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Fading? Yo, if they weren't ALREADY on their 3rd stringer when the QB went down I think they could have won that game with a backup. Even Josh Johnson might have settled in and maaaaaybe given you a shot in some ways. Maaaaaybe. But yo, the defense played fucking amazing, all things considered. I mean I don't know what Lance is worth, really. But don't be too hard on 'em. No offense to Josh Johnson, but he isn't ACTUALLY a backup QB. He's not even a backup's backup. Give 'em a break.

I can take this question, if I might presume: Ser, Scot, Pal... You have no fucking idea what the People's Liberation Army has at its disposal. And much less what the People's Liberation Army Navy has at its disposal. The difference between China and Russia is well drawn out by Wert right there, though it's more of a passive byproduct of what he was actually addressing. Russia is weak and wild. They have more ambition than capacity. And have really always been that way. That's just Russia baby. Now they can box! Yo, they can box. But they kinda suck. Sorry. They're really better off, like, self-image wise I think; as a fucking terrorist state. Like, that's their crowd. Hooking up with Iran? Yo, Russia's the Cool Kid at that table. Or at least that's their future with Putin and his policies. IMO. New Year new day eh? Who knows what another government might be like. Meanwhile, China. China is not weak. And they are not wild. China is strong. And China is focused. Do not underestimate them. That's all I got.

Well, as the newly-minted Good Girl of the Board Militarists... I don't think Ukraine should attack as a matter of course in Spring, Summer, or Fall. I mean, obviously, their general staff knows what they're doing. I wouldn't tell them NOT to do whatever they're gonna do. I would just put forward the fact that Ukraine grows stronger every day. Has gigantic reserves it had all year to train and incorporate. Is well armed with small arms and AT weapons. This is good! But yo, they ain't got no armor! They ain't got no air! Don't just slap some donated shit together as fast as you can and try to schwerpunkt your way to gaining back some territory. That's an excellent way to ruin all your best new equipment in exchange for a new status quo. And god forbid you lose or just fail to win... Eh. I say wait. Get ironclad deals from US and Nato for equipment (tanks, planes, drones) to finish the war for good in '24 That gives Russia a whole nother year to wither on the vine. And it sucks to have to eat punches and lose lives that way, but in the coldest calculous of war... Ukraine's losses are more replaceable than Russia's. At the equipment and personnel level. That's just the way it is. However, I think that the optimal use of that strength is to hold back for a knockout blow against an enemy who may very well defeat itself very very soon instead of chancing many many more lives on an optimistic meat grinder strategy. Just my opinion. Having their army routed (but not beaten) by a Ukrainian attack might actually do more to strengthen Russian resolve than if Putin is seen as just feeding more and more sons of Russia to the spears of NATO for the sake of his vanity. IMO

Exactly what someone whose team didn't get Sean Payton would say. I mean, you guys aren't wrong that this team is bi-polar AF. It has no idea what it's doing with itself. That being said... Russell Wilson + Sean Payton... Are you kidding? Don't overthink it. Feel it.

Fuck cancer. See you on the wakeup

I'm not anti-semitic... but... ..but.. .but. if perhaps "You People" Are looking to hire a broke-ass dimestore-discount-rack Dr. Strangelove (without the wheelchair, or degrees, or knowledge, or presumably work-ethic) character... I know somebody like that. It's a joke. Anti-semitism is bad. But I think bad things are funny sometimes. I'm bad that way ETA: The whole point of that setup was to do a Tarantino revenge-of-the-Jews joke but I completely forgot about it with all the emojiis Goddamit

Trust me, okay? There's no problem with the size of this drumstick, okay?

I already ate too much lowfat pecan vanilla ice cream. I can already feel a stomach ache testing the waters... But if this goes to overtime I can't not have more right? Like, that's just how like the gravitronics of ice cream physics works I think

I'm always Miss'n somethin'

I may or may not misagree

Well I think that Andy Reid went from sadly underrated to a little over-the-fuck rated because of Patrick Mahomes. So... That's why I wouldn't jump on the Beinemy train. I mean unless you believe in him. I've never met the dude. I'd want Flores, because as I said. Or Harbaugh because I know he's good. And, with enough LSD and time in an unmarked van, I'm about 12-13 percent sure that I can induce a 5 percent chance of Andrew Luck coming back to the game I have no evidence for this claim I have no lab and no equipment But I think we should risk it

Yeah But a fucking whitebread poser fuck

But he did win the big one. I call him the greatest I've ever seen because he could run any offense I've ever seen. All of 'em. Lamar's to Brady's in '02 And he'd run them all as best they could be run. I don't like that the rules of the game have been watered down to the point that he is speed-running through the regular season, but that's not his fault. Josh Allen wouldn't make it in the NFL of ten years ago. Mahomes would.

And, like, just for the whatever or whatever I am wary of Bienemy. It's not his fault. 1) His name sounds like Be Enemy... It's not normally something I'd consider but bear with me for a second. 2) Yo, this dude came onto the scene playing Cortana for the Master Chief. I don't know if you've seen Patrick Mahomes play a football, but it's a lot like watching a really REALLY good 13 year old on Mt Dew Gamer Fuel turn the difficulty down to EASY and just frivolisize in the violence. Like, I swear to god I've seen Swaggy P (That's what I call Mahomes, Swaggy P (the second) or "Swags") just refuse to use the trigger sometimes. Like he just sees he's up against a corridor of Grunts and just starts mashing the B button because he doesn't have to do anything else. Right, so, like that's not a reason to NOT hire the dude. That his name sounds like a sea creature and he kinda had like the best player I've ever seen from minute one of his career. It's just that I was always much much more impressed by what Flores accomplished on the Peninsula of Misfit Toys. I like defensive coaches anyway. That's just my opinion

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Fine, whatever Fuck Reich and his never-ending bag of excuses His QBs were backups and cast-offs THAT HE CHOSE Reich wanted Rivers Wanted Wentz I don't know if it was Ballard or Reich who wanted Ryan, and to PAY Jacoby all that guaranteed money for NOTHING. Ballard should be fired the second the new coach signs his contract. That coach can bring one of his lickspittle buddies in to GM. Irsay's team. Irsay was getting ripped off for years by this SadSanta fuck who parlayed a few hot streaks into eternal mediocrity. Fuck him Saturday wasn't some yahoo from down the street. The man knew football. Does he have any business being a Head Coach? Absolutely not. But, as has already been suggested, he was just babysitting. And besides, you hypocritical fucks talk out both sides of your mouths about tanking until somebody actually FOR REAL THIS TIME does it. Fuck y'all (with love!) Reich kept trotting out this gimmick-bag offense of bell-whistle bullshit that operated exclusively within fifteen yards of the line of scrimmage. And five of those fifteen include the area BEHIND the line of scrimmage! I 'predicted' (ugh) all of this LAST YEAR. The pieces that were assembled for the roster, especially on offense, did not match with the goober dork who was trying to call plays like he's scratching them into the dirt at Pop Warner. To say nothing of how those pieces matched with each other. Matt Ryan and Michael Pittman and Jonathan Taylor are a great three-piece... If Matt Ryan was five years younger! If he could still go under center Basically Every Play, but not like ALWAYS or nothin... If he could still pop those balls in a sweet arc about 20-25 yards down field under the safety and behind the corner for Mr Tough Guy (for real!) Michael Pittman to come down with like a taller, longer, version of Anquan Bolden. And especially if he could make that pass FROM UNDER CENTER! But he can't And Reich has no rhythm for offense. It's why Pederson didn't let him call plays. He had to go. The only thing I think Irsay did wrong is not firing Ballard. Maybe he has his reasons. Idk

Yes it can. It's called hovering Maybe they call it "hoovering" in the future-provinces of Briton and Gaul, I don't know In America we call it 'hovering' Too smart. Fearing covid when you have something to lose to it is perfectly rational. I think he's played his hand pretty fucking well. It's just that his hand is garbage. Waddaya gonna do? Give the motherfucker a break! Fake his death, disappear him to some awesome island with a few of his besties, and be done with it whenever he's ready to call it quits. I mean jesus, have you people never heard of diplomacy before? The easiest way to get someone out of a corner is patience. And appropriate force when necessary. We could have cut the head off his invasion completely conventionally and saved a lot of lives. Military and civilian. The fact that Russia got Crimea, then was in position to get Kyiv, while literally the entire rest of the world dithered is a victory. His cards sucked though. He got as far as he could by bluffing, got a little too aggressive. So now you gotta pound him like a drum until he's willing to accept some kind of EAST-WEST BERLIN but in Crimea situation where Russians get complete, FAIR, military and commercial access to whatever and whatever. And we'll even cut off sanctions and deploy economic aid packages for Ukraine and Russia both. But not till he stops. Fucking Ripp and your fucking appeasement (no offense!) P-sizzle ain't cray-dizzle, y'know'what'I'mean? I mean US and friends have played this like, okay or whatever, but for god's sake stop playing not-to-lose and play to win! Proactive measures could have kicked Putin's face in a year ago instead of wasting everybody's time with whining about stupid nuclear apocalypses they don't even understand when the economic and CLIMATE pressures that produced things like Putin's -kinda not-insane - reasons to want to gobble up Prime:) territory are not only going unaddressed, they're getting worse! Anyway. Fuck America. Fuck Putin. Go Ukraine. Also, Ukraine, take very goddamn dollar Uncle Sam offers you. Every one of them. Dawg. The bank can wave all the motherfucking papers it wants at you. You usin them papers to buy guns, eh? (This is all of course an expressive statement, on the conditions pertaining to and surrounding, the war in Ukraine and the relational powers involved. Is that a good enough disclaimer? Do I have to use a different made-up legalese gibberdygook to wrap up my statements before I'm allowed to venture them into the public domain? Asking for a friend )

I saw this a few years ago and my main takeaway was that a drone can go anywhere a tank can go

Flirting seems a folly State your intentions plainly and I will do the same Less blood shed in the end

Right on Yeah, I may well have the particulars wrong. I just know scumbags scumbag

By the way, I bring this up not just to whine. But because, tying into my broader messaging of late, this is a manifestation of anti-privilege If FuckFuck Abrams wanted that information up there? About -how- exactly the device works or what he might or might not be !allowed! to know about it? He can tell somebody to tell somebody that he wants to know and eventually somebody will get back to him I'm afraid if I type the wrong thing into the computer machine somebody will be getting back to me too Yeah? How's that for a type of privilege that isn't class/wealth based but also totally is because of course it is?

I cannot source it, but I remember seeing that the majority of NFL owners who donated money to supposed 'Social Justice' campaigns in the wake of George Floyd's murder actually ended up sending that money to a bunch of Republican political PACs and shit. It was the least surprising thing I ever heard I assumed when I read the thing and still do that they wrote off these 'donations' on their taxes as well

Zorral, if conflict is the only dialogue that an opponent understands you can't just take it off the table and declare them pariah I mean you can. Hi, North Korea But then you just kinda helped create, then washed your hands of, a humanitarian nightmare as a state of an entire peoples' permanent existence I mean you can do that. And you can even do that and believe you believe in morals or whatever But not if they have nukes, eh? And the reliable means to deliver them eh? Meanwhile, I've been sometimes stymied in my book research efforts by the limitations of google. Some of these are obvious, right, like sometimes a question is just too complicated or specific for google to know what you're after. It's only a Robot Then there's other limitations of Google Like, I get scared that if I google books about how ICBMswork and whether you could disable the fuse/trigger/whatever of one of them mid-flight as part of a scheme to catch it and either relay it up to space with a series of dedicated systems in low orbits or, IDK, drop it in the bottom of the ocean or something - anyway, I get scared that if I google <^ that stuff then scary things will happen to me. Because I don't think you people believe in morals or whatever But that's just me

Yeah but you're placing too much importance into an artificial, and INHERENTLY constrained, system that -END GAMEs- in mutual annihilation. Do you see what you're doing? You're so afraid of one of the two options that you're confining yourself into a system of delay rather than resolution. By taking the inevitability of mutual destruction to such a literal conceit that you make a countdown clock for it is not alleviating the situation. It's telling the opponent to go faster. That's, like, the point of Dr. Strangelove Huzzah! Telephone! Mr. President there are one or two points I'd like to make if I may... 1) The Ruskies started this war 2) They started it eight years before they started it, and we started it ourselfs about... say... was it twelve or eleven years before that - oh who remembers? They started it 3) If we were to immediately launch an all-out and coordinated airwave of unmanned, precision-guided, tactical air-space craft that struck the ROADs, the BRIDGES, and the Long-Range Weapons Systems - and HELL, let's make giant bomb-created trenches across any topography that looks too easy on wheeled vehicles while we're at it. We can MAKE A TRENCH IN THE ground FROM THE AIR FROM AMERICA in Ukraine!- Well, if we did all that we might just stand a damn good chance of stopping this slow-rolling criminal wave right in its tracks. Literally, maybe! 4) Not one American will die because of this action 5) Hopefully no Ukrainians will die because of our strikes. It's war. Somebody might have been hanging out under the bridge, a local, and we didn't know. We can't help that. 6) Get Ukraine's permission, and the permission of the American peoples' representatives first 7) Russians will die. They are dying anyway. Less Ukrainians would die. Maybe less Russians would die. We don't have to target their hospitals and mess halls and barracks' anymore. We can break their shit. And, unfortunately, the people they put inside that shit. 8) It's war

affectively?