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babysdaddy

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  1. When did the shift from calling the variants uk/South Africa/Brazil/Indian to alpha/delta happen? Feels recent.
  2. With Joe’s clarification today I guess any previous analysis can be discarded and chalked up to uncle joe being old af and saying dumb shit.
  3. I don't disagree. The Rs who negotiated it are acting surprised that passing the bipartisan infrastructure bill would be tied to passing a reconciliation bill with all the other stuff are either stupid, naïve, or purposefully wasted time to try and eat up the clock. Personally, I don't think they expected the bills to be tied together. Now they can get hung with either being bad faith negotiators, stupid, or if they do pass the reconciliation bill, politically tied to passing a reconciliation bill full of D priorities and spending. Really really bad politics by the R negotiating team.
  4. It could also be viewed more as a bit of a bait and switch, depending on your perspective. But, the more I think about it, it really gives Manchin and Sienma cover to approve a big reconciliation bill that, as far as I can tell, they weren't jumping to do, while blaming it on the GOP. "We tried but the GOP didn't want to approve an infrastructure bill so we had to push this one through".
  5. Just so I'm clear here, D and R senators got in front of a microphone together yesterday and said we have a deal on infrastructure with Biden saying "they gave me their word and that's good enough for me". Then after that press conference Pelosi and Biden both say versions of 'the bipartisan bill that was agreed to won't get passed unless it is done in tandem with a reconciliation bill' even though that was apparently not discussed during negotiations. What was the point of any negotiation if that was going to be the ultimate position? Why even ask for a single drop of R support if you were going to do a reconciliation bill regardless? I assume the point of the charade was to put pressure on Manachin and KS but who knows.
  6. "But Trump" doesn't really work here. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/palm-beach-used-to-be-a-nice-town-for-billionaires-then-trump-came-along/2019/01/08/a14b1708-1049-11e9-84fc-d58c33d6c8c7_story.html "So Trump opened Mar-a-Lago as a private club in 1995. Unlike the Everglades or Bath and Tennis clubs, which did not admit Jewish members, and the Palm Beach Country Club, which admitted wealthy Jews, Mar-a-Lago was open to anyone. “Basically, he didn’t care who came in as long as they could pay for it,” explains a Palm Beach social expert. Money may have been the motive, but Trump’s open-door policy — his was the first club to accept African Americans and openly gay couples — began the slow process to diversify other clubs in town." To the question at hand, it's a private club and they can do what they want. Given he's a Dem he'll get away with it (and apparently the two other all white clubs he's a member of). If he was a Rep he'd be getting slaughtered.
  7. https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1408181206722691077?s=20
  8. Has anyone suggested to Gov Abbott that he could pay for the wall by legalizing weed? Hampers his competitors from the south, pays for the wall, and has happy citizens all at once? No?
  9. well this is fucking stupid
  10. this thing blew my mind. I watched it and then immediately started it again. I'll probably watch one more time tonight.
  11. I'm actually pretty shocked the greek system is still around and operating at UT. I read somewhere that bulk of the athletic donations to UT come from ex greeks so maybe not a total shock. But as it relates to the question, the bigger houses at UT have feeder highschools. Some guys can get in that come from non established pipeline high schools but almost always the pledge classes will be dominated by those same schools. Those schools that feed are not the most diverse places (or at least don't have many black students attending UT) and the membership reflects that. It's really as simple as that. And the one I was in had every group imaginable....except black dudes.
  12. yes, I've got family in Hockley county and they get their news from facebook and they literally said out loud that "fauci and gates released the virus to make money off the vaccine". Just breathtakingly stupid. And these are good people. Had one uncle tell me that given his age and health his doc told him he was not at risk. Disregard the fact that he's 5'10" and 230, I explained that it wasn't him I was worried about but our other, older, fatter relatives.
  13. I tried to find that poll and could not. Can you share a link?
  14. Can I make that same 'mistake' and make $50 mil? Because sign me up
  15. Those were already leaked and published by the NY Times last year at some point.
  16. what kind of an asshole is still catching covid at this point?
  17. What a hack article. This whole stunt of leaking these and publishing them was with political purpose in mind so no idea why it's in DT.
  18. Was a mock. Then you dropped a masters line so I’m the asshole, apparently. Guests allowed starting next month for us
  19. There was a lot of things that went on in the public sphere about this but what eventually convinced me there was nothing really there was testimony by Clapper/Lynch/Yates saying that no, they never saw any evidence of collusion. I'm sure someone will attack Taibbi but that does not take away that people that would know what went on said the below things under oath. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/aaugh-a-brief-list-of-official-russia “More than Circumstantial Evidence” for collision, Meet The Press, March 22, 2017. The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, was asked by Chuck Todd on Meet the Press if he only had a circumstantial case for collusion against Donald Trump. “Actually no, Chuck,” he said. “I can tell you that the case is more than that and I can't go into the particulars, but there is more than circumstantial evidence now.” Schiff never had such evidence, and never explained what he meant. Moreover, in secret testimony, he would repeatedly seek confirmation of his public statements, and would repeatedly be shot down. In July of 2017, he asked former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper if such evidence existed. Clapper said he “never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election.” Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch later said, “I don't recall anything being briefed up to me.” Former Deputy AG Sally Yates said of her knowledge of the state of the case at the time she left office in early 2017, “We were at the fact-gathering stage, not the concluding stage.” The continued use of Adam Schiff as a reliable source, when he repeatedly proved unreliable, was one of the major problems with Russia coverage during this period.
  20. I may be misremembering but I think the Senate intelligence report did include the fact that Manafort shared polling data with some Russian. The facts and circumstances that get left out are when he did it (sometime in May or June 2016) and some inferred reasons for why (either he was in debt or trying to get paid). Regardless, it was traitorous and he should be hung (hanged?) but polling data 6 months prior to the election probably didn't turn the tide.
  21. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't you get someone banned, at least temporarily, for calling you 'captainantifa'?
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