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  1. I mentioned this in the Trump thread, but I dealt with a few family members this morning who are on the MAGA wagon.  In regards to Giuliania, the attitude was "he didn't do anything illegal, even if it looks shady, and even if he considered it."    That's pretty cult-like.

    The other one, she claimed she didn't watch the hearings and avoids the media because of "fake news", and doesn't have time to look up testimonies and all of that (I know she has the time), and that she didn't vote for the people testifying and/or some were Obama employees.  There is a slight amount of hope with her (even with her mental issues), because a year ago, she would have went full-on in defending Trump/making excuses for what was done.  Instead, she feigned ignorance and a lack of interest in the events of the past month or so.  As big of a Trumpkin as she was/is, I take that as a slight acknowledgement that she recognizes some seriously negative shit about Trump and Co. came to light.  This is a woman who would get publicly upset (in person or on Facebook) over this or that talking head on TV complaining about Trump, and seeing everything said by Schiff and Co. as well as the witnesses should have really sent her over the edge.

    Our actual Thanksgiving dinner went just fine though, and no politics were discussed, which is a welcome relief from previous years.

  2. On 11/26/2019 at 11:48 AM, Pig Bellmont said:

    I don’t think the audience is fellow dissatisfied fans at the stadium, but specifically CDC. I just don’t think a banner will shame him into action 

    Herman is making over $6.2 million in 2022 and even more in 2023.  CDC is the target audience, and Herman is not going anywhere as far as he's concerned, but Herman's assistants on the other hand should be ripe for that discussion.

  3. 5 hours ago, Laga4 said:

    The Leach to Texas fascination is one of the many things in life I just don't get. 

    • He'd do better than Herman
    • Leach would tell Chip Brown to go fuck himself.  Maybe he wouldn't use as colorful language as say Augie Garrido, but he'd still do it.
    • It would piss off aggy
    • It would piss off Craig James

    My standards aren't very high right now, as you can tell.

    But yeah, as others have said, Leach is done coaching in Texas.

  4. 6 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

    The whole argument for hiring him has always been that he’d be able to recruit a lot better than he has if he were at a place like Texas. There’s no actual proof that he would though. 

    Dude, you could be hired as the HC of Texas and still be able to automatically recruit better than most of the teams in the conference.  Recruiting is not our problem - our problem is wasted recruits due to shitshow coaching.

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  5. 54 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    But Warren claiming to be Native American has to the most egregious example of white privilege exhibited by a candidate and no one talks about it. 

    She's an Okie.  Half the fucking state, particularly those who are poor (such as her parents) believes they have a Cherokee princess lurking around their family tree.

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  6. 5 hours ago, UDontKnow said:

    It did because Perry's wife was linked to the manufacturer of Gardasil vaccine. It's not like he gave a damn about the health of Texans otherwise.

    It seemed like quite a few people in Perry’s orbit were taking money from Gardasil/Merck.    Whole thing was fishy as fuck.  

  7. On 11/26/2019 at 9:24 AM, huge said:

    Home Alone 1 and 2 are my 5 year old's favorite movies.  We watched 1 last night.  He asked me what "ass" was.

    Dad of the year over here.

    So we decided to watch both of them today (wife had been wanting to watch them).  Still hold up well, but damn that World Trade Center scene was jarring.  Son asked what buildings those were, and we came close to going down the 9/11 rabbit hole with him.

  8. And ran into another another Trump-loving in-law and her bf/whatever this morning (she told somebody he's  her common-law hubby), her tactic is to ignore anything Trump doesn't say.  She said she completely ignored the hearings, and she ignores the media as a whole, both because it's fake news, and in the case of the hearings, she didn't vote for those people, and some of those people were around before Trump came in and/or maybe Obama fans.

    Basically she's deliberately putting herself in a bubble and claiming ignorance outside of the things that Trump directly says.  She feigns ignorance on many his policies/actions.  She pictures herself as one of those persecuted classes of people that Trump is constantly trying to appeal to, even though she grew up in a white upper-class setting, and had everything given to her (and still does).

    She is that 25% or whatever, that will never bail on Trump.    You could have evidence of Trump physically handling money the Russians gave him, and she would not care.    Probably helps that she has mental problems.

  9. Always fun to talk to a family member who supports Trump over the holidays.   Stopped by in-laws this morning to drop off stuff for dinner tonight, and one of them was going on about how Thanksgiving was being used by the Democrats (I walked in on this conversation so I don't know what that was about) and that the impeachment stuff was just a Democratic stunt, and that no crimes had been committed.  I tossed in the latest stuff about Rudy pointing to corruption, and their response was "he thought about it, he considered it, but he didn't do it, so it's all cool!"

    They were automatically coming up with a defense of something that should never have received one second of thought - it should have been an automatic "no" and Giuliani should never have spent a month, let alone a few hours, pursuing business with the Ukrainian government.  Their ever-shifting line in the sand was that Giuliani wasn't successful, etc. so it didn't matter.

    To use an example @Brisketexan is familiar with, it's like me talking about how I want to have that three-way with Sela Ward and Nancy Wilson that I've always dreamed about.  Now I'm not an idiot -  trying to make it happen would involve at least one interstate kidnapping charge (federal time ahoy), and a violation of restraining orders in one or more states (CA, MS, WA), (edit: if I had such restraining orders), and there won't be any probation for violating restraining orders this time around.  However, me talking about it/thinking about it is not a crime at all, at least, as long as I don't talk about it on their official websites (apparently restraining orders can theoretically be applied to the comment section of a celebrity's website).  Here on Surly it's fine if I talk about it.  Hell, it's fine if I jokingly decide to drive to Mississippi, California, or Washington state.  It's even fine if I drive on in to certain towns they have homes in, but after that it gets dicey, because it's easy to cross that 300 foot line (or 500 feet in MS) that's listed on the restraining order, without realizing it, and like I said, no probation this time around.

    So I don't even bother driving to any of those three states, because it's all too easy to end up in an article on TMZ, just on the off chance I were to theoretically have such restraining orders filed against me.  But Rudy spent a month considering something he should never have given a second thought.  Which makes you wonder - if we are finding about his failures/rejections, what about the jobs/contracts in which he was successful?  Especially given that they weren't making checks out to Rudy, but instead his lawfirms/representatives?  I really hope the state of NY is pouring through his bank records.

  10. Weakens America?  Check

    Helps Russia?  Check

    Edit: I know some see it as only symbolic, given the low amount of money we are talking about, but that's the point.  It's Trump trying to take a shit on an organization that we've benefitted form since its inception.

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  11. 3 hours ago, Anastasis said:

    An upper threshold makes a lot more sense in the 21st century than it did in the 18th. We've nearly doubled life expectancy during that time frame, unmasking age related cognitive decline. 

     

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  12. 44 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:

    I think one side is not only expecting it, but itching for it.  But these people aren't going to be doing the fighting.  They are stockpiling weapons and waving the 2nd Amendment flag not to protect the populace from a corrupt government, but to protect their own possessions from those they are certain will come and plunder.    They see the violence taking place somewhere else, their world won't be affected.  But they will surely sit on their porches, and pick off any stranger coming down the street as a potential looter. 

     

    They had their moment in the sun when we had a black atheist Muslim Marxist Socialist Communist Democrat Community Organizer from Chicago, born and raised in Kenya by way of Indonesia named Barrack Hussein Obama.

    If these people had truly prepared for their little fantasy, they would not be anywhere near the cities - they would be living off the grid with an actual farm, because even 5 simple minutes of thought would reveal that an actual civil war means the end of electricity, running water, internet, banking, cheap and easily obtained fuel, etc.

    Most of these idiots are far too comfortable - 50" HDTVs are under $300, the internet is fairly cheap and accessible for many (not all), and they aren't going to do anything to rock that boat.   A full-on civil war means they won't be able to easily charge their Rascals or get their insulin as well.

    And when push comes to shove, they will not rise up against the government, otherwise those idiots know the local Barney Fifes will come down on them hard.

  13. 49 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

    He never has and never will even sniff the support of half the country. Don't legitimize him and his followers by thinking they're half the country. They're a clear minority no matter how you slice it.

    This.  He keeps throwing poll numbers out there specifically to obfuscate the issue, but the fact is, when you take his comments/tweets/etc. as a whole, the dude has some serious insecurity issues about next year.

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