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Great post. Thanks for sharing your perspective. To clarify, I was coming at it from the perspective of the white players interacting with their black teammates, not the other way around. In my more advanced age and maturity, I look at it from a different lens than I probably would have 25 years ago. As @C-Man pointed out yesterday, a lot of us had perspectives when we were young and dumb that we cringe at now. I hope that’s where some of the athletes of the younger generation are at now and don’t end up with brain rot like Swindell, Street, Clemens, et al. In my middle age now, I can’t imagine standing in front of a black teammate that I call my brother and try to even think about justifying a vote for a person that wants to take away rights and make life harder for people who don’t look like me. That’s just reprehensible in my mind, but I have the benefit of life experience. FWIW, in case you didn’t know and I misunderstood part of your post, Saban is a Dem and has been very supportive of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

It’s post birth abortions now. You must not have received the memo.

You have a meth ho do your laundry?

I’m not saying that all delivery drivers are the smartest, but they’re getting paid by the delivery so they’re incentivized to not dick around. They make more money the faster they can complete a delivery.

Next you’re going to tell me that he’s the youth group leader at his church.

It’s always weird to see the Law & Order crowd cry about rampant crime then get upset when Dems do something to address their concerns. “Oh, you think this is an issue we should all take a look at and do something about? Cool, let’s do that to assuage your concerns and make our populace feel safer.” “Nooooo, don’t do that!” It’s the same shit with the border deal.

I don’t think you understand how gambling works. While I won’t claim that polls are accurate, betting markets have zero correlation to polls. People placing bets /= a barometer.

Damn, gotta give credit where credit is due. A Republican, in Parker County no less, with a reasoned and well written dismissal of falsehoods regarding supposed fraud. Imagine if more Republicans would come forward and debunk these stupid rumors.

Can we start a separate thread for betting? A bunch of people DGAF about these betting markets.

I’m a huge supporter of her policy to highlight Trump as the whiny little bitch that he is whenever she has the chance.

Momlania: Again? That’s the second time today.

Does the AG’s office do any actual real work that benefits the citizens of this state or is it all just political theater funded by the taxpayers? Wait, never mind.

Do you think any of Trump’s kids call Melania “Momlania?”

If he truly is voting for Kamala, take the win and move on. At least he’s not voting for fascism. Meanwhile, I’ll be at my newly opened post birth abortion clinic. Business is booming!!!

Anyone who’s surprised that a bunch of white athletes who have been told how special they are all their lives somehow end up being entitled assholes are dumber than said athletes.

Very true, but I also find it strange that you can play a sport for so long surrounded by teammates that you call your brothers and then support a racist, either openly on social media or just in your brain. These are guys you’re interacting with on a daily basis and going to battle with. On the field, he’s your brother and off the field you support people who think your brother is less worthy than you are. The disconnect has always blown my mind. Perhaps it demonstrates how bad critical thinking skills are in vast swaths of our population.

It always amazes me how white football players can play a sport where more than half of the players at the highest level are black and openly be the worst MAGAT. Arch and Quinn openly supporting a racist POS seems like it would make for some awkward interactions with teammates.

I looked over to my wife and asked if we were about to hear Lil Jon say “til the sweat drip down my Walz”

The Trumpers really got tired of “Lock her up” in 2016. Never really did resonate with that crowd and it quit energizing them after a couple of weeks.

This guy is so weird.

She’s got a tight grip ensuring Bill’s hand doesn’t wander any further south.

At some point you hit a point of diminishing returns blaming Trump for not being able to advance the ball down the field on major issues. It begins to make the D’s look weak and ineffective if the message is that Trump, currently a private citizen, is more powerful than the President. The message needs to be that Biden is using his leverage with Bibi to force him to the table to get a deal done and be vocal about who is holding things up. Everyone is tired of this carnage at this poin, sentiment in Israel will turn quickly if the Israelis see that Bibi is being an impediment to getting the deal done.

Apparently getting foreign policy advice from Surly.

I think making these morons his little bitch is sport to him so he does it because it’s entertainment for him.

Anyone posting here is much more attuned to politics than the average bear. I have a lifelong friend that fancies himself an independent. He made a comment to me that he wishes that JD Vance was a the top of the ticket for the R’s because he’s younger and less crazy than Trump. This friend happens to have three children as a result of IVF. I’m happily married and childless by choice. I asked my buddy if he was aware of Vance’s views on IVF or on people like my wife and me. He thought I was making shit up because what I was saying was so insane. I sent him some links to back it up and let’s just say it was eye opening for him. These are the people that we need to reach. There are a lot of people out there who don’t pay attention to politics like posters on this board do. It’s not the MAGA faithful we need to reach. It’s the folks living their lives who just don’t pay attention to this stuff day to day like we do. Find something the resonates with these people, like IVF access in my example, and hammer it. That’s what works.