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This.....is magnificent. The "younger generation" is going to have to work double-time to fund YOUR Social Security, which YOUR generation of elected officials raided the fuck out of. And which, by the way, is a government social program. They're dumping a huge percentage of our taxed earnings into Medicare to pay for YOUR generation's medical care. For college, they're paying over two and a half times what someone could pay just 30 years ago. So, they are starting out life saddled with a crapload of debt that you (and I) didn't have to carry. For their health insurance, they're paying three times what it cost just 20 years ago. Their cost of housing has gone up more than the inflation rate over the last 20 years. So, for pretty much every big-ticket item, the "new generation" is getting bent over a barrel that your generation didn't have to deal with. But hey, you got yours, so fuck them. But let's be real about how this country has changed for the worse. Queers can galavant out in public and get married, and the browns and blacks have the audacity to act like they're regular white folk.31 points
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Speaking as a fellow old person, your generation has taken more “freebies” than millennials and Gen-Z ever will. You got the best deal of any generation in American history and gave them America in decline. Go ahead and beat your chest about only watching TV news that caters to your feelings, but you sound like a guy who has taken a lot from this country and resents the young for trying to get what you seem to have taken for granted.17 points
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Bingo. I get most of my news from reuters.com and bbc.com. But in the evenings I flip around from CNN to Fox to MSNBC. You can't really consider yourself informed if you only have one source. But if you only have time for one, I highly recommend Reuters. Incidentally, if anyone uses all 5 sources above for a couple of weeks, it will become apparent what an outlier Fox is. Their version is just different from everyone else's, both in what it includes (blatant falsehoods) and in what it omits (pretty much everything important). Others are guilty of spin and selective coverage; Fox is guilty of constructing a completely false narrative. The fact that they are the only source of "news" for about half the country is the biggest answer to why we're in such a fucked up place right now.13 points
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Hey, I'm really worried about filling my head with falsehoods. I got it! I'll support a president who lies 100 times a month and watch Fox News! That'll solve it.11 points
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Oh, do tell...... And that's just tuition -- not accounting for living expenses, etc., which of course require more money and work. I quoted one piece -- there are dozens of analyses out there showing similar truths. Lots of people USED to work their way through school. It was quite doable. Under 200 hours of work covers your tuition, work some more to pay for your shitty shared apartment, and you could pull it off. Now, nearly 1000 hours of work to cover tuition.....and you haven't even worked to get money for your shitty shared apartment, and I guess you should find some time to actually attend classes and study. Fucking ZERO awareness from the entitled generation (and that generation ain't the young folks -- it's the jackholes who preach about how they worked their way through school when it took 20% of the modern necessary workload to do so -- that's fucking entitlement right there).10 points
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What's great about Trump is he either "doesn't know too much about it" or "knows more about it than anyone". It's almost like he's full of shit or something.10 points
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The same reason liberals should watch Fox and read WSJ editorial page and NRO. The same reason Americans should listen to BBC and the Economist. The same reason citizens in open societies should avail themselves of primary sources to supplement journalism. Perspective is a shield that protects us from being blinded and gulled. You have to pay taxes and die, but you don't have to be a sucker.9 points
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This thread delivering the kind of hot takes Shaggy is famous for. Energy traders and execs that made millions building companies into giant houses of cards held together by accounting tricks = good dudes persecuted by the feds. Their employees and investors who lost everything = greedy idiots.9 points
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If y’all want a cloak room discussion on the sex trade then take it there. Otherwise just post funny memes.8 points
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This -- this is EXACTLY how the Fox News crowd justifies relentlessly feeding their confirmation bias. "My only other option is to listen to a bunch of libtards on CNN/MSNBC, so really, it's THEIR fault that I can only tune in to Fox." They utterly ignore this: Follow Reuters. Read the Economist. Seriously, if you do just those two things, you will (1) be very well-informed, (2) will avoid significant bias, and (3) you'll see these relatively unbiased and objective sources offer SIGNIFICANTLY different reporting than Fox News.....which should tell you something. If you want the truth, there are NUMEROUS outlets that you should look to -- not only are Fox and CNN NOT your only two choices, they are two BAD choices. Saying "I have to watch Fox because CNN sucks" is a false dichotomy. Tune them both out. Read the Economist. Everyone, including you, will be better for it. But they won't. Because -- not exactly a secret here -- they have ZERO interest in learning anything, or hearing the truth. The reason -- the ONLY reason -- they consume any "news" is in order to feed what they WANT to hear.8 points
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Every accusation is a confession. One of these days we are going to find out Trump is a Kenyan born Muslim.8 points
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Does anyone know whether Alex Grinch plans to attend OU's junior day this weekend?8 points
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Barack Obama took the Heritage Foundation's universal healthcare idea and the Republicans have spent the last decade calling it Communism. Anyone who thinks that the Dems going centrist will in any way dull the edge of Republican hysteria is an idiot who will never learn anything.8 points
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Yamamoto once said he could win Midway with a fleet of Imperial Naval Academy graduates, but would win the Pacific with a handful of Tokyo Aggies.8 points
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Adoption talk not going away. Luckily for us, the President's leadership team had a huuuge meeting about adoptions with our Russian friends prior to the election at his hotel.7 points
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Also I forgive and love every single person who gets out of prison because they have served their time and are white and just stole some money and I have plenty of money so really they have repaid their debt to society. I'd buy them a beer and dinner and let them fuck my wife if I run into them on the street. Why just the other day I ran into Brock Turner (the Stanford swimmer rapist) and I shook his hand and told him how proud I was of him and that he had repaid his debt to society by serving those 6 months for rape.7 points
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TFB open post for OU says Collins isn't going. Neither is Washington.7 points
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A new story about getting beat by foreigners pushes the old one off the front page.6 points
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"I know mid level people with no college degrees who were unfairly prosecuted! Peoples lives were ruined!" /Secretary with no college degree at Enron loses her life savings "Should have learned to properly invest you stupid fucking peasant" Never change you crazy old asshole.6 points
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Triangulating information instead of getting it from one source. I can read NYT, WaPo, BBC, Vice, Reuters, crazy blogger, BuzzFeed News etc., and you can suss out the truth based on your brains natural filtering process. You can go all award-winning journalists if you like skins on the wall. You can go people that have history of nailing things correctly over the last half century. Or you can go to one source, which literally everyone knows carries water for one thing, and uncritically listen to them.6 points
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I like the ones that claim they don’t watch Fox News, but somehow parrot every talking point and know a shit ton about an evil first term representative from NY.6 points
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i think both you and hooker have your minds made up and search the internets grasping for evidence to support your position. you're trying too hard. you want her to be stupid, so bad. the trumpster says take the guns first, then issue the warrant, clearly ignorant of the rule of law. yet you don't think he's stupid? that's because you don't want to. you want to believe he's smart. smart people say dumb things. she's been in office 2 months. last year she was a bartender. she's new to the limelight and not used to a microphone being in her face 18 hrs a day. she'll get wiser, but to say she's dumb is disingenuous. as for this specific example, maybe what she meant was if the community was willing to give huge tax breaks to a major corporation, maybe they could find it in their heart to to give tax breaks to a food bank, or low income housing, or a library or a school. in that sense the money is available because their finger was on the trigger for it already. i think it's similar to obama saying "you didn't build that". you guys laughed at him and said what an idiot. but the thing is he was right. our entire economy is based on government funding, government tax breaks, government incentives. ask jerry jones who built his stadium. you did. ask michael dell who built his corporate complex. just like amtrak or usps, many corporations are propped up by the government. boeing and lockheed would file for bankruptcy tomorrow if we pulled our government contracts. as we've all said on this board for years government spending is a jobs bill. the rightwingers stand on their soapbox and shout about big government and lets's make it smaller, without realizing the ramifications of that. if amazon was so benevolent, and wanted their headquarters in nyc so bad then why did they opt out because of tax subsidies? they're on the tit just like every other corporation you bow down to and worship like they can do no wrong.6 points
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Maddow is on another level when it comes to circling around the tangential repeatedly before getting to the real point. She mostly does solid work and when she puts a piece together it's usually airtight. Partisan as shit, sure, but she never spews untruth. It might be a chick thing but she does it on another scale. The quarterback play from 2009 to 2015 and Maddow teasing the reveal are the only times I've truly come close to putting a boot through the television. If she were a magician the rabbit would just starve and decompose in the hat.6 points
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One of two good things to come out of Canada, the other crown royal. you have awful taste.5 points
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I don't know. Seems to pretty legitimately show the A&M is the dominant football team in this rivalry. On an unrelated note, from 1995 to 2002, Oklahoma State won 5 out of 8 Bedlam football games. That pretty much proves who owns college football in the state of Oklahoma.5 points
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This was a comment on TMZ's story about Jussie being fired from Empire: Breaking WASHINGTON, D.C.In a statement to D.C. police given Tuesday, senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren claimed that two men in colonial outfits accosted her on the street and assaulted her with smallpox-infected blankets. Warren claimed she was simply on her evening walk with her favorite peyote blend when the two men leaped out of the bushes, fired a round, spent several minutes reloading their muzzle-loading rifles, fired again, and then hollered "battle cries" as they hurled smallpox-infested blankets at her. "The men fired muskets at me, threw several blankets infested with smallpox in my general direction, and told me this was colonial country," she said, holding back tears. "They told me to go back to my reservation and that I wasn't welcome here." According to Warren, the men stuck a feather in her hair and then called her "macaroni" before dancing around her in a mock Native American rain dance. "It is just despicable to me that in 2019 a woman can still be targeted for lynching because of her .0001% Indian heritage," she said in a press conference. "This is Trump's America, people." Police quickly poked holes in Warren's story, such as the fact that she never dropped her peace pipe throughout the ordeal and that she left the smallpox blankets and mock Indian headdress on herself as she walked to the police department to make her statement.5 points
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Here is the war room without the recruiting part The Texas Card House War Room (Football staff contracts; Fedora's role; several recruiting updates) Suchomel Suchomel Well-Known Member Texas Card House is the official sponsor of The War Room. Texas Card House is now open at noon every day! Texas Card House is hosting multiple Day 1s for the Social Card Clubs of Texas $250k Guarantee Spring Poker Tournament, part of the 2019 Texas Poker Championship Series Presented by Ante Up Magazine! (From Anwar) Texas football coach Tom Herman’s loyalty has been evident again this offseason. Herman could have made staff changes after the season ended if he wanted to shake things up. The contracts of running backs coach Stan Drayton, receivers coach Drew Mehringer, tight ends coach Derek Warehime, defensive line coach Oscar Giles, defensive backs coach/recruiting coordinator Jason Washington, special teams coordinator/safeties coach Craig Naivar and receivers coach Corby Meekins were going to expire on March 31. Herman signed each coach to a two-year deal when they were hired, and had to decide their future. Just for clarity, Texas offensive coordinator Tim Beck and defensive coordinator Todd Orlando’s contracts expire in 2020, while Herb Hand is under contract until 2021. As I reported early in January, Herman individually met with his coaches to discuss their futures at Texas and informed each he intends to retain him. Herman wanted to give his staff assurances about its positions at Texas before the American Football Coaches Association Annual Conference in San Antonio. In fact, the main changes Herman made this offseason were promoting Warehime to special teams coordinator while Naivar has added the title of co-defensive coordinator. However, there is another detail about Herman’s retention of his coaches that I discovered. Each signed a one-year deal. According to multiple sources, nobody was given a two-year or three-year deal after the season. Instead, Herman decided to create an environment where nobody on his staff becomes complacent. When I asked a source close to Herman about the decision to give each coach a one-year deal, I was given several interesting tidbits. --- Former Texas football coach Charlie Strong handed out multi-year deals to most of his staff during his tenure. After two 5-7 seasons, Strong was allowed to sign offensive coordinator Sterlin Gilbert to a three-year, $850,000 contract. Offensive line coach Matt Mattox signed a three-year contract worth $550,000 each year. Gilbert and Mattox coached for only one season and Texas was on the hook for those contracts after Strong and his staff were fired. In fact, Texas owed Strong $10 million, plus the salaries of several fired assistants. I learned Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte does not want his program to be in that position again. Del Conte does not want to spend money just because he can. Instead, Del Conte and Herman are working together to be smart about money spent annually. --- One source wanted to make it very clear to me that Herman’s decision for his coaches to be on one-year deals is not an indictment on the football staff. Herman is very happy with his football staff and is not looking to make any changes. Instead, I was told that the one-year deals, “Doesn’t speak to anything other than [Herman’s] guys staying on their toes.” In the past, some coaches have arrived in Austin with great resumés, but did not achieve the same level of success after becoming complacent. Coaches at Texas are paid well, the football program is under a huge spotlight, and they get to live in Austin. Herman does not want anybody on his staff to think “I’ve arrived” and coast on the job. He wants them to have the same sense of urgency they instill into their players every day. I was told Herman’s message to his staff was very simple. A person close to the situation told me Herman said, “If you’re elite at your job, you never have to worry. Be one of the best in the country at what you do and you’ll never have to worry about losing your job.” --- A source close to Herman noted one-year deals are the college football standard, and his decision is not out of the ordinary. In reality, most college football coaches receive one-year deals. Handing out multiple year deals to every coach on staff was an anomaly, not the norm. When Oklahoma football coach Lincoln Riley was hired in 2017, four of his coaches received only a one-year extension. Five coaches received a two-year extension. Herman is loyal to his staff. He just refuses to be complacent during the process. ****** I have been asked so much about the analyst position at Texas that I made flushing out those details for you my top priority this week. Earlier this week, I reported North Carolina coach Larry Fedora accepted an analyst position at Texas. He flew into Austin last week and attended a staff meeting. After discussing the opportunity with his family, Fedora decided to take the job and will join Herman’s support staff. Here is a little nugget for you – Fedora should be in Austin by the first week of March, according to my sources. Okay, so what the heck is Fedora’s job, Anwar? Typically, analysts do a lot of dirty work. They break down film, chase kids around campus and make sure players are in class, making playbooks, etc. Just think about what your first job looked like. Fedora is going to do way more than that. As a former coach, Fedora’s skills will be utilized more during the regular season. That is why he will be asked to do advanced scouting by always staying a week or two ahead. Some of his tasks will involve self-scouting. He will also have the task of scouting opposing teams. I asked a source to give me an example and was given a scenario. Herman could approach Fedora and say he heard Oklahoma is really good at running counter plays. Fedora could be asked to pull all the counter plays Oklahoma has run and analyze why the team is successful. After completing that task, Fedora could be asked to present his findings to Herman, or the entire staff. Fedora will also need to compile scouting reports on opponents. Not a game plan, but a scouting report that entails the strengths and weaknesses of an opponent. Basically, share with the staff everything he sees on video. The advantage for Texas is having a veteran coach share his expertise with Herman’s staff. Instead of getting that information from a young person who is learning on the job, Herman can hear an analysis from a former coach who is an expert in his profession. Conversely, the advantage for Fedora is his buyout if worth over $12 million, and this analyst job does not affect that paycheck. Fedora will receive medical benefits as an analyst. In addition, Fedora gets to experience at least nine months of tossing ideas back-and-forth with Herman and discovering a different approach to coaching and running a program. Coaches attend clinics each year, while staffs often visit different programs to exchange ideas. Fedora’s new position is similar to those traditional experiences. Additionally, Fedora will receive a break from the pressure of recruiting. Fedora can help Texas recruit players on campus (he is not allowed to travel). However, anything thing he contributes will be viewed as a bonus and not a requirement. Two more analyst nuggets to pass along: 1. A person close to Herman told me Fedora was not hired under the guise of him replacing anyone on staff. During a staff meeting Fedora attended, I was told Herman made it clear to everyone the former coach will be an analyst and this position is not a job interview. 2. There is a possibility Herman will hire six or seven analysts, with three of those positions filled by former head coaches and at least three grad assistants. Former Kansas coach David Beaty is a candidate for an analyst position at Texas, but I do not currently have names of other coaches who could be in the mix. I will keep you posted.5 points
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