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pyrohornIII

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  1. Individuals can't make up the difference in all those guys' warchests. The herd is getting smaller and thinner, and more grifters are getting into it, via PACs to compete for fewer dollars. And you have Trump on top of that heap of grifters. It's why so many of them try to stay in his good graces, hoping he'll fund them.
  2. They seem to be paying a price though in the corporate world. I think it's part of the GOP turning away from Trump and those hoping to hijack his followers. Corporate donations to Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and other Jan. 6 election objectors have plummeted, and individual donors are Congress’s biggest fundraising force All that money Cruz and Brooks lost went to Manchin and Sinema.
  3. Or a pharmacist any time before computers began keeping the numbers. You got to think Scotland is pretty interested in this Mazars story. Or would he have had to have a Scottish CPA firm do all that work? Or sign off on it. Would be so cool to have those courses confiscated. Didn't most of that money come from Russia?
  4. The Kindness of Strangers is a nice little palate cleanser after you watch that Swindler thing. Gives you a reset that there are good people out there too.
  5. That's a new way to say he's short in character and stature. Bravo.
  6. I'm really only in it now to see why and at whose hand Elsa dies. But it will probably end up being some dream sequence.
  7. Stripes. Classic. I appreciate Ramis more as I've aged. Such a good foil to Murray's schtick. Much like Chase in Caddyshack.
  8. I guess they only have an issue in wasting trees on paper, not bonfires.
  9. He might be done Gorka, but he's not going down without taking Trump and all you sycophants with him. The worm is turning slowly.
  10. I started it on Amazon, then it went to streaming on a service 2/1. So i just bought the last episode of season 1 and now season two.
  11. And once again they killed about 5 more bandits than they originally claimed were there. I don't understand why Tim stopped shooting like he was out of ammo when his belt was loaded still. Maybe rationing himself? And I suppose Sheridan is supposed to be Charles Goodnight?
  12. Discovery of Witches is not bad. It's better than Outlander, writing wise, I think. But the special effects are pretty decent, too.
  13. Yeah, I am well aware of this. I wish we were seeing more articles on it by the press, but since most of the Texas Press is red owned, it won't come out. I will say that combined with Covid, all these new regulations on voting (mainly unfunded) and redistricting, the life of the county clerk or election administrator is getting considerably less enjoyable. The Secretary of State has had it's own issues dealing with all this, firstly trying to correctly translate SB1 and get that intent into workable solid rules and regulations. Then the EAs have had to wait to get their houses in order due to the delays coming out of Austin. Plus the Lege didn't increase the funding for elections at all to compensate for the new requirements like state wide ballot tracking for VBM. No telling how many good EA's the state will lose over all this this year. A) get ready for lots of MAGA stuff, because Trump isn't on the ballot this time, and since MAGA is associated with his campaign, it has now turned into general messaging, like BLM. B) It would be nice to have a 2 mile barrier around the polling places, but it's only 100 feet. Dan Crenshaw has his goons out in full force last ED at NRG and other places in Houston. Not much the election judges can do about that outside that 100 ft boundary.
  14. Some Came Running. Sinatra, Martin, McClaine. Akin to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof about small town intrigue and affairs. Not one musical note from either Sinatra or Martin. They let McClaine do that in a semi comical scene. Good movie.
  15. Book of Love - no bueno Phat Tuesday, def bueno.
  16. There is no way an objective person can look at the fallout of SB1 and other measures taken along the line and not agree that reducing the voting power of certain blocs was the intent. Most people's voter registration is tied to their DL#, and then some to the SSN. But people age and eventually stop driving. They surrender their DL, and can be issued a Election Identification Certificate. Now their DL# was unique to them, but instead of letting them keep that and issue it as an EIC, they issue a whole new EIC, which then makes the DL# invalid. Why? Why not just let them keep the same number? Makes no sense, unless you are hoping to interfere with their ability to vote. Fortunately the EIC isn't a widely used instrument. That's just an example, and their logic behind these moves is shallow. Same as the logic on making it illegal for County Election Administrators to send out unrequested VBM applications. Honestly, they should be the only ones sending them, requested or not. If the state wants to make this ridiculous rule that people have to apply to VBM every single year, then they should make that as painless as possible and at the same time keep things standardized, less confusing and more controlled instead of the parties and every jackleg candidate sending out apps of various look. But no, they don't. And they did it to squelch a lot of the votes in the big counties. And it will work, for the primaries. I'm just hoping it pisses enough of those who have been victimized by this shady shit to make sure they get registered to VBM by the general. Here's another thing. When you apply to VBM there's a little area where you choose which elections you want to vote in. You choose the wrong one, and you're not voting in the general. Just more smoke and mirrors.
  17. I wondered the same thing and wrote it off to sticking in some illness as an excuse for not looking hot.
  18. Something to this. But initially he probably paid players NOT to play at other institutions. So he can specifically say he didn't pay them to play for 'Bama.
  19. I predict an increase in the number of mixer BBQs for athletes and A&M athletes.
  20. So while Abbott is breaking the back of our Texas Guard on this border photo op, New Mexico is actually using their Guard in an inventive and creative way to help their state. What color state is New Mexico again? Oh, yeah....blue. Fuck Abbott. New Mexico asks National Guard to work as substitute teachers to keep classrooms open https://www.npr.org/2022/02/02/1077056059/new-mexico-national-guard-substitute-teachers
  21. I went looking for the National Border Patrol Council. Found what I expected. https://bpunion.org/ Gotta wonder what dark money this group shills for.
  22. I would think that if they can tear down his empire and get jail time for his kids it would drive him further into the unfiltered frenzy, fully unraveled. It's quite obvious that no one in the GOP is going to rein this moron in, and they have all bit off on democracy is dead already, and are setting themselves up in this new authoritarian system they are all in on now. And that is where we will continue to slip towards unless we at least try to hold these people accountable. Otherwise, we might as well roll over now. Trump controls his family easy enough, but there are those who control Trump and he listens to, like Hannity, Flynn, Manafort, Stone, etc. Trump is a psychopath narcissist who only worries about his image, and that image is based on his intelligence, which is supported by his financial empire. Your pull the underpinnings out from under that empire, you tear him down into a whiny bully with little hands. Doing that gives those who oppose him hope for the future. Otherwise, why continue? Unfortunately we have had the disappointment of the Mueller probe to set the table for us, expectation wise. I still think there will be more come out on that concerning how it was throttled by the Trump administration. Regardless, it left a bad taste in our collective mouths. Still we must remember that Mueller would have gone a lot different if McConnell and his band of goons wasn't leading the impeachment and denying all the credible witnesses, same as in the SC hearings.
  23. Speaking of crooked PACs, have all the cases against the NRA and the russian ties been cleared up yet? Or were they just put on hold until Trump's DOJ got replaced by Biden's? Funny how Paxton, Patrick and Abbott think Trump is going to write big checks for them. Idiots. Trump won't give them funds, it'll be the opposite. He'll hold onto that shit as long as he can, claiming he's running in 24, then at the end will bail.
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