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Honestly I do not care what people think of my views or opinions. I have heard and read enough about Bannon to know what he is. So ya'll can believe what you want so this discussion is pointless no one is changing their stance on the subject.

Your problem isn't your lack of concern about others opinions. If you hadn't put down that tripe in print, no one would be responding to it and no one would be asking you how you felt about it. Your problem is the toilet bowl sources you're using to obtain your news and analysis.

You've done nothing more than recite Democrat Party talking points, and you seem to believe what you're typing from those talking points. So you didn't actually get informed, you got programmed.

I can recite case after case of the Democrats strategy of character assassination when they set out to destroy a threat to their success, such as Bannon, who proved remarkably valuable to Trump is his march to the presidency. Liberals still hate Sarah Palin for reasons that never will be true or factual.

When you cannot possibly win a war of ideas, you instead wage a war of character assassination. Get rid of the opponent instead of defeating them. 

 
Race card is such an interesting term. Many terms such as this are created by those who want to silence those who feel compelled to speak out on certain issues. Some will fall victim to this and they will not say anything due to not wanting to be labeled as pulling the "race card" Well I am not one of them. I actually am used to it and expect it but using  a fear based label to silence me just doesn't work. 


You pulled the race card, without provocation. I made you eat the race card, because I took your accusation and showed it to be false.

It's really that simple. I do not agree that a race card has any interest whatsoever. Its a tired, chicken-shit way of operating.

 

Do you read what you post?

Turn your attention to Item 5 from your link and Shapiro's opinion piece. Shapiro makes a claim, and provides a link as if the link supports the claim he just made. Click the link. It does no such thing. Shapiro made a claim then made no attempt to support it or show even one example.

Item 5 was also the only thing he listed that your own complaint shared in common. And even then, it was only sort of in common. You said Bannon was a racist member of the KKK. Shapiro makes no such claim at all.

Shapiro points to readers of Bannon's (Breitbart's) news, calling them "Alt-Right" which is just another liberal stereotyping method designed to isolate and attack. There is no such thing as an "Alt-Right" or even a "neo-con" (the word "neo" simply means "new"). Grouping people into subgroups is something liberals do in order to portray someone(s) else as being bad. Being accurate with these names is not important. The damage they are designed to cause, is.

Otherwise, the idea that someone out there doesn't like someone else is nothing new, novel or unique and honestly, it's boring. I have nothing against Shapiro and think he's done some solid work. But this wasn't one of them.

No, there really wasn't anything interesting about this at all. Unless you're just trying to learn more about the mind of Ben Shapiro.

 
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Steve Bannon is a White Nationalist aka racist KKK member. Any person that wants to associate or be part of any team that includes him is either a racist or is ok with racism.

In regard to Ben Carson this reminds of people who say I am not a racist because I have ab Black friend.

Wow,

I thought the original post was sarcasm/a joke. . . . .

Bannon is neither btw. . .but here's a picture with your girl and her mentor (her words). . . ..the comment about Carson is too stupid to warrant a reply.

BTW, his name is Robert Byrd. . .

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Any person that wants to associate or be part of any team that includes him is either a racist or is ok with racism.


What about wanting to associate or be part with someone who publicly makes false accusations against someone else and then more or less makes a threat against everyone who may disagree? Does that mean we're okay with "being a dickism?"

 
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He was interviewed by Trump and word is he knocked it out of the park.
SHA, this line in the original post was your sin. You said Voldemort and he was triggered.

I would suggest if you are going to mention that name again you say 'earmuffs' first.

But that's not the main issue anymore. I noticed that HornSports.com has been added to the multiple websites that need to be censored for proffering 'fake news'.

SHA 4 PRISON 2016

 
What if we all just agreed to stop posting about politics on a sports board given it just brings the nasty side out of everyone?

The thrust of the thread is that a UT-ex is being seriously considered for Sec of State. 

But then it got pooped on. lol

Besides, since when did a thread require politics for Mike to poop on it? That can happen anywhere at any time. lol

 
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SHA, this line in the original post was your sin. You said Voldemort and he was triggered.

I would suggest if you are going to mention that name again you say 'earmuffs' first.

But that's not the main issue anymore. I noticed that HornSports.com has been added to the multiple websites that need to be censored for proffering 'fake news'.

SHA 4 PRISON 2016


Trump was just elected president. We better get used to that. I hate to see so many tears spilled. lol

 
It is kind of hard to compare Robert Byrd with any of Donald Trump or his neo-fascists.  Read a little about what he was about in his life, not what you read about on Dimbart.

SHA, you say that we might as well get used to the fact that Trump just got elected.  Well, I think that we might want to get used to how fast he might get impeached ... by the people in the very party to which he purports to belong.

The Breitbartification of Senator Robert Byrd

by Yashar Ali, Blogger on many websites.

"For the last month, Donald Trump has been on another reinvention tour, thanks to the softening touch of his new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway. With his apparent “outreach†to the African American community, he appears to be shifting from serving as the de facto head of the alt-right to recasting himself as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Despite his well-documented forty-year history of racism against the African American community, Trump is on the warpath against Hillary Clinton’s record, going as far as to call her a bigot.
And in a desperate attempt to project and protect, Trump; his son, Donald Trump Jr.; and his surrogates are trotting out a classic diversion from the Breitbart/alt-right crowd.
They’re using Secretary Clinton’s friendship with the late US Senator Robert Byrd—the fact that she called him her mentor when he died and a photograph where she can be seen kissing him on the cheek—as evidence of her racism.
This meme has long existed in alt-right newsgroups, but has recently been elevated by Breitbart and Fox News as a rebuttal to Clinton’s accusations that Trump is inciting racism and offering safe harbor to white supremacists.
Over the past fifteen months, Trump’s general campaign strategy on attacks has followed a very similar pattern. He treats his Twitter followers as a digital focus group; he will retweet a comment made by one of his followers and see where things land. If there’s a strong reaction, he’ll then start talking about it during his rallies and interviews.
Trump loves to bring up conspiracy theories and flawed arguments from the dingy basement of the alt-right and present them on the silver platter that only comes with being a major party presidential nominee. And with this attack on Hillary Clinton that’s just what he’s doing now.
On August 25, Trump retweeted a tweet posted by Fox Nation. In that tweet was a link to a video with this headline: “Flashback: Hillary Clinton Praised Former KKK Member Robert Byrd as ‘Friend and Mentor’.â€
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 26, 2016

“@foxnation: Flashback: Hillary Clinton Praised Former KKK Member Robert Byrd as ‘Friend and Mentor’: https://t.co/e0Hb2rLb1X“
The same day, Donald Trump Jr. (Trump’s oldest son) posted an original tweet about Clinton and Byrd: “Hillary openly endorsed KKK leader Robert Byrd and called him her ‘mentor’ Seems relevant given her argument today, but media is crickets???â€
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 25, 2016

Hillary openly endorsed KKK leader Robert Byrd and called him her “mentor†Seems relevant given her argument today but media is crickets???
Two days later, Trump retweeted a tweet posted by Diamond and Silk, two sisters who have arguably been Trump’s strongest and most public African American supporters. It said: “Crooked Hillary getting desperate. On TV bashing Trump. @CNN, she forgot how she said a KKK member was her mentor.â€
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 27, 2016

“@DiamondandSilk: Crooked Hillary getting desperate. On TV bashing Trump. @CNN, she forgot how she said a KKK member was her mentor.
Trump’s strategy is a smart and usually effective one. Most people don’t take the time to fact-check after such accusations are lobbed. And now this classic example of truthiness, or in this case, Breitbarting, is flying around the Internet, primarily on the conspiracy-filled Twitter feeds of Trump supporters, but as with all things Trump/Breitbart, it will soon slip into the mainstream.
Senator Byrd was indeed a member of the KKK; this is not a Breitbart/alt-right conspiracy. In fact, even worse, he was a recruiter for the KKK in his early twenties. He was credited with bringing in 150 new members.
But here’s what matters: he apologized. He spent decades apologizing again and again. Not once did he ever blame the media (as Trump and his supporters are wont to do) or anyone else for his mistake. He took full responsibility.
It’s also important to note that Senator Byrd wasn’t free from mistakes after he left the KKK. In 1964, he filibustered the Civil Rights Act in the Senate and then voted against it. During a 2001 interview with the late Tony Snow, he used the term “white ni***rs†twice.
Just as he had spent decades apologizing for his membership and position in the KKK, Senator Byrd repeatedly apologized for these undeniably offensive moments.
Senator Robert Byrd represented West Virginia in the United States Senate from 1959 until his death in 2010. Few would dispute that Senator Byrd had an illustrious career in the Senate. He was, for many years, the chairman of the all-powerful Senate Appropriations committee. As the institution’s longest-serving member, he was the dean of the Senate and president pro tem of the Senate, which meant he was third in line to the presidency.
And as the Senate historian and parliamentarian, he was a mentor to many younger senators. Regardless of party, one of the first things a freshman senator would do was meet with Senator Byrd, who would freely dole out advice and counsel and wave a copy of his trusty pocket constitution.
He was respected and loved by his colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
After Senator Byrd passed away in 2010, tributes from members of both parties poured in (including Trump’s leading US Senate supporter, Senator Jeff Sessions), and almost all of them made mention of the senator’s dark past and the reconciliation he worked so hard on. The sweeping under the rug that usually takes place when someone dies was clearly absent in the tributes to Senator Byrd’s life.
But two tributes to Senator Byrd’s legacy stand out.
In remarks given at his memorial in West Virginia, President Obama said, “Robert Byrd possessed that quintessential American quality—and that is the capacity to change, the capacity to learn, the capacity to listen.â€
But perhaps the most remarkable tribute came from the NAACP. In years prior, Senator Byrd received a 100% rating from the NAACP for his pro-civil rights voting record. In a statement, the group’s then-president, Ben Jealous, said:
“Senator Byrd reflects the transformative power of this nation. Senator Byrd went from being an active member of the KKK to a being a stalwart supporter of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and many other pieces of seminal legislation that advanced the civil rights and liberties of our country.â€
It’s remarkable when you think about it.
A man who was a member of and recruiter for the KKK, a man who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was eulogized by our first black president, whose candidacy Byrd endorsed in the 2008 primary. And the NAACP, our nation’s leading African American civil rights organization, mourned his death in a passionate statement.
Donald Trump, the man who founded the birther movement, which doubts the nationality of our first black president, has decided that he and his supporters are in the position to judge Senator Byrd’s life and Hillary Clinton’s friendship with him. Remember that Trump is also the man who was sued by Richard Nixon’s Justice Department for housing discrimination against African Americans and a man who, in an interview with NBC’s Bryant Gumbel, infamously said, in 1989, that black men have it easier than white men.
I didn’t know Senator Byrd, but if someone close to me told me that he still grappled with his prejudice up until the moment of his passing, I wouldn’t be surprised. And I would forgive him for one simple reason: he kept trying.
Senator Byrd never tried to whitewash his history. His supporters never tried to whitewash his history. And in death, his history wasn’t whitewashed. And unlike Donald Trump and his supporters, who act inconvenienced whenever they’re called out on the candidate’s insensitive and racist remarks, Senator Byrd knew that he had a lifelong responsibility to atone for his sins.
In his memoirs, which were released in 2005, Senator Byrd said, “I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times . . . and I don’t mind apologizing over and over again. I can’t erase what happened.â€
Now, imagine Donald Trump saying the same thing.
If you’re a reasonable person, I’m sure you can’t even construct the thought in your mind."
 
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What if we all just agreed to stop posting about politics on a sports board given it just brings the nasty side out of everyone?
Blake I believe you are attempting to be the peacemaker so please do not take this response as an attack. The significance of SHA's topic and original post were that a Texas alum is rumored to be appointed to be the top diplomat in the land. That is Texas news and I did not find its inclusion on the Burn't Orange Board to be Provocative or out of place at all.

The politically motivated response and all the nut kicking that has ensued (Guilty as charged) does qualify as unnecessary political talk that probably has no place here. I will stand down.

 
What if we all just agreed to stop posting about politics on a sports board given it just brings the nasty side out of everyone?
Not everyone... just some of the children who don't know how to behave in public. 

Sometimes sports spills over into politics, like when Obama visited the football team a while back. The children played hand slap while the adults knew it's always an honor to get a visit from the White House, even if you don't agree with the politics. 

 
It is kind of hard to compare Robert Byrd with any of Donald Trump or his neo-fascists.  Read a little about what he was about in his life, not what you read about on Dimbart.

The Breitbartification of Senator Robert Byrd

by Yashar Ali

LOL.

I do not get my news from Breitbart. But I do not dismiss their news because of what amounts to campfire scary stories, either. 

I have no real connection with Bannon. I defended him simply because of the smear attempt, one that was not substantiated.

As for the former KKK grand dragon, did anything in that article change the other facts, which he avoided like the plague?

Even Satan himself can appear as an angel of light. Do we drop to our knees when this happens? I think not.

I do not admire a man who was able to live a double life, two-faced, in order to gain and maintain power while conducting despicable things behind the scenes.

Margaret Sanger was someone whose goal was to eliminate the black race. She began PPH. Sanger is someone Hillary Clinton called a mentor, as she also did with the former KKK grand dragon. This is historical fact. You're trying to compare deliberate, fabricated horror stories with historical fact.

 
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SHA, you say that we might as well get used to the fact that Trump just got elected.  Well, I think that we might want to get used to how fast he might get impeached ... by the people in the very party to which he purports to belong.

LOL, if that happens, I'll cook you steak every day for the rest of your natural life. LOL

Somehow, I just don't see the GOP putting the presidency in jeopardy. After 8 years, after finding out the entire media complex was willing to sacrifice their profession for the sake of getting Hillary elected. After discovering the programming being conducted in our educational systems.

Ain't happening. Not even in a fiction book, because it would not be believable.

 
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Not everyone... just some of the children who don't know how to behave in public. 

Sometimes sports spills over into politics, like when Obama visited the football team a while back. The children played hand slap while the adults knew it's always an honor to get a visit from the White House, even if you don't agree with the politics. 

From the children's room . . . perhaps if the adults had done more than watch the children play, the children wouldn't have wound up with $20 trillion debt left at their feet.

Maybe the disgust was driven a tad more than just politics.

 
Oh snap. Y'all woke up the news editor in him. Bit of advice, quit while you are behind.

 
Blake I believe you are attempting to be the peacemaker so please do not take this response as an attack. The significance of SHA's topic and original post were that a Texas alum is rumored to be appointed to be the top diplomat in the land. That is Texas news and I did not find its inclusion on the Burn't Orange Board to be Provocative or out of place at all.

The politically motivated response and all the nut kicking that has ensued (Guilty as charged) does qualify as unnecessary political talk that probably has no place here. I will stand down.
I don't disagree that it has relevancy to the board, given the common denominator. That said, HornSports DOES have an off-topic board that this would be better equipped for. The Burnt Orange Board is for sports. It's my opinion (and only my opinion) that off-topic posts that have a good chance of leading to arguments and etc. should probably stay in Far West.

 
LOL.

I do not get my news from Breitbart. But I do not dismiss their news because of what amounts to campfire scary stories, either. 

I have no real connection with Bannon. I defended him simply because of the smear attempt, one that was not substantiated.

As for the former KKK grand dragon, did anything in that article change the other facts, which he avoided like the plague?

Even Satan himself can appear as an angel of light. Do we drop to our knees when this happens? I think not.

I do not admire a man who was able to live a double life, two-faced, in order to gain and maintain power while conducting despicable things behind the scenes.

Margaret Sanger was someone whose goal was to eliminate the black race. She began PPH. Sanger is someone Hillary Clinton called a mentor, as she also did with the former KKK grand dragon. This is historical fact. You're trying to compare deliberate, fabricated horror stories with historical fact.

With me, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

You have not even read the above cited article.  Byrd apologised through out his life for what he previously believed ... and he never denied that he had held those beliefs previously in his life.

I am not speaking out on this because I want to argue with you ... I certainly have better things to do with my time.  I am speaking out because my Father went through what Senator Byrd went through.  As a poor white working man in the late 1920's and early 1930's, my father joined and was an avid member of the Knights of the White Camelia.  In case you did not know, they were an enforcement arm of the KKK across the south.

He did not believe in white supremacy, but he joined because his family were dirt poor sharecroppers and it also deflected attention from the fact that his and my Mother's families had hidden mixed blood, and he did what he did to avoid his family being ostracized, or worse, in the communities that they lived in.  At my mother's insistence, my Father quit his association with those groups and denounced their beliefs in the late 1930's.

Not that it matters to you what my father believed or did not, but to me it shows that a person can change.  I am not religious, but I do believe in personal redemption.  I believe that Senator Byrd changed and redeemed himself.  Why else would he continue to hold his previous life up for examination and continue to point out his wrongs.  It would have been so much easier to just become a Republican.

As for you, I do not think you know much about Senator Byrd ... except what you read on websites like "Dimbart" and their ilk.

As for me.  I would love for their be a cessation of political argumentation on this website, or none to start with.  But, when it starts, well, you are just gonna have to take the consequences.

 
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