can rarely take down Henry, you slow him down till the help gets there
3. Frazier's second pet phrase: Tackling - The Chiefs made a conscious attempt to tackle him low below the waist. You cant just bring Henry down by wrapping the arms around his upper torso since he is big and strong and his legs keep on churning.
4. Dont worry about giving up a few big pass plays - With Humphries and Davis out even those will be few. But trust the secondary to do their job. After all, this is Tannehill throwing the ball.
5.Last, but not the least, the best defense is a potent offense - run up the score early so that the Titans are forced to go to the air in the second half when Henry is at his strongest. The Chiefs limited Henry to maybe 5 touches and 7 yards in the second half since the Titans had to play catchup.
Here is my prediction: Henry gets 150+ yards, we lose. He gets less than 100 yards, we win. Somewhere in the middle, we got ourselves a game.
Good thread and some great points but Henry gets nowhere near 21MPH in 4 strides. Usain Bolt requires about 1.8 seconds from the blocks to the first 10 meters (more than 10 yards) and his velocity at 10 meters is about 7.5M/s or 16+ MPH. Henry is fast but he's not Bolt-in-tights-out-of-the-blocks fast and he's not getting to 10 meters in 4 strides.
http://www.eclecticon.info/index_htm_files/Kinematics of Usain Bolt.pdf
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How about the parties agree to 9 justices and that the Senate must take up nominations within so many days of the President making such? Fix the constitution on this. Otherwise, the party in power does what they want.
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13 hours ago, The Frankish Reich said:
Oh for the days when only the left loved to tax and spend.
https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/the-total-cost-of-trumps-new-tariffs/
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/14/donald-trump-coronavirus-farmer-bailouts-359932
Somewhere there's a small government Republican Party left. I'm just not sure exactly where.
Agree, both parties suck on fiscal responsibility. I don't know which is worse right now. The lefties that are the spenders out in the open or the righties that B word and moan when they aren't in power and then when they are they ignore the matter. Sorry to carry on off topic.
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2 hours ago, shoshin said:
I'm old enough to remember when the Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and the Executive and could have used, I dunno, the legislative process to fix the healthcare issue and not manipulate the courts to legislate on their behalf.
Just a thought.
Agree. This is such a big important matter, both parties should invest some quality time in this. The left only knows tax and spend and the right has had 10 years to put together an alternative and pedal it. Both woefully short.
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1 hour ago, The Frankish Reich said:
No, what Trump is doing isn't "court packing."
But let's take a step back and look at what the Repubs did with the ACA (Obamacare).
- supported an argument in the Supreme Court that it must be invalidated because the individual mandate exceeded federal powers
- lost that argument when Chief Justice Roberts reconceptualized the mandate as a valid "tax"
- then cynically zeroed out the "tax" penalty, leaving the mandate hanging there with the taxing power severed from it
- then supported a lawsuit that the mandate is unconstitutional all over again, and that it cannot be severed from the ACA, such that the entire ACA must be scrapped.
In other words, they deliberately passed legislation that would make the ACA unconstitutional (in their view). Allow me to rephrase: they passed, and the President (sworn to uphold the Constitution!) signed what they believed to be an unconstitutional bill.
There's your "party of the constitution."
So why would Republicans want to tear down this bill? Could it be because it failed to deliver what it promised (lower insurance costs), cast sweeping mandates to all of the states limiting coverage choices and getting rid of the ACA is the only way to get Dems to engage in something better? It was a terrible bill with the possible exceptions that it expanded Medicaid coverage to many more people and eliminated the pre-existing condition restrictions and I'll throw in 26 year olds on family plans. These would be perceived as positives by many and both parties don't want to eliminate any of them.
There is no way, however, if you looked at the details of health insurance and all of its restrictions/regulations currently that you'd conclude that the current system is well crafted. There's no price transparency and prices for services vary wildly based on what type of insurance you have. It hurts small businesses that can't get rates as low as the big business right next door. It ties insurance and choice to employment. It limits who can have an HSA. It tells states what coverages they have to offer including coverages that some people don't want. It doesn't hold the insured accountable at all for maintaining their health better like life insurance often does. It continues to restrict insurance being written state by state with a population that is very migratory. The state exchanges one by one have essentially collapsed once the fed dollars from the early years of the plan dried up. The thing was and is a turd and many of the criticisms of the thing at inception have turned out to be true.
Dems of course now want to scrap it in favor of national one size fits all and expect we the people to believe that if this is be done, it would be run anywhere near well, within budget and to the satisfaction of the population. Laughable.
Republicans on the other hand want to torpedo the thing without a solid replacement plan but again legislatively they probably see repeal as a necessary first step.
Both parties, the politicians themselves, have no business crafting whatever is next. Hire experts.
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2 hours ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said:
...yet another NYC gem...the list is endless......mouth open with ZERO coming out.......
Yeah but you have to admire her devotion to her own bull####.
And we wonder why we can't get well crafted solutions to real issues from politicians.
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1 hour ago, Bob in Mich said:
What if Trump claims it was rigged and then Bill Barr states that there may have been irregularities that should be investigated? Does that change things as far as kicking Trump out if he loses?
Rest assured, there will be legal battles that commence right after the election regardless of who it seems won. Trump's crew will probably have cause due to the volume and lack of custody of mailed ballots. Biden's side will likely challenge counting deadlines. That and it doesn't seem like a stretch that recounts in close states and precincts will happen. Both sides have dozens of lawyers hired already.
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1 hour ago, B-Man said:
How is it that Weissman is or recently was an employee of the federal government? This man has no business taking a nickel from taxpayers given his history.
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13 hours ago, SoTier said:
He's totally and completely mismanaged the coronavirus pandemic since the very beginning, which as a 70-year-old with some comorbidity conditions, directly and significantly negatively affects my life.
Right, because you say so. I guess that settles it.
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1 hour ago, BullBuchanan said:
You're deranged. You puppets will scream that the grass is blue and the sky is green all day to support your east coast elite orange god.
President Donald Trump’s order to his secretary of state to declassify thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails, along with his insistence that his attorney general issue indictments against Barack Obama and Joe Biden, takes his presidency into new territory — until now, occupied by leaders with names like Putin, Xi and Erdogan.
Trump has long demanded — quite publicly, often on Twitter — that his most senior cabinet members use the power of their office to pursue political enemies. But his appeals this week, as he trailed badly in the polls and was desperate to turn the national conversation away from the coronavirus, were so blatant that one had to look to authoritarian nations to make comparisons.
He took a step even Richard Nixon avoided in his most desperate days: openly ordering direct immediate government action against specific opponents, timed to serve his reelection campaign.
https://news.yahoo.com/taking-page-authoritarians-trump-turns-151748832.htmlYahoo news
So what Trump is doing is bad rather than the content of the recent declassifications? It's better to keep a lid on wrongdoings of political bad actors?
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2 hours ago, Tiberius said:
Not really. Trump was a maniac
I don't know how anyone could see either of them as a winner of that debacle. It was an hour and a half of my life and millions of others that we'll never get back.
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I believe Joe would serve beyond the mid terms and very possibly complete his 4 year term.
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11 hours ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said:
Try looking at polls outside of the Conservative bubble.
Don is getting pummeled in every poll. Even FOX NEWS polls.
Young people prefer Biden by over 30 points.
Young voters then are stupid. Not because they don't like Trump necessarily but that they would support anyone on the left that isn't for real fiscal restraint. If younger people are paying attention, they should be the most ardent supporters of politicians that support responsible fiscal policies, a crackdown on illegal immigration and the adoption of trade policies that promote American jobs. They have the most to gain from this. Really they should be the most fiscally conservative generation alive.
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The dem party is nearly bankrupt of any good policy. Only the media's 24/7 support of every talking point, leaks and some Trump buffoonery have kept it relevant the past couple years.
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2 hours ago, Niagara Bill said:
If this event happened in Venezuela, Turkey, Syria, the leader of that country would be considered complicite in the plot. They would be trying to sow seeds of anarchy so they could justify some type of Marshall law, postponing of an election, and protection of the masses.
Wow,,,the words coming from the Oval Office sounds quite similar.
Scary, where does the voice of reason and leadership come from in 2020.
I am beginning to see AG Barr as Rasputin...he says he knew nothing of this raid. Either he is lying or the justice dept is not trusted by FBI.
Artistic expression, paint by numbers bad.
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1 hour ago, shoshin said:
Maybe because last time they didn’t get there early enough to get tested and had to proceed on the honors system without masks and it turned out they were in the middle of a Covid outbreak.So test each day between now and then and require negative tests 24 hours before game time or go virtual, and Trump should debate however it's done.
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8 minutes ago, Q-baby! said:
That’s what it says.
No where in that article does it state that the suspects are far right.
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2 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:
Tibs, you should revise the thread title. Eliminate right wing. This guy is from the nut job wing of society.
All Roads Lead to the Ukraine
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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I run a tech business. You'd be shocked at the stuff that gets left here and the sensitivity of data that we handle. How about over 400 servers that came from one of the big stock exchanges all full of drives full of data. We're talking a name you hear every day. Yes, true. That was quite an effort eradicating all of that. How does an org like that let that ***** out of their control not erased?