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Ghost of LL

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  1. Pitt is just plowing the way for SMU to get into the ACC championship game.
  2. Goddamn Missouri sucks.
  3. One of my more eclectic interests is the Age of Sail. I've read Utt's really excellent history of the naval War of 1812 (Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron), and I've made it all the way through the Aubrey-Maturin series. But I really feel incomplete without having read a biography of the greatest figure of the age--Nelson. And I can't really find a biography out there that is particularly well rated. Does anyone have any suggestions?
  4. Yeah--and it was definitely accurate.
  5. Jesus Christ--all these posts about Nancy Mace, and then Lindsay Halligan, and now this crazy-ass bitch . . . I really feel like I'm being kink shamed for my appreciation of decently attractive batshit-crazy women.
  6. Just as an FYI for all who may be interested--an Eastern Airlines 777 just landed at AUS. Eastern Airlines is a charter company that has been used extensively by ICE to run deportation flights.
  7. Smith is 79 years old. He was never a particularly good jurist. But at this point he's obviously suffering some pretty serious cognitive decline.
  8. That SCOTUS decision isn't going to come out until March at the earliest. By then, it's too late. It'd take the economy at least six months to even start to recover.
  9. Damn, man. You nailed it. And hell yes.
  10. Three things on this: 1) You generally don't get disbarred for gross negligence as a lawyer; it requires intentional and willful malfeasance. That being said, incompetence of this level can result in some form of discipline from either the Court or the Bar. 2) Lindsay Halligan is really kind of hot, and as an officer of the Court I am willing to offer my services in carrying out whatever punishment the Court may deem appropriate for her. 3) At the risk of being presumptuous, I might suggest a year or two in my sex dungeon (which, we we have established on another thread, does not bear any resemblance to Sei Less in Manhattan) as the appropriate sanction for Ms. Halligan (that naughty and incompetent little minx).
  11. You shut your mouth. You shut your dirty whore mouth right now and you go straight to Hell. I very vaguely see the resemblance and I'd totally fuck the shit out of Nancy Mace because she's kinda dirty hot and you know the sex would be off the chain because she's absolutely fucking batshit crazy.
  12. Huh--I guess I don't have enough experience with sex dungeons. Mine has a very different vibe from the vibe at the Moxy.
  13. He's on IR.
  14. I mean, if you were watching any sporting event Saturday night other than Dallas Stars hockey, well--I just don't know what you are doing with your life.
  15. Sei Less is really good. I went there the last time I was in New York (stayed at the Moxy at 36th and 7th because I was going to a show at MSG). It is definitely not a rough area. Admittedly, I was not getting into fights at 2 AM. But still--the whole area seemed pretty damned safe.
  16. Ralphie doing a couple minutes of play-by-play makes me so happy.
  17. So are we just not going to talk about Donald Trump sucking Bill's dick?
  18. Well, I have been meaning to lose some weight.
  19. I don't think it's flooding the zone. I think it's more a function of seeing that the Dems are going to just drip-drip-drip out emails every day from now til next Christmas, and they want to get it all out in one big dump.
  20. I don't think they think they can use Republican votes for anything. That would be stupid. As you rightly say, nobody will remember who voted for what. You're dead correct that we have waaaay too many examples of Republican officeholders taking credit for shit they flamboyantly opposed (e.g., the Biden Infrastructure Act). They think that without the ACA subsidies, the cost of healthcare will go up both this year and, importantly, next year. The premiums for 2027 are going to come out right before the midterms, and they're going to be catastrophically awful. Trump and the Republicans will be rightly blamed--not because of anything anybody voted for/against, but for the far more basic reason that a Republican is in the White House. That's why I say it is a cynical play. And I love a cynical play. Because those are really the only plays that work. This is what happens when elected officials try to play pundit. They just can't help themselves. They love to tell you how much more they understand about electoral politics than you do. But playing pundit gets in the way of effective messaging. So you're right. They need to cut that shit out. The message is the Republicans were going to starve people, and we couldn't let that happen. Period. Then shut the fuck up. How's that going to play in the next election, a CNN reporter might ask? "I don't really know, and it really doesn't matter--the Republicans were going to starve people, and we couldn't let that happen." Are you concerned that your base is going to be angry that you didn't get more, an MSNBC correspondent might enquire? "I's hope not, but it really doesn't matter--the Republicans were going to starve people, and we couldn't let that happen." But these people are all fucking assholes who are super-eager to let you know that they know more than you do. Dumb fuckers.
  21. There is more and more chatter that Mary Peltola is going to run against Dan Sullivan for that seat in Alaska. And a number of recent polls show her tied or ahead of him. As a reminder, she won the at-large House seat in 2020, but was narrowly defeated in 2024. So she has a record of winning a statewide race. Alaska is politically a really weird state. Given the candidate issues the Dems are having in Maine, Alaska may be a more likely pick-up than beating Collins.
  22. You're not missing anything. The Senate Democrats played this to maximum cynicism. And as a cynic myself, I appreciate it. Plenty of Democratic voters and unrealistic expectations about what was achievable in this shutdown. But realistically, very little was achievable through this (or really any) shutdown. That should've been clear once it became evident that Republicans would starve Americans and crash the air-transit system. Once that happened, it just became a game of maximizing blame on Trump and the GQP. Is there a possible universe in which the Republicans cave and extend the ACA subsidies? I mean, maybe. Probably not. But maybe. But in that universe, it works to the GQP's electoral benefit. And while there are plenty of us who would be happy to see the shutdown continue through the 2026 midterms . . . that wasn't realistic. The political impact of that would've been highly unpredictable. Right now, Trump is getting the blame. But he has a larger microphone and a lot of corporate media at his back. The narrative could've quickly swung. So the Dems took their fairly modest winnings and went home. I understand that move. I don't particularly love it. Maybe I kind of hate it. But I definitely understand it.
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