RomaVicta

Henry Kissinger would have had to flee to (checks chart) maybe China? The western hemisphere is out even if they don't honor the statute.

I browsed. Got this. Have you no Aggie Honor, sir? Poor little Reveille down there just waiting to watch the next game or at least the scoreboard. Now soaked in Aggie urine filtered through Aggie turds. REVEILLE! Almost forgot to add: She never even gets a chance to say it was a sippy in disguise:

Insightful, CTJ, as always. Irish asks a good question that leads to my uneducated thoughts. As I understand it, the 2022 class was a colossal front of cash that caused discord (to say the least) in the A&M locker room due to imbalance of pay. A&M fumbled (shocking!) their handling of this because they were already in trouble maintaining the 2022 standard let alone flooding the locker room with cash to make everybody whole. You think they're walking into the same airplane propeller?

I do. They changed the rules, my friend. They introduced ruthless means to a system designed for civilized (for the most part) intercourse. I have a cold, ruthless side, too. They should not be able to count on the rest of us to keep on white gloves. We can cite them later for people caught on video attacking our country. Queue it up with the Twin Towers burning and the Pentagon gashed. The war seems to be over before we raised a fist. Shame on us. Now we get the fruits of comfortable capitulation. I do not exclude myself from that shame. I'm embarrassed (in a sniveling kind of way) that I've got the white man stamp. I'll probably die in the recliner watching a Longhorns game before they discover my true feelings on which I've done little to act beyond what I'm doing right now. Pith. I try to bring them down with pith they will never read. Fucking hero of the republic. The Romans should rise from their pyres and slap me for invoking their name.

John Brown didn't get long. Nor did the Lincoln assassins (acting in the name of a country other than the US), abettors, and standersby. Widely witnessed treason is a case for summary execution with vast historical precedent. These methods are not fitting matches for how we want the law to work for average citizens. I don't care. I don't care that the law has an ineffectual definition of treason when I can see it for myself. Along with a 100 million other witnesses. If anyone is unsure, we can replay the videos on a loop. But they're citizens, these "alleged" traitors? Really? Persons who publicly, violently assault the seat of government with arms in hand don't forfeit citizenship the moment they do so? They get to enjoy a benefit because they weren't hosed to the ground with .50 cal as their actions invited? My, aren't we civilized following decorum on the Titanic! Legality triumphs over the obvious. Our violent enemies remain alive and most serve only tiny percentages of their worthless lives (such is the value of someone's life who takes up arms against the United States, no?) in prison. But this is an emotional appeal, Roma. That is the way of the mob and not a nation of laws. No shit. I didn't change the rules; they did. Let's play. It would have been easier to have acted on Jan. 7. Round the whole bunch up and put them on slow boat to Gitmo. Sink the boat. Send Trump to join them on Jan. 20. Pretense? Uh, everybody saw them attacking the capitol and TV changing their status as prisoners. It's not criminal law so much as military law. Our vibrant experiment as a free people has become hardbound. The laws established to keep that experiment on the rails now derails it through arcanity which is the new tyrant over the obvious. ETA: I didn't name @TwiceHorn at the beginning of the post because it's not for me to volunteer persons to engage my raving and bloviations. We seem to be leapfrogging each other as we post which gives the feel that I'm specifically directing my opinions at Twice. Twice's opinions are as nuanced as anyone's; I don't seek to encapsulate them. I've always appreciated the input from Twice. It ain't easy bringing slaps of reality.

I wrote before reading this. I'm not persuaded, my friend, that someone making themselves an enemy of the republic cannot be tried and jailed (if convicted; it's a difficult case, the whole country watched the crime on TV) in an expedited fashion. I'm sorry, Mr. Smith. You'll have to wait in line like everbody else.

Should have gone after them for delaying a government function. Both fucking sides. Just as the press was grinding along the business as usual coverage and analysis of the race (I don't know that doing their jobs would have mattered, but at least they could sleep at night had they done otherwise), the legal system could not find a way to expedite the most important criminal cases likely in history, possible exception for civil rights. Well, it just takes this long. I'm sure it usually does. Lawyers have other things to do, dockets are crowded, procedures can take time, the judge is crooked... I respect the illumination we've received on that from patient attorneys, particularly @TwiceHorn. Fuck all that other shit. Clear the dockets. Order the attorneys. Expedite procedures. Replace the judge for conflict. Pro-ceed. The justice department crawled. The courts crawled. Lawyers were allowed to delay the crawl. Just like the press and much of the electorate who should know better, we've sleep crawled to this putrid administration already allowing peeks at their fouled diaper of an agenda. I stayed patient. I tried to trust the system. I shut out the annoying, knee-jerk reaction of "ain't nothing going to happen." I'm waiting for my membership card to Idiot World to arrive by fax anyday now.

He's doing for it Trump. He's a good toady.

Look! Standing ovation! On his head! Maybe even attached!

The $1 Whopper at Burger King sustained me in the late 90s.

I'd managed to work down to that level for quite a while. Didn't like it, but there are plenty of safety nets for a suburban white boy. I knew I wouldn't go under. A taste of that life was plenty for me. The stress on working poor families must be enormous. But we are coming up on the December to Remember Lexus Sales Event, that ought to cheer 'em up right quick.

She doesn't appreciate the hilarity of insisting to write the same off topic shit over and over. One day, maybe we'll be as good as TexAgs at wearing out traditional jokes. The cabinet appointments thread has been pretty good. We got wrasslers, sexual predators, a guy with brain worms, and a mess of kooky TV hosts taking the reins.

First the ebil Dems then the republic itself! You guys are rolling right along. And you're doing it with clowns. Brilliant! Who cares about governing well, anyway?

You kind of answer your own question there. The irrelevant are not usually targets for discussion. I think the newsmedia assumption that there was surely a way for her to win did lead to a period panel discussions where she was criticized, but she's out of the picture now. I was shocked to read that her campaign burned through a billion dollars and is still asking for money. I was put off by how fervently they clawed us for cash. I went to her sight where I bought a sign and made a small contribution as well. There were pop-ups while I was entering payment information. I unsubscribed as soon as I completed my purchase. Good advice from someone here. I think this is an exercise in proving that a billion TV ads that cost tens of millions of dollars is not some guaranteed path. The TV news guys like to talk about money raising instead of issues, so I guess they're glad about it. Shrug.

I opened the NYT because I can't sleep tonight. TFG. A wrestling executive, a wacky TV doctor, and a sex offender walk into a bar the White House. What a sentence about the trend of selecting TV stars to run the government. His immediate family had/grifted enough last time to last them forever. Emergency powers activated to round up Pedro and Maria using the Army will really start the fun. Let's get the American people accustomed to military presence on the streets. Pedro and Maria might be safer in the concentration camps than being hunted down by angry white men on those same streets. I'm sure y'all have been turning this stuff over. I guess I just felt like quoting news stories and commenting about absolutely unforeseeable occurences to me forty years ago. Thanks for indulging me. I'm still largely shrugging about all this. It will change when the first stories about naturalized American citizens of color being found beaten to death in the first stochastic ejaculation of Trumpism Part 2. But I still won't be able to do anything about it. Maybe the professional wrestling lady will do a great job with education. I'd like to say Idiot World doesn't care, but, in reality, the idiots will high-five and applaud.

It's sorta funny that their team and program can't help but focus on Texas ahead of time. We're such a constant part of their lives from "t.u." to their song and swaying refrain. There's no escaping it. Our guys don't have that constant stimulus that Texas A&M is the biggest thing in the world. Beating them is everything. Let's do our song and dance. I'd be surprised if Texas were looking ahead to A&M (not denying it's a big game, BTW). I wouldn't be if it's the other way around.

These poor rough tough real stuff victims. Of course, all you read on the Aggie boards was how they longed to keep toxic t.u. on their schedule. But then they saw the chains the game put upon them. A sleeping giant, if you will, controlled by smaller men. Below is the culmination of Aggie-created reality at its best: This is not made from whole cloth but it is derived from a single thread. Aggies, who sing about us and cannot say our proper name aloud, were outraged by Longhorns saying the OU game was a bigger game than the Aggie game and that the football rivalry with OU was more intense. They were flummoxed, well they're always flummoxed, they were really really flummoxed by this. Well, if you don't like the facts, invent lies! It's right there in the footnotes to the Code of Honor. Thou shalt always lie about t.u. So they bent the original sentiment into "tu says we're not their rival." Thus they continue to embarrass themselves by citing examples that there is indeed a rivalry! They bring it up a lot. Not entirely apt, but close enough:

Most voters can't name one of their own senators. Many can't find the USA on the globe. When it comes down to accountability they don't have a clue on their own. Some (most now) listen to their God-chosen cult leader for the facts. They have no basis to question that account. We'll talk about secretaries failing or intentionally doing harm. The cult will absolutely know that it's the socialist baby killing/eating Dems and the deep state.

I'll be a dickhead here. I don't much care. Now that I know of her, I wish her well, but there's no reason for going into this on the recruiting board. If people think Venables may retire because his wife has cancer, that's newsworthy. The details are not.

Wait! There's still the press! ...fuck. Well, we have the judges in the courts! ...fuck. Hey, we still have the majority of the voters!...fuck. Some of us are white males! Yay!

I forgot all about that. That's even better than whatever Article Trump thinks he can use to wield plenary power. You can easily imagine Stephen Miller leaning to Trump's ear and taking a long sniff of the earwax with orgasmic delight. "Mr. President, sir, there's something interesting you might like to know." Miller relishes the smell of the full diaper as he leaves the intoxication of ear wax. ETA:

Still no mention of Christian Nationalism's impact or the issue of people ignoring character issues. I shrug instead of rage at this point.

William! Looch, the Fightin' Texas Aggie who wants to fight you! Bringing the insight. Everybody knows you only take an off week before playing a cupcake because...well because. All those other idiot teams have off weeks before big games. Stupid. The guys barely know how to buckle their chinstraps or where to line up after a break like that. Give those poor Aggies a break! Anybody have a clue as to who he's talking to here? I like that he's not afraid to take a bold stand where others cower: Somewhere there is a man standing tall in a parking lot in College Station. He knows things. He's smart not dumb like everybody says. What is? What are you talking about? Texas is one of the best 12 teams in the country, you say. Then you toss in resume after saying this above: You're looking at numbers, you're not looking at numbers, common sense should prevail, no dumbasses! What about the resume? Still, they won a battle they never fought: Arch could have transferred there.