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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. That whole list is amazing. “The President and senate confirmed cabinet officials are engaged in a deep state conspiracy with multiple executive branch employees.”
  4. I visited the Republican Women site and it brought the lulz.
  5. 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.
  6. It really is lol. One of those artifacts to remind you that a Constitution with a king was not completely out of the question.
  7. 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.
  8. 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?
  9. 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.
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. He really needs to issue blanket federal pardons to anyone DJT or someone in DJTs circle has mentioned as a target.
  15. It is really amazing how everyone around him is just a total trash-can person.
  16. He’s the co-founder and general partner, it’s his fund. What actual fucking point are you trying to make?
  17. Reminder on Andreessen: He funded a fintech startup that collapsed and left thousands of people locked out of their accounts that turned out not to be covered by the FDIC. https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/synapse-bankruptcy-fintech-safety-183845965.html
  18. Oh, I know they don’t care but this is a formal process, it’s not possible outside those lines. It has to be done via the current head of the diplomatic mission with a formal note. Not saying he didn’t tell Macron it was coming somehow, but they can’t have gotten the actual process done and France still gets a vote.
  19. Intrigued about the process for Kushner. Ambassador nominees have to go through a process called agrement, which is a quiet check with the receiving country to ensure the person is acceptable. It’s extremely poor form to announce a name publicly before the process and often if that happens the receiving country will refuse agrement as a matter of principle if it happens. Kushner almost certainly hasn’t had it as the transition teams haven’t even been in agencies. That’s not to say I think it will happen here. Plenty of countries will accept the most odious people if they believe it will result in special access to the sending government or head of state. Just another example of Trump shitting on everything and making a mockery of the country though.
  20. Those are for sure L-39s.
  21. The Georgian Dream (National-populist Kremlin cat’s paw party) Prime Minister announced he was suspending accession talks with the EU, which is what caused this current round of protests. It’s currently required per the Georgian constitution to work towards EU accession. Georgian Dream soundly won recent parliamentary elections with lots of (as yet unproven) allegations of cheating. A reminder that a similar move (terminating talks on an EU free trade agreement) led to the 2014 Ukraine protests that booted Yanukovych. The next few days will be extremely important.
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