Rick Byrens

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[Rick Byrens @rbyrens]

RIP Ozzy. For all of your fame, I actually think you were underrated.

[Rick Byrens @rbyrens]

No Kings

[Dan Carlin @HardcoreHistory]

I wonder how many Americans who consider themselves politically aware could pass a civics test about how our government is supposed to function. I wonder how many Americans who ostensibly talk about politics as part of how they make a living could. Our anti-education/anti-knowledge culture has come for our constitutional society. And people who consider themselves "patriotic" celebrate dismantling the very aspects of our Framer's work that those exquisite-minded guys were most proud of. Co-equal branches of govt and checks and balances. Not bugs...but this system's greatest features. We are a politically hypocritical society and this will cost us. Can you imagine if the Biden/Harris/Hillary Clinton crowd were doing and saying the sort of things Trump is saying now? How many of you Trump fans would be ready to take to the streets? "That's what the 2d Amendment is for Dan"...how many times have I been told that by the "defenders of our Constitution"? For 40 years you've been saying it to me! So...it's only a problem if THEY'RE doing it? One side gets a pass at assaulting the constitutional wall that protects us all, and the other doesn't? How many of you would say "they're only joking" or "don't worry, it's a negotiation position" if Kamala Harris said these things? Serious question. You'd be just fine with it? No big deal? And I'm sure the right-wing talker's ecosystem would be too? All of this is going to come back to bite us. All of it. We are shortsighted, propagandized, political hypocrites. And we simply refuse to apply the same standards to both sides.
And while I'm ranting: half of this problem is the fault of the Democratic Party. I've never seen such a toothless, feckless, directionless, passion-free group of poor political candidates in my life (and I was of voting age in the Mondale/Dukakis years). Only their most radical wing shows any passion or life at all...and that's the group that absolutely, positively can't win a general election.
When the great historian in the sky writes about this era the "other party" in a two-party system deserves a ton of the blame too. Everyone over 70 years old in that party should resign right now. What Trump is trying to do in our system now is exactly what the Founders designed safeguards to prevent. And that's why Trump is targeting the safeguards.

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Guardians - where is Emmanuel Clase and what have you done with him?

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@Huddyrx I'll have it with me!

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@Huddyrx One demerit for no Scopa deck. Otherwise awesome! Inspired to get my card games organized!

[Rick Byrens @rbyrens]

Watching the Olympics on Peacock Gold Zone is pretty freaking great
#GoldZone

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@Huddyrx I have a long way to go to get to this level of organization!

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@DanThurot I guess even with a lush theme, games still have to be games first. For me a very good thing, but clearly not everyone feels this way, especially if the theme in question is important to you

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@HBuchanan2 50 years ago I was getting this stuff from Naugles, definitely a Orange/Riverside county thing

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@jr_3718 @KentuckyDerby If you were picking the last place horse - Winner!

[Rick Byrens @rbyrens]

Today is one of the High Holy days of the year. In honor of this day, I offer my Derby picks: Catching Freedom, Honor Marie, Forever Young, and a longshot Mystik Dan. They will be in my Exotics. To win? Catching Freedom. May the Fourth (Odds!) be with you! @KentuckyDerby

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@HBuchanan2 @SDHistCon @MultiManPub @calvinboy024 It's funny, I only met him once, and you know what we talked about? Baseball! Really interesting guy, very sad that we have lost him

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My take on the Buffalo Wild Wings commercial: "Come to Buffalo Wild Wings, we'll let you be a complete asshole"

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Just awesome

[Detroit Lions @Lions]

How electric was that

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Guessing every Eagles fan is on suicide watch after today

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@HBuchanan2 It's the Homer.

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@Wojtowicz_N Hi Natalia - great gaming with you at SD HistCon!

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@AlZeidenfeld 240th in the milli. With Freiermuth (who I had in several lineups) over Pitts, would have been 5th! Not that I won't be the king about that all week....

[Rick Byrens @rbyrens]

Dallas might have a new BBQ king. @TerryBlacks_BBQ