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Welch

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  1. Certainly not the most egregious thing in this thread, and I’m generally agnostic on the cameras myself. But I love the fact that the party of “law and order”, the party that “backs the blue”, the party that’s “for immigration as long as it’s legal, but these people are illegal...” has such a problem with devices to aid in law enforcement. Couldn’t be that their “law and order” stuff only applies when the targets are primarily people of color, could it? And when cameras like this start affecting affluent white folks, suddenly they have to start looking for nuance and shades of gray?
  2. Here’s Laffer doing the classic Republican “OMG EVERYBODY PANIC ABOUT DEFICITS AND THE DEBT AND INFLATION AND RATES” bit while a Democrat is in office trying to clean up the mess of the previous (GOP) administration.
  3. Heavy rain event more than a severe event for San Antonio?
  4. Forgive my ignorance on this (and forgive me if you guys have covered this in the thread), but what am I missing here? How can both of these be true? Seems like in the first he’s saying he decided he wouldn’t make a determination “one way or the other”, but in the second he’s saying that he would have made and publicized a certain determination if the facts had led him to it. (Transcript)
  5. I’ve wondered how the Republicans on this board can accept that such an important part of their lives is so aggy. I mean, we’ve already pretty well established that TexAgs is one of the largest collection of stumblefucks on the interwebs. It takes some serious mental gymnastics to think, “those nut-squeezing mouthbreathers are dipshits through and through, but man, they have some really good insights into politics and policy.”
  6. As I was dropping my third-grader off this morning, I gave him a “love you, son, have a good day.” And he responded, “love you too, dad,” then, “see ya laterrrrrrrrrrr” in a Robert Ford voice. Rewarding moments of parenthood.
  7. You’re a far more magnanimous person than I am. IMO, fuck that guy.
  8. I’d like to think that the addition of Murray and Walker, and another year of growth from White, would at least be enough to push us into the conference semis. If you have those guys and stay relatively healthy all season, you have a shot at a higher seed which immediately boosts those chances. But expecting a team led by LA and DeMar to be a real contender is foolish at this point. We knew that in the abstract, but last night crystallized it.
  9. He’s a good guy and he was a key piece of the 2013-2014 teams, but Patty is just atrocious now. i can’t figure out if he’s worse on the defensive end or on the offensive end as a ball handler. Each time down court I change my mind. It’s a cruel twist to the old, “Could Kawhi get buckets on Kawhi?” thing. Stoppable force meets movable object.
  10. 1) I don’t think that’s “obvious”. 2) Even if you’re right about what Pop was yelling, LaMarcus also didn’t apply any pressure. So he either didn’t hear him or chose to ignore him 3) An NBA player shouldn’t need to be told what to do in that situation. Forbes was pretty clearly telling LA to foul.
  11. Well, and I guess you could argue that OKC could beat Denver/Houston in the first round, so it would be nice to have home court as the 6 seed assuming we make it to Round 2. That’s getting way ahead of ourselves though. I’m still worried about the Mavs.
  12. OKC really doesn’t matter anymore, do they? I mean, I’m figuring the 6 and 7 seeds are pretty much interchangeable. As long as we beat Dallas (which is *far* from a given this season), we’re assured of no worse than 7th.
  13. There were 33 seats up in the Senate. Dems won 22-11.
  14. As usual, this will work out well for Republicans. They’ve spent the last eight years establishing Congressional committees as partisan shams. Mueller and Rosenstein could hand Nadler the smoking pee tape and half the country wouldn’t believe it since it came out of Congress. Hell, a third of the country wouldn’t believe it even if lifelong Republican Mueller released it himself.
  15. We had that one stretch in December where we won like six straight by 25+. I liked that stretch.
  16. Need to go 20-10 in our final 30 to get to 50 wins. For comparison, we’ve gone exactly 20-10 since Dec. 1. Considering the way this team plays (wins over Toronto, Philly, Boston, Houston, Indiana, GS, Denver... but losses to Memphis, Phoenix, and Chicago), it’s probably not even worth trying to analyze the schedule.
  17. To be fair, they have plenty of experience in this particular area.
  18. Walk me through this line of thinking. I get the whole “everything he does is a distraction” angle, but I don’t see how it’s beneficial to him here. There was plenty of “treason” smoke throughout the last six months of 2018, but his numbers were remarkably stable. Then the shutdown started and created noticeable movement in approval/disapproval. The public may not have the attention span to keep track of Kislyaks and Deripaskas, but they understand soup kitchens and missed chemo treatments. It just seems to me that at this point, he’d rather have the “treason” distract from the shutdown, and not the other way around. (If you’re thinking that there are going to be big “treason” shoes to drop in the coming weeks... I guess that might change the dynamic some. But I still don’t see how giving up field position beforehand helps him any.)
  19. I actually appreciate the clarity that Republicans’ consistent and absolute dumbfuckery has provided for us. I’ve become more fiscally liberal as a result. I figure that Rs manage to be wrong (or acting in bad faith) on virtually everything... climate change, Jade Helm, bathroom bills, immigration “crises”, death panels, the debt ceiling, weapons of mass destruction, hurricane relief, child separation, “the tax cut will pay for itself”, etc. I mean, if I know someone who is always wrong about everything I care about, I figure they’re probably wrong about everything else, too.
  20. I’m guessing that because it’s a new Congress, the Senate would have to pass this again, right? Or would the House passing it send it straight to Trump’s desk? If it’s the former, McConnell will be in a fascinating position. Normally he’d say “we won’t vote on anything the President doesn’t support”, but given their relationship at the moment, he may just being it up for a vote.
  21. Thanks. At the game the scoreboard was showing 27-14 too. Thought I was losing it.
  22. Is it still 24-14 or did LT tack on another FG?
  23. Judson’s clock management at the end of the first half would make Charlie Strong blush. Sheesh.
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