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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: List Building - More than one way to skin a cat
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
Whos the director of coaching? We dont have one.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/carlton-blues/afl-2025-adam-simpson-joins-carlton-blues-what-is-his-role-coaching-return-latest-news/news-story/f00471974fb0c5f3853a5ecfdd0ad2a6

It seems like a casual, part time, low key role. I guess you can quibble about titles - is he a director of coaching, a coaching mentor etc.?
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: List Building - More than one way to skin a cat
Quote from: kruddler – on
Not sure if you've read these very forums, but i can understand where the pressure is coming from because many around here think we've improved our list in the off-season.

If those same people make enough noise when things go bad, then it gets really bad really quickly.

My issue is not opinions on here. My issue is a certain cadre of individuals in the media who talk sh1t. The default position for any Carlton coach is the rotisserie, even if we recruit a bunch of U10's from around the corner. One hopes the club can adjust expectations accordingly, either up or down, in way that fairly represents our position, not this "no excuses" crap.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Forwards-How do we fit them all in.
Guys like Williams and Ashton Moir IMO have a certain X factor, that could make defenses a little nervous. Mixed in with more workmanlike players such as Cottrell and Evans, it could be a good mix. Maybe Vossy has been watching the Hollywood hawks.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
The tinder that exists within the MAGA movement was always a chance of internally combusting. Trump attracted every known breed of American Fruitcake, with no thought to anything other than power and vote buying. You have The Israel lobby in there with neo Nazi types like Fuentes, you have the tech bros who love skilled labour from overseas (especially India and China) up against the hardcore anti immigration types. It has to go up in flames sooner or later.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: Lods – on
People may care about those things, but for the majority most of those are not 'priority' issues.
They are not what determines their vote
The only survey that counts are the ones on polling days.
If they were 'determiners' then the parties who promote those ideals would be more successful.
They're not.
Neither here or in the states.

If the opposition to the Republicans is there, then next years mid terms should see a Democrat Tsunami that gives them control of both the house and the Senate.
At the moment that's not assured and it's looking like a draw

I'm not sure that's right. Leaving aside the fact that Trump says a lot of contradictory things, his campaign promises were very much about draining the swamp, being the working man's President, being anti war etc. Not much on climate and environment, but people voted for him because he convinced them he was in their corner. And the fact that Democrats are beyond useless. His approval ratings are in the toilet because people have figured out that he is the opposite of what he claims.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: Lods – on
There not looking for that though. It's why the mainstream parties dominate both there and here.
In the words of Willie Nelson "the winds of change are always blowing.".
The problem is if they blow too far they just turn around and blow back in the other direction.
While it may not seem evident just at the moment there have been great advances in the States in things like racial equality, sexual equality, the rights of LGBT folks...certainly since I was young.

But despite all that the country has probably never been more divided.

We can point the finger at an obvious candidate responsible for that....but what is the thinking of those people who embrace these ideas. How is it possible and what are the social conditions that give it life. It doesn't all come from.the MAGA crowd.

When you say "they're not looking for that though", who are "they" ? I have seen survey after survey after survey where the majority of people in those surveys want more action on the environment, want universal healthcare, want a better minimum wage, want fairer and more humane policies on immigration, think ICE is a menace and want them off the streets, want the US to stop fighting one war after another etc. The voices of the people are pretty clear on these points.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: Lods – on
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-25/

I'm not sure the country would be better off. ::)

If the US is looking for genuine worker-centred political parties, with a focus on peace, a cleaner, more equitable, fairer planet, they won't find it in the mainstream parties. The issue is structural, not personal. The donor class establishes and maintains the machine, and by the time an individual gets anywhere near the top of the pile, they have passed through so many filters that there is never a doubt as to who they will serve.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
It’s political theatre. The government’s own documentation states that most Fentanyl comes from Mexico. Billions have been spent on the “war on drugs” for around 50 years, and it’s barely made a dent. Blowing up a few defenceless Venezuelan fishermen should make a real difference.

They want regime change. That’s all there is to it.

It’s really quite a remarkable thing to watch the self destruction of an empire in real time.