BrickHorn

Baseball;dw

Bingo. And also a massive indictment of the American electorate, which votes for style over substance.

The finale was great, but I also enjoyed the entire season. Much of the satire was too on-the-nose, but subtlety is nearly impossible when satirizing the blatantly absurd.

Put. Pimphand. On ignore. He’s by far the dumbest asshole on a site chock full of dumb assholes, and none of us want to read his stupid horseshit.

I fear it’s too late. Biden should have stepped down before the primaries, and spent the last 3 years promoting potential replacements. Were four months out from the election, the primaries are done, no one can settle on who the replacement even should be. It’s just way too fucking late to pull this off.

Why do you assume Democratic voters approach politics like Republicans? The two parties have sorted on IQ / sanity lines at this point. The dynamics are totally different between the two now. Booed Mitch McConnell and banished John McCain out front shoulda told ya.

Thats not all that matters at all. If it was, the GOP would have dropped Trump in 2020 and the Dems would have pushed for someone other than Hillary. Politics is far more multidimensional, involving various overlapping constituencies with different and often opposing priorities. The timeline for and the process by which leaders are chosen are completely different in politics compared to sports. And politics involves a deep feeling of having a say in the outcomes, and an expectation of transparency and fairness. This “politics is just sports fandom” analogy is really half-assed. It’s lazy thinking. Democratic voters aren’t all going to get jazzed to vote because the party jams some new candidate down their throats. No matter who it is, there is some bloc that won’t approve and others will feel like the primaries and whole process were a sham. This isn’t fucking football. But go on with your fantasies of the magic candidate swap bullet. For the sake of our country, I hope it doesn’t backfire like I fear it will.

Politics is not college football. I mean the dynamics are not even remotely comparable.

Team “Biden should quit” don’t seem to realize the risks. It’s not even remotely all upside. Remember 2016, when the perception that the party had rigged the primaries to favor Hillary over Bernie led to lackluster November turnout? Trump beat that drum repeatedly and it was fucking effective. And in that case, Hillary actually won more delegates in the primaries. The “rigged convention” spin will be much easier here. No matter who gets the nod, there will be some sizable faction of Dem voters who won’t be happy. And Trump and the media will tell them over and over and over again that the Dems rigged it and appointed a hand-picked puppet through a secret, undemocratic, backroom deal. I get the concerns about Biden. But if he steps down, it’s going to be a PR nightmare to maintain enthusiasm and turnout. This is a real clusterfuck and there’s no magic wand that will fix it.

You’re preaching to the choir on that. But maybe focus on preventing a fascist takeover first and, in the short term at least, avoid turning off potential allies by pushing a neosocialist purity test.

As much as I wish the Dems had been able to push a progressive agenda these past few years, I think that was likely not realistic. The Republicans poached a large chunk of the Dems’ former working class base. That was made possible by the Dems’ rightward shift in the 80s and 90s, which made them weaker in labor issues and thus more susceptible to being painted as the party of liberal, immoral, irreligious elites. Like it or not, a significant slice of the Dem base at this point is former center-right Republicans who can’t tolerate the know-nothing populism of the modern GOP. I was just talking about the RNC with someone who fits that description today. Good luck selling those voters on progressive issues like student loan forgiveness, universal health care, higher capital gains taxes, or universal basic income. Labor was the wind in the sails of progressive reform. We lost them by catering to Reaganist globalism and letting the GOP play to their worst social issue instincts.

You’re thinking of r/DryerStuck

Looks like the Surl has been lurking r/CyberStuck

Was it good for Ragey?

Again, you’re ignoring the instances where that was not the case. 40+ years into the AIDS pandemic, we still don’t know definitively in what species it originated or how it transmitted to humans. And the origins of the 2009 swine flu are still somewhat murky. Although a 2016 paper purported to resolve the issue in favor of Mexico, that was 7 years after the fact. So even if that group got it right, the definitive answer wasn’t remotely immediate. As usual, you’re cherry picking to create the illusion of a high probability in favor of your preferred (conspiracy) theory. But the actual probabilities are far more inconclusive.

Your move, JNip.

“Shots were fired at 6:11…” It was 1:11 AM in the Holy Land. Maybe this clarifies the shooter’s political leanings: ”He came unto his own, and his own received him not.” John 1:11

Lulz. You say this as if epidemiologists always detect small clusters of animal-to-human transmission of a virus before it starts spreading human-to-human. But that’s not at all the case. For example, we had no idea HIV was a thing until long after it began transmitting between humans. The 2008 swine flu wasn’t detected until it was already spreading in human populations. To the extent it is understood that these diseases initially infected humans through animal vectors, that was determined only through hindsight investigation (e.g. by examining preserved tissue or blood samples). If you’re arguing that it’s improbable that an infectious disease would emerge naturally without us first detecting scattered animal-to-human dead end cases, you’re ignoring prominent cases for which that was exactly what happened.

This shit could kill off 14-33% of Americans who use phrases like “face diaper” and “Fauci ouchie” unironically. So maybe not all bad?

Maybe you should have listened to the last ten minutes, when he talked about the assassination attempt.

Today‘s episode of It Could Happen Here offers some useful perspective on the upcoming election and potential second Trump term. Tldr: don’t panic.

That’s using hindsight. Through the group stage, Uruguay looked like the best team in the tournament.

Oh, Canada.

Canada is proving the importance of a real coach. They have 1/10th of our total population, a weaker soccer culture, and fewer top flight players (maybe 3-4 players in top European leagues, compared to our 20-ish). But they’re outplaying an Uruguay squad that was looking like the best team in Copa through the round of eight.