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  1. TIL that Delaware moved to FBS. They were a very good not great FCS/I-AA program with some NCs and decently recent playoff success. A lot of local support and enthusiasm, a good tradition of winning. I really wonder about the economics of this and in the long run being worth it. I know if I were an alum I’d rather see my team do really well and be a FCS playoff contender against my old rivals than watch them just flounder about in the lower reaches of G5. Delaware will likely never sniff a CFP playoff.
  2. The idiots on ChatGPT are not asking this, they are asking “why do the Democrats want to give illegal immigrants free stuff.”
  3. In seriousness there is likely an availability of appropriated funds clause in the lease that you should check out.
  4. We have to take a strict originalist reading. If the authors of that amendment had intended to give an exception to allow a 3rd term to Obama they would have written thus. Likewise if they ever intended the prohibition on a third term to apply to Trump, they should have explained that part.
  5. We need to know what kind of depravity he got up to in El Paso.
  6. I’m bumping up against a theory of the mind problem because I can’t model the brain of a person that was for. I can sort of map out a person who would be on board with all the dumb stuff he is announcing. Not agree with them but imagine how they internally get there. I can’t get into the perspective of someone who wants to see that level of MasterCringe Theatre from a senior cabinet official. Just painful and embarrassing to watch. A meeting that could have been a Signal chat.
  7. Depends on your type. I guess if you like brunettes with smooth cafe au lait skin, tight and toned bodies, lilting Spanish accents, and smoldering eyes she’s OK. But who’s into that type of thing?
  8. Trump was super low energy even when he meandered from the prepared lines to the stuff he likes. Part of that was the stoic crowd but it was clear he didn’t want to be there. He only came because he couldn’t let TripleSecDef give a big important speech to military people without him. Also: pretty clear that Hegseth is right now harboring an insane ambition to run in 2028. Vance and Rubio will eat him alive soon. It’s funny that none of them can hint about it until DJT formally says he’ll leave office. If in fact he does, he will drag it out a stupid long time and Dems need to exploit that window.
  9. Oh, every commitment they make is worthless but you at least have to make them go on record as liars. That’s not the whole strategy but it should be a part of it. You could write it into the text of a CR then appropriations— but SCOTUS has already ruled that Presidents named Trump can do anything they want.
  10. Most. I know for sure Rooney and Blank (Steelers/Falcons) are not.
  11. Cool concept of liberty, I think your HOA should be forced to let someone open a combined dispensary, package store, and jack shack massage parlor in your residential zones neighborhood. Either you believe in the freedom to do whatever anyone wants anywhere or you don’t.
  12. One thing we haven’t discussed here (and I’m generally bearish on shutting the government down) is that there’s not a lot of utility in Congress having these talks if ultimately Ross Vought gets to decide the budget and size of the government. A basic D demand should be public POTUS commitments not to try a future pocket recisson, for GOP leadership to pledge to vote down any formal recission requests, and for any shutdown layoffs to reverse. If they continue to play a stupid “heads I win, tails you lose” game on funding the government then this really will be pointless. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/30/congress/trump-vought-cancel-food-research-funding-congress-00588358
  13. lol
  14. Are we not supposed to be dreaming of that? Am I doing my dreams wrong?
  15. Alice Walton went to Trinity in San Antonio. You get rich so you don’t have to send your kids and grandkids to Arkie. Why the hell would they give money to football players to make the hillbillies happy? Names on buildings, scholarships and arenas for state schools are a different story, that’s standard rich people noblesse oblige shit. Giving money to defensive backs at a school you didn’t attend does not scratch that itch.
  16. You can persuade me that casinos have the right to physically trespass whomever they don’t want there. Online books? Fuck out of here. They should be required to accept action on any bet they are currently offering from anyone who wants to take them up on it. Exceptions only for actual cheating or criminal activity. Don’t like advantage players or arbitrage? Do better with your odds or choose a business that isn’t gambling.
  17. The officer corps has a long tradition of not applauding elected political leaders especially at the GOFO level.
  18. So clearly cosplaying George C Scott playing Patton. LOL.
  19. I’d settle for no ads and cash/debit cards only. Truly lunatic to have people going into credit card debt for sports gambling; it’s the definition of negative value economics. Re: Casinos I think they should be allowed but only in shitty places. Yes, I’m a NIMBY about this. I don’t want my island turned into a casino economy.
  20. Hegseth spent a lot of time calling people fat and raving about shaving and PT. The drill instructors are going to be mean again. A bunch of the generals are there because of DEIA and they’ll get fired. Now that it’s the war department our enemies can “FAFO.” Absolutely as stupid as you can imagine.
  21. I hate the fucking gambling stuff out in the open. It really was better when teams maintained the polite fiction that they discouraged it and didn’t want to be associated with it. Yes, we all knew sports are a business but they made an effort to tell fans that the goal was memories and they were part of something with the team. That sports were part of a healthy community life. Gambling ads is just: “You’re a fool to be exploited. We don’t care about you or your well-being, just give your money up for nothing.” Just pure extraction.
  22. The Deep South is what used to be the Cotton Kingdom: wherever the local economy and most powerful social class depended on the raising or export of cotton sustained by intensive and extractive exploitation of slave labor. Some states that was wide-spread enough to just say they are Deep South: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina (although not uniformly, parts of Northwest Alabama are very different for instance). It also includes chunks of Arkansas, East Texas, and Galveston/Brazoria County. Tobacco Road in Virginia, NC, and parts of Maryland shares important similarities but important differences as the way the crop is raised and marketed— and the origins of the planters— created a different dominant values set and mentality; ditto with Appalachia and places like much of NC where yeoman farmers may have owned enslaved people but worked alongside them to raise food crops for the household. The Pine Curtain is somewhat of a good secondary indicator. Pines moved into abandoned land either naturally or were planted industrially and thrive in poor soil that was subject to intensive cotton farming. The pre-Cotton South was covered with hardwood forests that would eventually return absent intervention. It’s all still monoculture.
  23. Man, I wrestle with this. It sucks but I remind myself that this is what they want, to shrink America and all of public life down into MAGA or not and to make the “not” section small and sad. MAGA wants a world where only MAGA stands for the anthem or enjoys a ballgame. Authoritarians do this everywhere. Shortly after New Year’s Day 2021 I went for a sunrise paddle on the Laguna Madre. Paddling back to shore, a group of boaters roared passed me in a no-wake zone, Trump 2020 flag flapping (remember the boat parades) and I heard some hoots as I stabilized and balanced from the wake. An asshole attempt to ruin a stranger’s day. But— I’m the one who got to spend the morning with the stingrays and dolphins and sea salt, all while not thinking about Donald Trump at all. And they couldn’t do even that. I won the day. Bottom line: Why should I change what I like? They’re the ones who suck.
  24. Absolutely convinced that this guy is a dry drunk. And that is probably great for POTUS and the truly evil crew because they hold so much power over him. https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-aides-expose-pete-hegseths-manic-meltdowns/
  25. Lashlee to Arky seems like a “you can’t go home again” type scenario. The vast, vast majority of college head coaching jobs end with hard feelings on one side or another and you’re just adding to that sense of betrayal if you’re an alum.
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