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This is all so stupid and we're all dumber for participating in it. Same as it ever was.

We would still have the same level of military spending if NATO existed or not. We need to understand that our military is about making defense contractors rich, and protecting markets for American businesses.

The Grand Old Traitors (“GOT”) strike again. I used to be a republican. Voted for Bush twice. I will never cast a ballot for any republican ever again for any position. I don’t care if it’s some dude running to be a local property appraiser. Never again will I vote R. If my dad was running for office as a Republican, I would still love him but I would absolutely vote against him. The republicans are what the Nazi party was in Germany in the 1920s. Not quite completely evil yet, but well on there way. At least we’ve seen the playbook so we have a chance to stop it.

Why didn't Obama catch me being a traitor? SAD. - DOTUS

Elon Musk developed a reusable rocket that takes off and lands vertically. I’m going to put him in the Visionary camp by a comfortable margin

Have some fucking self respect. Theyre fucking lying to your big dumb face. Mother Russia and Fox News has weaponized your dimwittedness. Congratulations, you fermented santorum

Have you seen the length of his posts? He probably needs to hibernate a few years to recuperate.

IT from February 10th "Erick Young is being recruited as a safety by Texas. From that you can deduce where he is on the big board — behind Richardson and Catalon."

Texas 2018 DB class: Sterns #19 composite recruit/.9886 score Foster #24 composite recruit/.9865 score Green #47 composite recruit/.9762 score Overshown #52 composite recruit/.9737 score Cook #64 composite recruit/.9682 score Jamison #115 composite recruit/.9486 score 53.5 average composite ranking/.9735 average score A&M 2019 DB class: Williams #35 composite recruit/.9825 score Richardson #65 composite recruit/.9644 score Young #75 composite recruit/.9620 score Carter #80 composite recruit/.9589 score Wolfe #248 composite recruit/.9091 score 100.6 average composite ranking/.95538 average score Also of note, I think Wolfe drops more before this process is over. No clue about the other recruits.

Thanks man. Here are a couple more. He was really chill. I wish my shot of him coiled up had come out. I lifted up some bark and there he was just waiting out the day. The Cottonmouth was kind of a prick, but I think I would be too if someone grabbed me with tongs. Speaking of which, the ones I have suck. Need to get some better ones. This one I took with my macro lens. I reckon I was about 2 feet from him.

Remember when Republicans raged on about PAY FOR PLAY? Like everything else, they lied about giving a shit about it. Phonies.

The other thing to factor in here is that most staffs who haven't filled out their dance cards, no matter the state of their pecking order, are going to try and get guys to hold off on committing. Just because Texas made a last ditch effort to get him to delay his decision doesn't say anything about where Texas projects his position on the field nor does it imply that he was a highest priority recruit. They just didn't want him picking aggy now. It could be because they 100% had him as their most important recruit or it could be they have him in a group of 3rd tier back up plans as a worst case scenario. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, but Young should have just kept his mouth shut in calling out other programs. His Twitter actions the day before his commitment, his interview with Hamm, and now his father's weepy Twitter vagina suggest he was probably backburner for our staff due to mental evals.

You know who refers to golf as exercise? Fat fucks.

Yeah, his dad is doing him no favors. He’s going to be one of those dads that bitches publicly if his son doesn’t get playing time. He got all riled up because EJ answered a mail bag question.... just let it go man.

From Krugman imo, it's much more sinister than a stand-alone philosophy. I think many here agree that he's a functionally illiterate idiot. He's a full-blooded narcissist, and there's also a pretty good chance that he has been compromised by Russia. His fliippant comments about asking Putin again about hacking have gotten even more brazen. It's like he wants to laugh so hard while saying it. Same goes for his tweet this morning (above). Take tariffs. Even the most narcissistic idiot wouldn't dig his heels in against the whole world. I could see if he went all in against China, but he has alienated most of our allies on economic and now political bases (NATO comments). To me, these are the actions of a man who is utterly compromised by Russia. You can see the actions of the narcissist in his obstinacy in wanting The Wall. He wants to be right about it, but some of those actions are so over the top that there have to be other reasons. He was offered all of his demands by Schumer, and he chose chaos, strife, and division. Same for separating the immigrant children. It's beyond the pale when it comes to enforcing immigration policy, and it suggests something really demented in his personality.

The saddest part of this whole thing is that the DNC killed Seth Rich for nothing.

Elon Musk is the Cosmo Kramer of Crony Capitalism His wacky schemes never pan out but they do cost the taxpayers billions. Isn't it time we closed our refrigerators? Anyone familiar with the hit sitcom Seinfeld knows that Cosmo Kramer, the rambunctious, eccentric neighbor of Jerry Seinfeld, had a lot of big ideas. From make-your-own-pizza parlors to tie dispensers to the infamous “mansierre,” Kramer was—in his own mind—a world-changing revolutionary. Of course, aside from one notable exception (the Regis Philbin-approved pop-out coffee table book), none of his ideas ever panned out. But lack of achievement is exactly what viewers expected every week. The whole fun of Kramer was his dream-big mentality and the impracticality that came with it. No one on the show was senseless enough to support Kramer in his work. In fact, in one episode, Leland fired him even though he did not hold any standing position. Kramer couldn’t even keep a job at a bagel store for longer than a few days. It was his friends’ open refrigerators that provided him with the life support he needed to continue dreaming and inventing. This comedy sitcom case study is ironically much more sensible than what occurs in real life. There are plenty of Cosmo Kramers out in the world today with ideas that are even more ambitious than anything Kramerica Industries could have formulated. The only difference is that these individuals have armies of lobbyists that can convince our spendthrift government to finance their ideas, even though they have yet to pass any free-market smell tests. Perhaps the most recent example of such a politically astute, Kramer-like figure is Elon Musk. This larger-than-life media personality plans to do everything from sending men to the moon and Mars, to creating a 700-miles-per-hour tunnel transportation system, to turbocharging human brains by implanting computers. All of these are excellent ideas, to be sure, but ones that bear significant amounts of risk. Unfortunately, Mr. Musk does not seem willing to bear all the risk himself. His business model revolves around hiring experts to navigate the waters of the Washington swamp to discover ways to make the American people pick up the tab. Take Tesla, for example. The car company was created to bring electric vehicles to the general public en masse—a mission that oddly requires over $1 million in lobbying expenditures annually. As a result, the cars are financed by over $280 million in federal tax incentives, including a $7,500 federal tax break, and tens of millions more in state rebates and development fees. Despite receiving all this government money, Musk’s company has not shown demonstrable results. Yesterday, Bloomberg released a story under the headline “Tesla Doesn’t Burn Fuel, It Burns Cash,” detailing how the company spends $6,500 a minute and may run out of money by the end of the year. Just weeks ago, Moody’s downgraded Tesla’s credit rating due to its seeming inability to meet deadlines. Mr. Musk’s estimate of producing 20,000 vehicles in December, for instance, turned into just over 2,400 in the entire fourth quarter. It is no wonder that when these government subsidies die, electric vehicle sales plummet. Three years ago, sales sunk by more than 80 percent in the state of Georgia when the $5,000 state tax credit phased out. Last year, sales declined by 60 percent when its EV tax breaks sharply fell. These empirical case studies do not paint a positive picture of Tesla’s future, especially given that its federal tax break is expected to phase out sometime this year. Perhaps funding Kramer’s big ball of oil in the name of alleviating the world’s spillage problems would have been just as, if not more, fruitful. SpaceX is no better. Roughly 85 percent of its contracts come directly from the federal government. The aerospace manufacturer hit a then-personal record of $2 million in annual lobbying spending not long ago as it continued its quest to conquer the stars. New York magazine once asked “Are Elon Musk’s Aggressive Lobbyists Bad for Silicon Valley?” but without them the government-dependent company might not even exist. SpaceX has already received roughly $15 billion in subsidy guarantees from Texas, and despite meeting just one sixth of the hiring goals it promised, it is requesting $5 million more. Similarly, even though SpaceX has already received over $70 million from the federal government to develop its BFR, the company would like more on that front as well. Meanwhile, just last week, NASA’s Office of Inspector General found that SpaceX has raised the cost of some launches by over 50 percent due to having “a better understanding of the costs involved after several years of experience with cargo resupply missions.” This new development means that the government’s deal—already diluted by costly rocket failures—continues to get worse and worse. And don’t even get me started on SolarCity, Mr. Musk’s solar panel company, which has still not turned an annual profit despite receiving over $490 million in grants from the Treasury Department over the years and the government covering 30 percent of its installation costs. As a free market capitalist, I am rooting for Mr. Musk to pull it together and succeed. But I don’t want the federal government to waste any more of Americans’ hard-earned cash to make it happen. We will never know what the well-intentioned Cosmo Kramer could have accomplished had Jerry and the rest of the gang cut him off from their refrigerators, homes, and other welfare as a means of forcing him to follow through with his goals. However, we can still explore how taking away such measures of comfort will affect Elon Musk’s motivation and decision-making. Ironically, it just may be the recipe for success that the ambitious CEO needs. Norm Singleton is the chairman of Campaign for Liberty. http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/elon-musk-is-the-cosmo-kramer-of-crony-capitalism/

Maybe Sharp and Buzbee can play tank.

Yeah Tesla makes pretty electric cars, but that's an old concept, and when the majors roll out their models, he will be destroyed. His workers say he's a dick who puts them in danger all the time. Still waiting for Space X to accomplish something other than talk. He did nothing more than get underfoot in the Thailand cave rescue, and I've seen dudes light farts with more killing power than that fucking flamethrower of his. And what the blue hell is he doing messing around with crap like that to begin with, if he is Mr Future Buck Rogers Super Genius. Hyperloop? Lol-loop more like. The dude is a fraud, and his collapse will make Enron's look like the failure of a barrio raspa stand. He fooled us. He made a bunch of money on a pretty simple Internet concept, he has a cool Bond-villain name, and that's about it.

I don't think I've ever seen someone own themselves so badly before. This is an impressive post.

I had a rum margarita on a cruise once. Bitch tried to call it a daiquri but fuck her.

It is shameful when you put it in perspective. When you consider people like Churchill, FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Ghandi, Monther Theresa, Neil Armstrong interacted with the queen with respect but Trumpkins think Donald Trump is above of her. Its ludicrous. The historic people above all behaved with dignity regarding the Queen and Trump is a fucking sulphuric dog fart compared to them. I blame hill billy iconoclasm for this behavior.

Frankly, you should treat everyone with respect. It was bullshit when Trump pushed the prime minister of Montenegro out of the way. That's just who Trump is though.

Completely dumb as shit take. You treat old ladies with respect, whether they’re the fucking queen or some losers aunt like your aunt. Sorry your parents never taught you that but what does it matter, you’re just a troll anyway.

me and this thread.

It's worth listening to the whole thing, but skip to about 14 minutes if you just want to hear about how Carrington got involved with recruiting and Coach Herman.

I guess I am in the minority in thinking that EJ, nahlin, or any of them have no clue what Texas big board looks like with recruiting. They may get info from coaches but that info would be provided for purpose. In other words, Texas won't tell anyone what their big board is, but will leak things they think may positively impact recruiting.

^ good summary I agree with the first part of this former Navy JAG's assessment about the incremental indictments serving at least one important purpose of allowing the US public to "get our heads around it in a methodical way." It allows us to observe how individuals implicated by association in the WH and GOP respond. The lack of a responsible acknowledgment on their part, the guilty distractions, are important signals to the public about the reality of what the indictments allege. It will help prepare us for the next shocking revelations. How much the election was "rigged" in the literal sense remains to be seen, but the threads are being dangled before our eyes:

Somewhere in Africa a primitive tribe has been disrupted by a gift dropped from loco gods.

I like how he calls indictments “stories” like they’re fucking newspaper articles.

Manchurian Cantaloupe is allsome.

I feel now's a good time to remind everyone that Mueller is a true patriot who has served his country and has stood up for what is right in a more heroic fashion than all of the MAGA-hat wearing, wrap-themselves-in-the-flag, Toby Keith-listening, I-hate-the-blacks-oops-I-mean-NFL-players-because-they-won't-stand-for-the-anthem, I-need-7-AR-15s-even-though-I-live-in-Southlake-NRA-members combined. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mueller After waiting a year so a knee injury could heal, Mueller was accepted for officer training in the United States Marine Corps in 1968, attending training at Parris Island, Officer Candidate School, Army Ranger School, and Army jump school. Of all these, he said later that he considered Ranger School the most valuable. "[It] more than anything teaches you about how you react with no sleep and nothing to eat."[20][21] In July 1968, he was sent to South Vietnam, where he served as a rifle platoon leader with Second Platoon, H Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 3rd Marine Division.[7][22] On 11 December 1968 during an engagement in Operation Scotland II, he earned the Bronze Star with 'V' distinction for combat valor for rescuing a wounded Marine under enemy fire during an ambush in which he saw half of his platoon become casualties.[23][24][25][26] In April 1969, he received an enemy gunshot wound in the thigh, recovered, and returned to lead his platoon until June 1969.[27] For his service in and during the Vietnam War, his military decorations and awards include: the Bronze Star Medal with Combat "V", Purple Heart Medal, two Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals with Combat "V", Combat Action Ribbon, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with three service stars, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, and Parachutist Badge.[7][27][21] In 1989, he served in the United States Department of Justice as an assistant to Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and as acting deputy Attorney General. James Baker, with whom he worked on national security matters, said he had "...an appreciation for the Constitution and the rule of law."[32] The following year he took charge of its criminal division.[20] During his tenure, he oversaw prosecutions including that of Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, the Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie bombing) case, and of the Gambino crime family boss John Gotti. In 1991, he was elected a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.[7] On March 10, 2004, while United States Attorney General John Ashcroft was at the George Washington University Hospital for gallbladder surgery,[42] Comey received a call from Ashcroft's wife informing him that White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales were about to visit Ashcroft to convince him to renew a program of warrantless wiretapping under the Terrorist Surveillance Program which the DOJ ruled unconstitutional.[42] Ashcroft refused to sign, as he had previously agreed, but the following day the White House renewed the program anyway.[42] Mueller and deputy attorney general James Comey then threatened to resign.[43] On March 12, 2004, after private, individual meetings with Mueller and Comey at the White House, the president supported changing the program to satisfy the concerns of Mueller, Ashcroft, and Comey.[44][43] President Bush is presented with an honorary FBI Special Agent credential, 2008 As director, Mueller also barred FBI personnel from participating in enhanced interrogations with the CIA. At a dinner, Mueller defended an attorney (Thomas Wilner) who had been attacked for his role in defending Kuwaiti detainees. Mueller stood up, raised his glass, and said, "I toast Tom Wilner. He's doing what an American should." However, the White House pushed back, encouraging more vigorous methods of pursuing and interrogating terror suspects. When Bush confronted Mueller to ask him to round up more terrorists in the U.S., Mueller responded, saying, "If they [suspects] don't commit a crime, it would be difficult to identify and isolate" them. Vice President Dick Cheney objected, by saying, "That's just not good enough. We're hearing this too much from the FBI."[45]

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I could be visionary too is I was allowed to steal other people's money.

*you’s

And yes, traitor, it happened during the Obama administration because the treachery happened during YOUR campaign. Trumpkins are too stupid to realize that though

So what do you use to fill that hole in the cabinets in your trailer?

They walked into a complicated factory and are flipping all the levers the opposite direction blindly to see what happens.

If i was to GIVEAWAY a RING to everyone on a DAY i would do it on August 15 at mmp. To make sure i would buy my tickets before monday morning before people knew of my plan.

I'm gonna change my 247 user name to FCB. Then I'm gonna ask Chip Brown questions every chance i get. Then he'll have to asnwer " yes FCB, Sam should be the starter. " good question FCB, idk what a chode is, but when I google , my picture comes up"

That's the part that scares me the most.

I refuse to get worked up because Eric Fucking Nahlin got his feelings hurt by someone close to a recruit. Ever single 9.95er can piss off with their fragile egos as far as I am concerned. The kid is a bad ass and we need players like him. In terms of his writing style let’s just say I am glad Twitter was not around when Jamaal Charles was in high school. I am going to need more data points that this kid is the next Ryan Perriloiux than this.

Can we just take a moment to reflect on the sheer stupidity of the aggy who asked this question. High school coaches are suddenly going to change their proven, successful approach because... a short arsed coach for a cow college in the world's shittiest hick town runs a different system? As an aside, I can't wait to see the pro style, West Coach approach work as well for them as it did for old buddies Mack and Shawn Watson. Should be an absolute treat to watch.

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Just a few general observations: 1) This notion that the FBI is some left-wing cabal is mildly amusing. The FBI is probably the most Republican agency in the federal government. 2) Underlying this entire shit show is the notion that only Republicans should be able to investigate Republicans (I don't know if that rule works in reverse). There's no basis in our law for that rule, and no basis in our history or traditions for creating such a rule. If such a rule is to be imposed, do we think any malfeasance would ever be investigated in our team-first world? The Republicans' attempt to interpose such a rule speaks more of an intent to cover up than it does an intent to investigate anything legitimate. 3) That being said, the FBI--like Caesar's wife--must be above suspicion. By even giving a basis for suspicion, Strzok fucked up and was rightly removed from the investigation. He showed poor judgment in multiple ways, and Mueller needs people who exercise naught but good judgment.