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Oh hey look, the surly right wing cabal is here to tell everyone that it's not so bad. The psychopaths in Milwaukee are saying exactly what they want to accomplish, but if you take it seriously, you're the crazy one. They still refuse to acknowledge the result of a free and fair election and are saying what they'll do to prevent that outcome next time around. They put out a christian nationalist manifesto that would abolish religious freedom and create a true theocracy, but the guy tweeted that he doesn't know anything about it, so calm your tits. They are lying about immigrants saying they are all violent criminals, but don't worry about another El Paso, you're nuts for thinking that the rhetoric is dangerous just because the perpetrator flat out said he believed all of what they say from the podium. Yeah, just a normal election. You're the crazy ones for believing that they believe what they are saying on a daily basis. I swear, the term gaslighting gets way overused these days, but the last few pages is the literal definition of that term.

I love how O'Reilly slams Biden on inflation, Stewart replies, "well, what do you think Biden did to cause it?" Bill: "I don't know." And the ending is the best. O'Reilly: "And my job as a journalist is to say -- " Stewart: "Oh, when did you get that job?" Perfect.

Just got power back.....

I must say, as of yesterday night I'd been without power for 9 days, including caring for an early onset Father In Law. And catching up on this thread has been almost as painful as that. Almost. A particular, hilarious lowlight just in the last page: /Man who has spouted dozens of posts the last 2 weeks which consist mostly of titty-whining and ignorant takes complaining about our NIL budget, who also doesn't donate to Tree Fiddy or Burnt Ends while somehow, magically, being a doctor, SWEARS that this time, guys, he is DONE arguing his bad takes over and over again. ::60 minutes later:: THERE HE IS! Like fucking clockwork if that clock were a spiked and flaming dildo designed specifically to inflict maximum pain on a message board.

List checks out. No weed. No gambling. No whores. No porn. Sounds like a fun place.

As someone whose individual liberties and right to bodily autonomy across the US have been smashed to pieces by the piece of shit that is Trump, from me to you, shut the fuck up.

They already tried to shoot him.

i have an idea for some assassination attempts right about now

LEOs are shit at their jobs is a pretty well reasoned and believable answer.

It's an assassinated ear. Memes seem appropriate. Further, failed assassination attempts are relatively tame events in the context of the wave of mass shootings we're enjoying these last few years. Putting on a profoundly disapproving face because this murder attempt is something special seems dishonest. He is the leader of the party of stochastic terrorism and has literally encouraged his followers to act with violence. He's not a Kennedy or Gerald Ford or even Ronald Reagan. They all filled the role of president without calling political opponents and journalists "enemies of the state." I'm ambivalent about the outcome Saturday. I'm being honest. I don't exactly wish for an assassin, but I do have some sense of poetic justice. What will this POS do to his political opponents if elected? He's a wild dog leading a pack of wild dogs.

Versus reality

This is somewhat tangential to the discussion of whether Biden should drop out, but there's a good new blog post by a political scientist discussing why vibes have shifted against Democrats. I want to note this part in particular: The vibes around the Biden debate are not actually about public opinion of Biden, they're about what establishment California Democrats and wealthy Democratic donors and the fucking owner of the New York Times think public opinion is. And I cannot emphasize this enough, those people are more divorced from public opinion than anyone any of us have ever met in our lives.

The reality if that if Trump wins, the ability for people of color, women, and LGBTQ+ people to be able to exercise their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness will be almost certain taken away. But hey, you are both white males, so who the fuck cares.

Or he resigns, Harris becomes 47, and then trunp and his team have to order new merch with 48 put on it which they can’t do because they are poor

If I’m being perfectly honest, I’m not very found of OU.

Centerpoint was woefully unprepared and disorganized, and trying to claim otherwise is absurd. They spend way less on tree trimming than neighboring utilities. Their infrastructure is visibly decrepit. If there have been any significant efforts to trim trees and harden infrastructure over the last few years, I certainly haven't witnessed it. The utility pole in my back yard (which caused an outage last week) looks like it is about 200 fucking years old. It's rotting and falling apart. The crew that came to fix it told me they had to go get a part, because they didn't have a replacement on their truck, because the original was so old and outdated. Centerpoint communicated virtually nothing for the first few days after the storm, and only after outcry and pressure began publishing any sort of outage map and restoration timeline estimates. Problem: the map and the timelines were utterly wrong and useless, even to this day. At no point did they provide widespread, accurate information. The map was even various shades of green, instead of red, to make it look better at a glance. People on Reddit had to manually edit it to even make it readable. They hid behind "safety" as an excuse for the first two days of slow response, when everyone with a brain knows that these are trained out of town linemen, and a 15 minute tailgate safety meeting is probable the norm. Social media is chock full of anecdotes, anonymous reports, and rumors about trucks sitting idle for lack of any direction on where to go, untrained CNP office staff on the ground trying to coordinate repair crews, and inefficient paper-based ticketing systems. I'm flabbergasted that anyone thinks CNP did fine here. All that said, I have a way different take on this that I've realized makes me an outlier here in Houston, in talking to my friends and neighbors. I'm not hardly mad at Centerpoint at all. It's a for-profit corporation, and a monopoly to boot. Its responsibility is maximizing returns for shareholders, not maximizing electricity uptime for Houstonians. Expecting otherwise is like expecting a snake not to bite. It's just what they do, that's their nature. Cutting down trees and upgrading infrastructure increases their costs. I'm sure they've done the math that it would cost more than the lost revenue from occasional outages. Are we really expecting that they would make improvements that benefit customers (who can't leave them) over shareholders, just out of the goodness of their hearts? The only remedies for a private company with a monopoly are competition, nationalization, or a ball-busting regulator that is immune to capture. None of those things is going to happen, either for practical or political reasons. Centerpoint has a PR disaster every few years, customers and politicians get Very, Very Mad and then....life moves on. I think a big part of Centerpoint's usefulness is as a PR shield for the people that actually have the power to change the situation. If you're mad at Centerpoint, I think you're mad at the wrong people.

I called my dad a racist piece of shit today. So yeah I do talk mostly how I post.

Were they on the marble shelf at the El Paso Wal-Mart, where a man inspired by rhetoric about evil invaders slaughtered 2 dozen brown people? That would explain how they got lost. Lotta confusion and chaos there. Wait…maybe my marbles were on the toy aisle at the Buffalo grocery where a dude killed 10 black people to “prevent the elimination of the white race.” That must be it. No, wait… Maybe they were in the kids play area a the Tree of Life synagogue, where a fuckhead killed 11 Jews because they were facilitating a “genocide” against white people! Dammit…or maybe my marbles were just there in the Capitol gift shop, and they got misplaced by all those wandering tourists, who just HAPPENED to be chanting “hang Pence,” and were asked where to find that bitch Pelosi. I’ve heard an actual cop fantasize about going to the border to shoot wetbacks. Some old conservative peers on social media post shit like “we understand terms like MOA, you use terms like DEI; we are not the same.” “MOA” means “minute of angle,” by the way - it’s a reference to a rifle’s accuracy. I can keep doing this. All fucking day. The right is an open and proud stochastic terrorist movement that has already yielded definitive and bloody results, and is currently led by a man who promises “revenge” and “retaliation.” His words, those quotation marks are for real. But I’m the one who has lost my marbles for suggesting that maybe the rest of us should be fully prepared to fight back against more of what has already happened. No. No marbles lost. I’m just not suicidally stupid - I know that the MAGAs are counting on the rest of us to just fold and cower before them, but the hell of it is, we’re Americans too. And cowering and folding isn’t our nature. FAFO.

Trump sacrificing a supporter is the most believable portion of the staged conspiracy. I really don't know why people think Trump is above that.

Boy, the job market really is tight if this is the only guy Hallmark can find to write its Mothers Day cards.

Olin seeks to humble the Longhorns by comparing our program and big games to other SEC school's programs and big games. Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, Florida all get mentioned as examples that rival or best Texas. He couldn't find a single thing that he could claim for A&M. Nothing. Zero. No big rivalry game that anybody cares about. No achievements to crow about. Only reflected and stolen glory. Pathetic.

Lulz ...

Trump’s medical report from ‘assassination attempt’ has been leaked. Coke and Viagra, just in case there are any preteens around in western Pennsylvania.

Olin Buchanan is a dipshit Texas brings nothing the SEC didn't already have, not even corny dogs By Olin Buchanan July 17, 2024 DALLAS — Gravedigger. The Kick Six. Punt, Bama, Punt. The Camback. Iconic football plays and legendary moments just don’t add as much to a college football rivalry as… corn dogs and turkey legs? Is that how Texas coach Steve Sarkisian’s comments on Wednesday at 2024 Southeastern Conference Media Days should be interpreted? More likely, Sarkisian was just covering for his boss. Or maybe Sarkisian just has a Fletcher’s fetish. To explain: Last month at the SEC spring meetings in Destin, FL, Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte — reminding the SEC how lucky it was to join Texas — droned on about how the Red River Rivalry between Texas and Oklahoma was now the SEC’s premier grudge match. “Have you been to the Red River Rivalry yet?” Del Conte asked SEC Network star Paul Finebaum. “It’s ridiculous. It’s the greatest thing ever. You may talk about the Cocktail Party (Florida vs. Georgia), the Iron Bowl (Alabama vs. Auburn). It’s nothing like this game.” Yeah. Texas-Oklahoma overshadows Alabama’s Jalen Milroe completing a last-second game-winning pass last year. Or Auburn’s Chris Davis returning a missed field goal 109 yards for a win in 2013. Or Cam Newton leading a dramatic come-from-behind 28-27 victory in 2010. Or Auburn’s Bill Newton blocking consecutive punts for touchdowns in the final five minutes in 1972. Anyone who follows college football knows that’s ridiculous. But Sarkisian, perhaps the good soldier, had his boss’ back. Sarkisian, once Alabama’s offensive coordinator, has coached in both games. On Wednesday, he was asked why Del Conte would make that absurd statement. “This is the most unique game, for sure, that I’ve ever been a part of,” Sarkisian said. “When you pull into the State Fair (of Texas), and you start smelling those corn dogs and turkey legs, and there’s fans from both teams, and then you get in those locker rooms, and the locker rooms literally are 20 feet apart, and you’re staring at each team, and one goes first, the next one goes next, and it can get a little contentious in there, but that’s OK.” Sarkisian went on to rave about how there is a 50-50 split of fans in a dilapidated Cotton Bowl. Of course, it’s the same when Georgia and Florida square off every year in Jacksonville in what was once known as the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. Hey, Lindsay Scott’s miraculous game-winning 92-yard touchdown catch-and-run in 1980 is nothing compared to Oklahoma beating Texas on a three-yard pass last season. Texas’ misguided self-perceptions of superiority aren’t new. Just a few weeks ago, Longhorn quarterback Quinn Ewers said: “We’re going to be everybody’s biggest game, for sure.” Apparently, he’d forgotten Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas A&M, LSU, Missouri and nine other teams also reside in the SEC. Also, frequently at SEC Media Days, reporters covering the Longhorns have asked coaches like LSU’s Brian Kelly, Ole Miss’ Lane Kiffin and Georgia’s Kirby Smart to laud the Longhorns. Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports The Longhorns have three SEC road games this fall: Nashville, Fayetteville and College Station. Kyle Field has added over 20,000 seats since Texas’ last visit in 2011. Smart was asked: “You have Texas this year. Do you consider them to be one of the best, and what stands out to you about them?” “Every team we play is the best that week,” Smart deadpanned. “Please understand that. In the SEC, humility is a week away.” Well, maybe not in Austin. Even legendary Alabama coach-turned-analyst Nick Saban was taken aback by requests to butter up the Horns. “What kinda tickles me is all these people asking these questions about how Texas always ran the conference they were in,” Saban said. “They’re not gonna run the SEC. There’s a whole lot of arrogant people in a lot of places in the SEC. You know about that. They’ll be a great team and a great program, and Sark will do a great job, but that’s not gonna be a problem.” Sarkisian said Texas’ goal is to contend for the conference championship. No problem with that. That’s what every SEC team aspires to do. But even that was said with an air of superiority. “At the University of Texas, the standard is the standard,” he said. “Part of that standard is our culture. Our culture is what makes us who we are. We take a lot of pride in our culture. We pour into our culture. We are a very connected group. We love one another. We work with one another. That’s not going to change.” It’s not like there isn’t standards and great cultures elsewhere in the SEC. Georgia, which won national championships in 2021 and 2022, has it. Alabama, which won six national titles under Saban, has it. LSU, which won a national title in 2019 and is aiming for a third straight season with at least ten wins, has it. Other teams have strong cultures or are building them. Texas’ football program doesn’t offer anything the SEC already has. Not even corn dogs. It’s just that SEC corn dogs weren’t at the State Fair. They were in Baton Rouge.

Why do all that turret-removing work, vatniks? I have it on good authority that the Ukrainians can just pop those right off for ya.

I am irrationally excited about this upcoming season. Thrilled to have football in 45 days but man am I fired up for Spring!

I always think this guys is Derka

Really? They want to be able to beat the shit out their wives and face no consequences. They want women to be nothing more than broodmares, cooks, and maids. They want white "Christian" men to rule the world. What they want is to undo hundreds of years of progress so that they, insecure as they are, don't have to compete. At the end of the day, these people are cowards, who can't fathom having to actually compete and live in a modern world where people that aren't of their gender, aren't of their ilk, and aren't of their color have an equal chance. They are the snowflakes.

Look, can we all just be honest for like 3 seconds? Most of us have been on the "Please Joe, just make it to the finish line" plane for awhile now. It wasn't like we were all confident in his age before the debate. We nervously chuckled when he talked about recent conversations with people who have been dead for months. We dismissed the rapidly increasing senior moments and cringey mannerisms. We rallied around little snippets of politicians claiming he's still "good in the room" (while his cabinet almost completely kept him out of the public eye) and the SOTU. Well, now the plane has crashed into the god damned mountain. You want to call staying the course and continuing the flight as is the uncowardly approach. That's fine. But some of us call it insanity.

They held that way longer than I thought they would Can't we arrest this piece of shit immediately upon arrival

I’m not a “migrant.” Neither were most of the people killed in El Paso. Being migrant-ish in an area where there are lots of brown people is enough for the MAGA terrorists. I was just in El Paso. I frequented numerous places full of similarly situated “targets.” Ana is right…I look pretty white. But I spend a good chunk of time in places and among people who aren’t, because at the end of the day, I’m half messican. Maybe the shooter woulda waved me in, saying “you look white enough to live.” I dunno. I’m not gay. But close friends and family members are. I give a shit about them, and am pissed that they are in the crosshairs of violence. I’m not trans. But I work with and am friend with people who are, or who have trans family members. Same thing, I give a shit about them. I’m not Jewish, but my wife’s family of choice is, and have very close friends who are. Shit, one of my son’s lifelong friends is downstairs right now; he’s so damned Jewish he can’t even eat 90% of the stuff in our house. I give a shit about him. Etc etc. Because see, if you’re not a complete garbage human being, you care about other human beings. You don’t see someone gunning down brown people, look at your white skin, and think “whew! I’m good, got nothing to worry about!” “Wait, he’s shooting Jews now? Lucky for me I’m not Jewish. Now, let’s go get some snacks.” And the Pearl Harbor reference was a fucking metaphor - you don’t sit back while an enemy relentlessly attacks you, and just hope “well, maybe they won’t keep shooting like they are right now.” You fucking shoot back. MAGA has a hard-on for violence, they love to flaunt its tools and use its rhetoric. And when others say “huh…so if that’s how it’s gonna be, then we’ll be ready,” they freak out and say “YOU’RE UNHINGED! POLITICAL VIOLENCE!” No, fuckers. Just self defense.

Real tweet lol

Sir this is a Wednesday

On the other hand, it would be very trump like for him to delegate the staging of his assassination to some underling and then they fuck it up so bad that he actually almost gets assassinated, hmm.

Comes with a free bowl of soup

Oh lord, it actually gets worse.

Got em, pops

Duke got his second parvo and first lepto vax this morning and they seriously knocked him on his ass 😟 turned into a whimpering mess, i couldn't even touch his haunch where he got the shot or hold him, he yelped 💔 no allergic reaction but obviously a lot of pain, i had to run back up to the vet to get some pain med for him. he wouldn't eat and slept about 8 hours... then woke up this evening back to normal and gnawing on everything including me 😄 he's up to 4.3 lbs 😁 my friend hadn't seen him since the day i got him, about 2 1/2 weeks... she'd crocheted him a sweater but it was already too small 😆 so we're using it as a toy! 20240714_201015.mp4 i freaking love his little overbite lol 🥰

Pork gyros.