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Maybe we've been mishearing and the slogan is "we'll leave the whites on"35 points
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I'm pretty left of center, but it seems hard to argue against capitalism being capable of serving as a beneficial component of a thriving society. Somebody like Jeff Bezos, as much as we on the left criticize his huge hoarding of wealth, has basically built a small country's economy from scratch, employing a ton of people along the way, all while simultaneously improving our nation's logistical network immeasurably. The public good has been even more obvious during the pandemic. Most former conservatives probably already know this, but I think a lot of the younger leftists would benefit from a reminder that capitalists can actually create value; and when they do, the wealth they accumulate for themselves is itself just a portion of a much larger benefit they bring to society. Sure, it sucks that Amazon has driven out a lot of mom and pop stores, and Bezos really could provide health care for every employee that doesn't have it without any meaningful decline in his standard of living, but the American citizen still won, in aggregate. But that's a digression. I think that America is in the process of finding out that capitalism can be lethally injected with oligarchy just like communism. When a society shifts towards sustaining a small ruling class of people who have no experience creating value, the invisible hand can no longer function properly. Capitalism relies on the assumption that your competitors will punish bad decision making, which doesn't hold when there is a system in place that puts unqualified people at the top of every company, including your competitors. IMO the conservative movement got duped into believing that capitalism is inherently beneficial, rather than just one component of a thriving society, and the progressive movement got duped into believing that capitalism is inherently harmful.25 points
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This is an absolutely disgusting take. You may be a frustrated fan, but how dare you not include Chip Brown on that flight.23 points
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If you understand this concept, you wouldn't have already made an ass out of yourself highlighting your cluelessness about it. You're just the same old, boring, uneducated, jort-wearing, mouthbreathing rube you've always been here and your string of posts the past few pages showcase that. Why you aren't negged for every shitty take you fart out of your brain, through your keyboard and onto this board is beyond me.22 points
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One of the funniest CFB-related clips I’ve ever seen was of Lee Corso’s tv coaching show when he was at Indiana. He’d apparently had a string of losses and the fanbase, what of it existed, was calling for his head. Around Halloween, the team goes out and beats a Big 10 opponent they had no business beating. The next coach’s show opens, if memory serves, to a closed casket, which rises. Out of it slowly pops a reanimated Lee Corso, shouting that he’s “not dead yet, baby!”. It was from the 70’s or 80’s. Has to still be out there somewhere. I’m sure the people involved with handling the coaching situation and Herman’s replacement are keeping all of the players and their hangers-on very well informed as things progress. I doubt much material is really produced by anyone regarding the Ehlinger-Herman dynamic at this point because Ehlinger seems like he has too much class, but that situation is no different than anyone else’s who has spent any time around Herman. There’s no love lost there and Tom Herman will probably die drunk, broke and alone, telling anyone walking by his alley why he knows better and they just don’t understand. That thought comforts me. Regarding Urban Meyer, he apparently spends plenty of time these days in Fort Collins. If you’re looking for mid-week activity anytime soon regarding something stirring with him, that might be where it happens, and could be where a meeting has already happened. Final thought before the day gets going is that I heard a story yesterday from a friend of one of the better known BMDs regarding experiences with Herman and subsequent feelings about the guy. It keeps coming up with people including my own few run-ins - this guy is a white trash dipshit underneath the thin, defenseless veneer of “I’m smarter than you and I know better”. Ultimately, Tom Herman will go down as UT’s pet raccoon. Whatever he doesn’t fuck up or eat, he shits on.21 points
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I say this dead honestly: the only socially liberal, fiscally conservative moderate GOP official left nationally is the Senior senator from Alaska and she’s isn’t up for election until 2022. The problem with your split ticket activity, while sound in theory, is it doesn’t work in practice. There is no room in the modern GOP for dissent. A vote for somebody who seems non Trumpy and moderate is effectively same voting for a Trump person. Mike McCaul is a very pleasant person. I’ve met with him several times. I genuinely like him. FOr all intents and purposes tho, he’s the same as Louie Gohmert. I appreciate your thoughtful approach, and I pass along my thoughts as somebody who has worked for both Democrats and Republicans as a congressional staffer. We are not in normal times. Our democracy is frighteningly vulnerable to autocracy because it’s a lot more norm based than rule based. If the GOP is not repudiated at the ballot box at all levels now, I’m deeply worried that even if Trump loses, a more effective version of him is going to re appear and it’s your local county official who is going to help that person seize power at the local level.18 points
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Like many others here it's time to take the trash out. Let me preface this by saying excuse my french. It's time for us to let America know that we aren't taking this lying, cheating, irresponsible Authoritarian bullshit. Anyone who even turned somewhat of a blind eye to this buffoonery can get fucked right off. Four years ago many of us didn't vote for Hillary Clinton because we thought she was the devil. Who fucking knew? It shouldn't just be climate change for you, it's about voter suppression. It's about the ACA and taking away pre existing conditions even though you have no(and have not for 4 years) no healthcare plan of your own. It's about the grandstanding. The mismanagement of information leading to 210,000 dead Americans. It's about mocking them everyday. It's about the divisiveness. It's about the fear mongering. It's about being dumb enough to think the American people don't know the difference between an executive order and actual written into law policy. It's about Military spending. It's about tax cuts. It's about socialism for big corps and none for the people. But mostly it's about letting the world know that The United States of America WILL NOT HAVE A FUCKING CLOWN AS A FACE OF THE FRANCHISE. Period. And anyone who was even remotely responsible for enabling this clown can get it. I personally wish my vote was the last step off the plank for the lot of them.18 points
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Giving Herman another year after a 5-5 record in a season where Texas had a Senior QB and a veteran team is fucking insane. I don't care that there were new Coordinators - this team has enough talent to finish well above .500 in a year that OUsux is as bad as they've been in 20 years and the rest of the Big12 is mediocre at best. Thats essentially putting the blame for this season's failures on the Seniors instead of the coaches. Fuck that.17 points
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Good thing he's got Aflac.16 points
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A post like this indicates that you don't really even understand the concept of "leverage", much less a "negotiation". Leverage has a finite ceiling, in any situation short of life or death and even then there are often options away from the lead play. Guy walks in, sits down, and props his fucking boots up on the table and declares it's going to be $15million or no deal, they'll show him the door before he finishes his first sentence. Might as well ask for Mars and $3billion. If two sides do not have a basic meeting of the minds of the range of choices in a discussion, there is no leverage and no deal to be had. It's a ridiculous academic position you're taking, in a vacuum.13 points
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It's weird....a lot of things that I have held my whole life, including for the bulk of it when I was firmly within the "center right" (and I still am, if you take the American batshit take on the political spectrum out of the mix -- what is "center right" here is now characterized as socialist libtard) are now taken as completely leftist. I have always had a problem with authoritarianism. Don't trust law enforcement, no "papers please" laws, zero tolerance for racism and racial discrimination, stuff like that. Those are CONSERVATIVE views (back when conservatism included a real liberty-minded bent). But those have suddenly become super leftist communist libtard positions. WTF? There are some things that were long-held conservative positions that I once held, but then realized, after watching them tried repeatedly, that they don't work. Like "trickle down" economics, often embodied in top-end tax cuts. It doesn't work. Makes some sense on paper, but doesn't work in reality. Then there are some positions that have been CHARACTERIZED as super-liberal that I've come around on, and realize that they make sense across the board -- fiscally, socially, etc. Like universal healthcare. Fucking EVERY OTHER western democracy has it. ALL OF THEM. It's a good idea. It pays off to have a healthy population. It's an investment in our greatest resource -- our citizens. It makes sense from even a "fiscal conservative" viewpoint -- ditch the rhetoric and labels, and you realize that universal healthcare is actually compatible with a fiscal conservative viewpoint. Our GDP will IMPROVE with universal healthcare. Maybe the change is this -- capitalism is fine. It really is. But when you realize that the single most important capital asset in a country is its PEOPLE, and investment and incentives should be geared that way, then you realize that the bullshit peddled by the Trumpist incarnation of the GOP is the functional equivalent of scarfing down our seed stock to get fat today, without setting enough aside/nurturing seedlings to ensure future good crops. Short term profits at the expense of long-term stability and growth is a shitty investment strategy.12 points
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Take it fwiw (which is nothing) but I saw on another site that there is a supposed insider in OB saying things are moving faster than he expected with Urban.11 points
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What motivates Urban Meyer is an interesting topic. Money always matters, but that's allegedly not his primary driver. Achievement and prestige play roles. The ability to redeem his status as on par with Saban and one of the greatest coaches of all-time is apparently important and there is one clear, inarguable way to create that outcome - win a national title at a 3rd school, which is a feat never before accomplished. If he can do so scandal-free and without having to constantly cheat, even better. Those are the things more than money that have him interested in both Texas and USC, which are the only legitimate blue bloods expected to be in play any time soon. Getting to also troll Herman as a cherry on top is not something anyone has mentioned as being relevant, but I like to think that if he took the UT job, he'd be doing that regularly. Texas offers a (still) cleaner recruiting landscape, all of the resources and coverage, and the easiest path of any school to the CFP. This is what's being sold and valued. The guy supposedly got burnt out on all of the cheating, on top of everything else, he was having to deal with at OSU.11 points
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fucking money in American politics. half the country is going to be eating tree bark next month and we spend billons to message to a tiny faction of folks actually on the fence - to help them choose between my grandpa and the 7 deadly sins. just stupid AF and a sign of a society wildly out of control. but I guess we know that. party on homies.10 points
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I mean, I understand what you're saying, but this is difficult for me to agree with wholesale. So in short, I'm fiscally conservative and socially liberal, so feel free to get fucked. And before we start, if you tell me I'm not actually fiscally conservative, you can also feel free to get fucked in advance with bushel of sea urchins. I would consider myself to be fiscally conservative in principle, as well as having lots of libertarian tendencies. I'm socially liberal, for sure. I'm also for increased Taxes on corporations, and on the higher end of the tax brackets. I'm all for blowing up the tax code and starting over entirely, if we're talking about it. Do you know what fiscal conservatism means to me? GETTING CONTROL OF OUR MOTHERFUCKING DEBT. Period. Then maybe plowing more money back into other areas, like education, social programs, etc. But you know what, I'm fiscally conservative. STOP WASTING MONEY AND FIX OUR FUCKING DEBT. I understand why you want to try and boil shit down to simplistic, basic terms. But all you're doing it increasing partisanship. I'd argue that if you want people to step outside existing boundaries, stop fucking forcing them into boxes so you can color within whatever lines you deem fitting. We're better off as an electorate the MORE diverse we are, and the LESS ease with which people get labeled and grouped. The exercise you went through in your post is the flip side of the same partisan bullshit and simplistic that the GOP has been seizing upon for years. Make it harder to identify with one group of people, and those people are more likely to make decisions based upon merit or thoughtful consideration as opposed to "their team." And personally, telling me that despite considering myself fiscally conservative and socially liberal that I am, in fact, just a regular old conservative despite the fact I just actively went out and happily, orgasmically voted against my own immediate financial interests for a straight blue ticket and a better America...yeah, go fuck yourself.10 points
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I wish Bohls and Herman were in a small airplane that crashed in the Andes mountains and they had to fucking eat one another......10 points
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Truth lies in the middle. There are plenty in O&G who recognize Trump's overall negative effect. Signed, a guy in O&G who recognizes Trump's overall negative effect10 points
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In this particular case, the Republicans have made all judicial appointments completely and unequivocally politically biased. Withholding hearings on lawful appointments for YEARS is absolutely counter to the process and duty of the Senate, and only the Republicans have done that so far. No allowing Garland's nomination or the hundreds of other federal appointments during the last 2 years of the Obama administration was absolutely the catalyst for where we are today. Even if the Senate voted on Garland, and he wasn't approved, the process should have moved forward. Sticking your head in the sand and avoiding any discussion is the problem, and an unreasonable course of action. In doing so, the Republicans are now opening themselves up to moves that further politicize these appointments and their procedures by having a backlash once Democrats gain control of the Senate, whether it be this year or in 2-4 years. We shouldn't be in this situation, but here we are. Court packing may be the actual counter-balance to this course of action by the R's, since they refused to even discuss an appointee for 9 months prior to an election, and are now ramming through an appointment with 1 month before an election. You can't have it both ways and expect everyone else to play by the rules.9 points
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Early voted today, first time in my life voting for a Democrat for President. It was super easy, in and out in 10 minutes. I really hope people take advantage of early voting instead of doing the mail-in ballots, it could change the outcome of the election and the inevitable challenges certainly coming from the Republicans.9 points
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I'm not watching another game until he's gone. Whether that's 1 game or 3 years. I've got better things to do with my Saturdays than watch this fuck run the program into the ground.9 points
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Y'all think 2020 went through all this to just let us off the hook? Lol okay.9 points
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This has always been a bullshit facade and it took me a while to realize it. The consequences of conservative economic policy are the same as social conservative policy. Economic mobility and egalitarian access to prosperity are crushed. These are the bootstraps folks that still think they live in 1950s America but are pro-choice and support gay marriage. Today, if you say you’re fiscally conservative but socially liberal, you are a conservative. Period.9 points
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I hate to be laughing so hard at such a tragedy of a person, but this is fucking hilarious.9 points
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I get that you're like retarded and shit but you should have paid attention in the 5th grade when they taught about HIV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunistic_infection It's kinda like saying how having sex with your ugly wife isn't gross, it's the associated smells and slimes that come out of her as a result of a thousand truckers plowing away at her that are gross. Also, take it to the CR conspiracy theory thread, pussy.9 points
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Which makes it that much crazier that he’s 100% nailing this scoop!!!8 points
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let’s pick up the fucking pace then!8 points
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So the last two teams to play aggy have positive tests? Hmmm...8 points
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America is a consumer country and like all consumers they are easily swayed by advertising. Americans by and large support things like healthcare, human rights, social services, justice and welfare. But for the past 30 years one sides messaging has been how bad all those things are for your pocket book and their freedoms while the other side is too chicken shit to lose the argument so they move farther and farther right in appeasement. We're a fat greedy stupid and frightened people.8 points
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People stating definitives like this when they clearly don’t actually know anything is always great.8 points
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Just voted this morning and it could not have been easier. I just typed in my full name, address, social security number, and JOE BIDEN into my search bar and hit enter.8 points
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I think the recent tradition of Republicans blowing up the debt means that what we used to call "fiscal conservatism" should be renamed to plain old "fiscal responsibility." Because these days, the conservative party seems a lot more interested in protecting the wealth of its oligarchy than spending responsibly. "Fiscally conservative" 20 years ago might have meant "fiscally responsible," and I can get behind that. But it doesn't mean that anymore. It now means, "the rich get richer, poor get poorer, fuck the national debt, because the rich will have enough to protect themselves when the chickens come home to roost."8 points
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Voted in Harris county. 10 minutes in and out. There were only about 8 people in line. For the first time in my life I voted straight D. I'm a moderate conservative.8 points
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No line at Carver library on east side. Feels good to vote against this cunt again. Blasted RATM on my way out of parking lot.8 points
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What he said. For nearly all of our lives there have been very good reasons to analyze individual races and eventually split your ticket. This year is different. Those remaining in the Republican Party are at least by association tolerating the movements within the GOP to limit voting, separate families, ignore convention, hypocritically speak of fiscal responsibility while running up more debt, ignore their duty to confirm judges until a Republican President nominates them, demean political opponents by insulting their race or disability or sex, etc. For this election the GOP must be rejected so that they may have some hope of rediscovering themselves as a reasonable and viable party. The last time I voted for a Democratic nominee for POTUS was in the 20th century. I actually voted for Gary Johnson in a foolhardy hope that he'd reach 5% nationally. I start with a default position of Libertarians for national offices (more likely to affect me fiscally) and Democrats locally (more likely to affect me socially). I will be voting straight Democrat next week.8 points
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Fucking internet. I heard something but not going to say, but I sure as fuck am going to tell everyone I heard something!7 points
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That is just fucking stupid. When you add up all the people who are "at risk," it comes to almost 1/4 of the population. That is why the Imperial College London report, the one that got Trump to take action, said 2 to 4 million could die in the US if we did nothing. Where the God Damn fuck do you retards come from? How do you not know this? Whoever tried to raise you failed.7 points
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