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RomaVicta

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  1. They begin the chant, 2024 was always the year!, as they plunge. They crawl out of the wreckage and towards the next rollercoaster taking turns croaking out, if we keep the 2022 class, we have the talent to win a natty! Now boarding. Furk-a-coaster! Now boarding for the 85th ride!
  2. Hello. My name is RomaVicta, and I am one day correct spelling. Hi, RomaVicta. Every chance I had to misspell that coach's name, I could not pass it by. [Heads nod in empathy] The shame of it has led me here. Today. It's K I F F....... C'mon, man! We know you can do it! ...I! [Wild cheering and tears] N! Kiffin. [Accolades and slappings of back]
  3. The piece isn't about who they might recruit; it's about the solidity of their commits. He feels good about all of them because he chatted them up when they were in town. What are they going to say when directly asked while on a campus? "This sucks. I hate your school." This is true of any campus visit. PItiful.
  4. Appreciate the perspective and the Twice Horn upvote for it. No offense taken. I'm surprised to hear an argument from a criminal lawyer stating that a white woman of a higher class would receive the same justice as a black man accused of the same crimes. I had not researched it as you suppose. So, I went to google and entered this: Is a black man more likely to be convicted than white person Here's what you see on page 1: Then I realized we were talking mostly about sentencing, but I believe the above reflects why I wrote what I did above. I then entered the below into google: Is a black man more likely to get harsher sentencing? With such vast evidence and research showing inequitable treatment for Black men, I don't think my statement is ill-founded. Is your evidence purely personal experience? Have I missed the point? Thanks for leading me to look this up. I'd accepted it as true having made no effort to verify. I think what I found on google does verify my initial post that you object to. Written without rancor.
  5. If she were a black man, she'd already be in the slammer. Some of this is the usual pussy-footing with affluent white defendents. I think there is reluctance humiliate persons of Trump and Powell's stature. That hesitation doesn't exist for others. It must come down to the visual pictures they have in their heads. It's easy to imagine a black man in jail. It's tragic to imagine Powell deprived of her wardrobe and subject to the commands of prison guards. We need to get over that. Powell and other traitors are dangers to the country. Trump, of course, is the worst. They need to be in cells.
  6. The Aggies talked up their defense by listing their rankings and saying Ole Miss hasn't faced a defense like theirs. How many good offenses has that defense faced? They got a lot of sacks against poor OLs. Kiffen can put the shroud over whatever life is left in the A&M football season. Make it so.
  7. The judge went through a number of questions directed at Powell having to do with competence, coercion, and full understanding of what she was doing. It was thorough. If she's backing off on that and undermining her own value as a witness, she should serve her consecutive sentences and be damned.
  8. Aggies getting demoralized. Okay stuff. This is not as fun as their delusions are. I like watching them lose, but it's hell on this thread. Same thread. Some paranoid BOMC shit: Can't say five bowl appearances can they? They got skeered of Wake Forest. Lastly,
  9. If Aggie QBs wear pads, the Aggies can't fit them all under the bus. Too crowded down under there.
  10. I love it when people don't have enough threads on the football board to rag on the coaches and players, so they are forced to come to the recruiting board where the thread is about the portal. Nobody wants to see this thread devolve into an argument about who was our worst linebacker in the last ten years or multiple repeats of the same tired shit about Sark. Fine, you don't have to like him. Rage all you want somewhere else, please. I'll have my friend show you out.
  11. If I'm using plurality wrong, which I'm still not convinced that I am, thanks for calling it out. I still think I'm supported by common usage. I see in the definition that the word is inappropriate outside of an election where the winner has the plurality. The first definition pulls the meaning to a slightly more general meaning, but you're techinically correct. If it turns out I'm using if fine, I use it to connote a large portion less than half in the context of the body of voters, I do appreciate the discussion. I'm sure everybody else is rapt as well.
  12. Not false: In common usage, plurality means less than a majority. I don't think calling more than a quarter of the electorate a plurality is, as you blurt, false. I'd be glad if others weighed in on this. If I am indeed using the word incorrectly, I'd like to cease doing so.
  13. Our relationship with Israel is so ingrained that the fucking NYT uses a euphemism. Put more pressure on Gaza? What is it they want Gaza to do? Israel is attacking Gaza. It's right there in front of your face. Call it what it is. It's not putting more pressure on Gaza; it's an attack of increasing intensity. It's brutal. The first sentence says Biden calls on Israel to protect civilians. Doesn't this suggest that Biden thinks Israel is not doing so? It's your lead sentence, NYT. What's the actual story? Israels Intensifying Assault on Gaza; Biden Urges Protection of Civilian Lives This thread has polarized, so many will assume I'm speaking from one end of the pole or the other. I'm not. Competent discussion calls for accurate reportage. Much of my ire is tied to my disappointment in the decline of American journalism. The headline I suggest is merely accurate. Does the headline put Israel in a bad light? The color of that light passes through the polarized prism. The two colors are: Hell yes, they are. And I support it! Hamas is to be destroyed at all costs. All costs. or Goddamn, they're killing even more civilians? This attack is brutal, and I oppose it. Israel must find other ways! I argue that my headline is accurate and objective. That's what we need to feed our lengthy and usually pointless debates which I enjoy participating in. Maybe nobody cares.
  14. And look how he handles it. He doesn't apologize or make a joke or even laugh a little at himself. He just mumbles Sioux City. He didn't like being corrected. He was visilbly annoyed to be corrected. I'm sure he hates the guy who whispered the actual name in his ear. He's a dangerous low-IQ child who constantly watches himself in the mirror.
  15. Yea, but they're not in the tough grind of a team about to join the SEC. Week in and week out, it's war out there. UNC would literally melt if they were a team about to join the SEC!
  16. I was going to quote that tweet because I'm still able to be amazed that such a rant comes from a serious person let alone a leading candidate for president. I'm not amazed that he writes this shit. I still get dejected by how normal it has become. I notice there are only a few thousand likes for Trump's tweet. I wonder how many people are reading them. They're not showing up outside courthouses to support the fuckwad. Maybe they don't read this stuff either. They've made up their minds and don't need to read or pay attention. A large plurality of the electorate supports Donald Trump to be president. Speechless.
  17. Somebody's dream has come true. Plus, any Aggie female who went to the games in 2012 and 2013 will be batting their big beautiful cow eyes at him. He'll be swimming in it! Good times are back, baby!
  18. I love college football. I hated the loss to Rice and then the first time Iowa State beat us. After a few days in both cases, I thought that you shouldn't have a regular opponent on the schedule that can't beat you every once in awhile. There was nothing to be done about the embarrassing losses, so wtf, I felt glad for them. We Longhorns never have moments like the above. It's a great part of the game. Congrats to KU. OU sucks.
  19. Of course he does. Aggies tell us that if he hadn't got injured two years ago, they would have made the playoff and likely won the natty they so covet. Guy's gotta be a stud. Seriously, I'm glad to see him having success. He was balleyhooed into an impossible world of expectations at A&M. He went through the starting QB cycle in high speed. Glorified. Vilified. Hated. Thrown under the bus with all of his predecessors. It's crowded under there. Up next? Weigman. He's on the same track. If he's able to play again, he should skip the part that comes after glorified and go somewhere normal.
  20. I'm pro-Sark. I don't know shit about modern football. I do understand math, however. He's not the only coach doing this shit.
  21. That's how I see it as well. The emotional aspect of the game should neither be discounted nor overstated. In this situation, it's actually huge. A team that has had little success suddenly is reminded they still have a chance. Sure, the numbers say the chance was there before the non-FG, but the emotion was not. Kill their will to win. I'm not saying get rid of Sark. He's done some great things. My Herman PTSD where every game was a shit fight may be influencing my horror. I hope Sark learns.
  22. He blew two attempts to make it a three score game and kill their hopes. No. We fail to gain the yardage and revive their fervor. Same against Houston last week. We go ahead 24-0 and Houston would continue their slide into demoralization. Last thing. I hate that we think we have this unstoppable formation of linemen and big guys. Yes, it worked against ULM and Rice. You can't just line up, tell them where you're coming, and dare them to stop you if the other team is decent. Kick the field goal. Everybody celebrates. You scored on the opponent. It's a very good thing particularly if you have the lead. How many times do we have to have coaching decisions that turn a laugher into something to worry about? Please, Sark, please! Learn from this simple mathmatical lesson.
  23. What a fucking world. Cadet Bonespurs, you owe us for American blood you spilled, fuckwad.
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