Chuckie Finster

Bring in a position player for the rest of the game. Save the bullpen.

He's going to get it, better to just accept it now. (And spoiler, like 25% of the population can even name the Speaker of the House. There will be no real effect on 2024 that wasn't already baked in.)

Every player in Survivor history has had plans hatched behind their back. He was targeted because he had a strong social game, and his decision to befriend a dead woman walking paid off immediately. And then he was smart enough to believe her. They haven't had many players in recent years that are strong social AND physical threats.

Sure, but it was obvious what this team was before the season started and yet there were still legitimate national championship claims coming from the fanbase in September. Jimbo should be exiled from college football for what he has done over there, but there should be absolutely nothing surprising about how this specific season has gone.

They are a team coming off a 5-7 season that is playing the season with a backup QB. Their losses are on the road to two ranked teams and to Bama. By any logic, there should be nothing surprising about the results so far this season, but the unrealistic expectations have now painted a perfectly reasonable season as a flat out disaster. I love it so much.

Finally, words that articulate what I’ve been feeling over the last week. Thank you Brisket, genuinely.

I have been incredibly vocal in the last few years about how Judaism and Israeli are not synonyms. Hearing Trump assume that he’ll win the Jewish vote purely because of something he did for Israel made my skin crawl. There’s a clear and obvious distinction between the two that can and should be made. That being said, from what I’ve seen over the last week, the distinction is not important to most who are pro-Palestinian. A Jewish teacher in France was murdered yesterday. Jewish (not Israeli) museums in America hosted pro-Palestinian protests this week. Local Jewish owned business are getting negative review bombed by Palestinian sympathizers. We all absolutely understand and appreciate the difference, we just also acknowledge that the opposition generally doesn’t give a fuck.

It is strange to me that you seem more troubled with the potential of some imaginary future incident fueled by radicalized terrorists than the one that actually just occurred.

As someone who has really been struggling this week in a battle between head (fuck Bibi) and heart (Jew), was really hoping to read some insightful responses to this post as I feel it is a missing link that may help me bridge some of my emotions. Unfortunately (unsurprisingly?) it has gone ignored so far.

The irony here, of course, is that in America you're likely to find a larger percentage of hardline Israel supporters inside a church than a synagogue.

They’ve inserted so much luck into the game that things like this don’t really matter as much as it used to, but Kaleb seems like one of the best players they’ve had in a long time.

There are easily hundreds of congressmen who could be replaced by a ChatGPT bot programmed to post one daily Tweet containing Trump 2016 buzzwords, and nobody would know the difference.

are you having a stroke

Fuck Elon.

The pessimist in me agrees, but I've seen a few reluctant kudos to Biden's response already. The Republican Jews have culty behavior, but unlike the rest of the party its towards a country and not a person. I think they'll pivot, especially if Trump doubles and triples down on this take, which he absolutely will do.

In all seriousness, I know a lot of Republican Jews who were Trump supporters because of his perceived loyalty (or whatever) to Israel. Single issue voters. This will not sit well with them.

There is no Republican party anymore. They have no collection of ideas, no platform, no tangible beliefs. It's the Democratic party and a group of people hellbent on stopping them. That's it.

MAGAs prefer congressmen who haven't been shot.

I'm an American Jew. I've visited Israel once but have no real connection to the country, no family over there, nobody that I remain in regular contact with, etc. Like many other American Jews, I'm sympathetic to the Palestinian cause and not a fan of how the Israeli government has handled that situation. May just be my limited perspective, but in recent years I've noticed a real shift in sympathy towards the Palestinians and a desire from the rest of the world for the Israeli government to figure out a solution that works. Yeah, that's all fucked now. I understand the frustrations coming from the pro-Palestinian side, but this is the worst thing that could have happened for your cause. I've never seen my Jewish friends this despondent. The pro-Israeli hardliners will use this for the rest of their lives as justification for whatever comes next and you can already see how countries all over the world are trying to outdo each other with their public support of Israel. I'm not here to argue fairness, as it is without question that what has happened to innocent Palestinians over the previous decades is not even remotely fair. But perception is the key to widespread change, and what Hamas has done in regards to perception is absolutely detrimental in the quest for peace.

I've been as down as anyone on this team, but if Playoff Javier is a real thing then we have a real shot at this.

We would need another coffin if I caught someone doing that to my father at his funeral.

You're making the "Devil we know" argument without acknowledging that the "Devil we know" is really fucking bad! He reneged on his budget deal with Biden. He launched an impeachment inquiry on Biden. He blamed Democrats for 1/6 literally 72 hours ago. Yeah, the next guy won't work with Democrats but at least he'll know that he can't expect them to bail him out when he pisses off his own party.

I don’t understand much about the modern day Republican Party, but I’m fairly certain that “aligning with Democrats” isn’t the way to gain future negotiating power. It’s not like the two groups are forming some sort of governing coalition. Sure, on this one vote MAGA interests align with Democrats but I assure you that won’t be a common occurrence. The best thing for the country is for the Republican Party to shed the MAGA wing. I’m not saying it’s likely, but anything that drives a wedge in that relationship is something I support the Democrats pursuing.

I think there are plenty of them who hate the MAGA movement but are forced to play along in public. And until now, there really hasn't been any consequence for them. I agree with you that they now rely on it, but it isn't Democrats job to figure this out for them.

I disagree. Democrats saving McCarthy proves that the MAGA lunatics can do whatever they want because Democrats will always swoop in as the voice of sanity. Letting Republicans deal with their own mess is the only way (as unlikely as it may be) for some of them to see the light and squash the parasite.