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  1. That piece from the Baylor professor hits close to home. I finally had it out with my father on Sunday. We were on the phone and he was bemoaning the result of the Bama/LSU game. I made a joke that it was Trump’s fault - we hadn’t lost a home game in four years and he shows up and boom. He lost his shit - practically screaming about me disrespecting “the best president of his lifetime” and people who criticize him should be punished. I pointed out that he was unhinged over a joke and he was acting like a triggered snowflake. That elicited a good ten seconds of sputtering denial. I told him to calm down and quit acting like an emotional toddler over a joke and he said, and I quote, “I hate liberals and we need to ‘cleanse’ them from our country!” And I lost it. I asked him “So, you hate me and your granddaughter and your son (he’s a liberal too)? You think we should be punished and ‘cleansed’ from the population?” He tried to backtrack and say, “I didn’t say that! I just hate your politics!” I told him to stop lying. I said the only reason he even came to that game was to assuage his bartered ego after getting booed at the World Series and the UFC match. “Ah, those people aren’t real Americans! They’re just yankee New York liberals!” At that, I literally hollered “TRUMP IS A YANKEE NEW YORKER! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT???” I told him ever since his retirement he’s turned into someone I don’t recognize and he’s been brainwashed by watching Fox News nonstop and radicalized by Facebook. Then I got petty and said “You’ve become like a cult member. You’re letting your emotional attachment to a con-artist criminal destroy your relationship with your family.” He, a 69 year old man who has always been a kind and loving person, proceeded to tell me he won’t speak to me if I don’t “change my ways” and, like a petulant child, hung up on me. I’ve ignored and tiptoed around his behavior for far too long. After a few minutes I called my mom and she said he said he refuses to speak to me until “I apologize for disrespecting our president.” My mom says she just ignores him when he gets like that and I told her that’s part of the problem. She said she doesn’t want to put up with the “abuse” if she engages. I joked my sister will be happy because my brother and I will get cut from the will. (My sister isn’t a Trumpkin, she’s just totally apolitical). My mom replied “I control the will”. Part of me is sad because I’ve always been Daddy’s Girl and we’ve always had a great relationship. He was never like this. He’s become a different person over the last three years. The other part of me is relieved for having finally told him how horrible he is for letting his slavish devotion to an evil man take priority over his flesh and blood. I’m seriously concerned about what he’ll do if Trump loses. I told my mom to take his guns away - half joking, half serious. TL;DR - my dad went off the deep end after I made a joke about Trump cursing Alabama football and he’s disowned me.
    22 points
  2. Figured I'd post this here, it's where you'd look for me. First, thanks very much for the concern (I had no idea), it's appreciated. I mean, really? Wow, that's been surprising. Second, I'm fine, no medical issues or whatnot. Last, I've been involved in stuff that's kept me off the board and will probably continue to do so for awhile longer. I'll see about returning more down the road, maybe Dec or New Year's. I just wanted to post this to say I'm okay. Sorry so cryptic and short (some of you might be dropping your jaws that I can make a short post). Anyway take care, maybe sooner rather than later, hook 'em, OU sucks, and quit posting climate change shit in weather threads- the first sign you have no fucking idea of what all that means (couldn't leave without a zinger!). Late!
    18 points
  3. I feel like not uncovering the fact that Charlie Strong was a fucking retard is kind of a strike against them.
    15 points
  4. You know, you’re right. I was feebly attempting to keep a level head and not get into an incoherent yelling match and try to be respectful even though I wasn’t getting it in return. But it didn’t really matter. It’s the sad reality that his fealty to evil is more important to him than his relationship with his family. And it all blew up because I made a joke at Trump’s expense - I didn’t even bring the real heat about the racism and child imprisonments and criminality etc. A fucking joke about an ultimately meaningless football game. And, yeah, I’m sad my relationship with my dad may be damaged but I’m proud for saying “No more”. The state of this country right now is dangerous and staying quiet about it - even for family peace - is enabling it. The dad I used to have would have been proud of me for standing up for what’s right. And thank god for my mom. Ugh, I know this isn’t my personal blog so sorry for unloading here. I appreciate y’all.
    10 points
  5. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    10 points
  6. Should have stopped after 'fuck Orlando'. Drop-off? Sure. Trending towards one of the worst defenses in history of the program? Fuck. that. noise. Running zero-blitzes (from the fucking field corner) with 15 yard cushions doesn't work. Much less with an inexperienced back field. He's putting our players in spots to fail from the snap.
    8 points
  7. It’s not. It’s hopeful message board conjecture.
    7 points
  8. Given how much of her resume is fake, better make sure she's not a ladyboy. NTTIAWWT, if that's your thing.
    7 points
  9. This. The most motivated portion of young conservatives right now seems to be white nationalist. Even if they aren't that great in numbers, they're currently the most vocal and avid activists. Trump is and has been aware of them. The rest of the GOP is catching on and the members who aren't at least know enough to fear them. That's why Trump had to pretend he didn't know who David Duke was instead of denounce him -- also, "good people on both sides." Small face on large head and TPUSA leader, Charlie Kirk, can no longer hold Q&A's after their events because this faction shows up to shout them down as "puppets for Israel." Dan Crenshaw is running into the same people every time he tries to speak publicly and he doesn't know how to handle it, aside from reminding them that he was in the military and lost his eye. They don't care. Charlie Kirk recently tried cloaking himself next to Don Jr. and Kimberly Frogface and that still wasn't enough to save himself from these guys hijacking his event and chanting them off the stage. It's a mixture of predominantly white nationalism, isolationists, white supremacists and conservatives who hate any support or coalition with conservative Israelis. The latter once recognized John McCain and evangelical dominionists as the center subjects of their ire, hence Trump's constant prodding of McCain even after his death. They are now directing their rancor toward guys like Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk, Crenshaw, etc. The current establishment of evangelical, pro-Israel members of the GOP do not know how to process getting shouted down by young people in MAGA hats for their suddenly unpopular support of Israel. I'm sure Bolton slammed his face into this dynamic the moment he arrived and knew from the beginning that he, of all people, had no place trying to straddle this growing line in the Republican Party.
    7 points
  10. good night, sweet prince prints
    7 points
  11. I realize in advance that responding to you is a complete waste of my fucking time because at this point, you're borderline mentally deficient. Which makes me a fucking idiot for wasting my time arguing with a mentally handicapped person, much less one who is even less skilled at presenting an argument than your average, run-of-the-mill waterheaded idiot. That being said, we all have weaknesses and apparently calling you a cross-eyed dipshit is an itch I occasionally must scratch. Lets start with a few things: 1.) No, numbnuts, that's a fucking opinion. It's literally the definition of an opinion, unless you want to point us towards one of your many dossiers of PDF documents citing where he made that statement to a newspaper or some other published periodical. At best it's hearsay and/or speculation. And even if he told you that personally, in a conversation (one of the many you claim to have had with this man), that doesn't make it a FACT. 2.) Which brings me to another point your fucking dense skull can't seem to wrap it's head around: Other posters on this thread, of which I am one, have also had conversations with CDC. And the thing is, he's telling the exact fucking opposite to literally everyone else except you. When I've talked to him, he talks about winning championships, he talks about him being the steward of the passions of Longhorns, and it's his responsibility to see us win. So he's either lying to everyone else while telling you the truth, lying to YOU while consistently telling everyone else the exact same message, or the answer that is almost certainly correct: He's not telling you shit and you're making stupid fucking shit up because you can't help yourself because you've got a personality disorder and you actually believe the lies you tell. 3.) I'd be remiss if I didn't also spend a moment analyzing your fucking wildly stupid notion that the only thing that matters in conference realignment, or even that an IMPORTANT factor in conference realignment is stability. No, it's dollars. It's dollar bills, dipshit. And do you know what brings dollar bills? Brand appeal, number of alumni/fans, television footprint, athletic department wealth, living alumni, a whole fucking host of things. And those things existed and will continue to exist whether our coach is Charlie Strong or Tom Herman. Under your premise, Mack Brown would still be the head coach at Texas. And by your premise, if Nick Saban retired tomorrow, Alabama would be completely fucked because their stability is gone. Wrong, these things are measured by factors orders of magnitude above how a program is doing currently. Of course, hilariously, your stupid model would also fall pray to the idea that CDC could keep herman and his staff for "stability," they completely shit the bed and melt down as a program, and OH NOES Texas has no stability right before realignment!! For a guy who makes cold deliberate decisions, like you claim your good buddy CDC does, that seems like an awfully huge risk to his success and legacy as opposed to taking a hand in matters personally.
    7 points
  12. I've always maintained that the best setup is 8 teams - all 5 P5 champs, 3 at large and stipulations where a G5 with a certain record/ AP ranking gets in. Auto-bids to the conference champs immediately bring the college football world back to a regional one, where the conversation all year is about the conference title races, rather than ESPN talking about playoffs and how a 2 loss Aggy could make it in September. 3 at large accommodates every "best" team who may have slipped and didn't qualify for their conference title game, like Bama a couple years ago. Giving auto-bids to the conference champs automatically makes interest go up national wide, and incentivizes better OOC scheduling. If conf titles get you a bid teams are more likely to schedule great OOC matchups because a loss doesn't disqualify them, a win helps them should the need to make an argument for an at large spot, and the game generates boatloads of money either way. Anyways, that's what I think.
    7 points
  13. Most sane people: The point of participating in sports is to win Randolph Duke:
    7 points
  14. Someone should really file a class action lawsuit against Fox News for brainwashing an entire generation. They are worse then big tobacco.
    6 points
  15. For @phdhorn ... Stay golden, Pony-Boy.
    6 points
  16. 6 points
  17. Looks like the same guy. Work can suck it.
    6 points
  18. I saw it in real time on Saturday. I posted the below on my Facebook - I’ll admit while I was making a joke, I also did it to rile up the assholes who had been salivating over Trump coming to the game. Woo doggie did I get some pissy triggered snowflakes in my mentions. And I took GREAT JOY in replying to all of them with “Ah, it’s just a joke! Don’t get triggered and act like a snowflake! I’m sorry Trump fans have such thin skin. Roll Tide!” I enjoyed it very much.
    6 points
  19. 6 points
  20. Can 6th Street also visit the ISU message board and stay up there too? asking for............................ well the whole Surly board.
    5 points
  21. Coup aside, there was a pattern of behavior from Morales that should have given even the most sympathetic American leftist some concern. If the goal is legitimate, popularly-elected governments in Latin America with a focus on lifting people out of poverty by keeping wealth in the country, Morales should be recognized by his previous accomplishments but was trending in a way that represented an existential threat. Those two opinions can co-exist together peacefully. Use a bit of common sense and this should bother you: 1. This would have been Morales' 4th term. This was an advanced step in the "president for life" playbook. 2. His 3rd term was in direct violation of the Constitution that Morales helped create. The reasoning then was that the first term didn't count, because it began before the modern constitution was adopted. There was still popular support for him, so ok. But that is an extremely self-serving interpretation. World says "you get a hall pass here." If the standard for succession is George Washington, Morales gets a D+. Is he their FDR? On the economy, sure. Is the bloodiest war in human history currently being waged? No. 3. In 2016, there was a referendum to grant Morales a 4th term. It failed. Popular support gone. Bolivians rejected the idea of Presidente por Vida. The arguments pro Evo right now (simply MadLibs of the same phrases used to support Arbenz, the FMLN, Allende, et al in the 20th century) are not very credible with the outcome of this referendum. This situation is vastly different, and comparing them to this Bolivia situation dishonors the reality of those injustices. 4. Morales appealed to the Supreme Court, full of Evo appointees and sycophants, to abolish the term limits. Massive conflict of interests there, and not much in the way of checks and balances. As expected, they complied, justifying the decision with a flimsy and very ironic human rights argument. Alarm bells went off. The popular will of the people had been ignored. The world started watching. Everything that has happened thereafter can be labeled as illegitimate. 5. The OAS has an imperfect past, but it is the only official audit we have. Instead of attacking the source, which of these descriptions in the election are inaccurate? Let's start there. - Morales needed at least a 10% margin or greater than 50% of the total to avoid a runoff. - Election officials, also largely directly or indirectly pro-Morales, stopped releasing results when Morales had less than a 10% lead and less than 50% of the total. A united opposition in a later runoff election likely would have resulted in a narrow victory for Mesa, the opposition candidate. Final numbers were not released until days later. Morales declared victory with the "final numbers" which showed a margin greater than 10% and total barely over 50%, which had never been seen before. Protests ensued. At a bare minimum, this pattern of events looks pretty bad, even if the final numbers are legitimate. Why did election officials stop releasing results? The optics are terrible. With all that said, the politicians in the US and other OECD countries need to STFU about this. Stop opining, stop expressing support, just shut up. Doing so undermines the opposition. Too much baggage here, and too much bad history in Latin America. This has all the ingredients for an organic, grassroots evolution of Bolivia's modern Democracy. Growing pains. Morales can be recognized for his accomplishments. He could have honored the referendum, given his full support to a hand-picked successor who would continue the agenda of the MAS and his own presidency, and cemented his legacy as the father of modern Bolivia with a peaceful transition of power. And we would not be here right now. There were cracks showing in Morales' base, enough to put his popular mandate at risk. People who did not want President for Life, and a Venezuela/Zimbabwe starter kit. But he started viewing himself as God-emperor (new 26 story presidential palace in the continent's poorest country?), and that got in the way. Democracy has a way of weeding that out, and it was happening organically. Let Bolivia determine Bolivia's destiny.
    5 points
  22. Bob Stoops has entered the chat
    5 points
  23. 5 points
  24. I assume those are all misdemeanors in California
    5 points
  25. Any AD that hires a retained search firm to conduct a coaching search should be fired the same day they sign the engagement letter. If an AD doesn't have a running short list of names to turn to (and associated agents) in the event they need a coach he/she is not worth piss. If I'm CDC I'm not throwing in the towel on Herman, but he better damn sure know who his first call is to if Herman stepped in front of a bus.
    5 points
  26. C:> cd C:\Users\Machinator C:\Users\Machinator> ColdTurkey.exe
    5 points
  27. Thought y'all might like this ... Australian F1 Driver Daniel Ricciardo is a big Longhorn fan, spends some time in Austin, went to a Texas Football game last year, etc. He unveiled his 2019 USGP helmet today at COTA:
    5 points
  28. This thread has gone so off the rails it's like a Strong-coached special teams unit.
    4 points
  29. Well, it just so happens that in our hemisphere, the most authoritarian, least democratic government happens to be nominally "leftist." I don't like authoritarian anti-democratic regimes. Sorry that hurts your feelings. I mean, among the candidates for second-most authoritarian, least democratic governments is our own right-wing Trumpist state, which I think I've made clear I ain't a fan of. If we get a full-blown right wing version of Venezuela, I'll shit on that as much as I've shit on the Chavez-Maduro regime. But we get it. The world according to bad teammate: Murder of millions by leftist regimes (of which history has a rather impressive scorecard) -- A-OK. Right wing violence and murder (history fills some pages with this shit, too) -- not just wrong, but actually proof that being to the right of center is evil. The world according to sane people: "Authoritarian, anti-democratic regimes kill the fuck out of people, and they're a bad thing, and we shouldn't have them, regardless of which school of political thought they purportedly align with." I'm good with where I stand.
    4 points
  30. He has reason to be worried. I mean, if 7 ate 9.....
    4 points
  31. Yep. Reading the comments on news articles online, Facebook, etc, a big part of all this is they have been conditioned to believe stupid conspiracies like "Hillary sold 20% of our country's uranium to Russia and got away with it!" or "Hillary killed Seth Rich and supported a pizza parlor's pedophile ring and got away with it!!" and "Benghazi!" and "emails!" I think some of them know what Trump does is wrong but it's okay because the swamp, aka Democrats, have been getting away with it for so long. 2+ decades of Rush, Fox News, and actual fake news has them convinced this is payback for a bunch of stuff that didn't really happen. Propaganda is effective.
    4 points
  32. Nope, it's worse than the GOP and its supporters not caring. They LOVE it. They love "owning the libs" by openly supporting an open and obvious criminal, and "there's nothing the libtards can do about it!" It's the flexing of power for the sake of flexing power, damn the consequences. The only thing that matters is "sticking it to the libs," and what sticks it to the libs more than keeping an open criminal in office because you can? It's open abuse of power to show you that they can abuse power, and there's not a fucking thing you can do about it.
    4 points
  33. Whatever. Shoot a man in the face, middle of fifth avenue, all that. The rule of law is over. The rule of Trump it is. Supported by an entire political party that has happily betrayed every principle and ideal our Republic claims to be based upon. Get used to it.
    4 points
  34. Look here, SC, I’m just explaining to you the cold, hard facts of recruiting. If you can’t handle them, then don’t follow this program, because UT is a large cruise ship headed for the cold, hard planes of the arctic. It can’t just turn on a dime and head back to killing itself in Florida. That’s the cold, hard reality of recruiting, so if you can’t handle it, maybe you should root for another program or resort to social media to whine about the cold, hard realities of this program, because the cold, hard facts are what they are. They’re not going to change into warm, flaccid facts anytime soon.
    4 points
  35. He's what poor people think rich people act like, what guilty people think innocent people act like, what weak people think tough people act like. The fact is, if he was innocent and tough, the moment that the House announced the impeachment stuff, Trump would have said He would have made available any and all documents requested. He would have then told everybody around him, and those who had worked for him, to clear their calendars and get in line to go up on the Hill to testify. Trump would have been first in line, and he would have made sure the cameras were following him every step of the way. He would have hired a cracker jack team of lawyers, and he would have wrecked shop in the Senate. The GOP would clean the fuck up in next year's elections after Trump and Co. actually proved it was a witch hunt. But nope, he's a whiny little pissant hiding behind twitter and the courts, and doing everything he can to keep everybody around him from testifying. And he takes advice from a cousin-fucker.
    4 points
  36. She was on tv yesterday, regurgitating the “Trump did nothing wrong” bullshit. Fuck her.
    4 points
  37. Guys, what you are missing is, Korn Ferry represents stability.
    4 points
  38. They aren't in the same ballpark as far as the takes on the character. Ledger is just an agent of chaos. He's diabolical. He's not insane. He may do crazy things but his actions are nothing more than watching the world burn and upsetting the natural order. That's a lot closer to what the comic book Joker is. He's Batman's foil. Phoenix is a person going down the path to insanity and we see that before he ultimately has the mental snap to become the character people are used to the Joker being. At no point is he diabolical. The movement and frankly his "birth" as a character happens around him. He's not leading it directly. He stumbles into starting a movement. That's why I'll contend this really isn't a comic book movie. It's a great study into the descent of madness and it makes people uncomfortable because it could easily happen every day in our society.
    4 points
  39. A CIA op to overthrow a leftish South American leader in a military coup. We tried to do this in Venezuela with the puppet Juan Guaido, but it failed. It's hilarious that we talk about our country like it's some moral paragon separate from the likes of Russia and Saudi Arabia. An absolute joke. Meanwhile, what powerful people in this nation are calling this out? Which people in Congress or the executive are calling this out? - Bernie - AOC - Ilhan Omar Anyone else? Bueller? Bueller? "South America is a mess." - That we fucking make.
    4 points
  40. Some of you root for things like Jake Smith transferring just so you can bitch about Herman. It’s pathetic. There’s nothing substantive on this thread, and I’m not sure there’s ever been any legitimacy to the rumor. It’s like you’re begging for it to happen. You’re shitty fans.
    4 points
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