Oh look, right wing pundits looking to be first might be committing defamation. Big surprise.

snarlcakes said:

That works for myself. In all seriousness you're left a leaning moderate and crazed is a right leaning moderate. It's not surprising you guys agree a decent amount.

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I've never considered myself to be the least bit moderate.

Some of the people who have influenced me over the years include the likes of Milton Friedman, Wm. F Buckley, Thomas Sowell, Antonin Scalia, Charles Murray, Roger Scruton, Allan Bloom, FA Hayek, Barry Goldwater.

I was a proud fan of Rush Limbaugh's -- thought he was (for the most part) insightful and entertaining and will defend him to this day. My newer mancrushes are guys like Mitch Daniels and Javier Milei.

I mean...this is not a list of Rockefeller Republicans.

I had plenty of admiration for Richard Lugar as a man and statesman. But he was never somebody I looked to for philosophical inspiration. I kind of put him in the same category as Lee Hamilton for the Dems -- really competent guy, not terribly ideological, all about good steady governance. Admired them both.

So, nowadays, to be seen as a moderate, you just have to be critical of Trump, his worldview, his temperament, his cultish movement? I'm not moderate -- I'm just not there. Yes, I voted for him -- but only because he pledged to nominate good justices....who (importantly) were not in his general mold.

Hopefully, some day, I'll have a party again that will reflect my general worldview on critical matters. The Republicans do still have plenty of pols who do. And I have no issue voting for those. But Donald Trump himself is not one of them.

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This is the first time in my life I actually like our B1G schedule. Always felt we were fodder. Expansion is a good thing for IU.
Go Hoosiers! What a good time!

stollcpa said:

This one is extremely troubling. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was condoned by Biden/Harris.

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Of course you wouldn't. Because Dems are cartoon villains to you.

Aloha Hoosier said:

Nope. Don’t support any of that and we’ll get through it. I don’t trust the T guy to be CInC. He must be defeated.

RFK Jr is a nut, by the way.

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McCarthy nails it

Tell Cindy and Carl we need a check for $5M.

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Marvin the Martian said:

But it is recent, we had years we never agreed.

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Could it be the current breed of pols going to extremes (not necessarily in philosophy but in outrageous rhetoric) has found some of us with new political pals?

kkott said:

Fletcher Loyer was 6-17 and Braden Smith 6-18 in their final intra-squad scrimmage, according to Nathan Baird. ... can't shoot either!

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I’m not worried about them..

dbmhoosier said:

Name the Republican that won Miami-Dade and lost the election. I couldn't find any.

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You didn't say Republican.

crazed_hoosier2 said:

Ugh...just seeing the links speaks volumes. He's an Alex Jones guy?

dbm...really? You do understand that Alex Jones is a stark, raving made lunatic, right?

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Name one thing you can prove Alex Jones was wrong about!

I say Harris wins and hijinks ensue.

Although I reckon there will be hijinks whoever wins.

Its going to be memorable, that’s for sure.

Aloha Hoosier said:

He’s truly dumb as a stump.

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Name the Republican that won Miami-Dade and lost the election. I couldn't find any.

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dbmhoosier said:

Biden is going to pardon himself, Jim, Hunter, and Trump right after the election. Needs cover for pardoning his family and will say we all need to come together and put this behind us. Can't have an elected President going through criminal proceedings, etc. That has been the plan for a while. Screenshot this.

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This is more solid than your polling information.

Scwarber is the first best option
Then its:
Joe Buck
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Calbert Chaney

Mark Cuban is a No for me- He is all about Politics right now

BradStevens said:

Defending Steven Crowder, Alex Jones calls Ben Shapiro "Judas Iscariot," and claims the Daily Wire is "controlled opposition" and "worse than the Democrats"

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InfoWars Alex Jones Show 4/6 - Robert Barnes Bucha | Media Matters for America

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Alex Jones ratchets up his Sandy Hook defense

Robert Barnes, a high-profile Los Angeles lawyer who has embraced Alex Jones' view that the lawsuits against him from Sandy Hook parents are part of a conspiracy to silence Jones and undermine Presid…

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Ugh...just seeing the links speaks volumes. He's an Alex Jones guy?

dbm...really? You do understand that Alex Jones is a stark, raving mad lunatic, right?

BradStevens said:

Defending Steven Crowder, Alex Jones calls Ben Shapiro "Judas Iscariot," and claims the Daily Wire is "controlled opposition" and "worse than the Democrats"

www.mediamatters.org

InfoWars Alex Jones Show 4/6 - Robert Barnes Bucha | Media Matters for America

www.mediamatters.org

Alex Jones ratchets up his Sandy Hook defense

Robert Barnes, a high-profile Los Angeles lawyer who has embraced Alex Jones' view that the lawsuits against him from Sandy Hook parents are part of a conspiracy to silence Jones and undermine Presid…

www.statesman.com

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And?

Tony Warwick said:

After much thought and listening to 50+ songs, I've come to the decision that R.O.C.K. in the USA by JCM should be our start of the 4th quarter song. It's special to Indiana, it's fast paced, it's fun and given that the stadium is nicknamed The Rock, perfectly appropriate.

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I can totally get behind this. Thought it was suggested before (maybe a different thread/different time), and someone poo-poo’d it.

Has it not been tried before at the stadium? Should do it this Saturday!

snarlcakes said:

Homework assignment for you guys @mcmurtry66 @BradStevens and especially @TheOriginalHappyGoat (you're really lost).

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People spend 3 hours out of their day listening to these guys?

snarlcakes said:

That works for myself. In all seriousness you're left a leaning moderate and crazed is a right leaning moderate. It's not surprising you guys agree a decent amount.

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But it is recent, we had years we never agreed.

ChicagoFineForNow said:

Specific examples of the clowns you fear? It’s not like he’s he would bring MTG, Gaetz or Boebert up for nominations. That’s leftist scaremongering.

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I honestly have no idea. My point is that so many of the people who would have the competence to serve as, say, National Security Adviser have broken ties with him.

I've had a high opinion of Gen. HR McMaster for years and was thrilled to learn that he was going to become NSA. He is considered one of the foremost experts on the failures of Vietnam. Even with him, they parted ways.

About the only former military leader still in his good graces is that fruitcake Flynn.

Whatever you might think of Yellen’s or Buttigieg’s aptitude, they have undoubtedly presided over some of the worst fiscal and transportation results in recent history. A lot may have been out of their control. But they don’t have track records to be proud of.

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I can't argue with that. I agree that they haven't been successful secretaries.

Same with Blinken. To the extent SoS’s main priority is to prevent war through diplomacy, he has been an abject failure.

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That I don't agree with. For the most part, I think the US has been a vital and stalwart ally of Israel's in this conflict. I realize that Biden and his people have said some things publicly that were critical of Israel. But I think he's had to do that for his own political reasons. If you look at our actions, rather than our words, the US support has been critical to the massive blows Israel has struck upon Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran (by proxy).

Russia and Ukraine are different situation and a different story. And I do have some issues there. But I don't know how much I'd blame on Blinken.

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Big Red Crimson Buffalo said:

I didn’t read it like that. I think he wanted to redshirt to go somewhere else but Cig probably was going to continue to play him sporadically the remainder of the year. He didn’t want that. He was buried on the depth chart. He wants to be WR #1 some place and wasn’t getting that here. Same reason he left Clemson.

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He specifically said coach viewed it as quitting the team if he had the surgery and redshirted, so he wouldn't be able to return to the team next year.
Which must have meant he discussed redshirting and then coming back next year. Cig said no, stay available to play. Otherwise it makes no sense at all that he said what he did.

I agree he wanted the extra year because he's buried on the depth chart, but the way he wrote it he was open to next year being at Indiana. Coach wasn't.
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