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  1. It reads to me like a typical opening statement when you have a weak case, you have to at least try to give the jury reasons to not believe the witnesses against the defendant. Saying that she is "biased" against Trump is consistent with ordinary jury instructions that the jury is to be the sole judge of credibility of a witness and can take any "biases" into consideration. He just needs one to buy into it for a mistrial but it does not read like an opening statement of a party that has a strong basis for acquittal. If Trump had written it, the term "whore" and "slut" would be all over it, regardless of legal rules or decorum.
  2. Spring game attendance smack is about as lame as it gets.
  3. Of course it was Florida Man, was there ever any doubt?
  4. Or the banks after 2008? Or all the mega corps after Covid? Or all the companies that escape their debts in bankruptcy? Nope, just the poors, fuck em.
  5. Now that he's gotten his say over and over and over again I bet Rex Kramer's super rich friends are finally gonna support surly again!
  6. Lol, look at the big old bootstraps on brad.
  7. I remember a time that I thought Conan wasn’t that funny. I must’ve been clinically depressed or something. So in for this!
  8. Hey now, he's white, he earned those subsidies with his bootstraps.
  9. It's deja vu. Wasn't this "TOo lIBRuL NObODy wILL bUy" nonsense hashed like last year or something? Same ol' dumbasses, I assume.
  10. 'stache

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    "Never back down" as he's literally backing down, taking his ball and going home. Pussy ass bitch. Go Pokes! https://kfor.com/news/local/upset-audience-brings-ryan-walters-speaking-event-to-abrupt-end/ ‘Never back down to a woke mob!’ Upset audience brings Ryan Walters speaking event to abrupt end STILLWATER, Okla. (KFOR) — A town hall event with State Superintendent Ryan Walters, hosted on OSU’s campus by a campus conservative organization, only lasted about 15 minutes Wednesday after some in the audience incessantly shouted at Walters. Walters began the event telling the audience to “never back down to a woke mob.” 12 minutes later, organizers ushered Walters out of the room. The event was put on by the OSU chapter of national conservative Group Turning Point USA (TPUSA). TPUSA billed the event as a “town hall” with Walters on flyers it posted around campus. Walters has only participated in Q&A style events with the general public a handful of times since taking office in January 2023. The event attracted well over 100 students and community members to a lecture hall inside OSU’s engineering building, some of whom told News 4 they supported Walters, and others who said they did not. But they all did have one thing in common: they came to the event, because it was a rare opportunity to hear from Walters, and ask him questions. “I just kind of wanted to see, honestly what he had to say,” OSU student Ryann Sadler told News 4. “OSU has a very big queer community, and we want to make sure we show up for them,“ said OSU student John Johnson, who helped lead a protest outside the lecture hall hosting the event before it began. “We have people inside who are going to ask them some very hard questions.” “Even myself, who considers myself a Democrat, I still think it’s very important to hear what he has to say,” OSU student Victoria Anton said. “I was happy to hear what he had to say,” OSU student Ryan Williamson said. But hearing what Walters had to say proved easier in theory than in practice. Walters entered the lecture hall greeted by a mix of roughly 40 percent cheers, 60 percent boos. Soon, many who opted for the latter greeting began shouting at Walters from the audience. “You’re a murderer!” “Nex Benedict’s blood is on your hands!” “You’re the one that’s scared!” “55 percent of Oklahomans want you impeached!” —Are just some of the many things they shouted. At first, Walters persisted. “They’re gonna yell, they’re gonna scream, they’re gonna say outrageous things,” Walters said of the hecklers. “There’s a few of them that are crying right now.” Walters then turned, and addressed the shouters directly. “I don’t care about your feelings,” he told them. They responded with more shouts, laughs and eye rolls. “Where are the grants!” “Where’s your budget Mr. Walters!” —They loudly questioned. Walters responded back. “There’s two genders,” he told the crowd. The back and forth between Walters and the crowd continued over, and over, and over again. “If you back down to a mob, they will get their way,” Walters declared at one point. “Answer our questions!” someone shouted back. “Let’s talk about a woke mob,” Walters later said. “Let’s talk about facts!” several audience members shouted back. Later, Walters repeated one of his earlier points. “Never, never back down to a woke mob,” he told the audience. A few minutes in, TPUSA leaders handed a microphone to students they’d chosen to ask Walters questions. “I asked him what advice he had for someone looking to enter the field of politics,” Sadler said. “I asked him how he responded to leftist media and activists,” Williamson said. Of course, the shouting continued throughout all of this, and Walters chose to not use a microphone when responding to their questions. News 4 was unable to hear Walters’ answers to their questions from the back of the lecture hall. Then came more shouting. The abruptness left students from both groups in the audience, yearning for more. “I wish that I would have heard more of what he had to say because you know, that’s why I came,” Sadler said. “It just felt like I wanted to hear more,” Anton said.
  11. Man I love Troy Aikman, but his Eight beer is just pricier Michelob Ultra.
  12. To be fair, Willie Horton murdered his second cousin.
  13. JFC, lol. Embellished war stories about an ancestor's demise is one of the deepest rooted American traditions.
  14. The model makes sense solely on how to share TV revenues, essentially a collective bargaining agreement. But if State Farm wants to pay Caitlin Clark $1 million to be in a commercial with Peyton Manning while she's still in college, there is no real legal basis to cut that off (same for anyone else). Of course it will result in abuses like Big Red Sports and Imports paying OU's next overhyped QB $1 million to record a 10 second radio ad solely because the owner wants the team to have the best players. On some level though, it's still a fair market deal (i.e., a 10 second commercial recording is worth what someone is willing to pay for whatever reason).
  15. OSU hasn’t had a true “spring game” in years and I’ve hardly noticed. I always think it’s dumb when Bama fills the stadium for a practice and all the middle aged Bubbas rush the field to let an 18 year old to sign their hat. Baylor sucks though for much bigger reasons.
  16. I’m way behind on this, but was it Israel fucks with Iran, and there response is to announce before hand that some slow moving drone weapons would be headed to Israel expecting them to be knocked out, and conclusion being “message sent”? Man, humans can be really stupid sometimes.
  17. To follow up on my own thread, I'd really like to see this alignment (with some tweaks) for non-revenue sports, and maybe even for basketball (although as a Big XII member the new alignment is going to be stout as hell). Only exception is there would be no need for the relegation/promotion division. UT, OU, and maybe even Aggy, probably don't want to play SMU and UH regularly as conference opponents in football, but why not in baseball/softball/tennis/rowing/etc.? Let's make something like this happen for non-revenue sports already. I think there could be some traction there, especially since those sports usually have more open spots for big non-conference matchups, i.e., UT v. Vandy in baseball, OSU v. Iowa in wrestling, etc.
  18. This place is wild, haha. First, I always thought Shadow Operative 2.0 was also Derka, but I guess not? I also remember a poster named Lurka Lurka, so he is certainly a surly celebrity. I obviously don't follow UT basketball threads here, although I did spend some time in the Chris Beard thread since it was national news, but I've been here long enough to have seen the "Derka Effect," for lack of a better term, more than a few times. The pattern used to be Derka has a strong opinion, someone disagrees, Derka comes back hard and won't let it go, and everything goes to shit. At some point the pattern became so well established that it was accelerated to Derka has strong opinion, disagreeing opinion is super aggressive knowing where the conversation would lead, and it goes to shit right off the bat. I got super annoyed in the TV and Movies board when he decided he no longer liked a show and shit on anyone's opinion if they still liked it, but it was easy enough to ignore. Ultimately, if the site's owners and moderators (who I assume don't make much, if anything, off this place) have to spend an inordinate amount of time offline dealing with the issue (including with his mom apparently?), they are more than justified in making it go away, especially when the poster refuses a simple request to ignore those who accelerated the pattern of aggressive disagreeing opinions. I do specifically recall a post of his somewhere implying that he'd off himself and would blame another poster, that alone in my mind would justify the owner's decision, regardless of what the other poster had said. I also have some experience dealing with people and mental illness and the mantra has always been to be empathetic, but don't enable them to use it as an excuse to treat others the way they don't want to be treated. That sort of rings a bell here. All that said, it sounds like he was a major contributor to UT basketball threads which I don't follow so I guess that's where his support comes from, because in the areas I've observed it, the contributions have rarely justified the nonsense. Just a humble opinion because I saw this thread bumping constantly and decided to click and was bored. I'm mostly here for the lolz anyway.
  19. We’ve known for about 40 years now that college football is different (basketball too to a lesser extent) because it generates revenues unlike other college sports. Football should have broken off sometime back then to align differently than for other sports. UCLA vs. Penn State makes sense for football since the revenues would still far outweigh the costs, but makes zero sense for soccer or gymnastics. It feels now like the conversation is trending towards college sports being dissolved if they don’t make money. That’s never what collegiate athletics was meant to be about, it was an anomaly that college football became so popular (Coach Iba at OSU thought basketball and baseball would be the money makers and boy was he wrong). We’re already seeing schools drop programs, and without going full cloak room, I foresee Title IX going away soon and obliterating women’s college sports. I really don’t like what the future looks like for these other sports. I might be overthinking the negatives, but I can’t shake the thought that other collegiate sports are going to shrink quickly in this new world where Stanford softball has to travel 4000 miles for several of its away games.
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