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Does @Anastasis know you are stealing his bit? Here's the thing about delegitimizing out-party governance. There's high quality political science research from Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein at AEI and many others that demonstrates that the Republican party has radicalized to a far greater degree than Democratic voters or other groups. In 2012, Mann and Ornstein identified two major factors driving the dysfunction of our politcs. The first was that our legislative system, unlike a parliamentary system, makes it difficult for majorities to act (See the "Hastert Rule", McConnell's virtually unprecedented refusal to bring bills with overwhelming, broad bipartisan support to the floor to avoid bipartisan success). The Second feature was outlined as follows: The Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier — ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition You can choose to reject that out of hand, and many Republicans have. Or you can pretend that it's a universal phenomenon as you do, above. But it's not. And the best example of that emerged over the last three weeks, when the sitting Republican president of the united states attempted to overturn the results of a free and fair election through a combination of legal chicanery and open political pressure on state legislatures and local officials. He wasn't alone in that effort. He enjoyed the broad support of most Republican voters, and a combination of vocal support or silent assent from elected Republican office holders at the Federal level. And it wasn't some reaction, either - it was the plan, all along. The plan was to overturn the result if things didn't go their way, and it might have worked had Fox not called Arizona on election night. That's not both sides, and it's not just Trump. Trump is just an avatar. That's your party. Your party just attempted to steal a presidential election. Your party literally hosted Sydney Powell and Giuliani's crazy press conference. Your party is still, STILL raising money claiming to be fighting to reverse the results of the election. Your party, officially, asked a state board of canvassers to delay certification despite the clear limits of their ministerial duty in the system, to recount Georgia for a third time, to make wild accusations without evidence, and on and on. That's not both sides. There is no Democrat Marjorie Taylor Greene in congress. There is no Democrat Louis Gohmert. There is no Democrat Donald Trump, and there is no Democratic plurality that buys into some left wing equivalent of the Q conspiracy. That's your party, alone, and it has drifted out of the American political tradition. And God help us if you don't come to your senses, because we (meaning, Americans who still beleive in Democracy and the rule of law) can't have a Republic without you.

Uh...you may want to tune up your critical thinking side of your brain. The process was conducted by an independent team which was non partisan and selected by Jeff Sessions to lead the investigation. It led to the largest number of arrests and charges related to election tampering in the history of the United States with substantial evidence of collusion with Russia and improper conversations over the course of months during the campaign and after. People went to fucking jail for extremely serious shit. One of them had their sentence commuted and immediately went on a white power rant and the other pled guilty twice and then the suit was dropped by Dildo Barr in what is possibly the most questionable action ever committed by a sitting AG. You need to stop with your bullshit partisan witch hunt trash. There were substantial crimes that had lasting damage to our democracy uncovered and prosecuted. Now you are witnessing the actual president of the united states say that the GSA sanctioned transition is also a huge lie and he will still definitely be president for the next 4 years. You are stupid. You should be ashamed of yourself as an American. You should actually think about the damage your stupidity could potentially perpetuate. Then you should step back and fuck your own face. The time for you to shut the fuck up has come.

If you guys want to continue to discuss fat fucks there is now a thread for that. Keep that shit off this thread. This thread is for using stats from the wrong county to support your ideas.

I moved on him like a bitch. I voted. When you're registered, they let you do it.

I don't think it's necessarily stupid, just lazy as fuck. Show your work. The actions of the President and his band of shitheels have been well-documented, and even admitted to in many cases. So, who specifically, what specifically, do you think is Biden's counterexample? His kid getting a job based on his last name? Ok, that would maybe be a counterpoint to say, Ivanka hawking her shit to the public. But that's really not near the top of Trump fuckery. What else? Whatcha got? Because I think all you have is the vague echoing din of decades of right wing political radio. You can't really place it, but you are sure you heard something about something. And that's enough to lower the bar. It's lazy as fuck. If you are going to give up on holding politicians to any kind of standard, do your fucking homework first.

It's not. This place is a microcosm of how Trump has shifted demographics as they relate to politics and parties. Half, if not more, of the posters here are college educated whites that used to be reliable Republican voters. That's the demographic that Trump has pushed out of the GOP in favor of bringing the trailer park wife beater contingent, which of course we don't have much of because it's the University of Texas. "The CR is so liberal!" is an excuse that people use when they can't see that the GOP has turned itself into the party of Cletus at the expense of educated successful suburbanites. There are plenty of the latter here, and very few of the former, since this isn't Texags. Sticking with Trump and the hoard of trailer trash means that you got left behind by the intelligent ex-GOP on this board. Sorry. You're now one of the rabble.

40 plus indictments, guilty pleas, convictions, prison sentences, and roughly a dozen fed cases borne of said investigation is slightly more than jack shit.

My preferred method would be that he wade into the ocean at Mar a Lago, with the intent of drowning himself, only to be run over by a boat sporting multiple MAGA flags.

I have a friend close to Sam, and while this topic hasn't been discussed, I do know that Sam is very open about his hate for Tom. If it wasn't for his love of Texas he would have probably left already. Based on that, I have to think that there is a chance he could return if Urban comes in. Especially if this season doesn't end in a win over OU.

Pretty good take on how Gen. Milley's refusal to use the military for civilian protest control led to the current state of events. Read the whole thread.

One side fucking heinously awful, one side mediocre is the reality of the situation. Anyone who is not on a side can clearly see this.

“Democrats aren’t pure so the GOP essentially committing treason is fine by me!” Just stellar reasoning.

9 years ago....

I've been saving this in my cellar for years, just waiting for the right moment. It's finally time to celebrate!!!

Whatever party supports policies that ensure skanks keep on skanking gets my vote.

This moral equivalency shit is like teaching a kid who has no sense of numbers that 10 > 2. They think that everything is equal or maybe since 2 is close to one it is the "better" number. Who knows, maybe they are 2 years old and that is the king number. I thought Clinton should have been removed for perjury. but.. Getting a blowjob from an intern at the office is a lack of judgement. Lying about it is perjury. Trying to use an arms deal to coerce a foreign government to announce baseless investigations for the guy who is going to beat you in the next election is mobster level racketeering, bribery, extortion, and treasonous shit. The cover up was another crime on top of that. These things are not equal.

the irony there is that the market was responding to the news that Biden is moving forward with the transition. it's like having a press conference to celebrate the other team winning because you threw an interception with 30 seconds left.

You go to the wife’s grandmother’s house every year for thanksgiving, and it’s year number 15 that you stumble across the old box of liquor in the hall closet while looking for an extra cable for the tv. Lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

alright, here's the banner we need to fly: "BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS ANOTHER TOP RECRUIT WILL HAVE LEFT TEXAS"

Honorable mention: when Bevo tried to gore Uga.

Hahaha this fuckin' joker 52-80 built an entire analysis showing that 4x as many people die of Heart Disease vs. Covid in El Paso The site he used to get his El Paso Covid Deaths: Anyone see the problem? Damn. That's embarrassing for you, 5280. Don't quit your day job, son.

Parler is now deleting #WriteInTrumpforGeorgia posts. This is one of the greatest things ever.

You played it, he just pointed at it and said "look, it's the stupid card."

I don’t believe in an awful lot of the left’s agenda, but I will vote for it 100 times over to punish the Republicans for what they have done.

Yeah it’s like there used to be ten paces on the political spectrum from left to right, and I was one pace right of center, 6 from the left and 4 from the right. The left didn’t move, I didn’t move, the right moved 6 paces further right, and suddenly, though I’m still standing 6 paces from the left, I’m now 2 paces left of center.

Herpin and Derpin

The Republican Party, in its current form, must die. At the very least, it must be punished. I fear a lot of center-righties like me will vote R again post-Trump. I sure af won't be. I hold grudges.

He has history from old sites. He was never smart but it's just easier to see now. Used to be that the utter foolishness of GO TEAM GO politics was hard for some people to grasp because the deleterious effects were not as obvious to those lacking foresight. Guys like Ag With Kids and TahoeHorn. But now that the effects have been realized it takes a different kind of malevolent ignorance to still be oblivious. Bozo_Casanova still holds out hope for that type because they're not completely hopeless, but for me it's not worth the effort because they are willfully stupid and that's even worse than people who are unaware they're being dumb. Those who are unaware can be educated. Those who are willfully ignorant will refuse to learn, mostly because their pride won't let them admit that the people who were telling them this would happen for years were right and they were wrong.

This is the best strategic idea the left has had in years. The opponent's base is morons. USE THAT INFORMATION. EXPLOIT IT.

Here it is, in short. I would need to cross check some things to make sure it is all correct, but this is the story in brief: Some time in March, 1944, the 45th was moving into Germany in near constant combat. Grandad was a machine gunner. His best friend was named Dizzy, and Dizzy carried the tripod in the three man crew. Dizzy was killed in combat. At that time, the Allies had an agreement among themselves that if any of the Allied powers liberated POWs from the Germans, they could use them in their own armies until the war ended, rather than go through everything it would take to repatriate them. Shortly after Dizzy was killed, Grandad's unit received a Soviet POW named Stanislav Ordinsky. He was Ukranian, a former university professor who spoke seven languages fluently, but not English (haha). Grandad was a farm boy from Royse City, Texas, and spoke some Spanish. And that was how they communicated until Stanislav learned English. They became good friends through combat and some other escapades, and when the war ended, Stanislav gave Grandad his address in Kiev and headed east for the USSR. Every year on VE Day for the next 45 or 46 years, Grandad would drop a letter in the mail for Stanislav. There was never a response. Then the Wall fell, and sometime that year or next he got a letter back from Stanislav. Turns out that after he got home, Stanislav was sent to a Gulag in Siberia for a number of years, a consequence of having served with the Americans. When he got out of the Gulag, the Soviets had expunged his military service records. This was devastating, because without service records a person could not easily get any sort of quality medical care from the state. Nevertheless, he carried on. Late in the 1980s, Stanislav's son died, leaving a son of his own for Stanislav to care for. Then the grandson came down with leukemia, and because Stanislav could not get good medical care, this was a death sentence. And finally, after all of this time, he received the first letter from my Grandad. The state had let the mail through at last. And so he was writing my grandfather to see if there was any way to recover US Army records which might prove to Ukranian authorities that he had served. Grandad and Grandma hopped a plane to Washington, DC and started poking around. Before long, someone from the State Department heard their story and got involved. They flew my grandparents to Kiev, and brought Stanislav and his grandson back to the United States for medical treatment. The boy recovered, Stanislav's service records were amended, and I learned as a teenager that everyone from the former USSR weren't monsters after all. My Grandad was a great man.

BC bringing the thunder. Exhibit eleventy billion in the case of "Every accusation is a confession." Here's something for Ag with Kids to ponder. Back in the Hornfans days, I was a moderate GWB defender. I regularly said "there's plenty of stuff to criticize W for, but I think his critics have lost their minds, and are accusing him of shit for which there is no evidence, and no rational basis for that belief." And now, I'm saying the EXACT same things about Trumpkins, and their insane ramblings about evil Dems. Back in the Hornfans days, I regularly cited to The Economist as a source for information and and editorial approach with which I largely agreed. On the human scale (meaning, considering all global political systems), The Economist is a center-right publication. And I am a center-right person. In Trumpmerica, that EXACT same approach -- what is center-right all over the world, and what was considered center-right here in the US for DECADES, now makes me a "soy boy libtard." Something changed. It wasn't The Economist. By and large, it wasn't me. ONE fucking wing of our political system went absolutely mental, and off the deep end. Your wing. Own it.

Probably for another thread, but this shit right here? Infuriating. It wasn't something that happened when Nixon was president... or Ford, or Carter for that matter. Reagan didn't do it. Neither did GHW Bush. Clinton didn't either, and W Bush only had three happen (in his first term). Obama didn't have any happen during his presidency either. From 1960, there were 4 federal executions under presidents from both parties. That's four in sixty years. But there have been eight (!) federal executions under President Trump and AG Barr... All of them THIS YEAR. And there are two more scheduled for December and one more in January (an African American, scheduled to be executed on MLK day... five days before the inauguration). Between July 1 and January 15 of 2020, the Trump administration will facilitate 11 federal executions. Eleven in seven months, after only four in sixty years. So, you can fully miss me with the GOP's "Pro Life" bullshit.

I love those - my daughter and I send them back and forth. Here's my favorite:

lulzy holy shit. 4ii8n0yxz0161.mp4

Username checks out.

I will not "fuck off dude". You are being stupid like literally to the definition. having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense. You lack intelligence. You lack common sense. You spout nonsense and act like you are part of the conversation. You are not part of the conversation. Again shut the fuck up and let the adults speak until you are capable of putting together a coherent thought that isn't completely devoid of intelligence or common sense. It's called using facts to argue. So for the third time this morning. Shut the fuck up.

Hey I just noticed today is the three-week anniversary of when the people of this country voted to kick that piece of shit out of the Oval Office.

Me too. But I am ready to take the blue pill and return to the old simulation. After four years, you know what I realized? Ignorance is bliss. I don't want to remember nothing. Nothing. You understand? And I want to be rich. Someone important. Like a Surly lawyer.

remember last year when he said his favorite thanksgiving food was ravioli?

This is worth sharing from that thread.