RomaVicta

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.

Now, I think I know too much about your personal info.

Edit to note that I'm only through three episodes so far. Well said. The show seems in love with itself. It's a state of mind where the creators set aside critical skills and doubt (so valuable) usually as a result of great praise. It leads to something like the Fuckyou!nofuckyou! arguments being drawn out in the place of actually creating a riveting dramatic scene. It's lazy. Those scenes play out in the way I've seen when actors improvise as an exercise. It always soars to absurd extremes and usually shouting. It's hard to come up with a clever, well-drawn conflict when you're working off the top of your head. That's what I see here. Further, I don't believe what I'm seeing anymore. It's a display rather than a drama, and that's sad even if all too human.

You know, everybody thinks their dog is special, but ol' Cap'n Gonad over there seems almost human... Words of wisdom, Lloyd. Words of wisdom. A little gushy there, Hayden, but heartfelt. Unusual choice of song. A little phrasing problem at the end. https://youtu.be/izGwDsrQ1eQ Momentum, indeed. Two slam-dunk, homerun, Goal!Goal!Goooaaaaa! coaching hires and Texas coming, maybe you better check which way you're headed on that incline, my friend. You don't say? Are you sure about that? Almost all sorts.

Isn't there a tedious NIL thread around here somewhere?

Got to be specific with Johnsons. Careful, too. I didn't think long enough to see this is the one you obviously meant. Apologies. ETA: Well, maybe not apologies. Safe Sex had mentioned LBJ just above your post. It's a big deal. We should argue about it all night. Anyway, have a nice night.

Johnson isn't. Please show your work.