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Military-Industrial Complex now shuddering in fear as they figure out how to spend hundreds of billions of new dollars.

Pride Month is over, did you survive okay? Did you have your fear blanket and a copy of the Pulse Nightclub security tape? It’s gonna be okay, I promise.

Like typical MAGA you allergic to intelligence and any opposing viewpoints. it’s literally a party ruled by the emotion of fear. And lack of education or empathy. Oh yeah I know. Bathrooms.

It wasn’t that simple though because the transaction was years earlier. I don’t remember all of the specifics but knew it pretty well at the time. I had some contacts that were heavily involved (and that’s an understatement). Basically, a sale wouldn’t have been approved to someone who planned to relocate the team. From what I recall, the $400M wasn’t really an option because of some other language in the deal. The team could not be relocated until 2020 or whatever and the league would not allow an owner to operate in a lame duck situation. That’s why some potential buyers pulled out after getting more details that weren’t public. Ralph, Littman and crew put all of this in place with NY. The reporting back then was filled with 1/2 truths and fear mongering. I posted a bunch on it at the time of the sale and the info that I was getting was from those involved. Lol, back then, things didn’t stay as quiet on the inside.

As Mencken defined it: “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be having a good time."

For most coaches those blunders are things like "ah we ran on 4th and 1 instead of giving our QB a chance" where the thought process was defensible and the fan reaction was entirely outcome dependent. You're not typically seeing cases where the coaching decision was so bad that it effectively ended the game. In those cases the offending coach is usually quickly fired, like Matt Eberflus after the Thanksgiving game in Detroit last year. Another example to me was in the Ravens playoff game when we had our backup DL on the field for the entire final drive, which gave us no chance of stopping them, but luckily we got saved from that fatal coaching blunder through sheer luck on the 2PC. My fear with McDermott for a while has been that I think you need to win those moments at least once or twice in your playoff run to ultimately win a Super Bowl. I don't know if he just tightens up too much in those high leverage moments or what, but he has consistently failed in those moments in some pretty shocking ways. Some of the other criticisms of McDermott I can find some explanations, like maybe the defensive breakdowns in the playoffs really are just because of talent and/or injuries, but I can't find an explanation for those end of game moments.

For me both Oliver and Rousseau are at the good-not-great level. After that things get interesting. Bosa could return to his former glory. Or he could spend the season on IR. Who knows? I never watched Hoecht very much, but I know that he's a very smart and versatile player who can play DE, DT, and LB. That means when he's on the field, the offense doesn't necessarily know what defensive alignment we're in, assuming we switch him around. He could be an interesting X factor. Ogunjobi seems like he could be a good depth piece though PFF only graded him a 49.4 last season. And then there's the rookies. If everyone is as good as we hope, this will be the best DL we've had in a while. But if our fears materialize (Bosa is hurt, the rookies play like rookies, Hoecht's versatility is misused, Ogunjobi deserves his 40s PFF score, etc.), then our entire defense will struggle. I'm hoping for the best but right now it all feels iffy to me.

Nor was the "Trump has started WWIII" claim this past weekend fear-mongering hysteria ... Nor were any of the other times they claimed that over the past 9 or so years fear-mongering hysteria ...

This guy is the cousin of one of my son’s law classmates. Congrats to him but resurrecting Red Lobster is going to be a heavy lift, and I fear a doomed endeavor. I remember going there when I was younger and wanted to go back there recently but a lobster dinner is $40.

I will never fear playing Miami as long as Tua is the starter there

Yeah, the “Trump will start WWIII” claim back in 2016 wasn’t fear-mongering hysteria…

I mean you’re not wrong. MAGA has cornered the market on fear and hysteria by using its captured media and influencers to paint anyone as a godless, evil communist. The fact that people like Big Blitz are already shaking and calling for him to be DEPORTED is proof.

This is an absolute meltdown you guys are having over a candidate who hasn’t even won the office yet, and might not. For Pete’s sake, the “bill” the tweet references is the Not On Our Dime bill from 2023. It would prevent charities from using donations to fund settlements in Gaza. It wouldnt come close to the fear mongering above. You started an entire thread in hysterics over the EU banning AFD from office, but now you’re happily doing the same thing. It’s astonishing.

Eric Adams is probably the best option of the three, but I don’t think he can beat Zohran with Cuomo and Sliwa still in the race. He’ll also need to build up a semi-competitive ground game. You can’t just scream “Socialist! Jihadist! Communist! Anti-Semite!” from afar and expect anyone outside the PPP MAGA nursing home demographic to take you seriously. My guess is that the race will come down to the working-class minority neighborhoods, and so I really like Team Zohran’s odds. He’s refined the AOC 2018 playbook that enabled her to take down Joe Crowley. Oh, and I’m now hearing rumors of corporate donors pressuring Cuomo to stay out of the general election. So the establishment Dem fear is both palpable and justified, in both NYC and throughout the rest of the country. Trumpian and Israeli politics are absolutely factoring into these political dynamics, but demographic breakdowns in the NYC mayoral race polling data suggest more fundamental economic fissures in play…fissures that were equally emergent in the polling data during the 2016 and 2020 Bernie primaries.

If I'm being honest. I feel like this is how it will play out with this coach and team. At the same time there are worse coaches out there and that's what will always keep him here....fear of getting a worse coach.

Fair enough.. screams to me that is a voting group dominated by 75k-150k white corporate libs that live paycheck to paycheck in a tiny NYC apartment, yet still brunch and go out at night, while believing they deserve a better life. Easily susceptible to a slick millennial targeted campaign promising lower rent and food costs while hitting their virtue sweet spot on cops, Israel and illegal migrants. Comfortable enough to not fear the ramifications but also not wealthy enough to fear them either.

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/facts-not-fear-how-welcoming-immigrants-benefits-new-york-city/ 😆 Wisdom has a price. The voters in NYC are about to put on a demonstration.

The "regime" is in place in name only, which is not to say it doesn't have the ability to re-emerge. Scores of the power folks have been killed. The leader is in a bunker somewhere, an 86 year old cancer surviving lunatic who has lost countless supporters. This strike was immensely successful on so many levels. Of course they will try to continue their useless nuclear goals, but they've just lost their three major facilities, at least for some time. They have an estimated one half trillion dollars of spent cost in the program and in supporting their three major proxies, who have suddenly disappeared. They have been exposed as a useless military, unable to even respond in most basis terms to an invasion of their airspace and the destruction of their prized hundred billion dollar underground effort. They can evidently do nothing about it, except perhaps sleeper cells, which nobody know about. Remember last week when two people here expressed angst that they could close the Strait of Hormuz? One actually stated it cause a major recession. Remember who stated that was unlikely? That strike was a spotlight on the bullsttuff that is the Iranian "regime," and no matter what people on this forum think, that reality is not lost on Gulf states and others who feared them.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/lawandcrime.com/high-profile/remains-in-full-force-federal-judge-says-scotus-decision-on-3rd-country-deportations-doesnt-affect-his-original-ruling-keeping-men-from-south-sudan/amp/ This liberal judge in Boston is stating his words are the ultimate word on the topic, over the SC, over the president, and regardless of Congress. This is what we are always told to fear but it only seems to come from the left

Have to hope our intelligence agencies are up to the task. We know terrorists and Chinese Nationals have been coming across the border. China buying up land. There is zero reason any of the above should have been so easily occurring. So now we have to pray we can snuff them out. But we can’t just sit around making foreign policy decisions off fear of foreign countries activating sleeper cells in our country because multiple Presidents.. especially our most recent one pre-Trump, allowed this to be a major concern. I do enjoy the sudden concern of sleeper cells now that Trump is President.. didn’t hear much from yall on this topic when Biden’s corpse was allowing whoever wanted to come into our country.

BE GENTLE, HE’S LOST A LOT OF FRIENDS IN THE LAST WEEK OR SO: Barack Obama Lets the Mask Slip Again. Barack Obama, now a gray-haired elder statesman of the left, appeared at the Connecticut Forum in Hartford on Tuesday and engaged in a lengthy discussion with a sycophantic historian, Heather Cox Richardson. The welcoming environment apparently led the left’s revered hero to relax a bit too much, for he let the mask slip and demonstrated once again that what leftists want to do most is use the full force of the federal government to muzzle patriots, so that only the leftist perspective can be heard. {snip} And Obama wants to do more than just shout down the view of those whom he and his fellow leftists fear and hate. He called for active government censorship, saying: How do we train and teach our kids to distinguish between those things, that I think is one of the big tasks of social media. By the way, it will require, I believe, some government regulatory constraints around some of these business models in a way that’s consistent with the First Amendment but that also says, “Look, there is a difference between these platforms letting all voices be heard versus a business model that elevates the most hateful voices, or the most polarizing voices, or the most dangerous in the sense of inciting violence voices.” That I think is going to be a big challenge for all of us that we’re going to have to undertake. So there’s the left’s new plan, which is, predictably, same as the old plan: brand its opponents “hateful” and “polarizing,” and silence them accordingly. The chief flagship organizations of the left’s defamation industry, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the ADL, have been smearing patriots in this way for years. Obama wants to follow up these smears with a federal muzzle. https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/06/21/barack-obama-lets-the-mask-slip-again-n4941041

Now Iran fires missies at Israel. Regardless of what side you’re on in regards to trumps actions - and we’ve all made it clear where we individually stand on that- this is about as stupid and FAFO as you can get. I mean most us knew they would not in any way just take that hit, cry uncle, and do nothing. But watching it play out exactly how we knew it would is still something to see. Let’s just hope Trump doesn’t indeed show the destruction “like they’ve never seen” but I fear his own ego has cornered him into doing something stupid. And now that we’ve supposedly accomplished the mission of denuclearization in Iran (starting to seem like it wasn’t the resounding victory drunken Pete delayed) let those two garbage governments kill each other by way of a trillion paper cuts. But that won’t happen. So here we go again. Another forever war because Iran is doing exactly what we knew they would do. And if the reports that they moved the nuclear material before the strikes are true, we did it for… what? Hillary would have done this. Bidens handlers might have. My feelings on this aren’t partisan. They are just feelings of a guy so sick of being the hall monitor to an area of the world that willfully chooses to never be stable.

You hate America. You love a version that is built on control, fear, and ignorance no matter how incompetent those white people are in position of power. You hate what this country actually stands for: freedom, equality, progress and the Constitution. 153 days in - Putin’s still bombing Ukraine, Israel’s dragging us into their endless wars, and this country’s a mess. The whole world is paying the price for America's mediocrity.

Evidence? What a concept. I'd dare say the evidence of an iminent threat has been destroyed. Or perhaps the evidence of there not being any immenent threat has been destroyed. Either way, that secret will most certainly be kept well hidden by the governments of America and Isreal. For me the major theme at play remains intact. If you want to protect yourself from attacks launched at the whims of countries possessing big league military capabilities and nuclear weapons you better get some nukes too as that seems to be the only deterrent they fear.

We could be on the cusp of nuclear war, and thanks to dufus lying commie leftists, this country is divided. Guess you guys would find out rather quickly that dei, fear of made up white racism, stupid pronouns, forced trans nonsense and all the rest of the BS have no bearing in real life. Good job in dividing the country with hate, tho. You just needed the trump excuse, you are all miserable nasty people.