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  1. On 9/11/2025 at 1:16 PM, 4th&Five said:

    just watched Dog Day Afternoon for the first time on HBO. most older movies seem slow to me and this was no different but i liked it.  i immediately noticed that Airheads had to have been loosely based on it. 

    Interesting comment about your perception of slowness. American story-telling has evolved (devolved?) in my lifetime. Can you pin down where the story dragged for you?

    Really curious and not looking for a fight.

  2. 8 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Im me can't be anyone else.

    Kirk was sharp, no question.  I think he was probably quite a savant on electoral politics.  But on substantive ideas, he starts talking fast and spewing bullshit.  Like on the trans issue, the words he said most were "chemical castration."

    Double fuck him. 

    If he is sharp, no question, and he's talking castration of transpersons, then he chose to be a monster for popularity. 

    I only knew his name and basic stance, thanks for filling me in on just how bad this has become. It was already bad that such monsters were not shouted down; it's particularly grotesque to have the raper-in-chief disgrace state decorum by heroizing Kirk.

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  3. 7 hours ago, C-Man said:

    There's a couple of responses to that tweet saying this event and location was only announced six days prior.

    Announced is the key word there. It would have had to be planned before the announcement. There was no reason for anyone involved in the planning not to speak freely about it. It's not a presidential visit like the ones when we used have presidents.

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    They're second rate sophistry is slipping down into those also receiving votes

    If you distinguish between public and private settings for the more polite way to assassinate someone, you believe polite, private assassinations are okay. 

    What do I win?

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  4. 21 hours ago, coachherman'sgrill said:

    Graham is on it, coach!!

    https://gigemgazette.com/deeper-dive-into-texas-a-m-s-road-drought-vs-ranked-teams-will-transform-perception-of-aggies-streak

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    He really starts mathing lower in the article. Basically, it doesn't really matter what your W-L record is from what I understand but how many teams that beat you remain ranked?

    Ranked opponents doesn't include road losses to Miss State, Ole Miss, S. Carolina, et al.. They haven't done well against insanely beatable opponents either. That Covid victory for Texas againt OSU back in 2020 would not have been a lay-up for the Aggies. They weren't the wronged juggernaut that they claim they were.

    The record vs ranked opponents only comes up when they play ranked opponents. This appears to the writer above to be a dispensation from facing the full dismal picture.

    Also, does he factor in the low percentage of games A&M plays away from home?

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    Keep it vague, American journalists and editors. Conservative politics? WTF does that mean? This lazy, timid shit abetted the enemies of a republic.

    Conservative politics:

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    Well, maybe we have heard from the party responsible for the shooting playing to an audience with no sense of irony or honesty.

     

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    This country (the white or delusional or acquiescent parts) elected their perfect voice. We don't have to be this way. We choose to be this way. Wake the fuck up.

     

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  6. 1 hour ago, Derka said:

    i have zero condolences, thoughts, or prayers. gun violence is deplorable, but this man spent his adult life fomenting hatred and violence, and he is absolutely (at least partially) responsible for his own assassination. 

    i opened up twitter as soon as i heard the news and i saw nothing but high profile left wing politicians and personalities condemning this assassination, and all thoughtless gun and political violence. funny, i’ve never seen the right wing folks react that way any of the dozens of notable times when political violence has been inflicted on the left.

    today they will cry foul and will wholly condemn anyone who celebrates this killing, as if they and theirs haven’t been reacting with glee whenever left wing figures are attacked with hammers or shot down in their own homes. that’s why they will get zero sympathy, zero condolences, and zero sadness from me. these people have been fomenting this violent climate for years, and celebrating when it was the other side getting killed. i would never feel sorry for a member of hitler’s gestapo being shot and killed, and i am not sorry, or sad, or offering my condolences for a member of trump’s propaganda machine paying the ultimate price for his own actions.

    PM Derka must mean pin a medal on Derka.

    They only care about their own. Think of all the shit they made up about Pelosi's husband. They watch police killings of any black person and dig to find some reason or just make it up. They heroized the fuckwad who drove to a protest demonstration and machine gunned people. 

    Their spokesman and demigod pardoned the traitors who attacked the Capitol and killed people.

    They can all slide into a volcano as far as I'm concerned. Or they can fall prey to a sick fuck like the guy they drove to shoot up the Walmart in El Paso.

    It's war. Adopt a harder heart. See clearly. Being soft is no virtue in war. I don't advocate killing, but they are pretty cool with killing us. I don't want to go down offering a hug.

    They want to destroy anyone who gets in the way of them setting up their white boy dictatorship dressed as the envy of the world.

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  7. 1 hour ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    Goddammit I hate Charlie Kirk. He was a massive piece of shit. 
     

    But im NEVER for killing of someone. Like others said, he has a family and this will only bring more pain and violence in the end. This thing is awful for lots of reasons

    I'm just gushing thoughts and prayers for this man.

    His rhetoric is part of the sinister choir igniting stochastic terrorism. Live by the sword...

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  8. 1 hour ago, Pancho said:

     

    It actually increases the rate of cuts and abrasions. Many scientists believe it contributes to autism. If you use it on a corpse, the corpse becomes even more dead!

    4 minutes ago, VABuckeye said:

    The Politics Board at Tigerdroppings has people calling for a return to segregation.

    You have to be fucking kidding me

    I got through three posts.

    Fuck the South. Let the South rise again and encourage its secession. Then nuke it from space. I hate hating my country and state. Hate it.

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  9. Exceptionally well presented, pointed, and based in truth. Every frame is good, this one nicely addresses one of my main disappointments:

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    It's the template for stories about policy. Just change some of the nouns but leave everything else the way it always has been. Somewhere in the article it's reported that this is a "blow to" someone. Fucking write, college boys and girls. Don't parrot. 

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  10. 28 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

    Reagan didn't say elected representatives running the government were the problem, he said government was the problem, and when our government prohibited supplying arms to the Contras, he did it anyway. Kinda hard to understate how damaging that is to the rule of law when it's committed by a political leader who remained adored by his supporters even after it was uncovered. 

    Newlywed Oliver North was heroized on the covers of Time and Newsweek. Many people taped the pictures to the rear windows of their cars.

    Having observed the Watergate hearings and protests against government abuse of power fewer than ten years prior, I expected angry mobs in response to North's notion of a neat idea called Iran-Contra and announcing that he and the CIA head wanted to establish a fully-funded, off-the-shelf covert operations team that reported only to the president and unknown to all others. Nope, Reagan's glow and the rise of conservatism based on hating libs saved his ass.

    He and all the high-up criminals got away with it, mostly by HW Bush's pardons on Christmas Eve before he left office. Prosecutor Walsh was getting ready to start the trials.

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  11. We watched the first two or three episodes of Wednesday last night. Not a fan of Tim Burton. Still not.

    Danny Elfman's score is always a beating. It never rests. Every scene and moment is punctuated with overbearing music. 

    I don't care about Harry Potter (I assume this is a dark take on that). I like the actors in this. Just doesn't work for me.

  12. We just watched The Apprentice which is about Donald Trump's relationship with Roy Cohn as Trump rises to prominence. Very good. Both Cohn and Trump remain humanized instead of vilified. It ends with Cohn's death, so only allusions to Trump's possible political ambitions. He says he doesn't have them at this point.

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