Jump to content

SmokeyTheBear

Certifiably Surly
  • Posts

    3782
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by SmokeyTheBear

  1. 37 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Do I care?  Yeah.  When the tune starts, I'm stirred.  We sang it at my wedding, and many of my friends' weddings.  And I always took the meaning as it is worded -- that the eyes of the University were on us, and we should be mindful of acquitting ourselves well and doing right by the University and the state.

    But we damned well have to hear about the real perception and takes of the athletes who play under our banner.  My hope?  That somehow, the song can be re-claimed -- even modified.  Someone suggested the lyrical change to "The eyes of Texas are upon US," to better reflect the message that I always understood, and to take away any sinister overtone.  I don't know if that would do it.  But some members of our university community say the song as it stands is hurtful, they state a case with some merit, and they'd like to have a conversation.  So we need to do that.  And what will come of that is what will come.  

    If we lose the song, I'll be sad.  And if we do, I hope that whatever we do in substitute helps build a new tradition, something that every student and alumnus of the university helped create TOGETHER.

    All this. I hate to lose it, but it isn't worth the pain and micro-aggression's it generates for our students and the athletes we are there to celebrate. This is the first song my son learned to sing and still will randomly belt it out around the house. 

  2. 1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

    Thanks a bunch assholes, all you did was flush him out to the medical discussion thread on the other board. Now he is posting tweets from quack association AAPS over there. 

    The association has promoted a range of scientifically discredited hypotheses, including the belief that HIV does not cause AIDS, that being gay reduces life expectancy, that there is a link between abortion and breast cancer, and that there is a causal relationship between vaccines and autism.

    So why did you bring it here? 

    • Like 1
  3. 7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    If Miller and Barr get their way and the Trump regime remains in power, these will be the only classes of Americans: loyalists, rebels, or refugees.

    Proud neo-rebel here. Without all that racist southern pride bullshit. 

  4. 2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Yeah.....this is why we're entering the most dangerous period in our history in decades.  Anyone and anything that is lawful is falling away/running away from this administration.  It's just Trump and the Trumpists, Miller, Barr, etc.  And there are only two paths for them: win re-election, insulating themselves from consequences and freeing them to pursue their psychotic, authoritarian agenda, or defeat in November, subjecting them to grave consequences, both legal and social.  They will not accept the second possibility -- it is on par with death.  They are fighting like animals with their backs to the wall.  It's victory or death for them, and you damned well better believe they'll do anything you can imagine, and more, to get that victory.

    You have a lawless, un-American authoritarian regime that is desperate to retain power.  What follows is already known.  Buckle up.

    With the added layer of a potential purge of the GOP if Biden wins. Who knows what will be unearthed if we can get a real investigation into dark money from foreign powers in our system. 

    • Like 3
  5. 1 minute ago, BradInATX said:

    Can we not engage this stupidity please? Add him to your Facebook if you feel like your life isn't full of enough nothingheaded morons. Don't encourage it here.

    No. I will continue to engage until I exhaust all his counter points, or at least exhaust his paitence. Engage, don't ignore, ignorance. 

  6. Just now, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Wow, you really need to take the stick out of your brain....  Yep it's aaaaaall the GOP.....  the DNC is clean as the driven snow....  Grow up brah.

    When it comes to voter suppression and the allowance of dark money into the voting system, yes, I put a lion share of the blame on the GOP. 

  7. 4 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    I already said he's horrible for American politics.  We have Trump partly because of Hillary.  She did her shit from within the system, exploiting it for her personal gain at every turn. The whole it'll be my turn next to be president was to be the culmination of her machinations.  

    You mean she played the game that the GOP has been trying to rig for years? You applaud the GOP enacting dirty laws like citizens united, but then trash the candidates who have to leverage it or else get washed out with dark money. 

    Do you hate the player or the game? 

  8. 3 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Holy fuck, she was everything wrong with politics in this country.  End of story... next topic....

    And Trump is.......? 

     

    Also have to point out the irony of this post, juxtaposed against the general theme of this thread. Well done. 

  9. 5 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    I'd say Hillary was one of the worst things, Trump is definitely in that arena, but the outsider candidate is what I want to see more of running for elected office. Institutional party candidates are the problem in the countries political life.

    One of those points that can't be taken seriously. Clinton was one of the most heavily investigated and vetted candidates in the history of the US and found to have no disqualifying element. And yet those who rail against her were all too happy to elect someone who abhors transparency and has a long history of nefarious acts. 

    There is no comparison. 

    • Like 4
  10. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/13/media/seattle-fox-news-autonomous-zone-protest/index.html

    Fox News published digitally altered and misleading images on its website's homepage Friday that made a demonstration in Seattle, in which a group of largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters have occupied six city blocks, appear violent and dangerous.

     

    The deceitful tactic was called out by The Seattle Times. The local newspaper reported that when it asked Fox News about the images, the network removed them.

     

     

    • Like 1
×
×
  • Create New...