TiredoftheExcess

@kylamb8 Speaking of poaching... how many "Cinderella" teams were there after the first round this year? None. Why? Because the "bigs" have already poached most of the good players from the "smalls." There's very little chance a "small" will ever make a significant run again.

Literally no one is really complaining athletes are getting paid. It’s that courts have thrown out enforcement of almost all the rules in doing so and teams are poaching rosters to pay guys in the name of NIL. This is a complete straw man

@kstallworth2010 @CoachCalArk I'd remind you of Cal's NCAA penalties... how he is still allowed to coach is beyond me.

This is just another well known coach pretending to care. You have spent your life picking the winners and losers. No doubt you care about the players you coach. But you only care if these players follow your rules on their path to success. But with NIL You can’t control who deserves to get what. And that’s all this is about. You as a coach have less control than you did in the past. Now you’re willing to support this Clown A$$ President to get that control back!! #NCAA #marchmadness @FirstTake

I’ve spent my entire life focusing on the success and well being of student athletes. Their success in both sports and academics is paramount. I have no problem with Athletes making money and I have had that stance for many years. But what we have been dealing with the last few years is harmful not only to their total success but also the longevity of College Sports as we know it. Yesterday, President Trump took bold action to preserve and protect Collegiate Athletics. I urge Congress to pass bipartisan legislation and SAVE COLLEGE SPORTS!

@CoachCalArk Normally I'd agree wholeheartedly but Trump only gets interested in colleges if he figures making them look bad plays well to his MAGA base, I don't care if it is Harvard professors or college sports. What does Trump get out of this... there has to be some sort of control.

@JoJoFromJerz @Acyn Well, I generally agree with you, but if I was Trump, I wouldn't have either. Even Trump has brains enough to remember what happened to Jimmy Carter when his rescue operation in Iran fucked up so badly.

@Acyn He didn’t say a single solitary fucking word about any of this until we rescued them.

Trump: WE GOT HIM! He sustained injuries, but he will be just fine. The fact that we were able to pull off both of these operations, without a SINGLE American killed, or even wounded, just proves once again, that we have achieved overwhelming Air Dominance and Superiority over the Iranian skies.

@Acyn Thank goodness... now the poor dude likely will be required to become a prop in a Trump dog-and-pony show.

@iugrad93 @ChadChing3 @SnydeReport Remember footnotes? I'm just being intellectually honest... they were required on all of my papers back in my Ball State days.

@ChadChing3 @SnydeReport Obama was 2009 thru Trump 2025. That's 17 years. Did I really need to go back to Bush to get the full 20 for you? Most intellectually honest people would understand the CDL was not an issue because Obama and Trump controlled the border and deported illegals while Biden didn't.

Indiana Republicans are positively beaming this week over the revocation of nearly 1,800 commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens, patting each other on the back, firing off press releases, and racing to claim the title of “first in the nation.” Attorney General Todd Rokita rushed to X to celebrate “commonsense action,” and Rep. Jim Pressel is soaking up the applause for legislation he frames as an urgent response to dangerous roads and innocent lives lost. It’s a rousing performance. There’s just one inconvenient question these self-congratulating gentlemen seem eager to dodge: if unlicensed, unvetted noncitizens behind the wheels of eighteen-wheelers is the existential threat to Hoosiers they’re now describing, what exactly were they doing for the better part of the last two decades while their party held a supermajority in Indianapolis? Republicans have held commanding control of Indiana’s statehouse for going on twenty years, long enough to have built a highway, named it, repaved it, and named it again. During that entire stretch, the licensure loopholes Pressel now decries as an exploitation of Indiana law were sitting right there, wide open, apparently invisible to the same lawmakers who are now so urgently alarmed. It took a tragic crash and a federal arrest to inspire what is being sold as “commonsense” reform. Commonsense, perhaps, but whose sense, and why did it take this long to arrive at it? Hoosiers might be forgiven for wondering whether the outrage is less about road safety and more about political timing, given that an election cycle has a funny way of sharpening a supermajority’s eyesight... snydereport.com/?p=75643

@iugrad93 @ChadChing3 @SnydeReport Most college grads know that "wild guesses" in order to be considered factual have to be supported by attribution. Basically your supposition is only supported by, well, nothing... I can suppose your talking points here came from some "undocumented" form of right-wing media.

@iugrad93 @SnydeReport Wild guesses are usually just that.

@SnydeReport Just a wild guess here, but maybe the 12+ million illegals under Biden prompted the attention since Obama and Trump for their 12 years prior reduced illegal immigration.

@SnydeReport There's a boatload of other crap that has went down in 20 years in Indiana that I'd like the Republicans to answer for, live and in color...

@micyoung75 @sandibachom I don't think "forgotten" applies here. Trump just doesn't give a royal fuck. He's going to do what he wants, and to hell with the consequences.

Applebaum's piece is worth reading slowly because the specific details are doing work that the summary can't. Danish military commanders - inside a NATO alliance the United States founded - had to sit in a room and war-game whether their forces would shoot down American planes and kill American soldiers. Some of them still haven't fully recovered from running that exercise. The most popular app in Denmark during Applebaum's visit was one that identifies American products so users know not to buy them. NATO has invoked Article 5 exactly once in its history. On behalf of the United States. After September 11th. Allied troops went to Afghanistan and some of them died there. Trump told reporters those allies "stayed a little back, a little off the front lines." The families of soldiers who didn't come back heard that. Now Trump is in the middle of a war in the Persian Gulf with the Strait of Hormuz locked, oil prices spiking, and he's telling NATO allies - the same ones he insulted and tariffed and threatened - that he's "demanding" they come help solve a problem his own decisions helped create. Applebaum's conclusion is precise: he doesn't connect what he does on one day to what happens weeks later. Allied leaders have drawn their conclusions. The rupture, as Mark Carney called it, isn't coming. It already happened.

@shaunmmaguire Not rooting against America, but sadly knowing that Trump is doing this for Trump, taking America along as a hostage, certainly makes this into a situation I do not support and I have no enthusiasm for. Trump will politicize this, so little choice but to hold our nose.

How did we get to the point Where so many Americans are rooting against America?

@RpsAgainstTrump Many ways to define finish.

GOP Congressman Tom Emmer: "Our president, as you know, didn't start this war. He's finishing it."

@LeighGanschow @nicksortor (2) didn't vote to dissolve the union at that location, which could've been done if everyone was unhappy... you were a pain in the ass, you made trouble and the union got tired of your shit. Now, you're throwing shade because you had problems of your own making.

Only because it's got legs. Public employee unions especially hold my ire. They benefits by negotiating with politicians to steal from the taxpayers, who don't get to represent themselves. I worked with employees represented by Teamsters in Chicago. Union did nothing for the employees, just blackmailing the employer and taking dues from the employees.

🚨 GREAT NEWS: Trump’s budget bill submitted to Congress today begins the process of PRIVATIZING TSA Airports taking part in a test program which TSA pays private screeners have ALREADY proven significant cost savings, per the White House PRIVATIZE IT! 🔥 WHITE HOUSE: “The Budget begins the privatization of TSA's airport screeners by requiring small airports to enroll in the Screening Partnership Program, under which TSA pays for private screeners at designated airports. The airports that already use this program have demonstrated savings compared to Federal screening operations. The move would yield cost savings compared to Federal screening and begin reform of a troubled Federal agency.”

@LeighGanschow @nicksortor ...and I worked for GM, was represented by the UAW at a safe workplace, had great pay, holidays, time off and now have a great pension and great healthcare, which made my union dues a bargain. Dude, if the Teamsters were so bad, funny how the rest of the employees (1)

@SSN_TexasState @PennyPretty2024 @IUHoosiers Actually, he's just taking credit for what Cruz and some Congressmen have been saying for the last few weeks. Now, let's talk about Epstein and a war Trump really wants NOT to talk about.

@PennyPretty2024 @IUHoosiers Correct, it’s unfortunate but necessary for him to step in

A statement from Indiana University Athletics.

@SSN_TexasState @IUHoosiers No, actually I'd like to see college athletics be college athletics again and NOT semi-professional sports, like they are now. Oh, btw, no one mentions college academics anymore...

@IUHoosiers how ignorant and brainwashed some of the people In the comments are is disappointing People this is a good thing if you want college athletics to exist and not be replaced by semi professional sports SAVE COLLEGE ATHLETICS

@LeighGanschow @nicksortor God this old anti-union bullshit gets old...

@nicksortor The ONLY reason Democrats insisted that TSA be federal employees is that it provided another sink of union employee money they could sink their beak into. Graft and corruption are their primary motivations for most of their policy positions.

@nicksortor (2) have been on strike. (Which likely would have forced either airport shutdowns, or the politicians to have settled their differences to keep the airports from shutting down).

@nicksortor Fun fact: A union representing private employees working for a private company has more rights to bargaining and taking job actions than aunion representing a governmental agency. So, in the present situation with TSA workers not being paid, the TSA union would likely (1)

@GarrettBNews @SenatorBanks Where will it be located? How high will it be? What is a "bed tower?

President Trump’s 2027 budget includes $1.98 billion to build a new VA Medical Center in Indianapolis with an 840,000 square foot bed tower, per .@SenatorBanks