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pyrohornIII

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  1. Thanks. I've been rather caught up in the drama of the TDP chair situation I haven't been in here as much as I would have liked. Thanks for pointing this out for me.
  2. I'd like to see us have some prediction/scorecard for Project 2025. Something that would predict what steps are going to be taken first, the reasons they are giving to Joe Q Public why these steps are necessary and predictions for best and worst case scenarios if enacted. Then follow up with updates as things actually unfold. And cite everything we can. Something simpler would be a scratchoff list of promises Trump made like below. (Just get citations on these promises, as in interviews/videos of rallies where he actually says the words). Then once a week put that list under everyone's noses and ask how things are coming along. Pretty much like the delays of rebuilding ACA and infrastructure week. He can't say Dems stopped him, or anything other than legal consequences, after the red tide gave him all three branches now. So "why not done??" should be the constant question.
  3. He seemed to flourish against Bama well enough. I mean I get what you are saying, but it's not like he crumbles against every quality opponent. And despite what Graham Cracker Dude says, aggy is not comparable to the last two teams Saban fielded against us.
  4. He should be, but it won't happen because the party rules and in some cases state law dictate how this goes down. And as inept as he has proven to be in helping Texas turn blue, his capacity to use the rules that the party lives under to his own benefit is nothing short of mastery. He's basically lame duck now anyway, all we can really hope for is a fair election without any backroom deals, but I kind of doubt it.
  5. Necro bump because it looks like TDP will get to finally choose a new chair. There's been a lot of clamor the past 3 cycles to move beyond the Hinojosa leadership. We shall see if they can choose better leadership this time around. There was an attempt at the last convention to switch party races to ranked choice. It never made it to the floor, un-surprisingly.
  6. No, it's not that they are racists. They are selfish and only in this for themselves and vote according to who they think gives them the clearest path to the life they feel they deserve. Unfortunately, that path often collides with others' paths. Say southern white slave owner vs slave. They feel since they are white like the founding fathers were, that they are first class citizens and all others somewhere a step below, including women. It has much less to do with race than it does with their standard that "it's me over we. I got mine, fuck you." History has is full of instances where white males went into the world and improved their physical wealth on the premise of Might over Right. Or I guess it could be White over Right. And too often cloaked it as some religious mission like the Crusades or Cortez. This has a lot more to do with the darkness of a person's heart instead of the darkness of their skin.
  7. Just more and more of them trying to take a foot when you give an inch. Same with wearing MAGA crap inside, or using PAs and bullhorns outside. Like daring you to say something. The most childish group of people ever.
  8. 100 ft from the entrance(s) of the polling site. Call it in, the more cases we can point to, the better later on. 1-844-898 6837
  9. He better watch out for Haitians!
  10. But you can only vote a limited ballot up until the last day of EV, or this Friday. No limited ballots on ED.
  11. Most of the dumbfucks in my neck of the rural woods are more concerned about what their male counterparts think of them, than they do the women they choose to marry. Most of them will vote for Trump because to do otherwise will make them unpopular, or affect the possibility of Cletus, Jr starting on the 6 man squad next year. Hell Trump is an easy sell since he's all about keeping those bitches barefoot and in the kitchen. So at the heart of all that is their insecurity, which all this hate and fear feed endlessly. Every Dem administration has left a good economy moving in the right direction and even balanced budgets and reduced deficits, only to have a Republican admin come in and fuck things up all over again. In Texas there is no party registration. Campaigns and others get a person's leanings from which primary they voted in. I imagine that's the parameter even in states that do register, party wise.
  12. They send those out to verify if the addresses are still accurate. They figure if the post office returns the registration card as undeliverable the voter has moved, so their registration will be put under suspense, until the voter goes online, comes in or calls and updates the info.
  13. Brought to you by Mike Farrell Sport. Comes to a different conclusion than what you would think, considering the love Farrell obviously doesn't have for UT. Is Texas in Over Its Head in the SEC? Is Texas in Over Its Head in the SEC? By Brett Daniels The Texas Longhorns have long been the standard in College Football for doing less with more. The flagship university of a state that is rich in both resources (oil and gas money) and talent should not go decades without a conference championship or playing for a National Championship. The hiring of Steve Sarkisian from Alabama coincided with the announcement that Texas and Oklahoma would leave the Big 12 for the SEC and produced a shift in program culture and philosophy. As an assistant at Alabama, Sarkisian had a front-row seat to how life in the SEC would be for Texas and knew that the recruiting focus and on the field philosophy would have to change to be competitive. The SEC is a “line of scrimmage” league where even the teams at the bottom of the conference have NFL-caliber players on either side of the line. The Big 12 has always been viewed as more of a “finesse” league where teams threw the ball 50 times a game and played very little defense. This shift in focus was born out in recruiting where the 2021 class ranked 15th overall and would have been 7th best in the SEC, 2022 was 5th overall and 4th in the SEC, 2023 was 3rd overall and 3rd in the SEC, and the 2024 class was 6th overall and 3rd in the SEC. The influx of talent allowed Texas to win the Big 12 in 2023 for the first time since 2009 and earn a spot in the College Football Playoff. What has Texas done so far in the SEC? As a member of the SEC so far, the Longhorns have beaten who they were supposed to in a Mississippi State team that ranks near the bottom of the conference in every metric and an Oklahoma team that is offensively challenged. Texas did not fare as well in their match-up against the Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday, losing 30-15 in a game that wasn’t nearly as close as the score would indicate. Georgia thoroughly dominated on both lines of scrimmage, shutting down the Longhorn rushing attack (only 29 yards on 27 carries), harassing both Quinn Ewers and Arch Manning on defense, protecting Carson Beck, and opening holes for the rushing game on offense. There were several instances where the speed of the Georgia defense blew up plays that had gone for big gains in previous weeks against other opponents. In the coming week the Longhorns will face a Vanderbilt team that has an Alabama upset to its credit but ranks toward the bottom of the conference in both offense (5.77 YPP/12th) and defense (5.62 YPP/14th), a Florida team that is better than their record would indicate, ranking near the top of the conference offensively (6.81 YPP/3rd) and near the bottom defensively (5.21 YPP/11th). Texas will finish out the season against old Southwest Conference foe Arkansas in Fayetteville where the Hogs rank in the middle of the conference in both offense (6.31 YPP/9th) and defense (5.22 YPP/12th), Kentucky a team at the bottom of the conference in both offense (5.02 YPP/14th) and defense (5.58 YPP/13th), and in-state rival Texas A&M (6.23 YPP offense/10th) and (5.10 YPP defense/10th). Texas should win out against these teams and finish 7-1 in conference which would put them in the mix to play in the SEC Championship Game and almost assure a home playoff game at worst. To answer the question, Texas is not over its head, at least not yet. There were always going to be struggles with the SEC's increased interior play, but only Georgia has taken advantage of it. If anything, Texas overperformed early and were aided by other results and an overrated Michigan team to become the No. 1 team, but that was never sustainable. In fact, at fellow SEC newcomer Oklahoma just shows how not over-their-head Texas has been.
  14. This has got to be a troll job. It's the antithesis of the 'kyle field is the greatest place evar!" posts.
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