What starts here, changes the world.

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Great speech by Admiral Mcraven. 

I tell Mrs Call at least once a week to make the bed for the sense of accomplishment. 

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He’s decided to make some waves.   One Longhorn sticking up for another Longhorn  

 

Edited August 16, 2018 by atomheartbevo

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McRaven’s statement kicked off some serious shit   It took balls to do what he did , and he’s inspiring a lot of people.

Some on TexAgs were in full “FUCK MCRAVEN FUCK TU, BUNCH OF TRAITORS” mode.

Except that aggy’s highest profile grad and their former university president has chimed in on the side of UT grads McRaven and Brennan.

Whatever your political beliefs, McRaven is inspiring some high-ranking folks.  Some are even throwing out him running for office going forward.  

[Steel Shank 9432]

Once again, aggy looks like a bunch of dumbasses.

[LongestHorn 759]

And John Brennan got his masters at Texas.  Hookem.

[Deej 76941]

1 hour ago, Steel Shank said:

Once again, aggy.

fify

[The Dog 44152]

Draft McRaven 2020

[Guest]

Went political.

 

My apologies.  Much respect to Adm. Raven.( the post was in support of him, but also political)

Edited August 17, 2018 by slorch

[Lhorn 4967]

8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

McRaven’s statement kicked off some serious shit   It took balls to do what he did , and he’s inspiring a lot of people.

Some on TexAgs were in full “FUCK MCRAVEN FUCK TU, BUNCH OF TRAITORS” mode.

Except that aggy’s highest profile grad and their former university president has chimed in on the side of UT grads McRaven and Brennan.

Whatever your political beliefs, McRaven is inspiring some high-ranking folks.  Some are even throwing out him running for office going forward.  

Didn’t he have some health problem?

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Once again, aggy looks like a bunch of dumbasses.

It is a pastime of theirs.

[Trey3216 15366]

4 hours ago, Steel Shank said:

Once again, aggy looks like a bunch of dumbasses.

Water is wet

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1 hour ago, Lhorn said:

Didn’t he have some health problem?

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/05/29/bill-mcraven-ut-system-chancellor-texas-higher-education/

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He announced his intention to step down from the chancellor position in December, citing health concerns as a reason. McRaven suffers from non-life-threatening chronic lymphocytic leukemia and was briefly hospitalized a few weeks before he announced his planned departure.

In a 30-minute interview last week, McRaven told the Tribune that his focus after leaving the system’s Austin headquarters this Thursday will be to get his health “back where it needs to be.” He said he expects to spend the next half year speaking and writing, then is slated to teach a course at UT-Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs in the spring. He said it will likely be a seminar in the area of national security but that he will audit classes in the fall to make sure his offering is not redundant.

“We'll see where it goes from there,” he said, before a system spokesperson concluded the interview. “I want to find out what opportunities are out there that I might find I might be passionate about and go from there.”

 

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5 hours ago, Steel Shank said:

Once again, aggy looks like a bunch of dumbasses.

I’d be willing to bet that the dumbasses on TexAgs that were going after McRaven are the same ones filling up the QAnon thread on TexAgs.  Fucking hilarious and simultaneously creepy/scary to see TexAgs posters with all of those tags after their names showing they are aggy graduates, donors, etc. buying into child sex rings being run out of pizza joints. 

Then again, they’ve been conditioned to believe UT is a part of a conspiracy to keep them down. 

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One of many people starting to say McRaven should consider running.  At the very least, it would be fun to tell the aggy faithful "what's wrong, you don't respect the military?"

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/20/opinions/admiral-mcraven-for-president-2020-trump-wheeler/index.html

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The list of people defying President Donald Trump gets longer by the minute. But one voice rose above all the others last week. Retired Navy Adm. William H. McRaven penned an op-ed in the Washington Post asking Trump to revoke his security clearance, so he can add his name "to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency."

Why is this a big deal, you ask? After all, many top government officials from both parties have condemned Trump. 

Here's why: McRaven is not your average admiral. As commander of the US Joint Special Operations Command from 2011-2014, McRaven oversaw the Navy SEAL mission in Pakistan that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

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Some rather somber statistics from June's Gallup Poll explain why McRaven's background is ideal -- not because he is a populist (he isn't) but because he is unexpected. In our bitterly polarized era, only 37% of the public expresses a "great deal" of confidence in the presidency. A whopping 44% express "very little" or "none." When it comes to the church and organized religion, only 38% of Americans have a "great deal" of confidence in those institutions.

Meanwhile, the percentage of Americans who have a "great deal" of confidence in Congress is barely out of the single digits.

But one institution rises high above the rest, with no other even coming close. That institution is the military, with 74% of the country expressing a "great deal" of confidence in the armed services, and 20% expressing "some" confidence. Only 5% have "very little" or "none." In this ranking, small business is a distant second, and the police come in third.

 

 

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They might be able to if they choose a candidate with a background that nearly everyone respects. Despite uneven progress in Iraq and Afghanistan, there's one military operation that Americans across the spectrum herald as an undisputed success: the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. In fact, Americans approved so highly of that operation that Barack Obama, who was president at the time, saw his approval rating rise instantly by six points.

(McRaven, by the way, isn't the only one saying he'd be honored if Trump would revoke his clearance, too -- he appears to have started a trend. Former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden told CNN he'd be fine having his security clearance revoked, too, after Jake Tapper asked him about McRaven's op-ed.)

 

 

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But one institution rises high above the rest, with no other even coming close. That institution is the military, with 74% of the country expressing a "great deal" of confidence in the armed services, and 20% expressing "some" confidence. Only 5% have "very little" or "none." In this ranking, small business is a distant second, and the police come in third.

 

Edited August 21, 2018 by atomheartbevo

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Too good to be true. He would absolutely crush Trump and any of the other Dem nominees.