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GW Hayduke

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  1. The football player kneeling fiasco was identity politics. At first glance, you either identify with trump and “true patriots” who actually love our country or you identify with a person protesting injustices within our criminal justice system. This wedge issue is identity politics. You can transcend identity politics by identifying “both sides” as citizens of the US.
  2. Identity politics is trump, white nationalism, and maga. Identity politics is the backbone of the hate, fear, and demagogy within trump’s influence. Identity politics is divisive. Bernie bros are divisive. Bernie bros like identity politics.
  3. Sex, age, and gender are only factors that weigh into a candidates overall strength. The bottom line at the end of the day is that we should nominate and get behind the strongest candidate just like we are Joe Biden and she’s a middle school girl. Identity politics is devisive.
  4. I don’t ever remember our relationships with foreign allies being as strained, this kind of alignment with hostile foreign countries, having an authoritative leader, or this level of strain on the constitution, rule of law, and democratic bedrocks such as free press or election integrity.
  5. I have the opposite take but I think it depends on what you think it would take to “get rid of the current infection.” Campaign finance reform, election reform, anti-corruption reform, etc. would depend on the overall make up of Congress and is firmly on the democratic ticket no matter who the party nominated imo. If the infection is related to civil discourse and respect for common decency and fellow citizens, then Beto is the best suited to address imo.
  6. I never said it swung a bunch of republicans. Strawmen are a sign of a weak position
  7. Dems should offer an alternative to hate, division, and demagogy. We need a candidate that can transcend that. See Beto’s take on kneeling football players. The platform for Dems seems easy: respect for all citizens and different viewpoints, realign ourselves with our allies, the rule of law, anti-corruption, campaign finance reform, and evidence-based policy making. We just need an affective candidate that can sell that. The progressives policies will come.
  8. You seem to be shitting on everyone. Hillary, DNC, Hugo, some guy on twitter. You are perpetuating the Bernie bro thing from last election. The most important thing is that we have a strong candidate so that we don’t have Trump for a second term
  9. Lawfare podcast on nationalism below. Nationalism to a degree adds value to a society, promotes civics and community engagement, but can lead to massive problems that everyone should already be aware of. https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-john-judis-nationalist-revival
  10. Taking a safety is the smart play in limited instances. Up by 6 points with 30 seconds left and backed up on own goal line. Rather than punt and risk a block/fumble and potential touchdown for the opposing team OR making the punt and giving the opponent the ball on your 40 yard line, you instead give them 2 points and then pin them back at their own 25. Either way the opposing team needs a touchdown. It’s about giving them the worst possible field position.
  11. It’s like people here don’t know how to Mensa
  12. It could be both depending on whether you believe playcalling was what held the offense back or whether there were other factors.
  13. Honestly it was kind of a big deal IMO. There is media driven narrative that a lot of fans have bought into. That narrative is boiled down to “fuck Tim Beck” and rooted in the idea that playcalling was one of our primary issues with the offense. Herm straight up called it out and shamed the media guy. That’s a big deal in my book
  14. I suspect Herman wouldn’t say that “he called all the shots” because he has position coaches and a playcaller that all have their roles. However I recall Herman having a vote that counts twice or something like that
  15. Wouldn’t building up the scapegoat fan theory be better for Herman’s job? Rather than dismantling it and putting the pressure on Herman himself?
  16. I don’t believe Beck was the decider when it came to starting a true freshmen at QB.
  17. The idea is to not stop bitching but to direct that bitching to the appropriate place and that place is Tom Herman.
  18. To translate: fans should give the coaching staff heat for the performance of our offense. Herm is asking that that criticism go to the appropriate place since most fans don’t understand the inner workings of our offense.
  19. Tom honestly said it best. Hope fans will pay heed: On the offensive coordinator getting criticized: Yeah, I got criticized at Ohio State, and my boss took up for me. I got criticized at Iowa State at times, and my boss took up for me. Major Applewhite got criticized at times, and I took up for him, because it is unfair. It's absolutely unfair.This is -- again, game plans are formulated throughout the week and throughout the off-season, and there is an immense amount of collaboration in between series of what we want to see, the next series of adjustments that we need to make based on what we're seeing.Especially in Game 1s, because there is no identity, right? You assume you're going to get something similar to what you got last year, but who knows. There could be something completely different, and you need to adjust.So that type of collaboration is extremely commonplace. I mean, there isn't -- this is Texas' offense. This isn't Tim Beck's offense. Just like it was Houston's offense and not Major Applewhite's offense. It was Ohio State's offense and not Tom Herman's offense. That's not how it works in college football. It really doesn't.I don't know if the pros are different. Maybe they are. Maybe they're hired guns and they come in and bring in their own offense, and all the assistants, they just, I guess, play cards during the day and show up to babysit their players at practice, and the offensive coordinator hands them a game plan and says, hey, this is what we're going to do, and everybody stays silent on the headset on game day and this guy just calls the plays. But that's not the way it works in college football.You know, the two voices that will be heard throughout a series on a play-by-play basis will be mine and Tim Beck's.
  20. Ah yes. One of the guys that Herman was speaking to when he looked into the camera and addressed “Fans.”
  21. Most fans think it is that simple but it really isn’t. The play caller has to call the Sam touchdown play when Sam is in the game and call the Shane touchdown play when Shane is in the game.
  22. Why doesn’t he just sprinkle some fairy dust on it?
  23. Politico has a [direct quote from the source](https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/26/cohen-trump-tower-meeting-russians-745123) of the story, who appears to be making direct legal claims about what Cohen knows: “Everyone in the room is indictable if one overt act occurred after the meeting, and anyone who knew about the meeting ahead of the time and didn’t call the cops is an accessory or at least a conspirator,” the source said. That article included some thoughts on legal culpability: “The significance of this report will depend on the facts,” said Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney from eastern Michigan. “If Trump was aware of the meeting in advance and encouraged it to go forward, then he could face criminal exposure under a number of different theories.” “He could be in violation of campaign finance laws for accepting a thing of value from a foreign national in relation to an election” she continued. “If he knew that the source of the information was from illegal hacking, he could be charged with accessory after the fact to a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. He could also be charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States by impeding the fair administration of elections. In addition, he could be charged with obstruction of justice for misdirecting investigators by dictating a misleading press release.” But Cohen’s statement on its own probably isn’t enough to convince Mueller. “It’s huge if true. The question will be if it can be corroborated,” said Peter Zeidenberg, a former federal prosecutor. “It’s very possible that Mueller can or will be able to corroborate much of this. I would not be at all surprised if these participants emailed or texted one another about the meeting — before and after.” I really don't like this term, but it looks like 'big if true' is the right sort of look at it, but right now there is no evidence that it's true beyond Cohen's claim, and it appears [Cohen has no evidence to back up that claim.](https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/26/politics/michael-cohen-donald-trump-june-2016-meeting-knowledge/index.html) In the Politico article, lawyer for the President, Rudy Giuliani, makes a claim that this will come down to a credibility contest without evidence, and without evidence I think he's right: Giuliani said the dispute about whether Trump approved of the meeting with the Russians would amount to little more than “a credibility contest” between Cohen and other top Trump campaign hands. pasted from another message board
  24. This. The immigration threat is manufactured for political purposes.
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