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  1. Tech’s billionaire is the outlier and he played ball there. Phil Knight made his name in athletics and is getting all kinds of return by making Oregon into a powerhouse. Most really wealthy people are going to find better uses of money than putting a nickel-back into a G-Wagen. You want your name on a building, you want to be toasted for funding scholarships. Here’s why the SEC bag-game worked: it was tons of decently wealthy but not tremendously rich folks who enjoyed the hunt and feeling a bit like a big shot. They could afford to part with meaningful but relatively modest sums of cash that, when pooled with other wannabe sports tycoons, were tremendously impactful to the mostly lower-income black athletes and their families. You could stretch a few tens of thousands of dollars into helping to lure a future All-American to the school. You felt like you saw a real return and enjoyed seeing it play out. And by and large these are the folks who are getting hit up for NIL. Actual titans of capital are just not interested in this stuff.
  2. Without disagreeing, the question is “what does non-capitulation mean.” What is the target and who defines it. There is a great book called “Every War Must End,” it’s a thin tome about war but is equally relevant to politics, business, even relationships. It examines how nations will fight wars long past the point where they could ever hope to achieve when they started. How they’d shift their concept of victory to be more and more expansive even as prospects of winning got dimmer. And how both sides eventually collapse worse off all around. So, yesterday “not capitulate” meant that the Rs added back in healthcare subsides and breaks to the CR. Today, do you also have to add in “and restore the infrastructure funds Vought canceled.” In two days, will you add “also hire back all the Feds you fired?” I don’t have any faith that there is anyone on team D who is thinking about this in a real way and the other side continues to add costs. If two spouses are quarreling and one is willing to accept “murder the whole family then kill myself” as a potential settlement— that’s a negotiating advantage.
  3. Honestly if anyone is looking for parallels the best I can point is maybe Mobutu or Idi Amin or Mugabe. Just pure strongman extortion justified by shifting national populist vibes and stripping the country of anything valuable for yourself and friends. We have a lot more to strip and residual functionality but that’s where this is going.
  4. Hey libs, these companies aren’t being socialized. No one’s distributing ownership to the workers or running them for the benefits of the state! They’re simply being forced to surrender interest and some control for the personal benefit of the leader. OWNED, LIB!
  5. Pretty unimaginable stuff to hear from a Speaker of the House in any context. I can’t recall a single instance of one saying how awesome it would be if the President could do stuff without Congress at all. We are basically gone as a constitutional republic, as 2/3 branches just…willingly handed over everything to the third. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/johnson-shutdown-ultimately-could-benefit-162049837.html
  6. TIL that Delaware moved to FBS. They were a very good not great FCS/I-AA program with some NCs and decently recent playoff success. A lot of local support and enthusiasm, a good tradition of winning. I really wonder about the economics of this and in the long run being worth it. I know if I were an alum I’d rather see my team do really well and be a FCS playoff contender against my old rivals than watch them just flounder about in the lower reaches of G5. Delaware will likely never sniff a CFP playoff.
  7. The idiots on ChatGPT are not asking this, they are asking “why do the Democrats want to give illegal immigrants free stuff.”
  8. In seriousness there is likely an availability of appropriated funds clause in the lease that you should check out.
  9. We have to take a strict originalist reading. If the authors of that amendment had intended to give an exception to allow a 3rd term to Obama they would have written thus. Likewise if they ever intended the prohibition on a third term to apply to Trump, they should have explained that part.
  10. We need to know what kind of depravity he got up to in El Paso.
  11. I’m bumping up against a theory of the mind problem because I can’t model the brain of a person that was for. I can sort of map out a person who would be on board with all the dumb stuff he is announcing. Not agree with them but imagine how they internally get there. I can’t get into the perspective of someone who wants to see that level of MasterCringe Theatre from a senior cabinet official. Just painful and embarrassing to watch. A meeting that could have been a Signal chat.
  12. Depends on your type. I guess if you like brunettes with smooth cafe au lait skin, tight and toned bodies, lilting Spanish accents, and smoldering eyes she’s OK. But who’s into that type of thing?
  13. Trump was super low energy even when he meandered from the prepared lines to the stuff he likes. Part of that was the stoic crowd but it was clear he didn’t want to be there. He only came because he couldn’t let TripleSecDef give a big important speech to military people without him. Also: pretty clear that Hegseth is right now harboring an insane ambition to run in 2028. Vance and Rubio will eat him alive soon. It’s funny that none of them can hint about it until DJT formally says he’ll leave office. If in fact he does, he will drag it out a stupid long time and Dems need to exploit that window.
  14. Oh, every commitment they make is worthless but you at least have to make them go on record as liars. That’s not the whole strategy but it should be a part of it. You could write it into the text of a CR then appropriations— but SCOTUS has already ruled that Presidents named Trump can do anything they want.
  15. Most. I know for sure Rooney and Blank (Steelers/Falcons) are not.
  16. Cool concept of liberty, I think your HOA should be forced to let someone open a combined dispensary, package store, and jack shack massage parlor in your residential zones neighborhood. Either you believe in the freedom to do whatever anyone wants anywhere or you don’t.
  17. One thing we haven’t discussed here (and I’m generally bearish on shutting the government down) is that there’s not a lot of utility in Congress having these talks if ultimately Ross Vought gets to decide the budget and size of the government. A basic D demand should be public POTUS commitments not to try a future pocket recisson, for GOP leadership to pledge to vote down any formal recission requests, and for any shutdown layoffs to reverse. If they continue to play a stupid “heads I win, tails you lose” game on funding the government then this really will be pointless. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/30/congress/trump-vought-cancel-food-research-funding-congress-00588358
  18. lol
  19. Are we not supposed to be dreaming of that? Am I doing my dreams wrong?
  20. Alice Walton went to Trinity in San Antonio. You get rich so you don’t have to send your kids and grandkids to Arkie. Why the hell would they give money to football players to make the hillbillies happy? Names on buildings, scholarships and arenas for state schools are a different story, that’s standard rich people noblesse oblige shit. Giving money to defensive backs at a school you didn’t attend does not scratch that itch.
  21. You can persuade me that casinos have the right to physically trespass whomever they don’t want there. Online books? Fuck out of here. They should be required to accept action on any bet they are currently offering from anyone who wants to take them up on it. Exceptions only for actual cheating or criminal activity. Don’t like advantage players or arbitrage? Do better with your odds or choose a business that isn’t gambling.
  22. The officer corps has a long tradition of not applauding elected political leaders especially at the GOFO level.
  23. So clearly cosplaying George C Scott playing Patton. LOL.
  24. I’d settle for no ads and cash/debit cards only. Truly lunatic to have people going into credit card debt for sports gambling; it’s the definition of negative value economics. Re: Casinos I think they should be allowed but only in shitty places. Yes, I’m a NIMBY about this. I don’t want my island turned into a casino economy.
  25. Hegseth spent a lot of time calling people fat and raving about shaving and PT. The drill instructors are going to be mean again. A bunch of the generals are there because of DEIA and they’ll get fired. Now that it’s the war department our enemies can “FAFO.” Absolutely as stupid as you can imagine.
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