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Posts posted by Horn Under a Bad Sign
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58 minutes ago, Horndog said:
Unfit to serve 50 years ago. Unfit to serve now.
Whereas Jordan Hayley is unfit to serve now and will be unfit to serve 50 years from now. So there's this universal balance, kind of a yin and yang thing. -
Fuck this administration in the goat ass. Read the part that I bolded:
QuoteOPM is currently headed up by acting director Mike Rigas, who assumed the role in mid-March after the abrupt resignation of Dale Cabaniss, who stepped down because of alleged poor treatment by several Trump appointees. Rigas has worked as the deputy director of OPM for the last two years and is also an alum of the Heritage Foundation.
Rigas is holding down two jobs at the moment: He also was named late last month as the acting deputy director of management at the Office of Management and Budget.Since taking charge, Rigas has put his stamp on OPM’s front office and is bringing George Nesterczuk on board as a senior adviser, according to two people familiar with the matter. He previously did organizational and HR consulting for government contractors and management consulting firms.
Nesterczuk had been Trump’s first choice to head up OPM but withdrew in August 2017 after criticism from federal employee unions who didn’t like the role he played in trying to enact a pay system based on performance at the Defense Department and raised questions about his work for the Ukranian government. He served two stints at OPM during both the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations and has also worked on Capitol Hill and at the Departments of Transportation and Defense.
Rigas has told colleagues that he questions the constitutionality of the 1883 Pendleton Act, which codifies using merit to pick government officials, and believes that all executive branch employees should be political appointees, according to a person who has discussed the matter with him.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/21/democrats-blast-trump-federal-workers-coronavirus-199026
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This just in: the governor of Georgia continues to be a moron.
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1 hour ago, Bama Chick said:
This could go in so many threads.
What could go wrong?
QuotePastor Spell said on Monday night that he had done nothing wrong. He added that he had retained the former judge Roy S. Moore, who lost his bid for the U.S. Senate in Alabama in 2017, as one of his lawyers.
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4 hours ago, Hookah Horns said:
Future Americans will never be able to understand how we fucked up this badly.
Yes they will. They'll look at photos like this and realize we had a huge percentage of morons:
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I dunno, but FUCK Ruth's Chris. I am ashamed at myself for ever having dined there when I lived in Austin. Shit.
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17 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:
Bet he’s pro-life though.
Which begs the question: what risks is he taking?
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In "water is wet" news, Florida is filled with fucking morons:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jacksonville-florida-beaches-reopen-three-days-after-states-coronavirus-death-toll-spiked -
3 minutes ago, Red Five said:
Feels like we’re speeding up the Idiocracy timeline doesn’t it? I mean my god look at these people.
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On 4/17/2020 at 4:43 PM, Elmer_Fudd said:
Crazy to think the best current outlook on positions in recruiting are DL and LB.
I think DB will end up looking good.
OL is entirely dependent on the Brockermeyer's.
WR is a big ? right now. Can probably throw RB in with this.
TE probably ends up Davis and King.
I'm just sort of catching up over the last couple of weeks of recruiting but I'm beginning to think that we're going to have a monster defensive class.
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We can only hope ....
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Notorious libs at the Wall Street Journal: Trump plans to shift blame for coronavirus failures, take credit for any successes:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-assails-critics-of-his-coronavirus-response-as-he-focuses-on-reopening-u-s-11587149080 -
White House economic advisor Stephen Moore says Americans protesting stay-at-home orders are “modern-day Rosa Parks.” “I call these people the modern-day Rosa Parks — they are protesting against injustice and a loss of liberties."
I was thinking the other day that I notice a strong resemblance between the two:

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On 4/15/2020 at 2:46 PM, Upgrayedd said:
I really want to give these morons and the political party they support their own country. They can make Trump Shah for life and have 100% Republican governance. No tax dollars from blue states. They could make it like a reality show in which somebody loses their benefits at the end of each 60 minute program. We can all laugh as it falls apart within a year.-
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41 minutes ago, GRHorn said:
So you’re saying it demonstrates seasonality?
You think warmer, moister air and its effect on mucus membranes has nothing to do with it?
Singapore has been in the upper 80s low 90s and just reported its biggest number of new cases in a single day, doubling its cases in one week.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-16/singapore-reports-record-728-new-covid-19-cases-none-imported?utm_source=twitter&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social -
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QuotePeople protest Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home order on Wednesday in Lansing, Mich. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP)ByOpinion writerApril 16, 2020 at 12:07 p.m. CDT
The social distancing backlash is here.
Like many such eruptions of anger, it’s partly genuine and partly fed by political actors with their own preexisting agendas — in this case, mostly to rescue President Trump’s imperiled reelection campaign. And it will get ugly.
On Wednesday in Lansing, Mich., thousands of protesters came to the state capitol to demonstrate against the stay-at-home order issued by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D). Though Michigan now has the fourth-highest total of covid-19 cases of any state, with nearly 2,000 deaths, the protesters argued that Whitmer’s order is unnecessary and overly strict.
“It wasn’t really about the stay-at-home order at all,” Whitmer said later on MSNBC. “It was essentially a political rally.”
Indeed, the event was organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition. Though many protesters stayed in their cars, many others congregated on the sidewalks, making a point of not wearing masks. But some were wearing MAGA hats and carrying Trump signs, and Confederate flags appeared in the crowd (though I’m sure that was just about Michigan’s … um … heritage?). Similar though smaller protests have occurred in North Carolina and Ohio.
After the Lansing protest, Fox News swung into action, praising the protest on multiple programs. A representative of the MCC was interviewed on Tucker Carlson’s show Wednesday night, then came back for another interview on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning.
The unmistakable message being communicated is that stay-at-home orders are a leftist plot, and conservatives should be rejecting them. It’s all over right-wing media:
- Fox News host and occasional Trump adviser Jeanine Pirro praised the Michigan protesters: “God bless them, it’s going to happen all over the country.”
- Pirro’s colleague Laura Ingraham tweeted a video of the protest, adding, “Time to get your freedom back.”
- Rush Limbaugh accused Whitmer of being a pawn of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
- Twitter troll and acting director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell posted a picture of the Constitution with the caption “signed permission slip to leave your house.”
The natural comparison to make with these efforts is the tea party eruption, and there are some points of similarity, including conservative media fanning the flames of anger and the overblown rhetoric about liberty (though hopefully we can do without the Founding Father cosplay this time).
But the more useful comparison is to Donald Trump’s election itself.
Specifically, the way Trump’s campaign was built on the anger of working-class white voters, especially men. Like the protests against social distancing, it was based in legitimate grievances that were exploited by powerful forces on the right for their own political and economic ends. Those grievances
were then channeled into an act — voting for Trump — that was primarily expressive in nature.
Liberals are quick to attribute the white working class’s support for Trump to racism and xenophobia, and there’s no doubt they played an absolutely critical role. But it’s impossible to ignore the fact that when Trump told voters in Rust Belt towns that the “the system” was rigged against them, they had reasons to think he was right.
They’d watched for years as union representation declined, stable manufacturing jobs departed, health coverage grew more costly, and wages stagnated. The recovery after the Great Recession left many people no better off than before. Unemployment was low, but if the only job around is one at Walmart and opioids are ravaging your town, it’s hard to feel like everything is going great.
Trump spoke directly to that dissatisfaction — then layered on top of it a heaping portion of hate directed at immigrants, minorities and liberals. Never mind that “draining the swamp” turned out to be more tax cuts for the wealthy and making it easier for corporations to exploit workers and befoul already-struggling communities.
Many of his voters have chosen to ignore his actual agenda, so intoxicated are they with the idea of giving a giant middle finger to the forces they thought were holding them down.The pain people are now feeling is even more acute. Twenty-two million Americans have filed for unemployment, wiping out a decade of job gains in weeks. In Michigan, roughly a quarter of the workforce is now unemployed, an absolutely stunning figure. None of us have seen anything like this in our lifetimes.
If you’re not sick and you don’t know anyone who has died, it’s natural to say, “Why are we doing this? Why can’t we go back to work?” Then along comes a bunch of Fox News hosts and conservative activists who tell you, “You’re absolutely right. You’re being forced to suffer needlessly. Those snooty liberals in their coastal cities who can comfortably work from home are just trying to screw you over.”
And once again, the solution being offered will only make things worse. Voting for Trump didn’t help people who live paycheck to paycheck, and defying stay-at-home orders will only give new life to the coronavirus, prolonging the pandemic and making it harder to recover economically.
But if Republicans can convince people that the only way to understand this crisis is through a partisan lens, they can tamp down difficult questions about Trump’s performance and minimize the political damage he’ll suffer, making it possible for him to win in the fall. That’s the goal, one they’re pursuing with all their usual cynicism — even as they fight against Democratic efforts to provide more support to those being hit hardest by the recession.
Could it work? Probably not, but it just might.
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2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:
It's apropos of nothing, but I sat at the table next to Cornyn once at Castle Hill Cafe (final location), and he was a total jackass to the waitress. Smug and arrogant are insufficient to describe his behavior.
Equally apropos of nothing, I sat at a table next to Clifford Antone and Buddy Guy once at Castle Hill Cafe (also final location) and they were both extremely generous to the waitress. Kind and considerate are insufficient to describe their behavior.
Cornyn is weak, doddering old man. He has done nothing for Texas. Send him into retirement. -
50 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:
Plenty of doorknobs and subway handles to lick on in NYC, Laura.
Mass gatherings in front of state capitols and packing them into church like sardines to own the libs! -
The responses to this tweet are fantastic:
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