RomaVicta

Is this a parody? From 2019: Trump suggests shooting migrants BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49901878 Eye liner and eye shadow? Has he come out (unintentional word choice) against drag shows? He's pretty close to putting one on himself.

I am finding it difficult to just watch a political world where logic, facts, and good faith carry so little weight. In fact, they're scorned by one side.

Massive displacement. Destruction of medical facilities. Interference with humanitarian aid. Targetting of journalists. Tons of high explosive bombs (made in the USA! Supplied by the USA!) dropped among non-combatants. America aids and abets a slaughter in the Middle East pretty obviously designed to inflict maximum harm on general populations. Netanyahu makes Israel an outlaw state way over on the bloodthirsty side of the spectrum. Shame on us.

The opening responses capped by this one were strong enough to incline me not to read much further. There is something particularly cowardly about singling out such a tiny element of the citizenry for contempt and persecution. Of course, it's also about gays and lesbians without having to say it out loud. The bully goes after the smallest. As Troph writes, there would have been a way to arbitrate this sports problem given time and proper consideration. Now, it's joke on the one hand and a dire threat to the country on the other. I cannot stop my dark and violent thoughts regarding the anti-republic party that feeds on this with unending appetite.

After that, Bentsen was who most wanted to be president. I agree that VP debates have not traditionally moved the needle much, but this is no traditional race. Walz was largely unknown to those not following the Harris assumption of the candidacy. We're running against hate. I think the presence of an honestly good person of great capability is not to be discounted. This is a further credit to not that well known Kamala Harris as the real thing. This is also non-traditional in that we have a candidate representing an existential threat to the republic with a large following of people who should be his enemies just as he is to them. I.W.

@Gordon Shumway caught some good ones out of this jibberish. It reads like somebody is eating his brain as he sits at his keyboard. He really should have run this by Olin first. Opening sentence: three random clauses. It's a shame he didn't put the last line next. 1 Outlier? From what? 2 Those words mean the same thing. You want insight? Dreamy, muscular Brauny is Johnny on the Steroid: To add to Gordon's observation: 1 Are the people eating your brain discussing Aggie football or are these voices you've heard in your head prior to being dinner? 2 People are saying this is [Present Tense] 3 Projection about not knowing anything? 4. This will be [Future Tense] Brauny invents a quote to refute then forgets what the quote is. The "folks" didn't say "will be." They (real or not) are saying this is Elko's most talented team which seems supportable considering this is, what?, his third year as a head coach? Who is doing this, Brauny? Where are the voices coming from? Inside the house? What follows is a lengthy list of names to prove the person he's invented is wrong. Lastly, Mister Brauny Inside Scoop. From just the second and third paragraphs: I was thinking I'd do the whole article, but man! Anyone could have written this article...better. I think Olin may be their star scribe.

To me, it looks like the war criminal Netanyahu is trying to recreate the baptism montage from the Godfather. To me, it looks like he wants to create a greater Israel through bloody, inhuman conquest. They dropped 2000 lb bombs on the neighborhoods where Hezbollah headquarters. If they repeat their Gaza strategy, they'll use that justification to use high explosives in non-combatant neighborhoods whether there is a real threat to Israel there or not. I see Israeli policy as pointing to a general showdown and greater MidEast conflagration in order to get rid of the Palestinians once and for all. They are justified in attacking Hezbollah and certainly for attacking Hamas. Their lack of concern about precision and their brutal treatment of captives shows bloodlust to me. I don't want our name on it. I wouldn't supply Israel with anything for a few weeks and then re-negotiate any deal we have. I would not have an Israeli Donald Trump leading up by the nose into a war against Islam. I don't want to see Israel driven into the sea, so I would help with air defense. That's it. It would still be the outcome they seek. It's clear Israeli leadership doesn't give a fig for their standing in the world.

We're the champions of that!

I love how this spineless yapper lapdog recounted speaking to "the president" and beginning with, "Sir...." I'm assuming the video stopped before he could talk about tears coming to his eyes.

I don't know. If the other side knows what you're going to say, they can prepare devastating comebacks for things other than policy and facts. I think Vance tossed out the word "weird" hoping to evoke it from Walz. Reagan used, "There you go again," twice. The first time against Carter, it scored big points even though I don't know why. The second time Reagan used it, he was debating Mondale. Mondale was ready. He turned to look directly at Reagan and asked, "Do you remember when you said that before?" Reagan couldn't break eye contact as Mondale recalled the issue from the first time and pointed out how Reagan had failed in whatever regard it was related to. It was electrifying. I don't recall if this is the debate that had people doubting Reagan's mental soundness, but it likely was. An amusing epilogue, the media harped about Reagan's possible mental decline. All the questions were focused on how he would perform in the second debate. Reagan had a joke prepared. "People are talking about age and holding the office of president. I just want to say that I will not hold my opponent's youth and inexperience against him." The audience went nuts over this canned line. Reagan didn't look any more acute than he did in the first debate other than he'd memorized more lines. Afterwards, the media were all chirping about how Reagan had proven his critics wrong. Charles Krauthammer (what a name! what a dark eminence!), before he went totally right, was asked what he thought of Reagan's performance. "Well, I suppose, in purely neurological terms it was a success."

I come with fodder. Big excitement in Aggieland over this news on their baseball board. Lot of hubbub about this. More debate and support over this hugely important decision. The butthurt remains the same. One must never utter the name of the tu coach or even tu. Traditions! HOWDY! The last one is sort of incoherent, but it pulls all the right strings. Nothing weird or goofy about that thread.

Trump won't be replaced by any simple formula that has worked to get the GOP nomination in the past. As you say, Trump brings a specific act that got that nomination in ways nobody anticipated. Part of it was he was not on the usual train track for elected politicians. MAGAs need someone to maintain their totally impenetrable sphere of dumb/greedy white man fantasies about the world as it is and can be. They see Trump as chosen by God to champion their lunacy. If someone replaces Trump in these ways, I doubt the person comes from politics. We may end up with his coked-up son as a nominee. His raving deceit and lunacy might just fit the bill. Idiot World

Just ordering the sign, there were constant pop ups wanting more. It doesn't exactly warm the heart.

I just got a chill. RomaVicta 2016: Trump will never be nominated.

I just opened the thread and this is exactly my feeling and response. As with Biden, I think Walz was over prepped so that he felt he had to get in every single detail of a practiced answer. The answers were solid in the old paradigm way of policies mattering. On the policies that are prominent enough to actually matter, Walz did very well on the rights of people to make their own choices about medical decisions. He particularly did a good job of defining the issue of abortion rights as a matter of liberty. We're not pro-abortion, we're pro-rights. Of course, the damning non answer exchange was key. There were opportunities to make points about this throughout, but I think feeling the need to get a point across rather than consider more what the opponent said and attacking is what limited Walz as it did Biden. It's difficult to debate a constant liar in a format that allows so little time. In that debate in that format, I'd go after the overall issues of constant dishonesty, clear hostility to democracy, and some detail about Project 2025. Walz' excellent quality of seeing the good in people and believing in general good faith provided contrast. I found myself terribly stressed throughout the debate. It got worse and worse. My emotional reaction was way out of proportion to what was being said on the TV screen. There is so much at stake. The electorate should have no problem seeing the difference between a lying, grifting, felon who wants to rule rather than govern and the clearly pro-democracy, decent candidates with good policy goals. It drives me nuts that tens of millions of voters don't get it. On both sides. I don't think the wave of support for Harris is about the fate of the republic. I think it's mostly an emotional response to a positive, hope-driven look to the future. In the end, it seems to simply boil down to the emotional choice between hate and tolerance. Maybe that's okay, but it seems tenuous to me. Thanks to anyone who reads this long post.

It's all about the patch. It transformed A&M magically from a BDF team to competiveness in the SEC over one summer! So far, so good for us, too! Love that patch! ETA: Actually, now that I think of it, did A&M or Missouri show any signs of being ground down in their first seasons? Seriously, was there any evidence of this tired assumption about the brutal business of playing in the SEC?

I didn't know they were paying Elko $7MM. That's astonishing. I'd assumed it was somewhere between 4 and 5MM with incentives. Well, I keep reading that Maybe he's worth it. Of course, some might wonder why his team wasn't playing its best in 3 out of 4 games so far this season. I guess they were concentrating too much on maximum effort against McNeese State.

I'm sure all of those remarks and his befuddled delivery of them were thoroughly discussed on CNN and the network news. Unleash police officers for (more) brutality. He cheated workers. He continues to lie about the past election. He is rabble-rousing about that lie to discredit the coming election. He can't stay on point for more than a few phrases and can't even generate a compound sentence. America is so polarized now. Both sides are basically the same, they're just polarized and bickering all the time. Real jounalists must be throwing up.

I remember Tommy Nobis missing a game because he had the heebie-jeebies. I don't have any reason to dislike Elko. Among all the other problems at A&M, he gets a quarterback controversy where neither QB has been particulalry good against decent competition. What do I do? Of course, it's delicious that the TexAggies went from worshipping Wiggy to hating him and raving about Reed to start hating him, too.

Fair points. Nice to have an outsider's perspective. Thanks for making me look this up. Published on the Prairie View A&M website. (Prairie view is a historically black university.) It would have been nice to make the point I was considering: not many Texans owned slaves and it was concentrated in East Texas. Both seem true. The part that follows the "However" suggests a general attitude about enslaving people. You can surely find racism ianywere in Texas, but East Texas is more Old South than southwestern. We usually draw the line at interstate 45 which runs from Houston to Dallas. This is a big place. The Valley is not like East Texas nor is West Texas like the DFW metroplex.

I was raised by Texans so some of that traditional character made its way into me even though I was merely a suburban boy. I went to Spring High back when it was 2A and there were plenty of Texas country boys there. I have to wonder how much any person born in an Anywhere, USA suburb surrounding Houston, Dallas, or Austin reflect much of what we like to think of as Texan. The different state characters are fading due to the massive homogenization of the national culture. It'd be nice to return to the fine old saying of "that's none of my business." It fits well with tolerance and leaving other folks alone so long as they're not hurting anybody. That saying would apply to what occurs between doctors and patients and what they decide is best. It also applies to what people read, what kind of clothes they want to wear, and what's going on in their houses.

That's fascinating. I did not expect this at all. I'm a white male native Texan, and I suspect persons of my phenotype didn't follow the trend. But, I was wrong about native Texans in general, so maybe I'm wrong about that, too.

It's remarkable that the Aggies operate on the assumption that they are an important object of attention nationwide. We've actually got a prominent national brand, and I'm sure nobody paid much attention to the Longhorns when we were shitty other than us and, of course, the Aggies. We surely didn't suspect a national conspiracy to keep us at #18 when we were better than the #16 and 17 teams. Their brief assault on the top 5 merely brought brief national attention to their mediocrity as they laughably crashed every year after the holy 2020 Covid season. Nobody expects A&M to be in the top ten. If they get there, nobody expects them to stay if they give them any thought at all.

You can recognize what Texas has become and not be glorifying New York or any other location. There are large pockets of resistence in the metropolitan areas, but we know how the white man vote largely goes here. I'm a Texan. I don't like having to say it almost apologetically to decent people in other states. That was not the case when I was young. What distinguished Texas and Texans 60 years ago is largely long gone. Texans used to be generally friendly and people who tended to mind their own business. No more.