James Mattis in Afghanistan, Peyton Manning for Senate Talk, Rick Pitino Out at Louisville: P.M. Links

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  President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress unveiled the most detailed look at their tax cut plan yet.

• The Taliban claimed responsibility for a failed mortar attack on the airport in Kabul while Secretary of Defense James Mattis was making an unannounced visit to Afghanistan.
• Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who announced he would not be seeking re-election in 2018, said Peyton Manning could run to succeed him.
• The head of the state police in Michigan apologized for calling NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem "a bunch of rich, entitled, arrogant, ungrateful, anti-American degenerates" on her Facebook page.
• The government in Iraq has suspended international flights into Kurdistan and is urging foreign countries to close their embassies in the province after its residents overwhelmingly voted in favor of independence.
• Some women in Saudi Arabia have gotten behind the wheel after the kingdom lifted a ban on women driving, even though it will not issue licenses for another nine months.
• Rick Pitino is out at Louisville amid an investigation into college basketball corruption.
• "Believing conspiracy theories makes people feel special."

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[Fist of Etiquette]

President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress unveiled the most detailed look at their tax cut plan yet.

NO TAXES FOR THE RICH

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Minimal effort.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

Leave Rufus alone. His hello brightens our day.

[Fist of Etiquette]

He might as well be kneeling during the Links anthem.

[BestUsedCarSales]

2112?

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

We are the Priests
Of the PM links
Our great computers
Fill the comments with our bawls
We are the Priests
Of the PM links
All the frustrations
Are held within our balls

[BestUsedCarSales]

If Christian told us the links were late every time because he was listening to Rush I would completely forgive him.

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

The sleep is still in my eyes
The links are still in my head
I heave a sigh and sadly smile
And hit refresh again

I wish that it might come to pass
Not fade like all my screens
Just think of what my life might be
On a blog like I have seen

My spirits are low, in the depths of despair
My cold coffee
Spills over?.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Attention all Users of the Reason Comment Board
Attention all Users of the Reason Comment Board
Attention all Users of the Reason Comment Board
Cucks Have Assumed Control
Cucks Have Assumed Control
Cucks Have Assumed Control

[Fist of Etiquette]

All good stuff. I stand.

[Tom Bombadil]

You're Geddying good at this.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

1975's Rollerball is an underappreciated classic, and contains a theme centered around the individual vs society, which makes it libertarian af.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Good comment placement!

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Believing conspiracy theories makes people feel special."

"Special" can be a loaded word. Did the editors put you up to that?

[Shirley Knott]

Yeah, are we talking short bus special or deluxe limo special?

[Anomalous]

Those who believe think they are the latter, but are actually the former.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

That's what they want you to think!

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Trump, at war with everyone, mocks McCain, McConnell

In private, President Trump has taken to physically mocking M&M: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (slumped shoulders; lethargic body language) and Sen. John McCain (imitating the thumbs-down of his historic health-care vote).

Alpha af.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I hope the media keeps calling them M&M.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

They melt in your mouth, not in your hand.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I wish he would make Spitting Image type puppets of them and have conversations with them on Vine.

[ChipToBeSquare]

The world needs more mocking of John McCain, not less

[Fist of Etiquette]

Rick Pitino is out at Louisville amid an investigation into college basketball corruption.

Finally, something sports related that takes our minds off the anthem protests.

[Libertarian]

Fine
I won't make my crack about Russian influence.

[BestUsedCarSales]

"Believing conspiracy theories makes people feel special."

You expect me to just believe their lies?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Some women in Saudi Arabia have gotten behind the wheel after the kingdom lifted a ban on women driving, even though it will not issue licenses for another nine months.

They're hoping the celebration sex will leave them too preggers to apply.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I'm pretty sure celebration sex is just whenever the husband feels up to holding them down for 2 minutes.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

All sex in Saudi Arabia is like that Barry Pepper scene from Three Burials.

[Jerry on the sea]

...and then they find out they're not even old enough to drive.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Teacher convicted of sex acts with student in East Palo Alto classroom

Matko, who was an English teacher at the school at the time of her arrest in December,2015, was convicted of one count of oral copulation on a minor and three counts of lewd acts on a minor age 14 or 15.

The jury is expected to continue deliberations Wednesday on two additional charges, including one accusation regarding a second student. Matko is facing a sentence of about six years behind bars and will have to register as a sex offender, according to San Mateo County Chief Deputy District Attorney Karen Guidotti.

Wait for it...

"Female teachers who commit offenses such as this are fairly few and far between," Guidotti said. "But we see it."

Yes we do.

[BestUsedCarSales]

was convicted of one count of oral copulation

The law is astonishingly good at making great things sound horrible.

[geo1113]

True but a blowjob is a blowjob is a blowjob.

[BestUsedCarSales]

True but oral copulation is oral copulation is oral copulation.

[geo1113]

AS long as I am with someone on my choosing, I can live with it.

[Libertarian]

What is this, Gertrude Stein Day?

[SIV]

Does she teach the blind?

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

I laughed.

*tips hat*

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Taliban claimed responsibility for a failed mortar attack on the airport in Kabul while Secretary of Defense James Mattis was making an unannounced visit to Afghanistan.

Only losers claim responsibility for their fuckups. Sad.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The head of the state police in Michigan apologized for calling NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem "a bunch of rich, entitled, arrogant, ungrateful, anti-American degenerates" on her Facebook page.

Good thing the protests weren't directed at organizations like the one she heads. That would look real bad.

[Stormy Dragon]

Believing conspiracy theories makes people feel special.

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story." -- John Barth

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

More of an Anti-Hero.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

JFK assassination: Lawmakers call on Trump to release all classified documents

The Trump administration, meanwhile, said the decision to release the documents is currently under review.

"We have been working closely with the National Archives and other departments and agencies since the beginning of this administration on processes that are consistent with the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act," an official with the National Security Council told Fox News on Tuesday.

I've been re-crushing Ellroy's Underworld trilogy, and I expect the documents will verify the books are 100% accurate.

[John]

Are you a believer in the "Santo Tropicante put up an associates' reject commie nephew (Oswald) into killing Kennedy" theory?

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

I don't have an actual theory, but I have fallen into the assassination rabbit hole and it is endlessly fascinating, however, I would not be surprised if there was an organized mafia or CIA plot to kill him - JFK fucked over a lot of people with the Bay of Pigs, and he let his brother go after the mafia after they helped him get elected.

Note: don't piss off a lot dangerous people.

[John]

I had a friend who was way into all that. And he sketched out a pretty convincing case that Tropicante was behind it. Oswald was the nephew of a Tropicante associate and known to the mob. He was also a congenital retard who could be talked into virtually anything. So the theory is that the mob put him up to it on the promise that they would wisk him away to safety in Cuba and a hero's welcome. The mob figured that the cops would kill Oswald when they captured him and Oswald being a known communist nut would leave the trail back to them cold. When the cops didn't kill Oswald, they called on Jack Ruby. The thing that makes it so believable is that not only was Oswald the nephew of a Tropicante associate, Ruby had been caught stealing money from Tropicante and was basically a dead man. That is a hell of a coincidence for both the guy who killed Kennedy and the guy who killed him to be that closely connected to Tropicante. Basically, Ruby was known to the cops and knew he could get into the Dallas jail and was told to go down there and figure out a way to kill Oswald before he talked in return for he and his entire family not meeting very horrible deaths.

That is the most plausible conspiracy theory I have ever heard.

[Stormy Dragon]

Kennedy was killed by a lone nut, just like nearly every other Presidential assassination attempt in this country's history.

[John]

That is why I like the Tropicante theory. It is consistent with the numerous facts that point to Oswald as a lone nut, which is what he was. It is entirely possible that Oswald was a lone nut who was put up to doing it by someone else.

[Juice]

He did say he was a patsy. He was the lone shooter and assassin, but he could still be a patsy.

[Libertymike]

John, forgive me for asking, but why are you spelling Trafficante's name as Tropicante?

[John]

Because I have a terrible memory for names and the spelling of them. Good catch.

[Libertymike]

My uncle could give your friend and Richard "SVU" Belzer a run for their money on the subject.

My uncle approaches the topic comprehensively, thus he takes pride in knowing all the related principals, including the mob subjects, the families, and their histories.

[BYODB]

Would you believe I was thinking 'what, like the orange juice cartels'?

[Libertymike]

Yeah, the independents got squeezed out...

[Juice]

I thought Booth was part of a conspiracy.

[John]

He was. They hung several people who were part of it.

[Stormy Dragon]

Booth is the "nearly"

[loveconstitution1789]

They all were. Nobody just woke up and never talked to anyone about killing a president. All assassins run it by someone.

The trick is proving that they other people wanted the assassination to happen for some diabolical purpose.

[BestUsedCarSales]

The question now is what Jodie Foster had to gain for Hinckley's actions...

[CE]

Friend of the Bush family, duh.

[CE]

A lone nut who was obviously a US spy.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Finally, we will have government verification of the existence of the Lycan menace.

[Jerryskids]

When are they going to get around to releasing Obama's real birth certificate? You'd think that would be right at the top of Trump's list of state secrets to spill.

[loveconstitution1789]

That is a literally a state secret. Hawaii's state secret.

[John]

Now that Obama is out of office and it really wouldn't mean anything, would it be delicious if it turned out the dumb bastard was born in Kenya? Can you imagine the butthurt, shock and horror if it turned out the nutjobs were for once right and the entire media was wrong? That would just be epic.

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

Whereupon John finished into a crusty sock.

[John]

Don't confuse a cynical sense of humor with sexual desire.

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

Don't you talk about my ex-wife that way!

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

"Crusty Sock" was Michael Hihn's nickname in college.

[John]

The sports media drives me crazy. This thing with the college coaches being indicted is only tangentially about paying players. Paying players in violation of NCAA rules is not a federal crime. What is a federal crime is taking kickbacks for recommending someone's service and not revealing that. What the shoe companies do is pay the AAU and the college coaches to steer top players to college teams that wear their shoes and then to sign with that company should they ever make it big. Then the agents and the crooked financial planners are also in bed with the shoe companies and the coaches to steer players towards certain agents and planners for a fee of course. The whole thing is nothing but a fraud committed on the players and their families.

The fact that Lousiville or South Carolina are going to go on probation or maybe get the death penalty is just collateral damage. The big news is that the head of worldwide marketing for Adidas just got indicted. This is about the web of crooked agents and AAU and NCAA coaches not really this or that team paying a recruit. This is not a recruiting scandal. This is a fraud scandal.

[Jerryskids]

College athletics is a fraud scandal.

[John]

No, it's not. It is a cartel that has a salary cap that says its members can only pay their players in kind with an education. Unless you really believe in strict antitrust law enforcement, there is nothing wrong with that. If the players don't like the deal offered by the NCAA, they should not take it. The fact that they have to because the NBA or the NFL won't hire them out of high school is not the NCAA's fault. Moreover, the NBA and the NFL should be free to put whatever age restrictions they like on who they hire.

[CE]

None of these should be crimes crimes though. It's all voluntary transactions.

The Justice Department should start working on reducing actual crime in Chicago, as promised.

[John]

My failing to disclose financial connections is fraud. That is a crime.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

How Film Nerds Gone Wild Scandal Shows Corporate Perils Of Inaction Against Sexual Harassment

Harry Knowles, the founder of Aint It Cool News ? the website that first became Hollywood relevant back when it aired reviews from readers who sneak into studio test screenings months before movies got released ? has announced he will step away from his website for a leave of absence, with his sister taking over. This comes after the Austin Film Critics Association booted him, and after the abrupt exits of several longtime contributors said to be the site's backbone in spearheading its genre film coverage. All this came days after our sister publication IndieWire bared a report ? flatly denied by Knowles ? that nearly two decades ago he had groped a woman, one who said it happened more than once. Multiple women have since come forward with harassment claims of their own.

Fun fact: never touch or text a woman. Ever.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Thank god the new Senran Kagura game on the Switch has enhanced touching mechanics. Not a minute too soon.

[Mickey Rat]

That fact is not much fun.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

Because Crusty is so blessed with hirsute attributes, he is never really touching a woman anyway. She is always riding on a cushion of follicles, not unlike an air hockey table.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...Peyton Manning could run to succeed him.

Lionel Ritchie can sing "It's Peyton on the Senate Floor-oor" for his campaign.

[John]

He could call his economic plan "Omaha"

[Libertymike]

Bastard, you beat me to it.

I was going to say, "he has to move from Omaha".

[CE]

I just hope he calls an audible when the GOP wants him to vote for war.

[John]

http://www.businessinsider.com.....sts-2017-9

Hollywood isn't making any money. Clearly, the solution is to stop casting hot, young actresses in its films because of FAIRNESS!! That ought to work out well.

[lap83]

Complaining about the age of a stock character, i.e. "action hero love interest", just seems incredibly trite

Here's a thought....older actresses are more established so they aren't clamoring for that role in the first place. Meryl Streep can be the protagonist, she doesn't need to be arm candy

[Juice]

To be fair, he's 55 but looks like he's 35.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

He has the caboose of a Greek god.

2017: you must respond to Twitter.

[Juice]

Ok, in that pic he looks 45.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

'Interactive' sex doll breaks down after huge number customers try it out at Austrian electronics fair

Samantha the Sex Doll had been showing off her 'skills', which include reacting to touch, hugging and moaning - and remembering individuals she has 'interacted' with, at the Arts Electronica Festival in Linz.

However, Samantha's creators have now been forced to send her to be repaired, after visitors left the robot 'heavily soiled' and with broken limbs.

Seriously ladies, your reign of terror is apparently over.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Sad to hear that Steve Smith got to her before anyone else had a chance.

[lap83]

and remembering individuals she has 'interacted' with

even remembering them while she's interacting with the not-as-great new guys?

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

even remembering them while she's interacting with the not-as-great new guys?

She is amazing.

[Juice]

So it was a robot gang bang? ew

[loveconstitution1789]

Quaker State at the ready!

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

"Where is your, uh, lady friend?"
"She is in the shop."
"What, again? I think you got a lemon."
"Well, you know what they say. When life gives you a lemon..."

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

I don't mind the sex doll stuff, but I think it's borderline disturbing anywhere outside the privacy of one's bedroom.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The government in Iraq has suspended international flights into Kurdistan and is urging foreign countries to close their embassies in the province after its residents overwhelmingly voted in favor of independence.

Democracy is great except for all those voters.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Anthony Scaramucci Wants to Stay Relevant by 'Making the World Better for Our Children and Grandchildren'

Fun fact: there is a section called, "Sell your business and abandon your family for an eleven day job and some sweet Fox News gash."

I've read it four times.

[Stormy Dragon]

Does his plan to make the world better for our children and grandchildren involving doing the fandango?

[Juice]

Holy shit. That picture makes him look like Piter De Vries from Dune.

[Juice]

The Lynch version.

[Mickey Rat]

By Scaramucci's will alone does he set his mind in motion...

[Libertarian]

+1 thunderbolt and lightning

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

'Game of Thrones' Fails to Hire Any Women Directors for the Fourth Season in a Row

Game of Thrones has recently been praised for its depiction of women in positions of power, after enduring criticism for years over its depiction of sexual violence. In fact, at least two female characters?Daenerys Targaryen and Cersei Lannister?are the most likely answers to the question, "Who will win the game of thrones?" The women of Game of Thrones give commands, they burn cities, they behead traitors, and they rise to the top. So why can't HBO seem to practice the ideals it preaches?

Prediction: a sex doll directs a GoT episode before a woman.

[John]

Nothing says rating winner like "feminist fantasy".

[Stormy Dragon]

Who cares about season 8, we already have the ending we really want:

'Game of Thrones' Jon Snow and Ygritte Are Getting Married IRL

[Fist of Etiquette]

NO SPOILERS

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

That makes me genuinely happy.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

For a few years, until they divorce.

[Mickey Rat]

You can't marry a pile of ashes, Jon!

[Mickey Rat]

The petson with the best legal claim to throne is a man now...

The producer's made a big show that a partcular conference of one faction leadership was led by four women. Within two episodes only one of those women remained in any podition of authority.

The writer has not been paying attention.

[Lily Bulero]

"The women of Game of Thrones give commands, they burn cities, they behead traitors, and they rise to the top. So why can't HBO seem to practice the ideals it preaches?"

HBO should practice burning and beheading?

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Inability to separate fiction from reality?

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

I wonder if a female author would have been able to finish the novels by now.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Sofia Coppola was busy?

[Tom Bombadil]

"Game of Thrones has recently been praised for its depiction of women in positions of power.........So why can't HBO seem to practice the ideals it preaches?"

Because GofT is fiction and directing TV shows is real?

[CE]

No spoilers, please.

[loveconstitution1789]

President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress unveiled the most detailed look at their tax cut plan yet.
I wonder when the TDS will start on this too?

[geo1113]

TAX CUTS FOR MILLIONAIRES, BILLIONAIRES,AND CORPORATIONS!!!!

[loveconstitution1789]

Don't forget tax cuts for the Middle Class.

[Juice]

Do you suspect the 9/11 attacks were a government cover up?

...you could be doing it for attention.

So people who are skeptical and suspicious about government claims are attention whores? Ok.

[Lily Bulero]

To be fair, people who are skeptical of the government tend to attract attention...from the government.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

How Campus Rape Got So Complicated: Vanessa Grigoriadis on Her Book 'Blurred Lines'

Sort of interesting. First, they get a simple fact wrong, and that annoys me. Second, both the author and interviewer seem endlessly annoying, but apparently her book - and the story - are fairly skeptical of ridiculous way campus sexual assault has recently been adjourned, and there is this:

One Syracuse student who refers to herself as "Blackout Blonde" recalls some of her sex-capades to Grigoriadis, including an incident that the rad fems at Wesleyan would surely argue was sexual assault.

But "Blackout Blonde" doesn't consider herself a survivor.

"As far as I'm concerned, there's only one person to blame in that situation, and his name is Jos? Cuervo," she says.

Fun fact: send your son to SU.

[geo1113]

Is that the book the song was based on?

[Domestic Dissident]

The head of the state police in Michigan apologized for calling NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem "a bunch of rich, entitled, arrogant, ungrateful, anti-American degenerates" on her Facebook page.

One should never apologize for making a statement that contains so much truth.

[BestUsedCarSales]

They might want to apologize for all the vicious police brutality though. At least it's pro-America brutality though.

[Stormy Dragon]

Trump sells tax plan as 'historic' opportunity

A shady real estate developer offering the chance to get in early on a "historic opportunity"? What could possibly go wrong?

[loveconstitution1789]

Tax cuts for most Americans.

Starve...the... beast!

[CE]

You get a graduation photo with a cardboard cutout instead of your hero?

[Rebel Scum]

Stating a somewhat popular opinion is an impeachable offense

Congressman Al Green (D-TX) has called for the impeachment of President Trump before, but he's now doing so based on Trump's NFL comments. He condemned Trump for calling anyone an "S.O.B.," arguing that it is offensive to all these athletes' mothers. Remember, according to Cornell Brooks, the former NAACP president, the "son of a b**ch" colloquialism is code for the "n-word." Green said, "I rise to denounce these comments that have been made, because they have brought discourse to a new low. Mr. Speaker, this is a level of indecency that is unbecoming the presidency." So he told everyone assembled that next week he "will call for the impeachment of the president of the United States of America."

I'm starting to think that Team Blue will keep being ridiculous enough that Team Red won't lose in the midterms no matter how hard they try to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

[John]

I have thought that for a while. The Democrats are so stupid they are going to manage to lose even though their opponents are trying to lose themselves. I really believe the Republicans in Congress want the Democrats to take control of the Congress because it will get them off the hook for making any decisions or taking any responsibility and also maybe get rid of Trump whom they hate. This is why they refuse to do anything. They want to lose.

It is a beautiful plan except that the Democrats are so stupid they keep screwing it up. The one thing that will save the Republicans from themselves is making the midterms a referendum on impeaching Trump. Do that and the GOP base will forget all about the good for nothing Congress and have a reason to show up and vote. And of course, that is exactly what the Democrats seem intent on doing.

[Rebel Scum]

Agreed. But I do wonder what effect there will be on turnout when they barely attempt to do what they told their base they would. Why show up to vote if nothing comes of it when the person you voted for wins?

[Tom Bombadil]

"Remember, according to Cornell Brooks, the former NAACP president, the "son of a b**ch" colloquialism is code for the "n-word."

As in 'colored people'.

[CE]

No, but it will get you fired at ESPN.

[Rebel Scum]

President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress unveiled the most detailed look at their tax cut plan yet.

It's gonna be YUGE. (and the GOP won't act on that which they have been talking about, well, forever...)

[Rebel Scum]

The Taliban claimed responsibility for a failed mortar attack on the airport in Kabul while Secretary of Defense James Mattis was making an unannounced visit to Afghanistan.

James Mattis cannot be killed by conventional weapons.

[CE]

You know who else made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan?

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

"Believing conspiracy theories makes people feel special."
Turns out, if you're an avid conspiracy theorist, you could be doing it for attention.

From the Joo-homo media cabal? I don't think so.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Lizard People.

[Episteme]

At this point, I honestly want Trump to start accusing his opponents of being lizard people at rallies. I just want to see what happens.

[Rebel Scum]

Some women in Saudi Arabia have gotten behind the wheel after the kingdom lifted a ban on women driving

Of all the things the things women are not allowed to do in Saudi Arabia, not allowing them to drive probably made the most sense. //sarc

[John]

http://www.thetruthaboutknives.....boyfriend/

The good news is that the British National Health Service has finally scheduled you for that life-saving heart surgery. The bad news is that your surgeon was convicted of stabbing her boyfriend in college.

Holy shit does that chick look crazy.

[BestUsedCarSales]

She just looks british to me. Shame enough that that is.

[John]

She looks slasher movie nuts. In defense of the judge here, any man that would put it in a chick who looks that crazy, was kind of asking for it.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I really don't agree with you on that. And the details of the case I've seen so far make it seem like a reasonable decision on the part of the judge. Haven't heard statements from the boyfriend though, wonder his opinion.

[CatoTheChipper]

Bunny boiler nuts.

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

BUCS's Taste In Women, status: SCHIZO.

[John]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017.....brawl.html

A brawl broke out at the Berkeley Empathy Tent. The Antifa people make the Manson family seem attractive and well kept by comparison.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I could see why empathy is an idea so offensive to Antifa.

[GeneralWeygand]

"Someone is going to treat me like the pig that I am."

[Stormy Dragon]

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the Empathy Tent!

[Libertymike]

So who would make for a better senatorial candidate, Peyton Manning or Tom Brady?

BTW, I'll take Manning's wife, Ashley, over that Brazilian bitch to whom Brady is chained.

[John]

Manning. Brady seems to have zero personality. Manning manages to be a bit of a loveable goof. Can you imagine Brady trying to pull off those Pizza commercials or the "Payton on Sunday Morning" ads? No way. Brady seems to have no personality or any kind of self-awareness or ability to self-deprecate.

[Libertymike]

Agreed.

Yeah, Brady is a better looking guy, but he doesn't have Manning's charm, wit, or, as you observed, self-deprecation.

How about the new Nationwide ad with Brad Paisley? Can you imagine Brady pulling that off?

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

I don't know, John--Brady's a pretty good troll when he wants to be. Plus, he completely discombobulated the press when they saw that MAGA hat in his locker--wonder if seeing that made simpering nerd Charles Pierce reconsider his Patriots jock sniffing for half a second.

[Trigger Warning]

I say we fully enable and support an independent Kurdish state, because fuck Baghdad.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Been on this train for 3 years. The Kurds held the line when nobody else gave a shit and ISIS rolled over the middle eastern wasteland. They withstood the siege of Kobani which was the beginning of the end for ISIS.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

To be fair, they've had a lot of help from the US Air Force in doing so. But their ability to maintain morale and fighting elan while being supplied with little more than small arms and technicals has been impressive.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Everyone had US air power on their side during the ISIS land grab. All other forces routed and were subsequently captured and sadly mass executed by ISIS, only the Kurds held. Men and women rode by bus and jeep across the Turkish border and headed to Kobani when everyone else in the area was trying to flee that very place.

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

FUCK yes.

They stand by us, we stand by them. If we have ANY honor left as a nation...

[CE]

Self determination is a basic human right, and secession is the political expression of that right.
Except for the CSA. Those guys waged war on America.

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

*waged war on 3 million of their fellow citizens over the course of several centuries