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where Biden did something illegal thereby tainting the justice system. I don't see it.

Not a good night for the Trump is racist crowd.. Kevin Holland ran over to shake his hand after winning his fight. Hanging with Alex Pereira backstage.

They knew in 2016 what he meant to their most reliable demographic - that’s why he wasn’t a racist until he became president

No, and I think you're an idiot. Call me racist, pretty please, you clown.

worse. They are attacking the entire justice system.

Excellent!! Love your approach here. BTW, where did you find credible Yards-per-Drive stats without having to get them individually yourself? Always interested in stat sites that provide info not typically provided, broken-out/sortable that is. Those are the questions, and more, that everyone should be asking. That's how we get to the bottom of things. And BTW, again, it's at least somewhat complex. There are complex causes sometimes, but the effects aren't always so complex, quite often they're fairly easy to spot. But you said this above ... Every other metric (ppg, ypg, yards per drive, etc. were pretty much identical in the 10 games under Dorsey and nine games under Brady). Is that really true? You have to be very careful when using words like "every" without any qualifiers. And BTW, we could write a book on this season alone, but let's look at some of the more simple indicators. To start, it's common sense that Brady was at least in part, a part which can be discussed, Dorsey's offense, right. But it's also equal common sense that the further away we got from that transition, the closer we got to a Brady steady-state, which we'll see in all its glory this season. Ergo, it's therefore common sense that as the season progressed, Brady implemented more of "his" scheming than that of Dorsey's. He certainly didn't go back to what Dorsey did, which makes zero sense. So having said that, what else is important are trends and patterns. We started off with three strong offensive games on Brady's watch. If anything, those leaned more "Dorsey" than his later games to any extent that it did, which many here insist was to a big extent, and which is otherwise also common sense. Our team has a history of getting up for certain big games, much as we got up for the Rams the season before last to open up, or against Miami the first time this season, or against KC in the regular season as a few examples. So too, we got up for Brady's first game, but against what had then become a hapless Jets team. Then we played the Eagles who had just come off of a huge MNF road game @ KC, an advantage to us with an additional day of rest despite the game being @ Philly, and where their 7th ranked offense put up more points on our 4th ranked D than our 6th ranked offense put up on their 30th ranked D. After that overrated Philly, which nearly everyone agrees on, went 1-6 streak culminating in an blowout wild-card round loss to a 9-8 Bucs team that was lucky to make the playoffs. Then Dallas, which had just come their biggest game of their season against Philly for the division in essence. They were obviously flat coming to Buffalo. It was their worst offensive game of the season. So we started strong, but with mitigating circumstances. Keep in mind we lost to the Eagles. OK, so now we begin to see Brady's offense taking greater shape, at least more so than the prior games, over the last three games, and hardly against tough defensive foes. The Chargers brought the 24th ranked scoring and 28th ranked yardage D; The Pats brought the 15th ranked scoring and 7th ranked yardage D; and the Fins brought the 22nd ranked scoring and 10th ranked yardage D. Yet, during that three-game stretch, the most important of the season at that time, our offense averaged fewer than 20 PPG. (19.3, which is bottom dwelling, good for 25th on the season.) Allen's metrics under Brady on a per-game basis were also not great. Four of Allen's 6 worst rated games were under Brady as were his 4 worst Compl.% games along with 4 of his worst 7 YPA games. Why bother to point all that out you may ask; ... what is the strength of our team? Around what/whom does our entire success revolve around? You also said this, which is key; We just had more yards passing under Dorsey and more yards running under Brady. We did, by 16 YPG. Despite seeing an increase in average depth-of-target from 8.4 to 9.1, we also saw a 10% diminishment in Allen's Compl.%, which is huge; A 26% diminishment in Allen's passing TDs/game; Similar INTs; A 23% increase in sacks sustainted; An 11 point drop in Allen's Rating; An increase in both the percentages of QB Hits and QB Hurries that Allen sustained; And a slight diminishment in Allen's 1st-Down%. That's for all 7 of Brady's games, but how does that rub against what you said above, that we ran more, which we did. Why should those metrics suffer like that if our running game was truly doing all the work, or most of it. I'm going to go thru the data to document the # of pass & run plays in every game along with a few other things when I have time. But to simply dismiss that late season trend is, first of all, not good form for analysis, but second of all, quite the excuse-making for Brady's system. Here's some food for thought though. What's driving this? i.e., what's driving our proclivity towards running the ball, particularly using Allen, which just a year ago McD said he wanted to get away from? Is it really Brady? Put yourself in the shoes of being a new OC for our team, being handed Josh Allen. What's the first thing you say to yourself? Is it really that we need to run more and become a run focused team? That that's how we get to and make the playoffs, but more importantly win therein? That that's how we optimize and get the most from this offense in terms of scoring? I'll collect that data when I have time. We'll look more into it then. Again, interested in your yards-per-drive source if it's not one that I'm familiar with. You ask good questions that are part of a more complex situation. But don't simply ask the ones that suit a particular argument, ask them all. BTW, slightly off-topic but related, why did Kincaid's YPG production diminish under Brady in terms of YPG and TDs? How about why Shakir only scored 1 TD under Brady? Is that problematic going into this season given that the two most familiar targets for Allen averaged a season-totaling 880 Yards & 2 TDs and 690 & 0 TDs under Brady? Food for thought. I'll ping you when I have that game data. Thanks for engaging!!

‘Democratic Principles and the Spirit of Free Institutions’ Democrats embrace their Inner-Putin By Carl M. Cannon It’s the last Friday in May during an election year and whether Americans know it or not, they woke up this morning in a nation different than it was the day before. A former U.S. president – and the Republican Party’s all-but-certain nominee for president this November – now stands convicted of vague crimes by a Democratic Party jury on charges brought by a Democratic Party prosecutor overseen by a plainly hostile Democratic Party judge. Heretofore responsible conservatives are today openly calling for GOP prosecutors to respond to the Democrats’ “lawfare” by exacting retribution in legal venues friendly to their side. Presumably, that strategy would entail indicting prominent Democrats on criminal charges of some nature in an escalation meant to produce, well, it’s not clear what the endgame is here. This much is obvious, at least to me: By bringing such a dubious criminal case against a former president, the Democrats have now openly criminalized public policy differences. This is a dangerous game. It hardly transfigures Trump into Nelson Mandela, an unwise comparison Trump likes to invoke himself. Liberals also bristle at a more current analogy with Trump as Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader exiled, imprisoned, and murdered by Russian authorities on phony charges, presumably on orders from Vladimir Putin. Democrats would say the comparison offends them because Navalny was a heroic figure and Donald Trump is a menace to society. This view is sincerely held, for sure. But I suspect something else makes Democrats uneasy: Deep down many of them know that they’ve weaponized the criminal justice system in a way that is unhealthy for a republic; that they’ve undermined their own plot line about “saving democracy”; and that in their zeal to get Trump, Democratic Party leaders and millions of rank-and-file Democrats alike have all indulged their inner Vladimir Putin. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/05/31/democratic_principles_and_the_spirit_of_free_institutions_151034.html .

“(Thomas) said when dogs killed chickens, they would take those chickens and wrap it around those dog’s necks. And as those chickens rotted around those dogs’ necks, those dogs lost the taste for chicken. And I think that’s what Republicans need to start doing with the left.” If you’re a Republican running for office, you can just go ahead and throw away all of your elegant little policy proposals for this or that corporate exclusion or tax subsidy. Give me a list of which Democrat officials you’re going to put in prison, or get lost. There’s only one way to deal with nuclear war, which is what Democrats have unleashed, and that is mutually assured destruction. Democrats declared war on our entire system of justice and the rule of law, and our only options are victory or defeat. I intend to win. Do you?

I wouldn't. I'm just trying to square your Teddy quote saying no one is above or below the law and your usual opinion that blacks get screwed by the justice system and convicted greater than their percentage of the population. Teddy says they just need to shut up and take it. "...nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it." Seems contradictory unless you don't think the court system is systemically racist.

Yep, just a daughter-showering-with, child-sniffing, access-selling, plagiarizing, racist alternative.

Why would you assume everyone on a jury is racist? I don’t think Teddy would approve pardoning a racist who was convicted by a jury for shooting an Air Force veteran. After three years in prison; his lawyers found a way to get him out. And guess what? Trump can appeal and have the same luck. Next deflection?

“Watching my party — the party of law and order — absolutely turn their guns against the jury, against the judge, against the system … this party has lost all ability to think for itself,” Kinzinger said Friday

You left a lot of stuff out too like how all the innocent people in jail were sent up by bad juries as opposed to systemic racism. How did he get out?

Thank$ for making my point. Are you now saying systemic racism is really just because juries are comprised of humans. What do you and Teddy think about Daniel Perry?

Great quote from a politician. Does the same apply to OJ and Bill Cosby? Both obviously guilty but high priced lawyers got them off. What about all the innocent black people (really any race) that are sitting in jail for crimes they didn't commit? BLM tells us it happens a lot. Are you saying that's not true? Why are these people below the law Teddy? The OJ trial proved the system works. A rich black man can get off just like a rich white man. It's great that President Trump was found guilty. But please don't give us the no man is above or below the law BS when obviously it's not true.

Seems less than ideal… Trump supporters try to doxx jurors and post violent threats after his conviction “The posts, which have been reviewed by NBC News, appear on many of the same websites used by Trump supporters to organize for violence ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. These forums were hotbeds of threats inspired by Trump’s lies about the 2020 election, which he lost, and that the voting system was “rigged” against him. They now feature new threats echoing Trump’s rhetoric and false claims about the hush money trial, including that the judicial system is now “rigged” against him. “Dox the Jurors. Dox them now,” one user wrote after Trump’s conviction on a website formerly known as “The Donald,” which was popular among participants in the Capitol attack. (That post appears to have been quickly removed by moderators.) “We need to identify each juror. Then make them miserable. Maybe even suicidal,” wrote another user on the same forum. “1,000,000 men (armed) need to go to washington and hang everyone. That’s the only solution,” wrote another user. “This s--- is out of control.” “I hope every juror is doxxed and they pay for what they have done,” another user wrote on Trump’s Truth Social platform Thursday. “May God strike them dead. We will on November 5th and they will pay!”

Seems like just yesterday the left was attacking the entire judicial system as being oppressive and a tool of the ones in power. Now it's infallible. To the limousine libs. Maybe not so to the "no snitching" huge part of the base.

Now Is Not the Time to Be Centrist By Brandon Morse What happened to Donald Trump in New York was wrong. There is no way around that fact. The idea that a political party can weaponize our justice system and prosecute a citizen who is politically inconvenient to them is the stuff of dictatorial governments. We used to look down out noses at those countries for their backward thinking. And yet, here we are. The Democrat just did it to Trump in order to either halt or complicate his road to the White House in 2024. This isn't a small thing. If a political party can weaponize the justice system in order to protect its own interests and political power, then we've lost the Republic. There is no justice system, just an enforcement arm of the Democrat Party. This is a very big deal and yet, so many people on the Republican side of the aisle can't seem to wrap their heads around what just happened. On Thursday night, I wrote about how Asa Hutchinson and Larry Hogan both urged the same thing, to accept the verdict whether we like it or not. I want to reiterate something I said during the Hutchinson article. Now is not the time for centrism. Now is not the time to play the role of nice, calm Republican. Acceptance of this verdict isn't respecting the rule of law. This court was a sham. The judge, the prosecution, and the case itself are all radical leftist creations hell bent on destroying a political opponent through lawfare and a weaponized justice system. This was rigged from the beginning. Nothing about this has anything to do with the rule of law as it should be in America. It might have taken place in America, and in an American courtroom, but what happened in that courtroom is far from being anything American. The only thing this verdict or this trial is worthy of is condemnation and reprisal. Republicans should be gearing up to bring Democrats to court left and right in order help them understand that playing with fire results in painful burns. https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2024/05/31/now-is-not-the-time-to-be-centrist-n2174898

"Many global heads of state of democratic countries (France, Japan, Israel, etc.) have gone to prison.... The incongruity of the Manhattan case as the venue for Trump’s legal humiliation is that it did not represent his worst crimes, or close to it. The case was always marginal, the kind of charge you would never bring against a regular first-time offender. It was the sort of charge you’d concoct if the target is a bad guy and you want to nail him for something. This, too, is not without precedent. Al Capone’s conviction for tax evasion is the paradigmatic example.... The legal ramifications of this weakness will play out in some indeterminate, possibly terrible fashion.... Life isn’t fair, nor is the legal system...." Writes Jonathan Chait, in "Trump’s Conviction Means Less Than You Might Think/A lot depends on what happens next" (NY Magazine). Possibly terrible.... It's obviously terrible. It's only a question of which form of terribleness lies ahead. So Chait is openly saying the the legal system isn't fair and Trump was convicted for being "a bad guy." You want us non-haters to just accept that, as if it's a form of world-weary sophistication? No, you will have to bear the weight of the consequences of persecuting a political opponent. You should not get off easy. Posted by Ann Althouse https://althouse.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-conviction-of-former-president-is.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumps-felony-conviction-means-less-than-you-might-think.html

Hunter Biden’s trial still set to begin on Monday. So odd that Joe Biden, the manipulator of all courts in the country, who controls the levers of the justice system at all levels would allow this to happen…

Our Revolutionary Times COMMENTARY By Victor Davis Hanson Sometimes unexpected but dramatic events tear off the thin veneer of respectability and convention. What follows is the exposure and repudiation of long-existing but previously covered-up pathologies. Events like the destruction of the southern border over the last three years, the October 7 massacre and ensuing Gaza war, the campus protests, the COVID-19 epidemic and lockdown, and the systematic efforts to weaponize our bureaucracies and courts have all led to radical reappraisals of American culture and civilization. Since the 1960s, universities have always been hotbeds of left-wing protests, sometimes violently so. But the post-October 7 campus eruptions marked a watershed difference. Masked left-wing protesters were unashamedly and virulently antisemitic. Students on elite campuses especially showed contempt for both middle-class police officers tasked with preventing their violence and vandalism as well as the maintenance workers who had to clean up their garbage. Mobs took over buildings, assaulted Jewish students, called for the destruction of Israel, and defaced American monuments and commentaries. When pressed by journalists to explain their protests, most students knew nothing of the politics or geography of Palestine, for which they were protesting. The public concluded that the more elite the campus, the more ignorant, arrogant, and hateful the students seemed. The Biden administration destroyed the southern border. Ten million illegal aliens swarmed into the U.S. without audit. Almost daily, news accounts detail violent acts committed by illegal aliens or their surreal demands for more free lodging and support. {snip} Americans are also reappraising their attitudes toward time-honored bureaucracies, the courts, and government agencies. The public still cannot digest the truth that the once respected FBI partnered with social media to suppress news stories, to surveil parents at school board meetings, and to conduct performance art swat raids on the homes of supposed political opponents. After the attempts of the Department of Justice to go easy on the miscreant Hunter Biden but to hound ex-president Donald Trump for supposedly removing files illegally in the same fashion as current President Joe Biden, the public lost confidence not just in Attorney General Merrick Garland but in American jurisprudence itself. The shenanigans of prosecutors like Fani Willis, Letitia James, and Alvin Bragg, along with overtly biased judges like Juan Merchant and Arthur Engoron, only reinforced the reality that the American legal system has descended into third-world-like tit-for-tat vendettas. Finally, we are witnessing a radical inversion in our two political parties. The old populist Democratic Party that championed lunch-bucket workers has turned into a shrill union of the very rich and subsidized poor. Its support of open borders, illegal immigration, the war on fossil fuels, transgenderism, critical legal and race theories, and the woke agenda are causing the party to lose support. The Republican Party is likewise rebranding itself from a once-stereotyped brand of aristocratic and corporate grandees to one anchored in the middle class. Even more radically, the new populist Republicans are beginning to appeal to voters on shared class and cultural concerns rather than on racial and tribal interests. The results of all these revolutions will shake up the U.S. for decades to come. More at the link: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/05/31/our_revolutionary_times_151029.html .

Economic liberalism is free trade market based approach. Communism is, in theory, a democratic system of collective ownership of everything. This is not possible in the modern era, IMO

liberalism and communism are economic systems?

They’re two totally different economic systems!!!

The GOP is not Trump. Trump is not the GOP. The people who are voting for trump, for the most part, do not like the GOP. They realize that it's a uniparty system at this point. They've been alienated by the Republican party dolts like Scott Walker, John McCain, and others over the last 10 years. Bush didn't do anyone any favors. The libertarian party took a left turn and not is radioactive. Trump is not the Republican party, for better or worse. The saddest part of all of this has become the tribalism that is the "magats" type statement where this is now acceptable to insult people who are your friends, family, and neighbors. It goes both ways. I don't like Trump but I loathe Democrats who are petulant children. I will never vote Democrat for what they have made of this political circus to persecute trump and what they did to Kavanaugh. If I was Republican I would beg everyone in power to go over every Democrats business record of 20 years for equal prosecution. Oh, and if I was Ohio I 100% would not put Biden on the ballot. Legally he should not be allowed.