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Horn Under a Bad Sign

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  1. Holy fuck. Wildfires devastating Maui. Governor says billions of dollars in damage.
  2. Holy crap ... that guy was one sick, twisted fuck.
  3. I guess he's gone somewhere down the crazy river. Garth Hudson is the only member of The Band left. I was sad when Robbie and Levon got sideways with one another.
  4. My parents lived about three hours from Austin when I was at UT. I loved the fact that it was close enough that I could go home when I wanted to without too much hassle but just far enough away that they wouldn't pop in unannounced.
  5. "I fear LSU could be in some long-term trouble recruiting in the NIL landscape now that Texas and Texas A&M are in the SEC. We will never be able to compete with them financially ..." They are becoming self-aware.
  6. Can you imagine the reaction from MAGA if Obama said this?
  7. I don't know when I've laughed harder than I have at Twitter this morning over this Alabama brawl thing. Some of the parodies etc... are so creative/inventive.
  8. Some of the nicknames that have popped up for the guy that jumped in the water and swam over to the fight ere awesome: L'll tilapia, Kobe Kingfish, Michael B. Phelps etc ..
  9. This is one of the best editorials I've read in a long time: An excerpt: "The other figure in the race was the golden child, the blessed one, the savior, the great hope of the post-Trump era, Ron DeSantis. The Florida governor had it all, red state at his back, a big win and tidal waves of money from establishment Republican donors in Wall Street, Silicon Valley and beyond. There wasn’t a hedge fund bro or private equity guy in America who didn’t think Ivy League Ron could deliver the tax cuts and regulatory advantages without all the drama and noise of Donald Trump. But DeSantis was like a Tinder date gone very, very wrong. Instead of some handsome suitor showing up at their door, DeSantis was politically inept, personally off-putting and deep in the embrace of the fringiest (and cringiest) elements of the nationalist-populist fringe. No one who wrote Ron DeSantis a check with six or seven figures on it expected their golden boy would hire a claque of barely disguised alt-right cranks for his campaign. No one sitting in a board room off Sand Hill Road thought DeSantis would float naming conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or Food and Drug Administration. They believed all that money and the talented people surrounding DeSantis would mold him into the candidate they needed to defeat Trump. But some things can’t be trained. Even if DeSantis had been willing (and he most certainly was not) to be trained, it would’ve been an uphill battle. He’s not good with humans, he’s terrible in the room and he bleats out the word “woke” as if he’s suffering from culture war Tourette’s syndrome. Those donors were also shocked to learn that Ron and his wife, Casey, were spending their money in a way that would make drunken sailors blush. The private jet fleet, the imperial-sized staff and the ludicrous burn rate of both the campaign and the SuperPAC all came home to roost as donors and supporters cooled. When you drop, as DeSantis did, from the mid-30s to the low teens in GOP primary polling, you can forget your Camelot dream house. This should’ve surprised no one who observed DeSantis. But now Republican elite circles are in a frenzy to find the next substitute to take on Trump…and the next and the next. The nomination was always Trump’s to lose, and with the former president polling at over 50 percent in Iowa, their chances are narrowing by the day. Iowa was the state where DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence and many others hoped to land a sharp blow with a victory against Trump to set the tone and narrative of the race. That’s a fading hope. So as DeSantis fades, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) will have his moment in the sun. The money will flow, and the expectations will rise. Scott, an affable, sometimes bordering on an inspirational man who, in ordinary circumstances would be highly competitive, will fade. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, the establishment’s Hamlet in a sweater vest, will similarly peer into the void of the Republican base vote, and slowly step away. In a Warholian way, expect almost every candidate in the field to have their 15 minutes as the new best hope and then, as has always been inevitable, Trump will win the nomination. Not one of the candidates can win over Trump’s party and Trump’s base without cost and consequence. They know that if Trump loses the primaries by some unlikely and improbable miracle, he will retreat to Mar-A-Lago and issue endless pronouncements of a stolen Republican primary, peeling off two or three or 10 or 15 percent of the Republican base vote in the general election. I’ve sat with dozens of donors and operatives in the last year, almost all of whom engaged in the fervent wishcasting that Trump will just die or somehow be instantly convicted for his crimes. They genuinely believe the charges against Trump hit the MAGA base like they hit people in the real world. They’re wrong." Little evidence indicates this is the case. The evidence, in fact, points to a hardening of base support in his favor. Moral suasion or countervailing information will never change the hearts and minds of Trump supporters. The Republican Party is stuck with him, and so are we. https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4139325-the-gops-warholian-campaign-and-the-inevitability-of-trump/
  10. A small, bitter man with no future, a body odor problem, an alcohol dependency and some dead plants in my windowsill.
  11. She's not going to make a lot of headway by claiming she's a "vorOcious reader to this day."
  12. But she can't throw librarians in jail just yet. That pesky 1st amendment keeps getting in the way. https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/sarah-huckabee-sanders-librarians-law-arkansas-rcna97375?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma&taid=64cfc38b4127ea0001e62e94
  13. She was right about that, wasn't she?
  14. Remember when a group of peaceful protestors interrupted Kavanaugh's dessert and Republicans freaked out? Now we have Trump threatening Jack Smith with violence and all I hear from them is crickets chirping.
  15. They're calling Chris Christie "White Lizzo" on Twitter. I feel bad for laughing at that but ... I laughed at that.
  16. We came within a pubic hair of beating the swamp folk (and should have won the game) with Tom Herman as our coach. That should help our cause.
  17. Kirk Cameron at the Taylor Public Library is the perfect endcap to his "career."
  18. MAGA fanboi D.C. Draino posted the Dark Brandon Coffee thing and the comments from his followers are predictably hilarious
  19. I was just thinking that what Johnny needs is a place where he can drink all he wants for free.
  20. Ladies and gentlemen, the former leader of the free world plays 4-D chess.
  21. After countless rallies with chants of "Lock her up! Lock her up!" Eric Trump is now whining that we're a country in which we want to imprison our political opponents.
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