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  1. All that truly matters about this situation is that this young girl survives and God-willing with no last brain injuries. I realize right now that that does not appear to be the case if she survives, but again all that matters is her surviving and hopefully being okay. The situation for Reid and the Chiefs is a topic for another day. Hope she pulls through.

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  2. 19 hours ago, C-Man said:


    Just saw this. Wow!

    I remember when he was the face of the coverage on ESPN of the Balco investigation and Barry Bonds treated him like trash. Gomez took it in stride, but I always felt bad for him because he seemed like a genuinely good human being. It does appear that Bonds came to trust him though so there is some redeeming quality for Bonds. I read about his son playing college baseball and now he's in the Red Sox system, which is a pretty cool way for his legacy to continue on through his son. RIP to above all else a good human being who happened to cover the sport he loved.

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  3. Being in an area where there are a high amount of motorized bicycles I would ask this of Secretary Buttigieg. If you are going to be on the road using a mode of transportation that has a motor you should have a license plate on it. It is decidedly not fun trying to cross the road when the walk sign is on and seeing one of these motorized bikes not following any traffic laws, at all. I am all for more of this type of transportation (especially because it has greatly aided restaurant to-go order abilities which is good for everyone), but there needs to be some uniform national law on registering these bikes.

    I do also support his push for high speed rail. I would gladly ride the rails on a more regular basis if we had the infrastructure to support such an endeavor. I like to fly, but high speed rail needs to be part of the future of this country sooner rather than later.

  4. I, for one, am glad that a thread about the president gets sidetracked into talking about this. I could no longer handle the wall-to-wall coverage of the scurrilous and scandalous behavior of the FIrst Dog and Biden covering up the dog's inability to go to the bathroom in his designated spot.* We need a real leader in the Oval Office and not Sneaky Joe and his hobo dog.

    *If any of that sentence were actually true, well, it would still be a more positive day than any we experienced in the prior four years before Biden took office.

     

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  5. 4 minutes ago, Had Enough said:

    And a tuck rule adding one. And oh a 48 yard FG in the snow. And another QB finishing the AFC championship game. And the defense scoring as many TDs as the offense in the SB finished off with another long FG. Good thing it wasn't Scott Norwood on his side.

    Then there's the run it in from the 1 Seahawks Super Bowl. But they did have a fluke pass and catch to even get the Seahawks in range.

    And the let's score a whole 13 points versus the Rams Super Bowl. Lowest point total in super bowl history to win the game.

    He did lead that comeback vs the Falcons. Part competence; part incompetence.

    And in those Eli games, why don't you score more than 17 and 14 points. Let's say Eli doesn't get lucky one of those games. That victory at 14 points is the lowest winning point total since 1975 (excluding beating the Rams of course).

    Odd tonight was the most lopsided of them all.


    Team game much.

    All that negativity will just burn you up man. It’s just a game and Brady seems to do a fairly good job of winning regularly at it.

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  6. I did not watch this game closely, but I did get a friend to place a bet for me over in Jersey on Tampa winning the game straight up. My thinking was fairly simple. I felt what most folks might call some irrational confidence in Todd Bowles. I took Brady completely out of the equation and said that Bowles was not going to have his defense be embarrassed again by Tyreek Hill and that they'd shut him down. I told this same friend this before the game and he kinda waived that off. I just could not see Mahomes beating that defense today and that Bowles would have a plan in place that would shut them down. Again I just felt this irrational confidence in him for whatever reason.

    I also partially placed the bet because this would be payback for Brady since Spagnuolo shut him down in what could have been the 19-0 season when he was the DC with the Giants. There was ample motivation for Brady to beat Mahomes as well as Spagnuolo. He did both and what I did see of Brady looked like his vintage self. The guy is simply incredible. 

    I also think it should be mentioned that Byron Leftwich is one heckuva offensive coordinator. Perhaps this has happened, but would this be the first time that a team with African-Americans as both coordinators has won the Super Bowl? I honestly do not know as I don't keep up with the NFL that closely anymore. I thought they were both superb. I think Bowles might be a guy better suited to being a DC than the guy running the show. I will be interested to see who eventually hires Leftwich as their head coach. I always liked him as a player going back to Marshall. Seems like a pretty good guy from what I can tell. 

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  7. 3 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    He has finally accepted that he's a L O S E R.

    That has deeply wounded him and caused him, for once, to want to remove himself from the public eye.

    Also it finally dawns on me that he doesn't like defending the impeachment on "out of office" grounds because that concedes that he is legitimately out of office.  And he's still wrapping his squirming brain around that one.

    Can you imagine his brain at the moment? Come out and speak and have to admit you lost in order to speak more about this impeachment trial? His past actions lead me to believe he will not be out in front at all on this solely because his narcissistic mind does not deal with losing or being labeled one.

  8. 2 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    Has is it occurred to OANN that their network name basically already looks/sounds like QANON?  Just start broadcasting that crap, get all the lunatics out in the open and let's get this shit over with.  

    I kind of figure that this will be their core audience until the next conspiracy to hop on comes around. Roth’s article on Defector nailed QANON believers to a T. The believers need their next hit and I would imagine this conspiracy-fueled network does as well. 

  9. 20 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

    I know we’re off on a “VotEr fRaUD” tangent but to bring it back to AOC and Tlaib and other members of “The Squad”....

    I have have a real fucking problem with all these Republican men trying to belittle and mansplain about trauma without acknowledging how female trauma is fundamentally different than male trauma.

    Until you spend your entire existence knowing 50% of the population is physically stronger and bigger than you. And live with the fear that the same 50% has a element of sexual violence that often accompanies physical violence that isn’t usually a threat to men.

    And being told your whole life that it’s your responsibility to “act right” (don’t go anywhere alone at night, don’t dress a “certain way”, be “polite” to vulgar predators to placate them instead of pushing back, to take the responsibility to avoid “problems” instead of forcing the predators to “act right”, to just grin and bear and it.

    Women live with a entirely unfair and unjust system that requires them to modify their existence in order to “be safe”.

    All that conditioning from the time we’re faced with the fact that hatred from men includes an acknowledgment that any threat to use includes a calculation most men never have to even think about in passing.

    Men may have to worry about getting beat up - women have to worry about sexual violence on top of physical violence.

    Do we think Adam Schiff or Bernie Sanders or Ted Lieu get very detailed rape threats? No, of course not.

    That element of threat to women adds an entire extra level of fear.

    That manifests itself in more severe fear and anxiety and a trauma.

    So for men to brush off that very significant element of the difference between how men and women deal with threats and the resulting lasting trauma.

    So, in conclusion, until I hear these men acknowledge that there is an extra level of threat when it comes to women vs. men I invite them to shut the fuck up.

    So how do we go about getting you to a state where you can get elected to Congress?

  10. 3 hours ago, Js1 said:

    It’s basically bringing back the fireside chats of FDR or the radio address of Ronnie, but in a Joe Biden way: just talking directly to average Americans. He excels at that 

     

    This is the one I was reading about. I can recall studying the Fireside Chats in grade school. Those were exceedingly important at the time and these attempts to reach out are as well. We have to have a government that is out there front and center that tries to keep in tune with the American public. I am very glad to see this return to decency by President Biden. The president absolutely has the ability to set a national mood by his actions and this is a positive one which is cool.

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  11. I read awhile ago that President Biden is calling up Americans to speak with them and hear their concerns about the pandemic and job loss among other things. 

    For the folks like myself who were wary of Biden being the nominee I think things like this help me to put into focus that he excels at the very things we need most as a country right now. We need a leader who can show compassion and empathy and one that is willing to speak to their fellow citizens and let them know we're going to get through this pandemic and economic crisis. So much normalcy so fast. Not real sure what to do with it after the prior four death cult years other than enjoy this time.

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  12. 6 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

    Yeah, all those Squad bitches are jus drama queens.
     

     


    It’s not like they have been getting legitimate death threats that required the FBI to step in since the day they were sworn in or anything.

    It’s not like Ilhan Omar got disgusting threats from one of the actual insurrectionists prior the the riot. And reported him to law enforcement authorities and nothing was done.

    Just attention seeking dramatics, right???

     

    Every single time a congressional member of the death cult attempts to say we should just move on from the insurrection in January it needs some heavy pushback. Just out of human decency we need to stamp out this mindset that has become a staple of the death cult. 
     

    I believe in treating everyone as an equal and that includes those who perhaps one day might wish myself or loved ones harm because we do not hold racist, white nationalist or conspiratorial beliefs. No member of Congress, or citizen in this country, should ever have to live in fear like Congresswoman Tlaib does. This absolutely has to be brought to an end. If you are a sitting member of congress or the senate and hold those beliefs you need to be banned from the entire Capitol complex and your district or state immediately needs a special election to replace you. I wish the death cult party had the courage to stand up to their base and tell them that the hate engine has to cease to exist, but I know that will not transpire.  All that hate will just burn them up in the end. 

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  13. On 1/15/2021 at 11:00 PM, Brothahorn said:

    If you haven't already watched it try Inspector Morse. Endeavor is the prequel.

    I saw a lot of PBS as a kid because we did not have cable, but it was either the educational shows or later on I got into "Are You Being Served?" which is still one of the funniest shows I have ever watched. It was way ahead of its time.

    I am definitely going to watch Inspector Morse though. Right now I just began season six of Endeavour. Season five was amazing. I cannot think of anything about that season that was not done really well. The storylines are interesting and they give you just enough of their personal life without bombarding you with it. But yes I will watch the original once I finish season seven. I find the British detective shows to be extremely well done. I like Morse and DI Thursday the most out of the characters. You can feel the chemistry they have with each other. 

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  14. 6 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

    the thing is, this actually matters a lot to conservatives

    It's amazing.

    It is pretty confounding to me personally. I mean I get that the GOP wants women to look a certain way and if they do not then they have a shelf life.

    I do not care what my representative looks like. What I care about is do they genuinely care about the people they are serving. If they do not then I do not want them serving me and the people I live around. I see Democrats of every shade on the national stage. I see Stacey Abrams out there doing great things and the only time I have heard her size mentioned was in tweets from the MAGA cult calling her a fat b and other assorted names associated with that. Abrams just delivered one of the biggest political results in the last 50 years and that is what I will go by with her and those like her. The looks thing should never be part of the equation. I read it on here though as well from people commenting on AOC regularly and how she looks and it's disappointing to see because it doesn't make folks look much better than the people who vote on the GOP side because of how someone looks. Congresswoman Cortez fights for her constituents and she is highly intelligent and doesn't do anything half-arsed in relation to her job as a congresswoman. That should be all that matters. The misogyny I can do without.

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  15. Tonight was the 800th game that James has scored 25 or more which is the most in NBA history and apparently is now 3rd all-time in shots made. He got a triple-double and that 10th assist was a play right out of Pete Carril's old Princeton offense. 

    The Nuggets, on the other hand, were outscored by 33 points in the 2nd half and honestly it is hard to see them being a serious title contender with the roster they currently have. Jokic is just negated by the Laker bigs. He's still one of the most fun guys in the league to watch when he isn't playing against my guys. I think the biggest obstacle to the Purple and Gold getting back to the Finals will be Utah. 

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  16. 5 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

    compelling. they should boot her out of congress.

    Absolutely. This goes beyond the letter next to your name. No one should be in Congress who holds the beliefs this woman does or has said the things she has about fellow members of Congress. If Republicans had the ability to stand up to Trump's base this woman would be booted out. She may be representative of what is wrong with her district, but keep this there. Someone with her beliefs and tendencies toward racism, inciting violence and obvious violent fantasies about killing members of Congress should be barred from ever setting foot in DC ever again. Democrats have to draw a hard line in the sand and take whatever comes from that. Anyone with an R next to their name that has any ounce of human decency left in them should join them in having her taken out of Congress. I was sitting a row up from a congressional representative that is a republican on my way back to New York because I had a connecting flight to DC. Part of me wanted to greet him and say to please do the right thing with this woman, but I let it go because I believe in decency and not harassing public officials and demeaning them even if I disagree with them.

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  17. 29 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

    Y’all really will just stick your dicks anywhere and then when then inevitable crazy comes home to roost you’ll be all “Bitches Be Crazy”, huh?

    Men are dumb.

    I like your style. Never complain about women being crazy if you are willing to jump right in with someone who obviously needs to visit a psychiatric ward to get some help for what ills her.

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  18. 1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    David Roth @ Defector wrote a great piece today.  Longish, but eventually gets to the point.  Maybe his best work in months.  

    To paraphrase one of the commentors; his 2nd to last paragraph is probably the best summary of the MAGA belief system I've ever read:

     

     

    Here's the article:

    https://defector.com/the-march-of-the-american-kooks/

     

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    Steve Carlton won 27 games and the National League Cy Young Award in 1972, lost 20 games and gave up more earned runs than any pitcher in the league in 1973, and then stopped speaking to the media entirely over the next few seasons. Carlton continued not to talk—not as he won the Cy Young three more times in six years, not after he won his 200th career game or his 300th, and not as the lightning in his left arm first flickered and then finally failed, by which point Carlton was trying to make back the $10 million that an unscrupulous agent had taken from him. During that purgatorial final stretch, Carlton shuffled through five different teams in two years. He won a World Series with the Cardinals when he was first becoming what he would be, in 1967, and then another with the Twins in 1987, as a 42-year-old emergency starter with an ERA that started with a six. He pitched brilliantly for both the decades between those triumphs. 

    There was one particularly unlikable Philadelphia columnist that Carlton particularly didn’t want to talk to, but mostly he didn’t want to play his designated part in the industrial process of baseball media, and so just did not. The people covering Carlton called it The Big Silence, and hated him for it. Carlton finally started talking, a little desperately, near the end, but when he insisted, after a dead-cat bounce of quasi-competence with the White Sox in 1986, that he could still pitch into his 40s, the Chicago Tribune‘s Bernie Lincicome wrote that he “should have kept his mouth shut.” Lincicome added a line break for emphasis before concluding, “at least when he wasn’t talking, he didn’t lie.” 

    Carlton received 96 percent of the vote in his first year on the Hall of Fame ballot, in 1994; among starting pitchers, only Tom Seaver has ever received a higher percentage. Carlton was uncharacteristically or conveniently or maybe even authentically voluble after his election, and seemingly quite happy to talk. “I thought he did a super job answering questions,” Hall of Fame vice president Bill Guilfoyle told Murray Chass of the New York Times in April of 1994. “It was focused strictly on baseball. He made some pertinent observations about hitters, pitchers, catchers.” 

    The reason Chass was asking, and the reason Guilfoyle was moved to mention that Carlton stuck to sports in those interviews, was a story that Pat Jordan had written about Carlton for that month’s issue of Philadelphia Magazine. Carlton was known as a fastidious, driven, multiply eccentric baseball genius during his career, but also only known by the observable public-facing edges of his personal unusualness—the “mood behavior” room in which he sat before starts staring at a painting of the ocean; the arm exercises he did in a bucket of brown rice; the Eastern philosophy he read and the various esoteric disciplines he was purported to practice. The story in Philadelphia Magazine filled that outline in, in Carlton’s own words, and what had appeared from the outside to be a typical ballplayer mishmash of useful affirmations and secret tenets was revealed as something both more and less coherent, and which now seems much more prosaic. This was how Tim McCarver, Carlton’s longtime personal catcher, came to tell Chass that he “could say, with all the assurance in the world, that Lefty is not a bigot and he is not an anti-Semite.” 

    You have probably guessed that McCarver said this because Carlton was quoted saying some extremely fucking bigoted and anti-Semitic things in Jordan’s story.

    But Carlton said a lot of things in that story, and the sheer volume of his various conflicting and often contradictory conspiratorial beliefs was such that their roaring and furious confluence obliterated any legible politics. Still, Bob Ryan was moved last week to make the comparison, despite Twitter’s inadvisable character count restrictions, between Carlton and huffy Hall of Fame snubee Curt Schilling.

    Yes, Carlton was living in an earthship in southwestern Colorado, doing yoga and hoarding guns and preparing for The Revolution in whatever Red Dawn–ish guise it might arrive, but he was not doing any of this for just one reason. As Jordan wrote, “One minute he’ll say, ‘The Russian and U.S. governments fill the air with low-frequency sound waves meant to control us,'” Jordan wrote, “and the next he’ll say, ‘The Elders of Zion rule the world,’ and then, ‘The British MI-5 and-6 intelligence agencies have ruled the world since 1812,’ and, ‘Twelve Jewish bankers meeting in Switzerland rule the world,’ and, ‘The world is controlled by a committee of 300 which meets at a roundtable in Rome.'” 

    Carlton also believed a bunch of hoary, bigoted bullshit about AIDS and the Clintons and the other things that people who like to believe hoary, bigoted bullshit liked to believe during that era. There is a name for people like this, with beliefs like these, and if it is a bit dismissive, this short word is also the only one capacious enough to cover that blunderbuss blast of anxiety and suspicion and willful, frightened, wholly cosmetic certitude. Steve Carlton, it turned out, was a purebred American Kook.


    In his willingness to entertain any fantastical or conspiratorial explanation for why he felt so crushingly anxious and hunted and betrayed all the time, Carlton was also an early adopter. He had Facebook Brain a generation or two before Facebook existed, although it’s more accurate to say that Carlton worked assiduously to give himself a disorder that is now much easier to catch. “Lefty reads too many books,” McCarver told Chass. “If he’s guilty of anything, it’s believing some of the material he reads.” 

    That’s true enough, to a point, but one of the signatures of Facebook Brain is how that load-bearing “some of” is only ever deployed in self-defense. The point and the principle is to believe all of it, even and especially where those explanations cancel out or contradict one another, and to hold those beliefs tightest where they are most tenuous. This is fundamental to the belief system; to do any less would be cowardly, not merely a concession but an actual betrayal. 

    As politics, this doesn’t really work, for the same obvious reasons that, say, a grapefruit does not work as a helicopter; as a worldview it is among other things hopelessly recursive, a locked groove filled with static. As a lifestyle, though, it is pretty straightforward: a rejection not just of conventional wisdom but consensus reality, done in defiance and with relentlessly signifying intensity, wherever and whenever the opportunity presents itself, always. 

    Steve Carlton, to his great credit, has stayed on his ranch, planting fruit trees and selling autographs when he needs money. He believes whatever he believes and isn’t really hurting anyone. This is how most people are, mostly. But the people who think or suspect or are otherwise inclined in the ways Carlton was now have both the capacity and the incentive to perform that belief. For some, it’s an opportunity to make money and win attention as an influencer and advocate for that lifestyle, but the lifestyle also offers every acolyte an opportunity to become an important character in the broader seething story. In a society that signals, in a million brutally overt ways, that your life does not really count for very much, it is easy in the abstract to see the appeal of being able to opt into something a little more significant—to be a leader, a rescuer, a hero or a star or just a soldier on the winning side. Which, sadly, brings us back to those particulars, and what they demand.

    “This is a sharing information protest and march against everything COVID, Vaccine, PCR Tests, Lockdowns, Masks, Fauci, Gates, Newsom, China, digital tracking, etc,” organizers of a SCAMDEMIC PROTEST/MARCH that briefly shut down a vaccination site at Dodger Stadium over the weekend explained in a social media post advertising the event. “Please refrain from wearing Trump/MAGA attire,” they requested, “as we want our statement to resonate with the sheeple.” 

    Put all that weirdly superior, gleefully expansive, relentlessly aggrieved incoherence into action and you have what we’ve got—not just people blasting their friends and family with weird corrosive bullshit nonstop, but people preventing strangers from getting a vaccine during a time of plague, because they wanted those people to have to see them, and to have to deal with them. As it happened, many of the people at the Dodger Stadium action wore their Trump shit anyway. The strange fidelities of this movement are tragic, but they are also very deeply held.


    Here is the synchronicity that binds old-fashioned American kookery’s longstanding suspicions and signature fantasies to the person Donald Trump, and which sent them charging into the Capitol last month ready to commit murder in his service, and which has them still standing back and standing by to advance a fantastical and self-invented agenda of retribution and exterminative violence. Trump’s inexcusable celebrity and singularly rancid self are the irritant around which this weird pearl has formed, but the process was perfectly natural. 

    Without social media, Trump himself is a spent force, just another podgy golf asshole griping in a country club. But also he is airborne, now. 

    He is alive in all the Americans who are not just blinkered and baffled and vain enough to consider wearing a mask into a supermarket somehow the same thing as dying in the holocaust, but who also believe that their confrontations with the tyranny of The Door Guy At Trader Joe’s must be streamed someplace where people can throw it some hearts, or likes, or fuming devil faces, or money. Social media is bad for people like this in the ways that it’s bad for everyone, but there is no more intoxicating or deranging a gift for a person who is already like this than something that looks and feels so much like a megaphone.

    The belief system that has emerged from these incentives and pressures is defined by simple stubbornness and a uniquely curdled hedonism; the game is to believe (or, anyway, to push) whatever feels hottest, which is what you yourself find most intriguing and that which centers you most. From there, the gig is to just keep on finding ever more elaborate and extravagant and fervid ways to profess that belief, all the time. It is Trump’s personal damage to believe that the world revolves around him and his every cheesy chiseling gripe; his vanity is limitless, but it limits him in turn. But his legacy is and will long be everywhere around us, in the people he has empowered to think and feel and act and be more and more like him, and who believe that they can become powerful and rich and safe in the ways that he is by acting in the ways that he acts.

    To return to Bob Ryan’s binary, it is not quite right to say that this development is why Steve Carlton is in Cooperstown and Curt Schilling is still shy of induction. Carlton was one of the best pitchers of the last century, while Schilling is nowhere near that on merit, and if he’s probably a Hall of Famer he is also inarguably enough of an asshole to make the decision difficult. The difference is not just that Carlton didn’t say anything for a couple decades and, once he finally broke his silence, mostly talked about 1) how he was done wrong and 2) what the queers are doing to our soil, and it’s not even how much harder he needed to work to get up to speed on his goofy-vile beliefs. It’s that Carlton, unlike Schilling, had not come to believe that it was his sacred duty to make his goofy-vile beliefs everyone else’s business all the time. The compulsive shitposting and defiant ugliness that made Schilling toxic are not things he can turn off; they are quite plainly who and what he believes himself to be. 

    For all the clammy and overdetermined machinations by the aspirants to Trump’s throne, it is plain to see which people in our politics are most authentically like him. The new congressional Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Madison Cawthorn and Lauren Boebert take after Trump in their thirst and strident idiocy, but mostly in their understanding that their jobs are to sell, and complain, and post and post and post, and never to disclaim any of the lazy suspicions and secondhand gripes and idle vendettas out of which they’ve fashioned their public selves. As with Trump, the goal is in one sense more about presence than power; as also with Trump, and with Schilling, the obligation to that thirst runs far deeper than the ridiculous outward presentation would suggest. 

    The politics these people profess is not about helping anyone, lord knows, or really about any kind of ideological program at all. It is about an obsessive and even loving taxonomy of and fixation upon enemies and problems, and the way it works is through relentlessness, and through a refusal to ever stop performing weird arias of anger and umbrage. The terrified and fuming derangement that conservative media sought to embed in its consumers, mostly to keep them pliable and on the hook through the commercial breaks, has blossomed into this: a rising army of impossibly unhappy people, their ambitions both vague and vast, who have come to understand that the dizzy righteousness of that derangement is the point. 

    Post by post and provocation by provocation, it is absolutely as stupid and ridiculous as it looks. But whether it’s out of some curdled honor or sincere belief, the more important point is that they would absolutely kill to keep it all going, because they cannot imagine any way of being outside of it. For all the wild talk of vengeance and violence and humiliation, the fantasy catharsis of firing squads and military tribunals and the rope, there’s nothing they truly want on the other side of those lurid resolutions. They need to feel like this all the time, because they can’t imagine another way to feel. This is the last and most meaningful tenet of this vain and annihilating and wildly metastatic politics: It just can’t stop.

     

    I subscribe to Defector and Roth and Magary are the biggest reasons why. Roth is an incredibly talented writer and that piece he wrote was one of his finest. The man has a God given gift for writing. He can tell a great story, but still bring  it all home by the end of the article. I would suggest that anyone who enjoys a good read should go through his articles starting with this one.

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  19. I know some people who enjoyed moving to Texas from other places and gladly welcomed hot weather. I grew up there and remember full well the oppressive summer heat. I dealt with it by swimming a lot or going to the lake with my family on the weekend. All of my family is in Texas and my brother is in our hometown raising his family because he wants his daughter to experience life like we did as kids and have some room to roam out in the country. I think that’s awesome.

    I do not think the man is wrong about everything he said, but it sounds like he probably should have stayed either in California or picked somewhere with a colder climate that has no humidity. It sounds like the entirety of his research in moving to Austin was one that was related to hype and that is never a good reason to move somewhere. Also he could have just gotten a hotel in Austin for two weeks in July or August, discovered what scathing heat feels like, and just saved a bunch of money by not moving there. 

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