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Artful Dodger

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  1. 7 hours ago, Bidens_basement said:

    Maybe the free money handouts have something to do with the rise in inflation? 

     

    In January, Congress passed a $1.9 trillion stimulus to fill a $600 billion hole in GDP.  Not only did the bill stimulate demand, but it extended enhanced unemployment benefits which have encouraged people to stay home rather than go back to work.  So they simultaneously goosed demand and restricted supply.  Not surprisingly, we're getting inflation.

     

    And the chuckleheads at the Federal Reserve have been pouring gas on the fire.  Inflation is already much higher than they expected, and they continue to print money to buy treasury bonds and mortgage backed securities and continue to keep short term interest rates at 0%.  

     

    There are no grownups making economic policy in Washington right now.  We're all paying the price, literally.

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  2. Biden nearly scotched the infrastructure deal just a few hours after all parties agreed to it by tying it to the budget reconciliation bill.  Then the next day he had to walk that back.  That was a very Trump-like maneuver. It pointlessly complicated matters, and it accomplished nothing.

     

    There must be something in the White House water that makes its occupants stupid.

  3. Our constitutional system held up remarkably well, but the forces that elected Trump are not going away.  There's an ever widening gap between regular people and the elites.  It manifests itself in big ways - in economic ways such as ever increasing inequality in wealth and income.  And in smaller stupider cultural ways - one of Speaker Pelosi's first moves after the Democrats retained control of the House was to ban the use of gender specific pronouns.  Or the insistence on calling Hispanics "LatinX."  The so called "elites" are increasingly out of touch.  The conditions that allowed Trump to flourish and get elected were brought about by mismanagement of the elites.

     

    If Biden doesn't manage to close that gap, and hopefully he's the right man for the job, there's going to be another populist in four years; a smoother, more plausible version of Trump.  He could be on the right, or he could be on the left, or maybe both.  But he's coming.

  4. 9 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

    Is this smart?  Can’t Cuomo at the stroke of a pen reverse the decision to let fans in?  I mean.  In terms of pettiness and narcissism he’s the closest on the dem side to Trump.  I wouldn’t put it past him.

    It's SCIENCE!  The same science that apparently told him he should keep the stadium closed during the season, but now that case levels are at unprecedented highs around the country, tells him its OK to open.   If it's OK to open now, it was OK to be open during the regular season.

     

    The next time the governor starts waving the banner of science, people should throw it right back in his face, which is what this petition is all about. 

     

    Or maybe the governor has worked out a deal with COVID not to spread during football games.

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  5. 2 hours ago, Estro said:

    According to reports later last week the 17th game will oit the AFC East vs NFC East teamsnaccording to where they finished in their division that means we get the WFT.  Not sure if there has been any work if that'll be home or away (AFC & NFC will rotate each yr which conference plays the 9th home game)

     

    Or we could meet them in the Superbowl on February 7.   🤣

  6. It's way too early to say, but due to his mobility issues, I'm not sure Kelly would have thrived so much in the modern era, but with his arm and his accuracy this year, Allen would have thrived 30 years ago.   Both QB's have that intangible will to win that makes quarterbacks great.

     

    Let's just hope that Allen doesn't turn back into a pumpkin.

  7. 49 minutes ago, billsfan89 said:

     

     

    And not for nothing these girls are fairly average looking. I guess I would expect a professional athlete to be able to pull down better girls than this. But I guess during a pandemic the A-list girls maybe are staying home?

     

     

    He's wasting his ten minutes of fame in the NFL on these girls?  He's even dimmer than he appears.

  8. Yeah.  I was 30, and a few years ago I was beginning to doubt whether I would live to see the Bills make the playoffs again, much less be contenders.  The current Bills' team was worth the wait and I think they're as good as some of the Bills' teams which made it to the Superbowl 30 years ago.

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  9. 2 minutes ago, DCofNC said:

    The untimely and ultimately, bad throws/decisions gave Arizona the momentum and lead.  Yes he made a comeback, and one helluva throw to Diggs, but, that should have been gravy, not go ahead.   Josh had a bad game today, made some really stupid throws and could easily have had 4 picks had Peterson come up with the ball he usually does on the first one in his arms and the absolute bone head throw away to the middle of the field Singletary bailed him out on.  This was the “ bad Josh” we can’t have.  He was great on the last drive and the D should not have given up that TD, but they should not have been in that position. 

     

    Allen did not have a good game, and the Bills still would have won against a very good Cardinals team except for a freak play at the end.  He did what he had to do to get the team the win.  It's not on him.

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  10. 4 hours ago, ALF said:
           
           
           

    The other Senate race had the Democrat candidate with the lead

     

    Raphael Warnock (Dem) - runoff
    32.9%
    1,613,116
     
     
    Kelly Loeffler (GOP) - runoff
    25.9%
    1,270,533

     

    The top two Republicans had around 45% of the vote.  Below the presidential level, there was a lot of unexpected Republican strength probably to counteract the perceived nuttiness of the left wing of the Democratic Party, so this it will be an uphill battle for the Democrats to win both Senate seats.  Even if they do, it will be 50/50, and conservative Democratic Senators like Joe Manchin in West Virginia might break away from the party on some of their more controversial ideas such as packing the courts or eliminating the filibuster.

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