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the reason you would not do this is because when we win both the legislative and the executive we are going to take your party out back and shoot it in the fucking head, and then rewrite the constitution to fix our government if you don't like rules, if you don't give a shit about "decorum" or basic concepts of fairness and representative democracy, prepare to be silenced23 points
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now that i'm at a keyboard, a few thoughts. this is pretty much the worst case scenario, and that includes you republicans also. i understand this has been the endgame for some time now, for both parties, but this is bad for america. as a country, we need balance. we need it in congress, we need it in our courtrooms, we need it in the ebb and flow of the executive's politics. it is part of what has made america's grand democratic experiment so successful; it's what has made us progress as a nation. and it was firmly a part of my voting identity - i liked to think of myself as a republican/liberterian/independent - a person who could try and pick the best candidate regardless of party. however, since nixon's cynical jihad, partisan politics on the republican side have become a very zero sum game. where once there was a gentleman's understanding of winning and losing, there is now an active attempt to overtake the system of winning and losing so that it really does not matter. many republicans will point to bork as a galvanizing element for this weird endgame around the supreme court. most forget that bork was the guy who fucking fired archibald cox in the saturday night massacre. he was a coward, and did not deserve to serve as supreme court justice, and was rightfully denied. somehow, however, like the confederate generals, this became some sort of actual righteous battlecry for republicans. that somehow, by denying a bad candidate for the court, republicans became the victims. it all really started with nixon. as hunter thompson so eloquently eulogized : he was not wrong. and now we have donald trump, and his potential third supreme court justice nomination. mitch had done the maths. he had it figured in 2016. he knew three were coming. and he decided to short-circuit our government to achieve some sort of comeuppance. it is no longer about governance for the gop. since nixon resigned, it has been about revenge, and victimhood, and that's pretty much it. it's been about getting even, or even getting over. i don't think i realized that until recently. i watch how conservative posters on the football and the daily texan boards conduct themselves, and it is so much more about a middle finger in your face than it is about actually discussing a thing. that's why they largely fled the cloak room. the "fuck your feelings" shirt and banner are the most honest thing about modern day republicans. they have no defense, they are constantly on offense. they are the mike leach texas tech football team, except they actually have the support of the regents. they are still winning many elections across the country. we have to make that stop. we have to vote. i am now....a democrat. for the foreseeable future. the republicans are not about good policy any longer, if they ever were in my lifetime. they are about enriching themselves and their donors. they aren't for the little guy, and it is fucking puzzling why any little guys vote for them. we need to disabuse them of that notion. you are not the next rich guy getting a massive tax break that he doesn't need. you are the fucking downtrodden. and you are that way because of republican policies. judicial activism is a phrase the republicans like to use. it's because every accusation is actually a confession. they want judicial activism. it has been their endgame for 50 years now. i'm only sad i've only just become aware of the cynicism. they are actively undermining our system. and now they've achieved their dream. a packed court. i will never vote for another republican ever again i don't think. you put an (R) next to your name, and you are telling me that you are out to fuck me and mine so you can get yours. i'm not sure i fully will ever trust democrats, but for now, i'm definitely with them because fuck the rest of you. it's all so surreal.21 points
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There is only one Christian driver and his name is Jesus Christ.16 points
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it took the death of RBG to embolden the defenders of conservative politics to return to CR. Y'all can have all the negs.13 points
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@Fozzz I see you, brother. In 2005, after W was confirmed for his second term, 75-year-old Sandra Day O'Connor announced her intention to retire and was replaced with Samuel Alito. O'Connor's health was fine, but she wanted to make sure the president who was appointing her replacement would appoint a conservative. That was her right, and here we are. In 2012, Barack Obama was re-elected. At the time, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was 79 years old and had already been dealing with both colon and pancreatic cancer. She decided to keep going and either not care about what came after Obama or assume the Democrats would be president in perpetuity. That was her right, and here we are. Meanwhile, the Federalist Society has spent decades maintaining a list of neo-Nazi teenagers to put into every judicial appointment slot in the country. Breyer is 82. He'll probably follow RBG's path when Biden is elected and Don Jr. 2028 will appoint Nick Sandmann, recent graduate of Liberty University Legal Annex, to replace him. Uncomfortable truths. The Democrats do not have the political intelligence or will they need to lead effectively, and there is nothing within the Democratic Party power establishment that indicates any changes. Schumer and Pelosi will still be the leaders with Joe Biden in the White House. We are ABSOLUTELY fucked and, as inopportune a moment it might be to point this out, RBG holds a lot of responsibility for that. It was her right to cling to power, but all actions have consequences, and an obvious consequence of this will be a fascist SC that Democrats have no will or intelligence to change. We could've had Sotomayor, Kagan, and some other liberal woman in her 50s/60s on the court, but now we won't. c'est la vie The GOOD news here is that the SC is important, but at the end of the day the people matter more, so people power in the streets can ultimately overrule anything. SC-obsession is something the establishment powers WANT you to have. They WANT you to be held in check by fear about the SC. They want you to ignore the needs of the people in the streets and continue to believe that true power lies in DC, not in YOUR hands. It should not, but it will. And there won't be hell to pay, because anyone who ever challenges the Democratic Party from the left is automatically labelled a pro-Republican tool and paid Russian agent trying to help the GOP by the centrist establishment that controls the Democratic party and constitutes it's new voting base among white, affluent college-educated liberals. "DO NOT!" they will say, "LET GREAT BE THE ENEMY OF GOOD!" ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on la la la la life goes on12 points
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Liked this comment in his commit thread from AggieBeast12 :: “Good for him staying home. Respect that. Wish Texas Kids did that more“12 points
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I’ve said it once, and I’ll expand it here: take the Senate, abolish the filibuster, bring DC, Puerto Rico in as states. Consider whether the pacific territories and Virgin Islands should also come in as individual states. (Which if taken to its extreme is adding 6 total states) Pack the court. I do not understand why the Democrats are expected to behave under some sort of AP Government norms while the Republicans run around like an autocratic central Asian dictator. The outrage that some show here is honestly buffoonish: “How dare you fight back! You’re Democrats, it’s your job to object mildly right before I blow your head off and fuck your wife! The nerve!”12 points
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Hook em! Always, ALWAYS, in favor of more Golden Triangle kids. https://247sports.com/Player/Jaylon-Guilbeau-46085543/ Ian Boyd on how he fits at Texas: Guilbeau is the island cornerback for his high school. Sometimes he’ll play off coverage on the boundary without much help, at other times he’ll be in press-man but still responsible for a vertical outside of the numbers. He’s pretty quick and has a great feel for space, cutting off receiver’s releases and breaking on routes. His ball skills are also solid. The measurables aren’t impressive just yet, though. He ran a 4.82 40 as a sophomore and there are questions about his recovery speed as a press-man corner. If that doesn’t work his ability to stick routes well, ball skills, and tackling should allow him to transition easily to nickel or safety. https://insidetexas.com/recruiting-2022-db-jaylon-guilbeau-commits-to-texas/11 points
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This is why people hate lawyers....a perfectly good OU sucks thread got turned into some fucking legal circle jerk...10 points
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Republican = I can’t believe the lack of civil discourse as I take away your rights.10 points
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I’ll get where you are eventually. I’m a mean nasty woman after all. But I’m not exaggerating for internet hyperbole - I’m truly in mourning right now. She was the pioneer of equality for women and took the lead role in so many cases that made life an almost equal playing field for American women on so many important issues. She’s right up there with Thurgood Marshall in the immeasurable legacy they left behind. My daughter wants to be an attorney. And not one that makes lots of money - she dreams of being an advocacy lawyer - clerking for a SCOTUS justice, going to work for an organization like the ACLU or for voting rights or women’s rights etc. She wants to go into politics/government but not as a candidate but someone behind the scenes who helps craft laws and make a difference. Mothers and teenager daughters can have difficult relationships. One of the things we bonded over was our love for RBG. It will take me some time to snap back into fight mode about this. This feels like a personal loss to me. And the fact that she probably spent her last weeks and days and hours worrying about how her death would be perverted by politics - so much so that she felt the need to issue a statement - instead of enjoying her time with her family makes me so terribly sad and angry. Rest easy, RBG. We got your back.9 points
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Thankfully RBG was here for the employment discrimination case but with a conservative court I can be denied housing, loans, insurance and certainly closeted Republicans can get creative here with more to add to the list simply because I’m trans and the same for my plain vanilla gay brothers and sisters. And the moral outrage on abortion? spare us all. Your daughters get abortions at the same rate as everyone else.9 points
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I thought so. Thanks. Makes me ragey. I don’t have a huge dog in that fight as I’m not a ‘minority’, woman or gay, but I want them to have equal rights to myself and not have the government dictate how they can treat their bodies...and think it’s ridiculous how strongly some people want to meddle in the lives of others while screaming about socialism.9 points
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Kudos for you to recognizing your past misjudgments of political affiliation. I grew up lower middle class in a single parent home in the Montrose area of Houston during the height of the AIDS epidemic and watched my mother watch three of her close friends die of the disease while the Reagan administration did nothing except stoke homophobia in the American public. I moved to Austin to attend UT in the late 80's/early 90's, voted for Dukakis as a freshman in '88 living in a frat-infested Goodall Wooten, and was Another Man for Ann in her campaign against Clayton Williams. I have never supported Republicans in Texas and doubt I ever will because I saw them as the party of the privileged few and not the party of the common Jane. I proudly voted for Gore and Hillary and supported Hillary over Obama in the primary wars of 2008 because I believed she was best qualified to lead the fight for health care reform. I'm glad you've seen the light, but I always believed in the general principles of the Democratic Party and saw the glaringly obvious con game of trickle down bullshit the God, Guns, and Guts racists, xenophobes, and homophobes in the GOP sold its supporters. In twenty years time the GOP has given us the two worst presidents in modern American history, both of whom lost the popular vote. They deprived two strong candidates and morally decent human beings from becoming president in favor of a cabal of war criminals and a man in Donald J Trump who represents the apex of Nixonian and Reaganism run amok. /rant8 points
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It's a huge reason why this is a good board. Nobody wants this to turn into TexAgs (or whatever the liberal equivalent would be) where it just turns into political/sports mush and stops being a fun escape.8 points
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I think the idea that RBG should have stepped down on Obama's watch is not well thought out. Let's look at a timeline: 1999: age 66, colon cancer, Bill Clinton in the Oval Office. Surgery/radiation/chemo succeeded, and she never missed a day on the bench. 2009: age 76, pancreatic cancer, Barack Obama in the Oval Office. Surgery successful. 2014: age 81, coronary disease, Barack Obama in the Oval Office. Stent implanted. 2018: age 85, lung cancer, Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Surgery successful. 2019: age 86, pancreatic cancer, Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Radiation successful. 2020: age 87, pancreatic cancer, Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Treatments unsuccessful. Nobody in their right mind would argue that a SCOTUS justice should resign after successful treatment for colon cancer at age 66. That brings us to a 2nd round of cancer, likely unrelated, early in Obama's tenure. Surgery knocked it out with no other treatment. "Should" she have resigned before he ran for reelection? I don't know that I can say that. Most SCOTUS justices serve to a ripe old age while suffering common ailments along the way. This would include the coronary stent in 2014. By the time Obama nominated Merrick Garland to fill Antonin Scalia's seat in 2016, and Mitch McConnell stonewalled his hearings, the jig was up. She couldn't resign. She assumed Hillary Clinton would win the election, as most people did, and so her "job" was to hang on until January 2017. But, that didn't happen, and then her "job" became to try to hang on for 4 more years. That didn't happen either. Basically, the argument boils down to "she should have resigned before 2012", after successful cancer treatment, because politics. I think that's a shaky argument. At that point, she didn't appear to be in imminent risk of dying, and it's not like an elderly person on the bench is some radical turn of events. In the end, I am quite disheartened that RBG is being shamed after decades of selfless service to her country.8 points
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well, um, that would be a, um, normal thing for someone to do. at least someone with any sense of decorum. the president listed her successors before she even breathed her last breath, and the senate majority leader issued a press release about her successor before she was even in the ground. because republicans are nihilistic fuckheads.8 points
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It's amazing that we still have hillbillies that don't think masks help, despite mountains of evidence that they do. They're even on here, a place that skews more educated and intelligent than average. Just amazing. We live in idiot world.8 points
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My vote would be for Merrick Garland for the first. I’m not sure who for they should nominate for seats 10, 11, 12, and 13.7 points
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Naah, she knows. It’s just a PITA to have to make something else for dinner for her. While she sits there and judges us. F that, Popeyes in front of the TV with no guilt FTW.7 points
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This. And I'm fucking tired of it. It's immature trolling and it's fucking up the rest of the world. Fuck these people. It's all fun and games until people have had enough, and I've fucking had enough.7 points
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this is actually not true. there is room here for real discourse, but modern day republicans supporting president trump aren't about real discourse. i was once made fun of on the the old site for talking about the idea of nuance. there is no nuance any longer.7 points
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this is a more succinct post of where i am at. the republican party needs to end.7 points
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It wouldn't have mattered if Hillary had campaigned in the Midwest and Fox News hadn't poisoned 40% of the minds in this country for 25 years. I'm not gonna blame a great public servant for wanting to continue to serve. This fiasco is a lot of people's fault and RBG's name isn't on that list.7 points
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donate donate donate. i'm doing a texting bank for Wendy Davis tomorrow. fucking do something https://secure.actblue.com/donate/getmitch7 points
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https://www.normantranscript.com/news/updated-big-red-execs-charged-with-wire-fraud-conspiracy-forgery-and-id-theft/article_45cfde22-f9cc-11ea-a3e5-1b492eac08f2.html6 points
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Kudos to FedEx. Tuesday arrival was changed to Monday. Then, I got a notification that it was out for delivery today. Pictures washout the color, but it is a nice faded sonic blue. Pickup cover has already been removed. It looks great, but I hate trying to play around it. For being 7 years old, there is not a mark on it anywhere. The previous owner removed the foam mute, so I stuffed a bit under the bridge cover, I wasn't sure that I would be a fan, but it sounds pretty fantastic.6 points
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I am. Most of the shit that is currently wrong with this country is because of "Christians". Some folks follow Christ, and I'm cool with that. Some folks wear neon T-shirts that say "I"m a CHRISTIAN". Those are the guys that call me a sinner and tell me that I'm going to hell, and also jack off in the corner while their wife is getting it up the ass from a young cabana boy. Which one are you?6 points
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Principled Republicans 2016: The Supreme Court vacancy should be up to the voters to decide in November. Principled Republicans 2020: Trump will nominate and the Senate will vote to fill the vacancy ASAP. Morally bankrupt.6 points
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This complete bullshit, Twicehorn and I get into and neither of us catches even a whiff of red.6 points
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Before you call everyone an idiot for disagreeing with your viewpoints, you should do a little research, on the “overwhelming science”. Masks are useful for some situations to help prevent spread of the disease, if that’s the goal. There is also the “overwhelming science” of herd immunity, which has helped in control and even elimination of serious viral illnesses. Are you a “herd immunity denier?” Or “anti-herder”. Ad hominem attacks don’t strengthen your position. There have been examples of successful strategies utilizing strict lockdown controls ( New Zealand, South Korea) and full opposite , (Sweden, South Dakota.) The best strategy will likely take a lot of time to unravel. Using masks around susceptible/ vulnerable populations appears to be useful, but allowing the development of herd immunity in the rest of the population also can control the disease. I wish people who use “science “in their arguments would use all science, not just those elements that serve their position or allow them to attack opposing views.6 points
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I’d like balance too but we need a conservative party that doesn’t have retaliation and punishment of people of color, LGBTQ folk and women as a founding pillar. Family values should include queer families and immigrant families. DACA is humane it’s not R or D. I could go on and on. The only way to get balance back is to bury this GOP. Bury them with out remorse and our future generations of progressives and conservatives will thank us.6 points
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Okay Karen. You'll be fine with 4 more years on non socialism. Says the guy that most probably took that free socialist handout also called the PPP loan for his failing o&g business but you never hear that kinda talk from the right. Corporate socialism is the only acceptable kind of socialism for the right because it’ll all trickle down...6 points
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This is where I am. Let them do it...all of it. Appoint your justice, kill Obama Care, outlaw abortion and equal rights. Do it! Then watch the opposite and equal reaction occur, and hopefully it won’t be equal. Immediately pack the courts and make DC and PR states. Then get right to work on campaign reform and Gerrymandering. They won’t be back in power for generations.6 points
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Stop feeding him. Block him, neg him, and ban him. No more trolls. Here or in the real world. Stop treating them with anything less than the utter contempt they have for us. No gloves. No rules. Fight.6 points
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