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  1. Ron Johnson is not popular. I have to believe he's being advised to retire rather than put that seat at risk. You'd expect dipshit senators in red states like Missouri or Texas (wince), but not in a state that reelected Tammy Baldwin by double digits. And yet there he is, for now.

  2. Mike Pawlawski knows what he's talking about. PK is a great hire. His defenses at UW were among the best in the P12 even if Jimmy Lake gets some credit for that.

    He also doesn't seem to have head coaching aspirations so if he works out there should be little worry about him getting hired away.

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  3. The Capitol insurrection was shocking, sure, but something about seeing it coming weeks in advance takes it out of the running for me. The teargas church photo-op was way more out of left field and just as sinister.

    TrumpCare going down in flames in the Senate. Now THAT was shocking to me. Oh, and BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

     

  4. Ha! Chinese state media thinks Pompeo is freelancing and that the Trump Admin is trying to poison the well on their way out the door.

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    Another commentary posted online by CGTN, the English-language channel of state broadcaster CCTV, called Pompeo’s announcement “a cowardly act of sabotage” of the next U.S. administration.

    “The Trump administration, in its continuing efforts to burn the house down before leaving office, has crossed a dangerous red line with China days before incoming President Joe Biden takes office,” the commentary read in part.

     

  5. 3 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

    Has the whole world gone crazy?  


     

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    Nope. Just Nye County. 

    Don't be fooled by all that empty desert. Nye County has 2/3 the population of Victoria. Pahrump, the county's largest settlement, is a magnet for all nutjobs in the Las Vegas region. 

    RIP Art Bell

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  6. My head agrees with you 100%.

    My heart says that the agreement by the UN to ostracize Taiwan in exchange for China, and the accompanying worldwide severance of diplomatic relations with Taiwan, is a relic of an era when China truly had zero problems with neighbors. That isn't the case anymore. 

    Oh, and fuck China and their phony decorum. Everyone knows the back channels have been open all along.

    It is possible for Biden to use this as a bargaining chip. 

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  7. On 12/3/2020 at 1:24 PM, Wulaw Horn said:

    So- the pollster was off by 2 on the presidential and 5 on the senate race- and we are calling a 2 point lead a good thing if we are a Dem?  color me not impressed or thinking this sheds any light on anything I'd believe in this poll.  I've got it 60/40 GOP. No way I have the Dems favored in a race that they just got done losing by 2 points.  That's obviously not an insurmountable hill to climb or anything like that, but between actually losing the election in November and a 30 year losing streak in the specials I don't see how anyone can come to the conclusion that the GOP isn't at least the very slightest of favorites.  

    You misread the tweet. It had Perdue up 3 (not Ossoff) in October and he finished ahead by almost 2 in the end. That's only off by 1, not 5. That's dead accurate for a poll by 2020 standards. 

    I'd question the poll for other reasons like only sampling +500, and sampling all adults (A) instead of likely or even registered voters. You'd have a good argument if you said the poll just got lucky. Then again, the polls collectively were all pretty good in GA this go-around.

  8. 13 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

     

    Part of being a credible person or a credible source of information is being able to objectively give credit where it's due. Trump (or probably his team) put forth operation Warp Speed. Every other president in history and just about any 100+ IQ person would have done the same. It's not a big accomplishment. It's not exceptional. It's table stakes. Still, it's a sign of objectivity and sanity to be able to say "He's still the worst president in over a century, but okay, sure, he did that one thing right". 

    Part of the reason for the division in the country is the inability for either side, or the media for that matter, to give any sort of credit where due. It's forced the media into a boy-who-cried-wolf corner and it's a large part of the bunker mentality everyone has. 

    It's okay to say that Trump, an awful human being and president, managed to stumble into doing one thing right. If the tables were turned and it was a Democratic president doing it and guys like GRHorn or Enchubben were saying "he deserves no credit for Warp Speed", this entire board would be losing its collective mind.

    I fully expect to get attacked for this and shrieked at like I'm some sort of Trump supporter, which is both fine and dumb as fuck. Carry on.

    Sure, I'll give him and his administration credit. This operation was clearly staffed with competent people. That is saying something.

    Which makes it all the more mind bottling why he didn't spill the beans before the election and brag about The Best Vaccines! at all his rallies and to anyone on cable news who would listen. It's like he chose this issue as his one and only one to shut the fuck up about, and now he's out of a job.

    Instead he categorically downplayed the pandemic AND the response, both good and bad, and even went and got his stupid ass sick. I mean, God damn... His skepticism of science really isn't an act.

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