Posts posted by RomaVicta
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15 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:
Funny, lots of folks like me were Republicans, and we left the party because we didn't feel comfortable being a part of it.
Laudable, my friend. You and your kind likely represent the GOPs capable of reaching out for bipartisan action instead of declaring war on your fellow citizens. When the howling GOPs on the committees claim that their disagreement on impeachment means it's not the bipartisan action it should be, I think of GOPs like you.
No, the lock-step criminal organization members who hold office won't cross the line. Still, there are traditional GOPs among the people who have crossed that line. The alliance with Dems is likely temporary for you until you find a better voice for your politics, but welcome in this moment of dire need for the country.
If GOPs like you create a party that reflects your values, you will similarly find me standing with you from time to time.
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It's so rare that I can think so well about the party I vote for. It feels nice for a change. The floor vote remains, but I think we know how that will go.
Under Pelosi's leadership, the party patiently went about the business of doing their duty to the country. They did so largely without their usual clumsy grandstanding and hair splitting. They've done so with the support of Dem, former GOP, and likely a few current GOP voters supporting the move.
The Dems did not knuckle under in fear as they did during the Iraq invasion debate and as they have done so often on other issues. They've withstood the storm of faux outrage (largely based in their own fear, IMHO) of the GOPs and proceeded with due decorum. The GOPs are left with inflaming the foulest of their party and trying to confuse everyone else. That might work, but they know that they're scoundrels in the doing.
Elizabeth Warren and AOC voiced the reason for impeachment months ago: Let's get everyone on the record. Crime is occurring in plain sight; who will vote aye for it?
I think Pelosi was reading the public in delaying a call to impeach. As I wrote earlier, I'd recently read about Lincoln's talent for doing that very thing. Lincoln would patiently wait through the vocal calls for a righteous action until he saw the moment was right. The action was always the right one, but success relied on timing. Pelosi has timed this act for its greatest chance of success in the House with greatest public support in the window where you can hold their brief attention.
Go ahead, GOPs, acquit him. Put that mark on your record in indelible India ink. Spend your career justifying it as the case against Trump continues to snowball over the coming few years. Publicly break your oath. Publicly reveal your true soul.
Woo-hoo! You will have kept the charlatan in office! Celebrate as the sun goes down, but prepare to wriggle in your handcuffs or veil your face when you walk in public.
The republic still faces the problem of the Trumpists who will never not believe in him and who will also anxiously embrace a defter politician who appeals to their foul, fucked-up beliefs/delusions. That cancer will require its own treatment.
For today, it's bravo Dems! You've set aside traditional tameness and done the right thing. Keep it up!
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1 hour ago, TXs said:
I'm taking joy I'm the fact that Herman will have to walk back his "one year contract" bs in order to land any quality coaches, with his tail between his legs.
Avatar checks out, joyless fucktard.
Dissent is fine and good and useful for improvement. Rooting for failure in the name of joy sounds pathological.
Sex might help your attitude. Start with fucking yourself.
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Also, if some of his followers want to threaten violence, bring it bitches. I suspect they are cowards like their hero who only imagines his courage.
Of course, they won't face a person who can hurt them. They'll spray bullets in a Hispanic store or synagogue.
I'm a boomer past his prime. I'll happily risk an ass kicking to stand face to face with one of these despicable assholes. I'll applaud when they are thrown face down on the ground and whine when the cuffs are applied to their wrists.
I don't like the hate building in me, but sometimes that destructive emotion is cultivated from without. It's been planted and nurtured by persons intent on being the enemies of truth, decency, and tolerance. They seem bent on losing their status as fellow citizens by their actions against fellow citizens and the weak who are not citizens.
I've got my mother's Colt .38 revolver and a handful of bullets. I've never before thought of actually having to use it in a civil conflict. If it's forced on us, I think the strutting Trumpists will be surprised at the reaction of the snowflakes that they guess oppose them.
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1 hour ago, Bama Chick said:
Maladjusted?
Compared to “normal” teenagers glued to their phones and doing stupid shit on TikTok?
She’s a teenage girl with Aspergers trying to change the world by walking the walk instead of Tweeting nonsense.
And she should be furious. I’m furious and I’ll probably die before the earth truly starts to deteriorate.
I’d be bursting with uncontainable pride if she were my kid.
One of the only things that give me hope is knowing my daughters/Greta’s generation will be in power when I’m old and vulnerable.
They’re angry. They’re organized. They mean business and they’re gonna get shit done.
Maladjusted????? Okay boomer.She's a hero. My guess is that any maladjustment will come from speaking a shining truth but having that truth diminished by people patting her on the head and treating her as a child. How frustrating must it be to be heard and given a spotlight where people listen, applaud and nod their heads only to say, "great little girl" and then go about their lives.
Greta has impacted my thinking. Why are we still making cars and giant trucks and giant SUVs in the face of the scientific facts? I drive a low mileage 2002 Infiniti whose performance I love. I've been planning to upgrade to a newer one in a a couple of years. That's completely changed. I'm looking to give up that delicious performance for something less damaging.
I'm not virtue signalling. I'm embarrassed that I'm one of the persons who pat her on the head and speak well of her without changing my behavior enough. I will likely be in my dotage before the environmental bill comes due. I don't want to look back in shame at doing nothing.
The Republicans have stolen America's chance to take the lead in facing this world threat. Al Gore or either Clinton would have seized the opportunity this crisis provides to put America in the lead. Instead, we obstruct and obfuscate for moneyed interests. Shameless is our brand as much as cruelity as Brisket noted long ago. We're the bad guys.
Trump is less than the shit on Greta's shoes. She's a conduit of truth. There is no need to say what Trump is.
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22 hours ago, Elmer_Fudd said:
Love how a bunch of aggy commits and targets are taking visits and OV's elsewhere but all is good.
Well, I mean, they were blown away when they went College Station where Jimbo laid out the red carpet and made the visit a home run. Now that they know about being an Aggie, why would they go anywhere else?
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On 12/10/2019 at 2:14 PM, Hugo Stiglitz said:
From the Daily Beast:
QuoteFor the nearly two years since her name first made the papers, she’s been publicly silent (she did have a closed-door interview with House members in July 2018). I asked her why she was willing to talk now. “Honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel’s back,” she says. The president called out her name as he acted out an orgasm in front of thousands of people at a Minneapolis rally on Oct. 11.


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I heard on the Horn radio here in Austin that Beck is quite possibly going to take the head coaching job at Lamar University. I don't think anyone expected him to hang around here in a diminished role, but it's actually a development. He seems like a good guy. I wish him success.
On the other thread, a tweet announces that UNLV has hired an HC. This news is believed to possibly impact Harrell's decision process to where he will choose whether to leave USC or stay as an OC.
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8 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:
So Trump's plan is to kill half the world's population? Specifically the brown half?
I suppose the Jews make up the non-brown part of that half (some are, some aren't). They're a nation living within our nation. Ask the Comanche, Sioux, and Cherokee how that works out in the long run.
Let's all join Lee Greenwood in singing about his pride. Or vomit instead.
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20 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:
There's not enough of us Gen X'ers to matter. Once the Boomers are gone things will be better for
both Gen X and The Millennialsthe world.Edit: Fixt for troof.
Thanks, man. We must strive for new and useless ways to divide Americans. I and all my boomer friends stand with you. Not all of the younger generations stand the same.
I get the resentment. It's justified by the way the younger generations were exploited as a market and enslaved by absurdly high costs of higher education and the malfeasance of the federal government. Many boomer dogs have fleas. Boomers also lead the fight to correct some of this mess.
We were lucky to be born in the time of an enormous economic boom when post war America held 50% of the world market. A lot of that was squandered, no doubt. But we didn't all vote for the bad shit.
You inherit a tougher world to get by in. Tougher in regard to the boom described above. Not tougher than almost any other time in US history. The main crime against your generation is the debt forced upon you that benefits the banks and universities. To graduate college with what would have been a house loan in my day is criminal.
My friend, let's avoid facile thinking and labeling. It's a distraction from the real fights.
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"Be Breast" is good stuff. Out of rep after so many good posts yesterday. Nice job, Mrs. Whiggins.
I've found that I can still be mildly surprised. This time it's that 60 million Americans rabidly support a man who abused a charity to swindle the rubes or funnel hidden payments to himself from business transactions.
Think about that. Just about anybody else from any political side or economic class would be disgraced to the point of not being elected to county court by the revelation of such an easily digestible story. There are literally hundreds of reasons to spit out Donald Trump (thousands if you throw in the easily provable lies), but this has to be the most simple given for changing your support.
Sixty million Americans can hear this and refuse to digest it or dismiss it out of hand through deflection or fun house mirror reflection (What about Clinton giving away all of America's uranium?). I mean it's right there. No problem with determining meaning of the law or what the actual intent of the accused was.
The fact just lies there like a baby perfectly healthy that, for some reason, won't breathe. Sixty million Americans won't even flinch when they hear the baby struggle nor move to help when they see the baby turn blue. They choose negligent homicide instead of lighting up another rock of MAGA crack that makes them feel so good. They'll take a big one up anus while the baby goes cold and dies just so long as they can feel good about whatever it is they feel good about: victory? Unjustified superiority? Just a nice, simple, dumb world where they, delusionally, see themselves as the big winners?
Yes, I am surprised when I pause to think about this. I thought facts and knowledge would carry at least some weight with anyone exposed to them. As often is the case, I overestimated the abilities I thought common among us all in a country with a public education system.
Mitt Romney traveled with a dog in a cage tied to the roof of his car. The dog is fine, but heartstrings were pulled and he lost support. Trump robbed his own charity and support remains solid.
Wow.
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36 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
Of course not. He's a troll and needs to be crowdbanned. I'm going to start the process.
To show where my mind and heart are, I read crowdbanned as crowbarred. I didn't finish determining how I felt about that before seeing my mistake.
But we can't crowbar them.

No quid pro quo.
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34 minutes ago, tantric superman said:
That's what morons see. The public who have critical thought capabilities want the corrupt asshole out.
Don't forget moral standards or integrity when describing that part of the public. The only excuse for the rest are that they don't bother to know. The rest know and support wickedness and acts harmful to the US.
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33 minutes ago, BNB said:
I think he should have been censured for it, the guy is an idiot, but I don't think he should be impeached for it. I don't think it will happen often that someone running against the president has a possible corruption case with another country because he made statements about getting another countries official fired, and his sons company was being investigated by him.
I think I am on the majority side of it.
Dems should have just censured him, then moved onto passing bills. All the public sees is Dems constantly attacking him and trying to impeach him, while little else is being done to improve our country.
Negged again for lying. You know that Biden was representing the interests of the United States in conditioning the aid on the removal of a corrupt prosecutor. He acted in the open and executing American policy. His act is the antithesis of what Trump did.
Now, if someone can provide evidence that Biden was indeed acting for his son or that he in some other way benefited illegally, then to hell with him and his son.
Enough of you.
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30 minutes ago, BNB said:So you Dems have one or 2 people stating they presumed Trump wanted quid pro quo, nothing evident.
Trump had a phone call stating he wanted Ukraine corruption to stop after the new President was elected, and he wanted to know if they had any info on The Russia Investigation into him that was proved false. He had just seen on the news someone showing a video of Biden bragging about getting a Ukraine official fired, so he asked about that also.
Behind the scenes he was withholding aid, but that was not uncommon.
Good luck with that. This will cost you.
Negged for lying. Trump never mentions Ukrainian corruption in the call.
Withholding aid is not uncommon for policy reasons. No credible policy reason exists for halting this aid which was designated to help Ukraine fight off invading Russians.
"One or 2 people" having presumptions is also inaccurate. High level public officials concluded that the investigation into Biden was the only thing Trump could have been holding out for. There was no other policy reason to halt aid that had been voted on by Congress.
Lastly, the peddled notion that an informed Trump was worried about corruption in the new Ukraine administration is absurd on a number of levels. Any person of even cursory knowledge of Ukraine would know that a corrupt government had been voted out of office by a candidate running specifically on ending corruption. The aid had been approved when the actually corrupt leader was in power. Things were clearly no worse corruption-wise.
Trump never personally raised Ukraine corruption issues when the place was its most corrupt. His agent, Rudy, was dealing with the corrupt regime in hopes of getting them to allege dirt on Biden. Trump's only concern about the new administration was that they wouldn't be corrupt enough to help him politically.
Trump mentioning a favor is the introduction of corruption in America's relationship with the new Ukrainian president.
"This will cost you."
Fuck you. You want the team whose jersey you wear to win the big game. You don't care how, and you don't mind diminishing whatever integrity you may have had to promote that victory. I would love to be in a bar where people like you might taunt people like me as losers.
But snowflakes melt when forced to voice their dogma in person to real people. Like the coward Trump himself.
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Fire the employee? Get tough. Summary execution is the way to send a message.
I love how the issue about this greeting over the years has turned many people's holiday greeting into a snarling, challenging, "Merry Christmas."
Yes, let's fuck up happy greetings to strangers in the coldest part of the year by politicizing exactly how the greeting gets conveyed. Thanks O'Reilly and FOX! Merry Christmas!
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2 minutes ago, Tuco said:
Why so judgmental? Can't we just agree that he's a stupid fuck and leave it at that.
He's not stupid. I don't think he's deceived, either.
Maybe he is the purest product of the hate engine and has been convinced that libs/Dems are against the US and his side are the country's only true defenders. In that role of warrior, he uses any weapon against the supposed enemy. He'll repeat and regurgitate lies. He'll set up equivocations that are not apt. He'll put out some pretty good sophistry knowing that the argument is unsound.
Defeat the libs! Protect America! Trump may be a bastard, but he's our bastard!
Perhaps he will read this and declare that I am intolerant and woefully biased against GOPs the way he may be against Dems/libs. I'll pre-emptively answer that I point to individuals. I've more than once stated the absolute necessity for the traditional principles of the Republicans to be part of the national discourse. I'm talking about the conservatism that many ex-GOPs thought they were supporting for the 35 years preceding the ascent of Trump.
Today's GOP that supports Trump is now the Trump party. Trump's wickedness is in plain sight. Some support him out of ignorance. Some do so out of willful ignorance. Some do so as Zavala and Fozz. They're not stupid. That's a facile description. They know what they're doing; they're capable of seeing the facts.
Why do they deny the facts? Maybe for the reason I describe above in my speculation about Zavala. Maybe they get something out of this shit show. Maybe they're on the payroll. Maybe some other reason. But they're not stupid, and that makes me wary of them. I can't understand why they remain steadfast when so many other former, smart GOPs have abandoned that party.
I'd prefer they abandon their positions and rethink their politics; become part of a new outlet for actual conservatism. But I don't think they will. What's in it for them? Hard to say.
A long muse, my friends, but characterizing an opponent as deficient is a sure way to give that opponent an edge. The Romans constantly coached the legions not to despise their enemies but to respect their fighting ability. Be ready to fight hard. I don't want to give any kind of an edge to anyone harming the US.
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44 minutes ago, Zavala said:T
Remember what 0bomba did to "whisteblowers"?
Remember what 0bomba turned over during the investigation into the fast and furious thing?
The judicial branch is the ones between the congress and WH when there's a disagreement, there's 3 branches, let them do their job.
Either way, the dems are broke, they don't have the money to campaign, they haven't done anything with the majority in congress, so their strategy is to attack Trump to try and get the twitter types all riled up.
It's a horrible mistake, pandering to a twitter audience is not going to win elections. Most people just don't care or are somewhere in the center politically. They tend to be repelled by things, rather than be attracted to things.
Ya gonna lose.
They did not allow any witnessess that weren't vetted by Shit. [Any reason these exculpatory witnesses couldn't have found another avenue to right this terrible wrong? As you know, Trump is inhibiting and likely intimidating witnesses; does this strike you as innocent behavior?]
They are being attacked and slandered by Dems who will twist and use the control over the media to spin whatever shit they want, why would the WH comply? [Who has the Reynolds Wrap on their cabeza now? Even if the Dems were as shameless as the Republicans in their treatment of witnesses, are you saying these mythological exculpatory witnesses are too snowflakey to stand up to it? Do they need dimmed lights and soft questions to illicit their delicate truths about the real President Trump? You're not stupid, but maybe you're irony deaf.]
Remember what 0bomba did...? [C'mon]
The judicial branch is the ones between the congress and WH when there's a disagreement, there's 3 branches, let them do their job. [Yay! Of course, it will be difficult with Republicans violating their oaths.]
Either way, the dems are broke, they don't have the money to campaign, they haven't done anything with the majority in congress, so their strategy is to attack Trump to try and get the twitter types all riled up. [Willful lying on your part. You know that Congress has passed over 400 bills, a large majority bi-partisan, that Mitch is sitting on in the senate perhaps to give life to your lie
It's a horrible mistake, pandering to a twitter audience is not going to win elections. Most people just don't care or are somewhere in the center politically. They tend to be repelled by things, rather than be attracted to things. [Blah blah blah]
Ya gonna lose. [If so, the entire country other than about 1% loses. That 1% never loses. It must be an honor serving them.]
Negged for disingenuity and dishonesty. Betraying your country (if this is your country) deserves worse than a neg which I wish for you and your kind. You make yourself my enemy.
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45 minutes ago, Party_Taco said:
Listening to the circular logic and outright distortions put forth by McCarthy and Scalise is maddening.
Talking about democrats ignoring facts while they twist the truth and allow this criminal to shun long established laws and norms makes me sick.
Fuck all these traitors.The Dem said that impeachment should be bi-partisan. Thanks, Dem, for providing us with cover for uniting against recognizing the facts against Trump. We merely need to keep our lock step caucus in line no matter what the individuals might think of the charges. (We're so clever using shamelessness to defeat your point!)
There is no evidence! Where are the witnesses who can testify first hand? This is a sham! (I will say this loudly so my base will forget that Trump has forbidden executive branch witnesses to testify.)
Adam Schiff is a coward because we call him a special prosecutor, but he won't appear before the committee and testify in that role. (Tee hee, we're so good at shameless sophistry and lying! We don't mind yelling that people who honor their oaths are cowards while we completely commit ourselves to an obvious liar and coward and criminal.)
The absurd theater of GOPs supposedly investigating these charges before the cameras disgusts me in its dishonesty and absolute disregard for this country. They can do a jig and lie about the meaning of an acquittal for Trump should it come, but they have identified themselves and their followers as despicable collaborators with foreign enemies and persons of zero integrity.
An America that understood its own history and the experiment that is self-government would frog march these villains to the gallows. But we're not that America.
To adapt from Oliver Stone's Nixon, I look at Schiff and see what I want the country to be. I look at Trump and see what this country is. Self-absorbed, distracted, narrowly educated, and slaves to their immediate emotions.
Trump's acquittal, should it happen, will solidify us as a banana republic. At some point it will get bloody.
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The man was a dashing, handsome devil. Imagine those long long few seconds where the fire was burning him and he managed to turn the plane and bail out. Then the agonizing fall through the air to the ground. Then his war became fighting pain and recovering for years.
We who have never been on a firing line can only imagine the experience. I humbly salute them all.
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On 12/8/2019 at 7:50 AM, Landomatic said:Bullshit. This season was a perfect example of why it works just fine as is. The right 4 teams get in with no controversy and it takes the whole regular season and some conference championship games to get there. Which is the case just about every year. Would adding some fringe 2 loss outliers and a no-name Memphis and/or FAU team really make it better? Fuck no. This model just makes the regular season so much better than having more teams would. It's one of the most magical aspects of college football and expanding it would fuck that up. And yes, I realize I'm in the minority on this.
Forgive me for not reading the entire thread, but I agree with the op.
The main reason for expanding to 4 was to ensure that the top two teams got in. Every year, the top two teams have got in whether they were ranked 1, 2, 3, or 4. To me, arguing over who should be number four is irrelevant to the goal of having the top two teams in the playoff. The third and fourth teams from the top are already getting the benefit of the doubt.
The only injustice of being left out of the playoff would be if a team had a legitimate claim to be one of the top two. As long as the top two teams make it in, we have what we want: a legitimate contest where the best can win the championship.
I'd hate to be left out if I thought the Longhorns were better than the fourth cede, but that's the way it goes. Subjectivity is unavoidable and makes the whole thing kind of fun in the big picture.


Donald Trump 2019
in Cloak Room
Let's see if they're as good as Lady Gaga at making a reception on the way off the stage.
I've been waiting forever to use this. That's one talented and amusing woman.