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RomaVicta

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  1. I appreciate the recognition, Sydney.
  2. O.M.G. This is a real opportunity for the GOPs to dig a little deeper in the how-low-can-they-go experiment. Might be time to put banana peels all ove the floor around Mitch's office. Maybe some near a stairway. Swine.
  3. I read the letter, too. The guy's a moron and a phony. He was actually acting virtuously in his scheme for nepotism. And who wouldn't want for one's brother to "see what was best for him to occur?" As you point out, "inaccurate decisions" evidently got in the way of seeing what best for his brother to occur. How was he defending anybody? I think his impeachment and removal was the right thing for him to occur!
  4. It took me a moment to get that one. Very good.
  5. I was unhappy with NIL and the way it was launched. So far, it's okay. We seem to be recruiting guys that aren't pure mercenaries. I do love the squealing from the bag man schools about us paying above board legit NIL money. People who take Texas money are money whores. Losers clutching their pearls. Fuck them. Fuck the SEC.
  6. Hey! I'm proud of a Texas political figure. That's a rare thing. I could watch her hands for hours.
  7. Aggies talking about trash talking Colorado players against Oregon. Of course, it descends into pearl-clutching and tales of bravado. They even open up the vaults and pull out some of the good stuff. Badass appears: Nice response: Badder ass appears: Baddest ass appears: All of the Aggie riots have started with them quietly minding their own business. Imagine them displaying their class and honor and being so rudely harrassed. Of course, they were: It was like the Khyber Pass or the Alamo! Anyway, it's hard to be the only classy fans in the world.
  8. I went to an A&M game. My first one a long time ago. I'd always heard about the fabulous traditions, and I was not disappointed. Wandering around campus, we saw guys in underwear and boots sliding on the pavement! Everybody said howdy except for when we were accosted for stepping on the grass. The nice cadet explained it was a memorial and treated our scrapes like a real humanitarian. It was very moving. Anyway, we walked around and enjoyed the best tailgating with the best boots and shorts wearin' people we'll ever meet. Game time was near. I and my friends found ourselves in a strange place with row upon row of bench seats ascending almost to the sky in three decks. Aggies were hooting all around us. There was this huge pasture, like a square that the benches surrounded. We were worried we'd miss the game. I asked a kindly cadet if he could help. He asked if we'd like to see his ring. It was very shiny. We then told him we were lost and looking for the stadium. "Why, ma'am, look around! You're in Kyle Field right now!" We were so grateful. We would never have made it in time for the game without the young man's help. I'm retired, but I'm going to apply to A&M so I can become a Fightin' Texas Aggie from Texas! Howdy! Howdy! Howdy! Gig them!
  9. This is an unprejudiced question. How much difference would that make? For what would a D scheme for one that they wouldn't scheme for the other? I do understand that a new QB changes the timing of the plays a little bit which can make a difference, but you don't scheme for that.
  10. It's got bathrooms with chandeliers! That place is a bargain at $1.8 billion!
  11. Shame they didn't have the armorer from that Baldwin western.
  12. What Sidney said. I'll just add that @DalTxHornFan should consider how difficult it was for the government to get inside of Trump's business dealings to prove their case. I assumed you were kidding about the cabal. Maybe I was wrong. Snowflakes melt here.
  13. It was a nasty bend his ankle took. It wouldn't surprise me if he was out for the season. It did surprise me that they were letting him walk around on an ankle that likely had damaged tendons. Should've been in a boot or on crutches or something. Aggie or not, sorry to see it happen.
  14. What overcorrection do I even advocate? What correction do I advocate? What's a tankie? It's a funny foreign policy issue that has us entangled in what should be an internal matter of China.
  15. I'm hardly pro-China. I mainly don't like the way we break things down into good and evil as though everyone we face is Nazi Germany. It leads to facile foreign policy and war policy that doesn't really serve our interests. My priority in the international world is acting in the long-term best interests of the US. I don't think what we spend on the military abroad or what we spend on foreign wars or how we face off against other countries serves our interests as often as we might think.
  16. 1. We don't? 2. We've had fleets in their seas for decades. 3. We didn't even recognize the manifestly obvious that they were the real China until about 1970. 4. We decided to back the loser in their civil war in a new country we called China located on Taiwan. 5. We actively seek to "contain" their influence. Of course they're in opposition to the US just as we would be in their situation. I don't see why every competition like this has to play out militarily. I don't read Chomsky, but if he says things like our investment in the military and arms industries sways our foreign policy judgment, then he has a point. If he says there's something strange about us having a thousand military bases far from the US, he has a point. Read an Indigenous People's History of the United States for some interesting perspective on how we operate.' Or just condemn another writer wholesale as an intellectual shortcut. Your call. I'll cease blathering here.
  17. You don't know what I consider profound. Perhaps we are agreeing. I'll leave it at that.
  18. Yes, they loved their pennies while the big boys were getting c-notes. They also became addicted to the notion of tax cuts being good even if they didn't benefit much from them. Recall the campaign to get rid of the "death tax." The GOP made it all about the family farm which represented about 3% of those affected by the tax change. I would have been fine with a tax law cutting that group all the slack they need to hold onto their family farms. But we all know who were the primary beneficiaries of that initiative. You had the hoi polloi parroting the wickedness of the death tax for farmers and themselves even though none of their estates would meet the amount necessary to be taxed at all. This is part of the larger campaign to get people to hate their government and believe it could do nothing right. This strategy leads to privatization, and guess who benefits from that? Respectfully, I think your view is too narrow when you look at these issues. This time in our history is the birth of MAGA and open sedition.
  19. That seems to indicate Reagonomics didn't work. "We" became hooked on tax cuts is amusing unless you forgot to add -althy to We-. The morons were convinced they would benefit. They didn't. They were sold the notion of the infallibility of capitalism and the market which became more about what we stood for than liberty and self-determination. Excellent metaphor. You're right. I'm usually an advocate for keeping one's eye on the great picture, but I became distracted. Climate. Traitors openly operating and supported within the republic. State and local government embracing tyranny. It's a shocking time to be an American.
  20. Interesting question. I guess I'm not surprised, but my jaw still occasionally drops in the face of such persisting idiocy from people who are attending or graduated from college. No critical thinking, rare application of actual logic, and a fierce dedication to repeating lies that they know are lies.
  21. Jerry Jones bringing Switzer and Sanders to the Cowboys allowed me to completely abandon the Cowboys. The Oilers leaving Houston allowed me to give up the NFL without looking back. To say disliking Sanders is necessarily racist is to say the Sanders is the personification of all things Black. He's not, IMHO, although it's not for me to define Black. I do know that assuming he represents Black culture to such a degree that disliking him can only be racist sounds racist itself. You're just choosing one stereotype over another. I'm a white man continually finding shades of racism within that I didn't realize were there. I do believe that any group of humans will have diversity within it.
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