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Ojo Rojo

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  1. No we didn't. 10,000 or so people basically trespassed and vandalized the capitol building. It was shocking that Americans would behave that way, but it was effectively a meaningless exercise. They didn't even disrupt congressional business going on in the same building in any meaningful way. Delayed it a few hours. That's it. They never got close to actually seizing power. The real, actual power was never remotely threatened. Congress was still intact. The actual, duly elected president was in the White House. The Supreme Court was intact. The Pentagon was unaffected. The entire bureaucracy was still answering to the right people. This "movement" didn't have the numbers, they didn't have the right people in the right places to even get close to an actual coup. This was a cartoon of a coup, nothing more.
  2. Scherzer was running his hand through his hair a lot; more habitually than he has done in the past. He could have had some kind of sticky product in his hair that would be very hard to detect - mousse, gel, hairspray. Scherzer sure was defensive about it. I think Girardi is an asshole, but I also think he had a legit reasons for suspecting something. The unwritten rule that managers look the other way has been re-unwritten. Shit like this was bound to happen.
  3. People will die or be harmed regardless. I have zero data on this, but if we could calculate deaths and violence derived from a political movement, I don't think this particular movement has actually caused that much death and violence, relatively speaking. I see them as a bunch of all-talk pussies; all hat and no cattle. I think it's fun/feels good to rally on the internet and in an echo chamber, but when it comes down to actually doing shit, most know deep down that a lot of what they claim to believe is bullshit and not worth acting on and getting killed or going to prison (all of the Jan. 6th dumbfucks nothwithstanding). The potential is there, sure, but I think Jan. 6th was the peak and it will slowly fade from there.
  4. Maybe I'm the naive one, but I'm not too worried. I tend to look at things now through the lens of a longer period of time. Sure, when you view this moment or even the last 4+ years as a moment, shit seems pretty bad. I don't have to list all the shit. Some of it is very troubling and scary. Most of it I cannot believe actually happened. Broad trends in politics and society happen more slowly that we can perceive them. We are used to perceiving things quickly and reacting quickly. I think that particular factor has been exacerbated by the internet and 24-hour "news" cycle, which are still relatively recent phenomena. We're constantly bombarded by fresh content. As a society, we haven't learned how to deal with that yet. Media companies are good at snagging attention, if even for just a few seconds at a time. So while we have a much larger fascist contingent in our country than I am comfortable with, I think it's a blip. It's the effect of a confluence of unusual circumstances - black president backlash, wage inequality, internet still growing and changing, media fighting for market share, shrinking white majority feeling threatened, etc. These conditions are going to change and fade. New conditions will come into being. Everything will change...slowly. Maybe for the better; maybe for the worse. Personally, I don't see this brand of Republicanism lasting much longer. I think the Tea Party-->Trumpist version of R is not sustainable. Outright lying to people, spouting ever more outlandish and ridiculous conspiracy theories, being evil - none of that is a winning political strategy long-term. I say this in spite of the fact that it was a winning political strategy in the very recent past.
  5. Do the Stros make any moves at the deadline this year? If so, what? The way they are playing right now I would hate to give up any future potential to plug holes that don't exist. Early in the season I would have said we needed a center fielder who can hit. But with Straw hitting over .250 and driving in runs to win games and shit, I'm not sure we even need to do that. Quality bullpen arm? Scherzer on a postseason rental in the last year of his deal?
  6. I would assume from the blood of real tigers.
  7. No Tiger Blood? Trash.
  8. What? Have you seen Donald Trump? He was certain to fuck up a national crisis. China knew exactly what would happen. Hell, I knew exactly what would happen.
  9. I'm not sure what you mean by "pull this thread," but I don't think China would be advantaged in the Hong Kong kerfuffle by creating a deadly pandemic. Trump was antagonistic toward China on trade because of his "transactional nature" and belief that China has been getting over on the U.S. for decades. He used it as a political talking point, telling his base what they already thought was true. The U.S. is among the parties holding the line on Hong Kong, but Trump was no more or less likely to be strong on that position. Trade - a different story altogether.
  10. I'm not saying I hope this is the case or that I would condone it, at all, but frankly I would not be surprised in the least if China manufactured the fucking virus and intentionally let it out knowing what would happen and that they did it to ensure that Trump did not get a second term as president. I really wouldn't. If I'm China, I'm that pissed at him over all the trade war bullshit and worried about what the fuck he might do militarily or otherwise. The odds are nil of anyone able to conduct an independent investigation inside China to find out the truth, so they would never get caught.
  11. My kid is in like his 6th season of baseball and now my wife is really getting into it, especially the playoff games. She's not a sporty woman, but now she's yelling stuff about bad calls and she cheers REALLY loudly when something good happens. That's great. I'm glad to see her getting into it (though I discourage being vocal about bad calls and whatnot at this level). The problem is, she doesn't know the fucking rules and she might be dumb. She can't understand the last at bat thing for the home team. She's like, "But there's no time left on the clock! Why are they getting another at bat?!" (Our league uses a clock instead of a set number of innings because otherwise games would last for fucking ever.) Or, she's screaming at the batter on our team (especially if it's our son) to "RUN! RUN! RUN!" while I'm trying to get her attention to tell her it's a foul ball.
  12. We must be married to the same woman.
  13. Why TF admit it? Just say, "Yeah, people. What are you gonna do?"
  14. 956 Worldwide partially answered your questions. I was young and unwise, for starters. Second, I was showering with someone I had not known long, we weren't that comfortable with one another yet so I wasn't about to go scrubbing my butt crack with her standing right there. I'm generally a very clean, fastidious person, but sometimes things happen. The anus is a mystery in many ways. You can wipe totally clean and yet still get skid marks somehow. I don't have all the answers.
  15. Have we just evolved as a democracy to this point where winning is the only purpose of politics? Is that the fate of all democracies? Or is this not evolution, but just a moment in time, which will pass? What it looks like to me is that the tail is now wagging the dog. Politics, which is a feature of democracy, is now the entire thing. Democracy in the U.S. doesn't really exist right now. We have minority rule as the result of some very sophisticated political maneuvering and maybe a bit of luck. Now, it's just about who can shout the most heinous and stupid things the loudest. Those are the political winners. A race to the bottom. The most callow and gullible citizens are the ones calling the shots. In the private sector, infotainment figures and companies are generating revenue, because they can, by whipping the fools up and growing their numbers. The politicians are doing the absolute bare minimum to keep the country running and intact so they can continue to get whatever it is they are getting. Normally I would say we need an adverse event to jar the system and bring us together, but we've had that - COVID 19 - and the politicians made sure to politicize even that to keep us apart. Politically, nationally, things seem pretty bleak.
  16. Well, finish the story what happened Jay and Carlos fixed the cable?
  17. About a year and a half ago I was in a fucking cupcake shop in a nice shopping area in central Houston and this guy in there had pistol on his hip. A cupcake shop. It almost didn't register at first, it was so out of place. I was just like, "Why?" The guy looked like aggy, except even poorer and even less educated, so a Blinn or Tarleton guy, I guess. Anyway, the shit pissed me off. What if some wacko tried to take the gun off the guy just because it was there? Needlessly bringing danger around. It also felt slightly threatening. Like you couldn't bitch about the guy cutting in line or whatever because he had a fucking gun.
  18. I don't think it's accurate to draw a lot of parallels between 1930's Germany and 2020's USA. There are a few similarities, sure, but the movement in the USA today is its own thing. I'm still not too worried about it. Maybe I'm naive, but this is like a cartoon version of a fascist movement. Just like Trump was a cartoon version of an autocrat. The people in the movement are clowns, just like Trump. They are masquerading as insurrectionists, but it's more like a reenactment. They are pure-D dumbasses. I don't think the movement would exist at all but for the internet. The internet has allowed misinformation to happen in ways we've never experienced. I think we will learn over time. There's a lot of cultural change right now and people are reacting to that too. The country is getting less white. Dumb whites feel threatened. We just had our first black president. Trump was a backlash of that as much as anything. I'm still blown away that we are where we are. I still can't believe that Donald fucking Trump was the president of the United States. I can't believe Jan. 6th happened. I can't believe 75 million people voted for DJT after all the shit. But, we did ultimately get it right the last go round and voted his shitheel ass out. That is a reason for at least a little optimism and faith in humanity.
  19. He does it on purpose. It's an act.
  20. Not sure if this is the right thread, but this legislation in Texas making it easier to open carry without a license? I'm sorry, but I just don't get it. The solution to gun violence is to make it easier for everyone to carry guns? If one of my children is killed in a mass shooting or as an innocent bystander in some kind of shootout involving a gun nut, I would hold anyone who supports this personally responsible.
  21. I had a short summer relationship with this young lass I'd met. She stayed over one night and we took a shower together. After the shower we were getting dressed and she had a very strange, almost pained look on her face. I had no idea why and I didn't ask. Later, I went back in the bathroom and I saw the towel I used hanging over the shower rod and there was a HUGE brown streak on the towel. I guess I didn't clean myself very well in the shower. Good times.
  22. This is a very dumb controversy. The Eyes isn't even hidden racism. It was sung at shows where blackface happened? That makes the song racist? No. Stop with this. People out there looking for excuses to get offended. I'm against hate and ignorance, but getting offended has become the new national pastime. Now get off my lawn.
  23. Ojo Rojo

    Getting old sucks

    Got my first (of probably many) cortisone injection in my right inner elbow. Doc said it's standard tendinitis. We did not pinpoint a cause. Surprisingly he did not think it was mouse usage. Who knows? Hopefully cortisone will work its magic.
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