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  1. Fantastic. Super-fantastic. Because.... There are dozens of posters on this forum alone who have been around and posting for a LONG time on this and predecessor forums, and who have a consistent history of voting for many repbulicans, supporting/and or defending W's administration (or at least elements of it), etc. You can look up our history -- it's out there. Seriously, there are a shitload of people who, for their whole lives, were generally moderate Republicans, who want absolutely NOTHING to do with the cult that exists today. But for me, and I know I speak for others, there actually is something to be grateful about regarding this admin -- it's been eye-opening as hell. Many of us have seen that we were suckers, we were flat-out wrong, for a long time. In my younger days, I believed in trickle-down economics, that sort of shit. But...and here's the important distinction....I've watched us try it over and over and over again, and I've seen it FAIL. Maybe I believed for a long time that if you flapped your arms hard enough, you could fly. But after watching a buncha guys try it, jump off a cliff, and go splat, I've realized I was wrong. But Incredulity and Chrispy are still standing there, saying 'this time, it will work!" Trump has been effective at creating a new political class -- ex-Republicans. Now, what happens to that class is anyone's guess. We range from pretty conservative to downright progressive, so not easy to deal with as a group. But make no mistake, we all lament the shit out of the death of facts, truth, and reason. While y'all happily wallow in the bullshit and get it all over you. No thanks.
    19 points
  2. Orangebloods continues to do what it does - take money from the dumbest motherfuckers on the Internet and just make shit up as a work product. If I ever met the Anwar guy, I’d like to kick him immediately in the nuts.
    11 points
  3. 11 points
  4. JHC, that is coming from the guy that is the king of "People say" and "I heard". Or whatever other vague bullshit he uses to introduce lies and general horseshit.
    11 points
  5. here's something that i don't believe has been highlighted yet, except slightly by brisket. the system is set up for recidivism. you see it all the time in the dwi world, and back when the mugshot thread was a thing - the repeat offenders were often picked up for other offenses that branched off their conviction. but let's make a hypothetical. take a young (early twenties) service industry person. he works nights at a restaurant while trying to finish up his teacher's certificate. let's say he had a few beers after work with the kitchen staff before driving home. is he at fault for this act? yes. he is pulled over and subsequently arrested. that is one bad night. let's say he wasn't even really doing anything overly wrong on the roadway - but he had a brake light out. still, driving drunk is his fault, so he's got to take the arrest, but he does the smart thing and refuses a breathalyzer and the sobriety tests. problem is, service being a cash heavy business, he carries most of his money in his wallet. he made $350 last night that's sitting in a baggie at the jail. his bank account is pretty short, because he's just made rent and power. he's printed, mugshot, and spends the night in jail. he's arraigned the next morning. judge is in a bad mood, so even though he's on a first time offense, he is given an instruction for an interlock system on his car. he's given a $3000 bond, so his bail money would be $300. now, he's got enough of this in his wallet, but he has no access to this. so he cannot make bail, and he has friends trying to get hings put together for him. but he has to spend another night in jail, is AWOL at work, and subsequently fired when his boss cannot get ahold of him. finally the bail money is put together, and he gets out. let's keep in mind at this point he is not even convicted of a crime. his car has been towed by a tow company who charges $180 per night at their lot (cash only, and exact change ONLY!), so he's already out $360, which is more than he has got in his wallet, and besides, he has to pay his friends back for the bail loan. somehow he scrapes up enough money to get his car back. now he needs to hire a lawyer to make a filing to get a provisional license to drive so he can find a new job so he can pay for all this shit. his lawyer is cool and agrees to be flexible on the payment plan. he pays what he can on a credit card, lawyer wanted $500 down. his lawyer advises him to take a couple of classes about drinking or some shit, and those cost about $50 each, and are really only offered in the evening, when he would normally be working. however, his lawyer makes clear these classes are checkboxes for a judge to be more understanding. no effort means no mercy. let's keep in mind at this point he is not even convicted of a crime. so he somehow finds his way into another job after a week. he's filling up his car with gas finally, walks into the gas station and BAM, there's his mugshot on a paper on the counter. clerk looks from paper to him and back to the paper. let's keep in mind at this point he is not even convicted of a crime. in order to drive that car, he has to have an interlock device installed. the device costs, say $100. then there's a monthly fee to be monitored by the device, let's say $75 per month. if he doesn't pay this, or is caught with the device somehow disconnected, his provisional license is suspended. he could also face a second arrest. not even yet convicted. let's say he manages to get all this done, and he pleads guilty and is convicted of a misdeanor dwi. now he has a record that makes him toxic to many employers, including schools, so he has to stick at being a waiter. now shit still hangs over his head. he's on probation, he's got to pay court costs, and he can have his license back, but it comes with a three year surchage of $1000 each year. but don't worry, he can pay in installments of $38 per month. if he misses a payment, his license is suspended. he would be subject to arrest if pulled over with that suspended license. the trick is, that $38 per month comes with a "convenience fee" of $5, so that's really $33 per month. but it's alright, he can pay it off in his own time. but these surcharges stack. so after only paying $396 of his first year surcharge after 12 months, the next year surcharge takes effect. bang, another $1000 stacked on top. he's successfully fulfilled the provisions of his probation, so, effectively he's "served his time, but that second surcharge is another minimum payment of $38, which means each month he know owes $76 or he risks losing his license. he manages to make this work, so he's paid nearly $800 of the first year, and $396 on the second year surcharge, but here comes year #3! another $1000 to stack on top. so now he's in for a minimum of $113 per month to retain his license, despite being 3 year removed from the crime he committed. at every step, if he doesn't fulfill numerous obligations, he's subject to another arrest and more fines and more draconian punishments. this is the same for numerous crimes, including possession of drugs, getting in a stupid fight, or whatever. so we've taken a promising life of a guy who wants to be a middle school teacher and completely derailed it for at least half a decade. because this guy had one idiotic night wher ehe had one too many beers and a broken taillight. what he did was wrong, but years later, he's still dealing with it. and the system is designed to be blocky with multiple points of failure to further embroil you in the justice system. it's a meat grinder, intentionally so. you can't just expect people who don't have the money to pay fines to do, say, community service, because they need those hours to work. you or i get arrested for something or other, we can afford bail. we can afford a good lawyer. we can pay that surcharge out of pocket. but the waiter, the teacher, the person working through school at dominoes pizza? nope. they are turbo fucked, and for YEARS. i'm not advocating for pardons, or ultimate leniency, or anything of the sort. but the system is very invested in putting offenders back inside and chewing them up, and it really punishes those who do not have a lot of money. tl;dr - the system sucks and actively pursues ways to chew up no-violent offenders.
    10 points
  6. I'm an affluent, 46 year old white male in Texas. I go to church. I've owned a gun since I was six years old. I've been married to the same woman for 22 years. I am an executive of a financial services firm and a hard core free market capitalist. While we have a long way to go, I believe strongly that America IS exceptional and that American power and prestige is the central pillar that have upheld the greatest and most sustained period of relative peace and expanding human rights and dignity in history, and that we are the essential nation advancing the worthy and transformative values and ideals of Western Civilization. I value in fiscal restraint, a strong national defense, fair and impartial justice, and the general idea that powers not granted constitutionally to the Federal Government are reserved by the states. How the hell could I possibly consider myself a Republican?
    10 points
  7. CDC: you have a blank check to hire the best coordinators in the world to save the program and your job Herman running to hire and pay his buddies;
    10 points
  8. "tinkering wrt economic theory?" Here's the fucking problem -- THERE IS NO GOP ECONOMIC THEORY. Everything told/sold to you as a GOP voter is a lie, intended to get your buy-in for the only outcome that matters: further concentration of wealth in the hands of the already wealthy. Seriously, there's no theory, just a single outcome -- more money to the folks who already have most of it. The recent past should show you that. The GOP is anti-protectionist...but now gets a boner over tariffs, and trade wars are easy to win. The GOP thinks that increasing deficits are an existential threat....and now celebrates the 2017 tax cut that has exploded the deficit. The GOP thinks that people should be responsible for their own retirement and save....but now wants debt-saddled grads to drain their 401k to pay off student loans. We could go on. For pages. THERE IS NO PHILOSOPHY. Just concentration of wealth. It's the one and only constant. When everything else falls away, but ONE THING remains constant, guess what? That's your belief. That's what you stand for. "Throw the baby out with the bath water?" THAT'S what you call wanting to address systemic failures like healthcare debt being a factor in FORTY SIX PERCENT of personal bankruptcies? THAT'S what you call wanting to address massive $1.5 TRILLION in student loan debt, which is a result of the cost of a degree inflating at a rate way over inflation the past 30 years, resulting in a huge bubble of the American population that can't support our consumer economy by buying a car or a home because they're drowning in debt? That's not a baby in the bathwater, it's a floating turd, and it should be flushed. GOP economic theory is to consume our seedstock in the name of further fattening the fatties of today, and investment in the future and costs in the future be damned. Almost any other economic theory is an improvement. Don't sell your bullshit around here. 99% of us aren't so stupid as to buy it. Try pitching it at a Trump rally, where you'll see signs to "Keep the Government's Hands offa my Medicare!" You'll have a much better success rate.
    10 points
  9. 9 points
  10. As an adoptee, this is just really cool. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kent-county-adoption-michael-orlando-clark-jr-kindergarten-class/
    8 points
  11. No, follow me here you brainless twit. Your proposition: economic indicators like unemployment rate are proof of presidential success. Fact: unemployment (and every other economic indicator you cited) trended overwhelmingly to the positive under Obama. ERGO: Obama was a successful president. Your rule, I just applied it to the facts. Yet, you won't apply that rule to the facts, because it would require you to 1) acknowledge that, according to your own metrics, Obama was a wildly successful president, and 2) Trump hasn't actually accomplished that much (his rate of improvement in those categories trails Obama). In short, I'm calling you out on your utter and complete bullshit. Your support for Trump has NOTHING to do with those economic indicators, because if those WERE the driver of your support, you would have been an enormous Obama fan. You weren't and aren't. Therefore, we now know with certainty that economic indicators do NOT matter to you in your preference of president. It must be something else. And when you take those out of the equation, Trump is left with a track record of....international incompetence, naked corruption, an unprecedented and relentless volume of lies, happily stoking the fires of racism and xenophobia....all of which tells us that you are a tremendous piece of shit of a human being. Don't state rules if you don't want those same rules to hang you by your shriveled ballsac.
    8 points
  12. 8 points
  13. Yes. And I'm dealing with a dispute over massive flooding because a developer paved over hundreds of acres with no 404 permit (yep, there were real-deal wetlands) or SWPPP. You'll be thrilled, the developer is pocketing tens of millions. When you pave over that previously farmed property....what's going to happen to the stormwater that falls on that land now? Where's it going? What about the neighbors? Developer makes a lotta money. The people who live at the end of the floodwater outlet he's created....well, fuck them. Maybe....just maybe....and I know this is a shock...some of those regs actually exist for a reason. "Regulations" isn't a bad word. Well, I mean, it is if you're looking to make a mint with no repercussions. But if you're a citizen who wants his property protected, you know, they can be actually -- what's the word I'm looking for -- oh yes, "important."
    8 points
  14. Can't make this shit up.
    8 points
  15. Your inner satyagash is showing. Texas has better players coming back and USC recruiting isn't even good enough to come close to being in the shitter. USC fans are in full revolt and there will be almost no support next year. The 2020 Texas OC job is undeniably more appealing than the 2020 USC OC job. The only reason to choose the USC position would be fear of change. And if the only reason you can come up with to work somewhere is that you already work there, then that's a shitty reason. Nothing about this means Texas is a great spot to be. It merely requires the slightest recognition of what a shitshow USC is right now.
    7 points
  16. What if - and believe me this would be a hypothetical - but what if we offered some kind of a stock option equity sharing program?
    7 points
  17. "Hey, B_T, come watch this 2.5 hour interview with Hillary Clinton." - "Sure thing, bud, let me fix myself a drink first."
    7 points
  18. Yes, because regulations that appropriately contain economic externalities actually make the market more efficient, and eliminating good regulations that help contain them makes markets less efficient, because they socialize the cost of commercial activity. What Incredulity is celebrating, in large part, is socialism.
    7 points
  19. He has experience as a head coach
    7 points
  20. First of all, you should read my response again, because in no way, shape, or form did I say that the guy questioning Biden "shouldn't be allowed to ask the question." What I said is that Biden has to have a better answer than that. Big fucking difference, Swam (and I refer to you collectively as "Swam"). I'm gonna answer your question to me anyway, but I'm gonna separate my thoughts: 1). Again, the whole story about Biden firing a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating his son is bullshit. It's 100% bullshit. The prosecutor Biden wanted fired WAS corrupt, and he WASN'T investigating the company in question. It's a bullshit story, just like "Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election." It's not true. Those stories started in Russia, made their way through a bunch of twitter bots and right-wing websites until they started getting repeated by guests on Fox, then later parroted by insufferable internet trolls and Republican congressmen (often the same people). So I understand why Biden would get testy when a disingenuous "just asking questions" guy parrots this exact story to his face, but, like I said, he's got to have a better answer. 2). Nobody hates rich kids more than me. Fuck them, fuck their khaki- and baseball cap-wearing self-satisfied frat brothers, their overpaid summer internships, and their seed money businesses. That includes coke-snorting Hunter Biden. I'm not inclined to give Hunter Biden the benefit of the doubt on anything, and a lot of other people feel the same way, which is why the fake story against him resonated, and why right-wing morons like the Fox primetime lineup and Kennedy in Louisiana keep repeating it to their receptive audiences. 3). Yeah, it seems shady that a foreign company wants to throw 50K/month at the VP's kid. I don't know if anything corrupt happened (tax breaks, exploration contracts, altered American foreign policy). If it did, prosecute them, and if I see evidence of corruption, I'll support significant jail time for all parties. I don't have a "side" when it comes to corruption. 4). The idea of Republicans getting offended at Hunter Biden getting into a financial conflict-of-interest situation... *mind blown.gif*. I mean, within walking distance of the White House, there's a Trump hotel where foreign governments spend millions, and they do so with the expressed intent of getting favorable policies from America. Not to mention the millions of taxpayer dollars Trump collects every time he plays golf in Florida or abroad. I can't even begin to list the ways that American policy has been overtaken by the Trump family's desire for massive wealth... from Trump's hotels to Kushner's need to refinance 1.4 billion dollars in real estate. Republicans have the moral high ground on nothing. Not personal morality, not fiscal conservatism, not patriotism, and certainly not in fighting corruption.
    7 points
  21. Yep. One of them is actually a respected teaching and research university.
    7 points
  22. Counterpoint. Alabama. Gave trump a standing ovation in their stadium. Immediately turned the ball over, gave up a touchdown, then lost to LSU, eliminated from SEC championship, then lost Tua for the season, then lost to Auburn and eliminated from the playoffs. I’d argue that is proof that God exists. Don’t fuck with God.
    7 points
  23. I pulled the trigger on this amp. Stoked for it to arrive. Some Les Paul porn from last night along with a new song we debuted. It's not quite ready, but it was a fuck it kind of night. I wrote this one in about 30 minutes my last trip to Texas. A straight up rocker
    6 points
  24. He's not coming to Texas and going to steal our commits/recruits?!
    6 points
  25. 6 points
  26. PUT YOUR BONERS AWAY, YOU HEATHENS!
    6 points
  27. hahahaha, god i love this shit! good thing we get to do it every 3 years!
    6 points
  28. https://www.stubhub.com/oklahoma-sooners-football-tickets/
    6 points
  29. She looked like she was 12 in the original movie? I'll take the Vegas Audrey.
    6 points
  30. Did I miss the MadLib? Who is saying Bush is the representative of the historical conservative brand? Why is there such a focus on the personality instead of the ideology and the compromise required to run a country? No one is arguing for another Bush. The argument is that conservatism is now just the name of the team that worships the personality of Trump. Not about ideas or working towards solutions that benefit all within the country. "My team must win at all cost", regardless of what that means for a country that includes you. Educate us on what ideology/philosophy Trump stands for and the steps he took to realize them during the 2 years he had complete control of the government. Explain to us simpletons how those steps would benefit the country as a whole. You all whine about how this forum is just some liberal cabal; prove to us that we are wrong. You have 3 years of data to use to lay out for us.
    6 points
  31. Well, shit. We're a year out from my original post. They Keytruda worked great. Until it didn't. Last couple of scans have shown significant tumor re-growth. Docs seem to think that she won't get any further results from the Keytruda. And they don't really understand all the ins and outs, or why it would stop working. So, looking at chemo options. Seems that the realistic goal is to try and buy her 1-2 more good years. And when the price of treatment is greater than the benefits (physically), she'll know when to say when. My folks are feeling pretty vulnerable and scared. They shared all of their anxieties, from the big to the little. As I sat in their living room last night, doing what I do -- calmly discussing the logistics, and how we tackle problems and go to experts (we're having an eldercare specialist come in to talk about every aspect of life management for folks in decline) -- I was in my zone. It's what I do -- solve problems, take people's worries off of their shoulders. But goddamn, it didn't feel right. And my old man isn't doing great. The news has thrown him for a loop, and he's had some health issues push him into more of a decline than he'd been in. He's 82. I wouldn't be surprised if they both passed within a few months of each other. I was hoping they'd see both kids graduate college. Now, I'm hoping they make it a year and a half, and get to see the boy graduate high school. After our conversation, it was late, and we needed to grab dinner (too late to cook). They suggested that we all go together, so we picked up the boy at home and went to Cabo Bob's (the boy had been wanting to introduce them to it soon). As we're standing in line, trying to explain the menu to them, the male half of a young couple in front of us turned around - "First time here? I can help, I'm a bit of an expert," chuckling to himself. He walked them through how the ordering works, made suggestions, etc. We check out, and we're headed to the drink station. My folks already sat down with their orders. As their filling their cups, the man leans over to my son and tells him "it's really cool that you're getting time like this with your grandparents. Enjoy it." He came to the table grinning, telling us about the conversation. Damn near broke me, right there. Life rolls on. It will roll on without some of us. That's the way it goes. And we'll just roll together until then.
    6 points
  32. That's gotten old. OU wins the conference, gets a Heisman (or an invite), shits the bed in the playoff/MNC/whatever. Still get a conference title and trip to New York. While we enjoy our multiple trips to the third tier bowl, be it the Holiday, Alamo, Texas, whatever. Only reason we change bowls is the tie-ins change. Fuck everyone who's drawn a paycheck since 2009 for coaching football at Texas.
    5 points
  33. Would you fuckwits join the rest of us and put SpiderBanana on ignore or stop quoting him? okthnxbye.
    5 points
  34. I thought this was a thread for the Texas coaching search, not the Ole Miss coaching search.
    5 points
  35. well.. yeah but.... what happens when everyone at Deutsche Bank and Capital One commit suicide though. WHAT THEN
    5 points
  36. No one knows shit. 9.95
    5 points
  37. Reminds me of how the night of the London Bridge stabbings the UK media reported that the murderer had previously been jailed with his jihad buddies for a plot to blow up the London stock market. The next morning I was watching an ABC 'News' report from the scene where the 'reporter' stated that "Motive has not been determined" and went out of his way to not name the killer or mention his previous jailing. Pathetic.
    5 points
  38. Against my better judgement here are a few reasons. And save all your time and energy trying to counter each reason. It’s politics and the same reasoning behind your responses and severe dislike of Pete applies to folks like Bernie and his policies. Intelligence. Imagine a President speaking with a foreign leader in their native language. Hell imagine just speaking in English compared whatever the fuck trump speaks. He clearly connects with voters whether you like it or not and that provides a sense of trust that he will make decisions to the best of his ability in the best interest of the country. Military experience. Reasonable policy positions (believe it or not most of the population falls in the middle on most policy issues and not the extremes). His youth is a strength to a lot of people when considering that the other candidates will be damn near 80 when inaugurated and will not have to live 50 years with their decisions. You can bitch and moan that you don’t like his policies which is fine. It also doesn’t mean everyone will miraculously fall in love with Bernie or whoever your candidate is just because you spent a whole bunch of time yelling at Internet forum clouds.
    5 points
  39. You aren't a proud conservative. You support Donald Trump.
    5 points
  40. Hopefully they'll give us a fucking mulligan when we elect someone competent
    5 points
  41. You literally said you don't remember sexual assault of students in a systemic manner. He posted the face of the scandal. Sure he could have chosen a picture of Jim Jordan, known sexual assault cover-upper, that wasn't him in Congress but instead in an Ohio State wrestling singlet, but let's be real no one wants to see that.
    5 points
  42. No, see, when the GOP says at the very beginning of a presidential administration that their goal is to block everything, and spends 8 years investigating, well, everything, that's just sound government by people who love America. But when anyone else does it, based on glaring, obvious, and shameful criminal activity, resulting in [checks notes] at least 89 indictments and 24 criminal convictions....including people utterly unconnected to Trump like [checks notes again] his campaign manager....well, that's a "partisan witch hunt! The libs are out to get him!" Lies are truth these days. And lies are winning. It ain't even close.
    5 points
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