Everything posted by Al_4_ISU
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Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
Nah. The lucrative nature of pandering to the right got him off team blue. If he was ever on it to begin with.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
ISU beat OSU last year and both squads return everyone. I think Utah is better (and we play them in Salt Lake) but a whole lot of people have just slotted 2 teams we beat last year ahead of us in OK State and KSU. And it wasn't like we beat OSU when they were doing their stupid 3 man QB rotation. We beat them with Bowman going the whole way. ISU also played UT much closer than OK State did. I'd take that bet on the ISU/Iowa game too. Iowa will win, but it will be by less than a score. 13-10. 9-6. Far from anything resembling an ass kicking. Other than Campbell's first season, and the 2021 debacle, that game has been stupid close. Iowa is an above average squad that has benefitted from an extremely weak conference schedule, and utter incompetence from their premiere non-con opponent. Look at how they fare against anyone that's willing to put the ball in the air against them. It's not pretty. Campbell's a fucking idiot when it comes to that game and routinely tries to beat Ferentz at Ferentzball, and the only time it ever worked was with the shittiest team that he had assembled in Ames and Spencer Petras at QB for Iowa. Iowa has been blessed with shitty opponents that literally hand them the game, unforced (watch the end of last year's Iowa/Nebraska game if you don't believe me), on a regular basis for year after year and it's continuing again this year. They have a lower SOS than much of the Big 12 despite playing in the vaunted Big 10. Iowa's going to win 10 games again this year, but if they get into the playoffs, they will once again be exposed as existing on the spoils of a conference that's really mostly mediocre but just has a lot of eyeballs. I've had to wait to use a portajohn at an ISU tailgate for this exact reason.
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Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
Maybe RFK is making a savvy long play to cement his legacy. By going full nut job, he sucks votes away from Trump, gives Harris the W, and meaningfully helps the Democrats win an election. He was never going to be President on his own, but he has a very real opportunity effect the outcome.
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Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
It's bad for Trump if Kennedy stays in until the end. Kennedy isn't taking a single Harris vote.
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Minneapolis recs?
Pryes makes better beer than Surly anyhow.
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Chappell Roan
It's not at all my kind of music, but my wife is really into her and it seems like pretty much every woman under the age of 40 in the Midwest has become mildly obsessed with her, so it's sort of inescapable in my life. It's definitely thoughtful, well done pop music. I just don't really like pop music.
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Minneapolis recs?
It's unseasonably cool right now, in the best possible way. Weather doesn't really get better than what we've got in the Upper Midwest the next 5-6 days.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
WVU tailgate destroys CU. I’m obviously biased, but you can find lots of posts from UT fans who went to games in Ames praise ISU’s as well. OK State is awesome, and KSU is fairly similar to the Pokes and Clones but smaller.
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RFK Jr. off the chain and off his rocker
There's a guy in my town who has an RFK yard sign. He also has gargoyle statues on his porch.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Iowa State behind Cincy, ASU, UCF, CU for tailgating is nuts and clearly not arrived at by anyone who's gone to these games. KSU, WVU, and OK State are very similar.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
I would literally nut. We'd probably do better against the 5 seed than they would anyhow. They got outscored 96-0 by ranked teams last year. We at least kept it interesting with you guys.
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Running Through Walz to Fix America - Democratic VP Nominee
Part of that was the mood of the time. As late as 2018 the Democrats (when Walz was first elected) were still getting a lot of votes in southern Minnesota (and northern Iowa as well). I live right next door and I've seen a larger number (and just generally higher intensity) of Trump displays in Minnesota (a state that Harris will win fairly comfortably) than I do in Iowa (a state that Trump will win fairly comfortably) and it has a lot to do with the persecution complex that's just rampant in any rural area that shares a state with a major city. Following the 2018 election, even Iowa had 3/4 US House districts represented by a Democrat, which seems unfathomable two election cycles later. Social media broke the brains of a large portion of rural Americans who were actual swing voters as recent as a 6 years ago. I don't know if there's a way to get them back.
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Running Through Walz to Fix America - Democratic VP Nominee
Gotcha. I think he could do that. I'm probably still team Kelly, but love a lot about Walz. I think the most effective attack against him will come in the form of the Minneapolis riots, but that falls far more on the mayor than it does Walz, who actually called in the National Guard to get shit under control.
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Running Through Walz to Fix America - Democratic VP Nominee
He hasn't reached his own rural white constituents. They hate his guts. I like Walz a lot. Would love to have him as a governor. But I don't think he's really reaching rural whites based on the Minnesota voting map.
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Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
I was a huge Burr fan prior to that and still am. He laid Rogan’s bullshit bare here
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Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
Yeah, Burr destroying him during COVID was probably the moment where I decided he was a fucking idiot that was doing more harm than good.
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Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
I’m pretty sure the state you’re from has a far more problematic history of race relations.
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Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
I guess I disagree. Don’t make me defend this dipshit, but I just don’t see why a white supremacist would routinely give black people a platform. There are plenty of objectively observable things wrong with Rogan. Piling unfounded charges of white supremacy derails from the mountain of legitimate criticism IMO.
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Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
I’m no Rogan fan, but I don’t think he’s a white supremacist. He promotes a shit ton of black artists.
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Realignment talk not going away
OSU and Wazzu fans thinking they might get a Big 12 invite is like Utah and Kansas fans thinking they might get a Big 10/SEC invite. If it was going to happen, it would have a long time ago. For the record, I’d enjoy having both, but their profile is much more similar to MWC schools.
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Uniform Pron
Nah. Lots of non-sports stuff. Don’t really go into the UT specific stuff. Always enjoyable to watch Aggy getting roasted though.
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Uniform Pron
TIL Sark is a BYU alum. I always thought Armenians were super Catholic.
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Uniform Pron
That USD logo sips shit.
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Helping a friend who believes in conspiracy theories.
Exactly this. I have friends who don't necessarily believe in conspiracy theories, but they tend to react to any facts inconvenient to their emotionally held beliefs as some kind of concoction of a biased media source. Or maybe they do believe it and just hide it from me because I tell them that conspiracy theories are fucking stupid. Either way, it's an internal defense mechanism to quickly explain a world that often simply defies basic explanation.
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8/1, it’s time for the Hatch Chile thread
I enjoy roasting a bunch on my grill, chopping them up, and bagging/freezing them for winter chili or smoked queso endeavors. I don't think they're hot at all, but they give that nice green chile flavor to stuff, and up here we don't always green chiles sitting around (not fresh ones anyhow). So the Hatch hype/marketing bullshit gets them in my hands in the first place, I suspect.