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RomaVicta

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  1. When did they give up on the certainty that Trump was actually running the country and only weeks away from returning to the White House? Of all the predictions about the impact of the internet years ago, I don't recall anyone warning about massive cults. It was the information superhighway and we were all going to be learning great things via this newly available medium. I guess we can just add a "dis" in front of that name and it's perfect.
  2. They will only see what they are looking for. I agree with @Brisketexan & @Willfully Horn. Discourse is dead. Persuasion is useless. All you can expect from the cultists will be condescension or betrayal. It occurs to me as I see some of the above discussion about Black voters who choose Trump. Often it's wondered how they can so blindly vote against their own interest. Everybody who is not rich and voting for Trump is voting against their own interests. If it's only a single digit percentage of Black men voting Trump, they're beating the fuck out of the white man vote.
  3. One can't expect Aggies to grasp the law of diminishing returns.
  4. Also, as has been pointed out many times, A&M took a Big 12 offense and team to the SEC which was still largely hostile to passing the ball. The SEC was surprised by the offense and JM eluding their rush complicated their adjustment. There would be no element of surprise in the Big 12 whose defenses were ready. Manziel was fun as shit to watch. A&M turbo-hyperventilation over him was funny to watch.
  5. Who are we calling kids here? Seriously. Twenty to early thirties? Collegians? I will presume to take up their perspective. I think when they say "too old" that they're saying more than "it's time for the young generation to take over." Two geriatrics where one is a criminal lunatic who manages to get elected and the other is well-meaning but is stuck in the past of political discourse and literally difficult to understand, present more than an aesthetic objection. I'm guessing that many view the world governments including the US as Greta Thunberg does. The short-sighted profit/growth driven economies and governments are doing very little to address issues that deal with their future. The olds still see the world as having a future similar to when they themselves were young. The olds are fucking way off. Climate cataclysm is the easiest example, and it indeed exemplifies what the young must be seeing in any number of contexts. They just really don't give a fuck, and there's nothing I can do about it. They see BLM and Me Too dismissed or even villified in the case of the former. They see 60s style police crackdowns on non-violent demonstrations on campus. They see a criminal system of justice unable to even jail the leader of an insurrection they saw on TV. There has been a cold-blooded collaboration between banks, governments, and colleges to strap them with high five to six digit debt the day they leave school to embark on their young lives. That is unconscionable, shameless, and mandatory. The college loans are unironically presented as providing "opportunity" while severely limiting same. Horrifying. The young already exist in a de facto fascist-authoritariam society in which their interests don't matter unless they conform to the rapine ways that got us here. Get the job to pay the loan to live the future your grandpa did which doesn't exist anymore. I won't promote what is essentially "we didn't include them, so why don't they feel included." Their world will go to shit and they will rightfully hate all of us as selfish materialists. So, yeah, I don't see myself having an easy time sidling up to a "kid" and offering to set them straight on how to run things. And, here in Idiot World, they'll blame teachers instead of the dickheads interfering with curricula from above. We've got tons to share. How do you think we got ourselves and the world to where it is today? My friends, there is a rich fountain of absurdity or absurdism going around. Wisdom is in short supply and always has been. Age does not automatically confer it. Close to my take. The GOPs are evil and the Dems are weak. Maybe the Dems are bucking up.
  6. Facilitiesfacilitiesfacilities is one of those things anybody can do if they have the money. In their heads, it provides an off the field victory that they can crow about. Somebody else might think, "you know, that quarter of a bil we spent on facilities didn't really bring in any revenue or elevate the program. Maybe we should rethink our investment strategy." Not the redass Aggies. "Our facilities are second to none, but we're still lagging on recruiting, performance on the field, and ROI. What do we learn from this? We learn that we just haven't spent enough on our facilities to get the guaranteed results gold-plating always brings. HOWDY!" They like it because their teams will ever be mediocre and irrelevant, but they can brag about their facilities. It's like their claim about halftimes being contests that they never lose. No scoring. No judging. No records. Their favorite situation for claiming victories.
  7. Holy shit! 1 Ok, that covers number one of four. Let's check out number 2 once we've digested number one. Okay, ready? Good! 2 Boy, that's a lot of insight to take in. I may have to take a nap before proceeding. 3 On to point number 4. One trivial Aggie thing is that he announces 4 points then uses letters to distinguish them. It's the little things. 4 In summary: A. Get really good players. B. Get really really good players. Players with pop! C. Get really really really good players. Impact players! D. Ummm, be like Vanilla Ice and get it done. We better alert Sark that A&M has additional strategies besides having players practice, lift weights, and be cultured. Doom.
  8. Your left or right hand? Arousal would be easy. Quite a collection of beauty.
  9. "...and it's not close." This is an exercise in creating a hysteria of clicks. We only need ten thousand dollars more to meet our hourly goal! Please, these paper bags for Aggies will save lives! Oh, Johnny!
  10. Black people were never called to entertain white people until the Civil Rights Act. The Nicholas Brothers, probably the greatest tap dancers in history. Look, they made it in front of a white audience! No one promoting black entertainers could ever be a white supremecist!
  11. But offenses had changed so much. A&M was running the complex system that required intense study and practice. Check the precision and planning.
  12. The Aggies are believing a much improved defense will boost them in competition. I'm unclear on a few things after the fog of the off-season. Wasn't the A&M defense good last year? How much better could it get to make any kind of material difference? I've read here that their first string talent is good to excellent on defense. Now I'm recalling what a star Edgerrin Cooper was last year. He's arguably the best linebacker I noticed playing for anybody all season. What do they have or whom have they recruited to fill that gap? I recall their linebacker depth chart was pitiful when the season ended. I just checked 247 and see they has two LB (one seemingly very good) committed and on campus. Three LBs transferred in. One from Pitt, a possibly toxic guy from Florida, and a smiling fellow from Youngstown state. I didn't intend to write this long when I started, but at least I've done some leg work. I'm thinking their linebacker corps drops in quality with so many new guys and questions. I don't see their defense improving. Is this correct? If so, everything is reliant on their OL to improve, correct? I think all of their QBs looked good last year, but they won't be enough. How far off am I?
  13. She's reaching out to every division of the GOP's devisive strategy. I think your observation of separate but equal is the message, and it's a good one. All are welcome. All will be the same. All are showing their support and thus unifying in the cause. Forward together. A few weeks ago used for Biden, it would be cornball. Now, it's again inspiring.
  14. They should be careful what they wish for. They already have the Jewish-hating vote. If they start dog whistling that in their usual clumsy way, it will just further identify them as the hate party longing for the days when everybody knew their place and the right people were frightened. I'm not reading much detail of the kind being discussed here. I had my say above about that. If Shapiro himself sexually harrassed someone, I assume he wouldn't even be considered. If he hasn't, he's easily cleared the low bar set by the pussy-grabber. Character assassination and slander based on lies are the anti-republic party's only real weapons. Unfortunately for those assholes, contrition will wipe out most stuff brought up against a Dem. The GOPs are never contrite, never self-aware, and never-rising from shit-slinging strategies to the extent that they are now absolutely coated in shit that is right now named weirdness.
  15. I think the arguments and discussion about VP choice is old paradigm politics. I feel the same way about issues such as Israel, fracking, and any of the other things we actually should be discussing and addressing as a nation. The person who has been leading in the national polls is a lying rapist openly talking of retribution against those who oppose him. And that's just for starters. He rides the hate wave generated by the GOP without scruple or regard for anyone but himself. He embodies the surprising political movement that seeks to destroy the ideology of the republic by returning the USA to white man rule days. He runs on emotion: hate of an illusory threat posed by fellow citizens. He's turned the hate engine into a hate cult. Harris and the enormously refreshing emergence of Democratic oratory have at last shifted to the new paradigm. What was the political struggle is no longer about policy. The other side won't discuss it except to ridicule Dem policies using lies. It's now about labeling your opponent (socialist/woke/invaders vs weird/crazy/dangerous loons). The Dem leadership has fallen back on countering the dark emotion of the hate engine with light emotion of unity. The only allusion to policy is returning versus moving forward. Progressive will cease being a dirty word henceforth. Take it literally. The Harris candidacy is a groundswell of emotional pushback on the doomsayers. We're going forward and getting to work. It rings as more than the tired slogan it was a few weeks ago. We need that vision articuated as a real alternative to Trumpism. It is being so in splendid oratory. I never anticipated an appeal to America's better side would have any impact at all. I have a ledge-shaped cushion and crystal glassware for watching the final act. I think my emotional uplift is part of the general groundswell, the ascendancy of good faith and goodwill. Never saw it coming.
  16. Texas got slaughtered by Mexico in a very one-sided game, as you recall.
  17. In the fake Aggie letter seeking help on the writer's first visit to the greatest game day experience in the world, it was asked what were the best restaurants in College Station. The image was my response. It's a Shitty Margaritaville of soulless chain restaurants
  18. The Aggies are really boosting Texas and ND!
  19. Then he personifies the last five pages of this once fun and interesting thread.
  20. She could choose Eric Trump as VP and I'm in 100%. I'm just ready for all the speculation to end. All of her actual choices look good to me after seeing all the video you guys have posted. Onward to battle!
  21. I'm reminded of the days years ago when I spent more time on TexAgs. Of course they claim we're all limp wristed homosexuals as though it's a profound insult. What was amusing to me was how many of them could apparently name every gay bar in Austin when they heaped their manly manful insults on Longhorns. Oil Can Harry's always led the list, but they could name others that were unknown to me. I asked them once how they knew them so well. Queerly, none of them answered.
  22. It's hard to convey how electrifying Twin Peaks was when it appeared on TV. Another really good choice. Holds up pretty good, but taking it in live was the shit.
  23. This is my tiresome thing about the TV News idiots. Those are huge stories that they didn't cover because it was so far off the template that they decided not to take them seriously. They all succombed to Trump fatigue which is antitheitcal to their profession. Trump revealed he was anti-republic and had no regard whatsoever for his oath of office. What do they give us? The country is so polarized. = Both sides. So many Dem speakers taking over where journalists failed and where hidebound political discourse crippled their party. No more stuffy statements about "we are profoundly disturbed at the statements made by former President Trump and we abhor his words." No. Now they just talk about what's obvious and speak their intelligent minds. Never thought I'd see it. Yep. The old pol's have their templates, too. You see all those dusty boxes in the back room? Get rid of 'em. We're starting over.
  24. Quote from Peggy Noonan about Kamala Harris: Now close your eyes and imagine she's talking about Ronald Reagan for whom she wrote scripts.
  25. You begin to see what is wrong with America. Here we should have the freedom to speak the language we impose on our fellow citizens. We can fill the prisons with lawyers who use Latin and MAGAs who don't really speak much of anything. Speaking of old and out of touch, when's the last time anyone referred to Ebonics? I've only become aware of Loomer recently. She's a parody of what has become the right. A comedian could use some of her lines to evoke laughter. Any possibility she's a performance artist knowingly getting in on the grift?
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