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Or the better option, act like a fucking grownup and don't get in barfights.

Some things to think about for this cycle: -The ranking of this class will only be limited by how many high school players Sarkisian wishes to take. If they take 27+, I think they'll be ranked in the top 3. Less than that, top 5. -They're getting outreach from players and their camps at multiple positions. NIL rep helps, but so does putting guys into the league and running a style of play that guys find attractive. In a stacked in-state class at WR, they're getting national interest and could take basically whoever they want. OL looks similar. -Notice how they're working OVs for more players than they have scholarships available at numerous positions. You're seeing it at OL, Edge, DT, TE and DB. I would not be surprised to see some more Nate Kibbling happening this cycle at some of these spots. You want in? We need your commitment now or we can't take it. We have a bunch of guys coming in next week for the same position if we don't have your commitment. Obviously that isn't going to happen to the truest 5 stars, but it could happen at a very, very high level of talent in various spots. -Notice how they're not working on back-ups at a few spots. That indicates, to me, that they know who they're getting and the NIL element is already sorted. There isn't a backup plan for RB1, MLB1, OLB1. -Some of what Texas does at the HS level is going to be informed by this next transfer cycle. They're expecting to lose some guys at the 3rd string level even they don't want to do so. They have to no matter what. If they lose 4 OL instead of 1-2, that means 5-6 OL instead of 4-5. Similarly at LB or DT. Positions that they'd generally do better developing than grabbing from the portal will play a bigger role in the class. -The QB thing is kind of weird and might get weirder. -If there is more than another 1-2 commits ahead of June, I'd be kind of stunned.

Good point, don’t want to get involved with all these leftists and their bloodlust orgy. So fucking noble.

Oh, and as we discuss bridges, and phobias about them, particularly @Ghost of LL's fear, I will re-share one of my best memories ever. We were traveling through SETX, I was driving. Being quite wet/marshy country, there are plenty of bridges we had to go over. GOLL shared his loathing of bridges. Well, our route one day took us over this bad boy: I warned him, but did so with a cackle of glee. Should be an ordinary crossing, right? Nope. They were doing construction, so it was shut down to one lane. And what happened RIGHT as we got to the top - I mean literally, maybe 2 car lengths from the fulcrum where it started descending the other way? The shitty old pickup truck in front of us died. Comes to a dead stop. As do we. A dead stop at the very top of the Rainbow Bridge. You can feel it swaying underneath us. GOLL was about to claw his way out of the car and run back down when the construction crew sees what's up, comes over, and pushes the broken down truck over the crest, so it can coast down the other side. We let it do so, then we go and finally get off the bridge. GOLL made me drive back by a different route, IIRC. Was I laughing much more than a decent person should? Yes. Yes I was. I am a terrible human.

As someone who has been on the bridge of a large vessel during docking maneuvers, I thought I would share a little about how it works. 1. The guy steering the boat isn't the captain. Some low level dude. 2. He's not holding a large wheel like Jack Sparrow. It's probably a knob on a panel. 3. Captain and pilot are standing nearby drinking coffee. 4. If they lost steerage, or power, this unfolded slowly and there was little they could do.

Trump tried to overturn an election, install himself as leader, and put an end to our form of Democracy in this country. Right?

Sucker punch? Sure. But why do people act like there are rules when it comes to fights? This isn't boxing or some controlled setting. Your head needs to be on a swivel at all times

There's about six million Jews who would take issue with this sentiment. Along 405,000 Americans, who died to defeat fascism in the 1940s. We can defeat it again in 2024, and no one has to die this time if people show up to the polls and vote blue.

I love the idea of filling out an enrollment form for Alcoholics Anonymous

It’s not that complicated, and here’s an essay explaining why

Apparently you're not allowed to go to a bar if you're in your 40's according to Surly. I miss Shaggy.

All he's trying to say is that comparing him to Hitler is wrong and inflammatory at this point. You have to wait until he starts arresting political opponents for specious reasons, withdraws from NATO, suspends habeas corpus, rips up the Constitution and starts loading up the first trains before you can make that comparison. At that point he will happily agree with you and approve of your rhetoric as he waves at you from the platform and yells, "Well now isn't THIS awkward!"

I never said he did. I was explaining why people want him dead. Because he tried to install himself as an unelected dictator. Historically, when you do things like that and fail, you get a pretty severe comeuppance. Also, the way I'm framing it? He spent months trying to steal an election and install himself as leader. You look like a fucking fool trying to equivocate on the means.

Vote Dem, maybe get new neighbors from South America. Vote Repub, maybe get a South American political system.

Listen, I'm a human being. I'm wrong all the damn time. I do have a fair amount of angst in my life, but most of it is centered around having a young son and worrying about the shitty country we might be stuck in thanks to Christofascists such as yourself, sir.

I know I've told you this story, but don't remember if I've told it here. When I was a little kid, I was riding with my uncle and cousin when he ran out of gas going up the Rainbow Bridge on the Port Arthur side. He had just bought a brand new Datsun B210 wagon, and I think he was of the belief that the thing would run on the rumor of gasoline. As we passed the last gas station on Gulfway drive heading for Bridge City, his wife asks "Aren't you going to stop for gas?" No, Uncle Jim did not stop for gas, because the gas gauge being on the wrong side of E just meant he should think about getting gas sometime in the near future. We made it almost to the top...we were inside the superstructure at the top...when it died and wouldn't start. Ole Uncle Jim just threw it in neutral, threw his arm over the passenger seat, switched lanes, and backed that sumbitch all the way down. With his wife giving him the business the whole way down.

What I got from that letter is that Jack Nicklaus is a fascist or fascist enabler. Even if he is too stupid to fully realize it. Time's up for making excuses for people who will "look past" the clearly fascist-theocratic policies of Trump-MAGA-GQP ... while justifying it by spouting off some BS propaganda about "patriotism," "family values" and the "American Dream." Those are some of the unchallenged code words for normalizing and justifying fascism/theocracy in 21st century America.

if you're a 6'5 250+ Lb dude and there is a 5'9 guy who is not only willing to engage in a fight but enthusiastic about it - you might want to re-think things.

I'm obviously biased, but that dude is a fucking pussy who lined up the cheap shot for a good couple of seconds to make sure it was safe to throw it. He should face charges for that. VY was holding people back. I hope that dude's father sees this clip and knows what a fucking coward he raised.

Jesus, dude...shut the fuck up.

No you won't. Shit, we've banned you like 8 times and you don't get the hint.

Wow never knew people could be such pussies about driving over a bridge

Looks to me like the guy he got into it with had cauliflower ears. You see those, keep steppin.

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Arnie would have punched Trump in the dick.

I get the sense you're not a serious student of history and/or have had your head up your ass for quite some time.

And his DL coach at Florida is now at aggy.

. . . and there it is. Classic "couldn't be bothered" trollish behavior. Fuck you, pussy.

You do realize there was a before, right?

trump has said he will suspend the Constitution, round up, encamp, and deport minorities, and that he wants Americans to obey him like the Norks do Un. The motherfucker has TOLD us he wants to be a dictator. He hasn't racked up their body count but if he gets power again, it'll only be a matter of time. It's scary Americans don't see the danger this cunt poses to our Republic. So as far as trump goes, Dope sang it best: Just go Die motherfucker die motherfucker die Die motherfucker die motherfucker die Die motherfucker die motherfucker die Die motherfucker die motherfucker die

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The simple way to sort this, if they really like Russell (and there is growing evidence that they do), is to just tell Lacey next weekend or whenever he's in Austin next is that they're taking 2 QBs in this cycle. He goes back to Bama and decommits, then Texas takes Russell. Moore decommits this summer and commits to Texas shortly thereafter. Bing bang boom.

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Don’t forget the Baltimore Police. McNulty’s on the case.

Or post this version just cuz...

Bolded because the qualifier is the killer here. We do not have a rational and sane society. We have a society where one party is all-in on authoritarianism. That....is fucked. Excellent question. Also, really stupid question. Let me ask it another way: "In what world does lighting a match equate to burning down a house?" By your standard, we should exhibit zero alarm when someone thoroughly douses a house in gasoline, says "I'm going to burn this motherfucker down," and then stands at the front door and strikes a match. PARTICULARLY when we have clear and spot-on historical antecedents to look to. This. And this. To the bolded, yes, yes, 1000X YES! That's EXACTLY what we are doing. We are -- to continue the metaphor above -- comparing the dude with a lit match in front of the house he just soaked with gasoline and said he's gonna burn down with other arsonists, because HE IS DOING ALL THE THINGS THAT ARSONISTS DO RIGHT UP TO THE POINT THEY LIGHT THE HOUSE ON FIRE. As just a snapshot, here's a short-form discussion of the rhetoric he employs: Yep. See above. Bottom line, ask yourself this simple question, honestly: What did fascist authoritarian leaders do, and sound like, in their run-up to taking absolute power and imposing their horrific regimes on the world? And you know what the answer to that question is, or you would if you ever picked up a motherfucking book. They look, and sound, almost exactly like Donald Trump. So, to get back to your original oh-so-concerned point....you are goddamned right I wish that he would die, right now, this very second. Because he is an existential threat to the Republic, and by virtue of that every American and indeed every human on earth. He has no governing or guiding principles other than "show fealty to me," so nobody, regardless of ideology or anything else, is safe. He wants to be an absolute ruler with absolute power accountable to nobody and without any limits....because he has TOLD US THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE FUCKING WANTS. And he will demonize, and inflict punishment and pain, on whoever it takes to accomplish those things. Don't blame us because we have enough IQ points and literacy to say "oh fuck, we've seen shit almost exactly like this before, and y'all....you aren't gonna like where it takes us" and you clearly do not. Pick up a fucking book. Or hell, do this -- take a visit here, the German History Museum in Berlin: It has a fantastic, plain-spoken and unvarnished sequence of exhibits showing EXACTLY how the nazis came to power (with genuine popular support), how they consolidated and made that power absolute, and how they then executed on the threats and promises they made on the rise to power. My family of four walked that exhibit a few years ago, finishing at separate times. As we all ended up outside together, each of us voiced some version of 'holy shit that was the most terrifying thing I've ever seen because it's happening right fucking now." And mind you, that exhibit wasn't put together with an agenda of "look at this, it's just like Trump." It pre-dates him, significantly. It just tells a story about how fascist regimes that kill millions and destroy nations come to power....and it's a story playing out right here in the US, damned near to the letter. Go there.

What I got from that letter is that Jack Nicklaus’s Dad had two dads.

I saw a Cybertruck in the wild for the first time today. It really is underwhelming. The body was really dull looking. It looked like a DeLorean with a low T count.