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softlynow

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  1. Considering how little I've posted on this thread, you'll forgive me if I feel you've missed the mark here. Generally, I feel, any person/entity that reverses course first admits, at least internally, to a misstep. That's what I meant. Putting Dem strategists in the stocks, while certainly amusing, and probably cathartic for some, would accomplish very little. Edited to add: I re-read my post you quoted, and, yeah, I stated that poorly.
  2. My firm's bottom line is counting on this to continue. But I feel that a bet made on the premise "pussy is undefeated" is just good analytics.
  3. They'll still vote against the Dems even if you make admissions and show empathy, but yeah, the first step is admitting the problem/failure.
  4. The boldest points to a more interesting discussion than whether the obvious has happened. How does the Democratic Party put supporting the middle class economically at the center of its messaging? When it comes to 30-something white men, I don't think paid maternity leave, health care, increasing the minimum wage, clean energy, expanding child tax credits, and the like have or are going to resonate with the brosephs swayed by Rogan or Jordan Peterson to vote for billionaire tax cuts. Those policies may help them (health insurance is pretty fucking importany, clean energy efforts lead to good jobs, etc.) but the guys we're talking about are going to need those policies dressed up with MMA stars holding some guns and/or enticing ladies with BBLs and tits for them to give a shit. Like I said, I don't think we need to argue whether they were "lost." Election results and Rogan's gigantic contract tells us they are. What's next? As someone who never, not for even one minute, thought Ayn Rand had something interesting to say, this "lost generation" is simply not my people. You seem to be raising your hand saying these are your folks. How do you think progressives get a couple percentage points of them to even listen to someone outside the meathead right?
  5. I don't know. I'm getting the vibe of a dead-end discussion considering: Seems like the only call to action is to pump up Compact Mag's numbers.
  6. Why did he take a step back to analyst?
  7. PPP2 and CARES2 will be huge! Subsequent 15% mortgage rates will force everyone into 60 year notes. Serfdom for most incoming.
  8. I've heard better consipracy theories on campus.
  9. 16 teams, keep the top 5 conf winners bit. Sure we'll arguments that some 4 loss team should get in over a 3-loss squad with an aggy or ND like schedule. But the easy answer is: don't lose 1/3rd of your games if you want in the playoff. All these arguments about schedules and realignment are boring. Ain't none of that going to happen.
  10. "Après moi, le déluge" -- Dotard
  11. Much easier in the Big Ten. 18 teams, 2 good teams and 1 team starting a dyanstic multi-year NC run.
  12. Dems haven't really tried. They should do that. Every time they're on tv, social media, in a public setting with a microphone in their face, some version of "Donald Trump is a kiddie rapist" should be uttered. Every surrogate should do the same. Every person and organization lobbying for their vote should be told "not until you publicly state 'Donald Trump is a kiddie rapist.'" Every ad they run should end "paid for by [candidate], and remember Donald Trump is a kiddie rapist." This isn't a hard sell. It even fits on a bumper sticker. Trump Raped Kids. TRK should be a hashtag that trends every fucking day until people get it, and continue every fucking day until that shit dies. Ultimately, you're correct: we have chosen the way of pain. While they're far less culpable than GQPers, Dems have played their part in the decision, pathetic losers that they are.
  13. I know you're not. I'm pointing out that there are some very politically important facts that people do not know, and a whole group of morons whose chances of success as a group would be immensely improved if they did know, yet here we are. You're pointing out something that isn't going to change. It's important to know - there are a lot of idiots out there - but you can't just fix stupid you have to account for it. I see the Democratic Party like an organization helmed by a never-ending series of David McWilliams, John Mackovic, Charlie Strong and Tom Herman. You get a 1990, 1996 and a 2018 type of success every now and then, but those are immediately followed by disappointment and despair. The fact that they have no plan to make sure the electorate knows that a kiddie rapist is the fucking president is like going 4-7 with Ricky Williams on your roster or losing 66-3 (also with Ricky Williams on your roster) or elevating Bobby Jack Wright to DC or losing to Rice . . . On second thought maybe John Mackovic is the Democratic Party in human form.
  14. You say all that like Democrats are pathetic at messaging. Who would ever believe such a thing?
  15. Not really. It will tell us whether we get a chance to show up unprepared and/or crater in another big game like this, or whether we’re an irrelevant mid-pack squad fighting for 6th place in the conference. That’s it. Sarks ability in these games is a known factor. Incapable.
  16. Even Jerry Jones isn’t that dumb. NFL?They’ve got plenty of coordinators from playoff teams to poach. We’re stuck with this B- choker until the wheels come off like they finally did for Franklin. 8-4 this year, probably improve to 9-10 wins next year. NIL and the portal will keep us with a talent level good enough to keep Sark in the 8-10 wins next year range, until he totally fucks up roster management. Hopefully, I’m wrong, but we could be doing this dance a few more years.
  17. It sort of did in TW, and very much so at my Episcopal church. Magnolia, on the other hand, heads totally in the sand. Same with East County, but they don't understand the concept of communicable disease, so that was expected.
  18. I have no doubt in Austin some of the distancing era protocols linger. In The Woodlands we've been done with COVID for a couple years.
  19. I wonder whether COVID played a larger part in this. For months people didn't get to/have to go to church, and I'm betting a large number of folks just didn't miss it, or when they filled that time with other stuff, stuck with their new hobbies. Do we have numbers on the denominations of Christianity most affected?
  20. Related to that topic, does LonghornLaw/Laphraig/other handles I forgot post here anymore?
  21. In the before times, this is a Dem win. Now? It's noise. If, for some unknown reason, Trump et al. are not planning to destroy the integrity of the '26 and '28 elections, this was a fine result. I get the whining, to a certain extent. Some felt that maybe prolonging the shutdown until the pain spread to everyone would stymie the coup. Wishful thinking.
  22. I have only read this thread amused/dismayed by how many think this makes a difference. Brisket writes enough in alignment of my POV that it hardly seems necessary that I comment much. But the douchiness of posting the above while having 15913 posts on a message board, as of this writing, just needs to be noted at least one time. Also, the "this too shall pass" paternalism behind the comment is ridiculous. Probably the only thing standing between us a Trump coronation is his death.
  23. No clue. But we live in the timeline where things we thought were impossible have already happened, so I put little stock in the conventional wisdom on anything the federal government touches.
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