Paul Wesley

There are similar videos for "big strong men crying while they thank me" and "I was Michigan man of the year" where he repeatedly tells the same premise but changes the actors, the dates, the circumstances... depending on his audience.

My last R vote was for Bush in 2000. I spent the 90's listening to the R choruses of "balanced budget amendment" and "campaign finance reform." Fool me once, I guess.

I bought an analogman beano boost a few years ago - after I saw Audley Freed use one. It's fun but it doesn't get stomped that much because it's a little hairier and noisier than what I need.

Watching a Bill Barr interview right now and wondering if there was already a "Fuck Bill Barr" thread. What a profoundly immoral and disingenuous piece of shit. He's out there now repeating his refrain of "no evidence of collusion"... a statement that ignores the emails with Don Jr enthusiastically welcoming Russian interference, secret meetings in Trump Tower followed by countless lies about the existence and the substance of that meeting, the numerous felony convictions for Roger Stone participating in that dirty collaboration, the undenied and unrefuted fact that Trump's team was sharing private polling data with a pro-Putin Russian oligarch, etc. I can't really argue when Republican apologists say "collusion is not a crime," but that's a different thing than saying "no evidence of collusion," which is beyond absurd. I type this as Trump holds private meetings in the White House with former KGB agents.

One more thing... After seeing a whole lot of these miscarriage-of-justice legal documentaries, here's a phrase that I'm putting zero credibility in from now on: "HE KNEW DETAILS OF THE CRIME THAT *ONLY* THE KILLER COULD HAVE KNOWN!!" We keep seeing that statement delivered with breathless excitement by reporters standing at the courthouse... and yet it often turns out to be complete bullshit (Henry Lee Lucas, Brendan Dassey, The Central Park Five, countless others).

Man, what an eye-opening documentary. I heard Lucas' name on the local news... seemingly every night for a year when I was a little kid. It's weird to see this perspective 40 years later. It's just sad to see this behind-the-curtain look at law enforcement, and to realize how these officers were both remarkably lazy and profoundly corrupt. I mean, you had a reporter from Dallas and victim's family from Lubbock -- those people were doing the fucking job of law enforcement -- trying to put HLL at specific locations in time, interviewing witnesses, establishing timelines, and uncovering critical evidence. Then you have law enforcement posing for photos, acting like Johnny Bad Ass for the cameras, making statements full of bluster and bravado, and then sabotaging and attacking the private citizens who were doing the police work. We see the footage of Boutwell's funeral, and all its grandeur, solemnity, and rows of uniformed officers saluting his coffin... and you see that realizing now what a lazy piece of shit he was.

I always thought "Boarding Group C" would make a great band name.

First of all, you should read my response again, because in no way, shape, or form did I say that the guy questioning Biden "shouldn't be allowed to ask the question." What I said is that Biden has to have a better answer than that. Big fucking difference, Swam (and I refer to you collectively as "Swam"). I'm gonna answer your question to me anyway, but I'm gonna separate my thoughts: 1). Again, the whole story about Biden firing a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating his son is bullshit. It's 100% bullshit. The prosecutor Biden wanted fired WAS corrupt, and he WASN'T investigating the company in question. It's a bullshit story, just like "Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election." It's not true. Those stories started in Russia, made their way through a bunch of twitter bots and right-wing websites until they started getting repeated by guests on Fox, then later parroted by insufferable internet trolls and Republican congressmen (often the same people). So I understand why Biden would get testy when a disingenuous "just asking questions" guy parrots this exact story to his face, but, like I said, he's got to have a better answer. 2). Nobody hates rich kids more than me. Fuck them, fuck their khaki- and baseball cap-wearing self-satisfied frat brothers, their overpaid summer internships, and their seed money businesses. That includes coke-snorting Hunter Biden. I'm not inclined to give Hunter Biden the benefit of the doubt on anything, and a lot of other people feel the same way, which is why the fake story against him resonated, and why right-wing morons like the Fox primetime lineup and Kennedy in Louisiana keep repeating it to their receptive audiences. 3). Yeah, it seems shady that a foreign company wants to throw 50K/month at the VP's kid. I don't know if anything corrupt happened (tax breaks, exploration contracts, altered American foreign policy). If it did, prosecute them, and if I see evidence of corruption, I'll support significant jail time for all parties. I don't have a "side" when it comes to corruption. 4). The idea of Republicans getting offended at Hunter Biden getting into a financial conflict-of-interest situation... *mind blown.gif*. I mean, within walking distance of the White House, there's a Trump hotel where foreign governments spend millions, and they do so with the expressed intent of getting favorable policies from America. Not to mention the millions of taxpayer dollars Trump collects every time he plays golf in Florida or abroad. I can't even begin to list the ways that American policy has been overtaken by the Trump family's desire for massive wealth... from Trump's hotels to Kushner's need to refinance 1.4 billion dollars in real estate. Republicans have the moral high ground on nothing. Not personal morality, not fiscal conservatism, not patriotism, and certainly not in fighting corruption.

I saw this clip today. Let's ignore the fact that the guy asking the question is obviously being disingenuous, e.g. pretending that he heard this story on MSNBC. That aside, this is a horrible moment for Biden. Even if that whole storyline is bullshit -- that Joe got a Ukrainian investigator fired who was looking into his son - and to be clear, I think it's been thoroughly debunked. There are STILL a whole bunch of 2020 voters out there who think *something* happened. And Biden has to have a better answer for those voters than losing his shit, name-calling, and challenging the guy to a push-up contest and an IQ test. I mean, that's fucking embarrassing. I just don't want any more D candidates that we have to hold our noses to vote for. That didn't work out so well last time.

1). I like how Hannity is in on the bit by pretending that he also doesn't know Parnas' first name. Great job, guys. Very believable. 2) JFC, Nunes is a dumb piece of shit. You had days to rehearse this sound bite, and THAT is what you fucking came up with? 3). This typifies Nunes' relentlessly disingenuous bullshit: "It seems very unlikely that I would be taking calls from random people." You aren't being accused of taking calls from "random people," you treasonous fuck. You just got caught *not* disclosing numerous clandestine conversations with one of the already-indicted felons. 4). Nunes should go back to indignantly running from reporters, like he's been doing for days. He looked less guilty then.

Kick on the upbeat of one. Genius.

I'm a couple pages back in this fast-moving thread, but I wanted to respond to this. I'm pretty close to you in demographics, and I was also a child who echoed his parents' pro-Reagan stance, and who witnessed the release of the hostages on the day of Reagan's inauguration. It really did feel like America suddenly was great again - no longer a literal hostage to a small Middle East theocracy. The older I get, though, the more I see Reagan's poisonous influence on American thinking. Specifically, his repeated refrains of "Government IS the problem!" That belief promotes cynicism toward our government and encourages voter apathy. And voter apathy allows interested parties (i.e. big Pharma, the banks, insurance companies, energy companies) to have completely bought and paid for the legislative branch of government. And that corporate takeover of Congress has promoted the astounding success of the richest 1% while the middle class withers away. Such inequality is unsustainable. "Government IS the problem" leads people to generally support the idea that ALL regulation is bad. It ignores the fundamental fact that government regulation is what prevents wholesale financial fraud with companies like Enron and WorldCom. Government regulation is what keeps companies from dumping mercury into the rivers and spewing poisons into the air. Government regulation is the only thing that keeps insurance companies from denying your cancer treatment. And now, under Trump, we see "Government IS the problem" taken to its most extreme. We have an executive branch who has appointed leadership that is hostile to the very mission of each department. We have the utterly unqualified child of a pyramid-scheme billionaire who is hostile to the idea of public education -- now SHE is who's in charge of education. We have a similarly unqualified HUD secretary hostile to the idea of helping low-income families get housing. We have a buffoon as energy secretary - someone who was too fucking stupid to remember the name of the department that he recently thought a good idea to eliminate. I could go on. Finally, this government-hostile executive branch is appointing judges who are friendly to the ideas and beliefs of a hyper-religious minority, and friendly to the ideas of the same big corporations that have taken over the legislative branch. And I know this sounds really crazy -- but I want safe transportation, I want public schools that educate children, I want low- and middle-income families to work with dignity and afford housing, I want a stock market that isn't completely rigged, I want the Department of Energy to safeguard nuclear weapons and nuclear waste, I want rivers that aren't filled with carcinogens, I want healthcare that isn't impossibly expensive. If you really, actually want America to be great, then you ought to be taking actions that promote effective and efficient government. If Reagan thought government was the problem, I wonder what he'd think now about the thoroughly incompetent and profoundly corrupt millionaires and billionaires who are systematically dismantling it, all with the GOP's enthusiastic blessing.

What I would give for a witness to answer a Jordan question with, "Well, Representative. I was trying to show good judgement. Say, for example, if I were in a position of authority, where I was able to protect teenage boys from a sexual predator...:"

What is FCB? never mind... got it

6 first downs and 7 punts

Huge hold there on 2nd down, three steps from the QB, out in space, in front of God and everyone

I watched Fox last night. Every host took turns playing the clip where Jim Jordan asks the testifying diplomats what crime Trump committed that is impeachable (neither could answer), and then they cut back to Ingraham and Hannity shouting, "THERE ARE THE STAR WITNESSES WHO CANNOT EVEN NAME A CRIME!!!" But that's a pretty stupid thing to celebrate, right? I mean, if somebody witnesses a murder, and they're testifying about what they saw, and the defense attorney says, "Can you name the criminal statute that was violated here," and the witness doesn't know the answer.... so fucking what? It's not their job to name the crime. They're just describing what they know. Fox News was one long string of these "HA HA HA! GOTCHA!" when not a single fucking thing was "gotten." And yet Fox and Rush and the rest... they will continue to reinforce the Trumpkins' belief that their savior is falsely accused.

Or he could take half of it, spend it on good whiskey, good times, and loose women. And then the other half... just waste it.

I had an elite Telecaster for a week or so. Ended up sending it back to Sweetwater because I hated the noiseless pickups. The compound-radius neck, on the other hand, was probably the best-feeling and best-playing neck of any guitar I've ever owned.

When you asked the question I was going to guess 1) dual showman, 2) super But your "order surprised me" comment made me lose confidence in that guess.

Has right-wing media reached this level of laughably stupid talking points for you fucking morons to parrot? A president exchanging American taxpayer money for his own ****personal**** benefit (instead of the benefit of the country) is 1) an abuse of power, 2) an abandonment of the oath of office, 3) profoundly un-patriotic (if not treasonous). Without a doubt, Trump betrayed his duty to advance the interests of this country. How fucking stupid to say "show me a quid pro quo" when the president admitted it, his personal lawyer admitted it, the whistleblower reported it, the diplomats confirmed it, the White House spokesman confirmed it, the intelligence agencies are confirming it, the Ukrainians are confirming it, etc, etc. The facts aren't even in debate anymore (if they ever were). But you want to stomp your food and demand "evidence?" GTFO. The level of stupidity is astounding. It's like a person goes to the police and reports the identity of a bank robber. And then the police interview the suspect and he says, "Yeah, I robbed the bank," and then having that confession confirmed by every single witness... the bank robber's attorney says, "yeah, he totally fucking did it." Also confirmed by the bank, the video camera footage, the bank robber's co-conspirators, the other bank patrons, etc. Then the bank robber says on live TV, "yeah, I definitely robbed that bank and I'm calling on China to help me rob another bank." And then the bank robber's defenders shout, "YOU PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HOW EVIDENCE WORKS!"

Any of you guys played Hold 'Em with Orlando? I'm curious if he turns his pocket cards face up before the flop. Because that's pretty much how we tip our defensive hand pre-snap.

I'm done with Orlando. He's Manny Diaz Part II. Never makes an adjustment to stop the run. No gap integrity. Every team we play gets to the edge pretty easily. No pass rush. Poor coverage. Poor tackling. We are just badly coached. Period. In fact, being the DC of the worst Texas defense in history means that you're worse than the guy who got fired on the motherfucking plane ride back from Utah.

maybe Orlando will realize all blitzes don't have to start in the parking lot