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OneOfTheOutOfFocusGuys

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  1. Sure, this was beyond settled at the time, but none of those witnesses are alive anymore so no one is here to controvert what we say. 
     

    Up next, this latest policy is just like the holocaust and here’s what MLK really meant, which incidentally won’t be controverted by holocaust survivors or MLK because we’re pretty much out of those.  

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  2. 12 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

    While you may be right I’m not so sure. If Jim Jones had told his followers to start trusting the government some of them wouldn’t have followed him to Jonestown. Many still would but not all.

    He will easily win any republican primary if he runs but a significant amount of anti vaxxers won’t show up to vote in the general if he keeps this up.

    It’s kind of an interesting litmus test to tell whether or not he’s serious about running. If he keeps doubling down on the vaccine, it’s an indicator that he isn’t really serious about running because his ego tells him he won’t win and he desperately needs valediction boyo about his creation of the vaccine. 

    i have always assumed he'd run and win by a ton, but i think this is a good point.  antivaxxers are a significant number of his voters and it could trigger some outsized reaction from them.

     

    one other thing is i've never seen numbers that articulate who his voters were in 2016 versus 2020.  8 years between 2016 and 2024 is a long time.  with an 80 year life span, it seems to imply 10% of his 2016 voters will be dead by then, 5% of his 2020.  was the increase between 2016 and 2020 just the same demographic profile as the original 2016 R voting bloc(k), just four years older?  or was he able to backfill effectively with yoots, who cannot be counted on to die by 2024.  i assume the big jump in D votes were spread throughout the age brackets.

     

    (as i'm writing this, i just googled the answer; at least a good substitute to it in contemporaneous self-identification of party.  it looks like trump's voting base just aged and he didn't back fill with kids.  biden did fine with kids.  i think that is the most positive thing i've seen to make me think trump won't win again in 2024)

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  3. 18 hours ago, aggie08 said:

    Man, I don't know how the "only Biden could beat Trump" narrative grew legs. No one gives a fuck about Joe Biden other than he's not Trump, he seems relatively sane by comparison, and he's a decent human being (just tactically ignore all that weird hair sniffing stuff).

    Is that really that high of a bar to meet?

     

    19 hours ago, Blotto said:

    Biden winning doesnt mean Trump wouldnt have lost to other candidates. the voter turnout wasn't because Biden was so goddamn inspirational. the voter turnout was because people in this country were sick of listening to that fat orange fuck.

    Given the ultimate margins, who else wins GA? Liz? Bernie? Pete?   Cmon.  What about AZ? Biden was the right one. 

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  4. 11 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    I guess you haven’t looked at the Big 12’s academics in a while. Other than Texas, it’s a bit downsy

    That’s fine. The world needs people to eat paste too. Our conference mates are just dumb. That’s curable.  Thats the whole point of education.  In the SEC it’s intentional.  There is no path out of that.

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  5. 23 hours ago, Hank Chinaski said:

    I’d pick Sheffield. The excerpt below doesn’t strike me as strange or surprising at all - so much of the narrative around certain players are rooted more in perception than fact. I’m unmoved by “moments” when it comes to assessing the value of an entire career, I guess…

    It’s so strange, if you look at his career numbers, he wasn’t any better in high-leverage situation (.292/.388/.556) than he was in medium-leverage situations (.299/.388/.572). He wasn’t dramatically better with runners in scoring position (.296/.411/.531) than he was overall (.283/.380/.552).

    That’s defining high leverage in one way.  But bases loaded on Tuesday in May is different than game 6 of World Series.  He’s .455/.576/.795 in 14 WS games, presumably going against the best of the best each time. My guess is no one since we’ve been alive is comparable over that many games. 

  6. 14 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    Prosecutors contend that Miller was an acquaintance of Holland’s and that Holland had been caught on video in a Home Depot buying a saw and plastic bags, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

    I believe that also happened in the Colton pitonyiak murder.  Went to breed and got a saw, bleach, and trash bags.  

  7. in accordance with our discussion of good guys get in, Clemens is suddenly (and hilariously transparently) very active on twitter.  hey guys!  just thinking about baseball! aw shucks, i can't wait to engage with all you fellow fans of the game!

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