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wildcat09

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  1. Strong Penn State vibes from certain posters here. Miller's teams at Zona were good and fun to watch, and i think his defenses were generally better than he gets credit for. I haven't kept up with him during his second stint at Xavier and have no idea how he'll do in the new NIL era, but he's a good coach.
  2. They're illegally rendering innocent people to a fucking concentration camp in El Salvador and that's barely getting media coverage. There's certainly no shitstorm over it except in liberal spaces online. Them murdering an anti-tesla activist likely wouldn't even get covered in the mainstream media right now.
  3. Refs really think they can help Akron cover.
  4. I'm sure all of PW's clients like to see their lawyers rush to be the first to bend over to take it from behind from the government.
  5. Yes. People are very stupid.
  6. I'm pretty sure TwiceHorn will still push back on it.
  7. I don't know why y'all are trying to debate BO&W when he's clearly in the middle of some sort of serious medical episode.
  8. Ana pretending not to know who Ian Miles Cheong is reminds me of that time 52-80 pretended not to know Alex Jones peddled Sandy Hook conspiracy theories.
  9. Do you smell toast?
  10. To add to this, only 1 Republican in the House and 15 in the Senate voted for the CHIPS Act. 205 Republicans in the House and 32 in the Senate voted against it. To try to give Trump or his party credit for anything that has been funded by the CHIPS Act is the height of idiocy, so of course Zeus is doing it.
  11. Characterizing our new policy toward Ukraine as “childish” sure is a choice.
  12. Chainsaw's obsession with this story is giving off Nicole vibes.
  13. Hey Zeus! You still think someone hacked that boat in Baltimore and intentionally drove it into the bridge?
  14. This shit is so fucking funny. Focus on what? To what end? What do you want this group of internet strangers to do here in March of 2025 instead of the five seconds it takes to look at that and go "well that's fucked up dictator shit"?
  15. I mean, that wouldn’t be a problem if their theory of politics wasn’t so fucking broken. They’re supposed to want to get elected. It’s just that they’re supposed to understand what a majority of voters wants from them and they’ve got no fucking clue!
  16. The nos all need to be primaried too. Unless you see them move to remove Schumer from leadership in the next few days, it's a safe bet that many of them are chickenshit and only voted no because there were enough yes votes to give them cover. Assuming they don't do that, none of them can be trusted because none of them can be honest with their own voters.
  17. No, this is wrong. He fucked this up in a half dozen different ways, if not more. He assumed that Johnson wouldn't be able to pass a CR out of the House and that he wouldn't get pushed into a tough decision, and he never contemplated any alternative scenarios. That's why the House caucus is fucking incandescent with rage right now; he let them go out on a limb and vote against this only to turn around and betray them. If he'd told them a month ago, WHEN JOHNSON WAS LOOKING FOR DEM VOTES, they could've at least tried to negotiate for something better than this. Then he tried to cover his own ass by lying to the public about his caucus' stance while going hat in hand to the literal enemy to beg him for help covering his ass. Schumer needed to decide a month ago whether he and his caucus had the stomach for shutting the government down and coordinate with the House leadership on strategy. It's a disqualifying mixture of stupidity, laziness, and cowardice that makes Kevin McCarthy look competent by comparison.
  18. Schumer has really shot them all in the dick with his bungling of this. It'll be a lot harder to message now than if he hadn't handled this whole situation like a fucking dumbass. But ultimately Trump and the GOP will get a majority of the blame because they're pissing everyone off with their insanity right now and this is just gonna be connected to that. And if the Dems make a few popular demands (e.g. eliminate DOGE and get rid of Elon/Vought) and ultimately get a better CR passed any public hits they take from this will be long passed by the time the midterms roll around.
  19. It's not a close call. It's not easy, but it's not a close call. The argument against a shutdown is that Dems don't really have any leverage anyway and letting the government shut down means Trump/Elon/Vought can choose to shut down whatever they want. But they're already doing that. Courts will continue to function but DOJ staff will be greatly reduced, and hobbling the DOJ's ability to defend Trump is a good thing, not a bad thing. The argument for a shutdown is that Trump is weaker right now than he will be in six months if they let this CR pass. He's shocked a lot of people who still remember when things were actually pretty good just a couple of months ago and he's galvanized a furious opposition again. If Dems cave on this CR that opposition will splinter and another six months of Trump's insanity will cause a lot of people to just go numb and tune it all out. Besides, he and Elon and Vought have been shutting the government down for nearly two months already. Passing this CR will effectively ratify their crimes and essentially cede Article 1 powers to Trump. It will render Congress a rump institution. Better for Congress to just shut down and not operate and not fund anything for the next 3.5 years than that. That's not even getting into how the bill defunds DC's cops, probably so they can replace them with some ICE shitheads who will arrest any troublemaking protesters. And they don't really want a shutdown. Elon may sort of think he does occasionally, but he's a fucking idiot. If there's a shutdown Trump and the GOP will get the majority of the blame because the shit they're doing right now is wildly unpopular and people want it to stop. There's a reason the GOP unified to pass this fucking thing and it's not any 4d chess shit. Trump can't even fucking play checkers, much less chess, and is already talking about supporting a primary challenge against their lone holdout. He doesn't want a shutdown. These guys are fucking bullies, which means they're cowards. There's nothing a coward is more afraid of than someone fighting back.
  20. Schumer thought he could cut a deal with Thune to get votes on some proposed amendments that were doomed to fail in exchange for the cloture vote, so he could pretend that the Dems fought. All he wanted to do was lie to voters on his own side to pretend he wasn't really surrendering, but Thune either told him "lol no" or didn't even respond.
  21. Schumer has a mutiny on his hands. No clue how the cloture vote ends up going, but he may not have the votes and he's betrayed his caucus, house Dems, and Democratic voters so thoroughly and openly that there's not really any way he can remain part of the Dem senate leadership.
  22. Along those same lines, Matt Taibbi is either the dumbest person alive or pretending to be:
  23. Because they've already said they didn't detain him for violating any laws.
  24. Oh yeah, Tesla has never misled its shareholders before.
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