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Probably the worst the Texas run defense has looked all year. Florida is completely neutered throwing the ball so it doesn't matter, but I hope there is some hard coaching in the film room tomorrow despite the big win. Pleased to see some progress in opening up the offense though.

Florida is fucking terrible. I'm glad to see Texas more or less doing what they should, but this is one of those nearly all downside games. Texas should dismantle them so it doesn't move the needle for me a ton, and if they hadn't, hoooo boy. Come out and handle Arkansas - a (slightly) better team on the road - and I'll def be more excited.

I really don't know why you try to shake the Trump thing so hard when you've pretty consistently toed the line but whatever you say man. Coping some questions from the other thread: Broad extension of the TCJA? Permanent or extending out to 2029 or something? This is kind of vague. Are you saying we should expect a pretty standard GOP deregulation agenda of just generally shifting the sliding scale toward business interest? Or do you expect a more significant gutting of the federal government along the lines of major headcount reduction, agency elimination, partisan purge, etc? Illegal border crossings are already relatively low - below 2019 figures, actually. Are you saying you expect exec action to reduce them further? If so, how? Is family separation back on the table? Do they pass the bill from earlier this year? What about deportations? RE: wall - Define this. Are we talking an actual wall from San Diego to Brownsville? Portions that have been authorized or started to date? Obviously a big law - high level, what should we stays/goes from the IRA? Fair to say you don't think tariffs will be broad enough and/or big enough to have an inflationary impact at a macro level? Well, the Trump campaign has mentioned wanting to repeal (admittedly I believe this to simply be a tactic to rile up the base with no intention of real action). So the burden is on them and the GOP to tell us what they're talking about. They haven't. That's why I'm asking what to expect. There's plenty to go after - preexisting conditions, out of pocket max, eliminated annual lifetime maxes, covered essential services, employer mandate, premium subsidies, cost sharing, expanded Medicaid, etc etc. I think it would be a pretty big surprise if Democrats won the House at this point. The House probably ends up within a couple seats in either direction of where it is now; which is to say slim, unruly GOP majority. I'd define an abortion ban as any law imposing a more restrictive limit than existed under Roe v Wade. I don't think such a thing would get through Congress but the Trump campaign and GOP have talked out of both sides of their mouth on the issue, similar to the ACA, so I'm asking what to expect. Do they go after abortion rights? Do they go after any other civil liberties - contraception/birth control, same sex marriage, etc? What would it take for you to consider a hypothetical ceasefire/peace agreement in Ukraine to be a sweetheart deal for Putin? What's a reasonable expectation of a peace agreement? Do you think we should expect US involvement in Ukrainian reconstruction efforts? What about the Israel-Gaza conflict? Will there be any notable difference between Trump and Biden with regard to that? What if Israel makes a larger offensive push into Lebanon?

Yeah Moore didn't catch that. Tough to see him drop two big plays.

Sark is calling a hilariously disrespectful game. Like BYU last year or Mississippi State this year, he is clearly treating this as a scrimmage; trying to get Ewers/the passing game as many reps as possible. I don't really blame him because Florida being inept on offense was very predictable.

I guess it depends on how we define support. We've also moved out of Texas. I was never a major donor but did have season tickets. I'll probably renew them next year, mostly because they are a money maker these days and we'll probably visit Texas for Thanksgiving and go to the aggy game next year. But it's pretty easy to watch casually from afar. Today's game started at 9:00am PST. It's about to be halftime at 10:30. This will be over by 12-1 and I can get on with my whole day. In that sense it's probably even a healthier level of support than planning social calendars around UT football like we would in Texas.

1.) This is kind of vague. Fair to say you'd expect restoration of the Schedule F piece and a purging of the federal workforce? Or is this more just a general deregulation bit? What degree of size/scope reduction are we talking? Do we see the really nutty shit like RFK in charge of HHS or Elon Musk with some new department? What proportion of agencies should we expect moved out of DC? Who are the elites and what is breaking their necks? 2.) Illegal border crossings are already relatively low - below 2019 figures, actually. Are you saying you expect exec action to reduce them further? If so, how? Is family separation back on the table? Do they pass the bill from earlier this year? I'd love to see a guest worker program + path to citizenship. I'm surprised you think we should expect this. I'll give you your due if it's correct but I think you and I will be disappointed here. Deporting violent criminals - so is it fair to say you think the mass deportation rhetoric is bluster? Should we expect an increase in removals? If so, how much? Prior Trump admin levels? Obama levels? Beyond that? You think we should expect it to be focused on violent offenders? 3.) It's well documented that there's a huge, ongoing boom in manufacturing construction. Are you just planning to spike to football when those jobs materialize or should we expect the Trump admin to do something here? If so, what? 4.) On its face this is something anyone would expect from their party with a trifecta so I get it. Stripping out value judgments on policy entirely, the House has been a dysfunctional mess the past two years and this election looks to be a stalemate in that chamber. Expecting clean and effective governance out of the slim majority seems like too much to ask given their track record but I'll keep this in mind. From the executive, "keeping promises" can mean a lot because Trump promises everything to everyone. He has promised to broadly lower prices, for example. Should we expect deflation? What promises should we be judging on here - that's really the root of my entire line of questioning, right? 5.) Again, pretty vague. Trump's FBI director is still in place. Seems like a solution in search of a problem so I don't really know how to evaluate it. We just talking filling federal law enforcement with more GOP-friendly personnel? 7.) Define mission creep and what ending it would look like? 9.) Department of Ed was created by Congress so Trump can't do this himself. Will need to get Congress to go along. I don't know that I expect them to do so. Interesting that you say we should expect that. If they do, what becomes of federal education funding? Just goes away? Administered through another agency? What about programs like Pell grants or PSLF that were created by Congress? Those just go away entirely or are administered elsewhere? 13.) Define this. Are we talking an actual wall from San Diego to Brownsville? Portions that have been authorized or started to date? 14.) Define what you mean by strengthen? The campaign oscillated between gutting and not touching them depending on the day. Similar to the guest worker bit, GOP's not going to raise the SS cap but okay I'll keep an eye out. 16.) Broad extension of the TCJA? Permanent or extending out to 2029 or something? Any additional tax cuts? What is your expectation with regard to tariffs? Will they add enough to be inflationary or is that a boogeyman? What about the Israel-Gaza conflict? Will there be any notable difference between Trump and Biden with regard to that? What if Israel makes a larger offensive push into Lebanon?

I don't think there's a ton of cognitive dissonance or doublethink needed to support Texas football because, as the Gen Zs would say, it's not that deep. It's a game. It doesn't matter. The way the sport is going, the program is a minor league pro team with a tangential association with the university. And regarding the players specifically, I would bet plenty of money that "did not vote" won the election among UT football players and that is probably a pretty safe bet most cycles. We're talking 18-23 year olds after all.

The deep south is by far the blackest region of the country, broadly speaking. It's less attracting and more kids just staying home. Paying players before it was legal and less national recruiting before the contemporary era contributed too. And it's not like racism ends at the borders of the SEC.

My brother in Christ, you're not supposed to eat the lead paint chips.

I have no awareness of what this stems from, but assuming it's true for argument's sake - males from generationally wealthy southern white families are pretty likely to be Republican (to the extent they are politically engaged at all as 20-somethings). That's just demographic reality. It would be a bigger surprise if they were Democrats.

Dude's definitely read Surly game threads

Thanks for dropping this. I have a few clarifying questions I don't have time to lay out right now (about to log off) but I'll come back to it. Of course I think there's a good bit of bad policy in here but genuinely, I really am interested in having an agreed-upon rubric of what is, and notably, isn't - there's nothing in here on trade and the immigration point is quite backtracked from Trump's own rhetoric - something we should expect or hold Trump to. I think we all benefit from clarity there.

I mean, I know that's probably true but I'd love to have a framework we can look back on. And if our resident Trump voters instead just troll and don't engage then I guess that's all you need to know.

Nah, I really do want to know. If we're to accept the premise that we're not supposed to believe what Trump has said or promised - and candidly I can buy that to some degree, history has shown his word is worth roughly one Ruble - I want to know what the right set of expectations is.

Moving EPA headquarters. Got it. Anything else?

What campaign promises do you believe Trump should be held to?

Oh, you mean America in a nutshell?

Co-signed. I'd love to hear what @Frank Drebin @Incredulity @ulukinatme etc. actually expect. What do we see on trade/tariffs? Immigration? Does the GOP trifecta go for a federal abortion ban or some other rescinding of existing rights? How much of the Biden legislative agenda - IRA, CHIPS, etc - is rolled back? Are they still going after Obamacare or has that ship sailed? I think it would be great to have a sort of rubric we can look back on. The only thing I am reasonably sure of is additional wealth redistribution toward the very top. You think it's great, I think it sucks, but I think everyone agrees it will happen. I also think the economy is set up well for a pretty good 2025 and it will be hard for anything the federal government does to steer it off that path unless it is just hilariously bad policy. Beyond that, I don't really know what I expect if I'm being honest. So I'd love it if you set the record straight for us TDS-riddled libtards; that way we all have something to point to and say "XYZ did/didn't happen."

May just be in the public sector, but when my wife was looking for work outside of TX, many Colorado jobs would explicitly only consider applicants that were current CO residents.

If you honest to God can't see the very obvious disconnect in what I pointed out in your posts then that about says it all.

Texas: 41 Florida: 7 Florida total offense: 232 Florida just gets nothing going on offense and Texas, after a panic-inducing offensive start, eventually breaks the game open with turnovers and attrition. Kind of uneventful.

I haven't really been getting into it with Trump voters, on here or in reality. Election's over so there's not really a ton of good that comes from beating that dead horse. The world ultimately keeps spinning. But I have to say, in one breath praising the Trump tax cuts, a structural increase of the US Government deficit that served primarily as a wealth redistribution mechanism to funnel money to the top, and in the next decrying reckless government spending is just hysterical. I mean, lol come on man. Your team won. No one is disputing that. The libs are owned. Why be a bad faith troll?

I like Pete. I do. He's obviously a very smart guy and seems to have a big heart. But in light of the complete faceplant in the CR with such confidence in Harris, the board's thirsting for Pete as a candidate gives me pause.

This is the only post I have negged of any of the texaggy crowd making the rounds in the CR and the only one I will. You almost stumbled into a point but just couldn't the resist the call to be as cunty as possible. It's hilarious to me that this old man behind a keyboard who hasn't been called "young" by anyone in decades is waxing on about young single men and women like you know shit about the real world outside your bubble. I am actually really glad that you were born into generational wealth and your wife decided that was worth the trade off of living life with you. We both know you'd have shot up a school or a Taylor Swift concert or something by now if that wasn't the case. She's a literal life saver.