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hahahahaha. this is absolutely hilarious, hahahaha. these fucking idiots just spent 100mil on firing a football coach. it’s gonna be elko. they’ll give him a lower contract but bigger incentives for making and winning in the playoffs. these next couple of weeks are gonna be fun watching them rummage through all the candidates and get shat all over from the media and fans before going to elko. but elko was always the plan. maybe he saw how atrocious jimbo was at running the program and thought, hell i could do better than that dumbass. but, he won’t. i also wonder if they’ve got some sort of non-disclosure as they didn’t find some reason to fire him for cause. so we’re unlikely to get many juicy leaks but to it would sure be fun to read their big donors group chat over the last couple of weeks.. hahahaha.

texas 30 ou 27 this one goes to ot 27-27. 228 rushing it’s closer than we’d like. things don’t break our way for a good chunk of the game, we come out a bit flat. we’re down at half something like 21-13. fear not. but fuck. a repeat of 49-0 would be so damn satisfying.

we’re going to beat the absolute fuck out of the rapists. i think they’re beat in all phases, we get up 24-3ish at half. final is something like 45-10. fuck baylor.

i’ll be watching ewers most closely. expect to see 300+ yards and 3+ tds. against rice, he should be able to find worthy, whittington, mitchell, neyor, and our stable of wr’s with ease. one or two first game jitters are excusable, a tipped pass intercepted or a couple of others well off target, fine, just hit most of the rest of them. i’m not asking for perfection, not for a burrow 2019 or rg3 2011. just show consistency and poise and accuracy. a bit of ehlinger-esque toughness would be nice too, or at least a bit more leadership - let’s see if he’s matured. if he can’t manage that against rice, projecting in the top few rounds of the draft with a potential big12 championship on the way out becomes much less likely. he should be dominant against much less talented teams if he’s going to compete in the nfl next year. he should be very good against equally talented teams also, and we’ll learn more about that next week. hope to see our ground game get established with 200+ yards. with one of our weaknesses being the lack of rb experience, i’d like to see brooks, keilan, and baxter all flash on big plays so we can head to tuscaloosa with a bit of momentum in that room. not only for our own confidence, but having saban need to prep for 3 rb’s couldn’t hurt. on defense, i think giving up 10 should be the maximum expected. a blown coverage td or pick six or big special teams play, and only one decent drive for the owls ending short but within field goal range. let’s get some pressure on jt and get stops on 3rd downs, a couple of turnovers. my pick: 42-3

the drones were launched with full expectation they’d be intercepted. knockin’ on putin’s door was the intention here, mission accomplished. penetrating deep into russia surely sows seeds of doubt and questions of wtf?! internally. so it’s a very bad look for the iron-fisted idiot but it’s also clear that a harder, more hateful fucking is coming. not a good time to be in the kremlin.

because it's incredibly hateful and damaging. it's completely fucking crazy, put the dude in a mental institution type of shit, it shouldn't be in the arena of public entertainment. they should drop him, like the subway guy or whatever.

search kanye west in google, then click on news and you'll find every media source on the planet documenting this meltdown. i think it's despicable. the commentary, the coverage, the exposure, all of it. don't give him a platform.

he needs to hit rock bottom on a personal level and get help. his words don't deserve publication.

right, so the platform of hate is shared with only the most hateful now. what i'm appalled by as much as the absurd and clearly mentally-ill commentary itself, is more media coverage from the latest crazy shit he's spewing. he's been canceled from any sort of partnership he's had, so why is the media exempt? there should be no stage for hate. and the media publishing his viewpoints grants that insanity to a larger audience. that should not be ok. as for his musical genius, it's not everyone's cup of tea, presumably more so for the past middle aged and predominately white surly crowd. kanye's catalogue includes several albums that are revered among anyone who gives a shit about good music as nearly unanimously groundbreaking and influential. his influence is at the highest tier with the greatest musical talents of all time. objectively, there's very few artists post 2000s that can match kanye's influence and i'd argue he's in a league of his own. ironically, the discussion we're having here is purely because of his influence as no one would give a shit about some rando nazi making stupid nazi comments if it wasn't kanye west himself. i'll propose a climate change analogy. very few scientists object to the overwhelming evidence that supports climate change as an issue that is among the top tier of challenges we've ever faced. if you're denying kanye as being among the most influential artists of all time, you're denying a mountain of evidence that supports the opposite view. his albums are history, but his current views should never see the public eye and it's ludicrous that they have. i'm saying this as a fan. no airtime for asininity. this is far beyond a roger waters type of thing.

i'm a fan of kanye's music. i've seen him play a couple of times, including a memorable set at the former powerplant during sxsw sometime after the release of MBDTF with jay-z. absolutely a generational talent. he's totally off the rails at this point, it's a full-blown manic episode. while there's no excuses for his outlandish, destructive, violent, hateful rhetoric and behavior, as a fan it's tragic to witness. wish he can find any sort of support system but, his career is effectively over. i find it shocking and reprehensible that the media continues to cover his latest transgressions. he needs to be cut off completely of any sort of media coverage and it's telling that only the very far right is giving him a platform. doubt that will continue. cancel ye, full stop. giving any sort of public stage to his mental illness is utterly abhorrent. appreciate the music and hope you get help, but we don't ever need to hear from you again.

texas 52 tcu 49 612 passing

this is true, and it's also amusing that even if ole jimbo does manage to relinquish playcalling to a someone with an offensive pulse - they're still setup to fall short in a myriad of other ways. take their shaky vaunted defense for example. or the potential for a chunk of their top class of all time hitting the portal in a few months. their recruiting strategy of highest bidder attracts some questionably committed players, the type that bust. violations could spring up. internal turmoil with donors pulling support for paying for more players as they crater and crumble and begin to look towards the next thing that would bring them to relevance. durkin is a liability. texas and ou sucks in the sec will be a 1-2 punch for their playoff chances. and jimbo - or i guess they're calling him Fisher now - has proven crab legs was his savant. jimbo/winston is orge/burrow or chizik/newton. fun to watch.

watching ou fucking suck. hahaha.

while ewers' injury was gut-wrenching to see, especially considering the history with colt - card kept his composure against what many thought was the best d in the country, fighting thru injury, limping to first downs, doing his best on the shots downfield. we saw a matured qb, that absolutely has benefited greatly from another year of development and sark deserves a ton of credit for that. he was poised and probably had enough for the W without the injury. and right now, his release is too slow, ability to read a d too confused, and accuracy too consistently off target to be a championship threat. against the top ranked team in the country, it was still damn near enough. the defense was dominant for almost the entire game outside of the 81yd run which was simply a great call perfectly executed by bama. and the soft, late 4th prevent type d with a ton of cushion probably gave us the best shot to get the W, even if we would have liked to keep the pressure on and not change what was working. the d played more cohesively and with more effort than anything seen at texas since 2009 - bo davis energy, patterson input, new talent coming in and other players showing development, finally fucking solid tackling! pk silenced the critics and this d, if it only plays up to the same level, is going to give every remaining team on the schedule a ton of problems. defense made plays at all levels and held the heisman winning qb to a single touchdown. we need sark and card or wright or murphy (or why the hell don't we get rojo in) and the ol to focus on the run game for the next 3. take a few shots downfield and get touches for worthy, whittington, and sanders, but give bijan big yards for these next few. and supplement with rojo, k-rob, etc. keep the lockdown d, and we can slow down on the uptempo stuff while ewers is out and just pound the ball consistently. we'll be 4-1 and top 10 before ewers comes back to haunt ou. i would wager the staff will do whatever they can to get ewers back on the field in dallas. and fuck if that happens, show me a loss.

i think the ags will play up or down to the competition. there’s not enough give a fuck on the team to smash weaker competition. jimbo’s ridiculous salary isn’t tied to winning, and neither are their star recruits payments either. i don’t think they give enough of a fuck, no motivation. i don’t expect them to totally crater but they’ll lose more of the close ones than they should on paper due to the culture. as usual. i’m thinking 5-7 to 7-5 range. a notch below mediocre.

Texas 42 Bama 41 Ewers 231, 19/29, 3TD, 2INT, great effort, electric play with some questionable decisions too. Whittington leads receivers with 92 on 7 catches, 9 targets. Bijan 139, 22 carries, 2TD, shows dominance consistently hammering thru bama's d with a couple of big runs that shift momentum. this is what the best do. Roschon gets stuffed most of the game, then breaks a 24 yard TD late in the fourth, securing the W and Roschon's legacy as a leader. this is what leaders do. it's time.

while many of you are predicting huge numbers for bijan and are probably correct, i'll predict a dominant debut from ewers instead. 4TD's including one on the ground, 275+ yards, no interceptions maybe sark lets ewers air it out, shows bama plenty of looks to prepare for and leaves plenty of others in the playbook, and just treats this one as a warm-up for bijan with bama next week. then next week we'd see a more confident ewers and bijan ready to bully what may be the best defense in cfb.

yea so honestly, i don't think the body count matters, to the nra crowd, the 2nd amendment junkies. any evidence of them ever giving a fuck about any of this? it's always deflection. and i do think a larger-scale terrorist type of attack is inevitable, and it also seems inevitable that very little would be done in the aftermath. there's no evidence to indicate a more positive scenario. the R's are armed to the gills. make no mistake, they don't fucking care if another radical R kills hundreds. it's whatever to them, thoughts & prayers, but don't take my guns. i wish there were a proper proposal, anything, but nah i think we're quite fucked here.

enough americans don't give a shit about gun restrictions, or any other attempt to control this, to get anything done. this thread will soon be 1000+ pages, with dozens of other active shooters and mass murders to come. it's horrific, but the 2nd amendment - as outdated and irrelevant to the status quo as it is - will reign. and this is particularly true in the climate of the highest court rejecting roe v wade. i wish there were a beacon of hope in some way, but i don't see it realistically. mass murders every month, that's what we're signed up for.

i mentioned this in another thread, but felt compelled to document the absurdity of this here too. "it could have been worse" a damning statement that was meant to somehow comfort, presumably. abbot's a fairly well-spoken piece of shit. "it could have been worse" recognizes the access to assault weapons is easy enough, and that mass-murder is accessible enough, that anyone could do it, even on a loss of life scale far beyond 19 kids. so fuck, yea, it could be so much worse, we all know that. but hey, let's take a moment to appreciate only 19 kids were murdered, guys. we got lucky, it could have been worse. i've set up things to make it easy as fuck to murder as many as one might want. 19? it could have been worse. and you know, we're "free" enough, that it could have quite easily been 100+, and our law enforcement, well, they showed up, at least. and you guys can use those ar-15's for dove season or whatever. no need to concern ourselves with a situation where just 19 kids were murdered, no need for any changes. prayers, whatever, yea we can do that and act like we give a shit. so where's the fundraiser tonight? so, until it gets worse, we won't give a shit. oh and when it does, we won't give a shit either, as long as the money flows and the idiots with a tainted 2nd amendment view and nra keeps me in power. goddammit, the absurdity - texas, one of the dumbest fucking states.

why doesn't a devastating event like this spur mass protests demanding change? is it because not enough of these have happened yet to piss off enough people? how much would be "enough" for those thinking "ehh, sucks but..." ? compared to the george floyd aftermath, and multiple instances prior to that of racially motivated police brutality, enough pissed off people and blm said fucckk this! and that's obviously an ongoing cause that will take years of work to make incremental changes. and i'll answer my own question to suggest it's because there isn't a well-funded organization with wide support that opposes nra - though there's several other interests at play. so why the fuck can't americans get behind a gun control movement, protest, vote out the complicit politicians? what the fuck are we waiting for? it was damning and horrific to hear abbot say "it could have been worse" because he's absolutely and unfortunately correct here. it can be worse, so it will be worse, and yet he's using that as a justification of the status quo rather than an impetus for change. he's saying let's let it get worse, let's do nothing and encourage more mass murders, because i don't actually think enough people, give enough of a shit, to change things. and as ridiculous and devastating as that is, he's right. fuck.

yet again, my perspective is shifting here. and i'm delighted to be wrong. the us is committed to fighting a proxy war with russia via ukraine, and despite some fears that our involvement would trigger escalation, that hasn't been the case. i was concerned we'd back putin into a corner with no out other than nukes, chemical weapons, and utter destruction. i think we've backed him into the corner, but the utter destruction from using those weapons would be equally destructive to putin's regime - and he doesn't want that, because he knows that's game over for him, too. this could still turn much more deadly but it would be a suicide mission for himself and his supporters. the biden administration has handled this admirably - biden's biggest foreign policy success so far - could change, sure. our intelligence anticipated the invasion, we trained ukraine in the years-long lead-up, equipped them, rallied nato, rallied sanctions, while providing accurate info which has obliterated russia. it's been a brilliant success. all that said, i still question the end-game. putin is fucked. russia was weaker than they projected, and the support for ukraine stronger than anticipated. we'll supply and re-supply ukraine indefinitely. so, uh, dude, go home?

well, fuck i've been about as anti-escalation as any of you, but i'm starting to lean towards the other side, especially considering putin's now very clear incompetence and obvious war crimes. he's weaker now than a few weeks ago. maybe a brief but decisive, nato-backed escalation limits loss of life and ends the war more quickly. and if we can limit loss of life as much as possible, i'm pro-that. i think we're nearing a point of that being most reasonable, rather than allowing this to drag on indefinitely. looking at the other side, what would putin do? absolute worst case, launch nukes. as horrific as that would be, thats a losing scenario for putin, too. and it's a very long shot. the chance seems small enough to just round up nato, declare we're protecting nato interests and we've seen enough of this bullshit. and i'd give them fair warning - get the fuck out or we'll fuck you up. gave him a choice first, go home and you can propagandize some sort of bullshit to save face or we'll crush you. see more benefits to this now than drawbacks.

right, you’re spot-on with this and we’re in almost full agreement. status quo sucks. i think the notion that we can’t rely on government to determine what constitutes misinformation and what doesn’t is correct. along with that, we can’t rely on companies (especially those publicly traded), either. the regulations should be where neither the government nor the social media platform need to police content - outside of violence, i’d wager bots too. there will always be misinformation and susceptible people looking for it and spreading it. in the status quo - that’s encouraged, because it brings more clicks and controversy.. and profit. i’m suggesting that the companies are audited in a sense. we should be looking over their shoulders, no bans on outrageous bullshit as long as its non-violent. but don’t elevate the crazy, outside of mainstream thoughts because you get more clicks due to the controversy those views attract. that’s the problem. and i’m arguing it’s more of an algorithmic problem that government can regulate without needing to police individual posts. and the goal should be having a space where views are adequately represented and dumbass shit is adequately disputed. make it fair. idealistic? yea, maybe.

i think the unprecedented amount of misinformation, specifically in the last couple of election cycles was justifiably unexpected to twitter and most all of us. so they we're kind of reactionary. oh shit! this is all fucked! stop the crazy bullshit! and they've had some pushback from that, reasonably. they were correct to do what had to be done, but it's not the ideal scenario for anyone moving forward as society adapts to a social media dominant world and the implications of that.