The Real timschochet

Seems to me the only activists on the SC are the ones who overturned Roe. She wasn’t one of those.

Basil Rathbone is one of those awesome names you never hear anymore.

Not impossible. Meaningless is more like it.

OK that was funny. I laughed.

The AFC is far more competitive with better teams than in the 80s when Elway went to his first 3 Superbowls. Lamar has had a much tougher road to travel.

The current Ravens defense is very good but it’s not the 2000 Ravens defense or close to that level. That was probably the greatest defense in NFL history.

I don’t believe that term limits would have any significant effect on government spending.

Double Indemnity is just awesome. And what’s really great are the old shots of the Glendale hills.

This is evidence of your own derangement. I asked people here what we should do. The most popular answer is “well I don’t know but it was better under Trump!” Which isn’t even true, and irrelevant anyhow. The next time you offer something intelligent in any of these discussions will be the first.

Trump really has a dilemma on his hands. He can’t root for Kansas City and the Taylor Swift conspiracy. But- root for San Francisco??? The most liberal city in America?? Whatever will Donald and the MAGA fans do? Maybe they will boycott the game.

Yep. I’m good with this.

Sorry for your friend. Best wishes to his family and to you.

Thats different. She’s in the media. If somebody wants to give her something she can put it on the air. But whoever gave her the info is a criminal and if caught deserves to be punished.

Good. I wouldn’t have minded if it had been longer. I don’t care if it’s Trump or anyone else; if the IRS starts leaking private tax info we’re focked as a nation.

We disagree.

What I said originally was that we have a military presence in the Middle East primarily because our economy depends on the stability of oil flowing from that region. That remains true despite your figures noting the decline over time. I think we can all agree that in the long run it would be to our benefit not to have to rely on stability from such a volatile part of the Earth. Which is one major reason, beyond climate change, why developing a viable alternative to petroleum is so necessary.

Yet my original statement was in response to the conservative narrative made in this thread. So I didn’t move the goalposts.

Not at all. I’m a realist. And I don’t overpay if I can help it. We could, theoretically, significantly reduce the deficit immediately. We could, theoretically, completely stop almost all illegal immigration pretty quickly and deport all of the illegals already here. We have the ability to do these things. But IMO in both instances the price is far too high, way exceeding the benefit, and so I don’t choose to pay it. That doesn’t make a defeatist.

Sure. But oil is a global commodity. So if the amount of oil coming from, for example, the Strait of Hormuz becomes threatened, the price of the oil we buy from Canada goes way up.

We are not a nation of defeatists. We are great at innovation: the Manhattan Project, the space program. But there are certain things we don’t do well: the war on poverty, the war on drugs. We’re not great at changing human behavior. I remain very much a believer in American exceptionalism.

OK. If your figures are correct then I was wrong about that. But the common conservative narrative that Biden is to blame for slowing down oil production is also wrong.

The grownups in here are trying to have a serious conversation. Go back to the kids table.

This is the best argument I’ve read yet. The problem with these discussions, always, is that the sample size is too small, and that as important as the QB is, the team around him needs to play well. You could have added that until Peyton Manning got his first ring, he was also largely considered a choker in the big games, especially when Tom Brady was on the other side.

Actually I’m not blaming Trump for the deficit. He ignored it and increased it, but that’s no different from every other President in living memory. But I’m not giving him credit for trying to reduce it either, which some have done here. Thats laughable. And I’m certainly not going to entertain the argument that somehow Republicans are more responsible on this issue than Democrats because that’s absurd. Neither party has shown any fiscal responsibility whatsoever and that’s because they will lose elections if they do and they know it. We’re going to have to live with this problem. It’s so large that at this point it’s basically unfixable because the American people will never accept the cost involved. So we had better hope our economy keeps growing because that’s all we have.

I strongly disagree with you about how Biden is perceived around the world vs the previous President. But the purpose of this thread wasn’t to bash Biden OR Trump. My question was how we should respond to this current event.