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Dbeasy

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  1. A few of the Surly posters are aware I have a second hand connection to Robertson, so occasionally I get some interesting tidbits. In my opinion this OL is not national championship quality, even before the injuries. That does not mean they can’t win the national championship, just that it isn’t as strong as other teams and other years’ past. The line does have some decent height, which is good. The line can be good enough to win the title, but we aren’t going to see 2005, where Vince had enough time to make some sandwiches. Arch being more mobile will be the way they scheme for the OL limitations and I think it will be glorious after watching self-sacking Quinn. On the topic of Cruz, him not passing Robertson yet is more Robertson than Cruz. Robertson is hanging in there, is smart, is working, and believes he can be starter quality. In my opinion, there are some physical limitations, but all those other things help a lot, especially at center, where you can deal better with physical limitations.
  2. That’s was really entertaining. It’s great to be a Longhorn right now.
  3. I think you’re right about a lot of this. I happen to be in that small minority that does actually care about fiscal responsibility so it clouds my thoughts on messaging. Whatever messaging they settle on should at least be hammered hard over and over like the Republicans do. They haven’t even been doing that. There is no common messaging.
  4. That's pretty good. Why in the world didn't the entire Democrat machine immediately do a blitz of Big Beautiful Betrayal on news shows, social media, etc. They could have accompanied this nice, tight slogan with the specific examples of how Americans are being hurt by it, and they could also be pointing out bs policies like the sunsetting of policies like the senior citizen extra deductions. Here's a radical idea, that I admit is half-baked and not fully thought thru. Since the Republicans abandoned their entire mantra of "less government" in favor of "my government that tells you what to do", why can't the Democrats not only call that out more often, but also better embrace "fiscal responsbility", rather than hiding from it? I know many in the party want to spend a lot more and tax a lot more, but that is what scares a lot of potential voters. Democrats end up closing the gap on previous Republican deficits anyway, so start really focusing on the proper combination of spendingr and taxation as the proper path to fiscal responsibility. If they did that, then they could really blow up the Big Beautiful Betrayal and show Americans how damaging it really is, and lay the foundation for good mid-term elections. As it stands right now, the mid-terms won't be helpful at all and we will be stuck for two more years (or a lifetime?) with this dictatorship.
  5. definition: Decorum - how to lose elections in a world full of idiots.
  6. Why haven’t the Democrats come up with a derogatory catchy name for the Big Beautiful Bill to counter the Trump bullshit?
  7. I look forward to his Christmas commercials for Yak, regurgitated Yak milk.
  8. Wait. He also plays guitar? Wow. He will set the single season yardage record at Texas.
  9. And they’re running out of Finleys!
  10. This thread is in the Business forum not Cloak Room, so it is important to look at objective, non-partisan facts, and not opinions. Objectively, we are indeed walking a very frightening tight rope. Objectively looking at qualifications, most of the economic advisors and administrators that have been hired in the Trump administration are generally regarded as unqualified, except for perhaps Bessent. These people haven’t had the experience, roles, or education to demonstrate competency. And as we’ve seen with people who “might” be competent, like Bessent, and with people who report negative information, and with anyone else who dares to call out bad decision making by the administration, they are silenced with dictatorial actions that at best are un-American and at worse an illegal abuse of power. This keeps dissent from fixing bad decision making The immigration actions are inflationary. The government spending is inflationary, just like the money dump Trump did during Covid that started this inflation mess. The tariffs are inflationary. The call for a 1.5-3 point rate cut is highly likely to be very inflationary. At this point we should all assume they want inflation of 3-5% annually to inflate away the debt, which I’ve said many times before. And they want a recession to be able to borrow more cheaply. However the tightrope here is that these actions could definitely create stagflation.
  11. Nothing like logging into Surly from my AOL 300 baud modem account to see the annual Who’s a True Blue Blood argument in full swing. Next we should discuss whether Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame.
  12. The U.S. team is going to get smoked.
  13. Added a few more names to the ignore list. In all the years of message boards, I had never put posters on ignore until about 6 months ago. Unfortunately, the stupidity of some people is reaching epic levels and it became necessary. Sad really.
  14. Put him on ignore. It’s great.
  15. I don’t buy the ranking and predictions for Clemson. They haven’t managed the portal or NIL well, so I don’t see how their talent can be top 10 quality. On The Ticket they were talking about a statistic where 1-2 pre-season Top 10 teams end the season outside the Top 25 almost every year. I don't think Clemson will be that much of a bust because they have a cupcake schedule. But they won’t compete for the title. Littleton made a wise choice.
  16. I have a very good long time friend that is good friends with FCB. One day he heard me ragging on FCB and was confused. My friend thinks (thought?) he is (was?) a really nice guy. I did my best to convey my thoughts on the matter.
  17. I’m officially done with this team for the year. Yall have fun.
  18. Someone explain to me how USC football is still screwed up. They have several billionaire alumni who could help their NIL program, they have a coach who at one time was producing Heisman QB’s, Southern California is not a bad place to live, and the school itself is high quality. What the heck are they doing?
  19. I would have shut down Facebook by now except for two things. I’m part of two medically related groups and those groups provide a lot of helpful information. Second, how else can I be completely mentally broken in golf without being served up 5,000 golf videos per day to watch and then ruin my golf swing.
  20. It is no surprise the OL struggled. They are down a critical player, they’ve lost a lot of talent from last year’s team, and at times last year even that very good OL talent struggled at times. It’s got to be the biggest question mark going into the season, and frankly it’s probably the difference between winning it all or not. I hope they can get it going. One thing I noticed is that the heights of the OL seem plenty tall. While I’m sure there’s a lot of height inflation going on, if it is a big line maybe they perform better as the year progresses.
  21. It’s worthless to say that.
  22. Surly: A certain Surly poster: Surly:
  23. I wasn’t calling out anyone. I actually also thought has was going to fail. I just thought it was funny how it all worked out given all the concerns almost everyone had about him. Lighten up Francis.
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