Eh. The 2019 Patriots are not the same team they used to be. That was just how they play the game. It’s how they played against the Chiefs too, it just looked a lot more fluid because the Chiefs didn’t do as good a job on defense as the Rams.

Eh, Phillips did fine.

Maybe a part of the problem is the fact that human beings tend to overreact to everything?

Eh, You can’t pass sweeping legislation with a near 50/50 majority. At least, not unless you want it to be deeply brittle and at risk of causing major electoral reprisals.

I’m not a Pats fan, but there was definitely some of that talk this season. They went 11-5 and had a few pretty ugly losses in a row. I don’t think it was until the playoffs that people started to say “These look like the same old Patriots”.

I have to think he hasn’t resigned because he’s still somewhat in shock at how fast he went from having a decent future within the Democratic party to being totally dunzo as an elected official, as the inimitable Kristin Cavallari would put it.

In a world where you can’t get Schultz to not run, this is a fantastic development.

If your understanding of property taxes and ad valorem taxes imposed by individual states leads you to believe their footprint is anything like the federal wealth tax proposed by Warren, you are not equipped to engage in this conversation in the slightest.

Because if you’re trying to propose a more radically progressive future than the U.S. past, then the national government taking large stakes in important private businesses is one way to do it.

LOL

A wealth tax is completely outside the scope of American political history and progressives collective splooged in their pants at it!

Exhibit B in who the lunatic fringe I’m referring to is!  

The part where it comes out that I’m being sarcastic is the Republican nipple twisting. Because that’s all most of this discussion is so who cares! But regardless, what I’m proposing is not that Uncle Sam liquidate your portfolio, but rather that Uncle Sam step in and on things that are divisible with readily…

Hahahahahahahaha!

Yeah, uh, not sure what Marx you’re talking about, but there’s a whole middle step he believed in to reaching that utopian society that was absolutely 100% positively without question that the state, on behalf of the proletariat, would take control of the means of production. I agree that he would have been…

Don’t be a silly billy dude.

As a serious policy proposal, I’m largely kidding, but this isn’t a serious policy proposal! This is Sanders playing at politics. Responding to the Republican proposal and, if we could peer inside his brain to see the truth, this is also him responding to Elizabeth Warren’s proposal.

If they really want to twist Republicans’ nipples, they should propose the creation of a sovereign wealth fund alongside of the newly reinvigorated estate tax. Instead of having the Walton family estate liquidate their equity stake in Wal-Mart in order to pay the estate tax bill, the government could just take…

Progressive, maybe, but she’s also, like, not good at her job. She completely bungled the Freddie Gray prosecution.

That’s a fair point for many Texas swing districts.