Horn Under a Bad Sign

Here are two fantastic articles both of which offer plenty of ammunition (ahem) against those red-state Trump gun lovers who talk about violence and crime as if it is a Democrat problem. https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-two-decade-red-state-murder-problem https://www.salon.com/2023/02/15/like-to-talk-tough-on--but-theyre-the-ones-with-a-real-problem/ Key takeaways: The murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump has exceeded the murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Joe Biden in every year from 2000 to 2020. Over this 21-year span, this Red State murder gap has steadily widened from a low of 9% more per capita red state murders in 2003 and 2004 to 44% more per capita red state murders in 2019, before settling back to 43% in 2020. Altogether, the per capita Red State murder rate was 23% higher than the Blue State murder rate when all 21 years were combined. If Blue State murder rates were as high as Red State murder rates, Biden-voting states would have suffered over 45,000 more murders between 2000 and 2020. Even when murders in the largest cities in red states are removed, overall murder rates in Trump-voting states were 12% higher than Biden-voting states across this 21-year period and were higher in 18 of the 21 years observed.

Only in the cloak room is pointing out something that is a factual matter of record considered "stanning."

Incorrect: we have a deposition of a person saying that another person said that Bill likes them young.

You're not reading it correctly if you think anybody is defending Bill Clinton.

The Michigan GOP is imploding and not just because of the Moms 4 Liberty bullshit. The party chairman there is a total Trumpkin and therefore incompetent. She's destroying the party. https://www.newsweek.com/michigan-republican-party-vote-remove-kristina-karamo-1857335

Quinn was considerably better in his second year as a starter than Penix was in his ... and Quinn was playing better defenses.

We could probably get much more agreement that you are foul and shitty and nowhere near worth having 28 thousand posts on Surly.

I was told there would be no kink shaming here on Surly.

Yes. The 11.4 oz Guiness Extra Stout 12-pack. Only 5.6 percent alcohol. You realize there were two games over about an 8-hour period, right?

Had a great time in bed with my girlfriend this morning. Got up and made biscuits with sausage gravy. Went for a walk in the park before this rain. Took a nap. Farted a few times. I think it's the 12 pack of Guinness I consumed yesterday as I have a definite stale vitamin B complex aroma. Thinking about binging Reacher.

Texas 42 Washington 31 Penix 28/45 315 yards, 3 TD, 1 INT

Texas 42 Washington 31

I read the article and thought that, although its thesis is obvious, it was even-handed. Specifically, what did the article get wrong?

Adam Kinzinger on Trump's aroma: “It’s not good. The best way to describe it... take armpits, ketchup, a butt and makeup and put that all in a blender and bottle that as a cologne. That’s kind of it. I’ve been amazed that everybody is just kind of learning about this now."

LOL

The fact that Jared Woodfill (a former GOP county party chair) is not only running for State Representative but is likely to be the GOP nominee pretty much tells me what the Texas GOP values. And Jared Woodfill took this money at the same time he was a prominent anti-LGBTQ activist? What a fucking hypocrite. Jared Woodfill covered up Pressler's sexual abuse of young boys for in exchange for money and political connections. That's morally and ethically reprehensible.

Christie should be the Republican nominee. He's the most capable.

Holy shit. I live in a world in which I agree with Chris Christie, a world in which Chris Christie is making sense.

German. It's the Americanized version of Mueller.

He's disappointed you because he didn't beat out Sanders?

Translation: I sucked so bad representing my current district that there's no way in hell they'll re-elect me, so I'm going to go and grift elsewhere.