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I think it depends on how frequently these crimes get caught on camera.

Or, to put it another way, those are things that we get out of only what we put into it. If you're gonna put a turd into an oven, don't expect buttermilk biscuits to come out.

He's certainly near the top of the list.

He went on that tangent because it's a good sound byte. You boil down a complex issue to a simple question and decorate it with "muh freedumz," you're going to win over a lot of seriously dumb voters. That whole screed he went on yesterday had absolutely nothing to do with serious discussion about public policy with intellectually serious people. It had everything to do with the "I'd have a beer with him, I'm voting for him" crowd. Nine...eleven=Our...freedom. EDIT: Also, notice the very dramatic hand gestures. When you couple that with the empty, substance-free commentary, you should take note that you're watching a person trying to assume the role of an oppressed individual preaching dramatically against his/her oppressor. For the past year, the GOP has been on a non-stop crusade to frame Anthony fucking Fauci as Sheev Palpatine reincarnated. All I'd have to say, were I in that room, would be "Congressman, I served with Obi Wan Kenobi. I knew Obi Wan Kenobi. Obi Wan Kenobi was a friend of mine. Congressman, you're no Obi Wan Kenobi," since we're all completely pulling this out of our asses anyways.

Slow enough to where little Tucker could have had a cut.

God Damn The Queen

Psssshhh. Tip of the iceberg. But that's what red America is: all about the sizzle, none about the steak. They loved to think of Trump as a successful businessman when he was nothing of the sort. He was successful, yes. He was successful as a conman and a crook. He had a very successful presentation. But a businessman? Shit, I'm a better businessman than he ever was.

I mean corporations are what line the GOP's pockets, and that's why they get into it. Mitch McConnell calling them "stupid" is a bit like when Paul Heyman was calling Vince McMahon "the evil empire" back in 1997 when it was known that Vince was cutting him and ECW a check every week. As to the state's threats to close tax loopholes those companies usually enjoy: that's a bluff. It usually goes the other way around: corporations threaten state governments that if they don't receive those benefits, they'll just relocate to another state. And it usually works, too (see Fidelity and Raytheon in Massachusetts back in the late 1990's). Corporations aren't begging particular state governments for those benefits; they'll usually find them even if they have to look somewhere else. It does not pain them at all. Anyways, you know that your party is a bag of dicks when even the corporations are openly calling you a bag of dicks.

You’ll be in a line that resembles same of Splash Mountain.

BUT AL FRANKEN!!!!

Only disappointment was the mutual decision to not finish the fight by the monsters after they took down MechaStreisand. The 1962 film actually had a winner. Was hoping for the same outcome here.

Yep. And then W launched all the torpedoes and then Trump replaced them with his own feces.

That ship sailed almost 50 years ago, and it only gets further from the harbor as the years roll on.

No doubt. If he were around to say "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever" today, some shitkicker would say "what about beyond forever, you snowflake?"

Wait, have they? I know those feces throwers at Fox and Newsmax did, but last I checked, those exceptional degenerates were sticking to their guns. EDIT: and as far as the half-baked retractions on low-viewership shows, they're just playing on an old principle: better to ask forgiveness after than permission before.

It kinda goes back to that Oklahoma/Georgia lawsuit in 1984 regarding television rights. When the NCAA was removed from the equation, the proverbial "powers that be" were given a tremendous leg up in their quest to remain in those positions, and upward mobility became excruciatingly difficult for everyone else. If "we ever see a crap team come out of the bottom and win nattys," I'm assuming it'll be a P5 team with a less respectable history than its other conference counterparts (Maryland, Duke, Baylor, Vanderbilt, Wazzu, etc). But a G5 school? Fucking forget it. The only success you'll see out of that will be from the already established powers a la Boise State. The rest will suffer as they must. There's a really good read by Sally Jenkins that she wrote about 10 years ago in which she covered its effects: "But [SCOTUS Justice Byron] White’s dissent is great reading anyway, because it’s so clearly anticipatory. If the NCAA was a monopoly, he also saw it as a bulwark against today’s ruthless, distrustful dealings. . . Listen to the arguments of the Oklahomas and Georgias now, and indeed you can hear the unmistakable ring of the cash register. Fred Davison, Georgia’s president at the time of the court case, didn’t bother to disguise his real interest. He sought an end to “a tyranny of the majority to impose itself on the commercial enterprise” of a handful of big-time football schools. What really drove Oklahoma and Georgia crazy was that small schools received more in rights fees than they would in a free market, while the football powers received less. They had to share spoils with nearly a thousand schools that made up the NCAA majority. The Hofstras got a cut of Oklahoma’s TV checks. But, White asked, so what? It was a small price to pay, he suggested, for holding off rampant commercialism at the door. Profit- and load-sharing was “an essential aspect of maintaining some balance of strength among competing colleges and of minimizing the tendency to professionalism in the dominant schools.” We can debate whether or not the SCOTUS decision was the "right" one or not, but what's beyond debatable were all of its effects on the competitive balance between the schools.

Their platform is: 1. Write down a horribly twisted strawman version of whatever it is the Democrats are proposing. 2. Burn down the paper 3. Piss on the ashes 4. Strut around like they accomplished something 5. ??? 6. Profit

Yes, that was another vintage of the jingoist crowd that rotted horribly.

I think I speak for all Americans when I say that we have no bananas today.

He’s talking about total dollars, not percentage of GDP. Surely he wouldn’t do that because the US ranks at the bottom on that one.

We have more than twice the per capita costs of healthcare than pretty much any other first world country, and we happen to be the only one with a privatized system. It's beyond dishonest to assume as a given that a national system would not be noticeably better on that front.

I suppose I could claim partial credit, but what kept you from continuing down the path to maga land is the fact that you're a real fuckin' man. It also helps that you're able to recognize a pitiful train wreck when you see it. It's not in my nature to flatter; it's just that a real fuckin' man can admit when he's wrong no matter what the subject is. What real men don't do is make excuse after excuse after they've been exposed (like when Alex Jones blamed HRC for his position on Sandy Hook), double down on their own wrongness (Donald Trump's entire "adult" life), invent fake problems and/or blame fake villains, refuse to take responsibility for their own crap, permit others to do their thinking for them, or refuse to hold themselves to the same standards that they hold others. I actually didn't start out anti-war right off the bat. I arrived at the aforementioned stance through years upon years of searching for what the actual truth is. In this country, and all others, that takes a dedicated effort because as I've said many times before: you aren't going to get the answers from politicians, you're not going to get the answers from big corporate media, and you're not going to get the answers from gurus, whether self-described or misperceived as same by sycophantic followers.

She'd fit in very well on TexAgs. "What is antifa?" "The opposite of MAGA!!!" I couldn't think of a better endorsement for antifa.

It's the same reason that they refer to said evil-doers as "they." They don't know at whom to be pissed; they just know that they need to be pissed.