C&C Talks

Charlie and Colin host a discussion about current events and sports. New episodes every week! Produced by Morris and Zack.

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HAPPY ELECTION DAY!

PLEASE REMEMBER TO VOTE! 🇺🇸

Because of tweet limits, my election analysis and commentary can't all be in separate posts. So almost all of it will be threaded right here, which will be pinned at the top of my profile. Follow along! 🧵 ⬇️

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Oh my lord. Come on guys

[Herd Bros @TheCFBAdvocate]

Can someone explain how 6-3 Missouri is ranked with zero T25 wins, an unranked loss, and two T25 losses by a combined 42 points?

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

Yep.

Massive electoral overpeformers like James Talarico ran as far away from Bernie’s message as possible — lambasting a rigged economic system that makes it impossible for working people to get by, calling out the greed of billionaires and advocating raising their taxes, focusing on a top-versus-bottom vs. left-versus-right division, raising the minimum wage, getting big money out of politics…

HEY WAIT A MINUTE

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

Kentucky has lost by 28 points IN TWO DIFFERENT GAMES THIS YEAR.

Their best win is 6-3 South Carolina by 1 point in overtime.

7-2 Kentucky, with that résumé, is ranked ahead of 8-1 Texas Tech (who has two ranked wins) and 8-1 Wake Forest (who has won five straight games by 24+ points).

The SEC rigging has to stop, or the sport won’t be around for much longer.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

CNN projects that @scott_colom will be elected the next US Senator from the state of Mississippi, defeating GOP incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

The White House ballroom dwarfing The White House is stupid politically, looks like shit visually and is consistent with the I-shit-the-bed-when-I-am-not-wearing-my-diapers Donald Trump ethos.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Of course one of them is Haley Stevens! Well done again with that endorsement, Chuck Schumer!

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

Miami dropped 6 spots for narrowly losing by 7 points on the road to 8-1 Notre Dame without their best player.

Kentucky dropped 5 spots for losing by 28 on the road to 7-2 Tennessee.

[C&C Talks @CCTalksPodcast]

Brees is a solid commentator, plenty good for the FOX C-team booth that he’s on right now.

He has no business being on a lead broadcast team. Nowhere near good enough.

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Exclusive: Drew Brees tells FOS he wants to replace Troy Aikman on ESPN's Monday Night Football if Aikman leaves after Super Bowl LXI.

https://t.co/fFW0tMl73b

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

ABSOLUTELY INSANE.

THE HOUSE DEMOCRATIC ****WHIP**** WAS THROWING THE FUNDRAISING BASH THAT KEPT DEMOCRATS FROM VOTING TO SEND THE HEGSETH IMPEACHMENT VOTE TO THE FLOOR.

[Tyler MacKillop @TylerMacKillop]

This team is ranked 🤣🤣🤣

[allie @gymstan2213]

“Beto lost. But having his name on the ballot got us enough down ballot votes to flip a red house seat in Round Rock. That new representative was a young teacher named James Talarico.”

🩷💙🩷💙

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

What happened last night regarding the impeachment vote on Pete Hegseth was deeply embarrassing.

Eleven House Democrats missed the vote. If they had been there, Hegseth would be impeached right now.

I’m not worried about impeachment itself. That will come in January.

I’m worried about the message this sends to the American people only a week after a seismic mandate was handed to the Democratic Party to get shit done.

I don’t care why these Members were absent or if this was some lowkey procedural strategy.

What I care about is the messaging, and at the moment, the narrative is: “Democrats said they want Hegseth gone, but can’t be bothered to show up to vote for it.”

That is not good.

All it would have taken is a simple message from House leaders: “We want Hegseth gone, but don’t trust current GOP leadership on this matter. We look forward to holding him accountable in January with the new Congress.”

Dem leaders really need to get it together on messaging. Immediately.

[Ari Wasserman @AriWasserman]

You realize literally everyone is going to ask this moving forward. He is just one of the first to say it out loud.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

COLLINS: What do you say to the 11 Democrats who didn't show up to vote tonight?

EL-SAYED: You should show up and do your job

[nick wright @getnickwright]

Hi Matt. I’m more than a little confused by this critique. Even folks who just had a passing knowledge of @AbdulElSayed’s campaign know that his slogan was about 3 things: Money out of politics, money in your pocket & Medicare for all.

Whether you (or other Democrat Senators or anyone, really) disagree with that is irrelevant to the facts that those were the things he explicitly campaigned on.

Do you truly believe that given the above facts, he should simply pretend that is not what he campaigned on? Or, alternatively, that he should acknowledge that despite campaigning on those ideals, he’s abandoning them days after the election because he won by 7 and other Democratic candidates won by 9?

Lastly, I understand you always seem to be focused on maximizing electability and far less focused on maximizing enacting actual reforms, but given your (and others) focus on electability concerns, isn’t right now—literally the furthest out from the next election we possibly could be—the best possible time to raise these issues?

[Governor Hochul Press Office @NYGovPress]

Also hearing the Jets have left the door open to winning the Super Bowl this year.

[ᗩᑎT ᗯᖇIGᕼT @itsAntWright]

Indiana was on a bye and DROPPED FIVE SPOTS?!

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

Last week:

5-3 South Carolina was #21.
6-2 Arizona was #22.

South Carolina beat 4-5 Texas A&M by one possession at home.

Arizona beat 4-5 TCU by one possession at home.

6-3 South Carolina moved UP 4 spots.
7-2 Arizona moved DOWN 1 spot.

Very cool, CFP (SEC) committee!

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1. Georgia

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The second CFP rankings are coming up in a few minutes. Follow this thread for updates.

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2. Utah