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UpperWestside

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  1. I do not fool myself with anything. Every single generation of people thinks that what is happening to them is the absolute worst thing that has ever happened in history. This is not a good part of history, but it is not the worst and I am not going to get up each day thinking how awful this world is. A lot of human beings did not get to wake up today. Yesterday was it for them. I am thankful for today and thankful for the opportunity to do better than the day before. I have a finite amount of time on this rock like everyone else and I will make the best of it. Everyone gets to make that choice every single day. I just reached that point where all of the negativity is just pointless noise not worth participating in. I do not like what I see in Washington, but waking up with Brisket’s attitude is a backwards way to think. Expecting the worst out of everyone is toxic and accomplishes nothing good.
  2. I wish I had more time to read a book like that one.
  3. How very Mack Brown of you. That's the epitome of how he killed football at UT towards the end. Yes I choose to like people. I am not even naturally a people person. I'd rather just hangout with dogs or even go swimming with sharks again than spend copious amounts of time with people. That's just my personality. I do enjoy helping people and I run across enough good human beings to know there are plenty of them out there still. My neighbor the other day was going to wait to take the elevator because he had a bunch of stuff and had his wife and grandson with him. I told him to get in. We wound up talking for about 10 minutes and he tells me he's Marshallese. He asks me if I know where the Marshall Islands are and I say I do and I start talking about them. I tell I want to live there in the future as well as in Kiribati and he tells me his wife's family is from Kiribati. These are good people and there are so many of them out there. You want to keep to you and yours you do you. That does nothing to help move America is a good direction.
  4. That'd be cool too. Whatever he decides to do or is chosen for is cool by me. I have no say in what he does.
  5. She lost the electoral college in a blowout, which unfortunately is still what matters in elections here. She was not blown out at the ballot box, but she did lose there as well. For someone that had 100 or so days to run an election I thought she did okay. Not great, but okay. It's past now and nothing will change that though so you move forward.
  6. You are known for your negativity regarding America. I do not put great faith in human beings but I do believe in using history as a guide. I look at history and see that these regimes never last. America will come out of this malaise and we will have to own this time period. That's it. The path to how America comes out of this is entirely up to the citizens of our country. You want to keep on keepin' on with the negativity that's your right. You get one life and again it's your right to waste it being negative all that you wish to do so. I did that long enough to learn that that mindset is abhorrent and pointless. In a universe that's roughly 13.6-7 billion years old I may get four score worth of years. That's a speck of sand on a seashore's worth of time in comparison. Better to make the best of things and see the best of this world than to grow old and miserable and think nothing and no one is worth saving.
  7. These thoughts are not helpful. She lost, fair and square. You move on and push forward.
  8. He may not get it in 2028 because I cannot predict the future. They may decide to return to Whitey McWhiterson and go with some 65plus out of touch white guy because, reasons. What I won't do though is keep repeating the narrative put out there by bigots. At a certain point you just have to stop adding it to the conversation. The best thing Pete, or any candidate in a similar position can do, is ignore that stuff and stick to the issues. Everything eventually changes, but not without pushback.
  9. Again the more you say this the more water gets carried for idiots. This is absolutely destructive to keep repeating it over and over. Bigots repeating this over and over is how a narrative becomes a "fact" instead of just something an idiot bigot believes to be true. We are a nation with 77.3 million clowns. That is not all of us. We are also not cooked as a country. I am exiting stage right from America at some point, but not because I think this country won't do a 180. I think that it will and I think that the stigma that surrounds sexual orientation is on its last legs. Pete and I are attracted to different sexes, but I share his love of the country and I will no longer repeat what someone like him (or a woman married to a woman) can do when given the opportunity. His popularity is only going to go up the more stupid stuff this administration does and it's because he has a grasp of the issues and has found a way to communicate using social media that connects with people.
  10. We're not doing this anymore. YOU STOP saying what someone can or cannot be based on who they want to be with. It is not a true thing. It is carrying water for bigots who will not stop saying it. I look at my own life and think that I used to carry that water too by going right along with that thinking. Once upon a time in this country the armed forces of the United States would not let African-Americans serve as anything but cooks. A narrative got pushed into people's heads that they weren't smart enough as a race to be trusted to fight with actual weapons. Then they got weapons and did some incredibly heroic things in Italy. That doesn't even take into account Doris Miller's heroism at Pearl Harbor three years prior. This is so stupid that in 2025 people will posit that "This person can't run because of their sexuality." This crap has to stop. By 2028 the horrors that this group of morons will have unleashed upon America and the world will be stacked so high that we won't be looking at his sexuality as a reason not to vote for him. That we ever even considered it as a black mark against him is due to our own ignorance.
  11. Don’t watch a new movie called Locked. Your claustrophobia will go into hyperdrive watching it.
  12. I am not putting that label on him. If we can elect an incompetent clown 2 out of 3 times, well, anything is possible. I don’t believe we should bow to a bunch of morons who would have an issue with his choice of being married to a man. This stupidity has to be met and shouted down so to speak. He is what we need leading us. No more recycled old white guys. We have had plenty of them and it’s time to move past that. His last video he posted about this leak shows he’ll take the nice guy gloves off and hand out some FAFO when a serious breach of incompetence occurs.
  13. There is someone here willing to find out if they can take out a badger. I’m Team Badger on that all day everyday.
  14. Hearing him drop an f bomb in his remarks about using unsecured channels was a pretty big deal. He never shows that kind of anger. To say two curse words really drove home just how colossal of a screw up this was by the amateurs running the country. I’ll vote for him in a heartbeat if he runs in 2028. He actually cares about America and that is what I want in a president.
  15. You won’t see @realgreggym post on here again. He’s still reading the board, but like the rest of the cult members that post on here he’s a coward. Somebody needs to tell Sean Miller that if 70-something old white has been, that played basketball at UT in an era no one cares about, tries to befriend any current basketball players to just give him the PNG treatment. He’ll be their friend to their face while calling them and their families libtards and other fun words in private.
  16. I am going to apply a bit of a lesson that Japan learned the hard way during World War II as I can a parallel here with America. When Japan was going buck wild on the Pacific and setting up their East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere after Pearl Harbor they made a fatal mistake. They were already a nation with limited resources and instead of consolidating their gains and hunkering down for the inevitable American response that would be coming they just kept going. They stretched themselves thin due to “Victory Disease.” From there it was academic what would happen even if Japan seemed to be in the driver’s seat as they bombed northern Australia and took New Guinea. America after the war was a changed society. We were the big dogs for the first time in our short history and we let the world know it. We let the Soviets know it, Europe by running the show militarily and investment wise we let the world know America was setting up shop. We had our own version of victory disease. We never fully pulled in people that could cause economic harm. We really didn’t set any real limits that mattered. America was here and the rest of the world be damned. We became a brand as a country and we’re still the only country that can make that claim. Unfortunately we enjoy victory too much and not the hard work of consolidating gains and being content. Capitalism is fine by me, but we have gone so far overboard with it and the guard rails are gone. To me this feels like Japan’s retreat back across the Kokoda Track in New Guinea against the Australians. They bit off more than they could chew and it cost them. As a country we need to learn these lessons, but 80 years out we still haven’t and that’s really disconcerting and frustrating because we could be so much better if only people would just not attempt to screw others over in pursuit of their own gains.
  17. Not real sure who said it was limited to a single political party. Demented people don’t need a party to commit an atrocity like this. HOWEVER, there is only one party in America right now openly trying to make life hell for trans folks. That rhetoric can seep into someone’s mind whether they support that party or not. Normalizing hate can give people the idea that crimes like this are for some twisted greater good scenario they have in their head.
  18. Ocean’s 11 is a good description, especially the musical score. I went and saw this again Friday night. It was just as cool seeing it the 2nd time. Listening to the dialogue again and picking up some clues about things made it a fun 2nd viewing. I read they want to do more of these and the cast is up for doing them. Cate did such an awesome job. The chemistry with Fassbender really made the movie. I’m good with taking Fassbender’s role if he wants to give it up. 😂
  19. I still cannot fathom how they put 14 teams in this field of 68 from a conference that has just 16 total. They could’ve cut out about 5 or 6 of them and given them to teams that actually belonged in the tournament.
  20. I just watched a movie with him tonight so this hits close to home.
  21. The things China is doing that wind up being the most intense topics are going to be geopolitical in nature. This will be of little significance to what China does or does not do on a worldwide basis, but The Solomon Islands have a leader that is decidedly pro-China. They came in and built a stadium for the country even though The Solomons have no real way to maintain it. Obviously it’s buying influence just like America does, but this troubles me quite a bit. Guadalcanal is the site of one of the most decisive and bloody series of land, sky and sea battles that happened in WWII. That land is hallowed ground for the Americans who gave their last full measure to stop Japanese expansion of their co-prosperity sphere in East Asia. I will live in that country and I want to work to make sure that the Americans who fought there as well as the native Solomon Islanders who helped America by being our eyes and ears on the ground, as well as the people that hauled injured soldiers for miles on stretchers, to one day have a museum worthy of what they accomplished. These people sacrificed themselves willingly for something they didn’t even have a word for. They called Guadalcanal “The Big Death” because of what they witnessed. It really bothers me how little America cares about what happened there. We should be stepping up and getting China right out of Melanesia and Micronesia entirely and doing right by people that had our back when we needed all hands on deck, even if they weren’t American. Seeing China buy influence right in the backyard of sacred ground for Americans just really gets to me.
  22. He’s a coward and that thread he put up about his orange god king put a glaring spotlight on exactly who he is. He’s been one for the entirety of his existence. The guy is around 70+ or so and he’s never done a single thing that was not in some way beneficial to him or the image others might have of him. It’d be nice if some of the newer Longhorn basketball alumni saw the stuff he writes on here while simultaneously trying to be their friend when he sees them at events or athletic department functions. He’s an embarrassing human being.
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