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  1. 23 minutes ago, Longhornfan1024 said:

    The connotations of the word haven't shifted.  You just weren't aware.  

    lynch definition

    So, yes, the connotations have changed. Have the final word. The last thing this thread needs is an extended debate about this.

    Have a nice day. Seriously.

  2. 1 minute ago, henrygandorf said:

    republicans want transparency so that this process does not turn into a circus.

    once they make all the hearings public and televised, they can use their 5 minutes to (checks notes) turn the proceedings into a circus.

    The last thing they want is transparency, and they know that the hearings won't go public. By claiming they do want transparency, the GOPs make the process look sneaky. It's cheap dishonest theater for the morons looking for a way to keep believing in the Trump lie.

    I loathe these people. I used to believe that at least some of the GOPs were just doing what they thought was best for the country even if I disagreed with them. With each bit of dishonesty since the 2016 election, they prove they are rotten through and through. Susan Collins' speech about Kavanaugh proved it once and for all.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Longhornfan1024 said:

    Maybe using movies made by white people about white people who are heroes to white people isn't the best place to get your history lessons on race-motivated attacks.  

    I merely provide context. The connotations of the word have shifted. I also think it's a strange misdemeanor to focus on while the republic is being torn down.

    I'll closely follow your advice on gathering historical perspective. Now go get your outrage ticket punched. Nice job.

  4. 11 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

    at this point, if you told me the senate voted to remove him, i would still put it at 50/50 that he still wouldn't leave.

    I hope so. Removed from office, he is entitled to no Secret Service, no White House employees, no army, no nothing. He'd be removed in cuffs as a trespasser in the White House. 

    Do it.

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  5. I haven't thought of lynching as necessarily racial for most of my life. I first encountered the term in Western movies where there were plots involving a sheriff trying to prevent a lynching. 

    Only in the last several years, it seems to me, that lynching has become unmentionable outside of the certainly horrible history of lynching black people. I may be out of step on this one, but I don't see Trump's usage as racist or even ignorant. There is a whiff of political correctness to the criticism.

    Further, it's such a small thing compared to his lies about the impeachment process, his plenary power under Article 2, and his defense of the Charlottesville Nazi rally that I wouldn't care to waste much time on it.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Trump wanted a press conference of Ukraine prosecutors opening an investigation into the Bidens and our military aid, which is allocated to defend against Russian aggression, was held hostage for that presser. 

    This is really awful stuff. 

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    There's not telling what happens next. How low can you go.

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  7. The lack of dissent on the Schiff censure vote is another piece of circumstantial evidence that the GOP is, in totality, a criminal enterprise fighting for survival. 

    When the story emerged about the NRA funneling funds to the GOP emerged, it suggested a trickle of dirty money flowing to all GOPs whether they were cognizant of it being dirty or not. Now add nogudnics Parvas and Fruman (the Ukrainian pals), and the question of there being other conduits of foreign money flowing to the GOP has been answered: of course there are.

    Now we just have to wonder how many conduits there are. And how much money. And where has it gone. The number of nefarious contributors at some point must become noticeable to any elected official paying reasonable attention to his campaign income. That makes the rank and file office holders complicit.

    A lot of GOPs must have had an inkling of the process. Refer to the Paul Ryan "family" conversation where he and GOP leaders, after meeting with Ukraine ambassador, state out loud a belief that Trump and Rohrbacher are in the pay of Putin.  Those present laugh, but the man (McCarthy) who made the remark follows up with, "I swear." Ryan then insists on no leaks of this conversation.

    The participants denied the conversation took place until presented a transcript which they declared was inaccurate. Then presented with the actual audio, they said it was all a joke. Ha ha ha.

    Now we have a proven set of back channels to Ukrainian politicians. Recall the back channel Kushner got caught establishing with the Russians shortly after Trump was elected.(all an innocent mistake. Sorry!).

    Recall the Erik Prince (head of Blackwater and Sec. of Education Devos' brother) Seychelles meeting where he meets with Russian money man and reports directly back to Steve Bannon shortly after Trump was elected. Busy days were had shortly after Trump was elected but after the famed Trump Tower meeting with Dotard Jr. and others.

    Throw in the early days Oval Office meeting where Trump laughs it up with the Russian ambassador and reveals top secret information. Throw in Trump's meetings with Putin where the tradition of having an American present to take notes is abandoned. Throw in Flynn and Manafort. Throw in the cession of Syria and determination to end Russia sanctions.

    I worry that this massive, ongoing conspiracy (forest) will get boiled down to the fucking phone call (tree), and the simple-minded electorate informed by the idiotically detail-focused TV news media will never see that forest because of all the trees.

    Imagine Mueller watching all of this. It's plainly obvious, just from the aspect of election interference and obstruction of justice, that the White House is a criminal operation with slimy tentacles extending into honey pots all over the world. It's on paper. But it's tl;dr. "Huh?"

    The GOP obstruction is the final piece of evidence that the organization is without principle, honor, or merit of any kind. Unanimous consensus that Schiff not Trump should be censured illuminates the depravity of those who once claimed themselves to be the "adults."

    The Senate will only convict if the base turns on Trump. Even then, they have to worry about Trump blabbing. When they put in the fix of a quick pardon from Pence and make immediate declarations that this whole thing is over, they'll have to worry about Trump facing charges not covered by presidential pardon and what he might do.

    I could see Trump turning state's evidence to rat out the whole GOP to stay out of jail. Of course, he'd have to hope he gets a different set of guards than Epstein had.

    Maybe because I don't have the patience to follow this in the detail that others do (bless them, pariticularly Hugo, for providing so much information), these big, shining incidents seem to add up to a colossal historical moment where an entire political party should be brought down.

    We are poised on the brink of a watershed historical moment. The US does the right thing and enforces the law to protect the republic, or the voices of reason and law are drowned out allowing the US to slide irretrievably into the slime of banana republicanism.

    I make no prediction.

    Sorry this is so long, but I wanted to hit key points.

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  8. Weren't the TexAggies talking about needing to get three of Achane, Ngata, and Evans? I guess they can put Evans and Achane in the calculator.

    It is remarkable how few of their high level, top targets, pretty-sure-we'll-get-him, Jimbo-knows-how-to-recruit players end up with them.

    All their eggs will be in the Evans basket and who the hell knows what he'll do. Probably spike a volleyball into Jimbo's nuts.

  9. 52 minutes ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

    My post didn't age well.

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    Shepherd has the most potential of any Tackle on the roster from the last 2 classes.  If he stays engaged and remains a culture fit he'll be a starting beast in another year or 2 IMO.

    Actually, you're dead right so far. If he goes somewhere, works hard and stays engaged and turns out to be an outstanding tackle, you're golden.

    Shepherd definitely got the benefit of some Yancy. If he goes to A&M, he'll be just in time for next year's prediction of the year after's playoff!

  10. I wonder if Mitt is part of a secret GOP plan to have a viable candidate stand up heroically for 2020 so the GOP can keep the White House and protect their criminal enterprise.

    If they can impeach and remove Trump when the public balance tips, they can put up hero Mitt. If Trump survives, Mitt can remain an outlier.

    He is the GOP's Pierre Delecto: Plausibly deniable unless useful.

  11. 23 hours ago, Zavala said:

    Yeah makes you think how strange it is there's no further investigating with Epstein's handlers, coworkers, or clients... They raided his island... Guess they haven't found much?

    One hopes that they are being thorough, but it's worrisome to see the story disappear with Epstein's "suicide." The press has lost their visual focus (Epstein's face) and seem to have dropped it as a story (again).

    I can't tell how widespread the desire for and pursuit of child sex is. I have the impression that it permeates the wealthiest class who find no boundary to their expanding appetites. If you can afford an 18 year old, why not try for a 17 year old? Where would that lead? 

    This suggests non-psychopathic interest in young teen girls: a carefully refined taste for them. It's just takes money, shamelessness, and a willingness to push down a dark and criminal road. 

    Absolute wealth leading to absolute depravity?

  12. Yea. On third and eight and I heard we're going with an all-out blitz, I cringed. The answer to everything seems to be an all out blitz.

    We'll be lucky to lose only one more game this year. 

    I hate that every game is close no matter who we play. For a few minutes tonight, I thought we'd have an old style stomping where the scrubs could play the second, but nope.

  13. 8 hours ago, triplehorn said:

     

    Won't the Americans react with anger and force, Vlad?

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    Drop the white phosophorous, Erdo. The puppy will roll over and ask for a belly scratch.

    Later....

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    See Erdo, the US Army ran away and shit their pants...

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    ...by presidential order!

     

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  14. 17 hours ago, Kilgorehorn said:

    Looking at those pictures of the people at the Drump rally makes me wonder if I am the only sane baby boomer left in America.

    No, that would be me. Sorry bub, you're not as groovo-coolo as you feel in your head space, man. Keep on truckin,' nevertheless. 

  15. 18 hours ago, Post Oak said:

    I've got a long record of being anti terrorist attack but I would be willing to make an exception

    In this sense, I suppose that lancing a boil or a cat ridding itself of a hairball are terrorist attacks.

  16. 1 hour ago, Bama Chick said:

    Wait, do y’all’s wives really give y’all shit about playing XBox???

    Like, as long as my husband is kind to me and our kids and cuts the grass and takes out the garbage and cleans the pool and grills meat for us, I don’t care what he does to relax or have fun.

    I truly don’t get controlling your partner in that way.

    He doesn’t tell me I cannot enjoy my hobbies, hell he actually encourages me to do more activities and stuff because I can be a bit of a homebody.

    I really hope y’all are exaggerating because if not I feel bad for y’all.

    This is likely going to be labeled virtue signalling, but here goes.

    I've been with my beloved for 17 years. We're both still torn between spending time with each other and doing the things we like to do on our own. Time together is pretty high quality. We still amuse each other and spend a lot of time laughing. Her taste in entertainment is as broad as mine, so modern TV streaming provides just about endless fodder.

    I don't know if I have rare luck in such a well fit mate or if those describing their own lives just fall into cliche because it's perhaps uncomfortable to suggest what I have above.

    Now I'm thoroughly enjoying reading this thread, so thanks for starting it. For the record, I haven't thought F250 is mindlessly partisan or mindlessly anything.

  17. 13 hours ago, F250 said:

    You are going with the No True Scotsman defense?

    I'm not defending much of anything. Since I care so little about the op (not enough and still not enough to click the link), I probably shouldn't have bothered posting, either. 

    I agreed that there is misogyny in the left. I also meant that misogyny is not something advocated or defended by whom I presume you are labeling "the left."

    Imagine today's "right." Does disregard for government spending, government debt, and government deficit make those people really of the right? They might be called Trumpists or just Republicans and they are decidedly not conservatives whose values define the right.

    The casual misogyny mentioned above associated with the tech industry, if true, is despicable. Is it bad manners or politics? I'd say manners or ingrained prejudice or whatever. Doesn't matter. They don't stand with me on what was once moderate ground that a change in the sun's course has turned to leftist ground.

    Thanks for re-introducing no true Scotsman to me. I hadn't heard it in ages and had forgotten all about it. I don't, however, think it applies to the totality of my post. Sorry if I was unclear.

  18. I don't doubt that there is misogyny among some members of the left, but that almost, by definition excludes them from being on the left.

    I'm not going to bother reading whatever you posted. The premise is absurd, and I've never heard of Chapo Trap House.

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