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You named yourself after a fucking cookie. WITH RAISINS. Do you own a dick or just rent one?

See, here’s the problem: people like Hugo and Pancho are so condescending to those who have a different opinion than they do. Everyone on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are the same way. Their opinion is the only right one and if you disagree then you’re an idiot, a red neck, a racist or a rape enabler. Those are the only people who vote republican. All the enlightened folks voted democrat. If this rhetoric didn’t exist, people like me would’ve probably sat out this election because I didn’t care for any of the candidates. I only voted because I didn’t want this type of elitist attitude running everything, telling me what I should and shouldn’t believe. I’m happy that congress is split. Get rid of all the hyperpartisan bullshit and work together to govern.

Trump is a raptor testing the electrified fences around his authoritarianism. Pretty soon he’ll realize the power is shut off.

Acosta never touched that woman. She walked over to him and initiated contact and grabbed at his hands. If some reporter doesn’t shove that footage in Huckabeef’s lying face tomorrow and demand she show proof of her lying ass statement or retract it completely, then the press can fuck off too. They should all walk out and just stop airing or attending any “press briefing” or “press conference” by her or Dotard. All they are doing is giving free air time to propaganda and lies if they can’t be bothered to vigorously call out shit that has actual video evidence refuting it. I think I hate that wonk eyed cow most of all. “We don’t condone putting hands on women” - FUCK YOU, CUNT. I’ve watched you defend your fuhrer for cheering the assault of a reporter and bragging about grabbing pussies. She’s fat. Her hair is flat and she has a cheap cut and color. She wears drug store makeup and she’s bad at applying it. She buys her clothes from Kohl’s and she wears Easy Spirit shoes. And she carries a Dooney & Burke purse.

I actually felt somewhat the same as you after Trump won. I didn't care for him, but I thought it was unfair that everyone who voted for him was given some demeaning label. And then Republicans spent the next two years either ignoring or explaining away Trump's behavior. Not one GOP party leader has had the guts to call him out when he makes a racist or misogynistic comment. They bend the knee. Over. And. Over. And. Over. I gave Trump a chance. And he showed his true colors. You say you don't like being unfairly labeled. And I get that. What I don't get is that you're so offended by those labels that you're willing to vote for someone (who you don't even like) who falls in line with a man who spews hatred and vitriol, and you're willing to do it simply out of spite.

I have the sick feeling that this is a win for them. In the frame of traditional politics, sure, this looks like a win for the Dems and anti-Trumpists. But things are traditional right now. The United States electorate did not have a general gag reflex to Trumpism's white nationalism and fascist attitudes towards the press, law enforcement, and the weak. All Trumpists lost was the house? That's it? Yay Dems. Whoopee. In a healthy America, Trumpists never gain power. If they do slip into power, they get swept away by a generally disgusted electorate. That didn't happen. A massive section of the electorate are dedicated to this man and his rhetoric. When he moves on, we'll likely get someone more dangerous taking the reins. There's a reason the deplorables are happy this morning. By not being repudiated absolutely, they feel vindicated. Sickeningly, they are.

Tired of this. We are a representative democracy which is a form of democracy. You don't have to be hanging around the agora listening to Pericles to be a democracy.

Take the loss, pussy?

Thought I would put this here as I read the first page of the Todd Orlando sucks thread and it was definitely monkeys flinging poop. Baseball has a great metric tool in evaluating player contributions called WAR (Wins over replacement). It effectively tells you how your players a contributing to wins above what an average level replacement player. Look at the Red Sox and Astros and you will see a bunch of guys in the plus column. There isn't a metric like this for college football, but the eyeball test can give you a good idea. Last year, the Texas defense finished #21 in S&P+ on defense. There were three things Texas did well: Stop the Run, Third Down Defense (Texas was number 1 in the country in S&P for this category), and create turnovers (forced 26 last year). I don't have to quote the stats for 2018 for anyone to obviously see that Texas isn't anywhere close to that. What happened? Attrition of course. Run defense - On the defensive line, Texas replaced a + WAR guy in Poona Ford with a replacement level player in Chris Nelson. Nelson has been fine and he has played at a replacement player level. But he's not elite and the only player on the front line that you could argue has been a + WAR guy is Omenihu. Hager has at best been replacement level and perhaps below and the backups haven't distinguished. Then you get to the linebackers and the combo of Malik Jefferson and Gary Johnson was a significant +WAR duo last year. Gary Johnson and Anthony Wheeler, not so much. In fact, Wheeler's performance has been so negative that the LB corps as a whole would have a -WAR for the year, even if they kick ass the last 3 weeks. And what has been somewhat overlooked is the contributions that Jason Hall made in the Joker role last year when Texas went to the lightning package because that sealed the deal in terms of how effective the defense was. BJ Foster will probably be a plus player in his time on the 40 acres, but he isn't that as a true freshman and certainly hasn't been as effective as Hall was. To run a true spread busting defense you have to defend the run with 6 or less players. Last year, Texas was good at it because there were + players in those roles.......this year it is a resounding no. 3rd down defense - From first to pretty bad is pretty bad, but the worst is the fact that Texas is in the bottom quartile in putting teams in 3rd in long (see run defense above) and even when Texas gets teams in 3rd and long, they are still converting at a robust clip. This is where you have to pick on the DB's some. Boyd has largely been a + player this year and Stearns started the year fantastically (actually replacing the + production from Deshon Elliot) but has hit the freshman wall and his play has dropped off...so much so that the last two weeks he has been on the negative side of the ledger. Davis and Jones have missed time both from injuries (and other stupidity) and while both have generally played at a replacement level, their backups at times have not. I think Cook should be a good player, but again as a true frosh there are growing pains. Locke was a - WAR player last year and as a senior hasn't improved but Texas has no replacement level players at that position right now. West Virginia won largely because Texas had to go long stretches of the game with 3 true freshman in the secondary and 2 significant - WAR players on the field. Turnovers - Texas only have 11 so far this year. Some of this is bad luck...believe Texas has only recovered 30% of the fumbles forced, which is statistically low. But, Texas isn't forcing them either. Deshon Elliot was a machine last year....6 INT's and 3 forced fumbles. No one on this years team is even close to that production. Caden Sterns has 4 INT's, but that's pretty much it. Other than TCU and OU (7 of our 11 this year), Texas has not created much in any game and have been shut out the last 2 weeks against offenses that actually had a propensity to turn themselves over. 1 or 2 in either game might have won it for Texas. Yep...its a talent issue. Texas needs 2 or 3 more incredible defensive classes to operate at a championship level. As we look to next year, I would expect that the defense will be slightly better and bolstered by the fact that OU and WVa will be replacing significant parts of their offense. However, it will be 2020 before the defense can return to an elite level unless a lot of players make a big leap. Given the amount of experience some of the young freshmen have received this year, the secondary may get there at some point next year, but the front (DL and LB) will be of concern. Playing time for some of the "redshirts" on DL and LB over the next 4 games will help significantly. As for the remainder of this year, the good news is that Texas will see offenses that are less capable of exploiting all of the weaknesses that were laid bare the last 2 weeks. So the defense should appear improved, even if it really isn't. Oh and of course........

So that's a win, right???? /WV

I feel like the townspeople at the ending of the Unforgiven that just witnessed Clint Eastwood’s horrifying capacity for violence.

Check his record, brother. We're talking about a guy who said he didn't really have a problem with the KKK except for their marijuana use. He's been consistently against civil rights and pro-LGBT rights, not to mention voting rights. He's the architect of much of Trump's draconian immigration policy. He's all in on family separations and caging children as a deterrent. He's in favor of removing domestic and gang violence as reasons for granting asylum. He doesn't know the difference between cannabis and heroin, is a hardcore advocate of the failed War on Drugs, suggested the death penalty for drug dealers, wanted to roll back Obama era reforms on civil asset forfeiture. The list goes on. That he's a racist piece of shit isn't a matter for debate. That record goes back decades. He was never fit for that office. Just because he was one of the many members of Trump's campaign who had contact with the Russians and lied about it to congress, requiring him to correctly recuse himself from the Russia investigation, don't let that confuse you into thinking he's a man worthy of our respect.

Government jumped the shark in 2008 with TARP and the bailouts. Our system is fundamentally broken (and it starts with monetary policy, but that's boring and people prefer to yell at clouds). We've endured several decades of farcical political theater (everything since Clinton) but nothing really showed how broken things were until the Lehman moment. A nation of laws and rules? American spirit? There is no ethos. We're just spiralling down the Idiocracy toilet.

Here, I'll just repost it....hold on, gotta find it.....there it is: I posted an abridged form, for convenience of the reader.

We just fell back an hour. Does that help?

Oh yes, they will be quite upset. Their brows will furrow and everything.

I've never wished death on a U.S. President, until now. I truly wish a heart attack or stage 4 cancer on this cunt. He needs to die....of natural causes, of course, because I don't want this useless cunt to be a martyr.

Hey!

He looks like a big toe.

Roma's post is well said. Its the inevitable slip to isolationism, populism, backwards ass thinking. and we all know its coming. This isn't even a liberal vs conservative commentary. This is simply do you want to be part of the changing world or be angry at? The deplorables who continue to chose anger are happy today because they weren't ditched. They were legitimatized. I sit here a liberal capitalist and haven't had a home pretty much ever in this country. We are a protectionist,, corporate police state with a bend to be generally amoral. We don't care about anything but ourselves and will ride this train until it derails. And we spend billions of dollars on a semi-permanent election soap opera while people in this country and abroad suffer due to our action/inaction. We are not a Christian nation at all. Our government (all of em) is a legitimate evil force in this world. From the war on drugs, to enabling/promoting inequality, to killing off environmental change, to you name it. Our federal government is fucking evil. Thankfully, there are still many wonderful Americans here that do wonderful things - from charity work to environment change and I try to do my part and look up to the others that do too, and try not to let the devils ruin my day.

Not that anyone asked for it, but here's my take on yesterday: NATIONALLY: the Dems did about as well as was reasonably expected, to slightly LESS well than was reasonably expected. House seats -- that broke about as expected. Senate seats - they ended up with one less than I expected (I thought that Florida or Mo. would be Dem wins). Governor's seats, about as expected, again, the only mild surprise to me was not winning Florida. On a personal level, I found Florida really disappointing. And I had hoped that Abrams could force a runoff in Ga. She came DAMNED close, and I think that there may continue to be some questions (litigation?) about voter suppression, because it may have been the difference-maker. We'll see. But the big takeaway in terms of change is simply the flip of the House, and that it is by enough of a margin for there to be a strong Dem coalition pursuing its agenda. Whether they'll fuck up that agenda remains to be seen. Personally, I enjoyed seeing Walker and Kobach lose. TEXAS: Beto beat my expectations. He lost by 2.8%, I expected him to lose by 4-6%. Yeah, I wanted him to win, but this is a long game. Beto showed, for the first time in 25 years or so, that Texas can be a battleground state. But to be a battleground state, you need one REALLY important ingredient: A BATTLE. Beto showed that if the Democrats can put up a strong candidate at the top of the ballot, they can have a puncher's chance. And that chance will only improve in elections to come. I've said that Texas didn't have a legit chance of flipping until 2028-2030. I might bump that back two years, to 2026-28. To me, the telling races are State Supreme Court, because that's really a proxy for party sympathy -- 99% of people don't know anything about the candidate, they just vote the party. And the breakdown in those races is around 53.5 to 46.5. A 7 point spread. Trump beat Hillary here by 9 points. And for less popular GOP leaders, the margin was even lower. Dan Patrick won by 4.2%. Paxton won by 3.2%. Lesson there: if you have an unlikable GOP candidate, and a reasonably likable Dem who actually campaigns, some of these offices could be winnable 4 years from now. And let's not forget what we saw in judicial races -- statewide, major courts of appeal were a big story. A HUGE democrat flip. The 3rd court, based in Austin but extending into heavily GOP near west Texas, had 6 GOP justices yesterday. Today, it has 2, and 4 new Dem justices. Those races were all decide by 11-12 point margins. That's big. The Texas Democrat party needs to learn from this election, and needs to not just continue its energy, but do everything it can to INCREASE it. Continue strong candidate recruitment (seriously, Beto and MJ Heger were GREAT candidates). And don't pull any more Lupe Valdez bullshit (what a waste). And contest EVERYTHING. BUT, my Brisket takeaway: we saw quite clearly that a candidacy based on xenophobia and hatred wins (Desantis, Kemp). Expect more of it. A lot more of it. Because it works, and will continue to work. If we're comfortable having a giant tumor of hate stuck inside us, that tumor WILL kill us, sooner rather than later. It's our original sin, and eventually, it WILL kill us.

Quit talking down to women. I know it’s meant to be hyperbole, but the whole Handmaid’s Tale comp is so over the top it’s ridiculous. Women are smart enough to realize this.

Sweat is probably going to spin down. Don't look at just what 247 says is their position, because the linemen especially get bigger. Also if this is in reaction to Rodas Johnson, he was kind of spare. We didn't even know if he was being recruited as a DT or OG and he hadn't even been mentioned for months.

Cross posted from sous vide thread. Lamb shanks, sous vide @ 142 deg for 48 hours. Red wine reduction of the drippings out the bag. With cauliflower mash. #TuesdayDinner

Not really trivial, but this is as good a place to drop it as any: My son has a SATB2 gene mutation which has left him with a severe speech delay. He didn't say "Mama" until he was 7 (he's 9 now). He's been working his whole damned life to make sounds other people can recognize as speech. And, like most boys on the autism spectrum, he's obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine. Today, in speech therapy, he perfectly articulated "Thomas". Clear as a bell. (Most SATB2 kids never even come close to his level of speech. Little bugger is the hardest damned worker I know.)

It’s the thuggish ruggish booooooooooonneee!

Whatever you think of Trump, you have to admit that he may be the greatest con artist in history. Most con artists pull their stunts on unsuspecting victims who have no basis to suspect they’re being conned. But Trump is pulling off his schemes in full public view, on people who should know exactly who he is and who should know they cannot trust him. And to top it off, he’s running a con on two different levels simultaneously. He’s obviously scamming his base, who swallow every lie like cultists. But he’s also running a con on seasoned GOP politicians, convincing them to partner with him to mutually take advantage of the apparent marks in his rabid base. In reality, each of these “partners” is also a mark. Trump uses each and every one of them for his own gain, then tossss them on the trash heap. It’s masterful, really. If I didn’t think it will lead to American fascism, I’d get a good chuckle out of it.

I believe 'toss his salad' is the preferred nomenclature.

Would every action taken be invalid? Should Rosenstein ignore orders? IDK, but Senate Rs aren't going to be happy about Sessions firing, so maybe they don't look the other way. That's so precious.

Some of you Nancy’s need to calm down. Trump lost Michigan Pennsylvania and Wisconsin last night. The first two bigly. He absolutely can’t win without those three and he knows it. That and Texas is turning into a swing state. Want proof? How many political ads did you just watch the last couple months and look at the results. It’s getting ever closer. Beto won Tarrant and Williamson county for fucks sale. If trump and the trumpkins lose Texas there is no path to winning. Other than Beto losing, which was of course was always gonna be difficult, the most disappointing result last night was the Florida governors race. No doubt racism played a factor there.

You seem like a wife

You idiots getting sucked into another tjhooker suckfest should reevaluate your lives.

I'm a moderate, but I'm also stupid as shit. Why isn't there a party that represents my interests?! Granted, I don't know anything about any issues, but I do know that I don't like people being mean. My #1 issue is people not being nice to politicians at restaurants. And pretty much any party can make up any insane bullshit excuse for doing the dumbest shit and I'll go along with it because, again, I am really fucking stupid. There's a horde of criminals coming to invade our country and you have to send the Troops to stop them? Well I certainly am not going to look into this or perform any critical thinking of my own, so it all sounds good to me!

Wife dropped her phone yesterday and cracked the screen. Today she got the screen replaced and, to show me that the replacement worked, she sent a screenshot. She immediately realized her mistake, but still. Goddamn.

He's fucking with us, right?

Well it's the right method for dealing with trolls, so I'd say yeah.

Electoral College isn't going anywhere. Nor is the Senate. They both need some reform, but their entire intent is to protect minority interests from the tyranny of the majority. The have to hew a fine line, and current imbalances are getting to be too great and causing a legitimacy crisis by actually becoming a tyranny of the minority.

Haha that's a good one. Electoral college and equal representation of the Senate are bedrock foundation of our government. Both keep this country united and prevent resentment in smaller states that they are being ruled by Californians and New Yorkers.

PROPS to the people (on both sides) who took their signs down this morning. Thank you.

As a 7th generation Texan, yes, a huge amount of Texans are shitty, just like any other cohort. If being Texan was something that mattered a lot, then you would’ve went for the native Texan and not a Canadian carpetbagger.

I know you’re smarter than that, so I’ll refrain from calling you a dumbass. The party of the incumbent president tends to lose ground during midterm elections: over the past 21 midterm elections, the President's party has lost an average 30 seats in the House, and an average four seats in the Senate

I respect the fact that the B/CS cops let my aggy friend and his little brother walk away in the wake of Looch, and three of his buddies on the ground back in 2001. Aggy friend played baseball at aggy, and went pro. His little brother played at Texas, and has an 04 Nat Title baseball ring. Aggy friend got caught up in a scuffle with some of Looch’s buddies giving his little brother shit for his Texas shirt, and saw his brother get to fighting outside the chicken as my friend was closing his tab. When he got outside and intervened, he was hit from behind from the one and only aggy manipulator. His brother (the Longhorn) is the one who finished Looch. /csb (think I told the story on shag).

I have that same deal in place, my wife just doesn't know about it.

You fucking people don't deserve to follow a winning team