32 thoughts on “Tom Brady Is The Boss”

1. …liked him until i found out he was a trumpistani 

2. YeeeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaw!!!
    
   The GOAT did it again!

3. It’s like the Chiefs just didn’t show up

4. Belichick must be pissed

5. There will be cheering in tRUMPsky-land.

6. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/07/politics/susan-bayh-dead/index.html
   Susan Bayh has passed.

7. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/06/politics/trump-impeachment-lawyer-pause-trial-for-jewish-sabbath/index.html
   I find this a bit  suspect.  Isn’t this the lawyer who refused to help prosecute Cosby, but who was scheduled to defend Jeffrey Epstein?  

8. BiD, one lawyer refused to prosecute cosby and the other lawyer wanted to defend epstein which led some late night comic this week wondering if trump (in hiring them) knows what he is really on trial for

9. an ad the atlantic in their science section yesterday described as :

   A Super Bowl Ad That the Biden Presidency Made Possible

   GM has cast its electric vehicles as normal American cars, in a normal Super Bowl ad. Here are seven ways to think about that.

   […]
   The only twist is that both cars—Ferrell’s Cadillac Lyriq, and his friends’ Hummer EV—have electric motors. Gone are the humpty-dumpty lines of older GM electric vehicles, such as the Chevy Bolt. Gone is the playboy sensuality of the Tesla Model 3. These are normal American cars, being driven in a normal American Super Bowl ad. Since the modern era in American climate politics began in 1988, when the NASA climate scientist James Hansen informed a U.S. Senate committee that the long-hypothesized threat of global warming had begun to make itself felt, 33 years of effort—from environmentalists, scientists, activists, engineers, bureaucrats, politicians, the whole societal caboodle—have gone into this moment, of making electric cars seem normal.
   3. The point of the ad isn’t Norway. Norway is the MacGuffin, the foil for Will Ferrell’s hapless masculinity. The point of the ad is that America has lagged behind other rich countries in adopting an important piece of consumer technology, which is (1) correct and (2) partially GM’s fault.
   Like, it is GM’s fault recently. Ferrell was an inspired choice, because there’s a certain type of Will Ferrell character—the flabby guy, misled by his vanities, who eventually winds up in the right place partly because of others’ love—that mirrors GM’s past few years. Because GM has had a change of heart on EVs, and it has had it since October.
   […] 
   When the Trump administration sought to strip California of its power to regulate vehicle pollution, GM joined in the lawsuit. Ford and four foreign automakers took California’s side.
   GM, in fact, continued to argue that California did not have the power to regulate vehicle pollution until November 23. Then it abruptly announced that, after thinking about it—and, perhaps, after reviewing the election results—the company had decided that California did have that power all along. A pre-Thanksgiving miracle!
   […]
   Trump harangued GM on Twitter without warning, and threatened to impose new tariffs on its supply chains. And the White House declined last year to extend the federal tax credit for EVs, a move that harmed Tesla and GM specifically while helping foreign automakers.
   Federal support for these kinds of policies matters. EVs command 54 percent of the market share in Norway not because Norwegians love Tesla, but because Norway has thrown a small fjord’s worth of incentives and mandates behind them. It is safe to say that, had Trump won 81,000 more votes across four states, we would not be talking about this ad at all.

11. wapo:

    The 8 best Super Bowl commercials, from an ‘Edward Scissorhands’ sequel to Michael B. Jordan’s Alexa

    It’s tough out there for ad agencies. If there was ever a Super Bowl when they had to hit exactly the right tone — not too “In these challenging times,” but also not too glib about a global pandemic; not pretending our country has no problems but also not purporting to solve them, like Pepsi’s infamous 2017 Kendall Jenner ad — this was the year to walk that tightrope. Plus, there was the added challenge of filming with coronavirus restrictions. A few were obviously green-screened. Tonally, many fell spectacularly flat. And overall, it was a weak year for commercials, thanks to an overreliance on bland celebrity cameos. No instant classics were born on Sunday night.
    But in these challenging times (we know, we know) a handful of spots made us laugh, and one made us mist up. And only one of them referenced covid. The pandemic was inescapable, represented in the stands with the cardboard cutout fans, and it was visualized in the halftime show, with the dancers’ plague doctor-esque masks. But maybe what we wanted from our commercials was the chance to pretend that everything was normal — at least, until we can drink beer and eat chips together again.

    [continues with their choice ads list]

12. now, on to the trial in cartoonland

    

     

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13. craig, about your thread title: the real “Boss” — bruce, not tom — at the super bowl last night

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14. The Puppy Bowl was very exciting this year with a lot of scoring, there was even a great double score.
     
     

15. BB, here’s cbsnews recap which sounds more exciting than the brady/mahomes one:

    It was a rough match for Team Fluff: Team Ruff defeated their opponents in the 17th annual Puppy Bowl on Sunday with a dramatic comeback. This year’s game featured 70 puppies from 22 shelters that were split up into two teams to compete for “touchdowns” in a canine-sized football stadium. 
    Hosted by Snoop Dogg and Martha Stuart, the game got off to a wild start with Team Ruff’s Archer, an American Staffordshire Terrier, receiving a penalty for “illegal use of the goal posts” for ripping off the goal post of the opposing team.
    Despite the rocky start, Ruff’s Muffin, a terrier mix, made the first touchdown for the team after an impressive tackle from hearing-impaired terrier Marshall, who’s training to be a support dog for frontline workers of the COVID pandemic.
    The dogs were able to catch their breath during the halftime show, performed by a stimulated band of cats, with the help of DJ Grand Master Scratch on the turntables.
    In the final quarter, Jett, a two-legged lab with his own wheeled cart, scored a touchdown for Team Fluff.
    After much back and forth with both teams scoring multiple touchdowns, Team Ruff’s Muffin scored another one for the team, bringing the score up to 66-69 with less than a minute left in the game.
    With the team only three points behind, Team Ruff’s Big Boss Paulie, an American Staffordshire Terrier and Dutch Shepherd mix, jolted for a touchdown before the clock ran out in the paw-biting game. After back-to-back wins from Team Fluff in years past, Team Ruff defeated Team Fluff by a final score of 73-69 to win the Puppy Bowl XVII. Marshall was awarded the title of MVP of the game.  
    [continues]

    

16. very interesting op ed in the hill today:

    Donald Trump should be convicted unanimously by secret ballot
    […]
    When Trump faced the earlier impeachment, I urged that the Senate have the benefit of a secret ballot like almost all jurors have in non-impeachment matters and that all of us enjoy in primary and general elections. The wisdom of a secret ballot is even greater because of the Jan. 6 riot, the continuing threat of violence against members of Congress, and in state capitals around the country. 
    The Senate rules regarding the conduct of an impeachment trial, including ballot secrecy, require a simple majority (though a two-thirds majority is required for conviction). Yes, a provision (Art. I, sec. 5) authorizes either chamber in general lawmaking to make public the “yeas and nays” if one-fifth of those present so desire. This provision, however, is subordinate to the specific constitutional provisions on impeachment, including that the “sole power to try impeachments” belongs to the Senate. 
    The Supreme Court has made plain that it will not second-guess the rules and procedures the Senate adopts, absent an egregious disregard of due process — which a secret ballot aimed at facilitating the ability of the Senate jurors to follow their conscience free of intimidation clearly is not. 
    What’s more, the general lawmaking provision allowing for the yeas and nays to be specified upon request of one-fifth of the senators present explicitly excepts where “Judgment require(s) Secrecy.” This exception is the constitutional basis for hundreds of closed committee sessions, especially those related to personnel and national security matters. 
    It may be contended that even if the vote is secretly taken in In re Donald John Trump v. The United States House of Representatives that the information will inevitably leak. Perhaps. The effect of such improper disclosure can be avoided, of course, if the vote to convict is unanimous, or even taken by voice vote.
    [continues]

    about the author:

    Douglas Kmiec is professor emeritus of constitutional law at Pepperdine University School of Law and founder of the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy. He served as the U.S. ambassador to Malta from 2009 to 2011 and headed the Office of Legal Counsel during the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations.

17. also at the hill:

    The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is putting an additional $100,000 behind its push to tie vulnerable Republicans to the QAnon conspiracy theory and Rep. Marjorie Greene Taylor (R-Ga.), releasing new Spanish language ads Monday targeting three GOP House members in competitive districts.
    The ad buy represents the DCCC’s first six-figure Spanish language ad buy of the 2022 cycle and it builds on the $550,000 worth of ads released last week accusing eight Republicans of aligning with the fringe elements of the party that were involved in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
    The ads will run in distircts represented by Reps. Mike Garcia (R-Calif.), David Valadao (R-Calif.) and Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.).
    “QAnon, a conspiracy theory born online. Sent QAnon followers like Marjorie Taylor Greene to Congress that attacked the Capitol and murdered a cop,” one of the ads states. “Then Republicans like David Valadao voted to support Marjorie Taylor Greene, letting QAnon win. Congressman David Valadao should have stood with us. David Valadao stood with Q, not you.”
    [continues]

18. back to the trial, an LP ad with a special audience in mind

    A message to Congress: Convict Trump. America is watching.

19. Saw a report Bruce was paid $5 million for that Jeep ad. 

20. After he’s tried politically in the senate, he should be tried civilly for felonies!
     
    How about this for dramatic effect…..  Dems notify capitol police and whomever before they do it……blare the audio of the seditionists who broke into the capitol outside the doors of the senate during the impeachment trial along with people banging on the doors.  Reenacting some of the events of 1/6.  But don’t tell the repubes before hand.  See how they vote then.  

21. $5 million for a few seconds?  heck, craig, according to bloomberg, mahomes would not only have had to slog through a tough 4 hours being beaten up but also had to win the game to earn the expected $7 million in endorsement ads. 

22. In my best Boston accent….     ok you jabronies…  first off….  Tom Brady played golf with trump before he was president…  trump was and will always be a celebrity whore.  Second… Brady hasn’t played golf or said one word since trump was elected president….  he’s apolitical.  Third…  when the Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2018, Brady didn’t go to the White House when trump invited them.  And last….   his wife is a huge environmentalist and hates trump.
     
    Now go drink a few Sam Adams and say 5 Hail Marys 🙂

23. Also….  in defense of Mahomes….   he had 3 new guys on his offensive line (if you don’t know why that’s important, you don’t watch enough football for me to explain it to you).
     
    The pre-game analysis was if the Buccs could put enough pressure on Mahomes, they’d likely win the game.  They put pressure on him in spades!  The Chiefs are a very good team and they’ll be back next year.

24. Following up on Mahomes – he had the Tampa D Line in his shorts most of the evening – explains why he was 2/11 during one stretch while Tampa was racking up their first 21 points and ended up 26/49 for 243 yards and a QBR of 49.9 (versus 21/29 for 201 yards and  a QBR of 81.8 for Brady).  Team stats were very close, and in fact KC had 10 total yards more than TB. I credit the difference to TB’s defense putting the offense where it needed to be to turn yards into points and of course, Brady.
    Mahomes is a singular talent and will likely become one of the league’s elite quarterbacks given time and decent health, but he needs protection in the backfield to get there and he didn’t have it yesterday.

25. was he exposed to covid during the 1/6 insurrection?  was he in the room with those who refused to wear masks?

    the hill:

    Rep. Ron Wright (R-Texas) died on Sunday evening after testing positive for COVID-19 late last month.
    […]
    Wright, 67, had previously been diagnosed with lung cancer in 2019. He is the first sitting member of Congress to die from COVID-19.
    Wright announced his diagnosis on Jan. 21, stating he had “mild symptoms.” He was later hospitalized and treated at Baylor Hospital. 
    [continues]

26. See how angry football fans get?😜

27. Unheard of Mr Cracker turned off the game
    at the end of the third quarter

28. OMG… you Brady haters….. did you know that he barbecues babies… chops them up… then uses them as pizza toppings…
    😂😂😂

29. Why, that’s worse than pineapple……..

30. Try living in Michigan and being a Chiefs fan! “How can you root against Brady?????”

31. Angry?  Who’s angry? I was delighted to see the old guys get it done once more – like the Lakers last year. Some don’t like Brady – I can see why – but too bad. He’s been the man for 2 decades, winning 7 Super Bowls out of the 21 years in the period.

32. NEW THREAD

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