The Swamp

Joe K

Dude, cmon. You tried to point out other issues that were important for progressives, and you didn't even think to mention abortion or civil rights for gays or racial or religious minorities. I’m sorry that in typing a quick post on the significance of economic inequality I didn’t not address every...

Joe K

Actual progressives have to be quite happy with the majority of positions Biden is taking. Just not the folks with a singular focus on economic socialism and grievance against the rich. Funny that you are so dismissive of this as a real issue for “actual progressives” given the extreme level of eco...

Joe K

Actual progressives have to be quite happy with the majority of positions Biden is taking. Just not the folks with a singular focus on economic socialism and grievance against the rich. Funny that you are so dismissive of this as a real issue for “actual progressives” given the extreme level of eco...

Joe K

Actual progressives have to be quite happy with the majority of positions Biden is taking. Just not the folks with a singular focus on economic socialism and grievance against the rich. Funny that you are so dismissive of this as a real issue for “actual progressives” given the extreme level of eco...

Joe K

Harris will probably be fine against Pence. Her problem in the primaries was that she hired too many consultants and was afraid to stake out clear positions on anything. She repeatedly backtracked from any stronger positions, including on her criticism of Biden on busing. There also was the absurd m...

Joe K

Joe K wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 10:12 pm Are we sure Doc Rivers’ job is safe? Because this is now two stunning 3-1 collapses since 2015 for him. How long he can he keep banking on the 2008 and 2010 postseason runs with Boston?

I guess not!

Joe K

Shaq is a giant and seeing him from that close distance against other NBA players emphasized it, but Priest Lauderdale of the Nuggets was bigger (listed 7'4", 325). It was mind-blowing to see a human that size from less than 20 feet. I was in the same room as Shaq (dressed in street clothes) b...

Joe K

this is also the most important aspect here. four IPAs and I feel super full and like I drank a six pack. four cheap/light beers and it's like I'm drinking water. quantity is sometimes far more important than quality, especially when I don't want to feel like shit ahead of my 6:30 a.m. tee time I c...

Joe K

The HS my mom taught at for many years produced future Atlanta sports legends Kevin Huerter and Ian Anderson within a short span. That’s about as big as if gets for the Albany suburbs.

Joe K

Dermal Brown. Had to look him up but I’m guessing you played high school sports with/against him? It’s ridiculous how much better even fringe pro prospects are compared to the typical upstate NY varsity athlete. I remember seeing Lionel Chalmers, a point guard who had a cup of coffee as a Clippers ...

Joe K

I'm bored, and thought I'd start a random discussion: who's the most impressive athlete you've ever seen live? What I'm getting at is, if you didn't know anything about reputations, career accomplishments, etc., who blew you away the most based on the in-person "eye test"? For me the top-2...

Joe K

A little late, but I want to jump in here and say that I'm with Nonlinear in the "don't panic" camp with respect to Election Day. I share his sentiments and would also point out that because our country's politics is heavily polarized based rural/urban demographics, most voting precincts a...

Joe K

I'll believe LeBron can't carry a team when he doesn't carry a team. Lebron did the thing. Even if I live to 100, I doubt I’ll ever see anyone again make the Finals 9/10 seasons. Doing it with 3 different teams, two of which were complete shit before he got there, makes it even more incredible.

Joe K

Show Genny Cream Ale some respect! (I also grew up in upstate NY and had no idea you could find Genny in Missouri even though I've lived here for 6 years now.) I will not. Where did you grow up? And it just sank in... $6 for a 15 pack? That can't be right, is this 1982 pricing? Albany area. Genny w...

Joe K

excuse me I can't drink for hashtag health until I go for a run here in a while and then it's genessee time C'mon, dude. Kansas City has some good craft brews. You can do better than Genessee. it's possible to enjoy good beer and bad beer, especially when that bad beer tastes good and is $6 a 15-pa...

Joe K

I know next to nothing about how hockey should be officiated, but it seemed to me that on the Benn penalty in OT the NBC announcers were focusing on the lack of skate-to-skate contact and missed the fact that Benn used his stick to lift up one of Johnson's legs and take his balance out. So it looked...

Joe K

I don't get not liking LeBron or even rooting against him as a neutral. LeBron is easy to root for but the Lakers, as an organization, are very easy to root against. I’d root for them against the Celtics because it’d be funny to see LeBron eliminate the C’s six times in one decade, with three diffe...

Joe K

They "only" have one of the two best players to ever play the game and one of the five best current players in the game. It's a mystery how they won any games really. It’s funny because you were trying to shit on LeBron for forming superteams, but you’ve essentially acknowledged how great...

Joe K

I wouldn’t call the Lakers a superteam. LeBron and Davis are both historically great players but it’s a pretty underwhelming roster otherwise. Their third-best player by win shares this year is Dwight Howard, who averaged 7.5 ppg. It’s not like like the 2016-19 Warriors or the 2010-14 Heat who had 3...

Joe K

I'll believe LeBron can't carry a team when he doesn't carry a team. Oh, I agree. Miami matches up reasonably well from a personnel standpoint but if either Adebayo or Butler gets in foul trouble trying to guard Davis and LeBron, then the Heat would be screwed. Miami may start Crowder on LeBron to ...

Joe K

I literally haven’t watched a second of the NBA Playoffs but I’m already getting a hard-on at the irony of a LeBron Lakers team getting beat by a non-superteam Heat. Don’t really see that happening but LeBron does seem to be tiring a bit as the bubble games continue on. While the lack of travel mak...

Joe K

Maybe I’m too optimistic, but I don’t see Roberts or Gorsuch going along with a blatantly stolen election. They’re both right-wing for sure, but I think they care enough about their legacies to not sanction a completely rigged process. Also, assuming Barrett gets confirmed, those two already have th...

Joe K

Agree with basically everything BSF said. It’s not surprising, given the circumstances, that there were no homicide charges against the police. The more important question is why, with all we know about its terrible secondary effects, the USA is still committed to “War on Drugs” tactics. Even if Tay...

Joe K

Michelle Bachmann makes an excellent point. If Biden is elected, the Dems will turn the US into a Marxist government within the first 100 days! Not that I want them to have effective messaging, but it’s really bizarre to me that the GOP has gone with the nonsensical “Biden is the reincarnation of V...

Joe K

Except we don't want more judges. We don't want PR and DC to be states. How about they compromise. Let’s put aside Puerto Rico for a second. What exactly is the moral argument against DC statehood? It’s more populous that a handful of existing states and the people who live there are no less deserv...

Joe K

Besides expanding the court the other proposal that needs to be on the table should Dems win the White House and Congress is statehood for DC and Puerto Rico. Unless GOP Senators are scared of such structural challenges to their power, they will never compromise.

Joe K

Unfortunately for the Dems here, this isn’t a court proceeding, and precedent doesn’t matter much. This case and Garland’s are consistent in the only way that really matters: the GOP wants as many federal judges as possible, and will do whatever is necessary to achieve that goal. It’s long past time...

Joe K

McConnell has Romney (and based on reports and public statements, 50 other GOP Senators). https://twitter.com/senatorromney/status/1308403638897958914?s=21 This happens every time. The GOP allows a couple of strategic defectors (in this case Murkowski and Collins), but Mitch always finds the votes o...

Joe K

1. We’ve already said, over and over and over, we’re still voting Biden and this is an exercise in explaining to you why other people won’t. 2. It’s not “radically liberal” except through a US-only lens. An implicit premise of Steve’s “sacrificing lives” question seems to be that the US under Democ...

Joe K

I’m saying the Republicans are a lost cause so the only chance those non-voters have is the Dems being forced to value citizens over corporations. Yeah, there seems to be a significant overlap between policies that would please the small number of privileged leftists that enrage Steve so much and t...

Joe K

Do you really think “well-off privileged leftists” are really a material demo among the 40%(?) of eligible voters who don’t show up? Yeah; that’s been pretty conclusively disproven by data. Non-voters are on average less affluent, less educated and less white than voters. In fact, I posted a link t...

Joe K

Steve, there’s a huge difference between “votes against his own party to side with the Republicans” (not sure anyone implied this) and “will seek to actively harm or destroy the Republican party and his friends in it” (which is the mindset necessary). Spot on. Court packing would be the biggest pol...

Joe K

Also gotta love how the unreasonable position here is me taking Biden at his word on questions he was asked with this exact scenario in mind. There’s nothing reasonable about taking a politician at his word In one particular instance that suits you after you’ve spent months claiming he’s a serial l...

Joe K

Also gotta love how the unreasonable position here is me taking Biden at his word on questions he was asked with this exact scenario in mind.

Joe K

Biden will never expand the Court to 11. He’s an institutionalist who cares way too much about being liked by Republicans. The entire ballgame is preventing confirmation before January (and also winning in November of course). You are 100 % wrong boss. 100%? Here are campaign-season quotes where he...

Joe K

Biden will never expand the Court to 11. He’s an institutionalist who cares way too much about being liked by Republicans. The entire ballgame is preventing confirmation before January (and also winning in November of course). You are 100 % wrong boss. 100%? Here are campaign-season quotes where he...

Joe K

Any Republican who sides with the Dems on this has to assume that he/she will lose their seat in a primary next time they’re up for re-election. The religious right has Roe v. Wade in their sights and this will mobilize them like nothing else.

Joe K

Biden will never expand the Court to 11. He’s an institutionalist who cares way too much about being liked by Republicans. The entire ballgame is preventing confirmation before January (and also winning in November of course).

Joe K

Serious question, do any of you guys who are opposed to Biden doing door knocking live in cities? Because I talk to neighbors, store owners, etc. almost every night when I take my dog for a walk. People in STL have been pretty responsible about masks and distancing but human contact and talking is s...

Joe K

Whether or not you believe them, the RNC said earlier this week that they’ve knocked on 12 million doors since June. I view the moral calculus as similar to the justifications given by many Dems for the huge protests earlier this summer. While yes, it’s good to limit contact, some issues are importa...

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