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But Larry, I think its disingenous to expect folks to ignore the effects covid had on the economy and expect that you'd see a positive number that year compared to 2019. "At least by some metrics...." That is cherry picking. The chart linked below which shows "annual percent change" probably contains the most widely acknowledged numbers regarding GDP growth, and it shows: Obama's last three years: 2.3, 2.7, 1.7 Trump's first three years: 2.2, 2.9, 2.3 https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/gdp-gross-domestic-product I don't consider Trump's GDP numbers to be all that impressive, especially compared to Reagan's or Clinton's. There are people I work with who will swear that we never achieved two percent growth under Obama, even if you show them visible evidence like above. And don't even get me started on the deficit...........

That was my first year in the club level and during that game Norv decided at some point to call off the dogs and replaced Brad Johnson with Rodney Peete. The dude sitting next to me was legitimately very upset and throwing a fit, despite my best efforts to explain that we were trying to protect our starting QB against injury in a game we were up 30+ in. That really was a wake-up call in realizing just how stupid some people out there are.

Obviously a lot depends on what direction we take in the draft. The assumption is that we go for a QB with the second pick, and I think that's most likely, but what if we trade down and/or for whatever reason stick with Howell? Either way, as has been the case for probably the past decade at least, I expect no more than around 8-9 wins next season, and my expectations won't be heightened until we actually have an 10-11 win season. For the long term, increasingly so much appears on hitting the right QB. But I remember your similar thread when Ron was hired. Your expectations were modest at first, but within a couple hours you had us going to the Super Bowl by Ron's second season! I'm probably exaggerating, but remember saying, "that's why they call this place Extreme Skins!"

The optics of having 50+ hostages for over a year is vastly different than that of having several over there. Plus that of the Soviets rolling into Afghanistan, even if that adventure didn't turn out well for them. The arms-for-hostages probably would've derailed Reagan if it had happened in his first term. Might've impacted GHWB more if he had run against Gary Hart instead of a stiff like Dukakis. I hear what people are saying regarding the economy, but unfortunately perception is reality. The economy, with the exception of covid, has been good both under Trump and Biden. The trillions in stimmy that went into the economy starting with Trump were eventually going to have an inflationary impact. But many people can't recognize that and just wave their "Joe Did It" signs.......

I think both unemployment and inflation worsened under Carter, at least by measuring where they were when his term ended to when it began. Couple that with the Iran hostage crisis and you know the rest. For as much as people like to complain about the state of things today economically, seems like it's significantly better than the late 70s and early 80s.

It'll be interesting to see how lowered rates will increase demand versus increasing supply and what the impact on prices is.

I was curious......before Quinn, what happened to the Falcons after Mike Smith had several good seasons with them? Of course Matty Ice was doing well, but under Smith they fell off a cliff for a couple years which led to Quinn getting the HC job there. What contributed to them having those poor seasons?

From the Allahpundit article I linked last night: At long last, the many encouraging economic indicators have begun to breach the public consciousness. On Tuesday, consumer confidence reached its highest level since December 2021, around the time inflation first began to cause the White House serious political pain. If that’s the start of a trend, the most potent weapon in Trump’s political arsenal may end up being neutralized by fall. The less favorably “the Trump economy” compares to “the Biden economy,” the weaker the case for rolling the dice again on a lunatic becomes.

Allahpundit on how the race may turn around in Biden's favor.....or maybe not. https://www.aol.com/news/vibes-shiftin-233341275.html Those Bloomberg state numbers are just brutal for Joe. But apparently Quinnipiac had a poll today that gave Biden a six-point lead nationwide, so who knows.

Yeah dude, but did Biden ever hug the American flag on stage? 😀

Seems like that was what the OP was getting at. "The prices at FedEx suck, but they suck more at Cap One." Again, seems like Atlanta has been able to offer more reasonable prices on concessions recently. I thought Baltimore had too. In Atlanta's case, there are probably other factors like lack of demand for sporting tickets.

You guys going to the Battle of the Stations thing at Bethesda Theater on Friday?

https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/a-story-about-hugh-hewitt-immigration?r=1emko

I remember in the summer of 2009 talking to a guy who blamed the crash of late 2008-early 2009 on Obama.

Their head coach is not easy to cheer for.

Is there a bigger douche in the league than Dan Campbell?

That 1999 season was fun. The stadium was rocking for the blowout win against the Lions, before we lost at Tampa on the bad snap on the FG attempt the next week. Wasn't that win against Detroit the only home playoff win we've had since 1991? Just crazy, and now the Lions are in the NFCCG later today, leaving us and the Cowboys as the only teams who haven't been there since 1995 (1991 for us).

Again, I personally think he was engaging in wishful thinking and that Nikki will capitulate in due time. However, we have a month left until the SC primary, and it'll be interesting to see how much she can irritate Trump in that timeframe, if she stays in that long. The best part of the article to me was at the end, when he went through the policy arguments for choosing Trump and said "do people really want to chance overturning the constitutional order for a 25 percent reduction in illegal border crossings?" Last night I was watching a long interview from 2022 with Douglas Murray, a British immigration hawk who would be a natural Trump ally. The interviewer came around to asking him about Trump and he even said that Trump had both houses of Congress in his first two years and did nothing but tweet. He also called Trump's actions on 1/6/21 very dangerous, even if he stopped short of using the I word. He said the biggest problem with American politics is that you have two sides who can't even agree on basic facts, and that it isn't sustainable.

Seems like the Caps are roughly where they were last year points-wise. They really fell off the cliff in the second half last season, finishing below .500. That may or may not happen this season. The complaint I've heard from hockey observers is that the team simply isn't nearly as exciting to watch as they were during the decade leading up to the Cup win.

Allahpundit hopeful about Nikki's endgame, although I see her capitulation very soon: https://news.yahoo.com/bring-crack-231215894.html

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/22/new-hampshire-primary-voter-00136850 If Trump gets back in the WH, I'm going to love this guy's head explode when he expects Trump to "break the system".......and nothing happens.

82 percent of Trump supporters can't acknowledge that maybe....just maybe....his douchiness contributed in a big way to him losing to Biden. We are so far gone in this country. And inflation and Biden's age, despite Trump being an even bigger douche now, are going to lead to DJT returning to the presidency. Which will validate these people's thoughts about the 2020 election. In their minds, will any presidential election won by a Dem ever be seen as legit?

Apparently Bill Maher on his most recent show claimed that the vast majority of Americans are sane, but also predicted that Trump is going to be elected, which he claims is insane. I don't exactly know how you square this contradiction. One of the problems cited by Allahpundit a few days ago, and by Filipkowski within the past two days, is that seemingly none of this crap about absolute immunity and Nikki Haley being responsible for the lack of troops at the Capitol on 1/6 is being covered enough in the mainstream media. Maybe this changes once Trump becomes the nominee, I don't know. If Biden somehow prevails in November (I think he loses), he gets nowhere near 330. He doesn't even get 300. Of course, I don't see Trump getting close to.330 either if he wins.

Czaban comparing this to the loss to Seattle in 2014. What a dope. This one wasn't nearly as bad, and Czabe was a Skins fan then.

Of course, I think Trump is going to win in November and the question in 2028 becomes whether he supports his VP or if he wants to keep the White House in the family and support a run by Don Jr. Its crazy to think that Don Jr would be competitive in a GOP primary, but that's where we're at. The clip Evil Genius posted with Trump saying "NikkiHaleyNikkiHaleyNikkiHaley" was responsible for Jan 6th......wow! We are truly in bozo nation................