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Ghost of LL

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  1. It wasn’t even close to hitting him.
  2. Really nice game for Martin. This rotation looks pretty nice. …as long as it’s healthy.
  3. If we hadn’t, we’d have different guys on the mound right now.
  4. So are you over your little hissyfit yet?
  5. He’s legitimately the worst second baseman I’ve ever seen in college baseball.
  6. Thanks for nothing, Preds. Enjoy your offseason, you useless fucks.
  7. Goddamn, Baylor is just really bad.
  8. In their (limited) defense, this is the first time I've heard any justification for expelling Pearson and Jones and not Johnson. And I suppose one cheer for Rep. Barrett, who is like "you dumb fucks copy-and-pasted the resolutions and charged her with a bunch of shit she didn't do, and I'm not voting for a bullshit resolution." I mean, it doesn't change the fact that Pearson's and Jones's expulsions were bullshit. But it at least explains why at least one member who voted to expel them voted not to expel Johnson.
  9. There are ways to make their displeasure known without voting against Abbott for a Marxist. First, you ignore all of the above points that rightly point out that Greg Abbott doesn't yet realize that he's never going to be anything beyond Governor of Texas. He still thinks he's going to be president or Vice President or Secretary of something or another or on the Supreme Court. And pardoning Perry gets in the way of all those things. Second, a lot of Abbott's power comes from his ability to influence legislative primary races. But if the big Republican donors are pissed at him about something, they can let their displeasure known through that. It's not going to get headlines that donors didn't donate in some legislative primary in San Antonio. But you better believe Abbott would notice. So there's a lot of nuance to this shit. And y'all who are like "being a white supremacist helps Abbott because all Republicans are overt white supremacists" are really missing out on it.
  10. I don't entirely agree. Which is perhaps to say that I don't agree at all. Because I think you're missing out on a lot of nuance. There's definitely that part of the base that is openly white supremacist and is happy to cheer on the murder of non-whites. It's not an insignificant number. Actually, it's a pretty disturbingly large number. But that part of the base has its limitations. For one thing, it's probably not a majority of the GQP base (though maybe it is). But more importantly, it's not really the part of the base that has the money that funds the Republican Party of Texas. That part of the base--the TAB and the the TXOGA types--are racists. Let's not mince words on that. But it's a more genial and hidden racism. They don't want blacks moving into Highland Park and living next door to them. But they're not going to drop a racial slur. At least not in polite company. That's because while they may be racists, they don't want to be seen as racist. That's in part because they've largely convinced themselves that they're not racist (it's the people who believe CRT (whatever that is) who are the real racists, you see). So they're not going to side with an avowedly white-supremacist murderer. And they're not going to want Abbott to, either. Because that makes them look bad.
  11. I think the most likely outcome at this point is that the Board of Pardons & Paroles just sits on the case interminably. That would suit Abbott just fine. He's already reaped the political benefit of going out there and saying he would issue a pardon. There's no additional benefit to actually doing it. Only cost (and real potential danger when Perry goes out and does something like this again).
  12. You want to play hardball—sic the IRS on Mama Thomas for all those years of unreported gift income.
  13. Because it's a stupid idea, unless you like the idea of the sun not coming up until 8:45 in December.
  14. Yep. Stars can now finish no worse than 2nd. And goddamn—the last seven minutes of that game were some 90s era Red Wings-Ava shit. Dirty hits, full line brawls. I was fully expecting a goalie fight.
  15. I don’t know if they’re not shitty, but at least they’re fun.
  16. Wait--that wasn't parody? I was sure that was a parody account. Like Three-Year Letterman or something. You mean that post was serious?
  17. The Avs have a pretty tough schedule the rest of the way. Oilers tonight, Jets Thursday, and then the Preds Friday. All three of those teams may have something to play for (the Preds on Friday being the only question mark). We just have two against St. Louis, and the Blues have already booked their tee times for this weekend.
  18. He's like fucking Obi Wan--you thought you killed him, but now he's even more powerful.
  19. Yep--I'm ready to convict right now.
  20. So great job, Tennessee GOP--you expelled two guys over a holiday weekend, and in the meantime you just generated hundreds of thousands of dollars (at least) for the Tennessee Democratic Party. And you demonstrated yourselves to be feckless racists with no loyalty to democratic institutions or norms, only a lust for power outdone only by a desire to ensure that the darkies know their place. Just a bang-up job all the way around.
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