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RomaVicta

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  1. I hadn't opened a thread there in years. I saw familiar names. You're right about it being TexAgs for Longhorn Regards:
  2. A key lesson in life: Simply making a joke is not the same as being funny.
  3. Very good post. It's interesting how even what the "right" is has been totally transformed from a fundamental counter to big government, big spending, and over-regulation to a bundle of issues that just a few decades ago wouldn't have even been defined as partisan issues. Abortion: No reason for this to be partisan. A person can be anti-abortion for moral reasons and still believe in expanding aid to the poor, cutting defense spending, and even the Equal Rights Amendment. Guns: Same thing. In fact, there actually isn't even much of a difference between how most Dems and GOPs feel about restricting gun sales, allowing private gun ownership, and even registering guns. The GOPs turned this into another scare issue by saying the Dems want to take all your guns so that they can enslave you. Immigration: Should this be a partisan issue? I don't think so. Neither party is for unlimited open borders. Just as in guns, one party says the other party wants a flood of immigrants to increase their voting base. A real debate on immigration would discuss the value of persons willing to take jobs most citizens don't want and then decide if we're happy with the possible exploitation of migrant farm workers to keep food prices down. "The right" pretty much doesn't exist anymore. A friend tells of his Dad who grew up in pre-WW2 Boston. Lots of gangs. I'm not sure which way this went, but there was a gang that had been called the Irish Boys. That gang's location became a place where Jewish people lived. Even though the gang was comprised of Jewish boys, they kept the name of the Irish Boys. So it is with the right. Whatever they were, they no longer are. Sticking with the label of the "right," I believe, keeps the electorate and journalists from addressing the actual paradigm shift. I've written too long, I suspect. It's just all so horribly interesting.
  4. Not to mention how often they can't watch TV because there's no wind. And, my God!, the secondary damage to ratings!
  5. This is beyond parody. It fits well with the funeral hijinx thread in showing just how insanely single-minded so many of them are. BmtAg96 seems to believe that just about the only thing pollsters are considering is where to rank A&M in regard to Texas. Each voter can clearly see the reasoning of Miami > OU and their win over Bama being worth more than ours. So what's the deal? It's laid out right there for them? Why? Why? Oh, I'll tell you why:
  6. Depends on if I'd trained to fight in the particular altitude where the store was.
  7. Great for her and Arizona! I read a more in depth article (or maybe more of just the one quoted above). This was a corrupt GOP action through and through. GOPs in office protected the deal.
  8. This is a little too on-the-nose for the location of Carlson's home.
  9. RomaVicta

    Meritocracy

    I can't tell you how fabuous life is when you have so much of all three.
  10. I will be happy to not have the backend of our schedule be such a lackluster list of opponent names. The new schedules will be fun.
  11. You know your countrymen. They've been playing this card since Carter. It's almost quaint in its level of despicability.
  12. I may have lost the thread of the discussion, but earlier the talk of bleeding had to do with human cost. I don't see us as bleeding Ukraine and support aiding them. I am concerned about the human cost and wonder if that may be what leads to resolution. I'm fine with bleeding the Russian military as they have impaled themselves on this spear.
  13. How much of a difference do you think there really is between normies and MAGAs? The Republican hate engine created MAGA, relied on MAGA, and controlled MAGA until Trump stepped in and seized the reins. MAGA is just the hate engine gone nudist public. They just care that it's embarrassing to have it so public. They can't do without it and couldn't separate from it even if they wanted to. It's who they are.
  14. When will they next be in court?
  15. We need the heavy hitters to bring us some grist. I'll add the quote below from Olin Egghead Buchanan. 1 Totally equivalent. Totally 2 See 1 above 3 Because they're Aggies. 4 Boy, they wear out cliches. I think playing with a chip on the shoulder is the step right before getting their swagger back. 5 Get used to it. 6 See 5 above
  16. 1. I love the idea of Sanders taking Aggie recruits. 2. I love that this recruit didn't call Sanders, Coach Prime. I'm so bored with that nickname. 3. A&M is really banking on "making a statement" against Alabama, a team that, when we beat them, was not a statement victory. I think the tracks of the rollercoaster come to an end on Saturday. The below from well-known scholar Olin Buchanon sums up the Aggie mindset: Totally equivalent.
  17. I mainly recall the mention of sorghum in all those public school geography courses we had to take. Just about every state raised various crops. The list always ended with ", and sorghum." I had no idea what it was. I asked a teacher after several years of hearing it. She said it was feed for animals. That's all I "know." I wouldn't know it if I saw it. I often wondered if it actually existed. I just used it above because it's a funny word.
  18. I don't know shit about the workings of Congress these days. I barely knew more than shit back when it used to be a governing body. If the GOPs expel Gaetz, it will not be a sign that the better hearts are prevailing, IMHO. It will be phony show claiming that such has happened. I don't have the feeling that Gaetz is a key symbol for the MAGA crowd. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there isn't some sneaky plan to pry MTG out of office through scandal or whatever means to further give CNN the opportunity to sigh with relief that now we can get back down to business as usual. Hooray for the shitheels who protected the traitorous fascist rebel, Donald Trump! If they're lucky, they can continue to defame everyone prosecuting Trump but have Trump convicted and taken off the table. They will hoot and howl for the MAGA rubes to see how loyal they are to the Donald. Their last move will be to make sure they stay horrible enough to keep the deplorables interested. You know, the same kind of horrible they've been through the last several decades without much of the electorate even taking notice. Those are the musing of an uniformed man. The only thing that I am sure of is that the GOP will remain a criminal organization beholden to the rich and whoever sends them lots of money from anywhere.
  19. I believe the SWC was buried in that car in some remote sorghum field with no marker.
  20. Tetris. You guys were right, it was solid. They almost lost me with all the exposition at first, but it turned out well.
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