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Where we are at due to Trump: The unfortunate truth is that Republicans, under Trump’s influence, no longer accept that Democrats can legitimately win elections. This isn’t a run of the mill ideological difference between the parties. It’s the ruin of American democracy. When Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell rejected challenges to Biden’s victory on January 6, he said, “This election actually was not unusually close. Just in recent history, 1976, 2000, and 2004 were all closer than this one. The Electoral College margin is almost identical to what it was in 2016. If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral.” We’re now living in that death spiral. https://www.publicnotice.co/p/election-denial-marco-rubio-lara-trump-burgum

Said voters are likely going to again elect a guy who didn't concede his loss in the 2020 election and led a rally that resulted in a riot at the Capitol the day the election was certified. So general election voters would not hold the flip-flopping by Haley against her if she is somehow the nominee in 2028. The challenge for her is getting to be the GOP nominee, which is going to be a chore in today's GOP. Her best chance would be by being Trump's VP, but my money right now is on Tim Scott getting picked.

Follow up to SS's post about election deniers. KDW nails it, especially with the money line: "The American public, as daft and ignorant as they are..." https://thedispatch.com/article/the-first-debate-question/

Because they know that a whole bunch of peeps in this country are idiots. Read this and get even more depressed: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/22/poll-economy-recession-biden

I think that kind of move would be a sure-fire loser for Trump this election. His social media posting indicating his hope that the VP debate be held at a HBCU makes me think he's leaning toward Tim Scott, but who knows with Trump. 2028 is a different story. At 82 I don't think Trump will test the boundaries and try to remain in office. However, if Don Jr has interest in running, I can absolutely see him at least winning the GOP nomination, even over Trump's VP. But I also feel Trump is going to exhaust people the way he did during his four years in office and the GOP isn't going to have the luxury against running against an old man next go around. Tshile mentioned personal responsibility and I think the most maddening thing about Trump supporters is their inability to lay fault at Trump's feet for losing in 2020. It was either the media, the uniparty, or the election being stolen......but nothing about Trump's own behavior that was the cause of him losing. But on the other side of the coin, there are many people (including several in this thread) who don't think that Trump can possibly win in 2024 solely because Biden beat him in 2020. Things have changed, as (aside from Biden's age and the dislike of Harris) the covid stimmy-induced inflation (Biden's additional stimmy didn't help) has been the main thing which have soured folks on the current administration. But a 2024 Trump victory will have even more GOPers and independents taking the wrong lesson and instead will think "it must've been stolen in 2020." Which only further undermines confidence in our elections.

It's gonna take a while to get the stupid out of the non-football related parts of this operation.

Is the Commanders website a good enough source to confirm that there are three preseason games? https://www.commanders.com/schedule/

Wouldve been 100k already if Trump was still president

While there are a few teams like Philly, Dallas, and Pitt whose fans probably make it close to 50-50, people see the rest of the games where the visitors side of the lower bowl has a lot of opposing fans and think the whole stadium is taken over. I don't think that is the case and you generally have more Commanders fans than the opposition by a large margin. The narrative of the team losing HFA exploded after the 2008 Steelers MNF game and then they started removing seats in 2010. Since then we've played as many primitive games at home as we did away. In 2018 we played two away primetime games and none at home. We were coming off an 8-7-1 seaon. Granted, we did lose Cousins (but replaced him with Alex) that off-season. I think you're reading too much into us not having any home primetime games. I'm sure Commanders Field will host several more primetime games in its life. The problem is that that life is too long. No idea when a new place gonna be built at this point.

Trump talking about a 3rd debate in early Oct on Fox News

Good. Granted, I don't think the audiences tend to be as big of a deal during the one on one POTUS debates, but having them at the primary debates is so annoying.

I read the report about the statement from Carter's grandson last night. I don't think the WH will say anything until Carter actually passes.

People complain about the quality of the Thursday games, and now the league is going to have a Wednesday Christmas doubleheader involving teams that figure to be thick in the playoff race. SMH. Granted, we can make exceptions to kick off the season on Thursday and Thanksgiving, but really would like the league to just go back to Sundays and Mondays.

This is what was announced in Feb: https://www.commanders.com/news/washington-commanders-announce-significant-upgrades-to-stadium-bringing-targeted-investments-to-more-than-75-million-under-new-ownership At some point there was also mention of a big scoreboard on top of the stadium to replace the existing ones, but not sure what the timeline is on those

For sure I'll check Wednesday night when it comes out, but for the first time in a LONG time I'm not on pins and needles waiting on the schedule. That's what 30 years of this team beating you down will do. As usual, what is expected on ES are the usual takes of "we have the hardest schedule in league history" and "we got screwed bad because of x or y"

Was at Live Aid at JFK Stadium in Philly in 1985 and can say that Trump must've had 500K in Wildwood yesterday

Was talking to a neighbor of my stepdaughter and he asked me "what do you think about Biden threatening to withhold aid to Israel?" I answered, "Reagan withheld aid to Israel a few times in response to actions they had taken." He was like "oh." My larger point was that people could have their opinions about the topic......as long as they're consistent, and not simply based on what side you are supporting.

https://www.macon.com/opinion/article288425227.html

Vivek and Ann both make Trump look like an adult by comparison.

Just read this piece by Tom Nichols in the Atlantic, which highly pertains to the discussion in here today: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/05/a-failure-of-imagination-about-trump/678278/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

This morning on Twitter Noem apparently said that she kiiled the dog to save her kids. She is digging a deeper hole. MAGA fanboy John Nolte of Breitbart says this is the biggest implosion of a political career since Gary Hart.

"People" in general are extraordinarily fickle and are easily manipulated by whatever media they are consuming.

Show me a poll where Trump and Biden are tied with the black vote. Trump's share of the black vote has increased since 2016, but maxes out at 20 percent tops. Covid is going to result in back-to-back-to-back one term presidents. Trump, then Biden, back to Trump. Trump fanboy John Nolte of Breitbart even admits Trump's behavior during covid was terrible and cost him the 2020 election. The inflationary effects of the covid stimmy, while much passed under Trump, mainly occurred under Biden. Trump would've won reelection if it hadn't been for covid, and probably would've anyway if he didn't behave like a jackass during it. Biden's overall performance, despite the inflation, in most elections would probably be favored. But the guy is 81. And nobody is comfortable with Kamala Harris. Who really is to blame are the GOP voters who still insist the 2020 election was stolen and refused to back Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis. And yes, unfortunately, there are plenty of independent voters who now really don't seem to care about what happened in the aftermath of Nov 2020, including on 1/6/21. Additionally, the George Floyd related unrest that occurred in 2020 likely did not help Trump. Similarly, the Gaza-related protests on US campuses are doing Biden no favors.

Winning Cups is tough. It will be interesting to see how many McDavid or Matthews wind up with when all is said and done. But the Caps at least should've made more SCF or even ECF appearances during the Ovechkin era.

Yes, comparing gas prices to them during covid is disingenuous, but from 2017-19 it seems like they were around 250-275 per gallon (as they were for much of Obamas second term). Yes, Biden has had to deal with the Ukraine situation which sent prices to 5 dollars a gallon, but prices in the 3s is higher than under Trump.