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  1. 30 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

    To be fair, these are private citizens now. When the USA sanctions, we often do it to current foreign officials which sends a much stronger message. China has intentionally avoided doing that and is instead sanctioning people who were part of what was equivalent to an ousted regime.  No need for Biden to respond in kind. Let China have their retaliation against the individuals if it allows us to get back to a reasonable relationship.  Half these guys should probably be in jail for foreign corrupt practices anyway. 

    So first of all, we sanction private citizens and former officials all of the time. And while it’s tempting to call it an “ousted” regime, it’s not— its a former administration that was democratically removed from office. And finally, the reasons for the sanctions matter: “violations of national sovereignty” after calling the persecution of Uighurs a genocide. In other words, for criticizing China. And that’s something that Biden and Co will want to do, and they will also leave office one day. China didn’t even offer the fig leaf of making up actual criminal activities deserving of punishment, just speech they didn’t Iike.
     

    The message is clear— China will punish you if you say things they don’t like while conducting legitimate U.S. foreign policy. It’s not about financial punishment, they have a million ways to keep that from happening without sanctions. It’s about humiliating the United States, and Biden can’t just shrug and swallow it. 
     

    Dont back into the same mental trap that “conservatives” did of siding with regimes like Russia and China  because they go after politicians you don’t like, even if this set is richly deserving of some sort of comeuppance. We need to do that ourselves and not outsource it to authoritarians.

  2. 28 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Oop

     

    There’s some temptation here to delight in the schadenfreude, but it’s a mistake. It’s the CCP serving the Biden team a shit sandwich and a giant douche on day 1 to see what to expect. Forcing them to either go to bat for some seriously distasteful political rivals or to swallow the humiliation of a foreign competitor putting former American officials on a sanctions list. 

  3. Wow.  TexAgs is welcoming refugees from TigerDroppings after the mod there nukes the TD Q thread.  It's going to be some sort of weird singularity.

     

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    Greetings to the TexAgs folks from the shambles of the TigerDroppings Q Thread.

    The board owner has made the shortsighted decision to axe the QThread (v3.0) after Sleepy puts his hand on the Bible today, no matter that the combined Q discussion there constituted the longest single discussion of Q on the entirety of the internet.

    By way of introductions, you can find me Q'ed 3 separate times, 2862, 4864 & 4867.

    Hopefully, I'll be able to contribute to the lengthy discussion here.

    WWG1WGA

    ETA - Looks like I'm going to have to figure out the learning curve on posting pics here.

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  4. 6 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    Sorry calling it like I see it. There is ample evidence of this 15 year old kid attention-whoring it up on social media. Sure, her mom is a cunt, and talks mean to her. My guess is she acts like a cunt right back. She's got a tik tok account you can review. I know an attention whore when I see one. 

    Dude, seriously, stop while you're behind. Highlighted the only relevant phrase in this post, and what people should think about before commenting. 

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  5. 19 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    DRAIN THE SWAMP!

    He ran this country like a comic book villain for 4 years. Lex Luthor without the brains. 

     

    Trump was like a Bad, Foolish King in a fairy tale.  King Lear without even that level of gravitas.  

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  6. 4 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

    Are you calling her daughter an “attention whore”?

    She is a 15 year old girl who is posting videos of her mother abusing her. She has been gradually making public more and more serious evidence of the abuse she is suffering at her mother’s hand. She is not looking for attention in the way you are implying.

    She is looking for attention as a plea for help.

    Calling an abused child an “attention whore” for making her abuse public is really shitty.

    We're probably in many ways watching how Kellyanne became what she is today, these are learned behaviors.  And this is not at all to excuse her (Kellyanne) but a lot of people don't realize that when you have a job like Kellyanne does, you basically aren't at home. You're not a parent.  You are living work all day, every day. And for Kellyanne, her work has been with one of the planet's most toxic, hate-filled, dysfunctional individuals.  A person who destroys almost everyone in his orbit, eventually. 

    So this girl (she is still a girl), has basically been without a mother for about five years now counting the campaigns. And when mom has been around, she's been engaged in a public dust-up with her dad while freebasing Trumpism every day at work.  Claudia doesn't deserve it and this video is basically asking the world for help.  And she won't get it, instead she'll just be used to score points. 

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  7. This is all so gross.  You just know he and his advisors were sitting around saying "hey, if we pardon a few Black politicians and rappers, it will divert attention and provide cover to wave our wand for all the Medicaid scammers and alt-right goblins we really care about." 

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  8. Here's a story from a guy who a lot of people think is "Q".  Article is most likely a false-flag and he's working with the real Q to divert attention as the movement shifts to "resist from without" and gathers momentum to return to power.  They have to allow the Dems to get back in office and commit crimes so then they can be prosecuted.  Am I doin it right?

    https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/qanon-trump-ezra-cohen-watnick-460520

  9. I am deeply skeptical that this will work. Our system is just not cut out for three parties.  A party with no ideology other than rage and allegiance to a figurehead can sometimes get enough traction to seize power in a parliamentary system, but our system is almost designed to prevent that from happening. And the people who this is designed to appeal to are not the sort that will be good at things like organizing, developing a coherent platform, and maintaining party discipline which is key to making it work.

    On that note, I, along with many of you here, have noticed that the most vehement Trump supporters in my life are really broken people. Not the "I always vote R crowd" or even the "I want fewer Mexicans here and I'm willing to vote Trump to get that" crowd-- but the real, kool-aid drinking MAGA core. I'm talking mental illnesses, strings of professional and personal failures, open and long-running conflicts with family members, substance abuse, legal issues, etc.  This is not to excuse them-- in many cases they are suffering what is known as "actions have consequences" (with acknowledgment of human frailty when it comes to mental issues, addiction, etc).  These folks often need a helping hand and a push, but what Trump offered is a vision of the world in which it's everyone else who is responsible for their problems, and that in fact their disordered behavior and thinking provided solutions. 

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  10. 12 hours ago, texifornia said:

    Well that is a name

     

    At what point do you stop touting a kid's stars?  I can get "former 5 star to transfer after redshirt freshman season", but this kid was in the class of 2017.  High school star rating is no longer relevant, we know how competitive he was on a top-tier FBS roster.  I guess "WDE to transfer from Michigan after three years as an average backup" doesn't get the clicks. 

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  11. 15 hours ago, texifornia said:

    This was one I'd really been curious about. Kind of amazing WVU is so consistently solid with no natural recruiting homeland.

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    I dunno, I would think for West Virginia the two big border states of OH and PA which are pretty fertile recruiting grounds nationally would be exactly their natural hunting grounds.  WVU has had several years of pretty decent teams, you can stay close to home.  No reason not to consider them once you step down from the tOSU/PSU/Michigan level of recruit. Florida may look a bit odd, but it is such a talent rich state that everyone goes there and can find kids to fill out rosters. 

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  12. 2 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

     

     

    2 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

     

    I don’t follow Starnes or care to search his feed, but I would put better than even odds that there’s a tweet in his past about how NFL owners and fans have a right to blackball Kaepernick.

  13. If we’re talking a large basic cut and not a morsel, thigh all the way. Stands up to grilling, frying, broiling, roasting, whatever and it’s very hard to dry out. Stands up to spices. More flavor. 
     

    The single drawback is that it’s harder to get all the meat off without getting messy and that’s not really a drawback.

  14. 8 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

    Section 230 immunity is essential to free speech. The Free Speech facet of the nation is necessary.

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    Free speech is the pixie dust that allows democracies to excel. The marketplace of ideas is fundamental to this nation. And like any market - there are negative externalities associated with market distortions. The trumpers separated from traditional news sources. They trapped themselves in a silo of news information that fit tight narratives. They were manipulated horribly. The were commodified. 

    We need an oracle of data and facts.

     

    Maybe was not being clear, I am in favor of 230 immunity remaining and also in favor of these firms taking a more aggressive internal approach to policing trolls and liars, especially high profile ones.

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  15. It’s been blessedly quiet without Donald Trump on Twitter.

    Something I have been thinking about— if Twitter had take a hard line on fake news and banned DJT for his birther shit, we’d never have had a Trump presidency. None of us realized how that would morph into a world where fully 1/3 of voting adults believe in a truly insane conspiracy theory, but Twitter could have realized that telling lies at scale was bad.

    I admit to discomfort over the type of influence these companies yield, but at this point I’d be fine with a rule of “post a conspiracy theory three times and you’re off for life” rule.

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  16. 25 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

     

    More concerned that he’s a Reservist than that he has a secret clearance, that’s what an intern gets at agencies where you need one. And now he won’t ever have that again.....

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  17. Pompeo’s worst Hatch Act violation was his video speech to the RNC from Jerusalem. From the plane to the camera, he did all that with State Department resources and forced basically his entire staff and a whole overseas Mission of civil servants, foreign service officers, and local staff to work for weeks for the RNC and Trump campaign. Then he said he “did it in his personal capacity” and everyone swallowed it because there was some worse thing that the Administration did. But nothing the Secretary does overseas is “personal.”

     

  18. 1 hour ago, Lobo said:

    These fucking idiots realize that $2.0bn is more than the last 7 presidential libraries combined, right? 

    Shit, I hope he pulls it off...these people deserve to be robbed one last time.  It'll end up being a few interactive kiosks and a gift shop at Florida Atlantic University.  Total cost of actual construction and G&A will be something like $100mn.  Rest of it will mysteriously disappear.  

    It’s going to be very, very hard to get any accredited university to accept anything with the name Trump on it. Look at the blowback SMU got for Bush 43, and he didn’t try to destroy OUR democracy.

    If he wants a school some place like Liberty is his best bet. I don’t think NARA has any requirement that the archives be at a college, so I think it will be a stand-alone facility that is 90 percent gift shop. 

    And the best site, obviously, is Four Seasons Total Landscaping. 

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  19. 2 hours ago, BurdineBandit said:

    Juuuust thinking about this. Father's family is from Kingsville so I grew up going to as many Javelina games as Longhorns...... and that program hasn't been a major player (DII obvs) since the early 2000s it seems. This definitely can't help. 

    It’s really hard to make a living at the DII level in this era. Casual football fans can see any game in the country almost online or on TV. It’s within my memory that UT, A&M, etc would be only radio.  Back then, you could pack stands for live games at the DII level with locals and causal fans.

    At the FCS level you can sign up to take your licks at a big house once or twice and you’re almost at break even for your program. That’s not an option for DII.

    That’s why I’m not opposed to FBS-FCS crossovers, it helps football survive at the lower level. 

     

     

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  20. 2 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

    you people are amateurs

    3 airports = 3X the amount of graft and corruption and insider deals for concessions and land deals back when the locations were picked

     

    I mean, VIA is just a former military base that was converted to civilian use after a hurricane destroyed the original civil airport. But sure. 

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