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The Dog

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  1. Cowboys actually have a very good chance to win out. The only team left with a pulse is the Chargers and you get them at home.
  2. You are thinking like I am, but unlike a religion we're still dealing with a political party. If this were in Europe we could see the GOP splinter into several factions and parties, but our system lends itself to two dominant parties. When a third party comes along it either is defeated by the two existing or ends up supplanting one of the others. We saw this with Ross Perot and the Reform party. Once Perot left the stage the party collapsed. However, unlike Reform the GOP still has a pretty large infrastructure in place in spite of the fact that Trump has corrupted a sizable portion to serve his personal interests. Oh yeah and the GOP will have not had a platform for nearly a decade once Trump is gone so they will have to deal with that at some point...
  3. To be fair Vandy is kind of new at this "being good at football" stuff. (other than 100+ years ago)
  4. MOAR TEA
  5. muscoop is a very dark place right now.
  6. It's clear that Penn State jumped the gun firing Franklin when they did, but I can't help but remember USC's coaching search after they fired Hackett. They had some very high profile names turn them down then had to "settle" for Pete Carroll. We know how that ended up. Still, I don't see how Penn State gets out of this without doing the Rodney Terry thing which it appears they are going to have to do.
  7. It's possibly both. She needs Trump in the immediate future to secure the GOP nomination for governor, but also needs to start positioning herself for a post-Trump GOP. The competing narratives will be "this is what Trump wants/would have wanted" and they will tear themselves apart fighting over this narrative for the foreseeable future.
  8. Chris Klieman Announces Retirement
  9. I think after yesterday it's already Weekend at Bernie's over at the White House. Trump can't stay awake and can't keep any stories straight anymore.
  10. There is no leader other than Trump, and that's the problem. He literally calls all of the shots for both the Executive and Legislative branches. Even when he wasn't president he controlled what the House did. He's pretty much the Speaker of the House in addition to being the President, and Johnson is simply the conduit for whatever he wants. So the problem is twofold for the GOP. First, they need to actually have a consensus on who to elect. Second, that person needs to be willing to be Trump's "errand boy" until they ultimately lose the House next year. Then they can go back to doing what they do best, which is to simply oppose whatever the Democrats say and do with no ideas or throughs of their own (other than whatever Trump is posting on social media at that moment.)
  11. Remember the vote-a-rama last time they tried to replace a speaker? It's easier just to use discharge petitions and go around Johnson.
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