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  1. The Tom Ford Book. "High Fashion" for nouveau riche with no sense of fashion. The interior design in that house is 100% lame...
  2. All true. And we must realize that the "Second Amendment" ideology is no longer about merely protecting gun rights. The unstated gun-loving ideology is about effecting a culture of “ultraviolence” — as described by Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange (1962). “Ultraviolence” is random, senseless, and excessive violence running amok in society. Welcome to 21st century America. Schools, grocery stores, night clubs, movie theaters, college campuses, military bases, fast food restaurants, and so on — all subject to random, senseless, mass shootings. It's all ultraviolence, with the aim of gun rights to help terrorize a fearful, hateful society armed to their teeth. The Second Amendment will be used to justify and impose violent tyranny (not prevent it).
  3. T-BONE's truck decals are just another example of the intellectual collapse of 120-150 million Americans. Complete worship of idiocy, hate, violence, and dictatorial bombastic leaders, all historical markers for fascism. It will only get worse in America.
  4. The Texans not drafting Vince might well be the dumbest decision in the history of all sports in the state of Texas. And there have been a lot of stupid decisions (see, Jerry Jones and others). The city of Houston would have been electric with VY at QB. That's why I will never, ever be a Texans fan. Hell, does Vince turn pro if the Texans do not have the top pick? Perhaps, but with Vince playing his senior year, that's another BCS title for UT. No one was beating that team. Would have been a 33-game winning streak, too....... Grrrr.....
  5. We humans are not merely "changing" the climate, we are disrupting the climate as we wreak havoc on the living systems on Earth and transform the surface of Earth. Check out this 3-minute video.
  6. Santos is yet another example of the intellectual collapse of a huge swath of the American population, 120-150 million people who literally don't give a crap about facts, evidence, reason, logic, or proof of anything that inconveniences their little premodern belief system. That's the effect of being brainwashed from childbirth that the sacred scrolls (Bible) don't need no proof or evidence. Just take the prophets' word on it! There is no larger enabler of idiocy and the destruction of clear thinking than religion, the belief that the mythical Creator of the entire universe (two trillion galaxies stretched across 100 billion light years) has your back. And you don't need no facts to back your quest for power and domination.
  7. This dude is nothing more than a terrorist, empowered by one thing—the evidence-free belief that the sacred scrolls (Bible) have empowered him to violently impose mythical and patriarchal commandments on women, including his girlfriend. This is what happens when fascism and theocracy merge as a political ideology known here as the GQP.
  8. Cross post. Legit question. Not aimed any one in particular. How/why do you continue to care about Jerrah's Carnival? Really, why bother? I am really curious. Same with the Texans, I guess. Why care? I grew up in Austin/DFW, was a Cowboys fan in 70s-80s. Could not believe that O&G hillbilly bought the Cowboys while Texans with real money were screwing around and not paying attention--during a oil/real estate bust. So obvious Jerrah lucked into Jimmy Johnson and 3 Super Bowls. No Jimmy, Jerrah has no titles. Gradually checked out of the Cowboys somewhere between the reigns of Switzer-Gailey. Have barely watched a complete Cowboy game since. I can't cheer for anything Jerrah does. Jerrah is a glorified huckster-carnival showman, the PT Barnum of the NFL. The Dallas and national media lap it up and so do most fans, it seems. The Cowboys will be in Arkansas hands for the rest of the century. How in the hell did Texas let that happen? Boggles the mind.
  9. Legit question. Not aimed any one in particular. How/why do you continue to care about Jerrah's Carnival? Really, why bother? I am really curious. Same with the Texans, I guess. Why care? I grew up in Austin/DFW, was a Cowboys fan in 70s-80s. Could not believe that O&G hillbilly bought the Cowboys while Texans with real money were screwing around and not paying attention--during a oil/real estate bust. So obvious Jerrah lucked into Jimmy Johnson and 3 Super Bowls. No Jimmy, Jerrah has no titles. Gradually checked out of the Cowboys somewhere between the reigns of Switzer-Gailey. Have barely watched a complete Cowboy game since. I can't cheer for anything Jerrah does. Jerrah is a glorified huckster-carnival showman, the PT Barnum of the NFL. The Dallas and national media lap it up and so do most fans, it seems. The Cowboys will be in Arkansas hands for the rest of the century. How in the hell did Texas let that happen? Amazing.
  10. With all due respect, the above is deeply flawed. 1. Pointing out that the MAGA-GQP is fascist and theocratic is not mere hand-wringing or a claim. It's an observation of a blatant empirical truth. Hell, the Christian/Creationist theocrats are up front with America being ruled by the Bible. I grew up in Texas. I've seen the desire for Christian domination for decades, especially in Dallas. MAGA and Trump are not blips on the political radar. Reagan and Falwell got all this rolling along in the 1980s with the so-called Moral Majority, the precursor to MAGA. They are creationists bent upon attacking evolution. Ross Perot foreshadowed Trump as billionaire businessman, the all-knowing, all powerful wise man. 2. MAGA-GQP are not really legislating or governing? Tell that to women in America and Texas. Hell, the Christian theocrats got Roe overturned, with a Supreme Court they stacked. They legislated a bounty on abortion-seeking women in Texas. They are coming for contraception. They are targeting the LGBTQIA communities. They are openly racist. Abbott is busing migrants out of the state, a clear fascist signal that worse is coming. They worship Trump, Musk, and crave dictatorial/autocratic leadership over a militarized and regimented society, terrified and armed to the teeth. The whole battle over Kevin McCarthy was a mere struggle for more power among the most fascist of the GQP. More anti-science is coming. 3. I could list more, but those are clear examples of fascism and theocracy. It's not hand-wringing, yet it seems too late for a warning. Any GOP-Republican (or conservative) not denouncing the above is a fascist/theocrat or an enabler. Either way, the result is the same.
  11. No offense to anyone here, but it is incredibly naive to think that MAGA-GQP fascism and theocracy are "shrinking every day" or somehow going away. I'll say it again, MAGA-GQP fascism/theocracy has been building since Reagan and Falwell merged Republicans with fanatical religion. They have stacked the Supreme Court and federal courts, they plan on stealing elections, they have embraced and empowered creationist anti-science and conspiracy idiocy for decades. The Republican Party is not conservative. It is fascist and theocratic, as on perfect display in Texas. Sad, but true.
  12. Berque won a freaking national title with men's tennis in 2019. How he does long term, remains to be seen. But that title should count for something.
  13. 100% spot on. What's even more absurd: 1) The excuses provided for the incompetence. 2) Posters saying they are tired of watching crappy Big 12 football and ready for SEC. Legit question: Why does anyone think Texas's mediocrity gonna magically disappear in the SEC? Recruiting? More $$$$$ -- Since the Big 12 was formed, Texas won the Big 12 title three times and has gone 5-7 vs. SEC teams (not including Missouri games in Big 12). Unless there is a MASSIVE coaching and performance upgrade, Texas will be middle-of-the-road SEC, just like they have been in the Big 12 for the past 13 years. Sad, but true.
  14. At the end of the day, the January 6 televised hearings will amount to very little. I hope I am wrong. How can we expect TV screens, the very media system that destroyed any notions of objective reality, to provide a serious corrective for January 6? After all, it is TV that converted daily existence into an accumulation of spectacles, endless performances commodified into corporate profits and converted into platforms for endless idiocy, narcissism, and entertainment. All of this been amplified via the screens of social media by a factor of 100. It is TV that, for decades, has flouted facts—trivialized truth—encouraged tribalism—degraded public discourse—spread conspiracy theory—celebrated pseudoscience and superstition—trumpeted American war propaganda—worshipped celebrities, athletes, billionaires, and Mafia gangs while championing militarized police and badass cops—let fact-free televangelists endlessly exploit believers with donation scams and faith-healing—bombarded our consciousness with endless ads for junk—conflated endless consumption with utopian salvation—and fostered the overall ideology of what’s true is what sells, what's good is what people will accept. No matter what the facts are, no matter what the science says, no matter what's good for our collective species. Narcissism and entertainment TRUMP knowledge and enlightenment. Aside from a few exceptions (Sagan’s Cosmos, Tyson’s Cosmos, Attenborough docs), TV has powered a nonstop assault on a rational, reasonable, and sane shared worldview. All this is central to the idiotic, fact-denying, violent fascist culture that produced January 6.
  15. Why I am pulling for TCU: When I was a little kid, my dad (UT alum) took me to the 1970 TCU-Texas game in which Eddie Phillips and Jim Bertelsen ran the wishbone all over TCU 58-0. Awesome! I grew up and went to UT with Texas slaughtering TCU on the reg. 25 straight wins at one point. I can't stand TCU and all that Christian holy roller nonsense (no CR) in west Fort Worth. And it is there! However, the last 13 years have been unbelievably bad for Texas, as we all know. Yet, I am pulling for the Hypnotoads to win for one reason. Maybe, just MAYBE Hartzell, CDC, and Eltife and any idiot-minions will take off their burnt orange shades, shed some arrogance, and realize UT football sucks big time and is no longer the top team in the state. Over the past 13 years, that team is TCU. Sad fact. And the Horns are nowhere near getting back to the top of Texas, especially heading into the SEC and 3-5 losses per year with Sark. Maybe a TCU win will inspire better decision making on the next coach..... Hope is all we got. But Fate rules for now. (Sorry for the bummer post.)
  16. Apologies for the cross post, but this goes here. With all due respect, the idea that GQP can't or doesn't want to govern is naive. The long-term goal is to cause chaos, instill fear, impose religion, stack the courts, seize total power (legally or otherwise), and take America backwards. Way backwards! By any dictionary definition: the "Freedom Caucus" is the Fascist Caucus. Founded in 2015, with origins in the Tea Party, the Fascist Caucus is little more than a legislative brigade for MAGA, Trump, and theocrats. McCarthy’s concessions only empowered the fascists even more—19 of the 20 holdouts were from the Fascist Caucus. If the data below from Wikipedia is accurate, the Fascist Caucus is gaining power/membership among Republicans in the House. 2016: 36/241 R seats, which equals 15% of elected Republicans. 2022: 53/222 R seats, which equals 24% of elected Republicans. Fascism is here and 40-45% of Americans are ready for it, regardless of whether the prez nominee is Trump or DeSantis. Anyone who thinks American-MAGA-GQP fascism is non-existent or going away soon is naïve. Blindingly naive.
  17. With all due respect, the idea that GQP can't or doesn't want to govern is naive. The long-term goal is to cause chaos, instill fear, impose religion, stack the courts, seize total power (legally or otherwise), and take America backwards. Way backwards! By any dictionary definition: the "Freedom Caucus" is the Fascist Caucus. Founded in 2015, with origins in the Tea Party, the Fascist Caucus is little more than a legislative brigade for MAGA, Trump, and theocrats. McCarthy’s concessions only empowered the fascists even more—19 of the 20 holdouts were from the Fascist Caucus. If the data below from Wikipedia is accurate, the Fascist Caucus is gaining power/membership among Republicans in the House. 2016: 36/241 R seats, which equals 15% of elected Republicans. 2022: 53/222 R seats, which equals 24% of elected Republicans. Fascism is here and 40-45% of Americans are ready for it, regardless of whether the prez nominee is Trump or DeSantis. Anyone who thinks American-MAGA-GQP fascism is non-existent or going away soon is naïve. Blindingly naive.
  18. Might as well toss in the Paranormal stats to compare with Conspiracy. They often go together. Evidence that a huge swath of this country is in a knowledge free-fall, an intellectual collapse in the wake of the failure/rejection of science and secular education.
  19. From 2016, but very revealing about how conspiracy has permeated American consciousness, with Q being the latest incarnation.
  20. Two years have passed and—in terms of fundamentals—not much has changed since the violent insurrection and attempted coup on January 6. Here's what I see. 40-45% of Americans are ready for fascism, even if they are utterly ignorant of history due to the widespread failure/rejection of secular education. Thus, they turn to the sacred scrolls and social media. And Q. MAGA is still running amok, Trump is still a free man, and Garland/DOJ are apparently in no hurry to do much of anything. Meanwhile, American women are living in The Handmaid's Tale. Reproductive rights and contraception are in serious danger. Border walls and busing migrants shows the racism. The rights of people of color and LGBTQIA communities are in danger. Books are being banned. MAGA-Q are planning on overturning key elections. The list of targets will keep expanding. Non-believers in religion, get ready, they're coming. Science and sanity are under siege, with pseudoscience and idiocy everywhere, from evolution to Covid to climate disruption to anti-vaxxers to Ancient f*cking Aliens. TLDR: American democracy is still in deep trouble. Sanity may not prevail.
  21. Correction. They are fascists and theocrats. The believe a mythic God has their backs, they believe in a mythic America ruled under the sacred scrolls of the Bible, they believe they should have total state power to implement that vision. They are nowhere near nihilists. As for their plan, I summarized it upthread: "They have American women living in The Handmaid's Tale, they are coming for all reproductive rights and contraception, they are still working on the border wall, they are humiliating migrants by busing them to cities, they are coming after the rights of LGBTQIA communities and people of color, they are banning books (the burning of books is coming), they are planning on overturning elections, they are in denial of climate disruption (we are way beyond merely "changing" the climate), they are attacking science with complete idiocy, from evolution to Covid. The list of targets will keep expanding. Eventually, they'll be coming after the non-believers in religion. It's only a matter of time."
  22. With all due respect, this is inaccurate on many levels. This is part of the problem in America, for you can't stop or fight what you don't see. The GQP has a plan and platform. It is called fascism and theocracy. They have an aim. They've already stacked the Supreme Court. They are getting election deniers in place at the local level. They have policy positions. They have American women living in The Handmaid's Tale, they are coming for all reproductive rights and contraception, they are still working on the border wall, they are humiliating migrants by busing them to cities, they are coming after the rights of LGBTQIA communities and people of color, they are banning books (the burning of books is coming), they are planning on overturning elections, they are in denial of climate disruption (we are way beyond merely "changing" the climate), they are attacking science with complete idiocy, from evolution to Covid. The list of targets will keep expanding. Eventually, they'll be coming after the non-believers in religion. It's only a matter of time. Yes, the GQP has clearly has a plan: taking America backward into a fascist theocracy.
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