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35 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said: Like, maybe 2 that matter? Is this what’s happening at Ohio State?
We won’t know who matters and who doesn’t for a couple of years. At any of these schools. Before NIL and the portal I used to think when anyone transferred it was most likely either for lack of talent or poor attitude, if not both.
I don’t think that’s the case now. With this many leaving it can’t be that, unless this staff is horrible at evaluating talent / attitude; or they are incapable of developing that talent. If it’s for those reasons and we have this level of attrition we are fucked.
I think it is more a matter of not understanding how to play the NIL game, and that players have options; and we can get better at it. But I think many of these guys porting out are going to excel for their new teams. Time will tell
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On 9/30/2025 at 4:01 PM, statsman said: Actually, no.
The Overton Window is the range of acceptable discussion. It changes over time. For example, there was a time in our world’s history where two people discussing the impact of witchcraft on crop yields was in the Overton Window, and the possibility that crop yields could be affected by tiny living organisms, too small to see with the naked eye, was outside it.
There has been concerted efforts to control the Overton Window, using social media. For example: attempts by progressives to promote some tenets of Critical Racial Theory, for example- Kendi’s claim that “racial discrimination is required as an antidote for racial discrimination”, and then refusing to debate that claim in the public sphere (to disagree merely proves the opposition as white supremacists). Such a claim is within this message board’s Overton Window, but not that of the public at large. They don’t buy it.
There are other examples- the campus protests where this board’s consensus is that the group scrawling swastikas on walls of Jewish meeting places are actually the anti-fascists.
Another example- the contention that the 46th president had absolutely no cognitive issues and any claims to the counter were scurrilous slurs and disinformation. That was the official stance of this message board, strictly enforced with negs and mocking of any who said different. Until that day he demonstrated his all too obvious failings to the nation at large. (Note- I am not making any claims of mental soundness or health for 45/47).
Cloak Room and Daily Texan are tightly run ships and the realm of acceptable political discussion is tightly enforced. It’s just badly out of step with mainstream America. (I notice CR thread about the assassin of Charlie Kirk still states the assassin to be a right winger)
All of which is fine. I just choose not to comply.What are your thoughts on solar flares?
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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said: This morning after dropping my youngest off at school, I hung out with one of her classmates' dads, who served in the Navy. He was on a support ship for both invasions of Iraq, so he knows how the logistics for major invasions work, even if he was way in the rear and they weren't the full-on traditional Marines storming the beaches invasions with landing craft you think of when you think of this stuff.
Something that is bugging him, and me, and tying into something @Nice Guy Eddie mentioned in another thread - Where's the occupying force?
He (not Nice Guy Eddie) said that the only amphibious assault assets we've really deployed there are The USS San Antonio, Fort Lauderdale, and Iwo Jima, and the first two are apparently more like support docks. He said at max, we are talking 2,500 - maybe 2,800 or so Marines between the three and maybe on some other ships. He said we have around 20 of these ships (two classes) and it feels like we only brought the ones down that happened to be doing nothing. I looked around at lunch as well, and it's not like they can hide a bunch of ships in plain site in such a busy/populated area - all of the ships that have been announced have been spotted numerous times in the Caribbean, with no unknown ships. This is not the middle of the Indian Ocean or Diego Garcia. There were people taking photos of our fighters in Puerto Rico.
Now, to play devil's advocate, once can argue that the 82nd Airborne Division and 75th Ranger Regiment are not that far away by air, and they always have an alert component.
But Venezuela has 200,000+ in its military, another 20,000 or so Cubans, and millions in militias (which may not all actually exist, but you don't need but a few hundred thousand to make things hard).
It's a country of 25 million people, with 3.25 million in the capital area.
While Marines are badass, as are the 82nd and 75th, we ain't going to take over the country with a few thousand Marines and a few thousand airborne and a few hundred Rangers we fly in.
When we have invaded in the past where we know the target in advance (I don't count Afghanistan as that was pretty ad hoc initially), we do all of the prep work. It's why our operations have worked so well, and why we have a massive logistics chain.
It would seem logical that we would also have the 25th Infantry (Light, my old unit) because they are out of Hawaii and acclimated for tropical conditions (they even have a jungle warfare school out there). We would be staging the 101st Air Assault to Florida or even Puerto Rico and getting their helicopters loaded onto US Navy amphibious assault ships/transports/aircraft carriers or flying them to Trinidad & Tobago, because our troops are going to be using helicopters. We would have the 82nd and their larger gear in Puerto Rico, along with the 75th prepping to take over military airfields/airports. We would most likely have the 25th's airborne component getting ready as well (although instead of Hawaii they are in Alaska, it's a long story). Probably the 10th Mountain as well even though they are not technically a mountain-trained division, but they are a light infantry division. We would have a shitload more Marines sitting on Amphibious assault ships in the Caribbean.
TLDR: There's just so many things that need to happen for us to legitimately control Venezuela and we are doing none of that.
But on the other hand, all of the assets that were assembled were thrown together fairly fast and easy. Almost as if the DOD/Trump realized Congress would get involved in some way if they did a large-scale operation, so roll with something smaller - just gonna transition from drug interdiction to kidnapping Maduro and call it a win and hope the follow-up leadership does what we say.
Which is why, I think, Trump threatened to kill Rodriquez if she doesn't do what he says (fate worse than Maduro who is looking at life in prison). He's currently got no leverage.
I think it is as simple as he has bought off the right people in the right places. If he’s good at anything other than duping the rubes, it’s greasing palms. Whether those people stay bought is a different story.
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3 hours ago, partytimesausage said: I'm riding dirty. No health insurance. Self employed so even before this year the premiums were crazy so have not carried health for at least 5 years. I'm at least 200k in the positive by self insuring. If you can afford it, i would totally self insure.
One catastrophic event will wipe that out and then some. You are the perfect person for a cost sharing plan. Probably wouldn’t cost you 100 bucks a month. They’ll get you in network pricing or routine thanks which will probably make the premium a wash
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1 hour ago, Dnaguy said: Wife (staunch republican who never voted for Trump but hates democrats): [sends Diddy and Maduro in prison oil meme.]
Me: [Texting back] I want off this ride. I’m not joking about abducting sovereign president on fake charges for political points.
Wife: [texts back] He was arrested.
Me [walks into bedroom to take out contacts and passes her in bathroom] Ole Maduro and his wife were removed from their bed in Caracas while it was bombed to shit. That an abduction.
Wife: You’re brainwashed.
Me: WHAT? Dude was taken from his bed in the cover of night for Fentanynol (sp?) trafficking! Venezuela doesn’t manufacture or move that. That’s fact as fuck wag the dog kind of crap.
Wife: it was not bombed to shit.
Me: Ok it wasn’t Gaza level but we bombed them for sure. Even if for cover or elimination of military threats, it happened
.Wife: I don’t want to talk about this.
Me: You sent the meme!
Wife: I’m going to bed.
Me: I want off this ride. The simulation sucks. [cracks open another Axis IPA]

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2026 Fiesta Bowl - Miami vs. Ole Miss (CFP Semifinal #1)
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2 steps after release and a yard out of bounds and gets shoved like that? Ole miss needs to plant Beck on this series