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Posts posted by softlynow
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10 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
it's weird that it is what you would deduce from what I wrote. i am not referencing any political party in my statements. this is a fundamental failure at the chromosomal level. we need to figure out what the fuck happened so your children and grandchildren don't repeat or perpetuate the same bullshit.
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.
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1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
not trying to give anyone cover who doesn't deserve it, but perhaps they didn't know the connection. seems like an amazingly large number of people are just woefully unaware of who potus is and what is his past was. it's something i may never be able to rectify in my brain, but somehow there are two (and likely scores more) streams of information out there and one of them is a complete vacuum of all the misdeeds and misstatements this man has made. I hope someone out there smarter than me is dedicating their life to studying this and a brings a reasonable explanation that I can understand and digest, sometime before I die. that'd be great. kthxbai
You say all that like Democrats are pathetic at messaging. Who would ever believe such a thing?
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1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:
He fucked the OL and he knows it and bad enough that he can't really coach around it. He almost fucked Arch in the process.
What happens in this off-season will tell us a lot.
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.
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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.
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1 hour ago, bluto said:
covid didn’t exist In the Woodlands in the first place.
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.
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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:
That definitely had an affect. Shit, it did for us. We didn't really start attending church again till about a year ago. We got too comfy in our lazy Sunday mornings, just coffee and conversation. It was a good distraction, but at the same time, we ended up realizing that we were missing something. And I'd say church services themselves STILL haven't really gotten over COVID. A lot of leftovers (communion servers wear gloves, people don't hold hands during the Lord's Prayer, lotta little things like that). There's a confluence of factors, to be sure.
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.
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:
"Drop in US religiosity among largest in world"
Massive drop - 17 points - from 2015 to 2025. Gosh. What major trend took place from 2015 to present. Could it be the rise of the MAGA movement, which has thoroughly coopted Christianity?
In America, 2025, if someone says "I'm a Christian," that is regularly perceived as "I'm MAGA." It has become, first and foremost, a political label. And . . . among people inclined to actually FOLLOW the tenets of Christianity, a most distasteful one. So, in a country where being "religious" largely means "I'm MAGA," it's not a shock to see a big drop in subscription to that religious belief (which remains our culturally dominant religion).
TLDR: Nothing is worse for American Christianity than American "Christians."
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?
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15 minutes ago, chainsaw said:
For at least ten years there have been "evolutionary psychology" weirdos who are obsessed with fertility rates and constantly bemoan that society moved away from impregnating girls the instant they begin ovulating.
Related to that topic, does LonghornLaw/Laphraig/other handles I forgot post here anymore?
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17 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
Of course it’s not enough. But you can’t have one without the other.
Lol touchè.
But here’s the thing- all this whining doesn’t seem grounded in fact. I’ll ask you the same two questions I’ve asked others:1) what did the GOP gain?
2) what did it cost them?
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.
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2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
Touch grass, fellas.
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.
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Just now, The Hot Dog Buffet said:
If the republicans were to cave today, would it even be possible to put the subsidies back into the ACA? Isn't every state already advertising their plans and don't people have to be signed up pretty soon?
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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7 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:
Let’s see what it looks like if this government shut down goes another month.
Let’s see what it looks like if this government shut down goes another month
Actually let’s see what happens if the Medicaid cuts stick and ACA credits go away due to the republicans nuking the filibuster
I hope I'm wrong that option 3 (Pubs caving and the gov't reopens after fixing the HC part of Trump's stupid law), while being good for lots of people in the short-term, would be a long-term loss for us all. You know Dems wouldn't capitalize on that win, even if they tried. People need to feel the pain, unfortunately, to set aside their racism and xenophobia and actually vote in their own economic interests.
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If anyone caught the postgame Craig Way interview with Sark, he closed by saying, “I’m gonna put my son on my knee and watch those late games.” Anyone interested in over-analyzing that statement?
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I've only checked on the Sark/NFL thread a few times, but it sure seems like a bunch of football board critters are hypersensitive to the definition of the word "cuck." It makes me wonder how many of them are forced to watch their best friend rail their better half on the regular. And the fascination with bedroom activities being grounds to fire a guy for cause is also telling.
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“I’m not a secret nazi” is more or less the same as “I am not a witch” in the context of electoral politics. Mills could be 99 and still get the nod over Platner next June.
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1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:
People are not freaking out enough about what is about to happen.
We are so far past the point of protests.
Yep. Pretty soon protesting will get dangerous. Even for white folks. A bunch of us will need our presence scrubbed from here and other spots on the internet.
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7 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:
I wonder if this will actually stick, no matter how long we go on. Or will people just move on from it like they’ve moved on from every other one of his heinous acts.
7 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:I don’t think it’s gonna go away any time soon. The American attention span is basically that of my pup’s. For it to still be in the zeitgeist is surprising
It won't stick. The reason MAGATs haven't moved on is they haven't been forced to actually reckon with the idea that Trump is promintenly featured in the list. They still think it's going to confirm their warped view of the world that Dems and Dem-aligned folks are running a secret underground child smuggling operation. If/when they're left with nothing but vegetables on their plate, they'll throw a tantrum and get Fox to play the whiny titty baby hits. I'm a little curious as to the dog whistle they settle on. DEI and woke are about played out. I suppose they could try to refresh CRT, but I suspect their dialed-in marketing folks will have something shiny and built for distraction ready to go. I wonder if they're ready to abandon the facade and come right out with the 14 words as the mainstream rallying cry.
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From a pure politics standpoint it’s even a stupid stance. There are Dems in red states. They’re likely to get primaried if they fuck over their own, and they’re open to general losses if the national party no longer fights for the folks in red states, too.
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As a sometime subscriber to The Economist, I hear ya . . . a bit. It just seems like people that think like you were always a one in a tiny minority watching as the platform and rhetoric always seemed to barely account for your views. Would you say you were slow to see that the party was well on its way to completely abandoning your views beginning with with the Tea Party revolts in 2009?
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How the fuck were y'all Republicans in the before times? The easy way I reconcile it is you were seduced by the small government rhetoric we now know (but many of us suspected) was complete bullshit, but now I have to ask. On this page y'all are engaging in a back and forth that would've had you RINO'd out the door of your local GOP club, even if you brought the doughnuts. How were you sucked in by the party whose raison d'être is to protect and expand the wealth of the filthy and obscenely rich?
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Highway soliciting speaker sales.
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30 minutes ago, ztejas said:
We are going to win 7 games.
Quit being a bitch.
Moronic take. I’m not whining about shit. Sark doesn’t need to be fired, Arch is doing fine, IMO, given the putrid OL play.
We don’t play in the big 12 anymore. Teams that go 6-6 in this league have athletes like Florida. If the defense looks like it has since week 1, there are no layups left, and 7+ will require some improvement from the offense and more than little good luck.
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“Do something!” Meanwhile all the people we need to see the coming storm are telling us to calm down.
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3 minutes ago, Blackcat00 said:
With Muhammad playing its elite dumbass.
So the secret to our supposedly elite stockpile of EDGEs getting any pressure on the QB is getting a CB back? Is MM our DTs spirit animal, calming their nerves so they get in the way of a ball carrier every once in a while?
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
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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.