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  1. 1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:

    That logic means that it's pointless to discuss anything here. Which while quite possibly true may not be the marketing angle immamac is looking for. 

    Pointless discussion can be entertaining. This one would be unlikely to bring in unique views even with an MS Paint dick drawing showdown.

  2. Arguing the wording or phrasing is purposeless. In Heller, Scalia said, “[It is] not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”

    The words in the USC mean what a majority of the nine say it means. They will torture the phrasing as they please and find persuasive whatever fact/anecdote/lie/gibberish gets them the result they like.

    This bickering is pointless. Power is all that matters, and those with power think their hobby, manufacturers stock price and/or gun lobby campaign donations are more important than human lives, let alone predicate phrases or antiquated syntax. 

  3. 58 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    Hold up..... are you under the impression that Nick Adams isnt a satire/troll account? 

    I don't have time to deep dive twitter accounts, so it's unclear to me that this is not the real Nick Adams. I've had the displeasure of hearing Mr. Alpha Male speak in person on more than one occassion (don't ask), and based on my memory of those speeches, that twitter account posts exactly the kind of idiotic drivel he would say and which his infinitely gullible audience eats up. His victims undoubtedly believe TS to be a money-grubbing whore.

  4. 2 hours ago, Js1 said:

    Hard to see why/how she wins a primary.  Unless all the GOP voters in Harris County vote Dem this time to save her.  

    If Trump has it wrapped up, I could see it, but if the presidential nomination is still in doubt, no. 

  5. 4 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

    Why aren't Conservatives funny could be a great and groundbreaking dissertation. 

    Their jokes are facsimiles of copies of summaries of faint rememberances of tired tropes. Everytime I hear one of their jokes I think of Robert Wuhl's character in Good Morning, Vietnam (although it could be any of his characters, really).

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  6. 1 minute ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    I need to emphasize again that Dabo sucks, would be a terrible hire, and I hope it happens.

    I'm just saying that if Bama reaches the "turned down by Jim Mora" phase of this coaching search, Dabo's resume will suddenly look really nice, as will his relatively low buyout and immediate acceptance of the job.

    I'm with you.

    If Byrne is smart and feels secure, he should just delete Dabo from any list he has. I understand that it might become the safe play. Dabo failing would likely not haunt Byrne or result in his firing. But Dabo will fail, and there are a dozen guys out there that a real search would reveal that would not fail (meaning they would keep Bama in the playoffs on a yearly basis and at least win a couple SEC titles).

    I have no clue if Byrne is smart and/or feels secure. But I'm glad it's not Castiglione or CDC in that job. Either of them would take their swings at the DeBoer/Lanning/Norvell/Sark tier and then move to find the best fit amongst the non-splash names who can really coach.

  7. 2 hours ago, David Dennison said:

    What is Incredulity on about?

    One could always ask that question, and the best answer is ALWAYS, "no one should give a shit what that moron is on about."

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  8. 10 minutes ago, Atticus said:

    Brooks is slow, Watts is slower. Muhammad has great COD, long arms, and good technique, but he's light and young.

    The safeties are no bueno. The linebackers aren't great in coverage. We are a limited bunch, and we didn't get any pass rush. 

    They were working with an NFL QB, multiple NFL O-linemen, and at least 2 NFL WRs. 

    Our only hope was for Penix to miss throws. He was on fire from the first snap. This was the result.

    He was on fire because we played passively. When we attacked this year and tonight, good things happened. Penix was going to beat us on great throws. He made a few of them. We didn’t really make him have to much because of the plan we rolled with until the 4th q. 

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  9. I’m only really mad at the defensive game plan. Penix was going to get 300+ no matter what. We needed to play aggressive for 4 quarters and not expect a 4 man rush to get anywhere near the QB against an OL that gave up 11 sacks all year. Just an atrocious game plan that, when we ditched it because we had to be aggressive, unsurprisingly good things started happening.

    i don’t know how PK could have coached this team through the UH, KSU and TCU games and still run that plan out there.

    When we were passive this year we failed. We were mostly passive for 3 quarters tonight. 

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  10. 11 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

    You’re an asshole for going after a guy who coached a kid he is excited to see play in a NY6 game because of the politics of the school that neither Hulk nor the player has any control over. Fuck you. Stay in the CR loser.

    We’re not allowed to be assholes here anymore? What kind of woke shit is this?

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  11. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    DDD gets it.  Here, let me write the first few sentences of the opinion:

    "To interpret the Constitution, one can only look at the original intent at the time of its ratification.  And it is clear that in 1791, the founders had no intention to allow dark-skinned people to travel freely throughout the country.  As just one example, the enslavement of black people was completely legal at the time, and of course there was no intention that property would be free to travel.  Therefore, because in an originalist view, dark-skinned people are closer to property than they are to being actual people, we can find no basis in the constitution for any purported 'right' of dark-skinned people to freely travel in this country."

    They won't need to be too creative, really. Scalia wrote this in his dissent to Arizona v. United States:

    "As a sovereign, Arizona has the inherent power to exclude persons from its territory, subject only to those limitations expressed in the Constitution or constitutionally imposed by Congress. That power to exclude has long been recognized as inherent in sovereignty."

    5 or 6 (will Roberts flip?) on the court will just go with this reasoning this time around (though Thomas and Alito will likely write concurrences, given the different path they took in their dissent last time).

    Next up Abbot will call for the creation of a special division of DPS whose sole mandate is to hunt down undocumented workers. They will, of course, become the best funded agency in the state, because shit in the Chryons on Fox News or OAN are the real problems government is meant to tackle.

  12. 1 hour ago, JGrayDBU said:

     

     

    If Louisville isn't the worst conference championship participant in the entire history of championship games, I don't know who is?

     

    Anybody? Bueller?

    Iowa tonight. 0 points, 155 yards. 3 TOs. More penalty yards (46) than rushing (35). 

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  13. 25 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    It's fucking insane to me that leftists are refusing to acknowledge this simply because they don't like Biden. He adopted a ton of progressive economic policies that they championed and those policies fucking worked! More income is going to those on the lower economic rungs than we've seen in my fucking lifetime. Unions are bouncing back, even despite SCOTUS' efforts to destroy them. Workers have more bargaining power and a better labor market than they've had since the 1960s, if not even earlier.  And it's pretty clear now that inflation was primarily supply-chain driven, as a lot of progressive economists argued, and now that supply chain problems have generally been worked out (with help from Biden admin policy) inflation has been beaten. This is all proof that progressive economic policies work.

    Yeah, shit is far from perfect. Prices for most goods won't actually come back down (absent a recession), because that's not how it works. Housing prices are still too high in most places people want to live, but that's not really something that can easily be addressed at the federal level.  And healthcare costs are their own monster. But for fuck's sake, the left's position should be "look at us, we were right about this shit! Yes, there's much more to do, and we have answers for those problems too!"  

    As recently as five years ago, the idea that we'd ever see an American labor market that was this good for workers again was unthinkable. It absolutely infuriates me how many so-called progressives are ready to throw away the progress they've made because they can't even recognize it.

    Bad Teammate’s screen name checks out. 

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