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softlynow

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  1. Pure delusion. Or a spectacular bit. Either way, I am entertained.
  2. Never said it was easy or prevent. We have done it though. Have we chosen to do it late? Sure. Does it mean we won't/can't do it early? If you say for certain, you're a fool.
  3. And we were 11 personnel dominant in ‘08 until the RRS where the Irby injury necessitated a change. If aggy presents a 2 high or 3 high look, we should thank them for the 5+ yards and run it again
  4. Or maybe, knowing this, we establish a running game out of the gate, and the tweaked ankle leads to quieter feet, a more stable platform to throw from, resulting in improved accuracy down field and a devastating play action attack.
  5. Dude, take the W. He took the L, sure like a pussy, but he took it.
  6. Republicans were already there before Bruen. They just needed to get Kennedy out of there. In Rahimi, the Court basically admits that Bruen was too rigid. The 5th Circuit followed Bruen and concluded that since wife beaters used to legally arm themselves back then, they obviously can now. All but Thomas saw the flaw in the Bruen framework, and said it was more a general guideline (like the Pirate's Code) than a real judical test. The Court, like the country in general, is no longer a serious entity.
  7. They do. Getting a run of the mill state felony to trial in 10-12 months takes effort. One of my cases headed to trial passed the year mark in August, when the state realized they missed a crucial step. That one’s somewhat straightforward. Federal prosecutions against public figures are 10x as complex.
  8. Yeah, not sure where he was going with that. Courts move slowly on purpose. We may occasionally root for a one-off Ready, Fire, Aim approach, but it’s antithetical to a free system. But a free system depends on folks not voting to ditch the system.
  9. Vought? His name is Vought? The simulation isn’t even trying anymore.
  10. Yes. And so will his replacement in the House.
  11. If we're going the serious route, I took classes from 2 of them. After hours, they reach for the bottle as much as any of us.
  12. There was one?
  13. We never feel good about anything. Most of what we do, we either immediately or eventually regret. The group you're looking for is elderly nightly news watchers. Also high school government teachers.
  14. Agree with all of this, but you're speaking to middle class culture and culture is a force that policy usually cannot redirect. Policy-wise, we're here because round after round of GOP tax cuts directed primarily at the wealthy fueled dramatic asset price increases that, of course, are the real pocket-book problem for the folks who just voted for the chaos agent.
  15. You will not believe the economic catastrophe. The best economic catastrophe. A big, long, beautiful economic catastrophe. People are saying its the finest and best economic catastrophe ever.
  16. They’ll all bend the knee. They’re not journalists, leaders or intellectuals, they’re millionaire entertainers.
  17. They know where this is headed. Kiss the ring now, maybe you keep your living/freedom/life. Cowardly and disgusting, but prudent if that’s who you are. Gonna see a lot more of that.
  18. Neither is the about to be moot Constitution. Power and the will to use it make everything but sufficient power and will to resist irrelevant. The only group situated to resist are Dems. Keep pretending we aren’t completely fucked if it makes you feel better.
  19. It’s still sending poor non-violent offenders to prison for long stretches, and doing nothing* to set them on a better path after release so it’s still working as intended. *Well, they do wring as much money out of they families through privatized phone services and commissary sales of luxuries like soap and toothbrushes, so they are learning that corporations are their masters and that trying to better themselves is likely futile, so they do get a better real world education than their crumbling public school could manage.
  20. Yeah, NIMBY is usually just bad policy. Nearby, in the reddest part of ultra-red Montgomery county, NIMBY means roads and schools. It’s amazing watching Magnolia ISD get flooded with students while they vote down bonds to give them a place to be during the day. Fortunately I’m in CISD, and we just elected board members committed to banning books. Stupid, but I’ll know which books to get my girls. I never get to “both sides” things, so there it is.
  21. If it comes to armed resistance, as you imply, and I’m somehow a combatant, we’re looking at a Man in the High Castle type scenario. Sure, if it comes to a real civil war / rebellion, I guess it’s possible I’m in the shit. But there will be no real rebellion. We are not those people anymore. We are fat, lazy, entitled, and awash in distraction. Maybe there will be the odd freedom fighter cells, and IRA type bombings here and there. So, no, I’m not dying along with just a few dozen others in a futile attempt to otherthrow the Trump Dynasty.
  22. This is on point. Ridiculous frat house worthy hijinks from the Dems may be the only thing that can save us. Yeah, we’re doomed.
  23. Correct. I keep seeing future elections, the press and "political fallout" as actual saviors from all this shit. Nope. Too many are too apathetic that even cancelling elections, or gaming them to return the results the GQP desires, is simply going to be a 2-3 day news story before the next Hawk Tuah distracts us.
  24. I'm not a coffee drinker, and I should eat less chocolate. But shortages and/or significant price increases on both are not gonna go over well.
  25. Meh. Just folks pre-reserving spots at a re-education camp.
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