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Posts posted by mchookem
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On 8/17/2021 at 4:01 PM, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
I'll give a full debriefing when I'm a little less tired. Flight was canceled yesterday due to mechanical issue. Had to wait for another flight from Miami. Didn't get to Miami until 2a this morning. Back in atx. Great trip. Way more of a safari/expedition than i was anticipating, but fun and gorgeous
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this is a very complicated case...you know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous. and, uh, a lotta strands to keep in my head, man.
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i'd forgotten the quaint but effective simplicity of a well timed 'yeah right' response.
i'll have to remember that for future discussions.
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4 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:
Oh I negged that asshole for being disingenuous about abortion. As if there is any other kind.
well sure...i mean lots of people deserve a hearty FUCK YOU on the reg.
i just meant THE CABAL hasn't been neg-bombing to blivion lol

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16 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:
I stole "Steal This Book" from my college library.

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bedrooms and bathrooms i get...but how many living rooms do you need?? like, is it a daily rotation? Mondays are the blue room, Tuesdays the white room, Wednesdays the green room, etc...
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1 hour ago, Dr. Beeper said:
There are very few Republicans on here. This site is not representative of Texas in any way. Those that stated they were Pubs and voted against Trump are few and far between here, and were most likely lying.
by that logic, texags is a good representation of Texas. which...

i was in the College Republicans at UT. you really seem specifically annoyed that UT alums are not all republicans.
i would actually bet that the vast majority of posters on this site ARE republican. and likely voted for Trump. basic demographics point to that probability (white, male, upwardly mobile, sports fans, etc.) TOS CR was dominated by them. many/most of those same posters are on Surly still. i think we all know why they suddenly stopped talking about politics. it's not b/c they're scared.
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23 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:
Seems like the last couple pages have been…interesting.
and nobody has been neg-bombed 😮
IMAGINE THAT, TALKING POLITICS IN THE CLOAK ROOM 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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here's the Stephanapolous transcript:
relevant quote to above discussion:
STEPHANOPOULOS: So you don't think this could've been handled, this exit could've been handled better in any way? No mistakes?
BIDEN: No. I-- I don't think it could've been handled in a way that there-- we-- we're gonna go back in hindsight and look, but the idea that somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don't know how that happens. I don't know how that happened.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So for you, that was always priced into the decision?
BIDEN: Yes. Now, exactly what happened-- is not priced in. But I knew that they're gonna have an enormous, enorm-- look, one of the things we didn't know is what the Taliban would do in terms of trying to keep people from getting out, what they would do.What are they doing now? They're cooperating, letting American citizens get out, American personnel get out, embassies get out, et cetera. But they're having-- we're having some more difficulty in having those who helped us when we were in there--
yeah, he was much better a couple of days ago with the 'buck stops here' position. someone should tell him at this point it's okay to say 'yeah, we didn't anticipate X and could have planned that part better' b/c overall most folks are behind the decision in general. not a great look.
it's still a far cry from 'no i don't take any responsibility at all' 😒
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7 hours ago, bad_teammate said:
Basically never.
Also, Hillary was right about the vast right-wing conspiracy.
turns out she was right about a lot of things 😐
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2 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:
The only way to ensure that a person of Scots-Irish culture will do something, is to order him not to do it.
half this country has oppositional defiance disorder
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1 hour ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:
not surprisingly, the original CR thread on this topic was littered with 'lefty idiots' that were critical of biden's handling of this withdrawal.
but obviously facts like that have no place in your world view.
1 hour ago, Willfully Horn said:neither of these points can penetrate the rage and hate here. as i said last night, it's rendered some incapable of even seeing areas of agreement, much less acknowledging and accepting them.
not just here - all over. this is what will end us.
ALL OR NOTHING, ALL HATE, ALL THE TIME.
i mean hell, i pretty much felt that way about Trump, but at least i could and did acknowledge (on this board even) that my personal revulsion and disgust with his very character and every action prevented me from even appreciating the slight good he might do (i.e., cj reform).
that's called self-awareness. some have it and some don't. and if you're thinking I HAVE SELF-AWARENESS GOTDAMMIT...no, you really don't.
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6 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
A lot of aggy feel like the massive online push (which really ramped up during the pandemic) has really diminished the value of an aggy degree. I know, I know, but seriously, plenty of them are pretty ragey that some of the higher-ups want to turn Texas A&M into the University of Phoenix-College Station.
Ragey enough, I don't even joke with them about all of the email offers I was getting from aggy after I recently took a few classes at ACC to get back in the swing of things when deciding if my old-ass wanted to get another degree at UT. I showed a few of them the emails and I could just imagine the steam coming out of their ears.
Some of the emails sounded like I could get an online degree through aggy without stepping foot in College Station.
i mean...you can't?
also...the closest aggy friend i have, we were jawing about sec and bs last weekend and i did say at one point 'well y'all certainly value quantity over quality' and he said the same: "I DON'T AGREE WITH THAT BTW!"

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:
If he can get into UVA or VT's engineering programs, it will be a blessing in disguise. Major step up from LSU, especially so for VT.
there were some other dynamics there...i.e. LSU offered a lot of $$, dad works at UVA, twin bro going to VT, trying to 'break away' i think...
anyway...i tried to make light and teased his dad (UT alum and also UT prof) a bit with an "SEC!SEC!SEC! what did you expect??" comment...he was, uh, not in the mood lol.
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5 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:
Last night CBS News had a piece on the Covid outbreak in Louisiana. They had a segment shot in Lafayette that showed ambulances lined up at the hospital and they said they often had to wait anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours to unload their patients because there weren’t any beds. The EMT’s were saying to just take them and put them somewhere because they had other calls. Then they interviewed one female EMT who still refuses to get vaccinated. When asked why, she said, “Me and my family pray a lot.” She’s trusting God to protect her. She should be fired. Trust in God to find her a new job.
i have an old friend who lives in Virginia, works for UVA. his son got admitted to LSU's engineering program, kid really liked the program and campus last year when they visited.
family drove down last weekend to move him in. they'd received multiple formal communications from LSU on covid protocols - all students must be tested or vaccinated before arriving on campus, mask usage all indoors, no large gatherings, etc.
they got there and it was a total shitshow. nobody asked them for any proof of test, vaccine... he said probably barely 10% mask usage, kids packed indoors in all kinds of places, the RA telling everybody he wasn't going to be enforcing any rules... the first night there was a giant street party ON CAMPUS.
my friend wrote the president (as a fellow higher ed admin) and basically said 'dude wtf??' no response.
did i mention son is immunocompromised? they let him decide...he withdrew on Monday and they got the fuck out of there.
they still have time to enroll in UVA or VT.
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4 hours ago, CooterBrown said:
Uncle Boobs approved.

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4 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:
That it? Guess we’re just done now.i mean...yes? we're done in Afghanistan and getting the fuck out. that's kinda the point.
there's literally nobody in this thread or any other thread that's arguing this isn't a giant cluster fuck, a humanitarian disaster, and serious mistakes appear to be made. the guy at the top literally used the words 'i take responsibility, the buck stops with me'. i'm not sure what else you're after, it is what it is now and we'll all see how it plays out.
some are so blinded by partisan hatred they can't even recognize when people are in agreement anymore. that's where we're at.
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4 minutes ago, Satchel said:
He’s taken responsibility for what’s happened. There won’t be a 5th American president who’ll have to kick the Afghanistan can down the road. Biden has seen to it and I’m glad.
i mean that's quite literally the words he used yesterday - "i take responsibility", "the buck stops with me", etc.
maybe since we had 4 years of bizarro world with the exact opposite people can't recognize the words coming out of his mouth.

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42 minutes ago, Mole said:
Setting aside important questions like how many posters fantasize about shooting refugees at our border, the more I think about the subject of this thread, I’m left with a collection unsatisfying conclusions:
1. Every possible plan was bad and had a good chance of being a total disaster.
2. Maybe the current one is the darkest timeline, but not by all that much.
3. All these hot-take brilliant or obvious plans how to get out smoothly are a little like complaining about not calling the touchdown play. Your plan sucks too and would be a disaster. Yes, you.
4. The only way to avoid such a disaster would be to stay, which pretty much everyone agrees only delays the suffering and is truly the worst plan.
5. Pulling all the people currently clamoring to get out earlier would have probably avoided the current crisis, but with the bonus of creating its own crisis. Maybe it’s a lesser crisis, but it’s still a crisis. And maybe it would have been worse. As we’ve learned, things can always get worse.
6. Whether or not the intelligence was wrong is somewhat irrelevant to the current crisis. It was destined to be a crisis of some sort. This is like the worst kind of trolley problem.
7. Unless I’ve missed something today — I’ve been busy— in terms of American interests, it’s still mostly a hypothetical crisis. Afghan women were destined to be subjugated once the choice was made to leave. The humanitarian crisis was somewhat baked in. The people we want to get out and that we’re currently betraying haven’t been slaughtered yet. It sucks and it didn’t have to be that way, but every solution was bad.
8. I don’t know what I’m talking about and except for a small few posters here, you don’t either. Your plan sucks too. Even the fantasy plans of the few who know what they’re doing were destined for a crisis.
9. That doesn’t excuse Biden’s failures, his plan has really sucked, but I’m not going to complain that he doesn’t seem to be calling the touchdown play.
10. Maybe he’s calling the touch shovel pass play with the squinty-eyed freshman QB, which sucks.
this is a really good, objective view.
the fuck outta here with this.
j/k 😄
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4 hours ago, DonkeyCigars said:
^^ That was disgusting. You will get no defense from me on that. Lots of things this man did was disgusting, but that was one of the worst IMO.
and i appreciate that you will admit that and better yet say it out loud. however, it's difficult to reconcile that statement and your admitted vote for this disgusting man, especially the second time. surely you can understand that.
also, i hope you don't get crowd-sourced.
1 hour ago, tigol said:This x1000. I rarely went in the the CR prior to Trump and definitely didn't post in there.
He brought out the worst in me and everyone else. It's hardened me towards members of my family because they voted for him and his ideology. They've doubled down on it and refuse to engage in a conversation about it at all. Even after the January 6 attack.
It's disingenuous to be "apolitical" at this point. The quiet part has been trumpeted loud and clear. There is no cover for you. Even in DT. You're not fooling anyone.
yeah, this particular knife is dull and rusty and it hacks both ways.
after his 8 or 9th beer, i literally have to get up and walk away from my dad. he doesn't just not listen, he doesn't even hear at that point.
about two weeks ago he was visiting and started in on the immigrants bringing all the covid to Texas. i first rolled my eyes and made a joke about having to dodge the 'millions of illegals' that have 'invaded' Texas (i was like...what, am i looking for roving gangs of mexicans now??) and then i did make a casual remark about 'you know, dad...if you get all your information from just one or two sources, you might want to ask yourself if those sources perhaps have an agenda and if it is to their benefit for you to be in a continuous state of agitation about all this'.
his response was a kind of puzzled/paused look, then he said, and i shit you not...'hmmm, well, now that you mention it...that could be true, i never thought of that' and i had to practically bite through my tongue to keep from saying OMG HOW COULD YOU NEVER HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT?? IT'S LITERALLY EXACTLY WHAT THEIR JOB IS!! THEY MAKE MONEY OFF YOUR OUTRAGE, YOU ARE A COLLEGE EDUCATED MAN HOW HAS THAT NOT EVEN OCCURRED TO YOU, WTF!! *BANGS HEAD INTO WALL*
i mean, gotdamn.
fwiw, i have said something along those same lines to my husband, as he also goes about in a rather steady state of outrage, just from the other side. to his credit, whenever i point it out to him he does try to throttle back some.
it's just exhausting.
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1 hour ago, Dr. Beeper said:
I’m not in tears. I don’t give a shit, other than it’s insanely hypocritical that this board is anti-politics unless it’s a politician you don’t like, preferably one with an R by his name. Then, political discussion is wholly acceptable, and gallows humor of a LIVING ALUM with a physical handicap is encouraged by the mob.
And this very forum tries to convince themselves that this board has diversity of thought. You guys are all fucked in the head.
i'm not crying you're crying.
ok. i didn't say you were crying.
1 hour ago, Dr. Beeper said:That’s basically what people here are acting like: one of the worst people to ever exist. Congrats.
maybe. he definitely brought out the worst in everybody. you and me included.
as much as you keep emphasizing ALUMNUS STATUS you seriously might feel more at home on texags. good luck.🤘
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Afghan War ending, foretold by The Onion 10 years Ago [DT thread ruined by politics]
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yeah... after processing this for a few days, i feel like this is pretty much exactly what happened...Joe said 'fuck it, we're out, make it happen and i don't really care how just get it done.'