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  1. I guess I am more rooting for the angry Westlake honks lamenting not getting him than I am rooting for his undersized ass to show up and smear mediocrity all over the field for 4 years while watching confused Westlake honks lament the lack of performance based almost certainly off of bad coaching.
    15 points
  2. 13 points
  3. Will do my best to avoid taking this CR, but far-left populism and far-right populism have this in common: they both hate institutions and alliances. That is because the presence of institutions and alliances is a check on authoritarian exercises of power, which is a common element of both flavors of extremist populism. Far left types like Maduro In Venezuela have a great deal in common with far-right populists like Putin and Orban: they both crush dissent and control information, they both run functionally command economies, their power is tied closely to the military and use of force. Answering to institutions or peers limits one’s abilities to use those tools. So, authoritarian populists are uniformly anti-coalitions, institutions, and collective alliances. They will speak the loudest against alliances, unions, and anything that is a constraint on their exercise of power, using buzzwords like “the people’s right to self determination.” But they don’t mean that. What they mean is that they want to nation to be free from any external checks on its ability to just do what it wants; among the checks they REALLY want to get out from under is the check that requires a nation to have free and fair elections, a free press, etc. From whichever wing it comes, the dangerous force is authoritarianism. In that respect, all authoritarian regimes are aligned in their fight against institutions and any regional or global order.
    12 points
  4. We had some leftover pork loin and oven brisket the inlaws gave us. Minced it up and made some enchiladas.
    9 points
  5. 9 points
  6. 9 points
  7. Nobody wants to go to your wedding, or anybody’s wedding.
    9 points
  8. 5 Olympic medals, 12 world championship medals, and the first freshman to win the NCAA championship while at Texas. Sanya Richards-Ross: She's a Longhorn Legend.
    8 points
  9. Somebody way up above on this thread noted Dem incompetence in dealing with this vile juggernaut called the GЯP. I'm not an apologist for the Dems even though that's the way I vote. In years past, I likely would have agreed in many cases that Dem weakness shamed the party and allowed awful policy (Iraq invastion) to proceed with only the mildest resistance. But this? I'm not sure of any tools a political party can effectively use against an unabashed criminal organization. Can there have been a more competent condemnation of Trump and his cronies than Adam Schiff's oratory in the first impeachment or Jamie Raskin and his entire team in the second impeachment? I don't think so. In fact, I'm sure I was watching the very best attack on those forces killing a republic they claim to serve. So much of our political structure seems to have been built assuming there were lines few men would be so dishonorable to cross. Now half of Congress is just that dishonorable. The executive prior to Biden was even worse. Now the Supreme Court is loaded with scoundrels of the same pelt. It's a juggernaut crewed by people who only care about power and personal gain today. Tomorrow be damned. America be damned. The political and racial minorities be blamed. The harmless souls outside of a binary sexual category, be persecuted. I will have lived through the best time to be a (white male) common citizen of any era anywhere. Somebody born 60 years after me will likely experience the worst time to be a free American in its history.
    8 points
  10. I think before 2014 most of the Alliance, including the U.S., would have balked a bit at Finland. Finland was an example of a country that was solidly Western and European yet had seemingly reached an acceptable accommodation with Russia. They were a useful and credible interlocutor while being deeply integrated and cooperative with us. They had the closest thing to a “normal” relationship with Russia that any of Russia’s neighbors have. That was good for Russia and good for us. The rapid freak out of the Finns should be exceedingly firm evidence to those who think Russia is behaving normally and that accommodation is possible.
    8 points
  11. The Texas Longhorns Football team is two weeks away from the annual Orange-White Springe Game and Steve Sarkisian's squad just completed an action-packed scrimmage less than an hour ago. Horns 247 spoke with a number of sources on-site for Saturday's scrimmage to get their take on the day's events. —The consensus from all of the sources we spoke with was that Quinn Ewers was the MVP of the day. The Southlake Carroll product was spraying the ball vertically and horizontally across the field, including a 50+ yard TD to Xavier Worthy, A red zone TD to Jahleel Billingsley, another TD to Jordan Whittington on an orbit motion RPO, and a freaky sidearm throw to Ja'Tavion Sanders that reminded one source in attendance of Ewers' APEC training mate Patrick Mahomes. Ewers started the day with the twos and rotated between the first and second team with Hudson Card throughout the scrimmage. While all of the sources we spoke to felt Quinn Ewers was better on the day, they made it clear that Hudson Card looks improved in his own right with the highlight of his day being a well-placed ball to Bijan Robinson on a wheel route against David Gbenda who was in great coverage. —"I'd describe the passing attack as RPO and play-action heavy that attacked all levels of the field. I worry about how ball fake heavy they are considering the lack of push from the OL, but the run game seemed to get better as the scrimmage progressed." —The offense ran a lot more 12 personnel today than the last scrimmage with Ja'Tavion Sanders working inline while Jahleel Billingsley worked at H in more flexed out looks. Both tight ends moved across formations and had big days, it seemed the staff was making it a priority to get both Sanders and Billingsley targets including in the screen game. One HS head coach in attendance felt like Sanders was one of the three best players on the day and another mentioned it was good to see the former Denton Ryan five-star stay consistent after a great practice last Saturday. —"The offense struggled to run the ball at first but got better as the day went along. I thought Hayden Conner had a good day and he even worked some at left tackle. Bijan, Keilan Robinson, and Roschon all had good days but the defense just seems to consistently win in the run game against the 1st team O. I thought they looked a lot better in pass protection though, a ton of play-action and RPO concepts that they held up well on." —One of the scrimmage periods was working situational 3rd downs and Jordan Whittington remained the reliable target for both QBs that he's been all spring. One source felt that J-Whitt did enough to share MVP honors with Ewers on the day. Casey Cain had another solid day and Kelvontay "Moochie" Dixon responded well after a tough scrimmage last week including a long catch and run on a dart from Hudson Card. Isaiah Neyor was quiet on the day after a monster showing last week, but still looked good with a few catches on a relatively light workload. —Keilan Robinson was a big factor on the day and had a nice 10 yard touchdown run on inside zone towards the end of the scrimmage. Robinson and the other RBs featured heavily in the passing game and we were told Roschon Johnson notched a big gain on a screen. —Overall the offense was fairly vanilla (understandably so considering how many people were in attendance) but one thing that caught a source's eye was how many empty sets the Longhorns deployed. Last year the Horns found quite a bit of success from empty formations and according to multiple people in attendance the 12 personnel empty looks were very successful on the day. Every source we spoke to felt like the offense won the day. —The defense spent the majority of the scrimmage working in nickel and while our sources felt the offense got the better of them, weren't discouraged by their overall play. One thing that stood out that was music to my ears was the run fits by the entire linebacker group. DeMarvion Overshown, David Gbenda, Jaylan Ford, and Devin Richardson all were credited with tough open-field tackles in addition to workman-like every down run fits that prevented any busted runs. —"Biggest surprise of the day for me was Jamier Johnson, man that kid can play. He had at least two broken up passes and was just flying around nonstop. Helm seemed to have position on him once but he got physical while staying disciplined to avoid the flag for the PBU. Pumped for fans to see him in the Spring Game." —The defensive line was said to be one of the best position groups on the day, but we keep hearing similar feedback that they're fantastic against the run but aren't producing a consistent pass rush. One of the ways Pete Kwiatkowski started to generate a pass rush towards the end of practice was using "twists" with Moro Ojomo, Byron Murphy, and Vernon Broughton. Broughton tipped a pass while Ojomo forced Card to get rid of the ball early for an incompletion. T'Vondre Sweat and Devin Richardson had a 4th down stop on the goal-line where they chased down Keilan Robinson on an outside zone run that seemed sure to hit for a score. —"DeMarvion Overshown smacked Jonathon Brooks and had a great come from behind tackle on a Keilan Robinson outside zone carry. Keilan hit a jet touch pass and has had a couple of other nice plays so it was great seeing DMO's recovery speed in action to save that one. Jaylan Ford also had a great tackle in space on Whittington for no gain." —Sources felt that Ovie Oghoufo was again the best on the day, but true freshman Justice Finkley was said to be the second best on the edge for the Horns. Finkley had one major highlight where he dominated the rep against Jaylen Garth forcing Ewers to get rid of the ball early and overthrow Casey Cain for a long TD. —In addition to Jamier Johnson surprising a source in the defensive backfield, we heard that true freshman Xavion Brice had a solid day with his former high school teammate and current Texas commit Jamel Johnson in attendance. —Jahdae Barron has been one of the best defenders during spring ball and the defensive staff moved him around at corner and nickel during the scrimmage. —Anthony Cook was solid on the day and got into a light scrap after a play with Jahleel Billingsley. "Coaches got fired up and gave a little butt-chewing for Cook, wasn't a big deal and the coaches that were with me commented on how well the staff/players handled it." —Closing thoughts from a trusted source that's seen multiple practices this spring: "If Flood tinkers with the offensive line and gets the right personnel in place by Big12 play this offense has a chance to be lethal. They need Whittington to stay healthy and I realize I'm not making some brilliant point with that comment. He's been outstanding and I genuinely feel like they have 6-7 (including the RBs and TEs) dangerous weapons for the QBs to throw to." "Defense looks a lot better overall and they are looking good with their gap integrity and run fitting but I'm just not sure they have the pass-rushing personnel or the shutdown DBs to be dominant on that side of the ball. Hopefully I'm underselling Watts, Cook, and Barron on the backend and they prove me wrong." Spring ball will conclude on April 23rd with the 2022 Orange-White Spring Game which will headline this year's 'Made in Austin' weekend, featuring UT sporting events the weekend of April 22nd through April 24th. The spring game is among the events to headline the weekend, but this year's 'Made in Austin Weekend' is also a Big 12 home series for No. 7 ranked Texas baseball when the Longhorns host Baylor for a three-game series starting on April 22nd.
    7 points
  12. Schefter right now like
    7 points
  13. Listen to this guy. He’s been ignored his entire life. You’re a miserable SOB.
    7 points
  14. No. Been dealing with some pretty heavy family stuff. My uncle Bill (mentioned him a bunch in the football thread) is back in the hospital again. My cousin, Josh, Bill’s oldest son, killed himself over a week ago and just got back a few days ago from the funeral. Josh was only 35. then my uncle Bill collapsed and fell later that evening. He had just gotten out of the rehabbing place he was in about a week or so before Josh killed himself. We were very close growing up and spent a lot of time together every year until 2020 when Covid made things difficult to travel and see family. Just a gut punch. For everyone. I will never understand why Josh did what he did. None of us can ever wrap our minds around it. Just haven’t felt like posting much. Which I am sure is a relief to some posters. The Ukraine stuff is just painful to watch and read about and I don’t have any new takes. Plus we all pretty much follow all the same Twitter feeds so I don’t have anything helpful to add.
    7 points
  15. It’s amazing. When I hit it in that kinda shit, I always find it, and it’s always lying perfect. Pretty remarkable.
    6 points
  16. The main problem with this picture is there aren't enough Russians in it.
    6 points
  17. 6 points
  18. Jesus please don't let Adam Schefter write my obituary. D as in David, an underperforming graduate of the University of Texas, died today when his fat ass fell down some stairs. Onlookers report his last moments were spent pissing and shitting himself.
    6 points
  19. Finland should be auto-approved by email
    6 points
  20. Let’s hire her for some risqué photography and then send 12 of the ugliest fucking dudes from this website to be photographed naked. Then you send the calendar to Daniel as a gift.
    6 points
  21. Will have to politely disagree here. Some of the most well respected guys on teams, regardless of the sport, are not the superstars. We know Roschon Johnson is a leader on the team and he doesn't have all the impressive stats. Glue guys, leadership guys and superstars are not always the same people. Ojomo has been here 5 years and was on a team that won a NY6 bowl game. He's been around the block. This isn't some freshman coming in and demanding respect while calling out seniors. What Ojomo has seen the last few years isn't good enough and I would want him to voice that to guys who have not experienced what it is like to win at a high level.
    6 points
  22. I decided I was being cheap, so I bought them another one: There is still one more requested for someone else to buy.
    6 points
  23. 5 points
  24. This is my third most memorable Verne soundbite
    5 points
  25. They can mobilize all they want, but they still need millions to actually occupy Ukraine, and they simply don't have the manpower and trucks to do that. And Ukraine never even hit the full-on insurgency phase, and now they are boosting their air defenses, naval defenses, etc. as we speak. But if they try to do mass mobilization after Putin and the state media has been saying that things are going okay and that no conscripts are being used or needed....that's a FAFO moment. And it will also cause some upheaval in Russian society - way too many would-be conscripts have bought their way out of being conscripts over the years, so that practice would have to end right then and there. And any internal resistance to men being called up is going to tie up troops/internal police/national guard, resources that Russia desperately needs in Ukraine. I think Putin has to wrap something up by early May. He can't wait the 4-6 months it would take to go full on mass mobilization (from the moment war is declared to letters being sent out, to men showing up for induction, etc.), and he simply doesn't have the capability to get the untrained masses into combat anyways. And war production......rifles and uniforms will be about it, and maybe trucks. Way too many of their fancier systems either ended production many years ago, and would be hard to start back up quickly (think of all of the retooling needed, plus a large pool of technically skilled people to restart and produce the fancy stuff), or they rely too heavily on imports from the outside that they either are blocked from importing, or probably can't afford. There is also the fact that right now, it takes a month or two of basic training plus a few more months of advanced training before a conscript is ready. If they give them a month or two of training, and a rifle (or tell them to pick up the next rifle they see), it'll be a fucking slaughter of Russian youths. As Rumsfeld said, “You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish you had at a later time.”
    5 points
  26. I'm so confused as to how Boris Johnson went from being a stooge for Brexit to being a stand up dude in the fight against tyranny. Seems like the subject of a Pink Floyd double album.
    5 points
  27. Meh. Schefter has said and done worse.
    5 points
  28. Straight up imagine if some guy named Ahmad Khan got arrested trying to buy explosives from the FBI. And his lawyer rolls into court and says: ”My client can’t hold a job and lives in a miserable basement apartment that doesn’t have a toilet. He spends a lot of time online talking about how much he hates America and his detailed fantasies of carrying out a WMD attack. Does that really sound like someone who could carry out a terrorist attack?”
    5 points
  29. Richard Pryor appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson after he recovered from the fire. Carson introduced Pryor and there was a huge round of applause. Pryor took a seat next to Carson. Carson leaned toward Pryor and reached to touch his arm as a warm gesture. When Carson's hand touched Pryor's forearm, Pryor screamed in agony. Carson was mortified and leapt back. Pryor starts laughing. It brought down the house.
    5 points
  30. 5 points
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