Jump to content

Search the Community

Showing results for 'we are going to win'.

  • Search By Tags

    Type tags separated by commas.
  • Search By Author

Content Type


Forums

  • Sports
    • Football
    • Basketball
    • Baseball
    • Other Sports
    • 🤫$9.95🤫
    • Gambling
  • Entertainment
    • Movies and TV
    • Music
    • Hobbies
    • Lulz
    • Food and Travel
  • News & Business
    • Daily Texan
    • Cloak Room
    • 6th Street Journal
    • You Can't Sit With US
  • Other
    • Can You Help Me With This?
    • Best Buy Coupons
    • Please do this better?
    • Surly 1%
    • Purgatory

Product Groups

  • Big Donor Area
  • Buy TreeFiddy for a friend
  • Burnt Ends
    • Merch
  • Surly Horns NIL Slush Fund
  • Tailgate Donation + Payments

Categories

  • Firings
  • 2020 Hires
  • 2020 Season
  • 2021 Season
  • 2022 Season
  • 2023 Season

Categories

  • Movies and TV
  • Music
  • Hobbies
    • Video Games
  • Lulz

Categories

  • Basketball
  • Baseball
  • Other Sports
    • Futbol
  • Gambling

Categories

  • Daily Texan
  • 6th Street Journal

Find results in...

Find results that contain...


Date Created

  • Start

    End


Last Updated

  • Start

    End


Filter by number of...

Joined

  • Start

    End


Group


  1. Meatball getting more pushback from all sides. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/desantis-faces-pushback-in-florida-as-voters-tire-of-war-on-woke/ar-BB1jBb8t DeSantis faces pushback in Florida as voters tire of war on woke© Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post The bill banning rainbow flags from public buildings in Florida sounded like a sure bet. State Rep. David Borrero (R), the legislation’s sponsor, argued that it was needed to prevent schoolchildren from being “subliminally indoctrinated.” That rationale echoed other measures championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as part of his “war on woke.” MicrosoftCopilot is for Everyone Ad But instead of sailing through the Republican-dominated legislature, the DeSantis-backed bill died a quick legislative death, making it only as far as one subcommittee. It wasn’t the only culture war proposal from conservative lawmakers to end up in the bill graveyard during the session that ended Friday. One rejected bill would have banned the removal of Confederate monuments. Another would have required transgender people to use their sex assigned at birth on driver's licenses — something the state Department of Motor Vehicles is already mandating. A third proposed forbidding local and state government officials from using transgender people’s pronouns. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) delivers remarks in Lake Buena Vista on Feb. 22.© Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/AP Some of those ideas have come up in the past and may surface again next year. But the fact that the bills failed, even with public support from DeSantis, marks a change from the days when the GOP supermajority in Tallahassee passed nearly everything the governor asked for. Related video: Florida's Legislative session ends (FOX 13 Tampa Bay) Legislative session wrapped up today, and several key bills are Video Player is loading. FOX 13 Tampa Bay Florida's Legislative session ends Florida has firmly cemented itself in recent years as ground zero for the nation’s culture wars. The Sunshine State is the birthplace of conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty, the original law restricting LGBTQ+ discussion in classrooms, one of the strictest abortion laws in the country and legislation that has led to the banning of more books than in any other state in America. But the pushback is growing. Parents and others have organized and protested schoolbook bans. Abortion rights advocates gathered enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot in Florida in November. A bill that would have established “fetal personhood” stalled before it could reach a full vote. Judges are also canceling some of DeSantis’s marquee laws, including the “Stop Woke Act.” A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled Monday that the law “exceeds the bounds” of the Constitution’s First Amendment right to freedom of speech and expression. MicrosoftYour AI Companion Ad Even the governor recently admitted the state might have gone too far in trying to remove certain books from school shelves, suggesting laws on book challenges should be “tweaked” to prevent “bad actors” from having too much influence. Democrats and other DeSantis critics say the laws that the governor has pushed will continue to shape public life in Florida for years to come, and they don’t expect the Republican supermajority in the state House to suddenly abandon conservative causes. But they do sense a shift. “When his presidential race ended, I think that a lot of his influence and power died at the same time,” said state Sen. Shevrin Jones, a South Florida Democrat. “And I think that people in Florida and across the country, including Republicans, are starting to see that the culture wars are getting us nowhere.” Pushback from within In the past year, the Florida GOP has been rocked by a sex scandal involving the party chairman and infighting between DeSantis and Trump supporters. GOP voter registration numbers continued to surpass Democrats, but the party lost two local races they were expected to win: the mayor’s office in Jacksonville, and a closely contested special election to replace a Republican state representative near Orlando. The legislative seat flipped blue in January when Democrat Tom Keen defeated his Republican rival, a conservative school board member who raised more than twice as much money and promised to fight “the woke agenda.” Keen campaigned on lowering property insurance rates and protecting access to abortion. People prepare for an event Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) held at LaBelle Winery on Wednesday in Derry, N.H.© Matt McClain/The Washington Post DeSantis, who was largely absent from the state while he campaigned for the GOP presidential nomination, has urged lawmakers to “stay the course.” But his doomed presidential bid changed political calculations in and out of the state. Many lawmakers credit Republican Senate President Kathleen Passidomo for some of the shift. Passidomo stopped several culture war bills from progressing in the Senate, including one that would have punished local officials who oversaw the removal of Confederate monuments. DeSantis strongly supported the bill, arguing that it is problematic to apply a “hyper-woke 21st-century test” to historical figures. “It’s totally appropriate for the legislature to say, ‘You know what? We’re going to stop this madness,’” DeSantis said at a news conference in Jacksonville in February, two months after the city pulled down a controversial Jim Crow-era monument called “Women of the Southland.” Among the public speakers who supported the monuments bill at a Senate hearing was a man who said he wanted to protect Confederate statues to “push White culture, white supremacy.” Crews begin the process of removing the “Women of the Southland” monument in Jacksonville, Fla., on Dec. 27.© Bob Self/Florida Times-Union/AP/AP Democrats walked out of the hearing, while Republicans on the committee — some of whom visibly recoiled at the white-supremacy remarks — approved the bill. But Passidomo refused to bring it to the full Senate. “I'm not going to bring a bill to the floor that is so abhorrent to everybody,” she said. The Senate president also rejected most of the 10 bill priorities the state Republican Party outlined in a legislative wish list, saying the party didn’t dictate what lawmakers should do. DeSantis did not respond to a request for comment but said Friday at an end-of-session news conference that he was satisfied with what was passed by the legislature this year. Sponsors of the bills protecting monuments and outlawing rainbow flags also did not respond to requests for comment. DeSantis did see some of his priorities pass. The legislature approved a law that the governor pushed prohibiting sleeping in public. And a ban on “woke meat” — food products cultivated in a lab from animal cells — easily got the green light from Republican lawmakers. “You need meat, okay? Like, we’re going to have fake meat? That doesn’t work,” he said at a news conference in February, rejecting arguments that banning it could stifle innovation. Demonstrators protest Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s plan to eliminate Advanced Placement courses on African American studies in high schools as they stand outside the Florida Capitol on Feb. 15 in Tallahassee. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post) Even DeSantis’s budget requests faced pushback this year. The governor wanted an additional $5 million for his controversial migrant relocation program, but lawmakers only agreed to current spending levels. He also tried to add $57 million toward the recently reestablished Florida State Guard. Legislators signed off on a lower amount — $18.5 million, and added a requirement for detailed spending reports from the agency. “What we saw this session was that bills that were either DeSantis ideas or retreads from last year really didn’t get anywhere,” said the state House’s minority leader, Fentrice Driskell. “I think in large part it’s because DeSantis has lost steam. He lost on the national stage, and that emboldened the Republicans in the legislature to feel like they don’t have to go along to get along with this guy anymore.” Tired of woke Parents in Miami-Dade County founded Moms for Libros last year as an antidote to Moms for Liberty, the Florida-based group promoted by DeSantis. The founders of Moms for Libros — Moms for Books — say they got together to battle what they see as censorship in schools. Their ranks have grown in the past year, and they say their messages — promoted in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole — are resonating even with parents who initially supported DeSantis’s education bills. “A lot of the conservative Cuban American parents I talk to say they thought it was just about keeping sex out of schools,” said Vanessa Brito, co-founder of Moms For Libros. “But when they learn what was really happening, like when they heard that a book about Celia Cruz was taken off the shelves, they are very concerned. Having the government come in and tell you that your kids can’t have a book about Celia Cruz, that caused an uproar.” The book, “Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa,” was temporarily removed from Duval County schools last year. Linda Mobley hangs her head in prayer as she holds a book that could be banned under the state's newly adopted curriculum standards on African-American history, during an education town hall regarding the state's newly adopted curriculum standards on African-American history at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 in Miami Gardens, Fla. (D.A. Varela/Miami Herald via AP)© D.A. Varela/AP Brito said she talks to parents who are starting to object to the state’s growing list of rules and laws pertaining to education. In one incident that made international headlines, a Miami-area school required students to get parental permission to attend an “extracurricular activity” that included a talk by Florida historian Marvin Dunn, a Black scholar who has chronicled racist incidents in state history. “Republican, Democrat, independent, people just don’t want books banned in our country. So it was just a collection of bad ideas that imploded on DeSantis,” Dunn said. “And now he’s actively trying to back off of these policies that have caused so much confusion in the state and in the education system at all levels.” School officials said they were only following the new laws; DeSantis said they were being “absurd” and told them to “knock it off.” “The vagueness of the laws have led to full-blown censorship, and people now see that happening in real time,” said Brito, who voted for DeSantis the first time he ran for governor in 2018. “And from what I’ve seen, they’re getting tired of ‘woke this, woke that.’” The governor has also seen his “anti-woke” agenda challenged in court. In addition to the recent ruling on the “Stop Woke Act,” federal judges have halted enforcement of a law DeSantis signed last year that targeted drag shows. A different court declared that a rule from the state health agency that would ban Medicaid payments for gender-affirming care is unconstitutional. Marvin Dunn leads a tour discussing race and discrimination in Florida’s history on Jan. 8, 2023, in Rosewood, Fla.© Zack Wittman for The Washington Post DeSantis did nonetheless score a legal victory when a federal appeals panel sided with him over the Walt Disney Co. in January in regards to the state takeover of the entertainment giant’s special taxing district. But even with that win, the consequences of the feud have been far reaching, with the company canceling plans to build a $1 billion employee campus in Florida. Pocketbook worries mount Since his return from the campaign trail, DeSantis has been flying around the state holding news conferences several times a week. He’s talked about congressional term limits, making retail theft a felony and cracking down on rowdy spring breakers. He’s also sent more state law enforcement officers to the southern border in Texas and ordered the release of grand jury records from the Jeffrey Epstein case. Political analyst Susan MacManus said voters in Florida are paying more attention to pocketbook issues than culture war laws, and state lawmakers — most of whom are up for reelection this year — need to pay attention. Republicans who may have been following DeSantis’s lead on laws that target the LGBTQ+ community and Black history are hearing different concerns when they return to their districts. “There’s a concern I’m hearing more and more from people, and in the media, that Florida is becoming too expensive,” said MacManus, professor emeritus at the University of South Florida. “We’re seeing stories on the nightly news about people moving out of the state because the cost of living is too high here.” With homeowners and auto insurance costs that are more than triple that of other states, MacManus said Republican and Democratic voters have more pressing concerns than culture wars. A new housing development in Zephyrhills, Fla., on June 23.© Tina Russell for The Washington Post “These legislators are coming back and, and their families and friends are saying they should be doing something that is going help us,” MacManus said. “The woke things may be interesting to some Republicans, but there are bigger issues.” Mike Fasano, a lifelong Republican who served in the House and Senate for 18 years and is now the Pasco County tax collector, said most culture war issues are not on the minds of families struggling to pay rising property and auto insurance costs. “I don’t think families, whether they’re Republican or Democratic or independent, are sitting at the breakfast table talking about which books should be banned,” Fasano said. “They’re talking about how they’re going to pay their rent or mortgage and the electric bill and the premium on their homeowners insurance.”
  2. I think his support waned because he didn’t campaign constantly. I think when he gets back out there and the game is on people (more than 50% that vote) will do the sane thing. I just don’t see Trump winning … IF we do what we are supposed to do and go vote.
  3. it seems every season as of late has had one tribe start off with an extensive losing streak. would make for an interesting study in the human psyche. they were so close to winning but jess was helpless. the funny thing is they might have won had they had zelinsky. tiff should have called q out on that. she wanted jess out but he was adamant that zelinsky go instead. that cost them the challenge. usually weak physical players are at least good at something else - either smart, like puzzles, or at the social game. jess was 0 for 3. one of the worst players in the history of the show. there are some likable characters this season and i'm looking forward to the other tribes losing an immunity challenge so we can get to know them better. there are also some characters i'm not sure i like - soda for example. i want to like her. she seems sweet and caring and tries hard, but those camp songs would make me want to sleep by myself on the beach. the rock and roll dude also seems a tad annoying. i feel bad for the iranian chick but she does seem to have a diva mentality so most of it is self-inflicted. my least favorite, at least in the little i've seen, is liz. oops, i meant the one and only liz. what the hell is going on with her? why is she constantly bragging about how much money or how many companies or how many podcasts? seems like she's hiding something with all the bragging.
  4. At this point, how does Wade stay on as special prosecutor with the potential issues of him misusing his IOLTA to hide earned income from his wife in his divorce proceedings, and how that is tied to potential tax evasion? That is a pretty damning accusation from a variety of fronts. If any of that is true he is going to be tied up in all sorts of ethics probes and a liability during the proceedings. To me, that is something that is much more tangible and black and white that may lead to a major delay in all of this instead of the continued grind back and forth about potential conflicts of interest, which now is a coin-flip based on trying to obfuscate something that most likely may have led to a simple admonishment by the court or some set of cursory additional guidelines to guarantee the autonomy of the special prosecutor due to their relationship. The other side is always going to go over everything looking for something to use to their advantage. This is standard procedure for major crime and civil cases now and it shouldn't be a shock to anyone. That is the job. You would be disappointed if your lawyers did not do everything in their power to make sure you did not get found guilty. The expectation is always going to be that the state should appear to be squeaky clean and the defense will look to do everything in its power to make sure that first, the case never makes it to trial, then second, to have the trial once started dismissed for any possible reason (either through legal brilliance or frivolous technicalities) and then third win the case on its merits in the courtroom, and then fourth appeal and drag out any guilty verdict as long as possible. Now there is enough smoke to have people question if the state is squeaky clean or if is there something else going on. It might not be "fair" to put the system or the State on trial beforehand, but that is the world we live in. People want to blame Trump or the judge for entertaining this, but it looks like the first domino in all of this is Wade trying to screw over his now ex-wife in his divorce proceedings. If that is true, he is probably out as a special prosecutor and prepare for all sorts of delays and additional hearings over all of this to eat into the timeline. Welcome to the big leagues.
  5. This. They’ll completely ignore all the meat around the fake electors shit and focus on super narrow actions that they can throw up their hands and punt by saying something like ‘we can’t discern if what he was doing was as a candidate or the president and an official act’. its going to be bad and are only hope is the orange menace losing… which will still be bad bc im almost assured there will be more violence, because him winning is going to be REALLY bad.
  6. No program has failed to win the CWS once getting there more than Texas. The biggest failure for Pierce to date is not winning the CWS. He’s been reasonably on target getting to the CWS. The biggest negative in my opinion is the staff volatility. And early returns this year are not a positive. This is certainly the worst start for the staff in recent memory. I don’t think it’s a talent issue. That’s not to say we have overwhelming talent. But the bulk of the season is in front of us including the most important stretches. We can hit, but the big question is whether we can do it timely. We have capable high-end arms that allow you to compete in any series. Then we have guys that have contributed good innings and some other new arms so it’s about performing to their ability. It’s baseball with many inherent ups and downs. Pierces teams have responded reasonably well in prior years. This is a low low on the brink of conference play so it’s a bit different than other years. This team goes as LBJ, Witt and Hurley go.
  7. Just a reminder, this "Civil War" is going EXACTLY how many of us said it would: the psychopathic evil faction is winning, handily. Just yesterday, the party had a referendum on who should win: the Paxton/Trump vengeance, "kill public schools" faction, or the slightly-less-bad "maybe we should do all kinds of dickhead stuff to women, gays, and minorities, but also maybe we should actually govern and have schools" faction. The party decided. The psychopaths won. The GQP has chosen to line up nationally behind an obvious pathologically lying criminal, and in Texas, behind a man who fucking ADMITTED, in OPEN COURT, that he violated the law (and he's headed to trial on another criminal charge in short order). This party belongs to Paxton and Trump, and its main platform is vengeance and retribution. Why? Easy, there's two big reasons that the GQP is lined up behind men who proudly flout their disdain for the rule of law. 1) The masses buy their message of "they are prosecuting me because I'm so good at doing the things you love. If I wasn't the most effective MAGA POTUS/AG in history, they wouldn't be coming after me." In other words, the fact that I'm being prosecuted means that I'm the best at pissing off the libz. 2) Few things demonstrate your absolute, unquestionable power, than being able to rub your nuts in the face of your opponent and they can do nothing about it. There are few nut-rubbing gestures more powerful than "look at me breaking the law, right here, in front of your fucking face, and there's not a GODDAMNED thing you can do about it." A demonstration of ABUSE of power is the greatest demonstration of the fact that your power is unlimited, and unquestionable. Metaphorically, it's the cop who pulls you over, says it's for you having a busted tail light, then he walks over and smashes your tail light and says "see? Busted tail light. I'm writing you up for that." You can't question him. You can't resist him. You just have to sit there, as he abuses his power, because resisting and fighting back will only make it worse (see the open themes of vengeance and retribution in GQP actions and messaging). Just as we said, this Civil War is over. The worst of the worst have won. They are only going to get more powerful. And not only do they have the numbers, but they now have their fingers on multiple scales (they just drummed out three judges who issued a single opinion that dared to limit their power). We don't overcome this. We are going to embark on the "maybe authoritarian fascism will work in the US!" experiment, to see how it will go. But anyone with any sense knows how it will go: the leopards will consume everyone's face, and only when the pain becomes truly unbearable, it will end in bloody violence.
  8. I'll die on this hill if necessary: It's the coaches (and the owner since real coaches won't work for him). You don't win 12 games and get the 2nd seed without the talent being there, including at QB and the lines. Bad coaching is what gets that team down 20-0 to start a playoff game against the lowest seed in the playoffs and failing to even fight back. That's shitty game planning, shitty playcalling, and shitty in-game coaching. Nobody else wanted McCarthy or Zimmer. Quinn was always the loser that blew that Super Bowl lead. Kellen Moore only got the job because he was a Jerry yes man, and he's only still around because I guess someone else thinks he might be salvageable at his age (I give it a 5% chance he is still a coach in 5 years). We couldn't even find an offensive coordinator willing to work with McCarthy or Jerry. It's the fucking shithead coaches and the fact that not only would Jerry never consider a young up and comer coach, the type that is leading the league into a new era, but that none of them are going to work for a piece of shit like Jerry. I'm calling it now, after we fail yet again next year, McCarthy will get fired, and Jerry will just promote Zimmer, because why not, he's old and washed up, just like Jerry likes 'em.
  9. Or how about letting Sochan wrestle with him down low and have Wemby come over from the weakside? Sengun was fantastic, but Pop did Wemby zero favors last night especially considering he had to play so passively due to foul trouble. Maybe Pop was doing some Mr. Miyagi shit and that was supposed to be some sort of teachable moment, but it certainly wasn't about putting Vic in the best position to be successful or winning the game. I have no clue what Tre Jones did to get himself benched midway through the 3rd quarter, but it was the least shocking thing ever that the execution down the stretch was deep fried dogshit with Branham running point. We've seen that movie before and it looked just like last night. Don't get me wrong Malaki was maybe the only bright spot in the game, but perhaps the 6 fourth quarter turnovers could have been reduced and Victor could have gotten off a little if they gave some minutes to the closest thing on the roster resembling a point guard. One other thing about the Rockets... they played very hard on defense last night so much credit to them for all the turnovers. The refs let the physicality go and we haven't seen Wemby get taken out of the game like that since early in the season. That said, the league needs to do something about the offensive player initiating contact and it being a foul on the defense. It's a league-wide problem and Sengun took full advantage of it. He got Wemby in foul trouble and he was on his heels the rest of the night. I will say, though, that I'm excited to see how Wemby comes out against Houston next week. I don't think he liked Sengun dropping 40 on his head and I don't think he liked Dillon Brooks shoving him around.
  10. I am not writing this team off yet. I definitely think they have potential but I also think they lack consistent hitting and focus. I expect LBJ to lock down Tech on Friday and for us to come away with a win in that game. After that, we are going to need to find a way to gut out another win with some good, consistent hitting and no errors.
  11. And why I'm fucking done after this election if dotard wins. We deserve to go down hard if we are too stupid to stop this. Fuck everything.
  12. There's stuff to be positive about, even if it is worrisome. The fact of the matter is that 25% of Republicans on a national level have voiced their displeasure with at least the perceived incumbent candidate. I wish I could tell you that he was for sure going to fall over dead tomorrow, but I can't. That having been said, the current Republican platform, which lets face it, is entirely MAGA, resonates with the same people it's always resonated with; it doesn't with the broader public; and this abundantly clear in the suburbs, particularly in the swing states. Any defectors we peel off or just get to sit at home is just gravy on top for us. Also bear in mind, that in 2016 it took a completely unenthused electorate behind a bad candidate combined with them getting every nut job out to vote. They did it, and ever since that time, Democrats have been winning on every level. It's scary to play a game of brinksmanship even if you think there is an 80% shot you win. On the national level, I like many of the numbers we are seeing. This is pretty much all going to come down to young people like yourself, and your ability to recruit your peers. It's our biggest advantage, and frankly this group, 30 and under, will determine this outcome. So if you are feeling down, I hope this motivates you and reinvigorates you; you will make the difference; we need you, and we need you to recruit voters.
  13. Neal Brown takes pay cut with new extension ZACH BARNETT 10 HOURS AGO West Virginia and Neal Brown on Tuesday agreed to terms on a 1-year extension that keeps the Mountaineers head coach through 2027, the school announced. However, not part of that announcement but reported by Hoppy Kercheval of WV Metro News, is that Brown took a $400,000 pay cut as part of the deal. He also agreed to reduce his buyout from 100 percent of the remaining salary to 75 percent. "My first priority was retaining and rewarding our assistant coaches and support staff who have played such a critical role in our success," Brown said as part of WVU's announcement. "I appreciate Wren's support on that front as well as his continued commitment to me and what we are building. We share a common vision for this program and that alignment is critical to our continued success. There are great things ahead, and I can't wait to see our incredible fans back in Milan Puskar Stadium on August 31." Brown made $4.1 million in 2023 and was set to earn $4.2 million this year. Following two straight sub-.500 seasons and picked 14th of 14 in the Big 12 to start last season, WVU rebounded by going 9-4 with a win in the Duke's Mayo Bowl in 2023.
  14. Late to the party, thanks for the tag. Discovered almost by accident that my MAX subscription now carries the Eurosport coverage for (some of) the spring classics. How nice to watch Strade Bianche from the comfort of my own living room, rather than hunched over my computer watching a downloaded torrent. Between that and Peacock, I guess I guess we have them all covered this year - oddly enough perhaps the most complete TV coverage we've had for a while on mainstream channels (though I was never a GCN guy). What can you say about Tadej. I used to think he was a little too cocky, but his sportsmanship won me over. The guy loves to race. To call out he would attack when he did, and then do it while everyone was in misery in the hail and mud, phew. An 80k TT for the win. True panache with that one. Never dull to watch. Can't help but think about the showdown with Jonas eventually. While he's nowhere near as exciting to watch, the talent is undeniable. Both are able to ride in terrible conditions (see the wins in cold wet O Gran Camino) with damn fine bike handling as well, so we're past the staring-at-the-watt-meter boredom of past. Not sure Bora is up for the challenge in keeping Roglic in play. I think he's got a chip on his shoulder from being 'reigned in' at the Vuelta (though I'm not 100% sure he was able to challenge Sepp on those long steep climbs), so he's got something to prove. I get the move for him, but not sure Bora was the best choice - but where else could he go? These helmets, though - oy: Spaceballs
  15. So we go from one high paid QB who can't win to another? Russell Wilson has been a big bag of meh since Seattle stripped one of the better modern day defenses we have seen from him. Doesn't improve us at all and the dead money we have to eat on Dak's contract upon cutting him plus Wilson's salary, seems we are in a worse position than we are now. If you are going to cut Dak, then might as well go the younger route at QB. See what Lance has in training camp running the offense. Go find one in the draft maybe. Signing Russell Wilson would be going in the opposite direction we need to. When is the last time this franchise actually was serious about finding its next QB, Troy Aikman over 3 decades ago? Once Aikman retired, we went into a dark place of QB hell. A who's who of dogshit. Romo stuck around on the practice squad because Parcells/Payton saw progress in him. But even at that, he was about to be cut until Quincy Carter got arrested and it allowed Romo to stay on the roster. Signed washed up Testaverde and Bledsoe who led us nowhere. Parcells finally had enough of Bledsoe and put Romo in on a MNF. And he was our guy for about the next decade. Then insert Dak, who only became the starter because Romo wasn't reliable health wise. But he was never drafted to be the guy. He was going to carry the clipboard for Romo for his tenure here. They backed their way into the last 2 starters we have had for about 2 decades now. 2 guys who never made the team suck enough to find a top QB in the draft but neither were good enough to beat good teams in the playoffs. So we went round and round in the circle of mediocrity. I don't trust this front office to find the next QB, I don't even think they are confident, which is why they will do the comfortable decision and stick with Dak, a guy they know exactly what they will get.
  16. This is so dumb. Especially from someone like you who continually points to results in every other argument you’ve ever made. It’s a result oriented business. Everyone coaches to get fired or be told it’s time. Even the legends. Augie coached his final 3-4 years without even knowing most of the names of the players on the team. He was a figurehead while Skip Johnson basically ran the day to day and we saw the results. Good AD’s know when it’s time and strategize exits before things fall off a cliff. Steve Patterson and Mike Perrin allowed us to go over 700 days without winning a conference series because of they were either a) scared or b) holding onto the past.
  17. You know little to next to nothing about basketball. You've made that increasingly apparent the past couple days. Why people like you think that anyone wants to hear your dipshit ramblings about a sport you understand nothing about baffles me. You should go check how many posts I have on the tennis and F1 threads. None. Because I don't watch those sports and I don't know anything about them and I'm not a fucking hack. Please shut the fuck up about this basketball team or any Texas basketball team for that matter and go back to picking your own dickcheese. I just had to watch potentially the best win of the season turn into potentially, effectively, the end of Texas' season and you come in here postgame like a flaming idiot spouting inanities with the confidence of Rick Pitino acting like we didn't lose one of the best 3 players in the fucking conference with 10 minutes to play. Holy shit you are a fucking beating. I'm putting you on ignore now. Go fuck yourself, reevaluate your life, and shut the fuck up about shit you are clueless about. I'm going to bed.
  18. Incorrect. He's our best player. He was leading the B12 in scoring. The level of idiocy is this thread is something else. We win this game if Disu doesn't go down. Y'all wanna shit on the coach for a player getting injured go ahead. Just like a bunch of people shit on Sark for Brooks getting injured. Texas fans are actually the fucking worst. No one cares about your back door cover, fuckface.
  19. Eh, let's please not use today's outing as a fuel for the fire. Disu was sick, then benched on account of some uneven calls, and then injured on a freak play. The team did fall apart and lose their shit about that time, but by then, refs were going well out of their way to make sure BU had every advantage to win tonight. 42 motherfucking free throws and all our "bigs," plus our fireplug (Weaver) in foul trouble. Not saying there aren't reasons to be unhappy with Terry, but after that monumental horse-fucking we were just subjected to, it's rubbing salt in the wound.
  20. Let him fight and fight. Win and win. Lose and lose. Run and run. Raise and raise. grift and grift. Rally and rally. Consciously, he doesn't know what is happening. But his body will wear down and wear down. Nobody involved is going to say it out loud. It will torch his insides. He will be dead soon enough. Maybe he wins. Maybe he dies before the general. The game is to run him ragged because, or the food supplier at Mar-a-Lago. And then 25mm Americans don't acce[pt his death as legitimate. And so we deal with that problem and the next problem and the one after that. And we continue this experiment in Democracy and like Tommy in "Casino", when we wake up...we keep bashing the shit out of the asshole in front of us because we don't know any better. My parents instilled in me from a very young age that I was smart and passionate enough to change the world. They were wrong. We all need to come to terms with the fact that maybe our calling was something entirely different. I have but two skill sets besides being a father. I am tenacious. And I have no problem hurting bad people. Took me until my mid-40s to realize it. Trump and his judicial enablers woke up the garbage in our nation. And we've got a lot of work to do to rid the political landscape of them. Jump in and help or quit whining. Because there's some crazy shit coming up soon. Good news though is...they're fucking beyond stupid and it shouldn't he hard to arrange it that they take each other out. Did any of you who grew up with me in public school in the 1980's with American Exceptionalism ever think we'd ever see anything like this for this amount of time? My hat's off to the Greatest Generation of which I had many relatives fight for peace and against fascism. Now it's our turn. Fuck these people, let's chlorinate the gene pool.
  21. It doesn’t matter. He’s already been found liable for rape and fraud. He’ll still get 80 million votes. He could go to jail next week and not lose a vote. It’s not like he’s going to debate or make any appearances outside his bubble anyway. He could broadcast his appearances from his cell. The constitution doesn’t preclude a prisoner from winning the presidency. The founding fathers surely assumed that such a piece of shit could never garner enough votes, but here we are, ‘murica.
  22. LTtxfan

    Florida Gators

    Steve Spurrier: "There's a feeling around the Gators of 'What the heck are we doing?'" The legendary former Florida head coach told a local newspaper he wishes the current Florida head coach was "a little more tidy" in running the program. ZACH BARNETT MAR 1, 2024 As the only SEC school in the nation's most talent-rich state, the Florida job has potential unlike any other in college football. For evidence, see how the Gators went from zero national titles to three in a 13-season period from 1996 to 2008. But, because of that potential, when things are going bad at Florida, they tend to go really bad, really fast. Will Muschamp took the Gators to the Sugar Bowl in Year 2, and was gone after Year 4. Jim McElwain won the SEC East in his first two seasons, and didn't last through his third. Dan Mullen's teams finished their first three seasons ranked No. 7, No. 6, and No. 13, and he was out before Year 4 completed. And that brings us to Billy Napier, who it seems has yet to truly wrap his arms around the Florida job in his two seasons in Gainesville. He's 11-14 overall and 6-10 in SEC play. In a story in the Florida Times Union, Gene Frenette spoke to a number of stakeholders around the program, including the program patriarch. And Steve Spurrier, well, he's Steve Spurrier no matter who he's talking about. “There’s a feeling around the Gators of ‘what the heck are we doing?’ There’s a lot of questions that I don’t have the answers to about organization,” said Spurrier. “Just because you hire the most people doesn’t mean you’re going to win. All these extra people, I question how much that really helps." Spurrier, of course, is referring to this. The support staff grew from 45 under Mullen to 62 under Napier, and the Gators spent nearly $1 million more than Georgia on staffing. Within that staff, Napier appointed a GameChanger coordinator. He has an offensive coordinator, an associate head coach for offense, and a hand-picked successor as offensive play-caller who is not his coordinator or his assistant head coach for offense. Florida has a head coach, an assistant head coach, and an executive head coach. But despite investing heavily in staffing, Napier has had trouble either finding or keeping the right people. Only three of his 10 on-field assistants are have made it to Year 3 with him. This offseason, Florida has either lost or parted ways its strength coach, its director of recruiting, and its in-house NIL director. “Billy [Napier] is a good guy who works his tail off. I like Billy, good family man. But we do wish the organization was a little bit more tidy.” Read the full story here.
  23. I don't disagree with you, but it isn't going to win. The gulf in those odds is just way too high. Oppenheimer is also relevant right now and would be relevant no matter when it was released. The 2nd leading nuclear power in the world has been involved in a land war on their border for years now. We are currently testing the waters of AI and quantum computing that is basically the new A-bomb and may create a similar demarcation in world history. I think Nolan is too accomplished and Oppenheimer is too good for it to not win. They LOVE any excuse to give someone like that their first win, and they don't need an excuse. He has 5 noms and 0 wins and is on a very short list of most important directors of the 21st century.
  24. We don't have the basketball history either when it comes to recruits and transfers. We can throw around NIL all we want, but Baylor and KU (within our conference) have title winning coaches. When we go to the SEC, you have Kentucky + programs with more sustained basketball success/coaches like Tennessee, Arkansas, UF, plus still second fiddle in our own state to Sampson and Drew. If I am a recruit with no ties to UT, all things being equal (money), I'd still probably look at UH, Baylor, UK, Tennessee, Arkansas before Texas. Not to mention if Duke, UNC, Kansas, Arizona, etc. come calling.
  25. New names and details of the coup plot. Wisconsin Republicans are diabolical bastards. Newly Released Messages Detail Roots of the ‘Fake Electors’ Scheme Emails and texts unearthed in a lawsuit show how key figures intended their plan to create a “cloud of confusion” to help keep Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss. Just five days after Election Day in 2020, a conservative lawyer named Kenneth Chesebro emailed a former judge who was working for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin, James R. Troupis, pitching an idea for how to overturn the results. Through litigation, Mr. Chesebro said, the Trump campaign could allege “various systemic abuses” and, with court proceedings pending, encourage legislatures to appoint “alternative” pro-Trump electors that could be certified instead of the Biden electors chosen by the voters. “At minimum, with such a cloud of confusion, no votes from WI (and perhaps also MI and PA) should be counted, perhaps enough to throw the election to the House,” Mr. Chesebro wrote to Mr. Troupis, referring to the swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Mr. Troupis quickly brought Mr. Chesebro into the Trump legal team, directed him to lay out the plans in a series of memos now central to the indictment of Mr. Trump and a month later — with the help of Reince Priebus, the former White House chief of staff — secured a meeting with Mr. Trump at the White House. The email is the earliest known evidence of Mr. Chesebro’s involvement in what would become known as the false elector plot. It was released Monday along with a trove of more than 1,400 pages of text messages and emails belonging to Mr. Troupis and Mr. Chesebro as they settled a lawsuit against them filed in Wisconsin. Taken together, the documents show in new detail how the Trump campaign’s litigation strategy was not designed to win in court as much as it was designed to give cover for their political efforts. And they underscore the central role that Mr. Troupis — previously a little-known figure in the effort to overturn the election — played in furthering the plans. The messages also detail how Mr. Chesebro worked to get the false-electors documents into the hands of members of Congress, and how Mr. Chesebro — who has since pleaded guilty in Georgia to a felony conspiracy charge related to the scheme — celebrated the crowd that was gathering in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, before a violent mob stormed the Capitol. “Enjoy the history you have made possible today,” Mr. Troupis wrote in a text message to Mr. Chesebro at 11:04 a.m. that day. The new details come from the settlement of a lawsuit filed by the progressive law firm Law Forward and Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection against Mr. Chesebro, Mr. Troupis and the so-called fake electors in Wisconsin. The suit was filed on behalf of legitimate Wisconsin presidential electors and voters. The purported electors have already settled their portion of the suit, admitting that President Biden won the 2020 election. Mr. Troupis and Mr. Chesebro agreed not to engage in similar work in the future, including not participating in a scheme to advance slates of false electors. The settlement also included a payment to the plaintiffs of an undisclosed amount. “As these documents show, the fraudulent electors plot originated in Wisconsin, with Trump campaign attorney James Troupis and legal adviser Ken Chesebro concocting the scheme that ultimately provided the false narrative used by the rioters to justify the attack on the Capitol,” said Mary McCord, the director of Georgetown’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection. Mr. Chesebro’s memos were central to the federal indictment of Mr. Trump on charges of seeking to overturn the 2020 election. They are featured as evidence of how the Trump campaign’s plans shifted from legal challenges to what prosecutors describe as a criminal plot to engineer “a fake controversy that would derail the proper certification of Biden as president-elect.” The memos also became the basis for a strategy put forward by the conservative lawyer John Eastman and Mr. Trump that a federal judge referred to as a “coup in search of a legal theory.” In a Nov. 19, 2020, email to Mr. Troupis, Mr. Chesebro wrote that the Trump lawyers should “pursue a shot at having two bites at the apple — ligate, hoping to ultimately win by January 6, but also use delay in litigation to try to win in the state legislature on December 8.” Several of the documents refer to a Dec. 15, 2020, meeting of Mr. Troupis and Mr. Chesebro with Mr. Trump in the Oval Office. “Pretty clear national people realize this wouldn’t be happening if you and reince and others hadn’t pushed it!” Mr. Chesebro wrote to Mr. Troupis two days before the White House visit. They were told to keep the meeting secret and not bring anything for Mr. Trump to sign, the messages show. “Reince was very explicit in his admonition that nothing about our meeting with the President can be shared with anyone,” Mr. Troupis wrote to Mr. Chesebro after. Mr. Chesebro gave his account of the meeting to state prosecutors in Michigan investigating the fake electors plot. He said Mr. Priebus had told the men not to get Mr. Trump’s hopes up about his chances for victory, but Mr. Chesebro acknowledged he had not listened to that advice. “We had until Jan. 6 to win,” Mr. Chesebro recalled of what he told Mr. Trump in the meeting, according to audio obtained by CNN, adding: “That got me in real trouble afterwards.” A lawyer for Mr. Troupis did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Mr. Chesebro did not respond to a request for comment. Mr. Preibus declined to comment. A person familiar with his actions said that he had recommended Mr. Troupis as a lawyer in Wisconsin, his home state, to the Trump campaign, but was not involved in the day-to-day of the legal efforts. The person said that he had merely arranged a “photo op” for the men at Mr. Troupis’s request and had not met Mr. Chesebro or known who he was until that day. The person offered a similar account of the meeting as Mr. Chesebro, who said Mr. Preibus did not want them encouraging the president to fight the election results. Even so, after the meeting, both Mr. Troupis and Mr. Chesebro appeared to feel they had some special knowledge of Mr. Trump’s plans. After Mr. Trump posted on Twitter that he would be holding a rally in Washington on Jan. 6 — “Be there, will be wild!” he urged his followers in a message that served as a crucial call to action for far-right groups — Mr. Chesebro wrote to Mr. Troupis: “Wow. Based on 3 days ago, I think we have unique understanding of this.” Although the plans originated in Wisconsin, the messages show the men saw Georgia as key to furthering their goals. “If Georgia is pending before the Supreme Court on January 6, a fairly boss move would be for Pence, when he gets to Georgia, to simply decline to open any of the Georgia envelopes,” Mr. Chesebro wrote on Dec. 26, 2020. He was referring to Vice President Mike Pence’s ceremonial role in the certification by Congress of the Electoral College results. On the morning of Jan. 6, Mr. Chesebro said he had worked with Michael Roman, the director of the Trump campaign’s Election Day operations, and given documents for the false slates of electors a day earlier to an aide to Representative Mike Kelly, Republican of Pennsylvania. That aide took them to the Senate parliamentarian, he said. “Excellent,” Mr. Troupis replied. “Tomorrow let’s talk about SCOTUS strategy going forward. Enjoy the history you have made possible today.” Mr. Chesebro later sent a photo of himself with the crowd at 12:26 p.m. on Jan. 6. Mr. Troupis responded with an emoji of hands clapping.
×
×
  • Create New...