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softlynow

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  1. Y’all need to stop over thinking things. Programs that win have good coaches. We hire mediocre and bad head coaches. No, the biggest concern is head coach. Until we get a good one, the rest is irrelevant.
  2. If we’re 2-3 heading to Dallas will anyone care? I’m most of the way to apathy already.
  3. That seems very optimistic. 6-7 looks like the ceiling.
  4. The Dems response to this is pretty much par for the course. Strongly worded tweets and a few high profile people preaching to the choir on little-watched 24-hr news station segments. This is a major development on the issue that is a shibboleth for party membership. You don't let "college football started this weekend" get in the way of blasting your message into every corner of American public life. Pubs simply play this part of the game better. If the shoe was on the other foot every news org would be forced to run headlines for a week about the GOP response. It would dominate multiple news cycles. Dems remain the disorganized, disparate collection of interests that barely get along, and even when they agree 100% on something have very little agreement on how or even whether to get that message out.
  5. It doesn’t offend me in the least that people decide not to use the right words to express themselves. I know what you’re saying, even though you’re saying it poorly.
  6. I didn’t say swing voter, I said moderate. Y’all are confusing terms. It may offend your sensibilities that they’re not gettable votes, but that’s just the way it goes.
  7. I’ve seen the programs Homeland Security uses to monitor child porn searches and downloads. This sounds like Apple is using similar software (quite a bit better than “not hot dog”). I think TwiceHorn is right that Apple is heading off legislation in this area. Child porn trafficking on the dark web and is now constantly monitored, and LE adapts when traffickers move on to each new file sharing service. This must be the biggest blind spot LE is complaining about, and Apple thinks there’s a big risk that Congress will act, and hopes to head that off.
  8. I know a number of moderates. Some have told me they’d support things like M4A, comprehensive immigration reform, police demilitarization (don’t call it defunding, though, idiots), some gun control reform and even dramatic climate change policies. They also know what BS the CRT panic is really about. But they’re simply team Red. They tell Pelosi, Beto and AOC jokes, and say they could never vote Biden, though I’ve headed them call bullshit on those saying he’s mishandling the economy. They’re my friends and I don’t care to get beyond policy to partisan prejudice. I suspect tax policy is a major factor, but I also think the team mentality is ingrained there. They’re Pubs because their friends and family are as well, and the ones that aren’t are curiosities. Most of those I’m talking about are moderate-information voters. Cable news and niche politics websites aren’t in their regular entertainment rotation, but they’re aware of big events and trends. I think that and identity are the main factors.
  9. Houston calls bullshit.
  10. The main takeaways from this is how ignorant we are as a nation, and how xenophobic. The latter is more important for a political discussion. It’s why Fox’s drumbeat about the border works. It’s why immigration issues always have great potential to trip up the center and the left at the polls. As for our widespread ignorance in basic areas of knowledge, I blame the complete breakdown of class structure as a system of control and shaming. We celebrate being common, we revel unruliness. That led to the empowerment of stupid people in the realm of knowledge and expertise. It’s cultural decline, and isn’t something easily addressed by government.
  11. We all thought it was heroic when Batman stopped Ra’s al Ghul and then Bane, when the Avengers reversed the Blip, when the Kingsmen foiled Velentine’s plan, and so on, but we just didn’t recognize tragedy when we saw it. Forests sometimes need a cleansing fire to renew healthy growth, so it goes for humanity. We can’t have nice things without a semi-regular bloodletting. Usually it’s resource scarcity that compels us to destruction. This time it’s just boredom. That’s why it’s so maddening.
  12. No agenda item on requiring daycare staff and librarians to carry two types of semi-automatic firearm and a clip point Bowie knife while on duty. This is pussy RINO shit.
  13. This is nonsensical bullshit. Her name and story would’ve faded to mere footnote if not for the martyr treatment by the refuse that live among us. The folks here deriding that treatment and her evil acts are also in favor of stringing up the ringleaders. We aren’t lacking piano wire. What we lack is the political will to put treasonous fellow-travelers in their place.
  14. This bullshit reminds me, what happened to sushihorn?
  15. Rather than nixing the tax exemptions, all non-profits should not be able to discriminate based on age, sex, gender-identity, race, national origin, disability and familial status unless the reasoning for doing so would pass strict scrutiny. Additionally, to be a tax-exempt non-profit you must not pay any employee more than 30x the pay of your lowest paid employee (~$452k vs. the potential low at the current federal minimum wage). In exchange, they can comment on politics all they want.
  16. The Statesman has always been shitty.
  17. Other than a few golf courses, Kingwood is poverty The Woodlands.
  18. We must cultivate our garden.
  19. Like everyone, occasionally Anastasis gets shit because he deserves it. He undeservingly gets it more than others because he invites it, and seems to crave it. Whether we admit it or not, we all need validation. He just seeks it out in a way unfamiliar to those of us outside the BDSM lifestyle.
  20. I didn't know anything about him, but I'm completely unsurprised by the fact that he voted against certifying the 2020 election results, and owns a gun store. I found it humorous that he met his wife on a mission in the Soviet Union in 1991.
  21. The person who asks this dumb question should not question the mental acuity of anyone else.
  22. It makes zero sense to change the tax treatment of something you want to end from preferred to “why the fuck would agree to that over a higher salary?”
  23. Or not. The point is to end a loophole. You’re given an option to pay $1 for a $10 stock? Great, pay taxes on the $9 of compensation. Oh, you failed to exercise the option you say? Sounds like you fucked up.
  24. I understand tax issues pretty well. My plan would be to treat everything as income when received. No deductions, credits, etc. why would my plan allow such a loophole to exist? You’re given compensation of some sort this year? Then it’s taxed THIS YEAR. Period. You say it’s not realized income this year? I say, my amendments to the IRC fixes that.
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