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TheFlyingBoat

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  1. Mfw anyone thinks that Oracle can accomplish anything competently
  2. The pig snout is a little overkill isn't it? Is subtlety a lost art? Got to admit it's funny as hell and he was the one who coarsened the discourse, so I guess he can't complain.
  3. Funnily enough on everything but taxes on that list, Democrats are now the better party (for now, if Bernie types come in then all bets are off). In terms of fiscal responsibility, while the Democrats are tax and spend, at least they tax before they spend. Since 1992 official Republican policy seems to be cut taxes and spend. Democrats are now free traders. The list goes on.
  4. I swear to god there have been times where I was at a party and the host forgot about the ribs and they still came out way fucking better than that. (while he never checked on it past the one hour mark after just under six hours of 225 it came out pretty damn well).
  5. Was the nearest Twitter account he could steal around 41 yards away or something?
  6. I mean that's true, but then I have to skip through it to get to his punts. I was more wondering if one of those Shaggy video elites could whip up a highlight video/if they knew of one I was unable to find via Google.
  7. This. Despite Republicans trying to structure pension obligations in such a way that they strike the balance sheet far earlier than they need to or would for any other business, the Postal Service still runs in a tremendously efficient fashion. While in many cases the private sector can do things better, this one of those cases where the public sector significantly outperforms their private sector colleagues from the perspective of the consumer and the worker.
  8. If I had to guess who will be the nominee, I'd have to guess Kamala Harris. She's immensely popular and doesn't have much national political experience. She may suffer a bit in the primaries due to her very tough on crime views while serving as DA of SF and then AG of CA, but she'll likely survive that. Her limited time in the Senate allows her to keep her hands mostly clean and the last primary and general election on both sides showed having a history can make life awfully difficult. Second guess would be Hickenlooper trying to run with the whole moderate schtick. I don't think it'll work with everyone so polarized and fired up, but we'll see. Dark horse: Pete Buttgieg. I think he'll run and lose. He'll parlay that either into a successful Governor or Congressional run in 2022 or potentially be a VP pick. Darker horse: No idea if he has any desire to do so, but Schiff has made quite a big name for himself and could be the golden boy based on how these investigations go. As for who I want it to be, I want a Democrat who's damn good on foreign policy, especially wrt to China and Russia (or at the very least someone who recognizes how important FP is and gets an elite staff). Trump has made countering China in Asia and the rest of the world so much harder than it had to be. We need to put some serious work into rebuilding alliances across the entire world if we are to limit China's growth and ensure our continued place at the top defining the rules and standards of international politics, trade, and technology. Being able to do so has brought us an incredible ROI and we need to keep that power. As for Russia, their economy is in deep trouble and Putin's wars and military parades can only distract from the fact for so long. Obama's sanctions during a time of increasing oil prices starting a run on the ruble was very advantageous for us as it resulted in Russia burning through its forex reserves to stabilize the currency and an overall weakening of their economic situation(read more here as they have a surprising good summary of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_financial_crisis_(2014–2017)). GDP growth has been terrible with an absolute collapse from 2014 (start of the annexation of Crimea) to 2017. Having a massive loss in GDP during a global recover/boom is terrible and now still having a 1.5% growth rate as a developing nation is terrible. Economic and geopolitical forecasters warn about the political situation as a result of this come 2023-2026 and it'd be great if we had a foreign policy team that could take advantage of that.
  9. Part of that is because it's one of the few states where you can survive living outside basically year round (doubt too many homeless people survive a Minnesota winter for too long), another part is that other states give their homeless people bus tickets to California as their solution to homelessness, and another part of it is that homeless people generally move to cities and California is the biggest state with the biggest cities. Some of it does have to do with too onerous of restrictions on building developments, but even building a shit ton of skyscrapers for SROs wouldn't bring housing prices down to an affordable level in San Francisco. There are just too many high paying jobs there which will guarantee people get priced out and you can only get developers to agree to so much rent control in exchange for rights to build. Having the problems with too many homeless people isn't necessarily and indictment of poor policy and in the case of Newsom it probably isn't as I think he is in favor of loosening SF's zoning restrictions and encouraging more building. FWIW, while you go after California, they're clearly doing something right as they have 5 public universities (4 if you choose not to count UCSF as they're purely a graduate medical institution) that outperform us in research according to the ARWU (decent enough ranking) and 6 that outperform in undergraduate education (US News, it's shit, but it's the one everyone uses so eh). It has a per capita GDP 10% higher than ours. The top graduates from their high schools generally beat and outnumber ours if you look at performance in national competitions and representation in science contests like ISEF and STS and in crude metrics like PSAT cutoff for National Merit (an OK-ish estimator of seeing how well educated the top of the state is). Let's not start throwing stones from glass houses. If you think no Democrat from CA should be president, no Republican from TX ever should either because they failed to invest in the future of Texas and as a result we've been falling behind. We should be #1 in everything. This is Texas goddamnit.
  10. Does anyone have any highlight videos of his best punts strung together? I can find individual clips, but no full length video and that is a crime considering how good he is.
  11. "Try and stop us please" I love how often that line is repeated. You can almost hear the pain in his voice towards the end.
  12. Big get at a huge position of need where we have almost nobody in state? That's how you end a week right.
  13. Like I said last page, that guy don't play no school
  14. Mostly due to how bad his other appointments had been, appointing Dennis Rodman as the first US Ambassador to North Korea may be in his top 10 appointments.
  15. When a White House accused of collusion with the Russians brings in Russians that are banned from entering the United States, yeah I'd say we took multiple loads to the face.
  16. The owner of that Twitter definitely never played school
  17. Wow, with all the politics that have been happening recently I completely forgot that the Governor went to war with the flagship university in an attempt to convert into a trade school. We've already been fucked enough by the state in the past twenty years, but for that to then happen was ridiculous. We should be competing with the UC Berkeley and Michigan's of the world not the Aggies. I almost am willing to tolerate the BORG to get more research money. Fuck Rick Perry and his ilk [/nocr] Not to mention we also have to deal with stupid ass Ags on the board of regents who essentially kill any forward progress Texas tries to make in the race to the top. Jesus christ I made a frustrated me even more frustrated.
  18. How the fuck do you already have 332...It's only been like 5 days.
  19. Jake Smith probably right up there with Wilson. I'd put Washington right after Whittington, and Lee after Wease
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