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  1. ...except when the Gestapo comes to Bastropo. Modern Republicans don’t give a shit about law enforcement or military as independent instruments of fairly and justly defending common principles that benefit the greater good. But they love them some cops when they’re beating down BLM protesters, ripping immigrant children from their parents, and maybe just maybe Locking Her Up. The GOP worships law enforcement and the military only as tools for violently oppressing others. When law or policy requires telling some jackass gun nut rancher he can’t trespass on federal land, or telling a conspiracy theorist antivaxxer her kids need measles shots before they attend free schools, or requiring a low-level bureaucrat who cashes a federal paycheck to do her damned job whether or not she likes homosexuals, well that’s Tyranny! and don’t the police have better things to do like cracking down on atheists or freeing all those sex slaves from the pizza parlor?
    30 points
  2. Trump came in with Steve Bannon explicitly stating that their goal was the "deconstruction of the administrative state." From the beginning he set about dismantling the apparatus of our civil service. He ignored advice from the previous administration. He threw out Chris Christie's transition plan. He purged agencies like the CDC of professional expertise. Do we need to revisit the Vanity Fair article about the ineptitude of the transition within the Dept. of Energy? https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis The fish rots from the head. The blame starts at the top and none of this gets fixed until Trump is removed from office. You can deflect attention from his incompetence by pointing out that mistakes were made by others. Well, Trump is still making mistakes and fucking up his job daily even now, months into the crisis. Pointing fingers elsewhere is just noise, just a distraction.
    17 points
  3. This sounds like a fun way to pass the time.
    16 points
  4. Omg will you two just exchange numbers and relieve the rest of us from reading your twisted foreplay?
    14 points
  5. 1 month can mess up an institution, 3 years is long enough to completely change one. I'm not saying that's what this admin did to the CDC or FDA (at least not completely), but to act like 3 years is some short time to affect change is crazy. Continuity matters, and inertia is also important when looking at how change affects gov't bodies. Institutional knowledge is a real thing, which is why continuity is important. If you drain the swamp, or more apropo to this administration, insert your cronies in place of long standing professionals and call it draining the swamp, you lose institutional knowledge. Wont matter when it comes to a lot of day to day functions, because the body can still largely self regulate with a change in leadership, but it matters a lot when edge scenarios come into play. Flu season? Its as common as doing annual evaluations, the CDC doesn't really need any real direction to handle it. The FDA doesnt have to make any hard decisions on approvals. Novel, highly contagious virus? We want all our pieces in play. Budget cuts at the CDC hampered that response. We lost positions in China that could have given us better info earlier. We lost funding to state and local governments that could have alerted us to cases in the US earlier. Is this a Trump issue? Not entirely, the R's have been attacking the CDC's budget since before Trump came on board, but Trump is on board to continue those efforts. Inertia is also important with gov't orgs. They are like oil tankers, changes to course are slow, and take a long time to complete. That's why this line of thinking is absurd. You cant spool up an effective national response to something like this quickly. You need pieces in place at the start. Assembling the team takes time. Having the team establish their roles and start coordinating with national, state, and local orgs takes even longer. The right way is to have that team in place, ready to fire, at all times. The US government isn't a business, treating it like one is stupid. We don't mothball our military while they don't have wars to fight, because we understand the impact of not being prepared for a fight. Rs have no problem pumping money into defense despite the fact that the chance of the military directly intervening to save US lives are slim because all of their work occurs OCONUS. Yet somehow, mothballing our medical response is somehow a smart business move, even though it has the more immediate effect of saving citizens lives. The CDC is a piece, and previous administrations recognized that it wasnt strong enough on its own and stood up the pandemic response team. Trump's admin decided something different. The change is on him. Government organizations have bloat. They have dead weight. Just like bigger companies have bloat, and dead weight. Leaders impact that. Trump wanted the big job, he gets the good and bad with it. He has had 3 years to change things for better or worse. Blaming previous administrations points to poor leadership on his part, because he didn't recognize issues and fix them. He didn't appoint good people to steer those ships. He didn't check on those ships to make sure they were on course. You don't get to claim total authority and say you don't take any responsibility.
    14 points
  6. I ain't gonna lie: I would love to mindlessly amble into an Applebee's, order a bunch of heart attack appetizers, drink some weird-ass oversized draft mug, and peruse entrees that would feed a normal family for a week. And I'd let Tiphanae upsell me some diabetes pie.
    12 points
  7. The buzzwords, (C)onservative and (L)iberal, mean very little. Currently, the GOP is entirely anti-government except for when it comes to military and law enforcement. So while there could be some discussion on whether M4A or federally administered education is desirable, we don't have a GOP who is even sitting down to that table to discuss. Instead, we have a GOP that has been busy dismantling all public health governance, including the CDC, dismantling the department of State, and dismantling the EPA and the SEC. None of these agencies are even remotely "socialist." And this has been happening for 40 years. Trump is simply more transparent with it. The GOP isn't even currently libertarian. Its anarchist. Even in a libertarian dream island, they wouldn't allow a resident to pollute the whole island. All the landowners would get together and stop it. One could even call this meeting a "government." Personally, I'm leaning toward the "if they want anarchy, let's give it to them" solution, but we will see what happens in November.
    12 points
  8. So the same people protesting for states to re-open will be the same ones who support Republicans and Trump trying to cancel or postpone the election in November because it’s “not safe” amirite?
    11 points
  9. He's melting down like Chernoble.
    11 points
  10. There's simply no denying anymore, the President is just a plain old, lowest common denominator, moron. And one of the worst possible kinds. An utterly unremarkable man of middling intelligence who fancies himself a modern-day philosopher whose musings must not go unshared. Were it not for the happenstance of his birth and inheriting a real estate empire, nobody in their right mind would have paid one second of attention to him. He'd be "Donnie from Queens", the loudmouth at the end of the bar ranting about whatever the TV is showing. He'd proudly volunteer opinions like "You know we just shoulda nuked Iraq to glass back in the 90's and taken their oil and we wouldn't be having all these problems today" to no one in particular as those unfortunate enough to be in earshot hurry to finish their drinks and leave. He'd probably have 56 Twitter followers and live-tweet shit takes during Yankees games. He'd call into WFAN to rant about "this bum Stanton" being hurt again.
    11 points
  11. Big c or little, the bottom line is that conservatism as you would desire is attractive to far fewer people than we’ve been told. Most folks calling themselves conservative are social cons, rich greedy types or outright grifters. The George Will’s of the world are quite rare. There’s no right/center-right path to electoral viability for moderated liberalism except in coalition with liberals or with the deplorables. That has been the case for 150 years if not forever. Your place, philosophically speaking, is to pick your poison. Buckley knew this. That’s why he pushed for fusion of ideals that are naturally in tension with each other when he invited the fundies to his fusionist vision of the movement and into the mix at the NR. He chose appropriately for the time (from a success of the movement standpoint) but we’re living out the nightmare caused by his successors (now Never Trumpers) losing their grip on the movement to the grifters and the hateful “Christians.” Right-libertarians would do well to fully embrace a role as the voice of caution in coalition with the left/far-left. Outside of that coalition, they’ll likely be ignored by all.
    11 points
  12. The republicans backed him through all of his crimes and cover ups. If they did their damn job he'd already be out. Fuck them. Vote them all out. #NoRepublicanAgainEver
    9 points
  13. 9 points
  14. Well you are totally forgetting that Carter page’s FISA warrant was wrongfully procured.
    8 points
  15. no, that was his gift to her.
    8 points
  16. It's cool when the guys who only post here during periods of bad news show up to barf negativity until something good happens and they vanish again.
    8 points
  17. We might be struggling at the other offensive positions, but QB and TE are doing just fine. Glad to see a lifetime Longhorn fan with some big offers (Bama, UGA, Auburn, Oregon, Penn State, aggy (lulz)) in the boat. https://247sports.com/Player/Landen-King-46057581/ https://insidetexas.com/king-chooses-the-longhorns/
    7 points
  18. Fucking football board diarrhea
    7 points
  19. You’re the Drew Mehringer of posters on here. You couldn’t even figure out how many stars Barron is and then shit on him and Herman for potentially landing him.
    7 points
  20. It’s just frustrating. Not much you can point to at this point. We can’t develop players, we don’t win, we can’t beat our rival consistently, we play in a shit conference, and can’t compete for the playoffs. We can’t even get our own 3Rd generation legacy players to commit. This stupid fuck Herman had a great opportunity to get rid of Beck and dead weight after the sugar bowl win without much backlash. Instead his ego was so big he doubled down and ended up embarrassing himself. We were on an upward trajectory. Having a bad season in your 3rd year with your own players and staff and having to fire all off them have completely fucked us as far as making progress and taking the next step. What makes it worse is that he a complete arrogant narcissist. The fans dislike him, the reporters dislike him, many of the his own coaches and players dislike him. He’s childish and immature. Getting caught going to strip clubs on recruiting trips and throwing up middle fingers at the cameras indicates he’s nowhere ready to run a program like Texas. I listened to his most recent virtual tailgate with Anwar. Even when he tries to interact with fans, he comes off like a complete dick. I can see why he has a hard time developing relationships with parents, players, and recruits. There is no excuse for us to lose players like JoJo whose family is all longhorn fans, who visited us more than any school, he we offered his sophomore year. He committed to a school he hasn’t even visited yet. After all that effort, we don’t even make his top 5. Something is broken. Even SMU is kicking our ass in recruiting right now. Unacceptable for us to be in this position in year 4. Rant over, fuck Herman!
    7 points
  21. Haven't been on here for awhile, but things keep moving along. PhdJr. has become quite the little hipster guitarist. I told him last semester if he cracked a certain GPA at the 40, I'd buy him a "real" Strat (he's had a Squier, posted here back up somewhere). Guess what? I lost. So he got a good deal on this below. I think it's a color only these meddlng kids nowadays like, but man it does sound sweet and he's been enjoying it (cooped up at our Grand Estate while I'm still paying rent for a phantom to live on W.C.). Anyway, he's breaking out all the new stuff on it. It really does sound sweet. I think it's officially limited issue in the Players Series. Somewhere just north of half a grand. Very nice machine. Points for the strap, too, no? Did I ever post my Squier Bass upstream? If not, here it is. I play it a lot, have gotten pretty damn good on it (watch out Jaco) and enjoy the living crap outta it. (Strap is my home state (MD) which I'm sure you're sick of after the events a few years ago). My Strat looks 80% like this (Black/White P.G./but maple neck), and has a Texas flag strap, which is pretty sweet. I'm thinking of buying a J orP Bass 5-string (Fender). But this Squier is very, very good, tons of pro players use Squiers for a lot of stuff along with their Fenders. I can't tell much of a diffrence for 1/3 to 1/8th the price. Anyway, here they are, . Anyway, that's it for today.
    7 points
  22. Just bring in a valid Covid 19 cause of death, death certificate of a loved one. EDIT: Damn glad I'm not gonna be alone in Hell.
    7 points
  23. This was going to be really bad no matter what, and it was/is a lot worse because of Trump. I don't see how everyone sane can't agree on that.
    7 points
  24. Shut the fuck up already. Nobody gives a shit.
    6 points
  25. At what point do internet posters who want to see college football stop making gross oversimplifications to support what they want to believe? There are a lot more stakeholders than just players, and decision makers are telegraphing the fact that they're not willing to stomach the additional risk. I want to see college football as bad as anyone but just dismissing that and saying it'll all be fine is wishful thinking.
    6 points
  26. I want to love soccer. I've been to games with good players, and I can tell they are great at what they do. Individual acts of athleticism astound me. But I don't get the religion, the spirit does not take hold of me. I have fallen short of the Kingdom of Soccer.
    6 points
  27. Is it a government solution to regulate drugs that might get you high? Shall we go down the list of things that Conservatives want to regulate vs. what Liberals want to regulate? Because that's what solutions often equals. Solution for poverty is what? Trickle down? Name me a Conservative solution that has worked as sold to us, because I'm still waiting for the largesse of the tax cuts to get to me. Y'know the ones way back with Reagan. I'm still trying to find wages that keep up with the cost of living. I've seen plenty of people locked up for weed. I still can't go to the liquor store today. We're still dealing with the Conservative solutions to moral questions. We've been over this before in a dozen threads. It comes back to the same lists. Conservatives want control of certain areas and absolutely don't want to be controlled in others. That they don't or were ever anything else than controlling from a federal level is absurd.
    6 points
  28. I live in NYC. People aren't shamed for going outside generally. They are shamed for not wearing masks and for gathering. However, runners are the new cyclists when it comes to being inconsiderate assholes. They run on the sidewalks with no mask, don't try to maintain a safe distance from others, and suddenly everyone and their mom is running. So what if you are moving faster. Its on you, not them, to distance yourself from other people on the sidewalk. No doubt that considerate runners are shamed too, but that also happened with considerate cyclists that don't run red lights and follow traffic flow. If you are running over the brooklyn bridge walkway with no mask, you are an asshole. And there are also still clueless types talking on their phone while standing at an entry point or bottleneck instead of standing somewhere with less foot traffic. But there has always been a scourge of people that do things like stop and check their phone right when they get off an escalator. It should be legal to sucker punch these types. Just get the fuck out of the way.
    6 points
  29. I agree that fear mongering in the name of diluting blame towards leadership is just as bad as fear mongering out of ignorance. Contact tracing won’t require Nancy Pelosi to see your sex dolls credit card purchases. Watch this video. It is short and easy to understand.
    6 points
  30. Rocket is up to 98 lbs but still insists on sitting with me in the recliner like when he was a tiny puppy. At least we both still fit. It's like having a warmer weighted blanket that breathes and farts. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    6 points
  31. Hey, people got used to trench warfare. Bet if we asked some dude at Verdun in 1916 if he'd like to swap a few days there for sitting in a magically cooled/heated house, eating food and drinking plentiful beverages, squeezing up next to a lice-free woman and/or wanking it to magical titty movies on the glass screen, then Boom he'd be in our house tracking mud everywhere, and we, we'd be choking on the smell of corpses while astonished strangers screamed at us in French or German before stabbing us in the throat.
    6 points
  32. I’m gonna say it’s good.
    5 points
  33. That’s a partscaster he recently built out of a kit.
    5 points
  34. Shit is incredibly bad in nursing homes. Several states are giving info on how to fill out death certs now. Basically dozens of patients here in Chicago have died of C19 but they just had viral pneumonia listed. Their roommate could test positive and still be alive but the dead guy still wasn't getting a C19 diagnosis. That's why I've maintained the numbers are underreported by a lot - unlike the conspiracy nutters who think the entire medical community is organizing to put more C19 on death certs. Hospitals and your average family practice group along with most specialties are getting ass raped during this plague yet the nutters think we want to play up C19 even more. Fucking idiots will always believe what they want...
    5 points
  35. It's Trump's FDA and Trump's CDC. Unitary Executive Theory over on the Right should've told ya.
    5 points
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