Mark Davis

Playing to their political base. If you don't bend the knee for George Floyd you can't virtue signal.

It is a choice. Every statue, moment of silence, and wanting to memorialize him is a choice by someone. Just like you chose to defend him on my post which wasn't initially even a response to you. You rushed to his defense like I'd just shoved in front of a pregnant lady holding an arm full of groceries at the check out line of Publix. The man was a criminal. I didn't want him dead but he's not someone that should be revered. Moments of silence for this man and not others who were better people who were murdered over those five years speaks volumes. There are statues of this guy. Somewhere along the lines this political ideology of wanting statues for a guy who was a career criminal but wanting to remove those of some of our country's founding fathers is pretty outside the mainstream. It's just one example of this odd choosing of figures to attach themselves to that become an albatross to them politically. It's also part of why when Trump speaks on victims of violent crime perpetrated by illegal immigrants it gets more traction. The left says well statistically it's less, etc. But while Trump is embracing people like Laken Riley, the left is embracing people like George Floyd. It's fertile political ground because those not on the extremes are pretty clear on who they choose.

You are making my point for me. The left has latched on to him and they can't let it go, somehow they've chosen him over victims who happen to have smaller rap sheets, or no rap sheets at all. The obsession with him by the left is a political loser, especially when the connotation now with his name is the riots from 2020.

When people on the left don’t understand why or how people could vote for Donald Trump they fail to realize these kooky things are what drives those in the middle more toward his camp. Most people realize George Floyd was a criminal. Even if you believe Chauvin was guilty of murder, there are much more sympathetic victims you could find to latch on to. There’s a significant portion of the population who believes both that he was murdered and he was pretty much a scumbag. There are all shades in between. But the left seems to like to pick the most flawed characters to latch on to.

There's a Target nearby to where I'm at while at the beach. I should have rolled by this evening to see if they are offering any "walk out specials" on flat screens in honor of George Floyd Day.

They are gonna love this guy in the penitentiary.

The Masters is likely to become much more expensive after this year. Augusta revoked quite a number of badges after distributing them this year causing chaos and a spike in price. They used RFID chips in the badges to determine which badges were being returned daily to certain addresses in Augusta by posting RFID readers around town. Those that were returned to hospitality addresses and the houses used by Stubhub, Vivid Seats, etc. were revoked. The plan is to bring in On Location or perhaps another partner, but I'm hearing On Location for now, and you can bet the badges will be sold along with hospitality packages for way more than previous years.

I wish I could be as optimistic. It will only take the next outrage article by some loon from The Atlantic.

You’ve hit on the problem. Today’s left wants non citizens to be given every benefit of the doubt even above and beyond citizens. They’re worried about non citizen perps rather than victims who are citizens. See Senator Chris Van Hollen.

You say that and I’ll give you credit for the stance, but the Democratic Party is not in this same place you are. If they were, we could pass legislation to stop this and all move on. That’s the reason this is still an issue. It’s a shame we need legislation for something this straightforward but unfortunately we are in that spot.

I never said anything of the sort about the vaccine and have had it myself. I've never bashed the vaccine for trying to be rapid, but there are side effects we don't fully understand yet. That happens when you do the best you can in a time sensitive situation. That's pretty much what I think happened and where we are on that. Unless you don't wish to believe every doctor who has been interviewed, including those on that right wing stalwart MSNBC, this cancer has been there for some time to be at this stage. So it's that, or you think that Biden wasn't having regular physicals when President. The odds that both those are true are remarkably low. This has been known for some time unless he has a doctor who should be sued for malpractice, which is hard to believe a sitting President was in that position. It just doesn't make sense that this is new information. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the timing of the Hur tape releases and this book release, on a Sunday evening no less.

Well, again just purely my limited anecdotal experience, I don't know of anyone who recovers once it's advanced to the in bone stage. My first thought when I heard that was it's terminal at this point. I feel sorry for the man, but the way the mental acuity issues were handled and now dumping this on a Sunday night before that book releases deserves some next level cynicism. He's got some truly hardcore people around him .

I'm not usually a black helicopter guy, but prostate cancer is usually detected way before it gets to this stage. Given what else was hidden, was this hidden from us for part of his term? To now have progressed to his bone, the cancer isn't new. You don't want to believe a President could be undiagnosed with that type of cancer for that long, it should have shown indications in blood tests etc. I'm no doctor so easily I could be totally wrong, but at this point it's not a great leap to imagine one more thing was hidden.

A few legitimately care enough to make the sacrifice, or are lucky enough to have constituents who would stand behind them for taking a stance on the debt. Most of the rest care about it to varying degrees but not enough to risk losing their mostly safe seats. The problem is we have to address entitlements to fix the deficit and begin work on the debt. It's like telling a drug addict we are going to start by cutting you off. He wants to get clean until the day comes you make him go through withdrawal, all his resolve crumbles. If you start trying to fix entitlements, most voters want other people's entitlements corrected, not theirs. The specifics are the difficult part.

Well for one thing nobody would be admitting Joe Biden was mentally unfit during his presidency. The lie would need to be continued.

When I used to say Ron Klain or someone else was running the country I was told it was ridiculous. I don't know that it was Ron Klain, I know on at least some days it was not Joe Biden. Jake Tapper is the ultimate charlatan, he knew all along that Biden was in mental decline and lied to the American public for four years. To try and profit now by acting as if this is some kind of expose is ridiculous. Nobody should ever take anything he says seriously again. I do think the co-author did some honest reporting along the way during the Biden term and called his mental acuity into question. I don't know why he included Tapper. Maybe he thought he needed someone to help sell the book.

100%. Pete Rose knew this. He spoke to a group of us out in Vegas one time. He stated that after he died is when it would happen. Rob Manfred is a total scumbag, he can't make a move without showing his colors. As for Joe Jackson, any of you who have ever visited the HOF know the museum is full of his memorabilia and references to him. To display his items openly and to have blackballed him for so long seems contradictory to say the least.

I've been there once for a Final Four. It was ok, other than being a little chilly and rainy in March. I had more problems with the game officials than I did the city or state.

BTW I think we just found out Cooper Flagg is the player to be named later in the AD/Luka trade. My only mistake was not seeing that coming.

The year they quit drawing the envelopes on live tv any credibility they had went out the window. You can argue the frozen envelope theory on Ewing to the Knicks. But there’s no excuse not to run those ping pong ball lottery machines in front of a live camera unless you don’t want people to see for some reason.

And thanks. I'm just glad now everyone is all for using the tax code to the best of their ability. Maybe now we won't have to hear anymore about the Trump tax returns.

Yes, I recall that as well. I think the story has been softened over the years. I don't know what really happened, but certainly at the time the story was out there that his family was under threat. Whether that was true or the damage from just politics was his concern I don't know. It was an odd situation at the time, which I think sunk any chance he had to win even though he did re-enter the race.

I always liked Perot in theory. He lacked the toughness IMO to do what needed to be done as evidenced by him initially dropping out of the race. Although at the time it would have been nice to have someone with business savvy in the office. From what I recall, he was worried about the mudslinging of politics and what it might do to his family and dropped out before getting back in. He never recovered in the polls from that. . Trump is the bulldozer that only knows straight ahead. Perot didn't have that same personality type. I still remember election night and there was doubt for awhile that Perot might actually win ME-02 and gain that one electoral vote. He ended up second statewide there and the only counties he won were in that state.

We have a large group of people in our country who for political ideology or wanting to believe the best in people don't want to accept the vast majority of that population wants to bring down the West, not join it.

Amazing how that works isn't it? The thing is, the one person in the administration I wouldn't be messing around with is Tom Homan. The man isn't playing.