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This is the crux of the problem. The GQP is determined to crash the car in the ditch. We're sitting in the back, with the establishment GOP in the passenger seat pretending like they are driving. Unless the establishment GOP grabs the wheel away, something they have been unwilling to do, the GQP is going to put the car in the ditch. Democrats didn't create the problem and Democrats cannot do anything about it until at least 5 people flip, or the next election, whichever comes first. The only thing the Dems can do is fasten our seat belts, brace ourselves for impact, and try to warn people from getting in the car with lunatics in the future.

This is a great analogy that I'm going to continue a bit further. This has exclusively become a team sport for many Republican voters and there is nothing that splits a fanbase like a quarterback controversy. That's what the Republicans have on their hands, with no viable QB on the roster, or available in the draft/free agency/portal. Some of you are asking the Democrats to send their own QB coach over to tutor the Republican disaster. No one would, or should do this. If the + Biden district reps want a functional team and QB, they have free agency/the portal sitting right there available to them. They can switch teams and get to work, or get ready for retirement in 2024.

Both sides is a loaded term, because it's always a bullshit copout that obfuscates the actual problem and dissuades us from attempting to fix the actual problem. Our massive deficits are because the Republican solution to everything for over 40 years has been to cut taxes on corporations and the ultra-wealthy, while exploding spending using their 2 Santas philosophy. https://www.salon.com/2018/02/12/thom-hartmann-how-the-gop-used-a-two-santa-clauses-tactic-to-con-america-for-nearly-40-years_partner/ Republicans have spent 4 decades intentionally, and systematically, underfunding the government and not paying for the huge amounts of spending THEY have authorized. It's blatant dishonesty and and shameless politics. We only hear Republicans cry about spending when the President is a Democrat. Our deficits under Republicans explode, while the deficits contract under Democratic presidents.

Saying the Dems could have changed this is using Republican framing. First, you're assuming that the Dems could even fix this, when they likely can't. Neither the GQP, or the GOP are operating in good faith. If the Dems announce they are amenable to compromise and would support a particular candidate, any GOP support for that person will immediately evaporate the second the Dems come out in favor of them. It only leaves Dems looking stupid and impotent, with blame falling on them for what is currently exclusively a GOP/GQP feud. Dems have been remarkably consistent and should stay the course and watch the GOP/GQP fracture. IF the + Biden district reps ever want to be elected again, they can flip parties to the only functional one in existence, or they can reap the consequences of their own failures and get voted out. The future of Democracy itself is on the line and we need to take the chemo sometime. It's always better to do it as soon as possible, before it metastasizes further.

Even if he's the best of the worst, he's still part of the worst. He may have voted to certify the election, but he's repeatedly tried to spread doubt about the legitimacy of the election, mail in votes and voter ID. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/23/politics/tom-emmer-2020-election-kfile/index.html The ONLY chance the country has is to splinter the anti-democracy coalition, which they are in the middle of doing for us in full public view. If they aren't splintered, the GQP will shut down the country again, probably multiple times. All we can do is pick the time. Make them do it now when the facts are so clearly against them. They will take more shots at democracy until they kill it. Make them shoot now, before they have a chance to regroup, get on the same page and plan better. Do not interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake. Let them burn their own party down around themselves. It's the only chance we have to stop them from burning the country down.

No one does shit for the good of the country any more. You'd have a higher chance of success looking for GOP Reps that DON'T want to retire. Any Speaker Gaetz and the hateful 8 would agree to is political suicide reps from + Biden districts. Government funding runs out Nov 17th. The longer this goes, the higher the pressure gets on the +Biden district reps who want to keep getting elected. If the government shuts down over this, they are fucked and their political careers are over. Either they flip now, in exchange for some favored legislation, 2024 protection and national funding, or the Dems flip the seat in 2024. Either way, this is a win for the Dems, who are playing it perfectly and should keep letting the pressure build. If the GQP is going to light their own party on fire, the Democrats should sit back and make S'mores.

20 - 25 Republicans are willing to go public with their opposition to Jordan. 122 of them are willing to do so secretly. Not that we didn't know it, but this spells out very clearly at least 4/5 House Republicans are fucking cowards that would sacrifice the welfare of the country for personal gain. Damn, y'all are just roasting McHenry.

That narrowed it down a ton. "I'll pay for his movers and send a nice thank you card. Good guy. Just not the guy we need in the SEC. " Seems pretty definitive.

I'm not going to search posts to find it, but I remember @ChiTownDoc expressing this sentiment and being confident OU wouldn't slip much when Riley left. He's definitely been consistent on this issue. Riley is clearly one of the top offensive minds in football, but he had all these same issues during his OU tenure and imported them with him unchanged. USC fans expectation when hiring him was that Riley would at least come close to replicating Pete Carroll's run. After Helton's tenure, they will not be patient with Riley on this. If Riley doesn't go NFL, or replace Grinch and Wylie in the offseason, his seat will become white hot next season without Caleb Williams. I think Riley is going to try like hell to go to the NFL. He certainly isn't recruiting like he intends to stay at USC.

If we're reaching back 100 years for history, the Russian Tsar (Putin) should remember what happened to the last Tsar and his family (fucking dead) when he FAFO.

^ Trophy APS (Active Systems Protection) destroys incoming RPGs. First link is info, second link is the system in slow motion action against an RPG-7.

Fuck no. The Democrats have their own house in order. It's not their responsibility to clean up the GQP's mess. Democrats have been consistent the entire time. They've voted for Hakeem Jeffries 15 straight ballots. Any Republicans that don't want to be associated with the GQP clown show can cross the aisle and vote for the only stable candidate.

Shadows cast from a tree onto a shade cloth.

That was pretty cool. You can easily see how it would scare the shit out of a civilization that worships a Sun God. Would have been a very powerful tool for Aztec and Maya priests that could predict it.

I have some friends that were in graduate school with him. To say they are less than pleased with his post-graduate line of research would be massive understatement.

First, you make a roux.

Yep. The facemask was obvious too and should have resulted in a 1st and Goal, despite Sark's stupid play calling and shit execution at the goal line. Stills from the game thread.

From the game thread. Sark was dumb with his play calling at the goal line, but this is an egregious facemark that should have resulted in 1st and goal.

Eat shit Stoops

Elon's goal is to shelter himself from any criticism and to provide cover/aid to authoritarian dictators. See his aid for Erdogan, Modi, Xi and MBS that is already public.

Saw my first Rivian up close the other day. I've gone by them on the highway, but this one was parked, so I could actually see it. That's a fucking sharp looking SUV. Classic SUV style with a few modern tweaks.

Why would Trump debate a loser, currently running in 4th or 5th place? This challenge might have had some value a year ago, but Trump has fully run DeSantis over by now. Ron is a dead armadillo on the side of the road and the only thing he has to offer the world is leprosy. Every picture of him these boots shows the same thing. You can see that his foot is smashed up against the front by the ridiculous lifts he's shoved in them and the front is 3 inches too long to hide his Lilliputian feet. One pair of absurdly oversized boots doesn't hide the fact that Ron buys the rest of his shoes at Lady Footlocker.

We have multiple openly trans posters on here, probably many more as lurkers. They deserve to be able to read the football board without repeated jokes where transexuals are the punchline. At a bare minimum, it is WAY past time to retire use of the word "tranny" as a pejorative and it is time to retire the "Tranny OU cheerleader" video reposted on page 1. We're supposed to be better than OU. Let's act like it.

This has been another massive improvement. Backup QBs are historically our Kryptonite and we've handled them very well this year.