Posts posted by 'stache
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12 minutes ago, GRHorn said:
Which members of the media are pushing this? Are our medical experts not good enough? Or Duke’s? The ACC is full of strong academic institutions.
I only read an article about the Duke doctor, but it sounded a lot like "CFB can be played safely if....." My guess is the discussions have focused on the "if" and determined that it would be impossible for the needed conditions to work. First thing that comes to mind is keeping players from parties. Another is massive testing which for some reason is still not efficient or cheap. And all it takes is a few outbreaks and cancelled games for it to become a complete clusterfuck. They can't bubble like NBA, and MLB had a pretty rough start and I suspect will face some more issues. NFL will be the same. And those guys are paid millions and millions of dollars for that risk. It just doesn't jive well when the players are not paid and have already been airing grievances on that front.
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8 minutes ago, ouflak said:Agreed 1000%. I don't have any 'favorite' politicians. Never really have. I think the whole lot are fumbling around clumsily and am bitterly disappointed the lack of coherency. It has literally cost lives. What's bothering me about the media is that they are happy to let China's initial actions slide off into the past, and hop into the blame-you-favorite-even-politician. It doesn't seem to matter the politics of the politician, only the numbers from their respective country/region/state. Heck the < insert politician > may have once, and normally be, a media favorite. But when it comes to the Corona hysteria, they pile on. It's disingenuous, inaccurate, and sometimes astonishingly hypocritical.
Media outlets report when developments are learned about how China acted early in the pandemic. You just choose to ignore it to deflect blame from US politicians you like and cry about MSM. The bottom line is, China can bear responsibility, but it does not exonerate US politicians who failed to do what was needed in their states to contain the virus early on, and are still refusing to acknowledge the spread and continue to support anti-maskers and criticizing schools districts that see the numbers and seeing that having thousands of kids and teachers and staff in a building is not safe. All of those things needed to be addressed regardless of China's responsibility or lack thereof. And it's all relevant to why it looks more and more like we can't have college football, nearly 6 months after the pandemic was declared.
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2 minutes ago, ouflak said:
I'm just not willing to let China off the hook the way the media apparently is determined to. This thread is about a severe consequence of their actions that we, but especially the players and coaches, are having to deal with. And I don't think my post in the 'Almost died' thread was political.
What exactly are your favorite politicians doing to hold China accountable? All I've seen is repeated use of the words "Chinese virus" to deflect blame while continuing to subsidize walmart and its cheap goods 90% of which come from China. Nice deflection with blaming the media "msm ehermaherrd!"
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I see some credibility to the argument that the players might be safer by some measurable degree being on the team with all safety protocols in place, which I hope would mean constant testing and monitoring. But it only works if you can prevent them from doing stupid shit like going to crowded parties. If there was a way to impose serious punishment (scholarship revoked, etc) for anyone putting themselves (and thereby others) at risk, then maybe it could work. But that would only work if you could really monitor the players, maybe pay some campus narcs to keep track of them? In any respect, if these guys really want #wewanttoplay to work, they should be willing to go full social bubble for the entirety of the season, and be willing to have close monitoring to ensure players comply. I really don't think it's feasible, but just a thought experiment on how it might work.
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Don't public universities have sovereign immunity from these suits? Isn't that why aggy was never held legally responsible for the dead bonfire kids, and why Tech never paid Leach his severance? Would the covid liability waiver that Congress will inevitably pass not going to protect public universities?
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27 minutes ago, Rougarou said:
Doesn't matter. She's been humbled, her ambition will be much more muted. She has to know that she's viewed as ambitious and stiff-necked and doesn't appeal broadly on her own, but she works perfectly as a complement:
She's a woman.
She's a minority.
She's got experience.
She doesn't scare away the Biden voters while also appealing to secondary/tertiary Biden voters (by virtue of being a woman and a minority). There are just some voters they will never get (hardened/most extreme of the Bernie bros, etc.), but it doesn't matter, they don't need them.
She's Trump's worst nightmare in the last mile of the Presidential election (I can't believe we are 3 months away already, it feels like Trump v Biden hasn't even really gotten started yet).
If Biden chooses her, like I said, my belief is he can play conservative and take the air out of the ball and run out the clock to a victory as long as he doesn't do anything horrible.
Why the ever living fuck would she need to "mute" her ambition? Why should she feel "humbled" for not winning the nomination this year? She can hold on to her ambition and still be a good VP to Biden supporting him while also forging her own future path to the presidency. I have literally never heard a male candidate demeaned for being ambitious.
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1 hour ago, Captainant said:For those following along at home, this is the "bargaining" stage of acceptance
You're talking about the stages of grief, bargaining being somewhere in the middle, and acceptance being the last stage. A bunch of players and coaches appear to be in the bargaining stage, presidents appear closer to acceptance. But a whole bunch of people (about half of fucking voters) are still in the denial stage about the pandemic, throwing mask tantrums and sharing videos from quack doctors who think medicine comes from alien sperm or something. They will never move beyond that, because cloak room. It's the reason we couldn't get it under control this summer so there could be a season, bunch of irresponsible arrogant pieces of trash.
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I put it in the other thread, my idea would be to play division only with 2-3 weeks in between games and division champs play each other in a championship game. It's just not feasible to play weekly because outbreaks are going to happen and happen often. With 2-3 weeks between games, you can feel safe playing the next game (I know in reality it's not safe because college kids are idiots and will be partying during those weekends but this is all theoretical). The Big 12 can split in to north and south again (South = UT, TT, TCU, BU, WVU; North = OU, OSU, KU, KSU, ISU). The major clusterfuck is going to be sorting out records for the CCG when a bunch of teams will have had games cancelled. Imagine if a school avoids one or more of the better teams due to outbreaks while other schools play all the best teams. How do you apply record fairly for CCG purposes? It is going to be so fucked up if they play.
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Wtf is this shit? The blandest most boring of pasty white guys is hawking “rock and roll” tequila? What does that boring ass face have anything to do with either of those concepts? Didn’t he make like $5 million a year for 20 years? What are they paying him for literally the lamest ad imaginable for a tequila brand named Rock and Roll? OU fans don’t even drink tequila, too Mexican, they drink bud light and probably make their margaritas with mccormicks vodka.
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16 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:Doesn't that play in Trump's favor? "Look at what I'm trying to do for you and the Democratic Party is fighting me."
Nobody who falls for it was voting dem anyway. A true centrist will remember that they called Obama a dictator for executive orders and his were closer calls constitutionally than trying to control the purse. The fake centrists are trumpkins who don’t want to admit it publicly.
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46 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
Yeah, I don't see Catholics as monolithic. There's one strain, that I call the Opus Dei'y types (Kavanaugh, Mel Gibson, Escriva) that are pretty hard right, but there's a strong liberal tradition in the Catholic church.
Many of latter types, in my experience, are less "devout" and less outspoken about their Catholic faith. There will always be the publicity of priests and even bishops who try to deny democrat politicians communion, and the Catholic Karens and Kens ostracize anyone in the parish who they know is a democrat voter and takes communion (because being a democrat is a mortal sin due to our love of throwing babies into wood chippers). The church also isn't budging on the evilness of the gays and more and more people are just seeing how fucking stupid it is to think gay people are deviants who are just acting funny to piss off jebus. Yes, my tone is what it is because I was in my mid 20's when I finally came to terms with the mental and emotional damage the Catholic Church did to me in my younger years (and I wasn't even molested by a priest, more self-loathing and depression thinking I was truly sick and evil for acting on sexual urges as a teenager and for refusing to think gays were evil). Sorry for thread drift, just things that get me riled up with the issue is raised.
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Just now, tokamak said:
Seems like it matters quite a bit more than usual in this situation if Biden ends up winning. He's like 78. Even if he stays healthy for the whole term, he's only doing 1 right? Gotta think the VP would have the inside track to the 2024 nomination in that scenario.
I think it depends on their thinking. If this is the thinking, I think he will be pressured greatly to pick Harris. If not, it'll be Rice, who he likely is much more familiar and comfortable with.
Either way, the biggest part of this election will be the Obama machine when it really ramps up. He is still popular and will give Joe a boost, especially if trump keeps on with his dimentia filled nonsense and racism.



Joe Biden Veepstakes 2020
in Cloak Room
Did I miss something? What would the "slut-shaming" angle even be? That she's a woman who has had a penis inside of her sometimes?