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  1. 47 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Exactly. Remember his evasive "joke" regarding the transition? When not outright ignoring the press, that would be his method. Lies upon lies, whaddya gonna do about it daily flouting of the rule of law, and a lot of crony shuffling of funds, appointments, perks, and changes that reinforce the wealth and power of those who brought him into the circle. He was paid for by Koch and it would be a boys club of heavy hitters that have no problem using force by any means necessary. The little bit with Mary Louise Kelley of NPR was an example of how he relates to people and had she not been a seasoned interviewer, he would've gotten away with playing the martyr, gaslighting, and outright fabrication.

    He’s pretty well known to have a volcanic temper. Staff are constantly trying to avoid situations where he loses it. No one with any familiarity at all believed his version of the Kelley story.

  2. 4 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I have no idea what is going on.  Is he auditioning for something?

    Yes, he is using Department of State resources to soft launch his 2024 campaign. Even though he’s still SOS, he’s telling everyone how awesome he is as “just Mike.” 

  3. 2 hours ago, DFW Horn said:

    In my experience, officials also usually just reference one-syllable colors; black, white, blue, red, etc. This shit would be "gold" in officiating's vernacular.

    Ducks to wear yellow uniforms against Washington

    Yep, remember that as well from official vernacular.

  4. 29 minutes ago, Snacks said:


     

     


    You are an old... But I remember that as well. I think the NFL started calling the city names, then CFB started calling the schools.

    I don't know what txhsfb is doing these days...

     

    The refs weren’t mic’d when I played, but on the field it was always offense/defense or red/white/blue, etc. 

  5. 1 minute ago, elfenix said:

    do what now?

    When a swimmer takes off from a starting block, arms and hands are out front and break the water. Every one who tries the sport thinks one day it’s funny to do the same dive but with hands and arms at the side so you sort of faceplant. It’s a shallow dive and so you aren’t hitting the bottom,  but even just hitting the water with the crown of your head at the wrong angle can cause traumatic spinal injury. 

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  6. Can’t believe we’re arguing about this. Head down contact with anything is a ticket to paralysis. All through HSFB in the 1990s we were taught never to come with our heads down and to look at what we were tackling. 
     

    Hell, in swimming my coach would explode with rage if he caught an athlete goofing around and doing shallow block dives with heads down and arms at the side, not breaking the water. If you glance off the water wrong like that, you’ll float face down like a starfish unless someone pulls you out on a backboard. You’ll never walk again. 

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  7. Is it just me being old or did CFB refs used to call possessions/downs, etc. by jersey color and not team name? (Result of the play is a first down, white). I know for a fact they did in TXHSFB. It strikes as a nice hat tip to the ideal of neutrality— only noticing uniform colors. 
     

    Just noticed several times refs saying stuff like “Ohio State recovers” and wondering if I am misremembering. If not, when did that change? 

  8. 12 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

    Florida or Ole Miss both did.  

    Yeah, but they lost too many games, so tough titty for them. You don’t get an invite for being the team that plays Alabama closest.  You can’t deny that BlowU is playing well right now but how many years do they need to be wafflestomped in the CFP before you give up on them as a hope? 

  9. 9 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    They claim 2: 1942 and 1980

    They have over 800 wins, a lot of bowl wins and 2 Heismans. Those are their only "blue blood" water marks.

    They fall pretty far short in conference titles (15) and consensus AAs (35).

    Their history is almost identical to Auburn's, ironically. More wins and bowl wins, one less MNC and Heisman, a few more AAs, one less conference title.

    UGA is the most underachieving team in the SEC. Great state for talent, very good school, resources, beautiful campus and town.  They should be a major power.  Their boosters and alumni are not as crazy though.

    Its nuts that Georgia Tech had won a MNC more recently than UGA.

  10. 1 minute ago, Fletch said:

    Oh Facebook trumptards would blame it on antifa and Soros and crisis actors like they always do. God fucking dammit I hate these people so fucking much. It was funny when aggys were doing weird aggy things in college station all these years. Now these idiots are trying to overthrow the government. Un fucking real. And can some Jordan Kleppar like dude go interview the proud boys and have every question be “what’re the 3 branches of government?” And watch them get stumped on the easiest question on U.S. government 101

    Yeah, somehow I think the folks who want Civil War and “secede” won’t be fazed by a bit of fire and violence in Washington aimed at “the Swamp,” “elites”, and of course—- Black people.

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  11. 2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    We all know Texas is shifting blue, but Trump still scored a 5.4% margin over Biden.  It happens every time -- "Beto might actually beat Cruz, oh damn, nevertheless".  It's going to take a decade at least before one of these major races actually flips. 

    It doesn't help that the Hispanic vote is actually picking up small momentum toward the red side of the aisle.

    Democrats need to come to terms with the realities of Mexican-Americans in Texas— and just how damn diverse they are. 

    Example: Right now the Highway 100 town of Los Fresnos is draped in Back the Blue paraphernalia. This 90 percent Hispanic, quiet, culturally conservative place has a very different feeling about law enforcement and what problems they face as Mexican-Americans than neighborhoods of recent immigrants in Houston or DFW. Now, Los Fresnos is still blue and has plenty of reasons to vote blue, but it’s not as reliable as it once was. And they simply are not going to accept that a major, pressing problem is that they are suppressed and oppressed by their cousins and brothers in the LFPD, Cameron County Sheriff, or even Border Patrol. It just doesn’t register, nor does “Latinx.”

    Thats not to say that the D party needs to ignore these very real issues that are grave problems for many, many people and constituents. Just that they have to find a way to leave room for other constituents’ “lived experiences” to coexist. A demographically changing Texas and USA will bring some changes for the old Republican guard, but it’s also not going to look the way blue progressives might want or imagine it will. 

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