jerryskids

Fire-haired wiccan says wut?

Same. He seems like a genuinely nice guy. If anyone is an ass in our interactions, it's generally me.

Are current or former staff of Kamala endorsing her? Serious question, as I had heard she can be a bit of a biotch to work for. I don't expect them to come out explicitly against her, because the Democrats are much better at putting party first. But are any giving glowing endorsements?

Thanks for the reminder. I'm not sure I'll go out of my way like with the regular olympics, but I may put Peacock on in the background. Some of them are so impressive... during the swimming trials there was a guy with no arms or legs. To get out of the pool, he bites on a towel that somebody holds and they pull him out. Also he swims faster than probably all of us, doing a butterfly of sorts.

I'm merely pointing out that the manufactured, forced joy we are getting with Kamala is reminiscent of some past attempts to convince people that they are happy, dammit!

From your link: So, almost 1/2 of the $60B would have gone directly to Ukraine and our heightened presence/training there. And most of the rest was to restock weapons and equipment we already gave to Ukraine, apparently without funding in place to replenish it. And $20.3B to border security. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-unveils-118-billion-bipartisan-bill-tighten-border-security-aid-2024-02-04/ Look, I'm not a big anti-Ukraine person -- I've barely if at all commented on it. But it is disingenuous to call it primarily a border security bill.

Hitler and the Nazis had an entire movement around joy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strength_Through_Joy Can't you just feel the joy? Can't you? CAN'T YOU$#@!?

Speaking of joy, Chairman Mao was big on joy: https://www.ninecommentaries.com/english-4

Well, Kamala hasn't stated much in terms of specifics. So I would expect her number to be low at the moment, and perhaps until the election, if she has her way. Joy! But if she pushes for nationalized health care, Ima guess she'll blow past that $5.8T in the first few months.

IIRC, it was the opposite: it was mostly funding Ukraine, with some border money sprinkled in. Me too. The people who care about the debates will understand what I just said, if Trump says similar. I personally hate the way bills pass in Congress with all of the different pork, and when somebody objects, you get low-intelligence people saying "you hate border security$#@!". Umm, no.

Thanks. So will someone rejigger the order at some point to reflect the inverse draft order?

How do waivers/FAs work? In my other ESPN league, waivers clear Wednesday night, you move to the back of the bus, and then FA until Sunday's games. Same here? And why am I last in line?

Just venmo'd Eddard

So, that's a "no." It's been, what, 38-ish days? Pathetic. But joyful!

Sadly, I don't think you are kidding.

Who needs children when you can open the border to people from a different culture?

Please name me her specific proposals period. TIA Joy! Forward!

Congrats, there is not a single word above that represents reality. Quite impressive. But hey, prove me that Kamala is not vapid. Tell me a position that she has personally stated as the presidential candidate. Bonus points if you can point to a journalist who questioned her on it.

Well, yeah, but the difference is that we had 4 years of Trump, and other than the final Covid year, he did a pretty good job. Nobody would have done a good job that year, although low-intelligence posters here include that year in things like spending. All of this talk about giving free money to people is just window dressing to get them to vote for her. By and large that requires congressional approval, which she won't get (and she'll blame on the Right, who are the adults in the room on such a topic).. Unless they figure out a way to get rid of the filibuster, in which case we are royally focked. I also worry about foreign policy. Presidents have an outsized influence on this, since many things don't require congressional approval. Trump showed that he could keep tyrants at bay. Kamala has zero experience other than doubling down on Biden/Obama's policy of licking the taints of Iran and China, which is an abject failure.

I've lost track of how many days since Kamala was anointed the nominee with no democratic process, maybe 38?, with still no interviews, tough questions, or answering to who is actually running the country. It's all good though. Joy! Forward!

Great post, summarizes the situation. Kamala is a vapid vacuum where eloquence goes to die, but she is not Trump. The DNC is doing a masterful job, along with their MSM lap dogs, of keeping her from speaking off script... basically ever. But hey, the job of an election is to win an election. If enough people think a vapid vacuum should run the free world, that's who we get.

Back in the day, I could be quite a d1ck here. I probably still am, but nothing like back then. Then again, this place was different back then: @squistion would have curled up into a ball and sobbed after 10 minutes of reading, let alone posting and seeing the responses. I don't mean to get all "get off my lawn" for the good old days, but some posters here would have been eviscerated 15-20 years ago.

Killing fracking? Killing private health care? Bullying social media companies into censorship?

What exactly about the Democrats appeals to you "centrists?" Open borders? Medically transing kids? Printing trillions for free stuff to buy votes? Soviet-era grocery policy?

Well buddy, I am intelligent, and you don't seem to be. Taking posts and doing grade school word replacements doesn't make you intelligent. My guess, giving you the benefit of the doubt, is that you are somewhere on the autism spectrum. You clearly don't understand chat board interaction. But I think your heart is in the right place.