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Apparently, Brad Allen’s crew has been under the microscope since blowing a blatant pass interference against the Chiefs. I honestly don’t see how they aren’t fired at this point, let alone “down graded”.

They did get an off sides though. Still, I’m thinking the aggressiveness was a bit much and it would have paid off if the officiating crew hadn’t apparently misheard who was reporting as eligible.

Seriously, why would you expect anything out of a Putin hostage’s mouth to be believable?

Your life isn’t falling apart. It’s always rough during the new year.

Maybe I should have posted that tweet in here instead of the College Football thread....

I too legit want to know how that dude is doing.

Well, now the whole thing makes sense. "He would often soil himself on The Apprentice set. He's incontinent from all the speed, all the Adderall he does, all the cocaine that he's done for decades...His [bowels] are uncontrollable."

I'm so happy we could have a record USC QB performance out of someone with a built in catch phrase.

A new old USC quarterback.

I believe you play the higher seed of the two quarterfinal winners,.

So, are we going to show off our gifts?

We all feel that way in the playoffs.

That sucks.

No reason.

It is not a Christmas movie. Notre Dame plays USC two days after Thanksgiving, therefore it’s a Thanksgiving movie.

You ok bro?

Inorite?

Well, you were George Santos before George Santos. If George Santos had just learned from the best, he'd still be bringing the fabulous to the fascists in House as we speak.

I don't believe Trump's musing on the subject were ever acted on, so the Supreme Court likely hasn't had the opportunity to weigh in yet.

I thought you were George Santos all along.

But how does it taste?

For those wondering why Hamas would reject the offer, this from The Guardian: To oversimplify the point: using excessive force, no matter how justified it might be, always yields diminishing results the more intense and sustained it is. It's not so much a matter of comparing results of these sustained offensives (namely the degree of collateral casualties), which is problematic in its own right - failing to match the offensive to the enemy forces inevitably leads to failed objectives. Even before the sustained bombardment led to the unfolding tragedy in Gaza, it was imminently clear that any kind of organized military campaign was going to be rife for failure. The IDF started with a stunning intelligence failure and left with few viable options, all of which were built into Hamas' planning. The more viable option should have been to close the border between Gaza and Israel which, although it still represented a potential human catastrophe, didn't result in the sheer chaos of the other option. At the very least, a blockade gave the international community opportunity to step in and provide aid. The death of options was compounded by the fact that the failure came as the Israeli government has been teetering on instability because of the hard right forcing anti-democratic initiatives through on top of failing to act on murderous, violent Jewish settlers. The response has always been less informed by sound practices for dealing with a terrorist organization and by sucking the air out of growing detractors of the current governing coalition's actions. It was always a foregone conclusion that Hamas would wait out the onslaught long enough for the campaign to flounder, but it doesn't come without its own risks. This piece from CNN has some unsettling points, but it's helpful to understand why support for Hamas has changed inside of the Palestinian territories. In particular, the willingness to avoid any kind of depictions of the horrific October 7th attacks in order to maintain deniability suggests two things - (1) that Palestinians have a fundamental inability to process the horrors of Hamas' actions in context of their own oppression, and (2) that Palestinians have to also contend with their own ineffectual representation both inside their territories and on the world stage. At the same time, it has a limit because every Palestinian will eventually have to reckon with what Hamas did without their permission but on their behalf nonetheless. The problem is that the Netanyahu's reckless crusade has continued to delay this reckoning by forcing Palestinians to prioritize their very survival over fostering their sense of humanity, and that too has given Hamas much needed cover as it fights for its own political survival. It's also given cover to the rampant anti-Semitism that has festered like a wound and reversed some of the important-if-paltry gains we've made since Trump lost the 2020 election.

I think we ran out of BWM-drivers-are-dicks jokes sometime in the late '90s.