Dr. Strangelove

This is wild to have sustained unemployment rates sub 4% for the first time in 60 years considering the job killing, America hating, economic catastrophe inducing economic policies of the President.

I mean, firstly, I don't live in constant fear. I do think that people on the left - or young people having extreme fear over climate change - is a problem because the effect on people isn't going to lead to the extinction of humanity or anything like that. It's going to cause deaths, sure, but in the form of increased natural disasters which will predominately affect poor people in 3rd world countries who nobody cares about. Climate change is going to affect life in all kinds of ways - it already has. Increasing insurance rates - making states like Florida increasingly uninsurable - weather patterns changing causing agricultural economies to change, etc. All of these things cost money. The issue we're facing now is that these changes are happening MUCH faster than previously expected and are costing A LOT more money than previously thought. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how I view climate change - it's not the loss of life I worry about; I do not care about people that much. It's the political instability rapidly shifting economics are going to cause. If you think our politics are toxic now, wait until homeowners insurance premiums increase massively by the end of the decade. And that will be just the start.

Kind of insane if you consider the unfriendly business and tax increases (not to mention America hating) policies passed in the Inflation Reduction Act.

While I don't think anybody disagrees with this, I do think this is an extremely simple view. I'd be curious to see any studies that control for poverty levels, working hours of the mother figure, and what school districts these kids come from. Fortunately the rates of single parent households has fallen after peaking in 2005. Although I don't think it's because we've gotten better at helping these families, it's more in line with decreasing birthrates and decreasing marriage rates overall. I'm not sure what pro-family policies will actually work to address the above problems.

Nothing says Law and Order like being charged with 88 felonies and being found liable for sexual assault. This guy is going to win because his constituency are complete morons.

Pretty good considering the job killing, capital sucking, and manufacturing ending Economic Policies of the President.

The ocean temperature in the North Atlantic has set a record high every day in 2024. And not by small margins. I never said that. What I said was that the planet warming has far surpassed worse case scenarios, predictions made by scientists years ago. No scientific projections predicted ocean temperatures where they are today - hence the meaning of passing even the worst scenarios because that's true. I say that because reactionary politics of people on the right are in large part because of paranoia and fear. Archy1221 and other right wingers deny climate change because denying reality is comforting to them. Because the truth scares them, and they'd have to reconcile support for destructive politics.

Don't switch parties, stop participating in politics. Spend time with your family, pick up a new hobby, whatever it is stop spending time on politics and worse taking that time you've spent cultivating political opinions to the voting booth. You don't understand the world around you, and that's okay. It's a big scary place, and reactionary and angry politics that you vote for isn't the answer. I get it man, but for the sake of everybody, disengage all together.

Please, for the love of God, stop voting. You are entirely unequipped for it. If you think that legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act - which fully paid for climate investments in the bill and has actively raised more money than it has spent on climate tax credits - has or will bankrupted the country... well, honestly that actually tracks with voters like you. So completely hopeless and disconnected from reality that our only hope is to keep people like this disconnected from politics all together.

You make a lot of good points, in a lot of ways Democrats are doomed because of the stupidity running rampant across rural America. My advice to them would be to continue to push for and campaign on what has made them successful: labor movements, taxing the wealthy to support welfare programs, and to push for popular job creating economy policies. Joe Biden has done most of this but instead of taking credit for the largest manufacturing investment boom in decades, they have to put out a press release saying they're going to fight a pride flag ban at embassies. Republicans are dragging them down into the mud needlessly.

I mean honestly humanity deserves what's coming to it because people are stupid.

You are absolutely correct, but at the same time I want Democrats to win elections which means appealing to stupid people. Currently, Democrats are hurdling towards a future where they dominate politics in coastal areas and are not competitive elsewhere. States like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan are going to become what Iowa and Ohio are now once the MAGA era is over. If Democrats ever want to sniff a Senate majority post MAGA, they need to evaluate the types of politics they champion and realize that appealing to college educated elites is not a path to electoral majorities.

Because your schtick is always sarcasm, nobody can tell if or when you're joking. Please, for the love of God, tell me that you're not dumb enough to use the 10 day weather for your local city as proof for or against climate change. Because I don't know if you knew this, but 2024 has thus far been so catastrophic for the climate that the even the worst case scenarios are being blown past.

He's not wrong. Democrats are fortunate that their Republican opposition is corrupt, rudderless, and devoid of principle. If Democrats want to be successful after Republicans emerge from being ravaged by Trump and the MAGA movement, they need to figure out a brand or politics that appeals to more than just white coastal college graduates. Toxic elements of the Democratic Party - including elements of toxic feminism, LGTBQ+, and whatever performative activism they're doing on the coasts - are being glossed over because the Republican Party has been overrun by crazies.

While I agree with social media bans for children, tik tok has fried the brains of a generation - let's not forget that Facebook has had a similar effect on Boomers. The elderly are entirely unprepared for AI deepfakes, voice generation, or any number of the things they're going to be subjected to in the future.

I think you bring up completely fair and correct points. Making the fan experience better is a good idea, I'm not sure it requires a half billion dollar investment - and probably much larger - though. Replacing the bleachers with seats, massively expanding the wifi and implementing ways to make concessions lines go faster (cashless only, self serve beverage kiosks, increase concession capacity, etc) can accomplish a lot of what they're looking for at a smaller price point. At a certain point, I'm not sure they can do much to compete with the home experience. Going to and from games is a massive time commitment that no amount of stadium amenities will overcome.

In fairness, it wasn't exactly a secret that the cost of the project was going to be anywhere close to what was initially reported. It was always going to be significantly over budget. It was a financial black hole while nearly half the funding was going to come from private donations - the same people who funded the newly completed Football Facility and who also fund our NIL operations. All of this when Athletic Department revenue is about to be collectively bargained with student athletes. This project was a fiasco from the beginning. Not to mention the real purpose is to reduce stadium capacity to ~75k barely a decade after stadium capacity was increased to 90k.

He was so good we used him to pull in order to help our Tackles from getting destroyed, since they had an issue of getting their QB injured.

There's no bad publicity because his voters are a hopeless horde of people who are dangerously disconnected from reality. These morons embrace Trump as their champion and believe he's just like they are... all while being used and abused. When he's done raping pillaging the Republican Party to pay his many legal fees - something he's been prone to do if you didn't know - I hope you can be proud as a two time Trump voter and Republican politics supporter at the monster you've created.

It's insane that this rapist is currently pillaging a formerly proud (and current corrupt shell) 200 year old political party because Republican voters are so wrapped up in identity politics that this man still has above a 50% chance of winning.

I get a lot of what you're saying, but the primary driver of budget deficits are because of changing Demographics. Balancing the budget is not possible today. Simply put, the Demographic pyramid of the Clinton Presidency of the 1990s is much different than the 2020s. The average baby boomer was entering their prime earning years in their 30s and 40s, while the retirement class was much smaller that their taxes needed to support. In sum, the 1990s had a much better ratio of worker/retiree that the United States will never see again. "Balancing the budget" today would require massive tax increases combined with massive cuts to social security and Medicare which just isn't going to happen.

The funniest part about this guy is that he offered prize money to anybody who could prove his claims that the election was stolen were wrong. A guy looked at the data for line 45 minutes and proved he was wrong. Mike refused to pay, went to court and lost. Then he went to arbitration and lost there too. Ultimately, what few voters there are that follow Mike are highly motivated voters who aren't connected to reality - as the entirety of the Republican base is.

While all true, Nebraska from 1996-2003 is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. TAMU is dysfunctional but they are in a sandbox with the big boys that Nebraska just isn't anymore. They have access to talent that Nebraska doesn't, it's okay to acknowledge that TAMU (despite little historical success) has a higher ceiling than Nebraska currently. Hopefully CBAs allow Nebraska to dabble in that sandbox once more. Personally, I think losing Trev sucks but it's pretty clear Nebraska is veering into a financial blackhole with the stadium downsizing project.

When a player leaves for more money, fanbases lose their mind. When an Athletic Director leverages his position for more money, better terms, or more authority, it's just business.

I mean, if they're paying him significantly more, why wouldn't he go? I can tell you that every single person on this message board - myself included - would move to a new job if they doubled your salary for what is essentially the same work. He's going to do at A&M the same thing he does at Nebraska: fundraise, push projects they feel helps them be successful, hire coaches after using a search firm, and fundraise some more. Nebraska, for their part, needs to make sure they hire somebody who takes Trev's place who: has a grasp on the future CBA nature of college football. That isn't a drunk like Bill Moos was or that doesn't insert himself into decisions that should be left up to the head coach like Shawn Eichorst did. Nebraska will hopefully hire somebody who see's where the sport is going (revenue sharing with players), is prepared to fundraise for NIL purposes, and hire competent coaches. Pushing pet projects like putting nap pods in a new football facility or revamping the stadium aren't really necessary now. It's all related to NIL, Nebraska needs to hire the best possible candidate in that regard.