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hpslugga

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  1. FIFY And this does bear examination because it's triggered a really stupid idea from dishonest morons who even today drag their feet at the idea of a playoff/expanded playoff. It reads like "well we should see what everyone's records are at the end of the year and that would dictate how many playoff teams there should be." "Should be" "belong" "should not be," etc. This all purely moralistic rhetoric. They want to base the structure of the postseason entirely around their own personal feelings. And they know full well that will never work because 1) it's never that simple and 2) it has nothing to do with the real world. In the real world, those playoff games are part of a contract that's in effect well in advance of any given season. Those contracts stipulate where the games are to take place, when they are to take place, how many tickets Team A and Team B are allotted, where they're supposed to be lodged, where they're supposed to be dined, where they're supposed to make public appearances, etc. Imagine going up to a stakeholder of one of those contracts and saying "sorry but we can't fulfill the contract because some random douchebags on the internet have...
  2. Let's not forget there was also the incompetent Big 12. The SEC and ACC had a built-in red herring rule, which meant that if such a 3-way tie for a division crown were to occur, the lowest ranked team would be removed from the equation and then it'd be decided by who won the head-to-head between the two highest ranked teams. In the SEC and ACC, Texas advances because Tech's existence in the whole thing would have been discarded.
  3. NFL does it right. They have the best product hands down from start to finish. Their playoffs blow any other sport out the water, especially college football. I mean the NFL, when being tossed into these CFP discussions, isn't any more relevant than the UIL, the NCAA, or any other football league (or team sports league in general) that uses a postseason tournament to determine its champion. There's nothing particularly unique about the NFL, but it makes for a great red herring, in the tiny minds of whiny bitches who whine and bitch about the playoffs, because they think that this kind of pseudo-elitism and snobbery passes as a valid argument. What I actually hear/read from people who throw in the "evil NFL!" schmatte is no more enlightening than the guy who said "he was on the internet and I'm in college." That having been said, if one claims to be a football fan and says they didn't enjoy the fuck out of the NFL playoffs last year in particular, then one is a lying asshole.
  4. You know full well his little rabbit ass doesn't have the first fucking clue.
  5. Ben Shapiro and his merry band of storytellers.
  6. That shit is embedded in their DNA, my dude. These are motherfuckers that would rather climb up a tree to tell a lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth.
  7. “The report was biased because Hunter Biden, COVID-19 lab origins, the homeless in San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi, Vince Foster, and John Kerry hates the troops.”
  8. At least post the one with the right commentary…
  9. Again, I don’t know why you guys even bother with pig-ignorant little shittrolls like this one. There’s a difference between someone who don’t know and someone who won’t know.
  10. That's the very essence of right wing America: all of the rights, none of the responsibilities. Of course they have their own share of apologists, which is just another word for "professional liars who lie in defense of an indefensible position," and of course they have to make it seem like their positions are rooted in this deep, ideological and intellectual thought process. Here's all it really amounts to: magic thinking on the order of...
  11. They would except for one small problem: If you took all of their testicles and rolled them into the tip of a drinking straw, it’d look like kernels of corn rolling around in a storm drain.
  12. Ok so three things about that: 1. bullshit 2. bullshit 3. bullshit I would believe that Trump “got punked” or “trolled” if someone like Lee Merritt or Norman Finkelstein or Amy Goodman showed up. Fuentes is the exact kind of person you’d expect to meet with him.
  13. Yeah, we’re past the point of no return on that one
  14. Won’t need to. We already saw that Kemp had 200k more votes than Walker (basically the same number of people who voted for Loeffler in the 2021 runoff), which means that 200k people aren’t even going to bother showing up to vote for him…but that number will be even bigger because a lot of people who pulled the lever for Walker did so because “I’m really just here for Kemp, but while I’m at it…” The people who did that aren’t going to show up either, and this revelation about the primary residence being in Texas will turn off a lot of them. There’s also the fact that the D’s already captured the senate, so a lot of those “I voted for Walker because I want the senate majority” types won’t bother either because “what’s the point, we already lost.” Multiple reasons to expect a depressed Walker turnout, and little if any reason to suspect Warnock suffers those kinds of setbacks.
  15. Exactly. Of the 6 pivotal states that he lost, in what fucking universe does one have to live to think he's going to carry even one of them this time around?
  16. "Learn" ain't in their DNA. There's a reason that there's a solid correlation between education levels and voting tendencies, much as it bothers GQP voters to hear/read that.
  17. I was gonna say, the hanging chads thing was a real issue that really did happen. It's like the dude you're quoting is only remembering the phrase "hanging chad" without anything backstory or context to it.
  18. Go back and look where they were the day before Trump announced his candidacy in 2015 and tell me that lot qualified as "sane." Trump was an outlier, but only slightly and only in style. In terms of substance, there's very little that separates him from even a John Kasich. The GQP is still, as Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein put it back in 2012: "an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges. “Both sides do it” or “There is plenty of blame to go around” are the traditional refuges for an American news media intent on proving its lack of bias, while political scientists prefer generality and neutrality when discussing partisan polarization. Many self-styled bipartisan groups, in their search for common ground, propose solutions that move both sides to the center, a strategy that is simply untenable when one side is so far out of reach. It is clear that the center of gravity in the Republican Party has shifted sharply to the right. Its once-legendary moderate and center-right legislators in the House and the Senate — think Bob Michel, Mickey Edwards, John Danforth, Chuck Hagel — are virtually extinct." And bear in mind, they wrote that article in April of 2012, when hardly anyone noticed the one-issue clown car of a campaign the Orange Douchebag briefly ran. The insanity of the GQP pre-dates Trump and Trumpism. These are not your pre-Nixon's-2nd-term republicans. Now, if you want to say that the R's who did well in the midterms are "more sane" than the Trumpists, that's fine. Just understand that's like arguing who the nicest guy in prison is. It's like...it's like...Ted Bundy meeting with Jeff Dahmer and Bundy says "wait, you rape them and eat them after they're dead? YOU'RE SICK!!!"
  19. I would love to see MTG get up close to that dude and start pointing the finger a la Jan Brewer.
  20. Just put the little fucker on ignore.
  21. Honestly I'm surprised he's still alive after learning that DeSantis lost his senatorial race in Minnesota.
  22. And that was what I and many others were saying the instant the sneak preview of Dobbs came out: this was the R's "dog caught the car" moment. Yeah they caught the car, and they didn't know the first fucking thing to do with it. But of course, mental defectives like Cement and others will never understand that, which is why they post such pig-ignorant nonsense like the oft-quoted passage above.
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