wild_turkey

Drill baby drill /trump

Headed back in a couple of days. I could use a little mental health escape right now and St. Barth is my go-to when I want to forget the rest of the world exists. Can’t wait to turn my brain off and eat good food. I’ll probably head out to Saline and drink some rosé and tan my ass cheeks.

Are they political prosecutions solely on the basis of Donald Trump being a politician with people who opposed him running for office? Would you say the same is true for other politicians, or is there something unique about Donald Trump and the multitude of criminal acts he has been accused of? For instance, are the crimes George Santos committed actually political lawfare?

How far do you extend that logic? Is it your position that nothing Trump has done in the past matters? He’s inherently not guilty of everything due to this election result? What about his sexual assault trial? Was that “bullshit lawfare” as well? Do you believe he didn’t sexually assault E. Jean Carroll or do you simply not care if he did? Is there any criminal act that Donald Trump could commit and deserve to be held accountable, or would you consider him above the law at this point?

I think your posts in this thread sum up the mindset of a lot of Trump voters. It’s basically “I got what I need and fuck everyone else less fortunate or different than me.” It’s really sad that we live in a society where a majority of people apparently feel this way. Your comments in this thread are extremely selfish and show a complete disregard for your fellow citizens, but at least you own it. One day you may need help in some form and it won’t be there, but you helped bake this cake so I suppose you can endure the consequences with everyone else.

I used to think that way but it’s incredibly short sighted. The amount of damage that can be done during a second Trump term will impact everyone’s lives for years to come. I have a daughter and women’s healthcare is on the chopping block and Trump may get to appoint 1-2 more justices, so any hope of making up ground there is gone, especially in Texas. Which means I either continue to live here and put her future at risk, or I pack up and leave the only place I’ve ever called home. Not that it really matters because Trump RAPED a woman and he may win the popular vote, so people don’t actually give 2 fucks about women. Even women don’t seem to care about women because enough of them voted for him. Fuck, that’s depressing. But suppose women’s issues aren’t important to you. There is a Russia/Ukraine war that will tip in favor of Russia. There’s no reason to think China won’t invade Taiwan. There’s the fact that RFK Jr. will have a major role in our country’s healthcare. There’s the very real possibility that Christian Nationalism will spread like wildfire. There’s climate change which we will now address with “drill baby drill.” Your life will almost certainly get worse unless you identify as a white Christian male upper middle class homophobic misogynistic anti-vax climate denier.

The candidate that you voted for has been convicted of sexual assault, is a convicted felon, and tried to overturn a fair election that he lost and threatened the very fabric of our democracy with 4 years of lies about that election. And you think Kamala is not a decent candidate? Not rape-y enough for you? Wtf is wrong with you?

Idiocracy.

At a certain point, we have to accept that we live in a country full of ignorant and/or shitty people. It’s who we have become and it fucking sucks. I had hope that the goodness in America would prevail but that seems unlikely.

NYT shows a 67% chance of Trump winning. Ugh.

What is the best network to watch coverage?

I watched the 60 Minutes piece on the Texas abortion ban, which is absolutely infuriating, and as the father of a young daughter, makes me feel like the clock is ticking for this state to either get its shit figured out or my family to find a new home. Anyways, I did appreciate that the commercial break immediately after that included one of Allred’s ads that calls it the “Ted Cruz Abortion Ban”. Maybe there are enough 60 Minutes viewers who are historical R voters and the message will get through to some. I don’t see how you can watch that segment and not be completely fucking embarrassed by our state. New Mexico even dunked on us.

Well it seems to be headed in that direction, which I enjoy, and will quite possibly redeem the series for me. I do get frustrated with certain scenes that seem to be sloppy writing or directing. Catherine’s breakdown at the office was a good example. In this most recent episode, I have a very hard time believing that an altercation could occur in an ICU and the hospital staff would take the side of an unidentified disheveled old man over the actual mother of the patient. Not enough questions were asked there and she got swept away with way too little of a fight. Also, in his house, he crushes up sleeping pills and mixes them into her tea while she watches from 10 feet away. I suppose they need that plot device, but come on. She’s paranoid enough to be holding a knife but she’s aloof enough to not pay attention to what he’s doing and to also accept tea from this deranged old man who is ruining her life? Don’t even get me started on the nurse who said he should only take 1 pill but gave him 10 pills. Just sloppy and surely with a little effort they could write that better.

Billy Bob and Lance are both gone. Somehow Coach Kilmer is still hanging around.

Hell yeah

Well with that mindset, we’ll never be able to celebrate Texas Longhorns football achievements again. Also, MLB has been like that forever.

He looks more like a THujone character than a real person.

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That 5th inning from Cole was one of the best he's ever seen for surviving by only giving up 5 runs. It's not his fault that no one covered 1st base, or that Freddie Freeman singled to drive in 2 runs, or that Teoscar Hernandez hit a deep ball over Judge's head to bring in 2 more runs. Just a really dominant 5th inning by Cole.

I like him the least. Assuming the events we’ve seen in the past are true, Catherine is a pretty despicable person. She was an unfaithful wife and a negligent mother, and she possibly watched a person drown without signaling for help. But we don’t even know if the version of the past we’re seeing is true, because it’s being told from Nancy’s book. By comparison, Stephen is using his dead wife’s questionable accounting of a tragedy to strategically ruin the lives of multiple strangers. Even if Nancy somehow knew the truth, his reaction to this information is psychopathic. He seems to develop some sadistic pleasure from watching the trapped bug die inside the glass, so maybe that’s just who he is now.

Catherine could definitely handle this situation better and minimize the damage. With regards to work, she should claim the book is entirely fiction. Maybe concede that she had met Johnathan in Italy but deny that anything ever happened and adamantly deny any involvement in his death (which btw is entirely speculative from everyone except her). The Italian police cleared her of any wrongdoing at the time, so the only thing against her is a bitter father who wasn’t there and couldn’t possibly know what happened. His book is fan fiction revenge at that point. The pictures are somewhat damning but she could either say Johnathan stole them from her, or just admit that she had an affair 20 years ago, which would look bad but hardly career ending. Just deny deny deny on his death because how could she actually be guilty of a guy drowning at sea while she is on land with her traumatized child? The way she is now portrayed as completely helpless is a little annoying. Also, she has an accomplished career and all it takes is for some stranger to show up with a book he claims is about her, and then her staff runs her out of the office with minimal discussion while multiple employees video her breakdown, all within a couple of hours. That would go down much differently in real life.

Sure, but they could at least attempt to focus on the economy or immigration. Both of those are legit concerns for many Americans and areas where the GOP could at least pretend to have an edge. Instead, they are hammering us with sex changes at school.

Honest question - Why does the GOP have this last minute obsession with the transgender in schools subject? That seems to be the sudden focus of every political ad on TV and spam texts. I get that it’s a cheap scare tactic but the only reason I can see that they would run with this is because they think it plays well with undecided voters. Why that topic and not immigration or the economy? Is America that dumb that one party thinks the key to winning a presidential election is to convince people their children may go to school and get a sex change? Or that inmates are getting sex changes in prison and this is the thing our country needs to worry about? I mean, let’s see, we have immigration, the economy, a housing crisis, climate change, abortion, gun violence, Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Gaza, and China. But one party wants everyone to stress out over unauthorized sex changes at school.

Just noticed Sailing Yacht is back and I watched the first 3 eps. This is about the only reality TV I watch and the Gary/Daisy drama is almost enough to make me quit. Wife and I were in Ibiza over the summer so that’s a draw for me. We ate dinner in the same square where the crew went out to eat. In this picture here, their dinner was on the immediate left. Kinda funny considering we narrowly missed them in Bonifacio, Corsica in 2022. I posted about it up thread but we were there the exact same night. We don’t plan this I promise. We didn’t even know what Below Deck was at the time, but our travel path keeps overlapping. Anyways, I’ll keep watching this season for the Ibiza aspect but I’d like to see the series get an entire cast refresh before season 6. This cast looks pretty boring except that the chef is quite a cocky little fellow and that amuses me.

Quinn looks scared out there. He completes a lot of short passes to the LOS which are reminiscent of GDGD offense unless the receiver can make a play and pick up YAC. His advocates then love to point out his completion percentage but a high completion percentage for short yardage does not win big games. Defenses can scheme for that. He often overlooks open receivers downfield. When he does throw downfield, it feels like every pass is just a prayer left up to chance, a literal Hail Mary. His first TD pass to Moore looked great but then he makes horrendous deep passes that make you wonder if the nice TD was just blind luck. It was the long ball that happened to fall in the right place. I think it’s roughly 80% mental and 20% physical at this point. I guess the good news is that mental problems can sometimes be worked out, especially with 2 weeks before the next game. We can at least hope that Sark gets him to snap out of it. Confidence is a fickle thing. It feels a lot like 2001 again, except that I would trust Chris Simms a lot more than Quinn Ewers. I expected us to beat Colorado that year and I believed Simms would get it done. With Quinn, I fear the opposite. I expect to go 1-1 against piggy/aggy due to him having a wtf game. I’d love to be wrong. I think people clamoring for Arch have merely reached the conclusion that we’ve hit our ceiling with Quinn and they are ready to turn the page and move on to the guy we all hope will actually win a championship at Texas, even if that isn’t this year.