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TheFlyingBoat

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  1. I think it's because the good people of the world recognize that being a vegan is way worse than being ISIS
  2. Dude is definitely white if they're giving him that defense
  3. I agree that the non-adult children should be permanently off limits unless they do something wrong enough to justify removing that protection and the First Lady should generally be left alone, but Hannity and for that matter anyone at Fox News is in no position to cast any stones after what they said about Michelle.
  4. I feel like that's the wrong clarification and largely unneeded. The more important thing to clarify is was the female a human or a sheep?
  5. Jesus christ I miss 2009 before the Tea Party took over and took public discourse from needing work to a shit show.
  6. Agreed with pretty much everything you said.
  7. I voted for all 4 as well, because all 4 are true. He lost to OUsux too much, kept Greg Davis too long, was a gigantic pussy, but was also a highly successful coach that finally took us back to a title and created fantastically memorable games that I am extraordinarily grateful for. Bringing him back in the fold is probably a good decision.
  8. A much simpler and smaller investigation in terms of scope took two years from beginning to resignation ending the inquiry. I'd prefer if they could get it done by 2019, but if you look at past investigations of crimes that so large in scope, it takes time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Watergate_scandal Hell Ken Starr's meandering got to go on for 5 years and change scope from Whitewater to a blowjob. Mueller has seemed to be entirely circumspect thus far and is a Republican himself, so it isn't like he is a bloodthirsty hound looking for a result and trying to create the roadmap to it like Starr was.
  9. You are off by a little with your first number. 0.25%, not 25% (what's two order of magnitude in the grand scheme of things?) of the US prison population is made up of foreign nationals (55,000 according to your link against 2.2 million incarcerated people according to the DOJ) Immigrants are far less likely to commit crime http://www.nber.org/papers/w13229.pdf : As for just illegals: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1745-9133.2008.00491.x Research Summary: The study compared the recidivism of 517 deportable and 780 nondeportable aliens released from the Los Angeles County Jail over a 30-day period in 2002. The results of our analyses revealed no difference in the re arrest rate of deportable and nondeportable aliens in terms of its occurrence, frequency, or timing. Policy Implications: The results lend no support to the ubiquitous assertion that deportable aliens are a unique threat to public safety. These findings undermine one common justification offered for the current crackdown on deport-able aliens within the country. More research is needed to determine whether these results can be replicated generally and with subtypes of deportable aliens
  10. Throw back to when this clown pretended she wasn't sure if Norway was mostly white: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/trump-dhs-secretary-kirstjen-nielsen-not-sure-if-norwegians-are-white.html
  11. Of course it doesn't matter but lol Oracle. Oracle probably has more lawyers than engineers at this point. They certainly have more competent lawyers than competent engineers at this point.
  12. Mfw anyone thinks that Oracle can accomplish anything competently
  13. The pig snout is a little overkill isn't it? Is subtlety a lost art? Got to admit it's funny as hell and he was the one who coarsened the discourse, so I guess he can't complain.
  14. Funnily enough on everything but taxes on that list, Democrats are now the better party (for now, if Bernie types come in then all bets are off). In terms of fiscal responsibility, while the Democrats are tax and spend, at least they tax before they spend. Since 1992 official Republican policy seems to be cut taxes and spend. Democrats are now free traders. The list goes on.
  15. I swear to god there have been times where I was at a party and the host forgot about the ribs and they still came out way fucking better than that. (while he never checked on it past the one hour mark after just under six hours of 225 it came out pretty damn well).
  16. Was the nearest Twitter account he could steal around 41 yards away or something?
  17. I mean that's true, but then I have to skip through it to get to his punts. I was more wondering if one of those Shaggy video elites could whip up a highlight video/if they knew of one I was unable to find via Google.
  18. This. Despite Republicans trying to structure pension obligations in such a way that they strike the balance sheet far earlier than they need to or would for any other business, the Postal Service still runs in a tremendously efficient fashion. While in many cases the private sector can do things better, this one of those cases where the public sector significantly outperforms their private sector colleagues from the perspective of the consumer and the worker.
  19. If I had to guess who will be the nominee, I'd have to guess Kamala Harris. She's immensely popular and doesn't have much national political experience. She may suffer a bit in the primaries due to her very tough on crime views while serving as DA of SF and then AG of CA, but she'll likely survive that. Her limited time in the Senate allows her to keep her hands mostly clean and the last primary and general election on both sides showed having a history can make life awfully difficult. Second guess would be Hickenlooper trying to run with the whole moderate schtick. I don't think it'll work with everyone so polarized and fired up, but we'll see. Dark horse: Pete Buttgieg. I think he'll run and lose. He'll parlay that either into a successful Governor or Congressional run in 2022 or potentially be a VP pick. Darker horse: No idea if he has any desire to do so, but Schiff has made quite a big name for himself and could be the golden boy based on how these investigations go. As for who I want it to be, I want a Democrat who's damn good on foreign policy, especially wrt to China and Russia (or at the very least someone who recognizes how important FP is and gets an elite staff). Trump has made countering China in Asia and the rest of the world so much harder than it had to be. We need to put some serious work into rebuilding alliances across the entire world if we are to limit China's growth and ensure our continued place at the top defining the rules and standards of international politics, trade, and technology. Being able to do so has brought us an incredible ROI and we need to keep that power. As for Russia, their economy is in deep trouble and Putin's wars and military parades can only distract from the fact for so long. Obama's sanctions during a time of increasing oil prices starting a run on the ruble was very advantageous for us as it resulted in Russia burning through its forex reserves to stabilize the currency and an overall weakening of their economic situation(read more here as they have a surprising good summary of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_financial_crisis_(2014–2017)). GDP growth has been terrible with an absolute collapse from 2014 (start of the annexation of Crimea) to 2017. Having a massive loss in GDP during a global recover/boom is terrible and now still having a 1.5% growth rate as a developing nation is terrible. Economic and geopolitical forecasters warn about the political situation as a result of this come 2023-2026 and it'd be great if we had a foreign policy team that could take advantage of that.
  20. Part of that is because it's one of the few states where you can survive living outside basically year round (doubt too many homeless people survive a Minnesota winter for too long), another part is that other states give their homeless people bus tickets to California as their solution to homelessness, and another part of it is that homeless people generally move to cities and California is the biggest state with the biggest cities. Some of it does have to do with too onerous of restrictions on building developments, but even building a shit ton of skyscrapers for SROs wouldn't bring housing prices down to an affordable level in San Francisco. There are just too many high paying jobs there which will guarantee people get priced out and you can only get developers to agree to so much rent control in exchange for rights to build. Having the problems with too many homeless people isn't necessarily and indictment of poor policy and in the case of Newsom it probably isn't as I think he is in favor of loosening SF's zoning restrictions and encouraging more building. FWIW, while you go after California, they're clearly doing something right as they have 5 public universities (4 if you choose not to count UCSF as they're purely a graduate medical institution) that outperform us in research according to the ARWU (decent enough ranking) and 6 that outperform in undergraduate education (US News, it's shit, but it's the one everyone uses so eh). It has a per capita GDP 10% higher than ours. The top graduates from their high schools generally beat and outnumber ours if you look at performance in national competitions and representation in science contests like ISEF and STS and in crude metrics like PSAT cutoff for National Merit (an OK-ish estimator of seeing how well educated the top of the state is). Let's not start throwing stones from glass houses. If you think no Democrat from CA should be president, no Republican from TX ever should either because they failed to invest in the future of Texas and as a result we've been falling behind. We should be #1 in everything. This is Texas goddamnit.
  21. Does anyone have any highlight videos of his best punts strung together? I can find individual clips, but no full length video and that is a crime considering how good he is.
  22. "Try and stop us please" I love how often that line is repeated. You can almost hear the pain in his voice towards the end.
  23. Great update, thanks!
  24. Big get at a huge position of need where we have almost nobody in state? That's how you end a week right.
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