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  1. “Hello, Senator? Yes, this is Mrs. Hesgeth, Pete’s mom. I just want to let you know that Pete has really been trying hard and applying himself. He really wants to be Secretary of Defense. It’s all he can talk about. I know that there’s some things on his permanent record. Please remember that he was having a tough time in 35th through 37th grade. It’s a difficult age and we all have growing pains.”
  2. lol. “Mom, can you can the senate and tell them I’d be a good SecDef?”
  3. Yeah, Joni Ernst is not gonna confirm Party Pete.
  4. In very much related news, Anthem announced today that they will stop paying for anesthesia if a procedure goes over planned time.
  5. Kash is threatening lawsuits against people who say things he doesn’t like on TV, so we can be pretty clear what he’ll do when he runs the FBI.
  6. You need to have two-factor authentication to order a chicken sandwich through the app but it turns out US telecoms only have cyber-security “recommendations.” The Chinese are also still watching me type this real time.
  7. I like to imagine the shooter saying something like “looks like you went out of network” as he strolls away.
  8. Lost in the pro-versus amateur discourse is the fact that the first and usually only qualification to be a “pro” hitman is “willingness to kill people for money.”
  9. Which also happens in junior high to smart kids. Take this written exchange: “Rep. Burlison asked if the Secretary was concerned about electric vehicle fires that are difficult to suppress. The Secretary pointed out that gasoline vehicles also have a significant fire risk while also emitting deadly pollutants that impact Americans.” Cool. Reasonable discourse. Sec. Pete seems right, no one is embarrassed, we got to the facts. But on tv or social media every dumb person is remembering a time a teacher or some smart kid made them feel dumb and how awful it was to stammer and stutter and realize you’re being embarrassed. And they’re moving to Team Dumbass Burlison out of spite.
  10. I think Democrats need to understand that a great many stupid people will watch that and come away angry at the smart person who made the dumb person look stupid because they sympathize with the dumb person. Most people didn’t like and resented the smart kids. I’m convinced that the real damage caused by social media and the 24/7 news cycle is allowing so many dumb people close access to other dumbs that they can identify with instead of letting journalists filter that stuff through a more neutral lens.
  11. Tucker is back in Moscow where he’s announced that we are in a hot war with Russia, that Americans are firing missiles into Russia, and did an interview with Sergei Lavrov. I won’t link, screenshot only. This fuck, broadcasting from Red Square, blaming America.
  12. My first question is what must he be hiding in his closet. But honestly, if he withdrew because being a county sheriff is a much better job than head of the DEA under DJT and may even pay better.
  13. That whole list is amazing. “The President and senate confirmed cabinet officials are engaged in a deep state conspiracy with multiple executive branch employees.”
  14. I visited the Republican Women site and it brought the lulz.
  15. Kash Patel published a list of “Deep State” members and included the current President of the United States. LOL the intellect we are confronted with is truly dizzying.
  16. It really is lol. One of those artifacts to remind you that a Constitution with a king was not completely out of the question.
  17. This is a good post. Let’s think about how long the GOP has been outsourcing responsibility to the Dems. The encroachment of the crazies is deep but there are still probably at least 50 percent of the party who aren’t, and they’ve just let the Dems take over so they can posture. Want a budget? Dems will have to do that. Prevent an ephebophile addict sex pest from becoming AG? Let the Dems do that along with Collins and Murkowski. And it’s all well and good until you start asking them not just to preserve the norms when it’s in their interest, but also to do it when it’s not in their interest.
  18. I’m trying to get into a head space to understand this. You have the chance to send money to something you care about and choose a PAC? Wtf? Even if you’re owning the other guy is that worth taking 100 bucks from orphans or sea turtles or classical Christian education or whatever it is you really care about?
  19. Is this the case anymore for CFB though? There are some programs where there almost is no salary cap, just a wish list. But the vast majority of places are in a completely different game. Managing the pool of funds, shopping for talent/value balance in the portal, roster management, negotiating with players/recruits, tinkering with the ideal ratio of HS to portal….this looks a lot more like an NFL GM job where the Belicek model is rare. And its skill sets that are different from what a college coach has traditionally needed. The HC will be a voice in the room, but may no longer need to be the final one. The new thing Stanford is trying is unprecedented, to my knowledge. The HC will be under him. I think it’s an idea worth trying for sure and Stanford + Drew Luck is an intriguing place and way to do it. Luck is going to “run football,” not implement what the HC says like other college “GMs.” I am not saying it’s a guaranteed success, I just think it’s an idea that needs to be put into practice.
  20. Back to trash-can people, the SecDef nom is a raging drunk, habitual sex pest, office nightmare, and ran his non-profits for vets into the ground. And of course Anastasis posted a long podcast with him hailing his ideas. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/pete-hegseths-secret-history
  21. Bumping my own post because we are seeing the first instance of something very similar to this at Stanford with Drew Luck. What a super interesting place to try this out. Stanford has plenty of draw and a rich donor base to tap into for NIL. Luck comes from a sports management family and has been in NFL planning rooms. He can bridge the gap between football guy, donors and money and is well placed to try and play money ball in the portal. He will have a long leash and Stanford can only go up. Watch this space, I think it’s the ideal place to try this out. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/42698084/andrew-luck-stanford-gm-means-cardinal-college-football
  22. I honestly don’t think that Biden had decided he’d do it until Kamala lost and Trump won. And I’m ok with that. Trump spent his entire campaign promising to use all the levers of federal power to get revenge on people. He named vicious toadies to lead the DOJ, FBI, and IC. All signs point to him doing it. So yeah, that makes you rethink. And my only concern here is that Biden won’t go far enough. He needs to tee up pardons for everyone DJT or a DJT proxy has publicly mentioned for targeting, and likely the entire leadership and select working level people at the FBI, DOJ, and across the IC. For those who argue in good faith on this (would have once been me) that it’s just playing into his narrative and breaking norms, my response is this: it’s not a political reality show with no consequences. More than norms are at stake. These are real people facing real earth-shattering persecution. Legal bills alone will ruin you. Biden has a duty to use every tool to protect people who fulfilled their oath of office with honorable service. He has no obligation to defer to “norms” in the face of an incoming regime that has and will violate all of them. And to the Trump supporters my response is this: Fuck you.
  23. I can’t lie, there was a time just a while ago where I’d have said that this is unseemly and unpresidential even while agreeing this was a politically charged prosecution and intervention into a plea. But I’m an accelerationist now.
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