Everything posted by Satchel
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Trump’s America
Check out the predictions Americans made in 1998 about what America would look like in 2025. A few were quite prescient: https://www.aol.com/articles/americans-1998-tried-predict-2025-120059255.html In the year 1998, Bill Clinton was facing impeachment proceedings, “Titanic” was cleaning up at the Oscars and most households still had landline phones. Gallup and USA Today called up 1,055 Americans on those landlines and asked them for their best predictions about a year in the distant future: 2025. Those predictions are now memorialized via polling archives maintained by the Roper Center at Cornell University. So, with the final days of 2025 now slipping into the past, here’s a look back at how some of them held up. Some were surprisingly prescient. Most Americans predicted that, over the next 27 years, the country would have elected a Black president, gay marriages would be legal and commonplace and a “deadly new disease” would have emerged. Most people in 1998 correctly doubted that space travel would be common for ordinary Americans or that alien life forms would have made contact. Other predictions didn’t hold up as well. About two-thirds of Americans thought the country would have elected a female president by now. More than half expected a cure for cancer and 61% expected that “people will routinely live to be 100 years old.” (The world is not quite there yet.) The poll also asked some less quantifiable questions about the direction the country was taking. It revealed plenty of pessimism. While 70% thought quality of life would improve for the rich, respondents were about split on whether things would improve or worsen for the middle class, and most expected life to get worse for the poor. Nearly 8 in 10 expected Americans in the future to have less personal privacy, and 57% thought that they’d experience less personal freedom. Most also expected higher crime rates, poorer environmental quality and lower moral values. A 71% majority said it would be harder to raise children to be good people. There were a few bright spots in Americans’ outlook: Most believed race relations would improve and that medical care would be more available, if less affordable. Gallup is still polling, of course, albeit with less of an emphasis on landlines. So we can get a sense of how Americans’ overall outlook on the country has changed over the past 27 years. In fall 1998, about 60% of Americans said they were satisfied with the way things were going in the US. Today, that number stands at 24%.
- 2025 Super Saturday Bowl Game Thread
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Media Bias Thread
Bari Weiss University is a shit show: https://www.chron.com/culture/article/university-of-austin-staff-exodus-21248040.php
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Trump’s America
Every time I get a look at how Trump has jacked up the WH with all that tacky fake gold stuff, I become more horrified. It seems to get worse by the day. Damn.
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Trump’s America
The only thing missing from the teleprompter was “, you sons a bitches.” at the end.
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Tell me about Texas Tech
Good grief.
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2023 Thread of Racism in America
In addition to packing the SC, one of the most urgent things that must be done post Trump is to make racism unpopular and socially unacceptable again.
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Diego Pavia - The Chihuahua that thinks he's a Mastiff
I wasn’t aware he was arrested: https://x.com/i/status/2000286445261803810
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Trump’s America
This is a nightmare.
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
I’m talking about the power that one has to get what one wants out of these love relationships.
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
As it turns out (and it’s important how these things turn out) she seems to have had more power. Just as Shannon Sharpe’s “girlfriend” had more power. He lost his job, and his reputation was ruined… all because he stupidly thought he was paying for privilege.
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
Is there anybody in this thread who believes Moore is the innocent little victim?
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
I think times have changed a lot since that happened.
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
Okay. Not sure what that has to do with anything I’ve written. But to your point. The Michigan boards, along with a bevy of sports writers, insiders and analysts have speculated long before this revelation, that Moore was not up to the task and would be replaced in ‘26. That said, Moore is out of a job because of his own actions and behavior, performance not withstanding. You got a sense of the kind of man he is when his sorry ass went crying to girlfriend, blaming her for ruining his life and threatening to kill himself (which he would never do because he’s too in love with himself).
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
I know the narrative. I just don’t believe it’s 100% accurate. Moore clearly had positional power and influence, Girlfriend had personal power and influence. Most would prefer the latter since the former can be gone in a flash. Ask Moore.
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
Well, that’s certainly one way of looking at it. Otoh, an ill intentioned woman might lie on a black man known to like white women and accuse him of something not caught on camera in a hotel lobby and get him fired. Amy Cooper literally bragged about the racial dynamic she invoked while claiming her lie about the Central Park bird watcher would be believed by the police It’s possible to accuse a black man of drowning your children and set in motion a dragnet to ensnare every black man in a county. There used to be a time when a black male teen could be bludgeoned to death based on a later recanted lie of white woman These things occur because of the idolatry of whiteness present in white people and people of color
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
Some here believe the race dynamic is less consequential than the power dynamic. I think it’s important not to downplay the consequences of race in situations like this. They guy who dragged Moore in the video clip up thread did so in a comical way but he was making a serious point about men like Moore.
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Jabbar Juluke RB Coach Texas
KK did the same thing when Juluke coached RBs at Tech.
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
Chuckle…we never left the race thing. This is America.
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
I strongly disagree that a white woman would lose her job for refusing and properly reporting on the amorous advances of her black male superior. Girlfriend obviously has a thing for black men. He clearly likes whites women. We don’t know who zoomed who first.
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
Are you suggesting she’s faultless in this situation? She seems to have been stalked after she decided to end whatever it was they had. And while it is true that Moore could have/should have resisted, the same must be said of her. Truth be told, I’m probably much more cynical of the sports related interracial love relationships where millions are involved than the average observer.
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Shooting at Brown University
Male dressed in all black. Merry Christmas.
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
There should be mandatory classes that teach this eternal verity.
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
What part of this power dynamic did Moore ultimately control? People who are stalked are victims in some shape or form. Years ago, I had a woman pursue me relentlessly, despite my honest efforts to dissuade her It’s a weird, scary thing to have happen. Moore’s side piece was reportedly involved in a secret affair that she helped keep secret until it no longer worked for her. Moore wanted it to continue. She did not. They both literally FAFO. This story is old as time itself.
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
I hope you don’t think I’m sympathizing with Moore. I’m not. He’s a weak, gutless, selfish, simple minded slug, based on what little I know about him. All I’m saying is that girlfriend had some degree of power in whatever it was they had, she was aware of said power, used it, and now gets to enjoy a degree an anonymity and victim status. Sure, by any reasonable reading, she’s a victim but she’s hardly blameless