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Posts posted by Huckleberry
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3 minutes ago, formermav43 said:
In an alternate reality where he voted against tax cuts based on shrinking the deficit, he would be getting excoriated as a hypocrite too. “Rand has to know that spending won’t be cut in the current environment. Claiming that he’ll only support tax cuts if they’re tied to spending cuts is a convenient way to pass the buck. Hope you enjoy your pork, Mr. Small Government Libertarian!”
Its just a question of whatever criticism is useful today.
Still incorrect. The fact of the matter is that Paul doesn't care even a little bit about the deficit. He votes to lower taxes, he votes no on every single appropriations and spending bill, but he absolutely does not care what the impact on the budget deficit is when he's making those votes. He pretends to care, but he doesn't actually care. All he needs to do is be honest. His actual concerns:
Lowering taxes>>>Lowering spending>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Maybe the deficit a little
Heck, just listen to his words. Tax cut bill doesn't cut enough? Oh well, at least it's something. I'll vote for this thing that adds trillions to our debt. We absolutely need to cut taxes by however much I can get. If lowering spending were as important to him as lowering taxes then he would have held the tax cut bill hostage. He didn't. If the deficit were as important to him as lowering taxes he would have voted no on the tax bill. He didn't.
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His perspective on other issues is fine, I missed that sidebar.
But he failed when he had a chance to make a real difference in the national dialog. The tax cut had 51 yea votes. Yes, Pence would have been the 51st no matter what. How about this?
"I will vote no on the tax bill unless at least equivalent cuts are made to the our spending in the military's budget (including domestic surveillance), non-SS entitlements, and other areas."
Simple. Even that would have only been grandstanding because of the VP's tiebreaker, but he didn't even have enough spine for that.
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No. No we should not.
Signed,
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29 minutes ago, Anastasis said:
Or acknowledge his actions to block arms sales to SA, or reeling in the surveillance state, or criminal justice reform, or dialing down military interventions, or....
oh fuck it, he voted for tax reform, none of that shit matters because spending cuts in DC are fantasy and clearly if you vote for tax reform while advocating for lower spending you are a fraud and cannot contribute anything worthy of consideration to the debate on these topics.
What a terrible post.
What do his surveillance state efforts, arms sales efforts, etc. have to do with the discussion of his inaction with respect to the deficit? You are correct that he has done those things, unfortunately for you and Swindle, pointing and yelling squirrel doesn't work around here.
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3 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:
We should achieve world peace through militarily conquering all who oppose us. Those on the left disagree with my plan and call it an extreme right idea, therefore they must think that achieving world peace is a right wing extremist idea...
Is that how this works?
That post when you don't know how analogies work.
"Hmm, let's see. AOC is attempting to obfuscate the big bad evil big picture (SOCIALISM WILL KILL US ALL I TELL YOU!!!) by pointing out all of the good sounding smaller pieces of the puzzle which individually don't seem bad at all.
Here, I shall post an analogy from the other side of the political perspective where I achieve the good big picture by evil means. Yes, this is perfect. I have compared an evil big picture achieved by taking small good steps with a good big picture achieved by taking small evil steps. I am a genius."
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8 minutes ago, formermav43 said:
But if you vote against a tax cut without cutting spending, you’ve also sacrificed two of your principles to achieve a third.
You already acknowledged his efforts to cut spending have been fruitless. Your logic dictates he should therefore not act on his other principles, despite them being equally important. He will never cut spending, so he must do nothing.
No, he must admit that he doesn't actually care about the deficit. When discussing his vote for the tax cut his only stated problems with the bill were that it didn't cut enough. He did not mention that spending must be cut even more in order to help pay for the tax cuts. The deficit was not even a concern. He did not attempt to tie the cuts to any reduction in spending anywhere.
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Just now, formermav43 said:
So if you claim to care about 1) reducing spending, 2) cutting taxes and 3) the deficit as the Reason article opines, you’re just supposed to throw up your hands and say screw it when you can’t muster enough support for 1? What criteria determines that 3 is more important than 2? And if you vote not to cut taxes, how are you not susceptible to the same criticism of inconsistency, given those 3 priorities?
I'm assuming that all three are relatively equally important to someone who claims them as his three principles.
If you vote to cut revenue without decreasing spending then you are sacrificing two of your three principles to achieve the third.
It's also simple logic. If your budget is in a deficit position and you want to tackle all three of those things, reducing spending has to be the first thing to happen. You don't take the lower paying job before you reduce your expenses to get out of debt.
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Perhaps when you have been in the Senate for 8 years and you've had plenty of time to realize that your efforts to reduce spending, while not wrong at all in and of themselves, have been completely fruitless and a total failure, you shouldn't vote to massively reduce revenue if you claim to care about the deficit.
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On 7/12/2019 at 6:01 PM, Message Board User said:
Why is a Federal legislator attempting to exert pressure to influence the internal policies of a State? Ol' States' Rights Cruz is going to be pretty damn upset when he catches wind of this.
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That may be true, but I'm only talking high versus low. Look at the strike zone shown on the screen here. An automated strike zone would add a damn foot to the top of that zone. A foot!
Bellinger struck out swinging at a 95mph fastball at the top of the displayed zone. Imagine having to cover another foot vertically.
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Hahaha
you can't help yourselves
Trump was swept into office as a pushback upon the divisiveness of Harry Reid and Barrack Obama
mid terms turned out perfectly for Trump with these four United States of by God America hating bitches..pushing the party further left and forcing the only Dems with a chance to come along for fear of being labled "racist"
Keep doing you and we will keep Trump ensconsed
You are enabling the very thing that you hate....but the Republicans are "self-unaware".
Snowflake snowflake snowflake
Look at the baby cry
Somebody called racism racist, stop being accurate or I'll keep being racist! -
Brendan Hunt's straight man assistant coach gets me every time.
"Wales? Wait, that's another country?"
"Yes and no."
"How many countries are in this country?!?"
"Four."
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BRACKET CONTEST!
For each of the two Texas brackets, enter your picks and let's see who wins this thing. You will get the following points for correct guesses in each bracket:
Games 1 and 2 - 1 point
Games 3 and 4 - 2 points
Game 5 - 3 points
Game 6 - 4 points
Game 7 - 4 pointsGame 7 rule - You can state a team that you think wins Game 7 or you can say None if you think the bracket champion will finish undefeated. If you choose None then you only get the 4 points if your chosen Game 6 winner is the team that finishes undefeated.
Tiebreaker - Total runs scored in the two brackets' final games, whether it's 6 or 7 doesn't matter.
My entry:
Texas East:
Game 1 - Lamar National
Game 2 - Post Oak
Game 3 - Post Oak
Game 4 - Western Hills
Game 5 - Lamar National
Game 6 - Lamar National
Game 7 - Post OakTexas West:
Game 1 - CC National
Game 2 - Midland Northern (upset alert!)
Game 3 - Midland Northern
Game 4 - McAllister Park
Game 5 - McAllister Park
Game 6 - McAllister Park
Game 7 - McAllister Park (vengeance complete!)Tiebreaker - 19
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3 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:
In that case, I apologize to you personally. Not to any other fuckheads who vote for him, just to "own the libs". They can keep punching themselves in the dick.
lulz at you for believing that BS
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2 minutes ago, TtomTerrific said:
this is inaccurate.
we discussed this years ago.....you and I.
long before Trump was even a political actor....my entire message was that the divisiness being celbrated would awake a very ugly part of America that I didn't want to see awakened, but here it is...it is reality...Donald Trump is our fucking President and will be again.
Gee, who is it that is celebrating divisiveness and constantly messaging with how other people are different and scary? Who could it be? I just don't know, will Tom help us figure it out? It's another conundrum that keeps flummoxing some of the posters around here.
Oh wait, I think he's got it! It's not the most visible person on the planet constantly making divisive comments and tweets, IT'S THE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE RESPONDING TO HIM! That is who is at fault! By golly I think he's figured it out.
Complete. Joke.
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39 minutes ago, TtomTerrific said:
look....you are wrong and I know that you won't hear it, while Henry Gondorf laughibly posts about "self-unaware Republicans"....but your race baiting party with its stragey of divisiviness is the reason that this clown is our President and in a position to make these ridiculous "tweets".....it's you, mother fucker...it's you.;
You draw upsides based upon race, you better have the majority or you are going to lose.
I begged y'all not to, but it was the best pom pom fest ever while it was good, and now where are we?
thanks a lot, asshole.
Yes, tell us more about how Trump is the Democrats' fault while you bitch about Democrats and don't bitch about Republicans.
You're a complete joke.
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13 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:
Liz jumps into the fray to defend *checks notes* the woman who has handed Trump even more racist weapons.
I would hope that isn't defending Pelosi but publicly telling Pelosi to stop backing down like a wimp.
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You're disappointed that I mocked you? Most mocked people feel the same way.the Dems are destroying us by making this a race baiting bitch fest and not running the numbers.
particularly disappointed in Huckleberry, what with his statistical chops.
you can't win this
stop doing this
Your fake concern deserves nothing other than mockery. As usual you show up out of the blue and whine about Democrats while ignoring the Republican contributions to the shit show. It's transparent, disingenuous, and stupid. So it will be mocked endlessly. Good luck.-
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Also, people who are convinced that it would help hitters are putting a lot of faith in something that may be completely wrong. Did y'all not see the video of the minor league all star game strike call? That was a strike because it was sinking heavily but crossed the front edge of the plate with part of the ball even with the hollow of the batter's knee. Pretty much every human umpire ever would have called that a ball. It was a strike.
Next tell me how much hitters are going to love strike calls on 100mph fastballs that cross the plate at a height halfway between their waist and the top of their shoulders. Those are never called strikes right now. They should be. I actually think an automated textbook strike zone will help pitchers, not hitters.
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"Look guys, there were dozens of people in a group all doing the same thing. This guy picked out the minorities and insulted them and told them to go back where they came from. He did not insult the white ones or tell them to go back where they came from. Are you guys saying that implies something? I don't know what it could imply. My mind is boggled. I am truly stumped. Just flummoxed, I tell you."
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1 minute ago, Asithappens said:
What I've seen from past pages (giving reasons, not conclusions, i.e., saying "I know racism when I see it" doesn't provide a reason, even if the statement is true) is that the primary reason is that Trump wouldn't/didn't say the same thing to white European immigrants/non-native Americans. Which seems to imply what, I don't know.
It's also interesting that if one uses the argument that Trump's assertion that native-born women of color "originally came" from other countries is racist, then why isn't the term "African-American" also inherently racist?
Yeah, here's the problem. If someone treats people of other races and ethnicities badly, insults them, disparages them, or ridicules them based on their origin while never treating people of their race and ethnicity badly in the same context, that implies racism. Saying "which seems to imply what, I don't know" immediately after discussing that kind of behavior just makes you sound stupid. So congratulations.
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Hahaha, look at the snowflake.
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Yeah, this wasn't even a thing that got talked about until Mike Davis was penalized 15 yards for holstering his guns in Lubbock in 2012.
Then the media proceeded to get everything wrong as they tend to do when Mack Brown, rightfully, stated that if that's a penalty then the horns down should be a penalty. It's really pretty simple. Either it's all a penalty or none of it is a penalty. Texas spent 60 years not complaining about the horns down gestures from opponents until the moment we were flagged for doing the same thing to another team. There's literally no intelligent argument that can be made to contradict what Brown said then and what we're saying now.
Call it the same both ways. That's it. I don't care which way they decide to do it, just enforce it equally.
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People are clamoring for Wichita State to join their conference?That sounds exactly like what a fan of a school that no one wants to add to their conference would say. Nice work.
Oh you meant the non-AAU school you couldn't get into. My mistake.

Automating the strike zone
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Huh?