Ghost of LL

SMU beating up on a Houston Christian 20-0 still in the 1st.

I foresee a big price drop on those Michigan tickets.

They do not look great.

Jesus—that was dirty as fuck.

Old Dominion just tied South Carolina as the third quarter ends.

I am so very gruntled right now.

Yeah—thanks for that.

No, sir—some of us are high.

And I'm going to say something as someone who has been a part of losing Republican campaigns--I've heard this talk before. I heard exactly this when I was a very low-level volunteer guy working on George Bush's campaign in 1992. I heard this when I was hustling for Bob Dole as a CR in 1996. "Yeah--it's ok if Clinton wins because we're still going to have the Senate . . . ." Now, I'm going to tell you that such rationalizations didn't usually start coming out into October. But still--I've heard exactly this before. We were fucked in 1992 and 1996, and we damned well knew it. But here's the thing--the GQP is even more fucked now. And they don't know it. In the 1990s, the Republican Party was still a real political party. It had policy positions that it wanted to advance. It had ideas with which its supporters agreed. So you could go to them and say "but so long as we keep the Senate and the House, our ideas and policy positions will still be advanced (or at least not completely frustrated)." And shit--that was especially true with the Great Triangulator in the White House. So you could still motivate people who knew they were going to lose the White House to go out and vote in the down-ballot races. The GQP today isn't a political party. It doesn't have a single ideology or a single set of policy positions. It has a single cult of personality. The less-engaged will stay home because it's not fun to get your teeth kicked in. They don't fucking care about the Senate or the House or the state legislature. If it's not Trump, they don't give a shit (as they've repeatedly shown in midterms and special elections).

The Chaps have finally taken control in their game against Prosper.

This game fucking delivers.

So,…Colorado is exactly the same as last year. Is that what I’m seeing?

Fuck Colorado, but damned if I’m not entertained so far.

She is going to completely steal this idea within the next 24 hours.

This isn't an "Other Game," my friend. This is fucking Howard going into . . . I don't know . . . somewhere in New fucking Jersey to take on some guys wearing red to start us off on Week 1 of COLLEGE MOTHERFUCKING FOOTBALL!

Hey, @Brisketexan--anything you want to tell the people about your time as an employee of the Red Lobster Corporation, Inc?

Because they're used to it.

Never. Gonna. Happen.

What is this place of which you speak with the Beef Wellington?

When he sees the enemy center crumbling in front of him, any competent commander should at least have the thought "Cannae."

I'm sorry--what are we doing here? Are we playing marry/fuck/kill?

My fear has always been that those people will vote for the abortion referendum and then, thinking that they've protected abortion rights in their state, feel able to vote for Trump for president. I don't agree with that. For you, an outrage that occurs in March 2023 is the same as an outrage that occurs in September 2024. But you are . . . and I say this with love . . . a huge fucking nerd. You pay attention to Trump and politics, as evidenced by your posts on this board. But most of the world doesn't. Most of the world in March 2023 was watching the last season of Succession or going on Spring Break or doing any number of other things that normal people do that have absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump. And to the extent they were aware of it at all, it was just background noise. It blended in with all the other things that they think they hate about politics or politicians. But as we get close to a presidential election, people who don't ordinarily care about politics or politicians start to pay attention. So things that would otherwise be relatively minor take on an outsized importance. Had this happened in March 2023, I'd completely agree with you. Nobody in March 2023 was weighing how they'll vote in two months. But today, it weighs on a decision that is imminent. And that gives it a whole different character. You are right that a significant majority of Trump's supporters are irredeemable. They'll not be convinced by anything. But there are some--and maybe not even very many, but some--for whom this is going to be meaningful and will impact whether they vote and, if they do vote, for whom.

Not necessarily--I've had elections in which I was undecided until the last minute (including 2008). For me, this election isn't anything like 2008. Nobody has an unformed opinion of Donald Trump. But perhaps the substitution of Kamala Harris for Joe Biden has increased the number of last-minute deciders, with Harris being much less known and defined than Biden. I would observe that since 2016, those last-minute deciders have consistently broken in favor of the Democratic candidate across all manner of elections (presidential, congressional, gubernatorial, dog-catcherial).

He has a campaign staff?

What the fuck--are you casing my house over the internet?