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Ojo Rojo

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  1. Those sweaters are great.
  2. Jesus. ND might be a playoff team! Could this be a smokescreen to get Kelly more money at ND or to cover for the coach they are really after? Coaches' agents must play all these AD fools and just laugh and laugh.
  3. If it wasn't assured before, the Seager signing pretty much seals that the Astros are not signing Correa. I have to admit, I had hope.
  4. The level of coordination and deception astounds me. I don't blame Riley for anything that he did. He followed the playbook. It's just a shame that college football has gotten that cold-hearted. Maybe it's always been that way. We just throw players away like trash. There's no real loyalty. It's all about the money and nothing else.
  5. This. I don't know why, but I hate the fact that non-Power 5 schools (and ND) have a shot. They don't play the same strength of schedule so they don't deserve to get in. Period.
  6. This, in the short term. Longer term, though, all of this conference realignment is going to end up changing the way the playoff is structured. The SEC with TX and OU is going to warp the gravity in CFB. The new SEC is going to have as many (or more) quality teams as the other "Power 5" conferences combined. Long term, I see an advantage to getting into the playoff by being in the SEC, which will get 2-3 schools in every year, versus each of the other three conferences getting 1, maybe 2. But for Riley, only the short term matters. What's the average tenure of a coach at the FCS level, anyway? 3-4 years?
  7. I don't know if anyone has already said it, but my thought is the best thing OU could do right now is try to lure Stoops out of retirement. When they announced he would be coaching the bowl game that's the thought that immediately came to mind. It would be the most seamless thing they could do - he's already plugged into the program. He's a proven winner. Owns a NC. Could do no better, IMO.
  8. ...he was named Reed Boyd...
  9. I remember when we used to have big games that mattered. That was fun.
  10. Update: I tell wife this morning that I plan to leave work earlier than normal today so I can get home in time to do some specific tasks. She calls me to verify that I am, in fact, coming home earlier than normal. I confirm. Then she says, "Good. Because when you get home I want to leave you with all three kids so I can go to store X." I'm like, "WTF?! I told you I was coming home to do some shit, which I can't do if I'm dealing with our three kids." Her solution: put the kids in camp again tomorrow for a half day at a cost of $240 so she can go to store X then. Somehow in all of this I'm the asshole.
  11. I think ol' Pods was being sarcastic.
  12. Respectfully, you are wrong. Every legal expert I have heard or read has said that bringing the charges was 100% justified and in bounds. These charges get brought 10/10 times under these circumstances in every jurisdiction in America.
  13. I think what they are trying to say is that the fact that he didn't kill more people shows that he was not an active shooter or there to commit murder. I think they are also saying that it further shores up the self defense argument.
  14. I've seen a mini-documentary breaking down the videos from that night. It appeared to me that KR was "stationed" at a certain business in the moments leading up to the first shooting. There was shouting or something that indicated that protesters might be vandalizing a used car lot down the street and KR started running to that scene, apparently to do something about it, whatever that was. Rosenbaum saw KR running and that's when he started chasing him. My personal interpretation of what was going through Rosenbaum's head is, "Here goes one of these motherfuckers!" Rosenbaum was already agitated and seeing one of these armed guys take off running was the switch that got flipped in his head to "do something." Causation is a series of concentric circles. If the cops wouldn't have shot Jacob Blake none of this would have happened. If KR hadn't shown up in Kenosha this wouldn't have happened, etc. etc. etc. ad infinitum. But Rosenbaum was mentally unstable and I think he is the biggest reason this happened. Add a mentally unstable person to an already tense situation along with people like KR, with no training or experience, and it's a powder keg. It's exactly the reason why, as a policy point, it should be illegal to charge into a protest - of any kind - with weapons and assertions of open carry. It just doesn't work and is going to end in a lot of avoidable deaths.
  15. Because those things you listed are not what make a fascist state. None of those things are good, in my opinion, but they are also not indicators that we are already living in a fascist state. We had an attempt to corrupt our elections, an attempt to toss out the result of a legitimate election, an attempted coup, etc. All attempts; none successful. Our representatives are still duly elected through legitimate elections, flawed though it may be. The court system is still functioning. Opposition still has a voice.
  16. I don't really have a sense for what the true number might be, but I think it's probably more than you think.
  17. Normally, yes, but I was laughing when I said it and trying to be funny and just giving her a hard time. We've been getting along pretty well lately, so I thought it would be safe. She wasn't having it.
  18. Most. Not all. I envision it sort of like the scene in Lord of the Flies where Jack's tribe sees the naval officer and realizes what they've been doing is crazy.
  19. Entirely possible, but if fascism works the way you think then why aren't we currently in a fascist state? Yeah, that's putting the cart before the horse by me. The point is that I think there just might be a moment before we've reached the point of no return where a lot of people supporting the fascists have a moment where they realize that a lot of people who they know and love, and who they otherwise have no beef with, are going to be hurt. I've just seen it happen myself and I think the same thing could happen on a much larger scale. It's probably naive of me to think that the types wearing Maga hats and flying Qanon flags would have that kind of introspection or moment of clarity, but again, I've seen it happen.
  20. I agree that they think they want that. However, what I have seen empirically, though from a very small sample size, is that Republicans of that ilk fold up like a cheap tent at the first sign of challenge in the flesh. It's one thing to carp on Facebook. It's another thing to say something insulting and/or ignorant to my face. Many of them are very easily disarmed in person. It's like the veil is lifted when it's no longer theoretical and people you actually know and care about are participating in the discussion. I think they might sing a different tune when it's their friends and relatives who are in the concentration camps.
  21. I would say both of those numbers are probably high, based on the 2020 election figures. True Trumpers are probably more like 25%. The go-alongs for selfish reasons are also around 25%. Still too close for comfort and close enough so that small things (like an ill-timed FBI report, for example) could tip the scale. Fascist movements, like any other movement, I would guess, may not start out with an initial majority, sure. These things pick up steam and grow. I just don't see the Trump/fascist element with the momentum right now.
  22. Yeah, me neither.
  23. Oh, I agree it's possible. The key in your statement, though, is "30%." It does not appear that number is growing, or if it is, not very quickly. That to me is an encouraging sign that the tide has crested.
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