Posts posted by atomheartbevo
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1 hour ago, Degenerate Gardner said:
The GOP couldn't care less about fair elections and democracy. And to think of all the lives lost in brave defense of it by patriotic Americans of all stripes. It's enraging and sickening.
Interested to hear from those who have volunteered as election monitors because I'm considering signing up. Regrettably so much of the ratfuckery is invisible with the proliferation of electronic machines without paper trails. Feature, not bug etc.
The GOP won't give a shit until Trump and the GOP gets their asses kicked this November. Then they will furrow their brows and demand an investigation of every voting machine in every district or state that went D.
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1 hour ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:
I was just over on TigerDroppings and they are talking about how they love Trump because he's not PC and because he's a "man's man."
Are there any questions now regarding the relative value of an LSU education?1 hour ago, Goredho said:Edit: Apologies for the original post that didn't make it clear that r/teh_donald thread wasn't current. Just pointing out that callouts to target surlyhorns for trollish, thread-shitting disruption absolutely happen and are likely happening now given the latest wave of bullshit chaff being cast out here that coincides with the start of Trump's impeachment trial.
There is a reason why TexAgs, TigerDroppings/SECRant, Free Republic, etc. loved the Qanon shit on reddit, and why they loathe anybody who questions their worldview.
Some of those idiots must be those fucking conspiracy incels that Texas DPS has decided are a terrorist threat.
Incel, inbred, the two terms are probably closely related.
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4 hours ago, Bruh Man said:
I just don't understand how his defenders are able to lie, lie, lie and constantly cover for their lies when the story changes in front of the public, in front of cameras every fucking day and not feel some sort of anxiety or heart-ache. Do these people not have souls? I lie to my wife once about some trivial shit and I start sweating. How is it these sycophants do this literally every day of this monster's presidency and never go into a nervous tick just once? You really have to be an evil person to partake in this level of dishonesty and not even blink.
If Trump goes down, he’s taking the GOP with him. That’s very clear. He will burn the GOP down, and the voters will finish the job.
Trump is basically the scorpion, and the GOP is the frog swimming with him on their back.
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1 hour ago, Mrs Whiggins said:
Jones invited Spencer to attend the rally, Spencer did not say for certain he would attend. Spencer has been marginalized from the far right somewhat and is trying to figure out how to get back in.
From a purely pragmatic point of view, if you were in Spencer’s shoes, maybe sit out for a year or two. When the dam breaks, the alt-right movement is probably going to get hammered hard. Especially when Trump loses, Republicans will probably try and pin it on those types.
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6 hours ago, RayDog said:
I read elsewhere that the Texas Republican party has not grown in Texas in the last 15 years and I found the numbers interesting.
Texas 2004 4526917 (Bush)
Texas 2008 4479328 (McCain)
Texas 2012 4569843 (Romney)
Texas 2016 4685047 (Trump)
Texas 2018 4656196 (Abbott) 4260553 (Cruz)It appears the they have reached a plateau of sorts. It is no wonder that Cornyn's team is making a point to sign up a million new Republican voters as it will take over 5 million to win in 2020 and operating at replacement level will not be good enough. In 2004 Texas had 22.4 million people and in 2018 28.7 million per Google.
I think they will pass 5 million in 2020, but have trouble getting much past the 2020 total over the next decade.
They also have to contend with all of the elderly Trumpkins who have passed away. That’s not easy to replace with the younger generation. I think W is a piece of shit these days, but his people did a good job of pulling young Republicans like me into the fold in the 90s (and I recall a decent amount of minorities being in the mix, including Hispanics).
Maybe it’s because I’m an old now, but I just don’t see the Texas/GOP these days pulling in young folks in large numbers like they did in the recent past, and Dear Leader hasn’t helped on the Hispanic front at all. Not to mention many who have moved here are from more liberal parts of the country.
I have heard from friends who follow or are still involved in this stuff that there is a lot of concern over the 2018 numbers, and even more concern over the fact that Trump beat Hillary by only 800,000. For reference, McCain beat Obama by nearly a million, and Romney beat Obama by 1.2 million. How does Trump beat the most hated Democrat in our lifetime by only 800,000?
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25 minutes ago, TxTower said:
Pretty sure Simple Jack was a poke at Sean Penn in I Am Sam.Yeah, but they took it up to 11. Even creating a fake marketing campaign for the Simple Jack movie that caused a shitstorm. And referring to him in marketing materials as a “retard”
QuoteDebate has centered on the film’s approach to a character named Simple Jack, right, who is played by Ben Stiller’s character, an actor, in the movie. Movie and marketing materials refer to the character as a “retard.” Ms. Sommers said the groups, which include the National Down Syndrome Congress and the Special Olympics, had not yet formulated specific requests for DreamWorks.
QuoteWe told you this morning about the disability groups upset over the portrayal of "Simple Jack" as a "retard" in the upcoming DreamWorks film, Tropic Thunder. We noted that the fake Simple JackWeb site and trailer had suspiciously disappeared.
Sources close to the situation tell us that DreamWorks decided to take down the site and trailer after realizing that, viewed out of context, both could seem insensitive to people with disabilities. The site and Simple Jack teaser poster, still floating around online were the only widely-accessible marketing materials referring to the fake film.
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5 hours ago, smuggs said:
What are the chances they hit an undiscovered cavern and the project gets delayed for an undetermined time while a geological survey/assessment takes place. I'd say 88%.
If they somehow hit an undiscovered cavern downtown, there’s going to be a lot of people shitting their pants. And not just on the sidewalk.
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1 hour ago, Dnaguy said:
That name sounds familiar.
Oh yea. Draining the swamp.
QuoteAfter becoming a U.S. senator this week, Kelly Loeffler won assignment to a committee that oversees the agency in charge of regulating her husband’s business, setting the grounds for a potential conflict of interest.
Loeffler’s husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, is CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, which is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and which owns the New York Stock Exchange. The Senate Agriculture Committee, which Loeffler joined following her Senate confirmation, oversees the CFTC.
ICE’s annual report notes that the company is “subject to extensive regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.”
Loeffler, R-Ga., and Sprecher married in 2004, before the company went public in 2005. She had worked at ICE, leading the company’s investor relations and communications programs for 15 years before slipping into Bakkt, a crypto trading platform created by ICE, as CEO in 2018.
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11 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:390 pages long but here and there it is interesting. Some is blacked out. Especially in July. Wonder why? After July it skips to September. For somebody that seemed married to his phone, Lev apparently decided to stop texting and calling people for two months since there's no messages in the documents then. I can't quite put my finger on that Mr. Barr as to why that would be.
I'm not saying that stuff about the perfect phone call and all of that didn't exist on one of his his phones, but he had multiple phones, and this was an iPhone 11 we are talking about.
If it was an iPhone 11's data that was turned over to the House, well iPhone 11's weren't available until September.
He could have easily bought a new iPhone 11 in September and restored an older physical backup (June/July) to it, which would give you a gap of a few months - people like Parnas may not be using iCloud for their backups and may not be using iCloud to keep things in sync, so there might not be continuity across their phones.
Also, if he's traveling a lot, since he doesn't have diplomatic privileges, he's not going to be taking sensitive phones in and out of the US, because Customs/Border Patrol can and do look through your devices when you come back into the country. The last thing somebody like him (a naturalized US citizen from Ukraine) needs is Customs looking at who he's talking to, and through his photos, etc. Edit: And somebody like him would be a prime candidate for having their devices searched when coming back).
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40 minutes ago, NoName said:
where is the best place to look at local mold/cedar "scores"?
In Austin?
https://www.kxan.com/weather/allergy-forecast-austin-texas/
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44 minutes ago, Lobo said:
So we don’t have basements but we’re gonna have two miles of subway that’ll come in under budget?
i want some of the drugs y’all are on so I can sit through the bond proposal for this shit with a smile on my face.
I want to know how they could pull it off without fucking up foundations of nearby buildings or taking forever. I am not a civil engineer or a geologist though.
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13 hours ago, Red Five said:There have been some changes in the last 12 years. I don't think they would even attempt the Simple Jack and blackface stuff now.
A friend of mine, who is "in the industry" (behind the camera/production though), and who is black (relevant) was at a roundtable not long ago with a bunch of other minority producers/writers, and they got to talking about past movies in that vein (Blazing Saddles, etc.) that poke fun at movie-making, stereotypes, etc., and Tropic Thunder came up. On a side note, when people talk about whether a Blazing Saddles could be made today, he pointed out that it was 100% a product of its time, and would not have the same impact now, given that it was so close to the major civil rights movements/events. Also, Richard Pryor is dead.
Anyways, it was divided, but several thought, if the right people were involved in directing, producing, or writing, that somebody could pull off the Downey character, and that it could be sold to a studio and audiences as long as it was crystal clear that you had the same situation/parody, where Downey is not portraying a black person, but is portraying a pretentious actor who takes method acting so seriously, that he thinks he can play a black character. He said you'd have to have somebody like Jordan Peele involved.
Then somebody brought up the Simple Jack character, and it was unanimous on whether or not you could do that today.

Edit: and in a few interviews, Downey has mentioned that he caught little grief, because everybody was pissed about the Simple Jack character.
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Somebody is scared shitless.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/15/rand-paul-witness-votes-impeachment-099407
QuoteSen. Rand Paul is waging a fierce campaign to prevent the Senate from hearing witnesses in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, vowing to force tough votes on his fellow Republicans if they break with the president or back Democrats' demands for new evidence.
The Kentucky Republican is occasionally at odds with Trump, from his killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani to his national emergency to build his southern border wall. But when it comes to impeachment, Paul is taking the hardest line possible in Trump’s favor.
QuotePaul says if four or more of his GOP colleagues join with Democrats to entertain new witness testimony, he will make the Senate vote on subpoenaing the president’s preferred witnesses, including Hunter Biden and the whistleblower who revealed the Ukraine scandal — polarizing picks who moderate Republicans aren’t eager to call. So he has a simple message for his party: end the trial before witnesses are called.
“If you vote against Hunter Biden, you’re voting to lose your election, basically. Seriously. That’s what it is,” Paul said during an interview in his office on Wednesday. “If you don’t want to vote and you think you’re going to have to vote against Hunter Biden, you should just vote against witnesses, period.”
QuoteBut if a majority of the Senate agrees to hear witnesses, Paul is ready to go all out to make sure everyone in the Senate is on the record about whether they stand with Trump.
“My first preference would be to be done with it as soon as possible and not to have any witnesses,” Paul said. “If they insist on having people like Bolton coming forward, my insistence will be not just one witness. But that the president should be able to call any witnesses that he deems necessary to his defense.”
Paul’s threat is backed up by real power under the process envisioned by McConnell and allowed for under Senate rules.
This is a guy who got his ass thoroughly kicked over lawn issues.



Donald Trump 2020
in Cloak Room
Took a while for him to find out, but guess what he’s ranting about tonight. Even posting some of that Airab language.