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  1. People started noticing TCU after their win against Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl. Generally speaking they’ve made the most of their opportunities, unlike some other schools. I suspect they’ll continue to do the same despite not being in the big 2
  2. Satchel

    Guns

    Of course it would make more sense. Problem is, most of America is irrational and nonsensical which it comes to the question of guns, On this issue, we’re as lost as a ball in tall grass.
  3. MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Republicans, under orders of the U.S. Supreme Court to redraw congressional districts to give minority voters a greater voice in elections, rejected calls Monday to craft a second majority-Black district and proposed a map testing the judges’ directive. https://www.yahoo.com/news/alabama-republicans-despite-supreme-court-203946698.html
  4. The country should be more concerned about this than we appear to be: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html Donald J. Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, reshaping the structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands. Their plans to centralize more power in the Oval Office stretch far beyond the former president’s recent remarks that he would order a criminal investigation into his political rival, President Biden, signaling his intent to end the post-Watergate norm of Justice Department independence from White House political control. Mr. Trump and his associates have a broader goal: to alter the balance of power by increasing the president’s authority over every part of the federal government that now operates, by either law or tradition, with any measure of independence from political interference by the White House, according to a review of his campaign policy proposals and interviews with people close to him. Mr. Trump intends to bring independent agencies — like the Federal Communications Commission, which makes and enforces rules for television and internet companies, and the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces various antitrust and other consumer protection rules against businesses — under direct presidential control Mr. Vought and Mr. McEntee are involved in Project 2025, a $22 million presidential transition operation that is preparing policies, personnel lists and transition plans to recommend to any Republican who may win the 2024 election. The transition project, the scale of which is unprecedented in conservative politics, is led by the Heritage Foundation, a think tank that has shaped the personnel and policies of Republican administrations since the Reagan presidency. That work at Heritage dovetails with plans on the Trump campaign website to expand presidential power that were drafted primarily by two of Mr. Trump’s advisers, Vincent Haley and Ross Worthington, with input from other advisers, including Stephen Miller, the architect of the former president’s hard-line immigration agenda. Some elements of the plans had been floated when Mr. Trump was in office but were impeded by internal concerns that they would be unworkable and could lead to setbacks. And for some veterans of Mr. Trump’s turbulent White House who came to question his fitness for leadership, the prospect of removing guardrails and centralizing even greater power over government directly in his hands sounded like a recipe for mayhem
  5. This thread has potential to eclipse Hillary hate since it’s possible to add a skosh of racism to the misogyny.
  6. He’s worn out his welcome at every Ivy in the country, so he must need money. He’s irrelevant.
  7. Matt Gaetz tried to use the findings of this whistleblower as a gotcha during his grilling of the FBI director earlier this week. Not surprisingly, it’s all made up. The MAGAs got nothing: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/hunter-biden-attorney-says-whatsapp-message-cited-republicans-fake-rcna92065 An attorney for Hunter Biden says purported screenshots of a text message from Hunter Biden to a potential Chinese business partner where he refers to Joe Biden — a message that has been the subject of intense scrutiny following statements made by an IRS whistleblower — are “not real and contain myriad of issues.” Abbe Lowell, who is one of Hunter Biden’s attorneys, made the statement in a letter to Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which has interviewed the whistleblowers. The letter was obtained by NBC News. IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley told the committee under oath that, as an investigator for the IRS, he obtained messages Hunter Biden sent on the WhatsApp platform, including one in 2017 that he read demanding payment from a Chinese businessman named Henry Zhao. In the message, Shapley said, Biden appeared to suggest that he was sitting with his father, then the former vice president, saying, “I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.” Attorneys for Shapley said in a statement, “Biden family lawyers have resorted to intimidation before — reportedly threatening federal prosecutors with “career suicide” if they charged Hunter Biden — so this attempt to intimidate our client and the oversight authorities scrutinizing the politicization of that case is no surprise.” Lowell writes that the screenshots of the message as tweeted by Smith, “both include a photo of Mr. Biden not from 2017 but from the White House Easter Egg roll in April 2022 (long after the purported message was sent); both images portray the message in a blue bubble, when WhatsApp messages are in green; one image super-imposed the Chinese flag for the contact ID, when surely that was not how a text or contact was kept; and one purports to be a screenshot with the '. . .' of someone composing a text (as in Apple’s iMessage) when that does not happen on WhatsApp.” He writes, “In short, the images you circulated online are complete fakes.” Lowell’s letter takes issue with what he says are "self-styled IRS 'whistleblowers'" who he says are "claiming that title in an attempt to evade their own misconduct" and to "feed the misinformation campaign to harm our client, Hunter Biden, as a vehicle to attack his father."
  8. He’s waiting for the Texas job to open up.
  9. TCU became the TCU it is today in part by playing Thursday night games as a G5
  10. Maybe I just don’t understand freedom, but I don’t think you should be shot in the head and murdered because your husband flipped somebody off on the highway. https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/woman-killed-in-apparent-road-rage-shooting-in-hurst-driver-sought-by-police/3293552/
  11. Here are some options. They’re not all that great: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/22/tuberville-pentagon-nominees-blockade-00098130
  12. Here’s a hot off the press report on one who claimed to have proof of Joe and Hunter Biden corruption: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/republicans-key-whistleblower-indicted-for-working-to-advance-the-interests-of-china/ The whistleblower Republicans said would expose the alleged corruption of President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden has been indicted on eight counts. Gal Luft, who is the co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security think tank in Washington, D.C., was indicted in the U.S. Southern District of New York. The indictment was unsealed on Monday. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement: Luft was initially arrested in Cyprus in February before skipping bail and going on the lam. He remains a fugitive. Congressional Republicans who said they spoke with Luft about the business dealings of the Biden family told members of the press that he had gone “missing.”
  13. When is the Senate going to investigate the weaponization of IRS? There was much suspicion around the unusual and extensive audits ordered by Trump crony, Charles Rettig, on the tax records of Comey and Andrew McCabe. Now, there’s this latest revelation: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/us/politics/trump-kelly-irs-fbi-strozk-page.html#:~:text=Kelly%2C who served as former,his campaign's ties to Russia. John F. Kelly, who served as former President Donald J. Trump’s second White House chief of staff, said in a sworn statement that Mr. Trump had discussed having the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies investigate two F.B.I. officials involved in the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia. Mr. Kelly said that his recollection of Mr. Trump’s comments to him was based on notes that he had taken at the time in 2018. Mr. Kelly provided copies of his notes to lawyers for one of the F.B.I. officials, who made the sworn statement public in a court filing. “President Trump questioned whether investigations by the Internal Revenue Service or other federal agencies should be undertaken into Mr. Strzok and/or Ms. Page,” Mr. Kelly said in the statement. “I do not know of President Trump ordering such an investigation. It appeared, however, that he wanted to see Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page investigated.” Mr. Kelly’s assertions were disclosed on Thursday in a statement that was filed in connection with lawsuits brought by Peter Strzok, who was the lead agent in the F.B.I.’s Russia investigation, and Lisa Page, a former lawyer in the bureau, against the Justice Department for violating their privacy rights when the Trump administration made public text messages between them
  14. I was watching TV during which an anchor referenced a story from The Guardian. I posted what I heard in real time. Didn’t know that my post would upset some of you. Just know that should this happen again , there’s a better than even chance that I’ll do the same thing again, because it’s not that big of a deal.
  15. Where did these Republicans disappear to?
  16. I’m laughing along with anybody who thinks schools are in charge of their own destinies when it comes to big time college football.
  17. Relax. In the time it’s taken you to scold me about some made up “ netiquette”, you could have have located several links, read articles in their entirety and been that much more informed. Control what you can and stop sweating the small stuff. You’ll live longer.
  18. Recent reporting from The Guardian says there are video clips of Nauta moving boxes through secret tunnels at Mara Lago. For the life of me, I will never understand why so many men are willing to go to jail for a fake alpha dog. It’s stupefying.
  19. Zuckerberg and team claim not to have any former Twitter employees on the Thread engineering team. Seems to me they are sufficiently versed in corporate crookery so as to avoid any obvious legal exposure. Musk’s unbridled arrogance and hubris have caught up with him.
  20. Chuckle. He’s acting out because his 44 billion dollar purchase is being torn to Threads
  21. At one point I thought he was smart. He’s not. He’s just mean.
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