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Nancy Mace: Sexual assault survivor or cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?
bolverk replied to C-Man's topic in Cloak Room
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I banged a chick from there one night, even if they were one of our football rivals. As mature semi-adults matriculating through college, we were able to overcome our differences. See, there *is* hope for humanity!
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
Man, that chart is pretty interesting. Steady 2/3 support for immigration, going back 20 years, and then all of a sudden it plummets among a certain cohort in the build-up to the election, and then boom. It bounces back to historical norms. It's almost as if pounding away at a single message demonizing immigrants to a captive, racist, and under-educated audience that's in the thralls of its favorite propaganda channel actually works. -
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
bolverk replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
From the Midland Reporter-Telegram: Dallas Fed: Energy companies suffer another lackluster quarter Pessimism and uncertainty continue to prevail in the oil and gas sector, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ quarterly energy survey. The survey’s business activity index, the broadest measure of conditions facing Eleventh District energy firms, was negative 6.5 in the third quarter, suggesting a small decline in activity since the second quarter survey. The uncertainty index remained high at 44.6. “It was another lackluster quarter,” Kunal Patel, senior business economist at the Dallas Fed, said. Activity levels and production levels were both down slightly while costs continued to increase, he said. Approximately 78% of exploration and production executives responding to the survey indicated their firms have delayed investment decisions in response to heightened uncertainty surrounding oil prices and the cost of producing oil. Oil prices are hovering just below break-even prices so activity has experienced a slight decline, Patel said. “The U.S. shale business is broken. What was once the world’s most dynamic energy engine has been gutted by political hostility and economic ignorance,” wrote one respondent. Responded another, “The administration is pushing for $40 per barrel crude oil, and with tariffs on foreign tubular goods, [input] prices are up, and drilling is going to disappear. The oil industry is once again going to lose valuable employees.” Demand for employees was relatively unchanged, Patel said, with the employment index negative 1.5 compared to negative 6.6 in the second quarter. He said respondents to the first quarter survey were asked their expectations of how employment would change from December 2024 to December 2025. The consensus was employment would be largely unchanged, but now Patel said there are suggestions employment could decline slightly if oil prices remain near current levels. Oil and natural gas production decreased slightly this quarter. The oil production index was negative 8.6 while the natural gas production index was negative 3.2. Lease operating expenses and finding and development costs rose at a faster pace this quarter. The lease operating expense index was 36.9 vs. 28.1 last quarter while the finding and development costs index rose to 22 from 11.4. Input costs rose again for oilfield support service firms but at a slightly slower pace. The input cost index was 34.8 this quarter relative to 40 last quarter. In other survey findings: About three-quarters of respondents believe shale oil drilling will become commercially viable in international locations outside the U.S., Canada and Argentina in the next 10 years. Fifty-seven percent of executives estimate that regulatory changes since January have reduced their firm’s break-even cost for new wells by less than $1 per barrel. Another 25% estimate a reduction between $1 to $1.99. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act lowers federal royalty rates and increases federal leasing offerings. When asked whether these changes would increase crude oil production, the most selected response was a slight increase, chosen by 58%. Another 36% reported no change, while only 6% expect a significant increase. Similar results were obtained for natural gas production. -
I always saw it as an excuse for not making things better in this world. My parents were public school teachers, so we were fortunate that our family's finances weren't directly hit by the bust. The same can't be said for a lot of my friends back then, though. The high school's enrollment went from about 1,500 students to around 1,200 or so. On top of the oil bust, we had just lost the AFB too a few years earlier in the late '70s, so lots of folks, who were already in a depressed state, completely lost their minds for a while there. Drug use was absolutely rampant. The worst of it was that we were already getting our asses kicked in the "Little Southwest Conference" week in and week out. It was like the fucking apocalypse, but we dropped down to 4A when I was in HS and finally became competitive for a while, but they've been back to being a miserable football program for the last couple of decades.
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Never heard of the song, nor the artist, but he's got merch to sell. I'm not much of a hat guy but... https://www.jacknelsonband.com/product-page/love-your-neighbor-red-hat-replacement?srsltid=AfmBOop8a0k4MC_eVvB9tx8St0XXLXOmZj4mNVHuxwfTEKEPWTadM8VQ
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I lived it. The '80s in the Permian Basin were bleak. It was also like the *rapture* with classmates disappearing left and right, never to be heard from again. We also had our own real-life rapture scare running wild through town among certain evangelical groups during the middle of fucking football season for chrissakes. There was this one cute, freckled chick who needed reassurance and comfort, which I was happy to provide after her ordeal.
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NYTimes's update has details about the facililty: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/us/dallas-texas-ice-facility.html?smid=url-share The building that was targeted by a gunman early this morning is the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Dallas field office, a facility that is part office building and part processing center for immigrant detainees. The majority of the building is used by ICE employees for administrative work, with desks and cubicles for deportation officers. Some immigrants who are not detained will also appear here for things like check-in appointments or to post bond. The other part of the building is used to process detainees who have been arrested and are being booked into ICE custody. The shooter, a sniper who opened fire from a nearby rooftop, fired indiscriminately, including at a van in an entrance area on the side of the building where the victims were shot, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. An immigrant detainee refers to a person in the custody of either ICE or U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Detainees at the Dallas ICE field office, where the shooting occurred, are typically in the process of being booked into ICE custody or transferred elsewhere. Detainees are not housed at this building long term. Detainees who are brought to the building will undergo fingerprinting, a biometric screening and any necessary paperwork. After, they will either be released or be held in the building’s “hold room,” a small waiting area with three or four cells where immigrants who are awaiting transfer are held. Most detainees will spend less than 24 hours in the building. More than 8,400 people have spent time in the hold room at the Dallas ICE field office since President Trump took office, according to data from the Deportation Data Project through July. The hold room has held, on average, about 55 people a day who are awaiting transfer to a long-term ICE detention facility. Eric Folkerth, the senior pastor at a Methodist church in Dallas, spends time outside the building regularly as a leader of an interfaith prayer vigil that takes place there every Monday. The vigil is typically silent, Rev. Folkerth said, and attendees hold signs demanding justice for the detainees. Rev. Folkerth condemned the shooting. From the beginning, he said, his group has prayed both for immigrants and for ICE agents, “that they not cause moral or physical harm to themselves and others.”
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Yes, I do realize that and thought I was providing additional detail to your post. Probably just poorly worded, as I was jumping from topics. You’re right, of course, in this one as well. Again, adding to this post, I looked it up and the UK paid £20 million to its colonial slaveholders as compensation during the 1830s when the slaves were freed. According to this site, that comes out to roughly £32.5 billion today, or roughly $43.7 billion. According to the US Treasury, we spent $5.2 billion on the Civil War, coming out to $103 billion today. We also lost 750,000 souls. Man, it sure would've been a lot cheaper to do the right thing in the first place.
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I stopped midway through the second episode because I was getting stressed out and pissed off. Currently, I'm waiting for others to weigh in and let me know if it's worth continuing.
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Yikes. I graduated from a small-town Texas HS in 1989. That's a first for me, and there *are* miles and miles of cotton fields as far as the eye can see, starting on the north side of town. Inside-Out Day? Check. Funny socks? Check. Slaves? Yeah, we didn't have that one. Jesus, I think we forget how little still hadn't changed culturally by the time we reached that age.
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Thanks. I'm only going off what I've seen published on legit news sites like NYTimes, the AP, etc., by googling that name, which certainly isn't exhaustive. I don't think I've visited the CNN site in quite a while.
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I've only seen that name posted in the NY Post, The Economic Times, and a few other Indian sites. Absolutely nothing elsewhere, despite it being repeated in DT. Like I said over there, I found someone by that name on FB who looks like he's roughly the right age, but there's absolutely zero political content that can be seen in public. Just some baby and family photos. If you have a decent source, post it. Edit: Let me also add for those who haven't been over there, the guy has a photograph showing the City of Anna on it, so he's from the Metroplex.
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Y’all going to look at the socials? Okay den let’s get our rapture on!
bolverk replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
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And that, my friends, is how the Overton window keeps shifting reichward.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
Btw, I looked for an official source on the shooter's name and came up with bupkis so far, other than the NY Post, The Economic Times, and a bunch of Indian sites, all very questionable. The only credence I'd give to the NY Post would be its ties to the regime. -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
I'd still like to know where two-thirds of the 1,800 people forced into the concentration camp in the Everglades were disappeared to when it was shut down. -
Of all the European empires, I believe it was only the Portuguese who abolished slavery in its colonies after the US. The French, Spanish, English, and Dutch all abolished it well before the US throughout their empires. The fact that they didn't allow that "peculiar institution" in their home countries but "out of sigh, out of mind" in their colonies for a good while longer doesn't negate the fact that they still prohibited it before us.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
Found a Facebook account under that name. The guy in the photos looks like he's about that age. Although no location is provided, he posted the photo below of his young daughter about two years ago, which garnered a lot of likes from folks in the Dallas area. Edit: I'll also note that there's absolutely no political content on this profile, but I'm not posting the link to it for obvious reasons. -
Sure, yeah, that works too. The point being, your viewership is getting captured by the bean counters regardless.
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