Rex Kramer

I’m not trolling at all. It’s not remotely controversial.

It was a terrible weekend, but I don’t understand your takeaway. If Lorenzen provides some return, let him walk. It’s not like you gave up Evo. His departure has zero effect on the future, and probably little if any effect on this season.

Of course. Is this a serious question?

Do you mean when we got swept by the Rockies or when we swept the AL’s worst team?

Team needs to upgrade 1B, RF, CF, and DH - badly. Not sure it matters how healthy our old HOF pitchers are with this lineup, which absolutely careered last year.

Agreed. It only is sustainable in a severely shit economy or scared economy like Covid. Trump will spew shit like that though, and it’ll work directionally for a while.

Actually yes. I recall 6 months of BI insurance. I moved back to Dallas the following year and never made another offshore loan.

On Cox? If so, I think we are talking about the same deal. I’ve got color on the bad underwriting. @The Royal Wei used to bank Taylor in my Houston days from ‘01-‘05. Back when Pat was still alive. Going to NO was fun. I don’t know how any small offshore company makes it.

Agreed. You know anything about Cox Operating and Amarillo National Bank’s $100MM loss (100% loss)?

I can work around higher taxes with a Dem. Can’t work around what he does to our industry and the general buffoon he is. I don’t understand how he’s captivated folks in our industry. These are smart industrious people more interested in social conservatism than pragmatism. I’m telling you, I’ve been labeled liberal by my family and you know me - I’m anything but. Yeah there are respectable ones. I do think most pull for the jersey and those like @The Royal We and I will do so mostly quietly for tax and social reasons. I won’t but in Texas I don’t matter. I’d love to see some anti-GOP turnout because of this jackass, but here, I doubt it. It’s unbelievable to me this guy has 45% of the electorate voting for him. I don’t know if the party will perish. I don’t really care if it does if it stays the way it is.

Any respectable Republican doesn’t actively support him or has outright been critical, some vocally in the case of Romney, Dick and Liz. It is unfathomable what he’s done to the party. I’m hoping for Kamala to win (can’t believe I’m typing this), and praying that her future victory doesn’t come with a civil war between November 5th and January 20th.

Federal intervention had been infective until Trump started releasing SPR. We can’t get to $40 in this cycle absent some black swan. If we do we won’t stay there long because US breakevens are $60/bbl. Trump win and I will hedge. At least Cal ‘25.

Whoa. Worlds have collided. Though my chuckle would’ve been replaced pretty quickly by immense relief and then dread that…. ….we would’ve headed to civil war pretty quickly after a Trump death. Regardless of his motive and likely mental illness. No it isn’t. Trump was there. He wouldn’t have killed any poster here, unless we were killed inadvertently. this is why I tell my kids to avoid rallies and protests, always.

It is now.

That’s a mischaracterization. I do not believe we are turning into Nazi Germany. I’m simply being honest by saying some of the things we are seeing don’t affect me. And I know that I am lucky in that regard.

First point, no, I’m not going to blister people that don’t think like me. Second, I do not care much except it deters discussion. If you’re just going to get hammered, you’re not going to participate. It’s why people call this an echo chamber. You’re not interested in dialogue or other viewpoints. You want only like minds. You’ll never effect change that way. I said he should be in jail or not permitted to run having been convicted as a traitor. I don’t refuse to acknowledge that. I’m not downplaying his next presidency. I’m not okay with it. I simply am saying I’m not freaking out. Yet.

I’m pro choice. I agree it’s fucked up. Honestly it doesn’t affect me and I can’t do anything about it, so I do not spend energy getting worked up over it. But I don’t downplay it. I just think some of the Nazi and Pearl Harbor comps are absurd. We are living Godwin’s Law. I have 2 gay and 1 lesbian fam members. None of us are Trump fans, obviously. They definitely view me as the most liberal and reasonable of my family which is entirely conservative. My lesbian aunt is like 81, and she rails and rails on every conservative on Facebook such that I cannot even speak with her; politics is her life and she wears everyone out. My gay cousins are in their late 30s. We get along great. They’re not concerned about another Trump presidency as much as they’re disgusted by it, like me. I have zero connection to trans, but I have daily interaction with Gs and mostly intentional limited interaction with Ls. Labeling them as pedophiles and groomers is laughable I’m the oldest of 4 kids, and only my baby sister is with me on Trump. Our parents and brothers think we are quite literally liberal, and we’re not. Perhaps it’s because I get negged and it hardens the heart. 1/6 disgusted me. Was glad to see people prosecuted and Pence not cave to Trump. I think Trump ought to be in jail or otherwise banned from running again as a traitor. I don’t think it’s “no big deal”. You never bothered to ask me. I’d have to see what Vance said about it. Rather what is overly dramatic (in my mind) is comparisons to Nazis, and the notion that the little coup by Ashli Babbitt and the Viking hat jackass would’ve overthrown democracy. No. They would’ve failed miserably and it would have been over by the end of the day. The military wouldn’t have stood for that. Do I think Trump was behind it? Probably not, but he incited dipshits to attack. He was complicit, and would have been just fine with their success and any benefit he could derive from it. He uses dumb people to his satisfaction.

Detty this morning, along with the other guy that wasn’t Elf or Saad, was hitting the nail on the head regarding Texas and Aggy. I mean, it had to have driven Aggy crazy. The entire station’s view of Texas A&M the last several years, minus Bob, is pretty damned funny and representative of college sports fandom across the nation.

I’ve been hit pretty hard for my somewhat relaxed take on what I feel is his imminent election. Like Penelope is doing what she does, negging every post (of mine, not Ana’s), without any attempt to understand where I’m coming from. I don’t want Trump to get elected, and am already making plans investment wise preparing for it. I do think people here, and it’s not exclusive to Surly, are being overly dramatic about what will occur under Trump’s second term. I find some of the comparisons ridiculous. But perhaps I haven’t appropriately put myself in their shoes. So I’ll hang up and listen.

Heading *to* the convention? They’re not. What they’ve consistently done is show their asses to undecideds. I doubt people in the convention care. What they’re doing is visible to the watching world.

Yes. Had the people he incited on 1/6/21 murdered someone like Pelosi or Pence and had some temporary takeover success, he would be. I’m getting negged left and right and will bow out, but if it wasn’t clear, I detest Trump. I happen to think some are being dramatic but could be wrong. Unfortunately we will likely get to find out.

Wait, what? What a fucking straw man there. Saturday you know just happened. Anyway, my thoughts about the incident ranged from indifference to imagining another candidate. People that aren’t in his camp that repeat no political violence caveats are absolute frauds. Yes. We weren’t at war yet with Japan. It was a weird, terrible analogy.

There absolutely is a place for it in this country as shown Saturday. Apparently you cannot express it here and I won’t. My thoughts may surprise some here.

No. There’s a complete lack of logic and perspective in this forum.

No, not fuck those people. You provided 3 examples of disenfranchised groups and I’m wondering how Brisket is grouped. Insanity. One of them killed thousands of soldiers and engaged us in the horrific Pacific Theatre for 3.5 years. The other, had it been “successful”, would’ve been over by the end of the business day. In fact had it been more successful, Trump might be in jail right now.