Francisco 2.0

Both defenses are so keyed up, you gotta run some kind of misdirection.

See, that's what you get for thinking.

FYI, he also stated he's adding a 10% tariff on everything from China on top of any tariffs on Chinese imports that are already in place:

Sheeeet, MAGA runs all the branches now. Moose out front shoulda told you.

Can't wait for avocados to cost $10 each. I mean, 90% of them consumed in the US comes from there. I'm sure plenty of people will be accepting of an avocado "tax" their favorite restaurant starts charging as well.

Your giant programs with community and district support (Lake Travis, etc) sure. They can cover that. But you get down to A, 2A, 3A schools...they recondition helmets yearly. They send them in to get checked out, and if they pass, they can reuse the shell yearly (up to 10 years). If a helmet ever fails, then it has to get scrapped. So, a small school like that might budget for a dozen helmets a year, with reconditioning for the rest of their inventory. Yes, they could make up with pie suppers and other fund raisers, but schools generally just don't have that kind of cash flow to purchase 50 helmets a year. Source: I've had two former head coaches live down the street from me. In the 90's, it would cost around $400 a kid for football. Today, game pants are around $100 a pair, and jerseys around $70 each. That's for something simple. You want to look like Oregon? Or go with sewn on numbers? Prices are going to go up. Helmets and shoulder pads have gone up quite a bit. Now, I have no idea of the size or district/community support of the school that Mayfield made the donation to. But they needed the donation. And there are hundreds more schools like that coast to coast.

You priced helmets lately? The Vicis stuff goes for $1200 or so. The higher end Riddells are around $500 each. Retail pricing, and I'm sure he got some kind of discount. But the days of $100 helmets for high school kids are long gone.

Stay classy, Elon. https://www.wsj.com/tech/musk-unleashes-online-army-on-federal-workers-a-tough-way-to-find-out-shes-losing-her-job-f57a2e94?st=v5Qcvf&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Today we learned that NBC's legal counsel might not have been paying attention during their contract talks with the Big 10. Also, NBC still has not signed their contracts: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/11/22/big-ten-football-noon-kickoffs/

Eh, he pissed off Mark Wayne when they were in the house together over something, probably trivial and that was enough. It wasn't because of some new-found morals and dignity on Mullin's behalf. Probably was pissed that Gaetz never shared his stash of nudie pics or invited him to an orgy or somesuch.

Not loathsome enough. Not only does the person have to be loyal to Trump, they have to be someone that pisses off everyone else.

He even has the tattoos to prove it.

And for those of you still using cable internet: Cable companies and Trump’s FCC chair agree: Data caps are good for you https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/cable-companies-and-trumps-fcc-chair-agree-data-caps-are-good-for-you/ Edit: Have no idea why the copy/paste struckthru that block of text.

https://apnews.com/article/delta-airlines-trump-biden-regulation-c4393d5f763d95c8286d4069563032dc

RE: Dr. Oz Jon Gruber wrote a bit about him: I met Dr. Oz ten years ago. It was after the Apple event on Tuesday, 9 September 2014, at the Flint Center in Cupertino, where Apple unveiled Apple Watch after introducing the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Apple had erected a startlingly large temporary building in front of the Flint Center, which, post-event, was opened to attending media and celebrities to showcase Apple Watch’s various capabilities. But post-event press briefings were held inside the Flint Center, in a byzantine complex of subterranean rooms beneath the massive ground floor auditorium. I had a one-on-one off-the-record briefing with Jony Ive. (Fascinating and fun — we spent most of the all-too-brief 30 minutes talking about watch bands and the exquisite packaging and charging case of the Edition models.) The waiting area for these press briefings was set up to look a bit like a mostly empty Apple Store. The central focus of this waiting area was a large table with a glass top; under the glass were a variety of Apple Watch models. The table was a prototype of the ones that Apple would put in its retail stores, for which they obtained multiple patents. While I was waiting for my briefing with Ive, the only other person from the media waiting with me was Oz. It’s a weird thing to be alone, effectively, with someone of Oz’s celebrity. It’s like being in a room with a million dollars in $100 bills stacked in a perfectly-arranged pyramid. No matter how you to try to direct your attention, your mind keeps popping back to Holy shit, there’s a million dollars in cash right there. His hair was perfect, his shirt crisply pressed. It was a very nice shirt. He smiled at all times, and seemed genuinely happy to be there, and genuinely interested in Apple Watch, but not for what Apple Watch actually was or could be, but simply because it was a major new thing, and he was a VIP invitee at the introduction of this major new thing. And my mind would pop, for the umpteenth time, Holy shit, that’s Dr. Oz right there. We spent an unceasingly awkward 10 minutes circling around that table together. He never shut up. He chattered, nonstop, with inane observations, like “Hey, look at that one, it’s orange! What’s that one, leather?” He was not talking to me, nor was he, really, talking to himself. It was like he was talking to a TV camera, as though we were being filmed for B-roll footage for his show — but there was no camera. It was just me and him, standing around that table exhibiting dozens of Apple Watch prototypes that we were unable to touch, with a handful of Apple PR reps hanging around the sides of the room in silence, pecking away on their iPhones, waiting for a notice from one of their colleagues that it was time to escort one of us to our briefing. Oz was called first, thankfully. It gave me a few minutes of silence to gather my thoughts, and study the watches (albeit under glass), without distraction. I sometimes wonder who his briefing was with. (Phil Schiller, perhaps?) I came away with the impression that Mehmet Oz was, despite his well-deserved medical renown, preternaturally vapid and preening, and, thus, to me, an incongruous figure. Simultaneously a brilliant mind in the field of thoracic surgery, and yet dumb as a rock in everyday human interaction. I spent the first few minutes with him wondering if I should introduce myself. I spent the last few glad I hadn’t, because he was so obviously a staggeringly uninteresting and uninterested man. I would have much preferred spending those 10 minutes chatting with Dr. Nick.

People just don't really care about the government, other than when it directly affects them. And they have a misguided opinion that somehow, someway the President is in complete command of the economy.

Of course it does. I fully expect it to be un-gummed though for certain things beginning January 20, 2025.

I admire your belief in the legal system.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/confronting-hate/aiming-to-radicalize-main-street-christian-nationalists-set-sights-on-tiny-jackson-county-tennessee

Sure thing. But when people reject the messaging, then you are shit out of luck.

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/nba-warner-bros-discovery-lawsuit-settlement-7710547b Buried within the story:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/16/pete-hegseth-sexual-assault-accuser-paid/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert