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Is Dom Davis a free agent? Surprised he wasn't cut. Can't think that Lapo is a Davis fan after the way he shitcanned him in 2017 (and also of course after a 5-TD 14-pick season by Davis in 2019)

The two-party system is so frustrating, where the Dems have a monopoly on everything left of "kill them all and **** their corpses" it's hard for progressives to get traction. Lots of people blame the Greens and Ralph Nader for giving the White House to Bush, who was the worst American president in my lifetime, though that is splitting hairs between "let's put the brown kids in cages, suborn the federal government to a weird incestuous kleptocrat family, and give the nuclear football to a senile mean uncle with impulse control problems" and "let's carpet bomb the brown kids from high altitude." I can see both sides of blaming Nader. I remember during the Bush reign lots of people were like "worst president ever" and people who remembered Nixon said "no, Nixon was worse." I kinda feel that way about Bush.

You're right, the Dems could have had universal health care -- except Obama was in his kubaya bipartisan make-nice-with-the-GOP phase, Pelosi wouldn't hear of it, Lieberman was the Dems' 60th vote in the senate and refused to consider it, and Harry Reid loved the filllibuster more than he loved progress. That old Dem guard really doesn't like the center-left wing of the party. And yeah, Joe Biden needs to defend his vote for the Iraq War. Clinton lost the Dem primary in 2008 because of her vote for it and I was glad to see that. Wouldn't mind seeing that dynamic repeat itself. I hope Bernie and Warren climb up Biden's ass about it.

yeah, and the "far left" in American politics is somewhere around the center everywhere else in the world. Government-sponsored health care and tuition are not controversial things to offer for most of the developed nations in the world.

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wait wait you're telling me a pro athlete or coach talked to the media in empty cliches? And on a Mike O'Shea team no less? Inconceivable! Dude had a radio show in 2010ish when he was the starter and it was clear then that he was never gonna be a Jeremy Roenick quote machine but I recall he did a real fine job handling the call-in yahoos, especially when the team wasn't playing well. And I think that after a career of high-level play as a starting QB and a promising start in coaching, it's safe to say that he's figured out how to talk to football people.

love that we retained Costello, our OL got lots better as the year went on and was ******* vicious in the Grey Cup, we give Walters props for that regularly but I bet Costello had no small impact there.

Question: how many democrats have left the party or resigned their elected posts because of sex crimes or lurid allegations in the 2010s? I bet you can't answer this.

I am still waiting to learn the details of the million fraudulent votes in the 2016 US federal election. Prove that claim, withdraw it, or confirm my judgement that you're just a noisy crank who regurgitates whatever the Macedonian trolls are writing this week.

I'm still waiting to learn where all those millions of illegal voters voted in 2016

I play drums today because when I was eleven, I heard Subdivisions and I thought "hey those drums are all weird, they're not predictable like in other songs." rest in beats, Neil. **** cancer.

Spiderverse was indeed super great. Just saw Knives Out. It was pretty good, bordering on great. Definitely worth seeing. I know a lot of people here don't like Rian Johnson but that guy can make a film.

was intrigued by the Dark Order at first but Lucha Underground did stories like that like a million times better. Let me know when the leader of the Dark Order kills the house band, makes a throne of their skulls, and presides over the ring like Thulsa Doom while Cody cowers in an undisclosed location. ****, I miss Lucha Underground.

oh another reason I don't use chat is that sometimes the streams I watch can be 30 seconds to a minute behind TSN or live, so the chat is kind of spoilery.

yeah, the chat isn't fun to use during games, whenever the Bombers suffer any minor reversal it's the ******* end of the world for some, which gets tiresome. If the chat had an ignore feature I'd use chat more. I tried to implement my own a few years back, but stalled out on it.

https://pleated-jeans.com/2019/12/24/disturbing-vintage-christmas-cards-that-arent-around-anymore-for-a-reason-22-pics/

We need @GuySmiley573 to cut a new version of this with more appropriate lyrics.

yup, I know that Mrs. Johnzo hit up the Bomber store and that there's gonna be some Cup merch under the tree for me too...

maybe the wrong holiday, but I am thankful for this place and for all of you, I don't know how much of a Bomber fan I'd be without you. all the best of the season to everyone on MBB, to the Blue Bombers, and to the entire CFL. I love this nutty league of ours.

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1977 was a huge year for me. I was four years old. The previous xmas my brothers had gotten Led Zeppelin's IV, Kiss's Destroyer, and Rush's 2112, so the soundtrack was set. The following summer I saw Star Wars, the first film I ever saw in a movie theater -- I grew up extremely rural and seeing a movie in a theater was a huge deal for my family. As Palpatine would say, my destiny was set. I was gonna be a heavy metal sci fi kid until the day I died.

I'm always impressed here with the folks who can dissect football games at a level beyond "oh that touchdown was a good play!" which is where I'm at. It's the exact same thing, just a different subject. Hope you enjoy the new film, Speedflex!

yeah, me too! I avoided all but the very first trailer for this one. oh, a thing I forgot to mention: I got such a stupid giant warm fuzzy when Rey took Luke's X-WIng and his beatup old helmet and when Finn called her Red Five. Made it feel like she was actually the true heir to the Jedi. Strangely, all the passing-the-torch fetishism around Luke's lightsaber in the modern trilogy never really gave me that feeling, even though it was obviously shooting for it. plus, I was glad that they paid off the X-Wing's appearance in TLJ. See, they didn't completely ignore that film.

Spoiler-free hot take: for me, it wasn't as good as Rogue One, but it was easily the best of the modern Skywalker trilogy. It knows who its audience is, and it serves them well.