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softlynow

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  1. I don't care for increasing taxes on individuals. I'd rather the corporate tax capture at a rate similar to when we were actually great ('45-'65). The rate could be in the low 20's, but deductions and loss carryovers should be greatly limited.
  2. Yeah, that's just about the best way to answer that question. Obviously the Trump jalopy has easily reached his faithful with the Ukraine disinformation. It remains to be seen whether it will resonate with moderates. So far it seems to not have stuck, but the email shit was almost as stupid, and by keeping in the news day after day, Pubs managed to make it into something that affected the election.
  3. It makes it easier to recruit DEs who have no intention of playing on Sundays.
  4. I think some have it wrong on 2020. The talent is there to luck into 10-2, and maybe better. That's actually kind of the real problem. We might be putting off separating ourselves from this clown until after a 6-8 win 2021. Hell, if he goes 10-2 in '20 and 8-4 in '21, he may simply be back on the hotseat in '22.
  5. Accurate typo. Out (of) position coaches. Tom’s favorite.
  6. Of course the Tom defenders are grasping at the outdated offense comment, showing the don't even understand it enough to comment, but are missing the more damning problem with the shift away from ceding control to an air raid guy. Tom is essentially keeping himself as the OC. Sure, he says he wants to give up the control he has in the current "collaborative effort" setup. He may even cede control in reality for a bit next year. But when LSU and/or OU buttfucks us again, guess who is back to calling the plays the rest of his failed tenure?
  7. You say you disagree, yet you actually agree. Fascinating.
  8. Tom's version of it is.
  9. Orlando did not stress fundamentals, that will change.That, less chance-taking on 3rd-and-Orlando, and the move to rugby style tackling should yield noticeable improvement.
  10. Sure. 307 yards, 27 pts against OU who averaged allowing 330 and 25. 327 and 21 vs. ISU against averages of 371 and 21. 391 and 10 (including the trash on both) against Baylor's averages of 365 and 20. Greg Davis laughs at your standard for "good."
  11. I'm less concerned about the DC hire. Ash should be an improvement. But it looks increasingly like the re-tooling on the offensive side will be nothing more than a change of the name of the guy running Tom's simplistic, out-dated offense. Basically Beck 2.0. I'm gonna be as excited for that as I was for Charlie year 3.
  12. Which is why I've come to believe this ends badly. I hope I'm wrong. I hope for the continuation of our quadrennial peaceful revolutions. I just don't see that being the case. Trump knows he cannot leave office without suffering somehow. A cornered sociopath is the most dangerous kind. First he will try to win reelection. If he fails at that, he will look for another way.
  13. We aren't talking about people with beliefs. We are talking about people who've fallen in lock-step behind a con-man, tool of gangsters. They've done so knowing full well that their leader is actively aiding our former sworn enemy-state simply because he gets their core constituency wet, and there is no other way to progress in their line of work. They are traitors to everything we hope this country would stand for, simply for money and power. Belief has nothing to do with it. I would welcome a government that makes choices based on the tension of liberal and conservative, libertarian and authoritarian impulses. We don't have that, and may not again for some time when the arc of this tragedy plays out.
  14. Agreed. Which is why I find myself not giving a shit about any of this so much the last few months. I'm to the point that I feel that somehow Trump will still be in the White House come February 2021, and America as we know it will really begin to disappear.
  15. So at least 4 of the 9 want to give DOTUS complete cover for all his financial dealings. We will know probably in June whether the American experiment is done. Maybe Justice Roberts isn’t totally corrupt. I hope the brisketledge has been load tested for 100+ million folks.
  16. Last straw, huh? You have been very patient.
  17. With perfect hindsight, the best non-Saban play would've been to let Mack stay, but mandate he bring in Lincoln Riley (one year before OU did) as OC/HCIW. That or try to get Dan Mullen, I guess.
  18. I take it to mean the replacement is already chosen and accepted at least in principle.
  19. I want the Dem nominee to announce at a debate that if he/she wins that the new name of Space Force will be Starfleet. Just as a random troll to throw him off.
  20. Actually it can be quite productive, for them. Politics is perception, and because most voters don’t pay attention until the book on a candidate is mostly written, it’s important for Pete to learn how not to give opponents these opportunities to massage his words into some very damaging. It’s a sizable flaw in his campaign right now. It’s that he is racist, or might never convince brown folks he is for them, but that he’s getting easily punched into those corners. He’s got some maturing to do, as a candidate.
  21. If the response is, "no, Hitler was the Devil's work," then just reply that Stalin, FDR and liberalism must have been heaven sent to meet that threat.
  22. Attorneys General There, now I can agree 100%.
  23. Tressel was at Youngstown St. Good coaches can be found anywhere. All you have to do is know what you’re looking for, and not get wowed by pretty lights.
  24. Trumps gonna walk out to the two turkeys in two weeks with Roger in tow and give his buddy the free pass.
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