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Trump appeared to privately concede that he lost the election three days before January 6. In a meeting with Gen. Mark Milley, Trump said "it's too late for us" and "we're going to give that to the next guy." According to special counsel Jack Smith's indictment, Trump had been informed that Inauguration Day was fast approaching. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-told-top-military-advisor-232732121.html

A quarter of voters in the much talked NYT poll said they believed Trump committed crimes but intended to vote for him anyway. The lack of cognitive dissonance is hard to ignore. Republicans made Hillary an enemy of the state. They never stopped repeating just how loathsome she was. Enough people bought it and Trump won.

I think Smith has secured the cooperation of one or two within Trump’s orbit who will testify to the fact that he privately acknowledged losing the election.

Putin, Trump and Orban are used as examples in this study: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/30/the-connection-between-political-lies-and-conspiracy-theories-00108378 My research analyzes real speeches made by politicians past and present, including those of Trump, Orbán and Putin, using cognitive linguistics — a branch of linguistics that examines the relationship between language and the mind. What I have found is that throughout history, speeches by dictators and autocrats have one thing in common: they use dehumanizing metaphors to instill and propagate hatred of others. It is well-documented that for example words like “reptiles” and “parasites” were used by the Nazi regime to compare outsiders and minorities to animals. Strongmen throughout history have referred to targeted social groups as “rats” or “pests” or “a plague.” And it’s effective regardless of whether the people who hear this language are predisposed to jump to extreme conclusions. Once someone is tuned into these metaphors, their brain actually changes in ways that make them more likely to believe bigger lies, even conspiracy theories. These metaphors are part of a cognitive process that entraps some people in this kind of thinking while others are unaffected. Here’s how it works. The first step to manipulating the minds of the public, or really the precondition, is that listeners need to be in the right emotional state. In order to hack into the minds of the public, people need to feel fear or uncertainty. That could be caused by economic instability or pre-existing cultural prejudices, but the emotional basis is fear. The brain is designed to respond to fear in various ways, with its own in-built defense mechanisms which produce chemicals in the response pattern, such as cortisol and adrenaline. These chemical responses, which zip straight past our logical brains to our fight-or-flight reactions, are also activated by forms of language that instill fear, either directly (as in a vocal threat) or, more insidiously, by twisted facts which allay fears through lies and deceptive statements.

Mussolini called himself the avenger. Trump has promised to seek revenge against his opponents if re-elected. Why won’t people see him for what he is? A dumber Mussolini.

Did we ever learn what Trump and Putin talked about in their secret meeting in Helsinki? Will go down as a low moment in US presidential history.

If it were Trump and Putin, I don’t think Trump would be facing him.

The trouble she was in garnered her what up until that time, the largest number of votes in a presidential election ever. Her big mistake seems to be she spent a lot of time talking policy and warning the country about the danger a Trump presidency posed. Even she underestimated the danger.

Texas may have been the best among quite a few B12 teams in ‘08. Problem I’m my view was there were also quite a few Big12 teams who were married but looking.

Still, there was enough there to give the B1G and the Sec a run for their money. It’s a shame we couldn’t make it work. https://collegepollarchive.com/football/ap/seasons.cfm?seasonid=2007 https://collegepollarchive.com/football/ap/seasons.cfm?seasonid=2008

His fake sanctimony makes me want to give three cheers to sin.

Doesn't seem to affect their football recruiting much if at all, they still manage to pull some 4/5*'s not only in state, but from urban areas of other states as well. Guess fish camp starts before enrolling. One cannot ignore the fact that they pay well. They have to. Unbridled racism is expensive.

It will remain mystified why the big 12 was not able to capitalize on its strengths during the halcyon days that included a national championship for Texas. The conference had a good run during the early 2000s.

Black aggys raised hell because of the institutional racism during the Melvin Watkins era. They even threatened to redirect prospective students/athletes away from the school. It’s time for them to stop threatening and use the little leverage they have. If A&M simply cannot abide black liberal professors, it follows that black liberal 5 star athletes should be as undesirable.

I don’t understand why black people even bother with A&M. It’s just an irredeemably horrible place.

How can this not be a problem for UCLA? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/sports/ncaafootball/ucla-football-game-attendance.html And yet crowds have continued to be so barren at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., that U.C.L.A. has averaged only 36,241 fans in six home games, despite the university routinely giving away tens of thousands of tickets. Nov 11, 2022

Hurd, Christie and Hutchinson are going about this all wrong. Rather than get booed off stages for telling the truth about Trump, they should take the other candidates to task for their failure to do likewise, and they should be ugly and nasty in doing so. Make them shit or get off the pot.

Apparently these dry bones can live: https://www.si.com/college/2023/07/27/big-12-adding-colorado-conference-realignment The resolve stemmed from the fact that the remaining eight schools all wanted to stay together if possible. Losing the two biggest brands in the conference was a huge blow, but removing heavy-handed Texas from the boardroom dynamics actually made collaboration easier. The partnerships were solid, and the league’s anchor in Texas remained valuable. Nobody wanted to give up on the league until it was absolutely necessary. It is exceedingly difficult to survive as a wounded animal in the modern college athletics jungle. Yet here we are two years hence, with the Big 12 not just alive but sporting the teeth and claws of a fierce predator. Colorado is coming, the membership has swelled to 13 schools and more could be added soon. It’s a testament to the league’s collective attributes, all of which revealed themselves in a time of crisis: resolve, self-awareness, patience, leadership, boldness and ruthlessness. .

Still amazed at how fake alpha man can get so many schlubs with exotic last names to go to jail for him.

Stop perpetuating this fantasy that schools are in a position to swing their nuts anywhere. They’ll do what the networks tell them to do and like it.

https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/til-x-is-a-nazi-dog-whistle-re-elon-and-twitter/109087261/

This should give any player pause when considering signing with Ole Mississippi: https://www.propublica.org/article/ole-miss-students-pose-with-guns-in-front-of-shot-up-emmett-till-memorial

Isn’t this what Bibi is codifying in Israel? Forget the courts. political rulers will do as the please.

What a kick Bidenomics has turned out to be: Morgan Stanley is commending “Bidenomics” at a crucial time, crediting President Joe Biden’s policies for the state of the U.S. economy as Biden continues his quest to sell a skeptical public on his economic agenda. What You Need To Know https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/07/24/morgan-stanley-credits--bidenomics-- Morgan Stanley is commending “Bidenomics” at a crucial time, crediting President Joe Biden’s policies for the state of the U.S. economy as Biden continues his quest to sell a skeptical public on his economic agenda The major investment bank and financial services company now projects 1.9% gross domestic product growth in the first half of this year as opposed to the previous estimate of 0.5% Morgan Stanley’s chief U.S. economist Ellen Zentner wrote the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act – legislation Biden signed in Nov. 2021 that was a major piece of his agenda – is creating a “boom” in infrastructure and strengthening manufacturing construction An CNBC All-America Economic Survey released last week found just 37% of Americans said they approve of Biden's handling of the economy.

I understand solar and wind are providing a third of the power generation necessary to keep the Texas grid online. That’s can’t be true. Can it? Solar and wind power are evil.