SpiralOut

Ain't gonna lie. I wish I was in Cancun right now instead of dumping snow into the toilet tank so I can take this shit I've been holding in since last night. When I do get to take it, I think I might name it Ted Cruz. Seems right.

When I went out on trouble calls with my pops as a kid, Limbaugh was on every trip. He was pissing poison in people's ears back then and he kept it up until the Big C finally booted him off the planet today. You listen to other conservative talking heads and they've all adopted the same Limbaugh-isms. It's a constant pushing of "Liberals hate you. They want you to die. They really believe you're evil and want to eradicate you and your way of life!" And just like pretty much everything in America, it's all a fucking grift. I can't tell you how many otherwise decent people I know who have had parts of their brain rotted away by listening to this stuff day in and day out. And that isn't to say there aren't people like Limbaugh on the left, but that motherfucker was Patient Zero on infecting our political landscape and lighting the rocket of extremism.

Hope you malcontents are staying warm. Power was out at my place in Abilene all day Monday. Got up for work Tuesday, still no power, but the car wash right next door was lit up like a Christmas tree. Donut shop had power. Every residential complex around me had power. Saw a dude watching his TV both mornings as I drove by after freezing my ass off in the dark all night. Basically everyone had power BUT the small area I'm in. Same thing this morning, but when I got back tonight everything was back on. Seriously hope you're all doing well.

I think we magically pull out a decisive win. Then predictably shit the bed versus KState to end the season with a meaningless game against the hapless Jayhawks. And hopefully end Mensa's career here.

Watch Cowboy Bebop. Then realize nothing else will ever come close to that so you don't need to watch any anime ever again. Profit.

Also, they really don't need him anymore. The GOP was supposed to get wiped out in this election. Instead, they killed their Senate races and held it. And surprisingly, they look like they're going to gain double digit seats in the House. They won't own it, but still. With Cocaine Mitch at the helm in the Senate and with Biden being seen as squeaking this win out, the Democrats/Biden administration ain't gonna get shit done. The Republicans are going to go right back to the obstruct and blame it on Democrats plan they were on in Obama's presidency. Oh, and now they also own a big majority in the Supreme Court. Don was useful to them and got them way more than they ever expected. Turning the SC wildly in their favor would have been enough. But the electorate hasn't even punished them for backing this guy the past four years. Their only worry now is if they abandon him will the Republican base which seems to have eaten Trump's shit up hook, line, and sinker bail on them in the future? With how hyper-partisan politics has gotten in the last decade or so, my guess is they'll be fine. Trump is about to be cast out into the cold and Mitch and the GOP are gonna turn the lights off and act like no one is home.

Just want to congratulate drugs on winning the drug war. Great job, guys. Knew you could do it. Wish you had fought harder here in Texas, though.

The thing is, who the President is shouldn't really affect you if things were working as intended. The reason people go fucking nuts over these elections is because we've given the Federal government way too much power. And the Commander-in-Chief has basically become the King-in-Chief. People should really be caring about their state and local elections and not, in Mack Brown's words, "scared to death" of how people in other states are voting because of how it will change which idiots are running D.C. But here we are.

Biden still has a significant lead in PA and they count election-day votes first, IIRC.

Author of the 1994 crime bill might have had something to do with it. Also telling black people that they aren't black if they don't vote for him. The biggest Joe gaffe out of all the crazy Joe gaffes.

Supposedly a water pipe burst and kept them from counting votes. So get ready for the conspiracy theories.

That's his entire shtick. He claims to be a leftist and just can't accept them now that they've gone super far-left. He makes his money off conservatives who eat that shit up. His takes are an inch deep.

I just cringe at that kinda shit now. I remember our players doing the same thing to Charlie when he managed to beat OU. Didn't change the fact that he couldn't coach worth a damn and the team sucked. I enjoy the wins, especially because workhorses who are getting screwed by Mensa's ineptitude, like Sam, deserve them, but it's just lipstick on a pig at this point. Back the Brinks truck up to Urban's house. I was advocating for doing the same thing with Saban when Charlie was about to be gone. We should have gone after a proven winner then and we didn't. Let's hope the powers at be don't fuck this up yet again.

I'm happy and I'm sad. Why can't we have a legitimate coach where I'm happy whenever we win and where we win all the time?

Well we know who the refs bet on for this game.

And this is why the very idea of No-Knock warrants should have been painted as idiocy from the get go, much less make it into actual practice. When you give law enforcement Gestapo-like powers, you will inevitably find yourself in completely fucked up situations such as this one. You break down someone's door in the middle of the night. They have no idea who it is and legally have a right to defend themselves and their home. The cops are acting legally and they also have a right to protect themselves. Now we're having shootouts in the dark where innocent sleeping people are being killed, bullets are flying into adjacent homes with pregnant women in them, cops are being shot, which all culminates in the taxpayers having to foot an enormous civil lawsuit bill and the city eventually burning to the ground from riots. And no one can really be held accountable because everyone is technically doing the legal thing. Or, ya know, we could just have police do actual fucking police work. Stake the place out, wait until the suspect leaves the house, and then corner them at their vehicle, etc. in broad daylight where you almost entirely control the situation instead of barging into someone's home where you don't know what is waiting for you. Then, after the suspect is in custody you can waltz in the front fucking door anytime you please. All these years later and I still remember this video of a poor schmuck getting murked in his own home holding a golf club for defense because the police busted down his door in the middle of the night. He wasn't a violent criminal who had hostages in the basement or some shit. He was a suspected drug dealer. They could have gotten this guy at anytime with zero issues, but nah, lets just bust down the door in the dead of night and shoot first. Who in the flying fuck thought those kind of tactics were acceptable in what is supposed to be the land of the fucking free? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV6Bq8xeQrU

Now they're using bow and arrows? https://twitter.com/uhgoosetoe/status/1266909397453697024

Finally got the news today. The folks we've been hooking up wells for are postponing the last five they had on deck. Gonna finish out the two we have pretty much everything done for and the disposal that goes with them and that's it.

The real play is to wait until later this year when maybe we finally find a bottom and then dump your life savings into TQQQ. Sure-fire way to become the next Jeff Bezos.

I buy those big boxes of eggs from Walmart that run about $5. I keep those sumbitches in the fridge and the eggs are fine for months.

As the old saying goes, "Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

Hah! I used to live off Rundberg while attending UT. Had some friends in from back home who had never been to Austin before. We were sitting in my living room with the TV on and they were asking about the neighborhood and whatnot. I told them it was fairly nice and that I'd never had any problems and that our area unfairly had a bad rep. Then, literally right after I said that, the news came on and the reporter told us all that a guy had raped and murdered an 85 year old grandma basically right down the street. You could have heard a pin drop. Feel better, man.

Been getting my ass worked off the past week or so. No slowdown at work and I had to be there. Wore gloves, washed my hands religiously, but all my coworkers thought it was nonsense and haven't been taking it seriously at all. Had to go in yesterday and developed a dry cough. It rapidly progressed to a sore throat, fever, shakes, sweats, fatigue, etc. However, I'm already feeling better today. Still feel like crud, but no shortness of breath and my symptoms are improving. So who the fuck knows if I have the Rona or not? Told the boss I'm isolating myself until all my symptoms go away and he can just deal. I'm not going to be responsible for one of my many Boomer coworkers getting it and dying.