Posts posted by RomaVicta
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1 minute ago, closetojumping said:
You’ve referenced the tech game being more meaningful than just another game against a sad sack opponent. You’ve done that now in multiple posts. I mocked it. Over and done.
I don’t know what the rest of your post is intended to do, but I don’t have an interest in any lengthy discussion with you. They’re unrewarding. You’re like a milquetoast version of the archetypical pollyanna poster that can’t take a position or be convicted of anything until the events and circumstances are well in the rear view mirror. None of us can assume or presume anything because we aren’t walking that mile in rocket scientist Tom Herman’s shoes. Right.
Written with invective.
It's good invective. You stick with a lame point and then wrap it in some quality ad hominem. Your valediction is funny, too.
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Thanks to DNHC for copy editing and catching the misuse of your rather than you're.15 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:When you say “you don’t know shit”...is that because you need someone with firsthand knowledge to provide a detailed account of every single thing that has happened up to this point?
is there any point in time where you just look at what we do know and feel comfortable making a judgement on how well a process is playing out...?
I have guesses from time to time. Do you weigh the information you're getting? If not, do you have a college education?
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1 minute ago, closetojumping said:
Boy, you really are hanging by a thread if you’re betting this hard on the tech game being a sign of anything long term. I don’t want to be around when you snap. ... Well, actually I do, but surely most people wouldn’t.
This is a pretty good example of reading more into a post than is there. What I call a possible data point, you recreate me betting on that point as a long term indicator. I'm not betting on anything. My back to back posts are clear on that.
It's amusing that you want to believe that I'm on the verge of snapping.This thread provides so many other posters who may soon snap if they have not already.
I think you like feuds and getting other people worked up. That's a poor accompaniment to your often very good analysis. I won't play, CTJ. However, if you want to harpoon me, do so with an accurate portrayal of what I write. You've been down that road once. Maybe you will be more effective next time.
Written without rancor.
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1 hour ago, Walden Ponderer said:
If Offensive Coordinator Tom Herman were available somewhere, I would want to hire him in a heartbeat. That guy can fucking coach.
It's Head Coach Tom Herman who is a complete dumbass.
My hope is that he is a dumbass who can still adapt.
Kick more field goals. Adjust his beloved culture of alignment or death. Maybe ask the players if they really like lining up for a kiss or embrace prior to a game; maybe he should do that only for underdog games. Maintain more detachment from his assistant coaches. Read Surly for the best advice out there.
I will again point to the rally in the Tech game as a possible data point for something changing with the team and something that could be traced back to the head coach. He has taken the steps of dismissing the stinkers on his staff. That was a first step for most of you. You were impatient that it came a day later.
We can only know how his adaptations work in the spring game, reading sunshine in the off-season, wringing hands during "fall" camp, and finally how we perform in the opener and at LSU.
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1 hour ago, TexasFan21 said:I am wondering if Herman will be our OC. It does not make sense how any of this shit has transpired.
Things seldom make sense when you try to reach conclusions based on:
- Rumor
- Naked declarations themselves based on rumors
- Hysteria
- Confirmation bias
- Mob mentality
We don't know shit. We go nuts over losing a WR recruit, an excellent one apparently, but still not a linchpin (lynchpin?)* of a class.
Roma is saying he loves Herman and we're all idiots!!
Nope. I am actually part of the we who doesn't know shit. There's basically nothing I can do about any of this, so I just watch the show and hope for the best. I take in the rumors and sympathize with some of the hysteria. I use my ignorance as a buffer against the eventual need for a defibrillator.
Happy Holidays. Merry Christmas.
Fuck you, Roma!
Now we're talkin'.
*As in lynching Herman not the black player. The player is, of course, blameless and worthy only of good wishes.
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It occurred to me years ago that maybe we should consider the anti-homosexuals' claim that homosexuality is a choice. Maybe those people are making a choice between homosexual desires and heterosexual mandates. They become what my brother described as sick queens filled with self-loathing which manifests itself homophobia.
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13 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:
Hahahaha. At this point you just have to laugh at the stupidity of the 99%ers who support this transparently corrupt motherfucker and have convinced themselves that he’s “one of us.”
9 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:But they will. They will go through whatever mental gymnastics are necessary to avoid admitting they were wrong.
Rule of the con game: the conned will never, ever admit they were conned. See, e.g., April and Billy and tomorrow's the big day.
Corrupt and immoral? Hell, he is one of them. That's the whole problem.
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The apostrophe must never die.3 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:Our transactional bully president making himself a victim, again. Sad.
Somebody probably beat me to it, but isn't this expecting political support for extending a government service? It's not chargeable, but it surely (again) reveals his mindset. He is president of USA Corporation and wheels and deals with the corporation's assets in every transaction. Sadly, he trades away political capital for friendships with autocrats as part of his masterful deal-making skills.
Every tweet like this should be identified in these terms. He is trading something for something else. I think there's a Latin phrase for that.
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1 hour ago, Incredulity said:
The WP changed the headline after blowback. Austere Religious Scholar was the original, you fucking prat.
I've never been called a prat. What is a prat?
The criticism of the Post is absurd. They clearly say he was the leader of a terrorist organization that he raised to brutal level not before seen.
Prat? Prat? No, you're the prat!
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1 hour ago, GRHorn said:
“Someone”= WaPo The initial headline for Baghdadi obit referred to him as Austere Religious Scholar. “Adding information” to the story. Got it.
Not sure what you’re arguing here.Negged for obfuscation and lying. I looked up the Post's obit:
Headline:
QuoteAbu Bakr al-Baghdadi, extremist leader of Islamic State, dies at 48
First paragraphs:
QuoteWhen Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took the reins of the Islamic State of Iraq in 2010, few had heard of the organization or its new leader, then an austere religious scholar with wire-frame glasses and no known aptitude for fighting and killing.
But just four years later, Mr. Baghdadi had helped transform his failing movement into one of the most notorious, vicious and — for a time — successful terrorist groups of modern times. Under his guidance, it would burst into the public consciousness as the Islamic State, an organization that would seize control of entire cities in Iraq and Syria and become a byword for shocking brutality.
Just because you like to lap up partisan vomit doesn't mean you can sell it as food to actual citizens.
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59 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
Have you shunned the Republicans in your social circle or do you still associate with them?
I haven't really needed to shun anyone within my extended circle of friends and family. The only contact I have with GOPs is casual and fleeting. I raised issue with one man who was an investment advisor who'd stated he supported Trump because he'd somehow averted an economic disaster that Obama headed us toward. I made known that, even if true (I'm not aware of that issue, but I'm not a financial specialist), this policy does not balance the bad in Trump.
Nobody I regularly associate with supports Trump. Even GOPs I know and who may have voted for him, despise Trump now.
My guess is that the Trumpists in my world here in Austin move in dumbass circles or just keep quiet about it.
I couldn't have a supporter of Trump as a friend because they have made themselves dangerous to the remaining shreds of this republic.
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It's a shame the irony of you advising anyone about comedy is completely lost on you. Oh, and you're intellectually dishonest in your declaration of absolute truth regarding the cartoon.
The public knows Al Baghdadi as the leader of a malign, murderous movement. If someone adds that description the cartoon portrays, they're just adding information. I suppose you are hostile to that. Not good. Somebody do something. Sad.
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45 minutes ago, Red Five said:A large percentage of those 63 million would have voted for anyone over Hillary. Like, literally anyone. Had Satan rose up from hell and claimed the Republican nomination, that 63 million number wouldn't have shrunk much.
So, we blame Hillary Clinton for the idiots that wanted to believe she sold our urananium, killed a guy, ransacked her own foundation, was personally responsible for the deaths in Benghazi, and had a debilitating brain disease? Blame her for the idiots that embraced the current criminal in the White House?
Let's not forget in all of this focus on Trump that the profound problem here is the electorate. That problem remains after Trump is gone. They've hitched their cars to the hate engine. They'll be provided with many false reasons to hate whoever the GOP wants them to hate. Hillary was just target of opportunity.
See GOP outlets propaganda about AOC and her freshmen colleagues. See GOP campaign to denounce John Kerry's war record in favor of a guy who couldn't even show up for the National Guard. Or just turn on FOX and Limbaugh.
Trump is a symptom. The shining bubo on a hill. The plague is the poison happily consumed by the electorate.
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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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Am I optimistic? I'm ignorant and patient.
I don't look forward to the games because they're always shit fights no matter who we're playing. We never put the weak away and find a way to lose to some of them. We show maddeningly sporadic effort on offense where we start running out the clock at the end of the third quarter instead of sticking with what had been scoring. Herman is rigid in his approach as though football is a science.
I do put my hopes in Herman changing in response to failure. What else is there to hope for? He's here. I'm a Longhorn. I hope we succeed. Had he been fired, I'd have no choice but to my hopes in the new coach.
Hope does not equal optimism. A man walking up the gallows steps hopes he will get a reprieve. I doubt that man is optimistic.
Around here, there is a mentality that if you don't join in by parroting the grimmest appraisals then you must be a pollyanna sunshine pumper. I'm not that. I thought we were on our way after the win over Georgia. I did not expect the grim death march through the end of the season where I turned on the TV largely expecting us to lose even though we should have been winning.
I've explained myself enough on the other thread and now here. People can believe what they like. I've written all I care to about it.