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Showing content with the highest reputation on 01/31/20 in all areas

  1. Of course we're not getting witnesses and of course Trump is getting acquitted. This was only going to end one way. Schiff was brilliant. And none of the people who needed to hear it did. And the fact is that a big percentage of this country cares more about figuring out who the next masked singer is than whether or not Trump is removed from office. We actually have a reality tv star, a slum lord, a money launderer, a rapist, and a racist in the White House at the same time. He abused his power, obstructed justice, and violated the Separation of Powers laid out in the Constitution. And the people in the very body whose power he usurped are unanimous that he did all of that, and more than half of them want him to remain in power anyway, because it helps them remain in power. And I'm afraid that we're going to find out that if this show moved the needle at all, it moved it toward Trump. After he's acquitted, he'll have a witch hunt narrative he can actually sell. This isn't the country I grew up in. Donald Trump would've been laughed out of the primary 30 years ago. Look at us now, dumbed down by 20+ years of Fox News, spiraling public education, and mindless reality tv. We're a dying star, slowly burning itself out. The future is China's and eventually India's. We will become a former superpower relegated to mid-major status, like Spain or Portugal. It's already started. And you know what? We deserve it. Any country where the last 3.5 years could happen doesn't deserve to be leading anyone.
    27 points
  2. Looking good on Collins and Dixon heading into the final weekend. Playing from behind on Umanlymessianicman. Apparently the allure of eventually transferring from Gainesville is quite potent. Rosco Rickshaw is a toss-up before the visit.
    19 points
  3. I think you’ll be safe no matter how many we take
    17 points
  4. If they had done that, you would have criticized them for dragging the process out in an election year you disingenuous fuck.
    16 points
  5. You missed the point he literally brainwashed and convinced an entire population of humanity to believe the shit he was spewing. That takes skills to do that to a literally entire country. That’s what the coach was alluding too. But yeah maybe don’t pick a man that wanted to eradicate human beings. He could have picked Bruno Mars. That dude has convinced tons of people he’s a good singer
    14 points
  6. yeah, here's the thing: everything a republican has told us is true for the last ~40 years (my lifetime) is a straight up fucking lie. this is no different.
    13 points
  7. ....on their first day of emancipation from the EU. I just drank a toast of Pusser’s Rum (a gift from a Brit friend) in their honor. 🇬🇧
    11 points
  8. Go do this to cheer yourselves up a bit. Trump isn’t winning in November. The Democrats majorly in the House will get larger. And we’re also taking the Senate. Entertaining the thoughts of anything less makes me almost homicidal, so I refuse to do it.
    11 points
  9. The Naddler issue reminds me of a comment on NPR last night critical of something Schiff said that could have irritated the GOPs. 'He didn't do himself any favors." Underlying this criticism there seems to be the assumption that there is a formula of perfect moves that could humor the GOPs, win their favor, and carry the day. It's clear that such a formula is illusory. The failure to remove Trump will have nothing to do with the manager's efforts. They were excellent. The case, implications, and consequences of leaving Trump in office are crystal clear. The triumph of shameless criminality oozes from Moscow Mitch and his putrid partisans.
    10 points
  10. Farage's statement captures it in a nutshell. This is a truly glorious moment. Britain was always apart from the continent, always maintaining its separate status. The `exceptionalism' power of Europe. It was not right that it be increasingly under the thumb of an agenda driven by Germany and especially some kind of border-less and identity-less perspective. Europe's great culture heritage is all about its variations and distinctions. The EU has become too much of a political party rather than an element of commerce
    9 points
  11. It's not convincing a population to believe you if you kill everyone who disagrees with you. Ruling by fear and intimidation is not leadership, it just forces those who disagree with you to keep their heads down and their mouths shut in hopes that they're not the next in line for the gas chamber. Any meathead can be a dictator and mass murder isn't a skill. It's the basest, most animalistic way of solving problems. Great leaders are honest, thoughtful, just, and fair. They're not homicidal madmen who seize power through lies. Anyone who thinks Hitler was a great leader has no business teaching/coaching young people because they clearly don't know what great leadership is.
    9 points
  12. Sam Spiegelman changed his OU pick on Collins back to Texas.
    8 points
  13. My sources say the death penalty, for espionage, being considered for Josh Moore. I am pro-life and take no pleasure in reporting this.
    8 points
  14. This chick is watching the Brexit.
    8 points
  15. Last week I went in our bathroom right before getting in bed and noticed that her phone was plugged in next to the sink, which was a first. Wife was already in bed. Me: Why is your phone in here and not on your nightstand? Her: I’m trying something new. I have a hard time going to sleep because I get distracted by my phone right before bed. Me: How about you just don’t pick up your phone? Her: *Looks at me like I’m an alien speaking a foreign language* Phone: *ding* (the timing was perfect) Her: Can you see who’s texting me? Me: No, I don’t want to interfere with your sleep. Her: Asshole (as she gets out of bed to check her phone) The phone has been charged on her nightstand ever since.
    8 points
  16. And he was correct in his sentiments.
    8 points
  17. Millions of people would fake being offended and state that this egregious lack of decorum is forcing them to vote for the pussy grabber.
    8 points
  18. My wife is bribing our 11 and 9 year old boys with $2 scratch off tickets if they get in the shower right now.
    8 points
  19. That's a very sad read. And it's scary for me too. I played tackle football for 6 years and suffered many injuries, including multiple concussions. Now I struggle to walk and move about. My orthopedist calls me the Noah's Ark of injuries because I have 2 of everything. I was a defensive tackle and played the position very physically, including using my helmet as a weapon every play. Back then, I was taught to put your facemask in the opponent's earhole when making a tackle and I also used my helmet inflict pain on blockers to help shed the block. I would come home from games with severe headaches that wouldn't go away. To go to sleep, I would lay on my back and hum loudly because that was the only way to get the pain to subside. I thought little of it at the time, but now I have severe memory issues, much like was described in the article. I used to have a great memory with the ability to retain tons of details. Now I can't remember what I had for lunch an hour later. A few years ago I had a MRI and was diagnosed with cerebral atrophy, which is a marker for dementia and possibly CTE. I loved the experience of playing and still love the game today, but if I had a son, I would be super hesitant to let him play football now. I'm sure with the information we now have, we can create new technologies and new techniques to mitigate many of the risks, but I'm not sure that even that is enough to make it worth the price you pay down the line.
    7 points
  20. You really have to grade Hitler on a curve. I mean, he took over a downtrodden program coming off scholarship reductions and postseason bans. He got them turned around in short order and had them in the conference championship game. A couple of calls or breaks go their way, and they may have won the title. He started reading his own press clippings, stopped trusting his assistants, and took over play-calling duties leading to their demise. It's a tale as old as time.
    7 points
  21. Another gem from that conversation last night trying to discuss statistics with a self-proclaimed "outlier" in engineering. Me: "Do you have any evidence that <Gigantic Oil Company> is biased against women?" Ms CL: "Yes, I've sat in hiring meetings where they said, 'Let's take a chance on this woman.'" Me: "So... they hired the woman for an engineering position... and that means they're biased?" Ms CL: "I've never heard them say anything about taking a chance on a man!" Me: "Was the woman more qualified than all of the male candidates?" Ms CL: "No. Of course not." Me: "But they hired her anyway?" Ms CL: "Yes." Me: "And that means they are biased against women?" Ms CL: "Yes. They described it as 'taking a chance.'" Me: "Maybe it was because she wasn't the most qualified applicant?" Ms CL: "No, it's because women are discriminated against in the workplace." Me: "Where they hired you?" Ms CL: "I'm special. I can do the work. I'm far down the curve. Most women aren't. They had to hire me." Me:
    7 points
  22. yea there was also the part where he was pretty much everything he was trying to eradicate there was a chance he was part Jewish what was known of his lineage was that he was just the product of what would be known today as "fun baby making" he was sickly he had little in the way of physical strength he had very little in the way of stature he was a goofy fuck and while he was clearly a long term shitty military leader (in large part because of his inability to accept the loss of a battle while eying the win of the war) and he was a giant piece of shit there is no reason people have to try and deny or obfuscate the fact that a goofy as fuck, pipsqueak, low level officer of no repute was able to somehow able to take over a nation and unify it to do a lot of horrible shit that took a massive toll on their own population and country as well as the others they were against worse yet I would imagine if you looked through the faculty of his university (and any other that would immediately suspend him and work to fire him) you would find at least a couple of faculty that have studied and written on hitler extensively and that have commented on his ability to unify a country and push them to do massive things (even if those things were totally fucked) and most people of they took those comments or writings without a full context would taken them to be glorifying, admiring, or praising hitler along with that a number of others that are critical of this coach are probably running around expressing their outrage in a che guava shirt they have been wearing for the last week or they have a lenin or stalin portrait on their wall and some chairman mao phrases tattooed on them somewhere it was a stupid comment by the coach and as a football coach he should know to stick to football shit, but it was also a massive overreaction by the crowd that simply cannot break down what someone is trying to say (even if it comes out stupid or was a stupid topic to bring up) and instead hear one thing like hitler or nazis and they flip the fuck out and act like fucking children in the fetal position
    7 points
  23. They are flying in cheese to pair with all that bread
    7 points
  24. I think football is either going to change massively or go away. It just isn’t worth it. Makes me feel a bit guilty for loving the sport so much. No way I’d let my son play. No way.
    7 points
  25. It’s a fucking disaster for any Brits living in EU countries. I feel horribly for them. Most of the retirees living on their pension are having to move back to the U.K. because all of a sudden their EHIC won’t be valid. Pretty interesting that a board that is 99% against Trump and the Republicans are universally cheering this decision. It’s the same nationalistic bullshit sentiment that drove this. Pro tip: If Icono celebrates it, it’s a fucking terrible idea.
    6 points
  26. Maybe go back to worrying about the "expansive executive" that y'all were shitting yourselves over a few years ago. Congrats, you've now got what you said you didn't want -- thanks to undying devotion to Herr Drumpf.
    6 points
  27. yeah, real brave of mitt and collins to be 48 & 49 after they knew they had 51. fuck em all.
    6 points
  28. don't use levels of abstraction. you are talking about you. so say it. I now have something I can use to justify what I was going to do anyway, vote for a guy that even my republican senators just admitted openly tries to cheat the democratic process. stop referring to it as though it some abstract group out there somewhere.
    6 points
  29. Anyone in the twenties using the phrase “zero regrets” is well, someone in their twenties. Get to your mid forties and realize not only will you die but it’s not that far off and that life is great but it’s finite and full of a heaping shit ton of mundane, that the to do list of life will stack up on you, the stress of managing whatever you have to manage will wear you down big time, your body falls apart you can’t do what you used to you can’t always rely on waking up feeling rested, and if you’re lucky you won’t have an unexpected loss but most of us do and face a mid life moment where you really wonder if you have the energy to get back up. Man the energy and stamina of my youth is gone. Like completely gone. That will pummel you if you rely on it now. Goals start to wane and frankly if you’re lucky you trade it for comfort in who you are and knowing what works for you and doesn’t. But God help you if you haven’t figured it out by then because that’s really the only silver lining of mid life juxtaposed to the beginning of the breakdown. And as miserable as I sound I actually have it made pretty damn well. Still it can be a total beat down. And by the time you’re fifty? If you don’t have a major regret that can keep you up at night then you haven’t lived really at all. And all of that messes with the head of a newcomer to mid life. Good for you you don’t drink or smoke, but that’s not really what he’s talking about, he’s said as much. Man you have a lot of miles to go before you know shit from shinola. So walk right off with that boomer disrespect. Besides I think po is like most of us old people here, he’s a disgruntled x’er I’m pretty sure.
    6 points
  30. If you're going Rumors, come correct
    6 points
  31. Don't hurt yourself, Guess Who probably isn't the easiest game for you to grasp.
    6 points
  32. Pretty Aggy to complain and gnash your teeth as you loose. Then try to delay it for 3 years, where you basically have to vote for the referendum again to take out the part of Parliament that wasn't listening to the people.
    6 points
  33. I don't buy that. It's too close to the "she was dressed like she wanted it" argument. I'm not saying Democrats or moderate Republicans (of old) or independents are master politicians. The shift by the Republican Party towards the far right, as orchestrated by Gingrich et al and trumpeted by Rush and the new right media was a far more politically adept move than anything the center or left has tried to pull off. They organized and controlled the message, and it paid off, but to say "everyone" is at fault is an equivocation too far.
    6 points
  34. Newt Gingrich. Ronald Reagan for the end of the Fairness Doctrine.
    6 points
  35. Is it too early for an in-depth post-mortem here? I'd be curious on people's thoughts about the individuals most responsible for the death of the Republic. I'll start, in no particular order: Rush Limbaugh / Rupert Murdoch - as leaders of the fear-mongering movement that led to the creation and solidification of "The Base" (you know ... morons) Koch brothers / Robert Mercer / Sheldon Adelson - for funding the modern GOP's efforts to undermine the principal tenets of democracy over the last several decades Justices Kennedy and Roberts (along with assists from Alito, Thomas and Scalia) - for their decisions in Citizens United (allowing the flood of dark money into US politics) and Shelby County v. Holder (killing the VRA because "there wasn't enough racism to justify it" (ha!)) Bill Barr - for his cover-up of the GOP's blatant criminality Mitch McConnell - for his tactics in packing the judiciary, covering up GOP criminality and generally taking partisan politics in Congress "up to 11" Donald Trump - for pushing the country into a post-truth dystopia (with an assist from Fox News / Murdoch) Who else shares the blame with where we are?
    6 points
  36. New one is out....but with a few real players this time. For those who watch Key & Peele, the lols come on the final player.
    6 points
  37. We all knew how this would end. It’s all over but the crying (and again, most folks here knew that this would be the outcome of any impeachment 3 years ago - it’s inevitable when a criminal organization controls the White House and senate). Let’s wait for the vote to acquit, which will establish a new rule that the king literally can do no wrong, and if the president does it, it’s legal. And then we can pronounce the exact time of death of the Republic. Yeah, we’ve been keeping it alive on machines and shit, but today, we pull the plug....flatline.
    6 points
  38. Are the pilots invisible too?
    6 points
  39. back to what, exactly? ignoring literally hundreds of bills passed by the house and awaiting senate debate? that "work"?
    5 points
  40. Backfire how? Like a story about dipping on a plane when describing how shitty an airline is?
    5 points
  41. The British recaptured their national sovereignty from faceless bureaucrats from Brussels. Just last week, it was reported that the EU wanted to force phone and tablet makers to use a universal charging interface without any thought as to the impact it would have on the current array of products being made. Boris Johnson delivering Brexit has been the greatest victory for those of us who are national conservatives. Repudiation of those that consider themselves "citizens of the world". Sorry - borders matter, regaining national sovereignty matters, maintaining a country's own currency matters and finally restricting immigration to meet the needs of the state and desires of the existing population for the number and qualifications of immigrants matters.
    5 points
  42. the first sign of being lost is comparing your life to other people's and feeling bad from some arbitrary "shortcomings". here's what i've learned and am still learning. life is not a sanctioned race or sporting event. there are no points awarded and very few rules. you make the rules along the way. and the rules are usually defined by what you find important to you at the time. as you age, the rules, however few there are, are perpetually changing. you're always going to lose the imaginary race if you try to play by someone else's rules, specifically, comparing your life's work to others' "achievements". there's always going to be people with "more" and people with "less". some people can be born on a bed of roses, roll around in pig shit, and come out smelling like roses. others can be born in pig shit and have more pig shit piled on them regardless of what they do or don't do. no rhyme or reason to any of it. life is half luck. you can't control the luck part. you can control the other half, which is how you live your life, what you hold important, how you act as a human being, how you treat others especially family. if everything's still confusing, then simplify it. dont' be a dick and act with love in your heart. if you can do those two things the majority of the time, you'll have a memorable and meaningful life. or even simpler, when you are on your death bed and are remembering your life, what are you going to regret the most? then live today and the rest of days to try to reduce those regrets.
    5 points
  43. When this fucking cunt starts gloating, I'm going to lose it. He is America. He is the mirror. Good morning, America. You're a bloated, big-talking liar addicted to pumping self-congratulatory hot air up your own ass. There aren't enough Schiffs to balance out the naked truth anymore. We're shit, and we love it.
    5 points
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