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  1. Thoughts: - Carver and Concepcion worth every penny. They bring the ability to explode on any play and the offense needs that. - Liked seeing Moss take 20 carries although he’s still not the player he was pre-injury. The explosiveness is needed because it doesn’t look like we will be able to ride him all game like we did last year. - The defense and the penalties. Woof. Elko doesn’t have the personnel he had last year but the penalties can and must be cleaned up. I predict they’ll cost us a game we should win this year. - Reed plays competent football but Craver and Concepcion are helping a LOT. Accuracy is an issue, he only connected on 17/37. Will hold breath every time he gets hit. Right now, we will be favored in every game till number 3 LSU. But the football team has obvious flaws and 2-2 could happen as easy as 4-0. Hoping that the bye will clean up some sloppiness but I’m dreading a lethargic team overlooking Auburn (who I think will lose to OU and drop out of top 25). Just feel like a game we’d lose.
  2. Wild that this dude just said “oh, I didn’t know that huge wire transfer from a shady Euro was really Russian intelligence funding. I’m as angry as you are about this.” And just kept on going like nothing. Truly the stupidest country.
  3. The legend of Diego Pavia grows. There’s a jumble of competent teams in the SEC and now Vandy looks like one of them. All of a sudden their game at Alabama looks like a fun and important one.
  4. Aguilar is a fun player but I am really ready to move past the era of the seventh year senior. 24? Really?
  5. I don’t think “genre-defining” means first, it means the best or most platonically ideal example. Although often the they can be the same. It’s a movie you recommend to someone and say “this is what genre X means.” Batman Begins: Comic book movies with no sense of humor about themselves. Little Mermaid: The Mouse conquers all media; modern animated movies built around songs. The Shining: Psychological horror. The Maltese Falcon: Film noir. Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Coming of age
  6. Trump is someone you can’t imagine having a friend, not even a dog. I wouldn’t wish him on a dog TBH.
  7. Kind of a tangent, but as a “trying to be” Christian, I think we have to claim them. Unfortunately for the world, there’s no platonic ideal Christianity floating around. Only what Christians say and do. And while I reject this version as warped and malevolent, I have to admit they fit squarely within the current of historical and theological Christianity. Throwback to my CVE days but research told people to stop saying that Islamic terror groups were not “true Muslims” or that they were “not Islamic.” It was a nice and well-meaning diplomatic phrasing to show that we had not declared war on the entire faith, but the fact is that Al-Qaeda and ISIS are really, really Muslim. And potential recruits were turned off when they found out those guys were super Muslim and could cite Hadith and Quran better than the folks telling them “those guys aren’t Muslim.” They listened a lot more to other Muslims, even conservative ones, who could explain a better way to be Muslim instead of just denying that radicalism was Islamic at all. The decline of mainstream Christianity in our country in favor of supercharged Christo-ethnonationalism has a lot of reasons and in a lot of ways has been a spiritual-social disaster for lots of people. It’s time for us “real” Christians to roll up the sleeves and show a better positive vision of how to be one, instead of hunkering down and saying “that ain’t us.”
  8. Fucking Kash Patel and the DOGE boys have been completely stomping on any expertise or morale at the bureau and then he erupts at his own creation. Real Victor Frankenstein moment here except the monster is just stepping on rakes and bonking his head on stuff. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/patel-ripped-fbi-agents-profanity-223105400.html He’s lost Chris Rufo!
  9. Watching the video with the corpse and reading the transcript of the speech where people were exhorted to join TPUSA before going to church gives me lots of thoughts. Widows and grieving parents need to be extended the utmost grace. I will say that I wish Mrs. Kirk and her family had some spiritual and emotional counselors around them instead of whatever gargoyles associated with her husband helped produce these things.
  10. Guardian has also become a huge content farm and draws from lots of partners that aren’t great on fact-checking. This was a big one to fuck up.
  11. I guess. Just a different mentality, I wonder how much tix cost. Hard for me to think of much that’d keep me away from a September evening at the Rose Bowl, UCLA should market it like the Cubs do Wrigley.
  12. I think it was more likely just a factory Mauser hunting rifle which are nice but not prohibitively expensive and you can find dealers everywhere. https://www.mauser.com/en/MAUSER-18-Standard/80112498
  13. I think (especially after the Guardian massive screw-up), actual journalists need time to process. We don’t have anything firm except that he was terminally online and threw out some slogans from toxic internet places. Best to tune out most of social media on this.
  14. Wow, Northwestern looks like the most realistic potential win on the schedule. I’ll be shocked if they get to 3. 1 is probably more likely than 4.
  15. Destroying the PAC-12 (a cool conference that deserved to live) for this.
  16. I had seen the name referenced as a video game and honestly thought it was a WW2 naval aviation simulator.
  17. This was almost certainly an outburst of confused anger flowing from jumbled and contradictory political moods. A disturbed and agitated individual who will not be able to explain the connection of Charlie Kirk to his anger and his desired outcomes for himself or society in any way understandable to other people. Nevertheless, under this FBI and administration we will likely get a selectively and carefully constructed narrative of designed and organized “radicalization” by an amorphous group of “leftists” because the president has already announced that’s what he wants. In an earlier generation, our leaders would have been relieved to explain this as the actions of an unstable individual acting on his on to turn the heat down. Now, they will weave a fictional meta narrative precisely to turn the heat up.
  18. This guy is the Nazi historian that went on Tucker and said that the wrong side won WWII. Now he’s here telling everyone he’d take his kid to the woods and shoot him rather than turn him in to the cops for an awful crime. We badly need to get all these RW people into a mental hospital for study.
  19. Lo there do I see Rush Limbaugh. Lo there do I see Jerry Falwell, and Jimmy Swaggert, and Charlie. Lo there do I see the line of MAGA back to the beginning. Lo, they do call to me. They bid me take my place among them in the halls of Mar-a-Valhalla. Where the lib cucks have been owned, where the Alpha chads shall podcast forever. Nor shall we mourn but rejoice for those that that have been called to serve Trump eternally.
  20. Unreal to see an AF2 transport with a military honor guard. The complete collapse of “service to country” into “service to MAGA.” Most vet funerals do not get the full guard, it’s usually just two service members to fold the flag. And watching the full VIP transport: there used to be an office in the State Department to assist family members with the unreal awfulness of the death of a government employee in service overseas. Repatriation of remains, effects, household, paperwork, autopsies. It was closed and everyone fired in July.
  21. These organizations are currying favor with the chief executive without being explicitly told to, because that’s what is expected and those who don’t will be noticed. For the same reason, most MSM is avoiding accurate reporting on what Kirk said and worked for (it’s possible to do so without condoning or justifying the attack and 30 years ago they would have). They do not want to be targets of the hate machine or an outburst from the Oval. Speaking of cancel culture and soft censorship. They are all obeying in advance.
  22. Not a uniform but incredibly fucking good. Goes so hard.
  23. Tim Pool and Lauren Southern and Tenet Media.
  24. I wish it would get more public traction. It’s instructive to read through the whole case against Benny Johnson and others who got “duped” into taking Russian intelligence funding. It’s really jarring to see how mercenary and fake all this is. These new-wave influencers log off and talk metrics and reach and impressions. I don’t mean to say that they don’t have genuine political leanings but what they say isn’t real to them. It’s a numbers job, they are going to do a deep dive into the data, see what hits, which segment got the most rewatches, what went viral. And then say more of that. But out there in the land of medical bills and failed marriages and dingy strip malls and hunts for college scholarships and layoffs, people fire up their reels and X and to them it’s real. It creates monsters and I wish more of them realized they were watching people doing kayfabe.
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