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  1. 11 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    The only thing we have going for us right now is that people who are fine with a dictator usually insist on a competent dictator.

    Trump with no one to provide guard rails is such an incompetent buffoon that our economy and relationships with former allies will be fucked up so catastrophically that people will think fondly of the Joe Biden robot.

    American should get used to being thought of as asshole leopards once they get outside of the USA.    It will take decades for the world to forgive us for this shit show that is the Trump administration (which is doing its best to destroy the world’s economies). 

     

    The right wing propaganda machine is very strong. I thought his disastrous buffoonery in 2017-2021 woke people up but I was very wrong. He could destroy the economy, isolate us diplomatically, get us into war, collapse our population, and destroy government services and people will still think he is great. 

    I appreciate the Leopards eating Faces thread but really it is all cope. We cannot deal with the fact we are a loser nation of brainwashed idiots, so well tell ourselves they will come around. They won't. At least not any time soon.

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  2. 32 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Trump is scheduled to be at camp mystic today. What's the over/under on him praising himself, Noem, and bashing the evil Dems. I also guarantee that he will state that no one could foresee this disaster.

    That annoys me. It floods in the Hill Country all the damn time. Sure this was bigger and faster than usual, granted. Though we had a similar rain storm hit Houston back in about 2017 or so.

    However, a flash flood in Kerr County that could kill people is not some shocking development. 

  3. 4 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

     Maybe the left could try a little manipulation now that it's too fucking late?

    The left doesn't have the sort of resources. But even if it did I am not sure brainwashing the population to believe bullshit is going to turn out well even if you have the best of intentions.

  4. 2 hours ago, Captainant said:

    "land owner wants cheap labor to do his hard work for his farm, news at 11"

    I'll bet he's first in line requesting slave prisoner workers

    Shit. That is going to be how this issue is solved isn't it? Slave labor from prisons.

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  5. I like him. Our challenge is we can't keep recycling Beto or whomever. We need to keep finding new people who have to gain traction. The Republicans just get to run the same motherfuckers for decades.

    It will obviously take some kind of massive disaster for the Democrats to win. Almost isn't worth it as they will be trying to govern whatever smoking crater the Republicans leave them.

    But we have to try with an intention to win, and continue to find good new faces. Gotta make the bastards sweat a little from time to time.

  6. 2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

     

    Wow we spent tons of money and made ourselves hated around the world and achieved basically nothing. America ladies and gentlemen.

    Look I hate to be captain obvious here but Iran is inevitably going to get a nuke if they want one. If you want to stop them you have to do something a little more drastic than just drop a few bombs.

    Or, you know, negotiate and sign a deal like Obama did. 

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  7. 50 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    I have to tell you, the ongoing hate towards Borba as a hitter is absurd. It was thing in the 2025 thread, game threads, and now here. I get that he took too many called 3rd strikes for some people's liking, but the guy hit pretty fucking well down the stretch and, ultimately, on the year. He could be in store for a massive season based on the the work they're pushing with him regarding a focus on all fields with power. 

    I agree. I was a big fan of Borbombs. He was a problem on defense. Dude can hit and I hope he is even better next season.

  8. 4 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

    We should take bets on the first one of those to need TJ surgery before the season starts... 

     

    I kid I kid.... but seriously. 

    Yeah we probably need a fourth weekend guy.

    But if it Volantis the season is probably fucked anyway. Damn it, why doesn't LSU ever lose their ace to Tommy John?

  9. 2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

     I'll take a .935 fielder over a .970 fielder which is essentially just a 3.5% difference 8 days a week given the above dog shit batting by Flores for 2 of his 3 years here.  Especially considering Flores batted .176 in conference play last year. 

    Flores' fielding stats do not reflect his limitations as a fielder. Last season he was a liability, despite not committing that many actual errors.

    That is not to say this Stanford guy doesn't also suck in the field, just that Flores' stats don't tell the whole story.

    14 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    Harrison was a top 5 starting pitcher in SEC play in terms of ERA (3.51). Started all 10 conference weekends and allowed more than 3 earned runs just 1 time.

    His stuff may not be top-end but he was pretty much the definition of consistency. Him coming back to set the floor in the rotation would be a big deal. 

    Yep. He was a great Saturday/Sunday type guy. A Volantis-Riojas-Harrison rotation would be strong.

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  10. On 6/20/2025 at 4:33 PM, We’reTexas said:

    That’s a great point I will concede. Leftist populism definitely has the appeal of having voters choose overall terrible policy decisions in favor of their immediate self interest. 

    Hey man we have been going hard on the "free market will work things out" for decades and the result is that it failed to work things out and generated tons of right and leftwing populists. I am open to new ideas.

    I think public grocery stores might be necessary in an environment where the market created powerful monopolies that are creating food deserts. I think social housing might be needed in areas where the market made tons of people homeless.

  11. On 6/20/2025 at 10:19 PM, TwiceHorn said:

    I think they should probably ditch the term oligarch. That's a political pervert word. 

    Fat rich fucks works better. Maybe just fat cats. 

    It seems to be working. Anything with -arch in it I think everybody intuitively understands is evil.

  12. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    JD Vance is incredibly proud of US military bombers and their mid-air refueling capability.  All the way from Missouri to Iran and back without landing -- this is only possible under strong Presidential leadership!

    We did that when we bombed Serbia during the Kosovo bullshit 25 years ago. Nothing special about that.

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  13. 21 minutes ago, bluto said:

    Oh no, he doesn’t have that tool in his bag on this?! How will he get by and survive?! The trap has been laid…

     

    line of thinking is so fuckin stupid and a decade or more late. 

    Yeah man. These people have their head stuck in the 1990s...or up their ass. Same thing.

  14. 3 hours ago, statsman said:

    The CFP byes were almost three weeks, whereas the NFL byes are one week. In the NFL, bodies get healthier in a week. In the CFP, a three week bye made rust a factor. Didn’t every CFP bye team lose their first game?

    Which is why I think it is worth letting it go for a few years just to see how it plays out before knee jerk reacting to everything that happens every year.

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