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hpslugga

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  1. Yep. And then W launched all the torpedoes and then Trump replaced them with his own feces.
  2. That ship sailed almost 50 years ago, and it only gets further from the harbor as the years roll on.
  3. No doubt. If he were around to say "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever" today, some shitkicker would say "what about beyond forever, you snowflake?"
  4. Wait, have they? I know those feces throwers at Fox and Newsmax did, but last I checked, those exceptional degenerates were sticking to their guns. EDIT: and as far as the half-baked retractions on low-viewership shows, they're just playing on an old principle: better to ask forgiveness after than permission before.
  5. It kinda goes back to that Oklahoma/Georgia lawsuit in 1984 regarding television rights. When the NCAA was removed from the equation, the proverbial "powers that be" were given a tremendous leg up in their quest to remain in those positions, and upward mobility became excruciatingly difficult for everyone else. If "we ever see a crap team come out of the bottom and win nattys," I'm assuming it'll be a P5 team with a less respectable history than its other conference counterparts (Maryland, Duke, Baylor, Vanderbilt, Wazzu, etc). But a G5 school? Fucking forget it. The only success you'll see out of that will be from the already established powers a la Boise State. The rest will suffer as they must. There's a really good read by Sally Jenkins that she wrote about 10 years ago in which she covered its effects: "But [SCOTUS Justice Byron] White’s dissent is great reading anyway, because it’s so clearly anticipatory. If the NCAA was a monopoly, he also saw it as a bulwark against today’s ruthless, distrustful dealings. . . Listen to the arguments of the Oklahomas and Georgias now, and indeed you can hear the unmistakable ring of the cash register. Fred Davison, Georgia’s president at the time of the court case, didn’t bother to disguise his real interest. He sought an end to “a tyranny of the majority to impose itself on the commercial enterprise” of a handful of big-time football schools. What really drove Oklahoma and Georgia crazy was that small schools received more in rights fees than they would in a free market, while the football powers received less. They had to share spoils with nearly a thousand schools that made up the NCAA majority. The Hofstras got a cut of Oklahoma’s TV checks. But, White asked, so what? It was a small price to pay, he suggested, for holding off rampant commercialism at the door. Profit- and load-sharing was “an essential aspect of maintaining some balance of strength among competing colleges and of minimizing the tendency to professionalism in the dominant schools.” We can debate whether or not the SCOTUS decision was the "right" one or not, but what's beyond debatable were all of its effects on the competitive balance between the schools.
  6. Their platform is: 1. Write down a horribly twisted strawman version of whatever it is the Democrats are proposing. 2. Burn down the paper 3. Piss on the ashes 4. Strut around like they accomplished something 5. ??? 6. Profit
  7. Yes, that was another vintage of the jingoist crowd that rotted horribly.
  8. I think I speak for all Americans when I say that we have no bananas today.
  9. He’s talking about total dollars, not percentage of GDP. Surely he wouldn’t do that because the US ranks at the bottom on that one.
  10. We have more than twice the per capita costs of healthcare than pretty much any other first world country, and we happen to be the only one with a privatized system. It's beyond dishonest to assume as a given that a national system would not be noticeably better on that front.
  11. I suppose I could claim partial credit, but what kept you from continuing down the path to maga land is the fact that you're a real fuckin' man. It also helps that you're able to recognize a pitiful train wreck when you see it. It's not in my nature to flatter; it's just that a real fuckin' man can admit when he's wrong no matter what the subject is. What real men don't do is make excuse after excuse after they've been exposed (like when Alex Jones blamed HRC for his position on Sandy Hook), double down on their own wrongness (Donald Trump's entire "adult" life), invent fake problems and/or blame fake villains, refuse to take responsibility for their own crap, permit others to do their thinking for them, or refuse to hold themselves to the same standards that they hold others. I actually didn't start out anti-war right off the bat. I arrived at the aforementioned stance through years upon years of searching for what the actual truth is. In this country, and all others, that takes a dedicated effort because as I've said many times before: you aren't going to get the answers from politicians, you're not going to get the answers from big corporate media, and you're not going to get the answers from gurus, whether self-described or misperceived as same by sycophantic followers.
  12. She'd fit in very well on TexAgs. "What is antifa?" "The opposite of MAGA!!!" I couldn't think of a better endorsement for antifa.
  13. It's the same reason that they refer to said evil-doers as "they." They don't know at whom to be pissed; they just know that they need to be pissed.
  14. How could I forget? I was one of those people. I have to tell you, that whine that they gave did not age well.
  15. I’ll go with conflating. That’s definitely more accurate
  16. You know what’s also anti-American? Pretending that its government and/or society have no shortcomings when they clearly do. Confusing dissent for disloyalty is about as dishonest as it gets. That shit is just straight up lying.
  17. I don't think it'll help her because, again, she didn't argue the things in court that she said in those embarrassing, language-mangling pressers. It'd be one thing if the outlandish claims she made in those pressers made it to the court room, but that's not what happened. What happened was she slandered the living shit out of them in public and when it came time for the judge's gavel to drop, she gave next to nothing. I mean I suppose they could find some perverted judge that would flip himself into a partisan pretzel to make believe that that such privilege existed, but if that whole, pesky "follow the law" thing creeps into that judge's head, she doesn't have a chance in the hell that doesn't exist.
  18. And that's kinda what I'm getting at: I seriously doubt there's going to be anything found to help her. How could it? Between that shouting match that she and Flynn got into with those other buffoons in the WH, her sticking to a very specific narrative about how Hugo Chavez concocted an algorithm that could be calibrated that counted votes for one guy even though they were actually cast for the other guy, vowing on public airwaves to "bring the Kraken" in order to "overturn" the results of swing state elections with the "evidence" that never existed (and was known not to exist by people who actually know things), filing actual lawsuits demanding same, how can anyone even remotely suggest that this in any way comes into the same fucking zip code as parody? When you couple that with the damages that Dominion is alleging (and that she isn't contesting), it's beyond inappropriate to attempt to shield oneself with the First Amendment. Here's what the fucking problem is: the fucking problem is that we as a society have become conditioned with so much post-modernist horseshit that we seriously don't even know what an opinion is. An opinion is a unique type of belief in that it cannot be proven true and cannot be proven false. If you say that "orange is the best color," and I counter that with "navy blue is the best color," then yeah we're in a tussle of opinions and the phrase "agree to disagree" is actually appropriate. I'm never going to prove myself right and I'm never going to prove you wrong. If I can prove myself right (or you wrong), then I/we were not expressing opinions. Here, Powell was most certainly not expressing an opinion. Her claims could be proven demonstrably false by an overwhelming body of evidence, and she stated them all the same. When you knowingly assert baseless speculation as if it were a matter of fact, you are not expressing an opinion; you're just lying. That's exactly what she did. She lied, she lied, and she lied some more and it was entirely motivated by a desire to damage the integrity and reputation of Dominion. That is ipso facto defamation.
  19. Just like stealing money is probably easier than actually earning it.
  20. Not only that, she didn't argue it in court and had plenty of opportunities to do so...and didn't...because she knew she'd be committing a fraud against the court. Also, the "no reasonable person" defense is, historically at least, understood to pertain to protect parody from claims of defamation. That, for example, was the argument Larry Flynt offered in his SCOTUS case against Jerry Falwell. No reasonable person could believe that Falwell fucked his mother in an outhouse, and they weren't seriously suggesting that. To any of Hustler's subscribers, it was obvious that they were engaged in some heavy duty parody, and that's because they knew that Larry Flynt was in the entertainment business. That's what his livelihood was based on. Powell? She's (barely) an attorney and was making these claims outside of court to arouse popular fury as a means to raise money for Trump. The abominable prick raised over $200 million, for fuck's sake. You mean to tell me that Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Rudy Giuliani and the rest of that group of sniveling degenerates weren't responsible for that? Point being, Powell isn't a comedienne (at least not wittingly). She's not an entertainer. She made those claims outside of court, did not make them in court, thus I cannot for the life of me see how there could be qualified immunity, nor could this rise to the "no reasonable person" standard. The only way she could accomplish that is to argue in this suit "no reasonable person voted for Trump." As someone else mentioned earlier, 10's of millions of people bought into her lies. If you're going to argue that Trump's followers were reasonable people, that argument is DOA.
  21. My family has had Calhoun on its shitlist since he was around [/descendant of Henry Clay]
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