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Showing content with the highest reputation on 04/29/21 in Posts

  1. Landon Samson is a good D1 prospect, but he’s not OSU good. They’re getting nervous about Ewers and pondering burning a scholarship on his best friend.
    25 points
  2. I passed within a couple of feet of Carville one day in Alexandria riding my bike on a path. For a split-second that spot had the two funniest looking people in America.
    20 points
  3. Oh fuck yeah. If this comes through I really want Juwan to end up at USC. Take Gaoteote away from Orlando and send him Mitchell as a replacement?
    17 points
  4. Hopping on the good news train. Lurkers, you’d be amazed at the amount of life you can still have on the other side of this. You’re not incapable of joy, you are depressed and your brain chemistry is fucked. It can be unfucked. Sack up and ask for help. Check out this nugget. Meditating a bit on how clear and understandable priorities are maybe near as important as recognizing where you have power and where you do not. That was strangely calming as soon as she was handed to me. Right - protect the baby. Duh.
    15 points
  5. Hats off to Houston's CW 39 for coming up with a genius way to explain the difference between a tornado watch and tornado warning.
    13 points
  6. The S&P 500 and the Dow closed today at record levels, so I'd like to again congratulate Joe Biden for building the greatest economy the world has ever seen.
    11 points
  7. 7-deep or we're fucked, imo
    10 points
  8. Despite the myriad causes of homelessness, “you can just camp wherever” is not a solution to any of them. Violent: you go to jail Mentally ill: you go to mental hospital Addiction: you go to treatment facility Poor: you get on welfare Just want to live a nomadic life: you go to designated camping area Im pretty liberal, so I’m all for additional resources for addressing those causes. Allowing camping is not that.
    10 points
  9. I want to say this up front and get it out of the way: I went to HS in the Sugar Land area, and at the time it was hardcore Republican (our Representative was Tom DeLay). Parents were Republicans, I was a Republican all through the 90s (George H. W. was my first Presidential vote), but not hardcore - I didn't care what Clinton did, other than if it required me to be deployed overseas. Surrounded by Republicans at various jobs, in the Army, and even in college (but did not go down the College Republican rabbit hole). Heard way too many hours of Rush Limbaugh (but wasn't whipped up by him, more entertained than anything) When it was clear that George W. was running for the WH, I had friends convince me to join the campaign as a volunteer and then paid worker, with the view that I could use that to get a job outside of the tech industry (I ultimately bailed on that, as I found a tech job I was happy at and had gotten married). I'm not going to rehash everything, but I bailed on Bush and the Republicans for the most part by the time 2004 rolled around. Iraq was a huge issue for me and one that I could not overcome. Palin as VP choice in 2008 was probably the last straw. I had voted for the occasional Democrat for one reason or another, voted for plenty of Libertarians and Constitution Party types, but prior to 2016, really didn't vote for more than a handful of Democrats. The result is that outside of a few relatives and (more and more) friends, and liberals here on Surly, I don't have a solid grasp on Democrats at large. So no, I can't definitively talk about whether both groups engage in this behavior, as I have never actually been a part of a full-blown liberal group or immersed myself in such a campaign, or have spent years only voting for (D). But in my time as a Republican for over a decade, and in my time working for W's campaign, I never saw the wide spread nastiness that I saw in 2016 through now. I was aware of the rumors that Rove was trying to destroy McCain with the "McCain has a black baby" rumors, but I also knew about the rumors (and some of the truths) that other candidates were trying to bring W down with in the primaries. I'm now well aware of Newt's war against the Clintons, much more aware than I was then - I was more concerned with getting laid and getting paid than who Bill was banging or Hillary was executing, but in hindsight, that feels more like a vendetta against the Clintons than anything, and feels more "localized". I do know that I didn't see George W spend his press conferences pushing personal vendettas against the Democrats and he wasn't going around to rallies getting people to chant "Lock him (Al Gore or Kerry or Bill) up!" and supporting groups that believed the liberals were literally demon-possessed. For all of his faults, I didn't see George W embracing the batshittery coming out of the Alex Jones camp (and in fact Jones despised Bush). I didn't see Obama going around to rallies, to cheers of "Lock McCain up again!" or "Lock Mitt up!", and he didn't spend his time embracing batshit extremist movements that believed Republicans were cannibalistic humanoid underground pedophiles (CHAPs) that were living off of the blood of children. I didn't see Bush or Obama cheer on people at rallies who wanted their political opponents locked up (or worse), or talk about beating up liberals or conservatives in the crowd. But over the last 4 years, I've watched Donald Trump constantly trash Democrats at press conferences, at rallies, on twitter. I've seen him embrace groups that believe liberals are cannibalistic pedophiles, and that believe he is going to round up his enemies and execute them on the steps of the Capitol or wherever. I've seen him constantly cheer on people who want his political opponents locked up. I have seen Trump deliberately spread misinformation about things, simply because liberals embraced whatever it was, including misinformation about covid, that could harm or even killed his followers. I have seen Trump encourage his followers to "liberate" states like Michigan, that had liberal leaders. And prior to 2016, I saw Trump try and do everything possible to make his fans believe that Obama was not a legitimate President and American. And it all culminated in January 6th. George H. W., Bill Clinton, George W. and Obama never went so hard in the paint in trying to trash people with different ideologies. Not even Newt at his worst in the 90s was trying to sow chaos on such a widespread level. And the GOP as a whole is still refusing to disavow the worst of what Trump said and did. And for all of their faults, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, etc. don't devote their entire evening blocks to just trashing the shit out of anybody who doesn't have a liberal viewpoint, unlike Fox News who has embraced and pushed the idea that liberals are literally destroying the country and won't be happy until the Russians or Chinese or whoever take over.
    10 points
  10. Texas has led for Harris the entire time and for much of that, heavily. The $9.95ers are pussies when it comes to Saban and Alabama, much like most of the posters on this board. Texas will land Denver Harris, along with Banks and Anderson. There's a good chance Ewers and Brooks get added to the list. We'll find out how willing Texas is to straight win an auction with Stewart. No clue yet on Brown. Anyway, feel free to neg me until the cows come home for this post when Harris signs with Bama. I don't see it. I see a bunch of handwringing writers who squat to pee ginning up concern among their readers.
    10 points
  11. Sent from my Pixel 4 using Tapatalk
    10 points
  12. I think he's referring to Kai Locksley and Matthew Merrick.
    9 points
  13. I just can't get riled up, or even interested, in the quarterback competition, no matter how many $9.95ers try to get me to be. We've got two great options and a coach with a proven record of evaluating talent and scheming. Whoever he goes with will be fine.
    9 points
  14. Wokeness is a problem, sure, but Carville lumps economic equality into that along with rightly mocking dumb crap like "Latinx". Bundling a mandatory living wage in with woke culture is a great Republican tactic.
    9 points
  15. They did it to themselves. Fuck them.
    9 points
  16. This card was left on my front door today. There’s just so much going on here.
    9 points
  17. See: advanced lines of credit from agents, followed by 70% of NFL players bankrupt within 5 years out of the league.
    8 points
  18. Aaron Rodgers, from the bottom of my heart. Go fuck yourself
    8 points
  19. 8 points
  20. And, for anyone who wasn't following this much 1.5 year and half ago, or has forgotten: Rudy is frequently portrayed as Trump's lawyer. At least when it comes to the Ukrainian scandal, that's really not true. Trump, and the power of the presidency, was the product not the customer. Just like Michael Cohen was selling influence on Trump for various lobbyists, and Elliott Broidy was selling influence for foreign powers, Rudy was selling influence for a Ukrainian fugitive named Dmitri Firtash. Firtash is a Ukrainian oligarch who made his fortune in the gas industry by getting sweetheart deals from Russia on gas sold to Ukraine. He is currently living in Vienna, fighting extradition to the US on different corruption charges. Firtash paid Lev and Igor (remember "Fraud Guarantee) to help fight the extradition. Fraud Guarantee hired Rudy for $500k to assist in that effort. Firtash was Rudy's ultimate client in trying to get the DOJ to drop charges. Firtash also hired Toensing and deGenova as his official attorneys in this effort, paying them about $1M. This has all been well documented since prior to the first impeachment. It seems like foreign lobbyists laws are fairly messy, and previously not enforced well. With Rudy, it seems fairly obvious he was lobbying Trump for a foreign agent. I imagine with Toensing and deGenevo, it's a little trickier to distinguish "lobbying" and being a legal advocate. But I am curious if they were a conduit for money flowing to Rudy. Certainly Rudy would trust them more then Lev and Igor, and they would have some coverage under attorney-client protections. When Rudy was paid by Lev and Igor, it was via a different law office. So, how did this all play into Ukrainian investigations of Biden and the firing of Maria Yovanovitch as ambassador. My guess is that was a question of trading favors. Firtash wanted charges dropped. Trump wanted a Ukrainian investigation of Biden. There were elements in Ukraine who wanted Maria fired because she was representing a foreign policy that would push them out of power. Those Ukrainian elements (which didn't include PM Zelensky) gave interviews and implied an investigation was thwarted in Ukraine. Trump fired Maria. Rudy facilitated this for Firtash, because then Trump would owe a favor. But, Trump never got an official, credible investigation. Firtash didn't get a pardon. And then Trump, with Rudy's involvement, pushed PM Zelensky to open an investigation by dangling military support as the motivator. A lot of that is speculation on my part. It's also possible that Rudy was getting paid by other actors, particularly around Ukraine's natural gas industry, that pushed some of this. But as far as I know, Trump didn't pay Rudy for any of this, and I don't think Rudy was working for free. Follow the money.
    8 points
  21. You are out of your league in this discussion. No offense intended. FDR economic policy is Center-Left today (mainstream when he was in office). It is not a woke issue.
    8 points
  22. Why haven’t they arrested any of the Antifa rioters yet?
    8 points
  23. Let’s go further with this line of thought. Trump won the 2016: a generally agreed upon, non-political statement of fact. The foreign interference issue is related, but not the same. It’s about politics, but it’s a basic fact. Obama won in 2012. Also a simple statement of fact. And so on for basically any election prior to 2020. You’ll get some pushback on Bush/Gore, but not even close to the extent of 2020 and still, the statement, “Bush won the 2000 election” would mostly be accepted as a statement of fact about politics rather than a political statement open to debate. Biden won the 2020 election. For a substantial portion of our population, this is a controversial, debatable, political statement rather than a simple factual statement. COVID killed 500,000+ Americans: another fact that is now politics. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol and tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power (insurrection), killing a number of people in the process. Cops were beaten with flags and crushed in doors; the mob claimed to want to execute leaders of government and were searching the halls of the Capitol looking for them; the paused in ransacking the Senate chambers to pray “in Jesus name;” they did all of this because the outgoing president repeatedly lied about the results of the election. This also somehow a debatable (hyperbolic) political statement rather than a simple recounting of facts. And on and on. When everything is political, there is no longer agreed upon reality. Growing up in conservative communities, I often heard about the dangers of post-modernism and moral relativism; how “my truth” is replacing objective facts with opinion. Even in recent years, we’ve heard that “facts don’t care about your feelings.” And yet the very same voices that decried the downfall of objective truth are tearing or limb from limb. There’s room for debate on taxes or abortion or immigration or whatever. There’s no room for debate on basic reality. Anyone who disagrees with me on taxes or abortion just disagrees, no big deal; the real problem is anyone that won’t engage in reality. Cry all you want about trans athletes suddenly dominating women’s sports or whatever latest fear I’m supposed to have, but anti-reality and right wing have become synonymous.
    8 points
  24. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    7 points
  25. The GOP actually is fundamentally altering the political process in a number of states, right now, to take elections out of the hands of American citizens. You fucking rube.
    7 points
  26. lulz at the cow and commentating
    7 points
  27. I don’t find much if anything to disagree with in what Carville had to say. Democrats failing to look at 2020 election results and seeing they have work to do with people who don’t usually vote for them (rural America) and those who usually do but who strayed away (Latino voters on the border) is a huge mistake. For well beyond his margin of victory, votes for Biden were votes against Trump. Replace Trump with a slightly less abhorrent character and the Democrats lose.
    7 points
  28. Then tried and hanged.
    7 points
  29. He should’ve won an Oscar for this There’s a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon you.” Now… I been sayin’ that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, that meant your ass. You’d be dead right now. I never gave much thought to what it meant. I just thought it was a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin’ made me think twice. See, now I’m thinking: maybe it means you’re the evil man. And I’m the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here… he’s the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could mean you’re the righteous man and I’m the shepherd and it’s the world that’s evil and selfish. And I’d like that. But that shit ain’t the truth. The truth is you’re the weak. And I’m the tyranny of evil men. But I’m tryin’, Ringo. I’m tryin’ real hard to be the shepherd.
    7 points
  30. ‘You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money and you don’t know where the fuck it’s gonna take you’
    6 points
  31. There will always be a small percentage who cannot take a given vaccine. I’m not sure which people would be unable to take the mRNA vaccines or why but surely they exist. We don’t modify our lives to protect this subset from other diseases so I don’t know why we should for covid. The number of people for whom the vaccine does not confer immunity is probably higher than the number that have true medical contraindications and we don’t modify behavior to protect them. Somewhere in the clusterfuck that was the management of the pandemic a substantial portion of the population got the idea that the goal should be to try to get the risk to zero for everyone. I’m not saying that’s you but it’s out there. I blame Twitter
    6 points
  32. We have data from Asia and the Middle East with SARS and MERS showing masks are effective. We have meta analyses for covid showing the same. We would likely have 1/2 the deaths we currently have if Trump had modeled mask usage
    6 points
  33. I will say it's the dumbest shit in the world that Biden gets heartburn over the legalization of marijuana. That is an uncontested slam dunk win for him and the Democrats that HAS to be delivered.
    6 points
  34. People like to bust on "defund the police" as some messaging train wreck. Put here's the thing: activists said "reallocate funds towards community services" for years, but nobody gave a shit. Eventually, they cast it in dramatic terms, and people paid attention to it. It's now a discussion, and that discussion has turned into action in some locations. Activists aren't trying to win elections, they are trying to generate action. That may be a major pain in the ass for many of the Dem politicians who are generally on their side, but it drives change. Nothing will fucking change if you are unwilling to stake out an unpopular opinion and challenge perceptions. And politicians can't do that and still win.
    6 points
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