Kevin

2 hours ago, Kotchman said:

 CDR is an abbreviation for Commander

I thought the abbreviation was Cmdr. 

9 minutes ago, Spirit said:

 

I've never imposed a ban on someone before.  I might have to for this.

 

I thought you guys didn’t want the government to help. “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” I thought were the scariest words one could hear.

Hopefully they have insurance and I’m sure the Feds will do their part. Whether they do it well or efficient is another matter.

4 minutes ago, Kotchman said:

I prefer no mail in voting. Like abortion mail in voting was passed under the premise to accommodate uncontrollable situations. Both have evolved into their unspoken original purpose of facilitating the uniparty Marxist 

Well I think my state and others will keep on doing it. And I am glad we have the backing of this guy to do so.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/03/09/trump-votes-by-mail-again-despite-months-of-voter-fraud-claims/?sh=375dbbfe52da

51 minutes ago, Kotchman said:

Florida is pretty good. I’m pretty sure all the states need to tighten things up.
No reason we should engage in mail in voting but these are a few things that need to be the standard.

Mail in votes need to be requested in person at a date prior to the election. Ballots aren’t sent to unverified individuals. Ballots need to be returned and counted before Election Day. The states need to release that count prior to election date. None of this finding ballots for days. Unsolicited ballots, vote harvesting, and drop boxes need to go. 
While democrats have mostly benefited from voter fraud , this is a uniparty issue that absolutely helps limp dick Texas republicans as well. 
Now we can move on to voter id and dump chinese software. 

 

So once we tighten things up like you mentioned, we are good to do mail in voting again?

18 minutes ago, Kotchman said:

All mail in voting isn’t the same. You’re smarter than this. 

Sounds good. So who gets mail in voting done correctly? Which states, counties, jurisdictions?

1 hour ago, Redondo said:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/08/10/president-joseph-r-biden-jr-approves-hawaii-disaster-declaration-3/

Plenty to be critical of Joe Biden. But maybe Branco should occasionally put down the crayons. 

7 hours ago, mmc said:

Sadly, most people in this thread genuinely believe a legitimate election can be conducted with mail ballots

So just to verify, the state I live in that went for Trump and is heavily red, did not conduct a legitimate election in 2020 and has not since 2013 when they allowed mail in voting, correct? All republicans voted into office with votes from mail in ballots are illegitimate, right?

Just want to make sure we are being consistent here.

11 hours ago, Rico said:

To be fair, a few of those guys, including Trump, should have been indicted just for war crimes.

1 minute ago, Taylor said:

Geoff sails by in a kayak and says, "They got him this time!"

You never know. Maybe the prosecution can’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Or there is one juror that goes rogue for Trump. 

If republicans want to win, they need the moderates and independents back. But in my opinion, they won’t if Trump gets the nomination. We’ll see.

But it isn’t looking good for him right now due to certain accusations.

If Trump goes to prison, his inmate number really needs to be 11780. It would be an injustice if it wasn’t.

On 8/11/2023 at 10:18 AM, Tank said:

i thought that came from you. apparently not.

@St1ck is actually the one that posted it. 
 

Anyways I’m in shock over this, I’m only a couple years younger. RIP Brandon. Always loved your sense of humor and the debates you had on the boards going back to the ESPN days. We’ll miss you.

Trump was asked nicely and quietly for over a year to give back documents for which he refused to 100% comply. 
 

Trump was not charged for documents he did return. He’s been charged with obstructing for those that he did not. Imagine if Trump had complied completely and didn’t obstruct. He’d have one less indictment. But Trump’s narcissistic personality disorder can’t allow him to function properly. If only he had done what Pence had done and cooperated.

50 minutes ago, Jason said:

What he's accused of now is something different. If he actually broke the law and goes to jail, then fine. I hope very elected official that breaks the law goes to jail. I'm specifically talking about the Russian collusion lie that Rogan brought up.  They used against him for campaign purposes and that was wrong. 

To be fair, Donald Trump, Don Jr and others didn’t help their cause. They might not have tried to collude on their own but they sure as hell didn’t seem to turn down any chance for help. No one made Trump ask for 30,000 emails from Russia while doing so recorded. No one made Jr. accept an invite to meet with Russian nationals and even though that meeting produced nothing, it produced an email showing him willing to work with them if the opportunity arose. Paul Manafort sharing polling data with a Russian national tied to their intelligence community didn’t help matters.

At the very least, they made themselves look guilty as hell. The problem is Trump, his family and those that surround themselves with his family aren’t victims in my opinion. A lot of this stuff they bring on themselves and tell others they are victims. He didn’t want to shake things up, he wanted a slice of the pie (remember his charity?). He just didn’t know how to use the knife and fork while other scum bags do.

Republicans ignored a true outsider in 2007 and 2011 with Ron Paul in the primaries and eventually went with a real estate mogul with a sketchy past and personality.

4 minutes ago, Jason said:

True but inflation was low and they were probably assuming some economic growth would eventually slow in the near future. Obviously they didn't see covid coming and that wrecked everything. Had we not had covid I think things would have been so good Trump would have easily won re-election. Trump is a very polarizing figure but the fact is that things were good for a a lot of the country while he was in office. If he happens to get re-elected I do not think things will get any better though so I am hoping it's someone else. 

I’m not saying things weren’t good. I’m just saying they had been good for awhile previous to him coming into office, the good times were a continuation of an upward trend. But you’re right, he probably would have been re-elected. Although his tariffs and the U.S. tax payers having to pay billions to farmers because of the tariffs is something I wish he would have avoided. But he’s a guy that’s impulsive and can’t stay out of his own way (This latest court debacle and Truth social post is evidence of that.)

The problem is if the economy was good, there would be no reason to lower rates. Lowering rates is meant to stimulate the economy, raising them is meant to slow it from overheating and if the economy was red hot, that would be the last thing needed to be done. To be fair, they should have started raising them back in 2015 or 2016. They had been artificially low for too long. 

The seeds of inflation were there long before covid was heard of.

2 hours ago, Jason said:

Rogan is not wrong here 

When he mentions the economy, I have to disagree. I’m not saying it’s wasn’t good. I’m just saying it had been good for awhile before he came into office. But it seems like in typical Trump fashion, he took all the credit. When things like unemployment had been trending downward for years.

One thing Trump did that was completely dumb was in 2018, when he pressured the Feds to stop raising interest rates. I know why he freaked out. Because his pride and joy was the stock market was not taking the news well. For some reason, the supposed independent Fed blinked and Powell gave in and stop raising rates (I think he started lowering them again). You don’t lower rates when the economy is doing well. Trump even mentioned wanted them to go to zero or negative.

3 hours ago, m0nkey said:

Now we have to guess who Kevin’s dad is

Well he weighs about 190 so slim pickings. 

27 minutes ago, St1ck said:

You don't get it. It's not that Trump committed a bunch of crimes and did whatever he could to overturn an election he lost. It's because this born rich, pent house in Manhattan living, narcissist piece of shit is trying to take down the "deep state "

It’s too bad he didn’t try sooner to take down the deep state. But I get life can get distracting when you’re running a fake university that requires you to pay back $25 million to people you conned. Or misusing funds from your charity (embezzlement?). Or trying to nail Ivanka. 

Not sure why he wasted four years as President in not locking up Hillary. Maybe he’s just a procrastinator.

1 hour ago, Jason said:

I’m 100% for politicians being held accountable for their dirty deeds, regardless of their party but the DOJ is working harder than they’ve ever worked before when it comes to Trump. 

To be fair, Trump has kind of made it easy for them. 

46 minutes ago, Jason said:

Where the heck have you been?

I just decided to take a break from AW back at the end of 2021. I had been on the site almost every single day since Chuck launched it back in 2004/2005 and just got kind of burned out. I spent the majority of my time in the Spin forum because the last seven years, it had been more entertaining than actual Angels baseball with all the shit that has gone down with the franchise and the very disappointing seasons year in and year out. I am not going to lie though, I kind of wish I was checking the meltdown on main forum last year during the epic 14 game losing streak but my thoughts were with you guys.

But even the spin forum seemed to kind of take a dive (if one can imagine that) as well right before I left, in my opinion at least. Seemed like some long time posters stopped posting on the site altogether or stopped posting in the forum itself. For awhile it just seemed like the fun spirited political debate was lacking, especially when people would bump threads from years ago and I would read through it and you truly felt like you got conservatives and liberals points of views. Whether you agreed with one another, didn't matter. It was just fun and entertaining. And even sometimes thought provoking where I might consider another point of view. Just seemed to be night and day difference between what it once was and what I perceived it to be at the time. But that might have just been my issue and skewed perception. 

My dad texted me about what he saw regarding Lou and to be honest, I thought not only of him but you guys. I figured I would pop in and give my respects to the great guy that Lou is. And of course, because I did that, I got pulled into the Spin forum like old days. Not as strong as I thought I was. Good to see Chuck hasn't shut it down and good to see some people posting in it again.

48 minutes ago, Kotchman said:

That’s fair. Justice in America seems to only target one side.  There’s been more people from Jan 6 thrown in prison than the last 15 years of black protest. 

Didn't Mike Pence (a Republican) get cleared of wrong doing for unintentional handling of classified information? Didn't over a 1000 people get jailed during the summer of love in 2020? Sometimes narratives are just that. 

P.S. I stopped by to make a comment for Lou and figured I would check in on the good ol' Trump thread. Good times had by all.

So sorry to hear. Lou I have been enjoying your posts since the ESPN message board days. Your positive outlook on life is a great example to me and your sense of humor is something I always loved each and every time you posted . All I can say is my thoughts are with you and with your family and friends. May they find comfort in this very difficult time.