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  1. Respectfully on this, we aren’t talking about political reporting. This isn’t a who said what about a budget deal or even a big Pentagon contract. This is reporting on intelligence skullduggery with at least two of the major actors at war with each other and boasting intelligence services the operate in the Soviet model at the highest level. I’m a big fan of the WaPo and the dinosaur media, you can check my posting history. The WaPo editorial board is not equipped to handle what they would run into if either the Ukrainian or Russian services want to go all in on an information operation. My hesitancy is not over just over anonymous sources, it’s the whole picture— the only person named is someone already in jail, the investigative parties are keeping quiet, and there remain open questions about what other state actors were up to at the time.
  2. That wasn’t a promise, it was a threat: win one or you’re gone. Now Jimbo sleeps with the fishes. True competitors will appreciate our mafia style ruthlessness and subtle communication.
  3. Y’all are thinking this is a big win for you, a nice moment of schadenfreude. Don’t let me ruin your fun. But think about this before you smirk too much: 1. We are about to pay the biggest buyout EVER. How many teams win a national championship? One per year. But how many have paid out the largest buyout in history? I don’t know and neither do you, but it’s fewer than one per year. Literally making CFB history here. And that’s catnip to recruits: come make history. 2. What was the story line coming into this week? A&M playing ACU at 6-4 and looking to play its way into a second tier bowl instead of third year. Not now. Now, it’s history making A&M looking for a new coach. Biggest story of the week in CFB. That’s what they’ll talk about on ESPN. And who watches ESPN? That’s right, recruits. Script flipped! Enjoy not being the biggest story in Texas CFB this week! 3. We are getting a new coach and you know what that means? We have at least two, maybe three years where the new guy has a pass to get his guys and the right chemistry. That’s longer than Sark’s leash! Ha! Owned. So yuk it up. We’ll just be over here making historic power moves.
  4. There are numerous reasons to be a bit doubtful of the WaPo story and it doesn’t have to be a Russian info op. It’s all a bit weird when the only people cited are anonymous and the only person they’re throwing under the bus is a dude who’s in prison already. It’s absolutely not a good look for Ukraine if there’s some individual score settling going on. Wait for Sweden or Denmark to say something, these are not nations known for playing political games when it comes to serious matters. If they think it was a Ukrainian op they will say so.
  5. As a non-$9.95er, I honestly have no idea how much autonomy a P5 AD has in negotiations or selections of the HFC at A&M or anywhere else. I suspect there’s no standard answer.
  6. But we will get to have our own Bobby Bonilla day, just like the New York Mets. Advantage us.
  7. I am not a fan of firing coaches mid-season. Although that appears to be more of the SOP than waiting till the end now. It was clearly time to get rid of Jimbo, you’re either paying him 76 million now or paying him 76 million to keep phoning it in and make chaotic coordinator hires for several more season. I expect the transfer portal to bite hard but then again it bit us hard last season when we kept Jimbo. The bottom line is that he kept losing games to teams with objectively worse players than he had. During his tenure here I think we can say he identified and hired one truly good coordinator in Mike Elko. I’d like to see Elko back on the sidelines, although I can see the argument that Traylor is better positioned to recruit the state. After several seasons of flaming and creative collapses providing the only entertainment for me as an Aggie, let’s go get Lane Kiffen and take this shit to straight to streaming levels of explosive crap.
  8. HI Sutton is good and not a conspiracy theorist. I’d remain in wait and see mode for official investigation results.
  9. Whatever else Tlaib says or does, she has a problem with posting demonstrably false takes and then refusing to climb back down even when proven wrong.
  10. Not really. If they want to live in a free, secular, tolerant Israel they could just say so. Clearly an important part of this is “Israel” going away and something called “Palestine” replacing it. The most charitable reading involves eliminating a country.
  11. If it’s just a call for one nation between the Jordan and Med where everyone lives in a nice secular democracy with equal rights and no discrimination…… Then why aren’t they chanting “Israel shall be free?” They could likely get a lot more traction with that one.
  12. I don’t know anyone who tries to dissemble and say that the phrase doesn’t mean what it means when it’s pointed out that it appeared in Likud’s founding documents: it meant one nation, Israel, where Palestinians were either gone or politically dominated by Jews. It is bullshit in that context and I don’t understand why it’s cute to play games the other direction about what it really means.
  13. Can you find evidence that it means what you want it to mean, outside of some Western college campuses? By all means show me. Where is Palestine’s Vaclav Havel or Lech Walesa? Where is Palestine’s Nelson Mandela? Where is Palestine’s Simon Bolivar? Or Palestine’s Zelenskyy? The world is littered with freedom fighters— violent and non-violent— who demonstrated that their calls for liberation were based on calls for human dignity, fundamental rights, tolerance, and respect. I am unfamiliar with any similar political force among the Palestinians. The best among them can only boast “we are not actively doing terrorism now.” None of them have a vision of equality, liberty, and tolerance for their own people let alone Jews. Is your argument really that Israel is so much worse than (checks notes)….the Soviet Union, Apartheid South Africa, Putin’s Russia, and Imperial Spain… and so there’s no way for Palestinians to give birth to a political movement that values freedom for THEMSELVES?
  14. Is there a single viable political force or organization within Palestinian society proposing anything that approximates a liberal democratic governance structure for the Palestinians NOW, let alone that proposes a liberal democratic state that includes a bunch of Jews? Whatever “Palestine will be free” means, it’s undeniable that there are not any actual political actors in play that have the desire to make it so.
  15. Really makes you wonder how much of this is about Palestinians…… Protesting “Zionism” to end “enslavement of working people,” yikes.
  16. Crimean ports are a dangerous place for Russian vessels.
  17. There’s not a context for painting Stars of David on a pig, although additional context is a shithead who has said that maybe October 7 was fake. It’s time to grow up.
  18. “Bro, we’re going to protest theocratic or ethnically based states, they shouldn’t exist. They’re illegitimate and shouldn’t exist!” ”Oh, shit, we’re going to protest the existence of Pakistan, explicitly founded as a state for Muslims and where you are not allowed to convert from Islam on pain of death?” ”No, that’s not cool but we aren’t protesting Pakistan.” ”Oh, so we are going to protest the existence of Arab states that expelled Jews and legally privilege Muslims?” ”No bro, we aren’t protesting them even though that’s not cool.” ”Ok, I am totally pissed at the existence of nations created as homes for Poles and Czechs and Slovaks! Fuck them! Bring back the Habsburgs, it’s bullshit to create ethnostates!” ”Hahaha, no. They sound problematic too but we aren’t protesting them.” “What religious and/or ethnic state are we protesting as illegitimate?”
  19. Israel should remove illegal settlements and should extend full civil rights to all Israeli regardless of religion and propose a legitimate path to statehood for Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank. A lot of what the Israeli government does is not justifiable.
  20. Here’s something that’s good to figure out early: If there is a parade of 100 people, and 10 of them are Nazis in the parade with flags and shit, it’s not 10 Nazis and 90 very fine people. It’s just a Nazi parade. Very fine people don’t march with Nazis and they don’t make temporary peace to achieve mutual aims with Nazis. If there’s a rally and it’s 20 Communists calling for violent revolution out of 100– it’s just a Communist rally. It’s not 80 liberals and a few Commies. It’s just a fucking tankie rally. Sorry you gotta police your own. @DDD Dadwas very specific in calling out Waters’ as a good example of hiding behind “anti-Israel not anti-Jew” and then doing the most obvious anti-Israel shit imaginable.
  21. Stop. Making. Excuses. For. Roger. Waters. Easy as that. Can you do it? He’s a complete shit head who’s wrong about everything and paints Stars of David on pigs and says Ukraine provoked Russia into invading. He says that maybe October 7 didn’t happen. Try it on. “Roger Waters is a shithead anti-Semite even if he’s pro Palestine.” Walk back and forth in the aisles. See how the word “even” is more appropriate than “but”?
  22. I gave you the quote. What part of “remove Hamas from power and make them incapable of running Gaza”’ is an illegitimate aim? Be specific on the part that is genocidal?
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