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  1. I went looking for a video of this to hear what he was saying because I didn't realize your link included audio. The fact that they cheered harder after the gesture tells me they interpreted it the same way we do.
  2. It's a redux of the "Mexico will pay for it" con.
  3. This is what I could find on their backgrounds: Rachel Davis Mersey Named Executive Vice President and Provost (from January 6) Mersey became Dean of the Moody College of Communication in June 2023, where she focused on experiential learning through programs such as Bevo Video Productions and collaborations with Texas Athletics; partnerships across campus and with industry, particularly in Austin, Los Angeles and New York; and driving high-impact research and creative activities across disciplines. Mersey holds an appointment as the Everett D. Collier Centennial Chair in the School of Journalism and Media and is a member of the Communication and Leadership faculty. Prior to joining the Moody College as Dean, Mersey was Director of Global Research and Partnerships at Meta, the parent company of Facebook. She designed, hired and ran a multinational team that managed and executed a company-level initiative to increase data transparency while ensuring consumer privacy. She also delivered the first-of-its-kind data-sharing program in support of the U.S. 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study, which was led by a team of independent academics that included Talia Stroud of the Moody College. Before joining Meta, Mersey served as Associate Dean for Research at Moody, where she was a champion for research and creative projects. Before joining UT, she was a professor and Associate Dean for Research in the Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.S. from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, and a B.A. with honors from Wake Forest University in communication and studio art. UT System names Jim Davis as UT-Austin’s interim president (from yesterday) Hartzell promoted Davis to senior vice president and chief operating officer in 2023, expanding Davis’ authority in the president’s office. In that role, he oversaw campus operations and services, university housing and dining and UT-Austin’s business strategies in areas like real estate and intellectual property. Hartzell said at the time that Davis led the legal work to develop the Moody Center, an arena that hosts concerts, basketball games and other events; the Innovation Tower, an 14-story office building for startups and established companies that want to collaborate with the university; and UT-Austin’s entry into the Southeastern Conference. ***** Prior to joining the university, Davis worked as a deputy attorney general for civil litigation under Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for nearly four years. He long has had ties to the Forty Acres. He is a UT-Austin graduate, and his father, Robert Davis, is a former chair of the radio, television and film department. Davis attended Harvard Law School. His first job after law school was as a briefing attorney for former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales when he served on the Texas Supreme Court. Then, he worked in private practice for 14 years at the Locke Lord law firm. Before attending UT-Austin, Davis served in the U.S. Navy for four years as a cryptologist stationed in Scotland. In a 2023 letter, Davis expressed support for the university's response to domestic violence charges against then-basketball coach Chris Beard. The charges were ultimately dropped but Beard was still fired. Davis said athletic director Chris Del Conte β€œexercised thoughtful restraint to allow time for additional material facts to emerge” before acting. β€œIt is a mistake to view a manager’s support for an employee as a statement of belief in criminal guilt or innocence,” Davis wrote. β€œIt is his actual behavior that we consider, not whether some acts also constitute a crime. Whether or not the District Attorney ultimately charges Mr. Beard is not determinative of whether he engaged in conduct unbecoming a head coach at our university.”
  4. Obviously, I can't confirm anything about it, but I can say that Google Lens led me to this (posted 3 hours ago):
  5. Yippee ki yi yay Git along, little DOGES https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2025-02-20/texas-gets-its-own-doge/
  6. The senior Senator from Alabama doesn't know what a three-sided shape is called. https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5156520-pentagon-cuts-defense-budget/
  7. PSA: The Traitor Turtle announced today he's stepping down after next year. So, his vote to confirm Kash Patel as head of the FBI wasn't because he was afraid of getting primaried. It was because he's in support of his party going full fascist.
  8. With a touch of Tom Hiddleston around the eyes.
  9. I hope you understand what your next assignment is.
  10. An excellent article on the same raid of the plant in Cactus appeared in Texas Monthly a week or so ago for further reading: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ice-raids-texas-immigrants-trump-deportation-cactus/
  11. So, this is a free link to a 9-minute video of a German satirist talking about Nazism and the rise of the AfD in Germany. I feel like the obvious links to Trump's fascist regime warrant it being included in the discussion. Give it a watch when you've got a free 10 minutes. It's worth it. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/opinion/germany-elections-afd.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yU4.Teu1.06hvOCOsqZ2M&smid=url-share
  12. Just another little fascist popping in to defend the King!
  13. Murkowski and Collins were the only Fascist Party members of the Senate who voted against him.
  14. Much like your feelings toward Troph and her kind, I hold no personal animosity toward you, but you've shown your fascist stripes. And I have a personal code that fascism has no place in America and, therefore, your participation as a member of this board should be canceled in the same way that you voted (without remorse) to cancel Troph's right to fully participate in American society. If she's a second-class citizen of the US, then you're a second-rate Surly poster. Just following your lead, and you said: #FAFO #WhatGoesAroundComesAround #YouReapWhatYouSow #DemDaRulez
  15. @RDCanecutter Is this the same town that was in the news a few years ago that was under investigation for giving seemingly every Tom, Dick, and Harry that deigned to drive past on the interstate? I want to say it was just north of Birmingham, the same as that town.
  16. I'm sure this is just a "lost in translation" thing, but do you or any other posters know what the bolded means?
  17. Because he wants to feel justified in his bigotry.
  18. Because it's HIS belief system, regardless of whether it's consistent, logical, or even coherent. @Texasborn91 is an authoritarian, through and through. He wants power over the personal lives of people like Troph. It doesn't matter if she's a physical threat, but what does is that she's nonconforming and, therefore, a threat to his narrow worldview that's based on his limited knowledge (which he's already admitted) and his immature, self-centered, bigoted feelings.
  19. Since @Texasborn91 has demonstrated zero remorse over actively voting for a fascist and has explained that part of his stated rationale for doing so was to purposefully cancel folks like Troph in real life, I personally would have zero qualms about canceling him in this virtual one.
  20. Given your posts in the NJ UFO thread, you seem like the type who's skeptical of government authority and doesn't take a shine to the government dictating your life. Am I correct on that assumption, based on that posting history? What if I were to tell you that in this bolded sentence, you're ceding to the government an immense amount of power to a central authority over an extremely personal thing that you take for granted with the comforting knowledge your gender expression conforms to the wishes of the ruling regime? If you're a religious person, consider that you are imposing a "man's natural order" mindset on God's glorious creation in all its various permutations where the combination of X & Y chromosomes and the infinite mix of hormones allows for (nay, insists on) an astonishing spectrum of possibilities. If you're a nonreligious person, simply replace "God" with "universe." Now, consider this question: Who the fuck are you or this government to impose this simplistic, black-and-white, or binomial stricture on a fluid, dynamic, and infinite reality, and under what authority? Authority. You're giving it away, freely, willingly, an immense amount of it, and that has wide fucking implications for those of us who are just plain old straight vanilla. And it's not because I fear the government suddenly misgendering me, but I do fear one that is emboldened to start making all kinds of other judgments and rulings over other parts of my personal life and right to privacy. Sure, right now, their focus is on this one small group of people, of which a vanishingly tiny subset play competitive sports. Like Brisket said, the number in NCAA sports is in the single digits. That's your stated concern, right? "Men" playing in "women's" sports. Why the fuck do you or anyone wish to turn this trivial sports shit that can be (and is) taken care of by the governing body of that sport into some epic, gargantuan fucking issue and place it into the hands of one old man? Do you understand what kind of power you're ceding to a singular individual who has demonstrated throughout his life that he thinks no one can contain his insatiable desire for more? Have you not picked up on the fact that he has a habit of slicing us up into all these little minority interest groups and individually picking them out for abuse? If you already understood all that and voted for the man anyway, you are undeniably fascist adjacent, at the very least, and have enabled a dictator. If you didn't grasp this shit, open your fucking eyes.
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