Your “Hurry Up, Baby. Daddy Needs His Fix” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

Day-before Glorious NFL Returns News:

It’s kind of a light day, because most everything on every team is in a holding pattern until after the first game.ed-norton-tv-remote

  • Seantrel Henderson is (duh!) appealing his imminent 4-game suspension for violating drug policy. At this point, the only things left on Buffalo’s front lines are a few border guards and a big pile of wing bones Rob Ryan left on the field.
  • Proving he’s found a new dealer and new hallucinogens, Jim Irsay says the Colts are on the verge of another “golden era”.
  • Ezekiel Elliott is not being charged over an alleged incident involving an ex-girlfriend. THE COWBOYS WAY!
  • Carson Palmer is looking forward, not back to the NFC title game. Because if he did, he’d still be in the fetal position at home.
  • Drew Brees got his extension – 2 years; $44.25 million. Fully guaranteed.

Finally, I just want to pass along some plaudits for all of the Team Previews the members of the Commentist Party have put together. Although lacking the genial bile of Drew’s “Why Your Team Sucks” posts over at Deadspin, they greatly benefit from a certain amount of ingenuity, as there were people who analyzed teams not in their normal viewing habit.

Well done everyone! A great success all around, and something that will be difficult to emulate next year unless Cuntler wants to “50 Questions” every team. [BTW, if there aren’t “50 Questions for the Super Bowl”, I believe we have failed as a site.]


Speaking of suck…

The Patriots are Bo Dallas.
The Patriots are Bo Dallas.

I guess this is the NFL’s response to WWE dominating social media; nice to see the Broncos, Jaguars, Chiefs and…PATRIOTS?! are the NFL version of The Social Outcasts.

 

This might have made more sense during the SB50 campaign. Really feel they lost out on the Chargers…

#FEASTINGUPONYOURSOULS


If you want to have a good laugh, or rage-fit, read the comments section to the Dallas Morning News editorial endorsing Hillary Clinton. It’s a well-reasoned explanation of a difficult decision to go against standard for the first time in 75 years reduced to shrieks of “RINO!” A small sample:

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I don’t know what’s more scalding – the one-sentence burns or the page-long diatribes. Read it long enough, and you can smell the brimstone from all those HAWT TAEKS!


Tonight’s sports:

  • Baseball:
    • US listings: (TSN2 in Canada)
      • Cardinals at Pirates – 7:00 PM | ESPN
      • Rangers at Mariners – 10:00 PM | ESPN
    • Canadian listings:
      • Blue Jays at Yankees – 7:00 | SN
      • Red Sox at Padres – 9:00 | SN1
  • Rio 2016 Paralympic Games: Opening Ceremony – 7:00PM | OLN
  • U.S. Open Tennis: Quarterfinals – 7:00 PM | ESPN2
  • NWSL Soccer: Chicago vs. Kansas City – 7:55PM | FS1

 

FOOTBALL IS BACK FOR REAL TOMORROW!!!

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A Canadian man-child of indeterminate age, he stays young by selling alcohol at sporting events and yelling at the patrons he serves. Their rage nourishes his soul, and their tips pay for his numerous trips to various sporting events.
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litre_cola

Sill at the end of that draft I felt like a guy with a metal detector on the beach looking for heartbeats.

Sill Bimmons

Wait until you see the Week 14 waiver wire.

ALXMAC
Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Sure it was mostly garbage by the end of ours (I am in the other one) but there were starting slot receivers still out there that weren’t yet picked up. You had to look through a couple pages of “Cut, cut, retired, cut” to find them but they were there. I had a couple guys left that are gonna get playing time.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

I want vodka. But it’s in the freezer.

/looks around for wife

Sigh.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Women!!!! Amirite fellas????
Shit….beer is empty.
I need a beer honey!!!!
/echoes throughout the empty house

tl;dr: Get your ass up and get your own damned vodka.
😉

Beastmode Ate My Baby

I would, but I’m actually waiting for her so she can have some wine.

It’s just more fun to complain.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Fair enough. But cherish that girl. Some of us are separated by so much distance we might as well just lie down and die some days.

And we ALWAYS have to get our own vodka too.

*sigh*

Dammit, now you’ve gone and made me depress myself.
(just kidding…I was already depressed)

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Aww…now I’ve bummed out theWBS…good going, me.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’ve been bummed since late July. No worries.
Sadly it just took this long to learn to deal with it.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Now I’m headed to the freezer to get my own damned vodka.
😉

ALXMAC
Sharkbait

My Insanity draft is over!

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Sharkbait

My Insanity draft is over!

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Great. Now I’m all worked up and angry and won’t be able to sleep until after midnight.

theeWeeBabySeamus

What seems to be your boggle? Talk to your ol’ buddy tWBS. I’ll make us some tea. Have seat.

Sharkbait

“Have a seat”

DON’T DO IT! ITS A TRAP!

Shogun Marcus

If he tells you to “get comfy” or that the pictures will be “tasteful” you run. They’re not “private use only” either. No more.

/I was young and needed the money
//don’t judge me monkey

theeWeeBabySeamus

LMAO…I could be like fozz and ask him “Does this rag smell like chloroform?”

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I’ve been moody and irritable for about a month now. Some of it’s boredom, some of it’s loneliness, and some of it is letting the insane chatter of the world sink into my head and fill the void.

That article I linked just blew my mind not only because that guy quite obviously raped that woman, but because he had the absolute gall to make up a ridiculous lie about how big his dick was. If he’s lying about that, I’m certain he’s lying about everything else.

Of course, that story is linked to Jezebel and of course the comments section there is a clusterfuck. (I’m blown away about how much women will try to discredit each other over penis size preference.)

So yeah. I’m like the dog biting its own fur off.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Geez, sorry I asked.

No, just kidding. I can relate actually. For reasons I shan’t go into, I can totally relate to the irritable/lonely thing. The whole month of August was one big pain in my ass quite frankly. To the point I became worried about myself (and I generally don’t give a shit about myself or my own well-being…so you know it was bad). Stupid shit was setting me off to the nth degree.

As far as this ass in the article you mentioned, while it isn’t always true, most of those types get what’s coming to them one way or another. Worry not.

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The fact the dude so *blatantly* lied has me hoping he gets an actual sentence. It’s becoming, very slowly, easier to punish these vile creatures.

theeWeeBabySeamus

He may or may not. Hopefully yes. But even if not, his kind never changes. Which isn’t good for the women he runs across in the interim. But eventually he’ll run across the wrong one and she’ll shoot his pecker off.

That’s the story I’ll look forward to reading.

ballsofsteelandfury

Dammit!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Those extensions will get you every time.
Giggity.

theeWeeBabySeamus

BTW…my French little sister informed me today that all of us Americans mispronounce “crepes”. So get it together you uninformed American assholes. Sheeesh, you’re embarrassing me.
/not my real sister

Sharkbait

According to You’re The Worst crepes are pancakes for assholes.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Thanks for the reminder. New ep in 13 min.

Sharkbait

Oh shit. Thank YOU for the reminder!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Oh shit…You’re The Worst night.
/checks dvr
Whew.

But yeah…you did hear me say French…right?
Though she’s not an asshole per se. She’s a good girl. But she thinks we’re funny. That being said, she also wants to be American so….YEAH ‘MURRICA!!!!!!

Shogun Marcus

Is crep yes?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yes.

ballsofsteelandfury

How are you supposed to say it?

kreps?

theeWeeBabySeamus

And also, yes.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Shit..brain kicks in 2 minutes too late.
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Moonbatting Average

You had me at “French little sister”

theeWeeBabySeamus

Hey…you stop that. But yeah, this is her.
But still, you stop that. you be nice. Don’t make me cut you.
http://pre10.deviantart.net/d833/th/pre/i/2013/342/7/c/no_eelys_by_jb_fontaine_1_by_noeelys-d6smm4j.jpg

theeWeeBabySeamus

And lest anyone think I’m a jerk for posting this, it’s already posted publicly elsewhere.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

She is lovely. I just didn’t respond or “this is great” it because of the cutting me warning you gave with it.

theeWeeBabySeamus

LMAO. No worries…I just didn’t want to have to read any ogling comments about her. Yes, she is lovely. We became friends via photog stuff. She works both in front of and behind the camera, unlike meself who will break lenses with my face.

She is rather fetching, yes. My heart lies elsewhere though. Plus Noelly is less than half my age, so there’s that. That whole Atlantic Ocean thing isn’t even an issue because of the first two though.

Senor Weaselo

She does look quite lovely, why is it publicly elsewhere though? I apologize in advance if it sounds like I’m intruding.

theeWeeBabySeamus

No worries.
She models and also works behind the camera with other models. This just happens to be one that is posted publicly in at least 3 different places in her various portfolios.

Nothing sinister.

Senor Weaselo

I figured nothing sinister but good for her.

Sill Bimmons

That’s what the accent circonflex does to the e.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

WARNING: There will be an Opening Day HRTN tomorrow. This is not a drill. Repeat, this is not a drill. If you are in an HRTN zone, you are in danger of wasting yet more time, and possibly laughing once. Twice if you’ve been drinking. You have been warned.

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Brocky

so…were there like facebook invites or……

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Heh. Heh heh heh.

Oh, you just wait…

theeWeeBabySeamus

OK, I’m done now.
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Sharkbait

Are you though?

theeWeeBabySeamus

I am indeed.
Useless erections are useless.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Nice fake fireplace though, huh?

Horatio Cornblower

Fire what now?

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
theeWeeBabySeamus

Ooops…how’d this get in here?
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Moonbatting Average

Oh okay, I didn’t realize you guys meant the DMN comments. There’s no way I’m going in there, or even looking at the screenshots. I live in Dallas, and I’d like to continue to forget that I live in close proximity to DMN commenters

theeWeeBabySeamus

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Shogun Marcus

Test

Of will
Failed

Horatio Cornblower

strong adherence to our “no pants” policy; I like it!

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I do not recommend reading that fresh off the Dallas Morning News comments as you might hate the world enough to hurt yourself.

Duchess

I am brain dead from watching the Hilary/Trump dodging questions for 30 mins.

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Test.

Sharkbait

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So I’m trying to post a link to this bonkers story about a rape trial but I can’t get the text I wrote to post. I can’t figure out why.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/07/stockbroker-accused-of-rape-thought-woman-was-crying-due-to-size/

theeWeeBabySeamus

Now honey…you know it doesn’t count if you don’t go all the way down….right?
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theeWeeBabySeamus

Damn. That’s what I get for looking at the photo and not the extension.
LOL…that was funny and I didn’t even mean it that way.
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Horatio Cornblower

Just drafted Alex Smith and Ted Ginn, Jr. in the Insanity League and both picks made sense.

Sharkbait

This draft is something. That’s for sure.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’m just…no really, drafting Ginn….it’s just that. Yeah…insanity league. Obviously.
You win.

Horatio Cornblower

Fucker had 10 TDs last year. People forget that, probably because he had 67 drops.

litre_cola

I am trying to figure out any strategy. I have none. Hell Cutler is my back up

Sharkbait

You have a backup???

litre_cola

figured it prudent with 20 guys

Horatio Cornblower

Alex Smith is my backup, and I was happy to get him.

Sharkbait
Sharkbait

I would leave before my apartment got burned down in the ensuing shitstorm.

theeWeeBabySeamus

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Horatio Cornblower

My wife has a pair of leggings like that but they’re suede and lace up the back.

Gotta go.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yeah me too.

theeWeeBabySeamus
Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
theeWeeBabySeamus

What was broken?
Also, mine’s bigger….hee hee.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

And the original shows up now after not working for 3 refreshes

theeWeeBabySeamus

Mine’s still bigger.
You just remember that.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Huh…now it’s disappeared again.
Just like real life.
/hangs head in shame
//googles Canadian viagra

Moonbatting Average

I’m so glad the beginning of the NFL season and the MLB postseason dovetail so nicely with the tail end of the election season. It’s as if BLEERGH said “you mopes could use a break”

Sharkbait

Hockey season just starting too.

Moonbatting Average

Hail BLEERGH

Horatio Cornblower

That Dallas Morning News thread…sweet Jesus.

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One of the takeaways from these hoards of Trump lovers is that a huge swath of the U.S. population doesn’t seem equipped to handle the true nature of the world.

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It’s also so great to see how effective messaging can be. Nearly all of those angry comments are just regurgitated talking points nearly identical to the originals. It’s like you aren’t even listening to real people’s thoughts.

Senor Weaselo

But they’re REAL Americans!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHay_Uf6008

Moonbatting Average

Point me to it, please. The Trumpers really came here in force? (Sorry, the site is rough on my iPhone and too risky for work)

Sharkbait

I’m afraid if I read it I’ll get ocular cancer.

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You eyes will burst from the boiling of the gelatinous goo inside before the cancer could even form.

Horatio Cornblower

No, it’s linked up above in the main story. They have not showed up here.

Yet.

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The link is up in the text of the post but this might work better for you:

http://beta.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2016/09/07/recommend-hillary-clinton-us-president

Prepare to have your face melted off by the hot takes.

theeWeeBabySeamus

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Horatio Cornblower

She seems pleasant

theeWeeBabySeamus

Is it too early for boobies and derrieres?
(that’s French, btw…I’m a high class sumbitch)

Gratliff

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theeWeeBabySeamus

That seems like a “hard” no.
Ooooh…socks.

Horatio Cornblower

I am legitimately concerned about what those socks are doing to the circulation in her legs.

Shogun Marcus

Oui oui!
/heh heh wee wee…
//no class
///totes a sumbitch which my mom will admit to.

Sharkbait

My fiancee just sang “hold me closer Tiny Darren”. KSK/DFO is rubbing off on her

Senor Weaselo

You chose… wisely.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Nice throw down. Nailed that fucker by a mile.
Sorry Hippo.
Yay foar Sill, though.
😛

Sill Bimmons

Stephen Strasburg just died.

Shogun Marcus

Oh is it that time of year? Swallows in Capistrano and such?
Seriously what does dusty have against pitchers?

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I think he’s better than he used to be with handling pitchers, but he’s still a fucking dolt when it comes to all strategy. He somehow got the reputation of a great players manager even though he did an absolute shit job of holding together the chaotic 2004 Cubs and getting them to the playoffs.

theeWeeBabySeamus

OK…last Sam Jackson, I promise. Probably. Maybe.
“Well allow me to retort”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crR6pBGMZ90

Sharkbait

I should take Sterling Sheppard in a PPR league just to piss off Mrs Sharkbait the Giants fan right?

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

I think the Jets emoji should say #FlyIcarus

ALXMAC

TOO CLOSE!!

Senor Weaselo
theeWeeBabySeamus

I miss Craig.

Senor Weaselo

I think we all miss Craig.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Tell that bitch to be cool!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPPN_gkj_gk

Unsurprised

I love how as soon as Rob got to Buffalo, Rex’s diet took a flying leap off Niagra Falls

Sill Bimmons

The best thing that’s happened to the Pirates in the last ten days was the rookie pitcher getting down a perfect sac bunt just now.

King Hippo

Let the Most Glorious el beisbol Cardinals into the playoffs. FOAR THE GREATER GOOD.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Hey…despite losing today, Baltimore has a full 1 game cushion in the wildcard and only 1 game out of first in the division*.
*pending other results
/so confident

*sigh*

theeWeeBabySeamus
ALXMAC

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JustStopDude

I have been ranting on movies and shows I hate of late and how hollywood can’t make shit anymore.

I just don’t get how studios can see a good movie and not pick up on how not to make shit. For example, the film “Dredd” works brilliantly because the writers and director recognized that Judge Dredd is not a character. He is a set piece. So the film is not about him. He is part of the background universe.

The film is about the character that has an actual character arc…Judge Anderson, played wonderfully by Olivia Thirlby. The movie matches the dark, over the top nature of the Dredd universe without an annoying sidekick. We see an idealistic, unsure young recruit face a brutal society…and she emerges from the story a completely different person..

Even better…there is a tragic villan “Ma-ma” played by Lena Headey. Here we have a brutal drug lord, at one point shown ordering the skinning alive of two drug dealers that has a back story that makes sense she is so brutal. A former prostitute that was brutally tortured by her pimp, she stands up for herself and forces her pain onto the world. Evil…but understandable evil….a relate-able and understandable evil. Not stupid, cackling evil that plagues so many films now.

Good sound track, decent dialogue…nothing “stupid” happens to set up the drama. Its basically Assault on Precinct 13 set in the Dredd universe. Like any good sci-fi movie, if you removed the elements, you would still have a decent film.

Yet Hollywood refuses to make good movies like this. Assholes all you have to do is look at what this movie made at the box office and ….SON OF A BITCH! GODDAMN IT MOVIE GOING PUBLIC! THIS IS WHY ADAM SANDLER MOVIES KEEP GETTING MADE!

Unsurprised

I just read something about Mel Gibson calling BvS a piece of shit for, among other things, it and all of these other superhero movies costing hundreds of millions of dollars to tell completely dogshit stories.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Hey, isn’t that the movie that ripped off The Raid…?

/ducks

King Hippo

Also, Insanity draft in 36 minutes WOO

litre_cola

1st observation is that defenses are valued ahead of qbs.

Sill Bimmons

You’d think so, but no.

litre_cola

That is not what yahoo thinks with your scoring system

Sill Bimmons

Yahoo didn’t draft the Bills’ overrated piece of shit defense in the third round and have it ruin its entire season.

ALXMAC

18 rounds with 20 teams? At 90 secs per pick? THAT’S INSANE!!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

We FLEW through last night’s draft

Sill Bimmons

80 minutes, right?

ALXMAC

Yeah but I’m hoping DFO2 doesn’t have a lot of deadbeats (at least for the draft). BTW thank you Sill for moving it to tonight/time – otherwise I would’ve been one of them.

Sill Bimmons

You have so much time between picks you pretty much know exactly who you’re going to take when your turn comes around.

ALXMAC

Bonus points for making me 20/20. That means I have time to rob a bank between picks.

King Hippo

If you want to put a GOOD spin on the Dallas Morning News thingy with HillyBob…go back to my point about how she is inviting everyone who believes in basic Enlightenment values and common fucking sense inside the tent. It doesn’t mean she quits being a liberal – and she is CONSIDERABLY to the left of Wild Bill, and barely (if at all) to the right of my man Barry. It’s just good, inclusive governance. Make everyone feel a sense of ownership in solving problems, and making it more about the power of “us” than fearing “them.”

Give her a chance to govern – after all, what chance does one really have, and I think you will be pleasantly surprised. She will be at least a B/B+ President, and has a shot to be better.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I generally hate TV political ads, but the new one, basically illustrating that The Donald is likely to say some stupid shit to someone and start some shit he can’t fix….is brilliance.

And also totally true.

Sharkbait

Thats why I’m glad I dont live in New Hampshire anymore. Every other ad was a fucking political one.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Dude, barely to the right of Obama is pretty far right. And adding Tim Kaine and Ken Salazar to her list of BFFs pretty much tells us where HRC stands on progressiveness. It’s gonna be 4 more years of fighting in the Congress, constant war, and “free trade” agreements being pushed down everyone’s throats.

But no imaginary wall, so hey.

Sill Bimmons

Barry O is the second-best Republican president this country has ever had.

King Hippo

Let me make myself clear…Barry went about as far left as Congress and the Constitution would allow. Except that he is just center-left economically.

Sill Bimmons

Center-right at best imo.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Yeah, center-left would not be pushing the TPP as a hill to die on.

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To be fair, the fighting in Congress will be caused by the screaming purity-obsessed lunatics who don’t know or care how to govern.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Oh, sure, there’s no way around it. But having HRC in office is just going to make it that much worse. It’s going to give the screaming jackals who have hated the Clintons for over 20 years a laser-sharp focus for their hatred.

The irony is that she, like Obama, would be pretty good Republicans, if the GOP hadn’t gone so batshit crazy over the last 15 years. They’re both pro-big business, pro-war, anti-social security…all these things that the R’s used to love. But since they have that dreaded (D) next to their name, they’re now the ENEMY!

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I honestly think they could whip themselves into a frothy rage over any (D) president. Our political polarization has become too great for the individual people to matter much.

That being said, I do think she’ll make the Obama mistake of trying to meet morons in the middle and will end up worse off because of it.

Unsurprised

This is true. Republican strategy for thirty years has been to paint every Democratic President as entirely illegitimate from their election onward. And yet they were the ones who had five justices steal a motherfucking election for an imbecile. Fuck ’em.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Maybe. I do think she’s more combative than Obama. I have to admit to having a secret hope that she’s looking back at the last few decades and thinking, “Payback’s coming, motherfuckers…”

And, I have to say, I think she’s a lousy candidate. Like, bad. But, Obama was a very good candidate, and a not-so-good Prez, so just maybe she’ll knock it out of the park once in office. It’s impossible to tell.

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Hillary is a bad candidate only from the point of view that she’s not a very good campaigner. Her experience is near the top of any candidate who has ever run. In a blind resume test, people would think she’s incredibly qualified.

I think her best chance for success to be really bust some balls and push a really ambitious vision (I’m thinking like LBJ). I’m not that hopeful, but I do hope she politically fucks some people up.

Unsurprised

Oh, this is absolutely true. It’s why I don’t ever plan to run for office. As my senator boss told me flat out: I’d make a great politician, but a lousy campaigner. She’s 100% the same kind of person.

She’ll also be the smartest President in history. She’s smarter than Bill, she’s smarter than Nixon. Frankly, she’ll be a Nixon-like president (in a good way) in being superbly capable of strategic policymaking.

Unsurprised

I’ve been telling my black friend that we should really be rallying to get non-whites to take over the Republican Party seeing as though its core and remaining constituency is literally dying out.

Unsurprised

Everyone keeps trying to pin Hispanics on the immigration hill to die on, but we and blacks and Indians want to be entrepreneurs and raise families and live fairly conservative lives. The problem is that we vote Democrat because Republicans can’t stop FUCKING US EVERY CHANCE THEY GET.

Leave us the fuck alone, goddammit.

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White Identity politics can not die soon enough.

Unsurprised

But it will only get worse as they become the minority because they’re selfish assholes who can’t conceive of anything that doesn’t revolve entirely around them.

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It’s really amazing to see the depth of the notion of cultural dominance is tied into white identity. I guess it’s not surprising considering how Europeans basically colonized everywhere, but it’s incredible (and telling) to see the erosion of this power interpreted as death (white genocide!) itself.

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I’d mostly agree with what you’re saying, though I’d say the mean grade of her potential presidency is more like a B- with a higher ceiling.

People always vote on ideology and get pissy when a candidate doesn’t do 100% of what they say. They never seem to realize good governing that gets the results we want is trying to find a path through millions of people with diametrically opposed goals and interests that actually makes society better. That requires being a ruthless dealmaker at times and the idealists who refuse to accept don’t realize they’d accomplish nothing.

theeWeeBabySeamus

So…Carolina Brewery Flagship IPA (cans), or Sam Adams Rebel Rouser Double IPA (bottles). I’ve got both, and both will fall eventually. Can’t decide which to hit up first.

What say you, beer nerds/snobs?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Good enough for me.

theeWeeBabySeamus

And I don’t support the Panthers, just so we’re clear. Don’t hate ’em, but they’re not my team.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Denial is the first sign, man.

Doktor Zymm

Also, I really ought to get one of these fancy Japanese toilet seats when I get home.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Afraid to ask.

Sill Bimmons

They’re awesome.

They’ve got heated seats, built-in heated bidets, mood music, perfume dispensers–everything you’d expect from a culture that simply can’t do anything half-assed.

http://www.japanstyle.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/20110726_toilet01.jpg

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I, for one, live for the day where I can enjoy the luxury of a jet of water blasting my butthole clean.

Unsurprised

You mean besides when you take a shower, right?

I’m afraid to ask if there is a tentacle sex option.

litre_cola

Sharkbait, If you open yahoo in 2 different browsers you can draft two leagues at once.

Sharkbait

Sweet!

Doktor Zymm

Thunderstorms in Kyoto right now, but considering rain has been predicted every day of my trip, this is the first time I’ve been rained on so it’s all good. I got a morning walk in and I can take a shuttle to the train station. Onwards to Takayama! I wonder if I can stream the opening game via wifi from here?

Sill Bimmons

It rained 10 out of the 14 days I was in Japan.

You taking the Shinkansen?

Doktor Zymm

Part of the way, then a limited express up into the alps. If trump was planning on making america great again by implementing high speed rail instead of massive racism I would totally support him

Sill Bimmons

Even affordable rail.

High-speed rail doesn’t really work in the NEC anyway because it’s too built up and the rail network is too old. What matters is frequency of service.

Just making it so that getting from DC to Boston was more timely and about 25% cheaper would boost ridership enough to overcome the reduction in fare. Train travel is by far the easiest and least stressful way to travel, and the first time you arrive in DC after not having had to fight your way through airport security or I-95 traffic will be the last time you ever travel any other way.

Sharkbait

I ALWAYS take the train whenever I go to New York. Worth the money.

Sill Bimmons

Cross-continental high-speed rail is such an obviously good idea that it will never happen.

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I’m not sure about that. If it’s part of a set of regional networks I think it would work, but nothing is going to beat taking a flight when going from one coast to another.

It’s a moot point anyway since the dipshit G.O.P. governors are too stuck the idea of spending infrastructure money on inducing more traffic by widening roads for ever and ever.

Unsurprised

The other thing is that I mean the literal owners of America, especially China and Saudi Arabia. Ever since it became clear that Trump is Putin’s man, I imagine more time has been spent begging them off than virtually any other economic issue because my God do those countries hate Russia (and vice versa) and they could easily outspend every SuperPAC combined to blast Trump if they want.

Unsurprised

Your PSL’s value just tripled

Sharkbait

30 minutes away from draft #1. The Future Mrs. Sharkbait (Team name Those Are Blue Too!) drafting ahead of me. I don’t approve of this.

Sill Bimmons

Concentrate on this one.

The farce that begins at 9:00 is not worth wasting any effort on.

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

#FeedDaBears is nearly as dumb as the McCaskey family

JustStopDude
Unsurprised

Every one of America’s owners will ensure that Trump isn’t elected. Sometimes it’s good to be a plutocracy.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Trump is awful, no doubt. And sadly, the rest of the GOP field was just as awful or, almost inconceivably, worse.

Clinton is, unfortunately, pretty bad as well. She’s an economic neoliberal, a global conflict neocon, and will do nothing to stave off or mitigate our ongoing climatic disaster. However, unlike everyone else on the ballot, she’s not an anti-vaxxer, so there is that.

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Frankly, I don’t think *anyone* will stave off our ongoing climate disaster because it requires far too much coordination and agreement across nations to do it.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

I do agree with that. I did like seeing Bernie Sanders tackle the question head-on, though, and insist a wartime economy was the only hope.

Much has been made of Trump’s claims that CC doesn’t exist, but unfortunately very little thought is given to HRC’s lack of support for real change.

JustStopDude

Remember when Indiana passed the State Law allow the discrimination against the gays?

At the same time, Arkansas state house had already approved an even worse law. All it needed was the good old boy Governor to sign it into law. To everyone’s surprised, he risked all to veto it.

To the people in the know, every single major employer that had more than 100 employees called him up (Walmart, Tyson, Nucor) basically telling the guy is he dared to be this stupid, they were gonna have his ass recalled and he would be person non grata at the state capital. He wouldn’t even be able to be a lobbyist.

Sometimes…what is good for big business is good for people.

Sometimes…

Unsurprised

Exactly

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Sure, there are times when interests coincide.

But take my kvetching about climate change (above). This exists due to the worldwide capitalistic system that encourages constant consumerism over long-term conservatism. Big business will make the case for local wins, as in Arkansas, because it will do them no harm and possibly reap benefits. But when the stakes get difficult, and there are dangers to the profit margin, that’s when you’ll see them back away, and quickly, from any beneficial intervention.

King Hippo

Similar thing happened in GA with a “bathroom bill” similar to North Cakalaky’s hill that McCrory has chosen to die on.

Sill Bimmons

It’s just like the Brexit.

There’s no way on earth that happens.

One thing we often overlook here in the Americas is the power of the hereditary title and the peerage in domestic and international European politics. The only major economic power in the EU that has no hereditary nobility to speak of is France; even Germany has a bunch of titular land held over from the days of the Kaisers.

These people shaped the economic system exactly as they wanted it in 1957 and it’s been making them money hand over fist ever since. No way they let a bunch of racist Midlanders fuck that up.

Sill Bimmons

RINOS FOAR DINOS ITS THE 90S REMIX NOBODY WANTED

Sill Bimmons

Pretty much.

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