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They'll have to do a good job explaining the law next Tuesday because there are probably jurors who feel the same.

Perhaps an even more telling- even saddening - demonstration of how popular butker's views are. His T-shirt is now the highest selling one in the NFL store.

I think part of that is that sports in general is turning into a clique for reactionary bearded men. Even real sports like football seem to be turning into MMA or NASCAR in terms of the type of fandom it attracts.

It doesn't help that football is horribly boring to watch now because of the penalties and commercial breaks. You'd have to be pretty weird to enjoy watching two hours of commercial breaks and another hour of watching people stand around waiting for the official review of every other play.


I also forgot to mention it's extremely expensive. You'd have to be a total asshole to waste money going to a game in person at this point, and you have to have cable or premium streaming services to watch everything. It's a mess.

This is false lol . The NFL just recorded its 2nd highest average ratings ever last season so it’s just as popular as it ever was . The fact is conservatives, liberals have both attacked the nfl constantly but in reality it has done nothing to dent the NFL’s popularity .

Also it’s false to say you need cable to watch the NFL as at least 90% of NFL games are broadcast on CBS NBC or Fox all of which you only need an antenna to watch .

https://fortune.com/2024/01/10/nfl-ratings-tv-second-highest-ever-football/

The ratings may not be declining, but the types of people watching it have definitely changed. Fewer and fewer young people care about sports and, regardless of what the ratings say, a lot of people who used to watch football regularly have given up on it. Not for political reasons, but because the experience is terrible. Nonstop commercials, nonstop penalties, nonstop official reviews, and it is less accessible than it used to be. "You only need an antenna to watch." Lol.

The NFL is arguably more exciting from a casual perspective than it used to be as there are more pass plays and less run plays than before . Also yes its true that the NFL is extremely accessible to watch as CBS, NBC , FOX are all stations you get over the air and do not need a cable Or streaming subscription for and now they are increasingly adding ABC to the roster too . So the NFL is arguably even more accessible than it used to be not less .

The only time you run into issues is if you’re a fan of an out of market team and the Inmarket team is playing at the same time slot and Channel as the team you are a fan off . Outside of that you pretty much should have zero problem watching football on Sundays.


Lastly your point on demographics isn’t really true either as 64% of the fan base is between the age of 25 and 39 which is a prime market base for a sports league :
 https://www.sponsorpulse.com/insights/nfl-fan-demographics-who-are-footballs-biggest-fans

[Good lord Putin got under you guys's skin with the election interference stuff which is about the only reason I can think of why you're being so intense about this]

Crimea+Donetsk+Luhansk going to Russia and Ukraine joining NATO (or some other defensive agreement that has teeth to ensure this doesn't happen again) is the absolute floor. Ideally of course, Russia leaving entirely and Ukraine joining NATO, but that seems unlikely.

One of the few serious posts here and about what I would say.

Good lord Putin got under you guys's skin with the election interference stuff which is about the only reason I can think of why you're being so intense about this. You wuss out in Afghanistan, want Israel to roll over and just let Hamas take over their country, but then you don't want Ukraine to give up one foot of land even if it means WWII casualties. Some of you are even talking about regime change in Russia which presumably means starting WWIII and invading and hoping it goes better than all the other times in history that's been tried.

As I've said before if this is what it looks like when you're on someone's side in a war than you clearly weren't on the US's side against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre Now kindly go shove it

Well the Taliban committed all kinds of atrocities against civilians and it took significantly less loss of life to stop them than it would for the kind of total victory against Russia that all of you seem to want here. Yet most of you were fine letting them take over Afghanistan, it's not logical so have those two positions in concert, there's just some kind of emotional bias here.

I think I know better than you as i'm in Europe and more familiar with European politics than you are. All you say is just "you're false, end of story", lol.

Democrats would be centrist. There are factions that would be left-wing but they're a minority within the Democratic Party. It's not like the squad, Bernie Sanders or even Elizabeth Warren dominate the DEM party. Biden's brand is basically christian democratic, which generally is even considered center-right in most nations in Western Europe.

No, you're just one European person with a particular political viewpoint. I posted an ANALYSIS that measured how left and right the Democratic and Republican parties would in be in peer countries.

That analysis directly contradicts your nonsense claim.

Sorry but the analysis you posted is nonsense, unless you'd say Clinton's Democratic Party is basically as much to the left as Corbyn's Labour Party...

The article you linked is an opinion. And seems like an attempt to normalize Democratic Party and frame Republican Party as more extremist than far-right parties in Europe.

On top of that, the analysis is already dated, it compares the Dems to 2010 versions of political parties. from my country and argueing it is to the left of the Greens and Parti Socialiste LOL.

I'm pretty sure i know more about European politics and the Democratic Party than this opinion maker.

I completely buy the prosecution's factual case.

But the prosecution has done almost nothing to convince me that what Trump did constitutes a crime beyond a reasonable doubt as to the interpretation of the statutes and campaign finance regulations.

I understand that this is really not supposed to be something a lay jury is asked to decide.  But if I'm a juror and the law is as unclear as it seems to be in the case, and I've been given almost no information as to how this vagueness should be resolved, I'd have to feel it was my responsibility to acquit.

This is why I wish the prosecution had a least brought up adultery as a possible underlying crime to elevated the falsification of records to a felony.  Under this theory of the case, I think Trump is 100% guilty with no ambiguity in the law, and I would absolutely convict him.  But unfortunately the prosecution presented no evidence that Trump committed adultery in New York.

Anyone who spends a little time with semi-normal people already knew this. MSNBC is a bubble, but Joe likes to think Americans spend their mornings watching Morning Joe.

I think I know better than you as i'm in Europe and more familiar with European politics than you are. All you say is just "you're false, end of story", lol.

Democrats would be centrist. There are factions that would be left-wing but they're a minority within the Democratic Party. It's not like the squad, Bernie Sanders or even Elizabeth Warren dominate the DEM party. Biden's brand is basically christian democratic, which generally is even considered center-right in most nations in Western Europe.

No, you're just one European person with a particular political viewpoint. I posted an ANALYSIS that measured how left and right the Democratic and Republican parties would in be in peer countries.

That analysis directly contradicts your nonsense claim.

Walmart had pretty good earnings , maybe a shift of middle income consumers to trashier Walmart ?

Walmart said as much on its earnings call that more high earners were shopping at its stores mainly through its Walmart+ delivery.

we don't do plus, but we do pick up at store and have them shop for us and put it in the back of the car.  Like every other normal person, I like Wal Mart's prices, but gawd damn I hate going into their stores.  Wal Mart customers are the worst people on Earth (ya know, poor Americans).

Maybe it's because this is an upscale area, but our local Walmart is clean, spacious, and the customers (and staff) seem to be ordinary suburbanites for the most part.

the closest one to me is maybe a decade old and it's been a sh**t hole the entire time.  It was gross on the inside with months of opening.  If I have to go inside, I'll go to a different Wal Mart, the ones south and west are like you describe (but nowhere near as nice as the Targets in the same directions).  A mile west of the "bad" one is the nicest public school in the area (where I live), a mile east is Warren Buffet's house.  But there is little pocket of poors in between and they all shop at Wal Mart.

Superbowl doesn't count.

Well well well…

Gender gap is also 13 points. Is that typical?