Ghost of LL

Mr. Pibb is superior to Dr Pepper. Yeah--I said it. Just because it's from Texas doesn't mean it's superior. Or even good. Actually, many of the things we've come to conclude are "great" just because they're from Texas are, in fact, barely adequate (see, e.g., Blue Bell, Whataburger, Southwest Airlines). I came to this realization yesterday at the AMC movie theater, which is one of the few places where you get Mr. Pibb because Coca-Cola has a stranglehold on the pouring rights there. But the cherry vanilla Mr. Pibb is fucking sublime.

Big leads in the first half this year? Texas 35, Florida 0 Texas 21, Oklahoma 3 Texas 28, UL Monroe 3 Texas 28, UTSA 7 Texas 24, Michigan 3 Texas 31, Colorado State 0 So, what--six of our nine wins?

But I thought there were no off-weeks in the SEC. I thought an "easy schedule" was impossible in the SEC because every game is a fucking war. Was that not true? Is Finebaum now saying that a trip to Vanderbilt and a trip to Arkansas are, in fact, easy? Because if so, that'd be news to Alabama and Tennessee, respectively.

I remember when Nebraska at USC would’ve been appointment television.

Ponies are probably the best team in the state.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard a network announcer so angry at a missed ref call as in this Pitt game. He stopped just short to calling the game “rigged.”

But on the other-other hand, we're going to need a steady supply of low-skill, low-wage workers if Trump is going to undertake his mass deportation. And I can think of few better places to get those workers than rural Arkansas, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Texas once the federal government cuts their communities off from the federal largesse that keeps them inhabitable.

Next you're going to tell me that Sinbad didn't star as the genie in Shazaam in the mid-1990s.

FSV Mainz is at home on January 11. But it looks like Bundesliga takes a break over New Years.

I genuinely don't understand why you post here. Literally everyone here thinks you're of significantly below-average intelligence. Even the people who agree with your positions on a topic sigh and think "what a dumbfuck" when they read your posts. And why post when everything you write only reconfirms that impression? But beyond that, you're just a source of humor. On any thread you jump on, people joke about blow jobs and meth . . . because you literally suck dick for meth. Look, man--I don't want to kink shame. If posting on this board is to fulfill a humiliation fetish, I mean--sure. But if not that, why on earth would you post here?

A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country and in his own house.

In part because of this I think disunion within the next four years is becoming more likely than not. But I say "in part because of this." The real impetus toward disunion is that the Trump Administration is going to be so filled with idiots and incompetents that it will be unable to forestall it. In a million little legalistic ways, California and Washington and New York and Massachusetts are going to take steps to forestall the Trump Administration's grand plans. And little by little, they're going to be successful. It's not that there's going to be some grand declaration of secession. It's just that in 2027, the federal writ won't run in California or Massachusetts.

You're not alone brother. This is where a lot of people are, myself included. All you need to do is look at CNN's ratings. Look at the Washington Post's subscription numbers. People are tuning out. And they need to do so for their basic mental health. And this is where we'll get scolded because that's exactly how the autocrat wins--by getting people to tune out rather than stand up for their principles and resist. But at the same time, I just don't care. I don't care about this country, and I care even less about it's people. They can all go to the devil for all I care.

I have to admit--this one legitimately caused me to burst out laughing. And I'm now at the @aggie08 school of thought. These bunch of dumbfucks may have the very worst of intentions, but they don't have the brains to effectuate any of their goals.

You know what--I'm tired of this shit. You profess to be all pissed off at @Brisketexan because he said he'd welcome the Palestinians getting genocided on an internet message board. But . . . and this is really fucking important and you need to read it . . . what Brisket writes on a fucking college football message board has literally zero impact on whether the Palestinians get genocided. You know what impacts whether the Palestinians get genocided? Fucking voting last Tuesday. Last Tuesday, Brisket voted for against the pro-genocide candidate. But you're completely ripshit at him over something that has literally zero impact on the life of any Palestinian. Last Tuesday, the dipshits in Dearborn voted for the pro-genocide candidate. But you have nothing but sympathy for, saying they faced a "unique moral conundrum." I'm serious here, man--you're completely upside-down. And I am really having a hard time communicating with you at this moment, because I just don't understand your perspective at all.

I think you missed the memo from last week. Being a "huge asshole" is kind of our national brand now.

The discussion moves quickly, but not that quickly. I was specifically addressing the American Muslims you identified in your post--the dumb assholes in Dearborn who voted 85% against Harris. There is no fucking "moral conundrum." American electoral politics is a binary choice: either the Republican or the Democrat. One of those two is going to get elected. Voting for one helps that candidate get elected; deciding not to vote for a candidate hurts that candidate's chances of getting elected. It's that fucking simple. I didn't make the choice to elect the candidate who wants to ban Muslims from entering the United States. I voted against the candidate who wants to deport Muslims and strip naturalized Muslims of their citizenship. I voted against the candidate who will allow Israel to kill absolutely every Palestinian it can lay hands on. The Muslims in Dearborn overwhelmingly voted to elect that candidate. There ain't no fucking moral conundrum here. One candidate was going to be elected: the candidate who supports all those things, or the candidate who opposes them. The fine people in Dearborn chose the former. They get to fucking live with that decision. Or not. Either way, I don't give a fuck.

Just look at what the markets are doing. Stocks are up nearly 10% over the last week; bond yields are also rising. Everyone fucking thinks inflation is going to bounce back up and corporations are going to use that as an opportunity to make windfall profits. The investing classes are going to make a killing. It's the working classes that are going to be killed. So, you know--the yoozh.

Haha--holy fucking shit. These dumb motherfuckers pulled the cord on the political suicide vest because the Democrats didn't let them have a speaker at the convention? And you expect me to feel an ounce of sympathy for them? And yeah--I did choose that metaphor purposefully. Dumb fucking non-strategic thinkers. Fuck them.

I am completely with you. There's absolutely nothing I can do to prevent what is going to happen to the Palestinians. I did what I could to prevent it. But I'm still going to lament it. At the same time, one may plausibly hope that there is something constructive that comes from people seeing the (very, very foreseeable) consequences of their voting behavior. And perhaps that would provide some benefit going forward, which is worth cheering for. It may be true that @BrickHorn is sitting there wringing his hands over the fate of the poor Palestinians. And meanwhile, @Brisketexan is maniacally finger-tenting while hissing "excellent." And they have the exact same impact on what is going to happen in Palestine. When the time for deciding what was going to happen in Palestine was upon us, they were on the same side. But that time is gone, and they're both now equally impotent. The hand-wringer's hand-wringing over the finger-tenter's sinister grimace is a bit stupid. As is the finger-tenter's supposed glee, I suppose. I imagine they're both coping mechanisms. I suspect neither will be terribly effective in the medium- or long-term. That's why we have alcohol.

I think that's right. But at the same time, that doesn't really answer the question--underground infrastructure could've been moved. They moved plenty of roads in that area to accommodate various stadium projects--some water lines and fiberoptic cable shouldn't have stood in the way. I think the real answer is that he wanted it on an axis to open onto The Ballpark in Arlington. Jerry wanted his stadium and its big glass wall to glower down on the perpetually cellar-dwelling Rangers. Of course, now the Rangers have a new stadium that is off that axis. The former Ballpark is now home to some minor-league football team, which really causes one to wonder about a future in which the NFL embraces relegation. This is the answer. This is 100% the answer.

This was a rhetorical question, right? Because you know the answer, right?

This was a completely shit game for 55 minutes, and then just turned amazing.

Oh, my god!

My dude—it’s the tritone metallic nonsense that makes them fire.