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#131 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 119 weeks ago
I'm equal opportunity in terms of term limits. There should be an age limit or something. You want to serve a long time in Congress. Get in early.
As far as McConnell goes, as long as he's still lucid and there and functioning it's fine if he keeps on serving. He's probably more damaging than Trump but he's done all within the laws etc. It's not his fault he's outmanuevered the Democrats.
Did anyone mention the Menendez stuff where he got caught with 480k in his house. NJ politicans are sleazy. Water is wet. They belong in a group with Chicago, Louisiana as sort of the areas/states where corruption seems to be prevalent for decades maybe centuries.
The problem with term limits in my opinion has always been that it takes responsibility away from the voter.
You wanna talk about victomhood? Voters who don’t trust themselves to the point that they need to create rules based on age is deflecting responsibility.
#132 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 119 weeks ago
Same could be said in the other direction. You can’t have a problem with Feinstein if you had no problem with McConnell…
I called it!
One has nothing to do with the other. Yeah... McConnell needs to go...but last I checked...he's lucid enough to know which planet he's on.
If we give him the same free pass as Feinstein got...that means you gotta give McConnell at least 5 more years before you have a problem with it.
This is a great example of why hyper partisan politics is so damaging. Can't call a spade a spade because you'll get shit from people on your own team. Gotta have 100% support..from trans to late term abortion to critical race theory to brain dead invalids being wheeled into the Senate. No wavering!
I've seen people on the politics sub who dared bring up replacing Feinstein get attacked.
Imagine the mindset of voting for her in the last election. Talk about voting against your interests...
Yea it’s true…and i am striving toward not toeing that party line. Honestly, criticize Biden all you want….but i think he’s done a decent job of calming things down and allowing an environment for partisanship to die down.
BUT this is is still a game of ‘i know you are but what am i?’
#133 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 119 weeks ago
Same could be said in the other direction. You can’t have a problem with Feinstein if you had no problem with McConnell…
It’s confusing why Feinstein needed to be kept around when any number of California democrats could take her place.
Personally, i felt bad watching those videos of McConnell…I’ll never agree with his politics but i don’t like seeing people suffering.
Everything McConnel has ever done was perfectly within the rules. Trump? That guy doesn’t care about rules.
McConnel has been ruthless but still maintained decorum and followed precedents.
90 years is a good life. I hope i get as many.
#134 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 119 weeks ago
Feinstein has passed.
#135 Re: The Garden » NFL 2023/24 season » 119 weeks ago
mitchejw wrote:I get what you’re saying but look at every single person they’ve hired to coach for a decade…they’ve hired cheap coaches who’ve never done the jobs they’re hired to do. They have no experience…
I’m cynical but i believe they do this because these people are cheap AND they are so far behind that they don’t think coaching matters in 2023…
Astonishing that anyone could make sense of hiring the people that they did and gave no care or thought to what would become of one of the youngest teams in the nfl…don’t they see that without the coaches the hundreds of millions they spend on the players is totally wasted?
Cheapness and inexpirence at HC isn't the Bears' problem. Look at all these other non experienced HC that got hired on other teams. GB coach: no previous HC experience, only was an OC at the Rams and TEN, Rams coach: no HC experience. Bengals guy: no HC experience. the MIA HC whose team just put 70 pts on the Broncos, again first time coach.
They've just consistently hired the wrong people. I even looked at the previous candidates from the 2022 coaching search. Majority were DC guys, some of them failed retreads. The only offensive guys were the Bills OC (ended up getting the NYG job) and Doug Pederson. And they weren't hiring Doug Pederson.
On the GM stuff/inexperience stuff you may have more of a point. They chose to overpay LB on day one of free agency and chose to sign a OG with questionable practice habits and shitty pass blocking skills, traded for Claypool and he's disappointed. Those are bad moves/losses to me.
The Bears need to just improve whatever fucking criteria or processes that go into hiring these guys. At some point, they might be better off tossing a dart at a random board of names. You can be cheap as an owner and succeed in the NFL. The Bears are cheap and dumb. That aint gonna work. Either the owners gotta step up and start giving a shit about who they hire or just live with this cycle of crappy Bears football.
I think hiring inexperienced coaches might work out in some places…but the bears don’t even have the basic infrastructure in place anymore.
I think hiring a defensive minded head coach who has never done it before AND expect a young QB to develop is straight up Jack assery.
#136 Re: The Garden » NFL 2023/24 season » 119 weeks ago
I get what you’re saying but look at every single person they’ve hired to coach for a decade…they’ve hired cheap coaches who’ve never done the jobs they’re hired to do. They have no experience…
I’m cynical but i believe they do this because these people are cheap AND they are so far behind that they don’t think coaching matters in 2023…
Astonishing that anyone could make sense of hiring the people that they did and gave no care or thought to what would become of one of the youngest teams in the nfl…don’t they see that without the coaches the hundreds of millions they spend on the players is totally wasted?
#137 Re: The Garden » NFL 2023/24 season » 120 weeks ago
You mean they guys that were literally hired 18 months ago? Do you know how many coaches and managers they've been through in the last 10 years?
The bears are fundamentally broken. Shuffling the chairs around on the deck of the titanic isn't going to do anything. It's embarrassing that they are so focused on their new stadium so publicly...when they put this putrid shit on the field. The political fighting that's going on over their stadium is all they talked about all summer....then this? Like...no one is engaged in anything anymore.
#138 Re: The Garden » NFL 2023/24 season » 120 weeks ago
Fieids only has 1 year left on his contract with the team option for 1 more…pretty standard for rookie contracts…team control for 4-5 years.
If you see the analysis of his play you’ll see that it appears his confidence is just destroyed. Indications of his decision making followed by hesitation…and then compounded mistakes
#139 Re: The Garden » NFL 2023/24 season » 120 weeks ago
God the Bears suck. Just a horribly inept team top to bottom. They're what the Detroit Lions were in the 90s and 2000s. Awful.
Dolphins score 70 points...most in a game in like 60 years. Crazy.
Your point about the bears is well taken.
Once it gets this bad, how do you even begin to turn it around.
You can see it in the way they play…they don’t even believe it can be fixed.
#140 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General confirmed next » 120 weeks ago
mitchejw wrote:The disappointment i expect is that 9/10 people won’t even notice
Very true. That world has well and truly past us by. I don't see any "old band" ever having a proper hit again, there's simply nobody under 30 who is interested in rock n roll anymore.
They like computers playing repetitive riffs and beats…
