RomaVicta

What do you expect? It's a cult.

Had Biden not been chosen 4 years ago, Trump would have been re-elected. The Dem debate stage was overflowing with candidates that I would happily vote for. (No, Tulsi, not you.) It was amazing then and it's amazing now that none of them would have won. Elizabeth Warren was my favored choice. She's superior to Trump in every way. Since then, we've seen Jan. 6 and criminal trials, and Trump's numbers are undiminished. I guess I'm taking a lot of words to say I'm not sure who would energize the base to get out and vote. You're right about the absolute shit of a GOP nominee, but I don't know that Harris or whoever is going to get the remarkably undecided and lazy voters to the polls. I hope you're right. I'd prefer some of the other Dems to Joe because of his age. I just don't want this panic stampede to lead to a disastrous decision. If Kamala were to be the candidate, I wonder if Joe should go all in and resign the presidency to boost her with whatever she could get out of encumbancy. You'll note that I make no predictions. I'm always wrong and bitterly disappointed. The re-election of W and the election of Trump I would have deemed impossible.

I wonder if his strategy in delaying to change his social media to UT stuff was calculated. You know, if those idiots strike out on a couple of top guys, they might actually hire a green assistant. I'm going to wait this thing out a little bit. Jackpot. I've heard recently about a guy that controls the hiring of college baseball headcoaches who said Early was the best coach in the country. He's so good, he can let the coaching take care of itself while he praises God, checks on his kids, and wears snappy sport coats.

He is too old. He's not incompetent. He's not prone to damage the republic. He gives a shit. The only question is which candidate is better for the country in the role of president. The choice between these two men is the easiest in any election ever. It's crazy.

That's the fucking story. It's common knowledge. I don't see how the Dems can devise some slick presentation to open vother eyes to the sun shining down on them. I don't think the majority of the media don't bend the knee to corporate masters, but I profoundly agree with your post. I can't watch the news coverage or analysis for the very situation you describe. That's the story they should be able to cover, but they cannot break their habits of covering the same story over and over again because it is comfortable and expected. The piece by Medhi up above is a rare vision with clear eyes seeing this election is about the fate of the republic. Not some fate over policy but an existential fate. I came to post this: The Atlantic website is stuck in the old paradigm. The presidential election is like a horse race because you keep looking at the polls to see who is ahead. That's what they report on: that sweet inside story that makes the reporters feel like they're really deep. They all read this book: And they want to feel like Joe McGinniss by not doing as he did: digging up a real story. The new guys avoid digging up anything and simply retell his story. It liklely wouldn't matter much if they did do the real story in the real words about the death of the republic, but they could sleep at night. Who am I kidding? They all sleep fine. Willingness to cause violence is what it will boil down to. I don't think the soft, delusional average American has it in him. I'm not delusional, but I'm at an age when just riding it out sounds better than standing up.

Class, family, God, Aggiehood, Leadership, and more Aggieness. The coaching will take care of itself! Never forget that the redass Aggies believe fervor, fake character, fake honor, and the Aggie Spirit are what it really takes to succeed. They truly say that they blame losses on the fans not yelling loud enough. At least that was the excuse they used to give for having an impromptu yell practice at away games while the host school was playing their school song.

More fanboi stuff. I didn't go beyond the stuff I quoted above into the interview. That's as far as I want to pursue that shit. They've got a guy who uses a George Michael song for his walk-up and now this guy and the cat name. What do you think they would say if these guys were Longhorns? It'll go perfect with the sacred plaid blazer Earley was wearing yesterday. A lot of God, Family, and A&M. * Sadly for all involved, likely true.

Did somebody photoshop her lips out of the picture?

...the first week of July. I concede I don't know recruiting as well as many around here. I do recognize patterns. We are in the weeks of impatient dispare with not much else to focus on. The pattern beyond that is, "hey, it wasn't so bad afterall!" Recruits flip. New talent is discovered. I see the complaints about recruiting since we go the new coach and can't argue too much with them because it's a short time frame so far. There may be a time to dispare when the weather is a little cooler and the DT bin is still a little hollow. Why rush to that moment here in July?

When do we leave?

Interesting stuff about letting the players choose the coach. I like that. "The coaching will take care of itself."

TxAggies: They've even got to Finebaum! They're toxic! This isn't the SEC! Honor! Character! Here come the arrogant faggy Longhorns! Look out! Meanwhile, at Surly...

I'm likely covering ground that's already been covered, but... You know, how did he hurt their program or hurt their "kids?" He removed himself after the season. He raised their progam to its highest point ever. What damage was done to those sweet kids the Aggies are talking about? Where is one iota of harm other than A&M lost an employee to another job? Even the claims of lying are incorrect. That's neither a lie nor a carefully worded deception. I think it's something of a statement of disappointment that the A&M job didn't work out. I think he was likely reflecting on this: He wasn't getting what he was promised. Trev's admonition about the program and those darling little kids with puppy dog eyes isn't really important compared to the quoted above. It reads like, "take it or leave it." Death threats and vilification follow from the world's greatest fans.

Not enough gallows.

Interesting thought. His head coach is going to be an assistant at A&M: positive. A&M just made the finals of the CWS and seems to have much of that team coming back: very positive. A&M has a green head coach but he's Christ-like: Maybe positive. Aggies: Well, you know.

Pulitzer candidate and national hero Sir Richard Zane checks in. I guess all if forgiven, Jace. I had no idea what Rattlin Bog was. Tired old Irish song: https://youtu.be/WxgmAwoqr4E Gonna be the best PC ever! Bubbles! Rattlin Bog! Family family family. Bubbles. Cornball. Delusion. Yokels. Fanbois. It's what they do. Adoration. Fighting against evil. This is it. I can't read anymore. I might go into insulin shock with all this gee-whiz Aggie sweetness. Promoted a student coach to the staff. I had to look him up. I can't think of something an Aggie would like more than the ol' Aggie Spirit.

They've always been The Dorks. He left out The Drive which was when Eyebrows McGee led a game-winning drive against us in DKR. I think that's the game where they assassinated Colt McCoy on a shot where the player was ejected. All class. Cart McCry. It was their great, pitiful achievement of the Mack Era. tu's refs screwed him.

It wasn't a doctoral thesis or legal brief. I don't even care if the world thinks that Tennesssee is the real UT. I just Googled and copied. Thought it was sort of funny. But to answer your question, no.

You're right, of course, about the damage of Citizens United (another PR coup by naming it that), however, I will still argue that the roots to that action were deep and strong and sucking all the water out of the ground prior to that decision.

I don't have time, sadly, to give your post full attention. In this paragraph, you contradict yourself. You say capitalism isn't the problem and then you pretty much describe how the literal capitalists (the people who own everything) dismantled legal restraints upon their rapine ways. Further, why did we need regulatory laws and when were they developed? See: Robber Barons. Capitalism is rapine and must be contained because it becomes its own form of tyranny, IMHO. That's why I muse about the switch in talking about America being champions of capitalism rather than freedom and rights.

I'm no apologist for how the Dems fuck things up, but what is the winning move here? What would it have been 20 years ago? Before it became apparent to me that the GOP was a criminal organization operating with regard for neither law nor the future of the republic, we were all operating in ignorance of the paradigm shift that was already occurring. Even now, when that paradigm change has occured, most people remain blind to it including, as I begin to tiresomely opine, the free press. If we are operating outside of the law, that leaves us with natural law. Legislators are not equipped for that. A political party operating with any level of responsibility is not designed for that. They hold the hopeless belief that exposure of wickedness will lead to destrucion of same. No more. I watched the House hearing on Jan 6. Information could not have been laid out any clearer. Those in GOP/MAGA jersies will never turn on their own team. No mater what. Argument don't work around here no more. I honestly can't think of a political strategy for dealing with the fascist rise. Legal strategies are going over the side as well when the Supreme Court is in the bag. It's natural law, but we're all too fat and happy to do much about it. Comfortably numb. Bad luck for the queens and the coons and the Reds and the Jews (Pink Floyd).

All that scene needs is a good guy with a gun.

I was never a Red, but I did wonder back in the day exactly how our conflict with the USSR shifted from being about freedom to being about capitalism. Maybe the right's astounding ability to frame the argument started way back in the 70s and was brought to full bloom under Reagan. "Now the Russians can enjoy all the benefits of capitalism and the free market." Worked out great. The few control most everything just like here.