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This election season has been like no other in history. The country is still faced with hard issues: Economic, political, cultural, monetary policy via globalization of the United States economy, unchecked immigration and a failing health system that is changing the very fabric and underpinnings of our society. Political labels increasingly do not matter. As a result of all these changes the political mood of the country has slowly shifted to the left and has come with unintended consequences. There continues wide spread disaffection in both main political parties. Donald Trump ran as an insurgent. The Republican electorate overwhelming rejected what were perceived as establishment candidates. Even the Democrats in what we all now know was a stacked deck against any Democrat insurgent candidate saw the rise of Bernie Sanders. Democrats were running uphill against the damaged reality inflicted by the policies Hillary Clinton pledged to continue. The globalist Obama-Clinton economic policies she articulated had failed and voters regardless of political persuasion knew this. Voters vote with their wallets and Democratic adherence to identity politics did not address this.
This was a change election. Many luminaries have succinctly noted that over 70% of the country felt the country was on the wrong track. Seventy percent!
This election cycle we had a significant proportion of the electorate choose not to express their views. Whether because of outright apathy or because they did not believe their views mattered. This silent majority decided once more to express their collective dissatisfaction. This was what all the pollsters missed.
The Republican party now stands at a crossroad. The establishment Republicans did not want change, at least not the kind they always talk about. They continue to pursue status quo policies regardless of their rhetoric.
Unfortunately the Republican party does not seem to understand it is going to be remade and the process has already started. Establishment Republicans are fighting more against the insurgent President Trump than against Democrats.
This is because their views are more aligned with Democrats.
As the country has shifted more to the left the new reality that has emerged is right-wing conservatives (Tea Party types)are slowing being marginalized.
Centrist democrats have been pushed out of their party and moved into the Republican party.
Voters want change. This dynamic has not changed.
We are not far removed from the silent majority sticking their collective middle finger at the ruling class and corporate media that dominates American politics. White centrist democrats are going to continue to vote Trump. They will be silent no longer.

look like?

In my humble opinion the landscape of college football will look very different. I see the power 5 conferences reduced to four with 16 teams each. The Big XII conference will be cannibalized and no longer exist.

The SEC adds N. Carolina State and 1 other team not talked about. (Notre Dame)

East Division
South Carolina
North Carolina St
Florida
Georgia

South Division
Auburn
Alabama
Tennessee
Vanderilt

North West Division
Kentucky
Notre Dame
Missouri
Arkansas


Southwest Division
Ole Miss
Mississippi St
LSU
Texas A&M

Schedule format

Play each team in your pod every year home and away plus teams from one other pod then 2 additional teams from another pod. All games will be home and away. Continue to play every team in your pod but now the other remaining pod plus 2 teams from the last remaining pod.

The SEC will still be the premiere conference.

Faurot Field will seat 94,000.

I love to talk Missouri, LSU and SEC recruiting, but not when there are petty squabbles seemingly every other post.

The Democrats are desperate to change the narrative of continual losing to Republicans. Their answer to Donald Trump: they will double down and move farther to the left of center.

Another five years in the SEC and the Missouri campus will look and feel like any other SEC campus. In terms of facility improvements relative to your former Big XII conference mates, they won't recognize you.

Missouri is a great addition to the SEC.

In the meantime Trump is President of the United States for the next fur years with over 100 Judicial appointments to be made. Democrats better hope no one retires on dies on the Supreme Court.

Obstruction & identity politics can not move this country forward.
Democrats are in a world of hurt and are unable to understand why Trump was elected. Republicans may not be able to govern effectively but this is preferable to Democrats who can not lead.

Democrats not voting for anything Trump wants? Who would have guessed that? Democrats better be careful what they ask for as they might get it.

The toddy rant is nothing more than wistful thinking. If, if, if....maybe if toddy's aunt had testicles then she would be toddy's uncle. Oh I forgot, she could self declare herself as your uncle. Having said that, her narrative has a higher probability than democrats winning.

Missouri is undergoing what the British call a 'sticky wicket."
A sticky wicket for those that haven't heard the term is a metaphor used to describe a difficult circumstance.

Clearly this is not an easy circumstance for Missouri to manage or anyone else for that matter.

From Wikipedia.

Special ROE and sniper/observer deployment[edit]
Special rules of engagement (ROE) were approved by the FBI,[who?] for use on Ruby Ridge. According to the later RRTF report to the DOJ (1994), the Ruby Ridge ROE were as follows:
"If any adult in the area around the cabin is observed with a weapon after the surrender announcement had been made, deadly force could and should be used to neutralize the individual."[51]
"If any adult male is observed with a weapon prior to the announcement deadly force can and should be employed if the shot could be taken without endangering any children."[51]
"If compromised by any dog[,] the dog can be taken out."[51]
"Any subjects other than Randy Weaver, Vicki Weaver, [and] Kevin Harris presenting threat of death or grievous bodily harm[,] FBI rules of deadly force apply. Deadly force can be utilized to prevent the death or grievous bodily injury to oneself or that of another." [From the sworn statement of FBI SAC Eugene Glenn].[51]
As noted in a footnote to the report in this crucial section,
The [ROE] was modified from "adult" to "adult male" [in ROE point 2] to exclude Vicki Weaver around 2:30 or 3:00 p.m. after consultation with [SAC Eugene] Glenn because Vicki Weaver was not seen at the site of Degan's slaying.[52]
The Ruby Ridge ROE had been drawn up on the basis of reports from the headquarters of the USMS and FBI, bolstered by unconfirmed news media accounts accepted by HQ that exaggerated the threat posed by the Weavers.[citation needed] These military-style rules varied from the FBI's standard deadly force policy. Standard deadly force policy of the FBI was: "Agents are not to use deadly force against any person except as necessary in self-defense or the defense of another, when they have reason to believe they or another are in danger of death or grievous bodily harm. Whenever feasible, verbal warning should be given before deadly force is applied."[53][better source needed] Under the Ruby Ridge ROE points 3 and 4, Vicki Weaver and third party women, the Weaver children, other third parties, and the Weaver dogs were subject to the standard deadly force policy and could only be fired upon in self-defense, that is, if they presented a danger of death or grievous bodily harm;[citation needed] however, under the Ruby Ridge ROE points 1 and 2, deadly force against the Weaver adults could and should be used without the justification of defense, and in the case of adult males, without any verbal warning.[citation needed]
The ROE were communicated to agents on site, including communication prior to deployment to HRT sniper/observers that had been brought to the site,[52] communications that included the change of "adult" to "adult male" to exclude Vicki Weaver.[52] Some deployed FBI agents, in particular the sniper/observers, would later describe the adopted ROE as a "green light" to "shoot on sight".[54]