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21 hours ago, kevwun said:

When my wife was a poor college student, she used to take the bus to go back home to visit her parents and friends.  From her terrible stories, you couldn't pay me to take one.  I can't imagine they've gotten any better over the last 20 years.

I’m sorry your wife had to go through that,

but I’m happy for you that you got to at least enjoy all that practice she must have gotten blowing guys for boogles and soda money.

Or did she smartly smoke meth before the right as well?

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DFW doesn't seem too terrible for now.  Took my mom there this morning for her trip back to Vietnam and only took about 15 minutes to get through security.  Plane left on time. Hopefully things will get sorted out by Christmas when she returns.

I just went through precheck at A20. One person was in front of me.
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1 hour ago, speed817 said:

DFW doesn't seem too terrible for now.  Took my mom there this morning for her trip back to Vietnam and only took about 15 minutes to get through security.  Plane left on time. Hopefully things will get sorted out by Christmas when she returns.

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1 hour ago, Zepol87 said:

Had some bathroom sex with a chick that got on in Springfield, Illinois

But then I thought when am I gonna be back on an Amtrak?

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1 hour ago, South Austin said:

If I recall from my time growing up in VA/NC, Radford had a reputation for attracting dumb hot girls who liked to put out.

When I was at UVA there used to be a song about girls from Radford and Randy-Mac.  Many a road trip was taken there as well as Sweetbriar.

Pretty sure Fawn Leibowitz went there.

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https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/trump-filibuster-republican-senators-shutdown

 

Scoop: Trump readying "living hell" for GOP senators over nuking filibuster

 

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President Trump's Truth Social demands to end the filibuster are just a hint of his coming rampage if Senate Republicans hold out against him, advisers tell Axios.

Why it matters: Most Senate Republicans have no interest in nuking the filibuster. But Trump's frustration is the first clear sign that the shutdown, which becomes a record on Wednesday, is getting to him.


"He will make their lives a living hell," one Trump adviser told Axios.


"He will call them at three o'clock in the morning. He will blow them up in their districts. He will call them un-American. He will call them old creatures of a dying institution. Believe you me, he's going to make their lives just hell," the source continued.
Another adviser emphasized: "He's really mad about this."

 

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Zoom in: For weeks, Trump wasn't paying close attention to the shutdown out of a belief that Democrats would eventually drop their demands.

Now, he is starting to put Republican senators on blast for not changing the filibuster, which requires 60 votes for most legislation, arguing it gave Democrats leverage to shut down the government for a record amount of time.


"The more he thinks about it, the more he thinks the filibuster outrageous and anti-democratic," one of the advisers said.
Trump was already steamed about the Senate's "blue slip" tradition, which has allowed Democratic senators to block certain judicial nominees.

 

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What to watch: Some of the newer, populist Senate Republican voices are warming to the idea.

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) raised the idea of changing the filibuster to end the shutdown last month on Fox News, saying, "Let's make this a Republican-only vote."


Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) expressed willingness to do away with the filibuster if needed. Hawley said if he's "got to choose between feeding 42 million Americans who are needy and have to have federal food assistance to eat, or defending the arcane rules of the Senate — I'm going to choose those people."


Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) also told Axios he would be willing to change the filibuster rules "under certain circumstances."


Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) said he understood Trump's frustration, "but I think that Democrats are about to cave" by the end of the week. When pressed to clarify whether he opposed ending the filibuster, he responded, "I said what I just said."


The other side: Senate Democrats are not taking Trump's threats too seriously, telling Axios they remain confident that Republicans will not concede to his demands.

It could be a good sign for the hopeful, tentative dealmaking being done this week to reopen the government.


"Republicans are rubber stamps for Donald Trump on everything else. This may be the one area where they've decided not to play ball," Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) told Axios.


"The president is not in charge of the United States Congress and we need to stand up and tell the president he is not a king," Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), a key moderate vote, told Axios.


The big picture: Trump has always believed a president gets blamed for a shutdown.

Polls show a plurality of voters blame Republicans, and many on both sides of the aisle expected him to buckle sooner to Democratic demands to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire for 22 million recipients.


Trump also pressured then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to get rid of the filibuster during his first term.


The bottom line: Trump "feels really strongly about this. Republicans need to play tough and they need to play smart," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday.

Asked what Trump will do with Republicans going forward, Leavitt said "stay tuned. Just keep your eyes on Truth Social. On this matter, the President is making his position on it quite clear, and again, he is right."

 

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Its really hard to keep up with what's even going on, everything is so fucking beyond stupid at the macro level that everything seems to be just fake math. 

I honestly can't make sense of much at this point. 

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7 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I'm shocked the Trump WH didn't have a plan on what to do when the govt shutdown was going on for so long that the TSA and ATC are getting a little sick of working without pay.

They had a concept of one

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7 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I'm shocked the Trump WH didn't have a plan on what to do when the govt shutdown was going on for so long that the TSA and ATC are getting a little sick of working without pay.

you sure shocked is the right word here? this is exactly what I expected from this regime

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1 minute ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

you sure shocked is the right word here? this is exactly what I expected from this regime

I was being sarcastic. I see little reason for the Dems to back down as they are being hurt much less than the GOP here. 

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Just now, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I was being sarcastic. I see little reason for the Dems to back down as they are being hurt much less than the GOP here. 

ah, written sarcasm is a bitch to ascertain. anywho, the dems better not fucking cave. this is 100% on the GOP and they need to go down with the ship, not us

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3 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I was being sarcastic. I see little reason for the Dems to back down as they are being hurt much less than the GOP here. 

I see no reason for Dems to back down as the last time they did so with the promise that Rs would come to the table the Rs told them to shove it.

Why would they ever believe Rs will negotiate in good faith?  

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35 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

When I was at UVA there used to be a song about girls from Radford and Randy-Mac.  Many a road trip was taken there as well as Sweetbriar.

Pretty sure Fawn Leibowitz went there.

Radford? Isnt that where the IN N Out burger is?

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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

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1 hour ago, DDD Dad said:

When I was at UVA there used to be a song about girls from Radford and Randy-Mac.  Many a road trip was taken there as well as Sweetbriar.

Pretty sure Fawn Leibowitz went there.

 

I will say I got a blow job from one of the ugliest girls ever at Randy Mac. I refused to have sex with her. She was immensely pissed off.

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I read somewhere today that there is something like 6.2T in deposits at major banks in the US - That's crazy to me, how much of that is fucking cash advanced on debt? there's only 2.4T dollars in circulation. 

We are in pure funny money land. 

 

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3 hours ago, South Austin said:

If I recall from my time growing up in VA/NC, Radford had a reputation for attracting dumb hot girls who liked to put out.

 

2 hours ago, G650 said:

 

Halloween in 1998-ish? There was a pretty well renowned party out on a golf course every year. My best friend went there while I was at CofC, Greyhound up there and crashed with him

 

 

Listen to South Austin, he's pre-med.

Oh, I lived in Radford for 3 years.  My brother still lives there.

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On 11/3/2025 at 5:27 AM, dieucla98 said:

6am out of AUS this morning and it was the fastest I've made it to the gate in recent memory. No issues. But 6am isn't really peak departure time here.....

Six in the morning actually is the peak departure time from AUS.

The airlines want to maximize an airplane's productivity, so they want to get it in the air as early in the morning as possible.  But there's really a hard stop around 6:00 AM for most people--they're not going to buy a ticket for a flight that leaves at 5:00.  So virtually every gate at AUS has a flight that is going to leave within 20 minutes of 6:00.

There's no other time of day at AUS that is that busy.  After 6:00, the flights start to get staggered.  So the early morning is the busiest it's going to be all day.

54 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

I see no reason for Dems to back down as the last time they did so with the promise that Rs would come to the table the Rs told them to shove it.

Why would they ever believe Rs will negotiate in good faith?  

They shouldn't.  Trump and the Congressional Republicans have demonstrated over and over and over again that they cannot be trusted to negotiate in good faith.  If the Republicans want the government to reopen, then they need to give on the ACA subsidies.

And it's pretty clear at this point that Republicans should want the government reopened.  They're the ones taking the blame for this.  You can see that in Trump's approval ratings, which are steadily declining.  Every poll shows Republicans taking more of the blame for the shutdown.  And when people can't go visit grandma for Thanksgiving, shit's going to get real focused.  It's one thing to say you blame the ebil Democraps for the shutdown while it's not really affecting you.  But when you're standing in an endless TSA line on Novmeber 25 and you know goddamned well the Republicans control the White House and both houses of Congress, that facade cracks a little bit.

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31 minutes ago, G650 said:

 

I will say I got a blow job from one of the ugliest girls ever at Randy Mac. I refused to have sex with her. She was immensely pissed off.

Your humble brag game needs some work. 

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26 minutes ago, TexasEd said:

 

Oh, I lived in Radford for 3 years.  My brother still lives there.

On purpose?

 

I keed. I had a lot of friends go there.

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When I was at UVA there used to be a song about girls from Radford and Randy-Mac.  Many a road trip was taken there as well as Sweetbriar.
Pretty sure Fawn Leibowitz went there.

Lol my psycho ex was a Sweetbriar Vixen. Not because of her, but I still think pink and green are great school colors.
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I was friends in HS with a girl who did some sort of summer science program for smart kids at UTMB Galveston and she convinced her parents to let her do Greyhound from Galveston to the RGV. This was 1999, she had a cell phone, and spent most of the trip narrating the trip to me in fear/hilarity. Not really a “smart kid” move. 

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11 minutes ago, BearSchlong said:


Lol my psycho ex was a Sweetbriar Vixen. Not because of her, but I still think pink and green are great school colors.

Knew some girls from Mary Baldwin. Virginia is odd, every hillbilly Scots-Irish holler town has a college that costs 55k a year in tuition that no one ever heard of. 
 

I heard Sweetbriar was going under a few years back, not sure if they saved it. 

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1 minute ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Knew some girls from Mary Baldwin. Virginia is odd, every hillbilly Scots-Irish holler town has a college that costs 55k a year in tuition that no one ever heard of. 
 

I heard Sweetbriar was going under a few years back, not sure if they saved it. 

Sweetbriar is still going, but there's a whole lot of private colleges on the chopping block. The economic situation for them has been deteriorating for a couple decades now.

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9 minutes ago, G650 said:

Sweetbriar is still going, but there's a whole lot of private colleges on the chopping block. The economic situation for them has been deteriorating for a couple decades now.

There’s really not much of a case for them as places like VCU, ODU, GMU, JMU invest and grow, and similar places up and down the coast. Going to Tech or UVA or William and Mary is clearly better but no one gives a shit anymore if you go to “commuter” schools, in fact it’s probably better in the market than some tiny obscure college. 
 

Those that have some nominal affiliation with a religious tradition have mostly stripped that part of uniqueness away so that’s not even a case for them. 

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3 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

There’s really not much of a case for them as places like VCU, ODU, GMU, JMU invest and grow, and similar places up and down the coast. Going to Tech or UVA or William and Mary is clearly better but no one gives a shit anymore if you go to “commuter” schools, in fact it’s probably better in the market than some tiny obscure college. 
 

Those that have some nominal affiliation with a religious tradition have mostly stripped that part of uniqueness away so that’s not even a case for them. 

It depends really. I have mentioned before, but I'm a trustee at our local university, so I get to see a lot of the nuts and bolts of this stuff, but mostly it is from lack of investment and moribund culture. The few schools that have pushed forward are doing well, including the one I serve at, but a lot just live in another era and are just withering. I tend to agree with you overall though.

 

Charitable for you to put Tech in the same sentence with UVA and William and Mary though...

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52 minutes ago, G650 said:

It depends really. I have mentioned before, but I'm a trustee at our local university, so I get to see a lot of the nuts and bolts of this stuff, but mostly it is from lack of investment and moribund culture. The few schools that have pushed forward are doing well, including the one I serve at, but a lot just live in another era and are just withering. I tend to agree with you overall though.

 

Charitable for you to put Tech in the same sentence with UVA and William and Mary though...

All dirt roads lead to Tech.

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