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  1. 4 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    So knowing that you can't take the gasoline-soaked toddler and toss him into the shower and give him a good scolding, what do you do?  If giving him a new (nonflammable) toy to play with in hopes of distracting him is the best you can do, isn't that what should be done?

    If the parents won't wash the gasoline off the child, you call Child Protective Services and have the kid taken away.

    In this situation, that would be get as many like minded individuals together as you can and go public with specific allegations. Very public and very detailed. Anything less and they are betraying their oath to the Constitution. 

  2. Political play or self-preservation is exactly what it is. The most significant thing about it is that someone in a significant White House position thinks it's time for those last ditch cards to be thrown on the table. It's the first glimmer of hope that enough people might be seeing the emperor is wearing no clothes. 

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  3. They are guilty of the crimes, but have not been found guilty by a court yet. They still committed them. Regardless of whether the GOP is successful in obstructing the investigations and covering it up and stopping them from being found guilty in a court of law, they still committed the offense and are guilty. 


    Trump is guilty of repeated obstruction at a minimum. He will likely never be convicted of it, but he has still committed the offenses in a very public fashion and is guilty. 

  4. 10 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

    You get Drew (Mehringer) and Derek (Warehime). Herb (Hand) is going to say, ‘Run the power here.’ Okay, we’re going to run power. We’re kind of all in that together. As I mentioned before, we game plan, we have a list – here’s third down, here’s what we’re going to call. That’s what we kind of go off of.”

    how could this possibly go wrong?

    Drayton, the run-game coordinator, is notably missing from that list. It's a clusterfuck regardless and the results reflect it.  

    Tim isn't the problem, Tom is the problem. 

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  5. You are probably right that there is a natural tendency to want to find a result, once significant time has been invested in an investigation. However, there are a shitload of guilty people here, including Trump, so that isn't remotely a problem in this case. 

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  6. 5 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    "Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything."

    They do. They believe in getting conservative activist judges installed and are willing to sacrifice everything else to achieve it. 

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  7. Fuck them. Any GOP "resisting" from within the White House or Congress needs to sack the fuck up and join with any others who feel the same way and come out publicly. The GOP has had the ability to cut this cancer out at any time, but has chosen to let it metastasize. Trump is on all of them at this point. 

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  8. 1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

    That “give him a chance” shit was laughable from Day 1. He was never going to be successful and it was always going to be a circus because he’s a fucking clown. He’s always been a clown. We haven’t learned very much new information about Trump since he was elected. It’s just on display in a massive way and he’s actually responsible for shit that matters. 

    Exactly. Elect a clown, expect a circus. 

  9. 14 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    I've yet to see a better option put forward. People on these boards are seriously envying aggy and Jimbo right now. Others are holding on to the delusion that we will be able to money-whip and airlift Gary Patterson out of FW, while still others are saying he is too fat to represent our university. 

    What the fuck is wrong with you people? Why is hiring a HS coaching legend from the very heart of our state's most fertile recruiting ground such a regarded idea? Again, Traylor is just as experienced at the college level as Briles was when UH gave him the keys, and there is no indication that Traylor is a scumbag like him. And it's a fact that coming from Gilmer instead of out of Stephenville would bring in better recruits. 

    Again, I think it's akin to some people's objection to Patterson. Y'all don't want a redneck coach and y'all don't want a fat coach. You want some Axe Body Spray douche with a fake ice grill and a hot wife. So be it. I'd prefer wins. 

    There is a fat, bald man inside of Tom Herman and it's only about 2 extra cheeseburgers and a few missed Rogaine doses away. 

  10. 6 minutes ago, Ag with kids said:

    You're so dumb you don't actually understand what I was saying.

    Protip:  It's not what you just said.

    I feel pretty comfortable letting the rest of the posters judge our respective IQ's.

    Protip: There is no such thing as an aggy joke, just stories about how stupid y'all really are. 

  11. 3 minutes ago, Ag with kids said:

    Go tell the football board you want him here for 20 years...

     

    I'll pray for you.

    Jesus, are you so dumb that you still don't get the implications of your statement about Herman potentially being the coach here for 20 years, even after I pointed it out? Keep your prayers, you need them all. You can have some thoughts and prayers from the rest of us too. It's not going to help you any. 

  12. 1 hour ago, Ag with kids said:

    Now you've pissed me off.

     

    I hope Tom Herman is your coach for the next 20 years!!!!!

     

    27 minutes ago, Ag with kids said:

    Y'all suck.

     

    At least suddenly shaggy negged me for this...

     

    Yes, because it was a very poor effort mixed in with your other trolling. 

    First of all, Brian Fontana is a Tech fan, so the insult falls flat there. Second, even as an insult it sucks. If Tom Herman is the coach at Texas for 20 years, it's because he's done an amazing job and is likely in the Hall of Fame. 

    Think before posting and then go strong in the paint, or don't go at all. 

  13. Post I was referring to. 

    1 hour ago, GSU&UT said:

    Bahhahaha, conservative protests are the best protests. In the span of a year they've destroyed their Keurig machines, YETI coolers, and now Nike grilling shorts.

     

     

  14. That dude is lying. He got too fat for even the generous elastic waistband on his grilling shorts to accommodate. He was buying new shorts anyway. Since he's finally realized he's going to need new, larger grilling shorts every season, he's getting Under Armor, because they are cheaper. 

  15. Good read from the NY Times about the hypocrisy of the GOP to honor McCain, but not what he actually stood for. 

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/opinion/columnists/republicans-mccain-hypocrisy.html

    They Sat in Hypocrisy

    Congressional Republicans made a show of honoring John McCain, even as they continue to reject his principles.

     

    They sat in seats of honor, near the front of Washington National Cathedral. They bowed their heads when appropriate. They looked up pensively and listened. 

    By all appearances, they were honoring their departed colleague, Senator John Sidney McCain III, during a majestic ceremony on Saturday. And by doing so they were showing America that leaders of both parties reject the hateful, petty, law-defying politics of President Trump. They were showing America what a better nation could look like.

    But it was all an act — a cynical, hypocritical act that McCain, who had a keen eye for hypocrisy, would have seen right through. 

    It was an act for Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader. It was an act for Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House. It was an act, most jarringly, for Lindsey Graham, McCain’s dear friend and the senior senator from South Carolina. It was an act for Orrin Hatch, Rob Portman and nearly all of the other Republican members of Congress who attended the service.

    It was an act because they have not kept faith with the principles that McCain held dear — and that he himself organized his memorial service to celebrate, as a clear rebuke to Trump and Trumpism. McConnell, Ryan, Graham and the others have instead done the very opposite of keeping faith. They have made possible Trump’s hateful, petty, law-defying politics.

    Despite running a branch of government that the Constitution makes equal to the presidency, they have meekly assented to Trump. Entrusted with power, they have chosen complicity. 

    They have refused to defend America’s national security in the face of Russian attacks. They have refused to defend the rule of law against Trump’s attacks. They have refused to defend the F.B.I., the Justice Department and the First Amendment. They have refused to defend the basic civil rights that Trump seeks to deny to dark-skinned American citizens, including the right to vote and the right to hold a passport. 

    When George W. Bush said the following words in his eulogy for McCain, what did the congressional Republicans in attendance think that Bush possibly could have meant: 

    “He was honorable, always recognizing that his opponents were still patriots and human beings. He loved freedom, with the passion of a man who knew its absence. He respected the dignity inherent in every life, a dignity that does not stop at borders and cannot be erased by dictators. Perhaps above all, John detested the abuse of power. He could not abide bigots and swaggering despots.”

    When Barack Obama’s eulogy was organized around a recitation of McCain’s principles, what contrast could Obama have possibly been drawing:

    “John cared about the institutions of self-government — our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, rule of law and separation of powers. … He understood that if we get in the habit of bending the truth to suit political expediency or party orthodoxy, our democracy will not work. … John understood, as J.F.K. understood, as Ronald Reagan understood, that part of what makes our country great is that our membership is based not on our bloodline; not on what we look like, what our last names are.”

    And when Meghan McCain rose and did what her father advised for this occasion — she showed them how tough she was — surely the congressional Republicans knew exactly what she was referring to:

    “The America of John McCain is generous and welcoming and bold. She is resourceful and confident and secure. She meets her responsibilities. She speaks quietly because she is strong. America does not boast because she has no need to. The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great.”

    The cathedral then broke into applause, not exactly a common occurrence during a eulogy.

    Over the last few years, McCain sometimes struggled with how to respond to Trump. McCain first refused to endorse Trump, then caved, unfortunately, before ultimately revoking the endorsement. Once Trump took office, McCain went further in trying to restrain him than nearly any other Republican — but not as far as he could have. So McCain understood the political tensions facing the congressional Republicans he leaves behind: Trump remains extremely popular with Republican voters, and he can also help conservatives achieve their policy goals.

    In the end, however, McCain saw the situation clearly. Political expediency and short-term policy goals are not worth undermining basic American values. It’s not even close.

    In his final book, McCain described Trump’s behavior as “disturbing” and “appalling.” In one of McCain’s final public statements, he called out Trump’s “naïveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats.” And in McCain’s final public act, he turned his memorial service into a piercing alarm about a president of the United States damaging and threatening his own country.

    The congressional Republicans inside the Washington National Cathedral on Saturday would surely say they came to honor John McCain. But they were there for show. Faced with a choice, they have rejected McCain’s America for Trump’s.

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