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  1. RIGHT?
  2. TBF, Gold just broke an all-time record of $4,000 an oz I believe.... https://www.wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/gold-price-4000-ounce-record-d63ab2bd
  3. I think your analysis also gets an "incomplete" because I think you could be right, but it depends... It depends on who is going to step up and be the next Iran and funnel money, arms, protection and leadership to the next generation of Palestine's Hamas that you think is inevitable to crop up? While Israel might have done a terrible job calculating the long-term costs (TBD), I think they tried to mitigate long term consequences. Which is to say the dismantling of it's enemies who allowed Hamas to be as powerful as they got to be as a terrorist group for the OG 10/7 two years ago, in the attacks in Syria, Iran, and abroad. They were trying to eliminate the threat wholly (which, grossly, looks like it included eliminating Palestine completely) and seemed to have the mindset of take the axe to the roots and not let it grow back. Obviously they've failed so what's next? Did they get enough of the roots for the weeds to be managable or is it all Hamas-redux all the way down? TBD, WIP, Incomplete.
  4. Wait, Tony Evans was into pedo stuff?
  5. If you didn't use chatgpt for this answer you are a genius. thank you.
  6. As usual Shane Gillis is on the right side of an issue (e.g. the right is so stupid for making bad bunny halftime show an issue):
  7. When one starts talking in should's and ought's it tells me that they are not being realistic and mindful in the present and instead pining wistfully for a bygone era or idllyic age (which itself is probably romanticized in bias and not wholly true). A better mindset, to tie it back to the D's and optimizing messaging and success, is to take a "control the controllables" mindset. "it is, now, what it is-- what are you going to do about it". Dont' waste your tears on how it should be if not for those mean old hateful R's, because it's a waste as we all know they aren't wasting a second thinking about anyone else.
  8. I think Bill Burr, rightfully and the KSA thing notwithstanding, would push back on being a Bro-comedian. He, like Chappelle, seem to have a different point of view on popular ideas (e.g. WNBA/women's rights in that clip above, the BLM movement on SNL, trans and terf stuff with Chappelle) and they communicate that POV with humor. In some sense, at least when they were first speaking out on these, they were the counter-cultural POV and going against popularity. Maybe what Marc is saying isn't wrong about some of those POVs and topics being old and hackneyed now-- but Burr and CHappelle and a few others are the tip of the spear. I think Marc is decrying the long tail, the rest of the wood behind the arrow, that have come along lately in the last few years and saturated the comedy circuit with those takes and he's talking about a whole horde of comediens we don't see or hear from second tier and down trying to make a name for themselves by getting in good graces with the "bro algorithms"?
  9. It's happening gif? From the AP this morning:
  10. The bolded was my initial point. "WHAT" is the R's fault? We have to get to a specific pain point rather than a general "It's the R's fault the government shut down". Okay? What does that even mean to the layman? That was my point, nobody I know or talk to or interact with has felt 1 ounce of pain fromt he government being shut down right now (hence the comment, there seems to be a huge lack of urgency). Maybe I'm insulated in the suburbs. Maybe not. Maybe there just needs to be more time to allow the negative consequences to play out (e.g. holiday travel snarls). Maybe not. The point is, you have to drag the people across the glass and help them feel the pain they are supposed to be feeling from the government shutting down. A winning message isn't "the R's are dolts and shut the government down!" if there is no pain. A winning message is to identify the pain and tie it to the R's fault, "Your prescription arthritis medicine went from $5 to $300 this month and every month after beause the greedy republicans shut down the government!" I just made that last consquence up, but you get the point. Need to analyze and draw out the conclusions and spoonfeed it to people.
  11. There seems to be zero urgency on this thing. Stock market ticking up still somehow, informally and anectdotely, nobody I talk to seems to care that the government is shut down and most don't even know in a "oh, this that still happening is it still shut down? btw what does that even mean?" It seems like the politically plugged in get it, but not sure how what % of the actual people that make up in the real world.
  12. I’ll take bad bunny over Kendrick Lamar any day
  13. When I read what you wrote, I immediately thought of the asian comedien from knoxville tennessee. Dems (asian man) need to be able to speak with a southern drawl (popular in red states):
  14. Vegas64

    Cart Narcs

    bwahahhahaaaaaaaaa found it. "no offense to your speed abilities..." bro....
  15. Vegas64

    Cart Narcs

    I wish i could find it, there is one where a fat lady is going after him and he says " I can walk backwards faster than you" and ragebaited her so hard.
  16. From what I saw of Hawkins, he was throwing 50/50 balls against Kent State that would be defended easily (or picked) by a team who isn't Little Sisters of the Poor. But then again, I saw Lagley have a dang fine game against our supposedly good D while throwing 5 picks against someone else.
  17. Hi Mrs. Rowling, didn't realize we had a legend in our midst.
  18. https://www.vision2030.gov.sa/en
  19. People are not the enemy. People are the mission.
  20. Theo is hilarious to me. I have never seen a clip where he was MAGA, but comparing to him to Dane Cook feels wrong.
  21. I am a Christian who tries very hard not to do politics. I think there is an appropriate way to handle that, but I also think it's one of those things that reasonable minds can disagree about. Being apolitical to the best of your ability or being politically active based on your faith is a choice (often via intrepreation) that isn't tied to salvation or doctrine, just a distinctive on interpretations of different theological and/or biblical issues that don't define what it means to essentially be a Christian.
  22. I'm old. But can someone young and smart and good looking becalse explain how the song "Mo Bamba" became a cultural phenomenon? I thought about posting this on the basketball board but the irony is that this song is going to outlive and be more remembered than anything the actual player and namesake will ever do in his career. Every football game and event I've gone to in the last few years plays this song and the crowd gets HYPED. No matter what state or college. Even the aggies, who ostensibly will boycot and despise anything to do with has adopted it. Is there a 30 for 30 someone can direct me to on this? It's truly breaking my brain when you search youtube for Mo Bamba it's compilations of insane crowds like Penn State and Aggy going nuts to the song.
  23. Don't have a dog in the fight as someone who doesn't live in Austin, but it's hard not to be sympathetic for you who do. Seriously Austin (Austin ISD) is straight up being robbed blind.
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