CoachFranWasHere

Think bigger, much bigger.

A few months ago, mentioning oil, Hormuz, or Iran would cause gas prices to skyrocket, the stock market would dip, and the talking heads would all agree that poking Iran with a stick is a terrible terrible idea, backed up by the stock market and gas prices as proof.

Over the past few months, the market is getting desensitized to these changes. Iran can get bitch-slapped over the weekend, and we declare a partial truce minutes before the stock market opens, and now no one bats an eye.

Soon, Iran and the Strait of Hormuz will have zero measuable impact on the stock market and gas prices.

That in and of itself is a huge win, and was unthinkable for the past 40+ years.

That Trump can saber-rattle and the market does not flinch is another win.

Iran has zero negotiating power. They will capitulate eventually.

Any global players expecting money via Iran's holding the Strait hostage are now defunded and defanged.

You have to look at the larger picture.

There's so much more going on here. And I haven't even discussed the impact to China.

Weird that you bring up the 1998 game.

Here's the entire broadcast:
1998 A&M - UT game

If you rewatch it, you'll see Aggies slipping and sliding on a soaked field. Turf comes up. It happens on almost every play.

If you check the weather, there was no rain in Austin for 2 weeks prior to that game.

Climatological Data for Austin Area, TX (ThreadEx) - November 1998
Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending.
1998-11-01 75 55 65.0 -0.9 0 0 1.72 0.0 0
1998-11-02 76 51 63.5 -2.0 1 0 0.00 0.0 0
1998-11-03 78 53 65.5 0.4 0 1 0.00 0.0 0
1998-11-04 65 49 57.0 -7.8 8 0 0.12 0.0 0
1998-11-05 55 45 50.0 -14.4 15 0 0.04 0.0 0
1998-11-06 52 42 47.0 -17.1 18 0 0.01 0.0 0
1998-11-07 56 51 53.5 -10.2 11 0 0.16 0.0 0
1998-11-08 60 55 57.5 -5.9 7 0 0.01 0.0 0
1998-11-09 77 56 66.5 3.5 0 2 T 0.0 0
1998-11-10 75 50 62.5 -0.2 2 0 0.02 0.0 0
1998-11-11 67 46 56.5 -5.8 8 0 0.00 0.0 0
1998-11-12 58 51 54.5 -7.5 10 0 0.87 0.0 0
1998-11-13 60 51 55.5 -6.1 9 0 0.28 0.0 0
1998-11-14 61 55 58.0 -3.3 7 0 0.78 0.0 0
1998-11-15 68 56 62.0 1.0 3 0 0.00 0.0 0
1998-11-16 75 50 62.5 1.8 2 0 0.00 0.0 0
1998-11-17 75 52 63.5 3.1 1 0 0.00 0.0 0
1998-11-18 77 62 69.5 9.5 0 5 0.00 0.0 0
1998-11-19 80 66 73.0 13.3 0 8 0.01 0.0 0
1998-11-20 71 53 62.0 2.6 3 0 0.02 0.0 0
1998-11-21 66 52 59.0 -0.1 6 0 T 0.0 0
1998-11-22 73 46 59.5 0.6 5 0 0.00 0.0 0
1998-11-23 73 56 64.5 5.9 0 0 0.000.0 0
1998-11-24 78 56 67.0 8.7 0 2 0.00 0.0 0
1998-11-25 82 65 73.5 15.5 0 9 0.00 0.0 0
1998-11-26 79 58 68.5 10.8 0 4 0.00 0.0 0
1998-11-27 78 60 69.0 11.5 0 4 T 0.0 0
1998-11-28 78 62 70.0 12.8 0 5 T 0.0 0
1998-11-29 81 68 74.5 17.5 0 10 0.00 0.0 0
1998-11-30 81 62 71.5 14.8 0 7 T 0.0 0

Feel free to validate it. Weather.gov historical lookup

You soaked the field and wore your long cleats. We didn't bring our long cleats because the field hadn't seen rain in 2 weeks.

You guys play dirty pool.

They all have to go.

Illegal aliens, H1Bs, RINOs.

Let's not jump to conclusions. The SPLC example must be the only version of this happening. It certainly cannot be happening anyplace else, right?

Governmental corruption, orchestration and coverup are all a conspiracy theory, right?

All traitors need to hang, in Minecraft.

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do I need to pull receipts on you too?

Also Texas just runruled a team a&m lost a series to. I genuinely have no idea where a&m gets the confidence to talk crap from

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Well, this is tRant, you see.

So a new seasonal cold is making it's way around.

Time to burn the Constitution again.

At it's simplest, the argument that good and evil exist is true.

From that base perspective, everything else falls into line.

This man embodies something that is not good.

The red and green in that chart are inverted.

This is literally the Equalization of Opportunity Bill from Atlas Shrugged.

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That’s great and all, but other human species were not necessarily “giants” compared to us. In fact, many others generally were shorter.

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Ehh, sure. He said there weren't any other hominids mentioned. I showed that something other than 'man', referred to as 'giants' is mentioned.

Maybe that isn't enough for him, but I won't try to convince him.