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A-Tex Devil

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  1. I was thinking “casual Chanel goosesteppers, Summer collection.”
  2. This Grassley thing is still the Freudian slip/semi-smoking gun that the committee has never appeared to address. This article was written on 1/5/21. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/grassley-prompts-confusion-over-pence-electoral-college-certification-2021-1%3Famp
  3. Listened to Pod Save America interview Tim Miller, a gay republican never-Trumper that moved to corporate oppo research when the party left him and still felt cold. He wrote "Why We did It" (NYT article link below), and the conversation was fascinating, if not disheartening because it essentially says all of these people that know better are following the Trump party line simply for their own personal gain and excitement (obv). I intend to read/listen to the book here shortly, but thought I'd plug it.... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/books/review-why-we-did-it-tim-miller-republican-road-to-hell.html
  4. Elon borked himself by breaching the anti-disparagement clause the day after the deal signed. At the time it's funny, because what is Twitter going to do at that point, sue him to kill the deal? But now that Elon wants out, even if he wanted to terminate, the termination provision is probably not available to him because he himself is in breach. Have not read the agreement, but I understand it's a pretty typical public target merger agreement, and he probably didn't have a great termination right anyway. I'll be interested to see Elon's response, because Twitter went hard in the paint in the complaint. And while Chief Justice Strine wasn't on the complaint for Wachtell, you can hear him on the sideline when you read it.
  5. What a fucking “you are right, I have no retort. So I’ll shit on thread instead” reply.
  6. Man, all that 4 year old Ukraine discussion is interesting leading to the thread resurrection.
  7. Chip Roy is interesting. He didn’t support, as I recall, Pence’s ability to override the states on a purely Federalist rationale. Not because he didn’t believe in election fraud. So he has, um, principals? But he is precisely that guy in law school that is in Federalist society that likes to get cute with the constitution to proliferate the idea of “I know racial/gender discrimination seems “wrong,” but it isn’t protected in the constitution, so our hands are tied” thinking that has led us to guys like Thomas and Alito justifying their own evils.
  8. A confluence of a black president.
  9. I'm not going to bother spoiler tags since episode came out. I think they are showing a bunch of stuff 7 years after massacre that don't involve Pinkman (senator, AG storming in, Caleb's daughter and wife escaping, etc.). So not all simulation, but, yeah, it leads into a storytelling "mesh" with the simulation to assimilate robot Pinkman. I still wonder if Kristina/Dolores is in a simulation, as opposed to a "park" or "loop". I think she's a simulation writing scripts for the humans which are beamed out on the tower in the real world, directing them where to go. Some dude figured out how to crash it and confront her in the simulation a few episodes back. Perhaps its Bernard et al trying to "unlock" her somehow. If she was in the real world, I'd presume she'd know what that tower was that she keeps painting given the size of it. Also - Hale is essentially Wyatt version of Dolores, right? I can't recall exactly what happened last year after the wreck killed the Hale family and she went completely rogue. But she's Dolores, ultimately.
  10. So driving back from CO through Lampasas and Young’s BBQ hanging a flag: “Trump: He will be Back, 2024”. Nothing remarkable except colors were black, white, and red. So, yeah.
  11. A-Tex Devil

    Austin FC

    Top of the table, and TIL Jared Stroud is still on the team.
  12. Man, I wish more people would do this.
  13. A-Tex Devil

    Austin FC

    Im not saying last night was Austin FC’s biggest win ever. It wasn’t. That’s probably LAFC earlier this year. But…….. This was a rotated squad, playing in a famously tough place that draws 3x the size of crowd that we do, and we won by more than any visiting squad ever. Next two games are huge.
  14. Really enjoying show. But I missed how Harper jumps from figuring out Angela may be a mole to being Emily. I’ll let it go. I am still struggling why the US government is doing backflips to serve up The Old Man to a former afghani warlord who appears to be some international magnate now. I presume it will be explained.
  15. A-Tex Devil

    Austin FC

    So Finlay having a nice game. Maybe we are deep?
  16. A-Tex Devil

    Austin FC

    Would love to see Hoesen get going.
  17. Ahhh… Malthus. The crux of any ridiculous disadvantage to an affirmative case in high school CX debate. I believe the best DA ended in dehumanization, because THAT according to some twit I can’t recall.
  18. Texas AG office and rural prosecutors against big law litigators and their preferred boutiques. Doesn’t seem fair. But judges and juries.
  19. Agree. I just don't think he has anything worthwhile and has nothing to lose to perjure himself. They have enough on him without having to give into any demands.
  20. So Texas Freedom Caucus going after Sidley, an AMLAW 10 law firm with a significant Texas presence. I presume Texas based law firms won't be so bold, but will be interested to see what the other AMLAW 50 firms with Texas presences do. I presume all of this legislation gets passed. https://www.freedomfortexas.com/blog/post/letter-to-texas-law-firm-procuring-abortions
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    Austin FC

    Obligatory....
  22. I don't think I missed a post-credit scene, but could have. I guess I interpreted Eleven saving Max as stopping the upside down mid-dam break. But when Eleven goes looking for her again in the spin the bottle scene and it's all black, I wasn't sure what that meant. When upside down flakes spread over Hawthorn at end, I took that to perhaps mean that, two days later, the fourth (Max) had died and allowed the dam to fully bust as it were, to use the metaphor in the show.
  23. Max died, right? That’s why Eleven is in the black alone before Hopper shows up and why the “dam broke” at the end. That was my take. I thought the last episode was nails.
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