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RomaVicta

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  1. If he were held accountable, he wouldn't be president and might be in jail. He's paid a fine that isn't particularly hefty considering his graft income. In a largely morally bankrupt country, a massive majority of the population chose him or acquiesced by not voting at all. The things you name do represent being held to account, but where is the other side of that notion? Consequences. Add in that he is an enemy of the republic he seeks to destroy, and such a person should be shackled then hurled out into a cold sea via trebuchet. As far as 2020 Dem candidates, I was so impressed with the field when I watched the early debates. Warren was my favorite, but I also loved the crew-cut guy from the Pacific NW. Booker was impressive. Tulsi was an attractive Trojan horse and, I believe, there was a well-meaning flake; they were the only ones I felt opposition to. I was foolish to think any of them would carry a general election except for maybe Crewcut. He was manly and white and you sensed that beneath his gentle demeanor he could kick some asses. Biden proved to be what the experts around here said he could be. Even turned out to be a terrific president. Now? The best chance would be someone who can exceed Trump in bombast. "While you were out raping women, I was serving in Afghanistan." "You've done many unique things, Donald. You managed to bankrupt a casino. Everybody said that couldn't be done. Did you at least grab a lot unsuspecting women by the pussy?" "That plane the Saudis bribed you, oops, gave you is great. I'll love using it How does it compare with your close friend Jeff Epstein's? Hot and cold running teenagers?" "We all admire your subservience to Vlad Putin. What does his dick taste like? Is it a big one?" "Alive or dead: Harriet Tubman? Maybe the bravest American ever?" "Do you miss Ivanka's lapdances? Touching her hips while looking at her breasts? Don't deny it, Donnie. There are pictures. Keep your eye on the TV, you'll see them." "You're the most brazen liar that I've ever seen. Amazing, really." Al Franken. Maybe John Stewart. David Chappelle (he'd surely lose, but the show would be spectacular), Jon Hamm might work. Better, smarter bombast than the idiot-in-chief.
  2. They overpaid a sitting cost-cutting AD who knows how to cut a budget. He wanted to come be an Aggie so much that they had to overpay him. You sips don't understand anything do ya?
  3. Their executives evidently believe the same things that Texags Aggies think: They are a premier program who can get what they want whenever they want it. They think Jimbo loved the idea of coming to College Station. They separated the absurd contract that attracted him from Jimbo's positive statements about the Aggies. By doing so, they oddly took pride in both their appeal to big-time sitting Natty coaches and how rich they were that they could pay him. Jimbo was all:
  4. This is why the old guard had sympathy for those pathetic scrappy oddballs: Modern Era of College football begins. We all know that. It's not some stupid invention. The decades of futility for the Aggies through the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s is what the oldest guard remembers. The Aggies became insufferable during the Jackie $herrill run. They truly believed that good had conquered ebil.
  5. They fucking bring it on themselves. Their obsessive stalkyness means you can't ignore them even though they're not very frightening.
  6. There's something quaint about all of this. Fatal quaintness. With no general uprising as response to what is happening now, what hope is there for any Dem candidate? What does it matter? The showdown must come long before 2028, or all will be already lost. A lot of it is lost right now.
  7. People just knock the chip off their shoulder and kick their ass. Nice chip, though.
  8. Laughing? It's great to see a Longhorn doing so well! ETA: "Second" fiddle to five teams is sixth fiddle.
  9. We do this to share the team's pain. See, now it's not weird; it's special. Once you know the reason and the tradition, you will want to come to A&M where you can be a part of something bigger than yourself. A place with values and an honor code. Texas A&M University. We stand up the whole game to show we're ready to go into the game if needed. It doesn't matter if we're playing an fcs team or the game is a runaway. We stand ready. They almost needed us against the Bowling Green Seniors. We were ready to go in when Appalachian State outscored us. Also, the pinnacle of our lives is earning our Aggie ring! We then take our places in the Aggie Network. No other schools have these things. Here's our unofficial hand gesture that we use to inspire the team at every game! Once you get to know us, you'll love us! That is, except when you play us; then you will fear us on the field but love us as the classiest fans anywhere!
  10. He was blown away. Has something to think about. Knocked out of the park. Not the exact same words, but this reads like Aggie fluff. Gettin' ready for the big day! Or, maybe, beautiful Lake Bryan! Roll out the red carpet? Hell, boy, we roll out the red lake! Knocked it out of the park! Given 'em all something to think about while they're taking their antibiotics back home!
  11. Here we have the strength of Aggie reasoning followed by.... ...the classic Aggie tale about every outgoing coach. The new guy will have them showing up to practice on time, fielding grounders, swinging two bats to warm up, and spitting without hitting their uniforms. A whole new deal! This genius, Aggie-like, falls in line: *No, you don't. Default to the traditional fictions about virtue. Last summer these guys were heroes and true Aggies because they stayed. Now? Not so much. Marvelous: 1 Captain 2 Conjugation. 3 We all aspire to be the person in charge of the command. 4 Aggies never simply lose. It's resent, you moron.
  12. They're going to make him earn his millions. When everything went to shit and they were taking another drubbing, Earley looked resigned. I imagined him thinking, "This is humiliating and awful. Just make it to the end of the season and it will stop. And I will be a millionaire." Nope. Aggie gonna make you go through it again. What a kick in the gut.
  13. Irony deafness is never funny. Neither is blindly answering your question within the question even while denying it's the answer. There's a moron on the road His brain is squirming like a toad. Jack's on a roll: Maybe he's a troll, but it's amusing.
  14. These are Black jobs, remember? Death Murder Cult
  15. I hadn't thought my NFL metaphor (We don't how or who plays, just make me feel like a winner!) for what drives voters as nationalism. Of course, that's what it is. I guess I think of nationalism as influencing foreign affairs. Seems pretty dumb now. Thanks.
  16. It's become an in-your-face gesture in the way a pointed Merry Christmas has also become. They excel at seizing harmless words and gestures and weaponizing them. Liberal. Environmentalist. Feminist. Woke. Democrat. Social justice advocate. They should merely be names of movements or whatever type of group, not objects of hatred simply as words. These hateful tactics are not accidental, of course. Well said. I share much the same sentiment. I never really liked the word "proud" of being American or Texan. I started saying "pleased" instead. Like others here, I liked knowing that as a nation and as groups of citizens, we did a lot of good things. It helped to balance out the horrible things we've done although I begin to doubt the good acts have nearly the weight of their opposite. But all powerful nations smash things and steal things. Not all of them show up if there is a disaster or bother to use its might to protect an ally. Our dual nature was extremely evident in Central and South America. Our government is training death squads in Georgia and propping up Caudillos while private citizens (largely Christian) were building churches, hospitals, and offering very valuable aid. I don't see much of that now. Trump makes it a policy to erase it. All I'm left with are our blunders and abominations. They will mount in the coming months. I'm neither pleased nor proud to be an American. I have nothing to point to to justify either feeling. We're somebody new. I am proud to be part of the opposition with my other friends and friends here. The nation is not void of good pieces. I'm in a state of resigned lament. I'd be delighted and surprised if this country became embraceable again. I feel ya, @Sbbruin
  17. Thanks for the recommendation.
  18. I think it was clear when Israel's expectations of driving the Gazans into Egypt was thwarted by Egypt refusing to open its borders for them. The Israeli plan to quckly desplace huge numbers of Gazans and then, presumably, to never let them return was wrecked. Instead of allowing Israel to close its border and deny Gazans their homeland, Egypt pre-empted the plan by seeing the future and refusing to take part in it. Israel kept dropping 1000 pound bombs or residential areas. Much of the idiot, lazy press painted Egypt as the cruel one. After all, this was a righteous war against Hamas for the (genuinely) unspeakable crimes committed on in October. I believe the better press elements (likely print journalists) found the story that Netenyahu had been supporting Hamas to have the enemy he needs to allow brutal policies. Although widely reported, the black and white issue of the Hamas criminal attack made covering the war easier for the big TV outlets. Panels don't like complex issues to yell at each other about. This started and continues to be a campaign of annihilation. Bombs, terror, starvation, denial of medical help, and bulldozing in areas of Gaza made the intention obvious. Should someone argue that this is pressure to retrieve hostages, I will point to the Nazi tactic of killing 20 innocent villagers to pressure the French resistance. Of course, the scale of that is quaint compared to the Israeli campaign. Our journalists fail us again, but I can't be sure that it makes much difference. Their failure is not having the fortitude to identify something they see accurately. This is not simply a war against Hamas where the Gazans are sadly caught up in the crossfire. This is total war against Gaza. At the very least, it should be described as a military invasion and takeover of Gaza. There is no place that the Israelis have not smashed and occupied. The media fail in the same way in their hesitancy to label the starvation in Gaza a "famine." A year ago, I heard a guy (unhappily) explaining that the UN had not declared famine because they have precise criteria for doing so. There must be x number of children per thousand people to be dying regularly was one of them. Others were similar statistical marks. The man (probably a UN spokesperson) was unhappy, I think, because to him it was absurd to see pictures of the roaming Gazans with neither decent shelter nor knowledge of where food will come from and quibble about whether it was technically, by UN definition, a famine. Of course it's a fucking famine. The word was created before there was a UN. I can see that the newsmedia have embraced that absurdly concrete definition because they dare not pronounce something unless it's a quote. It's my biggest problem with the TV press. They're lazy and incompetent. This nasty little "war" has proceeded under a broad tent hiding its malice. Israel has made itself an outlaw nation. And we support it. Shame on us.
  19. I found this exchange over at William's place. Imagine the world centuries from now. Archeologists sift through the remains of College Station. Several odd things about the place and the legends of an army run by a dog and a populace terrified to walk on grass has finally justified a dig. The writings below would be very insightful as to the minds of the people known as Aggies. 1 Bowel Movement Aficionado 2 Apparently, the Aggies are considering the creation of a bull fighting team. 3 Statement of fact. We'll call this Dogma 1: They're all out to get us because of t.u. It's a fact! 4 And here? Dogma 2 We have to ignore that "fact" of persecution and concentrate on ourselves. Aggies will gaze at their own navels after what it is and where it is are explained. 5 Aggie Netword validation. Brings a tear to the eye. 6 It's pretty clear you weren't agreeing with the fixation on t.u. part. 7 You keep using that word... 8 Firmly in the camp of Dogma 1 9 You abjectly accepted the object lesson about power when you protested Texas joining the SEC. It was betrayal that you would not stand for! You might just take your power to another conference! You learned the measure of your power in that moment. Chastened, you tamely voted for Texas' entry. 10 His (nick)name keeps popping up. I expect a sizable faction of TexAgs posters to demand his return. 11 The Aggies are so noble and decent and decent and just plain good. Thanks for the truth, buttwad.
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