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Just now, Lurch said:

 


I think they just have a block of seats inside the student section. They’re saying if you disrupt you won’t be allowed in their block, though you can still be in the student section generally

 

If this is the case (if), that's still easily avoidable if the university wanted to. They've essentially ceded control of areas of the stadium to this organization. That doesn't sound like they're trying to "force them out". 

Let's see if the university comes out against the SGA's statement. 

(they won't)

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14 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

lest we all forget our president is rapey as all fuck:

 

 

Anybody on twatter please tell the magats on there that are replying "so?" that DOTARD claimed he never had any contact with this woman, other than on the set. In other words, DOTARD lied, water is wet, the sky is blue.

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6 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

 


Uh, they don’t.

The SGA and Office of Student Affairs controls block seating, not TM.

The SGA is made up of TM member groups not actual TM members.

Think of TM as a political party. Running unopposed.

 

 

Soooo.. the school knows the TMs are a bunch of racist white frats. They know the TMs always win the SGA. And they still allow the SGA to control block seating.

Sounds like they're really fighting them tooth and nail.

Anyhow, so as not to derail the Trump thread, let's see what the school does. I know where my money is.

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23 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

 


Uh, they don’t.

The SGA and Office of Student Affairs controls block seating, not TM.

The SGA is made up of TM member groups not actual TM members.

Think of TM as a political party. Running unopposed.

 

BC,

I generally like your posts here, but if you keep this up I'm gonna have to neg you.

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1 hour ago, Lagunamadre said:

Shit, Walter would be a big Trump guy, wouldn't he? 

Let me point out something.  Bone spurs are not--  Look at our current situation with that fucker in Turkey.  Bone spurs are not something to hide behind.

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1 hour ago, Bama Chick said:

 


You literally have no idea what you’re talking about.

The university HATES TM. They banned all student government for 4 years over their behavior.

It’s got no official standing. It’s made up of reps from 14 fraternities and 14 sororities. Those 28 reps nominate and select students from those 28 organizations to run for different positions and even homecoming queen.

The individual reps take the slate of machine backed candidates to all the members of their groups and say “Vote for these people”. The greek organizations require their members to vote in elections. They cannot be sure everyone will vote for TM slate but most do. You’ll get fined if you don’t vote.

These students make up 10-15% of the student body but around 50% of students that actually vote.

Most students don’t vote and the one that aren’t voting for TM candidates split their votes amongst 5 or 6 other candidates.

Boom - TM slate wins virtually every race.

The administration can’t do a damn thing to stop it. The Black Student Union has a slate too but they don’t have the numbers or the organization or the ability to punish people into voting.

But, please, do lecture me on something I saw and participated in first hand. My BFF’s boyfriend - now husband - was president of TM. My FIL and BIL were members. I was a machine backed candidate.

The group is abhorrent and I would love to see them kicked to the curb but the actual university has nothing to do with them and actively works against them in every way they can.

 

If your university can’t put the clamps down on 28 Biff’s and Missy’s then it probably sucks. But more importantly none of us really give a shit so stop blabbering about it. 

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19 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

If your university can’t put the clamps down on 28 Biff’s and Missy’s then it probably sucks. But more importantly none of us really give a shit so stop blabbering about it. 

Bama produces this:

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Texas produces this:

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Shit plays out about as you'd expect.

Greg served Nixon, ended up raped in prison.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-wanted-barr-to-hold-news-conference-saying-the-president-broke-no-laws-in-call-with-ukrainian-leader/2019/11/06/16d541ec-ff55-11e9-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html

 

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President Trump wanted Attorney General William P. Barr to hold a news conference declaring that the commander in chief had broken no laws during a phone call in which he pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate a political rival, though Barr ultimately declined to do so, people familiar with the matter said.

 

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The request from Trump traveled from the president to other White House officials and eventually to the Justice Department. The president has mentioned Barr’s declination to associates in recent weeks, saying he wished Barr would have held the news conference, Trump advisers say.

 

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In recent weeks, the Justice Department has sought some distance from the White House, particularly on matters relating to the burgeoning controversy over Trump’s dealings on Ukraine and the impeachment inquiry they sparked.

People close to the administration say Barr and Trump remain on good terms. A senior administration official said Trump praised the attorney general publicly and privately Wednesday, and deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley said in a statement: “The President has nothing but respect for AG Barr and greatly appreciates the work he’s done on behalf of the country — and no amount of shady sources with clear intent to divide, smear, and slander will change that.”

 

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But those close to the administration also concede that the department has made several recent maneuvers putting it at odds with the White House at a particularly precarious time for the president. Like others, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the politically fraught situation.

The request for the news conference came sometime around Sept. 25, when the administration released a rough transcript of the president’s July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The document showed that Trump urged Zelensky to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter — while dangling a possible White House visit for the foreign leader.

By then, a whistleblower complaint about the call had moved congressional Democrats to launch the impeachment inquiry, and the administration was on the defensive. As the rough transcript was released, a Justice Department spokeswoman said officials had evaluated it and the whistleblower complaint to see whether campaign finance laws had been broken, determined that none had been and decided “no further action was warranted.”

It was not immediately clear why Barr would not go beyond that statement with a televised assertion that the president broke no laws, nor was it clear how forcefully the president’s desire was communicated. A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment. A senior administration official said, “The DOJ did in fact release a statement about the call, and the claim that it resulted in tension because it wasn’t a news conference is completely false.”

From the moment the administration released the rough transcript, Barr made clear that whatever the president was up to, he was not a party to it.

Though the rough transcript shows Trump offering Zelensky the services of his attorney general to aid investigations of Biden and his son, a Barr spokeswoman said that Barr and Trump had never discussed that.

“The President has not spoken with the Attorney General about having Ukraine investigate anything relating to former vice president Biden or his son,” spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said in a statement released at the same time as the rough transcript. “The President has not asked the Attorney General to contact Ukraine — on this or any other matter. The Attorney General has not communicated with Ukraine — on this or any other subject.”

It would not be the last time the Justice Department would have to distance itself from the White House on a matter relevant to the impeachment inquiry. After acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said at a televised briefing last month that Ukraine’s cooperation in the investigations Trump wanted was tied to hundreds of millions of dollars of aid that the United States had withheld from Kyiv, a Justice Department official quickly made clear to reporters that the department did not endorse that position.

“If the White House was withholding aid in regards to the cooperation of any investigation at the Department of Justice, that is news to us,” the official said.

The department — and Barr in particular — has similarly sought separation from Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer who was leading the effort to investigate the Bidens.

In addition to asserting that Barr and Trump had never discussed investigating the Bidens, Kupec said in her statement that the attorney general had not “discussed this matter, or anything relating to Ukraine, with Rudy Giuliani.” Barr’s allies had previously confided to reporters that the attorney general was unhappy with Giuliani, particularly over his going outside of normal channels to pursue investigations of interest to the president.

Last month, after the department arrested two Giuliani associates who had worked on investigating the Bidens’ activities in Ukraine, the New York Times reported that Giuliani had participated in a meeting about a separate case with Brian A. Benczkowski, the head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and lawyers in the department’s fraud section.

The day after that report, the department issued an unusual statement saying those in the meeting were unaware of the case that led to charges against Giuliani’s associates for alleged campaign finance violations. Giuliani also is being investigated as a part of the case, though he has said he has not been told of that.

“When Mr. Benczkowski and fraud section lawyers met with Mr. Giuliani, they were not aware of any investigation of Mr. Giuliani’s associates in the Southern District of New York and would not have met with him had they known,” Peter Carr, a department spokesman, told the Times.

People close to Barr assert that while Barr is a strong believer in the power of the presidency, he has always recognized there might be times when he has to preserve the Justice Department’s independence.

AD“My take is that Barr hasn’t changed one bit, that he has had a healthy distance from the beginning,” one person close to the administration said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe Barr’s relationship with Trump. “He knows the parameters of the relationship between a president and an AG.”

Trump had a famously dysfunctional relationship with his first Senate-confirmed attorney general, Jeff Sessions. The president blamed Sessions for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into whether his campaign coordinated with Russia to influence the 2016 election because — in the president’s view — Sessions’s recusal from that case allowed for Mueller’s appointment and everything that followed. Mueller, though, was appointed by the deputy attorney general at the time, Rod J. Rosenstein, weeks after Sessions recused himself.

Trump publicly and privately attacked Sessions for virtually Sessions’s entire tenure in the top law enforcement job and toyed constantly with firing him. He finally did so after the 2018 midterm elections and nominated Barr as his permanent replacement. His resentment lingers to this day, as Sessions is expected to announce a run for his old Senate seat.

Though Barr was a relative outsider to Trumpworld when the president picked him as attorney general, he quickly won the president’s affection. In announcing Mueller’s principal conclusions — before Mueller’s final report had been issued — Barr declared that the special counsel had found insufficient evidence to allege coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign. And while Mueller had not reached a determination on whether the president had obstructed justice, Barr said he had reviewed the case himself and determined Trump had not.

Barr’s descriptions so agitated Mueller that the special counsel sent a letter to the attorney general complaining that Barr “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the special counsel’s work. Barr ultimately would release Mueller’s final report — which painted a far more damning picture for Trump — but even as he did so, he held a news conference and endorsed one of the president’s famed talking points.

“As he said from the beginning,” Barr declared, referring to Trump, “there was, in fact, no collusion.”

Detractors have criticized the attorney general as eroding the Justice Department’s independence, though Trump has generally been pleased. Most recently, allies say he has been heartened as Barr has sought to investigate those involved in the Russia case, tapping U.S. Attorney John Durham to lead an inquiry into the origins of the Mueller investigation and whether the U.S. government’s “intelligence collection activities” related to the Trump campaign were “lawful and appropriate.”

Barr’s review of Russia investigation wins Trump’s favor. Those facing scrutiny suspect he’s chasing conspiracy theories.

On Ukraine, though, the White House and Justice Department have been somewhat out of sync.

Some time after The Washington Post began reporting on the nature of the whistleblower’s complaint about Trump’s phone call, the Justice Department pushed to release the rough transcript. Leaders there believed — perhaps misguidedly — that doing so could quell the budding controversy, because in his conversation with Zelensky, Trump did not explicitly push for a quid pro quo tying U.S. aid for Ukraine to the politically beneficial investigations he sought. The White House was initially resistant.

The Justice Department had not always been on the side of full transparency, blocking transmission of the whistleblower complaint to Congress — even though the intelligence community inspector general felt the law required it to be handed over. Unbeknown to the public, the department weighed whether to investigate a potential campaign finance crime, though ultimately concluded there was not sufficient basis to do so after an inquiry limited essentially to reviewing the rough transcript of the Trump-Zelensky call.

Though Barr did not hold a news conference clearing Trump of any wrongdoing, the Justice Department did issue its statement saying it would not investigate the matter — at least for campaign finance violations. While that was a partial win for Trump, it has allowed Congress to expedite its impeachment inquiry without fear of impeding law enforcement — and make public unflattering testimony about the president and his allies’ dealings in Ukraine.

 

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4 hours ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

blah blah blah...

make all the excuses you want, but we're going to beat your Trump loving, cousin fucking, collective asses this Saturday.

If I just read the words and wasnt aware who typed them, I wouldn't be able to tell if they were from Alabama or Louisiana.  Or Mississippi. Or Arkansas.

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1 minute ago, Bateshorn said:

Remember that time that Bill Clinton exchanged awkward pleasantries with Loretta Lynch for 15 minutes on a tarmac and people saw evidence of a broad global conspiracy?

 

lololololololol

This being Comey’s excuse for going rogue with the press conference makes it all the more nefarious.  

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5 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

 


You literally have no idea what you’re talking about.

The university HATES TM. They banned all student government for 4 years over their behavior.

It’s got no official standing. It’s made up of reps from 14 fraternities and 14 sororities. Those 28 reps nominate and select students from those 28 organizations to run for different positions and even homecoming queen.

The individual reps take the slate of machine backed candidates to all the members of their groups and say “Vote for these people”. The greek organizations require their members to vote in elections. They cannot be sure everyone will vote for TM slate but most do. You’ll get fined if you don’t vote.

These students make up 10-15% of the student body but around 50% of students that actually vote.

Most students don’t vote and the one that aren’t voting for TM candidates split their votes amongst 5 or 6 other candidates.

Boom - TM slate wins virtually every race.

The administration can’t do a damn thing to stop it. The Black Student Union has a slate too but they don’t have the numbers or the organization or the ability to punish people into voting.

But, please, do lecture me on something I saw and participated in first hand. My BFF’s boyfriend - now husband - was president of TM. My FIL and BIL were members. I was a machine backed candidate.

The group is abhorrent and I would love to see them kicked to the curb but the actual university has nothing to do with them and actively works against them in every way they can.

 

Come on now.  Acting like the poor university can't do anything about this group?  Please, we both know a very large block of powerful alumni came from that side of the system and will do anything to protect it.  

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13 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Has anyone done a  study to see what percentage of Trump supporters actually own stocks?  

 

13 hours ago, Native Horn said:

I have, and it's about 0.0tree-fiddy.

I've had 3 Trumpkins brag about the stock market to me since 2016 and It's bizarre because there is no fucking way they are investing with their sub $20 hour jobs. Mentally I am saying "but your poor" but just nod because anything else would be rude. I really think these people live vicariously through Trump's bragging about his "wealth."

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9 minutes ago, Lobo said:

I get what you're saying, and message board grammar smack is bullshit, but don't ever tell somebody, "Your Poor"  

LOL I said mentally I was saying it but just nodding instead because saying it would be rude.

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10 minutes ago, F250 said:

LOL I said mentally I was saying it but just nodding instead because saying it would be rude.

It's hilarious that rural white trash think they've somehow owned well-off white liberals by giving the liberals a tax break that could pay their trailer mortgage every month. Thanks for the 20% break on my pass through income, dipshit. I'm sure that S-Corp you and your wife have for her booming Lularoe business is really thriving now with Trump.

You just have to let them have it.

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Each day, this lunatic seems more and more like the President in "Tropic of Kansas"  

There used to be an expression,

"Truth is stranger than fiction."  but we're gonna have to change it to...

"Trump is Stranger than Fiction"  

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46 minutes ago, Junior Miller said:

So what's going on here? Numb nuts have followed this racist idiot for this long and love him enough to go see him, but mid way through his ranting lunacy is the time they decide to say "I'm out"?

They were only paid to be there for an hour.

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Not directly related to trump but I fell into a YouTube trap of watching a handful of The Wire scenes. One of the suggested videos was Obama talking to the creator of the Wire about the effects of the Drug War. Could you imagine trump having a thoughtful discussion of any topic?  He’s supposed to know real estate development. Could he talk about a real estate issue and possible solutions for 5 minutes? I don’t think he could.

if trump has any depth to him, he sure as hell hasn’t shown it.

 

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