I talked to a left-wing friend yesterday and she was really scared of a second Trump presidency. She sent me this podcast to listen to:


I'll provide a short rundown of the predictions/reporting:

1. Eliminating independence of, institutional pushback by, the executive bureaucracy--they call this dictatorial and authoritarian. They predict Trump will go after Comcast and use the FCC to hound news media that oppose him.

2. Immigration enforcement on a large scale including large deportations, possible creation of camps at the border to house either deportees or asylum seekers.

3. Independence of the Fed--Trump wants more/total control.

4. DOJ--wants to go after his political enemies, open investigations against them, and drop all fed charges against him.

I pointed out how (1) and (3) are actually more democratic, not less, since at least in those instances someone who is elected and is politically accountable would be in charge of those areas. Also re (1), the elimination of Chevron deference should mitigate that concern.

The Fed one, I think, is the most dangerous. Still, the Fed chair is subject to senate approval.

Please

I’m looking forward to the upcoming year. I hope these two go smooth for IU. It would be nice if we can be in control of the games heading into the third quarter. Squawking out a win and barely resembling a big 10 program will be deflating for our optimism.

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Get rid of it.

Mods need to get busy and delete them.

After reading the latest article on the home page, it really does beg the question: Who DOES end up being THE GUY at wideout this year? Surrat had some killer numbers, but McCulley had SportsCenter Top-10 grabs, and the rest of the room isn't shabby either. I feel like while there may not be an elite-level guy, there's too many options for opponents to key in on just one guy and that could make for a really fun year in the passing game. Thoughts?

Stay off the internet if you're going to go see it because I can't imagine how people are going to avoid all the spoilers. There are so many cameos and Easter eggs throughout that I'm sure I missed a bunch even though I saw a ton of them. It's the best Marvel movie since Endgame, knocking Spider Man: No Way Home back to 2nd best. There is no way that Hugh Jackman is going to stop being Wolverine anytime soon either. Or that RR/Deadpool won't be a major player in the MCU going forward. They are both simply the perfect castings for their roles and Disney can print $$ with them

A couple ground rules first.

1. No disparaging the Olympics as "stupid", "pointless", "boring" or any other nonsense descriptors. The Mods will lock you out of the thread if you are found to be doing this.

2. No rooting for or complementing athletes that aren't American, even if there is not an American participating in the event. This will be strictly enforced as well. Mods will bar you from thread as well as possible suspension. The only exception to this is if you'd like to comment on the appearance of an attractive female athlete from another country.

Now let's get to some fun. These opening ceremonies are actually awesome. Some real Parisian pomp and circumstance. Acrobatics, Les mis, other cultural allusions that are going over my head. Athletes from the different countries are coming down the Seine on river boats rather than the typical boring walk into the stadium.

Hopefully this isn't the first in a series of incidents at the Olympics.

Consider who this word vomit appeals to...

All the rest is just noise. Harris would essentially be the torch bearer for the Squad implementing far left policies. She has obama’s endorsement as well. She is the candidate.


Climate - hardcore lefty who wants 10 trillion to fight climate change. Attack on fossil fuel continuation
Border - part of the administration that gave rise to the massive crossing spike and was charged with addressing it and did nothing to fix it whether at the border or at the root cause level as funding stopped and she basically abdicated her role and the admin’s promises re root causes
Taxes - will significantly raise Corp taxes, individual taxes, etc
Crime - supported defunding police and bail projects. Today we will see
Welfare - will increase social welfare expansion and a return to the 2020 objectives
Foreign policy - I don’t know.
Culture - woke heavy on race/gender identity politics

Taken together the left have elevated a squad representative as their candidate. The most liberal senator. As the kids say don’t get this twisted. A far left progressive is the policy platform we’ll be looking at. And that, not words, not insults, is what will impact all of our businesses and lives. Policy is all that matters….

Pronatalism, people!

Go out and get your baby maker something nice today, fellas.

Like a new set of men's golf clubs. She'll be so happy you got her something that you can use!

and a chick....

I thought that was Ted Cruz nickname, been a long time since I was in the 2nd grade, according to the juvenile put down code, can you reuse nicknames?

This is nuts. Estimates are that up to half of the town is lost.


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I'm going to say this, and I'm going mainly by his voice and confident attitude. He could be our football version of Robert Montgomery Knight.

Gays for Gaza. Do these idiots really not know Hamas would kill them?

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Is a straight goof. Seriously, how many times were you called a pansy as a kid?

Coach Cig is awesome

No, I don't believe actual MAGA branded leaf blowers are being sold so put your pants back on... I was listening to a podcast the other day and one thing caught my attention. An independent voter was asked their thoughts on the election and the voter explained their reasoning for not voting for Trump.

That reason... the voter described Trump as a leaf blower that keeps running 24/7 outside of your window. Loud, obnoxious and blowing sh*t all over the place every day. This also reminded me of some users on this forum that spam the threads and make discussion impossible - just noise, questionable and way too many tweets, and some pretty shallow comments.

Anywho, I don't have anything against real leaf blowers but I typically only use mine for about 10 minutes each week.

Is this to try and help Kamala save face for the problems in California? Or to position himself for 2028? Or both?


The timing just seems odd