Do I want the National Guard to invade Memphis, the city of my birth? No, but it would still make a lot more sense than what Trump is doing in DC.
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Do I want the National Guard to invade Memphis, the city of my birth? No, but it would still make a lot more sense than what Trump is doing in DC.
I like Dennis the Menace, but every time Henry shows up, the fun's over.
"We don't have enough people. Also we are full." - Smartest Man in the World, Who Is Definitely Not Just a Racist With Too Much Money.
Vegetables, death, same difference.
"Ye generation of vipers!" was how they said "OK, Zoomer" in Bible times.
I said a little prayer for future realtors and financial advisors.
"Leonidas Buckminster Fluffington IV" it is
The first company that successfully tells Robby Starbuck to eff off is going to have a bright future ahead of it.
Ken Burns should have spent more time on that.
Little known fact: you can defeat entire armies just by sticking your hand inside your waistcoat when posing for portraits. (Unfortunately the armies that are defeated are your own).
Quite right.
Let me say this. I missed a lot of Texas football last year because I was running for the state legislature and spent my September/October Saturdays sweating and knocking on doors. So there were only a few games I made a point of watching or following the score. And ULM and MSU weren't those.
Yeah, Texas fans do be like that sometimes. I was in Jester dorm during the great Applewhite/Simms QB controversy. Utter madness.
I think the most that can be said is that this was his first start in a game with significant stakes or national attention; his two starts last year were ULM and last year's dog-awful Mississippi State team.
Yes. Definitely was a big game for Arch but anyone coming into this thinking we were about to see Football Jesus descend from the clouds was delusional or naive.
They need to make a "National Treasure" sequel where Nicholas Cage finds a way to get ESPN for free.
Yup, and even in games he didn't start (because of Ewers' injury) he also played for a few minutes in other games. I saw enough last year to have measured expectations today.
First full game? But yeah, hype. Definitely feel validated to see others thought Johnson might have been a little too excited today. Now that Texas is part of the SEC we can join in the long tradition of whining about pro-B1G /anti-SEC bias in national broadcasting.
I feel like when the NYT wrote that "Texas is the new Bama" article a few weeks ago, a bunch of monkey paws started curling.
I think there's still about a 50/50 chance that Texas makes the playoffs this year. Ohio State is a good team and might win the natty again this year. With that said, the Longhorns season depends on having a great season in SEC play. The real test is probably vs. Florida in the Swamp on 10/4.
He's fine. Will get better. Texas playcalling was conservative against a strong defense in the first half; Manning then had to try to dig out of a 14 point hole in the second half. Texas is suffering from high expectations and will probably fall to like #10. I think they will claw back though.
Yeah somebody has to hold his beer.
Having an ambitious day 1 agenda, regardless of whether these are all good ideas or not, is key. Trump uses "flood the zone" tactics to keep his opposition distracted and divided. Democrats can do that also. Outrage is a finite resource. Exploit that fact.
"Hold my beer, Igor!"
About 20 European countries are shutting down their AM radio bands entirely.
I've tuned in a few times and I've never found it particularly useful. We can also use low-power FM transmitters or push/SMS notifications for this. There is nothing inherently superior about AM radio, and in fact there are several things that are worse (susceptibility to noise and interference).
I very clearly am in favor of seatbelts and airbags though. Don't you think you're being a tad histrionic? But let's back up. This whole conversation got started because I was suggesting alternatives to "ban Fox News" that would actually be legal/constitutional.
Fair point. There are definitely some exceptions on the margins.
1. I have. And my experience is the range is very short. 2. Ending a mandate does not mean people in those areas won't have radios.
You can plan when you might be driving out of cell phone, FM, whatever, range. People don't wake up in the morning planning to get into a head-on collision. How many Americans died because they didn't have an AM radio last year? Because about 20-30,000 died in collisions.
Also the Times rule frequently comes into play... Almost by definition, anyone Fox News would slander would be a public figure
How would it be? Broadcast licenses are issued "in the public interest." Also, the weather alerts you are so concerned about are the sort of local content that I am proposing. Why should auto makers be required to install a radio to receive content that might be useless?
"Fire in a theater" comes up in the context of criminalizing or censoring speech under the theory of incitement. Defamation is a different issue entirely. It's a civil matter and revolves around the truth of what was said/written.
It's less odious than directly targeting something on ideological grounds. Also this is the year 2025. Also, if anyone is going to go driving in the middle of nowhere, they can bring their own radio. A mandate just means it isn't included by default.
I'm not necessarily sure that the Democrats would catch the blame. Each government shutdown has been a little bit unpredictable. I'm not saying it's a good idea. But it probably should be thought about. If we swear off using a weapon we are undermining our own position.
The point of accruing political capital is to spend it. Are all of these ideas good? Probably not. But I think it's good to start talking about how we are actually going to plan for a Trump-free America in 2027 and beyond.
You can put the screws to the AM talk radio stations without violating content neutrality. For example, oppose mandating AM radio receivers in cars.
That only ever applied to broadcast stations. Not cable. Cable isn't regulated the way broadcast TV and radio are. I find it odd that nobody here has proposed regulating AM broadcast stations, perhaps by requiring them to have more local news content (not syndicated right wing blowhards).
So many people in this thread using lazy thinking. "Instead of doing the work and investing the money to win America back one person at a time, I will use a (non-existent) law to shut down my enemies." Trump is the master of this thinking. Don't be like him.
Boycott their advertisers. Support progressive alternatives. Show up at school board meetings. There are plenty of ways to shut down Fox News that aren't constitutional travesties. They just require work. And for many people, that's just too hard.
Yeah that's.... not sound legal analysis. Yes Fox News is bad. No, the solution is not government censorship. None of the various exceptions to free speech (incitement/imminent lawless action) will not shut down Fox News. The 1A is strong and that's a good thing for those of us ok the left.
A “tariff rebate check” is like setting your kitchen on fire and then mailing yourself a bucket of water. There's an easier way to avoid the burn.
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Here's the post that was blocked (name removed to protect their privacy).
Synergistic cost enhancement.
Chuck Schumer: great leader, or greatest leader?
Driving out the homeless is not the same thing as driving out homelessness.
I don't care how Italian he is. There's nothing that can explain this perversion.
1. Endorse the winner of the Democratic primary in NYC. 2. Promote younger people like AOC (who is actually one of the best polling members of Congress). 3. Be willing to shut the government down over Trump's oversteps. 4. Be mildly critical of the situation in the ME (not full watermelon tho).
He's not a bad guy. I would my ecstatic for him to be Speaker. But, you know, first we have to deal with the present crisis.
Great point
I'm probably a bit softer on Jeffries because he's younger and less experienced. But I'm not happy.
Yeah so Trump is objectively worse this time around. And we have had 8 years to plan for it. We knew this was coming, remember the cartoonishly large Project 2025 book at the DNC? If Jeffries is in fact doing just what Pelosi did in 2017, that is in fact an enormous failure of leadership.
Uhhh...
Why would anyone even suggest that the government would not act in good faith. :: laughs nervously :;
Moving to "household" voting (assuming they don't just mean no voting for women, period) would mean that a family with a husband, wife, and two kids living in the basement gets as many votes as a purple-haired single mother.
This is about the dumbest thing the GOP could do. Married women are a lot more likely to vote like their husbands. "Load up the minivan so we can all vote MAGA" is a big thing in red counties. Individual voting -- trad families get 2+ votes. Household voting -- trad families get one vote.
Flood the Zone!
"it was all a distraction and the colonists fell for it."
It seems like the memo proves that people like politicians who are seen as "doing something," since that's basically the essence of the "restoring order" talking point from the GOP.
I think the reading for this is Isaiah 66:18-20?
Why do so many YouTubers say "I'll see you next time" at the end of their videos? They can't see us. This is YouTube, not Zoom.
Yeah. There are a lot of dumb tricks law enforcement can get away with, because there really hasn't been a truly pro-defendant SCOTUS majority in my lifetime (I'm 43). I remember being kind of appalled when I took crim pro in law school, and I am sure now with Trump II and the MegaRoberts court...
Yeah I was gonna say, Kerr is credible. This isn't like some Turley nonsense.
Let the record show that she never literally put a trans person into a woodchipper.
youtu.be/Nd7CWMk1Uxc?...
There's a guy on YouTube named Bruce Fumey (sp?) who does comedy as well as Scottish history. I believe one of his parents was from West Africa. He's an absolute gigachad.
It's almost like there isn't an entire consultant class that profits off of informative emails.
Either that or some trendy scam companies that got a billion dollars for literally no reason. Wework Theranos FTX !!!
You'll just get some obscure Asian brands to sponsor, like how the Astros play at Daikin Park. (I had not heard of Daikin, a Japanese air conditioner manufacturer, before they sponsored; and yes I suppose that actually proves the value of sponsorship but it will always be Enron Field to me).
Bruh, this is MS Paint quality.
This is the sort of nonsense that gets dumped on a Friday afternoon for a reason.
How do Tennessee employers feel about their workers getting shipped off for a glorified cub scout camp in DC for a political stunt?
Slavery and genocide were/are bad, actually.
Yup, looks like extortion.
They're diluting their stock.
so the lesson of cracker barrel is that apparently we’re doing a centrally planned economy except the central planners are right wing trolls I’m sure this will work out great for everyone
America was better when old orange guys were in our restaurant logos and not in the White House.
Anyone who runs on a platform of "I will set things back to how they were in October 2024" ought to be yeeted out of a circus clown cannon.
Us? Teach rhetorical fallacies? NOT AT THIS HIGH SCHOOL. (Or any American high school, apparently).
Cracker Barrel man updates voter registration after losing job in Trump economy
So who is going to buy those Trump 2028 hats from the gift shop then?
you have a point
People who think Newsom is "over the line" now, but have never criticized Trump's tweets are, like, the same people who could watch that Weird Al biopic and come away with the conclusion that Madonna really did have Weird Al assassinated in 1985. A complete inability to understand satire.
1. For the life of me, I never understood what the shape around the "Cracker Barrel" wordmark was supposed to be. It looks like a mutant pumpkin. 2. It's also terribly confusing to me that there's a cheese brand named "Cracker Barrel" that has nothing to do with the restaurant/toy harmonica store.
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Not to be, though the new guy did work his way to the top, starting as an intern. So mad props to Michael Fiddelke.
I hope he gets replaced by a smart, qualified black lesbian. Just to rub salt in the wound of the anti-DEI crowd.
Who needs to pay for research when you can just make stuff up?
It is.
Tennessee sending troops too. Ugh.
There is a fascist in the White House—and we have to throw out our old playbook. Democrats cannot be the only party that's playing by the rules anymore.
Don't need to worry about stationery if you never write letters.
I can already hear that one AI voice that sounds like the Arby's commercial guy.
SAVE US DYNAMO KEN
Some of you may die but that's a risk the state of Florida is willing to take
"pAsTeUr Is PaRt Of ThE cOnSpIrAcY!!!"
Most people know that Trump is a scumbag and yet here we are.
I have seen moms in local Facebook groups trying to find colloidal silver and raw milk for their kids. Personally I think that is child abuse. But I also know that CPS won't do a damn thing about it.
