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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 9, 2024 19:12:33 GMT -5
And that somehow made you think he would scrap plans for football. OK He's obviously going to play football at Georgetown.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 7, 2024 19:07:37 GMT -5
What else could we expect from Putin's Puppet?
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 4, 2024 20:53:59 GMT -5
All of the corrupt politicans who voted to acquit are cowards so of course they are "Republicans." They are disgusting. Anyone want to defend the indefensible? Portman was one of 43 Republican senators who voted against conviction. Sixty-seven votes were required to convict. If 10 additional Republican senators had joined the 50 Democrats and seven Republicans who voted for conviction, Trump would not today be the party’s presumptive nominee for president, and the country would not be one election away from a constitutional crisis and a possibly irreversible slide into authoritarianism. (Technically, a second vote after conviction would have been required to ban Trump from holding public office, but presumably this second vote would have followed naturally from the first.) It would be unfair to blame Portman disproportionately for the devastating reality that Donald Trump, who is currently free on bail but could be a convicted felon by November, is once again a candidate for president. The Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, denounced Trump for his actions on January 6, and yet still voted to acquit him. Trump’s continued political viability is as much McConnell’s fault as anyone’s. The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum, one of the world’s leading experts on authoritarianism, wrote in 2020 that complicity, rather than dissent, is the norm for humans, and especially for status-and-relevance-seeking politicians. There are many explanations for complicity, Applebaum argued. A potent one is fear. Many Republican elected officials, she wrote, “don’t know that similar waves of fear have helped transform other democracies into dictatorships.” On February 13, 2021, Romney was joined by six other Republicans—North Carolina’s Richard Burr, Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, Maine’s Susan Collins, Nebraska’s Ben Sasse, and Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey—in voting to convict. If the United States and its Constitution survive the coming challenge from Trump and Trumpism, statues will one day be raised to these seven. As for Rob Portman and his colleagues, they should hope that they will merely be forgotten. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/rob-portman-donald-trump-january-6-impeachment/677833/It's my view that Mitch is more responsible than any other Republican. He was the damn majority leader. If he had done what was right, it's possible that nine other Republican senators (including Portman) would have joined him. Perhaps not (I know that the Traitor Brothers, Cruz and Hawley, would not have done so), but we'll never know.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 4, 2024 19:51:17 GMT -5
I did see that, and my response is so what? The ACC isn't exactly a model of stability these days, and USC is going to the Big 10. Meanwhile, USC probably got a better coach, Bronny or no Bronny.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 2, 2024 23:01:54 GMT -5
He spoke to a nephew's cousin four times removed. Works for me.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 2, 2024 22:54:49 GMT -5
That was a great day.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 2, 2024 22:53:06 GMT -5
NC State's rise from the grave has given me optimism for the future of GT. Living in the state, I witnessed firsthand how godforsaken that program had become. Their last Elite 8 was in the middle of the Reagan administration, yet the utterly delusional fanbase continuously measured themselves against UNC/Duke who combined for 9 championships since then. I honestly expected a Browns Super Bowl appearance before an NCSU F4. On a related note, I remember vague mentions of Kevin Keatts in the GT coaching search last year. It was probably just internet speculation, but now I feel a little foolish for laughing so hard at it. His coaching has been outstanding this postseason. Welcome to Hoyatalk, and I love your moniker. My favorite character from Godfather II.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 1, 2024 19:10:03 GMT -5
Wow. I've actually stayed there, but that was a long time ago.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 1, 2024 19:01:31 GMT -5
Luck definitely has a lot to do with it. If Duke played a best of 7 series against NC State, would they win? Maybe. Houston? Much less likely. Also, keep in mind NC State would not have been in the tournament without the autobid. So they also had to get some unlikely wins in the ACC tournament to be here, too. Keatts lucked out. He very well could have been fired, and now instead he's a Final Four hero. That's part of what makes the tournament fun. Though I wish Georgetown could be on the "beats expectations" front one of these years (soon). NC State had to face Duke in what Amounts to two elimination games and won both. 2-0 vs Duke in Elimination games. I would argue that NC state has had the toughest road so far. Beat Duke Twice, UVA on a Hail Mary 3pt by o Connell to send it into overtime, and beating UNC and Marquette. I have to agree with this. Also, while I don't see any reason to take issue with Scheyer at this point, I wonder if Quinn Snyder would have taken the job if approached. I'm guessing not, but who knows?
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 1, 2024 18:47:41 GMT -5
I wonder if Trump doesn't actually want this, as then he could scream that he is being persecuted, and his First Amendment rights being denied while the election is bein interfered with. The morons will go crazy.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 1, 2024 18:43:03 GMT -5
Isn't Trump worse than Jimmy, Jim and Tammy Faye? They may have been con artists, but they at least had some devotion to the Bible, didn't they? Unlike Trump. He's certainly worse than Oral Roberts, who has a legitimate college named for him (see Trump University).
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 1, 2024 18:39:33 GMT -5
When was the Key Bridge Marriott demolished? And what is the ongoing litigation about?
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 1, 2024 18:32:29 GMT -5
LOL. And no doubt Epps would have gone for 50.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 1, 2024 18:23:00 GMT -5
Lampkin just posted an image of a meal at Nobu in NYC. So I am not sure he'll be announcing the commitment imminently. I guess we will see. Pitino! That would seem to follow, wouldn't it?
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Post by hoyarooter on Mar 30, 2024 19:09:55 GMT -5
These things tend to happen in critical games. Patrick would be NBA World Champion but John Starks goes 2-18 in game 7 of the NBA Finals. The main problem for Marquette though was that NC State disrupted their offense with Diarra and Burns. Igororo was ineffective which led to a breakdown of their system and they just resorted to throwing up 3s cause they couldn’t attack the basket. I do recall that John Starks game, but the big problem for Marquette was that they contracted a serious case of Hoya Disease.
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Post by hoyarooter on Mar 29, 2024 21:52:57 GMT -5
This is all so draining. Elvado (or others), do you have a bridge too far? Is it 95 felony charges so 91 is all good? You're sticking with the (lie), "I'm writing in" my vote? If so, have at it. At what point do you folks start rebuking the death of your former party and find your collective backbone to make a stand? If it's not now, when? I can only surmise that the answer is never since your former party doesn't actually stand for any of the things you folks say you support. Fiscal conservatism? No. Family values? Nope. Is it just the authoritarianism, xenophobia and racism that you like? Or, do you only like one or two of those things? Your exceedingly tenuous grasping to the Biden mental capacity or truthfulness part is hilarious and pathetically transparent. *Edit: Elvado, I don't mean to target you specifically. But, sadly, you're the only poster that seems to respond from the Right (RIP, EasyEd). FWIW, I respect that you do even if, at times, I vehemently disagree with your views. Please continue to post even if it seems as though you're peeing into the wind. happyhoya says hello.
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Post by hoyarooter on Mar 29, 2024 21:43:38 GMT -5
It's hard to figure this stuff. Alabama was probably playing their worst basketball of the season coming into the tournament, and Clemson lost by 20 to BC in the ACC tournament. And now they're playing for a spot in the Final Four. Are we sure this isn't the Sugar Bowl?
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Post by hoyarooter on Mar 28, 2024 20:03:43 GMT -5
I'm just surprised that this wasn't Harold J. Trump's (that's a reference to The Music Man, for you youngsters out there) pitch: Hey, everyone! Get your Bibles, personally autographed by Jesus, for only $2,000 each! Order now, as supplies are limited! This is a one time offer, so hurry! HURRY!
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Post by hoyarooter on Mar 28, 2024 19:51:47 GMT -5
The last bipartisan politician? "His transition from Al Gore’s running mate in 2000 on the Democratic ticket to high-profile cheerleader for Republican presidential candidate John McCain eight years later was a turnaround unmatched in recent American politics...McCain seriously considered making Mr. Lieberman his running mate, but his advisers warned that Mr. Lieberman’s Democratic history and voting record, particularly his stand in favor of abortion rights, would anger convention delegates and split the party. McCain instead chose the right-wing populist governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, a decision he later said he regretted." www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/joe-lieberman-senator-vice-president-dead/Can't imagine why he might have regretted that decision. It's of course impossible to say what McCain, if still alive, might have had to say about Trump this year, but I strongly suspect he would be found in the Liz Cheney faction of the Republican Party.
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Post by hoyarooter on Mar 28, 2024 19:37:09 GMT -5
Probably because the coach left. Great story with this kid, overcoming cancer.
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