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VIKINGS NEWS – Nothing….but rookies report to training camp 3 weeks from Sunday!
NFL News – FTP
Question of the day-Did you watch the TV show disguised as a political debate? I watched The Bear on Hulu instead, since I hate all things politics.
Media Selection – NSFW-George Carlin, explaining politics in the US
Sniffer juiced again in N. Carolina. Trying to repair last night. Funny as fuck.
Teleprompter seems to help.
I’ve seen 45,000 Omega XL commercials in last week. Anyone with me?
Zero.
But I’ve seen hundreds of “Shady Sheehy” ads followed by hundreds of “Tester votes with Biden 95% of the time” ads.
You from Montana? How does that state have a Democrat US Senator?
Watching the show playmakers right now. It aired on ESPN in the early 2000’s and was highly rated, but was canceled after one season because it was too real, showed that players took steroids, did drugs, struggled with pain killers/injuries, domestic abuse, and even had a player who was kicked off the team for being gay. If the show premiered today it would be celebrated, my how the times have changed.
really good show though
Did you have robatic surgery?
Yes, not sure what that means though
Robotic? False arms.
Well for me. Had open surgery twice and just a little bit of blue balls – like didn’t last more than a day or so.
With the laprascopic robotic, I had the very worse case of them. Like one was almost lemon size. Surgeon told me later when it’s not open, the blood stays in you and drains down – guess where,
That’s why I asked.
That does make sense.
My wife had robotic HSO and one of the insertion port incisions caused her discomfort for months, it was palpably thickened and painful to the touch. She lamented that she should have had TAHBSO, probably not true but in any case when your wife knows, she knows.
Interesting, maybe that’s why I didn’t have any swelling or nut pain until about four days after surgery.
Keep icing and the body will gradually absorb it and swelling will go down.
A bit of a joke – I always wore boxers and had to wear jockeys for about a month after the surgery.
That’s funny, they told me to wear “supportive” underwear and I didn’t really know what that meant at first
Boxer briefs.
We all know you were hitting it like a porn star.
Well, my discharge instructions did say I could fornicate so I’m not gonna feel bad for that
Ben on POD#4…
http://www.diehardsport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Tech-Cowbell-funny-motion-TCU.gif
That means it is super cool. Didn’t have routine robotic surgery back “centuries ago” (actually 20 years ago) when I graduated med school.
Off topic but I just had a chuckle. The neighboring towns don’t have a rad and one of the hospitals called and wanted me to do a lung biopsy on a pt with a lung nodule seen on breast MR. Long story short seeing something on MR does not equate to knowing just how it relates to the adjacent heart, ribs, pericardium, sternum, intercostal vessels, etc…the breast radiologist that read the MR recommended PET/CT to evaluate the nodule to see if it was possibly cancerous which sounded like a great plan to me…I told the technologist to relay back that I would need to see the PET/CT before I could proceed as I needed the anatomic information anyhow. Nurse told the tech I must be incompetent as the nodule is right there “you can see it” and they would have their visiting rad do the biopsy on July 8. All righty then, boy do I shed some tears over the nurse thinking lung biopsy is a walk in the park.
She sure told you!!
Thru the tech but still.
Yup, I get angry when the techs have to absorb that unneeded hostility but by the same token I don’t need to waste quality DN time arguing with a nurse. It’s either provider to provider or no talkee with the doc’ee.
Why in goodness name they wanted me to do the biopsy, having her drive down here and potentially have to stay overnight if I have any complications, when they could get it done there on the 8th is beyond me.
Great show – NFL pressured ESPN to cancel, allegedly threatened to pull the pending TV deal ESPN had to begin airing MNF.
Would also recommend the show Tilt with Michael Madsen. Aired on ESPN around the time of the WSOP boom.
Just got back.
Took in recyclables, plastic, aluminum, scrap medal. Got just over $60 for an almost full pickup trucks worth.
Then got the oil changed in the truck, make sure it is all ready for the trip to Idaho 9 days. That cost $40. or so but they do a good job checking and filling all the fluid levels.
While I was gone The Teacher was negotiating with the auto insurance. Got them down to just over $900. for the year for the CRV and the Tacoma. It was about $165 a month in Commifornia, So we are paying less than half for the same coverage. Win!!
Excited and happy for you SoCal. Long time coming, and life will be better.
Congratulations!
Win Win!!
$40 for an oil change! Man that is cheap. Maybe you should consider staying in CA?
Are you in the SB region?
I saw a Rivian today pulling a camper trailer coming out of Makoshika. I wonder how well that works.
SB region? San Bernadino? Santa Barbara? Lots of SBs out here, not local though.
It is a small shop ‘Valvoline’ branded. Some couple of guys have worked there for a couple of decades. They gave me discounts when I worked at the prison so I keep going back to them.
Saw a Youtube video about the Tesla Cypertruck and the said it was good for shorter distances. They had to unhitch the trailer to plug in, so it took several hours to recharge it. Not ideal.
I was thinking Santa Barbara. A classmate of mine in Medical Laboratory Science that came down to the US to work same time I did lives there now. For some reason I thought you might be there as well, oceanfront property and all.
Santa Barbara is/was my hometown.
Mom owns a nice house there, the lease pays for her ‘assisted living apt’.
Too pricy to live there, medium home price is $2M. She is 91 I will get a 1/4 of that when she passes. I told her ‘no hurry’.
Too liberal for my blood as well. Although I could probably learn to ignore it all if I had that kind of Coin. Plus I would be living close to the Duchess of Montecito.
Yeah, I wonder how my alum is doing there. She and I got married about the same time (to US citizens), she was in Oregon, and unlike me her marriage did not go well – she ended up divorced within six months which meant she had to go through a real rigmarole with INS (unlike the illegal migrants). That was the last time I’ve spoken to her, but I can keep up with her chatting on FB. She got her permanent resident status, I don’t think she has ever become a citizen.
We were actually somewhat close in college, never had any inkling (does anyone?) but after the divorce she had a couple of unpleasant relationships and then there were some hints getting stronger and stronger she went to the other side, moved in with a “friend” in Santa Barbara. All of which is to say I think she is happy, which is great, but I don’t know how a lab tech pays the bills there based on what another friend living there (a neurologist) tells me about the cost of living.
I know that the hospital near where I grew up and was born was converted to housing for medical types that work at the Cottage Hospital.
Visiting Nurses were a big thing last I heard, bring them in on a part time basis and provide housing for them there.
If she is playing for ‘the other side’ she will fit right in there. Very liberal but since there is so much money in town they don’t have the homeless issues other places do. They still have homeless, one told me he gets the best Name Brand donated items from there.
Sounds like a great place to check out garage sales.
Rock Creek Blvd in Spokane had amazing yard sales.
Rock Creek, I have fly fishing on my mind. Rockwood.
Donated a briefcase that I have had for 40+ years and have not used in at more 20 of those.
Donation guy was like ‘is that a Samsonite? Maybe they will let me buy it’ The Teacher told him ‘we will just give it to you’ and he replied ‘no that will get me in trouble, I will have to buy it’.
Didn’t have the key to it anymore, wiped the dust off the outside but still needed cleaning up, sat in the garage. But hey if someone can use it then it is better than taking it to the dump.
Get Twinks out there? Streaming?
You have full coverage or just liability? What insurance company?
The new coverage or the old company.
21st Century started Toggle for Calif policies. They are still trying to work details out, like put a phone number on the Insurance card to call them, complicated stuff like that.
The new one is SafeCo, will be bundled with our home owners insurance once we registrar the cars in Idaho.
Oh and full coverage.
I might have to look into safeco, see if it’s cheaper than what I have. How much was the fee to flee commifornia?
We get an extra 10% off for signing up for their AP on our phone.
The discount gets bigger if we ‘behave’ and drive safely.
Per the broker he is an aggressive driver who routinely speeds and he still get 20% off.
We will see how that goes and cancel if we become uncomfortable with it.
The Teacher spent 2 days on the phone with the guy getting everything worked out. She told him we will recommend him when possible so if you want his info can send it once The Teacher gets back.
So Cousins had a passer rating of 99.7 with 4,298 yards, 30 touchdowns and 10 interceptions in 16 games in 2018. This was his first year with the Vikings, with a rookie OC who got fired before the season ended. Sam Darnold comes in with an offense in its third year and all the skill position players a QB could want. He should easily match Cousins first year production.
stir, stir, stir…
Dude,
It is not even Tuesday.
Laughing.. and I reeled in a fish… grin. Takes the bait every time. Of course I didn’t read the response, because… well, consider the source and his over the top KDS.
No Kirk defense syndrome here. You really should read the response. You might find it enlightening. But you willingly bury your head in the sand at all corners when it comes to logic and then cry verbal abuse. Childish at best. No worries. Happy Friday!!
“Should” is an interesting word to choose. No one here says he should do that. “Could” is a better word and is realistic. And again you are comparing Apples to Oranges. Both are fruits, but are coming from very different places and should have different expectations.
Sam Darnold
Cousins
One of these things is not like the other and should not be held to the same standard OR EXPECTATIONS. Darnold could very well suck, but the expectations for him shouldn’t be a top 15 QB week in and week out. I would say 15-20 (averagish) is realistic for him. Anything more is a cherry on top and really speaks to KOC and his scheme.
Lol, yeah, do you remember the “amazing offensive cast” of juggernauts of the Redskins teams that he played on? I’m not sure Pierre Garcon and DeSean Jackson were top-notch players at the time, and their RB’s weren’t exactly great when he was there. He did have good TE play in Vernon Davis and Jordan Reed (when he wasn’t hurt). But come on, that’s a little over the top.
Sure, his team might have been better than Darnold’s teams, but ownership and coaching was TRASH from a head coach perspective.
there’s a lot of sides to this. half stories all over. And I think Darnold will do fine here and put up big numbers.
Couple of thoughts. One year skins had Garcon’Jackson and Cousins threw for nearly 5000 yards. Great brain trust there thought they were old so let the receivers go – then not so good.
Biggest issue I see, and why I think Darnold wil have good numbers- skins tried to run the ball quite a bit. We can’t don’t run the ball well so we have little choice but to pass the ball, if we plan to have an offense.
It’s simple math – if you pass a lot you’ll have big passing numbers.
Never ending excuses and what aboutisms. If thats your nit pick to my comment, it detracts nothing from my factual statement.
Darnold sucks.
Not sure about interceptions, Darnold cold easily pass for 30 TD’s and 4300 yards. Think Mullens would have done that last year if you extrapolated his numbers.
Cold? What if he gets hot?
My typical typing issue.
I’m famillar with that.
You DO know I was just playing around, right? Just seeing if any fish would bite late on a Friday afternoon.
I know. but something struck me about this
Reading about some of the skins comments. Internet and stats are nice, but hardly compare to actually watching the real games.
I didn’t read KFEY’s response, so no idea what he said about the Skins. Five used to often misstate things about the Redskins like “they had an all-pro line when Cousins was there”. Cousins was the starter for 3 years in Washington, and one year (2016) he had a decent O-line, and threw for almost 5,000 yards. In 2017 the Skins went through 26 different O-line combinations by week 13. They were signing guys on Wednesday that played on Sunday. I remember one game where Cousins introduced himself to his new left Guard in warm-ups for the game.
I read Fkeys and Jros and both made good points – nothing wrong.
But, for example, there’s a big difference between reading about an accident compared to seeing it first hand.
All points are good but incomplete. And I don’t mean this disrespectfully but there’s a difference between ‘truth’ and the ‘whole truth’. Can lead to very different outcomes.
I never take anything you say disrespectfully JR.
I read sniffer spent a week in camp david with over a dozen aids helping him to prepare. Even a fake podium. Does a so called World leader need that?
Well, all that prep certainly helped.
Also, I have stated for about 8 months that JB will not be the nominee due to illness or worse (they might just have to get rid of him), but clearly, even the dems want him gone, as if that CNN performed a reasonably fair moderation wasn’t evidence enough. JB did get the questions beforehand, that was clear IMO.
I choose to believe he didn’t get the questions beforehand. None of the questions posed were odd – I mean it’s the typical economy military crime abortion taxes, mix.
I think with the performance we got, with JB’s normal issues with coherency, it seemed a little too polished to me to be off-the-cuff. He looked like he was staring at a teleprompter (or just concentrating really hard to remember) at several points, especially early in the debate. But you can live with that belief. 🙂
I have to say the moderators were surprisingly fair. I viewed only slight favoritism (with the questions they posed and timing of cut-offs, etc.)
I think Trump messed up in that he needed to point out a few things like stats about illegals coming in (exactly how many millions, and implications), that he would straight up stop giving money to Ukraine, and call out Biden on his lies and politicizing the justice system more (dems get off free, like Bowman, and many people got thrown in jail for 3 years without trial/charges for walking in the capitol when they were ushered in by police and just taking pictures).
He did hit that the illegals will destroy social security and Medicare, etc.
I would also have pointed out the several statistical impossibilities of the 2020 election that happened after 3 AM in SEVERAL states, even though the courts would not allow cases on cheating due to merits, but blocked them due to procedural BS.
He also needs to cool it on the superlatives (best, most, ever, of all time…). That gets old.
Don’t you think the debate was about demeanor? Trump needed to keep his and look statesman like. Biden needed to show he still had a mind and could think some on his feet. Biden failed badly.
The debating points will be forgotten, but not the behaviors that viewers say.
Not big on politicians but a voting base thinks sniffer and cackles deserve 4 more years have to be completely brain dead.
It was actually worse than I imagined it wold be. I wouldn’t hire him to be a dog catcher and he sure couldn’t lead 3 privates to clean latrines.
Saw one i liked he couldn’t run a HOA.
Just wait for the results coming out of Minnesota on November 5th. Be prepared to not be shocked.
Democrats Ask Kristi Noem To Take Biden Out Behind White House Shed
https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-ask-kristi-noem-to-take-biden-out-behind-white-house-shed
LOL!
WOW! A trillion comments on a Friday.
Trillion, billion, million…what’s the difference?
Should implement a tax on those commenting more than 400 times a year.
FJB looked like shit. Whoopi, Rapinoe, De Niro threatening to leave country. May we can still save this place.
Lol…..
If you are willing to abandon the country over ‘your guy’ NOT being elected president then I say ‘Good riddance you fickle minded, gutless deserter – you won’t be missed’
🇺🇸
Dems seem to have forgotten the golden rule of salesmanship – If you’re tryin g to sell a ‘shit sandwich’ don’t let the customer see or smell it.
Rapinoe hates the United States. I saw we ship her over to Palestine and see how she does.
But FJB gave her a Medal of Freedom award. She(?) is a dirt bag. Toss in Griner too.
These are the days I miss 5
5 and Lifer is what got me through this part of the off season.
and Kodiak. too
I liked 5 also.
Rickie Fowler played well enough to make the cut comfortably today. Shot 6 under yesterday, but only shot even par today. Bogied his last two holes badly. Cutline is projected to be 2 under, so he’ll make it to the weekend, but he lost a lot of ground today.
Not many name players, right?
Right. He and Matt Kuchar are about it.
Kuchar is about as old as I am.
Think the John Deere will be tune up for the “Open”.
Fowler sucks.
Unfortunately, he does. He won this tournament last year after struggling for years, and everyone thought he was back. Since he won though, he’s slid, and slid back. I always hope to see him play well, but he always disappoints. Sadly.
One thing I thought was weird was JJ and Thielen working out.
Also saw V-Scantling saying he was working out with Rodgers this past weekend in CA.
Seems odd or even not allowed that players from other teams can workout together at this point of the offseason.
Yeah that does seem pretty weird.
Why the heck would they be working out in Calif if they had other options?
Maybe they’ll bring Thielen back? All for it.
JJ as in Jets? or JJ as in McCarthy?
QBJJ was throwing to AT.
idk, it doesn’t bother me. pros are always talking to eachother, hey we should workout etc..
I can understand it – JJ wants to throw to someone highly familiar with the Vikings’ playbook. AT wants media coverage to prove he ain’t ded yet.
‘AT wants media coverage to prove he ain’t dead yet.’
Personally I think the 100+ receptions and 1,000+ yards last year did a decent job of that already.
Doesn’t really bother me.
I’m more surprised the NFLPA or the NFL would allow players from different teams to practice together.
Can JJ throw with Thielen in September if they wanted?
https://thevikingage.com/posts/adam-thielen-teases-minnesota-vikings-fans-video-jj-mccarthy-panthers
Will he be cut this year?
Bit of a shame but believe he will be. Sad as he has a lot of physical talents.
A decent CPU is as important as physical talents.
Of course having both is ideal.
FTP!
FT*!
Sean Payton always takes a penny, never leaves one….
Happy Friday!
SKOL!!!
Where’s Goose?
Being lazy…..
Love this !
I don’t believe Trump’s golf claims either.
Not sure what Trump claimed. But he used to have a weekly challenge show on the Golf channel. He actually hits the ball OK and is a pretty good hustler. Plays well when money is bet.
I don’t know what Trump’s golf claims are. I know he’s a decent golfer though.
He said he won club championships.
His PGA listed handicap is 2.
I don’t buy it.
I’m sure he is a decent golfer. But he likes to exaggerate.
He actually has won his club championship in his age division, but no idea what his PGA Handicap is.
Ok. the 75-80 year old division?
I guess I could see that.
He did say, “not the senior” championship.
Read it all here:
https://www.golfmagic.com/news/donald-trump-wins-club-championship-trump-golf-palm-beach
He can play – not world class but he is a player and can beat 99% of the golfing world.
Ok. Maybe he is better than I give him credit for.
Maybe there is a 80-90 year old division that is considered ‘The Senior Division’.
Of course it is golf so I don’t really care.
How’s da balls, Ben?
Not bad icing them with a bag of frozen veggies right now!
This guy thinks we have the 10th best O-line in the league. Hmmmmm…
If the center can suck less, I can see top 10 this season.
Note numbers 1 and 7 – both division foes.
Yes, the Lions and the Pack have good O-lines, but not sure how this pundit comes up with his list. Keep in mind, “rankings” are just some guys personal opinion. Not any more accurate or “expert” than yours or mine.
I’m a bit old school looking at this – how well you run the ball. Seems both Lions and Packers can run the ball well. It remains to be seen how well we can do this.
Good point JR. One of my key criticisms of KOC is his inability (thus far) to craft a running game. His first year we were 28th in the league running the ball. Last year KOC said he focused on the running game all off season, and we ended up 29th.
Nowhere to go but up, but that is a glaring concern to me.
‘Nowhere to go but up’
Well we ‘improved’ from #28 to #29 so we still have a little way to go in that regard,
Not a lot, just a couple of spots.
Obviously his criteria is how nice their butts look in their uniforms…….
Maybe now we will have a top 10 QB too!
Don’t hold your breath GA… we don’t have a top 20 QB on the team at the moment.
One day, haven’t had one since the 1st year of Favre
Factually and statistically incorrect, but I know you are not going to really appreciate that.
Yeah, if you don’t count the interior!
If you’re ranking just the tackles they’re top ten, include the interior and they’re probably around 20’s
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
FJB!!
The fact checkers will be out today.
Here is one I want checked out.
Biden:
I’m 62 and an 18 handicap, and it would kill me to carry my own clubs.
So this guy broke 80 on a regular basis AND carried his clubs?
Come on man. Fact check this BS.
That video is pitiful. Think that guy. is capable of even hitting a golf ball?
He certainly cannot walk 18 holes… probably not even one.
Exactly.
Dude needs help with 3 stairs.
Good grief man.
He might get lucky and hit the ball by accident.
“I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my class who had a full academic scholarship,” – Fact checked – false.
Biden “went to law school and, in fact, ended up in the top half of my class.” – Fact checked – graduated 76th out of 85 students.
Biden also claimed he “graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school.” – He actually graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. I don’t even need to take my mittens off to count to 2.
Don’t forget his appointment to the Naval Academy he claimed when addressing actual Naval Academy graduates.
You’re going to wear yourself out posting all Joe’s “claims” – semi truck driver, really.
He’s the biggest fraud I’ve ever seen.
Having worked in prison about 17 years I have seen bigger frauds, and then there were the inmates.
True story, we had a ‘Warden’ that transferred over from the DMV. She was as qualified as you expect a DEI hire to be.
Don’t forgot the Uncle eaten by cannibals, his Corn Pop friend, and growing up in a black church or walking in the civil rights movement. All while bragging about Delaware being a slave state in one of his previous presidential campaigns.
Oh yeah.
Trump will be fact checked.
Biden will just be taken back to Delaware for the weekend.
I am 60, and a 30+ handicap. I usually walk and sometimes carry my bag for 9 holes. Always use the push cart for 18.
Biden cannot even walk 1 hole by himself.
accurate
No one should be surprised at what happened last night. Everyone who has seen him walk/talk even in the media videos knows he’s not fit for another 4 years. This is part of their plan.
‘this is part of their plan.’
So what is the next ‘part of their plan’?
Continue to pretend he is capable aka ‘try to fool most of people’ just this one time?
Replace him on the ticket, which he would have to agree to or the DNC declare him ‘disabled’.
Then replace him with who? Cackles? Yes please, she has lower ratings than FJB. Slimy Galvin? Like to see him try to defend his record as Gov of Calif. Crooked Hillary? No one but die hard liberals want that skank.
I think they have a candidate in mind but haven’t made it public yet. I wouldn’t rule out Michelle Obama. I think they waited so there wouldn’t be as much time for the candidate to be torn apart and people would have to vote for them based on general aspects (woman, Democrat, not Trump, etc.).
I’m not a political guy, so it’s just my theory. I just don’t think last night was a “sudden” realization from the Dems that Biden isn’t fit. They’ve known for a long time, which is why they didn’t want an audience and had a 1-2 min. delay on the live feed instead of the standard 7 seconds. They know and have known for a while.
They only have until Aug 7th to get anyone else on the Ballot in Ohio and other states with an early deadline for that.
That was why they were going to ‘nominate’ FJB remotely before the convention.
I agree with this, but then the whole claim by media outlets that his cognitive decline was all a bunch of “deep fakes” is that the media willingly lied on purpose and expose it as such a week later seems pretty stupid of them.
Of course it was, but now that The Narrative has been exposed for what it is the big question is ‘what next’.
The Democruds have backed themselves into a hole. No good answers for them, so they have to find a ‘less bad’ one that they can make work.
and very on par. People have been referencing Hunger Games-like media coverage for a reason. They set up the whole “shock” of it all.
I mean, I don’t think the media cares what we think.
I do think they want credibility with themselves.
Are they truly that far gone?
I can see them being mad at Biden and now turning against him because of how humiliated he just made them look. I do see that vendetta coming.
I think you’re giving them more credit than I’m willing to give. They’re not that dumb. They’ve proven to be untrustworthy and grifters, especially the last number of years.
I used to go to CNN for my news source daily. Then they became uber anti-Trump to the point it was super obvious. Then I went to Fox News, and they became uber anti-Biden to the point it was obvious. No fair reporting and totally in it for themselves (always been that way, but far more evident now, imho).
I would not be shocked at all if there are smart, powerful people who are steps ahead of what’s seen in daily media and controlling the media.
There are good candidates on the Democratic side. But as you stated, the DNC delegates have already pledged Biden votes. So he would have to voluntarily refuse nomination. To declare him mentally disabled would create a deep constitutional crisis regarding his decisions up to that point in his term.
Excellent point.
Ramifications would be huge.
“voluntarily refuse ” – sort of like Rommel voluntarily decided to commit suicide.
He was ‘Voluntold’.
Seen it happen in prison, ‘kill yourself or we will pay your family a visit, I hear your wife/daughters are decent looking’.
Well, here is Briben’s spokesman said this morning.
Just like Slick Rick was not trading Percy Harvin.
This is far different than NFL GM/Coach/Player PR in my opinion.
Politicians are egomaniacs who want to hold power.
But I think he physically might not make it to November 5th.
No doubt Joe, actually more likely Jill, wants to keep power.
Can he be convinced to bow out?
If not the DNC has to declare him ‘disabled’ (not wrong) and then they have to nominate someone new by Aug 7th in order to get them on all the ballots (like battleground Ohio).
Short answer. No.
Yeah. I think Dr Jill is charge.
Could his cabinet turn on him and use the 25th amendment before the convention?
The convention is too late to get on all the ballots, Aug 7th is the deadline for some states, conventions starts the 19th.
Well, I said BEFORE the convention.
His replacement would have to be picked, nomination confirmed and his/her name would have to be submitted to states two weeks prior to the convention.
Just declaring him ‘unfit’ prior to convention will not be enough.
Plus MT makes an excellent point about how a lot of his decisions/actions would come into question if they did that.
It will be difficult for sure.
But let me throw this one out.
What if either candidate expires in October? By some rule, I know the congress votes for the President, but I don’t believe that would happen in today’s society.
I still think the super delegates can vote for whoever they want at the convention.
FJB would stay on the ballot at that point then…
‘Under that scenario, the party would have to inform voters that even though they are voting for Joe Biden, the committee has chosen somebody else for the nomination.’
It gets pretty messy sounds like.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/can-biden-replaced-democratic-nominee
Don’t you think if it was to come out that Joe was seriously ill and needed to drop out (made up of course) the folks running things would figure out a way to get someone else on the ballot.
Correct.
While on paper they have these convention rules, I think they will nominate whoever they want when push comes to shove.
Depends on when it happens.
DE Vikings question was about Oct, ballots will already be printed by then.
I saw the story.
I still say the delegates will do whatever is best for the party. I doubt it’s a crime for them to vote for someone else as the nominee.
QotD:
Yes and I was pleasantly surprised at how well CNN did. It was nothing like the last election debates. I thought Trump handled Biden’s felon comment well. I also thought Biden was going to fall a sleep on stage.
I watched for 45 minutes.
I didn’t like Trumps performance or Bidens.
Just answer the freaking questions.
If Biden was jacked up on something, I can only imagine what he is really like behind the scenes.
I actually liked that the moderators allowed them to talk more open after asking a question. Yes it did get a little annoying, but the only answer I remember anyone not answering was Trump about the child care costs.
I agree.
I was expecting them to cut off Trump when they wanted to claim “disinformation”.
I am glad that Trump answered the questions he wanted to rather than the ones CNN wanted him to.
I agree with that take.
We know the moderators aren’t going to ask a question that is favorable to Trump.
I thought the question about child care costs was stupid and I am glad Trump didn’t answer it. But if he had, the correct answer would be, it is up to the states to set their regulations on child care facilities. So if the cost of child care is too high maybe the governors of those states need to address their regulations.
My wife ran a daycare in our house for 5-6 years. At the end the regulations were so strict that there was no way to make a decent living off of it.
Same with the one about ‘What are you going to do to help victims of the Opioid crisis’?
He should have just said ‘I will close the border, shut down the drugs, and they can go Cold Turkey’.
I missed the opioid question, must have been when I took the dog out. But yes, your answer is the correct answer.
It right near the end of the debate, 2nd to last or so.
The Teacher tuned in late and we caught the last 20-30m of it, audio only.
We actually had one at work for employees but had to close it because of all the regulations. Impossible to run in an affordable way.
My brother and I have talked about this a lot. Our theory is, the government should have a daycare facility, for lower income families, that is operated by those families that are on welfare. They could all take turns working in the daycare and work another job on their off days.
There is undoubtedly selection bias, plus my own personal bias at play, but infants referred for imaging for failure to thrive seem disproportionately to be covered by Medicaid (which would make sense as low income and challenges with nutrition for infants would go hand in hand). Unfortunately my observations of the parenting skills in these brief encounters would make me hesitate to want to place my own child under the daily supervision and care of those individuals.
Please note that is not a blanket statement, there are many excellent parents that rely on Medicaid. However, now you would have to have some sort of competency testing and overall supervision.
Yes, you would need supervision, the parents would be there to simply take care of the kids, feeding, changing, and keeping them busy.
This would more than likely, push said parents to try harder to make a better life for themselves so that they would not have to be a part of the daycare.
I echo JV…I was pleasantly surprised at how well CNN moderators did. Gently trying to steer the candidates back to the original question.
-nod to Edge. I’ll be honest, B could have knocked it out of the park and T could have raged nonstop against the brown skinned illegals and I still would vote R in November. However, if this is how B looks in 2024 what would he look like in 2028 at a G7 summit? If you’re voting for a party knowing that your presidential candidate is going to fail mentally during their 4 year term, um, yikes.
-I don’t think the D party will be able to get B to step aside. At this point the delegates are cast, he would have to refuse the party nomination voluntarily. Won’t happen. And as B goes so does VP Harris, so a vote for one is a vote for the other for president. Thank you Minnesota for your 10 electoral votes (gags).
-I personally give two craps about environmental initiatives, child care and SS. Not in my sphere of concern. Free market. I’ve never planned on collecting a dime from SS, will be pleasantly surprised if they do. I guess the D party plan is to tax the wealthy, I’ve heard this line before…no one acknowledges that billionaires have millions to spend on employing individuals to help them avoid taxes, unrealized capital gains, real estate, etc. Changing the tax laws requires Congress. No idea what the R party plan is, other than deporting illegals.
-I do care about the border security and inflation. Heard no plan from B. T will drill baby drill, that will bring down multiple sector costs.
-the contrast between the debate 4 years ago and the debate last night in the diction and command of the debate by Biden was simply breathtaking.
-sex with pornstars and golf handicap. What a disgrace on the international front. How low have we come?
I personally vote for the best golfing Presidential candidate.
I vote for the Presidential candidate who has had sex with the most porn stars.
Shit, I am going to run for President
Weird… ducked in here to see what’s up… and I’m first. FTP, SKOL, and FJB…. guess that covers it.
It is definitely the “slow season” until training camp starts and we can pick apart JJ’s footwork and Sam’s INT ratio.
FJB? What did Jonathan Bullard do to you?
It’s not so much what he did, it’s more what he didn’t do.
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