Tom Brady, covidiot
The GOAT is both profiteering off covid fears (by shilling a crackpot "immunity supplement") and openly flouting basic social distancing standards -- not to mention NFLPA rules -- in a state currently seeing a big surge in a COVID hospitalizations. He's telling his fans that covid is nothing to worry about. Good lord.
Dude you're smelling your own farts. You are really impressed with yourself and your own line of thinking. As a fellow independent, you can do better. I've gotten no shit from Dems ever. Not much from Republicans either. You would do well to understand that your own experience may not be representative of everyone else's.
You actually say you're a leftist below.
So here you are attacking me, proving my theory true.
@iMBlue2
I've never been registered to either party and I never will.
Neither political party's history is spotless and pure. Having worked in DC (as part of think tanks and non-profits), I have an UNRELENTING disdain for politics, politicians, and political parties. Anyone that has actually read the Federalist Papers knows the Founding Fathers did not like political parties because they knew political parties naturally encourage groupthink and partisanship at the expense of nuanced, pragmatic solutions.
But all that aside, I'm still waiting for PaulWall to give me his definition of liberalism. His definition would give people a chance to see a few significant things like:
(1) how much (or how little) he knows about the history and evolution of liberalism
(2) how much (or how little) self-awareness he has; confirmation bias is a helluva drug
As a libertarian, I don't like that a group stole the term "liberal" and mangled its definition, requiring the invention of the new phrase "classical liberal" to mean what "liberal" used to mean.
Today, "liberals" are in favor of many things that are the opposite of "classical liberalism."
sure, just as most republicans don't realize they live in a liberal democracy. damn good thing, too
Today many conservatives are in favor of things that are the opposite of “classic conservatism “.
Could be. Not my area of expertise, though. What would you say are some of those differences?
It may just be the issues I care the most about, but voting for the candidate who most close;y aligns with my views means voting for a party, because even though the other party has a few people who I might align with on those topics, as a whole, the party doesn’t.
For instance, if I lived in Maine, I actually probably align quite well on both health care and climate change, the two issues I care most about. Unfortunately, voting for Collins would increase the chance that Republicans would control the Senate. I would not align well with their positions and I have little hope that Collins could change that, therefore it would be extremely difficult for me to vote for Collins.
I'm a fan.
Let me get this straight..
Republicans control the Executive branch, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, yet you're blaming "liberalism" for the current state of our union?
At this point if you still support Trump then fuck you because you are truly lost.
MGoShorts is an athletic supporter.
Why do you care?
Because I don't want my parents to contract a deadly disease from idiots that were told by an idiot athlete that Covid-19 isn't a big deal if it can be avoided.
The elderly just need to stay at home and have relatives or volunteers drop them off food and necessity supplies. They need to stay isolated until a vaccine is found. I just shake my head when I see a lot of old people at Lowes and grocery stores without masks and pushing carts. I think these people don't care and if they catch the virus it is their time to die?
Look Up Alex Guerrero Brady’s trainer and partner at TB12. They guys done stuff like this before. I think Brady gets good results from working with him and that’s the reason he’s supporting the methods.
bUt MaSkS!
Check out the data from countries where people wear masks at a high rate and get back to us.
Oh god...what are your thoughts on wearing a mask?! Please divulge this internal dialogue.
But masks work
A 1st grader can understand why they work.
It's the SAME GODDAMNED REASON why you don't get wet when you have an umbrella over your head while it's raining. Sure, a few drops might splash you from the side, but you'll be mostly dry.
To be fair, in this case it is a porous, permeable membrane that still lets quite a few drops through. But I'd rather have that than stand out in the middle of a rainstorm with no shelter at all.
Has this Michigan Football site become so goddamn political that we are now putting down Tom Brady's training habits during COVID? WTF?
Yeah I had no idea what Brady's politics were before this thread, but as soon as I read the first few obvious but-trying-to-false-flag-Covd-concern comments I could tell he was a conservative.
For too long now people have treated their political parties - which are objectively idiotic IMO, and both are terrible - like sports teams. I guess it's not surprising that they've actually usurped their sports teams on their sports team's very website.
What do politics have to do with this? Tom Brady is a very public figure flaunting the guidance of his own organization and all the medical community. He sets a poor example for a community that is struggling to contain a virus that is killing hundreds of thousands of people. There is zero politics in that statement unless you believe COVID is a political issue made up by the Democrats. If that’s your point of view, then I’d like you to personally tell that to do 130k and growing families who have lost loved ones for this political issue.
"Conservatives" feel attacked and that there has been a liberal media bias for years - Hence the rise of Limbaugh, Fox News, and more conspiracy peddling outlets like Breitbart and OAN - and the bottom of the barrel - Alex Jones.
Perhaps the left did go too far with its "progressive" agenda, but I haven't really seen anything on the left that rivals those outlets in terms of shamelessly selling conspiracy theories and misinformation similar to (Hillary Clinton running a pedophile ring in a pizzeria basement) coming from the left.
I think this is generally because the left tends to be made up of a demographic of more highly educated individuals - per traditional education and higher learning (this is not an insult but statistical fact), and are less susceptible to outright misinformation campaigns.
That said, the majority of "conservatives" I know are not believers in Alex Jones type garbage. The rise of Trump, however, has left many of these individuals in a bind as they agree with the libertarian aspects of lower taxes, open markets, leave me be, etc, but many are disgusted by the behavior of POTUS and how complicit/fearful the Republican Party has become of this self-proclaimed "conservative"
Trump is hardly a true conservative, and his voting record was actually that of a Democrat for years. He saw a weak party (one that shit on him all through the primaries and claimed he was a fraud, and they would never support him,etc) willing to sell its soul for victory in the general election so they could get their conservative judges. He is concerned with power and the fulfillment of his own narcissistic needs, using populist rhetoric unseen in modern the American political arena since Barry Goldwater. He does not represent the party or values of John McCain or Ronald Reagan.
This tracks with my experience. As a former anarcho-capitalist libertarian turned independent with left leanings and with mostly traditional Republican family, this is aligns with my experience and interpretation (incorrect though it may be).
Do you really put it past any of those who have the hunger for power and influence to let a "few hundred thousand" of the old and weak die for their agenda?
I'm not saying that what's happening here......
but i'm sure they would have no problem even with numbers in the millions.
No. That’s what they do. That’s why a healthy democracy is so important. But it requires an informed citizenry. And we no longer have that, which makes us susceptible to over reaches from our political class and ultimately the erosion of our freedoms.
@mackbru Have you ever considered that you, and others of your group-think....may be the REAL "Covidiots"? Perhaps you should "reimagine" that.
Well said, CoverZero. The horseshit coming from people like this is pathetic...
When you can point to any relevant data to back up your statement, I'll listen. Take a look at data from countries like Taiwan or South Korea in comparison to us. Look at rates of infection, rates of positive tests, rates of testing, rates of hospitalization. Shit even look at Europe. Then compare to us. We're doing the worst, barring maybe Brazil.
All this could have been avoided if Lloyd just went ahead & started Henson.
the guidance is "don't work out in groups". i think TB with a few receivers is perfectly fine; especially if it's outside. the BS article doesn't tell any specifics. now, if it's a bunch (or hoard) of players in a gym, that's a different story.
Tom Brady could be on video killing puppies and you'd still get down voted for saying he was wrong at this site.
Now if you changed just the name in this story from Tom Brady to Connor Cook most would be going off on how stupid he is etc...
Yep.
It says something about the human condition.
To be fair to Connor Cook, he does seem like the type to have a video of him killing puppies. I'm actually a bit afraid to google it.
(And in all fairness to spartys everywhere, if they are genuinely good people and accept a rivalry as a friendly thing rather than a jealous hatred, they're ok.)
Well if people are stupid enough to buy it.....
Doesn't mean Brady should do it, but people with no common sense who buy shit like this deserve to look like fools.
A lot of people apparently don't know any better. There are medical doctors that were hoarding hydroxychloroquine for their friends and family a couple of months ago when there was absolutely no evidence that it did anything to fight Covid-19 infections. If highly educated medical professionals were willing to treat their loved ones like Guinea Pigs, what do you expect everyone else to do when their idols are telling them that Covid-19 is no big deal?
People are making big leaps off the quote.
Tom isn't taking a big risk throwing the ball to 2 or 3 guys.
This seems like a safe activity to do while maintaining social distancing.
Tom probably should explain his stance more clearly but we currently have guys making big leaps off of 1 historical quote.
Oh come on. Dude has been a big time Trump supporter for a long time and he was a Bush guy before that. He doesn't go around quoting democratic presidents on a regular basis. You know what he meant by posting that quote and so did everyone else. The guy has a college degree - he's not an idiot.
No.....apparently he is a "Covidiot"
Regarding Covid-19, opinions vary, even among medical experts. I personally believe our reaction to this virus is disproportionately excessive and suspiciously politically motivated. Brady may be smarter than you think. Time will tell.
Larry Hogan was politically motivated in having one of the longest stay at home orders? Mike Dewine was politically motivated in being one of the first governors to issue statewide orders? Governor Abbott is politically motivated in cancelling elective surgeries in parts of Texas?
You are fooling yourself if you think they know who those people are. Idiocracy is not the future. We are living in it now.
Everything is a conspiracy and the truth is not what actually happens, it's what Trump and his enablers tell them is true.
What are NFLPA "rules" and what are the penalties for breaking these "rules"?
Ahh that's what I love about the US 2 party system, such a logical anomaly:
How can people on completely opposite ends of the spectrum all be so very wrong?
Because the fringes on either side refuse to acknowledge any fault in their own view, and refuse to acknowledge the validity of anything from the other side. That the extremists have become the voice of both parties is a indictment of the media in this country.
I must've missed it when Bernie won the Democratic nomination. The fact that you think conservative Democrats are leftwing extremists says something about you, and something about the media, but probably not what you think.
Money and power in the divisiveness, since it makes both sides easier to control.
1) magnify wedge issues to make it seem like no compromise for the greater good is possible
2) let one team win for a couple years, then the other, then keep flipping so they fight like dogs for the next win
3) do whatever you want, rape and pillage the nation
4) $$profit (which is the same as above I screwed up the meme somewhere)
When did Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer become far-left extremists? They're more likely to agree with the policy positions of Reagan and the first Bush then those of Sanders and the DSA.