henrygandorf

maybe this isn’t the best time to catch up on the last page or so…

they really weren’t all that great.

if brantley is banged up, i don't know why anyone would be surprised. this is exactly what i would've predicted for a framber start.

i said a direct comparison. he'll look like the president when compared to anyone the right would be putting up. also a 6 point win in the general is a 9mm+ vote victory. not sure what wiping the floor is, but we're approaching that territory. the electoral count wasn't particularly close either (it's a blowout if you ask trump). biden should win by 10-12mm in the popular vote next year.

fox news makes it tough for anyone from ca to win nationally. i think the rust belt is the key to the electoral math, as biden has shown. i would lean towards josh shapiro instead. not sure who are considered the top women right now - maybe whitmer, who's also from that region which is good. do we have a thread about the dem bench? i feel like that's probably a job for @Js1

i hope you're right. i want to believe. the question will always be "can he get black people to vote for him and support him" and i don't know the answer to that. his polling from 2020 doesn't really mean shit 8 years later, but people will insist that it does. i wouldn't really worry about him in a general, as he'll wipe the floor with anyone from the right in a direct comparison. it's whether he can get through the primaries.

people who like trump are afraid of smart people. it would be a frustrating mess.

getting them in front of microphones wasn't the problem (though never by subpoena, god no). i saw clowns like navarro get interviewed plenty of times, and all they would do was ignore the question and filibuster with their nonsensical talking points. but to be fair, when you're not qualified for the job you've been appointed to and have no background or basis in it, it doesn't really matter if you stay on topic or not. back to pete for a brief moment - i still find it amusing that the gop either (a) thinks he's not qualified for this job or (b) is somehow taking advantage of all the perks. yes, i know they try to take cheap shots at anyone who poses a threat, and pete definitely does that. but to think a guy like this is not qualified is laughable. even if he wasn't at all when appointed, it would take him a long weekend to get up to speed. i saw him twice in person back in 2020, and he used to take 10-15 min at the end of each speech and open the floor to questions about literally anything - sometimes not even campaign related. people asked him really random shit and got real in the weeds with the history and nuance of thousand year old conflicts in the middle east and how it affects blah blah with the economy in india and the blah blah in russia and he would go off like he was a professor in whatever subject the question was. and then he would pivot to something about art or music or poetry. it was pretty remarkable. sadly, he's probably wasted in govt and it sucks he'll never have a real shot at the big chair.

i don't know anything about burchett, but i will give him the benefit of the doubt, and assume the mention of "gotcha" question comment was to placate the morons on his team. i think he's actually curious and cares about the content of the questions he asked, and barring availability, i would be pretty surprised if pete didn't handle this personally. maybe not face to face, but pete will follow through on it, and probably fulfill a low-end congressman's expectations x10. imagine a cabinet member from trump's term actually answering a question like that. i can't.

you're confusing the playoff number with the division number. pretty sure my summary is correct here. and i only notched the division down one number with a win tomorrow, from 10 to 9. toronto lost and i believe we now have identical records, which means toronto is also 0.5 up on both texas and seattle and they go to tampa this weekend, who trails balt by 1.5 after balt lost to cleveland. the schedule makers earned their $ this year.

ok, so captain obvious here, but tomorrow is the biggest game of the season. let's discuss. the magic number for playoffs is 6, division is 10. i know toronto is losing 3-0 in the 6th, but let's ignore that for now. seattle and texas play each other. so if we can just fucking win the game tomorrow, we will be half a game up on someone and 1.5 up on the other. the playoff magic number will go to 4 (right?) and the division magic number will go to 9. a playoff magic number of 4 with 8 to play sounds manageable, even for this bunch. if we lose, we're in 2nd place.

altuve also missed most of july.

some people get so far behind in the race they actually think they're winning.

but they're trying so hard...

good luck with that. with social media and cable news, people never stop campaigning unless they're retiring. shit, trump campaigned so much he barely had time to do any presidenting.

no, the problem is not getting anything out of him at all. if he can be an effective high-leverage multi-inning guy, he can earn his money. it doesn't matter if it's $5mm or $25mm, there's no cap and it's not my money. but we need to get something out of it.

starz saved minx, but agreed with everything else you're saying.

it is a 100 year decision.

rumblings on twitter that the deal is in place and strike will end tomorrow.

here's an interesting article from 2019, just to get a glimpse of how long the obfuscation has been going on... https://www.looper.com/164533/the-real-reason-netflix-wont-share-viewer-numbers/#:~:text=As far as the company,watched around the entire world. by all accounts, they have the numbers, they just refuse to be transparent about them.

at some point they were working on a model that was more of an analog to twitch or similar gaming streaming sites. i think it only takes a few seconds to count, which i'm sure would be quite the double-edged sword for streamers like netflix. also in response to a few posts ago, i have no idea what numbers get released for the ad-supported versions of hulu/disney/peacock/etc or how reliable they are. since certain shows aired on tv previously, you'd think there would be a correlation. at its peak, the office ads were at the top of the rate sheet, so you would think the ads run during the office streaming would also be higher than most, but again, i have no idea.

we watch abbott and ghosts. not sure what hour-long shows people are excited/mad about. the landscape has changed quite a bit from must-see tv. abc should just try to have a monday and tuesday and wednesday night football game.

good luck clearing 90 minutes of morgan freeman's schedule again. it's like somebody heard he was filming two stages over and was like, "fuck it, let's just ask him."