IGotWorms

Elitism is, of course, offensive and undesirable, as a driving force of society. But you’re wrong to champion populism instead. That means we’re giving in to our basest instincts. And that’s not good either, whether it comes from the right or the left. For example, would you want AOC running the show as a liberal populist? Of course not.

Chris Jones is an absolute beast but I do tend to agree with this as well. Still, I don’t know that they had much chance but to retain him. It’d be like letting your QB walk after winning the Super Bowl. You just don’t do it, even if you do end getting Joe Flacco’d

I think it was more than Scott Mitchell. Ownership never really seemed all-in. As long as they could sell tickets and jerseys they were good

How about a thought experiment? What if it had been Clint Eastwood instead of Alec Baldwin? Eastwood isn’t my favorite though I don’t have it out for him like the righties do for Baldwin. Hell, Unforgiven is one of my all-time favorites. Anyway, my take would be pretty much the same as with Baldwin, that there shouldn’t have been live ammo in that gun or anywhere on set, and that it is the people that 1) introduced live ammo and 2) failed to detect its introduction that should be held responsible. I.e., the armorer and likely the supplier. The difference is, I bet a lot more of you would be agreeing with me, if it had been Clint Eastwood who was acting in that film, rather than the liberal, Trump-hating Alec Baldwin.

You must think we were born yesterday

I think the issue is he’s entering the last year of his contract. Now it is apparent that they had no intention of giving him a big second contract. So that says something. But still, not a terrible move for the Browns imo

As a Patriots fan, I’ll take it!

So far as I know, Biden is not inviting maduro here to kiss his ass in front of the whole damn country.

I don’t think anyone really gives much of a sh1t about Hungary other than to suggest that maybe we shouldn’t emulate them

Agreed. But I think the matter pretty much ends there. I’m not a huge Baldwin fan but it seems to me that many of the people calling for his conviction are politically motivated. They could still be right, but I think it calls into question their motives and objectivity

Will you guys except Fox News as a source on the state of Hungary? https://www.foxnews.com/world/polish-pm-donald-tusk-slams-hungary-slovakia-meeting-russian-foreign-minister.amp https://www.foxnews.com/world/hungary-last-holdout-swedens-nato-membership-when-orban-follow-turkeys-lead.amp https://www.foxnews.com/world/hungarian-minister-sparks-controversy-praising-nazi-allied-wwii-leader-miklos-horthy.amp https://www.foxnews.com/world/hungarian-pm-european-countries-race-mixing-longer-nations.amp Etc

You seem to be starting from the assumption that he is criminally culpable and then figuring out how to get there. It’s possible you’re right but I think if you start from a more objective position it’s obvious that the armorer and whoever introduced the live rounds (if not the armorer) are the culpable parties, with Baldwin well behind and probably not actually criminally culpable at all. Bottom line, there should not have been a live round in that gun. Period, end of story imo

I doubt it. Doubt it’ll ever even really go to trial. But we’ll see

Be interesting to see if he can turn his career around somewhere else. Not that he’s been horrible but certainly disappointing the past couple years

He could have poor aim. Or if his story is true and he didn’t even pull the trigger (seems doubtful to me but I’m no expert), then he may well have been in the act of aiming it away from her

Wow that’s crazy, I also have a lunch! What are the odds

I got a little too hammered last night too. Started with IPAs at happy hour then wine at home. Time to ease off again

Oops!

Maybe, guess we’ll have to see what the expert witness testimony is as that may well decide the case. I do see what you’re saying and as I understand even blanks can cause serious harm if things go wrong

I’ll be damned

That’s the southern hemisphere

Trump loves Orban https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-09/trump-lavishes-praise-on-orban-during-fete-at-mar-a-lago https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/07/viktor-orban-to-visit-donald-trump-in-florida-hungary

It has occurred to me. It seems to me she states her views to fit the audience. I assume her views here are her “real” views but possibly I’m wrong because those are the only ones I see. But, whatever the reasons for any disconnect may be, I am right that she virtually always takes fairly extreme right wing views here. So yeah, sure, bit of an ah0le, but within the bounds of this site??

It’s not really. It’s that you attacked me and I was obviously correct. When you apologize, I’ll give it a rest And I say that as a sign of rest, btw. Most of these people, I would expect would be easily duped, and probably wouldn’t care if they were. But not you