Posts posted by atomheartbevo
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12 hours ago, hundredTT said:
Some of y’all sound like fucking women. Is the NFL perfect? Nope. But between Lamar, Mahomes, Brees still killing it, and the Pats run possibly over - the NFL is awesome. Hell I’m a Cowboys fan and still watch every game, and laugh at Garrett’s dumbassary. Plus, a good reason to drink beer and gamble on a Sunday. We all love college sports, but the two can co-exist ffs.
Yeah, but we aren't getting our asses eaten out in a parking lot on a Sunday afternoon in Buffalo, so we win!
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13 hours ago, Casual Encounter said:
Herman has been given the opportunity to do what should have been done three years ago, hire some coaches with worthy of their title at the University of Texas. Regardless of what we think of our douchebag head coach, the coaches he’s hired so far have a track record, in the positions they’ve been hired for, which make them worthy of the title they now hold.
I don’t give a shit about their head coaching tenures at some shitty ass schools because that’s not what they’re being hired for. I can think of multiple failed of failing HCs that would be an absolute steal as coordinators or position coaches.
In theory, they have the tools to compete for the conference next year as well.
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10 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:
Even now the argument exists as to how our military would react if something like this little revolution started.
It's not much of an argument. There's 1.3 million active-duty personnel in the US military, and around 500,000 of those are overseas right now, and we aren't going to pull them back to fight Bubba Inbred, nor are they are going to go AWOL and make their way back to fight alongside Bubba Inbred. 30% or so of the military is minority as well, plus Trump only has about 42% of the military who currently approve of him to begin with.
SpoilerLet's drill down though: The US Navy has US Navy shit to do, and they are stretched pretty thing as it is. They aren't going to pull the bulk of their forces off of their ships and shore installations and train them up to go chasing after Bubba Inbred through Alabama, or to support Bubba Inbred. The US Air Force has US Air Force shit to do, and are stretched thinner than the Navy, and they aren't going to cripple their aerial activities and the security of their installations to go chasing after Bubba Inbred or to support Bubba Inbred. The US Marine Corps has US Marine Corps shit to do, and given that they are only 182,000-strong, and that a bunch of those are stationed overseas or on ships, they are definitely not up for this outside of contributing a few thousand troops. That leaves the US Army, and guess what, the US Army has US Army shit to do, and they are stretched extremely thin as well. Even then, the US Army only has 475,000 active duty troops with a huge chunk of those overseas or supporting overseas training, and if shit hits the fan, their #1 priority is to protect their installations and families.
I didn't touch on the National Guard (around 400,000-500,000), because that's spread out over 50 states/territories, and a lot of things have to happen for them to come into play, particularly having them active in other states. Plus, a massive chunk of them are oriented towards support/logistics/etc. and not rolling down the highway gunning for Bubba Inbred (or supporting him).
Having been in the Army under Clinton, I can tell you that a lot of the lower ranks give less of a shit about politics than most think - they care about getting paid and getting laid. They have a massive chain of command that many of them feel exists only to shit on their heads, and so they keep their heads down, follow their orders, and just kill time until their next leave or their enlistment is up or whatever.
We couldn't even pacify Iraq, a country smaller than Texas and a population of 25 million, with hundreds of thousands of combat troops who have looser rules of engagement than putting down a hypothetical insurrection here in the US. And we've made reductions in our military since then.
If shit truly hit the fan, folks in the US military are going to be worried first about their families, and second, about keeping their installations secure (where their families would be), and keeping supplies coming in. We've seen how dangerous and manpower-intensive it is to keep installations secure and supplied in hostile territory.
Sorry for the manifesto, but I just don't see the US military coming into play, because it's not large enough, and because it has US military shit to do, much of which is overseas or supporting overseas operations. And because it's not built to run martial law in a country so large - we slack off in certain areas because we have two oceans protecting us, and we put the bulk of our resources into other areas because we have to cross those oceans to fight.
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10 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:
I honestly hope you are right. But I have had to live among these people since before W was elected, and I could see this revolt attitude building during Obama's term. I think Trump and his willful disrespect for the rule of law has emboldened them. They see Trump ignoring laws "for the betterment of the country" and figure then they can do the same and get away with it...because they will win. Because God is on their side. All that self righteous bullshit the tea party was slinging around. That's how they see themselves, as the oppressed, by the deep state.
Again, what do they revolt against? In the areas you are talking about, there's very few things that they can revolt against, that won't drastically hurt them in some way.
If some little area of deep-red folks declare that they are seceding from the US, then the county or state has their power and phone lines shut off, along with gasoline, diesel, natural gas, etc., and that little area will discover that life isn't pleasant when they can't watch their Hannity and Tucker, or drive their dually down to the gas station on the highway to get their smokes. And Momma won't be able to keep her insulin refrigerated or charge her Rascal if the power is out, so that's not gonna go over well.
10 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:As far as law enforcement, most of those guys have been elected or hired by someone who owes their office to a MAGA strong electorate.
.. I think it's fair at least in the smaller rural areas that it's questionable how local LE would react.
And if they try to ignore a group of locals murdering minorities and Democrats, then the state yanks their authority, and the state and feds come down on those local cops and civilians hard, and none of those cops wants to see the inside of a prison just to Bubba can murder a black guy or a lesbian
Here in 2020, you're simply not going to find any states who are going to let a bunch of locals go murdering folks they don't like, because, putting aside the criminal (and moral) issues, it's a challenge to the authority of the state.
10 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:We will have more El Pasos.
Not many though. None of these fuckers are going after Democrats right now, even though Trump keeps telling them that the Democrats are running a coup on him, and that the Democrats are gonna try and rig the election.
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19 minutes ago, American Swindle said:
You're right, my bad. I'm not entrenched in the board as much as others and mainly hang in the Cloak Room so in all honesty I'm not informed as to the political leanings of everyone on the board that do not post in the CR.
It has been my experience that the CR seems to be more progressive than conservative or libertarian based on the most active users. Call it my opinion from my limited experience.
If you go back to Shaggy, or even before Shaggy, you'd see that plenty of us were conservative, and more than a few were libertarians, but that's to be expected in online communities made up of Texans, and that probably trends older than many internet communities. Plus, libertarians seem to be overly represented in online communities as well, and I can't explain that, but I've seen it since my BBS and usenet days. My guess is that it's the nature of libertarians being overly represented in the IT/high-tech industry compared to the rest of America in general.
Of course we will seem more progressive at times or in certain topics - most of us have college degrees. Take a red state like Oklahoma. Go to places in Oklahoma like Tulsa and OKC where there's more folks with college degrees, and you'll see them trending more towards the middle than to the hard right like their relatives in rural areas.
I'm still waiting on my grant to study it, but I have a theory that Surly, and previously Shaggy, see much more activity in subforms like CR, Movies, Music, hobbies, etc., when the football program has a dumpster fire going in the coaching ranks.
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1 hour ago, American Swindle said:
What tribe am I a part of that spiked the football? The entire Cloak Room is dominated by mainly one ideology.
Know how I know you know very little about your fellow posters?
There's a shit-ton of us here who are/were formerly Republicans/conservatives, and if you had followed some of us through various sites, you'd have seen quite a few of us going from raging Republicans to independents, and even liberals/Democrats for some.
Imagine that, a website focused on following the sports teams of a particular university, composed mainly of people who attended said university who, shockingly, have viewpoints that evolve over time.
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7 hours ago, Casual Encounter said:
Maybe you and your wife can reach out to Jones and see if he’ll “adequately fill that role”. Sorry Samples turned you down but not all dudes are into that sort of thing.
1 hour ago, Llogg said:you are seriously fucking terrible at this.
You have to admit that the username checks out.
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17 minutes ago, hornfan785 said:31 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:So we never did find out who went back for the injured assassin in episode 5 did we? That’s an odd loose end.
I thought it was pretty obvious it was Moff Gideon.
The image of the leg matched Mando. I know we discussed this like 10 pages back and somebody posted it.
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12 minutes ago, workswithseed said:
I get that, but you're buying the gas itself. It'd be like paying a tax to use the graphite in your pencil after buying it.
They have to pay for the roads. You want to drive your car, you're gonna pay that tax. The alternative is every year, you pull in somewhere and somebody checks your odometer, compares it to last year's reading, and then charges you for the mileage. You as a drive are going to pay for using your car.
Sparky McSkintightpants who rides a bike everywhere isn't paying that tax.
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17 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:
I think we will have some small localized uprisings in the rural parts that are so deep red. It's not just the olds who are full blown trumpkins, but it's all the kids too, from high school up. Young guys with used diesel duallies with stars and bars and trump pissing on libs stickers in their windows. I can see them acting much like the Klan has always done in east Texas...but it won't just be POC they will target.
It won't last long, it won't be organized, and it will be put down rather quickly.
There's some nuts, sure, but an actual uprising? Against what? The parts of the country you are talking about are so remote/red, who are they are going rise up against? Are they going to drive to an urban area, or perhaps the nearest state that voted blue and start shooting?
Let's say they show up at the local offices of whatever Democrat is running for whatever offices, whether it's local, state, or federal, and start shooting?
How does that end for them?
Spoiler alert: They will most likely die. No matter how red the area is, the local, county, state, and fed government (and law enforcement) are not going to allow Bubba Dipshit to go around shooting up shit because he's angry Trump lost. The moment Bubba Dipshit starts sending rounds into an office or a crowd or whatever, he is considered a 100% threat by law enforcement and the local, county, state, and fed government.
17 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:But the bigger thing to deal with is the lingering wounded pride of having their dear leader toppled. I just think how demoralized Germany was after WW1 and they were so ripe for someone like Hitler to come along and stoke those fires into Nazism.
So short term, there will be some localized damage, but whoever does take over after trump is going to need some helluva plan to show all Americans we can solve our problems and make the country (even world) a better place for all of us, not just the elite few.
We are less than four years removed from a Kenyan, Indonesian, Muslim, Atheist, Socialist, Marxist, Communist Community Organizer from Chicago named Barrack Hussein Obama, and most of those dipshits lived for 8 years under him, without rising up in rebellion.
When the Democrats win next fall, and these idiots discover that very little will change for them, and in fact, things may improve, as trade relations are repaired (assuming they can be repaired, Trump really fucked us with the Chinese), perhaps better medical care (j/k), and the the sun still comes up, and Rush Limbaugh is still bleeting on the radio and Brian Kilmeade is still pushing his insane theories about genetics and Tucker Carlson is still acting like he was trying to fart silently and instead sharted.
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2 hours ago, workswithseed said:
Why is it that you can pay taxes on a car once, but a piece of land you have to keep being taxed for? Never made sense to me.
Maybe you leave your car parked in a showroom 24/7, but plenty of us use our vehicles, and we are paying taxes as a result of that.
https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/fiscal-notes/2019/jul/motor-fuels-taxes.php
QuoteIn fiscal 2018, Texas motor fuels taxes brought in $3.7 billion, about 6.6 percent of all state tax collections. In that year, they were the state’s fourth-largest source of tax revenue after the sales tax, the motor vehicle sales and rental tax and the franchise tax.
The majority of our motor fuels tax revenue is used for transportation projects. In Texas, gasoline and diesel fuel are subject to a 20-cent tax per gallon. In addition, the federal government imposes taxes of 18.4 cents per gallon on gasoline and 24.4 cents per gallon on diesel fuel.
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On 12/23/2019 at 9:20 PM, sachick said:
Got a DNA test done on Toby. When we picked him up we were told he was full blooded shih tzu. We were paying $100 to a guy in a trailer in Taylor so I wasn’t betting on that being true. Well three years later and he’s 27lbs. No way he’s full Shih-Tzu. Got results back and he’s mixed with one other breed. Any guesses?


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Active shooter thread
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If you want the homeschooled kids, go visit TexAgs.com. No matter what, if they ask you if you've been vaccinated, say "no, I don't let the federool government tell me what to do with my body!"
Surprise, the Republicans give absolutely no shits about any of this, because their base is too old to have kids and/or is retired, has Medicare, etc. and gives no fucks!
And while some of us are older, a big chunk of us do have kids, and do have to worry about housing, college costs, healthcare, etc., so yeah, we will tune out those who give no shits about our concerns, such as the current Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump-led GOP.
It's true. We get snarky as fuck when the football team has problems, since most of us are here on this website because of said football team (that and we tired of the other Longhorn fan sites who were pumping out sunshine while we were sitting in a hurricane).