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Paul Wesley

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  1. Uh, do you know where the weight room is?
  2. Tucker is puzzled by your assertion and trying to understand it.
  3. Someone could have written this on-the-nose analysis about Greg Brown, who played only a handful of minutes vs a very un-athletic Abeline Christian, and spent what little time he was on the floor standing at the 3-point line. Ugh.
  4. I'm also a bit troubled with CNN pundits telling us what the "moderates" in the Republican Party have agreed to. Let's look at the negotiators: McCarthy - in early 2021, after polling made it clear that a big majority of Republican voters still believed some version of the big lie, he went to Florida to kneel before Trump, then used his power in the House (as the minority party, it wasn't much) to absolutely torpedo any meaningful investigation into what was pretty clearly a Trump-led attack on democracy. Gaetz - still giving speeches in 2022 blaming "Antifa" for January 6. Could one of you explain to me who is the fucking moderate?
  5. Ooof. There was a "Simpsons" scene where the robbers are speeding away from the Kwik-E-Mart, and Apu is standing at the now-empty register. He calls out to an off-screen Homer: "You may emerge from behind the chip display now. The chance to be a hero is long past." It's more like that.
  6. Agreed, but their own 2013 autopsy said they couldn't win without moderating in a way that added more women, youth, and minorities. But then Trump proved they COULD win without any more moderates, as long as they added enough whites, olds, and uneducated... all of whom watched Fox all day and were prone to conspiratorial lunacy. So here we are. You can't pick a Speaker without giving real, actual national power to Lauren Fucking Boebert. I really want to enjoy this more, but I enjoyed it immensely when they picked an idiotic racist gameshow host as their presidential nominee, and it turned out the fucking joke was on me.
  7. I like how this was implied by your first response, but then you went ahead and made it clear.
  8. Really nice song. Thanks for sharing.
  9. "Hillary Clinton does it all the time" made me seriously laugh out loud.
  10. Oh, I do, for sure. Those falsetto lines in "Kiss" are impossibly hard notes to hit. Screaming in tune ("Baby I'm a Star") is hard to do. I'll bet Tom Petty would tell you that Prince was an order of magnitude better as a singer. Edit: "would have told you"
  11. I'm sure you're right. Hell, I was a subscriber to the print magazine off and on, even up until a few years ago. I used to get it at the studio just for the conversation-starter value. But it's been a loooooong time since Rolling Stone published a list without nudging each other and going, "This will piss them off!" I'm not playing along anymore.
  12. Yeah, I'm interested in such a list, but this is where I'm at with Rolling Stone. It seems they've done the math and they're accountants say that they make more money with stupid disingenuous bullshit. That seems like a bad long-term strategy.
  13. Haha i was going to post “booth initiated targeting “ as a joke but that’s actually what it is
  14. Either we didn’t know who Michigan is or Michigan doesn’t know who Michigan is.
  15. I mean, you’re not playing an air raid offensive juggernaut that’s gonna score 45 points… you take the 3 points and play defense
  16. Stupid stupid stupid
  17. Yeah, I agree with this. In the past decade, we've seen Reagan's "government IS the problem" thesis statement become the foundation of the GOP -- i.e. burn down the government. Trump famously appointed cabinet leaders who were hostile to the very mission they were assigned to do... Ben Carson was hostile to housing poor people, Rick Perry wanted to abolish the Department of Energy, billionaire pyramid-scheme heiress Betsy Devos wanted to make it much easier to divert funding from public schools, etc, etc. I mean, the animating get-out-the-vote causes for GOP voters in 2020 either didn't actually happen (a laptop that doesn't seem to have actually existed at all, a totally fucking fictional crisis about massive voter fraud, all kind of pizzagate and Jewish-space-laser Qanon shit), or had arguably zero impact on real-world problems (Hillary's emails from more than a decade prior). Before the 2022 midterms, conservative media went on a massive blitz covering an ominous crime wave that was exaggerated or misrepresented (i.e. the spike happened under the Trump administration). At the very least -- just like Bush's red/yellow/red/yellow/red/yellow terror-o-meter in 2004 and the migrant-caravan-coming-to-kill-us-all in 2016 -- right-wing coverage of this "crime wave" (if it was even a real thing) clearly disappeared the day of the election. The GOP bemoans lack of support among young people, while simultaneously their 2020 national platform was literally "we agree with anything Trump says." Really, they're doing remarkably well in elections despite their lack of solutions, because highly coordinated propaganda works great on angry old people (many of whom have spent the past two decades mistaking it for news). On younger adults, not quite as much.
  18. Still 45 minutes to kickoff, Baylor fans...
  19. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/25/fox-news-crime-coverage-decline-us-midterm-elections
  20. Exactly. “I’m transferring” tweets are rivaled only by Kevin Fowler songs about beer for their profound lack of imagination.
  21. I agree with your earlier post that Greg Davis wasted a shit ton of talent here. We had NFL-caliber wideouts (Roy, BJ) who collectively had 0 touchdowns in their entire careers vs OU, and an NFL-caliber running back who the Sooners just embarrassed... Benson could hardly get back to the line of scrimmage. Ditto for our offensive line full of five-star recruits who went years without scoring a meaningful touchdown in Dallas. It just bothers me that Texas fans continue to shit on Simms -- "disappointment" or a "waste of talent" -- when those labels never seem to get applied to the other 10 guys on offense. Anyway, if you subtract out the Aggie game where Simms was pulled with the lead (and we lost) and also the Holiday Bowl vs Washington where he was pulled when we were behind (and we won), Simms was 25-5 across 4 seasons. I mean, we can literally count his career losses on one hand. Two were to OU (hard to put that shitshow on his shoulders) and one was to Oregon where Simms threw four really nice balls into the end zone as the game ended -- any of which would have tied the game. Two were flat-out dropped (BJ and Roy). And I'm not sure why you "lol at the Ewers comparison." That comparison was only brought up because you said Simms was a disappointment "based on his ranking." As the top-rated QB in the nation, we can compare Simms' numbers to Vince Young and to Ewers and that's pretty much it. I hope you're right that Ewers will be a far better college QB than Simms, because to do so, he'd have to be one of the best QB in all of college football over the next two seasons. Oh, I also agree that Simms is way fucking wrong about the SEC vs Big 12 this year. We just have different ideas of whether five career losses = "disappointment."
  22. You’re just wrong. He was 26-6 as a starter. One of those losses was at A&M when he was pulled while Texas had the lead. There was 1 - maybe 2 - games in 4 years where you could say Texas lost primarily because Simms played like shit. The Colorado game was one, I agree. Every QB has a game or two like that. Applewhite had a 5- or 6- turnover game vs KSU in a top-10 matchup at home that might have pushed us out of the CCG. Ewers has had arguably more WTF nightmare-game losses (OSU, TCU) in 9 starts this year than Simms had in a 4-year career, and they both came to UT as the top-ranked QB in their class. Ewers’ play at OSU this year likely cost us a shot in the championship game (he’s not a “bust” either). You can say that you’ll never forgive Simms for the 2001 CCG, or that you were always a Applewhite guy, and that’s all fine. But Simms was not “absolutely” a bust by any fucking metric whatsoever. You’re just wrong.
  23. Agreed. It's even crazier that the Big 12 champion plays a round-robin regular season and then the second-place finisher gets an automatic do-over. Conference championship games are dicey things even in a divisional format. Tons of great teams get knocked out of BCS games, MNC games, and playoffs (from Nebraska 96 to USC yesterday). But playing a round-robin and THEN making the winner play another one... it makes no sense.
  24. Feels strange to have to point this out... but the 5th winningest QB in UT history was not a "waste of talent" by any metric.
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