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  1. 5 hours ago, Girdwood said:

    89 degrees in Anchorage, AK today. Crushed the all-time previous record of 85 set 50 years ago. I bet we officially break 90 within the next few days. 

    Thank god for my basement and tower fans because I sure as hell don’t have AC up here. 

    The news I want out of Alaska, is when the first episode of Molly from Denali show up on the PBS kids app.   My kids are obsessed with it, thanks to all of the advertising.

  2. 1 hour ago, TornACL said:

    I gotta find a way to start making up QAnon shit and selling swag to these morons. 

    I would be willing to bet a large chunk of the Qanon crowd who wears the crazy shit, including the JFK jr stuff, are in it to make money.   Hugo, if you’re listening, this is another reason I blow them off.   When I look at them, I see some of the same people who have their little booths at flea markets, etc. selling whatever is the latest fad, along with t-shirts with the latest slogans.   Here in Texas, plenty of them have Pro-Trump stuff that’s for sale, that’s not licensed, and is barely professional. And they had anti-Obama stuff from 2008-2016.

    This Qanon stuff is making plenty of money for plenty of folks, and the kind of people I’m talking about are drawn to that like moths to a flame.  

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  3. So my neighbors, who still have Ron Paul bumper stickers on their 20 year-old car, informed me that Amash will make the libertarian party legitimate, and will help flip Texas.

     I guess I wasn’t paying attention to the LP as of late, but he does appear to have some fans in that group.  Doubt he impacts Texas, that appears to be wishful thinking on their part (they hate Trump and the GOP).

  4. 14 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    I will never understand why you insist on minimizing it.  They were handing out JFK Jr. apparel and trinkets expecting him to emerge today on the DC mall.  This is a full blown fucking cult trapped in an alternative reality.  This isn’t just uncle Jim bob ranting about shit he heard on Alex Jones anymore.  This is a large movement of people that celebrate their ignorance together and it’s all focused around our current president imprisoning his political enemies, as one does.

    You know why I blow it off?  Those of us from Texas are used to this shit.  And it's not because of Alex Jones.

    It's because most of us here have been surrounded by these types of people for many decades.

    Only instead of JFK Jr. materializing out of thin air, these people are expecting a national championship to materialize out of thin air, something that hasn't happened in 80 years, and has about as much of a chance happening as JFK Jr. showing up, slapping on a 12th Man t-shirt, and leading them to victory.

    "This is a large movement of people that celebrate their ignorance together"

    They are called aggy, they hang out on TexAgs and SECRant.

    You want a full blown fucking cult trapped in an alternative reality?  They spent half a billion dollars building the world's largest fucking Kroger's for a football team that will be lucky to come in 2nd place in their division - DIVISION, not conference.

    So no, these people don't bother me at all.  If it wasn't somebody at 4Chan cooking this up, they would have found something on InfoWars to latch onto, but either way, they are easy to spot here in Texas, only instead of wearing JFK Jr t-shirts, they wear maroon and whoop at each other.

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  5. 54 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    The QAnon phenomenon manifesting itself in the real world like it has kinda blows the whole “cyber influence operations don’t really work” out of the water. 

    The Alex Jones/Art Bell crowd have always existed.  It took years for Jones to make all those millions that he gave to his ex-wife.

     

  6. 19 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    A 5 min talk about loving this country and an honor it is to be president, that’s all he needed to say

    Stamos could have introduced him, he speaks for 5 minutes as you say, and we move on to the rest of the show.

    But no, Dear Leader has to have his own fucking show, so he’s the focus of everything.  

  7. Watching the PBS celebration, and comparing it to Trump's is like comparing the Super Bowl to some Podunk County Fair, except that's not fair to Podunk County Fairs, because they usually have headliners who speak better than Trump.

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  8. On 6/27/2019 at 8:19 PM, Walden Ponderer said:

    Watched "Manson Family Vacation" last night. Really good flick that I can't believe I hadn't heard of before.  You can see then ending coming from five miles away, of course, but it doesn't lessen the emotional impact one little bit. 

     

    Speaking of the Duplass brothers, I saw a guy who looked just like Mark Duplass slogging some audio equipment through Ramsey Park this morning during the 4th of July celebration.  

  9. 1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I think even the most hardcore, deep red Republican would have to admit that the GOP really brings out the lowest of the low musical talent.   They can scrounge up some decent country talent from time to time but for the most part the Dems have the best talent locked up. 

    They should get the guy who sings Old Town Road.  He’s got a cowboy hat, so he’s  ‘Murican. 

  10. Some of you mocking those old guys with the weird messages....they’ve had a tough week - it’s only been a few days since they discovered some black rapper with a big country hit came out of the closet.   He was their one chance to show their grandkids that they are hip and aren’t racist, and he went and revealed that those rainbows on his albums and posters weren’t there because they were pretty.  

  11. If you want to really cut down on the number of people crossing illegally, go after those who are crossing simply because there's good-paying jobs here.  You don't even have to go after them specifically, you simply mine the Social Security and IRS databases for Social Security #'s that are being abused, and then you go after the corporations that are benefitting from the illegals - the agriculture, constructions, etc.  I mean really go after them.

  12. 15 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

    There have been two cities that passed a similar ordinance.

    While the sample size is very small 100% of the known data set is in absolute stark contrast to his position.

    For some reason he believes, based on wishes and hope I guess, that this will have little to no effect on Austin and at worst almost no negative impact.

    No logical person, based any of the data available could draw that conclusion.

    There is nothing in the data from the cities that have tried this to show that this helps everybody out.  This notion that "oh, things haven't really changed in the past 12 days" is absurd - it's not about day-to-day, it's about the fact that over the last 12-24 months, things have progressively gotten worse, and this is just going to accelerate things, rather than to address the problems.    

    Short term, things will get worse, and the City Council and their staffers will say "Oops, we didn't do enough, the problem is still getting worse!"  At which point they will probably try and open up some public parks to camping, or overspend on more properties, among other things.  I think they and their staff are that stupid - making it easier for addict panhandlers to feed their addictions, yeah, that's a winning strategy.  

    Long term, up until now, we;'ve had a lot of people who were either turning a blind eye to the problems, or were ignorant, or were just....polite, for lack of a better word, about the issues of the homeless.   That's going to change very rapidly - arguably, it already is, because these folks have been seeing more and more camps over the past year or two along the overpasses, etc.  and now they are facing the prospect of much more involuntary contact with them.  Like I said, these folks will elect people whose platforms are focused on cracking down on the homeless, and we might very well see things get worse for them.

     

     

  13. 48 minutes ago, sunset87 said:

    One of the most aggy things they do is the whole nickname deal. They literally have nicknames for every starting player on their fball team.  Is this fucking kindergarten??

    Odd as hell.  Bunch of them had hats that said "PTCHR" and the rest had hats that said "CTCHR".

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