johnzo

The "overturning the 2016 election" argument is stale horseshit from people who want to invalidate the 2018 election. The people who impeached Trump and tried to remove him from office were not deep state spooks or the terrifying Elite Shadow Order of Vegan Feminist Adjunct Professors. They were elected representatives, each of whom beat a GOPer in an election, with the exception of Mitt Romney and maybe Justin Amash? aaand ... if the impeachment had resulted in Trump's removal from office, the GOP would still hold the presidency. That's much of the reason why there is a vice president; to make for an orderly succession in case of emergency. So yeah, horseshit.

yup. This is why people like Zontar are invaluable to the Trump movement -- they take whatever spicy semitruth the Trumpist goons are pushing today and reblog it endlessly as if it's true. That's why you don't see the dude engage on anything substantively. He's not here to debate or to educate, he's here just to make noise.

Still waiting to hear the details about the million illegal voters in 2016, Zontar.

meanwhile, in Oregon... https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/02/west-linn-to-pay-600000-to-settle-wrongful-arrest-racial-discrimination-suit-stemming-from-former-chiefs-favor-for-a-friend.html (TLDR: African-American dude complains to his boss that his coworkers are calling him Buckwheat and teasing him with confederate flags and whatnot. Boss gets freaked out about a lawsuit so OF COURSE he enlists his fishing buddy, the police chief of a nearby small town, to send goons to shake down the complainant and file theft charges against him for leverage. Alas, dude could not be scared off, the theft charges were dismissed and hisresulting lawsuits were settled for over a million bucks, about half from the boss' business, about half from the little town that supplied the police goons. Like many things in 2020 USA, this looks like the plot of a ******* Coen Brothers movie, or perhaps an episode of the A-Team. would love to see B.A. Baracus and Mad Murdoch inflict some wacky hurt on that bunch of crackers)

three offseasons running now the Riders look like a 3-15 team on paper and yet for the past two years we wind up having to play a playoff game out at IG Field West. we always win those games so it's cool ... still, that team pulls rabbits out of their asses every year, gonna assume they keep doing it until I see otherwise.

that'd fit the WJ pattern of brutalizing a team and then signing with them the next season.

looking back in the thread ... where does all this "MBT is looney" stuff come from? does the guy have legit diagnosable illnesses or is he just a wacky character or what?

Way back in 2019, you asserted that Republicans needed to counter the "districts that have been purposely flooded with illegal immigrants and allowing them to vote despite lack of citizenship?" This claim is entirely unsupported by evidence, including the evidence gathered by the Trump administration itself. So, do you still believe that there's an army of illegal voters in the USA that is swinging elections? If so, where's the evidence for that? If not, what changed your mind? Here's a link to the old discussion:

I think Zontar has me blocked so it might be worth someone's trouble to ask them if they've got an update on all that voter fraud.

preach it. me personally, I'm getting a little tired of all the "grey cup this" and "rings that" on this board. People are getting blinded by the bling, if this keeps up pretty soon the Bombers will have a hubcap on a chain that they'll award on the sidelines after tackles.

last week ... my first time fronting a band

I thought last season was pretty awesome.

also x 3 wonder if consistently passing outside is going to widen the defence and the gaps for Harris to hit...

hmm, wonder if this'll run like the old Baltimore Football Club / CFLers / CFL Colts / Stallions -- new team in weird league makes a splash in a city that the NFL jerked around. (man, the US expansion was so weird and so so CFL. even the successful team had more names than years in existence)

would love to see this compared with other QBs and offences. It seems so weird for a CFL offence to throw nothing deeper than 15 yards in the middle of the field. wonder if this is just data illustrating the constant gripe that the 2019 bombers had no midrange passing attack, everything was either a dump play or a bomb. also wonder if this is a turnover minimization strategy, if you never throw into the middle of the defence then there are fewer defenders around to pick the ball off. Look where the two picks happened; in a crowded area of the field.

Eugene Lewis was the guy I thought of immediately when I saw this thread but he wasn't a free agent and he just signed an extension. https://www.cfl.ca/2020/01/31/report-als-sign-eugene-lewis-one-year-extension/ Think Lewis is gonna be a gooder for a few years to come -- he really helped out VAJr last season.

Hope the BB do something nice and public to give him his ring -- give the crowd a chance to cheer that. Damn, remember when PIerce came back as a Lion and got cheered when he drove them for a TD late in the game?

The GOP Senate caucus can subpoena anyone it likes with a simple majority vote. They don't need Democratic permission to do so, and they don't have to let the Dems have any witnesses in return. The GOP is in complete control of this process and McConnell himself said the Senate was aligned 100% with the White House. Sooooo .... if a Biden's testimony will exonerate Trump, then why doesn't the GOP get a Biden under oath, vote to acquit, and move on?

Seattle Dragons announced their opening roster today. Familiar names making the cut: Nick Temple, John Santiago.

The reason AOC is getting such fierce pushback as a wacko kook lefty uppity marxist-leninist is because these are some damn big money targets. There is just so much money metastasized into all of the current bad American solutions to these problems -- the ownership class is profiting on the flipside of every one of these bullet points and they can see looming threats on the horizon.

hey hey now everyone knows that Bolton is a war pig, one of the shitgoblins who masterminded the Bush Iraq War II and Zontar has been real consistent about not being a big fan of the war pig branch of the GOP. And when lefties say "hey let's hear what Bolton has to say under oath" that doesn't mean they're all big stans for him now. I would love to see Bolton's reputation completely ******* destroyed as part of this process, he's a dangerous man. The thing about Trump that's underplayed is how he campaigned against the Iraq War and in foreign wars in general and in this I was actually really strongly aligned with Trump ... and with Zontar, I think. There was a locked and loaded plan to disproportionally retaliate on Iran for the refinery attack, and Trump backed away from it at the last moment and I think that was actually a good moment for the country. The bar to generally dispatch the US military with live rounds and fire orders needs to be super high. Now that dude is playing drone footsie with Iran, who knows though. THIS ISN'T A CRIMINAL TRIAL. The Senate "trial" is better understood as a firing process. One doesn't have to commit a crime to be impeached -- there's lots of impeachable conduct that is not against the law. For example, if the President sold New Orleans back to the French or announced they were moving the White House to Riyahd ... there is no law on the books against those things ... but Congress would probably step up to weigh in on the President's continued employment. And even if your premise were true and the trial were a criminal one, with the defendant protected by all the conventions and regulations of criminal law -- how do you think that mob bosses get prosecuted? Mob bosses never cut direct orders when criming. And yet there are mob bosses in jail. RICO prosecutions are a thing, and are constitutional per a bunch of Supreme Court rulings. Trump's people had a clear understanding of their working orders even without a smoking gun order. That's how a criminal syndicate works.

I don't know of anything specific between Lapo and Davis. but Davis was the explicit QB2 all through 2017, had been with the team for two full seasons and was highly touted as the first Bomber backup QB in years who wouldn't be a free space on the bingo card, and maybe could be something greater. Nichols gets hurt in Game 17, it's Davis' turn to shine and he plays out the game, about a half and change. It doesn't go super well, we lose but Davis doesn't obviously play himself off the roster like a Boltus or a Mike Quinn. Then for the critical playoff clinching week 18 game, suddenly it's the Fever starting, and Davis is cut before free agency. Anyway, we decided somewhere between halftime of week 17 and the start of week 18 to move on from the guy ... after two years of grooming but less than thirty minutes of play running the real offense. Given how he was touted that was weird. Many worse bomber QBs have gotten way longer leashes. So now that Lapo is calling a lot of the shots I'm surprised that Davis is still a Redblack.

Is Dom Davis a free agent? Surprised he wasn't cut. Can't think that Lapo is a Davis fan after the way he shitcanned him in 2017 (and also of course after a 5-TD 14-pick season by Davis in 2019)

The two-party system is so frustrating, where the Dems have a monopoly on everything left of "kill them all and **** their corpses" it's hard for progressives to get traction. Lots of people blame the Greens and Ralph Nader for giving the White House to Bush, who was the worst American president in my lifetime, though that is splitting hairs between "let's put the brown kids in cages, suborn the federal government to a weird incestuous kleptocrat family, and give the nuclear football to a senile mean uncle with impulse control problems" and "let's carpet bomb the brown kids from high altitude." I can see both sides of blaming Nader. I remember during the Bush reign lots of people were like "worst president ever" and people who remembered Nixon said "no, Nixon was worse." I kinda feel that way about Bush.

You're right, the Dems could have had universal health care -- except Obama was in his kubaya bipartisan make-nice-with-the-GOP phase, Pelosi wouldn't hear of it, Lieberman was the Dems' 60th vote in the senate and refused to consider it, and Harry Reid loved the filllibuster more than he loved progress. That old Dem guard really doesn't like the center-left wing of the party. And yeah, Joe Biden needs to defend his vote for the Iraq War. Clinton lost the Dem primary in 2008 because of her vote for it and I was glad to see that. Wouldn't mind seeing that dynamic repeat itself. I hope Bernie and Warren climb up Biden's ass about it.