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  1. I am so thrilled tonight! I spoke with my mom and asked her how my dad was taking the election. She said after every network declared Biden the winner, he turned off Fox News and said “Well, glad that’s over. Trump needs to be a gentleman and concede. Biden will be okay, thank goodness it isn’t Hillary.” And this man, who has mainlined Fox News for four years HASN’T TURNED IT ON AT ALL THIS WHOLE WEEK!!! My mom helped him discover he could watch recent college football games on PPV and rewatch classic sports on different ESPN channels. He had no idea those things existed and he’s been like a giddy kid watching old school games. He told her that he’s tired of watching news all the time - he thinks it just made him angry. He’s decided to just watch an hour of - GASP - CNN with his coffee to catch the headlines and then no more news for the day. He said he’s been happier since he cut out the 24-7 news watching. He wants her to show him how to work other stuff like Netflix and Hulu. I cried when she told me “I feel like my husband is returning to normal.” Things may still be awful and crazy on a macro level but I feel like a heavy, sad weight has been lifted off me.
    69 points
  2. Edit: I don't tweet often. But when I do, it's to quote Longhorn Legend Sam Ehlinger at the outgoing POTUS.
    32 points
  3. On a positive note, BILs uncle who is on a vent opened his eyes for the first time in 2 weeks today. Vitals a little better as well. Small victories.
    17 points
  4. The time to expand the House of Representatives is so far in the past that it's absurd at this point. In this thread we will discuss why expanding the House needs to happen, effects expanding would have both real and imagined, and ridicule those opposed to the idea. What won't happen is anyone giving a good and persuasive reason why we shouldn't expand the House. Even you, Mr. Lobbyist who posts on surly (no callouts!). A brief summary of the ironclad reasons it should be expanded: 1. The Constitution mentions a maximum ratio of one Representative for every 30,000 citizens. Right now it's over 750,000. So all you ORIGINAL INTENT! and FOUNDING FATHERS! fans should be in favor. 2. In case you haven't noticed, the population of the United States has grown quite large. Also, the ol' USA still cranks out a decent economy. What happens when a population grows really large and keeps generating money on a per capita basis while the number of Representatives stays the same? The amount of money per Representative grows exponentially. And what happens when the amount of money per Representative grows exponentially? The ability to buy enough votes to affect policy gets exponentially easier. Higher population + static number of legislators = easier corruptibility. In real dollars the biggest companies today have somewhere on the order of 6 times as much cash on hand as the biggest companies (like General Motors) had in 1950. And yet they have the same number of Representatives to "lobby" as the companies in 1950 had. Expanding the House would lower corruption because math. 3. But Huck, the building is only so big! You may have heard of Zoom or other online conference services. The Constitution says that Congress must assemble once per year, so let's have an argument about the various definitions of assemble. I say that gathering online meets the definition in the 21st century. Not only that, but make lobbyists fly all over the country to try to buy votes instead of putting all the fish in a single barrel for them. 4. More Representatives means more responsiveness to local constituents. Right now a Republican Representative in Alabama cares more about what Republicans in California want than Democrats in Alabama. Increase the number (and lower the ratio) so that Representatives actually know a much higher percentage of the people they represent. Effects 1. More constituent service 2. Less corruption 3. Electoral college not really affected Right now some of you are saying "wait, what?" about #3 above. Well, it's true. You can run the analysis on your own if you like but expanding the House would not materially affect Presidential election results. Now sure this sucks if you hate the Electoral College, but it's good news if you want to get Republicans on board with expanding the House like I do. If you expand the House to 1500 Representatives, Biden would have won this election 913-692 (Give DC 5 electoral votes to match the smallest States). That's 56.9% of the electors. In reality, Biden won 306-232 which is, you guessed it, 56.9% of the electors. Flipping Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada would make this year's election 269-269. Doing it with a House size of 1500 would make it 804-801 in favor of Trump. If you want to fix the electoral college then you need to fix the way the States divvy up their electors.
    16 points
  5. Staying home with the wife and dog. Wife and I are politically synced. Dog is MAGA but he doesn't talk. Should be pretty smooth.
    15 points
  6. Raises hand. It was the trump 2018 thread. And, yes, I kept a screenshot for posterity
    14 points
  7. Have we reached the point where this kind of shit doesn't really even spark outrage? I'm super surprised that LSU would be harboring a rape factory guided by a man of such pristine reputation and alleged integrity as Sir Edgart Beaujolais Orgeron, IV, Esq. But, hey, it's Louisiana. They revel in being a 3rd world country hidden as a shithole state within the interconnected 50 here in the US. I'm going to guess that LSU will do nothing, ignore everything that doesn't suit their narrative, and keep right on trucking. They are part of a machine inside a state that actually glorifies and lauds corruption as some sort of playful virtue.
    14 points
  8. "Dayumm girl, that body is so hot it could melt steel. Unlike jet fuel of course.
    13 points
  9. Hey @landman we've found another example of someone in one State trying to influence decisions of another State. Weird, it's a Republican again.
    12 points
  10. That's the most regarded negative recruiting I've ever heard of. "Right now, Texas has a piece of shit fraud as a head coach, but reports say they are about to hire one of the greatest football coaches of a generation. You wouldn't want play for that team, right?
    12 points
  11. 12 points
  12. Unless it's because he's before a firing squad, who gives a fuck.
    11 points
  13. I'm not here to be your dad or anything, but it's pretty fucked up to joke about "hitting it" with a girl that was repeatedly and knowingly abused over the course of months.
    10 points
  14. Latinx is a dumb term that should go away. Voting Republican because of a dumb term is even dumber.
    10 points
  15. 1874 SAA. 4 digit frame. Not factory grips but been on the gun as long as anyone knows. At least 80 years.
    10 points
  16. Yeah, just look at Ohio State. Their reputation is forever ruined. Now they just cherry-pick recruits from Texas and make the playoffs every year. The horror!
    9 points
  17. 9 points
  18. did somebody turn off their air conditioning?
    9 points
  19. See, dat's yo thin-blooded puritanical protestant outlook just pawsonin de way you see de gray Stay o Louisiana. Course dem baws n gurls gon fool aroun a little, it's natchul, den dey gon go down de Priess and fess it up. Fess it up, yaw, jus fess it up, and all is fogiven. Den mebbe dey make a bebby, make two bebby, jus like it meant to be. HOW YOU THANK WE ALL GOT HEA? Somebody make a bebby. Had fun doin it too.
    9 points
  20. you spelled Briles incorrectly
    9 points
  21. Typos in Internet forum topic titles.
    9 points
  22. If you smoked that much weed, your posts wouldn't be such a beating.
    8 points
  23. He definitely shouldn't be on orange fans, where they rely on unnamed sources. That's why I like Surly and Twitter -- we have NAMED SOURCES, whether it be hornfromdallas, RapGameLarry, or even porta potty girl.
    8 points
  24. blah blah blah, don't lose to shitty teams every year and you wouldn't have to deal with this.
    8 points
  25. You'd think the athletic department etc... would care enough about this impact on recruiting to request that Urban Meyer come out that he is not going to Texas. Or that CDC would come out and back his coach publicly. That's why the silence says a lot.
    8 points
  26. "At least seven LSU officials had direct knowledge that wide receiver Drake Davis was physically abusing his girlfriend, a different LSU women’s tennis player, but they sat on the information for months, while Davis continued to assault and strangle her." Uh ... that kind of thing should not only take their athletic department down, it should send people to jail.
    8 points
  27. These two tweets next to each other are really something.
    8 points
  28. Would you consider it ironic that he went to Baylor...
    7 points
  29. If CDC supports Tom, wouldn’t it be really easy for him to just say so?
    7 points
  30. There's a certain privilege in being able to just "not talk politics" during a family holiday gathering. I'm in a biracial marriage and just avoiding the political talk isn't really an option when the leader of one side is racist and supports and agrees with people who think my wife is less human or less worthy because she isn't white. Prior to the election, I had a long talk with my mom about Trump's racism and support for white supremacy. To keep it short, it didn't go well, she still voted for him, and we will not be spending any holidays with my family for the foreseeable future.
    7 points
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