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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[LarryBnDC]

Is this an injustice?

https://www.essentiallysports.com/us-sports-news-swimming-news-she-let-down-the-country-michael-phelps-fans-left-disappointed-as-simone-biles-receives-presidential-medal-of-freedom-before-swimming-legend/

Maybe so.

Joe blew it.

She in no way let the country down.

Bunch of fans bitching that their guy did not get the honor first.

I think your blinded by race on this one. He has almost 3 times as many medals, and was way ahead of her in raising awareness on mental health in the world of elite athletes.

She deserves one, but AFTER he got his, IMO, and in many others' opinions.

She stood before the world and faced her abuser along with her teammates and said that guy did that TO ME.

Then she got the twisties in the Olympics and rather than mail it in she stood up and I cannot do this. I will not do this!

It was much more than athleticism.

BTW

When she was leaving DC a fight attendant offered her a coloring book...

Maybe check out Phelps' personal struggles. Oh, wait. He's a white male. Doesn't count, right?

I do not make the picks.

I did a profile on him in 2008. Great guy. Terrific family. He has earned a slot. But...

awards recipients are selected for their political value as well as how much is deserved. Jim Jordan for fucks sake.

Biles has a lot of clout in a community Democrats must excite in 22, black women being called on to save the country from itself... again.

[LarryBnDC]

9.1 per cent inflation is not a distraction, it is a looming disaster for democrats come November.

Hahahahaha!

How many GOP House members and Senators voted against certifying the EC vote?

[LarryBnDC]

Maybe check out Phelps' personal struggles. Oh, wait. He's a white male. Doesn't count, right?

If Phelps had received the medal, and been black, Forrest would be pointing to Phelps two DUIs and bong video and wondering why the medal did not go to some white guy.

Couldn't happen.  They lack buoyancy. 

Tell that to Simone Manuel who took individual gold in the 100 free in the Olympics ast year while battling anxiety and depression.

I was a swim dad and ican close my eyes and hear horns and smell chlorine.

[LarryBnDC]

motherjones.com/politics/2022/07/leaked-audio-steve-bannon-trump-2020-election-declare-victory

BEFORE Election Day, Trump already planned to declare victory, regardless of the result.

Of course

Dont miss the CNN Bannon special.  It should be .....ahem....special.

Today, Trump tweeted out attacks on the Committee members.

But as with you, Kid, what he works hard to distract the American public from is that the Committee is not testifying - former staff members from the Trump administration are; former allies and adherents are; and folks who still remain loyal to him are, along with family members.

Yes

And they are making public only the testimony they wish you to see.

Yeah... and they are ALL Republican.

[facilitatorn]

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/13/2109746/-Lauren-Boebert-s-Shooters-Grill-is-out-of-ammo-Open-carry-bar-and-grill-closes-for-good

[josh]

[Holly Martins]

Har!

Well they do say revenge is a dish best served cold.  Am pretty confident you could make a youtube video on how guns work better when kept chilled and in a few weeks there would be millions of adherents of the chilled gun theory, and a bustling market in customized gun safes with refrigeration.

[Hairy Lime]

motherjones.com/politics/2022/07/leaked-audio-steve-bannon-trump-2020-election-declare-victory

BEFORE Election Day, Trump already planned to declare victory, regardless of the result.

Of course

Dont miss the CNN Bannon special.  It should be .....ahem....special.

Today, Trump tweeted out attacks on the Committee members.

But as with you, Kid, what he works hard to distract the American public from is that the Committee is not testifying - former staff members from the Trump administration are; former allies and adherents are; and folks who still remain loyal to him are, along with family members.

Yes

And they are making public only the testimony they wish you to see.

Yes, Kevin McCarthy IS an idiot.

[Espnthree]

Yes, Kevin McCarthy IS an idiot.

Really?
As opposed to Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer who, according to 70 %of Americans see the country headed the wrong way under their  total rule?

McCarthy at least helped lead the successful GOP fight against the New-Deal-like stupidity of  federalized prekindergarten and child care, an expanded child tax credit, paid family and medical leave, and two free years of community college.
Imagine how much higher our smothering inflation would be with those in place.?
The only democrats with common sense are Manchin and Sinema who warned (along with McCarthy and McConnell,)  that the new spending would produce inflation and that expunging fossil fuels would be a mistake.

The voters are about to send the real idiots to the back bench.
Good riddance.

[josh]

Ward also blames Biden, et al, for high gasoline prices everywhere else in the world and for the 80% inflation rate in Turkey.

[Espnthree]

Ward also blames Biden, et al, for high gasoline prices everywhere else in the world ..

I only worry about America which leads the world in energy resources.
And has the ability to bring down prices were it not for idiots wearing climate change blinders like Biden.( or the morons who write his speeches)

[Hairy Lime]

Is this an injustice?

https://www.essentiallysports.com/us-sports-news-swimming-news-she-let-down-the-country-michael-phelps-fans-left-disappointed-as-simone-biles-receives-presidential-medal-of-freedom-before-swimming-legend/

Maybe so.

Joe blew it.

She in no way let the country down.

Bunch of fans bitching that their guy did not get the honor first.

I think your blinded by race on this one. He has almost 3 times as many medals, and was way ahead of her in raising awareness on mental health in the world of elite athletes.

She deserves one, but AFTER he got his, IMO, and in many others' opinions.

She stood before the world and faced her abuser along with her teammates and said that guy did that TO ME.

Then she got the twisties in the Olympics and rather than mail it in she stood up and I cannot do this. I will not do this!

It was much more than athleticism.

BTW

When she was leaving DC a fight attendant offered her a coloring book...

Maybe check out Phelps' personal struggles. Oh, wait. He's a white male. Doesn't count, right?

I do not make the picks.

I did a profile on him in 2008. Great guy. Terrific family. He has earned a slot. But...

awards recipients are selected for their political value as well as how much is deserved. Jim Jordan for fucks sake.

Biles has a lot of clout in a community Democrats must excite in 22, black women being called on to save the country from itself... again.

Well, sort of. It is not like Alan Simpson appeals to that sort of demographic. But the real question for this sort of thing ought to be is the person worthy of the medal, not is someone more worthy since the answer to that question is pretty much always yes. For example,  the issue is not whether Gym Jordan deserved the MoF before Joe Paterno or Kathie Klages. It is whether he deserved at all.

If you take a look at the list.of prior recipients, there are two professional football players on the list: Roger Staubach and Alan Page, both awarded by the treason monkey in 2018. Absent from any discussion at the time was why them and not Joe Montana and Reggie White. No discussion of why Jim Ryan and not Carl Lewis, Annika Sorenstram and not Nancy Lopez. Those issues only arise when someone has an agenda apart from the medal decision. And you do not have to know too much about Forrest to know his agenda.

It reminds me of when ESPN gave Caitlin Jenner the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. I saw a torrent of people posting pictures of, for instance, veterans who had been injured in combat competing.as.athletes, or soldiers in combat being "true courage" (most amusingly, in at least one instance being illustrated by one of Mark Hogancamps Marie old figures). Previous awardees like Robin Roberts or Pat Summit or even Michael Sam did not meet that kind.of.resistance, and later winners like Bill Russell or Eunice Shriver did not either. You did not need to be a genius to understand what exactly was really motivating the people objecting to the award. And you do not have.to be a genius to see it now.

[Hairy Lime]

"Marwencol " autocorrects oddly.

[Hairy Lime]

Yes, Kevin McCarthy IS an idiot.

Really?
As opposed to Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer who, according to 70 %of Americans see the country headed the wrong way under their  total rule?

Yes.

[Holly Martins]

I also got Marie Old for Marwencol.  Probably the "c" is taken as an attempt to hit the space bar. 

The use of the Hogancamp pic is classic irony.

People take awards seriously this way only when their ideological button or bigotry button is pushed.