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1 minute ago, Skipper said:

Politics/Trump BS are the absolute last thing on my mind every college football Saturday and very thankful for that.  

I'm truly glad it's that way for you. The same forces that have made politics what they are have infected every level of sports so badly I haven't watched pro football in almost a decade and college is going that way. It's not that "politics" are in sports, but the societal forces that all this shit is downstream from are. American sports are basically unwatchable to me anymore.

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Gotta love Dan Lanning saying common sense should prevail … so we should have armed guards at every one of the ~130k schools when we only have 470k local police officers for reference. 

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20 minutes ago, Skipper said:

To each their own, but I'm struggling to appreciate the nexus between Texas One Fund/Burnt Ends and Texas Football and MAGA.  I appreciate that Texas is a public institution with Abbot largely dictating policy.  But like the rest of the country, the players themselves are largely diverse in every aspect including political beliefs.

If people are letting politics impact their sports fandom, then what's the fucking point?  I would probably just leave the country at that point.   Sports is the best release from all this shit IMO.   Politics/Trump BS are the absolute last thing on my mind every college football Saturday and very thankful for that.  

I liked what Dan Lanning had to say last week:  

 

What’s it like to have nothing but straight white people make up your entire family and friends?

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Regarding the NIL funds:  people pulling their donations will surely get the attention of other donors, and I'm really really really sure a lot of them are MAGAbbots.  So yeah, UT football can sit and spin for all I care.  We suck anyway.

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23 minutes ago, Red Five said:

A lot of nothing and both sidesisms. 

Dan mentions both sides while stating issues that are only negated by one side--guns and mental health.  I'm fine with what he said, and nobody can say that democrats aren't for gun control and mental health assistance, especially when universal health care is a central tenant of the parties platform.  Similarly, if I were to say it was foolish that both sides can't agree that abortion should be legalized, I'm really only speaking to one side's cutting access.    

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28 minutes ago, G650 said:

I'm truly glad it's that way for you. The same forces that have made politics what they are have infected every level of sports so badly I haven't watched pro football in almost a decade and college is going that way. It's not that "politics" are in sports, but the societal forces that all this shit is downstream from are. American sports are basically unwatchable to me anymore.

I just have a life, and to spend three hours watching somebody else living theirs is three hours I can't get back.  Now if I'm sharing that time with the wife, that's another story.  However, Texas football is mostly my only exception.  

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3 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:

 Now if I'm sharing that time with the wife, that's another story.

That's actually been a nice little side note to our empty nest stage: the wife has really gotten into soccer.  We get up on Saturday mornings, sit on the couch with our coffee, visit, and watch a Premier League match.  We go to most of the Austin FC matches together.  She'll even ask, when I turn the TV on sometimes "is there a match on?"  We'll watch mexican league, or some obscure international match, and do it together.

The fact that football is dropping way down my enthusiasm list is tempered by that, a bit.

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29 minutes ago, bluto said:

Gotta love Dan Lanning saying common sense should prevail … so we should have armed guards at every one of the ~130k schools when we only have 470k local police officers for reference. 

Hey, if we're not going to support reasonable gun control and mental health access, then we probably should spend more on protecting our kids.  And I do not want to be defending Dan Lanning, so that's my last take on it.    

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57 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

That's actually been a nice little side note to our empty nest stage: the wife has really gotten into soccer.  We get up on Saturday mornings, sit on the couch with our coffee, visit, and watch a Premier League match.  We go to most of the Austin FC matches together.  She'll even ask, when I turn the TV on sometimes "is there a match on?"  We'll watch mexican league, or some obscure international match, and do it together.

The fact that football is dropping way down my enthusiasm list is tempered by that, a bit.

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4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Night putting?  You know, putting, at night?

. . . with the fifteen year old daughter of the Dean.

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7 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

So Disney is talking to Kimmel to try to get him back on the air. I assume they are telling him exactly how cowardly they are and how nice they want him to be. If they come to an agreement I'm certainly not restarting my subscription but I'm sure many will. 

I'm using this as an opportunity to trim costs from my life by eliminating money sent to corporate beasts in as many places as possible. Unfortunately I've also had to include contributions to any entity associated with capitulating to this authoritarian regime, which means I've canceled my Burnt Ends and Texas One Fund recurring payments as well as deciding no further contributions to UT academics will happen either. 

So far with just media and recurring UT-related cancellations I'm at about $3500 per year saved. Imagine getting paid to have a clearer conscience, that's a win-win.

I respect your decisions and support anyone who feels the same to follow suit. This isn't me trying to blow up burnt ends subs, but it really is as you said - the face of an organization that is capitulating. 

7 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

Understood. Sucks immamac/BurntEnds had to be collateral damage to the general UT machine having to, as you said, go with the flow on a lot of things as a state institution. 

Treefiddy is fine if you want to support the site. I lose money on every burnt ends subscription (processing fees I gross up) 

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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

That's actually been a nice little side note to our empty nest stage: the wife has really gotten into soccer.  We get up on Saturday mornings, sit on the couch with our coffee, visit, and watch a Premier League match.  We go to most of the Austin FC matches together.  She'll even ask, when I turn the TV on sometimes "is there a match on?"  We'll watch mexican league, or some obscure international match, and do it together.

The fact that football is dropping way down my enthusiasm list is tempered by that, a bit.

That sounds terrible.

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50 minutes ago, dcbc said:

I guess that's why we lost the Burnt Ends Badge? ;)  I think I still pay, but it's cool.

I think its just that if your sub dates are off the last one wins. I thought I had a script fixing people but I guess it's broken. 

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1 hour ago, immamac said:

I think its just that if your sub dates are off the last one wins. I thought I had a script fixing people but I guess it's broken. 

It's cool.  I donate for the room, not the badge.

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8 hours ago, Skipper said:

To each their own, but I'm struggling to appreciate the nexus between Texas One Fund/Burnt Ends and Texas Football and MAGA.  I appreciate that Texas is a public institution with Abbot largely dictating policy.  But like the rest of the country, the players themselves are largely diverse in every aspect including political beliefs.

If people are letting politics impact their sports fandom, then what's the fucking point?  I would probably just leave the country at that point.   Sports is the best release from all this shit IMO.   Politics/Trump BS are the absolute last thing on my mind every college football Saturday and very thankful for that.  

I liked what Dan Lanning had to say last week:  

 

Just cause you can escape to the circus, doesn’t mean the rest of us can exist without being accosted. My 78 yr old mother was told to go back to her country at HEB mueller in late August despite being a citizen for 50 years+. So to answer your question, how can you let sports impact your national duty to tell racist pieces of shit to go fuck themselves until they bleed to the point the world is a better place?

im done letting shit heads ruin my country. Do better skippy

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11 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Didn’t see it mentioned in here, but Sinclair backed out at the last minute from airing that Kirk special last night.  Something is working.

I’ll take any positive news at this point, no matter how small.  

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15 hours ago, immamac said:

Treefiddy is fine if you want to support the site. I lose money on every burnt ends subscription (processing fees I gross up) 

I'd happily pay processing fees on both my treefiddy and burnt ends subs if that were an option 

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25 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Didn’t see it mentioned in here, but Sinclair backed out at the last minute from airing that Kirk special last night.  Something is working.

It got shot down… 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

just like Charlie? 

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1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Didn’t see it mentioned in here, but Sinclair backed out at the last minute from airing that Kirk special last night.  Something is working.

It's probably the multiple news articles about their cancellation page going down from too much traffic. They've really stepped in it and the SGA and WGU are pissed at them too.

Apparently they tried to make Kimmel apologize and donate to TPUSA and he refused. What a fucking world

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7 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Apparently they tried to make Kimmel apologize and donate to TPUSA and he refused.

For what? Did he even say anything negative about Kirk? I know he talked about how awful his murder was and how he felt for his family.

God I hate this country right now.

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1 hour ago, Captainant said:

I'd happily pay processing fees on both my treefiddy and burnt ends subs if that were an option 

Yeah, what's the bump on treefiddy?  I'll do it.

1 minute ago, Red Five said:

For what? Did he even say anything negative about Kirk?

No, he didn't.  It's just typical right wing snowflake bullshit.

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10 minutes ago, Captainant said:

It's probably the multiple news articles about their cancellation page going down from too much traffic. They've really stepped in it and the SGA and WGU are pissed at them too.

Apparently they tried to make Kimmel apologize and donate to TPUSA and he refused. What a fucking world

Good. I was hoping Kimmel would tell them go pound sand.

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1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

No, he didn't.  It's just typical right wing snowflake bullshit.

It's crazy, I read the FCC chairman's comments prior to reading what Kimmel even said. I assumed there had been some "This is what you get for spreading hate speech for a decade" type comments, but nope. Just his condolences.

But now the narrative is that Kimmel was fired for talking shit about Charlie Kirk. Up is down in upside down world. 

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19 minutes ago, Red Five said:

But now the narrative is that Kimmel was fired for talking shit about Charlie Kirk. Up is down in upside down world. 

first time GIF

The fascists get their messaging aligned sooooo fast because they don't give a shit about facts and reality. And since their messaging is aligned, useful and uncritical idiots latch onto it as the most likely explanation. Then it becomes the "common knowledge" even if it's diametrically opposed to reality.

That's how you get DT goons crashing out when confronted with reality, Johnny Sack/Frank Drebin put on a great show this last go-round

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SIAP but how best to pirate the game tonight? I’ve been doing daily Doing w passes for cfb so far but fuck giving ESPN extra money. 

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If “disinformation” is what they are going with on this, then the next Dem administration (lol) needs to revoke Fox News license on day 1, and I am dead serious.  Cite Brendan Carr explicitly and thank him for the roadmap to do it.

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4 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

If “disinformation” is what they are going with on this, then the next Dem administration (lol) needs to revoke Fox News license on day 1, and I am dead serious.  Cite Brendan Carr explicitly and thank him for the roadmap to do it.

My feeling is that the preservation of a Fox or Newsmax in the interest of free markets and/or free speech has been indulged too long.  
 

You probably drive that voice online, maybe that’s better, maybe it’s worse but at least it’s taking action.  

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7 hours ago, tokamak said:

SIAP but how best to pirate the game tonight? I’ve been doing daily Doing w passes for cfb so far but fuck giving ESPN extra money. 

 

Sorry just saw this

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20 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

 

Sorry just saw this

Exactly what I ended up doing. There's about a dozen random dudes in Bangladesh or whatever streaming it on YouTube.

The first one I was watching actually had a problem and the dude had to exit out to his Chrome window lol. He was fucking around refreshing the page and stuff trying to get it back. I just switched to a different one and it's been solid.

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10 hours ago, tokamak said:

SIAP but how best to pirate the game tonight? I’ve been doing daily Doing w passes for cfb so far but fuck giving ESPN extra money. 

I literally type in "college football live" into the search bar on YouTube and get a selection of games to watch. Some might cut out or direct you to click on link in the comments. Just go to the next one.

I watched tonight's game just by going to regular old YouTube with no problems. 

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45 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

I watched tonight's game just by going to regular old YouTube with no problems. 

Same.  Fuck the Mouse.  I feel a touch bad for the park cast members who might suffer, however they need to move on.

It was stupid to see the MAGA outrage over DeSantis & his fight with Diz & the Buena Vista taxing district, but this 180⁰ ABC thing is jackassery.

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When Colbert got fired, there was some cover provided by the network saying the show was too expensive to continue. But let's be real, that was Trump bullying CBS. 
So now Colbert and Kimmel are gone, and Trump is immediately taking aim at Fallon and Seth Meyers. Trump is threatening reporters to their face on the White House lawn. The inability of so many people to take a step back and see what's happening is truly frightening. 
 

That was the test run. Soon those networks will all subscribe to DJT Media and air approved shows and NEWS. Along with Praeger Broadcasting Services for the kids.
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Written by some guy named Howard Price. Looks like he’s a former TV executive who also spent some time working for Disney.


So for those who still honestly believe Jimmy Kimmel's pre-emption was "an ABC corporate decision," a little inside baseball from a former Alphabet insider.

Me.

For years, Kimmel has hosted the Disney/ABC Upfronts...the annual confab of ABC and Disney execs and the luminaries of the advertising world -- who gather at a star-studded event that's part business and part Hollywood spectacle.

The purpose of the upfronts is as the name suggests: To get advertisers to commit big money to ABC's new slate of fall shows and live events "upfront." That is, before ABC sells spots on what's called the "scatter" market.

The lure is to get in when the prime commercial availabilities are still available, and maybe get a little discount on the buy, depending on the show and the spend.

In every year he hosted, Kimmel savaged -- and I mean SAVAGED -- Disney and ABC executives. They were the butt of almost every joke...in fact Kimmel often characterized the upfronts themselves as a joke. He spared nothing and no one his comedic barbs. Which is why if you could take time to watch the closed-circuit feed at ABC, you did. It was great TV.

He was off the cuff, brutally frank -- and Madison Avenue loved it. Precisely because Kimmel talked about broadcast TV's declining audiences (adding they were still bigger than any the ad buyers would find in any other medium; but they were declining and everyone knew it and loved the no-holds-barred internal takedowns, wrapped in humor). He'd rail about recycled show concepts. Overexposed talent. About tentpole programs and shows that had been on the air forever...and new shows with up-and-coming stars.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/video/jimmy-kimmel-roasts-network-tv-during-searing-disney-upfront-monologue-thr-news/

It was stunning in its candor. And in the all the years Kimmel ran with that schtick, Bob Iger didn't fire him. Neither did the execs who oversaw his show directly.

And guess what (and I'm talking to you, thin-skinned snowflake MAGAs and your titular head in the Gold Palace formerly known as the White House), ABC all but sold out their upfront advertising in every year Kimmel did his bit.

Self-deprecation was his secret weapon. It kept it all real. And human. And hysterically funny.

Turns out people like sarcasm. Biting wit. People like humor that pushes buttons and takes you right to the edge. Because it's always built around a kernel of honesty.

It's what people watch comedy for.

What did it ultimately take for ABC to ice Kimmel, at least for now? Threats from federal regulators -- made at the behest of a dangerous authoritarian narcissist, with no sense of humor and a terminal case of grievance -- that would imperil not only Disney's broadcast interests, but any deals for which it might need federal approval.

Not to mention deals affecting two of its largest affiliate groups...both run by arch conservative right-wingers (for those still maintaining the "damn libtards" control the media. Guess again, bukkos -- actually, you do). They put their own pressure on Disney...another reason why ownership consolidation is a very, very, VERY BAD thing for real viewpoint diversity.

In my hood, we used to call economic and political bullying like that extortion. Blackmail. Thuggery.

In another time, we called it McCarthyism -- guilt by factless, and feckless, implication and aspersion.

In this time, we call it a clear and present danger to the very essence of American democracy.

Don't sleep on it, my friends. Silence is complicity. We are watching the march to authoritarianism in real time. Just as we did in the runup to World War II, when then, too, right-wing fear- and hatemongers urged Washington to curtail immigration, retrench from support of our allies, and "put America first" by keeping us out of a war whose historic impacts they thought were of no consequence to them. Or us.

Had they won the day, we'd all be speaking German now.

One thing we wouldn't be speaking...is our mind -- about anything anymore. And we're getting damned close to that domestically right now.

Think about that, why dontcha.' Murrow got it right back in those frightening blacklist days: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars...but in ourselves."


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