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  1. 2 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

    Someone here will take his place on this

    Actually, the vast majority of the "Obama is a deranged socialist running our country into the ground" posters have crawled under rocks since DJT started running things. There are only a handful left who will attempt to defend him. The others who are still around spend most of their time away from the politics board until they see something like the Smollet incident and rush to the boards to point out...I'm not sure what, but in their minds it counts as a victory.

    I'm sure whenever the next D takes office, they'll come running back to again lecture us on the dangers of a ballooning debt and an overreaching executive branch.

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  2. 1 minute ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    I guess I'm ignorant then because I'm not seeing how factual observations, recurring and overtime, is racist.

    Yeah, saying that you think minorities flock to water parks because they must not have swimming pools in their housing developments is just a factual observation.

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    4 minutes ago, BurdineBandit said:

    In the last year he played, #23-30 were worse (the 30 QBs who started the majority of their team's games that year, which is all PFR had), the next year it was #s 24-32 that were worse than him. I don't think this whole cherry-picking QBR thing is showing him as a guy who is 1. "barely" better than Nathan Peterman (QBRs of 13 and 6 the last two years. Thirteen. And. Six.) or 2. A guy not worthy of a backup spot in the NFL. We're comparing him to starting QBs in the NFL in these stats, but the argument is that he's barely better than Nathan Peterman. There's a reason Nathan Peterman's QBR isn't being shown in these stats.

     

    Not to mention his top 2 receivers that year were Jeremy Kerley and some guy named Quinton Patton (who hasn't played since 2016). But let's not mention that. Same way we won't mention the 49ers had the worst total and rushing Defense in the league that year while blaming Kaep for a 1-10 record.

    Forget about it.  ChickenSandwich is not going to admit that Kapernick was good enough to be signed by a team. According to him, he was worse than every starter and you cant compare him to backups because we have no way to know how good or bad the backups are 

  4. A couple of years ago they had a 50th (I think) anniversary screening at the Cinerama dome in Hollywood. This is the theater where it originally debuted. They even had some of the original cast and crew there, including a senile Mickey Rooney who rambled about god-knows-what for half an hour.

    I'll tell you though, watching that movie in the theater with hundreds of people laughing their asses off was a pretty awesome experience. 

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  5. 2 minutes ago, Jkwellborn said:


    He’s not much better, but they don’t come with the baggage and headache he does.

    Yes. I get that he doesn't come with the baggage. I was simply addressing the folks who are arguing whether or not he was good enough to land a job. He clearly was.

  6. 6 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    I never did either. I always thought it was a hugely bizarre and really fucked up thing for him to say, if he thought there were fine people who were Nazis.  

    I've read the original text, and it's pretty clear from his own words what he's talking about ,and who he excludes from the "fine people on both sides" comment. Again I've been reading it from the internet, who knows if it's not a doctored document now.

    The issue about the statue is/was very divisive depending on who you speak with.  That it was a state issue, and not a local issue was one of the things that made it even more divisive. Once a war memorial is erected, only the state legislature of Va. can approve its removal, regardless of who erected it out where. I'd say there were fine people on both sides of the issue because there are several facets to the situation.

    I guess you could say if someone said there are fine people on both sides they're a racist, but I'd say that would make you ignorant of the whole entire issue.

    The statement was issued shortly after a neo-nazi killed a girl and one day after nazis marched on the UVA campus, chanting "Jews will not replace us."  

    Whenever a terrorist kills Americans, DJT is the first person to take to the air to vilify the terrorist, the ideology, and any entity that associates with that terrorist. Unless the terrorist is a white American nationalist. Then, its nuanced calls for peace from both sides.

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  7. 7 hours ago, Iconoclast Texan said:

    You are referring the California the state that leads the nation in net migration in population leaving it for other states, the state with the most number of companies leaving it, the state with the largest percentage of people living in poverty, the state that is the most difficult to build new, affordable housing, etc as a result of progressive policies and high taxation. That state. How much better would California be doing if it was more like Texas in terms of taxes and government regulation. A shit ton better.

    Jesus you just got fucking embarrassed. 

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  8. 5 minutes ago, Tom said:

     

    You're gonna shit your pants when you find out how big socialist California's economy is.  Of course, I'm not sure if that counts since they have a small homogeneous population.

    Dude, haven't you heard? California is just days from total and complete collapse. It's been that way for years.

  9. 1 hour ago, TexArcher said:

    I like the idea in theory.

    But you know Fox News would spin this as, "look at the socialist libs destroying yet another sector of the free market!" And, ironically, a lot of country folks that this would help would vote against the candidate who puts this on his/her platform.

    Dude, if someone proposed the idea of public libraries today, what do you think would happen? The right would bury it as a socialist takeover of the private publishing industry.

    The only reason we have them, is because they existed long enough before "conservatives" went full fucking regard.

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  10. 1 hour ago, Brandywine said:

    That Jim Bakker Show is awful. How did he ever get back on TV? He’s nothing but a major con artist just like Jones and Trump. There will be a special firey place down under for the 3 of them when they’re gone. 

    fool me once, shame. . . . shame on you, fool me. . . we can't get fooled again.

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  11. https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/02/14/25885836/texts-show-protective-relationship-between-portland-cops-and-patriot-prayer

     

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    "We have a large group of antifa trying to flank us an you. We are stopping them for now... but not sure how long."

     

    This is one of hundreds of text messages sent between Portland Police Bureau (PPB) Lt. Jeff Niiya and Joey Gibson, leader of Vancouver alt-right group Patriot Prayer over the past two years. Like many messages discovered in a records request made in August by the Portland Mercury, it reflects many of the public's suspicions that the Portland police have been sympathetic—if not protective—of the right-wing extremist group.

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    The recorded text conversations show an unprecedented level of access between a member of the public and a police officer. Gibson regularly texts Niiya asking him to investigate people based on comments made on Patriot Prayer's Facebook page, or on a video a member of Patriot Prayer took of a member of antifa.

     

  12. 13 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Posting to document how ESPN Preseason FPI doubts Texas for 2019....

    Preseason FPI 1.0 Rankings, Top 25

    RANK TEAM FPI OFFENSE RANK DEFENSE RANK SPECIAL TEAMS RANK
    1 Clemson 29.0 1 2 21
    2 Alabama 27.6 2 1 7
    3 Georgia 22.0 4 7 24
    4 LSU 21.5 8 5 20
    5 Michigan 21.0 6 9 1
    6 Oklahoma 19.3 3 29 30
    7 Notre Dame 18.0 9 11 9
    8 Florida 17.4 25 4 12
    9 Auburn 16.6 28 6 6
    10 Oregon 16.4 5 22 36
    11 Texas A&M 15.9 7 31 3
    12 Penn State 15.4 22 8 4
    13 Ohio State 13.8 27 12 16
    14 Michigan State 13.8 55 3 19
    15 Tennessee 13.7 18 19 10
    16 Mississippi State 13.5 23 14 35
    17 Washington 13.3 17 21 14
    18 Utah 12.4 38 13 13
    19 South Carolina 12.1 15 32 26
    20 Missouri 11.9 16 26 57
    21 UCLA 11.7 14 28 68
    22 Florida State 11.3 48 10 40
    23 Wisconsin 10.9 19 35 39
    24 Stanford 10.3 43 18 2
    25 Iowa 10.3 39 20 11

     

    Texas is not back

     "One of the teams expected to generate plenty of preseason buzz is Texas. But not from FPI.

    The hype that the Longhorns have finally produced is, in our model's estimation, overstated. Tom Herman's team checks in at No. 26 in our rankings, just missing the cut for our accompanying table (you can find them in the full rankings at the end of this post).

    Though Texas took strides last season, it had the benefit of starting 13 seniors and graduate students. Even with a cumulative top-five recruiting rank over the past four seasons, the fact that Texas is returning just eight starters is very likely to be a problem.

    As a result, FPI believes Texas is not one of the top 25 teams in college football and will more closely resemble Iowa State or Baylor than Oklahoma in 2019."

    (Source ESPN)

    Randomly, I looked at Missouri's projected depth chart. Looks like they are losing anywhere from 10-15 starters (depending on how you define a starter in this age of heavy rotations) including their fucking starting QB. Guess when you're in the SEC, you reload, while if you're Texas you rebuild.

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