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  1. I don't think I'd trade Sark for anyone in the country right now. It's a really fucking hard job and on top of that we're seeing more parity with NIL and the portal. Rhule (regardless of what you think about him as a coach) had a great bit talking about how competitive the landscape is right now - and that it's becoming more like the NFL. Sometimes you don't play well and someone just has your number. Going 12-0 is hard for anyone that plays a real schedule. I mean shit man - as bad as OU and Michigan have looked at times those aren't gimmie wins and we went in and blew both of their doors off. Vandy is a good football team and we didn't play up to standard that game but still stayed on the right side of the W/L column. As a total package it's hard to do it better than Sark. From handling the media to managing a staff to recruiting to xs and os - we're extremely lucky that the hire has worked out as well as it has. Doesn't make him perfect and doesn't mean we can't continue to get better - but for now - he has us where Texas should be every season.
  2. We've handed it off to a RB 7 times so far. Our run game is not elite, but a majority of run games require commitment to the concept before they really take off. The game plan today was clearly built on the passing game, and it's working. It's also worth remembering that our short passing game should be viewed as an extension of our running game. And that only works when you have a QB like Quinn that can make those sideways throws with good timing and placement. The lack of nuance comment was about the extreme stances out there on Quinn. He's not a pussy, but he's also not playing at a CFP title winning level. He's had a ton of margin for error on many of his throws and has used nearly all of that margin on several. The first drop by Moore and the TD pass to Golden are two good examples. The missed pass to Bond where the DB fell down was also extremely poor. On the flip side, the 2nd drop by Moore was perfect and there have been a couple of other good tosses mixed in. The main concern I have is that he's not going to get many (if any) throws with that kind of margin for error against better teams. So it's not hard to project what sort of trouble we might be in if that ends up being the case. But again, I know people either have to be in the "Quinn is doing great" or "Quinn is a dumpster fire" camp around here.
  3. we go as the running game goes. If we can get some edge rushing success we win this one going away. If not look out!
  4. Kerr's/Golden State's influence on Kenny Atkinson has been easy to see this season and Steph/Dray had high praise for the Cavs after the game last night. https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/pro/cavs/2024/11/09/cleveland-cavaliers-10-0-start-kenny-atkinson-golden-state-warriors-stephen-curry-draymond-green/76135898007/ CLEVELAND — New Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson and Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green used the same three words to describe how Cleveland dominated during a historic first half Friday night at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. “Drive, kick, swing. That's kind of our motto, and I thought we did a hell of a job in the first half,” Atkinson said. A Warriors assistant coach the past three seasons, Atkinson explained the Cavs emphasized “drive, kick, swing” during shootaround Friday morning. Then they defeated the Warriors 136-117 and improved to 10-0 this season. The NBA's only remaining undefeated team, the Cavs led 83-42 at halftime, tying the regular-season franchise record for most points in a half. The 41-point advantage through two quarters set a club record for largest halftime lead. It's also tied for the eighth-largest halftime lead by any NBA team in the shot clock era (1954-55). “They beat us by [41 points] in a half, and you are as good as your record says you are,” Warriors guard Stephen Curry said. “So they're pretty damn good right now.” The Cavs are the only team in league history to start a season 10-0 and score 110-plus points in every game. The last team to go 10-0 was the 2015-16 Warriors, who established a league record for the best start to a season by going 24-0. The LeBron James-led Cavs rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the NBA Finals to defeat the Warriors for the title the same season. But the Warriors beat the Cavs in the 2015, 2017 and 2018 Finals. Green explained he sees Atkinson's Cavs playing with a style similar to those Warriors teams because of the ball movement and players “flying around” the court. Atkinson helped Golden State claim another championship in 2022, so he knows a winning formula. The Cavs had 22 assists on 28 successful field goals in the first half. “They're so intentional about the extra pass, and that is a staple for us,” Green said. “The drive, kick, swing is what we've preached for years, and they diced us up with it. “I was telling Steph like in the fourth quarter, 'I feel like they just beat us with what we've beat teams with for years.'” Are the Cavs just scorching hot out of the gate or should the rest of the NBA expect them to be really good under Atkinson? “They've been building to this for several years,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “This is not just like all of a sudden the Cavs are good. They've been good. So the continuity matters, and they're obviously off to a great start. Clearly one of the best teams in the league.” The Cavs have virtually the same roster they had last season, when they went 48-34 in the regular season, defeated the Orlando Magic 4-3 in the first round of the playoffs and lost 4-1 to the eventual NBA champion Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference semifinals. But the Cavs made a monumental change in the offseason by firing coach J.B. Bickerstaff and replacing him with Atkinson. The organization hoped Atkinson would elevate the offense, and it has been an overwhelming success thus far. They have scored at least 130 points in five games this season, tying a single-season franchise record through merely the first 10 games. The Cavs no longer heavily rely on a pick-and-roll offense, which Green noted and added, “A lot easier to guard last year. A lot tougher to guard this year.” Cleveland leads the league in points per game (124.5 points) and offensive rating (122.7 points per 100 possessions). “Kenny's doing a great job with them, and they're playing at a high level,” Kerr said. “So I don't know [how they compare with Cavs teams of the past]. I'll leave answer up to the analysts. I just know they kicked our ass.”
  5. It will be interesting to see how the lineups shake out as the season moves along and we get Mark integrated into the team. To me it is clear that (so far) Tre Johnson and Arthur Kaluma are our best players and need 30+ minutes a night. I assume that Mark is going to need 30 minutes a night as well. I think Kent is a winning player and needs more minutes at the expense of Shedrick. A "small" lineup with Kaluma and Kent at the 4/5 needs to see the floor 10-15 minutes a game. Onyema doesn't need to see the floor at all. Kent and Kaluma are solid defenders and also very active rebounders. Given our guard/wing size, we can afford a little less size down low. Shedrick is an "ok" post defender, but I have seen him get exposed bigtime when he has to switch off on smaller players or step out and try to defend the perimeter. If there is a wide open 3, chances are Shedrick was responsible. That doesn't happen with Kaluma and Kent. In the end we should have an 8-man rotation with: Starters: Pope, Johnson, Mark, Kaluma, Shedrick 2nd Unit: Larry, Weaver, Kent rotating in to give whatever composition we need. If we need another big body, bring in Vinson. That's it. Unless we are up by 25, nobody else needs to see the floor. Pope really needs to get it together. The dude is a bigtime scorer, averaging 17+ ppg in the PAC10 last year. He is a career 37%+ from 3 and an elite free throw shooter (88%). This year he is averaging 20% from 3 and hasn't even gotten to the line once. If he plays like he is capable, it will completely transform the team. If I was Terry, I would spend a game or two making sure that Pope gets fed and see if he can get going. If not, Larry needs to start getting more time. He seems to be a much better defender than Pope. He is also a better distributor and protects the ball well. It might ultimately be better to start him and let Pope come in with Weaver for a spark off the bench. Weaver is also getting too much playing time. I suspect that will change dramatically when Mark gets healthy.
  6. @Guadaloopy I 100% agree with you both. I also am very familiar to the VA system. To me, VA benefits should be given to all who served without means testing. We WANT to care for our vets because they cared for us. I used to be a great example of a unified health care system. That was back in the 1980s. The erosion begin in 1990s when we thought that one of the spoils of winning to Cold War was going to be no more wars so smaller military. Yeah, right. The VA has been in a death spiral since. Unable to hire because poor pay so vets don't come so smaller visit numbers justifying further cuts in services. This splashed onto the scene in 2013 and 2014 with tragic deaths due to delayed care. And the response with the Veterans Choice program which pumped more money into the program initially but also allowed veterans benefits to be used at non-VA facilities. John McCain spearheaded the Choice program as a stopgap, but because our politics is broken, it was obvious that this would accelerate the demise of the VA. Trump made it easier to go outside the VA for care in 2017, and his administration is going to kill the VA, which is bad. Veterans have special needs, and the VA had served those needs well. Another terrible decision for those who voted for the "face-eating leopards party" (FELP).
  7. We’ll win 90-64 or some such but hard to get excited about the defensive rotations right now and the fact we can’t get Pope going.
  8. How do we know that isn't happening? I mean, the dildo thread is full of unsubstantiated memes like this. Who knows where they are coming from? It could be a racist piece of shit emboldened by Trump, could be Russia using his win as an opportunity to sow chaos and fear, could be someone just in it for the lulz or it could be people on the left taking a page from the Trump playbook to use manufactured fear and anger to try to fuel a movement. The scariest part? I don't have a strong sense of which of those is most likely true. We live in a post-factual world now, and the disinformation genie is not going back into the bottle.
  9. Mack needed to go. We were closer to the 2010 5-7 team than we were to the 2008/09 teams. And those teams already had lesser talent offensively than 5 years prior. Mack left Swoopes for the QB room. He didn’t leave shit at the Oline. There was good talent on D, but much of it was upperclassmen that had 1 or maybe 2 years left. There was a certain purging that needed done. Whatever you want to say about Strong, he recruited Conner Williams. The first drafted olinemen since the 2004 recruiting class. That’s a problem. That was a Mack problem. Like Beuchele or not, he was good enough to hit the NFL. Sam too. While I like Swoopes, a 1-9 record leading his high school is not necessarily leaving the cupboard full. That was a Mack problem. There was a decent dose of talent that Strong left. So, no, the program was not worse. Yeah, I suppose Mack could have scrapped together some 7-5s. Yeah for us. I would suspect that Mack had he dragged out 3 more years would not have left NFL talent at as many positions for the next guy. That next guy may have stuck around longer had he not rubbed everyone the wrong way. In a sense, the evolution since that time has led us to our current position, which has considerable upside. Even in retrospect, you change that trajectory, and it’s likely Seven Win Steve is elsewhere and we have someone less suited for this current run.
  10. I had this same discussion with several close friends of mine, and I always go back to equating this to the failure of Vietnam. Fighting a war with red lines and weapon restrictions will always lead to defeat. The Ukraine was always going to be the smaller force. That was understood from the beginning. The logic that US tech will defeat Russian tech was on full display. The problem is that we provided the technology but never let Ukraine follow through with the overall doctrine that the US would have employed in this scenario. Manpower will always trump technology if you stretch the timeline by not allowing that technology to overwhelm the opposition. The US and the Biden administration ultimately failed Ukraine. Yes, we provided unparalleled aid, but we then dictated how that technology could be used. We supported the target acquisition aspects of Ukraine while also leaking aspects of the Ukrainian counter offensive plans in an attempt to manipulate their strategy. We drew lines on maps and tried to dictate plans of attack, while having a poor grasp of the capabilities of the troops in the field and the restrictions they were under. We never let Ukraine do what we would have done from a tactical standpoint. The targeting and usage restrictions made the technology advantage a hollow shell in comparison of what it could and should have been. The path for victory was for the Ukraine to decimate the Russian forces in Crimea and the Donbas while holding elsewhere. Use the overwhelming technology advantage and lay waste to every mode of transportation into the combat theater and starve the Russian out figuratively and literally. Force everyone within 200 km of the theater to in essence have to walk or drive to the front. Make anywhere within 200 km of the front be a deadzone with no power, no food, no functional infrastructure. Decimate the Russian will to fight and the troops ability to move. Slow the flow of troops and supplies so the smaller Ukrainian force and easily repel the invaders. Instead, we got restrictions and staging areas 50 km from the front. This limits the ability to be reactionary and eventually the manpower disadvantage will lead to being overwhelmed. If what we saw was the approach the outgoing administration considered appropriate and measured, then there was no hope for Ukraine to win with these restrictions. The counterattacks into Russian territory were too late to alter the war. The failure to allow the use of deep strike capabilities to cripple rail transportation of troops too the front allowed Russia to slowly overwhelm the eastern front through meat grinder zerg assaults. The decision to not allow attacks on NIP-16 satellite comm site until June this year was years too late. The US never let Ukraine force the Russia populace to live in fear of the war. We never let Ukraine approach this conflict the same way we would have, and in doing so Ukraine was tasked with the near impossible task of bleeding out Russia and trading soil for Russian blood and equipment. In many ways, the hope for a settlement driven by Trump is now the only recourse. The only silver lining is that his hate and disdain for Iran and their continued involvement in supplying Russia with drones and ICBMs combined with his desire to limit China on the world stage will force a geopolitical squeeze on Russia. The only problem is that the Ukraine is now bargaining from a position of at best stalemate if not apparent weakness. I cannot come up with a scenario that Ukraine does not lose something in the negotiated outcome. Be it territory, be it historical claim to Crimea, be it the ability to join NATO, the war is now going to end at a huge political cost to Ukraine on top of the unimaginable destruction and loss of life. The unwillingness to commit to total war has led to loss of an entire generation of men and women, which I fear Ukraine may never recover from. Make no mistake, this is all at the feet of the current administration and we need to take a hard look at why this turned out the way it did.
  11. No comments on the proposed new platform? The guy in the video is not entirely wrong - we can either be right or we can win elections. We need to win elections then we can act on what we know is right. To do that we've got to bring more people under the tent. So what big issue can we give on? I chose immigration. Illegal immigrants don't vote so we can fuck them over with no political cost. Plus, it looks like doing the border will actually gain favor with the very important Latino voting bloc. We don't have to be inhumane to carry out the policy. Hell, we don't even have to carry out the policy at all. It was the No. 2 issue for Trump voters. So we go further on it than the Republicans have even tried.
  12. Right now everyone is postgaming WTF happened. But I think most of the reasons being thrown out there are at best non-productive and many are counterproductive. Candidate quality, democrat platform or ineffective messaging, racism, misogyny, half of Americans are stupid, etc. There is undoubtedly truth to some of that, but to me it misses the big reason we are here: propaganda and the demonization of liberals by right wing media. Harris was a really strong candidate but was sunk by being in an administration blamed for the inflation of the last few years. Its not just racism, see Obama. Saying half of Americans are abject morons may make us feel better, but it is truly unhelpful. Thats just the human condition and its been the same for our whole history. The real problem is people being told what to think, and being intellectually lazy and/or disengaged enough not to realize their opinions are being fed to them based on bullshit. The consistent message from right-wing media for decades is that librul=bad, and it has so permeated a majority of the electorate that no amount of Trump insanity, hate and bullshit could break through. The conditions that lead us here started about 40 years ago. First it was Limbaugh who conditioned many Americans to infotainment and talking heads spouting opinions masquerading as news. It also revealed Americans' appetite for it. That eventually led to Fox News who perfected the formula. Anything bad, blame on the liberals. Downplay, spin, or ignore anything bad done by republicans. Technology compounded it by splintering the information environment, which lets people seek out the info/news they want and reinforces echo chambers. And of course right-wing power brokers realized how effective that kind of propaganda can be at setting public opinion. Over about the same period of time, corporations amassed fantastic wealth and became truly multinational. That plus things like Citizens United and superpacs gave corporations, billionaires, and special interests a lot more control over the levers of power. Republicans were apparently easier to buy off than Democrats, so over that time the Republican party became the party of the oligarch class almost exclusively. But obviously in a democracy, the 1% can't outvote the rest of the population. So, in order to win elections Republicans were able to put together a coalition of basically single issue voters (pro life, pro gun, anti immigration, and the people who still think the GOP is better for the economy despite all the evidence to the contrary). But here's the kicker: today's GOP doesn't really stand for any of those things except abortion and gun rights. I believe that until the last 20 years or so, there was a good-faith argument whether the conservative or liberal policies of the day were best for the country. (There used to be conservative posters in here, I was one of them, that would argue policy in good faith, now it is just drive by shit talking). Its because Republican policies are mostly indefensible today. Today, all the GOP basically does is cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations, and kill democratic bills -- or even kill conservative legislation like the immigration bill when they think it will help politically. They have a really hard time actually passing legislation. In other words, Republicans have conned their electorate into voting blatantly against their best interests. The overwhelming reason is effective propaganda. Over the same period of time I have been talking about, the biggest demographic shift between parties has been more educated voters to the left and less educated voters to the right. This is the biggest piece of evidence that it is propaganda to blame, not candidate quality or any of those other things. The more educated tended to see through the Fox News bullshit, the less educated believe what they are told to believe. Fox News has spent a couple decades demonizing democrats/liberals, and it has worked. More people blame Biden for inflation when it was actually kicked into high gear by the guy they just reelected, and brought under control by Biden. I know Trumpers who are normal people in a larger sense. When I talk to them about this stuff, thats what it always comes down to. No actual discussion anymore, they just can't be on the side of the libruls. You have to correctly diagnose a problem to properly fix it. I think if all democrats do is try to tweak their platform, find better candidates, outreach certain demographics, we will keep ending up here in the same place wondering what went wrong. This election has made me want to get more involved, but I don't want to spin my wheels. So, how to neutralize the conservative media and demonization of liberals? Say it with me, its far easier to fool someone than convince them they've been fooled. I don't have great answers and would love Surly input. Democrats are facing an uphill battle due to the education gap, in other words the voters they need to win back are the gullible ones now under the librul=bad spell. I don't think laws dealing with disinformation would be that effective. First, you'd run up against free speech/freedom of the press before you got too far. But more than that, most of the propaganda isn't true disinformation anyway. For instance, Fox doesn't air the obviously false stuff -- rather it mentions the real news, but then spend 99% of its airtime spinning and telling people how to think about the it (libruls bad). Its that constant, pervasive, simple message that is driving this. I do think we have an opportunity in the next two years (hopefully not four) to help try to lift the veil for some voters. Thats because conservative media bitching about democrats isn't that compelling when republicans control all the branches of government. In fact, to keep viewers tuned in, Fox will probably spend plenty of time crapping on republicans and far less time reinforcing the bad librul message. The first way I can come up with to fight back is to try to make propaganda part of the conversation. For instance, do some studies of americans that demonstrate how effective propaganda is. Make some documentaries featuring those studies, showing how effective propaganda is today in places like Russia and China, drawing parallels to things like Germany 100 years ago to show what can happen, and showing clearly how the GOP's actions today doesn't match most of its purported policies or the right-wing media narrative. And get everyone involved trying to keep it front and center in the national conversation. Enough to where people have to think about and question whether they have been duped. MAYBE that can start to break the spell on just enough voters. I think that Americans will get fed up with Trump again and for that reason alone and regardless of conservative media, democrats will win back the White House in 2028. But to keep winning consistently enough going forward, enough people are going to have to realize they have been conned. Those people that do won't flip back to republican -- at least until it becomes a party operating in good faith again and not just trying to represent 1% of its constituents. My only other thoughts are that even getting rid of right wing media and lifting the veil on the electorate probably would not solve the biggest impediments we have to a better functioning democracy/society. Stuff like overturning Citizens United, changing the electoral college, etc. are not going to happen in our current system under business as usual. Its going to take a major event that causes a lot of hardship/privation. A world war, a pandemic worse than covid, climate change causing famine/supply chain disruption, giant meteor hitting the earth. In other words, we have to face a large enough problem or threat collectively for politicians of all stripes to truly work together to solve it and not just try to score points -- or a problem so big we throw out the government who won't solve it and start over. Sorry for the long post but it is my way of making sense of what just happened and to start trying to take more positive proactive steps to make a difference. First being diagnosing the real problem!!
  13. This isn't directed at you specifically, but your comment here is emblematic of the issue. Because in this country, we get one of two choices - Republican or Democrat - that shape the direction of this country. You can hold all the personal beliefs you want, you can donate to all the right organizations, you can volunteer your time at the shelter, and those are wonderful things which I sincerely keep happening. But enacting change comes from one of two places, and you sat it out. We saw who won, and thus ... you're part of the problem. Newt Gingrich is the other reason why this is such an intractable problem. This thread started on the premise of a truce, of a cogent conversation amongst people who's opinions differed. Baked into that 'truce' assumption is that by finding places where two different sides might agree, there exists a place where compromise can thus happen. Newt moved the republican party to a place where compromise is, quite literally, no longer possible. (Source) I forget who the poster was up-thread who said "democrats have said that about every GOP nominee in my lifetime," and then referenced Romney and both Bushes, all three of whom were nominees AFTER the Gingrich brain-worm had taken root. There did use to be a compromise concept to both parties. but it died in the late 90's on the GOP side. So when the progressives / liberals / democrats scream for compromise, for policies that put our most marginalized people first, for policies that help ALL Americans, the GOP DNA sees them as weakness, as losing. Compromise requires two parties acting in good faith, and the GOP aren't, and haven't in more than 30 years. It's completely useless to have any conversation about policy, because there's 0 chance of anything happening in the Senate or House, and the REASON that nothing will happen is entirely on the GOP. This is not to say that the democrats have policy figured out, or have any sort of monopoly on being right, but there's no path for the democrats to work on anything, because the other side won't do a goddamned thing in good faith. Which leaves us with one option and one option only - the presidential and congressional elections. If the democrats don't have control, then there is no structure in place any more to check the most basic of our human nature. Even if GOP senators or advisors wanted to consider doing something positive for the American common man, the minute they engage a democratic peer to work on something, they're ostracized by the party. Just look at the border bill for this insane reluctance to work on things that would benefit their own goddamned party, simply because of the deep-seated need to not give the other side a win. I have no energy left to think about compromise, because it doesn't do any good. The political people we just put into power have no interest in governing, only in winning, and the people that are going to suffer are all of us. They don't care about policy; they only care about winning. How anyone can vote for that is beyond me, and how anyone can claim for one second that "if the democrats only did X or Y, then we'd be more willing to lean in" is beyond me, because the facts of the matter are, you like winning too. More than you like helping your fellow man. Otherwise you would have voted for the Democratic nominee, and preserved some small piece of the American Experiment. BTW, an abortion ban doesn't reduce abortion. It only reduces safe abortion, which is a different way of saying it only kills more women. Progressives have spent the better part of 20 years putting forth common-sense legislation and educational programs designed to reduce abortion. NOBODY wants to kill babies, we're just ALSO interested in not killing women, and realize that the solution requires nuance. If you want to work on not killing babies or women, we're happy to have your vote in the mid-term elections. If you don't care about women, then please, continue to sit out. Sigh. I tried. But I guess this was directed at gsoda directly, at least a little bit.
  14. I said this repeatedly during and after the convention. The working class that flocked to MAGA hates neoconservativism and RINOs. And our solution to court them back was “Hey, what if we told you the neoconservatives are with us now?” Bernie or Warren would have been a better candidate. But then they would have turned off all the center-right converts who are now core to the Democratic base. And we can’t have that! Turns out relying on old guard Republican refugees hitched to losing ideologies isn’t a winning strategy. If you’re truly the left wing alternative to fascism, how about offering real solutions for the working class and maybe taking a stand against fascist genocide? But to be honest, the goose is cooked at this point. Trump voters aren’t reluctant and they aren’t rational. It’s a cult full of angry dipshits voting to burn the world down. No amount of best interest policies are going to dissuade the moron mob.
  15. Democratic Party today reminds me of the Republican Party after Obama won the first time: completely lost and directionless will no really compelling, winnable POTUS candidates or message. Well, things change, Dotard came along for the Republicans, changed the game, and here we are today. Things will change again and the Dems need to find a winning candidate/message to either create the change or take advantage of it. Would be good to start to see something resembling a winning message at the midterms as well. So for now though, I suppose we wait and see. I’m probably going to sign off of this thread and CR in general for a while. Think it’s better for me to just go focus on the many positive aspects of my life for a bit. I need a break from wallowing in the concern, frustration, annoyance, outrage, whatever you want to call it. Peace, and keep up the good work.
  16. It is funny that everyone overreacted to polls in the summer about Joe, managed to not fuck up and get in a fight over the Kamala in Chicago for the convention, but then we somehow all knew better than the late polls and she was going to win.
  17. Don’t give a single shit what anyone from Baylor thinks or says, fuck them. I said it before, we understood that the XII was only going to get its champ into the CFP most years. When ND is up there it takes a spot and pretty much guarantees only one. It cracks me up that the ACC is still in turmoil and that some programs shit all over SMU in their pleadings and SMU might win the conference in its first year. I’m cheering like hell for it to happen for the lulz.
  18. Humbly suggest that we add “2024 Democratic Party Post-Mortem” to the title of this thread, because it’s a discussion worth having and the problems extend far beyond Mr. Harrison. Why this year feels different than any other election for the last 20 years is that Democrats lost the popular vote. Every other year, the party could go back and say “America as a whole agrees with us, it’s the system that’s broken.” America gave that a huge middle finger on Tuesday. Now, first and foremost, I think the Democrats biggest problem was being in power during a period of inflation. Point blank. Looking at how elections have gone globally over the last few years, I think many of us (purposefully?) ignored what was happening to incumbents in this climate. That doesn’t mean there aren’t areas to improve, but I honestly don’t think a different candidate, focus on certain issues, etc. would have moved the needle enough to overcome inflation. That being said, there are a few giant alarm bells ringing that need to be addressed. 1) Illegal immigration is an issue that the American people really, really care about. It’s okay to oppose Republican policies (because many of them are very bad!) but it cannot stop at “because that’s racist.” Explain how financially, a wall is an ineffective waste of taxpayer funds that doesn’t stop the majority of illegal immigrants. Make the argument that Republicans are ineffective at curbing the problem, not that the problem doesn’t exist. (Kamala, I believe, had the correct tone here generally… but the damage was already done.) 2) Progressive ideas when it comes to jobs are widely popular. Progressive ideas when it comes to social issues are less so. Understand this, and don’t let the next primary turn into an oppo factory for the Republicans. 3) I have no fucking idea how to handle the trans issue, but it’s clear that it REALLY triggers folks despite the fact that 99.9% of the population will never have to deal with it. I guess just be careful about wording and don’t provide easily usable soundbites in commercials? 4) Go after the white male vote again. Get onto podcasts, be like Pete and go on Fox News, seek out college aged voices that look like they can bench more than 100 lbs. A lot of them suck but most of them are just normal people who want to feel heard. You probably won’t win the demographic, but at least make an effort and stop letting your enemy define you. For better or worse, white males are the “symbol” of the average American and abandoning that voting block feeds into the “Democrats don’t care about the average American” stereotype. It was not “cool” at all to be Republican in 2015 and they’ve managed to change that in less than a decade. Democrats need to reverse this. 5) Do NOT abandon abortion. This will continue to be a real-life issue and only get worse. It is not the reason for the loss this year. 6) This one hurts to write, but do not nominate a woman again until the Republicans do. I am a firm believer (although I talked myself out of it) that the first woman president will have to be a Republican. The “weak” attacks are too much to overcome for many, despite the fact that they are obvious bullshit. My initial thoughts after a couple sleeps. Happy to hear what others think as well.
  19. Fair enough, I would have figured that part is self explanatory though, if for no other reason I wouldn't ever consider paying taxes as a transaction. Not to mention I get very immediate benefits from it like roads to drive on and schools for my son to attend. But what we mean is helping out others as an act of kindness, as opposed to what's in it for us. Personally, 2016 shattered every idea I had about what this country was. I never considered America perfect, but the depths of our depravity and malice were never that exposed, and it seemed we were always working towards being better. But that went out the window in '16. Even so, I still clung to a small flicker of hope maybe it was an aberration, and Biden's win in 2020 restored probably 75% of my faith in the US. This, well, the flame is 100% out now. As I told my wife, I actually don't feel any anger or shock at all, I'm pretty serene. The truth is laid bare for all to see now, and I have completely accepted it. So if I know someone is a Trump voter, my interactions with them are going to be 100% transactional. If my Trump neighbor needs sugar, I'm not lending them any unless I get something from it. Which sounds heartless, and it is, because I'm not giving that part of myself anymore to people who don't deserve it. I feel zero guilt about this. These people have chosen to break our country. The onus is on them to put it back together again.
  20. What an anti climactic way for laurel to go out. I'll miss watching her. She could snu snu me any day of the week. Was hoping we could see her go physical against any of the other strong women remaining. But given the state of eliminations it's likely they'd put her against Tori in a bb gun competition. Bananas Theo elimination was whack af too. Again. Was there any doubt who would win that? Derrick would have actually likely crushed that.
  21. I love people like this that are beating their chest to the people next to them while all walk up the ramp to the gallows. Newsflash dumbass! We are all going to suffer his presidency EQUALLY. You didn't win shit. You lost just as much as we did the difference being you are too stupid to know it.
  22. They banned pornhub in oklahoma, that you guys did not know about the no fap movement that is actually led by by alt right secular men leads me to believe we are all out of touch. You think 4B is going to save us? that if women refuse to date/sex/marry/carry children will save us? lol they already have a counter today and it is not even a movement in the US The only solution is socialization, early third spaces, parties, hiking, inclusive areas, we need to mingle kids early not wage a gender war, because sadly they are winning.
  23. An observation: our culture dehumanizes everyone in special ways. We’ve made a lot of progress with marginalized groups. We’ve basically said to men, “it’s your fault,” or “pull yourself by your bootstraps,” or “it’s not happening.” See the general tone of much of this thread for examples. Just speaking from my life, I’m mostly treated as having value or dignity for what I can do for someone or my willingness to suffer for someone else’s gain, often at a great physical and mental cost. I live a pretty happy, privileged life, but most of the respect and dignity that I’m shown is based on taking from me, including in my own home. This is our culture. My basic humanity, dignity, and things that I truly value aren’t worth considering unless I can provide. I think this is a pretty common experience for men and it isn’t about the amount of sex. It’s a day-to-day constant drain on our self-worth. Sure, life sucks and life is cheap to our culture and historically, but we have made progress in recognizing the inherent value and dignity of marginalized groups — a great achievement and always last due — but putting on an imaginary MAGA hat, men are told that they are privileged when life just beats us down too and we’re told that our lived experience isn’t real or is simply entitlement. My imaginary MAGA self sure doesn’t feel entitled. He feels marginalized because he is marginalized. Failure to recognize that is at least part of the problem. He may not win the grievance Olympics, but we’re still beating him down and simultaneously tell him it isn’t happening or he just needs to go to the bar or gym or some other bit of nonsense. So discussions of the unique ways that men are dehumanized get pushed to the sleazy corners of the internet where valid complaints are finally heard and ultimately turned into misplaced anger. If “good” men and women won’t hear them, they will go somewhere else. I don’t identify with the anger, but it seems logical once you consider their lived experience. That the prototype “alpha” MAGA male is so weak, pathetic, and sad is just a reflection of the corner these young men found themselves. He’s the absolute personification of our rotten culture.
  24. Even 120 days is too long her campaign peaked on late September, if the election was back then we win by a razor margin. We can't rely on absolute perfection however, that is why we need every advantage we can get, no more own goals, and that starts with dismantling the big tent. We had jews and muslims waging a holy war in the middle of our own fucking election and we were courting both MOTHERFUCKER! White males only going forward, and we need to do something about Gen Z men assuming fair elections of course which I highly highly doubt moving forward.
  25. I’m sure we’re all frustrated to have such a great defense but still struggle to put teams away because our “juggernaut” offense with a seasoned QB still has not taken form. I do wonder if the title Sark was a part of with Bama made him a little stubborn since they were able to win with a statue playing QB. Of the top 11 offenses in CFB, all but two of them have effective runners at QB. Whether they are more decisive and elusive when things break down or if the QB run game is a staple of their offense, it’s pretty clear that mobile QBs keep the chains moving. Seems like incorporating a sprinkle of QB run into the scheme or at least encouraging the QB to go grab 5 or 10 yards when it’s there could help significantly. I do hope when Arch is the starter that Sark uses his legs to keep defenses honest. These A-gap blitzes we keep seeing would decrease if teams knew the QB was prone to pull the read and run off-tackle.
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