I can’t think of a more guaranteed way to tarnish a legacy than to do this.
I can’t think of a more guaranteed way to tarnish a legacy than to do this.
“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
Yeah……no. Richt seems to be very tolerant compared to the average person of that level of devoutness, but this would be icky.
Eh, screw it, Schottenheimer for comptroller!
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Richt would be a terrible politician. e’s actually honest, straight forward, and a decent human being. He wouldn’t last 5 seconds.
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I would vote for him.
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He’s got more sense than that. It’s a cute story, though. Ties with Dooley and all…
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i cannot think pf any “arena” that he would enjoy less.
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Personally, while I don’t think he’s a politician of any stripe, if you had to pigeon-hole CMR, I’d tend to think that he’s more of a Jimmy Carter Democrat. Hard to be as conversant with the Gospels as he seems to be AND be a “Fuck the poor!” kinda guy.
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So is your opinion that anyone other than a “Jimmy Carter Democrat” has a “Fuck the poor!” attitude? I believe your generalization is showing.
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No. I’m saying that the Republican party and its media outlets: Fox News and talk radio currently have a “Fuck the poor!” attitude. Which, as I best understand it, wasn’t Jesus’ position.
Don’t believe me? How about trusting your eyes and ears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT-eZfLUQA0
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Ah, Jon Stewart, the bastion of unbiased, satirical “reporting.” Thanks for a peek into your mental make-up.
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I agree. I feel the same way about the “reporting” he is satirizing.
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Don’t listen to Jon. Listen to Stuart Varney.
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I don’t listen to either side, because it’s all just partisan bull shit.
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Ignore all of what Jon says. Just watch what the Fox “News” employees say. The commentary does not matter. What matters is what Fox says, not Jon. Try it again…
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So Dreck relies on Jon Stewart to support a political generalization?
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Just listen to Stuart Varney and the other employees of Fox. When Jon talks cover your ears and make noises. What is important is what comes out of the Fox News people’s mouths.
If Hillary Clinton took a video of Ted Cruz fucking a goat would you say well, how do we trust that, after all, its Hillary? Well, you might if you’re fucking stupid.
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So you trust Jon Stewart’s edited cuts of Stuart Varney?
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I’m happy for you to provide the full clips showing how all of them were completely taken out of context.
As far as trust, I trust my eyes and ears and I’ve seen the Ayn Rand-wing of the Republican party for many years. I know what they believe and it isn’t Christian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7zwO88nRH8
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Those people are not libertarians. They are just the Republicans cover while they grow the government invade privacy. Trust me, there is nothing republicans hate more than true libertarians.
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Which is why Rand Paul is going nowhere.
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Derek .. you are such an idiot.
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I sure do not go to this sports website to see videos of Obama or Stewart. How does Derek propose to pay for more free “entitlements” when we are running the biggest deficit ever already?
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Oh, for chrissakes, that old saw about the “deficit” and “entitlements”…the one that only ever comes out when a Democrat is busy reducing the deficit–evidence of which is readily available if you actually look at such things–instead of increasing it by spending shit-tons on the military/war effort.
Please do come with something better than that. Maybe you can bitch about how “happy holidays” does mortal cultural harm to “christmas” or something.
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I don’t care who is the president, 20 Trillion dollars in debt and climbing is not a sustainable way to run a nation. We are in deep crap. I said it when Bush was in and I say it now.
If something isn’t done to reduce federal spending and cut the debt, it is just a matter of when will this house of cards come tumbling down.
It should be a bi-partisan issue. It is a national security issue.
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Cutting the debt means running a surplus in the federal budget. Good luck on that happening.
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I’m afraid you’ve confused the national debt with the annual deficit. The latter has been steadily declining for several years now.
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But it’s still there, making the national debt grow larger every year.
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In and of itself, so what?
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I get it that decelerating deficits are better than accelerating deficits, but they are still deficits that add to the debt. History would show that there will be shocks to the system and these always seem to increase debt as opposed to decreasing debt. Granted I do not work for the Financial Times, but the higher the debt the larger amount of taxes are lost in interest payments. It does not make one a political outlier to be concerned about the amount of debt we have accumulated.
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Maybe the same way we didn’t pay for two wars, two tax cuts for the rich, an unpaid for Medicare prescription program and a bank bailout during the Bush years?
Dick Cheney: “Ronald Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.” 3.16.03
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Please stop with the war crap. The bottom line is we have a ridiculous amount of debt. What are we going to do about it?
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If history is any indication, don’t elect a Republican president.
Dick Cheney: “Ronald Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.” 3.16.03
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He’s also been very big on personal effort and taking personal responsibility.
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Who isn’t?
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I have a fuck the poor attitude, I wake up at 5:30 am pull up my boot straps and go to fucking work to support myself and live WITHIN my means, if I want more I either work harder or learn more skills to make myself valuable in the work place
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Which is perfectly fine. There are many people who, you among them, don’t believe in the teachings of Christ. My point was that Richt apparently does so how could he a “fuck the poor” guy like you are?
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2 THESSALONIANS 3:10
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”
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And i would say to you that the vast majority of poor people in this country go to work everyday. Many work two jobs. The problem are these narratives:
the poor are lazy
the poor deserve their fate
the poor lack a “richness of spirit” to quote Fox News’ Stuart Varney
the poor are moochers, leeches, etc…
Nobody is for a free ride. Those who claim that programs that assist people in need are wasteful and unnecessary have a “fuck the poor” attitude that is decidedly anti-Christian.
The people who promote these narratives are of the Grover Norquist variety who said 30 years ago that the goal was to make government small enough to drag it in the bathroom and drown it. I would ask you. How would our parents and grandparents fair in such a world? How would our children? The American ideal is that anybody can make it. If only those who start off rich can make it, we cease to be what we claim to be.
Personally, I’m sick and tired of rich people sending poor folk’s kids off to die in their wars while claiming that its unfair for them to be asked to pay more. What the fuck would they have if poor kids weren’t grabbing a rifle and manning a post? They’d be overrun by a mob of fucking terrorists is where they’d be. So I say, pick up the check asshole! You (and that includes me btw) have the most to gain and the most to lose so quit your bitching and pay it forward so that some poor kid (like I was) can make it (like I did) too.
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Just no regardless of which party – the only thing worse than the Georgia Way would be Georgia politics
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Politics, religion, and football!!! What could go wrong?
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Yeah, no shit.
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It’s a slow week. There haven’t been many hits at GTP. The Senator had to get things rolling here somehow!
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This post is screaming for DIF. Where has that guy been?
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Cojones is gone. he’s in mourning. Lot of slack to catch.
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It’s not mourning in America for me! Cojones will be back as soon as he can find Macallenlover. Scuttlebutt is that they’re both taking a little R&R at Disney to recover from the sudden and tragic termination with prejudice of CMR’s tour of duty
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I fear Mac might actually have drowned in his baththub.
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LOL
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I’ve been relatively quiet during the aftermath. Besides I agree with Derek except for the fact that there is no way CMR is a Democrat, Jimmy Carter-style or otherwise
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And neither was Jesus, I promise, republican all the way 😉
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That can’t be true! If He were a Republican, He’d get a haircut and get a real job
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Damn, try this one instead…
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I kinda doubt Jesus would advocate taxpayer funded alms for the poor, then claim it as evidence of his Christian charity. You can have your tax funded welfare programs, but they ain’t charity.
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Welp, at least he wouldn’t be pressured into running on a platform of making Georgia more like Alabama.
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+1
Nice work right there.
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Comment of the day right here. Well played.
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Damn, I almost had my drink come through my nose with that comment. Kudos!
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You won the Internet for today, brotherman.
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Wait until Kirby brings Rush aboard. We will have captured the State of Alabama and as part of the terms of surrender, it will be required to rename itself as the State of East Mississippi
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The worst thing about this idea is that it brings politics smack dab into the middle of this forum. I do sports talk when I want to get away from politics and vice versa. Richt tried to pay disposed assistants out of his pocket so yea I could see him trying to expand Medicaid.
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Expand Medicaid? He’s not a Communist
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Lol. Yeah God forbid Richt not think what some of you think politically. That’s tolerance and open mindedness. That’s what that is.
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As someone whose day job is all about politics, my reaction to mixing it with college football is exactly the same as it has always been: Noooooooo!
I’ve always figured Richt’s politics are different from my own, just as it seems his brand of Christianity is different from my own. But I really appreciate him keeping it to himself. Being part of the Dawg Nation is one of the few things that can bridge the blue-red gap, and it ought to stay that way.
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You’ve gone too far with this one.
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I am a Richt supporter, a Conservative, & a Republican;but, I would not
vote for Richt for Governor. I hope he gets the Miami job. Go Canes.
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Richt will make America great again
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Richtomentum cannot be stopped!
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I like Richt and am kind of sad he is no longer UGAs coach. I’d probably loathe him if he were elected governor.
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He knows too many minorities to run as a Republican. He knows too many Bible verses to run as a Democrat. #hottaek
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If Richt is too classy to be Georgia’s coach (and he is), he’s certainly too classy to sell his soul to politics.
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Heck, I’d vote for him for President. If he won 74% of his battles vs America’s enemies as Commander in Chief, it would be an improvement over the 0% being recorded by the Lead From Behind gang. Granted, not as good as Saban might do, or Trump, or Irving Myers, but a huge improvement, still.
As for climate change (aka: the greatest threat to our national security),
he could build a wall along the border. No, wait, wrong threat, and a very minor one, at that. Maybe an indoor practice facility covering the North American Continent? No, wait, he couldn’t get that approved without SecDef Jeremy Pruitt.
Offer McGarity a position as head of the IRS and then sic Trey Gowdy on him. Then abolish the IRS and announce that the decision for him to leave was mutual.
And send Schotty abroad.
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Wait, they want Richt to RUN THIS STATE?
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ATHENS — Barring a last-minute snag in negotiations, Alabama’s Kirby Smart will become Georgia’s new football coach. An announcement could come as soon as Sunday or Monday.
Smart, 39, is the Crimson Tide’s defensive coordinator. He is from Bainbridge and was a UGA letterman (1995-98) and team captain as a senior.
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Now stop all your fucking whining bitches.
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phew!
I thought it was going to be about replacing CPJ at Yech.
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on another note, does anybody remember when Goff flirted with running for office in (I think it was right after he was let go..winter 1996) but he wouldn’t say which party he would be running for?
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I think this has more to do with the AJC attempting to tarnish his legacy.
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Senator you just had to go there. Give Mark more credit than Vince, he would ever run for political office.
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