DonkeyCigars

Father? Joking aside, you are quite right about me, I'm not that intelligent and probably have a rather average and boring IQ (which, further to your point, I understand is a test that centers around logic skills, etc.). That said, thanks for the defense, albeit damning, of my honest and good faith question here. Since I guess the other posters only replied to try and call out a "gotcha" that didn't exist, I'll pose the question to you: Do the political pundits think this was an intentional and purposeful ploy to reach across the aisle or get everyone singing from the same sheet of music? Or is the feeling that he is dumb and it was an unforced political error and the Dems dunked on it? Either way, the end result is positive and this is great. You agree with that, right?

This is amazing.

I didn't grasp that; I guess I'll cop to admitting I'm not as smart as you seem to think I was, unfortunately. Now, if we can move past my limitations and move on to discussing it, it's super interesting. Firstly, that Tuberville would do this. Do the political pundits think this was an intentional and purposeful ploy to reach across the aisle or get everyone singing from the same sheet of music? Or is the feeling that he is dumb and it was an unforced political error and the Dems dunked on it? Either way, the end result is positive and this is great. You agree with that, right?

Your post got me thinking about New Hampshire ("Live Free or Die" is famously their motto), and they even have a higher population % of vax than California at 58.8% versus 53.7%! Texas is at 44.6% btw...

I'm assuming parody. I'm hoping sarcastic parody because his energy would be weird if not, but the 99-0 vote makes me think not and actually seems like a good thing (bipartisanship at 100% seems rare and good these days). I guess if nobody else is confused then just ignore and I'll hang up and listen to pick up my answer via context clues and other posts since it doesn't sound like I have "dumb question amnesty" here from you.

Was that a joke or was he being super sarcastic? I almost thought that was SNL and still not sure this is real...

Here is my POV: Been to The Grove a couple of times and every time it was epic. I went to a tailgate where they hired servers with white gloves to serve lobster. Of course, I fell asleep in a port-a-potty and missed half the game, but that's show business, baby! Definitely stay in Memphis and party hard on Beale St. the night before and then just drive the hour to Oxford the next day. Pack a tie. I spent way too much time in Nashville the last couple of years for work; it's definitely an It town now, you can't go wrong by staying in the gulch, but I actually enjoy staying by Vanderbilt where Marriott has like 5 properties within a stone throw (and near the Hattie B's). The Parthenon is stupid and a waste of time, but I guess you have to see it at least once? There is a Bob's Chop House in the Omni downtown and other good higher end dining on that side of Broadway. Overall Nashville has an "Old Austin" vibe and energy before Austin sold out and sucked. I will say that Nashville has a big problem with homeless people and stoop sleeping and tents in the city center during the warmer months, so the mini-Austin moniker cuts both ways. College Station sucks. Starkville, Lexington, Missouri, Gainesville, etc. no clue. Athens is an anachronistic college town. It's probably one of the few college towns that still exist as a pure play and there is a charm and fun to that. I've been to a few others and I guess it reminds me the most of maybe South Bend but more live music/artsy/college bars. It's requisitely small and dingy in a lot of ways. A great experience I'm told by my UGA friends, to live and go to school in, sounds like what Austin was like for half the board here who went to UT in the 70's or 80's. Nowadays I spend a lot of time in Knoxville due to a consulting project with a Haslem-owned organization not named the Browns. I like it the best of all the SEC towns I've visited and if you can get past all the "we are the REAL UT" jokes from all the Haslem MBA guys, I find Tennessee grads to be very likable, down to earth, smart and competent people. There is no better city to wear a UT needlepoint belt, which, by the way, since we are in the SEC now, is as mandatory as croakies, boat shoes, higher inseam shorts, and Masters polos/hats. Here you go: https://smathersandbranson.com/product/texas-light-khaki-needlepoint-belt or https://www.jtspencer.com/collections/belts/products/university-of-texas Lastly, my experience is, nowhere above I've been to during COVID-19 is wearing a mask really a thing for anyone living TN (Nashville and Knoxville) unless you are in an office. YMMV.

This is a show I haven’t thought about in a long time.

I appreciate it. I'm teetering here on the brink of elimination. Need all the mercy I can get.

Yes that is hypocritical of her and she shouldn't have said that. What is not hypocritical, again, is what we were discussing earlier. These are not the same things. This will be the last time I'll say that because it's clear you aren't working with a full deck and something about a pig enjoying the mud.

I really really miss @bad_teammate

Gotcha; thanks for the explanation. Could have done without the gif though.

I think this is why, at least anecdotally, most people I know have zero real problems with Biden. There are nits, sure, but on the balance, he's an acceptable President.

SO WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? DEMS IN NY AND TRUMP VOTERS ARE THE SAME! WE VOTED FOR THE SAME THING? WHY AM I YELLING?

Thanks for posting this-- it never gets old. Norm is a national treasure and we must protect him at all costs.

I guess I just wanted to help someone understand something that they were struggling with. I wasn't trying to defend anyone. Maybe just being pedantic, which is boring and I now feel shame for that. Mea Culpa Senor Mustachio.

Yea that's tough. I foresee a ton of business back-tracking or further stalling going back to the office now.

I had a buddy who had the J/J back when you did get tested positive for covid-19 on Sunday the 1st. He tested negative on Saturday the 7th. Said he never lost taste or smell and was pretty mild-- felt like an allergy cold for a day or two and that was it. I hope yours is as mild, my friend. That said, of the breakthroughs I've heard about anecdotally from friends and colleagues and family-- 90% are from J/J vax.... y'all mileage may vary.

Somehow you grasped it but then failed to grasp it at the same time. It's like you are in the quantum realm. I'm not sure how to be more clear than SKJ and Hayden. Or maybe it's you don't understand the fundamental and basic definition of hypocritical here. Calling on Dems to act in a manner that logically follows from how they've intentionally structured (in this case, building an identity around some social issues) is not hypocritical because the GQP have not a) structured their political machine in that way and then failed to act (where they've failed to act, it is consistent with their lack of morals) and b) their calling on the Dems to be consistent in policing their own based off their political charter is them simply rubbing salt into a political wound and being ugly-- it's being a poor sport. The only way it would be hypocritical is if the GQP said they were all about policing their own and then when a scandal happened, they acted as they do now. They avoid that level of prosecution (and thus charge of hypocrisy) because they have no morals. Now, if you want to say that the Dems should (rightfully) tell the GQP to pound sand and shut their mouths because they have no moral clout or standing to comment, then that is fair. It is not hypocritical, however. Make sense?

No it's not. I can explain it to you again, but I can't make you understand it.

Did that happen tho?

You misunderstood me (you seem to do that a lot): I'm saying that the Republicans having no moral compass (as you said) means that they aren't being hypocritical when not acting with a moral compass (again, your characterization). The Dems have a few identity/governing principles that are well recorded, so when something happens counter to those, they are compelled to act in concert lest they lose the confidence via legitimacy and trust of their people by being shown to be hypocrites. In my mind simple politics dictated that it was never a question of if but when Cuomo would be rejected for this after the report was released. There is nothing unfair or even comparable to what the other side is doing or would do, politically speaking, with a similar scandal because the Dems and Republicans are set up on such different frameworks that they are apples and oranges these days (which is not defending the republicans, just pointing out how completely different their political instinct and machine is-- which is a net negative these days if 2020 election tells us anything and the Dems are politically smarter).

I'm not sure I understand your last question, but concede the rest of your post to be a strong rebuttal.

I agree with you. I don't understand those who ever thought that the Dem party had a choice; they've been boxed into having to push out folks for certain flavors of scandals. If they didn't, yet still campaigned upon and build their identity around certain social movements, then they would cease to exist as a legitimate voice. Republicans have no such hypocritical concerns-- it's a feature and not a bug of their platform. It's a liquid, T1000 political body versus the Arnold Terminator. Cuomo being gone though, I don't think any stakeholders-- New Yorkers, Democrats, etc.-- will shed a tear. Next man up.

I know it doesn't seem like it because I have a few fans who follow me around trying to ban me by negging literally every post, but I do generally try and lead with links and information versus random punditry (and I'll never link a youtube video unless it's for humor)-- but I think to your point, there isn't a ton of (credible) immediate push back or divide in the scientific and medical communities because they are all aligned and in the same business (and business is intentionally or unintentionally booming, as Pfizer just updated forecasted earnings that went up ~30% with the addition of booster shot requirements, this week). I think it is fair to suggest that the real and relevant pushback (if it even exists), will be future dated because a) we can't know what we don't know now and b) we are still largely operating in an all-hands, crisis-mode, react-don't-think which doesn't lend itself to a lot of introspection, investigation and reporting as those are luxuries of a calmer, quieter environment. All that to say, to your credit and point, you can't prove a negative, and there is absolutely a chance that the greater scientific and medical communities are super smart geniuses who worked something short of a miracle on a compressed timeframe to save the world from covid-19 and skepticism insulted their sacrifice. Absolutely. disclaimer for your edification: I'm fully vaxxed, pfizer, since April. So I'm not coming at this from too vested an interest as a skeptic.