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  1. 15 points
  2. Do you want to actually discuss this shit in an honest manner or just post knee-jerk reaction tweets from politicos in the "news" section of this board? If you're interested in that angle, take it to the CR where it belongs. I just checked for you, and it's being discussed over there in the Defund the Police thread if you only want to play that game. You're not being sly in the least bit.
    14 points
  3. You don't have to confine it to insurrection. I'm nowhere near as far left as you, and it's plain to me that the GOP fully intends to subvert democracy at every level, because unfettered voting as contemplated by the Constitution, as amended, and representatives and Senators voting according to the will of their constituents means Republicans lose vast amounts of power. They also plainly intend to use the Supreme Court to undo democratically enacted legislation under the rubric of Constitutionality, but is nothing more than a thinly disguised exercise of raw political power.
    11 points
  4. Lost in all this warranted dunking on the right is that they intentionally spread a deadly virus and have obstructed efforts to mitigate it at every step of the way for the past 15 months or so, and nearly 600,000 Americans have died as a result. I will remember that evil for the rest of my life and I will forever despise anyone who thought they had the “right” to recklessly endanger the lives of the rest of us because they wanted to go to fucking Applebee’s. If that describes anyone reading this, you’re goddamned right I think I’m better than you.
    11 points
  5. 11 points
  6. Shaggy CR was much more right-leaning than Surly CR is left-leaning. Around 2016 when Trump became president, fewer and fewer of the right-leaning posters wanted to or could defend trump, so they retreated to other boards to repeat the same talking points as before in the CR, and to have cover to deflect any critique of what they're saying by saying "OMG CR TROLL!!!"
    11 points
  7. I thought being hard to find was the main point of a submarine. I say good job, captain.
    11 points
  8. Guess W somehow convinced all these people of Iraq's WMDs, some from the time he was sitting in the Governor's mansion in Austin. Saddam Hussein has spent the better part of this decade and much of his nation's wealth not on providing for the Iraqi people but on developing nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them." -- President Bill Clinton (State of the Union Address), Jan. 27, 1998 "One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line." --President Bill Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998 "If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program." --President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998 "No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.""Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face." --Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998 "He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983." --Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998 "[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." Letter to President Clinton, signed by: -- Democratic Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others, Oct. 9, 1998 "Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." -Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998 "Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies." -- Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999 "There is no doubt that ... Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies." Letter to President Bush, Signed by: -- Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), and others, Dec 5, 2001 "I mean, we have three different countries that, while they all present serious problems for the United States -- they're dictatorships, they're involved in the development and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction -- you know, the most imminent, clear and present threat to our country is not the same from those three countries. I think Iraq is the most serious and imminent threat to our country." -- Sen. John Edwards (D, NC) Feb. 24, 2002 "We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and th! e means of delivering them." -- Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002 "Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power. We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." " -- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002 "There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed. We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." -- Sen. Edward Kennedy (D, MA) Sep. 27, 2002 "Now let me be clear -- I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him." -- State Senator Barack Obama (Democrat, Illinois) Oct. 2, 2002 "The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..." -- Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002 "My position is very clear: The time has come for decisive action to eliminate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction." -- Senator John Edwards (D, NC), Oct. 7, 2002 "We stopped the fighting [in 1991] on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in further aggression and that it would destroy its weapons of mass destruction. It has refused to take those steps. That refusal constitutes a breach of the armistice which renders it void and justifies resumption of the armed conflict." -- Sen. Harry Reid (D. NV) Oct. 9, 2002 "I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force -- if necessary -- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security." -- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002 "There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years ... We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction." -- Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002 "He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do" -- Rep. Henry Waxman (D, CA), Oct. 10, 2002 "I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was one of my top priorities. I applaud the President on focusing on this issue and on taking the lead to disarm Saddam Hussein. ... Others have talked about this threat that is posed by Saddam Hussein. Yes, he has chemical weapons, he has biological weapons, he is trying to get nuclear weapons." -- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D. CA) Oct. 10, 2002 "In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons." -- Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002 "We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction." -- Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 8, 2002 "Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..." -- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003 "People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons." -- Ex President Bill Clinton, Jul. 22, 2003 (Interview with CNN Larry King) I asked very direct questions of the top people in the CIA and people who'd served in the Clinton administration. And they said they believed that Saddam Hussein either had weapons or had the components of weapons or the ability to quickly make weapons of mass destruction. What we're worried about is an A-bomb in a Ryder truck in New York, in Washington and St. Louis. It cannot happen. We have to prevent it from happening. -- Rep. Richard Gephardt (D, MT) Nov. 2, 2003
    11 points
  9. The fact this incident is even being debated tells me a lot about the BLM and social justice movement. A lot of these people don’t give a shit about facts and really don’t give a shit about black lives. This officer likely saved a black life yesterday, and certainly saved her from serious bodily injury. It’s a shame that they can’t be reasonable as it really hurts their credibility and impedes the reaching of what the underlying goal should be.
    10 points
  10. If they read the Daily Texan here they would get the same idea about this University
    10 points
  11. You, as a partisan Republican, voted for a guy who literally tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power with support of a majority of Republican house members, even AFTER his supporters attacked your nation’s capital. So you know, maybe your problem is with them.
    9 points
  12. You gaping pussy. This is the only board where liberal political opinions can be posted. Conservative political opinions get littered all over the rest of Surly and rarely get policed. And none of us give a shit about it. Conservatives bitching about not being allowed to post "differing" opinions on Surly is like white people going "WELL WHY CAN'T I SAY THE N WORD!?!?" You're more than free to come in here and post differing opinions. Conservatives who get negged to Bolivia here get negged because they troll and they lie about basic facts. If you don't do that, you won't get negged to Bolivia. It's very simple.
    9 points
  13. I don’t care about the right wing types or at least those who act like it...they’re entitled to their opinions. But DT has been a beating to read due to the same dozen or so posters that rail against the media constantly, try to bait Captainant, shit on the CR, and whine about moderation in any thread that could touch covid, race, police or guns. Seemed everyone agreed the Ohio shooting was reasonably justified and then it turned into four pages of hating on the media...all the while cherry picking tweets or headlines to back it up. I’m not asking for anything, moderation or otherwise, just noting it’s a small handful of posters. They may not always start the shit, but are always there to brigade when it happens...
    9 points
  14. Oh, and I don't give a shit about your children. Any of your children.
    9 points
  15. One day when Texas gets it shit together, I hope we go and start taking the top 2-3 players from Ohio every year, just to say fuck you OSU, you jort wearing rust belt wife beaters.
    9 points
  16. I have been avoiding this thread, but cannot any longer. My in-laws gave us a check around xmas for $1500. Wife asked me to get cash for her because if it goes into our bank account, it’ll be used for other things. Also, she doesn’t want me to know how much she spends on her nails. (For the record, I don’t care what she spends on them). No problem. So I go to bank and come home with cash in an envelope. 15 hundred dollar bills. She used a couple bills for something and the the envelope floated around the house for a week or so. One night as I was putting the dog ( There isn’t another shred of a bill anywhere. No sign of envelope. Later we’re standing in the yard trying to figure it out. She thinks they tore it up and it blew away. No way, wind wasn’t that hard. I get a paper towel and shred it, toss it around the yard. “See, not moving”. Other dog, 2yr old mix walks around and eats every single piece of paper towel I put down. A fucking vacuum. Next day dog shits, I spray it down with the hose. Full of shredded money. I told her to write it off as a dumb mistake. No way. She’s got gloves on and is cleaning every shit from both dogs for the next week. It was only ever found in older dog. One day she’s going to tape the money back together and send it in as damaged currency. For now it’s in a pile in the laundry room, waiting to get lost or accidentally thrown away. We have a conversation about never letting the dogs have free reign again while we’re gone. We have dog door and mud room set up specifically for them. Fast forward to today. I’m running out with kids for school. She’s going walking with neighbor. “I’m leaving the dogs out, I won’t be gone very long,” she says. Sure? Ok. 8:30 I get a text with a pic asking what shit is on the floor. They are something of the kids that exploded and is stuck to our rug we got in Morocco a few years ago. I really want to ask her when she’s going to learn. I feel like I know the answer. tldr; dogs ate wife’s money, after she trusts them again they tore up shit and fucked up a rug.
    9 points
  17. No one in the world is more persecuted than Right Wingers. God bless them.
    9 points
  18. Made a nice weekend breakfast. Diced leftover potatoes and sausage from a crawfish boil, fried to a crisp, then topped with two eggs, covered to cook to over easy. Then covered in Crystal.
    9 points
  19. People who post on the politics section of southern/Texas college football boards hold regressive social and political views, news at 10. Speaking seriously, I think the slide of TexAgs, TigerDroppings, etc into nodes of radicalism, conspiracies, and racism is more about the current information ecosystem in the U.S. than about the colleges involved. Back before DJT, especially before Obama, those places did reflect the general conservatism you’d likely find among alumni. Now it’s something different, those places are huge and fertile ground for malicious actors to drag conversations to the extreme and to amplify conspiracies and disinformation. The pre-existing general lean to the right laid the groundwork, but it wasn’t sufficient. The mods and operators bear a lot of responsibility for refusing to adapt to the new reality of the digital space, business models that rely on touting the number of users, a clear toleration for socks and multiple accounts, and extremely loose community standards. They care more about naughty words and photos than about spammers and trolls. Crowd source banning, like here really goes a long way. Those boards have become kind of like FOBs for 8Kun and other extremist sites. And I really think a lot of the activity is not organic interaction between college football fans and alums.
    9 points
  20. 9 points
  21. Beard is a fucking assassin.... Fuck you Shaka, you never had players this motivated to come play for you once they already got to college... It is one thing to have HS recruiting chops, but it is entirety something else to see legit major D1 guys all wanting to come to Austin. We should have never been in the place that we needed a major talent infusion in the first place, but Beard is putting on a clinic on how to use the portal with a national big dick brand
    8 points
  22. Literally the whole post. You are a fucking insane person who has lost all touch with reality. People were literally charged with insurrection and inciting insurrection. It's not fucking hyperbolic. Like seriously why the fuck should I even let you keep posting here? Apparently you fucking hate everyone anyway. Just do everyone a favor and fucking leave on your own.
    8 points
  23. Any list that does not include Ohio state at the 1 spot in hostile is shit.
    8 points
  24. Yeah but what if the university already owns said dick? How can we afford it with the cost of dick in Austin?
    8 points
  25. Oh good, there are potato chips left!
    8 points
  26. What the fuck do you people want from me? Like seriously I'm tired of this bullshit. Use the report button. I'll just start banning people.
    8 points
  27. It was a bit odd to see em in white at home, but I'd say the look against Baylor this year was as good as it's gonna get, I suppose ymmv on the gloves
    8 points
  28. Either that or payment for the trip hasn't gone through. There's always an uncle...
    8 points
  29. Hitting “submit reply” doesn’t really help your point most of the time but you still do it.
    8 points
  30. Can we please stop bringing up previous coaches in this forum? I’d prefer to get out of that nightmare loop. If I’m successful and need to fucking torture myself, I’ll visit the appropriate football threads. Thank you... no, fuck you!
    8 points
  31. Rioters really isn’t the right word. They were terrorists. We should call them that and punish them accordingly. They were anti-American traitors to democracy. It wasn’t a riot. It was an attempted coup d’etat directed by an American President who lost an election. The first President who never served in the military or held a public office of any kind before. A malignant narcissist and sociopath who was the most unqualified and unfit wretch ever to hold the office. Trump’s goons weren’t there to commit vandalism. That’s what rioters do. No, they were there to overthrow American constitutional democracy and if they had succeeded, and managed to assassinate Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi and whomever else in the process, Trump would still be President and would be for life. And then one of his idiot kids would take over. Jail is too good for them. They should hang.
    8 points
  32. Holeeee shit. I go mow the lawn, make dinner, and come back to Gladiator. Interesting couple of pages. @ChickenSandwich couple of points. a) we (as in you and I) aren't so far off on reproductive rights. b) I would like a streamlined immigration process and am watching policy closely to see what this Administration has in mind. I do believe that Psaki mentioned today that they are working as well on refugee streamlining but they believe it is very important to listen to the NSC (I hope I got the agency correct) with regards to vetting which is also very important. It's a very difficult situation right now due to certain groups in that have aided troops, so I hope the admin can get it done quickly, prudently, and efficiently. So, we'll see on that one. With regards to this quote of yours below, one by one. Hyperbolic. “Insurrection”. A small group of criminals who walked around the capital for 4 hours who burned nothing, looted Nancy and murdered no one. Charge them for their crimes. No. Not hyperbolic at all. I have zero issue with people who went to hear Trump speak although his premise was a lie. The election was not stolen, but they can peaceably assemble and they did. So did some of the people who walked to the Capitol. The actual group who broke windows, doors, etc and entered the Capitol while the election was being validated and were intent on disrupting that was not a *small number. They broke historical artifacts, stole personal documents that were relevant to conducting the nation's business, spread feces on the walls. But yes, I agree they should and are being charged for their crimes. If you spent more time in the CR, you might discover @TwiceHorn's excellent discussion on why certain charges such as insurrection may not end up being levied. In addition, some inside the Capitol were indeed perhaps clueless, others it has been shown through texts and other info still being gathered were not so clueless. there is a desperation to turn 1/6 into the second civil war to validate the fear mongering projected during the Trump administration. It’s validation in your mind. I don't understand you here. I don't want a second civil war. I do want the members of Congress that continue to gaslight the events to stop. Ted Cruz specifically (prior to scrubbing his social media) was promoting 'stop the steal.' If he had been doing this prior to November 3rd, by encouraging people to vote, then I would say nothing--it's just a man trying to get people to the polls. That was not what this was and it happened in the days leading up to January 6th, post election. When a senator tells people to go to Washington to stop the steal, I'm not saying he's telling people to start a civil war, but his words had meaning and he knew it. He's not stupid. to the average American (non CR poster or mainstream media) it was a nothing burger and no one cares who goes to jail for breaking the law. idiots on an afternoon. The domestic terrorism that lasted 6 months and watched cities burn, businesses looted and over 100 lives lost was ten times worse than the afternoon of the 6th. I'm combining the last two because they are in conflict. I'm not so sure they average American thinks what happened in January was a nothingburger, unless they only get their info from one or two sources. Many Americans know what was happening in the Chamber that day and why it was important. That is why the gaslighting by the members of Congress WHO WERE FUCKING PRESENT when it happened is so reprehensible, IMO. If the people we elect cannot certify the free and fair election then we have lost America. Which brings me to the conflicting point about the second part regarding the events this summer. Tragic, terrible. But a couple of things. a)the former President along with the AG pressed to have certain groups labeled as domestic terrorists but he was a little coy because he left out a few. Are you aware that many of those arrested this summer were members of the Proud Boys? They got left off the list and went on to DC. Over 14,000 people were arrested this summer. That was over 14,000 out of the millions who marched nationwide. So, a fraction of the protestors caused a lot of damage and likely will be or have been prosecuted. But b) these two events (I'll combine the protests into a big lump) are NOT RELATED in the same way as portrayed above despite people trying to make it so. Many people would like to do that, but it makes as much sense as saying Colin Kaepernick kneeled because he hates the military. The events are related in other ways, but that is a different thread, different discussion. Peace to you. Oh, and before I go back an read the fifty posts that occurred while I was typing, thanks @pyrohornIII for your links. I will definitely check those out. *small number: at last count, over 300 people have been charged I believe.
    7 points
  33. Who said her leg was too small of a target?
    7 points
  34. Interesting post. I do my best not to pigeon hole posters here unless they do that to themselves (Johnny Sack, GR Horn, Chickensandwich), and I don't hold grudges against those guys. You describe yourself as someone who, as far as I can tell, is actually not right of center. You're left of center even though you may be considered a conservative of the old school. Like many here, you've lost your party. Not only that, but your former party is aligning itself and defining itself with America's most degenerate and deleterious traits. You're in a political world where the stinking Democrats, my party, have become through pure relativity the shining good guys just because they don't hate people of color, they see citizens as basically equal, and they respect America's democratic traditions and institutions. What is left of the GOP has no use for any of that bullshit. They've pulled loose from their anchors on the foundation of what we thought this country was and knuckle-dragged towards fascism. You probably don't like the Democratic Party. Hell, I don't like it that much myself, but it's how I traditionally vote. I can totally see why you don't want to align yourself with the Dems on real policy issues. But you may have to stand with them on basic foundational beliefs in the American system until a party more suited to you arises. Your later description of America as a middle country is quaint. So we all believed. We have 70 million voters embracing a would-be autocrat. The same number doesn't care about honesty, respecting the vote, or even weighing different sources of news and information. That's not a traditional GOP-Dem battleground. It's an existential struggle more profound than party politics. I like your political views. I know you won't become a Dem, and I'm glad that not everybody wants to be a Dem. Many Dems are idiots and cowards and self-serving hogs just like most politicians. They just happen to be on the right side of this whole existential struggle thing this time.
    7 points
  35. For solidarity, I live to make sure this one grows up to be intelligent, with an open mind to a big world of endless possibilities.
    7 points
  36. He's slow and overrated. He's similar to Garrett Wilson in the same way SydneyCarton is similar to Oscar Wilde.
    7 points
  37. Johnsonville cheddar sausage wrapped in bacon with japs, diablo sauce, homemade ranch, mustard
    7 points
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