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Those rioting in Kenosha are emboldened by the lack of offense by the police, mixed with naivete and an unawareness of their surroundings mixed in for deadly measure. The looters don't expect violence besides the violence they commit, which is in some ways, ironic, because when one of them gets shot or hurt, they are calling the police. The police have provided a "safe" environment for looting. A little tear gas sure, but the looters know the boundaries and where to push them in these cities with law enforcement. This is why the looters chased after an armed man, with the intention of putting a beating on him. They really didn't think he'd actually shoot them. The vacuum created by a lack of decisive leadership is being filled by looters and people who refuse to be looted.

Yes, they are bringing back Michael Keaton's version and Ben Affleck's version for the Flash movie. That one sounds interesting.

I was somewhat surprised by four things from last night They rolled out a lot of very wealthy people. Millionaires row from start to finish. The number of canned speeches. Are Democrats still in a lockdown somewhere? The majority of Americans have either decided to or must get our there and get on with life as best they can. Michelle Obama's speech. I expected her not to mention Trump at all, with a speech that'd be more uplifting. The fall of John Kasich. A man without a political country.

I think the backup QB position is quite solid. You have one that knows the playbook cold, and you have two backup QBs with high football IQs. I think Matt Barkley would perform fine. I think Kurt Warner gave fans an unrealistic perception of what a backup QB is. Backup quarterbacks are the first aid kit. They are not a replacement for the operating room. If the Bills had two blue chip prospects at QB, we'd have the 21st Century version of DF/RJ every single week. One has a bad game, bench him! The other has a bad game, now bench him!

Has President Trump achieved positive things for the good of the country? Yes. Probably more than most citizens think he has because it gets lost in the daily Trump churn. The wheels fell off though with the virus response, IMO. Before you ask me if I think Joe Biden would have done any better, no I don't think that in the slightest. I think America is choosing between two ineffective leaders in moments of crisis. One is weirdly indifferent, the other hides.

Voted for Trump in 2016 largely as an anti-Clinton vote. I'd punt on the presidential vote at the moment. It's 2020 and both of the choices are terrible. I'm disappointed that Trump never cared to evolve into the position and he folded in a crisis when one found him. The Democrats had four years to find a candidate, build a superior platform, and the best they've got is Joe Biden running out the election clock in a basement. It's all quite sad.

Did anyone else read the thread title in Nicolas Cage voice?

This magnifies the problem with a President Joe Biden. He will persistently paint himself into a corner. This VP charade is nothing new. Even the truest Democrat has to be sweating this VP choice a little. Whitmer and Harris are as likeable as HRC, Karen Bass appears to like communists, and Susan Rice, while the best choice out of the bunch, is eyeballs deep in Libya and other Obama-era shenanigans, is not an experienced politician, and while I've got no problem with it, absurdly wealthy. A Whitmer choice is John McCain's Palin choice. It has great optics until she'd need to campaign. Just like America doesn't like Presidents with facial hair anymore, I can't see America getting behind a VP or possible President named Tammy. Sorry Senator Duckworth.

I'd agree the NRA is a corrupt organization and it starts with Wayne. I think Wayne has been gorging himself on NRA dues for years. I'd agree the NY Attorney General probably has a million better cases to prosecute than this one, and since this case is politically motivated, it's probably poorly thought out, with flimsy evidence. It'll do absolutely nothing but make the NRA look like a martyr. I'd agree that the NRA has absolutely nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment. They drape themselves in it but they aren't the last castle of defense for it. The NRA stopped representing the views of the majority of gun owners in America quite some time ago, probably in the 80s.

There are many excellent hosts on this list. I chose Marc Summers because Double Dare was a transcendent game show. Before Double Dare, there were no game shows involving children as contestants. It ushered in an entirely new genre of television entertainment, and Summers was the face of it during it's best days. When you ask anyone about Double Dare, 9 out of 10 people will say Marc Summers. There will be one that will mention the giant nose with the flags up the nostrils.

A vote for Marc Summers who hosted Double Dare.

No elected official in the United States has done an amazing job with COVID19. Each and every one one of them has been incompetent, as if it was a competition. They have managed to screw it up with flair from a President who made a decision just to stop dealing with it to the governors who killed whole economies overreacting to it, listening to advice from health "experts" who are everything but trained in pandemic response and infectious disease. In PA, our governor takes advice from a pediatrician. The biggest political story of 2020 isn't Republican or Democrat. it's legitimately how incompetent we all are, from the voters all the way up. We hire all these idiots and we spend all day defending why we do.

Not cool to put your text into a quoted reply of mine, or any other poster. Don't do it again. I didn't put the [he was] in my initial post.

Did Dr. Fauci personally participate in the Chinese toying with something they didn't understand, it getting away from them, and then covering it up? IMO, no. However, I believe some US universities played a role and I bet they are doing everything they can to keep that quiet. I think the NIH funded this lab because they were willing to push boundaries US laws wouldn't permit labs in the United States to push. I do think this research community will provide cover for each other first and foremost, and that's why you can never believe they have the public's interest in mind 100 percent of the time.

The MLB will fold the season in 30 days. Just enough time for a decent insurance claim for the owners and for some players to reach the playing time milestones in their contracts.

It's not because Trump has done an outstanding or barely competent job, it's that Joe Biden's America is scarier to a growing number of Americans. And given that everything that has happened in just 2020, that Biden America must be quite scary. Stephen King has a point - there really shouldn't be that much Trump support. However there is, because the Democratic vision for America scares people and Biden is a very weak candidate that inspires no hope that he'd reign in the fringe elements of the party. That's the problem with the DNC. The party has zero control over any of its operation. Biden is doing what he wants to do, hanging out in the basement. Democratic mayors are doing what they want to do, letting their cities marinate in chaos, thinking it's a positive for their party. Democratic reps and senators say whatever they want to say, regardless if it's on message. The GOP and DNC are complete disasters. One can't keep a President from doing stupid, self destructive things daily, the other can't keep its entire party from doing self destructive things daily.

Absolutely not. IMO, the remainder of 2020 is for conserving the dry powder in every category of life. This isn't the time for big moves because there's still a bunch of rough road ahead. The election will be a mess, the economy is an unpredictable mess, and the fall wave of flu and COVID is expected to be challenging. I'd pay down debt, retain as much cash as you can, hang tight and stay healthy.

Vietnam has signed defense pacts with the US (isn't the irony heavy?) and France (isn't it heavier?) in recent years, so the transfer of technology has already begun. I think it goes up significantly because there's no love lost between Vietnam and China and they don't trust the Russians to supply them if China tries to invade them again. I'd expect if the West were to pull manufacturing out of China, they'd go to Vietnam. Vietnam has beaten three world powers in battle, isn't that something? (colonial French, US, Chinese)

Great time for gun manufacturers. I saw a S&W MP-15, a basic AR, "on sale" for $1,050. In January 2020, that rifle was probably mid $550s.

"Problem with China it that they’re not going to back off the Uyghurs until they are satisfied with the result. They just won’t. They didn’t in Tibet. They didn’t in Hong Kong. When it comes around to Taiwan they probably won’t stop, either. I wouldn’t expect to see a UN coalition anywhere near China since they’ve got veto power (not that the UN is willing to do anything in any event). I’m not sure whether China could be expelled from the WTO or not (and I don’t know what that would mean). " Taiwan is the equivalent of the Polish countryside of 1939. I'd expect the US to significantly spend money on the Vietnam navy over the next decade. If there is a country that hates China the most in that area, it's Vietnam. Won't be surprised to see a lot of Western naval hardware with the Vietnamese flag on it by 2030.

The Chinese aren't the world's newest form of Nazis, but they are probably the first in the 21st Century. It's alleged the "world" doesn't care about genocides if countries genocide their own people, and there is some truth to that as Cinga pointed out. There's been countless genocides in Africa and South Asia through the 20th Century. I'm convinced NATO only got off their ass in the former Yugoslavia because the Serbs walked right in and mass murdered nearly 10,000 people in Sreberenica due to the utter cowardice of the Dutch who were there to protect the town. What has surprised me about the Uyghur catastrophe is where is ISIS, al Qaeda, Hezbollah?

The scary thing is as poorly as the federal and state government has handled the response to this virus, can you see a President HR Clinton doing anything uniquely different besides possibly a lot less tweeting that would have presented a better outcome today? Do you still get all the same poor decisions in that alternate 2020? Is government just incompetent, no matter whos at the podium? My fear is that we've reached a level of incompetency where there's no hope for a vaccine. We, as in the human race, no longer possess the chops to get it done, no matter the money we throw at it.

Brooks Brothers in recent times failed to make a man feel like a million dollars wearing one of their suits. Their salespeople became too obsessed with the result (the sale) instead of the process. The older BB sales guys would give you a suit for you - not the most expensive one or perhaps the trendiest one, but a suit that fit your body and made you look amazing. Same thing happened at Victoria Secret for women. Once upon a time, Victoria Secret had knowledgeable employees who knew the product and more importantly, knew how to advise women on what to buy. Women would shop Victoria Secret exclusively because they knew they could go there and get sound, and free, advice. Then, VS started hiring your average teenage girl who probably wasn't wearing a properly fitted bra herself, and it just became another mediocre apparel store.

I don't think there will be an NFL season, or for that matter, an NBA or MLB one either. 2020 is cooked. Today's announcement had nothing to do with football IMO. The Ravens were sending a message to the state, city and all the vendors that they should plan on making a lot less money from the Ravens, and in terms of all the payments the Ravens make to the government and businesses, setting up the case for extensions on those payments or renegotiating contracts.

Njoku is 95% amazing athlete, 5% professional football player. He excelled in college because of his athletic qualities. He doesn't run routes or block particularly well. Is there talent there? Yes. Will the coaching staff have to teach him how to play football? Yes.