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Vivek and Ann both make Trump look like an adult by comparison.
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Just read this piece by Tom Nichols in the Atlantic, which highly pertains to the discussion in here today:
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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.
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2 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said:
Is it possible that "people" just aren't as good as we like to think? "Good people" are more of an aberration than a norm?
Maybe I'm just feeling extra dark today.
"People" in general are extraordinarily fickle and are easily manipulated by whatever media they are consuming.
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15 minutes ago, Fergasun said:
Does anyone really think Trump and Biden are even with the black vote? Yet that is what polls are saying.
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.
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32 minutes ago, abdcskins said:
But they won a damn Stanley Cup, and that can never be taken away. It does seem they sort of wasted Ovechkin's career, should have won more
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.
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37 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said:
I dunno guys..I'm stunned that gas prices are now higher. I thought an increase in demand post covid lockdown would send them lower!
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.
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48 minutes ago, tshile said:
and the Biden admin and their loyalists seem completely incapable of understanding this for some reason.
Not sure what the specific complaint here is. Are you saying that Biden's messaging regarding inflation isn't good?
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57 minutes ago, 88Comrade2000 said:
No one doesn’t care if Biden leads a national poll. While nice and driving Trump crazy; it’s the state polls.
Remember despite the fact Joe won 7 million more votes; if 50,000 votes went the other way, Trump would be president.
You can do a little extrapolation from the nationals. I'm not sure what the national polls had Biden up by right before the 2020 election. The WaPo poll heading into 2016 gave Hillary a two point edge, which is what it wound up being. And of course she lost the EC.
Biden won the pop vote by 4 last time. I think the polls need to show at least that much of an edge for Dems to feel somewhat confident.
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On 4/13/2024 at 12:50 PM, samy316 said:
I forgot about the fact that we play the AFC North this year, so we might have a possible MNF game against the Steelers. The last two times we’ve faced them at home, it’s been on MNF.We had made the playoffs in both the previous seasons (2007 and 2015).
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In 2016 Trump and Hillary accounted for 94 percent of the vote. That increased to 98 percent in 2020 with Trump and Biden.
I know people say they are dissatisfied with their choices at the top of the major party tickets, but I just can't see Kennedy getting a great chunk of votes. The latest polls have him around 8 percent, and I'd be very surprised if he gets even half that.
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1 hour ago, Fergasun said:
... we are almost in the "2nd look at Haley" phase of the election. Seems like a lot of the horserace chatter has died down. I guess that tends to happen when you throw one of the key swing states...
Translate please
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15 minutes ago, Skinsfan1311 said:
DC fans can't have nice things......
Sucks that even when the Caps won the Cup, they didn't retain the coach that got them there. And then covid squashed what should've been the Nats victory lap year after their 2019 title.
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1 hour ago, capcrunch98 said:
Can't lose twice to Buffalo in 10 days and expect to make the playoffs.
If this score holds, they're probably going to have to secure 5 out of 6 points their last 3 games. That's a tall order considering 2 of those games are against Boston and Tampa.
It looked for a while like the Caps could get third place in the division. Now I don't see them catching the Islanders for that spot, and the problem with Pittsburgh is that the Pens will likely have the tiebreakers (RW, ROW) in case the Caps wind up with the same number of points
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6 hours ago, Commander PK said:
This is the easy choice for me. I was 7 years old and my parents were hosting a Super Bowl party. When Riggo broke free for “the run” everybody went nuts in celebration. I know I watched the team before that, but nothing else sticks out in my memory. My defining moment as a fan and the one that made me a lifer. All the rest has been gravy. I am so incredibly grateful to have grown up during Gibbs I and I hope this generation of kids can have an era of similar results.I started watching the Skins in the early-to-mid 70s living in the DC area, but moved to the Philly era in late 76. This coincided with the start of the Eagles getting good under Vermeil and, for the Skins, the end of the Allen era and the heartbreak of the few years under Pardee, collapsing in 78 after the 6-0 start and then still the worst loss in team history to me at the end of the 79 season against the Cowboys to miss the playoffs altogether. The way that the 82 season unfolded was just magical. My first ever live regular season NFL game was the opener that season against the Eagles at the Vet, where we came back to win in OT. And then a family friend sending me the original Hogs T-shirt right before the playoffs started.
Of course I laugh at this thread when I read it as "the best moment as a Washington fan in 32 years" and I thought it was only focused on football, and people are bringing in either football memories from over 32 years ago or ones from the Caps and Nats. Not to mention that the OP started it after the 0-2 start.......and we know how it finished! But like you said, I think better days are ahead for the franchise under new ownership.
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7 minutes ago, Fergasun said:
The problem with Ralph Nader and Ross Perot is that they will never admit they threw the election to a major campaign. This looks like Ralph Nader and Ross Perot.
I don't think either threw the election to a major campaign. Clinton's lead in 1992 actually widened when Perot exited the race and narrowed when he came back in. Nader got less than three percent of the vote in 2000 and less than two percent in Florida.
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3 minutes ago, CobraCommander said:
I hope they do a better job than nationals park. Missed opportunity imo.
We deserve something nice.I like the inside of Nats Park, where you can see the field from the concourse. But yes, the exterior leaves a lot to be desired.
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The facilities for the players at the actual stadium are important, but the quality of the training facility is even moreso when it comes to attracting talent. It hasn't helped that Ashburn is supposedly a dump.
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Go to 7:30 mark. Painkiller and I are on the upgraded Griffith Stadium bandwagon!
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7 hours ago, Redwards said:
Just remember: it's what happens in the stadium that matters most. And if those things are positive, the stadium will be embraced. I loved RFK to death, and even played a championship soccer game there as a kid. I cherished that stadium. But it was an aesthetic eyesore and structurally one of the worst stadiums in the league. But what transpired inside that stadium over the decades was priceless. And so, then, RFK became revered.
Of course, Harris also owns the Sixers, and the arena they are proposing in central Philly isn't supposed to happen until 2030 or so. With the improvements made to Commanders Field, who knows what the timeframe for a new stadium for this team is.
Hard to believe that this team has been in Landover for 27 years and the stadium has not hosted a division round or higher playoff game. We still have time to have a few successful seasons at the current place before the move happens, but the place will never be revered because of the performance of the team under the former owner.
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7 hours ago, profusion said:
Camden Yards is nice--I don't give two bits about baseball but went to a game there for a buddy's bachelor-party day many years ago. I don't know if that model suits football as well as it does baseball. It's too fussy and quaint.
The most iconic football stadiums--the ones we romanticize from the good old days--have been the more utilitarian, even cruddy, ones. Heck, we still talk about RFK and the Vet, and neither was objectively very good. They had the right character for pro football, though.
It'd be nice if we could get a new stadium that *felt* like the hallowed ground of RFK but with modern amenities. What I don't want is some gaudy ego-palace like Jerryworld, or a fatcat thing like SoFi Stadium. This is east coast tradition and it needs to emotionally connect up with the the old NFL.
Yeah, of course Camden Yards was the first of the retro-style baseball stadiums, which is why its so revered.
Like you said, I don't know how you could bring a retro-model to football. Maybe we need to go further back than RFK and build a place modeled after Griffith Stadium. I'm in agreement that I wouldn't be that crazy about us having a place like Jerryworld or SoFi. Of the newer places, Allegiant in Vegas seems more of a model to emulate.
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Not sure how applicable this is since it's an arena, but these are new design plans for the area around the place Harris wants to build for the Sixers:
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Eagles fan reporting his prices are going up, despite one of the "additional" home games for them this year being in Brazil:
Convicted felon Donald Trump on Trial (Found guilty on 34 felony counts. 54 criminal count still in the air)
in The Tailgate
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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.