jerryskids

That could have happened to any pitcher, but somehow it is perfect that RJ did it.

Again you miss the point and argue policies. The world is a dangerous place these days, Gutter. The chances of us getting neck deep into a war, and/or of one of the many terrorists waltzing into the country doing something horrific, are quite high. You may be comfortable with that guy on the debate stage getting a call at 3AM that NYC was just nuked, but a lot of people aren't. But since you mentioned policies: Strike already pointed out that your Covid take is laughable. You equate managing a supply chain distribution to dealing with the onset and developing a vaccine in record time. Regarding abortion, Trump is going pretty centrist on this. In fact, he got the RNC to ease up its position for the first time in decades: https://apnews.com/article/republicans-abortion-party-platform-trump-rnc-5561e857c5501df9864ab8ca666d8bc5

Pretty shrewd move by Trump. It's a totally plausible thing to offer, since it came up in the debate. He knows Biden will refuse, and in doing so, it reinforces that Biden is feeble. That Biden spokesman in the OP sounds like his head is going to explode, he's so angry.

I think Biden is doomed because of what I call the "my mom" factor. Back in 2004, John Kerry was running against George Bush, and Kerry was the prohibitive favorite. My mom was an old school, pro-union democrat. Voted that way her entire life. But in 2004, we happened to chat on election day and she told me she voted for Bush. Wow, really Mom? Why? She explained that we were at war, and Kerry seemed weak, and she just didn't trust him. Of course, Bush won that election. I'm not arguing that Kerry was weak, but rather that was my mom's perception. And, I presume, that of a lot of other people like her. Similarly, if you have any functioning brain cells, you couldn't watch that recent debate and NOT have at least a little pause regarding Biden being in charge during a serious crisis. I don't know how many truly undecideds there are at this point, but I've got to think that debate pushed enough of them over to Trump to make a difference.

Yeah, my kids were raised like I was: if you get in trouble in school, you get it twice as bad at home. One of my daughters was suspended for a social media thing. It was a questionable offense but she had agreed not to post anything about a specific girl (I think she liked something someone else posted). Also I found out she lied to me about details, as I was talking to the principle about it. I confirmed that nothing went on her permanent record. The real punishment was that this suspension prevented her from being in a school theater performance, so she learned a hard lesson and we didn't have to add any punishment.

I liked Creed back in the day. Also Nickleback. What can I say, I was never a hipster doosh (just a regular doosh).

Yeah, when I read this: I thought hmm, good job parents in raising a sociopath. I imagine the parents of this kid have severe "not MY baby girl!!!!" syndrome.

Ima put a placeholder in for Scheffler as my pick, since I'm going to be in Scotland and don't know my availability when the draft starts. If you don't hear otherwise from me when the draft starts Monday morning, that's the pick. I'm thinking of doing something... maybe stupid, maybe not, and going in a different direction. But I don't want to hold up the draft if you don't hear from me. @edjr, do you have my cell phone to ping me for later picks? I'm guessing you do from Venmo, but if not let me know.

Maybe he does inspirational speeches at corporate events as a side gig?

That was... interesting. Spoiler alert: I will say that I didn't love the ending for two reasons. One, although they did a great job convincing us that the kid was dead, the fact that she was alive seemed somehow inconsistent with the plot. Two, I didn't get why Creasy (Denzel) went with the bad guys in the end. The deal was a life for a life -- little girl for bad guy's brother. Yet he walked over that bridge to the Voice, and they took him like they expected it. Maybe I missed something, probably. Or maybe he didn't want to die in the presence of the mom and girl. I'm just nitpicking though, still a great movie.

My opinion that world despots perceive Biden as weak is supported by the facts that during Biden's watch, Putin invaded Ukraine, Iran-backed Hamas attacked Israel, and China is escalating against Taiwan. Similar? Different? Let me know.

That's probably why I said "I do think" instead of presenting it as any kind of fact. Also you seem quite agitated about this. Methinks the leftie doth protest too much.

I watched Man on Fire yesterday. I had never seen it, and it has been recommended several times here. Didn't disappoint, it was great.

Baseless? I mean, I haven't talked to any of those three, if that's what you mean. Also, from your Trump whataboutism, I guess you mean that Biden has a 4 year head start down the road to senility? Congrats, I guess.

I didn't say that either. Regarding Ukraine, I'm not exactly sure what the plan is. It reminds me of a project I was on early in my career. The finance guy told me that our funding was just enough to keep us on life support. I think his exact phrase was "keep us from turning blue from lack of oxygen." I got a new job shortly thereafter. Perhaps it is some sort of 4D chess to keep Russia distracted and depleting resources. But I don't see an end game. Back to the weakness, I do think that world leaders, particularly the Putin/Xi/Ayatollah types, view Biden as feeble and, by association, weak. I've been saying since before the 2020 election that Biden had begun cognitive decline. Folks like you didn't see it (or didn't want to see it), but it was there if you but looked.

I didn't answer it because I had already told you that I wasn't arguing the guy's point; rather I was merely showing that he wasn't trying to thank God for Putin, and explaining what he was (somewhat poorly) trying to say. HTH

I was going to ask if we're allowed to shoot carjackers now, but if he did brandish a gun to US Marshalls, that's definitely FAFO. Could be a Darwin award if he had managed to die.

Sounds like if Trump wins, you are setting up for... wait for it... ELECTION DENIER #$@!$#@!@#$

I don't think he sees Biden as the problem, but rather that Biden's weakness is allowing Putin to be more aggressive.

He's trying to say “Thank God Putin is being patient right now seeing what’s going on but if Biden wins, that’s off the table”. In other words, he is asserting that if Biden wins again, Putin will be more aggressive. You can argue his point, but he is NOT thanking God for Putin.

Don't be dumber than usual. Remove the "he's" and that's what the guy is trying to say. But you still believe the out of context "dictator" clip, so I don't have much confidence in you to understand this.

I wish he was here to tell me I'm week and scared of Biden's dementia.

I remember reading that when Hitler was in power, he lost an election. He whined about it, but left office when it was time to go. The similarities are striking!

The party of pseuds will have successfully convinced more than half the country to vote for a guy who is borderline brain dead because they've convinced their "intelligent" constituency that the other guy, who already served 4 years with mostly success (if not for Covid), that this time around he is the OMB Hitler end of democracy$#@! So smart, these centrists. Kamala will be president when Biden croaks months into office, meh, whatever, the unknown cabal will continue to run the country,

You literally called out his last year, then lol'd that it was a quarter of his tenure. Just saying.