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RomaVicta

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  1. Trump won't be replaced by any simple formula that has worked to get the GOP nomination in the past. As you say, Trump brings a specific act that got that nomination in ways nobody anticipated. Part of it was he was not on the usual train track for elected politicians. MAGAs need someone to maintain their totally impenetrable sphere of dumb/greedy white man fantasies about the world as it is and can be. They see Trump as chosen by God to champion their lunacy. If someone replaces Trump in these ways, I doubt the person comes from politics. We may end up with his coked-up son as a nominee. His raving deceit and lunacy might just fit the bill. Idiot World
  2. Just ordering the sign, there were constant pop ups wanting more. It doesn't exactly warm the heart.
  3. I just got a chill. RomaVicta 2016: Trump will never be nominated.
  4. I just opened the thread and this is exactly my feeling and response. As with Biden, I think Walz was over prepped so that he felt he had to get in every single detail of a practiced answer. The answers were solid in the old paradigm way of policies mattering. On the policies that are prominent enough to actually matter, Walz did very well on the rights of people to make their own choices about medical decisions. He particularly did a good job of defining the issue of abortion rights as a matter of liberty. We're not pro-abortion, we're pro-rights. Of course, the damning non answer exchange was key. There were opportunities to make points about this throughout, but I think feeling the need to get a point across rather than consider more what the opponent said and attacking is what limited Walz as it did Biden. It's difficult to debate a constant liar in a format that allows so little time. In that debate in that format, I'd go after the overall issues of constant dishonesty, clear hostility to democracy, and some detail about Project 2025. Walz' excellent quality of seeing the good in people and believing in general good faith provided contrast. I found myself terribly stressed throughout the debate. It got worse and worse. My emotional reaction was way out of proportion to what was being said on the TV screen. There is so much at stake. The electorate should have no problem seeing the difference between a lying, grifting, felon who wants to rule rather than govern and the clearly pro-democracy, decent candidates with good policy goals. It drives me nuts that tens of millions of voters don't get it. On both sides. I don't think the wave of support for Harris is about the fate of the republic. I think it's mostly an emotional response to a positive, hope-driven look to the future. In the end, it seems to simply boil down to the emotional choice between hate and tolerance. Maybe that's okay, but it seems tenuous to me. Thanks to anyone who reads this long post.
  5. It's all about the patch. It transformed A&M magically from a BDF team to competiveness in the SEC over one summer! So far, so good for us, too! Love that patch! ETA: Actually, now that I think of it, did A&M or Missouri show any signs of being ground down in their first seasons? Seriously, was there any evidence of this tired assumption about the brutal business of playing in the SEC?
  6. I didn't know they were paying Elko $7MM. That's astonishing. I'd assumed it was somewhere between 4 and 5MM with incentives. Well, I keep reading that Maybe he's worth it. Of course, some might wonder why his team wasn't playing its best in 3 out of 4 games so far this season. I guess they were concentrating too much on maximum effort against McNeese State.
  7. I'm sure all of those remarks and his befuddled delivery of them were thoroughly discussed on CNN and the network news. Unleash police officers for (more) brutality. He cheated workers. He continues to lie about the past election. He is rabble-rousing about that lie to discredit the coming election. He can't stay on point for more than a few phrases and can't even generate a compound sentence. America is so polarized now. Both sides are basically the same, they're just polarized and bickering all the time. Real jounalists must be throwing up.
  8. I remember Tommy Nobis missing a game because he had the heebie-jeebies. I don't have any reason to dislike Elko. Among all the other problems at A&M, he gets a quarterback controversy where neither QB has been particulalry good against decent competition. What do I do? Of course, it's delicious that the TexAggies went from worshipping Wiggy to hating him and raving about Reed to start hating him, too.
  9. RomaVicta

    LBGTQ

    Fair points. Nice to have an outsider's perspective. Thanks for making me look this up. Published on the Prairie View A&M website. (Prairie view is a historically black university.) It would have been nice to make the point I was considering: not many Texans owned slaves and it was concentrated in East Texas. Both seem true. The part that follows the "However" suggests a general attitude about enslaving people. You can surely find racism ianywere in Texas, but East Texas is more Old South than southwestern. We usually draw the line at interstate 45 which runs from Houston to Dallas. This is a big place. The Valley is not like East Texas nor is West Texas like the DFW metroplex.
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    LBGTQ

    I was raised by Texans so some of that traditional character made its way into me even though I was merely a suburban boy. I went to Spring High back when it was 2A and there were plenty of Texas country boys there. I have to wonder how much any person born in an Anywhere, USA suburb surrounding Houston, Dallas, or Austin reflect much of what we like to think of as Texan. The different state characters are fading due to the massive homogenization of the national culture. It'd be nice to return to the fine old saying of "that's none of my business." It fits well with tolerance and leaving other folks alone so long as they're not hurting anybody. That saying would apply to what occurs between doctors and patients and what they decide is best. It also applies to what people read, what kind of clothes they want to wear, and what's going on in their houses.
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    LBGTQ

    That's fascinating. I did not expect this at all. I'm a white male native Texan, and I suspect persons of my phenotype didn't follow the trend. But, I was wrong about native Texans in general, so maybe I'm wrong about that, too.
  12. It's remarkable that the Aggies operate on the assumption that they are an important object of attention nationwide. We've actually got a prominent national brand, and I'm sure nobody paid much attention to the Longhorns when we were shitty other than us and, of course, the Aggies. We surely didn't suspect a national conspiracy to keep us at #18 when we were better than the #16 and 17 teams. Their brief assault on the top 5 merely brought brief national attention to their mediocrity as they laughably crashed every year after the holy 2020 Covid season. Nobody expects A&M to be in the top ten. If they get there, nobody expects them to stay if they give them any thought at all.
  13. RomaVicta

    LBGTQ

    You can recognize what Texas has become and not be glorifying New York or any other location. There are large pockets of resistence in the metropolitan areas, but we know how the white man vote largely goes here. I'm a Texan. I don't like having to say it almost apologetically to decent people in other states. That was not the case when I was young. What distinguished Texas and Texans 60 years ago is largely long gone. Texans used to be generally friendly and people who tended to mind their own business. No more.
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    LBGTQ

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    LBGTQ

    And that's why this country's fate as an actual republic lies in the hands of just a few million unengaged voters. This is not to say that engaged voters give much of a fuck either, but at least their votes on other issues have a chance to align with the minor issues of persecution and fascism. Streaming college football, I've seen the Trump ads touting the horrors of medical coverage for aiding transexuals/unsures deal with their situation. (It's difficult to word that. If I write "treat," it sounds like we're talking about a disease. I guess that helps the fascists to feel superior.) The fact that medical professionals are making medical decisions about this carries no weight or has not been emphasized enough in the discourse that I've heard. @Brisketexan stated it years ago, so it kind of fades in the face of new characterizations: Cruelty is our brand. It excites the insecure adolescent need to feel tough and superior.
  16. Yes. I can't think of any two programs closer in their accomplishments than OU and A&M. Perfect comp. Not Michigan State or South Carolina. No. Oklahoma.
  17. The Tigers have two shutouts, but the schedule is pretty stinky so far.
  18. Gentlemen, we must keep A&M under control. What is it with Aggies and naming eras all the time?
  19. And they're killing us in quality losses!
  20. I guess sometimes it works. I don't recall it ever working with implications as dire as when it doesn't work. I guess that slick reversal of route we did a few times with Worth was good. It was likely necessary, too. I just don't remember the game. I do bitch when it works. It encourages him to repeat the error in judgment.
  21. They're relying on the Who Wins Halftime tie-breaker.
  22. Trust in RC Fran the Sherman tank Sumlin Jimbo "he knows how to win a natty" Fisher Elko and Klein! The first and last posts are just sad. Georgia and Texas don't need extra motivation just like 'Bama and Georgia didn't. Aggies don't have any rivalry where the outcome had national championship implications for them. Middle guy has the right of it. This is repeated over and over. We are always defined by our worst game. Alabama and Georgia have both had similar games: Georgia (ranked 2cd) 13-12 at KY this year. Alabama (ranked 5 after losing to us) 17-3 at S. Florida last year. I guess the Aggies best victory is a close contest between Bowling Green (lost to Old Dominion yesterday) and Arkansas. If Notre Dame keeps winning after to losing to NIU, that quality loss may be better than their best win! I think the coronation and gushing over Manning is, indeed, too much. Manning has no control over what idiot sportscasters will do. Arch is over-hyped but also appears to be very good at the moment with a rare level of excellence to come when he takes over the team. I mean, if we can't have Wiggy, I guess Arch Manning will do.
  23. How ground up are the Longhorns today? How many players died? Sure, we'll show up for OU. I mean, they're just another BDF re-tread like us. But then Georgia? And then the rest of the SEC schedule? The grind? I weep for our players! Oh the humanity!
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