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Posts posted by pyrohornIII
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I think it's funny that national media still uses Jimbo as the face of A&M football.
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58 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:
billionaires want to pay zero taxesBut control everything. I posted about Yass in the Abbott thread and I've always wondered the marginal pleasure gained from making money after you've made your first billion. But then I look at Soros v. Yass and think financial titans who duke it out like gods on Olympus fighting over helping humankind or using them for entertainment purpose. Much as in the brothers in Trading Places.
Soros is demonized, but why isn't Yass? I think of the Pace picante sauce commercials from decades back "New York City?!?!" How dare Yankees pretend to know anything about hot sauce? But Abbott can take $$ from some guy in Penn, because he knows what's best for Texas schoolchildren?
But then we live in a time when the Texas Roadhouse originated in Indiana.
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22 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:Quote
School voucher supporter gave Gov. Greg Abbott $6 million in December
The contribution is the largest single campaign donation in Texas history, according to Abbott’s campaign.
BY PATRICK SVITEK
JAN. 16, 2024 UPDATED: 20 HOURS AGO
Gov. Greg Abbott received a $6 million campaign contribution last month, which his campaign is calling the “largest single donation in Texas history.”
The check came from Jeff Yass, a national Republican megadonor whose priority issues include school vouchers. Abbott spent 2023 unsuccessfully pushing for a voucher program and is now targeting state House Republicans in the March primary who thwarted his agenda.
Abbott accepted the $6 million donation — dated Dec. 18 — in a little-used account, suggesting he was setting it aside from funds raised for his reelection campaign.
Yass is a billionaire from Pennsylvania who is co-founder and managing director of the Philadelphia-based investment firm Susquehanna International Group. He is also a top proponent of “school choice,” or programs that allow parents to use taxpayer dollars to subsidize private school costs.
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Abbott has long been known as a fundraising powerhouse, but the $6 million contribution takes him to a new level. Abbott has previously made headlines for getting single donations of $1 million.
He raised $19 million total over the last six months.
Yass has been called the richest man in Pennsylvania, with an estimated net worth of nearly $29 billion, according to Forbes. His firm was an early investor in TikTok, the social media platform that Abbott banned on state phones and computers in 2022.
When it comes to politics, Yass has also been a multimillion-dollar donor to the Club for Growth, the national anti-tax group that has boosted Texas Republicans like U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Austin.
The $6 million is not Yass' first donation to Abbott. Yass previously gave Abbott $250,000 in October, as Abbott was still battling for school vouchers in the Legislature.
Abbott identified “school choice” as his top legislative priority for 2023, and spent months traveling the state trying to build public support. But he kept encountering resistance in the House. After a measure failed in the regular legislative session in May, he called two special sessions for lawmakers to hear voucher proposals. The fight came to a head in November, when 21 House Republicans joined Democrats to strip a voucher initiative out of a broad education bill.
Abbott has since endorsed primary challengers to seven of the anti-voucher House Republicans who are seeking reelection.
In addition to giving a total of $6.25 million to Abbott in 2023, Yass also cut a $500,000 check last month to AFC Victory Fund, a pro-voucher super PAC that is expected to be similarly active in the primaries.
The Dems need to call out this Yass fellow like they do Soros. They are both Jewish billionaires who donate heavily to political entities. One on the right, one on the left.
Politics do make strange bedfellows, but you have to wonder how many of Abbott's staunch supporters would appreciate his taking funding of this size from some guy in Pennsylvania.
QuoteFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeff Yass
Born Jeffrey S. Yass
1956 (age 67–68)
Nationality American
Education Binghamton University (BA)
NYU
Occupation Money manager
Known for Co-founder and MD, Susquehanna International Group
Political party Republican
Board member of Cato Institute
Spouse Janine Coslett
Children 4
Jeffrey S. Yass (born 1956) is an American billionaire business magnate. According to Forbes' list of the richest people in the world in 2023, Yass has a net worth of $28.5 billion, placing him as the 48th richest person in the world.[1]He is the co-founder and managing director of the Philadelphia-based Susquehanna International Group (SIG) and an early investor in TikTok. In 2001, he joined the executive advisory council of the Cato Institute.
Yass is considered the richest man in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. An influential political figure, he is one of the 10 largest political donors in the United States. [2]
According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, he is a major supporter of Israeli right wing think tanks.[3]
Early life
Yass grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Queens, New York.[4] He is the son of Gerald Yass, and his "childhood sweetheart" Sybil, who was at his bar mitzvah.[5][6] Gerald has a sister, Carole.[6] Gerald graduated with a BS from LIU Brooklyn in 1951, and worked as an accountant, rising to chairman of Datatab Inc. He later co-founded Philadelphia Trading, which became SIG.[6] As of 2018, he still worked for SIG, as a senior executive and advisor.[6]Jeffrey Yass was educated at public schools in Queens.[7] He earned a BS in mathematics and economics from Binghamton University.[8][9] He pursued graduate studies in economics at New York University,[9] but did not graduate.
Career
While at the State University of New York at Binghamton in the 1970s, Yass and five fellow students became friends and later co-founded Susquehanna International Group (SIG), the largest trader of liquid stocks in the US.[5][10]The billionaire trader Israel Englander sponsored Yass for a seat on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and SIG was initially run from an office at the Exchange.[5] His father, Gerald Yass, also helped to found the company.[5] Prior to this, Yass was a professional gambler.[11]
Political activities
Yass became a member of the board of directors of the libertarian Cato Institute in 2002[12][13] and now is a member of the executive advisory council.[14] In 2015, Yass donated $2.3 million to a Super PAC supporting Rand Paul's presidential candidacy.[15] In 2018 he donated $3.8 million to the Club for Growth, and $20.7 million in 2020.[16]Yass and his wife, Janine Coslett, are public supporters of school choice, with Coslett writing a 2017 opinion piece for The Washington Examiner in support of then-incoming Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos's views at school choice.[17]
In November 2020, it was reported that Yass had donated $25.3 million, all to Republican candidates, and was one of the ten largest political donors in the US.[2]
In March 2021, an investigation in Haaretz said that Jeff Yass and Arthur Dantchik were behind a large portion of the donations to the Kohelet Policy Forum in Israel.[18][3]
In November 2021, he donated $5 million to the School Freedom Fund, a PAC that runs ads for Republican candidates running in the 2022 election cycle nationwide.[19]
In June 2022 ProPublica claimed Yass has "avoided $1 billion in taxes" and is "pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers".[20]
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I can't think of the last AD or head coach from A&M being poached for what seems to be a upward move. Other than the tennis coach who UT went after?
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13 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:
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I still think that if CDC and Beard would have worked out a compromise that would have given time for things to settle, for Beard and everyone involved to go through some counseling, then Texas could have come out looking alright for having tried, instead of just ducking out entirely. Treat it like a Second Chance U sort of thing. This shit goes on all the time in so many different ways in all levels of all sports. And all is forgiven (or never spoken of), like in the case of Tyreek Hill and Joe Mixon.
Texas could have said, we're not going to kick this can into someone else's backyard, we're going to try to help this man improve his life, and we'll stick by him until he proves he is incapable of doing the work.
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What a clown show. You have to wonder what promises are made, or pictures painted to these potential hires that turn out to be shit.
Wesley McGriff Reverses Course, Leaves Texas A&M
Wesley McGriff Reverses Course, Leaves Texas A&M (msn.com)
QuoteWelsey McGriff was expected to coach defensive backs on Mike Elko's staff at Texas A&M in 2024. Apparently, he's changed his mind and returned to a familiar area code.
According to multiple reports, McGriff is headed back to Auburn in a similar on-field assistant role under Hugh Freeze. McGriff coached under Freeze in 2023 in the same role.
McGriff, who held the title of “pass game coordinator/defensive backs coach” for the Aggies, was hired by Freeze prior to the start of the 2023 season.
In early October, Freeze announced that McGriff was dealing with a “personal issue” and shifted roles to the "chief of accountability and in-house recruiting" rather than his on-field stats.
Prior to his arrival on the Plains, McGriff spent over three decades coaching in college, making stops at Kentucky (2001-02), Baylor (2003-06), Miami (2007-10), Vanderbilt (2011), Ole Miss (2012; 2016-18), Auburn (2016; 2019-21; 2023), Florida (2021) and Louisville (2022) in various roles.
One of the critical reasons for Elko's decision to hire McGriff was likely due to his relationship with defensive backs coach Ishmael Aristide. The two worked together at Auburn (2016) and Ole Miss (2017-18) under Gus Malzahn and Matt Luke.
With McGriff's departure, the Aggies have nine on-field coaches currently employed entering spring practice: Collin Klein (offensive coordinator/quarterbacks), Trooper Talyor (associate head coach/running backs), Holman Wiggins (co-offensive coordinator/wide receivers), Adam Cushing (run game coordinator/offensive line), Patrick Dougherty (special teams coordinator/tight ends), Jay Bateman (defensive coordinator/linebackers), Sean Spencer (co-defensive coordinator/defensive line), Tony Jerod-Eddie (defensive line), and Aristide.
Elko could hold a search or promote senior defensive analyst Bryant Gross-Armiento. Gross-Armiento served as secondary coach for the Aggies last season and was retained by Elko as part of the previous staff.
The Aggies open the 2024 season at Kyle Field against Notre Dame on Aug. 31.
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Only the finest kind of people.
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49 minutes ago, TexArcher said:
Exactly. Saban wants no part of a world where a kid can make just as much money in LA or Austin as he can in Tuscaloosa or Baton Rouge.
This is a changing of the guard moment. The future of college football is the schools with the deepest pockets and the sexiest destinations for a kid to build a brand.
And Saban knows it.
This advantage is one reason why I don't fear losing Sark to Bama. He's knows future UT has more recruiting and portal offerings for kids than Bama.
37 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:Ray Perkins
Bill Curry
Gene Stallings
Mike Dubose
Dennis Franchione
Mike Price
Mike ShulaGood luck to the next asshole that takes that job, especially operating at an NIL deficit relative to the other powers across college football and in their own conference. I'm sure the Bama fans will temper their expectations accordingly.
Career. Suicide.
So assuming that football at Bama starts wondering the wilderness like we did for over a decade, will that affect their overall NIL package that feeds the other sports too?
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22 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:
Why would the Waltons donate to Mizzou? They're a stone's throw from the pigs.
I think that a branch of the Rockefellers tied into piggy long ago with the WinRock Enterprises set up initially by Winthrop Rockefeller, 37th governor of Arkansas. Winrock International - Wikipedia
Probably some deep seated animosity there between the upstart Waltons and old UA money? You read what all Winrock is into now days, and it's fairly the opposite of what the Waltons do. About Winrock - Winrock International
But then I despise the Waltons, so I could be biased in this assumption.
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Came across this. Would like for Abbott supporters to explain how these moves (or lack thereof) make any sense other than trying to score political points by increasing chaos. I imagine the responses would be along the lines of "Texas doesn't get time to prepare, neither should you." Which is of course bullshit.
This man cannot believe in an afterlife where he might have to pay for some of this, can he? I mean this stuff is borderline psychopathic. Prime example of how Texas Reds operate. Don't take advantage of a bad situation by showing how you can work with others to make it better, but make that bad situation even worse to win votes from the dumbs.
How Texas officials stymied nonprofits' efforts to help migrants they bused to northern cities
By Manuel Bojorquez, Chrissy Hallowell
Updated on: January 9, 2024 / 8:55 AM EST / CBS News
QuoteAs an unofficial network of migrant advocates worked to bring organization and efficiency to bus arrivals in cities around the U.S., Texas officials quietly tried to thwart them, maximizing chaos for the Democratic-led cities where the buses were sent, a CBS News investigation has found.
Two years ago, to draw attention to the failure of the federal government to come up with policies to stem the flow of migrants across the southern border, the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, initiated Operation Lone Star. Part of that was a plan to put migrants crossing the southern border on buses and send them north — and drop them off en masse in cities led by Democrats.
To prepare for the busloads of migrants arriving in New York, Washington, D.C., and other cities, a woman named Tiffany Burrow forged relationships with nonprofit workers in destination cities to help them prepare for the buses. In September, without explanation, Texas officials told her they would no longer provide the information necessary for her to coordinate bus arrivals, CBS News learned through interviews with those involved.
Burrow, who runs the Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition, says that the state agency in charge of the bus program, the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM), told her it would stop providing her with logistical information to enable her to coordinate migrant arrivals. Further, the agency would stop observing a drop-off curfew that would prevent buses from arriving in cities in the middle of the night.
A spokesperson for the state's Division of Emergency Management, Seth Christensen, seemed to confirm this, saying that the state "is not involved in the coordination" with nonprofits about bus departure and arrival times — even though the state is running the busing program and, according to Burrow, had at first provided her with logistical information she could use to coordinate arrivals.
Burrow had initially viewed Operation Lone Star as a program that might help migrants reach their final destinations faster and more efficiently.
"I was the one that was providing migrants for their buses," she said. "If we're not gonna do this in a coordinated effort, then it really loses its usefulness for migrants."
For years, Burrow and her nonprofit have helped migrants arriving in Del Rio figure out the next step of their journey. That's why when the state wanted to start a migrant busing program in 2022, officials turned to her. She says she and the state agreed "this would actually help a lot of people."
A day after Burrow agreed to work with Texas on Operation Lone Star, its first bus departed. She said migrants expressed "enthusiasm" and "gratefulness" for a free bus ride that would take them closer to their final destinations.
"We had this huge map that filled up an entire wall. And we were able to show 'this is where you're at — here in Del Rio — and this is where the bus is going — Washington, D.C.'"But Burrow quickly found migrants were arriving at their destination cities without any infrastructure there to welcome them.
"I knew if I wanted the buses to be met, I was gonna have to do the legwork," she said.
That included identifying and notifying nonprofits in cities the migrants were headed, like Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid in Washington, D.C., run by Amy Fischer. She was connected to Burrow by a friend days after the program's first bus departed Texas.
"I immediately was like, 'I'm organizing people to respond. Here's my cellphone.' And she called me — just like that. Eventually, Tiffany started saying, 'There is a bus coming your way, and here's the ETA,'" Fischer said.
As Operation Lone Star spread to more cities, the organizing effort on the ground expanded with it. In a matter of months, it was a network.
"Each time [Burrow] would hear that another city was coming on board, she would tell me, and I would find her a person to coordinate with and receive on the other end," Fischer explained.
Burrow informed migrants that the journey was voluntary, and the bus would stop three times for gas and three times to change drivers. There would also be two security guards on each bus to ensure their safety.For months, the network was effective, Fischer said. Within weeks of the program starting, Texas officials even agreed to a request by Burrow to impose a curfew to prevent buses from arriving at destinations between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., when it would be difficult to provide services to the arriving migrants.
But, in September, Burrow said she was informed the curfew would no longer be observed. And Texas officials told Burrow they also would no longer provide her with details about the bus movements, effectively thwarting her ability to coordinate with receiving cities.
Burrow told CBS News she's no longer working with Texas officials on the program.
Under Operation Lone Star, since April 2022, nearly 100,000 migrants have been transported from overwhelmed border towns like Del Rio to cities led by Democrats, like Chicago and New York.
Charter contracts obtained by CBS News show that the effort has already cost the state over $100 million since it began.
New York City's Democratic Mayor Eric Adams has called for more federal funding and said in September that the influx of migrants "will destroy New York City."
In a statement to CBS News, a spokesperson for TDEM said, "Our partner [nonprofits] in border communities know the destination cities… and approximately how long each mission takes. They have complete flexibility to adjust their operating hours for loading and departure in order to line up bus arrivals at the times they desire."Abbott's office did not respond to questions from CBS News about why TDEM reduced its coordination with Burrow. But in the past, he has pushed back against criticism regarding the chaos around migrant arrivals in destination cities.
"We don't get any notice about who's coming across when or where or how many," Abbott said in September.
Burrow had two follow-up meetings with city and state officials days after her September meeting, but she has not changed her mind about ending her partnership with Texas on Operation Lone Star.
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19 minutes ago, 'stache said:
What makes it even more worse (worser?) is that the republican politicans and media people know that he was lying. They know how elections work. They played along anyway because they created a nation of dumb fuck morons who will only vote if you make them believe in civil war type bullshit. It's disgusting. They are literally going to let the country collapse before they act like civilized human beings. I hate them and cannot take anyone seriously who supports the fucking maniac. I seriously have less than zero respect for people who vote republican anymore. Even people in my life who are otherwise reasonable human beings, I can converse professionally where necessary, but have zero desire to befriend anyone like that, because they are either too stupid to accept truth, or are okay with lies if it helps their favorite team win elections. The latter is worse in my opinion.
This.
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6 minutes ago, bolverk said:
That's the thing with wedges. If the problem is fixed (or even made better), then the urgency disappears. Republicans and their allies don't want to solve it -- they only want symbolic acts that increase its profile. This has become abundantly clear as they repeatedly kill any legislation to actually deal with it.
We use the term "the poors" now and then on the site. I'd like to add a new class: "the dumbs." The dumbs aren't all necessarily in the same Venn circle as the poors. There are some pretty wealthy dumbs out there, and there's a lot of bright poors out there as well.
But the republican party started fucking with our education system years ago, basically dumbing America down. And now they are reliant on those peoples' votes to maintain their offices. They can only speak dumb stuff, they can't do anything that's brilliant or they are considered too progressive, loo liberal. They've built a machine of voters who elect people like them, dumb people.
And if one of them does speak out (Cheney, Romney, hell even McConnell) they are shouted down as socialist commies by MTG, Gaetz, et al. or pushed into retirement or primaried.
We used to have Republicans who wanted to fix things, but in there overarching drive to build a malleable voter base to support them, they have wiped all common sense out of that same base. And then here comes Trump with his coup de gras about fake news, which really messed with their minds. In the meantime, the dumbs hooked up with Q types and worked so desperately hard to appear intelligent, parsing hidden agendas from water bottle labels.
The Republicans of old would have wanted to solve things, and might could have. But the ones we have now were voted in by the dumbs, and the dumbs were a product of the machines of Gingrich, DeLay, Limbaugh, etc. So even if they wanted to fix things, their base won't allow them, because they are too dumb to understand.
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There was a pre plan for this type of incident. I am sure it was founded on having a large force of defenders to maintain the peace once everyone reported and would most likely call for non-lethal methods of control. Once it became apparent to the Capitol police that the calvary wasn't coming, then the plan changed to include lethal, and apparently even then there were lines of demarcation whereby once broached, defensive measures escalated. The real failure of the day from the defense side comes from whoever did the inside work for Trump to fuck up the plan.
But I also seem to remember some reports that said early on, even days before, that requests for support were already being denied, so their adjustments were on the fly since they didn't know who would actually show.
If the plan would have been followed, it would have ended up much differently.
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Makes me think of Kent State. Except everything is reversed. Instead of the establishment of rich white power brokers sending the police or military to subdue a protest, they backed the protestors while they attacked the police. Maybe this is one of the lessons they came out of the late 60s and early 70s with.
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3 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
Nerves maybe. KXAN could have run a story that Bevo was taking smaller dumps than normal, and they’d be losing their minds and picking it apart.
Reading Bevo's dung like tea leaves. Kinda surprised this hasn't been done yet.
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15 hours ago, DDD Dad said:
You misspelled political. Which is why that discussion doesn’t belong in the CR.
While I agree there might be better places on this site to discuss this, if it were started anywhere but CR, I doubt it would ever get much play. It would just be shouted down, and probably would have been relocated here anyway. Just from the response of Incredulity and then later on Slorch, the odds of rational discussion being engaged by both sides was not going to happen. That's why I started the thread to begin with. To hopefully discuss it here and get some idea how to approach it here, then maybe on a larger scale, like Neon posted above. So is this a political topic or not? Maybe not, but not sure where else this could be discussed with any modicum of success.
4 hours ago, VRHorn said:Between blacklab's moderation of DT and posts like imma's in the babbitt thread, it's easy to see why the MAGATs run roughshod over the rest of this site.
I disagree. This is a board for UT sports first and everything else finds its place behind that. I have to give props to blacklab and Immamac for taking on the headache and trying to allow everyone a place to speak. Just as easily they could just kill off CR and end a lot of headaches for themselves, I imagine.
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On 1/6/2024 at 1:28 PM, YGIFS said:
Maybe they bought the ice axepicks when they exited through the giftshop after getting lost on their tour, ever think of that smart gal?
In hindsight, mailing a package containing dog feces labeled "Your Daughter's Remnants" to Ashli's Mom was a tad distasteful. But the wrapping and bow was really nice, to be fair.
Odds are the dog feces stunt was done in house and attributed to the left, much like they push the Antifa theory.
On 1/6/2024 at 1:31 PM, Underdog said:But they brought McRibs!
More likely Chik-Fil-A. Since it wasn't a Sunday, after all.
15 hours ago, TreatyOak said:There is no comparison at this point between the two parties. Biden’s government, while not perfect, (Hunter Biden really sucks and the Afghanistan withdrawal was a disaster) is at least respected and viewed as functioning adults that can be trusted by our allies and people who can read around the world. The other is rightly viewed by what they are; an insane, funny if not so frightening, circus run by freak-show level morons and a criminal. Trump and his spawn have done and will do untold damage to our county’s ability to function and to whatever reputation is left by the time they take power. Trump will cozy up to Putin (which is truly incredible) and the North Korean dictator. They are a threat to our democracy and safety. The FIRST thing they will focus on accomplishing is somehow getting Trump declared president for life. Fuck that sociopath and his idiot morons. We are currently under our greatest threat since the Civil War. I have no problem using all lawful and unlawful methods to protect my country from them. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War and I don’t see anyone complaining about the outcome. Anyone with a brain is compelled to do everything they can to stop those monsters.
I wonder how skewed our vision of the national Dem party is skewed living in a state that hasn't had much Democratic success for over three decades. Have to think the overall judgement for the blue side is better in states that have been successfully blue for some time, like California or NY. Where I do feel the NDC fails is in messaging for everyone in the party. It's like they leave some states to flounder by themselves. But then maybe some of those states don't want to play ball, so they just get less funding? In short, is our view of Dems overall sourer because our Texas Dems have been stumbling for at least a decade?
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8 hours ago, bolverk said:
I did a quick Google image search and found some tweets that credited it to Bruce Mehlman, a political consultant and former Assistant Secretary for Commerce under GWB. It's from a slide deck on trends affecting the political climate; something he apparently puts together annually.
Seventh slide out of 30. The whole thing is worth perusing: https://mehlmanconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/Trust-Fall-Mehlman2024-Q1.pdf
Thanks for finding this. There's a lot to digest there.
11 hours ago, Neonmoon said:The trend in displeasure has been rising since '01 with the normal setbacks from the hope instilled by new administrations. But it's interesting that there's steady rise in each Red presidency and the Dem ones fluctuate, but don't steady rise. But the biggest thing to me is this is a charting of how people feel about the direction of the country, not so much a grade on the President and their admin. So that rise could just as easily be disappointment in the House for its part in all this, as it is in Biden.
10 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:This world would be better if it were a matriarchy for a few generations.
Source on this? Before I repost it elsewhere and someone asks.
I'm not so sure about this since we've been introduced to so many Karens on both a state and national level. Though other countries have had success with this method, see New Zealand.
6 hours ago, slorch said:He was in a couple of Astros discussions and people were lightly taking shots, in a proper manner, IMHO.
The problem is when the tone changes to a something that usually isn't found in sports discussions. It's fine to poke fun at Cruz and jinxing teams, but talking policy or actual political behavior doesn't belong in the sports threads. again, IMHO.
Other times people are asked to stop discussing political angles, yet they INSIST there is no other way to discuss it. Well, yes, there is. The CR way and the sports relevant way; and these are hardly limited to or exclusive of Cruz.
We ahve a venue for railing on political decisions and policy positions. It is Cloakroom.
Nobody did this, at least not any of the CR regulars. You've just made my point.
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Has anyone seen anything about a celebration of the team once school is back in session? Maybe a parade or some sort of event at Moody? I wouldn't think Gregory could handle the crowd.
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I'd like to think we're past the days of Koolaid and moving towards some fine sippin' whiskey. That we can read the reports out of spring and fall camps without thinking "zero sum." It's been forever since we've had a coaching staff that could evaluate talent and then develop it. Add that to the culture change and we don't have that feeling it's all a house of cards. Not only do players want to be part of this, but coaches and staff apparently want to be part of it as well. Sark is the next Saban, as far as building a dynasty. He'll do it differently, he won't be as gruff and irritable while doing it. Watching all this come together and play out will be glorious.
Quinn obviously found himself lacking in some areas at the end of his freshman season. He worked hard to make the necessary changes. It could be he didn't feel right in trying to sell himself as the leader until he proved to himself he was capable of being that leader. That's what happened this season. Now I feel he has the confidence in himself to be that leader, to ask the team to follow him. He wants to be genuine, not just a bunch of hot air. So here's to hoping the new Quinn takes those steps and assumes that fiery leadership role.
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49 minutes ago, troph said:
What are the big offender threads in DT? I’m on the weather threads, I lurk the Ukraine thread monthly, some others that are just benign. Right wing nut cases are run off the Ukraine thread.
I did genuinely think folks were being drive by stupid on the NYT NIL thread but I was slow I didn’t immediately pick up on right wing bias against the NYT.
its sad self reflection and analytical thought and revision isn’t practiced on the right, honestly message boards used to be great for testing your own beliefs. I know reading what many of you have espoused has changed me. Hell @BrickHorn posts from way back nearly turned me into an atheist. I’m more agnostic and lazy about it now than anything. But hey that’s a long way from home.
you can read this thread and see folks are open minded I don’t get that from folks on the right.
That last sentence says a lot. I feel those who are open minded are more concerned for humanity and others, whereas the close minded ones tend to retreat to their shells, more concerned about themselves and there legacy more than others.
I think some of that is nature and some is nurture.
And I think when times get extreme, people are pushed somehow further away from center. Or maybe the perception of center changes.
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I'm sure most of you have seen this, and it's probably posted repeatedly in here, but I'm going to post again, in case someone else missed it. Apparently written right about the time he portaled, or was portallng, to UT.
QuoteDear Longhorns
Story by Quinn Ewers • 6hIt’s always been my dream to be a Longhorn.
Every Saturday for as long as I can remember, my family would be glued to the TV watching Texas play. Just the other day my mom was telling me about when I was two years old, and we watched Vince Young and the 2005 team win the Rose Bowl together. (Apparently, I had kid-size Longhorn gear and everything.) Stuff like that just reminds me how, at my core, it’s always been Texas.
And now, 16 years and a transfer later, I’m getting a chance to create my own legacy with the Longhorns. Surreal right?
For Vince to give me his stamp of approval on Twitter … that was an amazing moment for me. What he was able to do for the program, what he’s left behind — he’s a legend. So to be in the same conversation as him in any way is an honor. But I’m also not gonna get too far ahead of myself. I’m just focused on being the best quarterback I can be.
I’m just trying to keep the main thing the main thing.
And for me, that’s always been football.
I’m a simple guy, so it wasn’t some big moment that started my quarterback dreams. Honestly, one of my favorite memories is just throwing the football around with my dad in our backyard. I know it might seem small. It’s not anything crazy like hurdling over somebody in middle school on the way to the end zone (haha, we can talk about that another time), or winning state championships, or breaking records. But I love that my football journey started with the man who introduced me to the game.
And now that I’m writing this Players’ Tribune article, I know y’all have questions. The biggest one probably being: Why UT now? Why did I go all the way to Ohio State in the first place?
… Can I be honest with y’all?
There’s a lot of pressure that comes with this kind of thing. There was already a lot of pressure when I made this decision the first time, and now that I’ve gone through the process again, there might have been even more pressure the second time around.
I didn’t just choose to go anywhere. I chose a program I truly believe in. I chose to come home.
Quinn Ewers
Finding a balance between inside and outside expectations has always been challenging for me. On the outside, from the trolls to the people who love you, inviting so many opinions and perspectives into a choice like this is never ideal. And on the inside, I’m always trying to figure out how to balance having a lot of confidence in myself with also wanting to stay as humble as possible in order to see things clearly.
It’s hard to make life-changing decisions when you’re only 17 or 18 years old. But this time I really just tried to block out all the noise, and focus on what I wanted for myself. It took a lot of prayer, but I’m confident in the choice I made.
If you’re looking for a messier answer, you won’t find that here. I enjoyed my time at Ohio State, and I look back on it as a lesson that’s pushed me to where I’m meant to be. I’m grateful for the experience.
This new chapter in my life and career has been a long time coming, though, and I couldn’t be more excited about what’s next for this program. Coach Sarkisian and I have a good relationship, and I totally trust him and our staff. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be here right now. It’s that simple.
I didn’t just choose to go anywhere. I chose a program I truly believe in. I chose to come home.
So with that being said….
We’re ready for this year.
There’s a different type of confidence in the air right now. It’s refreshing, and it’s exciting. It’s Coach Sarkisian’s second year, and everyone’s aware of the expectations. And we all know it won’t happen overnight. But we’re ready to rise to the occasion.
As for me?
Y’all should know I’m one of the most competitive people out there. Officially starting my quarterback career as a Longhorn is a dream come true, and I’m prepared to give everything I’ve got to help this program get to where it needs to be.
It all starts now.
Hook ’em.
I glad I found that. Adds some depth and character to the young man that his quiet demeanor and shyness in interviews fail to deliver. I'd say he's delivered on a lot of what he said in that first open letter.
I know he's not complete, and he knows it too. He's a good fit for Sark, because they both are introspective and understand being humble and self aware is the first step to self improvement. I can't wait to see how much he improves going into 2024 and the future, whether he declares or comes back.-
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I'm thinking maybe some type of 7 on 7 flag football.
Texas Sports: 219 million dollars in operating revenue
in Football
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cut out some of the click baits
necro bump to report the latest stats:
Does NIL calculate into this?
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Texas reported athletic department revenue of $271 million in 2023, a record for NCAA schools
The University of Texas athletics program – always among the nation’s most financially powerful – again has gone to another level: It had just over $271 million in operating revenue during its 2023 fiscal year, according to its new annual revenue-and-expenses report to the NCAA.
The report, which USA TODAY obtained the report Wednesday through an open-records request in partnership with the Knight-Newhouse Data project at Syracuse University, means that Texas increased its revenue by nearly $32 million over the total it reported for 2022.
For now, the new total stands as the largest single-year total since the NCAA began its current financial reporting system in 2005. Ohio State reported $251.6 million in 2022. (Oregon reported $391.8 million in 2020, but that included more than $270 million as a contribution for the renovation of its track and field stadium.)
By category, Texas’ largest year-over-year increases were:
-- $11 million in contributions, which rose to nearly $86 million.
-- $10.2 million in money from sponsorships, licensing, royalties and advertising, which totaled $54.7 million.
-- $5.7 million in ticket sales, which moved to $63.3 million.
Schools had to provide their 2023 reports to the NCAA by Monday, and, so far, only a few schools have released them. Penn State, LSU and Tennessee all have reported exceeding $200 million for the first time – but those totals trailed Texas’ by about $70 million.
Texas will be joining LSU and Tennessee in the Southeastern Conference this summer.
Kansas State, which currently is in the Big 12 Conference with Texas, has reported $102.3 million in revenue for 2023.